Is it harmless to advertise your “preferred pronouns”? Or does it reinforce a toxic ideology?
I’m a parent of a “trans-identified” teen, so the pronoun dilemma is close to home for me. However, as a society, we cannot tackle this issue only when it impacts us personally — we need to band together as a society to say no to this toxic ideology, and saying no to pronouns is a critical part of this process.
Here’s why I don’t put pronouns in my email signature (and you shouldn’t either)…
Psychological abuse
People who promote “using pronouns” claim “for a cisgender person, it costs you nothing.” They claim it normalises the process of “transitioning” for someone else and somehow makes the environment “safer”.
It is true that this normalises a process, but it’s not a process that should be normalised or taken lightly, especially for minor children. It makes the environment more dangerous. When people “use their pronouns”, they have been duped into thinking that they are merely “supporting” people who are different from them.
In fact, they are promoting an aggressive and triumphalist cult ideology, normalising the abnormal, and gaslighting the easily influenced young, leading them down a path of irreparable harm.
Warped body image
At the height of the anorexia epidemic, adults did not announce our “allyship” by including our weight in our email signatures. Encouraging a social contagion makes it worse and it is worse still when trusted adult authorities endorse it.
It hurts vulnerable young people like my daughter, who became trans-identified at school, where teachers kept us in the dark then disregarded our concerns. In the epidemic of Trans Ideology, misguided allyship puts kids on a path that leads to unnecessary medical procedures resulting in sterility and regret.
Cult
New religions never say they are a religion — what they say is that they have discovered The Truth. And, once the mind and heart are won over, adherents will do anything to their bodies in the name of the True Faith. This must stop.
These are the words of a new cult religion’s catechism, not of science:
“They”: when applied to one person
“Deadname”: the name given, with love, by the people who gave you life
“Cisgender”: to describe someone who is not confused about his/her sex. Don’t refer to yourself as “cis-gender.” That’s another made-up term. Another lie. Simply using it reinforces the Big Lie of gender theory. You are a woman or a man, female or male, period. If someone else refers to you as cis-gender, take offense. “Don’t slap your label on me.”
”Transgender”: a euphemism now used to describe a tragically confused person who thinks he or she is trapped in “the wrong body”. This now includes a large number of young people. Let’s reject this term and return to the descriptive term “transsexual” for someone who has struggled with a serious psychological problem and surgeries, and deserves our compassion, but not our indulgence.
Our society might reasonably be accepting of some people eventually undergoing medical “transitions” after their brains are fully developed — possibly the best of bad options for some of the truly dysphoric mentally ill. But, we all know brains are not fully developed before age 26.
Societal implications
There are societal consequences to agreeing and going along with euphemisms, new-speak, and pronouns:
That US Assistant Health Secretary Richard (“Rachel”) Levine is our nation’s First Female Four Star Admiral
That we should hire confused people to work in positions of authority in our county, state, and national health systems
That Wil(Lia)m Thomas is a girl swimmer
That schools should deliberately lie to parents about their gender programs, and that an underaged girl should secretly be called “he” in school, then quickly proceed to cross sex hormones and double mastectomies — paid for by insurance — without parental consent or even knowledge if she is 16.
When you play along with an evil game, what happens to you?
“When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity.
To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.”
— Theodore Dalrymple
Note: Since this essay was written, Colin Wright penned an excellent op-ed about this topic for the Wall Street Journal.
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Two organisers of Canada’s peaceful Freedom Convoy, Chris Barber and Tamara Lich, were arrested today, after the Trudeau government earlier this week invoked the Emergencies Act, formerly the War Measures Act.
As part of its crackdown on mandate critics, Canada has also expanded the definition of “terrorist financing” in order to freeze bank accounts and seize the property of protesters and donors.
Canadian civil rights groups have strongly denounced the move, arguing that the high threshold for an emergency has not been met and that the use of these powers must not be normalised. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has announced that it is suing the government over Trudeau’s effective criminalisation of peaceful dissent.
Meanwhile, south of the border, President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has issued a “National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin”, suggesting that if a citizen opposes mask and vaccine mandates, they may be a “domestic violent extremist”.
According to the bulletin, released earlier this month, the United States is experiencing a “heightened threat environment”. It warns that “threat actors seek to exacerbate societal friction to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest, which could potentially inspire acts of violence.”
In describing the sorts of “false or misleading narratives” that could motivate people to commit violent acts, the bulletin lists “widespread election fraud” at the 2020 election, and the perceived harms of “5G cellular technology”.
The DHS dispatch likewise cautioned that “COVID-19 mitigation measures — particularly COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates — have been used by domestic violent extremists to justify violence since 2020 and could continue to inspire these extremists” to carry out attacks.
Among the other dangers listed were more reasonable threats with clear precedents, such as mass shootings or religiously-motivated terrorist attacks by foreign-funded groups.
Adam Turner, director of the watchdog group Center to Advance Security in America, this week denounced the Biden administration’s targeting of political opponents.
“What is a ‘misleading narrative’, and who’s deciding what’s misleading?” he asked in an interview with the Washington Times. “I think they’re referring to people that don’t agree with whatever their talking points are for that time,” he added.
So slippery was the DHS guidance that under its terms, President Biden himself could be considered a domestic terrorist threat! Last month, Biden questioned the integrity of the upcoming elections, claiming that if the Democrats can’t pass certain voting bills before the midterms, this may increase “the prospect of [the results] being illegitimate”.
WATCH: Joe Biden refuses to say if the 2022 midterm election results will be legitimate.
Of course, the bulletin was issued under a White House eager to subdue dissent, and would therefore not apply to the President or his Administration. And that is precisely the problem — a problem that threatens the social contract that is democracy.
Alarmingly, this isn’t the first time that everyday Americans who see things differently to the Biden administration have been labelled a domestic threat.
During the latter half of 2021, news outlets reported on a series of heated exchanges between school boards and parents who wanted to see the end of mask mandates, critical race theory and trans ideology in schools.
Following this, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) wrote to the Biden administration, characterising parents as potential “domestic terrorists” and seeking White House intervention. In response, Biden’s attorney general Merrick Garland issued a memo calling for FBI investigations under the Patriot Act — the United States’ controversial anti-terrorism laws.
After public outcry, the NSBA ultimately apologised for its letter.
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A month later, it was revealed that the NSBA had been actively engaging with the White House while drafting their “parents-as-domestic-terrorists” correspondence. Indeed, there is strong evidence that a close Biden advisor, the Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, had solicited the letter.
Whether in Canada or the United States, the weaponising of anti-terrorist laws against peaceful opponents is an untenable situation. As explained by philosopher Yoram Hazony, electoral politics only works when both sides recognise each other’s legitimacy:
“One party rules for a fixed term, but its rivals know they will get to rule in turn if they can win the next election. It is the possibility of being able to take power and rule the country without widespread killing and destruction that entices all sides to lay down their weapons and take up electoral politics instead.”
Western nations have long enjoyed the peace and prosperity that such an arrangement has secured for us. Refusing to label one’s political opponents “terrorists” is the minimal precondition for our happy arrangement to survive.
Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate… More by Kurt Mahlburg
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Amazon promotes its Echo series of devices from the Dot to the Show. According to the Amazon shopping site:
ALEXA IS READY TO HELP: Set timers, reminders, and alarms. Alexa answers questions like “Alexa, what time is it?”
Have you noticed that your Amazon Echo Show device automatically and regularly displays information, without us asking, about where to get the Covid vaccination and where to get a Covid booster shot? We have.
QUESTION: Have you ever asked your Amazon Echo devices questions about the negative effects of being vaccinated?
We decided to ask our Amazon Echo some Covid questions just to see what the answers would be. Amazon has access to its own vast databases for information on a variety of things including where to get jabbed.
