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Posted by The Tradesman on October 26, 2023 at 2:21pm

Source; Sent from a friend on the internet...

There is no FBI report on the number of murders and other violent crimes committed by the illegal immigrants biden has invited across our southern border. Why is that? Maybe they're too busy spying on Catholics?

It is clear that the highest-profile anti-Semites in America are the left-wing democrat House Jew-hating Islamists, Reps. rashida tlaib and ilhan omar. They help to explain a surge in attacks against American Jews and the growing anti-Semitic sentiments on university campuses. Big Tech is giving those haters a pass, but prospective employers are not. Insurrection anyone?

According to a Harvard/Harris poll, only the police and military are more respected than Israel.
Then again, “palestinian authority” gets 17% support, and hamas has a 14% positive rating — which is to say, 14% of your neighbors have taken the side of a medieval religious cult that’s vicious enough to cut Jewish babies out of mothers before beheading them. If 14% of Americans supported ISIS or al Qaeda or the Nazi Party, would you be concerned?

The BObama types, who do the perfunctory throat-clearing about Israel’s right to exist before going into the usual reasons it should not. This faction is a growing concern in the left-wing/democratic Party.

According to the Harvard poll, 36% of “liberals” of all ages agreed that the hamas unprovoked brutal attack on civilians was justified.  While antisemitism isn’t the exclusive domain of left, full-blown hamas apologists are now deeply embedded in left-wing institutions such as universities, major newspapers, cable news, progressive politics, think tanks, and the State Department. They have the kind of disproportionate reach and institutional respect that cosplaying Nazis standing in front of Disney playing with themselves can only dream about.

Of course, barbarians hate Israel! Surrounded by enemies, Jews transformed an unforgiving desert into a 1st-rate civilization. Did anyone imagine the Holocaust would temper the bitter jealousy? That’s like heterosexual white coeds claiming to be “binary” to earn woke street cred. You’re still pretty, and they still hate you.

The conflict is far larger than disaffected immigrants cheering mass murder by invading paragliders. This is an endemic problem. Israel can’t do much about the neighborhood, but why on Earth is the U.S. importing preposterous hate-driven foreigners from 3rd-rate cultures? The failure of their ancestors to create anything worthwhile, certainly compared to the stupendous accomplishments of the West, is too glaringly obvious. Inviting millions upon millions of them here, to gawk at, take advantage of and then denigrate our magnificent civilization, is a guarantee of perpetual strife and resentment. It could never work. It was always an insane idea.

Instead of trampling on the free speech rights of people who hate the West, how about avoiding the problem altogether by leaving them where they are? They’ll like it! Vastly fewer “white supremacists” to oppress them. And all the joys and benefits of what they have created--their homeland. They can hate us all they want. Just do it from their own countries

 

“Puerilism is the attitude of a community whose behavior is more immature that its intellectual and critical facilities would warrant.”---John Huizinga

Western societies have experienced a serious deterioration in their moral values. What they’ve experienced can be linked to what’s been defined as the deadening effect of the "mass man"; a loss of responsible freedom under the Leviathan state. This loss includes the collapse of recognizable standards of beauty in art; a weakening of educational standards; the marginalization of religion and the dominance of a materialistic culture based on jejune entertainment and instant gratification.  What can explain this apparent breakdown in the values that had been central to Western civilization? What are the causes?

Perhaps this decline is the result of an absence of adequate metaphysical principles, objective values having an existence not dependent on one's feelings and subjective attitudes. Objective values that are propositions that embody universal truths. Propositions which are able to characterize a number of different particulars. In other words knowledge, which is a product of reason; and beliefs in universals and principles which are inseparable from the life of reason

Modern philosophy, summarized by the term neo-liberalism, has tended to reject the reality of universals and in their place instead assert that all abstract ideas are, in fact, ideas of particular things ultimately are derived from the senses. However, if all knowledge is reducible to personal experience or sensation, there can be no moral or aesthetic value other than what seems valuable to each person, based on what he feels at any given moment. In that self-centered and self-indulgent refusal to recognize the world as it really is the essential core of the notion of decadence. It is a barbarianism that rejects the cultivation of the intellect and seeks only power or physical comfort, du’ jour.

In a moral philosophy, termed here as classic-liberalism, the very notion of obligation, what "ought" to be done, implies the existence of objective moral values. In contrast, the relativism of neo-liberalism denies both the objectivity of moral law and the existence of objective limits on personal conduct. Neo-liberalism then, which holds that all knowledge results from sense experience and that there is no other order of reality, has a devastating practical effect, since the values inherent in the moral order provide people with principles to live by.

If, as neo-liberalism contends, a statement that X is good or bad is only a verbal ejaculation of emotion, morality is both irrational and wholly subjective. But that premise is erroneous. "This is good" is not the same as "I like this." "This is good" is both cognitive and normative; it gives us objective information about something other than ourselves. This is the critical point in moral discourse, where we are taken beyond sensory and subjective feeling into an objective realm of value. The universe contains an objective moral order, which subsists independently of our awareness of it.

The neo-liberal approach weakens us in many ways. Judgments of approval, in the absence of standards of value, become little more than reactions to present stimuli. There is no longer anything to bequeath to the future. The society becomes immersed in the present. Without historical memory, neither culture nor moral order is possible. The quest for immediacy puts society on the path in which we can no longer recognize evil and depravity. Standards of propriety are abandoned because they might inhibit self-expression. The most permanent feature then becomes a compound of humbug, pretense, and vulgarity, which we can identify as "Hollywood values", which means either we will value nothing at all, or we will value experience in itself. This is precisely the condition of decadence. It manifests itself in exclusive concentration on material things, insensitivity to beauty, ignorance of history, a utilitarian attitude to education and indifference to religion. All of these defects are present in modern Western civilization.

