Trans Ruling Booed by Legal Experts

It may be Halloween, but Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly didn’t bother disguising her activist agenda. In a stunning ruling on Trump’s military policy, Kollar-Kotelly thrilled liberals by putting the brakes on the president’s July order that stopped people who identify as transgender from serving. Although it’s the same policy Barack Obama held for seven years, it’s apparently unconstitutional now that Donald Trump is president.

Most Americans will probably never get used to judges substituting their own opinion for the law, but it was especially jarring yesterday when this one declared herself the final authority on U.S. military policy, despite never being elected for the job. As any credible legal expert would tell you, Kollar-Kotelly’s opinion was amazingly presumptuous for an unelected district judge, who — without the benefit of internal intelligence, the service chiefs’ counsel, and Defense Department data — is quite content telling the White House how to defend America.

It was a jaw-dropping move, suggesting that she knows better than the commander-in-chief, but that’s the unfortunate climate of America’s courts. Liberal judges have gone from rewriting the law to second-guessing our president in areas like national security, where the courts almost always defer to the executive branch. And this court doesn’t tiptoe — it leaps over the White House’s authority on military issues. To try to justify her overreach, Kollar-Kotelly argues:

“The Court by no means suggests that it was not within the president’s authority to order that additional studies be undertaken and that this policy be reevaluated. If the president had done so and then decided that banning all transgender individuals from serving in the military was beneficial to the various military objectives cited, this would be a different case.”

FRC’s Travis Weber was just one of the people stunned by Kollar-Kotelly’s ruling. “This type of judicial activism gives the court a self-conferred ‘veto’ of any presidential decision concerning the military the court simply thinks is unlawful. That’s not the way our constitutional order works.” Not to mention, he goes on, “This kind of judicial presumption is doubly harmful when done in the military context. The court acted as if all the objective facts supported its conclusion, but then naively relied on the legal filings of ideologically-driven interest groups to come to this conclusion:

“Contrary to Defendants’ assertion, this does not appear to be a case where the Court is required to pick sides in a ‘battle of experts.’ …To the contrary, the record at this stage of the case shows that the reasons offered for categorically excluding transgender individuals were not supported and were in fact contradicted by the only military judgment available at the time. Accordingly, unlike the district court in Rostker, the Court’s analysis in this opinion has not been based on an independent evaluation of evidence or faulting of the president for choosing between two alternatives based on competing evidence.”

At one point, the court actually suggests that people confused about their gender lack “the sort of political power other groups might harness to protect themselves from discrimination.” One look at the amicus briefs in this case — or corporate America’s fierce lobbying on the issue — shows how out of touch her argument is.

In one of the more astonishing parts of her 76-page liberal manifesto, Kollar-Kotelly single-handedly invents a new protected class for people who identify as transgender, despite admitting she “is aware of no binding precedent on this issue.” “Transgender individuals have immutable and distinguishing characteristics that make them a discernable class,” she insists. The “defining characteristic of a transgender individual is that their inward identity, behavior, and possibly their physical characteristics, do not conform to stereotypes of how an individual of their assigned sex should feel, act and look.” There’s just one problem: An unelected U.S. district court judge has absolutely no authority to create a special legal category for anyone! So while the Left is busy celebrating, rest assured. This case is just beginning.

Here’s another important point, FRC’s Peter Sprigg explains. “The judge fails to acknowledge that there is no ‘right’ to serve in the military. Almost all the precedents she cites are outside the military context, where there should be much greater deference to the chain of command, beginning with the president.” Just as importantly, Peter goes on, “she completely ignores the fact that the pre-2016 policy was based on physical and mental health issues. She approaches the whole issue of people who identify as transgender as being a ‘class’ that is being discriminated against, without even addressing the relevance of their health condition to their fitness for service.”

Kollar-Kotelly seems to think the military is just your run-of-the-mill office environment — when in fact, it’s a physically-demanding, life-threatening battleground. The goal isn’t to advance “tolerance” or help people on the path to self-actualization. It’s to fight and win wars. And that mission is severely compromised when activist courts try to force the military into accepting unstable recruits in the name of “fairness.” I’ve got news for liberals: the military isn’t fair! If you don’t believe me, try to enlist with a mouthful of cavities or flat feet. In the end, it’s not our leaders’ responsibility to turn Americans into people fit to serve. It’s the military’s job to find people who already qualified to do so.

That’s not discrimination. That’s war.


Tony Perkins’ Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC senior writers.


Also in the October 31 Washington Update:

Inspectors Stumble on Ghoulish Scene at Abortion Chain

Columnist: ‘If you want to understand why people like Trump, watch VVS’

The Who and the What of Behavior: The Reality Revolution

The ability to distinguish between fact (objective reality) and fiction (subjective reality) is an essential survival skill.

Children are easily controlled because they live in the world of feelings and subjective reality. They have not been taught the critical thinking skills required to survive as adults in the world of objective reality.

Civil society and the laws that govern it are based on the acceptance of objective reality. The idea of blind justice is foundational because it evaluates the WHAT of behavior not the WHO. This is an extremely important distinction because it separates childish feelings that focus on the WHO of behavior from adult rational thinking that focuses on the WHAT. This is how it works.

Thought precedes behavior.

If a society can be pressured to remain in eternal childhood they never progress past the WHO of behavior – they remain stuck in the emotional world of childhood accepting what they are told without the critical thinking skills to question the information – the WHAT. They are the unaware compliant population that Hillary Clinton idealized.

The current left-wing liberal progressive (really regressive) identity politics focuses on the WHO of behavior. If you are a member of the group your behavior is defended no matter how anti-social or criminal it is because the metric is the childish WHO of behavior and not the WHAT.

Leftists are at war with America. The movement to indoctrinate America toward the subjective reality of childhood and away from the objective reality of adulthood is a weapon of war. Progressives are determined to infantilize society in an effort to destroy American democracy and replace it with socialism. Obama’s lawless “resistance” movement of identity politics seeks to topple the government of President Trump.

Identity politics are tribal. Like children, tribalism evaluates behavior according to WHO not WHAT is being done. Consider the matter of “Russian collusion” – a prime example of identity politics focusing on the WHO not the WHAT of behavior. Hillary and the DNC (the WHO) commission a fake dossier designed to destroy Trump with false accusations of collusion that deflect attention away from Hillary’s real collusion (the WHAT). The colluding mainstream media embraced the dossier’s false claims and echoed them incessantly.

But it was Hillary and her cronies who actually colluded with Russia on the Uranium One deal that transferred 20% of America’s uranium to Russia – that is the WHAT of the matter. The Obama administration facilitated the anti-American Uranium One deal, but as soon as their complicity was exposed the Leftist media echo chamber went suspiciously silent. Social media, Facebook, Twitter picked up the slack and protected their own by manipulating the search engines, censoring content, and closing down oppositional accounts. The tribal identity politics of the Left are protecting the Clintons, Obama, Holder, Comey, Mueller, Rosenstein, McCabe, and every other person involved from the blind justice and public scrutiny that will determine WHAT they did.

The Leftist war against America is an information war that is pressuring the public to become unaware and compliant – to remain children without the information to make informed decisions about their future. Childhood is the position of powerlessness. A public who only evaluates the WHO of behavior and ignores the WHAT will remain the eternal victims that their identity politics exploit.

From kindergarten through college young Americans are being encouraged to remain perpetual children. In primary school they are disingenuously told they are all butterflies (subjective reality). Individual achievement is discouraged and collectivism is encouraged. By the time they reach college they are so fragile these butterflies require safe spaces and Play-Doh to cope with opposing ideas. This diabolical invitation to remain a nation of children is a sinister campaign to force the public into subjective reality where they will remain unaware, compliant, and easily controlled. A childish dependent population is precisely what the Left needs to destroy American democracy and replace it with socialism.

America is at a crossroads and whoever prevails in the ruthless Leftist information war will determine our future. Blind justice evaluates behavior according to WHAT is being done not WHO is doing it which insures that no one is above the law. Blind justice preserves our democracy and is our guarantee of freedom against tyranny. Freedom is the casualty when the blindfolds come off and the tribal norms of identity politics take over.

This is a battle that must be won. We must demand growth and a commitment to objective reality in our nascent Reality Revolution. We must examine the WHAT of behavior and oppose the Leftist war against America that focuses on the WHO. We must commit ourselves to adulthood and encourage critical thinking skills to oppose the malevolent Leftist plan to keep Americans stuck in childhood. Socialism is not a gift it is the theft of individual freedom.

Our Reality Revolution must reject the Leftist offer to remain unaware, compliant, eternal children. Only fully actualized aware adults insistent upon transparency and the accurate facts of objective reality have the power to oppose this attack on America. We must reject subjective reality, identity politics, and tribalism. We must reject perpetual victimhood and powerlessness. We must embrace adulthood and grow up.

EDITORS NOTE: This column first appeared in the Goudsmit Pundicity.

