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Climate Update

Posted by The Tradesman on November 20, 2023 at 8:12pm

Source; GLOBAL CLIMATE INTELLIGENCE GROUP WWW.CLINTEL.ORG

 

There is no climate emergency

Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific. Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures.

Natural as well as anthropogenic factors cause warming

The geological archive reveals that Earth’s climate has varied as long as the planet has existed, with natural cold and warm phases. The Little Ice Age ended as recently as 1850. Therefore, it is no surprise that we now are experiencing a period of warming.

Warming is far slower than predicted

The world has warmed significantly less than predicted by IPCC on the basis of modeled anthropogenic forcing. The gap between the real world and the modeled world tells us that we are far from understanding climate change.

Climate policy relies on inadequate models

Climate models have many shortcomings and are not remotely plausible as policy tools. They do not only exaggerate the effect of greenhouse gases, they also ignore the fact that enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is beneficial.

CO2 is plant food, the basis of all life on Earth

CO2 is not a pollutant. It is essential to all life on Earth. More CO2 is favorable for nature, greening our planet. Additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass. It is also profitable for agriculture, increasing the yields of crops worldwide.

Global warming has not increased natural disasters

There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent. However, there is ample evidence that CO2mitigation measures are as damaging as they are costly.

Climate policy must respect scientific and economic realities

There is no climate emergency. Therefore, there is no cause for panic and alarm. We strongly oppose the harmful and unrealistic net-zero CO2 policy proposed for 2050. Go for adaptation instead of mitigation; adaptation works whatever the causes are.

OUR ADVICE TO OUR LEADERS IS THAT SCIENCE SHOULD STRIVE FOR A SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE CLIMATE SYSTEM, WHILE POLITICS SHOULD FOCUS ON MINIMIZING POTENTIAL CLIMATE DAMAGE BY PRIORITIZING ADAPTATION STRATEGIES BASED ON PROVEN AND AFFORDABLE TECHNOLOGIES.
 
Meanwhile, research published in the journal Atmosphere concludes that CO2 is only 1 possible forcing factor driving recent climate changes, and probably not the dominant one. Stuart Harris, Ph.D., the University of Calgary, finds multiple other explanations have been offered in various studies at various times for recent climate changes, beyond today’s current bete noire, CO2.

Harris notes that historical warming and cooling preceded changes in CO2 concentrations. In addition, he points out that the recent modest increase in global average temperature began in the later part of the 19th century and early 20th century, before significant human greenhouse gas emissions, and that temperatures since then have risen and plateaued a couple of times even as carbon dioxide concentrations steadily increased. As a result climate changes are now, and historically have been, driven by external factors like solar activity, and internal factors, and how the Earth’s rotation moves fluids, and the way the Earth responds to: “uneven solar heating of the surface of the Earth and the movements of the excess heat in the tropics towards the cooler polar regions, primarily by the movements of ocean currents, modified by the movements of air masses.”

Whether or not the factors Harris identifies are driving present climate change, 2 things we can say with some certainty about them: they impact the climate; and they are inadequately accounted for, or completely ignored, in climate model representations of the Earth’s climate and model outputs.

"Atmospheric carbon dioxide is only suggested as a cause in 1 theory, which, despite its wide acceptance by politicians, the left-wing media, and the public, ignores the findings in other studies...Increased CO2 also does not explain the well-known NASA map of the changes between the global 1951–1978 and the 2010–2019 mean annual temperatures. The other theories by oceanographers, earth scientists, and geographers fit together to indicate that the variations in climate are the result of differential solar heating of the Earth, resulting in a series of processes redistributing the heat to produce a more uniform range of climates around the surface of the Earth. Key factors are the shape of the Earth and the Milankovitch Cycles, the distribution of land and water bodies, the differences between heating land and water, ocean currents and gateways, air masses, and hurricanes."--Stuart Harris
 
Meanwhile, research published in the journal Entropy examines attempts to suppress scientific research skeptical of claims humans are causing a climate crisis. It responds to the unscientific claim that consensus has established that human greenhouse gas emissions are causing dangerous climate change, so research questioning the consensus position should be rejected out of hand, without even giving the scientific courtesy of peer review or being considered for publication.

