Prominent Pro-Abortion Group Appears To Be Front For Radical Revolutionary Communists

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A prominent pro-abortion activist group downplaying its association with the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) shares significant infrastructure and leadership with the radical outfit’s other offshoot groups, a Daily Caller analysis has found.

Although RiseUp4AbortionRights seems like most other pro-abortion groups at first glance, other pro-abortion activists released a statement in late June asserting that RiseUp is a front for a “pyramid scheme” and cult of personality. The Daily Caller’s examination of the organization’s leaders, online presence, and fundraising platforms lend credence to the claim that RiseUp is an offshoot front group for the RCP.

“Support for communism in the U.S. is incredibly low, so one way for these individuals to jump-start is to ride the coattails of something that has much more acceptability” in mainstream discussion of current political events, Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, told the Daily Caller.

RiseUp shares leadership with the RCP and several of its related organizations. Sunsara Taylor is a prominent RCP spokeswoman and a co-founder of RiseUp. Taylor founded RiseUp in January 2022 to protest for “abortion on demand and without apology.” An earlier pro-abortion group Taylor founded, Stop Patriarchy, used the same slogan and also attracted scrutiny from other pro-abortion activist organizations, the Austin Chronicle reported in 2014. Stop Patriarchy has not posted any new tweets to its Twitter feed since 2020, but the organization’s website features more recent footage of an interview in which Taylor discusses the consequences of the Dobbs decision.

Taylor also founded The World Can’t Wait, Inc., (TWCW) alongside another RCP devotee in 2006 to oppose the Bush administration, particularly its policies in the Middle East.

Taylor went on to co-found another organization, Refuse Fascism, in 2016 to resist the incoming Trump administration. At the time, the RCP took credit for helping create Refuse Fascism on its website. The “what you can do now” quick links section at the bottom of the RCP website still links directly to the Refuse Fascism homepage.

Another leading RiseUp activist, Sam Goldman, is a prominent spokeswoman for Refuse Fascism. In a Jan. 2022 episode of the Refuse Fascism podcast featured on the organization’s website, Goldman stated that she has “been busy helping launch RiseUp4AbortionRights.”

The RCP website promotes digital content from RiseUp and Refuse Fascism. Similarly, Refuse Fascism’s website features digital content from RiseUp and the RCP. All three organizations generally promote each others’ digital content on their websites without making clear the nature of their association.

On its main fundraising portal, RiseUp states that it is sharing certain “tools” with Refuse Fascism until RiseUp “establishes infrastructure” for fundraising of its own. RiseUp’s PayPal fundraising account also includes the name of TWCW. Refuse Fascism and TWCW share a New York City mailing address.

RiseUp’s website claims that the group spends donated funds on protest materials and logistics. Amid accusations of financial impropriety from other pro-abortion groups, RiseUp released a statement promising that it “has never used any funds it has raised for any purposes other than exactly what the funds were raised for.”

The RiseUp statement derided criticism of Taylor and Avakian as “scurrilous and false.” The RCP added that the accusations from other pro-abortion groups “smack strongly of the tactics of the right wing fascist forces in this country and the political police (the FBI, etc.) who create pretexts to go after revolutionary groups” in its own statement. The RCP flatly denied ever having used RiseUp funds in any capacity in its statement.

Taylor refused to say if RiseUp would submit to an independent audit of its financial dealings in order to clear up the accusations, and referred the Daily Caller to previous statements on the matter. Neither RiseUp nor the RCP disclosed documentation in response statements to definitively disprove the allegations of impropriety.

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The RCP centers on Avakian’s revolutionary ideology, which RCP materials refer to as “new communism.” Critics, including those who signed the June statement against RiseUp, have claimed that the RCP is a Maoist group that elevates Avakian and his teachings as messianic. The late June statement from pro-abortion groups opposed to RiseUp asserted that the RCP established RiseUp as a front to divert funds and people towards the growth of its ideology rather than earnestly supporting the pro-abortion cause.

“There will be individuals who use this division and deep and wide disappointment with the Dobbs decision to not only stake claim with regard to abortion rights, but also to make their overall failed political worldview an attractive option” to naive demonstrators, Levin said.

RiseUp has become one of the most visible pro-abortion groups in the United States. Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined RiseUp demonstrators in protest the day of the release of Dobbs. Taylor held a megaphone to Ocasio-Cortez’s face while the congresswoman led chants calling the Supreme Court illegitimate. Several protesters, including Taylor, have been spotted and photographed wearing RCP merchandise at RiseUp demonstrations.

The group has appeared at many demonstrations across the country since its inception, and has received attention from the press and celebrities. Hillary Clinton promoted a RiseUp protest on Twitter in early May. Hollywood social justice warriors Mark Ruffalo and Rosanna Arquette have publicly supported RiseUp, according to its website. MSNBC even broadcast an interview with two young RiseUp activists.

RiseUp protesters deploy unique tactics, including smearing red paint over their private parts. They also paint green handprints over the chests of protesters wearing white. Doing so represents “a facsimile of what would happen to actual living women, hemorrhaging to death from unsafe abortions,” one RiseUp activist explained to the Daily Caller at a recent protest in front of the Supreme Court.

“These are opportunists who are trying to take advantage of people of good will who have deeply held, sincere beliefs with regard to the right to abortion,” Levin concluded.

None of the signatories of the statement in opposition to RCP that were contacted returned the Daily Caller’s request for comment.

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SURVEY: Women Voters 50+ Say Inflation and Rising Costs Will Influence their Vote in 2022

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HARRISBURG, Pa./PRNewswire/ —  A new survey from AARP Pennsylvania reveals that the priorities and concerns of women voters age 50 and older will influence the outcome of the 2022 midterm elections.  Women 50-plus make up a significant share of the 2022 electorate in Pennsylvania.  They account for one-third (32%) of likely voters overall, and more than half (53%) of likely voters 50-plus.

New data from the survey shows women voters 50-plus are heading into the 2022 general election worried about pocketbook issues with gas prices (49%) and food costs (27%) at the top of their inflation concerns.  The survey also points out that several of AARP’s core issues – protecting Social Security (90%) and Medicare (83%) – are extremely or very important to these influential voters. Further, 79% say that the country is on the wrong track and a significant majority (87%) indicate that they are “extremely motivated” to vote in the 2022 general election.

“There are two things those running for office need to know about women voters 50-plus: They vote, and they’re influential,” said Bill Johnston-Walsh, AARP Pennsylvania State Director. “Nearly 37 million women voters over 50 cast a ballot in the 2018 midterms — that’s 30% of all Americans who showed up at the polls. Today, with the prices of groceries, gas and prescription drugs skyrocketing, women voters in Pennsylvania want to see solutions.”

Among women voters 50-plus, Attorney General Josh Shapiro (D) leads State Senator Doug Mastriano (R), 55% to 41%. John Fetterman (D), the Lieutenant Governor, leads Mehmet Oz (R), 56% to 40% in the open race for U.S. Senate. Both Democratic candidates hold their overall narrow leads (3 percentage points in the Governor’s race, and 6 percentage points in the Senate race) in part due to support from women 50+.