Well, Identity Politics Has Ruined Halloween

Halloween has gone from being a time for kids to dress up — and a kind of creepy and uncomfortable time for adults to dress up and drink and act like kids — to a minefield of political correctness that would require a team of Army sappers to navigate without politically incorrect explosions ending careers.

This year’s increased round of dizzying intersectional dogma for Halloween came as Redbook and Cosmopolitan responded to an article by Sachi Feris in raceconscious.org (a wonderful site, surely.) Feris wrote that her five-year-old daughter wanted to be Moana. But well-indoctrinated mommy fretted that would be “cultural appropriation.”

Her five-year-old’s second choice was just a problematic: Queen Elsa from the movie “Frozen.” Mom Feris wrote “I had some reservations regarding both costume choices…about cultural appropriation and the power/privilege carried by Whiteness, and about Whiteness and standards of beauty,” she wrote. This went viral on liberal mommy Facebook groups, where white moms everywhere realized with terror they couldn’t find a way out of the racist maze.

I’m sure that somehow makes sense in Feris’ mind, or she is just regurgitating what has been forced down her throat until she believes that two plus two sometimes equals five. (Read 1984!) But the obvious conundrum was that her white daughter would be racist if she wore Moana because it would be cultural appropriation. But the girl would also be racist if she wore Else because of her white privilege and oppressive history.

So Redbook and Cosmopolitan magazines gave some very lectury advice to moms of white girls (everyone else is apparently fine) that offered such head-spinning contradictory expectations that it would be better to just stay home.

The uberfeminist magazines helpfully explained to ignorant, privileged white moms how to properly dress their girls this halloween regarding Disney princesses — those dangerous Disney princesses! — without: 1) being racist; 2) appropriating minority cultures; or 3) perpetuating white supremacy.

So yeah, like Feris realized, it’s a very small window.

Intersectional dress Gestapo provides guidelines for Halloween

Here’s how it works.

The magazines tell white moms to avoid costumes outside their race. That’s the first one. So Moana is super-duper popular right now with little girls. But the dress nazis say, don’t do it! Why? It’s cultural appropriation. Duh. What’s wrong with you?

OK, for the unwashed outside our superiors on the Coasts and campuses, cultural appropriation is where, say, a white person wears dreadlocks. They can rightly get bullied and beat up by people of color because they are appropriating a non-white cultural appearance. Yes. It happens. Check YouTube. But the definition is as expansive as a non-white deems it to be because they have moral authority, according to the deep-fried insanity known as intersectionality.

Now some major confusion occurs on this point because we have been lectured by the same lefty elites for decades about the glories of multiculturalism, that all cultures are equally fantastic and that we should appreciate and enjoy other cultures. Under that rubric, one would have thought that honoring a Polynesian princess (even a fictional one where an island comes to life) would be a very good thing for people of other races to do— imitation being the sincerest form of flattery.

But no, you racist!

It seems according to the dress cops, that we cannot truly appreciate the Polynesian culture (failure of the tourism industry) and pretending we can for a few hours just belittles that culture. It’s offensive. If you’re white, you wouldn’t understand because you are the oppressor.

The Exorcist girl’s head didn’t spin this badly. Please understand, this is not some exception. This is the growing rule.

College campuses hotbeds of intersectionality

It really blew up two years ago nationally — but had been driving its weedy roots into campuses for years — when longtime Yale Professor Nicholas Christakis and his wife, Erika, were forced out of their faculty-in-residence positions because they thought students should be treated as adults during Halloween — and, gulp, either not take offense or discuss the issue like civilized people.

Erika, an early childhood education expert, opposes adults “over-policing” children’s behavior. She is a card-carrying liberal, as is her husband. Yale administrators for intercultural affairs sent a campus-wide email telling Yale students to avoid “culturally unaware or insensitive choices” for Halloween costumes. Erika responded with an email of her own, agreeing with “genuine concerns about cultural” appropriation and applauding the “spirit” of trying to avoid hurting others. But she asked whether students were well-served by administrators over-policing student norms.

“Have we lost faith in young people’s capacity — in your capacity — to exercise self-censure, through social norming, and also in your capacity to ignore or reject things that trouble you?” she asked. “Whose business is it to control the forms of costumes of young people? It’s not mine, I know that.”

Pretty reasonable…well, not today when reason has left the room. But Erika added this from her husband: “Nicholas says, if you don’t like a costume someone is wearing, look away, or tell them you are offended. Talk to each other. Free speech and the ability to tolerate offense are the hallmarks of a free and open society.”

Well that seems like pretty darn good advice. So naturally, there were riots. The pitchforks and torches out to storm the castle. This was in the petition signed by endless students and jelly faculty:

“You ask students to ‘look away’ if costumes are offensive, as if the degradation of our cultures and people, and the violence that grows out of it is something that we can ignore…we were told to meet the offensive parties head on, without suggesting any modes or means to facilitate these discussions to promote understanding.”

How can we talk with people who disagree with us without someone to lead us?!? These students seem beautifully molded to be either tyrants or slaves, but hardly free people.

Campuses everywhere are being proactive to “protect” their students in this minefield.

It is so complicated, a magazine published by Ohio State University created an entire flowchart called “Is Your Costume Racist?” to help students dress without offense. They key question through the chart is: “Are you white?” If yes, that changes everything. In the chart, the only costume where there is no issue on race is “Does it make fun of Donald Trump?” Flow part arrow points to: “Do it!”

Just a one-off? I keep saying, this thinking is a contagion on college campuses. The University of Texas created a 29-point checklist for dressing for Halloween without offending. The University’s Bias Response Team  — I am not kidding, this is rampant — urges students to report any “party with a racist theme.” Of course, as we can see, determining what is not racist according to the dress cops is all but impossible.

Bottom line, best to just stay home and eat broccoli.

EDITORS NOTE: This column originally appeared in The Revolutionary Act.

The Evil Empire of Global Terrorism

The recent arguments about the Trump Dossier are not able to bring any credible solution without a deep knowledge of Russian Intelligence. Absence of that subject is also causing a division within the Republican Party itself. For thirty years our elitist leaders in the Democrat Party and the Republican establishment have been exercising erroneous foreign policy, providing time and space for our enemies to harm us and ignoring both the agenda of Socialist ideology and a militant force called the KGB. As a result of that, America and Western civilization are facing a mortal threat today, in October 2017.

Many years ago, writing about our leaders, I compared medicine with world politics. Today that analogy can be seen even more clearly than ever. When a medical doctor treats a patient, he or she fights against a disease and its causes. As a rule, after finding the causes a doctor deals with the disease. That way the patient is cured, his body healed. These physicians are knowledgeable professionals with experience to make a right diagnosis. However, unlike the latter specialists, the medical profession has another type of doctor—they treat the symptoms of the diseases. In that case the patient will never be cured and the treatment will never end nor bring healing.

This example is similar to politicians at the world stage—the current leaders of Western civilization. At this time of war, while we are fighting terrorists, knowledge and the ability to arrive at the right diagnosis is only in identifying the enemy. Doing that, we have the assurance of success and victory in the war. In my column The KGB’s Roots and Pedigrees, October 19, 2017, I have tried to shine light on the main actor in this war who is working undercover—the KGB. Moreover, I have been writing about WW III, waged against Western civilization for at least twenty-five years to show you the actual diagnosis.

Look at the numerous subjects and topics discussed by the politicians and the Media in 2017: North Korea, the Middle East, cultural decline in America, Obama’s stagnant economy, degraded educational system, ‘Climate Change,’ politicization of Intel and media, Niger, and so on. All of these are the symptoms of the disease, the disease itself is the ideology of Soviet Socialism, a system I have named Soviet Fascism. Russia is solely responsible for the human tragedies in the world, especially in the Middle East. That is the reason I have written about the KGB—the militant Russian force of expansion. This force is and has always been the main source of ongoing WW III, an asymmetrical war against Western civilization, waged in many different fronts for the last Hundred Years…

Yes, it has been going on for the last hundred years and our Academia has kept silent, not exposing the fraud of Socialist theory. November 7, 2017 is a centennial of the Socialist Revolution in Russia and creation of the militant force, known to you as the KGB. The agenda of the revolution was identified as the war against Capitalism and the Free Market economy to create a Socialist State and Socialist economy. The KGB is a militant force behind the Tsar-ruler to achieve the agenda. I dedicated to the topic my four books and over seventy articles, describing WW III as “Recruitments, Infiltration, Drugs and Assassinations.” Regrettably our Intel has been constantly suppressing the information about my writings. The result you see today, in October 2017, when new bombshells are striking our psyche every day.

Knowledge is Power

When I entered the Jewish Community Center Women’s Health Club on September 11, 2001, a young woman with horror on her face ran up to me, yelling, “A terrible accident occurred; a plane just hit a tower of the World Trade Center!”  Though I haven’t heard anything about the accident, it took me only a second to answer, “It’s not an accident; it’s a terrorist act!”  She looked at me as if I came from another planet. She did not know the evil, the merchant of death and destruction. I did. The difference between us was knowledge. She did not know Soviet Fascism.  I did.