Asking Alexa About Covid
Understanding Amazon has access to information about Covid, we decided to ask some questions about the negative effects of the vaccines that are readily available on both government and medical websites. Here’s the list of Covid questions we asked and how Alexa answered:
Alexa, how many Americans have died from taking the Covid vaccines? Alexa’s answer: Sorry, I don’t know that one.
Alexa, how many women have miscarried after taking the Covid vaccine? Alexa’s answer: Hum, I don’t know that one.
Alexa, are Covid vaccines FDA approved? Alexa’s answer: Sorry, I don’t know that one.
Alexa, what is the age of the youngest child who died after taking a Covid vaccine? Alexa’s answer: The dates that vaccines will be available for children in Florida.
Alexa, can you sue companies that makes the Covid vaccines? Alexa’s answer: No answer given, it just blinked.
Alexa, are government Covid mandates constitutional? Alexa’s answer: Sorry, I don’t know that.
Alexa, how many Americans have been hospitalized after taking the Covid vaccine? Alexa’s answer: Sorry, I’m not sure.
Alexa, how many women died after taking the Covid vaccine? Alexa’s answer: Sorry, I don’t know that one.
Alexa, how many children died after taking the Covid vaccine? Alexa’s answer: Sorry, I don’t know that one.
QUESTION: Are Amazon Echo devices programmed to censor any negative questions about Covid vaccines?
Alexa, How Many Genders Are There?
After asking about Covid we then decided to ask our Amazon Echo a very simple question about gender. I learned in high school biology that gender is binary, male (XX) and female (XY).
OUR QUESTION: Alexa, How many genders are there?
Here’s how our Amazon Echo responded:
Alexa’s answer: The two categories in the gender spectrum, male and female called the gender binary. However, because gender identity is conceptually questioned there is no definitive way to show how many genders there are.
The Bottom Line
If you have an Amazon Echo device in your home take the time ask these same questions and see if you get a different answer.
It is clear from what we asked that Amazon is unable to tell the truth about the negative impacts of taking the Covid vaccines. Amazon is also gender confused.
Think about what your children are learning from these Amazon devices when they ask questions.
QUESTION: Is it that Alexa doesn’t know or that Alexa doesn’t want you to know about the negative impacts of the Covid vaccines and gender?
Can you trust your echo to tell you the truth? If not, then why have an Echo device in your home.
Just asking.
What is really scary is the ad that Amazon played during the Super bowl. Watch:
Is this “Mind Reader” the next generation of Amazon’s way of impacting your personal life?
Data published by an Israeli academic show a stillbirth, miscarriage, and abortion (SBMA) rate of 6% among women who did not receive a COVID-19 vaccine. In comparison, 8% of women were vaccinated with at least one dose (and never had a SARS-Cov-2 infection).
The data was released to Israeli medical activists who filed FOIA requests.
This means that the chances of suffering a stillbirth, abortion, or miscarriage are 1.36 times greater if the woman is vaccinated.
In other words, the SBMA rate among vaccinated women was close to 34% higher than that of unvaccinated women.
The chart below demonstrates the percentage of births among vaccinated women that were stillborn, miscarriage, or abortion and the rate of live births. the two data sets are compared to the percentage among non-vaccinated women. (Vaccinated in this context means that the woman received at least one dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.)
The SBMA rate among vaccinated women was greater than that among unvaccinated women every month except for February – the initial launch of the vaccination campaign for pregnant women. At that time, just two births were recorded in vaccinated women. The rate peaked in May, with 44% of vaccinated women experiencing a stillbirth, miscarriage, or abortion that month, compared to 9% among unvaccinated women. In other words, of all the recorded pregnancy outcomes among vaccinated women in the month of May, 43% resulted in stillbirth, miscarriage, or abortion.
The data on increased odds of SBMA was presented by a senior lecturer at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Josh Guetzkow, who also debunks a potential argument that women who were vaccinated were more likely to be older and suffer from comorbidities.
Another Israeli hospital in the center of the country didn’t have data on which women suffering from SMBA were vaccinated; the data also shows that the SBMA rate is higher in two hospitals in 2021 in comparison to the previous years. Interestingly, April-June — the period with the highest SMBA rates among the vaccinated at the initial Israeli hospital — also increased at the second Israeli hospital as well. At one of the medical centers, the rate exceeded that period at 8.7% compared to an average of 5.7% during 2019-2020 – a 50% increase. At the other hospital, the SBMA rate in 2021 during the months of April to June was 12.7%, compared to an average of 11.3% during 2019-2020, – a 12% increase.
In May 2021, the first hospital to release data experienced 42 cases of SBMA. This was almost double the total May average from the last two years and a 30% increase from the highest number of any month in the previous two years, which was 32 in June of 2020.
The second medical center saw its highest SBMA rate in June, at 146 – a 30% increase above the average of the previous two years, and an 11% higher than the most significant amount of SBMAs for any month in the last two years -132 in March 2019.
Guetzkow concludes his findings writing that: “In two different Israeli hospitals, 2021 has witnessed significantly higher rates of stillbirths, miscarriages, and abortions than the previous two years, with some months setting a record for the number of SBMAs compared to 2019 and 2020. For the one hospital where we do have data comparing vaccinated to unvaccinated women, the rate of SBMAs among vaccinated women is 34% higher than among unvaccinated women.”
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Washington, D.C. – Judicial Watch announced today that it received 127 pages of records from the Georgia Institute of Technology of communications among four individuals. These records reveal that the individuals, who are mentioned in the Durham probe indictment of Michael Sussmann, worked with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 2016-2021. The documents also suggest the group was interested in targeting then-Trump campaign adviser Steve Bannon.
Mr. Durham used a 27-page indictment to lay out a far more expansive tale, one in which four computer scientists who were not charged in the case ‘exploited’ their access to internet data to develop an explosive theory about cyberconnections in 2016 between Donald J. Trump’s company and a Kremlin-linked bank — a theory, he insinuated, they did not really believe.
[ … ]
The indictment’s “Originator-1” is April Lorenzen, chief data scientist at the information services firm Zetalytics. Her lawyer, Michael J. Connolly, said she has “dedicated her life to the critical work of thwarting dangerous cyberattacks on our country,” adding: “Any suggestion that she engaged in wrongdoing is unequivocally false.”
The indictment’s “Researcher-1” is another computer scientist at Georgia Tech, Manos Antonakakis. “Researcher-2” is Mr. Dagon. And “Tech Executive-1” is Mr. Joffe, who in 2013 received the F.B.I. Director’s Award for helping crack a cybercrime case, and retired this month from Neustar, another information services company.
In a court filing last week, Durham alleged this operation directly spied on Trump tower, Trump’s home, and the Trump White House by exploiting “access to non-public and/or proprietary Internet data.”
The anti-Trump operation used the “assistance of researchers at a U.S.-based university who were receiving and analyzing large amounts of Internet data in connection with a pending federal government cybersecurity research contract.”
On November 18, 2016, a redacted email address writes on “behalf of Manos Antonakakis” to two Georgia Tech officials in an email titled “Signed DARPA Contract:”
Hey Ashley,
Please send to Michael the signed contract for their records.
Thanks,
Manos
On November 21, 2016, Ashley Williams, a Georgia Tech contracting officer, replies:
Good morning!!
Attached is a copy of the new award for your records. Please note the contract is subject to publication restrictions identified in the DD 254. I’m actively working with AFRL [likely Air Force Research Laboratory] to revise the DD 254 to clarify that fundamental research is excluded from the publication restrictions. Although we’ve signed the contract award and I have to defer project initiation until the publication restrictions are resolved by the AFRL sponsor.
