VIDEO: The World Just Changed — Now, the war begins.

TRANSCRIPT

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This is the day the world changed. It’s best to simply own up to that and get down to the business of changing it back. Recall that, in 2016, the Marxist forces that thought Hillary had it all sealed up were thrown into chaos and despair at Trump’s victory. All that they had so desperately labored for, put into place, worked like termites to destroy, was suddenly brought to an abrupt halt.

They spent about two or three weeks in mourning, wondering and lamenting what went wrong, how it went wrong. And they got back up off the mat and started getting organized. And boy, did they ever organize, setting out on a four-year witch hunt to destroy Trump, and when that didn’t work, they stole an election.

Okay, so here we all are today, the beginning of a very dark winter, and then some. So now what? Well, to begin with, realize that we have lost about two months compared to the 2016 Marxist Democrats. We foolishly thought that simply having mountains of evidence proving the steal would be sufficient.

We’d get our day in court; word would spread like wildfire; the GOP would step forward and do the right thing; judges would do their job — all of it. And every single entity we put our trust in completely and utterly betrayed us — before, during and after the election.

We essentially wasted two months in a delusional hope (two months that the Democrats did not in 2016), waiting for this day to come and that somehow, someway, the illegitimately “elected” Biden would not take the oath. It was somewhat of a reasonable hope, one based on an expectation that people who had sworn to uphold the Constitution as well as the duties of their offices would, in fact, do so. They didn’t.

So here we are, betrayed and angry — betrayed by both the hierarchy and public leaders. But amidst the betrayal and anger, there is one shining truth: We are the wiser and now comprehend the entire depth of the evil swamp — Church as well as State.

Even President Trump didn’t grasp that, perhaps until it was too late. He absolutely understood the goal of the communist bastards in the Democratic Party was to make America socialist. He even made a point of it in his State of the Union speech. What he (and let’s be truthful here, we) had not sufficiently understood was the massive penetration into the Republican party that various cowards and eventual traitors had made.

When the chips were down, they showed their true colors. Now, for faithful Catholics, this has been true for decades: The betrayal of us, not to mention Our Lord, by our bishops has been a daily reality for anyone willing to look at it (not to mention the betrayal by bishops of faithful priests as well).

To look at these two sets of betrayal as somehow unrelated would be willing blindness at this point. For decades, American bishops assisted the Marxists up the ladder of power (many of them being turncoat Catholics), and that applies to not just the politicos.

They let them claim to be Catholic, played footsie with them, pretending that immigration was just as important as chopping and slicing up a child in the womb. They gave them sacrilegious Holy Communion like candy and went along with virtually every single step of their agenda, all in a phony virtue-signaling attempt to pretend they care about the poor and advancing social justice.

Judas is the patron saint of social justice; never forget that. But they spent everlasting amounts of time covering up for each other’s sexual proclivities, rape of altar boys and stealing from the faithful to pay outrageous legal bills to protect themselves from being imprisoned. And now they are declaring bankruptcy to freeze their assets and files from becoming discovered.

So if you are an American patriot and a faithful Catholic, you’ve been betrayed not once, but twice. We have a two-front war to fight. So we better get to fighting it. Any good fight requires a good battle plan, which means structure, discipline, communication and organization.

It means never taking your eye off the prize, with everything you do being a way to advance the ball down the field. Period. And a word here — Church Militant has no desire to be associated with people who don’t grasp the imminent threat to your souls and liberty and who aren’t willing to change their lives accordingly.

As we said before, the good guys have been way too passive. Signing petitions and thinking you’ve done something real is stupid and a waste of time. “Liking” a headline is, likewise, completely futile. While too many good guys were clicking and liking, the Marxists were out in the streets, knocking on doors, taking over the institutions of power, and anything else you can name.

They became so powerful that, we must admit, the war we are about to engage in may simply not be winnable, at least not in earthly, temporal ways. But that doesn’t mean it must not be fought. In fact, that it is this desperate means precisely that it must be fought. It must be fought with our intellects and our gumption.

We must commit to it totally, just as the Marxists did for decades. They were relentless, and so must we be. Life as we understood it and lived it is now over. If there is any hope of any restoration, this must involve every bit of energy we can throw at it. Again, that’s what they did.

