The Truth about Ramadan

The truth about Islam

Ramadan is an Islamic tradition, that prescribes that Muslims must refrain from eating and drinking for a whole month. This is impossible, so Muslims cheat and eat lots of food in the night.

The purpose of Ramadan is to purify oneself. The purpose is to adhere completely to all the laws of Islam, the Shariah.

The big problem with this activity is, that one of the laws of Islam is the duty for the Muslim male to wage Jihad. Jihad means Holy War against non-Muslims.

During the past years, I noticed that during Ramadan Muslims cheat a lot. The whole day, Muslim men carry small bottles of water with them. They sip from them in secret when they think that nobody watches them. They also have a few dates (fruits from palm trees) in their pocket, and eat whenever they feel hungry.

I conclude that Ramadan is one big show by Muslims to appear noble. In reality they break their own rules all the time. Also, there are very few Muslims who wage Jihad, as ordered by the Quran. Most Muslim men talk tough and point a finger towards Israel. That’s not real the real deal, that’s not Jihad!

Unfortunately in the West, many people in positions of power, wish the Muslim community, the Ummah, a happy Ramadan. Well, I don’t. I wish for Muslims that they open their heart for the Truth. For it’s not healthy to participate in Ramadan. I wish for Muslims that they eat healthy, live healthy and have heathy ideas.

NOTE: Mosab Hassan Yousef, a.k.a. Son of Hamas, lists the characteristics of a certain people — can you guess who they are?

  1. They sacrifice their own children to ignite rage and hatred against their opponents.
  2. They don’t feel guilty for sacrificing their own children because the children are going to heaven as martyrs.
  3. They use the hospitals as terror hubs then they complain about the collapse of the health system.
  4. They use mosques for indoctrination and terror then they complain about religious freedoms.
  5. They initiate the war, and when they lose they say it was a massacre.
  6. They believe Killing, looting, raping, robbing, child molesting, and honor killing, are justified because of “resistance.”
  7. They believe the genocide of peaceful communities is because of “occupation” and “colonialism.”
  8. They are fighting for “their land”, but they have no proof of any ownership.
  9. They could have developed the land they have, but they prefer to conquer a land that has been already developed.
  10. They are certain that the grass on the other side is greener.
  11. They didn’t achieve anything because they were busy trying to steal their neighbor’s life achievement.
  12. If they don’t have their lamb stew dish while at war they have started, they call it famine and a human rights violation.
  13. They agree on evil then they complain about collective punishment. Their false accusations against their neighbors only reveal who they truly are.

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Stalin’s Cult of Personality in Biden’s White House

Hitler’s and Stalin’s Cult of Personality is known to the world by the history of the 20th century. It is very familiar to Americans from the Soviet Union/Russia, Cuba, Germany, Venezuela, and some Central American countries. They have lived through the Cult of Personality in their native countries. They didn’t expect to see it in America. But they did. Biden’s State of the Union Address has reminded them about the Cult of Personality. The ideology of National-Socialism has its patterns and Cult of Personality is a major part of ​totalitarian regime. American medicine demonstrated a miracle, by making a senile Joe Biden a Khalif for an hour using a prompter and microphone. Khalif an hour is a Russian-language book containing stories from The Thousand and One Nights.

Yes, American medicine, a prompter and microphone have given Biden the opportunity to deliver that aggressive, arrogant, and divisive State of the Union Address, full of lies and fraud. He presented himself as Abraham Lincoln blaming and fighting others: the GOP, the U.S. Supreme Court and you. Only a confused senile person, without a healthy brain can accuse Republicans of the border crimes and chaos in America. Biden called Republicans “the enemy of the state” like Stalin did. Hyper-partisan, angry, race-fueled State of the Union, skillfully coordinating half-truth, lies and fraud couldn’t be composed by a mentally confused Biden, he just read what his staff had produced for him.

Meanwhile, American servicemen are dying in Afghanistan, Somalia, Syria, and in helicopter’s crashes on the Southern border, where Russian Cartels operate. I have given up on Biden in August 2021, after the U.S. shameful surrender of Afghanistan. I haven’t changed my mind, “Afghanistan has been designed by Vladimir Putin and executed by Biden’s White House.” Yes, I have believed then and I am sure now that the Putin/Biden collusion is a reality and the forces of Putin’s KGB are running Biden’s White House. Trump is an existential threat to both Putin and Biden, and they are both interested in bankrupting and dismantling American capitalism… Remember  a term—Controlled Opposition, it is now Biden’s White House.

By knowing that Stalin’s Soviet Socialism would sooner or later infiltrate American soil, I started writing about it and warning you forty-three years ago. Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism, had been successfully disseminated throughout the world in the 20th century. Time is money, Vladimir Putin, a devoted disciple of the Stalin/Andropov ideology against American capitalism, knows it. This aggressive process has been accelerated in speed and force under Putin, for the last thirty years. You are witnessing its result in 2024: inflation is high, the economy is unstable, crime is rising, and record numbers of illegal migrants are crossing the border on a daily basis—a real American Chaos…

Writing about Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism, I have given you the history of Soviet/Russian terrorism, because the major part of Soviet fascism is Terrorism. “Terrorism is the unlawful use of violence or threats to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or government. It’s intended to coerce or intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological.” Stalin married Soviet Socialism’s ideology with Islam. Read my column to learn about Jihadi and their  “mission to recruit jihadists.”

It should be said that the Terrorism is a major part of Soviet Fascism, which is managed by the KGB’s Mafia/Army—the Evil Doer. That’s why the last part of the term is the Evil Doer—the manager. We are watching a collusion of two presidents, Biden and Putin. Putin’s Evil Doer is helping Biden to implement Soviet Socialism in America. The example of events on the Southern border is visual for all: Biden’s open border policy gave the Evil Doer the opportunity to gather millions of illegal migrants from 120-160 countries across the globe. Pay attention to the unaccompanied children, thousands of them of different race, ethnicity and language. What force has organized them? I have been writing about this force and warning you for the last forty-three years. There is more history about children within the world community created by Stalin’s Communist regime. Read  my column:  The Putin/Biden Plot Against America’s Constitutional Republic Part II.

The Spanish Civil War and Spanish Orphans

I have been writing the story of the Spanish orphans for decades, yet, Republicans ignored it and now cannot successfully confront the Dems. The story is real history and explains the origin of the Communist forces of so-called Mexican Cartels in the 21st century Mexico:

In 1937, 2,895 children were sent to the Soviet Union by the Republic of Spain during the Spanish Civil War

(1936–39). In 1936, the Comintern Secretariat asked Stalin to allow Spanish children to enter the USSR, and the Soviet press called for more aid for Spanish orphans from September 15 to early October.

Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937

Nov 5, 2022 — In 1937, in the middle of the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), 2,895 children, mainly from the Basque Country and Asturias, were sent by the Republic to safety in the Soviet Union. In addition, a few hundred more arrived after the end of the conflict. The Soviet Union was not the sole country recipient of Spanish children.

Stalin and the Spanish Civil War: Chapter 5 – Gutenberg-e

In addition, on 22 September 1936, the Comintern Secretariat submitted a letter to Stalin with the request that he allow Spanish children to be admitted to the USSR. At the same time, from 15 September to early October, the Soviet press issued numerous calls for increased assistance to Spanish war orphans.

The Soviet Union’s response to the Spanish Civil War includes:

  • Military support: The Soviet Union provided Spain with modern weaponry, food, and other material aid throughout the war. From October 1936 to June 1937, the Soviet Union sent regular military equipment to Spain, and over a thousand Soviet tank crews and pilots fought alongside the Republic.
  • Refugee care: The Soviet Union built 22 boarding schools specifically for Spanish refugee children, which were better equipped than those for Soviet children. The Soviet Union raised and educated nearly 3,000 child refugees, and also set up boarding schools for Spanish refugee children during World War II. “ Google.

I met one Spanish man, who told me his story and I concluded that all boarding schools had been managed by the KGB, preparing an Army, fighting in Mexico. Knowledge of this history is mandatory to understand the situation in Mexico. There are no Mexican Cartels, those are Russians Cartels: well-trained agents and different criminal gangs like known to you MS-13, attacking America. Stalin’s usage of children continues. Watch crime against children in the 21st century America:

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Over the weekend, USBP agents in the Laredo, Del Rio, El Paso, & Tucson Sectors arrested 6 Sexual Predators who illegally crossed with convictions for Child Molestation, Rape of a Child, & Sexual Assault of a Child.

I have already written about Russia’s human trafficking under the Warsaw Pact, selling blond girls to Arab countries in the 20th century. Narcotic trafficking started by Russia in 1955: “Soviet strategy for revolutionary war is a global strategy… narcotics strategy is a sub-component of this global strategy.” Read my column: WARNING: Evil is Attacking America August 22, 2018.

August 22, 2018

 Socialist Charlatans: Democrat’s Machine the Socialist Mafia 

One of the major Stalin’s Socialist/Communist tasks had been creation of  loyal cadres in the targeted territory. Like Spanish speaking Russian agents in Mexico, the army of Socialist Charlatans had been built in the 20th century America. Coming from Europe, I am using the word Charlatans and think they are reflecting the deeds. “A charlatan is a person who pretends to have knowledge or skills they do not have. Synonyms of charlatan include: Fraud, Sham, Fake, Pretender, Impostor, Deceiver, Quack, Mountebank, Cheat, Con man.” The term Socialist Charlatans shows a double fraud, because Stalin’s Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism, is a fraud, as well. Read my column: How Soviet Fascism is Devouring Our American Dream December 18, 2023.

The army of America’s Socialist Charlatans have continued destruction of America in the 21st century, using the Socialist modus operandi: lies, deceit, fabrications, and fraud. They are managed successfully by the Evil Doer from inside and outside—a Controlled Opposition. Putin’s Evil Doer is helping Biden to implement Soviet Socialism in America. Look at America and see a result of the Evil Doer management: inflation is high, the economy is shaky, crime is rising, and millions of illegal migrants are crossing the border, creating “Migrant Crime” on a daily basis. Yes, this management destroys our American dream with impunity.

You are watching how Socialist Biden and his team use Socialist modus operandi, lying to you and devoid from reality John Kerry forcing fraudulent “climate change” every day. The Biden policy of open border exposes a deliberate agenda and political purpose that directly affects people, causing the death of children and enormous American family’s suffering. Lately, 320.000 migrants have been flown to America in secret to lessen border numbers by Biden’s team. Do you recognize the Evil Doer management, and its international application, I have been writing and warning you for forty-three years? I am not the only one. Look at these:

“Pretty much ever since Joe Biden took over the White House, an international invitation for migrants everywhere has been on full display. It says, ‘Come to America. We welcome you.” And as a result, millions and millions have come. “ Real Loaded News, 3/4/2024

“The Radical Left is doing everything in their power to destroy this great nation. But this has gone too far and crossed every line. The book, written by Swedish professor Andreas Malm, encourages and even calls for terrorism, overthrowing capitalism, and even acknowledges that people will die because of it. Demolish them, burn them, blow them up. Let the capitalists who keep investing in the fire know that their properties will be trashed.” Terrorist plot at a liberal college gets foiled for this shocking reason.Prudent Politics.