The survey found that the top issues for Pennsylvania women voters over 50 include:

  • 94% are more likely to vote for a U.S. Senate candidate who supports protecting Social Security from cuts to workers’ earned benefits;
  • 94% are more likely to vote for a U.S. Senate candidate who supports protecting Medicare from cuts and ensure America’s seniors get the healthcare they need;
  • 93% are more likely to vote for U.S. Senate candidate who supports allowing Medicare to negotiate for lower prescription drug prices;
  • 91% are more likely to support a candidate for governor who will provide funding to allow seniors needing daily support to receive care at home rather than having to enter a costly nursing home;
  • 87% are more likely to support a candidate for governor who will protect low-income older Pennsylvanians from property tax increases; and
  • 70% are more likely to vote for a gubernatorial candidate who supports creating Keystone Saves, so that they have an option to contribute a portion of their paychecks to their retirement. Currently, 2 in 5 Pennsylvania workers do not have access to a retirement savings program through their employer.

Earlier in 2022, AARP’s “She’s the Difference” poll conducted by GOP pollsters Kristen Soltis Anderson and Chris Matthews, and Democratic pollsters Celinda Lake and Margie Omero, found similar results. By more than a two-to-one margin, women voters over 50 want a politician who is willing to work together to get things done — even if the result is an occasional compromise that goes against voters’ values (67%) — over a politician who consistently fights for their values but doesn’t often find a solution (30%). This finding remains consistent across party identifications, with 77% of Democratic women and 57% of Republican women preferring a politician who compromises, while 21% of Democratic women and 40% of Republican women prefer a values-oriented politician.

AARP commissioned Fabrizio Ward and Impact Research to conduct this survey. The firms interviewed 1,382 likely Pennsylvania voters, which includes a statewide representative sample of 500 likely voters, with an oversample of up to 550 likely voters age 50 and older, and an oversample of up to 332 African-American/Black likely voters age 50 and older. The survey was conducted between June 12-19 via landline, cellphone, and SMS-to-web. The margin of error for the 500 statewide sample is ±4.4%; for the 855 total sample of voters 50+ it is ±3.3%. View the full survey results.

For more information on how, when and where to vote in Pennsylvania, visit aarp.org/PAvotes.

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AARP is the nation’s largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering people 50 and older to choose how they live as they age. With a nationwide presence and nearly 38 million members, AARP strengthens communities and advocates for what matters most to families: health security, financial stability and personal fulfillment. AARP also produces the nation’s largest circulation publications: AARP The Magazine and AARP Bulletin. To learn more, visit www.aarp.org, www.aarp.org/espanol or follow @AARP, @AARPenEspanol @AARPadvocates and @AliadosAdelante on social media.

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Weighed In The Balance

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All the vessels used for the worship of YAHWEH in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem were special, having been designed by God with strict specifications, crafted by the very best skilled craftsmen and then consecrated for His worship. As such, only certain people, namely the Jewish priests, were ever allowed to touch these vessels. However, many of them were removed from the temple when it was destroyed by the Babylonians led by King Nebuchadnezzar. They were taken back to Babylon as ‘treasures of war’.

God’s Eye Is On The Scale

There would have been many other instruments that were used in the various temple duties of the priests and the High Priest. Among these would have been scales used to correctly and precisely weigh the ingredients used in the compounding of the oils and fragrances that God required for Temple worship. Knowing how precisely God created everything we can see, the use of the balance scales would have been extremely important.

Such scales are visible in most judicial settings as an indication that justice is to be honest, fair and precise so that only the guilty are punished while the innocent are set free. Usually the person holding the scales in these instances has a blindfold in place showing that true justice is determined not by what a person can always see, but by what forms the basis for any code of justice: TRUTH and LAW.

God, who raises up rulers and takes down rulers is always aware of what is happening in the kingdoms of the world. He continuously assesses the deeds done by these rulers and their actions are recorded and weighed using God’s scale to determine what is in their hearts.

Judgment Deliberated – Babylon Weighed

Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, had been arrogant and prideful in his own mind when he failed to give God the credit for his kingdom. God’s response was to strike him with a serious mental illness (lycanthropy) that changed his human mind into the mind of a wild animal for seven years. He was driven into the wild and ate grass and lived as a wild animal would live, but when the seven years had passed, his mind was healed and he returned to his palace as king, and from that moment on, he glorified the Jewish God as the ruler of all things.

After his passing, Nebuchadnezzar’s son, Belshazzar, became king and was as arrogant as his father had been. While holding a great feast for a thousand of his ‘lords’, he and many of his company drank wine from the golden vessels that had been stolen from the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. This was a serious breach and an affront to God by the Babylonian king.

Judgment Decided – The Handwriting on the Wall

As Belshazzar and his company were drinking wine from the stolen vessels and praising their false gods, the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote something near a candlestick on the wall and Belshazzar saw the fingers and the written words. When he saw the words, “his countenance was changed and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed and his knees smote one against another” (Daniel 5:5-6 KJV). Quite obviously, the action of the fingers writing on the wall caused a great sense of fear and dread to strike Belshazzar.

On the urging of Belshazzar’s wife, he called for Daniel, the prince of the Jews who had interpreted the dreams of Nebuchadnezzar, and asked him to ‘read the writing and show the interpretation thereof’. Daniel was promised great rewards if he could do so; being led by the Spirit of God, he refused all the offered rewards but still agreed to interpret the writing.

The words on  the wall were: “Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin”. A sound translation of these words is:

Mene: “God has numbered your kingdom and finished it” (Repeated for Emphasis)

Tekel: “You are weighed in the balance and found wanting”

Upharsin: (plural of the base word ‘Peres’ meaning ‘division’: “Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians”.

Judgment Delivered – The Fall of Babylon

This was obviously devastating news to Belshazzar. I imagine he had thought that his kingdom would last forever with himself in charge, living the good life. However, that very night, the Medes and Persians attacked Babylon and the mighty kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar fell and the life of Belshazzar was forfeit.  When God pronounces judgment it does not take long for it to be delivered.

The Judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah – Deliberated, Decided, Delivered

I’m not sure how many people lived in the evil twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, but on His way there to deliver judgment, God stopped to have a conversation with His friend, Abraham. He explained what He was planning to do in those wicked cities, and being a man of compassion, Abraham interceded for the cities and asked if God would spare them if He found fifty righteous souls there; God agreed that He would not destroy them if fifty righteous were there. Then Abraham lowered the number required to forty-five and again, God said He would spare them if forty-five could be found. Abraham continued lowering the number until he reached ten and the Lord agreed to spare the cities if He found ten righteous souls there. Obviously there were less than ten righteous souls living there because the cities were destroyed. The story indicates that God had been deliberating/weighing the ‘good versus evil’ in Sodom and Gomorrah and eventually, the cities were found wanting.

The wonderful part, the part of God’s nature that so many miss, is that He mercifully spared the righteous souls there: Lot, his wife and his two daughters. The ‘sons-in-law’, either married, or betrothed to the daughters of Lot, scoffed at Lot when he urged them to leave with him. Thus, they were both destroyed in the fire and brimstone that rained down from God in heaven upon the cities. They both chose to believe that their actions would not cause them harm, but they were wrong.