Classic-liberalism argues that no particular configuration of matter on any particular occasion can exhaust the universal values of order, coherence, resemblance, and regularity. These universal values, therefore, cannot be wholly supplied by ourselves-they are outside of us and transcendent. At the heart of all of these values is the virtue of self-discipline, which teaches us that we have certain responsibilities that have to be fulfilled, that good character comes through objective values. When the discipline of the permanent values is forgotten, citizens become spoiled, arrogant, and impious. This is the condition of decadence.

The prevailing neo-liberal values of today require neither discipline nor intellectual rigor. They rest upon sentiment and sensation, not reason. They reflect a society in which true excellence and distinction are regarded with suspicion. Where everyone seeks to shift blame to someone else, and government is expected to make people happy. That is the substance of spoiled children, who believe that luxury is an entitlement and seek scapegoats to conceal their own defects. These attitudes are symptomatic of a society in decline, and they are likely to lead sooner or later to a diminution of freedom.

Although Democracy may be a workable model for political relationships, it cannot be a principle of order in social and cultural life. However, the great danger in the disappearance of objective criteria is the impact it has on justice and civic virtue. It gives rise to resentment, repression and rebellion against every kind of distinction and authority. It feeds mass democracy's detrimental distrust of genuine ability and intellectual excellence.

Decadence is manifested politically in the love of power for its own sake-in particular, the aggrandizement and worship of the state. In contemporary political theory, planning, efficiency and an explosion of rights are seen as ends in themselves. There is a real danger that society will evolve toward Huxley's Brave New World, in which material comfort will be offered to everyone in exchange for the abolition of freedom and initiative. The more functions the State takes over from the individual, the fewer there are for the individual to be capable of exercising for himself. In a bureaucratic society fewer and fewer people listen. The result is the increasing institutionalization of ignorance. As Christopher Dawson observed: “The more ignorant men are, the more inevitable their fate.” Inevitable because such a system, as John Lukacs said: “… involves something that has nothing to do with an IQ or with functions of the brain: it involves not an inability to think about certain matters but an unwillingness to do so.”

Voters will therefore welcome increased dependence on government for health, education, welfare, and the other burdens of life, so long as they have access to the bread and circuses of everyday enjoyment. Increased dependence, in turn, leads to corruption. In periods of strain and crisis, this habitual neo-liberal way of life, lacking any foundation in principle, will crumble and collapse and ultimately to despotism. The Leviathan state then is part and parcel of the cultural decline.  And the Leviathan state, in the form we find in Western civilizations today, requires supported, in its current stage, by Positivist legal reasoning.


Additional info:

https://freebeacon.com/culture/watch-anti-semitism-on-full-display-in-pro-palestinian-protests/

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

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

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/sheila-jackson-lee-leaked-audio-disparaging-staffer

https://thefederalist.com/2023/10/23/compare-how-university-elites-responded-to-george-floyds-death-and-the-innocent-israeli-massacre/

https://johnkassnews.com/from-einsatzgruppen-to-college-campuses/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-einsatzgruppen-to-college-campuses

https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/watch-joe-bidens-senior-moment-of-the-week-vol-65/

 
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It's a Gas

Posted by The Tradesman on October 26, 2023 at 6:52am

Source;  sent from a friend on the internet.

Several atmospheric gases, including CO2, methane, and water vapor, absorb light in the infrared region. These are collectively known as the “greenhouse gases” because absorbing infrared energy warms up the air.

CO2, on a per-molecule basis, is 6 times as effective an absorber as water is. However, that’s offset by the fact that CO2 is only about 0.04% of the atmosphere. This means that, overall, it’s much less important than water vapor in terms of its ability to warm the atmosphere.

Then there’s methane. Pound-for-pound methane can trap 25 times more heat than CO2. However, scientists say it will never significantly contribute to global warming. Primarily, it is by far the rarest of the greenhouse gases. Methane’s narrow absorption bands, at 3.3 microns and 7.5 microns, perfectly match---water’s! The ratio of the percentages of water to methane is such that the effects of methane are completely masked by water(1). When it comes to methane, termites are responsible for 11% of the world’s production, 76% comes from wetlands. A ‘significant change’ in tropical weather ascribed to human-caused climate change has led wetlands to get bigger and more plants to grow there, thus leading to more decomposition — a process that produces methane. Wasn’t that long ago when environmentalists were ardent supporters of wetlands.

NOTE,  left-wing climate extremists blame human-caused climate change for increasing flora and fauna causing methane while this same “human-caused” climate change is also claimed to be making the earth an arid wasteland too.

Meanwhile, ignoring the predominance of naturally occurring methane, left-wing climate fanatics wants to eliminate traditional farming and ranching because they are sources of methane, primarily from ruminant livestock and paddy rice. Rice growing produces methane gas by feeding microbes that live under the rice paddies. Cattle produce methane during their digestive process.

Consider that it was estimated that the digestive tracts of termites produce about 50 billion tons of CO2 and methane annually. That was more than the world’s production from burning fossil fuel. The journal Science's article Termites: A Potentially Large Source of Atmospheric Methane, Carbon Dioxide, and Molecular Hydrogen stated: “The estimate gross amount of carbon dioxide produced is more than twice the net global input from fossil fuel production.” Even the left-wing ny times ran an article titled: “Termite gas exceeds smokestack pollution.”

None of this information stops the biden regime though. It wants regulations on methane emissions by the U.S. oil and gas industry, at a direct cost of more than $1 billion annually, to deal with a nonexistent problem.