Let me know if you have any questions.
On August 2, 2016, Antonakakiswrites to Danielle Gambino and Keromytis, Angelos, a DARPA employee:
The subs and I, would like to have the permission to begin spending against the project from August 15th. This is the date when students needs to be hired [as graduate research assistants], so we can execute against the goals we have set in the [statement of work] this year.
UNC, GT and UGA would require an acknowledgment from you (or DARPA) that we are allowed to do that. I guess, once we are done negotiating the contract we will have to have as an effective start date the August 15th. If we cannot do that, it appears that it will complicate things for all three schools, as we cannot immediately hire the students necessary that will execute against the set milestones.
Please let me know how you think we should resolve this issue.
At 2:55 p.m. Angelos replies, “I’m ok with that, but I seriously doubt the contracting officer will agree.”
At 3:16 p.m. Gambino also replies:
As usual, Angelos is correct!
Working with contracting to authorize pre-award work can take a while and typically is not allowed until closer to contract award. Although I certainly appreciate your eagerness to start working, we are at the very start of the contracting process – this is really way too early for this type of request. (The contract specialists haven’t even been assigned yet.)
Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me with any other questions.
On January 9, 2017, a DARPA employee, Kelly McLaughlin, follows up with Antonakakis. She writes:
Manos,
DARPA put $153,138 on the Georgia Tech Transparent Computing (TC) contract back in October, 2016 to cover the costs proposed in the attached SOW. The SOW asked for 0.83 month of your academic salary, salary for one Research Engineer, David Dagon, and funds for four graduate student research assistants. Were the proposed grad student costs supposed to cover UNC grad students or Georgia Tech grad students? The SOW shows them as Georgia Tech students.
Please let me know if these funds were supposed to cover UNC. If so, the TC BFM, Laurisa Goergen, will reach out to the TC admin POC for Georgia Tech to see what, if anything, can be done at this point.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Emails indicate that Neustar employeesmay have visited Georgia Tech to collaborate with Antonakakis. On May 27, 2016, Atreya Mohan from Neustar writes in an email with the subject line “Introducing Peter Burke:”
Hello Manos
Just wanted to introduce you to Peter (our SVP Engg and Operations).
Peter. We contact Manos on his gmail account for consulting purposes and his Georgia Tech email address for interactions that relate with the university (example: sponsorship etc)”
Burke replies:
Hi Manos,
It was great to meet you today – it is very interesting work that you do and I see great opportunities to collaborate with you.
I would like to try to figure out a time to come and spend more time with so that you can continue my education 🙂
I am guessing you are based in Atlanta?
Antonakakis writes that evening:
Hey Mohan,
Many thanks for the intro. Peter, the pleasure was all mine!
Yes, you should come and visit us. I would suggest sometime in September, when the semester starts and my students are back from their internships in the bay area. You are more than welcome to visit sooner, but it will be just me and my three postdocs.
The Neustar team is always welcome to visit my lab. Anytime you, Rodney, Brian or anyone else want to visit.
Antonakakis responds to this chain again on July 14, 2016, writing:
Gentlemen,
By now all of you should be aware of the great news from DARPA. We have a 5 year long collaboration ahead of us, so I think it would make sense for the Neustar team to visit Atlanta and my lab.
How is the week of August 15 looks like for you? Mine is completely open. Perhaps, we should schedule the visit then?
In an email to Antonakakis on January 29, 2017, Dagon writes:
The Russians are killing spies with knowledge of the dossier materials:
My guess: The purged NSC will now say that Russia has given us great intel on ISIS, and that we should lift sanctions now that Russia is helping. (The public will have no way to judget [sic] this.)
All this to protect Trump from the dossier materials.
Antonakakis replies the same day, “What the [f*ck] is going on? Can you please explain why GOP is not doing something?”
He then writes again a few minutes later:
Some in the GOP knows what’s up (Graham, McCain), but most are all too happy to have their narrow, specific agendas advanced (e.g., removing social security, ACA/Obama-care repeal, more tax cuts for companies, etc.) They put party ahead of country, in short.
In 2018 the Senate (and maybe the House) may flip, and there will then be real investigations (but again, party will be ahead of country, as Democrats look into corruption for narrow purposes).
Now that the Russians are killing people with knowledge of the dossier, we can hope for a defector who gets to a non-US embassy in Moscow.
An August 25, 2016, email from Joffe to Antonakakis, Dagon and Lorenzen indicates a possible interest in investigating Steve Bannon. The subject line is “To be added….” Joffe writes: “They think he may have some baggage… ;-)” A link to a Washington Postopinion piece is included.
“Was the Defense Department’s DARPA funding information misused by the Clinton campaign to spy on the Trump White House?” asked Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The emails highlight that the ‘tech’ experts implicated in the Durham indictment were very much interested in the fake dossier used to smear President Trump.”
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It is mandatory for every Israeli over 18 to serve in the army (Israeli Arabs have a choice to opt out). Why? Because Israel has been under the threat of jihadist obliteration since the day of its birth. Even before that, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, lead the Arab Revolt to keep Jews out of the region.
Gadot’s tweet below led to a firestorm back in May during Operation Guardian of the Walls, when Israel was left with no other alternative but to defend its citizens from a barrage of Hamas rocket fire:
To Israel’s antagonists, Israel does not deserve to live “as a free and safe nation.” In their view, Israel only deserves to be obliterated, as documented in the charter of every major Palestinian organization, and as is evident from the attack on Israel by surrounding Arab nations on the day of its birth. Those nations were of one accord….
“It will be a war of annihilation. It will be a momentous massacre in history that will be talked about like the massacres of the Mongols or the Crusades.”
— Azzam Pasha, Secretary-General of the Arab League,
October 11, 1947
Islamic antisemitism is rooted in Islam, and it spreads under the guise of opposing the State of Israel because of its status as an “occupying,” “apartheid” state, regardless of the falsity of these claims.
Israeli movie star Gal Gadot’s new Hollywood film will reportedly not appear on the big screen in Lebanon and Kuwait due to her connection to the Israel Defense Forces.
“Death on the Nile” was being released in the rest of the Middle East over the weekend, according to Deadline.
Gadot, 36, served in the Israeli armed forces for two years, as is required of all young Israelis, before she entered show business.
It’s not the first time the former Miss Israel’s nationality has caused controversy as tensions persist between the two warring nations. Lebanon also blocked her “Wonder Woman” films over her IDF ties.
The ban was in accordance with a law that boycotts Israeli products and bars Lebanese citizens from traveling to Israel or having contacts with Israelis.
Kuwait banned “Death on the Nile” after a barrage of protests on social media, according to The Daily Mail, which cited the Arabic language newspaper Al-Qabas….
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The all-knowing, Teen Beat Magazine cover-looking son of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Justin Trudeau, made a boo-boo. He inherited his prime ministering business from his dad, so he thought things would be easy. The media gives lefties a pass, even if they enjoy dressing in blackface — a lot.
What the junior Trudeau did was to “mis-underestimate” (as “Dubya” Bush, our junior president, used to say), the power of the working people. Until now, the article of faith of those who inherit liberal-elite political positions is that if they just say that they are for the “little people,” the fools will buy it. No one holds them to account for what they actually do. “Words Matter; Actions Do Not” seems to be their creed.
Taking his cue from other hypocritical leftie leaders, Trudeau hid behind his political interpretation of “science” to impose draconian COVID measures on his subjects. He said that by making vaccines mandatory, he was the true hero. He decreed that those truckers, who drive alone in their truck cabs for a living, must get vaccinated so they do not get COVID.
Trudeau and Biden felt they needed to reassert their control over their voters to stop the disconcerting spike in personal freedoms.