Lot and his family were ordered to flee the city and ‘not look back’. However, Lot’s wife  was disobedient and, obviously not wanting to be separated from it, turned back to see the city; thus, her disobedience brought about her death and Lot was left alone with his two daughters. Fearing that they would not ever produce children, they gave their father wine, got him drunk and had sex with him, resulting in the birth of Moab from the elder daughter and Ammon from the younger. These two men were the fathers of the Ammonites and the Moabites, which are now part of the nation of Jordan, a people that hate the Jews and cause many problems for the Jewish people.

Is the United States Now being weighed in the Balance?

I am an American and can only speak of the issues we see here in my country; however, I personally believe that all the nations of the west are currently being scrutinized by Almighty God. As in the case of the Babylonians and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, God closely watches the people who formerly identified as ‘Christian’.

Here in the US, we have seen what has been regarded as the freest nation in world history,  the most powerful nation militarily, decline to a place never before experienced by Americans.

Our political system has been proven to be totally corrupt, our financial system is corrupt and in shambles with our economy struggling to survive. Our Congress is almost totally corrupt, nearly irrelevant and bordering on criminal. In fact, nearly every US government institution, including the Presidency, the Congress, the Supreme Court, our military leadership and every bureaucratic office, especially the Department of Justice, appears to be corrupted beyond any hope of repair.

The American people have voiced their displeasure by stating in recent polls that they have very little confidence in any US government institution.

Our religious system is approaching corruption, with most churches and ministries accepting the ‘tax-free’ 501c3 status, indicating that the Love of Money that Paul warned Timothy about is becoming even more deeply entrenched in the religious realm. Our pulpits seem to be paralyzed into silence by government threat and edict and the fear of losing precious money by participation in the 501c3 scam.

Our cultural ‘norms’ have been shredded by ‘wokeness’, diversity and inclusiveness, with citizens accepting what they are told by MSM pundits and social media dictators is ‘truth’, rather than actually looking for REAL truth and deciding what they should believe based on that real truth. Mutual respect for each other is no longer regarded as important or relevant. We are a nation divided along nearly every line where division can occur.

Our own manmade gods have replaced the only TRUE God, Yahweh, and their false worship now seems to have eclipsed TRUE God worship in practice. If God is considering the sad state of our formerly great nation, He must be very sad indeed at the situation in the United States of America.

The Balance of the Scales – Judgment Deliberated?

Just as a scale that is used to weigh goods in a store or marketplace MUST be calibrated by comparing it to a ‘standard’ and adjusting it periodically to ensure that anything weighed in them is accurate and honest, so is God’s scale used to determine that all who are placed on it meet the standard for His scale: His Holy Word. The true sole arbiter of any variance in the status of justice in all American institutions is the Lord God. It is difficult to accept that He is not now closely examining those scales and deliberating whether an indictment of criminal, anti-God activity needs to be leveled against our nation.

I believe that ALL nations, including the United States, are now being weighed in God’s balance scale and will soon be made aware of their status based on the standard that God’s righteousness demands.

Any who believe that God holds them, or their nation, in such high regard that they can do whatever they want and not face His retribution, are only deceiving themselves. They are like the dishonest shopkeeper who secretly places his thumb on the scale in order to cheat a customer out of his money. The shopkeeper/thief may never face retribution in this life, but one day, all will stand before the God who created all things. At that point, it will be too late to make the changes that will allow one to escape God’s judgment.

Judgment Decided?

I am only one keen observer of the activities prevalent in the US that would seem to demand an execution of God’s judgment and whether that execution should be considered imminent. If, as I believe, the United States and many of her citizens are indeed being weighed and compared to God’s standard, it would behoove every true believer to closely examine his or her personal life to look for, root out, and ask forgiveness for, all deviations from God’s standards.

Judgment Ready for Delivery?

Once judgment is decided (by the Perfect judge of all the earth) there will be no begging for mercy, no ‘throwing oneself on the mercy of the court’. The decision made by The Judge is final and will definitely be followed by a time (the length of which only God knows) of waiting for that decision to be revealed.

I cannot say whether God has now pronounced His decision on the United States or any other nation, but there has long been a saying: “If God does not judge the United States for her sins, He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah”.

Conclusion

Please dear reader, be aware that no nation can thumb its nose at a just and righteous God and NOT expect the kind of retribution that eliminated the Babylonian Empire, or the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.

If judgment is coming, to either the United States or any other formerly Christian nation, make sure you have first judged yourself and make every effort to be on the right side of God’s judgment.

Blessings!

Maranatha!

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Biden Staff Removes Israeli Flag from Presidential Vehicle – in Jerusalem

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There is not a more pro-America country in the world than Israel, and the Biden Administration treats it with utter contempt. All at the behest of the anti-American, anti-Semitic, and terrorist Palestinian Authority. The good news is that Biden’s trip to Israel is over. Shame on Israeli President Herzog for awarding President Biden Israel’s medal of honor.

Biden staff removes Israeli flag from presidential vehicle – in Jerusalem

By Arutz Sheva, July 15, 2022

US President Joe Biden’s staff on Friday morning removed the Israeli flag from his armored vehicle, before visiting Jerusalem’s Arab areas.

Danny Danon, head of World Likud and a former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, slammed, “It starts with a visit of a US President to a Palestinian institution in east Jerusalem. It continues with the inability of [Prime Minister Yair] Lapid to set a red line, to act as a diplomat and prevent this dangerous precedent. And it ends with the removal of the Israeli flag from Biden’s entourage – in the capital of the State of Israel.”

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Court Decision May Invalidate Pennsylvania’s No-Excuse Mail-In Vote Law

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We are fast approaching a tipping point. despite the overwhelming control the Democrat party of treason holds over the government, media, social media platforms the truth will out. You can only hide/lie/cover-up the biggest political theft in human history.

‘The Wheels of Justice turn slowly but exceedingly fine. Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.’

Court Decision May Invalidate Pennsylvania’s No-Excuse Mail-In Vote Law

By: Victoria Marshall, The Federalist, July 14, 2022:

A Pennsylvania law that allows no-excuse mail-in voting may be in jeopardy because of a Democrat effort to water it down.

Act 77, passed in October 2019, made numerous changes to Pennsylvania’s election code including setting aside “funding for the purchase of election machines” and establishing no-excuse mail-in balloting. Prior to Act 77, Pennsylvania had one of the strictest absentee ballot laws in the country.

But a recent decision by the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals may challenge Act 77’s legality. As Republican state Rep. Seth Grove noted in a letter to Pennsylvania Acting Secretary of State Leigh Chapman, Act 77’s non-severability clause states that if any of its provisions are invalidated, then “the remaining provisions or applications of this act are void.”

Grove further highlighted that the ruling by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated one of the provisions in Act 77 — Section 1306-D, which requires voters to date and sign the outside of their ballots. The court ruled that dating the outside envelope of a mail-in ballot is “immaterial.”

As Grove outlined in the letter, “I seek the Department’s stance on the continued application of the provisions of Act 77 of 2019 in light of a recent ruling by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Specifically, the court held on May 20, 2022, that a provision enacted by Section 8 of Act 77 of 2019 is incompatible with Federal law. Specifically, this is the requirement in Section 1306-D providing that a mail-in ballot be both signed and dated in order to be counted.”

Since Act 77’s non-severability clause was triggered by the court ruling, Grove argued that the law is now invalid.

“The clear intent of the General Assembly in enacting Act 77 of 2019 is that the entire bill should now be void,” Grove wrote. “As the 2022 General Election is fast approaching, when will Department of State notify county boards of elections that the Election Code has reverted to its status prior to the enactment of Act 77 of 2019?”