Let’s start with organization and communication, something you will notice the Marxists are racing to deny us the opportunity to do. Whatever you want to say about the ongoing purge, it’s a good strategy on their part. So, as we said last week, stop acting like the world hasn’t changed, like you can just do what you used to do.

While we were all comfortable and living “the American Dream,” they were hard at work laying the groundwork to destroy America and the Church. In various ways, Church Militant has seen all this coming. We were actually afraid of it in 2016 but obviously were relieved when we were spared. The storm petered out.

But a more ferocious one gathered off the coast and reached landfall last November. So all of this means someone has got to step up, someone who has the understanding, the insight and the presence to speak to it. Church Militant videos have been viewed tens of millions of times and our footprint has grown substantially in the past three years. At first, we were mocked. They aren’t mocking anymore.

No one has pursued the intersection of religion and politics like we have — no one. Some other (perhaps) well-intentioned Catholic groups were simply late to the game, some even trying to capitalize on the drama. Likewise, some well-intentioned conservative media outlets have simply failed to understand that behind all of this is a spiritual war, and if you don’t have that understanding, you’ll never do anything more than simply report the news.

Only Church Militant has understood the dual nature, the dual reality of what’s going on, and that understanding has dictated our every move, whether it’s been our election coverage during the campaign or our reporting on the globalist view of multiple churchmen.

It’s one giant war, but it’s being fought on two fronts, and unless you are experts in each, you’re going to miss the big picture. So what we are saying is this: We are asking you to join Church Militant in the fight and help us be the tip of the spear in the restoration of both Church and State.

We want to be the source where you come for everything — Church and Nation. We lead the Rosary every morning along with morning prayer at 8 ET. You should be praying with us if at all possible. We churn out information every day in multiple programs, soon to be culminating in our weekday Church Militant Evening News, for which we have been preparing for months. That debuts on Monday, Feb. 8 at 6:30 p.m. ET.

We are moving away from the Marxist-dominated social media platforms and going onto whatever is available, but most importantly, we are asking you to get proactive and come to our website. Sign up to receive our emails. Join our Church Militant Resistance, which has thousands of members all over the country. Get active. Channel your justified anger.

Come to the site every day; tune into our programs. Fight for the truth with whomever will give you an ear. Organize rallies at your local chancery. Organize rallies and team with others to get these treasonous, backstabbing RINOs flushed from office. And prayer should be integral to all of those public scenes.

Primary any of them that did not do the right thing, which, frankly, is almost all of them. Likewise, CINOs — Catholics in name only, the Catholic equivalent of RINOs — need to be purged as well.

Now obviously, bishops can’t be voted out of office, but they can be frustrated by faithful laity at every turn. Every bishop hates bad publicity because it touches their bottom line. They, for the most part, are the wimpiest men you will ever encounter. Again pray that the successors of the Apostles, at least some of them, will respond to the grace you are asking to be imparted.

For too long, they have caved to the pressure put on them by fake Catholics. Well, it’s high time they start hearing loudly from faithful Catholics.

In truth, many of them should have resigned long ago, but they’ve profited from your ignorance. Enough is enough in both the culture and the Church. Too few leaders have stepped forward to fight all this. Support Church Militant, and help us take the lead: For God, Church and Country!

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BIDEN’S FOLLY: Trying to Control the Weather [a.k.a. Climate]

“Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.” – Mark Twain

“Climate change is sometimes misunderstood as being about changes in the weather. In reality it is about changes in our very way of life.” – Paul Polman

“’Climate change’ gives the Left a ‘moral’ code, a kind of pseudo religion, without the reasoning that animates true religion.” – Hadley Arkes


Climate change is about control of every aspect of our lives, liberties and pursuit of happiness.

I have learned three things about the weather (a.k.a. climate):

  1. The weather/climate changes.
  2. These changes in the weather/climate are cyclical natural cycles (eg. summer, fall, winter, spring).
  3. There is absolutely nothing mankind can do to change these natural cycles.

Biden’s Climate Change Folly

It appears that Biden has taken a bite of the climate change apple. He wants to immediately stop everything we do in our lives in order to “save the planet” from ourselves.