Mad at this and other arrogant decisions made by the Prime Minister Junior on High, truckers in Canada formed the largest trucker convoy in history to protest. But the article of faith among woke libs is that the only protests allowed are the BLM kind, where many buildings burn and people die.
James Hoffa and other labor leaders showed their colors, or in this case colours, when they sided with their puppet masters in government rather than truckers. My dad was a truck driver for Campbell 66 back in the day. Their motto, when you could have interesting mottoes, was a camel on the side of his truck that said, “humping to please!” which was also the 1990 Arkansas gubernatorial campaign slogan for Bill Clinton. I learned from my dad to be nice to truckers; they drive the flyover country and know places where no one will find your body.
The old Mafia-like trucker unions cared about their trucker buddies. One of my dad’s trucker friends crossed the other truckers one time and they Tonya Harding’ed his leg, cutting half of it off. Just to make sure everyone remembered the incident, they made the guy go work at IHOP.
The way the corporate left-wing media covers protests is stark. If right-of-center Tea Party folks or truckers protest, they are “insurrectionists.” No one dies and they make their point, but somehow they are “terrorists,” “white supremacists” and “threats to democracy.” If you think about it, peaceful protest is the definition of democracy. Petulant politicians who cry and fake injury like a soccer player are the reasons the common man has to unite and make his reasoned point.
I get that truckers slowing down deliveries hurts the economy. But it makes the broader point, that they grease the wheels of the economy. Trudeau has declared martial law, so he has unchecked power.
Trudeau is getting his first real economics lesson. Without truckers, he could not get his steady supply of Al Jolson-brand blackface. Fittingly, he is down to just a little black shoe polish, just enough to put on two fingers so he can do a small mustache for himself.
Last year we honored health care workers. This year we should honor truckers. And next year under Biden we should honor Taco Bell, the only place you can still get gas for under $5.
The left somehow thinks they are so smart, powerful and concerned about you that they, and only they, can make health care decisions for you and for private enterprise. And they do have a monopoly on this since Democrats Bill Clinton, Andrew Cuomo and Harvey Weinstein perfected the construct of “No Jab, No Job” for female employees. Like many American corporations and now the Canadian government say to the truckers about the vaccine, “put this in your body, or you will never work in this industry again.” Again, this sounds like something Clinton, Cuomo and Weinstein may have said.
Ron Hart is a syndicated op-ed humorist, award-winning author, and TV/radio commentator; you can reach him at Ron@RonaldHart.com or Twitter @RonaldHart.
COVID Criminal Network Leads to the Gates of Hell.
The video above is in German. Click on “Settings” to change the subtitles to English via auto-translate feature.
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
The German Club of Clear Words takes a deep dive into the network of individuals and organizations responsible for the COVID scam
Whether blatantly visible or not, you can identify just about any network by connecting dots between individuals and organizations. Who’s working with whom, where, and why? Who’s paying whom? And once you’ve done that, you can more clearly identify the motivations behind various decisions
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation appears to be near the top, or the center, of this COVID plandemic network. Gates is also a major funder of mainstream media, and his network extends into global food and climate change policy
The Gates Foundation, through its funding of the WEF, also plays an important role in The Great Reset, which was officially unveiled during a WEF summit in May 2020
Every conceivable aspect of life and society is scheduled to be “reset” according to their plan. Ultimately, that’s where this criminal COVID enterprise is trying to take us
The video above, by the German Club Der Klaren Worte, or the Club of Clear Words, takes a deep dive into the network of individuals and organizations responsible for the COVID scam. The audio is in German but there is a captioned translation at the bottom of the video.
The review is led by journalist and filmmaker Markus Langemann. As noted by Langemann, it’s not necessarily the people with the best ideas who win in life. Rather, the winners are those who are in the “right” network — a network with people in the right places. Never underestimate the power of a network.
Some networks are visible. One example would be an alumni network that you can join and use to promote your career. Other networks are more hidden, secretive and exclusive, and can only be entered into by select invitation by another member.
Whether blatantly visible or not, you can identify just about any network by connecting dots between individuals and organizations. Who’s working with whom, where, and why? Who’s paying whom? And once you’ve done that, you can more clearly identify the motivations behind various decisions.
A Global Network Revealed
In this video, Langemann presents “a network document that is unique in the world and which for the first time shows you the complex network of relationships, from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), companies, documents and people.”
The 170-page document details more than 7,200 links between 6,500 entities and objects, including payment flows and investments.
“In the case of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, already on page 4 of the document, you see that this foundation spent $43 billion [note that is billion with a “b”] in the U.S. alone in the period from 1994 to 2001, and distributed around half a billion dollars in Germany during this period,” Langemann says.
You can review and download the document here.1 The document is mostly in English. It’s incredibly comprehensive in scope, detailing a global network that is working behind the scenes to influence global health, finance and governance.
As an interesting aside, the document was actually created using software that investigators and detectives use to help them identify hidden connections between potential suspects. All of the data points, documents, payment data and so on, are publicly available.
Red arrows are used throughout the document to indicate money flows, such as grants, donations and other payments. As one example, as shown on page 3 of the document, at least 21 U.S. universities are financed by and through just three key organizations:
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Open Philanthropy project, a research and grantmaking foundation, which is linked to the WEF
The Wellcome Trust, the world’s second-largest health foundation, located in the U.K.
A Small Tight-Knit Group
According to the anonymous IT specialist who created the document, the core of this “COVID criminal network,” around whom most everything revolves, is no larger than 20 or 30 people. Several of them appear on page 36.
They got together May 8, 2019, at a CDU/CSU event where they discussed how to strengthen global health and implement the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The CDU/CSU is a political alliance of two German political parties, the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). Attendees included:
Hermann Gröhe, Christian Democration Union (CDU) member and former Minister of Health
Ralph Brinkhaus, Parliamentary leader of the CDU
Dr. Angela Merkel, former Chancellor of Germany and a CDU member
Ilona Kickbush, Ph.D., Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the WHO
Dr. Christian Drosten, a German virologist who in early 2020 created the COVID PCR test
Dr. Clarissa Prazeres da Costa, microbiologist and infectious disease specialist
Joe Cerrell, managing director for Europe, the Middle East and East Asia for The Gates Foundation
Professor Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust
Dr. Georg Kippels, CDU member
Jens Spahn, CDU member and a former Minister of Health
From that May 2019 meeting onward, these individuals are found again and again, in overlapping working groups. You also find them rubbing elbows in the past.
For example, Farrar, Drosten and Kickbush were all present at a February 14, 2019, tabletop exercise on International Response to Deliberate Biological Events, held at the Munich Security Conference, as shown on page 124. Individuals from the Robert Koch Institute, the Chinese CDC and the Gates Foundation were also present.
In 2017 and 2018, Kickbush, Drosten and Farrar were added as members to the International Advisory Board on Global Health. Farrar and Kickbush also joined the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, a joint arm of the WHO and the World Bank, formally launched in May 2018. (Dr. Anthony Fauci is another member of this board.) Two other key persons within this network are:
Dr. Chris Elias, president of the Global Development Program at the Gates Foundation. He too is on both the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board and the International Advisory Board on Global Health, together with Kickbush, Drosten and Farrar.
Dr. Peter Piot, a Belgian-British microbiologist known for his research into Ebola and AIDS, a professor of global health, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a senior fellow with the Gates Foundation’s Global Health Program, and former undersecretary-general with the United Nations.