Do you really believe that the 9/11 terror attack of the twenty-first century came from Afghanistan?  I do not.  Do you think that the spread of terrorism across the globe to sixty countries also came from the Taliban or al-Qaeda?  No chance. We are in the historic struggle of the twenty-first century against criminals of the twentieth century. The young girl I have mentioned was a nurse, she had never been interested in politics and did not know the genesis of the KGB. Senator Corker is responsible for the Senate dealing with foreign policy today and he put on hold dozens of candidates for ambassadorship, including country of Niger. He called himself a professional when criticizing the President. I think, this is a result of his ill-informed mediocracy driven by ambitions. Unfortunately, he is not alone. The Never Trump crowd shares his animosity along with the same questionable qualifications in this dangerous time.

The importance of the embassy in Niger and other African countries is obvious for those who have been engaged in policy and politics. Africa was a Soviet target for many years at the end of WW II. African natural resources were the main objective of the Soviets: they had begun political inculcation of the tribe’s leaders. Several times in my writings I described Africa as a casualty of Soviet Fascism, which infiltrated the continent with its tribalism to mold the tribes’ leaders. Niger has oil. Petroleum industry in Niger has a long history of petroleum exploration dating back to the 1970s: that means the Russian KGB and All-Shabbat were there and the presence of our ambassador in Niger was imperative to help our soldiers there. For your information: all terrorist groups have a structural and ideological affiliation with Russian Intel.

Do you remember the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow? It was the place where students from all inhabited continents had “studied” under the KGB’s supervision. The Soviet molding of the “student-leaders” later resulted in the bloody confrontations in Africa and around the world. The Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow has changed its name to the People’s Friendship University of Russia, but the substance and agenda stay the same—inculcation in Communist/Socialist tenets.

“In addition to Arabs, the Lumumba University was established in Moscow in the ’60s to prepare young haters of American capitalism, predominantly of dark-colored men from Africa, Middle East, and Asia.  Therefore, we are presently facing professional terrorism with enormous scale globally, which uses Stalin’s tactics and strategy conducted by former Moscow “students.”  What is Happening to America? The Hidden Truth of Global Destruction, Xlibris, 2012.

I have written this page on Senator Corker for a reason—National Security is the crux of the matter for me. And there are three inextricable connections to the terms: Russia, Terrorism, and dark-colored men. Politicians must know this connection. In a preceding column, I promised to write about Blacks vs. Whites. I will, under the condition that you first read a pamphlet composed by the KGB in the 1960s titled The Black Liberation Coordinating Committee’s Message to the Black Movement: A Political Statement from the Black Underground.

The Clinton Mafia

Sabotage in a field of national security is the most threatening thing. I didn’t like Bill Clinton since I have first saw him among a group of the Russian youngsters, organized by the KGB. Then, I found out that Clinton lived in a family of KGB members in Moscow in the 1970s. All of that gave me a real picture of the man. Later it was during the run up to the election, where a suspicious threat to Ross Perrot made Bill Clinton the U.S. President in 1992. His connection with Russia has always alarmed me. His presidency just doubled my dislike of him, as an enormous harm had been done to America.

Considering the connection of Russia to terrorism, there is another event that deserves attention and deep thinking about the Clinton Mafia. Do you remember Monica’s “blue dress?” I have found an interesting chronology connected to the “blue dress” in 1998. The FBI asked for Clinton’s blood sample to compare it with the sperm’s stain on the “blue dress,” three days later the terrorists committed two tragic blasts of American Embassies in Africa. Don’t tell me about the coincidences in life. It was the “work” of the Russian connection to divert attention from Clinton and “the blue dress.”

As usual our Intel was missing the elephant in the global room and we are paying a dear price for neglecting to do deep research into the connection between Russia and the Clinton Foundation (Clinton Global Initiative). I haven’t changed my mind – – the Foundation has been the eyes and ears of the KGB and as such, Clinton’s behavior is perhaps the answer to many of the questions related to our time, when the Democrats actually colluded with Russian intelligence on the Steele Dossier. Look at the leaders of our Intel: Brennon was voting for a communist candidate a couple of years ago, and then he said that the investigation on Trump/Russia collusion was based on the Dossier, and so said Clapper. Both relied on a typical KGB’s disinformation and manufactured fiction. Our national security and lives of millions Americans is in the hand of those incompetent few. We have massive intelligence failure—all seventeen agencies missed the elephant in the global room.

I’d like to remind you also about an existing myth that the Clinton’s presidency had brought an economic boom to America. Yes, it is a myth. There were two main factors that determined prosperity during the Clinton presidency: The first was the Congress, especially the House, led by Newt Gingrich. The second was the ideological climate created by the Reagan presidency – the continuation of his ideas of free market capitalism and personal liberty. Yes, it is a myth about the Clinton presidency, you have not yet realized how much harm he has done to our country. That is the reason, I am now talking about a deep investigation of his presidency, especially Waco, where I can be helpful. Retired head of the FBI agreed with me. Please, listen to him:

Bill Clinton in cahoots with Russia left us with an aggressive Stalinist North Korea. An emerging nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula will rise to the top of the Trump’s agenda, as North Korea shows no signs of slowing or stopping its attempts to achieve an effective nuclear deterrent. She will never surrender, having two communist patrons like Russia and China (the ultimate might of North Korea). To grasp this truth you have to know Stalinism and its ideology of Soviet Fascism. Don’t be fooled by crony capitalism in Russia and China–it is a measure to survive. Remember, all three share the same ideology of Soviet Fascism, all three are the countries with a State-controlled economy. As long as North Korea has those two patrons, its political future is relatively stable—nobody wants a nuclear war…

Clinton shaped the media apparatus a-la the Soviet propaganda machine, serving a one-party system. Don’t expect objectivity from our media. The ideology of Soviet Fascism is working through KGB operatives across the world to harm and damage Western civilization. Who do you think is behind California and Catalonia to separate from their respective countries and harm Western civilization? What would you say if I tell you that Fast and Furious in America was run by the KGB? The Clinton connection with the Podesta brothers is very troubling for me—Tony Podesta was working in British Petroleum, when the terrorist act occurred on the Gulf of Mexico… Do you see the connection? Knowledge is power!

Obama/Putin Joint Venture

Clinton is not the only one I suspect.  For the last nine years I am writing about Obama/Putin Joint Venture–a quite successful attempt to implement Soviet Socialism in America. Following Lenin’s advice, Obama implemented Socialist Obamacare, which had nothing to do with health: it was a pure redistribution of wealth.  With pleasure Obama signed Uranium One deal, giving controlling interest in our uranium to Russia. Today, the Deep State represents the Obama/Putin Joint Venture, continuing the DNC un-American activities. In my book Socialist Lies: From Stalin to the Clintons, Obamas, and Sanders, Xlibris, 2016, I described this Joint Venture in detail. The book is a catalog of Obama’s activities against American interests. Yet, I’d like to repeat the list of its military collaboration, probably, you have never heard about it.

A list of military collaborations between the U.S. and Russia executed under the Obama/Putin joint venture:

  1. Killing of bin-Laden
  2. Invasion of Libya, conspiracy of Obama, Putin, and French Pres. Sarkozy.
  3. Benghazi, murder of the U.S. ambassador Stevens.
  4. “On 6 August 2011, a U.S. Boeing CH-47 Chinook military helicopter was shot down while transporting a quick reaction force attempting to reinforce an engaged unit of Army Rangers in Wardak province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. The resulting crash killed all 38 people on board—25 American specialists … Fifteen of the Navy SEALs that were killed were members of the Naval… “
  5. Desertion of Bergholt to release five Taliban’s commanders.

If thoroughly investigated, the listed events will open up a huge panorama of activities by the DNC leadership directed against the American Republic. We can do it today with the Trump new FBI and CIA. We can and should start investigating all five cases presented by me to save America the Beautiful. The Trump dossier is a typical fabrication-product of Putin’s KGB. Putin hates America and President Trump. Putin never helped Trump in the election 2016. Of course, Putin tried to influence our election, yet, he is doing it predominantly through the people who had been already recruited…The upcoming investigation can expose a long-term Clinton collaboration with the Kremlin and maybe even more.

Kickback Means the Soviet/Russian Blat

Putin had a friendly relationship with Obama as well. He wanted to enter the American market and Obama helped him to do so. An army of KGB operatives pored onto our soil to undermine our National Security by bribing Americans to get uranium. To understand what is going on in October 2017 you have to know a Socialist reality and the Socialist methods of infiltration. The Uranium Deal was a simple exchange of goods for a money Kickback, the word probably exactable. But in reality, it is a political narrative or term of actions taking place within the Socialist economy.  To learn what Socialism means, I will give you a paragraph from my book titled What is Happening to America? The Hidden Truth of Global Destruction, Xlibeis, 2012.