Wouldn’t it be nice if the left-wing policy-makers behind so-called “climate science” actually followed the science. But then, it’s all about political not environmental science. And that's the real existential threat!

Every prosperous country has developed using fossil fuels. No poor country has been able to develop to the point of prosperity without massive fossil fuel use. The reason is that development requires energy, and fossil fuels are a uniquely cost-effective, including scalable, source of energy In recent decades China and India have used large amounts of low-cost, reliable energy from fossil fuels to rapidly develop. Since 1980, India's fossil fuel use has increased by >700% and China's by >600%. India's life expectancy increased by 17 years and China's by 14!

Even prosperous countries can't replace fossil fuels with solar and wind. Over the last 2 decades, the prosperous world has been trying to use more and more solar and wind energy. The ominous results of this experiment so far: higher prices and reliability declines even at relatively low levels of solar and wind use. Despite claims that solar and wind are rapidly replacing fossil fuels, they provide less than 5% of world energy—only electricity, ⅕ of energy—and, crucially, even that small percentage depends on huge subsidies and reliable (mostly fossil-fueled) power plants. Solar and wind’s basic problem is unreliability, to the point they can go near zero at any time. Thus they don’t replace reliable power, they parasitize it. This is why they need huge subsidies and why no grid is near 50% solar and wind without parasitism on reliable neighbors. The left-wing idea that we can use mostly or only solar and wind with sufficient battery backup is not being tried anywhere because it’s absurd. Batteries are so expensive that just 3 days of global backup using Musk’s Megapacks would cost $570 trillion, about 6X global GDP

Fossil-fueled development isn't causing a climate crisis, it's making humanity much safer from climate, giving it the incredible ability fossil fuels give us to master all forms of climate dangers.

The world lives on oil. China lives on it. The U.S. lives on it. Whether the petulant Bolshevik children of “The squad” like it or not, the world wants oil. It all begins and ends with oil.

Wasn’t it only yesterday that the US under President Trump was an energy independent nation? Yes. But then biden was elected and immediately open the Southern border of the U.S. and killed the Keystone Pipeline and declared an end to energy independence. He joined with the hard Bolshevik left of BSanders to wage war on fossil fuels, especially oil and gas. But Russia didn’t stop drilling. Russia didn’t stop producing. And the additional billions they picked up selling oil to China funded Russia’s War on Ukraine, that biden himself tacitly approved.

As the left-wing politico reported: “Crude oil exports from iran have risen on biden’s watch despite U.S. sanctions aimed at punishing Tehran for its nuclear ambitions, military aggression and support for terrorism [between $60-80 Billion]  Now, violence by the iranian-allied palestinian group is fueling new calls for the U.S. to choke off that revenue stream, which Republican lawmakers have lambasted as an ill-fated attempt at appeasement.”

biden promised to provide billions of dollars more to iran, and iran uses oil revenues to fund terrorism, including the iran proxy terrorist groups hamas and hezbollah. iran funds hamas and hezbollah. iran trains and feeds world terrorism and the rockets and the death.

We were energy independent. But biden demanded Americans to buy electric vehicles, which Americans don’t want. And he went to war on American oil. And by doing so, he aided Russia in Ukraine–Russia had the money to fund its wars–and he helped iran and hamas slice at Israel.

These are biden’s war fronts. Remember that it was biden who brought rob malley into the White House as his U.S. envoy to iran. malley was 1 of the architects of the notorious BObama-biden nuclear deal with iran. He has now been stripped of his security clearance for suspected misuse of American secrets pertaining to intelligence involving Iran.

This has been an exercise in cynicism and media manipulation and the Washington-liberal-democrat Media Complex had been so hypnotized by the BObama-biden operatives that they were helpless. BObama’s deputy national security adviser, ben rhodes, bragged about media manipulation to The ny times, saying the media was full of inexperienced know-nothings who were helpless before him and were eager to be mesmerized, saying: “We created an echo chamber...They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say...The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old…They literally know nothing.”

And now biden, avoiding the realities on the ground, avoiding the realities that are understood by all: It begins and ends with oil.

1.    A study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Geoscience suggests methane traps and offsets heat, the latter through its effects on clouds. This research indicates climate models are inaccurate because they treat methane only as a heat source. The research confirms methane does act like a blanket in the atmosphere, however, as Robert Allen, of the University of California, Riverside, said of the study by scientists from universities and research institutes in the United States, France, Norway, the United Kingdom, and Austria, methane also: “encourages changes in clouds that have a slight cooling effect...This has implications for understanding in more detail how methane and perhaps other greenhouses gases can impact the climate system, Shortwave absorption softens the overall warming and rain-increasing effects but does not eradicate them at all." The research indicates methane’s impact on cloud cover offsets approximately 30% of the surface warming methane contributes. That means climate models assume methane contributes about 30% more surface warming than it in fact does. Methane also tends to boost precipitation through its impact on long-wave radiation, which climate models typically treat as contributing to warming. However, methane “suppresses that increase by 60%” by absorbing shortwave energy, the study found.

 

Additional info:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/10/president_of_the_national_black_farmers_association_rings_the_alarm_on_the_terror_of_the_federal_bureaucracy.html

https://nypost.com/2023/10/15/the-wheels-are-coming-off-new-yorks-insane-alternate-energy-plans/

 
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“WE DO LIVE IN SUCH A DUMB COUNTRY!!

Posted by The Tradesman on October 26, 2023 at 6:48am

Source SNGLR

WE DO LIVE IN SUCH A DUMB COUNTRY!!