Key Organizations
Due to the complexity of the network connections, there’s really no easy way to summarize them here. You simply have to go through the document, page by page. That said, key organizations, whose networking connections are detailed, include:
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Wellcome Trust, an organization funded by and strategically linked to GlaxoSmithKline (a vaccine maker in which Bill Gates is financially invested)
The World Health Organization
The Rockefeller Foundation
The World Bank Group
The World Economic Forum (WEF)
GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, founded by the Gates Foundation
Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), founded by the governments of Norway and India, the Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust and WEF
The Global Fund
Forum of Young Global Leaders, founded by WEF in 2004
FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics, seeks to ensure equitable access to reliable diagnosis around the world
Big Pharma
Johns Hopkins University
Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin
The Robert Koch Institute
The European Commission
The European Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
The Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products
The German Global Health Hub
Of these, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation appears to be near the top, or the center, of this criminal network, depending on how you visualize it. Gates is also a major funder of mainstream media which, of course, is important if you want to ensure one-sidedly good press.
Gates’ Media Control
In the past, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded the placement of “educational” messages in popular TV shows such as “ER,” “Law & Order: SVU” and “Private Practice,” including topics such as HIV prevention, surgical safety and the spread of infectious diseases, i.e., vaccinations.2 But that was only the beginning.
Via more than 30,000 grants, Gates has contributed at least $319 million to the media, including CNN, NBC, NPR, PBS, The Atlantic, Texas Tribune (U.S.), the BBC, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph (U.K.), Le Monde (France), Der Spiegel (Germany), El País (Spain) and global broadcasters like Al-Jazeera.3
More than $38 million of Gates’ money has also been funneled to investigative journalism centers. The majority of that money has gone into developing and expanding media in Africa.4 As you might suspect, Gates’ donations come with strings attached. As reported by Columbia Journalism Review:5
“When Gates gives money to newsrooms, it restricts how the money is used — often for topics, like global health and education, on which the foundation works — which can help elevate its agenda in the news media.
For example, in 2015 Gates gave $383,000 to the Poynter Institute, a widely-cited authority on journalism ethics … earmarking the funds ‘to improve the accuracy in worldwide media of claims related to global health and development.’ Poynter senior vice president Kelly McBride said Gates’s money was passed on to media fact-checking sites …
Since 2000, the Gates Foundation has given NPR $17.5 million [now up to $24.6 million6] through 10 charitable grants — all of them earmarked for coverage of global health and education, specific issues on which Gates works.”
Who Else Controls the Media?
Gates’ power over the media is immense, but he’s a not a sole actor. Other players in media control include BlackRock and the Vanguard Group, the two largest asset management firms in the world, which also control Big Pharma.7 They’re at the top of a pyramid that controls basically everything, but you don’t hear about their terrifying monopoly because they also own the media. As noted in the video, “The Puppet Masters Portfolios,” Vanguard and Blackrock:8
“… own the news that’s been created, they own the distribution of the news that’s been created, they own the lives of the reporters that are reporting the news that’s being distributed that’s being created on your TV screen. CBS, FOX, ABC, it doesn’t matter which you’re watching.”
As it stands, it’s important to be aware that conventional media are under the control of powerful influences — be it Bill Gates, BlackRock or Vanguard — and their primary intent isn’t to give you objective information but, rather, to further the agendas of those influences.
Who Really Owns the World?
BlackRock and Vanguard also own shares in an impossibly long list of virtually every major company in the world. Aside from world media, the companies controlled by Blackrock and Vanguard span everything from entertainment and airlines to social media and communications9 — quite literally everything you can think of, and much that you can’t.
Together, they form a hidden monopoly on global asset holdings, and through their influence over our centralized media, they have the power to manipulate and control a great deal of the world’s economy and events, and how the world views it all.
In all, BlackRock and Vanguard have ownership in some 1,600 American firms, which in 2015 had combined revenues of $9.1 trillion. When you add in the third-largest global owner, State Street, their combined ownership encompasses nearly 90% of all S&P 500 firms.10
Interestingly, Vanguard also holds a large share of Blackrock. In turn, Blackrock has been called the “fourth branch of government” by Bloomberg as they are the only private firm that has financial agreements to lend money to the central banking system.11
Owners and stockholders of Vanguard include Rothschild Investment Corp,12 Edmond De Rothschild Holding,13 the Italian Orsini family, the American Bush family, the British Royal family, and the du Pont family, the Morgan, Vanderbilt and Rockefeller families.14,15
Gates Dictates Global Food Policy Too
In addition to his grip on global health and media, Bill Gates’ network also includes global food and agricultural policy. He’s even one of the largest farmland owners in the U.S.16 Were Gates a proponent of organics, his land ownership would probably be seen as a good thing, but he’s anything but.
On the contrary, not only is he a longtime proponent of GMOs and toxic agricultural chemicals, he’s also gone on record urging Western nations to switch to 100% synthetic lab-grown imitation beef, and has railed against legislative attempts to make sure fake meats are properly labeled, since that will slow down public acceptance.17
Not surprisingly, Gates is financially invested in most of his proposed “solutions” to the world’s problems, be it hunger, disease, viral pandemics or climate change.18
It’s these kinds of self-serving endeavors that have earned Gates the unofficial title of the most dangerous philanthropist in the world. As noted by AGRA Watch,19 Vandana Shiva, Ph.D., and others, Gates’ philanthropy creates several new problems for each one he promises to solve, and can best be described as “philanthrocapitalism.”
Again and again, Gates’ globalist approach to farming has had devastating consequences for food and environmental sustainability in general and local food security in particular. It is profitable for Gates and his corporate allies, though, and furthers the technocratic plan to control the world by owning all the world’s resources.
The WEF, founded by technocrat figurehead Klaus Schwab, is just one of the global nongovernmental agencies that help promote Gates’ destructive agricultural and fake food agenda.
The Great Reset of Life as We Know It
The Gates Foundation, through its funding of the WEF, also plays an important role in The Great Reset, which was officially unveiled during a WEF summit in May 2020. As reported by The Defender, the Great Reset:20
“… is a vision for transferring the world into a totalitarian and authoritarian surveillance state manipulated by technocrats to manage traumatized populations, to shift wealth upward, and serve the interests of elite billionaire oligarchs.”
Every conceivable aspect of life and society is scheduled to be “reset” according to their plan — including global food policies. Leading that specific charge is an organization called the EAT Forum, cofounded by the Wellcome Trust, which describes itself as the “Davos for food.”
The EAT Forum’s largest initiative is called FReSH, which aims to transform the food system as a whole. Project partners in this venture include Bayer, Cargill, Syngenta, Unilever and Google. EAT also collaborates with nearly 40 city governments in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, South America and Australia, and helps the Gates-funded United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) create updated dietary guidelines.
As you can see, no matter what network you’re looking at, be it global health, finance, media, environmental policy or food, the Gates Foundation, WEF and Wellcome Trust are there, and tying it all together is The Great Reset plan, with its Fourth Industrial Revolution (another Schwab concoction), which is the transformation of humanity itself into internet-connected cyborgs.
Ultimately, that’s where this criminal COVID enterprise is trying to take us. To prevent that dystopian nightmare from becoming our lot, we need to see the hidden networks working behind the scenes.
We need to recognize that decisions are not made by chance. There’s a plan, and decisions in seemingly disparate areas actually have the identical aim. You can’t see that if you’re thinking that people, organizations and even countries are working independently.
They are in fact networked, which is what makes them so powerful. The thing that can interrupt or break that power is public insight into these networks, and understanding that the ultimate goal of all of them is to “reset” and “rebuild” civilization (“Build Back Better”) into one of their own making.
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“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.” ― Plato, The Republic
I grew up during the so called “second wave” feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s. I grew up listening to Helen Reddy’s 1971 song I Am Woman – Hear me Roar. The lyrics to Helen’s song include these words:
If I have to, I can do anything
I am strong (strong)
I am invincible (invincible)
I am woman
The 1960s women’s rights movement, also known as the women’s liberation movement, was a diverse social movement, primarily based in the United States, that during the 1960s and ’70s sought equal rights and opportunities and greater personal freedom for women. It coincided with and is recognized as part of the “second wave” of feminism.
