Spaanderman and Schuler

In the recent past, my country, The Kingdom of The Netherlands, had one big patriarch. He wasn’t very famous among the general public. But he had enormous influence in the well-being of my country.

His name was Maarten Spaanderman. He was a psychologist, who treated women that suffered from hysteria, and men that suffered from compulsive behavior.

Mr. Spaanderman had his office in Bloemendaal, a quiet village to the North of the town of Harlem. People from all over The Netherlands came to visit him for help.

I also got to know him well. And I accepted him as my mentor. He taught me valuable lessons about life. He even confronted me with my own short-comings.

Mr. Spaanderman was a real gentleman. He believed that human beings should accept that they were born with a shadow side. Only by accepting that one is human, and by saying ‘no’ to animal instincts, a person could walk in the light.

Mr. Spaanderman was not religious, but the man that he had most respect for in the history of Mankind, was the Lord Jesus Christ. He called him a great servant of Life.

In your country, the United States, there also lived a great patriarch, who had many things in common with Mr. Spaanderman. His name is Reverend Robert Harold Schuler.

Reverend Schuler was a Man of God, and he preached Christianity in a very humble way. He promoted kindness, and he never hid his tears when he was emotional. The magnificent Crystal Cathedral in Los Angeles was his church.

The world is in need of new patriarchs. Elderly men, with huge knowledge and experience, who serve Mankind.

Mr Spaanderman and Reverend Schuler are often on my mind. I will never forget their difficult lessons.

©2024. Matthys van Raalten. All rights reserved.

Reject the ‘Red Pill,’ Carry Your Cross

Feminism has, for over a century, been playing merry Hell with Western civilization, engendering (pun intended) division and enmity between the sexes and giving rise to a host of moral and societal cancers, such as abortion, transgenderism, and the decline of the family.

The division between the sexes bred by feminism initially targeted women, pressuring them to be more and more like men, especially by leaving their homes and children and joining the workforce. Of course, women cannot, by their very nature as women, be men, and thus feminism spawned a dual bitterness among its female adherents: bitterness towards masculinity for being unattainably masculine and bitterness against femininity for not being attainably masculine.

By the final quarter of the 20th century, after achieving its magnum opus in the Sexual Revolution, feminism had fixed its withering glare on men. Masculinity was soon labeled dangerous and “toxic,” and men were pressured to be more like women, particularly by abandoning or suppressing masculine characteristics like assertiveness or aggression, independence, and providence. Having been told for generations that they are, by their very nature as men, problematic and oppressive, it is little wonder that there has been a decades-long crisis in masculinity.

Many men today strive to avoid the “toxic” label and so cede their God-given role as leader and provider, often allowing women to shape their opinions, lead their relationships, and split their role as breadwinner equally. This weakness has wrought even further civilizational decay and has driven countless men into desperate little psychological corners. Some simply whither away and die there, more terrified of being called a monster than of the sad, shivering husk they instead become; some, disgusted with the horror they are told that men are (a disgust frequently compounded by pornography addictions and neglected psychological conditions), decide it’s better to be women than to be men, and so seek out gender transition drugs and surgeries; and some, sick of the stranglehold that feminism has so long exerted over the culture, take the “Red Pill.”

The ‘Red Pill’

Across the internet, hundreds of thousands of young men partake in the “manosphere,” a community of websites, blogs, video channels, and social media influencers who promote physical fitness, tanned-and-toned body aesthetics, and a ridiculously luxurious lifestyle and claim that feminism has poisoned culture against men, encouraged and entrenched vitriol against men, and proliferated and normalized sexual degeneracy among women. So far, spot on. But despite its largely-correct diagnosis of the social evils plaguing our civilization, the remedy prescribed by the manosphere is just as poisonous: the Red Pill.

What could have been an ordered and even noble response to feminism, a surgical maneuver to excise the cultural cancer, devolved instead into a cesspool of violent misogyny, rampant degeneracy, and nihilistic materialism, with a dash of narcissistic homosexuality for flavor.

The Red Pill does not respond to feminism’s pervasive sexual promiscuity by extolling the virtue of chastity, but instead jealously encourages men to be just as promiscuous, if not more so. The Red Pill does not seek out the forgotten masculine characteristics of courage, endurance, providence, and self-sacrifice, but instead cultivates only aggression and self-seeking. The Red Pill does not remind men that they are to provide for their wives and children, but instead tells them to “rise and grind” so they can afford a bulky luxury watch and a fluorescent luxury sportscar — all the better for cruising for chicks. The Red Pill does not remind men why manhood is good and necessary, but instead conforms masculinity to the terms set by feminism, in the inverse: poisoning culture against women, encouraging and entrenching vitriol against women, and proliferating and normalizing sexual degeneracy among men.

In short, the Red Pill is just vapid internet slang for feminism’s evils practiced by and for the “benefit” of men. Just as feminism is characterized by labelling masculinity “toxic,” so also the Red Pill is characterized by labelling women “sluts.” Misogyny is an essential component of the Red Pill, which in many cases leads to yet another social and sexual evil: narcissistic homosexuality.

‘Men without Chests’

Although there are multitudinous psychological factors that may lead one to identify as homosexual and lead a homosexual lifestyle, there are, at least superficially, two forms of homosexuality. The first is readily familiar and recognizable: the effeminate homosexuality which favors leopard print and limp wrists. This form of homosexuality is prone to a catty love-hatred of women born out of envy. In some ways, effeminate homosexuality feels itself more at home around women, in no small part because it seeks to emulate women.

The other form is less often seen and even more seldomly discussed: hyper-masculine homosexuality. This form of homosexuality rejects femininity altogether, deriding women for not being men, while worshipping the superficial traits of masculinity. I say the superficial traits because such authentically masculine virtues as chastity, temperance, prudence, and self-sacrifice are neither sought nor cultivated. All that is desired is the muscular male form and the personality traits of aggression and pride.

God made male and female for each other (Genesis 1:27). While effeminate homosexuality seeks to play the role of the female, hyper-masculine homosexuality removes her from the equation altogether. Its narcissism and self-absorption is so complete that it worships only itself and whatever has the hubris to resemble it. Even if it does not culminate in homosexuality, the ideology of the Red Pill still reaches these dizzying heights of auto-adulation, worshipping a warped and fractured image of masculinity so fervently, so devotedly that vehement hatred of all that is “other” becomes in itself an act of worship.

This self-adoration, paradoxically, necessitates a fracturing of the self. Man is incomplete in love without woman, just as she is incomplete in love without man. The Red Pill denies this fundamental truth and thus fractures man, carving out of him that which in fact makes him a man: his heart. The Red Pill encourages men to push themselves to the limit, to lift weights, to live adventurously, to earn inordinate amounts of money, but for what? Simply for the sake of making oneself into one’s own idol (as in idolatry) — not for the sake of the other, for the sake of a woman, because the Red Pill preaches that no woman has value as a woman, only as a fleshy instrument for sex.

The end result of the manosphere’s efforts has been to instill in its adherents a distorted and disordered hierarchy of value, prizing wealth and fashion above the human souls they were made to give themselves to in love. The Red Pill encourages (almost goads) men to achieve and perform, but simultaneously denies that there is anything worth achieving and no feat worth performing, no object to either. C.S. Lewis predicted such a dreary, purposeless dystopia in his book “The Abolition of Man.” Lewis wrote, “In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”

What a pitiable and miserable existence the Red Pill renders: sex without soul, achievement without meaning, work without purpose, nothing worth living or fighting or dying for, just one’s own self. Another great Cristian author, G.K. Chesterton, pithily summarized such an existence: “Yourself, yourself, yourself — the only companion that is never satisfied — and never satisfactory.”

The Way of the Cross

Surely the Red Pill’s depressing, stifling conclusions can’t be correct, surely the cancer of feminism hasn’t succeeded in actually killing its host civilization, surely there must be some hope.

There is. The moral and spiritual diseases of both feminism and the Red Pill are both cured by the cross of Christ. That way lies true manhood and masculinity. Where the Red Pill whines that feminism has ruined everything, Christ says, “Behold, I make all things new” (Revelation 21:5). Where the Red Pill suggests that there is no way forward for men or women, Christ says, “Take up your cross and follow me” (Matthew 16:24). Where the Red Pill extols promiscuity and degeneracy, Christ commands, “Be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Matthew 5:48).

And more than this, Christ shows us how to be real men. The flashy images of bodybuilders and Bugattis that populate manosphere websites and social media feeds suddenly pale next to an image of one Man, not clad in designer athleisure but stripped of both his clothes and his flesh, adorned not with a Rolex or a pair of Ray-Bans but with a crown of thorns — one Man, hanging upon a tree, breathing His last.