“In a country of constant shortages of food, having money wasn’t enough. Of course, you had to have some money to buy bread or milk, but that was probably it in the Soviet Russia. To buy meat or butter, having money was not enough: you had to have Blat[1]. All soviet citizens knew the term. This term is probably not familiar to you, as it is a Russian word that applies to Soviet Socialist society. You live under capitalism and the laws of supply and demand, which responds to reality.

Soviet Socialism did not function in response to real conditions, and because of constant shortages and empty shelves, people relied on Blat–“connections with reciprocal favors” – specifically, knowing someone who had access to goods. As a defense attorney, I regularly got meat and other products from my clients who worked in various stores, which all belonged to the state—it was a system of universal corruption from the top to bottom. You can read the details in my book Baltic Winds: Testimony of a Soviet Attorney, Xlibris, 2002, pp. 167-168.”

The tragedy of America illustrated by Bernie Sanders, who calls himself a Democratic Socialist. The term itself is an oxymoron—a democrat can’t be a socialist, a socialist can’t be democratic. The term reveals a total absence of the knowledge of socialist dogma. Socialism means a dictatorship in a struggle to end individual liberty and private property, which is the opposite of democracy. Yet the incompetent and timid Republican establishment didn’t even attempt to argue and reject the fraud. Bernie Sanders is also a Trojan Horse to inculcate our youth in Socialist tenets. Alas, Soviet Socialism has become a legitimate term in America. I called it Soviet Fascism today.

For a hundred years this fraudulent system and ideology has been forcefully implemented in dozens countries and it never worked. It hadn’t worked in America for eight years under Obama. The activities of Obama/Putin Joint Venture and a current Deep State with 30 thousand ‘strong dogs’ of OFA (Organizing for Action) to disrupt everything achieved by Trump in America, I see as a destruction of the American Republic—a criminal act. The activities of OFA remind me the “active measures” of the KGB, mentioned in my columns. The investigation of Uranium One and other Russian involvements should be qualified as a treason and conspiracy against the United States. I believe, the investigation should begin against at least 10-12 individuals, including Eric Holder, Susan Rice, James Comey, and John Brennan. It is time to act!

New Trump administration must expose and stop Russian Spy Ring in America!

The Trump administration must show an evil, pervasive and ubiquitous force that is fighting Western civilization for the last hundred years!

To be continued   www.simonapipko1.com.

A Politicized Church: Episcopal Church Votes to Remove George Washington Memorial

It is everywhere on the news in the last 24 hours!

In case you happened to miss it, here is Daniel Greenfield on George Washington’s Virginia church and the vote. (hat tip: Ed).

So what does this have to do with refugees? 

It is a news hook to tell you about Episcopal Migration Ministries!

We tell you daily that there are nine federal resettlement contractors [below] placing third world refugees in to unsuspecting American towns and cities.  Six of those, depending almost completely on taxpayer dollars, are supposed to be ‘religious’ church groups largely controlled now by the political LEFT. (The Socialists and Communists understand that in order to bring down America they need to control the churches and break up the family.)

The one federal resettlement contractor surviving almost exclusively on federal tax dollars is Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM) that admitted in its own publication recently that it is 99.5% funded by the federal government.

And, it gets worse! The other eight federal contractors at least have set up separate legal entities as non-profit groups to receive their federal payola, not so EMM.  The federal money destined to EMM goes directly to the Episcopal Church (USA) making it harder than normal to follow the (your!) money!  See my post here.

I had always wondered why I couldn’t find an IRS Form 990 for them! Churches don’t have to tell the feds about their money (apparently even if it is the feds’ money!).

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Let me be clear, this Virginia church and the Episcopal Church (USA) can be political all they want to be, but not with taxpayer dollars!

From an April 2017 article in Episcopal News Service:

The executive order’s impact on EMM’s bottom line is especially drastic because EMM is a unique ministry of the Episcopal Church, both structurally and fiscally. While not separately incorporated, as is Episcopal Relief & Development, EMM receives very little money from the church-wide budget, instead receiving 99.5 percent of its funding from the federal government.

(By the way, if you are still an Episcopalian, you do need to either speak up or find another faith group! Just saying!).

Check out this recent annual report from EMM. Have you ever seen an annual report that does not mention their income and spending at all?

Are federal dollars propping up the Episcopal Church (USA)?

This is not the only place I’ve heard this over the years, but here is one writer who believes the money the church gets from the feds for refugees, helps prop-up the failing church.  Read the article which is focused on the U.S. State Department’s travel loan repayment plan where the non-profit, in this case EMM, acts as a loan collection agency and pockets some of the money it wrings out of the refugees.

The Episcopal Church (USA) has two primary sources of income: according to its latest audited financial statements for the calendar year 2013, it received a little over $27 million from its member dioceses, and it received half as much again, or $13.8 million, from the federal government.

Where is Congress?

So why isn’t the House Immigration Subcommittee holding “oversight” hearings on the rackets these ‘church’ contractors have going for them?

The nine federal refugee contractors who live off the taxpayer’s dime.  Go here to see if EMM is operating a refugee resettlement office where you live.

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Why The Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ is so Relentless

I revisited election night videos on YouTube of Leftists’ tearful meltdowns in response to Trump defeating Hillary.

Their panic, outrage and hatred for Trump was over-the-top; truly amazing. I questioned, why was it so intense?

I am a black Christian conservative. Trump is not ideological. Still, I thought Trump leaned more in Leftists’ camp than in mine. I viewed Trump as a businessman, busy pursuing his American dream, not concerned with the war between liberals and conservatives. Trump simply saw Obama making bad deals for America and knew he could do better. Trump was not overly concerned with social issues, but knew it was weird that Americans were no longer permitted to say, “Merry Christmas!” So Trump decided to get into the presidential race. Political elites and fake news media thought the idea of Donald J. Trump in the White House was the joke of the century.

And where on earth did Trump come up with his cornball, obviously un-poll tested, campaign phrase, “Make America great again”? Due to public schools teaching distortions and lies about American history, Leftists are obsessed with bringing down our country from her throne as the world power. This is why Trump proclaiming his desire to “make America great again” repulsed and enraged Leftists. Leftists have flooded fake news media with their absurd despicable lie that “make America great again” is code for white supremacy, social injustice, cops free to murder blacks, destroying the planet and so on.

Dethroning America is Leftists’ number one priority. The second most important thing in the world to Leftists appears to be sex and transforming America into a culture in which anything goes sexually. Leftists have been using government to force sexual deviancy down our throats. You cannot turn on TV without being slapped in the face with various forms of sexual deviancy. We have been trained not to complain about it if we know what is good for us.

Third on Leftists’ list of priorities is having as many Americans as possible kill their babies to save the planet. 

Obama championed Leftists’ sexual transformation of America. Under Obama, some states made homosexual conversion therapy illegal. Pedophilia is deemed a sexual orientation, thereby making therapy to cure it illegal. Ponder that, folks. Leftists are making it illegal for a therapist to attempt to cure their patient of being sexually attracted to children.

Guys who wake up feeling like a woman are legally permitted to use women restrooms. Anyone who objects to this insanity is gang assaulted by Leftists, branded a hater. Recently, a man dressed as a woman was sentenced to 70 years in jail for molesting a 10 year old girl in a restroom. During Obama’s reign, elementary public school teachers were ordered to no longer address students as boys and girls because gender distinctions are bigoted and insensitive to transgenders

Obama lit the White House in rainbow colored lights in celebration of government forced dismantling of marriage. This opened the flood gates for whatever conceivable arrangement to be legally deemed marriage. Fathers are marrying their daughters; people are marrying animals, marrying themselves and marrying inanimate objects. Welcome to Leftists’ new politically protected wild wild west of American sexuality.

Celebrating in the streets, Leftists knew their sexual transformation of America was on a roll making tremendous headway. Polls said Hillary would win in a landslide. Leftists gleefully anticipated Hillary continuing to implement their no-sexual-holds-barred America.

To Leftists’ shock and horror, Trump won!

Upon Trump winning the election, Leftists immediately launched their narrative (lie) that Trump is Hitler reborn? Is Leftists’ insane rage over Americans awarding Trump the key to the Oval Office mostly about sex? Absolutely.

I believe at the core of Leftists’ sexual idolatry is a spirit of anti-Christ. In a nutshell, Leftists hate Jesus for proclaiming himself the only way to heaven. This is why Obama led Leftists’ war on Christianity.

Now before you call me paranoid for claiming Leftists have a gerbil up their derrieres against Christians, please answer this question. Leftists are obsessed with promoting homosexuality. So why are Leftists such passionate defenders of Islam which calls for executing homosexuals? Christians tell homosexuals that they love them, but cannot approve of their lifestyle. Isn’t it logical that Leftists would demonize Muslims rather than Christians?