The authors, Igor Khmelinskii and Leslie V. Woodcock, climate researchers with nearly 500 peer-reviewed articles published between them, argue(1) that authoritarian censorship makes factually incorrect assertions, and suggestions that threatens to undermine scientific progress by subverting the scientific method.

The theory that CO2 emissions are causing present warming is just that, a theory, not established fact! Its “consensus” is political, not a scientific process—not through testing and confirmation as demanded by the scientific method. Whether correct or not, their point about CO2 driving climate change not being an established fact is certainly correct. Even more important, however, is their analysis of how scientific progress is threatened by scientific truths established by “consensus,” accompanied by the dismissal of the scientific method, and attempts to prevent skeptical climate analyses from being published, out of fear that it would give alternative views of why the climate is changing legitimacy.

That paper presented research indicating the residence time of any molecule of CO2 entering the atmosphere is between 5 and 10 years, far shorter than the hundreds of years commonly asserted by those pushing the narrative human CO2 emissions are causing catastrophic climate change. Based on this analysis the author concluded the atmospheric concentration of CO2 was likely not stable at 280 ppm in pre-industrial times and that approximately 90% of all anthropogenic CO2 emitted by humans has already been removed from the atmosphere, and thus can’t be driving dramatic climate change. This paper passed peer review, but because it presented a view that contradicts the “consensus” position on the residence time and impact of CO2 affirmed by the u.n. intergovernmental panel on climate change, the climate-crisis extremists claim the research is wrong on its face and its analysis didn’t even merit scientific consideration. In other words, demonize and ignore anything that proves them wrong.

Quashing alternative theories without even review and testing is not what the scientific method prescribes or how science progresses. Such treatment of research is rejecting science.

Meanwhile, what’s coming out of the european union is a foul multilayered onion. On the outside is its laughable, juvenile, impossible utopian idealism. Thus the european green deal, approved in 2020, to show member states the way to climate neutrality by 2050. A key component of this deal – one layer deeper – is a legislative package called Fit for 55, which aims to reduce EU emissions by 55% by 2030. When we go deeper still to this thing called the Buildings Directive, which regulates building energy efficiency in the EU. In 2021, the European Commission proposed extensive revisions to bring this Directive into alignment with its Fit for 55 aspirations. The climate-neutral utopia of 2050 is supposed to be an all-electric world. All this promised abundant electricity will be generated by fields upon fields of wind turbines and photovoltaic panels. How building energy efficiency will matter for emissions at all in this promised electrical utopia is a hard thing to understand.

Sweden has finally walked back its 2045 goal of climate neutrality, the UK has delayed by 5 years its ban on internal combustion engines, the revised German GEG pushed back the new heating requirements while larding the rules with a wide range of exceptions, and now the EU have ditched their concrete demands for building renovations. As our lofty aspirations run up against our self-imposed deadlines, they are steadily modified downwards. The apocalypse never quite happens, but we’re never quite relieved of impending doom either. It goes without saying, of course, that none of these unilateral regulations have any hope of saving the climate, even on their own terms. While EU emissions have declined substantially since the mid-2000s, fossil fuel production and global emissions remain on an undeterred upward trend.
 

1)      "… statements inconsistent with, and illustrate ignorance of, the laws of classical thermodynamics, of the limitations of the Earth’s global energy budget multivariate computer models, and of the known absorption and emission spectroscopy of CO2...The scientific method of establishing truth requires hypotheses to be tested against experimental results by circumspective scientific scrutiny. Scientific knowledge cannot be established by consensus politics. We question the wisdom of a policy of rejecting articles that may disparage the greenhouse-gas hypothesis. By this criterion of science by consensus, … Nicholas Copernicus’s research … disputing the prevailing consensus of the Ptolemaic hypothesis of a static Earth system, would have been rejected by Copernicus Publications. A policy of only publishing consensus science enhances an ascendancy of politically motivated subjective pseudoscience, causing a stagnation of our scientific understanding and description of Earth systems."

Additional Info:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/10/another_day_another_climate_tipping_point.html

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/10/the_climate_is_indeed_changing__grab_a_warm_jacket.html

 
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E S Geez

Posted by The Tradesman on November 20, 2023 at 8:02pm

Source; Sent from an Internet friend.............