If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for entering and remaining in the country illegally — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you have to get your parents' permission to go on a field trip or to take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion, or change your gender — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you MUST show your identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor, or check out a library book and rent a video, but not to vote for who runs the government — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If the government wants to prevent stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines that hold more than ten rounds, but gives twenty F-16 fighter jets to the crazy new leaders in Egypt — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If, in the nation's largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not one 24-ounce soda, because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If an 80-year-old woman who is confined to a wheelchair or a three-year-old girl can be strip-searched by the TSA at the airport, but a woman in a burka or a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If a seven-year-old boy can be thrown out of school for saying his teacher is "cute" but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government regulation and intrusion while not working is rewarded with Food Stamps, WIC checks, Medicaid benefits, subsidized housing, and free cell phones — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big-screen TV, while your neighbor buys iPhones, time shares, a wall-sized do-it-all plasma screen TV and new cars, and the government forgives his debt when he defaults on his mortgage — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

THINK BEFORE YOU VOTE IN ALL UPCOMING ELECTIONS. MOST OF THE IDIOTS RUNNING THIS COUNTRY SAY ONE THING AND DO THE OPPOSITE KNOWING THAT THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED THEM IN DO NOT PAY ATTENTION 

  

LET'S SEE IF I GOT THIS RIGHT!!! 
 

 
 IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER 

 ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR.    

IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER

ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.

  IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER

ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.

IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER

ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED.

 IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER

ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.

IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER

ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE BRANDED A SPY AND YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.

  IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY

YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.

IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET ……. !!!

A JOB, A DRIVERS LICENSE,

SOCIAL SECURITY CARD, WELFARE,

FOOD STAMPS, CREDIT CARDS,

SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE,

FREE EDUCATION, FREE HEALTH CARE,

A LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON

BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS PRINTED IN YOUR LANGUAGE

THE RIGHT TO CARRY YOUR COUNTRY'S FLAG WHILE YOU

PROTEST THAT YOU DON'T GET ENOUGH RESPECT

AND, IN MANY INSTANCES, YOU CAN VOTE.


I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I HAD A FIRM GRASP ON THE SITUATION !!!

IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP AMERICA!

 

 

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A Foreign Foreign Policy

Posted by The Tradesman on October 26, 2023 at 6:44am

Source; SNGLR

Charles Hurt, the opinion editor at The Washington Times said of biden reading his speech on the Middle East: “It was like watching an old man picked up off the street and hauled before cameras to be waterboarded.”

The world sees the spectacular weakness in biden. There is no hiding it. And who is responsible? The left-wing/democrats who installed him to wreak his dreams upon the world.

It is biden’s own policies that fuel both war in Ukraine, where trench lines that have barely shifted for nearly a year and feed Iran’s war machine. It’s all about the oil and continuation of ruinous policy from BObama. Meanwhile, biden apologists—including those Iran apologists within his administration—refuse to acknowledge that he and BObama have allowed Iran to reap $70 billion in petrodollars to fund hamas and hezbollah terrorism against Israel.

Even the constant protection of the corrupt left-wing media no longer works for biden as it once did.  He’s weak. He’s afraid of Iran. He appeases iran. His disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan was only the beginning. The people see what he’s done. They’re waking up. They know.

At least when jimmy carter was exposing himself to the world as a weak man, when his name became a joke synonymous with feebleness, when the Americans were taken hostage in Iran.  carter only cemented the notion he was a weakling when he literally panicked and  feared he was being threatened. Yet even through that, as inflation tore through our wallets and our savings, as Iran burned our flag, as our hostages waited helplessly because the president was so seemingly powerless, the libs/dems were behind him and we called him president.

But that’s not true for today’s left-wing/democrats, who tear each other up over support for Israel. The hard left has grown. They’re the anti-Semites who hate Israel. They’re the democrats who support the do-nothing Soros prosecutors who don’t prosecute. And they take the country on a wild, dangerous joy ride, to a demolition derby on their intersectionality highway where victimhood crashes into victimhood.

The democrats have a hamas problem(1). It is an alliance of the sick, of the ill, of the liberal ideology addicts. “The virulent anti-Israel protests across America and Europe throw a glaring light on the bizarre alliance between left-wing activists and militant Muslims...That odd combination has been the bedrock of political activism at universities and in the streets for years. It began in universities, where it now dominates political discourse, threatens Jewish students, and intimidates anyone brave enough to voice their dissent. We can now see how it has spread far beyond the campus.”--Charles Lipson

biden is little more than a meat puppet. He will not debate anyone with a brain and can speak, let alone sit for hard-ball news interviews. That scripted puff piece by 60 minutes doesn’t count. America watched, horrified as he played Israel for campaign photo ops and could barely recite the lines provided to him by his puppet masters. He could barely focus his gaze. But then, cBS News has long been in the liberal/democrat pocket, pumping for BObama’s notorious Iran nuclear deal promoted by left-wing media manipulator and puppeteer ben rhodes–the brother of then cBS president david rhodes–is but one example of the dangers of the liberal/democrat Media Complex.

And libs/dems will push joe’s wrong-headed policy of linking U.S. military aide to Ukraine to support for Israel and humanitarian aide for palestinians–which means terrorist hamas will get more of your money.

When Secretary of State anthony blinken speaks, think of 2 things: biden’s horror at even mentioning Iran as the architect of the hamas war crimes against Israeli civilians in Gaza, and how blinken got his job in the 1st place. It was Blinken who orchestrated the slime attack against The New York Post for its reporting of the hunter laptop fiasco and the increasing the dangerous powers of the Deep State and all its surveillance of Americans, to the pushing of endless wars and their determination to set unelected federal bureaucrats against American liberty.