Among the evil things that we Americans do is:

  1. Drive cars powered by gasoline or diesel engines.
  2. Heat our homes with oil, natural gas and electricity from power plants fueled by natural gas, oil, coal and nuclear reactors.
  3. Buy plastic products, which are made from oil.
  4. Use power sources other than wind and solar.
  5. Believe that no-one can change the weather/climate by government edict.

In a National Review column Biden’s Climate-Change Folly wrote:

The “C” in Climate Stands for Control

If you want to take control of any culture you must have a crisis. For Democrats and Biden that crisis is climate change. In a column titled Scapegoating “White Christians” for Climate Change Jerry Newcomb wrote:

California, Oregon, and Washington State are burning—and it’s all the fault of “white Christians.” So says a professor at Oregon State University because “white Christians” are “science-deniers” who don’t believe in catastrophic man-made global warming.

White Christians? How is blaming white Christians science?

Conclusion

The truth is that climate change is neither catastrophic nor man-made.

Rather is is mankind that has created ways to stop flooding, cull forests to reduce the possibility of massive fires, invented ways to provide cheap and reliable power that has taken many individuals and nations out of poverty.

Energy is key to any healthy society. Take away cheap and reliable energy and you have what we are seeing in California’s brown outs.

Killing the energy industry is killing American jobs and making American dependent on either unreliable power sources (wind and solar) or making us energy dependent on other nations like those in the Middle East.

Cheap reliable American power is a national security imperative.

Take away our energy and you drain the life blood of our economy and people.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

The UK, Beyond 2020 and BREXIT — Does a Light Still Shine?

These are my views as a woman living in England, on how the culture and spirit of my country has changed over 50 years.  Why the country does not feel protected or strong any more, how it has lost, and is losing it values and decency, and how we are daily losing our free speech.


The Psychological Attack which is being carried out upon the citizens of the UK, is dark, cruel and manipulative.   After weeks of a complete lockdown in society, with a one-day reprieve for good behavior on Christmas Day, and with no hope of a release until Spring; a deep sense of despair is affecting many.   A huge division, a chasm, and an abyss is being created through extreme fear and isolation.   Is there any hope or light at the end of the tunnel now we have arrived into 2021?

After proudly boasting of our departure from the EU and securing a ‘jumbo Canadian-style’ Brexit deal which will secure the control of our destiny, the Prime Minister, Alexander Boris de Pfellel Johnson, appeared to be standing quite alone in his joy.  After, four years of will we, wont we, and the year of confusion from 2020; departing from the EU now seemed hardly noticeable or relevant under the current climate of the government’s total dictatorship.

As he claimed we would have a newfound ability to set our own standards, and that British laws would be made solely by the British parliament, interpreted by British Judges, sitting in UK courts, one wondered if the British public would really have any say in anything, anymore?      It was difficult to see any optimism in his promises.  Trust has all but gone.

And whilst, a very nice lady from Buckinghamshire received an MBE for services to Straw Hat Plaiting and Endangered craft skills, it was painfully obvious that Nigel Farage, the MP who fought so valiantly to leave the EU for 20 years leading the campaign for Brexit, with a vote from 17.5 million people was sadly missing from the New Year Honor’s list.  There was barely any acknowledgement for the man who had inspired such genuine hope and optimism from his platform in the year 2016.  The year of significant change for the UK and America alike when I realized people really do love their independence.

Despite the absence of a medal, Nigel Farage has been very busy exposing the number of illegal immigrants crossing the channel to England, over the last 12 months, claiming that the British government are housing 48,000 illegal immigrants in hotels and private homes with £40 a week spending money.  Nice.

He has also been very busy launching his new political party Reform UK with Richard Tice, another prominent Brexiteer who appears to have an insight into how the British public are being treated.

Whilst HM Government have been implementing even more frightening tactics by interrupting TV programming with scenes of people on oxygen, silencing free speech and encouraging us through billboards and posters to ‘Act as though we have the Virus’; people who can barely breathe through forced imprisonment and a bombardment of negativity, are desperately in need of some optimism outside of the applied behavioral psychology which I believe is being used against them.   Like small tiny sparrows they wait for the odd crumb of Hope.