The Radical Left is a wrong term. We are dealing with Socialist Charlatans’ Socialist Mafia, a Criminal International Network. “With the Biden family having been caught putting millions of dollars in their pockets from their relationship with Ukraine it’s widely suspected that the corrupt American leaders were using Ukraine to launder American tax-money into their own bank accounts! “ Patriotic News Viral. Isn’t that a Socialist Mafia?

“Now that the MSM admit the CIA had bases in Ukraine since 2014, let’s revisit this infamous phone call. Two weeks after Trump was elected in 2016, then VP Biden called then Ukrainian President Poroshenko, nervous about Trump finding out where the money was going in Ukraine.…”

“What was going on in Ukraine that Biden and Obama were so desperate to prevent Trump from figuring out? You decide for yourself, but if it was legal, they wouldn’t be trying to cover it up.”  Clandestine has a map of Americans biolabs in Ukraine. Look at how many of them and nobody is discussing their existence. You see how the FBI, CIA, and ANC have failed us!  I hope now you grasp the Dem’s desire to create Biden’s Cult of Personality, they rehearse his State of the Union address. It is Stalin’s method to cover up the crimes have committed. To survive, the Democrats need it. I don’t know why the House Republicans are so delicately treating Biden. In my opinion, Biden committed a much more serious crime than just bribery.

My fellow Americans!

Educate yourselves by reading my columns. Don’t allow foreign thugs to implement Soviet Fascism in America!

Don’t allow foreign thugs to dismantle our system of checks and balances and the American Constitutional republic designed and left to us by our Founding Fathers!

Freedom’s torch is yours!

To be continued www.simonapipko.com and at

©2024. Simona Pipko. All rights reserved.

CHAPTER 9: The ‘Norman Dodd Interview’ Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier—Reality Is

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 philosophical rationalization and justification for Barack Obama’s shift to Outcome-Based Education (OBE) was presented by John W. Gardner in the 1950s. Gardner served concurrent tenures as president of both the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) and the Carnegie Corporation[i] in the mid-1950s.

In 1961 Gardner published Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too? The book is a reflection on American excellence that debates the relative merits of focusing on equality and focusing on excellence, and asks if it is possible for society to do both.

Our Founding Fathers advocated meritocracy, a system based on ability, achievement, and equal opportunity. They understood that equality of opportunity achieves excellence. Gardner examines an alternative theory that focuses on equality of outcome, also known as equity, and argues that the goals of excellence and equity are not incompatible.

In 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Gardner secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. His appointment institutionalized America’s move away from meritocracy, establishing the collaboration of government in the weaponization of American education for political purposes. Meritocracy was replaced with equity as the foundation of American education, and equal outcome became the educational objective. What was the political purpose of this fundamental change?

Equity and Outcome-Based Education (OBE), like every other humanitarian hoax, sounds constructive on the surface. But its destructive political underbelly is that weaponizing education with promises of equity through OBE will destroy America and move her toward collectivism and a globalist one-world government.

In 1953, during the time Gardner was at Carnegie, a New Jersey bank manager, Norman Dodd, was Director of Research of the Reece Committee, the Congressional Special Committee to investigate tax-exempt foundations. Dodd discovered that since 1945 tax-exempt foundations had been operating to promote a hidden globalist agenda.

In 1982, five years before his death in 1987, Norman Dodd was interviewed by G. Edward Griffin.

The contents of the interview remain shocking.

Griffin introduces the interview:

The story we are about to hear represents a missing piece in the puzzle of modern history. We are about to hear a man tell us that the major tax-exempt foundations of America, since at least 1945, have been operating to promote a hidden agenda. That agenda has nothing to do with the surface appearance of charity, good works, or philanthropy.

This man will tell you that the real objective has been to influence American educational institutions and to control foreign policy agencies of the federal government. The purpose of the control has been to condition Americans to accept the creation of world government. That government is to be based on the principle of collectivism, which is another way of saying socialism; and it is to be ruled from behind the scenes by those same interests which control the tax-exempt foundations.

[Transcript: full interview]

G. Edward Griffin: Mr. Dodd, let’s begin this interview by a brief statement, for the record, telling us who you are, what your background is, and your qualifications to speak on the subject.

Norman Dodd: Well, Mr. Griffin, as for who I am, I am just as the name implies—an individual born in New Jersey and educated in private schools, eventually in a school called Andover, Massachusetts, and then Yale University.

And, running through my whole period of being brought up, growing up, I have been an indefatigable reader, and I have had one major interest and that was this country, as I was led to believe that it was originally founded.

I entered the world of business knowing absolutely nothing about how that world operated. And I realized that the only way to find out what that world was, and consisted of, would be to become part of it. And I then acquired some experience in the manufacturing world, and in the world of international communications, and finally chose banking as the field I wished to devote my life to.

I was fortunate enough to secure a position in one of the important banks in New York. I lived there. I lived through the conditions which led up to what is known as the crash of 1929. I witnessed what is tantamount to a collapse of the structure of the United States as a whole.

Much to my surprise, my superiors, in the middle of the panic in which they were immersed, confronted me. I was confronted with the question, “Norm, what do we do now?”

I was thirty at the time, and I had no more right to have an answer to that question than the man in the moon. However, I did manage to say to my superiors, “Gentlemen, you take this experience as proof of something that you do not know about banking.” And you better go find out what that something is, and act accordingly.

Four days later, I was confronted by these same superiors, with a statement to the effect that “Norm, you go find out.” And I really was fool enough to accept that assignment, because it meant that you were going out to search for something, and nobody could tell you what you were looking for. I felt so strongly on the subject that I consented to it.

I was relieved of all normal duties inside the bank and, two and a half years later, I felt that it was possible to report back to those who had given me this assignment. So, I rendered such a report and, as a result of the report I rendered, I was told the following: “Norm, what you are saying is, we should return to sound banking.” And I said, “Yes, in essence, that’s exactly what it is that I am saying.”

Whereupon I got my first shock, which was a statement from them to this effect: “We will never see sound banking in the United States again.” And they cited chapter and verse to support that statement.

What they cited was as follows: Since the end of World War I, we have been responsible for what they call the institutionalizing of conflicting interests. And they are so prevalent inside this country that they can never be resolved.

This came to me as an extraordinary shock because the men who made this statement were men who were deemed as the most prominent bankers in the country. The bank of which I was a part was spoken of, a Morgan bank. Coming from men of that caliber, a statement of that kind made a tremendous impression on me.

The type of impression that it made on me was this: I wondered if I, as an individual, as what they call a junior officer of the bank, could with the same enthusiasm foster the progress and the policies of the bank. I spent about a year trying to think this out, and came to the conclusion that I would have to resign.

I did resign. As a consequence of that, I had this experience. When my letter of resignation reached the desk of the president of the bank, he sent for me. I came to visit with him and he stated to me, “Norm, I have your letter, but I do not believe you understand what has happened in the last ten days.” I said, “No, Mr. Cochran, I have no idea what’s happened.”

“Well,” he says, “the directors have never been able to get your report to them out of their minds and, as a result, they have decided that you, as an individual, must begin at once, and you must re-organize this bank in keeping with your own ideas.” He then said, “Now, can I tear up your letter?”

And inasmuch as what had been said to me, what he was offering me, at the age of (by then) thirty-three, was about as fine an opportunity for service to the country as I could imagine. I said, “Yes.” And they said they wished me to begin at once, and I did.

Suddenly, in a span of about six weeks, I was not permitted to do another piece of work. And every time I brought the subject up, I was kind of patted on the back and told, “Stop worrying about it, Norm. Pretty soon you will be a vice president and you will have quite a handsome salary, and ultimately be able to retire on a very worthwhile pension and, in the meantime, you can play golf and tennis to your heart’s content on weekends.”

Well, Mr. Griffin, I found I could not do it. I spent a year, figuratively, with my feet on the desk, doing nothing. I just couldn’t adjust to it. So I did resign. This time my resignation stuck.

Then I got my second shock, which was the discovery that the doors of every bank in the United States were closed to me and I never could get a job, as it were, in a bank. So, I found myself, for the first time since I graduated from college, out of a job.

From then on, I followed various branches of the financial world, ranging from investment counsel to membership in the stock exchange. I finally ended up as an advisor to a few individuals who had capital funds to look after.

In the meantime, my major interest became very specific, which was to endeavor, by some means, to get the educational world to actually, you might say, teach the subject of economics realistically, and move it away from the support of various speculative activities that characterized our country.

I have had that interest and you know how it is, if you generate a specific interest, you find yourself gravitating toward persons with similar interests. Ultimately, I found myself kind of at the center of the world of dissatisfaction with the direction in which this country was headed. And I found myself in contact with many individuals who, on their own, had done a vast amount of studying and research in areas which were part of the problem.

Griffin: What point in your career did you become connected with the Reece Committee?

Dodd: Nineteen hundred and fifty-three (1953).

Griffin: 1953. And what was that capacity, Sir?

Dodd: That was in the capacity of what they called “Director of Research.”

Griffin: Can you tell us what the Reece Committee was attempting to do?

Dodd: Yes, I can tell you. It was operating and carrying out instructions embodied in a Resolution passed by the House of Representatives, which was to investigate the activities of foundations as to whether or not these activities could justifiably be labeled “un-American”—without, I might add, defining what they meant by “un-American.” That was the Resolution, and the committee had, then, the task of selecting a counsel, and the counsel, in turn, had the task of selecting a staff; and he had to have somebody who would direct the work of that staff, and that was what they meant by the “Director of Research.”

Griffin: What were some of the details, the specifics, of what you told the committee at that time?

Dodd: Well, Mr. Griffin, in that report I specifically—number one—defined what was, to us, meant by the phrase “un-American.” And we defined that, in our way, as being a determination to effect changes in the country by un-Constitutional means.

We have plenty of Constitutional procedures, assuming that we wished to effect a change in the form of government, and that sort of thing. And therefore, any effort in that direction which did not avail itself of the procedures authorized by the Constitution could be justifiably called “un-American.” That was the start of educating them, up to that particular point. The next thing was to educate them as to the effect on the country, as a whole, of the activities of large endowed foundations over the then past forty years.

Griffin: What was that effect, Sir?

Dodd: That effect was to orient our educational system away from support of the principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence and implemented in the Constitution, and to educate them over to the idea that the task now was to effect an orientation of education away from these briefly stated principles and self-evident truths.

And, that’s what had been the effect of the wealth which constituted the endowments of those foundations—foundations that had been in existence over the largest portion of the span of fifty years—and holding them responsible for this change. What we were able to bring forward was—what we had uncovered was—the determination of these large endowed foundations, through their trustees, actually to get control over the content of American education.