The Federalist warned against the impulse now being fueled by biden to build 1 big war in the Middle East and Ukraine. "The stakes of this one war are so high — civilization itself hangs in the balance! — that the US must get deeply involved in both of them." That’s what biden peddled in hos Oval Office sppech.

Aid to Israel and Ukraine should not be linked. We should support our ally Israel. The U.S. is $33 trillion in debt and the biden regime has opened our borders and how many terrorists have crossed over? Let Israel do what must be done to protect Israeli citizens. Stop linking aid to Ukraine with aid to Israel. And stand up to Iranian aggression, stop helping fund Iranian terrorism, or it will only get worse for America and the world.

Our leaders feel free to propagate a bizarre and unbounded species of turbo liberalism. 3rd-wave feminism, the esoteric doctrines of the rainbow LGBTQIA+ brigade, open-borders immigration and race politics, the ever-escalating climate agenda and similar strangeness all have their separate etiologies, but what opened the door to them in the first place was the absence of any clear external threat. These are above all ideological luxuries which the left-wing elites of wealthy nations feel they are in a position to afford.

“We live in the most dangerous moment in a generation. Our world, set on edge by an erratic, unstable president. This is a moment that requires strong, steady, stable leadership. We need someone tested and trusted around the world...“Right now, we don’t really have a foreign policy. I’m not being facetious — we don’t have a foreign policy... “Day One you gotta be able to stand up and the world know you know what you’re talking about. Know you know what you’re saying. And know you mean what you say. We have to set aside our divisions and come together as Americans."--joe biden

And with biden, how has it turned out?

biden has been “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue” over the course of his career. biden has repeatedly demonstrated his penchant for being wrong, now more than ever,with the perils we now face as a result.

Our global adversaries witnessed his disastrous surrender and retreat from Afghanistan, and as a consequence, the resurrection of the taliban and the islamic state and al-Qa'ida. Then, the bloody and totally predictable invasion of Ukraine by putin, posing a greater threat to NATO. And now it’s the invasion of Israel by iranian-backed terror surrogate hamas. And  the additional strategic challenge posed by iran’s other terror surrogate, its Lebanese hezbollah cells from the north.

Power does not tolerate a vacuum or a vacuous appeaser like biden. He empowered iran by releasing billions of dollars to this rogue regime in exchange for 6 hostages, and now there's more hostages by iran proxies. And by ignoring iran’s sale of 1.5 million barrels of oil daily to its ally, the Red Chinese, despite sanctions, iran has $50-$80 BILLION dollars to support more terrorism.

Meanwhile, biden was busy at the time of the attack this week promoting the 50th birthday of thug our lord floyd in an effort to reinvigorate his “systemic racism” lie. biden trotted out his deceptive “police reform” rhetoric, declaring, “I will continue to do everything in my power to fight for police accountability and urge Congress to pass meaningful police reform and send it to my desk.”

OK, after that bs joe was off to Israel for some regional “shuttle diplomacy,” but hamas(2) short-circuited that plan by launching the first of many propaganda campaigns, this one claiming the IDF targeted and bombed a Gaza hospital. Despite copious (for you left-wingers that means a whole hell of a lot of REAL) evidence to the contrary, the left-wing media, like all addicted to flawed liberal ideological dogma, never let those pesky facts get in the way, blamed Israel first, and idiotically repeated that propaganda because, after all, they trust islamic terrorists!

For the record, Israel and iran both know that the IDF incident report can be corroborated by our intelligence overwatch assets in the region, but that did not stop iran’s foreign minister, channeling the likes of baghdad bob, from declaring: “Time is running out very fast. If the war crimes against the palestinians are not immediately stopped, other multiple fronts will open and this is inevitable.”  Ah, yes, the “palestinians,” a fabricated name for that sect of Egyptian outcasts that nobody in the Arab world wants in their country. Maybe iran can take them in with the $billions joe gave them.

iran is at expert level when it comes to left-wing media manipulation. And that manipulation resulted in our principal Middle East ally, King Abdullah II of Jordan, canceling his scheduled meeting with biden, who was hoping for a photo op to appear like he has some gravitas in the region. That meeting, along with his canceled meeting with palestinian authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, should never have been scheduled — and now is just more fodder for the biden clown show. Suffice it to say that joe biden makes inept jimmy carter look like a great statesman.

Back to reality, can a divided America deter China and Russia? According to Robert Gates, 22nd Secretary of Defense and former Director of the CIA during the fall of the ussr : "The US now confronts graver threats to its security than it has in decades, perhaps ever. Never before has it faced 4 allied antagonists at the same time — Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran — whose collective nuclear arsenal could within a few years be nearly double the size of its own. Not since the Korean War has the US had to contend with powerful military rivals in both Europe and Asia, a time when an adversary had as much economic, scientific, technological, and military power as China does today.

The problem is that at the very moment that events demand a strong and coherent response from the US, the country cannot provide one. Its political leadership doesn't care that developments in China and Russia matter, how the threats posed by these countries are interconnected. They have failed to articulate a long-term strategy to ensure that the US, and democracy will prevail.

China's xi jinping and Russia's putin share convictions. 1st, each is convinced that his personal destiny is to restore the glory days of his country’s imperial past. For xi, this means reclaiming imperial China’s once dominant role in Asia while harboring even greater ambitions for global influence. For putin, it means pursuing an awkward mixture of reviving the Russian Empire and recapturing the deference that was accorded the Soviet Union. 2nd, both leaders are convinced that the developed democracies — above all, the US — are past their prime and have entered an irreversible decline, evident in these democracies’ weak woke leaders, internal political warfare, and domestic disarray.