Chapman’s office did not respond to The Federalist’s request for comment. When asked whether he thinks Chapman will update Pennsylvania’s election code, Grove told The Federalist “she won’t do anything about it. This is the same lady that said she publicly supports illegal voting.” Chapman is a registered Democrat.

Pennsylvania election law attorney Linda A. Kerns does not expect Chapman to take any action on Grove’s letter, either.

“The Secretary of State is in a Democratic administration,” she said. “They want mail-in balloting.”

Kerns does expect multiple lawsuits to be filed based on Act 77’s non-severability clause since the Third Circuit Court declared one of its mail-in balloting provisions inappropriate.

One lawsuit by 14 Pennsylvania House Republicans argued Act 77 was “unconstitutionally enacted by statute rather than put to voters in the form of a referendum.” In January, a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court agreed with their arguments and struck down Act 77, but Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf appealed the decision to the state Supreme Court. The left-leaning court has already stayed the lower court’s order and will most likely overturn it.

The reality that Democratic jurors are loathe to hear cases regarding the legality of mail-in balloting is something The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland highlighted in her reporting on the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision invalidating ballot drop boxes.

Keep reading.…..

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UK Government Report: Vaccinated account for 94% of all COVID-19 Deaths Since April, 90% of Which Were Triple/Quadruple Jabbed

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We know it’s bad. But as data, (deliberately withheld by the Democrat-media-axis) becomes available its worse than we thought.

Despite the danger, the Democrats are ramping up totalitarian edits and mandating our children and babies get injected with this poison.

Whilst you were distracted by Boris resigning, the UK Gov. quietly published a report confirming the Vaccinated account for 94% of all COVID-19 Deaths since April, 90% of which were Triple/Quadruple Jabbed

By The Exposé July 12, 2022:
A report that was quietly published by the UK Government, just hours before Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation, reveals that Covid-19 deaths have risen dramatically among the triple vaccinated population in England over the past couple of months whilst declining drastically among the unvaccinated population.

With the most recent figures showing the vaccinated population in England accounted for a shocking 94% of all Covid-19 Deaths in April and May, and 90% of those deaths were among the triple/quadruple vaccinated population.

CHART #1

On the 7th July, Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, announced he was resigning. Since then the Mainstream Media in the UK have distracted the public with 24/7 news on that announcement and speculation on who could replace him.

It’s times like these that you ought to watch what bad news is being quietly published in the background in the hope that it won’t receive much attention, and it just so happens that hours before Boris announced his resignation, his Government published new data that proves things have been terrible for the vaccinated population in England over the past couple of months.

Back in March 2022, the UK Health Security Agency announced that from April 1st 2022, they would no longer publish the vaccination status of Covid-19 cases, hospitalisations and deaths in England.

At the time, the UKHSA claimed this was because the UK Government had ended free universal Covid-19 testing and this therefore affected their “ability to robustly monitor Covid-19 cases by vaccination status”.

However, this was a lie.

The UK Health Security Agency had been looking for an excuse for months to stop publishing the data because it clearly showed the vaccinated population were suffering immense immune system damage, with case, hospitalisation, and death rates per 100,000 highest among the fully vaccinated population.

The following chart shows the real world Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness among the triple vaccinated population in England in the Week 3, Week 7 and Week 13 UKHSA Vaccine Surveillance reports of 2022 –

CHART #2

Source

This was nowhere near the claimed 95% effectiveness by Pfizer was it?

But now we have more evidence to both prove the UKHSA was lying, and that the current mainstream media storm surrounding the resignation of Boris Johnson is just a distraction.

This is because another UK Government agency, known as the Office for National Statistics (ONS), has just published data on deaths by vaccination status.

The latest dataset from the ONS is titled ‘Deaths by Vaccination Status, England, 1 January 2021 to 31 May 2022‘, and it can be accessed on the ONS site here, and downloaded here.

CHART #3

Source

Table 1 of the latest dataet contains figures on the mortality rates by vaccination status for all cause deaths, deaths involving Covid-19, and deaths not involving Covid-19. And it is here that we are able to ascertain the vaccination status of everyone who has died of Covid-19 since the beginning of April 2022, when the UKHSA claimed they could no longer reliably report the figures.

Here’s how the ONS presents the figures for the month of April 2022 –

CHART #4

Keep reading….

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Bernie Sanders’ Dark Money Political Coordinator Launches #DontRunJoe

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Someone had to fire the first shot in the circular firing squad. And it was always going to come from the Left. No matter how much Biden appeases the Marxists, they’re always going to turn on him.

It’s the nature of the snake.

And yet too many Democrats think that the extremists who want to destroy America support their party.

A progressive grassroots organization that supported Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) 2016 and 2020 White House bids announced on Monday that it will launch a campaign to oppose President Biden’s reelection in 2024.

RootsAction wrote in a press release that Biden has been “neither bold nor inspiring” since taking office early last year. And because his “prospects for winning re-election appear to be bleak,” it will launch the #DontRunJoe campaign on Nov. 9, one day after the midterm elections.

RootsAction is a thinly disguised anti-war lefty group.

Its co-founder and national director, Norman Solomon was “immersed in anti-war, social justice and environmental movements since the late 1960s, he is the author of a dozen books including “War Made Easy” and “Made Love, Got War.”

The campaign coordinator, David Swanson, “is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is director of WorldBeyondWar.org His books include “War Is A Lie.” He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org.”

And just because you couldn’t do this without Iran…

“Hanieh Jodat Barnes is an Iranian American activist, and one of the founding members of Women’s March Los Angeles, and a former board member of Women’s March California and LA. As a Bernie national delegate, she co-founded Muslim Delegates and Allies and currently serves as the National Director of Lift the Sanctions Campaign. Hanieh is a state delegate at the California Democratic Party and for her work, as an activist, she has been recognized by the National Iranian American Council as one of the 40 Iranians under 40 to inspire the community.”

And then there’s Sam Rosenthal.

“Political Director: Sam Rosenthal is an organizer and researcher based in Washington, DC. He previously served as the political director at Our Revolution and in elected leadership with Central Brooklyn Democratic Socialists of America.”

Our Revolution was a key part of the Bernie machine.

Our Revolution, however, has sent dozens of emails in recent weeks to its supporters touting the work it’s doing to get Sanders elected. The group’s chairman, Larry Cohen, detailed in an email Monday how he had spent a week in Iowa mobilizing 5,000 volunteers to caucus for Sanders.

Our Revolution national political coordinator Sam Rosenthal wrote in an email in November: “[I]f we do our job, we will have the opportunity to vote for Bernie Sanders to become the next President of the United States … help Our Revolution elect Bernie Sanders and fight big money in politics up and down the ballot!”

I’ve written quite a bit about One Revolution.

His book is named after Our Revolution, a 501©(4) “social welfare” organization that he set up to influence elections and which can accept unlimited amounts of money from donors without disclosing them.

According to Our Revolution’s former organizing director, it was set up that way to “take big checks from billionaires.”

Our Revolution, Bernie’s dark money organization, planned to solicit money from Soros. Due to the secrecy of both Soros and Our Revolution, it’s hard to know whether Soros ponied up.