Another thing that has me scratching my head is Leftist women like Kim Kardashian, Rosie O’Donnell and Madonna who defend Islam while trashing Christianity. Muslims suppress women; rapes, beatings and executions for disobedience

Leftist female celebs who praise Islam could not be who they are, flashing their derrieres all over the place, if Sharia became the law of the land in America. And yet, these Hollywood and media women love Islam and hate Christians.

Trump’s vow to restore religious liberty has Leftists petrified that he will put the brakes on and roll back their government forced sexual transformation of America. In essence, Leftists have put a political contract on Trump’s head. He must be stopped at any and all cost.

Birdman and the Reality Revolution

Objective reality exists.

The ability to distinguish between fact and fantasy is an essential survival skill. If a man believes he can fly and jumps off a twenty story ledge he falls to his death because gravity is an objective fact and force of nature. Birdman’s fantasy (subjective reality) cannot compete with the fact of gravity (objective reality).

Let’s break down the process of thinking and doing. Thinking is a private matter and human beings are free to think their thoughts at any time in any place. Birdman is free to think he can fly without consequence to himself or others. It is the moment he steps off the ledge that his subjective reality collides with objective reality.

Civil society and the laws that govern it are based on the acceptance of objective reality by its citizens. Adults and children are evaluated differently in society. The fantasies of children are an accepted part of the growth process but adults who are out of touch with reality are deemed insane. In our example Birdman would be considered insane.

The safety lessons we teach our children are rooted in the acceptance of objective reality. Do not touch a hot stove. Do not run in the street. Do not jump out of a window or off a ledge. We teach our children the difference between fantasy and reality to keep them safe.

What would happen if there was a movement that deliberately rejected the teaching of objective reality and taught subjective reality instead? What is the purpose of driving a society insane?

Remember that the ability to distinguish between fact and fantasy is a survival skill. Thought precedes behavior. Birdman thought he could fly and jumped to his death. Critical thinking is the objective analysis of facts to form a judgment and is the foundation of rational thought. Critical thinking is necessarily judgy because one must evaluate the facts (objective reality) to form a judgment.

Feelings are not facts.

Feelings are the foundation of beliefs. Birdman’s feelings that he was a bird that could fly could not compete with the fact that he was a human and could not fly. Critical thinking is encouraged in an adult society. An insistence upon objective reality is what made America great, powerful, and undefeatable in WWII.

At the end of the war America’s enemies did not go quietly into the night. They reconstituted themselves to fight another day another way. How?

They simply put down their guns, picked up their books, and took aim at the children. They studied the human mind and decided to exploit the existence of the unconscious to bring America down psychologically. The goal was to move Americans out of the adult world of critical thinking (objective reality) and into the child’s world of feelings (subjective reality). They targeted education and decided to drive society insane. Regression was the goal.

Thought precedes behavior.

A chronological adult who thinks like a child behaves like a child. Birdman thought like a child believing he could fly. Feelings are the metric of children, facts are the metric of adults.

Vladimir Lenin infamously said,

“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”

The progressives (regressives) have taken a page out of Lenin’s communist playbook and have indoctrinated two generations of Americans toward collectivism through public/private education and the media including television programming and movies. There are many ways to fight a war. The Leftist war against America is a sinister effort to shatter objective reality and destroy critical thinking skills. When critical thinking is destroyed and a society is reduced to childish emotional thinking it is easily exploited.

Revolutions are fought to effect seismic social change and to restructure society from one form of government to another. Historically revolution involves the forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system. The Leftist war against America is psychological in nature and a Reality Revolution is necessary to stop them.

The Leftist offensive to drive society into subjective reality is a sinister attempt to infantilize society in preparation for socialism. What the young people of America need to understand is that the promise of socialism is not the reality of socialism. Cradle-to-grave government care exacts an exorbitant price. The government happily extracts your freedom and liberty when you accept the powerless position of childhood for the rest of your life. In socialism/communism you become permanent wards of the state.

The Reality Revolution

The Reality Revolution must restore objective reality to dismantle the infrastructure of subjective reality that has been established since the end of WWII.

President Donald Trump’s insistence upon objective reality makes him leader of the Reality Revolution and an existential threat to the Leftist campaign for subjective reality. President Trump’s efforts to make America great again are a determination to restore objective reality and adult thinking to society.

The striving to become an adult with all its attendant responsibilities is rewarded with the freedom of adulthood. Children are not free in any society – they are dependent upon their parents/caretakers or the government. The choice between collectivism offered by socialism/communism and individualism offered by American democracy envisioned by our Founding Fathers is the choice between childhood dependence and adult independence.

Young Americans proudly wearing Che t-shirts who have been indoctrinated toward collectivism should be asking themselves why real people living in real communist countries risk their lives to escape TO the freedom of America – no one is taking a raft to escape FROM freedom. The romanticized version of socialism/communism offered to young Americans is subjective reality.

These young people need to consider the reality of collectivism and judge its merits but they must be in objective reality to do so. Otherwise, like Birdman, they will think they can fly.

EDITORS NOTE: This column originally appeared on the Goudsmit Pundicity.

Why the Left and Right Clash Over National Identity

In 2011, after 899 issues and 73 years of publication, Superman, the most famous American comic book character, announced that he was renouncing his American citizenship.

“I intend to speak before the United Nations tomorrow and inform them that I am renouncing my U.S. citizenship,” Superman announces. He then adds, in reference to his famous motto: “Truth, justice, and the American way—it’s not enough anymore.”

After a national uproar, the comic publisher announced that this theme would not be revisited in any future edition of the comic. But an important point was made. To the liberal publishers of Superman, the hero’s American identity just didn’t feel right.

Maybe that was what people wanted from 1938 to the late 20th century. But this national identity stuff has got to go. We should all be world citizens.

This example illustrates a primary difference between left and right: their respective views of nationalism and national identity.

The rejection of national identities began with the founder of leftism, Karl Marx. He ends his major work, “Das Kapital,” with the famous left-wing motto, “Proletariat of the world, unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.”

Marx regarded national identities as backward and useless. In his view, the only identities that mattered were class identities—the working class and the ruling class. If a worker thought of himself first as a German or Englishman, rather than as a worker, communism would never be achieved.

The rejection of nationalism in Europe became mainstream after World War I. Many Europeans, especially among the intellectuals, concluded that the unprecedented loss of life caused by the Great War was a result, first and foremost, of nationalism.

They concluded that Europeans slaughtered each other for nothing more than a flag and a national identity. Therefore, the argument went, by abolishing nationalism, war could be abolished.

That is the belief that led to the creation of the European Union: The more Europeans identified with Europe rather than with a particular country, the less likely were the chances of war between European countries.

In the United States, however, a national American identity has always been a major part of what it means to be an American.

The three pillars of Americanism, constituting what I have called the “American Trinity,” are found on every American coin and banknote: “Liberty,” “In God We Trust,” and “e pluribus unum.” The latter is Latin for “out of many, one.”

Because America has always been a nation of immigrants, it has no ethnic identity. Therefore, unlike almost all other nations, America could not depend on an ethnic identity to keep its people together.

In fact, if all Americans retained their ethnic identities, America would simply splinter. So a nonethnic American national identity had to be forged and preserved.

To this day, foreigners in the United States are struck by how patriotic Americans are in comparison to whatever country they come from.

They marvel, for example, at the fact that before almost every sporting event—from professional down to high school—the American national anthem is played and/or sung.

Conservatives wish to conserve all these manifestations of American patriotism and nationalism because they believe a sense of national unity is essential to the political and social health of the country.

On the other hand, the American left, like the left in Europe, is opposed to nationalism, and it generally finds patriotic expressions corny at best and dangerous at worst.

This is easily seen. Just visit conservative and liberal areas on July Fourth, America’s Independence Day. You will see American flags displayed throughout conservative areas and virtually none displayed in liberal areas such as Manhattan, or Santa Monica or Berkeley, California.

Left-wing opposition to American nationalism is exemplified by the left’s embrace of “multiculturalism”—the cultivation of all ethnic and racial identities except American. It has even reached the point wherein some American colleges no longer display the American flag.

In lieu of an American national identity, the left prefers an international identity. Thus, ideally, United Nations authority would supersede American authority, and the World Court would supersede American courts.

To conservatives, such ideas are anathema because, in addition to subverting American sovereignty, the United Nations has not done nearly the amount of good in the world that the United States has.

That’s why the liberals at DC Comics had Superman renounce his American citizenship (at the United Nations, no less). In their view, Superman is now even more super. In conservatives’ view, the renunciation is kryptonite.

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Unfair Ballistic Privilege

Tоварищи!

I am so filled with self-loathing over my unfair ballistic-intuition male privilege that I must denounce myself. It is, after all, for the common good and the cause of gender hyper-equality!