“Financial blacklisting doesn’t just rob you of a chance to spread your message: it robs you of your ability to do business, your livelihood, your very means of functioning in a capitalist society and it has now become a reality.”— Allum Bokhari

esg is a kind of social credit scoring system, similar to the ones now being used by the Chinese Communist party to tightly control its population and economy. esg is a system by which nameless, faceless, unaccountable, unelected bureaucrats can impose arbitrary rules on corporations and dictate how they do business based on nothing but cultural and political whims, regardless of your political philosophy or causes you support or oppose. esg is possible to dramatically alter almost any part of life by changing corporate behavior.

esg ratings are offered by moody's investor service, morningstar, msci, and s&p global. According to a report by kpmg, thousands of companies, located in more than 50 countries, have esg systems in place. Governments around the world are now putting policies into place that are designed to coerce or, in some cases, even outright Force most large businesses to adapt the social credit scoring system esg. The world economic forum and the international business council collaborated to create a set of universal, material esg metrics. Moody’s has created the esg score predictor analytics to provide 56 esg scores on more than 140 million public and private companies globally.

The more authoritarian it gets, the more likely it is that businesses will opt out. This is why so many businesses and government want to make esg, or something similar to it, mandatory, incentivized. As a business owner, if you do anything at all that would normally be favored by esg, you're incentivized to develop and distribute your own comprehensive esg report. Otherwise you're going to end up with whatever esg score Moody's algorithm gives to you. For the left-wing elites who want a the great narrative, this is a win-win scenario. Join or die.

esg dedicated investment funds, including black rock, state street global advisors, morgan stanley, allianz, goldman sachs, fidelity, ubs group,and vanguard, control more than $100 trillion. larry fink of black rock said” "access to Capital is not a right it's a privilege." That in essence is threatening companies who refuse to go along with the esg agenda, while the esg asset managers become significantly richer from weaponizing esg, choosing to go all in on left wing causes. Why fight a political opponent if you could just buy him off?
 
Under Trump, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency published the fair access rule that would have mandated that large Banks conduct risk assessment of individual customers, rather than make broad-based decisions affecting whole categories or classes of customers when provisioning access to services, capital, and credit. This was designed to stop Banks from using esg scores and other subjective measures to discriminate against particular industries or customers, which is a foundational part of the great reset. Almost immediately upon entering office biden rescinded that.

Humanity can thrive in the 4th Industrial Revolution while embracing both the benefits of emerging technologies and a passionate commitment to inalienable, unchangeable, eternal human rights. But that cannot happen if we submit ourselves to the world economic forum’s great narrative.

What's to be done:

1. Dismantle corporate and government ESG scores

2. Think and act local.

3 . Large corporations which have effectively become government partners, should be required to adhere to the Bill of Rights.

4. Protection of data should be enhanced. Data is power.

5. The Federal Reserve needs to be dramatically reformed. The left-wing/democrats have killed any attempts to do such. The government issued digital currency should never be allowed.

Additional info:

https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/07/the-secret-to-marxisms-success-slowly-infiltrating-existing-structures/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-secret-to-marxisms-success-slowly-infiltrating-existing-structures&utm_term=2023-11-07

https://www.foxnews.com/media/experts-break-americans-getting-tired-woke-capitalism

https://spectator.org/reversing-americas-decline/

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Certain Liberal Agendas and the Burdens They Create

Posted by The Tradesman on November 20, 2023 at 7:55pm

Source; Sent from an Internet friend........

Not Racist, just facts.

Formerly titled; certain people and the burden they create for you 

At the county level, the homicide rate has been higher in left-wing/democratic-leaning “blue” counties than in Republican-voting “red” counties since 2002. Violent crime is overwhelmingly associated with urban centers under left-wing/democrat control regardless of who that state supported in 2020.

Victims of hate crime incidents? Out of about 345 Million people in the US, there were 11,288 single-bias incidents involved 13,278 victims (or 0.0038%of the population), 469 relating to an alleged victim’s gender identity (or 0.000135%), vs. 353 the year before. “hate crime” includes physical altercations, verbal threats or property damage targeting “an individual, a business/financial institution, a government entity, a religious organization, or society/public as a whole.” 21.0% of offenders were black, 50% higher than the black(1) population. The number of white offenders was 20% lower than the white population.