The 20th century Catholic priest Josemaría Escrivá once explained, “The school of love has a name: it is sacrifice.” Christ’s sacrifice on the cross is the greatest image of manhood that ever existed. On that cross, Christ exemplified and embodied the perfection of every masculine trait: the strength to carry the sins of the world, the courage to submit to His own death, the humility to hang naked, nailed to a tree, the self-sacrifice He made of His life, and the love He poured out upon the entire world as it scorned Him and mocked Him.

Real manhood is not to be found in the Red Pill, nor is the manosphere’s response to the cancer of feminism the right one. Real manhood is to be found in taking up your cross and following Christ, even if it means following Him to death.

AUTHOR

S.A. McCarthy

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.

EDITORS NOTE: This Washington Stand column is republished with permission. All rights reserved. ©2024 Family Research Council.


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Muslims Understand Compassion Differently Than We Do

The idea that compassion is between man and man, not just God and man, barely exists.


The origins of Islam are twofold. It was a revealed religion, but grew out of pre-Islamic Arabian tribal—that is, Bedouin—culture. When Bedouin cultural values conflicted with Islam, Bedouin culture almost always won out. Over time, Islam and Bedouin culture melded into one. It is this combination that constitutes today’s Islamic culture.

The problem with Islam today is not a problem with Islam as a religion but rather Islamic culture. If Muslims choose to pray five or even 50 times a day, that is no concern of ours. But regarding Islamic culture and its view of non-Muslims, we do have a say.

Hebrew and Arabic share many common words and roots, but their meanings often diverge. For example, in both Arabic and Hebrew, the root R-Ḥ-M refers to the womb and signifies compassion. But the understanding of compassion in Judaism is very different from that of Islam.

The opening line of the Quran is: “In the name of Allah, the merciful and the compassionate.” We know what “merciful” and “compassionate” mean in English. It relates to the relationship between God and man, and between man and man.

In Islamic culture, by contrast, compassion is only between God and man. Compassion between man and man is almost absent. This does not mean that individual Muslims do not share our Western concept of compassion, but if they do, it is not derived from Islamic culture.

When a Jew asks God for compassion and forgiveness during the 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, he must first approach people he has wronged and ask for forgiveness. The person asked is required to have compassion and forgive. We believe that only by showing compassion to our fellow human beings will God be compassionate and forgiving towards us on Yom Kippur. Islamic culture is quite different.

On Oct. 7, we witnessed the results of this. Among those slaughtered by Gaza Muslims on that day were Bedouin Muslims who were Israeli citizens. They were killed along with Israeli Jews. Unlike the Nazis, who tried to hide their extermination program, the Muslims who slaughtered their fellow human beings—Muslims and non-Muslims—were proud of what they did, as demonstrated by the recordings of phone calls they made to the victims’ parents and friends as the murderers were terrorizing and murdering the recipients’ loved ones.

Why did the murderers also kill other Muslims? Because Muslims care first and foremost about their family, their clan and tribal associations, in that order. This has been true throughout Islamic history. Compassion towards one’s fellow human beings often barely exists.

There are many examples of this phenomenon:

When Hamas, the Iranian regime and Hezbollah send shahids—martyrs—to kill themselves in the name of Allah, they do not choose them from their own families. If they had compassion for others, why would they send other people’s children to their deaths? As we say, put your money where your mouth is.

In Arab culture, blood feuds continue for years without forgiveness or compassion. Perceived “wrongs” must be “righted” by deadly vengeance even if the original insult or crime might have happened generations ago.

Women suspected of dishonoring their families may be killed by family members. In some cases, the woman’s “transgression” is merely talking to a man who is not from the same family. It is not uncommon for fathers and even mothers to tell one of their sons to erase the blot on the family honor by killing his sister. We know of cases in which the son protested and his father told him that if he refused to kill his sister, he would be cast out of the family—which is the only security the son has.

Co-author Harold Rhode once taught a class in the Islamic world about Islamic culture. A female Muslim student wearing a hijab told him that she had to be very careful about talking to a non-relative. At the end of the day, when classes were over, her father personally escorted her home to her village. This student understood very well that if there were any rumors about her, she could end up dead. Moreover, her sisters pleaded with her not to do anything that might dishonor their family and thereby prevent them from being able to marry.

Before the Syrian civil war began in 2011, the country’s population was as high as 22 million. Since then, millions of Syrians have been killed, expelled or displaced to other countries. We have no idea what the population of Syria is today. It could be as little as 6-10 million. We wonder how Syrian dictator Bashar Assad could do this to his “own” people. But Assad doesn’t see most of them as his “own” people. He is a member of the Alawite sect. He is not a Sunni Muslim like approximately 72% of Syria’s pre-war population. To him, these Sunnis are expendable because their existence threatens his regime. Compassion does not enter into the equation.

When Kurdish citizens of Turkey refuse to call themselves “Turks,” the Turkish government has often labeled them “terrorists” to justify imprisoning or killing them. Not for nothing do the Kurds have a proverb: “No friends but the mountains,” expressing their feelings of loneliness, betrayal and abandonment.

When Islam conquers, it conquers by the sword. That is why there is a sword on the Saudi flag. Saudi Arabia’s ruling creed is an extreme form of Sunni Islam. Its flag symbolizes this creed. Beautiful calligraphy on the flag reads: “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger.” This simple statement, called the Shahada, is the central principle of the Islamic creed. The sword symbolizes their prophet’s conquest of pagans. The message: Either convert to Islam or die.

When shahids capture enemies, they do not just kill them. They usually make them suffer. Only then does the shahid kill his victim.

In 1947-1948, when Palestinian Arabs fled then-Palestine, their fellow Arabs responded by putting them into refugee camps, where many of them and their descendants still languish. Their “fellow Arabs” never had compassion on them and assimilated them. By contrast, when Jews fled from the surrounding Arab countries, Israel welcomed them, and the fledgling state helped to establish them as full citizens.

In Persian, the closest equivalent to the English phrase “it doesn’t matter” is “it doesn’t bring shame” (eib na-dareh). This means that what you have done will not shame or humiliate you and your family. We rarely think about shame and humiliation, but Muslims almost always have them in the back of their minds. If someone does something shameful or humiliating, others have no compassion for them.

These are just a few examples of how differently we Westerners and the Muslim world understand compassion. Our concepts of compassion and mercy are very different from those of Islamic culture. This, in short, is why so much of the Muslim world is so violent not only towards others, but towards other Muslims as well.

This article originally appeared in the Jewish News Syndicate.

AUTHORS

HAROLD RHODE

Harold Rhode received in Ph.D. in Islamic history and later served as the Turkish Desk Officer at the U.S. Department of Defense. He is now a distinguished senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute.

BENNETT RUDA

Bennett Ruda is a freelance journalist for The Jewish Press and a contributor to the popular Elder of Ziyon blog.

©2024. . All rights reserved.

The Betrayal: Russia, Ukraine, and the Kievan Rus’

Tucker Carlson is an emblem of American journalism. He didn’t know Russian history, the era of Stalinism and Russian counterintelligence Apparatus. But it didn’t stop him from traveling to Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin. Carlson didn’t know Vladimir Putin either, but Tucker wanted to know his opinion on the Russian War on Ukraine. In the beginning of February 2024, Carlson gave Putin the opportunity to propagandize global humanity with half-truth and lies for two hours. Carlson made a monumental mistake. He has never read my columns to learn the terms Socialist Charlatans and Socialist modus operandi: lies, deception, fabrication and fraud.

Tucker Carlson has never heard about A Global Spy Ring led by a devoted disciple of Stain/Andropov, Vladimir Putin, a global leader of Socialist Charlatans. Watching a recent performance of Fani Willis in the court has reminded me of the Soviet Socialist Charlatans and Socialist modus operandi. The phrase in Judge’s Ruling “an odor of mendacity” has also reminded me Socialist modus operandi used by both Fani and her boyfriend, like Putin used it in his interview. March 15-17, 2024 election is poised to win Putin’s Presidency for the 5th time. To learn how Putin keeps winning elections in Russia read my column: Russian/Chinese Intel: Carousel and COVID-19 in AmericaDecember 21, 2020.

If you still have illusions about Russia and Putin, you would never be able to understand a global war against Western civilization and the American capitalism waged by the Anti-Semitic, Terrorist State of Russia. I am a former Soviet defense attorney and a student of history. I have already expressed my opinion on the Russian War on Ukraine seven years ago in my column: The KGB’s Roots and Pedigrees, October 19, 2017. To show you an objective truth, I put together the compilation from Wikipedia,

Britannica.com and History.com to present existing scientific researches of different historians on the subject.                             