Griffin: There is quite a bit of publicity given to your conversation with Rowan Gaither. Will you please tell us who he was, and what was that conversation you had with him?

Dodd: Rowan Gaither was, at that time, President of the Ford Foundation. Mr. Gaither had sent for me when I found it convenient to be in New York. He asked me to call upon him at his office, which I did.

Upon arrival, after a few amenities, Mr. Gaither said, “Mr. Dodd, we have asked you to come up here today because we thought that, possibly, off the record, you would tell us why the Congress is interested in the activities of foundations such as ourselves.”

And before I could think of how I would reply to that statement, Mr. Gaither then went on and voluntarily stated, “Mr. Dodd, all of us who have a hand in the making of policies here have had experience either with the OSS during the war, or with European economic administration after the war. We have had experience operating under directives. The directives emanate, and did emanate, from the White House. Now, we still operate under just such directives. Would you like to know what the substance of these directives is?”

I said, “Yes, Mr. Gaither, I would like very much to know.” Whereupon he made this statement to me: “Mr. Dodd, we are here to operate in response to similar directives, the substance of which is that we shall use our grant-making power so to alter life in the United States that it can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union.”

Well, parenthetically [sic], Mr. Griffin, I nearly fell off the chair. I, of course, didn’t, but my response to Mr. Gaither then was, “Oh, Mr. Gaither, I can now answer your first question. You’ve forced the Congress of the United States to spend a hundred and fifty thousand dollars to find out what you have just told me.” I said, “Of course, legally, you’re entitled to make grants for this purpose. But I don’t think you’re entitled to withhold that information from the People of this country, to whom you’re indebted for your tax exemption. So why don’t you tell the People of the country just what you told me?” And his answer was, “We would not think of doing any such thing.” So, then I said, “Well, Mr. Gaither, obviously you forced the Congress to spend this money in order to find out what you just told me.”

Griffin: Mr. Dodd, you have spoken before about some interesting things that were discovered by Kathryn Casey at the Carnegie Endowment. Would you tell us that story, please?

Dodd: Sure, glad to, Mr. Griffin. This experience you just referred to came about in response to a letter which I had written to the Carnegie Endowment, asking certain questions and gathering certain information.

On the arrival of that letter, Dr. Johnson, who was then President of the Carnegie Endowment, telephoned me and said, “[Do] you ever come up to New York?” I said, “Yes, I [do], more or less each weekend.” And he said, “When you are next here, will you drop in and see us?” Which I did.

And again, on arrival at the office of the Endowment, I found myself in the presence of Dr. Joseph Johnson, the President, who was the successor to Alger Hiss; two vice presidents; and their own counsel, a partner in the firm—a fellow by the name of Cromwell. And Dr. Johnson said (again after amenities), “Mr. Dodd, we have your letter. We can answer all those questions, but it would be a great deal of trouble. We have a counter-suggestion. Our counter-suggestion is that, if you can spare a member of your staff for two weeks and send that member up to New York, we will give to that member a room in the library, and the minute books of this Foundation since its inception. And we think that whatever you want to find out, or that the Congress wants to find out, will be obvious from those minutes.”

Well, my first reaction was they had lost their minds. I had a pretty good idea of what those minutes would contain, but I realized that Dr. Johnson had only been in office two years, and the vice presidents were relatively young men, and counsel also seemed to be a young man. I guessed that, probably, they had never read the minutes themselves.

And so, I said that I had somebody and I would accept their offer. I went back to Washington, and I selected the member of my staff who had been a practicing attorney in Washington. She was on my staff to ensure I did not break any congressional procedures or rules. In addition to that, she was unsympathetic to the purpose of the investigation. She was a level-headed and very reasonably brilliant, capable lady, and her attitude toward the investigation was this: “What could possibly be wrong with foundations? They do so much good.”

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Well, in the face of that sincere conviction of Kathryn’s, I went out of my way not to prejudice her in any way, but I did explain to her that she couldn’t possibly cover fifty years of handwritten minutes in two weeks. So she would have to do what we call “spot reading.” I blocked out certain periods of time to concentrate on. Off she went to New York. She came back at the end of two weeks with the following recorded on Dictaphone belts.

We are now at the year nineteen hundred and eight, which was the year that the Carnegie Foundation began operations. And in that year, the trustees meeting, for the first time, raised a specific question, which they discussed throughout the balance of the year, in a very learned fashion. And the question is this: Is there any means known more effective than war, assuming you wish to alter the life of an entire people? And they conclude that no more effective means to that end is known to humanity than war. So then, in 1909, they raise the second question and discuss it, namely, how do we involve the United States in a war?

Well, I doubt, at that time, if there was any subject more removed from the thinking of most of the People of this country than its involvement in a war. There were intermittent shows in the Balkans, but I doubt very much if many people even knew where the Balkans were. And finally, they answer that question as follows: we must control the State Department.

And then, that very naturally raises the question of how do we do that? They answer it by saying we must take over and control the diplomatic machinery of this country and, finally, they resolve to aim at that as an objective. Then, time passes, and we are eventually in a war, which would be World War I. At that time, they record on their minutes a shocking report in which they dispatch to President Wilson a telegram cautioning him to see that the war does not end too quickly. And finally, of course, the war is over.

At that time, their interest shifts over to preventing what they call a “reversion of life” in the United States to what it was prior to 1914, when World War I broke out. At that point, they come to the conclusion that, to prevent a reversion, we must control education in the United States. And they realize that is a pretty big task. To them it is too big for them alone.

So, they approach the Rockefeller Foundation with a suggestion: that portion of education which could be considered domestic should be handled by the Rockefeller Foundation, and that portion which is international should be handled by the Endowment.

They then decide that the key to the success of these two operations lay in the alteration of the teaching of American History. So, they approach four of the then most prominent teachers of American History in the country—people like Charles and Mary Byrd. Their suggestion to them is this: “Will they alter the manner in which they present their subject.” And they get turned down flatly.

So, they then decide that it is necessary for them to do as they say, i.e. “build our own stable of historians.” Then they approach the Guggenheim Foundation, which specializes in fellowships, and say, “When we find young men in the process of studying for doctorates in the field of American History, and we feel that they are the right caliber, will you grant them fellowships on our say-so? And the answer is “Yes.”

So, under that condition, eventually they assemble twenty, and they take these twenty potential teachers of American History to London. There, they are briefed in what is expected of them—when, as, and if they secure appointments in keeping with the doctorates they will have earned.

That group of twenty historians ultimately becomes the nucleus of the American Historical Association. And then, toward the end of the 1920s, the Endowment grants to the American Historical Association four hundred thousand dollars for a study of our history in a manner which points to what this country [can] look forward to, in the future.

That culminates in a seven-volume study, the last volume of which is, of course, in essence, a summary of the contents of the other six. The essence of the last volume is this: the future of this country belongs to collectivism, administered with characteristic American efficiency.

That is the story that ultimately grew out of, and of course was what could have been presented by the members of, this congressional committee, and the Congress as a whole, for just exactly what it said. But they never got to that point!

Griffin: This is the story that emerged from the minutes at the Carnegie Foundation?

Dodd: That’s right.

Griffin: And so?

Dodd: It was official to that extent.

Griffin: And Kathryn Casey brought all of these back in the form of dictated notes, or verbatim readings, of the minutes?

Dodd: On Dictaphone belts.

Griffin: Are those in existence today?

Dodd: I don’t know. If they are, they’re somewhere in the archives, under the control of the Congress, the House of Representatives.

Griffin: How many people actually heard those? Or were they typed up, transcripts made?

Dodd: No.

Griffin: How many people actually heard those recordings?

Dodd: Three, maybe. Myself, my top assistant, and Kathryn. Yeah, I might tell you this experience, as far as its impact on Kathryn Casey is concerned. Well, she was never able to return to her law practice. If it hadn’t been for Carroll Reece’s ability to tuck her away in a job with the Federal Trade Commission, I don’t know what would have happened to Kathryn. Ultimately, she lost her mind as a result of it. It was a terrible shock to her. It was a very rough experience for her to encounter proof of this kind.

Griffin: Mr. Dodd, can you summarize the opposition to the Committee, the Reece Committee, and particularly the efforts to sabotage the Committee?

Dodd: Well, it began right at the start of the week of the operating staff, Mr. Griffin. It began on the day on which the Committee met for the purpose of consenting to, or confirming, my appointment to the position of Director of Research. Thanks to the abstention by the minority members of the Committee from voting, that is, the two Democratic members—that is why, technically, I was unanimously appointed.

Griffin: Wasn’t the White House involved in opposition?

Dodd: Not at this particular point, Sir. Mr. Reece ordered Counsel and myself to visit Wayne Hayes. Wayne Hayes was the ranking minority member of the Committee, as a Democrat. So, we—Kathryn and I—had to go down to Mr. Hayes’s office, which we did. Mr. Hayes greeted us with the flat statement, directed primarily to me, “I am opposed to this investigation. I regard it as nothing but an effort on the part of Carroll Reece to gain a little prominence. So I’ll do everything I can to see that it fails.” Well, I have a strange personality, in the sense that a challenge of that nature interests me.

Our Counsel withdrew. He went over and sat on the couch in Mr. Reece’s office and pouted. I, sort of, took up this statement by Mr. Hayes as a challenge and set myself a goal of winning him over to our point of view.

I started by noticing that on his desk there was a book. The book was of the type—and there were many in those days—that would be complaining about the spread of communism, and Hungary. That type of book.

This meant to me that, at least, Hayes had read the book. So I brought up the subject of the spread of the influence of the Soviet world. For two hours, I discussed this with Hayes and, finally, he ended up by rising from his desk and saying, “Norm, if you will carry this investigation toward the goal that you have outlined to me, I will be your biggest supporter.”

I said, “Mr. Hayes, I can assure you, I will not double-cross you. Subsequently, Mr. Hayes sent word to me that he was in Bethesda Naval Hospital, with an attack of ulcers. He asked if would I come and see him. Which I did. He then said, “Norm, the only reason I’ve asked you to come out here is that I just want to hear you say again you will not double-cross me.” I gave him that assurance, and that was the basis of our relationship.

Meanwhile, Counsel took the attitude expressed in these words, “Norm, if you want to waste your time with ‘this guy’ (as he called him), then you can go ahead and do it, but don’t ever ask me to say anything to him, under any conditions, on any subject.”

So, in a sense, that created a deck for me to operate, in relation to Hayes, on my own.

As time passed, Hayes offered friendship, which I hesitated to accept because of his vulgarity. I didn’t want to get mixed up with him socially, under any conditions.

Well, that was our relationship for about three months. Eventually, I had occasion to add to my staff. As a result of adding to my staff a top-flight intelligence officer, both the Republican National Committee and the White House resorted to stopping me from continuing this investigation in the direction Carroll Reece had personally asked me to go.