Telling people to act as if they are potential murderers is irresponsible, and leads people further into the trap and deadly disease of isolation and hopelessness.  We were once free and responsible people, happy to play our part in protecting others.   Now we are snitches on our neighbor’s, and enemies to our friends and family.

The recent apology from the Prime Minister that he has been unable to prevent so many people from dying from the virus has added to the emotional confusion.   The insistent petitions from his own government and the general public on the devastation being created outside of the virus via the increased mental health problems and poverty as a result of lockdowns, has fallen on deaf ears.   Small gestures by way of compensation can hardly make up for the harm.   Thankfully, some people have seen through the poisoned apple they have been offered, and resisted.

Below is a government document called Mindspace indicating how psychology can be applied to change how the public think and act without us knowing about it.  Have our government used it against us?      I do believe that the public are at last and at least becoming more aware that ‘something is not quite right’ and asking questions.

It is not unusual to hear that people are now distancing themselves from the continual messaging in an effort for self -preservation and sanity.      Across the globe more and more people are ‘awakening’.

The exposure of such blatant evil as witnessed through the presidential elections in the USA, has also added to the certainty that we are in an ultimate spiritual battle, where lies, deception and division are being purposefully orchestrated.   It can be no coincidence that every country, with the exception of Sweden, appears to following an identical script.

Whilst there is a virus that can be particularly nasty if caught, Global Elites and Marxism is the virus we are really at war with.   Whilst they create and orchestrate divisions through race, color and creed, they are the only ones who are really united in their goal of one world domination.   Will they win?

If anything beneficial has come out of the loss of our freedoms, which it has; it is the realization of the things that we do value most in life. It has also been a time of appreciation for the simple things in life.    However, the freedoms we have lost, which are based on Christian principles were meant to be protected under the European Convention of Human Rights, In particular

  • Article 8 (the right to respect for private and family life).
  • Article 9 (freedom of thought, conscience and religion).
  • Article 10 (freedom of expression).
  • Article 11 (freedom of assembly and association).

It is only under an act of war or an emergency that those rights can be limited by a government.   Governments have totally removed those human rights based on findings and research which have become very questionable to many scientists, doctors, judges, sceptics worldwide.

Lord Sumpton who is highly regarded in the legal profession is one such champion in the UK speaking up for the rights of the private individual.

He has quoted:

“Historically, fear has always been the most potent of instruments of the authoritarian state. That is what we are witnessing today. But the fault is not just in our government, it’s also in ourselves.

It has been very heartening to hear such people speak up about the loss of our freedoms, and to give such an insight into the fear we hold inside us, and it is also why it has been so heartening and encouraging to see so many Americans really standing up for the value of freedom too.  It bought optimism.  And, whilst we all know that all of the nations around the world have fallen victim to so many perversions of every kind, America included, it was still the fight for those values which has encouraged everyone around the world.    I have often wondered what the leaders of other countries really thought when they saw the love and admiration that was expressed towards President Trump that the mainstream media would never really publicize to the public.      I can barely think of anyone who would view the British Prime Minister with any such affection.

The love, and also the hatred, which we have seen expressed has given many of us a much deeper insight now into why Christianity, not religion, is at the center of this attack.   We have been saying it for years, but we are now living in very exceptional and pivotal times.   Despite the darkness, there is also more light coming into this world to expose it?

A return to God and a return to love needs to be maintained.  We need to hold on to the unchanging, immoveable stability that he offers and bring it to the forefront in 2021.  The displacement of all moral values and the arrogance of liars will then not prevail.

We know it all ends well.   But in the meantime, I believe a search and rescue mission is underway, a wheat and chaff process is taking place, and there is much to be optimistic about if you stand on the right side of Truth.

A light still shines which can never go out.

Hear me, my God, as I voice my complaint; protect my life from the threat of the enemy.

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the plots of evildoers.

They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim cruel words like deadly arrows.

They shoot from ambush at the innocent; they shoot suddenly, without fear.

They encourage each other in evil plans, they talk about hiding their snares; they say, “Who will see it ?”

They plot injustice and say, “We have devised a perfect plan!” Surely the human mind and heart are cunning.

But God will shoot them with his arrows; they will suddenly be struck down.

He will turn their own tongues against them and bring them to ruin; all who see them will shake their heads in scorn.

All people will fear; they will proclaim the works of God and ponder what he has done.