The Name Kievan Rus’

According to Wikipedia, the name Russia comes from the Medieval Latin name for the Kievan Rus’. The Rus’ were Norse merchants who settled in northern Russia in the 9th century. The current Russian name for Russia, Россия (Rossiya), comes from the Byzantine Greek name for Rus’ (Ρωσία / Rosía). Wikipedia. The history.com is giving us even more beneficial and detailed descriptions. Pay attention to the centuries of the Kievan Rus’ existing and the birth of the Moscow State four centuries later:

“Kievan Rus was a medieval kingdom that existed from 862–1242. It was a confederation of city-states and principalities that covered the geographic area of modern-day Belarus, Ukraine, and part of Russia. The kingdom’s capital was Kyiv, which was founded in the 6th or 7th century.

Kievan Rus was founded by Prince Oleg in the late 9th century. The kingdom’s economy was based on agriculture and trade, due to the region’s varied climates. The Grand Princes of Kiev were wealthier than many Western rulers, and they traded with Constantinople and the Eastern lands.

The period from 1015–1125 is considered the Golden Age of early Rus’. During this time, the prince of Kiev exercised relatively coherent political authority. The Kievan Rus reached its peak during the reign of Yaroslav the Wise, who married many of his children to neighboring nations to establish trade relations and maintain peace.

The name Rus’ is thought to come from an Old Norse word meaning “the men who row”. This is because rowing was the main way to navigate the rivers of Eastern Europe. The name may also be linked to the Swedish coastal area of Ros Lagen or Roden.

The Rus were a group of Varangian warriors from Scandinavia who established a powerful kingdom in southern Russia in the 9th century. They are considered the ancestors of today’s Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians. The term “Kievan Rus” is used by historians to describe the era when Kyiv was the capital of Rus, which was moved to Vladimir in 1169 ( Vladimir is a city). In the 20th century, historians began to use the term to refer to the whole Rus before the Mongol invasion.

The origin of the Kievan state and the name Rus are still debated by historians. According to the traditional account in The Russian Primary Chronicle, it was founded by the Viking Oleg, ruler of Novgorod from around 879. ( I highlight it deliberately to focus your attention—the Viking Oleg.)

(Vikings and Varangians are both came from Scandinavia)

Who, when, and why came up with the name Kievan Rus? In …Aug 21, 2023

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Names of Rus’, Russia and Ruthenia – Wikipedia

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Kievan Rus | Medieval State, Europe, Culture & Religion | Britannica  Feb 1, 2024

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This Is Why Russia Is Called Russia – Culture Trip Jun 18, 2018

Culture Trip

What was the significance of the Byzantine Empire? – Cliffs Notes Mar 28, 2023

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How Moscow has long used the historic Kyivan Rus state to justify expansionism… Mar 8, 2022

The Conversation:  According to a 2022 article in The Conversation, Moscow has long used the historic Kyivan Rus state to justify expansionism.

Kievan Rus was a political and cultural center of eastern Europe in the 10th and 11th centuries. It prospered due to its abundant supply of furs, beeswax, honey, and slaves for export, and because it controlled three main trade routes of Eastern Europe. ( Pay attention, the author talks about Eastern Europe prior to the Mongol invasion.)

The Mongol conquest in the 13th century decisively ended its power. Historians argue that without the Mongol destruction of Kievan Rus’, the Rus would not have unified into the Tsardom of Russia and, subsequently, the Russian Empire would not have risen. ( I agree.)

The Ukrainian language traces its origins to the Old East Slavic language of the ancient state of Kievan Rus’.

When Viking Kings and Queens Ruled Medieval Russia Dec 4, 2019

istory.com  For four centuries, Vikings held sway over parts of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, with the greatest expansion happening under Prince Oleg the Prophet. Dec 4, 2019.

Why was it called  Russia?

According to Wikipedia, the modern Russian name for Russia, Rossiya, comes from the Greek word Rosia, which comes from the self-name of the Rues’ people, Ῥῶς. The English name Russia comes from the Medieval Latin word Russi, which means “the Russians”, and the suffix -ia. The name first appeared in the 14th century.

The name Russia comes from the Medieval Latin name for the Kievan Rus’, which comes from the name of the Rus’ people. The Rus’ people were Norse merchants who settled in northern Russia. In 1721, Tsar Peter the Great renamed the state the Russian Empire, hoping to associate it with the historical and cultural achievements of ancient Rus’. “ (I underlined this sentence deliberately for a reason.) “Tsar Peter the Great renamed the state the Russian Empire, hoping to associate it with the historical and cultural achievements of ancient Rus.”  The author of the article admitted the fact of two states’ historical existence—the Kievan Rus and the Russian Empire. Tsar Peter the Great also understood it and acted intentionally.

I hope that the long and scientific explanation of the events in an ancient time can help you to have your own judgment about Russia’s War on Ukraine. You can also check Cambridge History of Russia, the first volume: This first volume of the Cambridge History of Russia covers the period from early (‘Kievan’) Rus’ to the start of Peter the Great’s reign in 1689. It surveys the development of Russia through the Mongol invasions to the expansion of the Muscovite state in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and deals with political, social, economic and cultural issues…

History is the mother of all sciences. Knowledge of history has determined our future. There is a reason, I gave you that long explanation about Russia’s War against Ukraine. As I mentioned above, Putin is a devoted disciple of the Stalin/Andropov ideology of Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet fascism. It is an aggressive expansionist ideology, which has a direct connection to the historic Russian past and 300 years of Mongol occupying Russia. I’d again recommend you to read my column: The KGB’s Roots and Pedigrees, October 19, 2017.

As a matter of fact, there can never be the Great Russian Empire without Ukraine, the largest European country. Putin knows it. Biden’s presidency is a historic moment for him and his KGB’s Mafia/Army to use the Putin/Biden collusion and to complete the infiltration and demolition of the American republic. Look at the global knot of events at the Southern border: Russian Cartels there, thousands of foreign Drones have violated our sky space, and millions of illegals entering our soil. Don’t be surprised by Biden’s ceasefire and Schumer’s denouncing PM Netanyahu at the time of Israel-Hamas War. Both are acts of betrayal by Socialist Charlatans, which is threatening our national security and decent people still don’t know the truth…

The Betrayal

I have to remind you again that betrayal has its history in America. I have been writing about the truth and warning you for the last forty-three years about a terrorist state of Russia, infiltrating all American democratic institutions. The FBI has prevented you from knowing the truth by submitting my name to the FISA Court and the Court made me a Foreign Agent, subsequently banning my writings in 2002. As you can see, the betrayal has a long history in America and only the truth about the Dems leadership’s collusion with Russian Intel can expose betrayal…

That betrayal is going on at this minute: the unrest in Haiti is not an accident. Russia had been targeting Haiti to make the second Venezuela for decades. The proximity of Haiti to America is the reason. Recently, the PM of Haiti has been assassinated and criminal gangs of war-lords are tearing apart the country—a typical sign of the KGB’s Mafia/Army there. The governor of Florida, DeSantis expects a flotilla of illegals and criminal gangs headed to Florida, but he doesn’t have enough vessels to stop it. Biden’s team won’t help Florida. There will be a three-front war against the American republic—Biden’s White House, Russian Cartels on the Southern border, and the Russian-run Haiti flotilla. Don’t you see the result of the Dems party’s betrayal?  Watch the faces of Socialist Charlatans like John Kirby, and Antony Blinken and you will get “an odor of mendacity.”

“An odor of mendacity” began a hundred years ago, when dictator Stalin had developed his ideology of Soviet Socialism in Russia, which I called Soviet Fascism. That fraudulent ideology had been spread across the globe by the Russian Intel. I have dedicated forty-three years to the subject, warning you about the KGB’s Mafia/Army—the Evil Doer. Stalin’s legacy is alive and well in 2024 America. The famous Stalin’s postulate: “Never admit crime committed, instead accuse your opponent of that exact crime” is used by the Biden regime. Please, recall the recent seven years and the Dem’s fiasco accusing Trump collusion with Russia. They did it to cover up that exact crime Biden’s Crime/Family had been committed, following Stalin’s recommendation.

There is a lot of fraud around. In my opinion, all Trump’s indictments are a fraud, they are the reflections of the crimes committed by Biden’s Crime/family. The fraud has been done by the Democrat Party to cover up their own collusion with Russian Intel started by Bill Clinton and lasted for decades. As a Socialist Charlatan, Biden just inherited it from Barack Obama. There are thousands, if not millions Socialist Charlatans in America: they don’t know Socialism, but they love it. They hate capitalism and help the Democrats to destroy the American republic. They have sabotaged the Republican House Committees, destroyed documents and bought time to save the Democrats from defeat. They helped Democrats to survived…

Socialist Charlatans have bought a lot of times, because the Republicans don’t know them and deal with Biden in a too delicate manner. I am writing this column for the Republicans. They have the last chance to save the American Constitutional republic, by learning about our deadly enemies: the Socialist/Communist tandem or team of the Russian/Chinese Intel.

I have been writing about this for the last forty-three years.