Mr. Griffin, that direction was to utilize this investigation to uncover the fact that this country had been the victim of a conspiracy. That was Mr. Reece’s conviction. I eventually agreed to carry out that direction.

I explained to Mr. Reece that his own Counsel wouldn’t go in that direction. He gave me permission to disregard our own Counsel and to set up an aspect of the investigation outside of our office—more or less secretly. The Republican National Committee got wind of what I was doing, and they did everything they could to stop me. They appealed to Counsel to stop me. Finally, they resorted to the White House.

Griffin: Was their objection because of what you were doing, or because of the fact that you were doing it outside of the official auspices of the Committee?

Dodd: No. The objection was, as they put it, my devotion to what they called “anti-Semitism.” That was a cooked-up idea. In other words, it wasn’t true at all. But anyway, that’s the way they expressed it.

Griffin: Excuse me. Why?

Dodd: Then they made it stick.

Griffin: Why did they do that? How could they say that?

Dodd: Well, they could say it, Mr. Griffin. But they had to have something in the way of a rationalization of their decision to do everything they could to stop completion of this investigation, given the direction that it was moving. That direction would have been exposure of this Carnegie Endowment story, and the Ford Foundation, and the Guggenheim, and the Rockefeller Foundation—all working in harmony toward the control of education in the United States.

Well, to secure the help of the White House in the picture, they got the White House to cause the liaison between the White House and the Hill—a major person—to go up to Hayes and try to get him, as it were, actively to oppose what the investigation was engaged in.

Hayes, then, very kindly, would listen to this visit from this major person. Then he would call me and say, “Norm, come up to my office. I have a good deal to tell you.”

I would go up. He would tell me he just had a visit from this major person, and he wants me to break up this investigation. So then I said, “Wayne, what did you do? What did you say to him?” He said, “I just told him to get the hell out.” And he did that three times. I got pretty proud of him, in the sense that he was, as it were, backing me up. We finally embarked upon hearings at Hayes’s request. Hayes wanted to get them out of the way before he went abroad in the summer.

Griffin: Why were the hearings finally terminated? What happened to the Committee?

Dodd: What happened to the Committee, or to the hearings?

Griffin: The hearings.

Dodd: The hearings were terminated. Carroll Reece was up against such a furor in Hayes, through the activity of our own Counsel. Hayes became convinced that he was being double-crossed, and he put on a show in the public hearing room, Mr. Griffin, that was an absolute disgrace. He called Carroll Reece publicly every name in the book.

Mr. Reece took this as proof that he couldn’t continue the hearings. He actually invited me to accompany him when he went down to Hayes’s office and, in my presence, with the tears rolling down his face, Hayes apologized to Carroll Reece for all he’d done, and his conduct. He apologized to me. I thought that would be enough, and Carroll would resume. He never did.

Griffin: This charge of anti-Semitism is kind of intriguing to me. What was the basis of that charge? Was there any basis for it at all?

Dodd: The basis used by the Republican National Committee was that the intelligence officer I had taken on my staff—when I oriented this investigation to the exposure of, and proof of, a conspiracy—was known to have a book, and that book was deemed to be anti-Semitic. It was childish, but it’s what the second-in-command at the Republican National Committee said, and he told me I’d have to dismiss this person from my staff.

Griffin: Who was that person?

Dodd: A Colonel Lee Loraine.

Griffin: Lee Loraine. And what was his book? Do you recall?

Dodd: The book they referred to was called Waters Flowing Eastward. It was a very strong castigation of the Jewish influence in the world.

Griffin: What were some of the other charges made by Mr. Hayes against Mr. Reece?

Dodd: Just that Mr. Reece was utilizing this investigation for his own prominence inside the House of Representatives. That was the only charge Hayes could think up.

Griffin: How would you describe the motivation of the people who created the foundations—the big foundations—in the very beginning? What was their motivation?

Dodd: Their motivation was, well, let’s take Mr. Carnegie, as an example. His publicly declared and steadfast interest was to counteract the departure of the colonies from Great Britain. He was devoted just to putting the pieces back together again.

Griffin: Would that have required the collectivism to which they were dedicated?

Dodd: No. No. No. These policies are the foundations’ allegiance to these un-American concepts; these policies are all traceable to the transfer of the funds over into the hands of trustees, Mr. Griffin. Those trustees were not the men who had a hand in the creation of the wealth that led to the endowment, or the use of that wealth for what we would call public purposes.

Griffin: It was a subversion of the original intent, then?

Dodd: Oh, yes! Completely so. We got into the worlds, traditionally, of bankers and lawyers.

Griffin: How have the purpose and direction of the major foundations changed, over the years, up to the present? What are their purposes and directions today?

Dodd: One hundred percent behind meeting the cost of education, such as it is presented through the schools and colleges of this United States, on the subject of our history—to prove that our original ideas are no longer practical. The future belongs to collectivistic concepts. There is just no disagreement on this.

Griffin: Why do the foundations generously support communist causes in the United States?

Dodd: Well, because, to them, communism represents a means of developing what we call a monopoly—as the organization, we’ll say, of large-scale industry into an administrable unit.

Griffin: Do they think that they will?

Dodd: They will be the beneficiary of it, yes.

[End of interview]

The 1954 Dodd Report[ii] and the 1982 Dodd Interview[iii] document the collaboration of tax-exempt “charitable” foundations with the U.S. government to undermine the founding concepts of our constitutional republic through weaponized education.

I had to read the Dodd Report twice, and listen to the Dodd interview twice, to absorb and process the magnitude of the information. Norman Dodd discovered the conspiracy to move the United States of America from constitutional republic to socialism, perpetrated by “charitable” tax-exempt foundations since 1909. The foundations unapologetically and unambiguously documented their plan to weaponize American education against America in the minutes of their own meetings!

The treasonous scheme to weaponize education could never have succeeded without the partnership of the U.S. government. The realization that the planned demolition of America has been in effect for over 100 years is overwhelming. We have arrived at the tipping point of America’s freedom.

SOURCES

[i]  Carnegie Corporation; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Foundation

[ii]  1954 Dodd Report; https://archive.org/details/norman-dodd-the-dodd-report/page/1/mode/2up

[iii]  1982 Dodd Interview; http://www.supremelaw.org/authors/dodd/interview.htm

©2024. Linda Goudsmit. All rights reserved.

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Biden’s SOTU: ‘Old Ideas’ Talk Back to an Old Man

“Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes,” noted G.K. Chesterton a century ago. This is brought to mind by the modern obsession with “new ideas,” typified by Joe Biden’s implicit touting of them during his State of the Union address.

The issue “isn’t how old we are; it’s how old our ideas are,” he said Thursday evening. He’s right, too.

And, usually, the “older” the ideas, the better.

There’s an irony to Biden’s appeal: He doesn’t want to be dismissed out of hand over age.

But he does want ideas dismissed out of hand over age.

(Though there’s a contradiction here. More on that momentarily.)

Neither should be done, of course. When I needed a certain kind of physician some years back, I purposely chose an 81-year-old man still in practice precisely because, good profiling informed, he was more likely to be imbued with “old ideas”; as examples, I was thinking about virtues such as Diligence (which relates to conscientiousness, dutifulness) and Prudence (which meant he was less likely to fancy that you can change sexes at will like some science-fiction shape-shifter). I was not disappointed.

The problem with Biden is not that he’s old. The problem (aside from the lack of cognition) is the same thing that could be an issue with a person of any age or, in fact, an idea of any age: He has repeatedly shown himself to be lacking and to have little relationship to Truth.

Biden proceeded to say in his address, “Hate, anger, revenge, retribution are among the oldest of ideas….”  Well, so are their opposites: Love, Patience and Forgiveness. Should we dispense with those “ideas,” too, because they weren’t disgorged from Berkeley last Thursday?

Ideally, one should have a child’s heart and an old soul; you then have both wisdom and whimsy. It’s those with an old heart and a childish soul who mindlessly tout “new ideas.” Ecclesiastes informs that “there is nothing new under the sun.” With many, many millennia of human civilization and striving behind us, of inventing and innovating and originating, do you really think a political/social-sphere “new idea” (or new mistake) isn’t almost as rare as a unicorn?

In reality, virtually everything, if not everything, we most treasure is old. Pizza, reputedly children’s favorite food, dates back approximately a thousand years. Basketball and bike riding, respectively kids’ favorite sport and activity, both originated in the 19th-century. So did acetaminophen, Americans’ most commonly used pain remedy. (Hey, why not use an untested drug instead? It’ll be new!) Then, do you like refrigeration, indoor plumbing, flush toilets and other basic conveniences? They’re all now fairly old.

In fact, people sometimes grumble when seeing on a product “New and Improved!” as it may just mean different and less palatable. (How did “New Coke” work out?) People are, personally and in practice, creatures of the status quo — otherwise known as “conservatives.”

What’s more, having universally “old” status is far truer of ideas than of products and technology; the latter of which, especially, is often new and sometimes scary. Artificial intelligence is a great example, and we have yet to see if it will write man’s next chapter or his last. And if it does author our demise, it won’t be because it operates based on a new idea, but an old mistake.

In reality, when a would-be leader trumpets “new ideas,” employ an age-old method that can save you from him: rejection. For such a person is either running a con or running his mouth, which is at least one step ahead of his brain.

A case in point is that Biden also insisted Thursday that “you can’t lead America with ancient ideas….” Yet what he has repeatedly vowed to perpetuate and defend, “democracy,” is an ancient idea. It dates back about 2,500 years to ancient Athens and 508 B.C.! Also ancient is being what we actually are, a “republic.”

So the real question for a civilization — and in our upcoming election — is not whether to choose “new” or “old” ideas, especially since new ideas, for the most part, don’t exist. The real question is what old ideas to embrace (just as our choice in candidates involves what old man to elect!) Yet to understand this properly, we must correct our terminology: Men get old, and also wise or just wizened.

Ideas get proven true or discredited and, unlike with people, it’s silly to mainly conceptualize them as “old.” For there are only two types of ideas: good ideas and bad ideas.

Or, we could say, erroneous ideas and eternal ideas.

The Founding Fathers did not say, “We hold these old ideas to be self-evident…” or even “We hold these ideas to be self-evident…,” but, “We hold these truths to be self-evident….”

A truth, properly understood, is an eternal idea. It’s not old or young because it’s not of this age or that age, but is ageless (even if it was just recognized by man 200 years ago). That microscopic organisms can cause disease was only discovered relatively recently in history, but it was always true.

Likewise, that murder (correctly defined as the unjust killing of a human being), rape and theft are wrong — and that a virtuous people’s freedom is better than tyranny — are always and everywhere true.

Speaking of confusion, Biden followed his assertion that you can’t govern a country with “ancient ideas” with the warning that they “only take us back.” Now, if we’re to use these concepts of “backwards” and “forwards” to describe civilizational change, note that “going back” is often beneficial. Just as a sick man wants to go back to his former state of robust health, so did we want to go back to fuller employment after statist governors destroyed millions of jobs with misguided COVID lockdowns. But, of course, Biden was alluding to the notion of “progress” (and its antithesis).