Report: Standing Up to Pee Gives Boys an Unfair Advantage in Physics

What follows was actually published in a ‘scholarly’ journal: “After noting that girls lag in areas of physics that deal with projectile motion, the article reveals: “Like many parents [we] have observed the great delight young males take in urination, a process by which they produce and direct a visible projectile arc. … All this is experienced up to five times a day, so by 14, boys have had the opportunity to play with projectile motion around 10,000 times. And 14 is when many children meet formalised physics in the form of projectile motion and Newton’s equations of motion for the first time.

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Too Rich To Tax

There is an argument going on in Washington, D.C. that affects each and every one of us.  I am not talking about Obamacare, although that does affect each and every one of us.  And I am not talking about security issues such as the boarder wall or enhanced check points at air ports, although these, too, affect each and every one of us.

I am talking about taxes.  Yes the talk about taxes has begun anew in D.C.  Republicans say cut taxes.  Democrats say any cut only benefits the rich.  Both parties say tax cuts must be paid for.  I don’t know how that is an actual tax cut if you have to “pay” for it with other taxes.

Republicans say, cut spending.  Well some of the Republicans say cut spending.  Democrats and many Republicans say raise other taxes to pay for income tax cuts.  Again, that is a shell game and not a tax cut.

Government at every level simply tells the citizens of their jurisdiction that they must do with less because government refuses to do with less.  In fact, government often says it cannot do with less.  So they raise your taxes and then expect you to be grateful that they raised them by a small 2% instead of the 5% or 10% they really wanted.

Sometimes government is “nice”.  They don’t raise taxes.  They raise user fees, licenses, registrations, tags, etc.  The reality is, if government is charging it, if government is collecting it, then it’s a tax.  Name it whatever you wish but understand its still a tax.  And a tax is a tax no matter what name you give it.

Not to mention the hidden taxes everywhere you turn.  Fuel taxes.  Cell phone taxes.  Internet Service Provider taxes.  Cable TV taxes.  Electric power taxes.  You get the point.

And sometimes there is a tax before the tax.  Or a tax on top of the tax.  Its usually known as a surcharge.  Yea, gas for your car has surcharges.  So does the heating oil for your home.

Oh, and lets not forget the behavior taxes.  Tobacco taxes, for example.  The government tells us these taxes are to get us to stop using tobacco.  So when Americans stop using tobacco, the government says they are losing too much money that they got used to having when they first implemented those taxes.

So what do they do?  They raise the tax on tobacco and then propose new taxes.  Taxes on sugary soda’s.  Taxes on sugary and salty snacks.  You get the point.

How about your gas tax?  You know the massive taxes you pay every time you fill up the gas tank on your motor vehicle.  The federal rate is about 18 cents per gallon.  By the way, oil companies usually earn less than that rate per gallon as profit.  So right off the bat, the federal government earns more off every gallon of gas than the companies that drill, transport, refine, distribute and sell it.

Now don’t forget to add your state taxes to the mix.  The combined federal and state rate on a gallon of gas goes from a low of about 26 cents in Alaska to a high of nearly 70 cents in New York.  I bet you thought California was the highest.  They are a very close second at about 69 cents.  The Hawaii comes in at about 68 cents.

That does not include local taxes in some jurisdictions.  And that does not include the taxes paid on crude oil.  When you add up all the taxes that you pay when you put a gallon of gas in your gas tank, in some states you are paying over $1.00.   So if gas in your area is selling for around $2.50 per gallon, understand the oil company is only getting about $1.50 or less.

And if you think you can get around this tax by using a more efficient vehicle or buying or using a vehicle that doesn’t even use gas, you better think again.

There are those in government that are putting out a call to tax you on the total miles you drive because gas tax revenue is falling due to more efficient vehicles on the road.  You are pumping less gas.  Which means you are keeping too much of your money.

Yet every time someone seriously proposes cutting taxes we all pay, someone else says its only a tax cut for the rich.  What they are really saying is that they don’t want you to keep more of your own money.  So they hide behind the false notion that only the rich will benefit.

Who cares?  If the rich earn what they earn, how does it make my life better if government taxes them more?  It doesn’t.  But since they don’t get a tax cut, then neither do the rest of us poor slobs who more often than not open our wallets to find them empty.

Spread the misery right?  How about we spread the prosperity for a change.  Its time for government to do with less money for a change.

Don’t you agree?

We Are Suing YouTube for Censoring Our Videos

As you know, PragerU’s videos are available on a number of platforms, one of which is YouTube. And as you may also know, YouTube has chosen repeatedly to restrict some of our videos for violating their “Community Guidelines.”  Those guidelines are meant to protect users against viewing sexual content, violent or graphic content, and hate speech.

As a PragerU viewer, you know as well as I do that our videos contain nothing even remotely close to any of these categories.

To date, YouTube has restricted or “demonetized” 50 PragerU videos, addressing topics ranging from the Ten Commandments to the history of the Korean War.

More than a year ago, we filed a complaint with YouTube, hoping that there was some kind of innocent mistake.

That’s when we were told by YouTube that after reviewing our videos they determined that they were indeed “not appropriate for a younger audience.” Of course, we have this in writing.

Think about the millions of actually inappropriate videos on YouTube and then ask yourself, “Why is our content restricted?”

Unfortunately, the answer is rather obvious, isn’t it?  YouTube has restricted PragerU videos for only one reason: Ideological discrimination.

Of course, YouTube is owned by Google, which was founded to, ironically, “Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

YouTube has made some of our most important videos inaccessible to the very audience PragerU seeks to reach: young people.

Let me be clear: they don’t like what we teach and so they intend to stop us from teaching it. This kind of censorship is what we have seen on college campuses for years. But it is far more dangerous in this circumstance because the internet is where the world goes to get informed.

Can you imagine if the left owned the internet the way they own our universities?

Can you imagine what the world would look like if Google is allowed to continue to arbitrarily censor ideas they simply don’t agree with?  

Well, this is why Prager University filed suit again YouTube and Google. We are not fighting this only for PragerU—we are taking this on for America and possibly the world.

Now, I have to tell you … this was not an easy decision.

Over the summer, former Governor of California Pete Wilson — who has been a longtime supporter of PragerU — approached us and posited the idea: “We have to sue them,” he said. “Google is hubris.”

Those words weighed heavy on our entire team as we considered our options.

Obviously, a fight with Google will be hugely difficult and costly, and we hate the idea of deploying energy and resources away from producing more content and reaching new audiences.  We simply cannot do that.

So, before taking any such action, we decided we’d attempt a more diplomatic approach one last time. On the one-year anniversary of Google blocking our content, or the “BANniversary” as we had come to call it, we renewed our complaints to YouTube and re-circulated an online petition urging Google to change course. Many articles have been written and many people, including many very prominent and influential people, rallied in support of our cause. To date, well over a quarter-of-a-million people have added their names to our petition.

What was the result of our efforts?

Nothing. YouTube ignored us. In fact, they have since restricted 11 more PragerU videos.

With our hands tied, we knew Governor Wilson was right—Google’s hubris had to be challenged.

So, we have built an all-star legal team, including Governor Wilson’s Law Firm, Eric George, Alan Dershowitz, Barak Lurie, Kelly Shackelford, Mat Staver, and more.

It’s an impressive group, because this is an important case; not only for PragerU, but for the fundamental American right to freedom of speech.

But this is not going to be easy and it isn’t going to be cheap.

Despite the fact that our amazing attorneys have agreed to reasonably cap their legal fees, there will be additional personnel, research, marketing and public relations costs to PragerU.

This case will be tried in the court of public opinion as much as in the courtroom, and we intend to win in both venues.

However, we cannot deplete our operating budget to fight this case. Thanks to you, PragerU has reached more than 1-out-of-4 Americans on the internet. Sixty-three percent of them are under 34. We plan to continue to focus on this growth and reach 3 out of 4 Americans. We can’t let up now.

We are fully committed to the lawsuit but we won’t let them slow the growth of PragerU.

This is why our board of directors and many staff members have donated, in addition to our annual gift, to what we are calling the “YouTube Action Fund.” Dennis Prager, Allen Estrin, and I have all given extra this year.

Now, here is how you can help:

  1. Please go to our website and sign the petition against YouTube censorship. It already has nearly 300,000 signatures; please add yours if you haven’t done so already, and ask 10 of your friends to do the same.
  2. More importantly, please contribute to our action fund if you can, over and above your planned support for PragerU. Our initial goal for the legal fund is $1 million, and we think we can reach that goal with your help.

Many of you have already given so generously and I am embarrassed to ask for more. But if you think this fight is important please support us in whatever way you can.

It seems like a lot to ask…until you consider how much we have to lose.

Perhaps Goliath could teach Google a little bit about where hubris leads … when a David comes slinging.

Thank you, and God bless you.

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Everyday Americans Betrayed by George W.

As a precinct chairman, I walked neighborhoods in the blazing Florida sun, heat and humidity; sweating like crazy, campaigning for George W. Bush. I hated knocking on stranger’s doors, but I did it anyway.