Use it, read my columns for free and save the American republic!

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©2024. Simona Pipko. All rights reserved.

Protect Your Privacy — Delete Your Facebook Account

The greatest move I ever made to not only protect my privacy and reduce the unnecessary drama in my life was the day I deleted my Communist controlled Facebook, a.k.a. Meta, account.

It was also not a surprise to me that my former Facebook account was suspended for 30 days in 2019 when I posted conservative content during my 2019/2020 County Commissioner Political run in Santa Rosa County Florida.

Facebook hired dozens of former CIA agents formerly employed as spies by the Obama administration primarily to work in the fields of security or content moderation.

The Biden administration also work closely with Facebook to gather and store information on political opponents for future weaponized prosecutions.

To define content moderation we conservatives like to say “Marxist censors” who shadow block and or outright censor conservative posts in Facebook.

I experienced this first hand with the massive election interference inflicted on my conservative political campaign by the Obama CIA trained Facebook employees.

I’m not blaming Facebook for not winning the election in 2020 but they certainly inflicted significant election interference on my campaign.

I cancelled my Twitter Account in 2018 for the same reasons but now I’m reconsidering returning now Elon Musk has control of the company he renamed “X”.

My decision will rest on whether he relocates his “X” company headquarters from Communist controlled San Francisco to let’s say Florida, Texas or Nevada.

Google also read all my Emails and all yours too if it’s a g-mail account. They use the excuse they are studying your email content so they can direct relevant commercial advertising to your inbox.

Your I phone/Android cell phone is also nothing more than a government tracking device and listening post which is why the government dismantled analog devices nationally which was harder to track.

The US government can now shut down the entire cell phone and internet network across the USA with one switch.

The Communist Chinese have infiltrated our republic including installing tracking devices in the cranes purchased by American companies for our ports. The installed Marxist dictator Joe Biden is owned by Beijing.

Iranians also easily hack into U.S. government computers gaining mountains of information on our do nothing Republican controlled congress and we Americans that keep electing these incompetent low IQ republican and democrat communists into office.

Politicians also state we are your leaders which is also Marxist propaganda. They are not our leaders they are our representatives. We are not a democracy we are a republic.

So not only are Americans being infiltrated by Communists and terror nations they are not protected from our own government because of the control that current and former officials have over this technology.

My advice is to delete your Facebook account, delete your Instagram account, delete your TikTok account and limit your email communications on Gmail google ran platforms.

My primary means of communication with my conservative high profile pals is by using writing paper an ink pen and a stamp. This includes Mar-A-Largo.

But don’t forget even the post office now photographs and scans your snail mail into a massive data base to track your mailings but not the content of your mail. Not yet anyway.

©2024. Geoff Ross. All rights reserved.

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CHAPTER 10: Objective Reality Is Required for a Free Society

Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier—Reality Is [upcoming release April 2024]


Globalism is a replacement ideology that seeks to reorder the world into one singular, planetary Unistate, ruled by the globalist elite. The globalist war on nation-states cannot succeed without collapsing the United States of America. The long-term strategic attack plan moves America incrementally from constitutional republic to socialism to globalism to feudalism. The tactical attack plan uses asymmetric psychological and informational warfare to destabilize Americans and drive society out of objective reality into the madness of subjective reality. America’s children are the primary target of the globalist predators.

The globalist War on America, documented in the Dodd Report, is a culture war fought without bullets that has targeted America’s children for over 100 years. The classroom is the globalists’ chosen battlefield, because whoever controls the educational curriculum controls the future. Why is this true?

Because children live what they learn. Education is an industry, and like all industries, it produces a product. The goal of America’s enemies is to produce an unaware, compliant citizenry groomed for life in the planned globalist Unistate. The War on America’s Children utilizes both informational and psychological warfare to achieve that goal.

The globalist social engineers are skilled strategists applying subversive wartime psychological tactics to “change the hearts and minds” of American children. The strategic goals are to replace parental authority with governmental authority, and to move society from objective reality, the adult world of facts, to subjective reality, the childish world of feelings.

Interfering with a child’s developing ability to reality-test is a staggering deceit and a monstrous abuse of power. Education reformer Deborah DeGroff’s 2019 handbook Between the Covers: What’s Inside a Children’s Book?[i]exposes the deceit and documents the sad reality of illiteracy in America today.

In the past, when children were told that every student was a butterfly, the children knew it wasn’t true because they could see for themselves that some students were extremely smart and others weren’t–––no matter what the teacher said. At that time, children were still learning to read with phonics. It was a time before sight-words and whole-word instruction became ubiquitous, and well before “hi-lo” reading even existed.

I had never heard of hi-lo reading before reading Deborah DeGroff’s book. Basically, instead of teaching children to actually read, a deceitful system was developed to address and adapt to the alarmingly low reading levels across the country. Hi-lo is a reference to the fact that the book content is considered upper-grade (high school interest), but the actual reading level is lower grade—sometimes as low as second- or third-grade level!!

In a 2012 article directed at the American Library Association, “ALA 2012: What’s Up with Hi-Lo?,”[ii] Publishers Weekly journalist Shannon Maughan wrote:

Many librarians, teachers, parents—and even students—are aware of the grim, oft-cited statistic: only one-third of eighth-grade students in the U.S. read at or above the proficient level (source: the Nation’s Report Card/National Assessment of Educational Progress 2009).[iii] While solutions to the problem are always being debated, those who work with struggling and reluctant readers every day want tools they can use right now. Hi-lo books frequently fit the bill….

Schools, by far, remain the biggest market for hi-lo books, largely because it is the setting where intervention for struggling readers is most likely to occur. In addition to searching for compelling general fiction and nonfiction, publishers are always on the lookout for ways they can create appealing curriculum-related titles. A number of companies offer such ancillary materials as workbooks and teacher guides to support their hi-lo series, as well….

Most encouraging about the hi-lo market is that librarians, educators, and publishers are seeing the books fill an important need. Becky Williams, a literacy consultant in Iowa who works with teachers, notes, “It’s not a silver bullet, but it’s something. They are a wonderful resource for kids that never ‘got it.’ Having these books has truly made a difference for these kids.”

So, instead of improving reading skills by teaching phonics, the education industry dumbed down the books. They moved the goalpost, disingenuously marketing hi-lo in glowing terms as an attempt to encourage “reluctant readers.”

In her book, DeGroff quotes Andrew Wooldridge of Orca Book Publishers, one of the largest suppliers of hi-lo books, saying, “We don’t use the term hi-lo because it has a bad connotation; we call the books fiction for reluctant readers or struggling readers.”

In reality, hi-lo reading is a system that presents great literature as summaries, like Cliffs Notes, or even as comic books deceitfully labeled “graphic novels.” Students today who are functionally illiterate because they never learned to read are offered summaries and comic books to read instead of original text.

For me, the horror of hi-lo reading goes far beyond the deliberate illiteracy it supports. The most devastating impact is that students actually BELIEVE they have read great literature. They feel the pride of achievement without the achievement. They have entered the realm of subjective reality where facts and feelings merge.

Moving the goalpost and changing the name of a thing does not change the objective reality of that thing, but it can change the hearts and minds of individuals responding to that thing. So, telling children they are all butterflies does not change the fact that some students are extremely smart, some are not; some can read, and some cannot. But it can change the children’s response to that fact, which means that in subjective reality it no longer matters whether you can read or not, whether you are reading a classic text or a comic book. In subjective reality, literacy and illiteracy are equivalent.

The American education industry has replaced meritocracy with educational indoctrination, facilitating deliberate dumbing down of our children. The industry’s informational warfare is facilitated by its psychological warfare, because parents and students alike BELIEVE the student has read the novel Moby-Dick, not the dumbed-down comic-book version!

Deborah DeGroff’s exploration of the content of children’s books also exposes the staggering, pervasive, inappropriate, pornographic, and confusing sexual content of books in classrooms K–12 and school libraries. Her research documents how weaponized education targets children’s most primary identity, their sexual identity.

The campaign to destabilize and destroy a child’s sexual identity is a particularly insidious effort to destroy the child’s individual identity. It is catastrophic to the child, and to freedom in a society of ordered liberty.

In every society anywhere in the world, the first words spoken when a baby is born are “It’s a boy!” or “It’s a girl!”

The globalist social engineers are trying to redefine what it means to be human by attacking the biology of maleness and femaleness, and insisting that gender is a choice––a child’s choice. Globalism’s War on Children is a long-term, well-planned, well-funded, well-executed mass-casualty campaign. The attack on a child’s sexual identity is a catastrophic assault on humanity itself.

In schools, libraries, movies, games, churches, and synagogues, transgender role models are presented as normal human beings. The most bizarre aspect of this particular assault on biology and objective reality is that so many parents actually believe that supporting this false, destructive, and confusing sexual narrative is being inclusive and compassionate!