Fast forward to 2022 and I find it ironic that there isn’t a “third wave” of feminism in these United States of America.
Women need to band to together to stop the efforts to erase feminism and with it womanhood from our culture.
The most important role for any woman is to be a wife, mother and grandmother. It was a woman who bore the Son of God and by doing so changed the world – for ever.
The Threats to Womanhood
Today women are no longer strong. They can’t do anything for fear of being attacked by the politically correct class. Women are no longer invincible and sadly some women are no longer women.
In 2022 there are many threats to feminism and womanhood. Here’s a short list of policies that have worked to destroy feminism and womanhood:
The LGBTQ+ Agenda: Women, because of the LGBTQ+ agenda, are being replaced by men who dress up like women, try to act like women and are sodomized by other men who dress up like women, e.g. Biden’s Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg.
Men in Women’s Sports: Women, real women, are not out in the streets protesting against men, who say they’re women, participating in women’s sports and winning hands down because biological men are superior to biological women when it comes to strength and endurance.
Sex Trafficking and Prostitution: The growing pandemic of sex trafficking of women, particularly underaged women, has become the new normal.
Apple Inc.’s Pregnant Man Emoji: Apple has become the corporate symbol to destroy womanhood. With it’s adding a pregnant man and pregnant person emojis to their iPhones they have slapped every woman in the face and woman are taking it. This is the new digital abuse of women and womanhood.
The Non-Binary/Gender Queer Ideology: Women have the uniqueness of being biologically a woman. Non-binary and gender queer are anti-woman. A woman has the XY gene. She is a she and is a binary being and counterpart to the human male (XX) species.
Born Gay/Gay Gene: The great myth that women have allowed to take root and grow is the idea that homosexuals are born that way and that there is a gay gene. This myth has harmed womanhood and lead to the anomalies above.
Gender Pronouns: Facebook alone has 68 different gender pronouns. Social media, Hollywood, politicians and even physicians have joined the movement to de-gender the world. Binary is old school. Cis-gender is the new normal. There’s even a Comprehensive Guide of Gender-Neutral Pronouns that tells you how to address non-binary/gender queers.
We have seen underaged women trafficked by the likes of Jeffery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Here’s Prince Andrew pictured with Virginia Giuffre, an underaged girl, with Ghislaine Maxwell in the background:
Prince Andrew and his accuser, Virginia Giuffre, in 2001.
In 2015, Epstein’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, asked Ghislaine Maxwell via email whether this photograph was authentic.
She said it was.
Days before the email was sent, Giuffre accused Andrew and Dershowitz of rape. pic.twitter.com/NHHPejyEkZ
Where were the women outside the court house during the Epstein and later the Maxwell trials? Where was the outrage against these sex traffickers to the rich and famous?
Why aren’t women protesting openly about the human trafficking of young women across our southern border? Why aren’t women at every high school, college or professional sporting event protesting against biological males in women’s sports.
When women are silent then they are giving their endorsement to actions that harm other women.
The Bottom Line
Jess C. Scott wrote a book titled “Tongue-Tied” which is, “A short story featuring a voyeuristic succubus driven by jealousy, a dangerous fixation, and a duty to please the sexually unsatisfied women of the world.”
Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.
Talks about gender confused.
Is Jess the remake of what a woman is today?
Does Jess not understand that genitals are defining and absolutely relevant in the act of procreation and the continuance of the human race?
Women are allowing unspeakable harm to come to other women and little girls. Some of this harm done to little girls is caused by other women. But the majority of this harm, like sex trafficking, is perpetrated by men.
Where are the women who are willing to speak out against being de-womanized?
Where is the “third wave” of feminism?
Where are those women who say enough is enough?
The culture war is primarily aimed directly at erasing womanhood and turning women into nothing but sex objects.
I ask every woman: Is this what you want for yourself, your daughters and your granddaughters?
BTW, as women are denigrated so to are men. When men aren’t men and women aren’t women then our culture is fundamentally transformed. When this happens men and women lose their unique identities and become objects to be controlled, manipulated and abused.
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BMW CEO Oliver Zipse has a two-word message for those demanding an all-electric vehicle fleet and the outlawing of internal combustion engines. “Slow Down!”
We would add three more. End. The. Mandates.
Zipse, noting that IC engines power the large majority of vehicles on the road today, says that ditching them willy-nilly will not have a positive impact on the environment. Worse, failing to give the presumed transition from IC engines to electric vehicles “a chance to develop with the markets” (by imposing mandates) will harm national economies and be a societal disruptor.
Society surely is not ready to abandon the freedoms that come with IC engines that are not yet present for EVs. And the EV universe has a lot to learn before claiming it can move nations as efficiently and effectively as the IC has done for the past century.
EV charging stations, we now know, are fast becoming targets when placed in unattended locations. Tesla reports that stations in Utah and California have been vandalized by thieves likely wanting to harvest the copper charging cables. Stealing gas pumps is quite rare.
Charging station etiquette is also in its infancy. Do you have the right to uncouple an unattended vehicle from a charging port to charge your own vehicle? Maybe if the charger is free, but what if this results in one person paying for another’s charge? Road rage, anyone?
The Week national correspondent Ryan Cooper asserts that the societal transformation to EVs will not be that great unless American cities “take advantage of the broader benefits of electrification.” One thing needing immediate correction, he argues, is that “most of the popular electric vehicles today are offensively overpowered.” He also fears that the “cheaper to drive” EVs will prompt increases in vehicle miles driven and hence more congestion!
Cooper advocates instead for electric bicycles, which he says “have an even more revolutionary potential than electric cars and at a tiny fraction of the material footprint.” While admitting that bicycle riding is “incredibly dangerous” in most of the U.S. (not to mention a very slow way to cross the Rockies, or even the hills of Austin and San Francisco), Cooper believes e-bikes could be a game changer for commuting, shopping, or even “quite significant cargo trips.”
In Cooper’s ideal society, American cities would “pivot away from the obsessive hyper-fixation on driving that has turned so much of our built environment into a hideous, inefficient, dangerous nightmare” to one in which cars are just one transportation option among many. Alas, he fears, the EV “revolution” might end up as “a mere electrified version of our current sprawling death machine.”
The naivete of Cooper’s vision is exemplified in his comment that EVs will also have the political benefit of getting rid of gas price anxiety and ending wars for oil. In a prior article, he cited the Biden oil price increases as “proof” that oil prices fluctuate wildly while boasting that electric companies are bound by long-term rates that cannot be easily changed.
Of course, in reality, the price of electricity fluctuates wildly from state to state. Hawaii, which has the nation’s highest rate (at 33.97 cents per kilowatt-hour in November 2021), also had the fastest rising rate (up 18 percent from a year earlier) hydroelectric dams kept Washington state with the cheapest energy (at just 10.22 cents/kWh).
The U.S. Energy Information Agency explains that extreme temperatures increase demand for heating or cooling, which often leads to higher fuel and electricity prices. “When there are droughts or competing demand for water resources, or which wind speeds drop, the loss of electricity generation … can put upward pressure on … prices.” And during blackouts, the price of electricity is irrelevant – you just “ain’t goin’ nowhere.”
While lamenting that even EVs generate massive resource consumption, Cooper seems to miss the connection to global geopolitics that emanates from the drive by China to corner the market on rare-earth metals while ignoring the West’s mad dash to stop using fossil fuels.
Oil and natural gas are plentiful and easy to extract, process, and bring to market compared to lithium, cobalt, and even copper. But perhaps utopians cannot imagine wars over natural resources other than fossil fuels.