In the real world all murders are hate crimes In 2019, there were 8,438 black victims of homicide, black on black murders accounted for 90% of all homicides within the black community. In 2022, there were 11,565 black victims of homicide, 54.7% of the total. You can do the math and see the trend.

Young black males between the ages of 15 and 34 are most at risk of being involved in a black on black murder. Black on black murders are more prevalent in urban areas. Gang-related activity is a major contributing factor to black on black murders. Only 40% of black on black murders are ever solved. Black on black murders have a devastating impact on the black community, causing fear and mistrust.

The black lives matter movement, an overtly marxian undertaking, not only divides Us by race but also divides the black race by instigating a climate of lawlessness, which has fueled a dangerous increase in gang activity and murder in African-American neighborhoods.

 
In 2022, property crime was 6.51 million offenses, 1.23 million violent crime, of which there were 21,156 cases of homicide including murder and nonnegligent manslaughter.

The left-wing blames it all on “social justice,” predicated on the assumption that institutional discrimination is the primary reason for differences among groups of people. It assumes that were it not for such discrimination, all would be equally represented in all human endeavors. In other words, human beings are equal not only in their nature and capacities but in their ability to develop those capacities.

However, this marxist assumption is rarely tested empirically. In fact, both the historical record and everyday experience regularly contradict it. For example, not only have homogenous societies had unequal representation among groups of people in various endeavors, but even twin siblings who are raised under the same roof and by the same set of parents show vast differences in aptitude, performance, and cognitive ability. This is because factors beyond both our knowledge and our control — including factors that begin long before birth — heavily influence the development of human capabilities, including intelligence.

Some cultural traditions go back centuries or even millennia and thus continue to orient the developmental capacities of the people living in these cultures today. It is disastrous folly to believe that government decree could circumvent these longstanding cultural traditions without major catastrophe. Moreover, these reciprocal inequalities rarely amount to one group dominating all fields of human achievement. As Thomas Sowell has stated: “Even highly successful groups have seldom been highly successful in all endeavors.”  This does not mean that life is fair for all groups of people, much less to all individuals, or that there is nothing that can be done about injustices in the world. It does mean, however, that we ought to be humble about the limits of both our knowledge and our power to improve things rather than make them worse.

Negative consequences have followed from decades of government policymakers, ignoring the limits of their knowledge, resulting from the unintended consequences of minimum wage policies, tax legislation, rent control laws, and policies related to race and sex as well as to welfare, housing, and education.

One example--affirmative action in education. These policies have harmed first and foremost to the recipients themselves. Minority students who gain acceptance to schools for which they are not academically prepared usually struggle to keep up with the rigorous pace and demanding workload. As a result, they end up either failing or dropping out, winding up worse than if they pursued a path where they could succeed. Another example--the positive results that followed from the abolition of affirmative-action policies in California (as decided by voters). The number of black and Hispanic students graduating from the University of California system as a whole rose dramatically over a 4-yr span, and an increase of 63% graduating in 4 yrs. with a grade point average of 3.5 or higher." Another example--following the growth of the welfare state in the 1960's  both crime rates and out-of-wedlock birth rates exploded in minority communities. The 2 decades prior, however, saw declining crimes. Out-of-wedlock birth rates were lower among minority groups than among the majority white population. Nevertheless, “liberal elites, politicians, activists and so-called "leaders"  who took credit for the black progress that supposedly all began in the early 1960s  took no responsibility for the painful retrogressions that demonstrably did begin in the 1960s.

The lesson, one that F.A. Hayek tried to inform us of almost 100 yrs. ago, is how little we know about the lives of others. We must, therefore, be careful when making policy decisions that have the potential to affect many people — and possibly even whole societies.