Our nation’s children are being groomed to become compliant, submissive wards of the globalist Unistate, where they will have no individual rights, no freedoms, and no personal or sexual identity. They will be fodder for technocracy and transhumanism without the need of armies or policemen.

America’s weaponized education industry is not teaching Johnny to read or to write. It is teaching Johnny that he is a butterfly—and a boy who can become a girl if he so chooses. Take a moment to try to imagine a society of Johnnys, and then you will understand how destroying a child’s ability to reality-test is a weapon of mass societal destruction.

Without the ability to reality-test, Johnny remains frozen psychologically in the subjective reality of childhood. He never develops into an independent autonomous psychological adult capable of living in the world of objective reality. Freedom is an adult enterprise, and objective reality is the requirement for a free society.

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[i] Between the Covers: What’s Inside a Children’s Book?, Deborah DeGroff, 48 Hour Books, 2021; https://www.whatsinsidechildrensbooks.com/about-the-book/

[ii] ALA 2012: What’s Up with Hi-Lo?https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/52124-what-s-up-with-hi-lo-ala-2012.html

[iii] National Assessment of Educational Progresshttps://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/pdf/main2009/2010458.pdf

The Truth About Saint Patrick and Saint Patrick’s Day

Britannica on Saint Patrick Day:

The feast day held on March 17th of Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. Born in Roman Britain in the late 4th century, he was kidnapped at the age of 16 and taken to Ireland as a slave. He escaped but returned about 432 CE to convert the Irish to Christianity.

By the time of his death on March 17, 461, he had established monasterieschurches, and schools. Many legends grew up around him—for example, that he drove the snakes out of Ireland and used the shamrock to explain the Trinity.

Ireland came to celebrate his day with religious services and feasts.

It was emigrants, particularly to the United States, who transformed St. Patrick’s Day into a largely secular holiday of revelry and celebration of things Irish. Cities with large numbers of Irish immigrants, who often wielded political power, staged the most extensive celebrations, which included elaborate parades. Boston held its first St. Patrick’s Day parade in 1737, followed by New York City in 1762. Since 1962 Chicago has coloured its river green to mark the holiday.

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Foregone Conclusion

The biggest news story that the media, let alone the Democrat media axis – the most powerful propaganda apparatus in the world, is not covering, has not covered and will not cover is that the 2024 election is a forgone conclusion. The Democrats stole 2020. They stole it right before our eyes. They stopped counting in the battleground states in the middle of the night when Trump was all but declared the winner. Yes, he was that far ahead, and then, when the machines came back online hours later, the coup was complete and what followed was a revolution, an overthrow of we the people culminating in the prosecution and imprisonment of those who protested against the steal on January 6. I don’t think they will be as messy this time. The election system itself in blue/purple states, the infrastructure is a Democrat apparatus. They have a good deal of practice under their belts. There is nothing they love more than the constant drone of nonsensical flapping tongues talk, talk, talking about the election on TV, in social media, anywhere and everywhere. “The polls show…..” As if.

How does anyone believe the Republicans will be able to win in November? It’s not possible. Why is everyone talking about the race like it’s viable or fair or possible? It’s mass delusion. The election machinery is immense, meticulous, tentacles everywhere even in the GOP. And the enemy of the people controls it.  If I’m wrong, tell me what I ain’t seeing.

The reason why they are keeping a rotting, demented corpse who sniffs, fondles little children and walks into walls on the ticket, is because it’s in the bag. It doesn’t matter who they put on the ticket. He’s not running the country anyway.

The Republicans are useless. They have done nothing for four years. Controlled opposition.

The answer is simple. Paper ballots. One day voting. And that will not happen.

‘They Are Miles Ahead’: Despite ‘Election Integrity’ Hype, GOP Could Be Walking Into 2024 Legal Buzzsaw

By: Reagan Reese, Daily Caller, March 14, 2024:

Republicans are walking a tightrope heading into the 2024 election.

They must show their base that they are fighting hard on the issue of election integrity, which many conservatives believe cost former President Donald Trump his 2020 re-election bid.

Simultaneously, they must operate in the reality that they now live in the world of ballot harvesting and drop-boxes.

That dichotomy is why the Republican National Committee (RNC) told the Daily Caller they are committed to prioritizing election integrity efforts between now and November. They are waging lawsuits on issues ranging from ballot access to voting rules. Yet the party is also heavily pushing its “Bank Your Vote” initiative, encouraging Republicans to vote early.

Other elements of the party seem more resigned to playing by Democrats’ rules rather than trying to change them. The Caller also reached out to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), which the RNC said is helping bankroll the party’s legal fights.

After sending the Daily Caller a link to an Axios article about get out the vote efforts, and then ignoring multiple follow-up requests for an interview about election integrity, NRCC spokesperson Will Reinert sent the Caller the following: “We’ve complained about your coverage several times to editors, so to tell you the truth, we really don’t care to engage on pieces we don’t care about to help you guys out.”

A prominent conservative pundit read the Reinert email and told the Daily Caller, “‘pieces we don’t care about’ is the giveaway. They’re mailing it in on election prep, in other words.”

Election integrity is, however, an issue Republican voters care deeply about: coming out of the last presidential election, nearly two-thirds of Republicans and Trump voters said they had little faith votes were counted accurately, according to one poll.

In 2020, a number of election laws were changed, and others were straight up ignored, in key states due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In swing states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Arizona, voters had expanded access to methods of voting including ballot drop-boxes, mail-in voting and early voting thanks to Democratic Party legal efforts led by Marc Elias. (RELATED: Key Swing State Election Laws Under Fire Over Voter Integrity Provisions)

Elias is a high-powered attorney who has played a leading role in hundreds of lawsuits seeking to make it easier to vote and undo Republican efforts to make elections more secure.

A Daily Caller review of current election laws found that the situation on the ground remains dire for election integrity hawks. A number of key battleground states, including those that delivered Biden the presidency, are still slated to use many of the election procedures in 2024 that outraged Republicans in 2020.

At least seven are slated to deploy ballot drop-boxes. Nearly all are likely to have no-excuse absentee voting. Five are on track to have more than two weeks of early voting, and Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and North Carolina will mail out absentee ballots more than six weeks before election day.

“As we’ve talked about, the damage done by Democrats to change laws during COVID was unprecedented. There’s still a lot of work to do, not everything is where we want to be right now. But that’s why we’re scaling up this massive program and filing all this litigation because we’re actively trying to fix it up,” an RNC official told the Daily Caller. “We understand that there are still issues, especially in swing states with key stuff we need to fix. That’s why this exists.”

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Globalism: The Deliberate Quest of Poverty for Us, Riches for Them!

“Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level.” — United Nations Agenda 21


Agenda 21/2030, Green New Deal, Great Reset, Sustainable Development, 15 Minute City aren’t coming soon  They’re here.

Most Americans due to lack of Media reporting don’t know about it. They’ve never heard of it, but it is creeping in the back door right now. So, look behind you. It may already be in your backyard. Is your county taxing rainwater? Do you get fined for cutting down a tree on your property?

What is Agenda 21/2030 and all of its pseudonyms and revisions? It is a United Nation’s program presented and approved by George H.W. Bush in Rio in 1992. At that time American conservatives laughed it off. “This is too crazy,” they said. “Impossible. It will never happen. Not here!” Well, it is happening. It is happening here and it is happening now. Agenda 21 is a totalitarian comprehensive environmental program that, when fully implemented, will direct where you live, how much water you can use, and how and where you can travel your healthcare and what you can eat.

Agenda 21/2030/Great Reset is being marketed as a worldwide effort to ensure that all human beings will have access to adequate housing, health care, water and food. Of course this will require a massive redistribution of wealth from prosperous countries to poorer countries. Predictably, capitalistic countries, like the United States, will suffer lower standards of living. Initially mass migration was not included in the agenda but to speed up the demise of the West is has become the focal point. Why? It works by creating chaos and hostility leading to riots and division. Globalists thrive on chaos and fear. To make it stop the people are willing to give up freedom.

Agenda 21/2030/Great Reset was never ratified because it was called an Agenda not a Treaty. The Globalists tried other ways to get legislation. Other treaties like the BioDiversity Treaty passed in order to get funding to implement Agenda 21/2030/Great Reset. They failed but it’s noteworthy that Presidents George H. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama, through Executive Orders, have signed onto Agenda 21/2030/Great Reset. Hundreds more governors, mayors, and county commissioners have also signed on.

Agenda 21/2030/Great Reset and related programs will eliminate many things we hold dear. These have been declared “unsustainable” and will be abolished. Here are some of them:

  1. All private property rights (property ownership)
  2. All forms of irrigation, pesticides & commercial fertilizer
  3. Livestock production and most meat consumption
  4. Privately owned vehicles and personal travel
  5. Use of fossil fuels for power generation or mechanized travel
  6. Single family homes
  7. Most forms of mineral extraction and timber harvesting
  8. Human population must be reduced to fewer than 1 billion people
  9. Elimination of small business
  10. Control of healthcare and money
  11. All done for the common good to save the planet from human created climate change.