But we do know that Our Revolution got its largest contribution of $100,000 from the Sixteen Thirty Fund which is partly funded by George Soros.

Attacking Biden and building a list is one way to announce the beginning of a Biden takedown from the Left.

NOTE: Visit the Don’t Run Joe website.

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DANIEL GREENFIELD

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CDC Directs youth to secretive chats about sexuality, sex changes, occult practices and ‘finding a chosen family’

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Parents beware. The American government is not only teaching children (in secret chats that they could easily access on their mobiles) about sex, gender, any kind of sexuality, and the occult, they are also being coached on how to avoid their parents and view their families as enemies when they view the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) harmful internet chats. The platform Q Chat Space is advertised on the CDC’s LGBT Health Youth Resources page.

The CDC is teaching children how to avoid detection by their parents, reject their families and embrace a “chosen family” consistent with whatever lifestyle choices they may be interested in. The truth is that children are being led into a life of confusion, mental health maladies, and dependency on psychoactive drugs to help them cope.

If someone, as recently as only two years ago, alerted parents that the Center for Disease Control (CDC) was behind this shocking corruption of children, that person would be deemed a crazy conspiracist.

The CDC is self-described as “the nation’s health protection agency, CDC saves lives and protects people from health, safety, and security threats.” But who is protecting the nation’s children from the CDC?

The David Horowitz Freedom Center and others have been warning about the “progressive” agenda for decades, but have been dismissed by Leftist apologists and mainstream media as “far right” and hateful.

“CDC Directs LGBT Children to Secretive Chats About Sex Changes, the Occult,” Fox Metro News, July 14, 2022:

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is promoting to youth an online chat space that discusses sex, polyamorous relationships, the occult, sex change operations, and activism, and is specifically designed to be quickly hidden while being used. It also mixes LGBT adults and children and is run in part by Planned Parenthood.

Called Q Chat Space, the platform is advertised on the CDC’s LGBT Health Youth Resources page, archived here. The chat service, which describes itself as “a community for LGBTQ+ teens,” is available for those ages 13-19, can be hidden from parents, and focuses on a number of mature themes.

Q Chat hosts conversations on a number of different mature and sexual topics, including “Drag Culture 101,” “Sex and Relationships,” and “Having Multiple Genders,” intended for ‘Bi/Pan Youth.”

One chat celebrates Ru Paul’s Drag Race while another is called “Queer Youth Activism,” which is intended for “youth of color.”

Q Chat also features conversations on “Gender Affirmation Surgeries,” as well as on hormone replacement therapy. The chats are used in part to tell children “where you can find resources” related to their transition.

There are also chats on astrology, including “self discovery in astrology” and one titled “Queering Tarot,” a reference to tarot cards commonly used in occult practices.

The sexually, politcally, and even spiritually charged material is intermixed with content that appeals to young children, such as conversations on video games, Pokemon, and StarWars.

One meme posted on Q Chat’s Instagram page displays a Trojan horse, explaining that children may realize they’re queer after “learning about queerness” from their friends.

The chat seems specifically designed to be concealed from parents and family members. Each section of the website has a large button on the bottom of the screen that says “Click/Tap here for a quick escape …” and shows a stick figure running towards an exit. When clicked, the button takes users to the Google homepage, hiding the site.

The site also notes that users can get reminders that obscure the name of the chat, explaining, “There are 2 text message reminder options: Discreet or Detailed,” going on to explain that “Discreet text reminders are private, they do not include ‘Q Chat Space’ or the name of the chat.”

One of the rules of Q Chat is to “Keep confidentiality” and agree that “what’s shared here, stays here.”

An academic article about Q Chat, published on the National Library of Medicine website, praised the service for its ability to be hidden from parents, saying that “The platform’s chat-based nature likely helps youth avoid concerns about family members accidentally overhearing their conversations.”

But while the chats are designed to be hidden from parents and family members, one chat session was called “Finding Chosen Family,” while another was titled “how to deal with family during the holidays.”…

Q Chat is run in part by Planned Parenthood, which Breitbart News recently revealed offers hormone replacement therapy to minors and has claimed that transgender identity can be “cemented early in elementary school.” Planned Parenthood has also promoted Q Chat in a video posted to their Tumblr account….

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New York Demands All Concealed Carry Permit Holders Surrender Their Social Media Account to the State

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UPDATE: Supreme Court: The Government Cannot Require That Citizens Prove The Need For Self-Protection In Order To Carry A Gun Outside Their Home by John Whitehead of The Washington Standard.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — By a 6-3 decision in N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Assn. v. Bruen, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a New York law which allowed government officials to pick and choose which class of citizens were deemed worthy of self-protection.

Affirming that the Second Amendment “right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not a second-class right,” the Court ruled that individuals do not have to demonstrate some special need to the government for approval before exercising any other constitutional rights. In an amicus brief, The Rutherford Institute argued that the fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution must be available to all law-abiding citizens and not parceled out at the whim of government bureaucrats.

Affiliate attorneys Michael J. Lockerby, Eli L. Evans, W. Bradley Russell, Jr., A.J. Salomone, and John Sepehri of Foley & Lardner LLP assisted in advancing the arguments in N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Assn.

“When considered in the context of prohibitions against the government, the Second Amendment reads as a clear rebuke against any attempt to restrict the citizenry’s gun ownership. As such, it is as necessary an ingredient for maintaining that tenuous balance between the citizenry and their republic as any of the other amendments in the Bill of Rights, especially the right to freedom of speech, assembly, press, petition, security, and due process,” said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People. “In this way, the freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights in their entirety stand as a bulwark against a police state.”

Read more.

The Concealed Coalition reports that,

New York is one of America’s most densely populated states, with over 19 million people, yet only 1% of them are licensed to concealed carry (CC). This equates to around 196,000 licenses issued as of August 2021.

[ … ]

NY has a stricter stance on dispensing licenses than other states. It’s a “may issue” state, which means there’s no guarantee that applicants will receive a CC license even if they meet all the necessary criteria. It’s up to local law enforcement or the courts to apply their discretion to every request.

Applicants must prove that there’s proper cause for them to CC, defined under NY state law as: “a special need for self-protection distinguishable from that of the general community or of persons engaged in the same profession.”

According to Sandy Hook Promise,

Guns used in about 68% of gun-related incidents at schools were taken from the home, a friend or a relative.

93% of school shooters planned the attack in advance.

The Violence Protection Center reports that people have been killed by 37 mass shooters who had a concealed carry permit from May 2007 and May 2022, citing media reports. As of 2021 there have been 21.52 million concealed weapon permits issued in the United States. The likelihood of a concealed carry permit holder carrying out a mass shooting is .00000017209.

A reader sent us an article from BillWittle.com stating:

Starting in September [2022], New York conceal-carry permit applicants must surrender their social media accounts to the state.

If hindsight reviews of Facebook or TikTok lets us see what a crazed mass-shooter said before his atrocity, will the state be able to intercept these killers in advance?

WATCH: Background Check: Want to Conceal Carry a Firearm? Cough Up Your Social Media to the State

The Bottom Line

What New York is doing is create a law that allows them to either deny or revoke a person’s concealed carry permit if that person doesn’t agree with them politically.