As Chesterton also put it, however, “Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.” That is, progress implies movement toward a goal. Insofar as we’re unsure of the goal (i.e., as confused relativists will be), we’ll be unsure of the progress. Of course, though, only discerning Truth can ensure that the goal is worth progressing toward to begin with, that it involves the actuation of an eternal idea.

So beware anyone who would sell you on destroying the “old” status quo in favor of the “new.” For this idea — tearing down statues, monuments and institutions as the cultural landscape is denuded — is also not new. The French revolutionaries did it, attempting to restart history with their new calendar (1792), just as Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution in 1960s China and the Khmer Rouge had their “Year Zero” in ’70s Cambodia. They all promised a new tomorrow. But all they did was replace old ideas, and often eternal ones, with another old idea: tyranny.

In truth, the Truth never gets old. In November, you’ll be picking an old man and old ideas; just make sure it’s the old man who can endure and the old ideas that are eternal.

For those who disagree, well, don’t vote — for suffrage is now a very, very old idea.

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My Favorite Part of Biden’s SOTU Speech Is Knowing It’s The Last One He’ll Give

Nothing was more evident than America is slipping away fast. EVERYONE must work on getting out the vote. That is our job. Thank you President Trump. Nothing is more important.

I can’t remember when I watched a speech so full of rage and hatred as the OBiden SOTU. Does OBiden need rage and yelling to be able to speak to an audience? Is there a drug for that? I don’t know about you but all I got from this speech was the Democrats want is to kill babies with abortion, remind blacks that they are to stupid to be able to get a photo ID to vote, castrate children with LGBTQ+ and go to war.  Then he yelled at us for not paying our fair share of taxes. Did he forget about his hidden cash that he never paid taxes on?

Watch Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt’s comments.

He also listed the problems America is facing but he had no solutions except to lay blame at something else. Boy is he out of touch.  High inflation is the fault of the business making the product., High interest rates is the fault of those granting credit.  Millions of people invading us on the border is the fault of congress who won’t give him enough money to process more people and shorten the time to become a citizen and vote. Lastly Climate Change, so give up your beef, stove, air conditioning, and guns. You won’t be comfortable, have energy or be able to protect yourself but that will fix the climate.  Do remember that the economy is doing great if you are an illegal. He lied about cutting the budget and the deficit and added 15 million new jobs and thousands of manufacturing jobs are on the way.  He couldn’t even say Laken Riley’s name correctly. He called her Lincoln. The Democrat/Globalists clapped like seals and I thought my head would explode. Too many lies for one day all at once.

Here is the problem as I see it. The American people are getting sharper. They are  beginning to reject this control and Globalism being pushed upon us. We are learning that their empty irrational words are meaningless and if we fight we win.  Every thing they are trying on us, every trick, every lie, every policy is failing.  Each week we will dissect a few so you can prepare with a plan. Let’s take Obamacare.

Obama’s Health Czar, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel’s Complete Lives System of Universal Healthcare is the blueprint for Obamacare. Complete Lives System of Universal Healthcare rations healthcare by limiting care for those under age (children under 12) and over age 55. We are the useless eaters. Ezekiel is the brother of Rahm, never let a crisis go to waste, Emanuel. Everything is connected.

This rationing is called the Obamacare death panels and was exposed by Betsy McCaughey, LT Gov of NY. The Government in collusion with Bankers and Major corporations determine the type of care through codes. The codes determine what doctors prescribe and get paid and what insurance will cover for your ailment.  This is one size fits all healthcare, Universal Care, no one wants.

When Sarah Palin tried to warn about the “death panels ” in Obamacare, she was vilified. Today we know she was right.

More and more doctors are discussing the truth about the vaccines and the goal of Covid to assist in depopulation.  Dr. Naomi Wolf and her team of 3000 doctors, scientists and researchers, are continuing to find the lies and cover ups of Big Pharma, NIH, Fauci, and FDA.

They have been testifying in front of the House and Senate committees.

Instead of investigating the Big Pharma lies and harm to humanity, Affirmative Action Graduate, DA Letitia James, is investigating the Beef industry because of climate change. The Dem/Globalists want us to eat crickets not beef.

Beef is an important protein necessary to provide energy. Do they want you lethargic?

If getting vaccinated is so crucial and a “national emergency” why is OBiden is flying unvaccinated people all over the country and dropping them off without protection?  Why are unvaxxed Americans the problem and unvaxxed illegals are not?

To add insult to injury OBiden has altered Medicaid which was supposed to be a state run healthcare program for low income Americans. It has now become Healthcare, Food Service, Rental assistance for illegals paid for by the American taxpayer.

The American taxpayer is also paying for LGBTQ surgery on minors promoting the LGBTQ lifestyle.

All of this and more you will find in the 625 earmarks as part of the CR’s continually passed by the RINO, House. These Affirmative Action Graduates RINO/Democrat/ Globalists will not be happy until America and the dollar are gone forever. That is the goal.  We are currently printing $1Trillion every 100 days. How much longer will that last?

In the second part of the show you will hear what started the awakening of America, the Tea Party.  The Tea Party sewed the seeds, the movement evolved and took root. Today the leaves, flowers and new plants are growing. They are spreading in new places and it is beautiful to see. Thank you President Trump for helping us pick out the weeds.

Instead of attacking the symptom, we will help you tackle the problem. Insane spending for one. In a few months I believe America will change forever. Who do you want as your leader :Obiden the lame or Trump the strong? Vet your candidates.

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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SWEDEN, Not The SOTU, Is The Big News

I admit, I am biased, sitting this week in my “north country” office, overlooking the dormant hay and grain fields in my wife’s native Sweden.

But it’s not just me. Sweden’s formal ascension to NATO membership is the big news this week, not the rabble-rousing State of the Union Speech by Biden. And for many, many reasons.

First, while Biden’s speech – even his response to heckling by Marjorie Taylor Greene and others – was well-delivered, it was a hodgepodge of rank partisanship, double-speak, outright lies, and gas-lighting.

Does anyone besides Rachel Maddow and the late night comedy hosts (one and the same) really believe Biden’s border policies are a success? Or that the “bipartisan” border bill, which allows more than 1.5 million new illegals into the US every year, is the strongest border bill ever drafted?

Biden didn’t need legislation to prevent the ten million illegals who have stormed our southern border since January 2021, bringing fentanyl and lawlessness to our streets.

All he had to do was to leave the Trump policies in place. Instead, he did away with them on Day One, just as he did away with Trump energy policies, bringing on massive inflation and 11 Federal Reserve interest rate hikes since March 2022.

And how about the greatest economy in the history of the United States? Or his pathetic attempts to blame the unmitigated disaster of his policies toward Russia and Ukraine on Donald Trump. Do the American people really think Russia invaded Ukraine while Trump was president or that Russia dared to threaten us with Global Nuclear War on Trump’s watch?

Yes, Mr. Biden. History is watching. And when the Orwellian “telescreens” go dark, and Rachel Maddow and her ilk are remembered only as national embarrassments from an era when the nation had lost its collective mind, history will judge you as the weakest and most corrupt president in American history. Period.

But Sweden officially joining NATO this week is the one happy consequence of Biden’s unbelievable stupidity in inviting Putin to invade Ukraine in 2022. (Remember Biden saying that a “minor incursion” would be okay, just not a massive invasion?)

Since the Ukraine war, Sweden has revived its home guard, an all-volunteer force that was put to bed at the end of the Cold War. Now some 23,000 Swedes have signed up to receive military training over concerns of a Russian invasion.

And when Sweden’s conservative prime minister Ulf Kiristersson traveled to Washington this week to deliver his nation’s official Treaty documents, only Sweden’s communists and far-left Green Party could huff and puff their laments, calling NATO “polarizing.”

One conservative newspaper put it in perspective with a montage of historical photographs, comparing Sweden’s “friends” during seven decades as a neutral country and its friends today. They showed leftist premier Olaf Palme hobnobbing with Castro, Arafat, and communist dictators in Vietnam and East Germany in the 1980s, as opposed to today’s premier standing tall at NATO headquarters in Brussels.

As for Biden criticizing Trump’s handling of the NATO laggards, let’s not forget that when Trump was president he got Germany to agree to massive increases in defense spending so it would meet its NATO 2% of GDP goal by mid-decade. Under Biden, Germany now says it won’t reach that level until 2031.

When it comes to confronting Russian aggression and to Europe, tiny Sweden has shown greater realism than Biden’s America.

I talk about this as well as Erdogan’s meeting with Ukrainian president Zelenskyy and the Iranian elections in this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend. As always, you can listen live at 1 PM on Saturday on 104.9 FM or 550 AM in the Jacksonville, Florida, area, or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app.

Yours in freedom.

©2024. Kenneth R. Timmerman. All rights reserved.

PS: And when you want a break from politics, check out my latest book, Raising Olives in Provence, which one reviewer calls ” a highly-nuanced, true story about values, nature, simple pleasures and the amusing vagaries of the local denizens….”

Leaked Files Reveal WPATH’s Awareness of ‘Debilitating,’ ‘Potentially Fatal’ Effects of Trans Procedures

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) has a long history. The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh wrote that WPATH “is the organization that major hospitals and gender clinics cite as the all-important authority on so-called ‘trans healthcare.’” Controversial at its core, WPATH has faced immense criticism over the years from those who do not support gender transition procedures, while at the same time receiving strong support from those who see cross-sex hormones, puberty blocking drugs, and surgeries to remove healthy organs as “gender affirming care.”

Despite losing over 60% of its members between January 2023 and January 2024, “WPATH is somehow now taken seriously as the standard-setter in the field, by major hospitals and medical associations,” Walsh wrote. But in reality, he continued, WPATH “is maybe the single greatest scam in modern medicine. … The WPATH of today is the proud product of decades of quackery and sexual experimentation. It is a threat to public health and in particular to children.”

On March 4, the U.S. think tank Environmental Progress released leaked files from WPATH that “revealed that the clinicians who shape how ‘gender medicine’ is regulated and practiced around the world consistently violate medical ethics and informed consent.”

It continued, “In the WPATH Files, members demonstrate a lack of consideration for long-term patient outcomes despite being aware of the debilitating and potentially fatal side effects of cross-sex hormones and other treatments. Messages in the files show that patients with severe mental health issues, such as schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder, and other vulnerabilities such as homelessness, are being allowed to consent to hormonal and surgical interventions. Members dismiss concerns about these patients and characterize efforts to protect them as unnecessary ‘gatekeeping.’”

Most unsettling about the leaked files, experts have pointed out, is that they prove the alleged “medical professionals” are keenly aware “they are offering minors life-changing treatments they cannot fully understand.” On Wednesday, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins highlighted on “Washington Watch” that the “injuries described in the files” that WPATH members are aware of “include sterilization, loss of sexual function, liver tumors, and even death.”