Taken together, xi and putin portend a dangerous period ahead for the US. The problem is not merely military strength and aggressiveness. It is also that both leaders have already made major miscalculations at home and abroad and seem likely to make even bigger ones in the future. Their decisions could well lead to catastrophic consequences for themselves — and for the US.

Washington will require strategic vision and bold action. Therein lies the rub. On our near horizon is an existential threat to the US and our allies resulting from the left-wing's ineptitude and appeasement. They have enabled Iran’s rapidly approaching rollout of its nuclear “islamic bomb,” which the first line of defense against that threat has been, and remains, Israel. Meanwhile, on our immediate horizon posing an imminent existential threat is Red China – beset with its own internal economic decline, the chiComs best way to divert attention from domestic problems is to rally nationalism. Thus, in light of the degraded state of our military readiness, the potential for China’s surge across the Taiwan straits to force “reunification,” as affirmed by its aggressive projections, is a greater risk now than in decades. That would be very bad for everybody!

The same left-wing who is concerned about other nation’s borders, who closed down our economy needlessly because of the china virus tells us they can't close our border. biden himself has proven to be the red flag warning for America. In his own words: “Right now, we don’t really have a foreign policy. I’m not being facetious — we don’t have a foreign policy.” But more so, we don't have a sound American foreign policy. Instead, we have a left wing regime that dislikes Americans. 

1. According to a Harvard/Harris poll, only the police and military are more respected than Israel.  Then again, “palestinian authority” gets 17% support, and hamas has a 14% positive rating — which is to say, 14% of your neighbors have taken the side of a medieval religious cult that’s vicious enough to cut Jewish babies out of mothers before beheading them. If 14% of Americans supported ISIS or al Qaeda or the Nazi Party, would you be concerned?

The BObama types, who do the perfunctory throat-clearing about Israel’s right to exist before going into the usual reasons it should not. This faction is a growing concern in the left-wing/democratic Party. According to the Harvard poll crosstabs, 36% of “liberals” of all ages agreed that the hamas unprovocated brutal attack on civilians was justifoed.  While antisemitism isn’t the exclusive domain of left, full-blown hamas apologists are now deeply embedded in left-wing institutions such as universities, major newspapers, cable news, progressive politics, think tanks, and the State Department. They have the kind of disproportionate reach and institutional respect that cosplaying Nazis standing in front of Disney playing with themselves can only dream about.  

2. The leaders of hamas are Palestinian. Not Qatari. Yet 2 weeks after a Hamas attack on Israel that in its barbarity dwarfed Sept. 11, they continue to live in luxury in Qatar, a tiny Persian Gulf city-state.

Additional info:
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/just-as-cruel-as-the-terrorists-many-ordinary-palestinians-joined-in-hamass-atrocities-against-israel/


https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/19/breaking-biden-author-five-aways-from-joes-duplicitous-oval-office-address-about-ukraine/

https://www.thethinkingconservative.com/the-coming-attack/

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/how-will-idf-handle-urban-combat

https://thefederalist.com/2023/10/24/bidens-global-chaos-vindicates-the-strong-foreign-policy-of-his-top-rival/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house-committee-biden-administration-policies-empower-cartels-undermine-national-security

https://www.theblaze.com/news/5-7-million-non-detained-migrants-in-us-ice-reports-at-a-minimum-taxpayer-funded-program-will-provide-medical-services-housing

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/high-migrant-numbers-break-multiple-records-new-blow-biden-border-strategy

https://nypost.com/2023/10/23/news/southern-border-in-2023-were-highest-ever-since-government-started-keeping-records-in-1960/

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/border-patrol-immigrants-september/2023/10/19/id/1138940/

https://www.theblaze.com/news/border-patrol-chief-known-gotaways

https://spectator.org/video-terror-threats-to-u-s-amid-israel-hamas-war/

https://nypost.com/2023/10/18/just-2k-migrants-in-nyc-have-applied-to-work-with-none-approved/

https://nypost.com/2023/10/24/opinion/democrats-are-pushing-work-authorization-for-migrants-so-they-can-vote/

https://spectator.org/to-understand-rashida-tlaib-look-at-her-district/

https://thefederalist.com/2023/10/12/the-biden-administration-is-deporting-a-christian-family-but-not-millions-of-illegal-immigrants/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-biden-administration-is-deporting-a-christian-family-but-not-millions-of-illegal-immigrants&utm_term=2023-10-12

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Christianity and your Government

Posted by The Tradesman on October 23, 2023 at 4:45am

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“Good and evil both increase with compound interest.”---C.S. Lewis

Neo-Liberalism believes that our government should be devoid of Christian religious influences. That, in sum, is an important aspect in the belief system of Neo-Liberalism. Let’s explore the flaws of this world-view about secular government, by using a soundly logical theological lens, which can help us see deeper, farther and with more truth.

First, let’s postulate that government consisting only of either secular, or religious influences is not what the establishment clause in our Bill of Rights intended. The founders recognized and understood that such an unequal mix is an aberration upon the human nature that must comprise government. That aberration leads to catastrophic results (in the interests of making this long story somewhat shorter, it will have to suffice that what’s implied here are proven sound principles of both secular and religious influences as the defining assumption here). The separation of church and state is a very different thing from the separation of religion from government, which is the freedom of conscience as a foundational principle. By embracing a commitment to religious freedom, while leaving open to contestation the particular conception of that commitment, America worked. The establishment clause was meant only to prevent a particular denomination(s) from achieving official sanction and not to preclude specific religious influences in government.  