Some examples of issues you might be putting on your social media that could get your concealed carry permit cancelled or revoked:

  • You’re a Republican or worse a supporter of Donald J. Trump.
  • Pro-Second Amendment.
  • Pro-Life.
  • Posts that calls the J6 Committee a “show trial.”
  • Posts that label those harass Supreme Court Justices as criminals for violating 18 U.S. Code § 1503. And because they are violating the law that they should be investigated, arrested and tried by a jury of their peers.
  • Disagree with New York City or State policies on any number of topics.
  • Disagree with getting the Covid-19 vaccines.
  • Disagree that Islam is the religion of peace.
  • Disagree with some of the policies of the Build Back Better agenda.
  • Won’t buy an all electric car because your love your vintage Ford mustang or Chevrolet Corvette.
  • Read and share articles from the DrRichSwier.com eMagazine.

This is just another way to put law abiding citizens into harms way by not allowing them to carry their weapons, i.e. disarming them. We have contributors and members of our staff who have concealed carry permits. On person was notified by the FBI that they are on an international ISIS hit list. To disarm this person is a travesty. Luckily this person lives in a state where concealed carry and even open carry are codified is state laws.

We can’t help but wonder if New York will now look at all those individuals providing private security and have concealed carry permits. You know those who protect wealthy individuals, actors and actresses, politician and companies.

One example is Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez paid thousands for personal security to a former Blackwater contractor. Will AOC’s security detail have to turn over their social media accounts to the state?

Time will tell.

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Warren: Close Crisis Pregnancy Centers ‘All Around the Country’

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Speaking with reporters on Tuesday, infanticide enthusiast Sen. Elizabeth “You didn’t build that” Warren (D-MA) called to shut down crisis pregnancy centers “all around the country” for helping women seek alternatives to abortion.

“In Massachusetts, right now, those ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ that are there to fool people who are looking for pregnancy termination help outnumber true abortion clinics by 3-t0-1,” Warren declared. “We need to shut them down here in Massachusetts and we need to shut them down all around the country.”

“Fool people” by offering them an alternative to murdering their unborn children? This is further evidence that the so-called “pro-choice” position is actually anti-choice; otherwise abortion proponents like Warren would be fine with whatever action a pregnant woman decided was best for her, not just abortion.

This radical harpy’s condemnation of crisis pregnancy centers comes in the wake of multiple such centers from coast to coast being targeted by vandalism and intimidation by radical pro-abortion groups like Jane’s Revenge. Heidi Matzke, director of the Alternatives Pregnancy Center in California, said “We have been forced to hire 24-hour on site security. We have had to reinforce doors and bullet-proof our walls. We’ve had to paint our building with anti-graffiti coating. We’ve added cameras, armed our staff with pepper spray and stopped running our mobile clinic because of threats of violence.”

“From here forward, any anti-choice group who closes their doors, and stops operating will no longer be a target. But until you do, it’s open season, and we know where your operations are. The infrastructure of the enslavers will not survive. We will never stop, back down, slow down, or retreat,” the pro-abortion domestic terror group Jane’s Revenge threatened recently in an open letter.

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Almost a THIRD of Americans believe they’ll need to take up arms against the government

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68% of rural voters say the government is ‘corrupt and rigged against everyday people like me’.


‘A republic, if you can keep it’ (Benjamin Franklin)

We need at least half of all Americans if we hope to save the Republic. It’s that or we go quietly into the cold, dark, totalitarian night.

Poll: 28% of Americans believe they’ll need to take up arms against the government, 68% of rural voters say the government is ‘corrupt and rigged against everyday people like me’

By: Paul Sacca, The Blaze, July 03, 2022:

More than a quarter of Americans believe they’ll need to take up arms against the U.S. government, according to a new poll.

A poll from the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics found that 28% of U.S. voters – including 37% who own guns – believe “it may be necessary at some point soon for citizens to take up arms against the government.”

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Biden’s Israel Trip was a Failure Before He Even Arrived

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A failed president meets with failed Israeli leftists and failed terrorists.

Don’t touch me.

Even though Biden was seen pressing the flesh with outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a NATO summit, and getting a hug from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, not to mention shaking hands with a variety of foreign leaders during his summer trip to Europe, including those of Turkey, Indonesia, and India, there’ll be no touching in Israel.

According to a Jerusalem Post report, the Biden administration has told the Israelis that its titular figurehead won’t be shaking hands in Israel due to COVID. Apparently there’s a whole lot more of a COVID threat in Israel than in meeting politicians from across the entire world.

Instead of the traditional greeting line at Ben Gurion Airport, the Israelis have been told that due to “scheduling pressure, COVID, and the hot weather, the US president will not shake hands with the invited, and there will be no opportunity for personal photographs.”

Not that there’s likely to be too much demand for selfies with Biden anyway.

While the official word is that Biden is too old and won’t be able to handle 90 degree heat, he did not seem to have a problem getting out and shaking hands when he landed at Spain’s Torrejon de Ardoz air base last month at a time when temperatures in Madrid hit 88 degrees.

Either, Biden aged quite a bit in three weeks or two degrees make a hell of a difference.

Or, possibly, the Biden administration wanted to avoid a big show with the Israelis and is using COVID, old age and the weather as an excuse for playing down the traditional ceremony.

While Biden won’t be touching any Israelis (something the local women will no doubt appreciate), he has made a point of becoming the first sitting president to visit a “Palestinian” facility in East Jerusalem. The Biden administration refused to allow Israeli officials to accompany him on the hospital visit, demonstrating that despite President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem, Biden doesn’t recognize Israel’s sovereignty over its own capital.

Considering the location of the hospital in question on the Mount of Olives, Biden is effectively declaring that the historic location belongs to the terrorists. It’s a much worse insult than shaking hands with the tyrant of Turkey, but not elected officials in the Jewish State.

Biden began the prep for his trip by boasting of providing “over $500 million” in aid to the terrorist-occupied territories in Israel despite the refusal of the PLO to stop its ‘Pay-to-Slay’ program subsidizing salaries for convicted terrorists and payments to the families of PLO, Hamas, and even ISIS terrorists killed during their attempts to murder Israelis and Americans.

Administration figures have also demanded that Israel upgrade the terrorist territories to 4G, complaining that the Palestinian Authority is still only able to use 3G networks. After repeated terrorist attacks that murdered Israelis, the big issue is that the terrorists won’t be able to download beheading videos on their iPhones at 4G and will suffer under 3G speeds instead.

There’s no apparent reason for Biden to come to Israel except to boost the terrorists.

The visit is especially oddly timed since Israel doesn’t even have a functioning government. After the collapse of the leftist coalition, the country is headed for new elections. Biden will be greeted at the airport by the ‘caretaker’ prime minister, Yair Lapid, Israel’s answer to Justin Trudeau, whose militantly secularist leftist Yesh Atid party falls well below Netanyahu’s Likud party in the polls, but whom the Biden administration is trying to boost in the coming elections.

Biden will be met by Lapid and outgoing former prime minister Naftali Bennett, and then will have an event with Defense Minister Benny Gantz whose Blue and White party alliance, one in a long series of fake centrist stalking horse parties for the Left, is a player in the next election. And then there will be a session with President Isaac Herzog, the former head of the leftist Labor Party. The Israeli portion of this visit is essentially one long Biden leftist election ad.