 ““We agree that ‘equal chances for all’ would be desirable. But that in no way guarantees that we have either the knowledge or the power required to make that goal attainable, without ruinous sacrifices of other desirable goals, ranging from freedom to survival...Stupid people can create problems, but it often takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe. They have already done that enough times — and in enough different ways — for us to reconsider, before joining their latest stampedes, led by self-congratulatory elites, deaf to argument and immune to evidence.”--Thomas Sowell

1. Blacks are approx. 14.2% of the US population.

Additional Info:
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/101894-the-crime-wave-in-america-is-crippling-our-nation-2023-11-06

 

 

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Latest on Biology

Posted by The Tradesman on November 20, 2023 at 5:16am

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"Researchers have created the largest atlas of human brain cells so far, revealing more than 3,000 cell types — many of which are new to science."--Science Advances and Science Translational Medicine 
 
“It’s highly significant,  this is the first atlas of the whole human brain at the single-cell level, showing its intricate molecular interactions...These types of atlases really are laying the groundwork for a much better understanding of the human brain.” ---Anthony Hannan, neuroscientist at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Australia.

There's a growing effort among left wing elites to use emerging technological innovations to reshape and redesign how people think, feel, and make decisions. About which values they desire and how they can ensure those values are imposed on as many people as possible.

Moises Velasquez-Manoff, in a new york times article entitled The Brain Implants that could Change Humanity, explained that some neuroscientists are already using rudimentary brain implants to alter human behavior and that brain reading and possibly brainwriting technologies are fast approaching, and society isn't prepared for them.

One example of brain implant technology(1) is a company called neuralink. It's mission is to create the future of brain computer interfaces. The human brain is connected to an implant called the link, which is a sealed, implanted device that processes, stimulates, and transmits neural signals to the user's brain.

Aside from the potential health risks, there are an incalculable number of ethical issues and dangers that inevitably come with such a technology. In a world where man and machine are united, how could we stop people from being heavily influenced, manipulated, or controlled, about how people think about societies, cultures, religions, economics, and morality, where a specific emotional response could be guaranteed to the point where people lose their free will, even their humanity.

1.     The world economic forum is taking  a strong interest in the topic of brain implants. klaus schwab suggested that as early as 2027, brain implants could be relatively commonplace.

Additional Info:

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/11/11/thousands-line-up-for-the-chance-to-get-elon-musks-neuralink-chip-installed-in-their-brain/
 

Gene editing is the ability to make highly specific changes in the DNA sequence of a living organism, essentially customizing its genetic makeup. It is made possible by a powerful tool called crispr. Quoting the wef’s klaus schwab on this matter: “The science is progressing so fast that the limitations are now less technical than they are legal, regulatory and ethical... We may see designer babies in the near future, along with a whole series of other edits to our humanity..."

It is completely conceivable that forms of radical human change will be available within a generation, innovations that risk creating entirely new forms of inequality and class conflict.

It's definitely not a good idea for our government, that can't figure out a way to maintain peace and order in many of our major cities, balance its budget, or even run Amtrak, to be in the business of genetic engineering technologies and techniques. That is far too much power for a government in a free society, to play God by rewriting the basic rules of biology. That is a dangerous game, and the last time a major government power played it, Europe ended up with the holocaust.

Yet, in 2022 biden signed an Executive Order entitled  Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, Secure American Bioeconomy, which states: "...to help us achieve our societal goals... To be able to write circuitry for cells and predictably programmed biology in the same way in which we write software and program computers; unlock the power of biological data..."

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Delayed Commentary on the Elections the other day

Posted by The Tradesman on November 20, 2023 at 5:12am

Source; Another on from my unknown Internet friend.........

 

Trump is a symptom, not a cause. Trump’s endorsements aren’t pulling his candidates over the finish line, the story goes, and he alienates centrists, moderates and independents. Trump is fracturing the Republican Party, they say. The fractures are there, alright, but Trump didn’t create them. After years — nay, decades — of mouthing conservative platitudes only to capitulate to the Left when elected, the “grassroots” no longer believes anyone from the Republican “establishment,” and words like “bipartisanship” are signals for we’ll back down at the first sign of pressure. If you really want Trump out and someone else in, find a candidate who is unafraid to oppose the hardcore left, infuriate democrats, thumb his (or her) nose at the left-wing media and stand up for ordinary Americans against the weaponized apparatus of the Deep State. The GOP needs to unite behind a candidate. Spend some time on social media and you’ll see.

As weak, incompetent, corrupt and destructive as biden is, if Republicans are divided, libs/dems win.