Although many plans start in Washington D.C. or state legislatures most plans seeping in through local city and county governments. Agenda 21/2030/Great Reset brings with it stealthy code words, comforting words such as: “smart growth,” “social justice,” “bio-diversity,” and “sustained development.” DIE aka Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, SEL aka Social Emotional Learning, Wokeness, Critical Race Theory. You will hear them often. Translated these terms effectively mean total environmental dictatorship, the elevation of the pagan practice of the worship of Mother Earth, You will own nothing and be happy. Affirmative Action was the mechanism to disburse this UN Agenda in our public schools. Not a joke.

ICLIE – originally International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives today called Local Governments for Sustainability bring grants and programs to local communities to entice county leaders to buy into their lies making themselves rich while the community loses sovereignty and revenue.  Why the name change for ICLIE? Because in America local communities can not sign contracts with international organizations. Once we exposed that they changed the name

Agenda 21/2030/Great Reset is designed to control every aspect of human life on every square inch of planet earth. As a biblical worldview dims in the world man falls to the bottom of the food chain. Animals and plants are now equal to humans.

Animals will become more important than man as will plants and trees. We can already see ample evidence of this process in motion today. Agenda 21/2030/Great Reset’s real message is: “Man is the problem. Nature must be preserved and take precedence. Mother Earth must not be scratched.“

U.S. Student Textbook  “Prayer to the Earth”:

The earth is not dead matter. She is alive. Now begin to speak to the earth as you walk.

You can speak out loud, or just talk to her in your mind. Send your love into her with your exhalation. Feel your heart touching upon the heart of the planet. Say to her

whatever words come to you: Mother Earth, I love you. Mother Earth, I bless you. May you be healed. May all your creatures be happy. Peace to you, Mother Earth.

On behalf of the human race, I ask forgiveness for having injured you. Forgive us, Mother Earth.”

Agenda 21/2030/Great Reset is just another attempt by man to recreate heaven on earth. David Chilton, in his insightful book Paradise Restored, presents an important historical dynamic. Chilton submits that man, ever since he was expelled from Eden, has tried to get back in. Each time he tries, he creates another hell on earth. Agenda 21/2030/Great Reset will be no different.

Many socialistic, communistic, and liberal organizations and international leaders are behind Agenda 21/2030/Great Reset and its related programs. It will take dedication of time and effort on our part to truly understand all the implications of this pervasive program. The investment of time will be worth it.

I encourage you, no, beg you, to learn of this UN Agenda. Take the time. Think of the world your children will inherit if we don’t stop it and similar assaults on our freedoms.  Do not make the mistake of writing this off as some conspiracy theory. It may or may not be a conspiracy, but it is not a theory. It’s here.

Here are a few examples of the Affirmative Action Graduates at work:

The Klamath Dam project.  I worked with Rosa Koire, Henry Lamb, Dr Michael Coffman and a host of others trying to alert the Affirmative Action Graduate Greenies not to blow the dams affecting hydro electric power, irrigation for farmers and wildlife. After over 10 years of trying to explain consequences to the Greenies they blew the dam. Now instead of having water, power and wildlife, everything, is dead.

The Affirmative Action Graduates in the Army Corp of Engineers had a similar experience.  We said, not to straighten the Kissimmee River in Florida or it will kill Lake Okeechobee and everything around it. But no they wanted more growth. Now at more taxpayer expense, they are re-curving the river.

It was just determined that the Fire, explosion in East Palestine was unnecessary.

How many wild fires are started because of poor management of forests or maintenance?

EV’s are a failure in cold weather and pollute more than gas vehicles.

Raising the minimum wage raises prices and puts companies out of business.

Eliminating CO2 will eliminate all forms of life.

When you lower the standards and don’t teach simple skills like common sense and consequence things fall apart and people lie.

It’s not climate change that is the problem. Its incompetent Affirmative Action Graduates.

Your children are learning this in the Public Indoctrination Clinics masquerading as public schools.

Join me and learn about Microschools and how you can help.

American is being transformed and we are losing our freedoms. The plight of the country in your hands. We can not continue to give them power and money to destroy us. We must vote the bums out.  Join me and learn about the plight of J6ers who are political prisoners and what you can do to help.

Remember: 

All Globalists want is Money Control and Power. They can only get Power if we give it to them. Don’t give them yours. Challenge them with the truth. Doing Nothing is Affirmation.

The Regime will not go quietly. Prepare.  Share with your 5.   So join me today

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A Plea For Help From A Dutch patriot

For the most part of my life, I have been obstructed by the Dutch government. The worst that my government did to me, is diagnose me with schizophrenia.

The reason that this raw ordeal happened to me, is that I’m a classical liberal. In the United States, I would be called a conservative.

Some of my strong believes are:

  1. There is a God.
  2. A country has a right to defend itself when attacked by a foreign country.
  3. Feminism is bad.
  4. Homosexuality is a sin.
  5. French culture is awful.
  6. Dutch people can be proud of their History.
  7. Marxism is of the devil.

I have always been outspoken about my beliefs. Most of the Dutch people strongly disagree with me, as they have been brainwashed by the leftist media and leftist political leaders.

Every once in four weeks time, I have to report to a government building. There I’m being questioned and I’m treated with a medicine. This amounts to torture.

I want to sue the Dutch government for the way they obstructed me, during my studies at the University of Amsterdam, during my career as a businessman, during my time as a political dissident.

All help from American citizens is appreciated. You can help me by posting a message of support on your social media accounts. I do not ask for donations.

If you are a lawyer or a legal expert, you should understand that Dutch law is very complicated, and I can thus not be assisted by non-Dutch people in the legal proceedings.

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Judge Says Fani Willis Must Ditch Nathan Wade Or Step Aside From Trump Case

A judge declined Friday to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the case against former President Donald Trump.

Judge Scott McAfee found that the defendants had “failed to meet their burden of proving that the District Attorney acquired an actual conflict of interest in this case through her personal relationship and recurring travels with her lead prosecutor.” However, he said that the record “highlights a significant appearance of impropriety that infects the current structure of the prosecution team,” stating that Nathan Wade must either withdraw or Willis and her whole office can choose to step aside to solve the problem.

McAfee wrote that disqualifying Willis was not necessary “when a less drastic and sufficiently remedial option is available.”

“The Court therefore concludes that the prosecution of this case cannot proceed until the State selects one of two options,” he wrote. “The District Attorney may choose to step aside, along with the whole of her office, and refer the prosecution to the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council for reassignment. See O.C.G.A. § 15-18-5. Alternatively, SADA Wade can withdraw, allowing the District Attorney, the Defendants, and the public to move forward without his presence or remuneration distracting from and potentially compromising the merits of this case.”

Trump co-defendant Michael Roman alleged in a Jan. 8 motion that Willis financially benefited from awarding her romantic partner Nathan Wade a lucrative contract to work as special prosecutor on the case when he took her on vacations using money earned from his position.

Willis and Wade both denied the relationship began before he was hired, though a long-time friend of Willis, Robin Yeartie, testified that it began in 2019. They claimed the expenses were split roughly equally, with Willis paying him back in cash.

McAfee wrote that an “odor of mendacity remains” about the testimony of Willis and Wade.

“The Court is not under an obligation to ferret out every instance of potential dishonesty from each witness or defendant ever presented in open court,” he wrote. “Yet reasonable questions about whether the District Attorney and her hand-selected lead SADA testified untruthfully about the timing of their relationship further underpin the finding of an appearance of impropriety and the need to make proportional efforts to cure it.”

Steve Sadow, Trump’s lead defense counsel, said in a statement that they will “use all legal options available as we continue to fight to end this case, which should never have been brought in the first place.”

“While respecting the Court’s decision, we believe that the Court did not afford appropriate significance to the prosecutorial misconduct of Willis and Wade, including the financial benefits, testifying untruthfully about when their personal relationship began, as well as Willis’ extrajudicial MLK ‘church speech,’ where she played the race card and falsely accused the defendants and their counsel of racism,” Sadow said.

McAfee’s ruling addressed other grounds defendants used to call for disqualification, including Willis’ failure to disclose gifts from Wade on her financial disclosures and a church speech she gave in January blaming the allegations on race.

He called the speech “legally improper,” noting that this kind of public comment “creates dangerous waters for the District Attorney to wade further into.”

“The time may well have arrived for an order preventing the State from mentioning the case in any public forum to prevent prejudicial pretrial publicity, but that is not the motion presently before the Court,” he wrote.