Hearing Bush include “white supremacy” in his trash-Trump-speech was horrifying; extremely disappointing. Why on earth would a former Republican president play along with America-hating Leftists? President Bush gave credibility to the despicable Leftist’s lie that white supremacy is such a big problem in our country that he had to denounce it in his speech. There are barely enough white supremacists in America to fill a phone booth. And yet, Bush joined Leftists in dissing and lying on Trump supporters by inferring that they are a bunch of bigots.

President Bush that was a horrible thing to do. Despite my best efforts to educate my black relatives to the truth that Trump is not a racist and is actually helping blacks, young family members firmly believe Trump and his white supremacist voters hate them.

President Bush, haven’t you been watching the news; witnessing the devastating consequences of the Leftists’ lie which claims white supremacists are running the country since Trump was elected? President Bush, cops are being assassinated. Trump supporters are physically assaulted. The NFL is absurdly discussing launching a white-cops-stop-murdering-blacks month. 

White guilt and fear has caused politicians to allow paid George Soros thugs to drag down historical monuments in the name of social justice. Soros has spent $18 billion hiring operatives to bring down America via racial division, hate, destruction of property and violence in our streets. 

Eighteen billion dollars buys tons of political mercenaries. Soros’ paid army of anarchists probably far outnumber the handful of white supremacists in America. Soros’ Antifa is planning a Nov. 4th civil war to overthrow the Trump Administration. We are hearing talk of an impending race war. The last thing our country needs is a former president joining Leftists in promoting their lie that hate America groups have a legit beef. America is the greatest land of opportunity on the planet for all who choose to go for it. Anything else is an evil lie.

I get it President Bush. You hate Trump. You and your Washington DC establishment elites are still fuming that a commoner, an everyday Joe like Trump kicked ya’ll butts; winning the White House. I suspect it was pretty humiliating seeing Trump who in comparison spent a nickle on his presidential campaign defeat your brother Jeb who spent $130 million

But President Bush, how could you throw our country under the bus by furthering Leftists’ lie which has ignited racial division, hate and violence? Read my lips, white supremacy is not an issue in America! President Bush, by furthering Leftists’ Trump-voters-are-racist narrative you have placed cops and white American lives at risk. Are you so out of touch with real America that you do not realize the evil and dire consequences of furthering Leftists’ bogus narrative about Trump, cops and his supporters? Or, have you and your establishment buddies joined Leftists in deeming national race relations and American lives acceptable collateral damage in your demented quest to get Trump out of the Oval Office. Wow!

With America’s airways filled with talking heads badgering everyday Americans about how much black lives matter, Washington elites and Leftists are sacrificing black lives in their vendetta against Trump. By falsely portraying Trump supporters and cops as threats to black lives, Washington elites and Leftists are ignoring the elephants in the room of black on black homicide and disproportionate black abortions

While spreading their fake concerns for social justice and racial equality, Washington elites and Leftists refuse to tackle real issues plaguing American blacks. Leftists seek to destroy anyone who suggest common sense changes blacks can make to help themselves. Blacks are mere useful idiots in Washington elite’s and Leftists’ mission to kick Trump out of the White House.

President Bush, I campaigned hard for you. You truly disappoint me bro.

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WHODUNIT?

NEWSFLASH: On the night of October 1, 2017 shots rained down on concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas Nevada killing 58 people and injuring 546. Who would do such a thing? Why?

Solving a murder mystery requires following the clues. Those familiar with guns and ammunition do not believe that Stephen Paddock, the flabby 64 year old alleged shooter, was alone or even fired the killing shots from his Mandalay Bay suite. The increasingly contradictory and phantasmagorical explanations offered by government authorities to explain the shocking mass-murder are less credible than the Parker Brothers murder mystery board game Clue.

Motive is always a good place to start. If you want to know the motive look at the result. Who benefits from mass murder at an MGM hotel in Las Vegas?

MGM Resorts International is a holding company that operates in two sections – domestic resorts and MGM China. MGM Resorts International is the parent company of the Mandalay Bay hotel and is publicly traded on the NYSE as MGM. So let’s consider the business implications of mass murder. Chaos and instability drive stock prices down. As expected, the price of MGM stock plummeted after the mass-shooting.

Most people buy stocks hoping they will increase in value and generate a profit. George Soros buys futures and bets the stock will go down (shorting a stock) – he actually wants the stock price to drop. Soros is infamously known as the man who broke the Bank of England in 1992 by shorting billions of pounds. He is also a convicted felon for insider trading in France 2002. If it can be proven that Soros is connected to the murders and profited from them he becomes a prime suspect. So what actually happened?

SEC filings in May of 2017 show no MGM stock in the Soros Fund Management. In August of 2017 Soros Fund Management shorts 1.35 million MGM shares worth $42 million dollars. The slaughter at Mandalay Bay will generate hundreds of millions of dollars for Soros. This puts Soros in the office and makes him a person of interest.

Las Vegas and Hollywood are connected by conglomerates that own studio properties and hotel properties. The parent company’s stock is affected by the successes and failures of both. Remember that chaos creates instability which causes stock prices to tumble. That is Soros’ modus operandi – he destabilizes governments for power and profit. Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has been a despicable sexual predator for decades so why is he being exposed now? Why not five or ten or fifteen years ago? If you want to know the motive look at the result. The exposure of Harvey Weinstein as a serial sexual predator caused stock prices to drop and is collapsing The Weinstein Company at the same time that MGM stock is dropping. This puts Weinstein in the bedroom.

Goldman Sachs is said to be in negotiations to buy Weinstein’s company and what a surprise – Soros Fund Management increased its stake in Goldman Sachs Group (GS.N) by nearly 40% during the first quarter and then dumped them by August. Coincidence? Not likely.

MGM stock prices were falling so on September 5, 2017 MGM Resort International announced a 1 billion share buyback program that artificially inflated the stock price. On September 7, 2017 CEO and Chairman of MGM Resorts International James Murren sold 294,150 shares of his stock for $10,024,632.00. On September 6, 2017 CAO Robert Selwood sold 40,325 shares of his stock for $1,365,404.50. Could these men have prior knowledge of the catastrophe at Mandalay Bay? Insider trading is against the law but if it can be shown that Murren had prior knowledge of the shooting that makes him prime suspect number 2. His selloff places Murren in the library.

MGM has a China connection as well. China is heavily invested in MGM through its hospitality division that develops hotel and resort properties all over the world including the Middle East and China. MGM Resorts International projects in China are developed and operated by Diaoyutai MGM Hospitality a joint venture between MGM and Diaoyutai State Guesthouse of China.

Let’s review. MGM Resorts International is connected to Las Vegas hotels, Hollywood movie studios, Chinese hotels, and its stock is being shorted by currency manipulator George Soros. And then there is Wanda’s 20 million dollar donation to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to consider. Billionaire Wang Jianlin is chairman and president of Dalian Wanda Group. Interestingly it was Harvey Weinstein who sent a letter to the Beverly Hills City Council on behalf of Wanda’s development of a condo and hotel. Why did Weinstein go to bat for Wanda? What is the Weinstein connection to Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin and MGM?

The Weinstein Company (TWC) sold its library to Goldman Sachs in 2010 to save itself from bankruptcy. The library was purchased by AMC Networks (AMCX) in 2015 and then AMC Networks offered a $500 million buyback program of their stock on June 6, 2017. The library will revert back to TWC when the debt is paid but what happens if TWC goes out of business? The plot thickens.

China has been quietly buying up studios and influence in Hollywood for the last several years. Beijing based real estate conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group is central to the story. Wanda owns AMC Theaters and Legendary Entertainment. Wanda co-owns Open Road Films and Fathom Events and partners with Sony Entertainment.

Chinese control over content and distribution of movies is extremely problematic because of the unparalleled influence and platform it provides to manipulate public opinion. Media strategist Richard Berman expresses the concern in this way:

”Chinese control of movie production, radio station broadcasts, and other public channels provides the Chinese government with a platform to promote its own ideological message in the place of competing ideologies — often in an unassuming manner.”

Only the corrupt self-serving Hollywood elite who protected Harvey Weinstein for decades could actually say that Chinese influence in American film content will be minimal or benign. Twenty million dollars buys a lot of influence – remember Wanda’s gift to AMPAS. China is one of the usual suspects in this murder mystery because China seeks geopolitical primacy. Predators come in all forms – there are sexual predators like Harvey Weinstein, political predators like China, financial predators like James Murren, and the mother of all predators profiteer George Soros.

Predators succeed because of the participation of their enablers who benefit in some way from the actions of the predator. Solving murder mysteries often hinges on identifying those who enabled the crime.

So, who is the enabler in our WHODUNIT?

Let’s consider the absurd phantasmagorical accounts of the Las Vegas shooting provided by the authorities and echoed by the mainstream media (that has suddenly gone silent on the subject) as enablers. Let’s also consider the multiple eyewitness accounts contradicting every point of the official version. What could possibly account for such diametrically opposed versions of what happened in Las Vegas that night?