Also, election integrity matters more than ever. If Republicans want a message to drive home in 2024 and thereafter, this is a big one. In addition to the ease with which electronic voting can be manipulated, as we saw the other day, we have the very real prospect of non-citizens voting. 8 to 10 million people are believed to have entered the U.S. illegally since biden took office. 15 states and the District of Columbia require no photo identification to vote. Add to that mail-in voting and ballot harvesting, and you have the very real prospect of people who have no right to vote casting ballots in U.S. elections. What we need is mandatory voter identification, a return to paper ballots, in-person voting, and to make Election Day an annual national holiday.


ADDITIONAL INFO:

https://amac.us/newsline/elections/not-so-fast-virginia-election-results-should-worry-democrats/

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/11/08/republicans-win-big-in-blue-state-n2630959

https://www.foxnews.com/media/liberal-new-york-times-columnist-warns-ridiculous-ignore-erosion-bidens-support

He's lying--AGAIN!
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6340639371112

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/11/10/bidens-chaotic-speech-screams-he-should-be-banned-from-running-in-2024-n2631061

https://spectator.org/elites-confounded-by-populist-sentiment/

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-voter-loses-it-gop-poll-worker-curse-rant-unhinged

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/this-democratic-megadonor-warned-about-wage-theft-he-also-stole-his-employees-wages/

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/10/report-blue-states-automatically-registering-welfare-recipients-to-vote
 

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

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/join-the-grand-old-party/

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A TIK-ING Bomb

Posted by The Tradesman on November 20, 2023 at 5:08am

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A regime that hates America, China, controls tikTok’s algorithm and knows how to use it to divide and demoralize Americans. What we’re seeing right now from it is a real-life demonstration of that capability. We should have banned tikTok a long time ago, but this should be a wake-up call. Freedom is not a call to suicide.

The woke express fervency and manic busybodiness in enforcing their orthodoxy and fealty to their dogma. They perceive themselves as holier than thou, accompanied by a religious like attitude toward the sin of the non-woke, not sympathetic understanding but of hatred and contempt. The woke demand either you convert or punishment.

Wokeism has striking similarities to the "struggle sessions" of Communism, in which those strayed from an increasingly dogmatic party line were made to undergo an examination of conscience, ridiculed and condemned, and to publicly atone for their sins against the state.

China has a massive surveillance state, repeated government theft of private property, the elimination of most forms of political descent; severely restricted access to cultural ideas that are in opposition to the views of the Communist party, including gender issues; locked away millions of ethnic and religious minorities in brutal re-education camps; a straight controlled media; dramatically increased CO2 emissions; is the origin of the global coronavirus pandemic; has mismanaged the economy to the tune of hundreds of millions of impoverished people. China, murdering tens of millions of its own people,  has one of the most monstrous, blood-soaked records in human history.

But that has not stopped virtually every woke corporation America from doing business, in one way or another, either in or with China.  If those woke businesses cared so much about the marginalized and oppressed, why would they do business with the same political party, the same political regime?

The reason these companies are going woke is not because they go broke if they go woke, they get filthy rich. Ungodly sums have streamed into these causes over the past decade.

Additional Info:
https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/08/tiktok-is-a-cesspool-of-pro-terrorist-propaganda/

The Federal Government Had a Major Academic Partner in Its Censorship Regime https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2023/11/07/new-report-shows-government-big-tech-collusion-was-even-worse-than-previously-known-n2630874

https://nypost.com/2023/11/06/news/new-emails-show-dhs-created-stanford-disinfo-group-that-censored-speech-before-2020-election/

https://freebeacon.com/media/washington-post-ceo-has-funneled-hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars-to-democrats/

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

https://nypost.com/2023/11/09/opinion/the-week-in-whoppers-barack-obama-justifies-terror-the-nyt-slurs-us-israel-and-more/

disinfo (aka LIES) is dems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDw4AHYwBiY

https://www.outkick.com/liberal-college-students-dream-of-a-nation-without-free-speech-bobby-burack/

https://www.outkick.com/the-value-of-a-college-degree-is-rightfully-diminishing-bobby-burack/

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The HERD.

Posted by The Tradesman on November 20, 2023 at 4:18am

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Over the last few years, huge swathes of the American left-wing have become infected with woke ideology that judges actions or arguments not by their content, but rather by the identity of those involved in said actions or arguments. Those identities in turn are defined by an intersectional web of oppressed and oppressors, of the powerful and powerless, of the dominant and marginalized. With this approach, one judges an action not by whether it’s effective or an argument by whether it’s true, but rather by whether the people involved in the action or argument are in the oppressed-powerless-marginalized bucket or not. If they are, the actions or arguments should be supported; if not, they should be opposed.