Concerning the leaked files, Dr. Quentin Van Meter, a pediatric endocrinologist and executive committee member of the American College of Pediatricians, observed on “Washington Watch” that “it’s a very large battering ram that’s hit the wall … that has been hiding all of the information that they know, and they willingly discuss among themselves.” He added that the files prove that the procedures they are doing on “these kids are clearly experimental [and] not based on science.”

He explained that doctors have been warning against WPATH and their practices for years in hearings and courts — efforts that have been repeatedly “shot down.” Van Meter emphasized that WPATH considers their work as “saving grace” and that they “save lives.” For years, WPATH has claimed that any contrary belief “is a bald-faced lie, and is politically motivated by right-wing conspiracy theorists,” he said. “That’s been their mantra since we’ve known them on the scene.”

Ultimately, he argued, the “WPATH secrets that have now been leaked show that [they have] no scientific background [and] that they are living and repeating lies over and over again. It’s quite shocking.” But he also described it as a “gift,” since it exposes the truth that “this is not good for children.”

Perkins added, “It exposes the fact that many of these entities that are held out as experts have been compromised by the political agendas of these ideologically driven individuals.” He continued, “This is what happens when this ideology, untethered to truth and ethics, mixes with science. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should do it.”

Especially since “it leads to horrible outcomes for children,” Perkins contended. Children that “can’t drive … can’t get a tattoo, but we’re letting them cut off body parts and … make them think they’re changing their gender.”

Van Meter agreed. “This needs to be shouted from the … hilltops: ‘Stop.’ The whole world must stop this nonsense, this insanity. We have hurt hundreds of thousands of children irreparably since this whole process began in the mid-2000s, and we’ve got to put a stop to it.”

Perkins asked if the leaked information would be enough to make “the medical associations … stop and rethink” what they’re doing. Van Meter responded, “That would be the intellectually correct thing to do.” However, what unsettled the doctor the most was how “casual” and “flippant” the members of WPATH seem to be discussing this. “The ideology is embedded so deeply in their minds that I don’t think they really care,” he remarked.

“It’s sad,” Perkins concluded. “It is absolutely sad. What an indictment against our culture to allow this to occur.”

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Sarah Holliday is a reporter at The Washington Stand.

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Send in the Clown

Among the many changes occurring in our country the ability and freedom to laugh at ourselves has quickly become a victim of a dastardly disease called “political correctness.” I personally think it is more the “humbug” virus that seems to infect many without regard to education or social status, political or financial standing. The humbug virus really manifests during seasons of traditional joy like Thanksgiving and Christmas, but growing evidence depicts this vicious bug, that lives just below the surface of our humanity, just waiting to make itself known, and without regard as to where or when it will seize its’ next victim and lay them low. Historically in-check by the preponderance of good will and natural immune boosters formed from the long-standing American Spirit, this virus has spread rabidly through the political process in our country much like a hot knife through butter. The virus aggressively attaches to a host who already has a co-morbid factor to stir division and strife where none existed, and then spreads and brings acute self-doubt, pernicious low self-esteem, inability to speak-up, pervasive weakness and fear of others; all leading to the ugly end of absence of laughter and good natured kidding.

Where are the clowns who use to keep the ugly cynical disease of political correctness and humbug virus at bay? Where are the clowns so many of us grew up with; the clowns who knew how to make us laugh as we saw ourselves from the clown’s perspective of life’s conditions? What happened to the doctors of laughter who could simply help us feel better and more alive by their wit and comical perspectives? These doctors of fun were able to show us the dangers of this humbug virus all the while helping us to strengthen our immune system to withstand the evils of those who would prefer to exploit weakened systems, distorting them for their own agendas of darkness and evil; promoting the illness of cynicism leading to perpetual group unrest and disorder. These physicians of humor never, ever forced medicine down our throats that would cause denial of truth to the condition of man; rather, they promoted a healing protocol wrapped in laughter and good-natured humor affording us the safe environment to look at ourselves in comparison to those in need around us. They gave us permission to make a difference outside our own antiseptic space. Where are the clowns of good-natured laughter and kidding? Those specialists of humor who delicately knew just how to unlock the best in each of us so we may begin to reach higher and further to correct the ills of our society, allowing us to laugh again at those same ills intended to keep us isolated, morally bankrupted, and impotent to real and significant change.

Jesus loved parties. He loved people as He walked the earth. Jesus loved to laugh. Our country has forgotten both – Jesus and the gift of laughter. Look around…are we better having become so enlightened and politically correct? The comedy clubs of today are not even close in comparison to the clowns of yesteryear. Rudeness and foul language has replaced a humor that could be telegraphed simply by expression, no words, just a simple gesture here and a look there. Where are the clowns of yesterday? Maybe they were only meant for a season. If that is the case…then Oh, how I miss that season of yesteryear.

People everywhere need the medicine of laughter maybe even more today than yesteryear. I pray the pernicious disease of correctness is eradicated, that we can once again laugh at ourselves and one another without rancor or meanness of spirit.

Take a moment and enjoy some of the best clowns who brought the medicine of laughter, the balm of healing from division, and the ability to soothe broken hearts and shattered dreams. Watch and listen as Frank Sinatra remembers the clowns.

Frank Sinatra sings Send in the Clowns

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VIDEOS: The Jeffrey Epstein ‘Black Book’ — Corruption & Fighting for Justice

In an era where truth often finds itself obscured by layers of complexity and power, the Jeffrey Epstein scandal stands as a glaring testament to the failures of accountability and justice. This story of wealth, influence, and unimaginable abuse demands answers and change.

At Veterans For Child Rescue (V4CR), we are committed to not just exposing but understanding the depths of child trafficking in the USA. In pursuit of this mission, we recently sat down with Investigative Journalist Nick Bryant, known for his groundbreaking work in bringing the Epstein case to the forefront of public consciousness. We aimed to uncover the truth, expose the complicit, and be a voice for the victims left shattered in Epstein’s wake.

Uncovering the Darkness: Nick Bryant’s Quest for Truth & Justice

As a reporter, Nick Bryant dedicated his career to exposing child trafficking rings, a pursuit that has put him outside of the journalistic mainstream. In 2009, before he turned his attention to Epstein, Bryant published a small-press book called The Franklin Scandal, about an alleged power broker pedophile ring in Nebraska that garnered national media attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Nick Bryant started pursuing Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier around 2012. Nick released Epstein’s “Black Book” on the internet in 2015, a document that shed light on the high-profile connections and seemingly impenetrable networks that enabled Epstein’s crimes to remain hidden in plain sight. This book wasn’t just a list of names; it was a ledger of complicity, detailing a network that spanned industries and borders, entangling politicians, celebrities, and business moguls in a narrative they wished remained untold.


First discovered by the journalist Nick Bryant, Mr. Epstein’s little black book has resurfaced as part of the current investigation into the sex crimes Mr. Epstein, a 66-year-old financier, has been charged with. (Last week, a federal judge denied his request to await trial at his $56 million Upper East Side mansion.)

Alfredo Rodriguez, Mr. Epstein’s former house manager, attempted to sell the book; it was published in 2015 by Gawker, with the telephone numbers redacted.

Described in an F.B.I. affidavit in 2009 as “a small bound book,” the item contains the names of people who viewers theorized may have known Mr. Epstein socially. Being in the book suggested a fuzzy complicity: Might these people also have known, or had some sense, of his crimes?”

A report by New York magazine about those who appear in Mr. Epstein’s book declares that the list creates a portrait of a man “deeply enmeshed in the highest social circles.” The names in the book, though, are as likely to be a map of aspirational connections, as well as actual ones.”

– New York Times: What’s Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Black Book?

“Bryant first got his hands on a copy of the black book in 2012, after the feds caught Epstein’s former house manager trying to peddle it for $50,000. At the time, Bryant was shopping a feature on Epstein, without success. “My Epstein article would focus on the government malfeasance that enabled Epstein to skate on scores of child abuse charges,” Bryant wrote in a pitch he submitted to various editors, “and I would also look into covert ties that the government may have had with Epstein. Moreover, the little black book opens up multiple vistas of investigation, and I would attempt to amass sufficient corroboration on some of the power broker perps who molested these girls.”

Three years later, when Epstein was back in the news due to fresh allegations that his pal Prince Andrew had slept with one of the girls who’d alleged she’d been trafficked by Epstein (Buckingham Palace denies this), Bryant finally published the black book in full (phone numbers redacted) in a Gawker article. In particular, the article called attention to a bunch of names that Epstein’s former house manager (who passed in late 2014) had circled, supposedly to identify them as potential “material witnesses.” (Trump, Barak, Alan Dershowitz, Les Wexner, Bill Richardson, and others.)”

– Vanity Fair: “A Lot of Powerful People…Could Go Down”: The Journalist Who Published Jeffrey Epstein’s Black Book and Jet Passenger Logs Comes in From the Fringe


Our interview series with Nick Bryant of EpsteinJustice.com peeled back the veneer of societal elite to reveal the mechanisms of power that protect the guilty while leaving the vulnerable exposed. He discussed not only the factual evidence gathered during his investigation but also the systemic failures that allowed such exploitation to thrive.

Epstein’s Victims: A Stark Reminder of Horrors Unseen

Epstein’s victims, their stories silenced for too long, are the beating heart of this fight. Their names and harrowing experiences, now emerging from the shadows, demand that we bear witness. With every new testimony, we understand the true scope of Epstein’s evil. But, we must go deeper and confront the structures that allowed this abuse to fester for so long.

The Public’s Role in the Wake of Scandal

As the Epstein investigation unfolded, it became a litmus test for our society’s willingness to confront uncomfortable truths. The scandal, as Bryant notes, isn’t just about Epstein himself but about the broader implications for child safety and the lengths to which systems of power will go to protect their interests over the well-being of the innocent.

The release of Epstein’s “Black Book” and the documented list of known victims serve as a stark reminder of the scale of Epstein’s and, by extension, society’s transgressions. It’s a call to action for the public, a demand for awareness, acceptance of the harsh realities of child trafficking and our government’s direct involvement, and a rallying cry for holding our elected officials accountable.

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Acceptance, Awareness, and Action

Our discussion with Bryant underscored the importance of public engagement in the fight against child trafficking. Awareness is the first step toward change, but it must be coupled with action. By bringing these discussions into the public domain, through interviews like the one with Bryant and through documentaries like CONTRALAND, V4CR aims to arm the public with knowledge and urge a collective demand for justice and reform.

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal, while horrific in its scope and implications, offers an opportunity for societal reflection and transformation. It’s a reminder that the fight against child trafficking requires vigilance, perseverance, and, most importantly, a united front dedicated to safeguarding the innocent and bringing predators to justice.

Holding Elected Officials Accountable

As we navigate the aftermath of the Epstein scandal, it’s imperative that we, as a society, hold our elected officials to a higher standard. The failures of justice in Epstein’s case must not be in vain but should catalyze legislative and systemic reform. It’s up to us to ensure that our voices are heard, that we vote with our conscience, and that we demand accountability and action from those in power.