But Biden’s stamp of approval isn’t likely to do much for Lapid since Biden is not that much more popular in Israel than he is in America. Surveys of the Israeli public show that confidence in the White House has fallen significantly since the Trump administration. Biden has released funds to Iran and to the terrorists inside Israel. And his visit is set to undermine Jerusalem and Israel.

After the photo ops with Israeli leftists, Biden will head to the PLO to meet with Mahmoud Abbas, its terrorist leader, and to announce concessions being made on behalf of the Israelis.

What the visit really amounts to is Lapid and various leftist politicians trading away Israeli security and lives for an election ad with Biden. And Biden is using the trip to undermine President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem and an end to taxpayer money going to terrorists.

But a meeting between Biden, Lapid, and the rest of the gang is a conclave of failed politicians.

When presidents fail at home, they turn abroad. Biden’s European and Middle Eastern trips are a futile effort by a failing president to bolster his image. Biden has nothing new to offer the Middle East. In Israel, he is reduced to picking away at Trump’s accomplishments and promoting a diminished agenda for the terrorists after the success of the Abraham Accords.

As Biden, 79, meets with Mahmoud Abbas, 87, the leaders of the Left and the PLO are men whose eras have passed. The Palestinian Authority is a failed institution and the entire ideological infrastructure of the peace process on which it was built has been discredited.

The visit of a failing president will conclude with a meeting with a failed PLO president and will come after a series of meetings with Israeli leftist politicians whose governing coalition also failed.

Even before Biden sets foot in Israel, his trip is already marked by failure. It’s just as well that he won’t be shaking hands with anyone. Failure can be even more infectious than the coronavirus.

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DANIEL GREENFIELD

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. This article was written before the trip began, but it all still holds true.

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The Toll of the Dwindling Birth Rate is Far Greater Than Underpopulation

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The persistent cultural trend away from family life and childbirth is deeply troubling, not just because of its demographic implications, but because it means denying core characteristics of what it means to be human: our need for connection and our desire for meaning.

A late 2021 Pew Research Center survey shows that a rising number of childless adults claim they are unlikely to have children. Of the non-parents aged eighteen to forty-nine who were surveyed, forty-four percent said it is “not too likely” or “not at all likely” that they would procreate, an increase of seven percent from 2018. And seventy-four percent of polled adults under fifty said they were unlikely to have more children after having one or two.

While rational people agree that there are legitimate reasons not to have children, many of which center on medical or physiological realities, those don’t seem to be at issue in the study: a majority (fifty-six percent) of non-parents under fifty who say they’re unlikely to have children claim they just don’t want to.

This is not an entirely new phenomenon. In 2013, Time published “Having It All Without Having Children,” which generated controversy with its celebration of childless professionals and their reasons for opting out of family life. The angle is clear: Kids get in the way. They get in the way of building a career, and they get in the way of enjoying life on your terms. (Ironically, the persistent cultural trend away from childbirth seems to have given rise to increased media focus on children, as evidenced by recent debates over mask mandates and curricula in schools.)

Public Discourse

Perhaps we can all agree that the continuation of humanity is a social good. But the consequences of the dwindling birth rate are far greater than questions related to population figures. Our generation’s celebration of “I don’t want to” has profound, even existential, implications that extend far beyond our personal preferences and lifestyle choices.

Choosing to forgo family life (excluding, of course, reasons beyond our control, like infertility or health issues that preclude procreation or adoption) denies two core aspects of human nature: our need to connect with others and our desire to find enduring meaning in life.

Radical dependence

Our culture perceives the splintering of the nuclear family as, in the words of one Public Discourse author, “a virtuous expression of individual autonomy.” This type of autonomy is often celebrated as one of the greatest goods, one that many are reluctant to sacrifice in favour of pursuing family life and its responsibilities and challenges. If the focus on individual autonomy that pervades our society feels abnormal, it’s for a reason: it doesn’t quite square with how we’re wired.

As social creatures, we naturally carry responsibilities to care for, protect, and nurture others. If not our own biological or adoptive children, then our spouses. If not spouses, then our aging parents. If not our nuclear families, then the poor, the marginalised, and the most vulnerable in society. All of us walk through phases during which we, too, are dependent.

This dependence, which starts in utero with our physical connection to our mothers, comes full circle in our final days. By our very design, we are wired not for total independence, but rather, radical dependence on others. Marriage and family life allow us to practice and cultivate this principle of radical dependence that is so central to human nature.

As the foundational unit of society, the family offers us opportunities for connection that inform and shape all our social interactions. How we relate to our nuclear families determines how we will move through the world as adults. In her essay last year, “The Sanctifying Work of Pregnancy,” Lara Ryd explained that this type of interconnectedness begins from the very moment of conception as expectant mothers learn to rely on their communities, thereby strengthening bonds with those around them.

The notion of radical dependence carries a parallel in both the adoption and caregiving contexts. Even without the physical vulnerabilities that pregnancy naturally involves, any type of pursuit that is fundamentally other-focused, like adoptive parenthood or full-time caregiving, requires more than just one individual’s physical and mental efforts. This is because both caregiving and adoption entail the intentional decision to welcome and care for life, new or old. This unique type of self-sacrifice reminds us of our primal need for each other.

It truly takes a community to support, sustain, encourage, and ultimately promote the good of each person. To the extent that young people in our society are turning away from family life and childbirth, our society loses a sense of the many ways in which its members are radically dependent on each other.

The search for meaning

Beyond our capacity to connect, family life provides something that has enduring value, even when life feels impossibly heavy: meaning.

Meaning is accessible to us in a way that pleasure is not. It can be found through consistent effort, a disciplined practice of seeking it, recognizing it, and inculcating it in our lives. This is a much more satisfying and soul-nourishing quest than grasping for ephemeral pleasures.

It is true that children can bring great pleasure to our lives, even amid the challenges and constant calls to self-denial. Pleasure can often be found by those who seek it, but the hard reality is that everyone lives through seasons that involve more pain than pleasure, more responsibility than freedom, and more suffering than bliss.

Whether on a small scale due to a personal trial or a wider level due to a global crisis like a pandemic or war, suffering will befall all of us. By its very nature, pleasure is fleeting and largely circumstantial. While children can bring pleasure, the more important point to acknowledge is that they help provide meaning, which is enduring and rooted in love and self-sacrifice.

Church history abounds with examples of individuals whose lives we acknowledge as deeply meaningful precisely because of their commitment to embodying love and self-sacrifice. In recent history, saints like Gianna Beretta Molla, Thérèse of Lisieux, Maximilian Kolbe, and Faustina Kowalska come to mind as individuals whose final days were marked with intense physical, mental, or spiritual suffering. While the common thread binding these people and their stories is suffering, nobody would deny that their lives (even the shortest among them) were deeply meaningful.

In my own modest way, I have noted that some of the heaviest, darkest, and least enjoyable seasons of my life have been among the most meaningful. These seasons have not only forced necessary change in my heart but have connected me more closely with my family and community, reminding me that I cannot thrive as an individual or contribute meaningfully to society without these support systems.

As an example of how parenthood and its unexpected struggles have provided meaning in my own life, my second son spent thirty-one days in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) after he was born eight weeks early via emergency C-section. It was an emotionally and physically exhausting period, marked with anxiety.