As for witnesses, McAfee found Yeartie’s testimony raised doubts about the testimony of Willis and Wade but “lacked context and detail.” He found that he could not “place any stock in the testimony of Terrance Bradley,” Wade’s former law partner.

Texts revealed Bradley, who said on the witness stand that he “could not recall” details about their relationship, shared many details with defense attorney Ashleigh Merchant, even suggesting witnesses she could subpoena to confirm them.

“His inconsistencies, demeanor, and generally non-responsive answers left far too brittle a foundation upon which to build any conclusions,” McAfee wrote.

McAfee issued a ruling Wednesday dismissing six of the counts in the indictment that did not offer defendants “enough information to prepare their defenses intelligently.”

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Israel’s Ramadan Dilemmas

Hamas would like to see Israeli forces storming into the Al-Aqsa mosque, hoping it would lead to a regional conflagration. 

The month of Ramadan is always a sensitive period for security officials. This year it has to be handled with even more care because Israel has to contend with four arenas bubbling up with pressure all at once—the war against Hamas in Gaza; the heightened tension in Judea and Samaria; the attempts to inflame Israeli Arabs; and the ongoing clash with the Biden administration.

The decision not to prevent Arabs who are Israeli citizens and Arab residents of Jerusalem from joining the Temple Mount prayers in a sweeping manner has major importance.

In recent years, riots have typically erupted during Ramadan, especially in the second half of the month, led by Hamas-affiliated radical youth from eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods, as well as “lone-wolf” terrorists mostly coming into the Old City, young people who smuggle fireworks, Molotov cocktails and even pipes filled with explosive powder resembling bombs onto the Temple Mount before Ramadan, sleep in the mosque and barricade themselves inside. This quickly descends into a confrontation with the police.

The main mission of the Israel Police on the Temple Mount is to prevent rioters from throwing stones or other dangerous objects towards the Western Wall, which could lead to the evacuation of Jewish worshippers from the compound. Extreme Islamic elements, certainly Hamas, would love to see this happen, as this could be cast as a “victory image.”

The Israeli Police has extensive experience dealing with events of this type. It is clear to anyone engaged in this task that images and videos of police officers stepping on prayer rugs and confronting those inside Al-Aqsa mosque, broadcast live to the Arab world, would increase tensions and provoke much condemnation.

Hamas would like to see Israeli forces storming into the mosque, hoping this would lead to a regional conflagration; thus, such a move must be an absolute last resort.

Storming the mosque would not be a tactical event; it would have broad strategic political and security implications. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it clear that such a move would have to be first cleared by him, underscoring the gravity of the matter.

In the current situation, there is no other choice. Events on the Temple Mount have a direct bearing on what happens in the Gaza Strip, with the discourse on a possible IDF operation in Rafah in the background.

Maintaining pressure on Hamas, by destroying both its military and civilian dispositions, while eliminating its political, religious and civilian leadership, requires the IDF to take aggressive action in Rafah. It must conquer and mop up the area, and target hundreds or even thousands of terrorists hiding in buildings, mosques and educational and medical facilities, and deal with the most difficult component—the underground tunnel system.

The main working assumption is that Hamas operatives in Rafah have already shed their identifying marks and are hiding among a supportive population, armed and not hesitating to use civilians as human shields.

IDF soldiers must not be put in harm’s way unnecessarily. Likewise, to minimize harm to Palestinian civilians as much as possible, it is crucial that they be allowed out of combat zones. But it is also worth remembering that with the terrorists being embedded within the population, the inability to definitively distinguish between noncombatants and terrorists adds to the complexity.

Another issue is the pier that the U.S. is establishing on the Gaza coast and the question of who will receive the humanitarian relief that is intended for the civilian population.

The most complex and dangerous way forward would be to allow clans or large families to manage the distribution of food. On the other hand, officials in the Palestinian Authority will also not be able to do so at this stage. Hamas is deeply embedded in the area, and it will threaten and even harm any entity that operates in its place.

Therefore, a combination of forces from Arab countries and Gazan civilians, as well as Israeli military intervention, will be required. This constellation, of course, is not a solution for the “day after” the war, which is the most critical aspect as Israel seeks a stable civilian governing authority to replace Hamas.

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Originally published by Israel Hayom.

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Arik Barbing

Arik Barbing, former head of the Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria sector in the Shin Bet.

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ACTION ALERT: West Point Official Mission Statement Eliminating ‘Duty, Honor, Country’

 

”Duty, Honor, Country,” a striking expression of West Point’s time honored ideals, is the motto of the U. S. Military Academy and is embedded in its coat of arms.

Though not as old as the institution they represent, the USMA coat of arms, also referred to as the seal, and motto have a long and interesting history.

According to archival records, the coat of arms and motto were adopted in 1898. Col. Charles W. Larned, professor of drawing headed a committee to design a coat of arms for the Academy and stated several criteria for the design. The committee decided that the design should represent the national character of the Academy, it’s military function, its educational function and its spirit and objectives.

Symbolism in the Coat of Arms

The committee began with the creation of an emblem that consisted of a sword, a universal symbol of war, and the helmet of Pallas Athena, a fully armed mythological goddess, is associated with the arts of war, and her helmet signifies wisdom and learning. The emblem is attached to a shield, bearing the arms of the United States, and on the shield’s crest is a bald eagle, the national symbol. The eagles claws hold 13 arrows representing the 13 original states and oak and olive branches, traditional symbols of peace.

Duty, Honor, Country

The eagle is grasping a scroll bearing the words “West Point, MDCCCII (1802), USMA,” and the motto, “Duty, Honor, Country.” The motto as such was never previously stated, but in writings of early superintendents, professors and graduates, one is struck by the recurrence of the words “duty,” “honor” and “country.” Colonel Larned’s committee believed Duty, Honor, Country represented simply, but eloquently, the ideals of West Point.

The committee did not express an opinion as the relative importance of the three words; however, there is perhaps significance in the fact that “honor” is in the center of the motto. As Maj Gen Bryant Moore noted in a 1951 article in Assembly Magazine, “honor” forms the keystone of the arch of the three ideals on which West Point is founded.

The coat of arms was used without change until 1923, when Captain George Chandler, of the War Department, pointed out to the Superintendent Brig. Gen. Fred Sladen that the eagle and the faced the heraldic sinister side. The helmet, eagle’s head and sword were soon turned to their current position.

Since 1923, the coat of arms has been in regular use at West Point and is carved on many of the older buildings. In 1980, the coat of arms was registered with the Library of Congress as an “identifiable logo” for the Academy.

Another tradition the woke Lieutenant General Steve Gilland, the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point and his Marxist bosses are trying to eliminate the motto Duty, Honor, Country.


This is an “Action Alert”

Col. (Ret.) Bill Prince, President of the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates, attended the 07 March West Point Board of Visitors meeting, at the Library of Congress in Washington DC.

Early in the meeting, current Superintendent LTG Steven W. Gilland announced a major change to the Academy’s Official Mission Statement. Expunged is the commitment to the approximately 125-year-old motto of Duty, Honor, Country.

LTG Gilland advised that in its place members of the Corps of Cadets would be “…committed to the Army Values…’’’ The seven Army values are not listed in the Mission Statement, but LTG Gilland remarked that Duty, Honor, Country were pretty much subsumed under the seven Army values. (Col. Prince’s comment: Duty and honor are two of the seven; Country does not make the cut.)

Meeting organizers supplied printed 12 page agenda packets to Board members and their staffs, but not the visitors, me being one, so we took the opportunity to grab agenda packets from vacant chairs. LTG Gilland advised, and the agenda packet specifically stated (page 4), that the new verbiage has been validated as an “Army Senior Leader Approved Mission.” Applicable briefing slide.

There is no identification of which Senior Army Leader found fault with Duty, Honor, Country. Not even the GOP members of the committee raised any objections.

Quickly, the briefing slides moved to the impacts of potential short-term and long-term lapses in funding.

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ACTION

If you are concerned, as we in the MacArthur Society certainly are, that there is an element at the Academy, and likely in the chain of command above, which wants to eradicate foundational principles which have stood the test of time, then I’m asking you to join me in sending an email to VP for Alumni Services Terence Sinkfield ’99 at terence.sinkfield@wpaog.org (845-446-1513).

Three questions occur to me:

Who is the “Army Senior Leader” who expunged Duty, Honor, Country from the Mission Statement?

Did this officer receive direction from above in his chain of command to take this action?

Did the AOG (in its mission to represent the members of the Long Grey Line) provide preliminary input to this decision and if so what input.

The MacArthur Society’s Mission is to preserve, defend, and advocate for West Point’s history, purpose, and principles of Duty, Honor, and Country. Clearly our Society must take action on this issue. Donations are of overriding importance in helping us stay in the fight. Join us!

Thank you for your support of the mission.