In conclusion, the Epstein scandal, as explored through our interview with Nick Bryant, serves as a sobering reminder of the work that lies ahead. It’s a call to arms for everyone who values justice, child safety, and the rule of law. By standing together, staying informed, and demanding change, we can hope to build a future where the horrors of child trafficking find no shadows to lurk within.

Join us in this mission. Be aware, be vocal, and be part of the solution. Together, we can make a difference.

The Smear of “Christian Nationalism”

It seems like everyone is talking these days about Rob Reiner’s hitjob movie against the religious right. It makes “Christian Nationalists” into the bogeyman. Although I travel in the circles of Christian conservatives, I have yet to meet anyone who has actually yet seen Reiner’s movie. But I have seen a trailer for it.

The thesis of the movie is that “Christian Nationalists” are bad and are trying to take over the nation and turn it into something we were never intended to be.

Commentator Heidi Przbyla of Politico even told a panel on MSNBC that anyone who believes our rights are derived from God is a “Christian Nationalist.”

She said, “The thing that unites them as Christian nationalists, not Christians because Christian nationalists are very different, is that they believe that our rights as Americans and as all human beings do not come from any earthly authority. They don’t come from Congress, from the Supreme Court, they come from God.”

Furthermore, in a tweet, Przbyla wrote: “While there are different wings of Christian Nationalism, they are bound by their belief that our rights come from God.”

And what’s wrong with that? Is that not exactly what the founding fathers and the settlers of America have said, as well as American leaders?

The essence of the American experiment is self-rule under God.

One famous American said, “God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?”

Who was this sneaky American trying to impose Christian Nationalism on an unsuspecting populace? It was Thomas Jefferson. Those words are chiseled in stone at the memorial in Washington, D.C. dedicated to his memory.

Another man said that we must remember the beliefs of this nation’s founders: “And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe—the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.”

Who said that—D. James Kennedy?

No, actually, that was John F. Kennedy. That’s a quote from his Inaugural Address in 1961.

One American had the temerity to actually assert that America and belief in God go hand-in-hand. He declared, “Without God, there could be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first—the most basic— expression of Americanism. Thus the Founding Fathers saw it, and thus, with God’s help, it will continue to be.”

Who was that? Jerry Falwell? No, that was President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

One famous American said that what we need so desperately today is a spiritual revival. Here are his own words: “No greater thing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion—a revival that would sweep through the homes of the Nation and stir the hearts of men and women of all faiths to a reassertion of their belief in God and their dedication to His will for themselves and for their world.”

Was this a recent message from Franklin Graham or his late father, Billy Graham?

No, this was a comment from that icon of the left, Franklin D. Roosevelt.

One famous American observed that without God’s help, a nation will not be blessed.

This is how he worded it: “it is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”

The very last part of that quote is from Psalm 33. And the speaker’s hearers knew that because most of them were Biblically literate, as was he.

In this quote, this Christian Nationalist (by the new definition) is saying that a nation is blessed only when it belongs to the God of the Bible.

Who was it? Those are words from President Abraham Lincoln, calling on the nation to fast and pray and ask for God’s mercy.

The only way the elite class can get away with trying to impose state-sanctioned atheism on a land that was secured on the foundation of God-given rights is when we the people forget that God is indeed the source of our rights, not the government. Or when they become so fearful of a made-up label like “Christian nationalism” that they go mute in the face of a little name-calling.

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“Lost In Space” Transgender Colonel Pushes Pronouns To Win Wars

Why do we wonder why there is a recruiting crisis in our military?

It’s simple, our military is no longer focused on winning wars, like Space Force Lieutenant Colonel Bree Fram, it is focused on Diversity, Inclusion and Equity — DIEing not fighting.

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Transgenders are mentally ill and should not serve in our Armed Forces—period.


“Lost In Space” Transgender Colonel Pushes Pronouns To Win Wars

It is sad to think that a nation once as strong as ours could fall so quickly under such a ridiculous agenda

By Milt Harris

This isn’t the first time I have written about the current state of our military, or about Space Force Colonel Bree Fram. Fram is transgender, a man pretending to be a woman that has somehow managed to get into this position of power. By promoting someone like Fram up the chain of command, the military is disregarding that this is form of delusionary mental illness. This is condoning the denial of both biology and science for no other reason other than to be politically correct. The result has been a softening of our forces and low recruitment rates in at least three out of four military branches.

The military has not only errored in accepting this farce as normal behavior, but they have also promoted it as though it is customary. The U.S. Armed Forces has used everything from animated cartoons to an enlisted drag queen in recruitment videos. Then they bemoan the fact of low recruitment, acting stupefied as to what the problem is.

This isn’t a mystery. Combine a society that is becoming more and more divided by liberal leftists teaching hatred of country and moral debauchery at every turn, with a military command that has swallowed the Kool-Aid, and you have a disaster forming in the shadows of what used to be the Greatest fighting force in the world.

Wrong beliefs can become a societal virus and the LGBTQ movement has become one. The left now demands that you not only accept the lifestyle of these deluded individuals they expect active participation, otherwise you will be labeled as homophobic and bigoted.

Read Milt’s full article.

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Biden’s Department of Veterans Affairs Bans Iconic ‘Kissing Sailor’ WWII Photo — Says it Promotes ‘Sexual Assault’

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984


My good friend, and fellow Vietnam combat veteran, LTC Rich Swier, U.S. Army (Ret.) while president of the Sarasota County Veterans Commission was able to bring the 24′ high statue named by the artist Seward Johnson “Unconditional Surrender” after the famous words of President Franklin D. Roosevelt after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 to Florida.

Bringing it to the Sarasota Bayfront was special as Florida has one of the largest number of retired veterans in the nation.

This iconic statue, taken from the iconic 1945 “Kissing Sailor” photo in Times Square by Alfred Eisenstaedt, depicts the end of WW II with the unconditional surrender of Japan on the 2nd of September 1945.

The statue Unconditional Surrender was paid for by Jack Curran, a WW II Navy veteran. After leaving the Navy, Jack became the man responsible for all the monuments in Washington, D.C. Jack wanted the Unconditional Surrender statue placed in a prominent location for all to see. Jack paid $500,000 for the statue.

The Sarasota City Commission approved the placement of the statue on Sarasota’s Bayfront, where it remains to this day.

It has since become a landmark drawing tens of thousand of people to it to take a picture. Many are couples, some are Navy veterans with their nurse wife, who do the dip and kiss one another. They want to keep this as a lasting memory, forever. As a symbol of never give up, never surrender.

Rich said to me, “When it was announced that the Veterans Commission wanted to bring the statue to the Sarasota Bayfront there were those who tried to denigrate what it stood for, the greatest military victory in the history of the United States military over Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito. Rich recalls that one woman was interview by the Sarasota Herald Tribune and said that the sailor was assaulting the nurse.”

Déjà vu, Fast forward to 2024 and these same words are being used by Biden’s VA.

I have just contacted the Department of Veterans Affairs. I have case #11964534 on file if anyone wants to call in and check the status — stupid is as stupid does.


Veterans Affairs Ban Iconic World War II Photo

It’s one of the most iconic American photos ever taken. The “Kissing Sailor” captured a spontaneous and passionate moment in history. Taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt in Times Square on V-J Day (Victory over Japan Day) on August 14, 1945, the image features a sailor kissing a nurse in the midst of jubilant celebrations marking the end of World War II.

The identity of the individuals remained a mystery for years, fueling speculation and intrigue. Eventually, in 2012, the subjects were identified as George Mendonsa, a sailor, and Greta Zimmer Friedman, a dental assistant. The photograph came to symbolize the sheer exuberance and relief felt by the nation as the war finally came to an end.

Now, the Department of Veterans Affairs has banned the photo because liberal bureaucrats argue it promotes sexual assault. 

A new memo from the Assistant Under Secretary for Health and Operations at the Department writes in a memo that “The Department of Justice’s current definition of sexual assault includes any non-consensual sexual act or any act where the victim cannot consent. This definition is adhered to by the Department when applying our policies and guidance. By the VA’s no tolerance policy towards domestic violence, sexual harassment, and assault, as outlined in the VA Handbook 5979 and VHA Directive 5019.02(1), the VA is committed to eliminating these behaviors in our community. Employees have expressed discomfort with the display of this photograph, suggesting that its presence could be construed as a tacit endorsement of the inappropriate behavior it depicts. 

To foster a more trauma-informed environment that promotes the psychological safety of our employees and the Veterans we serve, photographs depicting the “V-J Day in Times Square” should be removed from all WHA facilities. This action reflects our dedication to creating a respectful and safe workplace and is in keeping with our broader efforts to promote a culture of inclusivity and awareness. 

In Celebrating the end of World War II and the valiant service of our Veterans, facilities should seek alternative photographs that capture the spirit of victory and peace without compromising the VA’s commitment to a safe and respectful environment.

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ROOKE: D.C. Republicans Prove The Swamp Is As Infested And Useless As Ever

After losing over and over again, state after state, to former President Donald Trump, Nikki Haley finally won a Republican Primary race in the District of Columbia.

If Republican voters were ever in doubt about whether Republicans in D.C. understand them and the issues facing everyday Americans, Haley’s win should solidify in their minds that they don’t. In the 2020 general election, D.C. voters overwhelmingly voted for President Joe Biden. Trump garnered just 5% of the vote in the district. The 2024 GOP primary was more of the same. Only about 2,000 people voted, and of that sampling, Haley won 63% of the vote to Trump’s 33%.

In open primary states, Haley has been able to hang on because Democrats are willing to jump the aisle to side with the “anyone but Trump” option in hopes their failing candidate, Biden, will be able to sneak out a win in November against a candidate adamantly rejected by the Republican base.

However, D.C. is not an open primary. Only registered Republicans can vote in the D.C. primary, making her win an eye-opener for voters about who is running the offices of the most important officials in the country.

Haley is not the base’s choice in Iowa, South Carolina, Michigan, Missouri, Idaho, New Hampshire, etc., but the D.C. political class overwhelmingly supports her. The people who think they know better than the Republican base about what issues and policies are good for them love Haley.

Chair of the D.C. Republican Party Patrick Mara and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors Dan Schuberth perfectly encapsulated this point with their quotes about Haley’s win to Politico.

“This universe is a little more sophisticated than just about any universe in any other state,” Mara told the outlet. “I listen to the political podcasts in the morning. I read the newsletters throughout the day. That’s probably, like, half the people showing up at this.”

“You’ve got a really dialed-in political class,” Schuberth, who hosted Haley’s D.C. campaign stop, said. “You know, folks read POLITICO. They read The Hill. Folks here are reading the Washington Post.”