Yet I look back on it as among the richest and most meaningful in my life because of the people who walked alongside us: parents who scooped up our kids for a weekend of fun so we could visit our son in the hospital, friends who crossed town in rush-hour traffic to drop off takeout from our favorite restaurant, coworkers who shipped flowers, and fellow NICU moms who, though near-strangers, sent gifts and prayers and words of encouragement.

My experience taught me that parenthood opens us to suffering, pain, and fear in ways that are incomparable to anything I had felt before. It might seem that these feelings would lend themselves to an inward turn, perhaps to excessive introspection or self-pity, but I realised that they were given powerful and constructive outward expression in the intimate ways I came to connect with and rely on others.

This is not to suggest that meaning and connection are impossible outside of parenthood. People remain childless for a variety of legitimate and personal reasons. And it’s also not to dismiss the benefits of partaking in the pleasures of life from time to time. No one would deny that leisure does indeed enrich lives when kept in its proper place. As a parent of young children, I certainly understand that constant self-denial in the service of others can leave us feeling a bit starved and that some level of self-care can make us better parents.

The question, rather, is: what is the price we are willing to pay for it? Will we trade something long-lasting and deeply meaningful in favour of a life dedicated to the unfettered pursuit of pleasure and individual autonomy?

If so, the price is simply too high.

Opting out

When we opt out of parenthood simply because we “don’t want it,” we cut off a limb. We deny ourselves the opportunity for growth, connection, and meaning. Regardless of its form, declining the opportunity to parent — biologically, spiritually, or otherwise — means denying core aspects of what makes us fully human.

It is primarily for this reason — and not just because of questions related to demographics or population growth — that the toll of the dwindling birth rate should concern us. The accelerating cultural trend away from childbirth threatens to diminish core characteristics of what it means to be a fulfilled, flourishing human: our need for connection and our desire to seek meaning.

There are many legitimate reasons not to have children. But given the price of what we lose, “I don’t want to” simply isn’t good enough.

This article has been republished with permission from The Public Discourse.

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Medical Tyranny in the U.S. Military

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This is no less than MEDICAL TYRANNY perpetuated by the Obama 3/Biden Administration and their clone Secretary of Defence Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff led by Milley!

Army cuts pay and benefits for more than 60,000 unvaccinated National Guard and Reserve soldiers

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  • About 40,000 National Guard soldiers and 22,000 reservists have still not been vaccinated
  • The deadline for all guard soldiers to get immunized was June 30
  • They will no longer be allowed to participate in federally funded drills
  • 13 percent of guard soldiers and 12 percent of reservists still have not received their shots
  • There have been 30,000 requests for religious and medical waivers from the requirement, but none have been granted
  • The announcement comes as most ‘weekend warriors’ prepare for summer drills

More than 60,000 unvaccinated Army National Guard and Army Reserve soldiers will be barred from performing their military duties and have their pay and benefits cut because they refuse to get their shots, officials announced on Friday.

‘Soldiers who refuse the vaccination order without an approved or pending exemption request are subject to adverse administrative actions, including flags, bars to service, and official reprimands,’ according to a statement from the Army.

There are about 40,000 National Guard soldiers and 22,000 Reserve soldiers how have not been vaccinated.

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35 of Ayn Rand’s Most Insightful Quotes on Rights, Individualism, and Government

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Some insightful words from one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.

Alisa Rosenbaum was one of the most controversial writers in America’s history. Why, then, have few people heard of her? Because both people’s plaudits and their intemperate attacks have been aimed at the new name she adopted after leaving Russia for America—Ayn Rand.

Her influence is beyond question. She sold more than 30 million books, and decades after her 1982 death, hundreds of thousands more sell each year. Atlas Shrugged has been ranked behind only the Bible as a book that influenced readers’ lives.

Some are devoted enough that Randian has become a descriptive term. Others use her name only to disparage opponents. Still others disagree with some of her ideas (e.g., while Rand was an often-strident atheist, capitalism is clearly defensible on Christian principles, and most historical defenses of liberty employed Christian rationales which conflict with Rand’s reasoning), yet find a great deal of insight in her analysis of liberty, rights and government.

As we mark the anniversary of Rand’s February 2 birth, consider some of her most insightful words:

  1. “Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.”
  2. “The recognition of individual rights entails the banishment of physical force from human relationships.”
  3. “The moral justification of capitalism is man’s right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself.”
  4. “Man—every man—is an end in himself.”
  5. “No man or group may initiate the use of physical force against others.”
  6. “The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights.”
  7. “A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man’s self-defense, and, as such, may resort to force only against those who start the use of force…government that initiates the employment of force against men who had forced no one…reverses its only moral purpose.”
  8. “When the framers of the American republic spoke of “the people”…they meant a sum of individuals, each of whom…retains his inviolate guarantee of individual rights.”
  9. “Under a proper social system…a private individual may do anything except that which is legally forbidden; a government official may do nothing except that which is legally permitted…This is the American concept of ‘a government of laws and not of men.’”
  10. “A ‘right’…means freedom from physical compulsion, coercion or interference by other men.”
  11. “Rights impose no obligations on [neighbors] except of a negative kind: to abstain from violating his rights.”
  12. “The right to property…does not mean that others must provide him with property.”
  13. “The right to property…is not a guarantee that a man will earn any property, but only a guarantee that he will own it if he earns it.”
  14. “The right to life is the source of all rights—and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible.”
  15. “The collective cannot decide what is to be the purpose of a man’s existence nor prescribe his choice of happiness.”
  16. “Man holds…rights, not from the Collective nor for the Collective, but against the Collective…man’s protection against all other men.”
  17. “Any alleged ‘right’ of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.”
  18. “If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights.”
  19. “America’s abundance was created not by public sacrifices to ‘the common good,’ but by the productive genius of free men.”
  20. “Since only an individual man can possess rights…’individual rights’ is a redundancy. But…“collective rights” is a contradiction in terms.”
  21. “Since the only proper function of a government is to protect man’s rights, it cannot claim title to his life in exchange for that protection.”
  22. “An individualist…says: ‘I will not run anyone’s life—nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave.'”
  23. “No one’s rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.”
  24. “The doctrine that “human rights” are superior to “property rights” simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.”
  25. “Freedom…comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?”
  26. “Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, or freedom from the employer, or freedom from the laws of nature which do not provide men with automatic prosperity.”
  27. “In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions, and interests dictate.”
  28. “There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals.”
  29. “A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort…is…but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule.”
  30. “It is the institution of private property that protects and implements the right to disagree.”
  31. “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
  32. “Individual rights are not subject to a public vote…the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities.”
  33. “What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.”
  34. “Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.”
  35. “We are fast approaching the stage…where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission.”

However much some adore Ayn Rand and others despise her, those who seek wisdom wherever it can be found will find serious food for thought in her words on liberty, rights and government.

When so many promote the cognitive dissonance of pursuing supposed collective or social “justice” by the unjust expedient of violating the rights of individuals who make up society, she can stimulate our thought about foundational questions. And that is crucial, because, as George Mason said, “No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by… frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.”

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Gary M. Galles

Gary M. Galles is a Professor of Economics at Pepperdine University and a member of the Foundation for Economic Education faculty network. In addition to his new book, Pathways to Policy Failures (2020), his books include Lines of Liberty (2016), Faulty Premises, Faulty Policies (2014), and Apostle of Peace (2013).

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