This approach was always a terrible idea, in obvious contradiction to logic and common sense. But it has led much of the left-wing/democrat Party to take positions that have little in social or political reality and are offensive to the basic values most people hold. The failure to unequivocally condemn the Hamas massacre as a crime against humanity is just the latest example of this intellectual and moral malignancy.

Take the vogue “anti-racist” posturing gathered overwhelming force in 2020 with the Our Lord floyd and subsequent nationwide protests. It became de rigueur in left-wing/democrat to solemnly pronounce American society structurally racist and shot through with white supremacy from top to bottom. No argument along these lines was too outrageous if it came from or on behalf of “people of color,” who must be deferred to given their place in the intersectional hierarchy. Nothing exemplifies this better than the lionization of ibram x. kendi, whose thoroughly ridiculous claims were treated as revealed truth by tens of millions of leftists. Only those who have checked their capacity for critical thinking at the door could possibly take this ignorant “analysis” seriously. But they did because of the intersectional positioning of kendi and those he claimed to advocate for.

How else to explain why liberals didn’t run screaming in the opposite direction when kendi called for the passage of an “anti-racist Constitutional amendment” that would: "…establish and permanently fund the Department of Anti-racism (DOA) comprised of formally trained experts on racism and no political appointees. The DOA would be responsible for preclearing all local, state and federal public policies to ensure they won’t yield racial inequity, monitor those policies, investigate private racist policies when racial inequity surfaces, and monitor public officials for expressions of racist ideas. The DOA would be empowered with disciplinary tools to wield over and against policymakers and public officials who do not voluntarily change their racist policy and ideas."

It is difficult to imagine anything more illiberal than proposing an unelected Soviet-style bureaucracy of so-called “experts” that would vet the actions, ideas, and perhaps even the thoughts of all public officials in the country for their anti-racist content and punish those who deviate from the correct path. Madness! And yet he has been showered with honors, money, and coveted academic positions (though revelations of epic mismanagement at his boston university center for antiracist research may curb some of that enthusiasm).

Bad ideas and arguments are bad ideas and arguments. It shouldn’t matter who makes them. Just like it shouldn’t matter who in the intersectional hierarchy massacres Jews. It’s still an atrocity. It’s high time for liberals/democrats to decisively reject this kind of thinking across the board. Embrace instead the universalistic principles the overwhelming majority of Americans believe in. They believe that racial preferences in rewards and decision-making are not fair and fairness is a fundamental part of their world outlook. They actually believe, with Martin Luther King Jr., that people should “not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” In a recent University of Southern California Dornsife survey, this classic statement of colorblind equality was posed to respondents: “Our goal as a society should be to treat all people the same without regard to the color of their skin.” This MLK-style statement elicited sky-high 92% agreement from the public, despite the assaults on this idea from critical race theory (crt), kendi, and large sectors of the left-wing/democrat. In a fascinating related finding, the researchers found that most people who claim to have heard about crt believe crt includes this colorblind perspective, rather than directly contradicting it. Perhaps they just can’t believe any theory that has anything to do with race would reject this fundamental principle.

Similarly a Public Agenda Hidden Common Ground survey found 91% agreement with the statement: “All people deserve an equal opportunity to succeed, no matter their race or ethnicity.” This is what people deeply believe in: equal opportunity not, unlike the intersectional left, equal outcomes.

Equally, Americans believe crime is crime no matter who commits it and that criminals should be punished. They do not believe that open drug use, street camping, shoplifting and countless other symptoms of social disorder should be tolerated because the populations involved are “marginalized” or because enforcement outcomes might not be equally distributed across races. Nor do they believe that the borders of the US are merely suggestions that can be ignored by those appropriately placed in the intersectional hierarchy.

Of course the usual suspects will inevitably say that returning to a universalist, mainstream approach is tantamount to throwing loyal left-wing/democrat constituencies in need of help “under the bus.” But who is throwing whom under the bus? Perhaps it is those whose intersectional dogma stands in the way of a democratic approach that could plausibly generate the widest possible support that are throwing those who need help the most under the bus.