The righteous will rejoice in the LORD and take refuge in him; all the upright in heart will glory in him!

©Shirley Edwards. All rights reserved.

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VIDEO: This Army Ranger Isn’t Done Fighting for America

There are a lot of good conservatives in Congress — even more after November — but it takes a special kind of leader to show courage on the tough issues. Congressman Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) is one of those rare Republicans who doesn’t mind speaking out when something is fundamentally wrong — no matter what the Left calls him. When Joe Biden decided to radically compromise the military and wave in people who identify as transgender, the former Army ranger didn’t hesitate. He stood up and called it wrong. He didn’t care who else stood with him — because doing what’s right has always been more important to him than doing what’s popular.

A lot of conservatives wonder why their leaders don’t step out and tackle the hard issues. Maybe it’s because they don’t hear any appreciation from their constituents when they do. As I said yesterday, there are a lot of spineless and cowardly people out there. When you actually find one who’s going to stand up for your convictions — like Warren Davidson has — stand with them.

To hear him go to bat for your values and our brave men and women in uniform, check out our conversation Tuesday. Then, when you get a chance, drop him a note of thanks for being the kind of leader with the backbone to do something about the values you care about.

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PODCAST: Don’t Let Anti-Gun Activists Weaponize the Capitol Hill Riot!

GUESTS AND TOPICS:

JOHN R. LOTT, JR.

John R. Lott, Jr. is the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and the author most recently of Gun Control Myths. Up until this week, Lott was the senior advisor for research and statistics at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy.

TOPIC: Don’t Let Anti-Gun Activists Weaponize the Capitol Hill Riot!

RICK MANNING

Rick Manning is a Conservative Commandoes and AUN-TV alumnus and the President, Americans for Limited Government. Rick also served on President Trump’s transition team. And he is also the author of the new book with Starr Parker — “Necessary Noise: How Donald Trump Inflames the Culture War and Why this is good for America!”

TOPIC: A Vote to Censure Trump Threatens Free Speech of Every American.

ROBERT CHARLES

Robert Charles is also a spokesman for AMAC, as well as former Assistant Secretary of State. He also served in the Reagan and Bush 41 White Houses, and counsel to the U.S. House National Security subcommittee for five years. Additionally, he ran a major portion of the U.S. House Oversight Committee for five years during which time he ran the joint committee in the Waco investigations.

TOPIC: Executive Overreach – Biden Signs 17 Orders.

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Democrats introduce bill to make Washington, D.C. the 51st State

Democrats introduce bill to make Washington D.C. the 51st State that a one party communist state is virtually assured. And mind you, it’s only week one.

Imagine if a hostile enemy state managed to hijack a U.S, Presidential election and then proceeded to reign, what would they be doing any differently than the fraudulent Biden administration?

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Illegitimate ‘President’ Biden to STOP oil and gas sales on public lands

EVERY action of the fraudulent administration is hostile to Americans.

Biden issues 60 day moratorium on federal land drilling – despite saying he would NEVER ban fracking – after killing thousands of jobs by canceling the $9BN Keystone XL pipeline

  • The Biden administration is expected to announce a temporary suspension of new oil and gas leasing on U.S. federal lands and waters on Wednesday
  • President Joe Biden will make the announcement as part of a second batch of executive orders aimed at combating climate change
  • The policy is an abrupt about-face from his predecessor Donald Trump who sought to maximize the country’s oil, gas and coal output
  • Biden had vowed to ban new federal oil and gas drilling during his campaign for the White House
  • The orders will impact large swathes of acreage onshore in mostly Western states, as well as offshore drilling acreage located mainly in the Gulf of Mexico
  • It could lead to the loss of 2.8 million jobs directly linked to the industries

By Associated Press and James Gordon For Dailymail.com, 26 January 2021

President Joe Biden is set to announce a wide-ranging moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on U.S. lands and waters, as his administration moves quickly to reverse Trump administration policies on energy and the environment and address climate change – but it will also lead to the loss of tens of thousands of jobs.

Two people with knowledge of Biden´s plans outlined the proposed moratorium, which will be announced Wednesday. They asked not to be identified because the plan has not been made been public; some details remain in flux.