Certain vestiges of Judeo-Christianity in our government places, ones that symbolize what gave ideological birth to the origins of our country and what the founders of it recognized, are used to remind us of what continues to safeguard what we continue to benefit from. That safeguard being the commitment to principles of a higher law, reached with reason, infusing man-made law with both a standard and a limit beyond which no government can alter, abrogate or destroy. Only such transcendent can insure our rights against the ever-changing tempest of human political will and fortune(1).

This origin of the conception of our inalienable rights is spelled out directly in such documents as our Declaration of Independence, The Judiciary Act of 1789, Federalist #14, Washington’s Proclamation of General Thanksgiving, The Pledge of Allegiance, Lincoln’s Decree of 8-12-1861 and The US Code. These conceptions in fact were derived and depend on a particular religious conception only found within the form mentioned above. A conception that requires religious freedom, which consists of the necessity to enunciate, understand and express it publicly, without coercion to, nor obstruction of its acceptance or rejection.

Yet today these conceptions are being challenged not on explicit wording found within our Constitution, and certainly not in an intellectually honest review of its supporting documents or practices but, merely on a phobia propelled by a contorted belief in a penumbra of “an establishment of religion,” one swollen beyond an historic meaning of the term, best described as Post-Modern Nihilistic Existentialism. Its origins can be traced as an outgrowth of a mistaken interpretation of Einstein’s major work, the Special Theory of Relativity.  STR in essence states that there is no absolute motion. From that the physical world appears to have no single unifying premise. Concrete things become relative. The error in the leap Neo-Liberalism makes is in assuming relativity in physics proves relativism in human intelligence, what we’ll refer to here as the human mind and its material representation called human action. Neo-Liberalism mistakenly assumed that the advancement in science and technology could be replicated in politics and the social order. Defects or short-comings were believed to be capable of being remedied with time and complete adherence to Neo-Liberal ideology. 

Einstein, in formulating the STR, insisted on what has become known as the standard of sound science, that a theory be subjected to empirical tests, or as Milton Friedman said:“ The truth of a hypothesis is found from the results of its experience in applications to specific problems and the repeated failure of its implications to be contradicted.” Testing as such can never indisputably prove a theory but it can give it what James Buchanan calls the status of a relatively absolute absolute. The possibility of the theory being proven wrong (by a process called falsifying the hypothesis) can be significantly minimized if not eliminated by the testing.  Consequentially this makes perfect sense why Einstein himself passionately believed in absolute standards of right and wrong. To him moral relativism was a disease. This man, who unlocked some of the basic first secrets of the universe, acknowledged a God too.

Yet in much of the arena comprising the social, testing as such is never conducted. Granted social issues do not hold precisely to an exact science like the physical ones however, an attitude of dogmatism is nevertheless adopted, often on nothing more than some combination of vague experience, good intentions, utopian dreams, self-excusing cliques or satisfying amounts of pedantic presented with panache and confidence. Even Karl Popper’s advice of trying to illustrate or identify the real or perceived “unintended consequences” of accepting a theory is seldom done with intellectual integrity as a measure of good faith.

One of the unintended consequences of this belief-leap by secularism was that it devolved into viewing all religion as a form of mass delusion(2), a safety device in lieu of enlightened secularism(3).  Freud provided the alleged psychological proof for this belief with his all-embracing and hence difficult to test theories (despite the fact that after 100 yrs of experience his hypothesis are falsified, at least by biology—but hey, that’s not relative). Freud’s self-confidence in his dogma provided the basis for his Gnosticism. He believed he could see and hence interpret the hidden meanings below the surface, using his dogma of course, which ruled out a transcendent. However, true to Neo-Liberal arrogance, Freud ironically dismissed any critical analysis of his beliefs in a religious manner, friendly as heretical, unfriendly as infidels.

Marxism too by this time had been honing the same basic Gnosticism, claiming itself, through its high priests, er, I mean high officials, the seer into the inevitability of history and the class patterns it entailed, deriving a dogmatism that even in its time was being falsified by the facts.  Fortunately for Marxists, armed with relativity, they were able to pick, chose and reinvent the history that matched their interpretation. Kinda like little but very dangerous gods.

Add to the mix the third atheist founding father of Post Modern Nihilistic Existentialism, Fredrick Nietzsche, who proclaimed “God is Dead.” Nietzsche advocated that Christianity, the ethic that was the principle engine of individual freedom, achievement and responsibility like no other force in the history of the planet, was no longer tenable. No wonder Richard John Neuhaus said: “Modern atheism is really a atheism against Christianity. The only God it seriously bothers to deny is the monotheistic, eternal and personal God of the Judeo-Christian tradition.” Modern man as defined by these 3 horsemen of its apocalypse thought that to be modern, to be cool, one had to be radically secular.  

Free expression of a conviction resting upon honest moral effort, which includes an intellectual one too, is not merely consonant with a free and open society’s purpose but, an essential concomitant of that purpose. However, a society that comes to believe religion is a snare and a delusion is unlikely to value religious freedom, hence setting off on the path for destroying one of the crucial freedoms needed for a morally, legally and culturally healthy free and open society.