What is evident is the manner in which students are first pummeled with leftist counterculture ideology decrying sexual normalcy as “narrow minded” and “bigoted.” Next, they are encouraged to “explore” every form of confusion on the subject, instilling doubts of normalcy and openness to the “superiority” of breaching moral boundaries.

In a similar manner, kids have been ideologically manipulated for years, opening the door to such absurdities as their supposed affinity for socialism, though they haven’t the least awareness of how that system would thoroughly shut down most of the amusements and luxuries they now enjoy. So, having made the jump from “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” into the empty promises of Marx, leftists at the upper levels of school administrations now seek to include the moral debasement that invariably accompanies its Godless and morally vacant economic precepts.

Essential to all of this is the adoption of a “herd” mindset, whereby the proclamations of the leaders are presumed to be unassailable, and that any questioning or deviation from them is somehow heretical. Once a mob can be detached from rational thought, and reassembled in such a condition, it becomes mindlessly obedient to those in charge.

Leftists accomplish this through a time-tested program of mind control. Through bullying and shaming of any who dare dissent, they create a subculture of “us versus them” in which only those who ascribe to the leftist/counterculture dogma can claim to be the “enlightened.” Any who refuse to comply are denigrated and dismissed as ignorant, backward, and bigoted.

Make no mistake! In America’s current cultural implosion, counterculture activists all see themselves as Rosa Parks. Yet this woke “cause” has nothing to do with equality under the law or respect for the rights of others. It is a fanatical and relentless demand for total assent to deviant and even psychotic behavior. No latitude exists for coexistence or resistance.

These countercultural leftists are consumed by a toxic combination of arrogance and moral depravity, to the point that they willingly and completely detach themselves from reality, in order to passionately promote their oh so anti-reality objectives. Eventually, they become capable of anything. We’ve seen it throughout history with inevitably disastrous results. The only cure is a dose of reality, delivered with sufficient energy that it breaks through their walls of denial. At that point, the entire leftist/counterculture construct begins to collapse. On these defining issues, a resolute devotion to the truth, and the courage to boldly speak it, is needed now more than ever.
 
How do you earn a good social credit score?  Easy — you just have to be a pro-government, pro-authority, bootlicking, politically correct, obedient, unoriginal, and bland human being!  A syncophant eager to follow every rule, the FBI’s ideal American believes everything he’s told and never disobeys.  Raise your hand if you still believe that COVID came from a wet market, that the fake “vaccines” are perfectly “safe and effective,” and that every change in the weather is a result of some “science denier” driving around in a gas-guzzling SUV.  If your hand is up high, you might be a government-approved, anti-AGAAVE American worthy of praise.  Now get in line for another gene-altering injection, “coexist” with the drug cartels operating in your favorite “sanctuary city,” and never forget to wear at least 4 useless masks and a dog cone collar around your face.


Isn’t it amazing that so many hippy teenagers who “fought the man” during the ’60s and ’70s grew up to be more authoritarian than anything they experienced in their youth?  Isn’t it surreal that so many of them produced children who embrace authoritarianism as a quasi-religion?  Just what kind of counter-culture creates generations of government bureaucrats who instinctively demand that Americans do things, most useless or even bad, exactly as they’re told?  The same people who once fought to have their voices heard now insist on silencing yours.  The same people who used to see mainstream culture as antithetical to authentic art now demand that only 1 be allowed now—theirs!  The same people who once painted life with bright colors now shade everything in dreary grey.  Those Americans most inclined to view themselves as being smarter than you have constructed a terribly stifling society where only goose-stepping lemmings rise in academia and freethinkers are punished for being brave.

It’s as if inside every one of those “make love, not war” pseudo-rebels was just another teenaged hitler screaming to get out.  And given how many of them now bend over backwards to defend vile hamas barbarians while blaming Jews for their own torture and suffering, it seems obvious to anyone with a working mind that the people most likely to define themselves as “anti-fascist” are, in fact, fascists of the worst kind today.

People are starting to gasp in disbelief as they learn just how much the woke have betrayed our Constitution.  Someday those who are now complicit with their silence will be asked: why did you not oppose government tyranny when you had the chance?

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss? No, they're worse.
 
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