Col. (Ret.) Bill Prince ’70
President
MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates

What Business Do Christians Have Being Journalists?

Collin Hansen, a Christian journalist, once wrote that “there’s significant overlap between” journalism and Christianity, because both “teach by distilling complicated concepts about how the world works. Both herald news, good and bad.” But he added that one “might not know about the overlap between these callings because journalists and preachers generally don’t like each other.”

Of course, it’s no wonder why. Journalists aren’t famous for their good, trustworthy reputations. Rather, they’re more commonly infamous for their willingness to lie and twist the narrative to accommodate their biases. We scan headlines and notice that left- and right-wing outlets may cover the same news yet tell completely different stories. How do we know who and what to trust?

More importantly, what business does a Christian have in a field notorious for misconduct?

Growing up, I didn’t pay much attention to politics. Partly because I lacked an interest in it, and partly because I saw how it stirred up immense controversy. I didn’t see the point of engaging in what seemed like a constant societal migraine. But here I am, a Christian reporter with my gaze particularly fixed on the political arena. So, what changed? It’s simple.

I used to tell people, “The only political opinions I have are what’s addressed in the Bible.” And while it’s largely still the case, there’s a much different meaning behind that statement now. Back then, if I said that, I was primarily referring to matters of abortion, gender, and marriage — areas I firmly believe Scripture makes abundantly clear. But what changed between then and now is that I see more clearly how the Bible touches on far more than those three significant areas. Indeed, the more I study Scripture (and observe the political landscape), the more I see just how much the Bible applies to nearly everything.

It was during my internship at Family Research Council, shortly after attending Bible college, when this became blatant. Evidently, there are a vast number of political topics to consider when claiming the Bible “nearly” applies to “everything.” But I’ve had the privilege of writing for The Washington Stand about immigration, debanking, socialism, abortion, economics, LGBT activism, education, social media, mental health, and more, and for every single topic, a biblical worldview has applied. Moreover, in each topic, a Christian voice was not only relevant, but needed.

God is not just “some” truth you can choose to adopt in personal and isolated areas of convenience. No, He is the ultimate Truth as it pertains to all things, regardless of how we feel. The truth of God is “the same yesterday, today, and forever” (Hebrews 13:8). It’s completely detached from the roller coaster of human trends and finite perspectives. As such, Christians have an advantage to journalism secular journalists don’t. Christian journalists know objective truth, and it has set us free (John 8:32). And its Christian journalists who then take God and His word into the messy battleground of secular journalism to serve as salt and light to a world in desperate need of it. And really, all Christians who engage in politics are called to do this, too.

I had a conversation with a friend the other day about how hopeless it can feel standing for biblical truth in the public square when it seems to have no impact. And yet, for this very reason, I don’t find it coincidental Galatians 6:9 frequently comes to mind, which says, “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” And really, this is what Christian journalists are called to take on.

I believe it’s a strong and reasonable temptation to give up when swimming against the current — particularly in an ocean as restless as politics. But what I believe Galatians 6:9 is meant to remind us of is that we don’t give up because, while we may not always be able to see how our efforts make a difference, we serve a God who said, “Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear” (Isaiah 65:24). And Jesus said in John 5:17, “My Father is always working, and so am I.”

Feeling like God isn’t working is no reason to give up. Instead, we never have reason to give up because we trust, in His sovereignty, He is working.

2 Corinthians 4:4 says that “the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” But don’t you see? Journalism is such a wonderful opportunity for Christians to put the light of the gospel back into the public square. We will be criticized and rejected for it, but we will also be glorifying God.

Hansen articulated it well when he shared why Christian journalism matters:

“Journalists that would serve the church will fulfill a catechetical calling. We are teachers who help other Christians understand a world created by God but corrupted by sin. Our investigative work reflects the biblical reality that we live in … [a] time when our ‘adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour’ (1 Peter 5:8). We expose the sin that imperils believers so that they might be prepared to defend themselves in the power of the Holy Spirit.

“Yet, we also live in … [a] time when the Father is working in glorious ways to spread the saving knowledge of His Son, Jesus Christ. This is good news, and journalists have been called to tell it. With a little help from preachers, we just might be able to encourage the church with a new, more edifying approach to media.”

As corrupt and abused as it may be, I don’t believe the realm of media, reporting, and journalism is worth abandoning. Like everything in this fallen world, its frustrating nature is not one we should shy away from. Rather, it should be a wake-up call to what Christians are meant to do in the first place. That is, to proclaim the truth.

Earlier, I said I am a Christian reporter with my gaze fixed on politics. And while that is true as it pertains to what I write about, behind it all is a gaze fixed on Christ. And so, as a Christian journalist, I shall repeat the words of Psalm 146:2, in that “I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.”

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Sarah Holliday

Sarah Holliday is a reporter at The Washington Stand.

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Why Conservatives Need to Stop Saying “My Country’s Not Perfect”

A “Persian flaw” was originally a flaw purposely included in a handmade carpet because, the thinking was, only God could aspire to perfection. ’Tis true, too, that perfection is not a thing of this world. Given this, you may wonder why I write in my title that conservatives must stop issuing disclaimers to the effect of, “We all know our country is not perfect.” Well, consider a little analogy:

Imagine you were giving a speech in honor of your mother and opened with, “Now, we all know my mother’s not perfect.” Might there not be some stunned silence? Is it possible some listeners might view you as a bad child? Moreover, if your mother heard your disclaimer, mightn’t she be hurt?

This reaction to it would not be registered because the impression prevailed that your mother was a Jesus-like figure who walks on water. Rather, because your mother is human, it’s a given that she’s not perfect. Thus, making a point of issuing such a disclaimer implies that your mother isn’t just saddled with the “normal” human imperfections but is uniquely or profoundly flawed, so much so that you’d be embarrassed lauding an aspect of her life without first acknowledging her uniquely defective character.

In other words, such a disclaimer is gratuitous, just a bit like saying, “We all know my mother is not a man” or “We all know my mother is not an extraterrestrial.” Unless she’s got a beard and chest hair or looks like E.T., what’s the point?

Now, the imperfection disclaimer would be appropriate if your mother had knocked over three banks and you were pleading her case before the parole board, but is the U.S. that kind of a country? To what are we comparing her?

America was not the first to practice slavery, our flagellantism obsession, but was one of the first nations to eliminate it (Vermont enacted anti-slavery laws in 1777 already). As for “racism,” a 2020 study found the obvious: The U.S. is one of the least racist countries on Earth.

Consider, too, that China had its brutal wars of unification and, much later in history, a Maoist government that would kill 60 million people. Russia has a history including figures such as Ivan the Terrible, a Ukrainian genocide and Joseph Stalin’s purges. And prior to Western Civilization’s intervention, most parts of the world were ridden with barbarities such as cannibalism and human sacrifice. This, not to mention that slavery was once status quo the world over and that “racism” in many places still is. Yet citizens of other countries never feel compelled to issue an imperfection disclaimer.

So where is this standard of perfection, this utopia, that we’re comparing America to when we do so? Heaven is Heaven; it’s not on Earth.

Speaking of this flawed fold, and the sin making it so, vanity (and perhaps narcissism, too) also sometimes drives the imperfection disclaimer’s issuance. Implicit in the statement may be the message, “I wouldn’t want you to think I’m the kind of person who wouldn’t recognize my country’s flaws; I want you to know that I’m better than my nation — part of the enlightened set.”

None of this, mind you, means our attitude should be, “My country, right or wrong,” which, as G.K. Chesterton pointed out, “is like saying ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’” But this gets at part of the imperfection disclaimer’s silliness: It’s not even motivated by the right concerns.

We’re in the throes of the Sexual Devolution and a cultural revolution, with ne’er-do-wells telling children they can change sexes and have any kind of sex and illegal aliens being advantaged over citizens. Yet too many of us are manipulated into issuing the imperfection disclaimer based on left-wing imperatives (e.g., slavery and racism), which range from being in the past to common to man to exaggerated to imaginary. It’s a testimonial as to how the con-artist Left, with its control of culture-shaping entities such as the media, academia, entertainment and Big Tech, can mold thinking and manage the debates.

Lastly, know that just as an imperfection disclaimer relating to your quite normal mother would cause many to look dimly upon you, so does issuing one about our country lose us respect internationally. This world isn’t exactly replete with desert mystics and “If they don’t respect themselves,” the thinking often is, “why should we respect them?” So as my mother would often say, “Don’t wash your dirty laundry in public.”

Perfection is not a prerequisite for praise. A father will proudly tout his son’s accomplishments without mentioning the boy’s occasional mischievousness. Likewise, talking about our country’s successes doesn’t necessitate disclaimers about her sins.

Stop saying, “We all know our country is not perfect.” It’s not a sign of virtue. It’s a marker of leftist victory.

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