So, like all great sea-level changes in human thought, PMNE took time to congeal and gain critical mass. Cultures do not develop in a linear manner but sporadically, with great bursts or great lulls. But when it did, mainly through force and ennui, it created a huge vacuum to fill. Yet cultural, legal and moral institutions and standards cannot exist in a vacuum. This inevitable vacuum is of particular danger since modern government has the unique ability to expand itself with impressive speed and insatiable appetite, for both enemies and friends alike. The replacement, the new religion of secularism, unbridled by a sacred religion that gave it birth and now pronounced dead, was left to fulfill the promises of secular ideology. Those with Nietzsche’s Will to Power, who in the past filled the ultimately restrained clergy, now became politicians with dissolving boundaries on the limits of their action. Totalitarianism arises from a philosophical denial of God, because it leads to a denial of any higher authority for human institutions. If all institutions are understood as mere human inventions, then individuals do not have any rights apart from those granted by men. This allows the state to develop final authority over all other institutions--family, church, market, etc---which always comes to be manipulated for the political ends of the state.

The result is always no different than the collective history of humanity testifies to, and what those who know better predicted. In purging Christianity’s influences from their governing bodies, societies obfuscate their sense of virtue, preparing themselves for totalitarianism(4). Unable to justify differentiating between conflicting claims of good and evil, right and wrong, the resulting propensity is to tolerate anything that is political correct., subverting the very concept of toleration itself. Society at this point drugs itself with secularism, a fixed that goes by the misleading name of humanism, in order to forget that it exists more and more at the whim of political power. And as John Laffler found: “When anything goes, eventually everything does.”

The new secular messiahs, shedding traditional structures, airbrush out the millennium and a half of Christianity’s contributions. Then they become free to rewrite and reinvent morality to promote their agenda, uninhabited by any religious sanctions of the past, proceeding unencumbered with the same immutable age-old human passions and appetites. Such processes, aided by the technologies of the modern state; receiving sustenance from a world-view of Post Modern NihilisticExistentialism, adrift in a relativistic world of their own design, abetted by a religio-phobic media that openly undermines Christianity regardless of the social carnage in its wake, is exactly what happened during the 20th century, which can be summarized as a century long war against the God of Christianity. That war, to date, tallies about 150 million killed-mostly within nations themselves and against their own citizens, oceans of blood, mountains of corpses, billions who were enslaved in Auschwitz and Gulag states, ecosystems polluted, whole nations plundered under complete totalitarian systems and a Cold War that threatened global catastrophe. Some  better alternative!

It was Alexander Solzhenitsyn who pointed out that:" The primary trait of the entire 20th century is precisely that men have forgotten GOD…The failings of human consciousness, deprived of its divine dimension, have been a determining factor in all the major crimes of the 20th century,”  and it seems we’ve also forgotten what Aristotle also told us ages ago, that stays relevant as long as humans remain human, that a government survives to the benefit of mankind only as long as the family unit does, which Aristotle reminded us includes piety of a religious sort.  Pope Pius XI in Quadragesimo Anno called upon the state to foster those personal freedoms and intermediate institutions for not only the obvious sake of efficiency but much more importantly for the common good: “Just as it is wrong to take away from individuals what they can accomplish by their own ability and effort and entrust it to the collective, so too is it an injury  and at the same time a serious evil  and a disturbance of right order to assign to a centralized power what can be performed successfully by a smaller lesser one.”

The deepest-strongest forces in history are spiritual and cultural, not political or even economic. “By what men and women honor, cherish and worship; by what societies deem to be true and good, and by the expressions they give to those convictions, by what individuals and societies are willing to stake their life on.”—George Weigel. The modern dilemma is as Christopher Dawson wrote: “essentially a spiritual one.” What is needed is a recovery of what has been lost from the collective memory and experience of humanity.  Instead Neo-Liberalism is prosecuting a  cultural war on Christianity. One that is in the form of a revolution designed to completely disconnect with Western civilization’s past and replace it with an ideology and grand plan for remaking the world. No different at its core than that of every tyrant’s promise who came before. However, the process will destroy the very foundations of what has given and sustains the very freedoms we enjoy, with no sound logic, no intellectually credible shred of proof, certainly none found in the entire history of humanity, that this will be a better alternative. The only logically reason their leadership can be waging such as war can only be a interpreted as distain for individual choice and freedom, yours! And the goal of achieving the Will to Power, theirs!

"Economic, political, and personal neo-liberalism or one piece, and all oppose the Catholic faith."--Andrew Sorokowski

1. Today's secularist seems to have no idea that the reason he is able to live his life with the freedom and prosperity he has is because he lives in a society where a moral rule of law is well-established, where other, far more responsible, citizens have made it possible for such as he to enjoy the protection of settled, civilized rules in order. Whether or not he believes in Western civilization’s Christian morality his day-to-day life is made possible because of it.

2. A commonly found trait of those who usually declare themselves hostile or neutral to religion is to reveal the most archaic and regressive notions about contemporary religious and its intellectual foundations. Most of them seem to rely on garbled childhood memories to tell them what religion is and their familiarity with the philosophy, practice, literature and living spokesman of modern religion is strangely scant of cultivated and intelligent people.

3. There is great unanimity as to the present function of religion on the modern social level. In it we find the attainment of cosmic security, motivation for benevolent service, authority for practices and beliefs, means of bringing an end to personal conflict, and the providing of compensations in careers that seem relatively empty. One cannot therefore dismiss religious experiences as an unfortunate illusion without at the same time raising the problem as to whether art, philosophy, and most of the fundamentals of social life and family life are not likewise illusions.

4. Without the ultra rational hopes and passions of religion no society will ever have the courage to conquer despair and attempt the possible. A sound religion can provide the dominant influence in the socialization of man, which can be defined as the systemics of trust, for such a religion is fruitful of the necessary component of such a system, the spirit of contrition. The inner world of conscience, which is in constant rebellion against the outer world of nature, is made supreme over the world of nature by the fiat of religion. The history of religion is proof of the efficacy of it insights in making men conscience of the sinfulness of their preoccupation with self.

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