Back in the real world, BMW is both developing an all-new electric-centric platform called Neue Klasse and working on an entirely new generation of IC engines, including gasoline and diesel six- and eight-cylinder powertrains that will be far more efficient than their older models. Consumer choice, after all, drives the market.
As does technology. For example, a tiny Kansas-based company called Astron Aerospace has just announced its Omega 1 rotary engine. The company says their new engine is “designed to give internal combustion a new lease on life and increasing curbs on fossil fuel consumption.” The Omega 1 is designed to work with a variety of fuels while producing “extremely low to zero harmful emissions.”
Much like the old Mazda Wankel engine, the Omega 1 does not feature an offset crankshaft, eccentric shaft, or reciprocating pistons. But unlike the Wankel engine, it has a prechamber connected to a pair of chambers that separate cold intake air from exhaust gas, removing the issue of exhaust gas overlap.
This, says the company, makes the Omega 1 the world’s first engine with an active linear power transfer. As the engine rotates, all power is transferred via the single rotating power shaft. The result is a new, smaller, yet more powerful, engine that uses far less fuel and “will produce significantly less greenhouse gases while improving torque and power.”
Of course, this revolutionary technology will be illegal in California and other states that have banned IC engines and thus choked the market. The Omega 1 demonstrates the folly of limiting human ingenuity and our ability to find better solutions than the ones governments want to set in stone as “settled science.”
Duggan Flanakin is the Director of Policy Research at the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. A brief history of his multifaceted career appears in his book, “Infinite Galaxies: Poems from the Dugout.”
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The Virginia House of Delegates voted by a 52-48 margin to pass HB 118 — a bill crafted to roll back the disastrous Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) put in place by former Governor Ralph Northam.
As you may recall, CFACT asked you to chime in and give your opinion, and apparently many of you did just that. So overwhelming was the response, in fact, that opposition to the VCEA grew to a whopping 7-1 margin against it! To be sure, it appears VA House legislators heard your voice and have decided they were also in favor of putting the brakes on the dangerous Green New Deal-style VCEA initiative to pave their state with costly wind and solar farms.
Again, bravo!
As you might expect, CFACT also weighed in on the issue via other means. CFACT advisor Collister Johnson and I, for instance, went down and testified directly before the House sub-committee on Commerce and Energy on behalf of HB 118. CFACT’s website also posted numerous articles showcasing the folly of the VCEA. And right before the vote today, CFACT released a groundbreaking report by former DOE researcher David Wojick pointing out numerous flaws in Dominion energy’s plan. We sent it to every member of the House.
Among the study’s key findings include:
Dominion’s proposed Plan for VCEA compliance will likely lead to disastrous blackouts and price spikes. Destructive reliability problems are possible as early as winter 2023-24.
VCEA requires ever increasing amounts of intermittent wind and solar power, accompanied by the progressive retirement of all existing fossil fueled generating capacity. Reliability can only be maintained by adding massive amounts of battery storage along the way.
Dominion’s proposed Plan includes less than 3% of the required storage. The necessary storage will cost hundreds of billions of dollars.
Importing needed power from neighboring states to ameliorate likely energy shortages is not feasible, and Dominion’s Plan all but acknowledges such.
This was indeed a good day. The battle to undo the damage done by the Greens over recent years still has a long way to go, but at least there’s a bright spot that just happened a little south of the Mason-Dixon that should give us encouragement.
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I hope today finds you well at your post as the Executive Editor of the iconic New York Times. There is just so much in the news these days, eh Deano? I would like to touch on a few issues: starting with your paper’s reporting style and opinion writers, as well as some of the headline stories.
New Mayor For NYC
It looks like the the honorable Mayor of New York Eric Adams is off to a bit of a controversial start. Thank goodness he is keeping the unconstitutional vaccine mandate in effect and he is firing those 1,400 or so city workers. I mean even as indoor mask mandates have been relaxed (except for children in schools, of course), even as more and more Democratic cities are relaxing restrictions, Ole Eric is going to fire some people. How can you argue with that logic, Deano? He must have gotten his guidance from the installed POTUS. I mean even after the Supreme Court ruled against Joey…what did Joey say? “Even though the courts ruled against this mandate, I urge states and companies to make employees comply.” Ya see Deano, Joey never lets a little thing like the Supreme Court or the Constitution get in his way. It looks like Eric is a chip off the old block (head, some say).
“Cracker”
The Mayor’s next shining moment came from a recent video that has emerged. It seems the honorable Mayor was on video referring to white police officers as “Crackers.” I looked to see what your esteemed paper had to say about this comment, but shockingly, I couldn’t find any coverage of this video…anywhere. Shocking, I tell you, seeing as though you are usually at the forefront of racial injustices.
Does Asking a Question Automatically Qualify You as a Racist?
Well, I took it on my own to reach out to one of your compensated opinion writers. I reached out to him, because he has written numerous pieces on said racial injustices. He had a piece recently addressing the Caryn Johnson (Whoopi Goldberg) Holocaust quagmire. I asked him if he had an opinion on the the recent comments by the honorable Mayor, as well as his opinion of the installed POTUS comment while he was a Senator saying, “I don’t want my kids to grow up in a racial jungle.” President Trump is a racist!
I must say, I was a bit taken aback by his replies. Some included, “just because I am a black writer, does not mean, I’m at the forefront of racial issues.” And “if i do not ordinarily comment on the racial controversy of the day then don’t assume I’ll comment on this one.”(what about Whoopi, and numerous other pieces?) No opinion at all then?
Other replies included, “it would probably be difficult for you to read what I has written.” Maybe he is just too deep and introspective, or maybe, he uses too many big words for me to understand? I’m not exactly sure what that was about.
Then finally, “each one of you guys is the same, you see a black person on the internet, get triggered, and harass them by email.” You see, there were many replies…just none address the original question.
So, I politely asked for an opinion from an opinion writer, nowhere did I ask the opinion of a “black” writer…just a writer. As far as getting triggered, I suggested he look no further than his own mirror, and exactly who is “each one of you guys?” That, in itself, may be considered racist to some.
What’s Your Opinion Deano?
What do you think Deano? I can provide you with copies of these exchanges, if you like. Question: can there be racist comments by blacks against whites or just whites against blacks? Your lack of coverage on both of these comments speaks volumes actually. I suppose your writer was just towing the company line, and narrative. I would guess, he may be out of a paycheck otherwise. Although, if we took a poll of OBJECTIVE readers, they might say these two statements by said politicians are indeed racist rants. I have to admit, I was thoroughly shocked as your paper is usually so unbiased, apolitical and just gushes with journalistic integrity. I have to wonder though, if a video of Mayor Giuliani surfaced with him referring to black officers as the N word, if there would have been any coverage by your esteemed tabloid. Na, you guys are always fair and balanced, never mind. I reached out to a third party for their opinion, but to no avail. I tried to get a hold of CNN reporter Jeffrey Tobin for his viewpoint, but they said he had his hands full…..well hand anyway.
Oh, as a side note, yesterday the honorable Mayor Adams said, “the press is critical of him, because he’s black.” He also wants the press corps, “to look more like him.” Very Lori Lightfoot like, don’t you think Deano? Seems just a tad racist though? Again, what if Mayor Giuliani said…………..well, you get the idea. I have to try and get this out soon, no one knows what old Eric will say today. He may just pass good old Warren Wilhelm (Billy DeBlasio), in popularity, in no time flat.
Crime Issues
Let’s cut the Mayor some slack though, he has a gigantic crime wave he must address. Only the other day, AOC said the crime wave was due to the elimination of the child tax care credit, and people are trying to get their babies some formula. Question: are they now keeping baby formula in glass cases in high end jewelry stores, that can only be accessed by tire irons or sledge hammers? Word is AOC made these statements after leaving her Mensa meeting, on her way to a new bartending gig.