Mara and Schuberth are among the Republicans living inside the D.C. echo chamber who believe that reading mainstream media newsletters and political punditry, knowing all the people working on the campaigns and living in the district gives them a better understanding of what’s good for Americans. In the political class system, they would consider themselves at the top, while a family of six burdened by the economic and social repercussions of their hubris is an uninformed lemming.

Haley’s presidential campaign has been nothing short of a wish list for the old guard of the Republican Party that flies in direct contrast to the new GOP. Middle America does not want to send their boys to fight in another endless war in the desert, where death is inevitable. Parents are disgusted with the state of the U.S. education system, which acts as an indoctrination camp for far-left policies. Working-class Americans can not only see but feel how illegal immigration puts their families at risk, lowers their wages, and makes them compete for jobs that are rightfully theirs.

Trump captures the angst of everyday Americans in the way the Democrats used to do, while Haley campaigns like a Reagan-era Republican devoid of this insight. He stands up for these people, tells them it’s okay to recognize how these policies affect them, and promises to right the wayward ship once he’s back in office.

To disregard this reality the way the GOP political class does is why the base will take two steps forward and one step back. While at the state level, Republicans are fortifying election integrity, fighting back against open borders and killing the infestation of DEI, the D.C. swamp is terrified even to admit these issues are a problem, much less take the fight to the radicals implementing them.

It takes a level of ignorance and arrogance to tell Republican voters they can’t have the safe, prosperous country they grew up in. That their wish to have policies focused on putting Americans first isn’t popular or winnable when Trump beats their preferred candidate, Haley, into the ground in every state, gaining momentum with each victory. He’s a political force not just because of his one-liners and smash-mouth style of campaigning but because he gave a voice to the base when everyone else told them to forget their patriotism, forget their American dream and instead bow down to the global machine ruining their country.

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72 Percent of the Youngest Voters Support Israel

Information on the latest poll of American attitudes on Israel, Hamas, and Gaza can be found here: “Vast Majority of American Voters Back Israel in War Again Hamas, New Poll Reveals,” by Ben Cohen, Algemeiner, February 28, 2024:

A heavy majority of respondents — 78 percent — agreed that Hamas needed to be removed from governing Gaza. Asked about who should administer the territory after the war, 34 percent answered Israel, while 39 percent expressed support for a new authority created by Arab states. Only 28 percent believed that the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA) should govern in a post-war scenario.

Nearly four out of five Americans polled believe that Hamas should be removed altogether from any future position of authority in Gaza. As for alternatives, more than one-third wanted Israel to administer Gaza (which the Israelis do not want to do; they only want to ensure that Hamas does not make a comeback in the Strip). Nearly 40 percent want the Arab states — meaning the rich Arab states that will be largely responsible for the reconstruction in Gaza that will take years — to appoint a new authority in Gaza, neither Hamas nor the PA, but a group of technocrats whom the Arab donor states can keep a close eye on, making sure that there is no repetition of the colossal corruption that has been such a feature of Hamas rule in Gaza, where just three of its leaders — Khaled Meshaal, Ismail Haniyeh, and Mousa abu Marzouk — managed to steal for themselves a total of $11 billion. And Americans are suspicious, too, of the Palestinian Authority, because it has been a despotism ruled by the corrupt Mahmoud Abbas, who with his sons Tarek and Yasser has acquired a family fortune of $400 million. Abbas is in the nineteenth year of his four-year-term. When dissidents against his rule acquire a following, he does not hesitate to murder them, as he ordered the murder of the late Nizar Banat. Only 28 percent of those polled saw any role at all for the Palestinian Authority in Gaza after the Israel-Hamas war ends.

The poll also examined voter attitudes towards the wider region, with 80 percent agreeing that US forces in the Middle East are facing attacks from local terrorist groupsUS President Joe Biden’s policy towards Iran has also attracted significant criticism, with 54 percent answering that the US response to attacks launched by Iranian-backed terrorist organizations in Yemen, Syria and Iraq had been “too weak.” Pressed further on whether Biden’s Iran policy had been “successful,” 61 percent answered negatively….

More than half of those polled think that Biden has been “too weak” in responding to attacks by Iran-backed terrorists in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. It is obvious that the attacks on the Houthis have had no effect in slowing down, much less in ending, attacks by the Houthis on commercial shipping near and in the Red Sea. The Houthis have even launched drone attacks on American warships. Those polled want a more muscular policy toward Iran’s proxies. which makes one wonder if they would be willing to support a preemptive strike on Iran, as it creeps ever closer to being able to make a nuclear bomb. That question, however, was not asked.

Among 18-24 year olds, support for Israel stood at 72 percent, and at 66 percent among voters aged 25-34. More than 90 percent of voters over 55 declared their support for Israel.

The loss of support for Israel among the young has been greatly exaggerated. In fact, 72 percent of the youngest voters, 18-24 year olds, support Israel, and the figure dips just a little, to 66 percent, among those 25 to 34. Too many people have assumed that those noisy campus pro-Hamas protesters who garner such media attention reflect the views of a great many young people; it turns out that they do not.

However, a majority of 18-24 year olds — 53 percent — expressed backing for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza irrespective of whether the hostages are released, while the majority of older voters remained opposed. Among the over 55s, more than 80 percent said they were opposed to a ceasefire absent the release of the hostages….

This is the only response that is a bit worrisome. A slight majority — 53 percent — of the youngest voters support an immediate ceasefire, whether Hamas releases the hostages or not. Clearly the freeing of the hostages does not loom as large in the minds of the young as it does among the older people polled, A reflection, perhaps, of the wisdom that some say comes with age?

More than half of the young voters, in the 18-34 age groups, want Israel to continue its ground invasion, which means, since the poll was taken on February 20-21, they support an attack on Hamas operatives in Rafah.

The younger voters are still on Israel’s side. The two key figures are these: Of the 18-24 age group, 72 percent support Israel, and of the 25-34 age group, 66 percent support Israel. And that is despite the malign coverage in so much of the media.

AUTHOR

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Challenge to All Muslims

Islam can justifiably be condemned as a barbaric ideology that has energized and continues to energize crimes against humanity. Islam belongs to a raft of doctrines such as Nazism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism of various stripes that promotes hate and violence against others. Despicable principles of hatred and violence remain confined to their place under the “shameful” classification in libraries until people adopt them as their program of life. Hence, people are guilty of bringing to life the dogmas of savagery.

In the same way that ignorance of the law does not constitute a valid defense, not bothering to find out about the true nature of Islamic precepts and practices and blindly doing Islam’s bidding constitutes inexcusable wrongdoing. Muslims, therefore, are indictable for subscribing to the Quran and committing themselves to carry out its ruthless instructions at great harm to the non-subscribers.

A vast cadre of Islamic apologists, generally from the ranks of the well-pampered parasitic clergy, labor greatly at defending Islam and keeping the masses in servitude. In practice, these sheepdogs of Islam earn their very livelihood by devouring the sheep they herd.

The apologists cover a wide spectrum. On one extreme are the unrepentant and shameless bigots who adhere to and promote every provision of the Quran, the Hadith, and the Sunna. These robots pride themselves on being diehard, obedient, literal believers of Allah.

Then, those apologists do their best to walk a tightrope. They skillfully straddle a zone with one foot in the Islamic muck and the other out. These illusionists—the smoke and mirror artists—are masters of double-speak and are very difficult to pin down. Yet, they are most effective in their work. They manage, through their clever tactics of half truth-half lies, to keep the faithful in line and fool the gullible non-Muslims.

And then there are the sheep—the rank-and-file Muslims. They are indictable because they are the ones who keep Islam alive by feeding and supporting it. It is this rank that supplies the Islamic foot soldiers—those servants of the All Kind and All-Merciful Allah who do not have a grain of kindness or mercy in their dark hearts. These easily programmable robots detonate explosive vests not just to kill the kafirs, but to kill even other Muslims. They slaughter innocent kidnapped people as cheerily as they slash a lamb’s throat. With exhortation passages from the Quran pasted on the wall of their slaughterhouse, they shamelessly fire their Ketusha rockets, not at the military but directly at the civilian population.

Are all Muslims the leeching clergy or actively involved in terrorism and included in the blanket indictment, you ask?

The fact is that being a Muslim is a clear admission of wrongdoing, the extent of which depends on the degree of a person’s Muslim-ness. If he is only a Muslim who does not practice Islam, then he is, at the very least, guilty of hypocrisy. If he is somewhat of a Muslim by tithing, from time to time, following the ranting of the local mullah or imam, and swallowing whole the pronouncements of the high divines, then he is guilty of significantly contributing to the evildoings of Islam.

Lastly, there are those Muslims who simply lack the courage to leave Islam and exercise their gift of humanness. They are the pathetic crowd guilty of remaining in the fold of tyranny and withholding support from the forces of liberty and human dignity. Also, to use an old cliché, if a person is not part of the solution, he is part of the problem. Islam is indeed a huge problem.

Some Muslims have objected to my taking Islam to task and not addressing the atrocities of others, both in the past and in the present. I do not see myself as an ombudsman for mankind, commissioned by God or self-appointed. I am not egotistical enough to see myself as a universal arbiter of all wrongdoings. I, however, unreservedly condemn all genocides, religiously based or otherwise, and all wrongs visited upon any individual or people irrespective of time, place, and any other considerations.

My focus is Islam because I, my people, and my native country, Iran, have been victimized by a primitive alien ideology for far too long. Having witnessed first-hand the horrors and indignity that Islamofascism visits on people it subjugates, I have taken it upon myself to do my part in defeating this ideology of oppression, hate, and violence.

I enjoy and deeply cherish the liberty that America has generously afforded me, enabling me to raise a cry from the heart regarding the tragic plight of millions of Iranian victims—my compatriots who dare not speak against the wicked mullahs and their mercenaries.

I am the voice of tens of thousands of Iran’s best children, many of them literally children, who have been imprisoned, brutally tortured, shamelessly raped, and viciously slaughtered by Allah’s beasts presently ruling Iran.

The heartless religionists of Allah have plundered and continue to plunder the people’s vast oil income, fill their bottomless pockets with ill-begotten funds, and finance adventurism in Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, and anywhere and everywhere they find willing clientele.

In the meantime, over the past three decades of their Islam-authorized dastardly theocracy, they have driven masses of the Iranian people to abject poverty. They have created a culture of nihilism and despair that has spawned one of the world’s most drug-addicted societies and have compelled a great many women to sell their bodies in order to survive.

It is, so I find it both my sacred duty and inalienable right to indict Muslims as either criminals themselves or accessories to the crimes, seek justice for my people, and warn others of the dangers of Islamofascism in all its forms.

I challenge all Muslims to abandon the demonic cult of Muhammad and join forces of liberty and justice for free people with no turbaned masters or masters of any kind.

It is said that it is a crime to remain silent in the face of evil. Thus, I am speaking up and urging other good men and women to raise their resonant voices while they can before they are brutally silenced by the ever-creeping Islamofascism.

©2024. Amil Imani. All rights reserved.

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