One theory of the crime is that the entire event was a deep state/government psychological operation (PsyOps) designed to create chaos to drive stock prices down. In this scenario the government enabled prime suspects Soros, Murren, and China to profit enormously. Why? All three are enemies of the state and enriching them enriches the coffers of the leftist/globalist agenda that seeks to destroy American democracy and replace it with socialism. The predictable cries for gun control furthers the leftist/globalist cause because an unarmed American public cannot defend itself.

But what about Weinstein? Who wanted to bring down Weinstein? He is, after all the premier spokesman for the culture war against America – his films destructively portraying an increasingly violent and out of control society. The exposure of Weinstein seems personal – perhaps Weinstein was exposed to destroy him and devalue his company for the scavengers waiting to buy it. Time will tell.

Before anyone rejects these possibilities as impossibilities – remember that the enemies of America intend to destroy us from the inside out. Chaos is the goal of the enemy because chaos is necessary for seismic social change. It is the chaos that produces economic instability, cultural instability, political instability, and makes people afraid. When people are fearful enough they will willingly surrender their civil liberties for the promise of safety. Surrender is the tipping point that awards the government excessive control.

Frightened citizens being duped into believing that gun control makes them safer have not considered the implications of a disarmed America. Surrendering guns renders citizens defenseless against excessive government control. If the deep state/government are the enablers in our WHODUNIT then their benefit is the hysterical cry for gun control to disarm America.

The predators and their enablers can exploit the chaos of Las Vegas by demanding the surrender of all guns leaving America-First patriots without the means to defend the country against tyranny. The predators will have devoured their prey.

RELATED ARTICLE: NY Attorney General Opens Investigation Into Weinstein Allegations

EDITORS NOTE: This column originally appeared in the Goudsmit Pundicity.

The opposite of love is not hate; it is fear!

We took the title of this column from American businessman, author, speaker, musician and song writer John Michael Chambers, who wrote:

“The opposite of love is not hate; it is fear. So choose to love. As you obtain more and more truths, then take the correct steps in implementing change, the fear subsides.”

There are many Americans who love one another. Matthew 22:36-40 (KJV) reads:

36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38 This is the first and great commandment.

39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

The difference between those who love God and their neighbors and those who hate God and their neighbors is fear.

I am on the TrainDemocrats.org email list. I went back and looked at some of the messages they send out on a weekly basis. Here are a few images contained in recent ones:

The email containing this graphic stated: “Late night host David Letterman SCHOOLED Donald Trump! YES!! There’s no better way to put it!”

 

The email containing this graphic stated: Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans will vote on a budget that slashes Medicare by half a TRILLION dollars. They’re gutting a life-saving program so they can give themselves and their wealthy friends a tax break. It’s SICKENING.

 

The email containing this graphic stated: Vice President Mike Pence is leading cruel attacks on the LGBT community: Listen, this is utterly disgusting and revolting. Mike Pence could possibly be our President. That would be AWFUL for millions of marginalized Americans.

The objective of TrainDemocrats.org is to strike fear in the hearts and put false narratives in the minds of those on their email list. But why? Answer: Keep their constituents afraid to keep them in the fold. Fear breeds hate, not love.

All three of these graphics are lies.

GRAPHIC 1: President Trump is not ignorant, nor is he insulting to America. President Trump is just the opposite. He loves America, the American flag and our National Anthem. Just look at his tweets on the NFL players taking a knee.

GRAPHIC 2: The 2018 budget plan passed by the U.S. Senate does not cut Medicare. As USA Today reporting on the budget plan stated, “It is not a law, so the budget cannot actually cut or raise spending or taxes.”

GRAPHIC 3: This graphic was based upon a story using “anonymous sources” published in The New Yorker and tweeted by Chelsea Clinton, Josh Groban and George Takei. The story was denounced by the Office of the Vice President.

One must overcome fear as there is nothing to fear but fear itself.

Nicole Unice in an article titled “10 Scriptures to Read When You’re Living in Fear – It’s impossible to show the selfless love of Jesus when you’re overcome with fear” quoted Isaiah 8:11-12:

The Lord spoke to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people. He said: “Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it.”

Unice notes, “The promise: God provides us a different way. Long before 24-hour news networks, God knew we would be drawn to live in fear like those who don’t know Him. We must acknowledge this temptation and pray that God would give us a spirit of boldness rather than dread.”

Maybe those who get these emails from TrainDemocrats.org need redemption? Fear is the darkness. Love is the light.

Is it Really Our Job To Save The Addict?

The problem

“Drug overdose was the leading cause of accidental death in the U.S., with 64,070 lethal drug overdoses in 2016. An estimated 53,332 have been linked to opioids of some type, which is an increase of 61% from 2015,” according to Nick Szubiak, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, National Council for Behavioral Health. He observes that the epidemic is partially being fueled by the early myth started by a letter published in New England Journal of Medicine in 1980 that opioids were non-addictive. In addition to that, there has been unrestricted prescribing of medications, and increase of availability and potency of less expensive heroin.

Dr. Lantie Jorandby, is board certified in addiction psychiatry. She is currently with the Amen Clinics in the Washington. DC area. Having been involved in Medical Assistance Treatment clinics providing suboxone and methadone within the VA system, Dr. Jorandby has observed, “egregious over-prescribing in the primary care setting in the VA system.” This over prescribing, she says, is usually done by “well-meaning” doctors, getting stuck in a cycle of prescribing dangerously high levels of opiates. She added “the system perpetuates when patients complain that their doctors want to stop their opiates, putting doctors in a bind with their jobs.” She has heard “reports of patients threatening doctors if they try to take them off of opiates, creating a perfect storm,” she says. Many people are prescribed a full 60 pill prescription, when a few pills would do the trick.

Perpetuating the problem

Explaining that the medical community has been trained to prescribe for longer periods of time like ten to thirty days, Carolyn Castro-Donlan, Ph.D. suggested that there might need to be a different type of training for prescribing medications. She has been working with addictions since the 80’s when she was a nurse. She is now a consultant, currently collaborating on Medical Assisted Treatment using suboxone for maintenance, detox or helping patients taper off opioids slowly.

She observes that one of the biggest problems is that prescription monitoring across states lines is inadequate and needs to be universal. Often, she says, this is how addictions can be perpetuated.

What we can agree on

They agree that there is way too much over prescribing of opioids, so perhaps we should find a way to train differently in this area and/or regulate how much can be prescribed and in what way. On this same issue, we should probably monitor prescriptions of opioids across state lines, as suggested by Castro-Donlan. It’s way too easy for people to drive from one doctor to the other to load up on pain meds with no way of tracking whether or not there’s an obvious problem.

Another thing most of the professionals agreed on was Medically Assisted Treatment using suboxone or methadone for people struggling with addiction. If we could develop treatment that involves time-limited withdrawal support, coupled with therapeutic support to address underlying issues, that there should be a way to do that. Carolyn Castro-Donlan, PhD emphasizes that the withdrawal symptoms won’t kill you, but she said it sure feels like they will when you are going through it, and it might just be the humane way to allow someone to quit.

We are bombarded with societal messages that we are not enough.

We need more money, a faster car, a slimmer figure, and stronger deodorant if we are to be acceptable and loved. We are sent messages that we should never be in pain or suffer in any way. Jorandby and Castro-Donlan also agreed that connecting to a spiritual source through meditation, prayer, and gratitude is an important place to begin to find our true worth as human beings. Mindfulness principles like meditation and gratitude have been shown through multiple studies to actually change the brain. So, while the addiction changes the brain and alters perception in one way, meditation and gratitude are scientifically proven strategies for emotional strength and growth. So instead of looking outside of ourselves for ways to escape from our problems and stressors, we build resilience from inside.

And more than anything else, they agreed that education for prevention should start early, and awareness for reducing stigma is vital. People do not seek treatment often due to fear and shame. We are not talking about the “dregs of society” if there is such a thing; we are talking about housewives who take their kids to soccer each week, high school students who get injured in sports, businessmen and women who work hard every day, who started out with pain meds and find themselves on that slippery slope, leading to hopelessness and destruction. “Addicts are not stupid. Neither are they weak, but rather highly intelligent,” says Rev. Dr. Wesley Shortridge of Bealeton, VA.

Where to start

I don’t necessarily think the conversation should focus on whether or not it’s a choice, or whether or not society is co-dependent, but rather what we can agree on.

We may not be able to save every person who struggles with substance abuse, but we can at least do what we can to lessen availability and move in a healthier direction. Reverend Shortridge says, “We need to build a society that doesn’t need it.” And beginning with the suggestions above, that most seem to agree on, might be a good place to start.

  1. Prevention by training in mindfulness principles, beginning with even very young students.
  2. Raising awareness and offering education to reduce stigma and enhance understanding.
  3. Putting some regulations around prescribing practices to limit availability.
  4. Offering limited and focused Medically Assisted Treatment, coupled with therapy, for the purpose of a better recovery.