Still others, mainly the radical right point to the absolutely ridiculous soft on crime liberal politicians, judges, and district attorneys, for the explosion in crime. For instance, D.A. Bragg of Manhattan, who wants to incarcerate criminals for ONLY the most serious of crimes. I mean, what could possibly go wrong…simmer down Conservatives!
So what if we have criminals arrested dozens of times, some hundreds and are freed on no-cash bail, time and time again. What is with these Fascist right wingers!
The Times is on the Case
Let’s shift gears a little bit Deano. Late last month you ran a fantastic article in regards to election integrity. Your Cracker Jack reporters were pointing out how state Conservative candidates are running in droves for the once-obscure office of Secretary of State, which oversees the voting process. Those ‘on the level’ watchdog groups are ringing the alarm because most running for office are elected President Trump supporters. Oh, the horror, Deano.
After the most secure election in history, (according to Democrats), this is what the Conservatives point to:
the bypassing of new voting procedures in swing states without due legislation process;
not letting Conservative proctors entry into polling places (thanks Georgie Soros);
covering up widows of said polling places;
removing videos on social media of the same votes repeatedly being tabulated;
a ridiculous, ludicrous amount of mail in voting (rife for fraud), going to the installed Harris/Biden ticket;
unmarked truck loads of these “legitimate“ ballots, backing in to polling places. This done in the middle of the night, sort of like the illegal immigrant program presently being carried out by the installed Obama, sorry Harris/Obiden administration.
Well, after all that, your reporters point out we have to secure election integrity. Bravo! Hey Deano, between me and you, did you have a hand in this piece? I mean you and your “newspaper”, just ooze integrity. The last thing we need from elected President Trump is more Russian collusion…oops, we’re not supposed to talk about that anymore right Deano? We’ll save that one for the next article, you know that pesky Durham report. My gosh, trying to malign the angelic Hillary Clinton, with the aid of Barry Soetoro aka Barrack Hussein, Joey Talibiden, CIA, DOJ, the Gestapo, sorry I mean the FBI……..the nerve. President Trump is a racist.
A Couple of More Things
Well, it seems that Dr. Fraudci is back in the news lately. The CDC, the esteemed “Doctor”, and the Harris/OBiden administration have now reclassified the deaths of Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy, was due to COVID. When a reporter questioned the veracity of these findings, Joey called him “a stupid, son of a Bi***,” and he was quickly escorted out of the press conference.
On a happy note, the elder care service, Visiting Angels purportedly want to use the video of where “Dr.” Jill is escorting Joey gingerly off the podium and down the entire set of 2 whole steps, in their latest ad campaign. Word is, she led him back to the basement at the White House, where he played a game of hungry, hungry hippo’s with Pelosi, Schumer and Abrams. Cake and punch was served afterwards, right before nap time.
Well , Deano, until we speak again, keep up the fantastic work at The Old Gray Lady. The example you set with your moralistic integrity, is a great example to the youth of America. Keep on “printing the news that is fit to print,” that mantra always puts a smile on my face.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Christopher Cirinohttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngChristopher Cirino2022-02-16 14:41:092022-02-16 14:42:39Does The New York Times Report on all Racist Comments?
Yesterday, 204 legislators from various states called for a 50-state election audit, decertification of results where indicated, and possible convening of the U.S. House of Representatives to reconsider the 2020 election. Even if you believe anyone still questioning the outcome of the 2020 presidential race is telling a Big Lie or tilting at windmills, there are plenty of reasons to conclude we have a long way to go before most Americans will agree our elections are free, fair, and honest.
Georgia authorities opened an investigation into illegal ballot harvesting in the 2020 and subsequent Senate run-off elections. This followed reports there are videos of hundreds of ballot harvesters dropping tens of thousands of ballots into drop boxes in the middle of the night all across the state. A ballot harvester admitted being paid $45,000 to illegally stuff drop boxes with ballots under cover of darkness. Former Georgia Senator David Perdue sued Fulton County officials for scanning absentee ballots multiple times and other voting irregularities affecting the outcome of the 2020 election.
In Michigan, a watchdog group found thousands of unverified ballots were counted in Detroit and, further, election officials there intimidated and blocked Republican election observers from doing their jobs.
In Pennsylvania, whistleblower video showed government officials throwing ballots into a trash can, disposing of machine tapes, and discussing getting rid of electronic election equipment even though they knew it would be a felony. [watch video here] The information came in the context of a lawsuit that alleges thousands of ballots were shredded and the data accompanying the act was deliberately erased before it had to be released under a document request.
In Wisconsin, an investigation found the number of illegal votes cast in the 2020 election was greater than Joe Biden’s margin of victory. Lack of voter ID was among the problems cited. A state lawmaker presented the findings of another team that uncovered 1.5 million illegal voter registrations, 155,000 suspected fake voters, and 50,000 illegally cast ballots.
In Arizona, Verity Vote found there was no documented chain of custody for 740,000 ballots cast in Maricopa County. Also, files were deleted from the election server before being handed over to the state senate under a subpoena. People were caught in the act on video. In Pima County, a witness testified there were 6 times as many military ballots than usual. They lacked chain of custody and went 95 percent for one candidate. Similar testimony was given in Michigan and Georgia where suspicious military ballots all or nearly all went for Biden, suggesting organized fraud involving multiple states.
In Texas, the Secretary of State’s Phase One investigation found 700,000 invalid voter registrations were in place during the 2020 election, providing the vector for fraud to take place. The number included nearly 12,000 noncitizens, almost 450,000 dead voters still on the rolls, and over 200,000 duplicate registrations
As if all this were not enough, federal government data show 15 million mail ballots disappeared in the 2020 election. Who knows where they went, but surely many were sent to vacant lots or the wrong address. So here we have the deadly combination of mass mail balloting with voter rolls that haven’t been cleaned in years. What could go wrong?
These are only the most recent revelations. Half the country believes the 2020 election was stolen. Now you know some of the reasons why. And it doesn’t inspire confidence when you hear things like the Wisconsin Election Commission recently enacting a rule allowing local officials to write in required missing information on ballot envelopes, which surely must be contrary to state law or should be.
If you don’t want half the country believing future elections are stolen, you’re going to have to do better than all of this mess, way better. So stop yapping about the Big Lie and voter suppression and start worrying about the basics of free and fair elections so the rest of us don’t have to worry about you and whether you have evil intent.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00The Daily Skirmish - Liberato.UShttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngThe Daily Skirmish - Liberato.US2022-02-16 12:43:002022-02-16 12:43:00The Big Lie Is ‘There Is No Election Fraud’
Remember how the Democrats kept yelling and the media kept printing Russia, Russia, Russia? Well now the truth is out and those who pushed the Russiagate hoax have blood on their hands.
Watch Trump Media & Technology Group CEO Devin Nunes who joins Newsmax’s Eric Bolling to discuss the latest bombshell filing from Special Counsel John Durham on February 14, 2022.
This seems familiar as the Democrats January 6th Committee, with the help of several Republicans on the committee, are holding hearing about the January 6th, 2021 insurrection.
The Russiagate myth is the same as the 1/6thInsurrectiogate myth.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Dr. Rich Swierhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngDr. Rich Swier2022-02-16 12:14:522022-02-17 13:36:06VIDEO: Russiagate was already the greatest political scandal in American history. It just got a lot worse.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Jihad Watchhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngJihad Watch2022-02-16 08:05:192022-02-16 08:07:53OANN VIDEO: Video: Robert Spencer on Afghan Refugee Charged with Sexual Assault