The move follows a 60-day suspension of new drilling permits for U.S. lands and waters announced last week and follows Biden´s campaign pledge to halt new drilling on federally controlled land and water as part of his plan to address climate change.

The Biden administration is expected to announce a temporary suspension of new oil and gas leasing on U.S. federal lands and waters on Wednesday

The moratorium is intended to allow time for officials to review the impact of oil and gas drilling on the environment and climate.

Environmental groups hailed the expected moratorium as the kind of urgent action needed to slow climate change.

‘The fossil fuel industry has inflicted tremendous damage on the planet. The administration´s review, if done correctly, will show that filthy fracking and drilling must end for good, everywhere,’ said Kierán Suckling, executive director at the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group that has pushed for the drilling pause.

Oil industry groups, however, slammed the move, saying Biden had already eliminated thousands of oil and gas jobs by killing the Keystone XL oil pipeline on his first day in office.

President Joe Biden will make the announcement as part of a second batch of executive orders aimed at combating climate change

‘This is just the start. It will get worse,’ said Brook Simmons, president of the Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma. ‘Meanwhile, the laws of physics, chemistry and supply and demand remain in effect. Oil and natural gas prices are going up, and so will home heating bills, consumer prices and fuel costs.’

‘In the first couple of days of the new administration, they are taking actions that will harm the economy and cost Americans their jobs,’ said Frank Macchiarola, a senior vice president of policy for the American Petroleum Institute. ‘We’re concerned, and everyone in the country should be concerned.’

A 2017 report produced by the American Petroleum Institute (API), a trade and lobbying association, suggests nearly 2.8 million jobs are directly linked to fossil fuels with a further 5.3 million in sectors sustained by the spending of oil and gas companies.

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Tulsi Gabbard SLAMS Adam Schiff, John Brennan, Big Tech as ‘DOMESTIC ENEMIES’ more dangerous than Capitol protesters

She slams Adam Schiff, John Brennan, Big Tech as “domestic enemies” more dangerous than Capitol protesters. Coming from a Democrat …..

Tulsi Gabbard slams Adam Schiff, John Brennan, and Big Tech as ‘domestic enemies’ more dangerous than Capitol rioters

By Emma Colton, Washington Examiner | January 26, 2021:

Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard slammed Rep. Adam Schiff, Big Tech, and former CIA director John Brennan as “domestic enemies” who are more dangerous than the rioters who stormed the Capitol.

“The mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 to try to stop Congress from carrying out its constitutional responsibilities were behaving like domestic enemies of our country,” Gabbard said in a video she posted to her Twitter account Tuesday morning.

The mob who stormed the capitol to try to stop Congress from carrying out its constitutional responsibilities were behaving like domestic enemies of our country. But let us be clear, the John Brennan’s, Adam Schiffs and the oligarchs in Big Tech who are… pic.twitter.com/Q3VssCiz5l
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) January 26, 2021

“But let’s be clear, the John Brennans, Adam Schiffs, and the oligarchs in Big Tech who are trying to undermine our constitutionally protected rights and turn our country into a police state with KGB-style surveillance are also domestic enemies, and much more powerful, and therefore dangerous, than the mob that stormed the Capitol,” she added.

The former Hawaii congresswoman has repeatedly slammed a bill proposed by Schiff to combat domestic terrorism. She also has taken issue with Brennan’s comments that Biden’s nominees “are now moving in laser-like fashion to try to uncover as much as they can” on activities he says are similar to “insurgency movements.”

Gabbard broke with many in her party late last year when she said former President Donald Trump had her support in terminating Section 230, which provides liability protections to internet publishers.

“@realDonaldTrump I fully support you on this. Please don’t back down. The freedom and future of our country is at stake,” Gabbard tweeted on Dec. 3.

She also introduced a bill that would ban abortions once a baby in the womb can feel pain, as well as another anti-abortion bill that would protect babies born after an attempted abortion.

Gabbard announced last year that she wouldn’t seek reelection for her seat in Congress and would instead focus on her presidential campaign, which she ultimately lost.

In her Tuesday video, she also called upon Biden to denounce those in power who threaten to take “away our civil liberties endowed to us by our Creator.”

“I call upon you, and all members of Congress from both parties to denounce these efforts by the likes of Brennan and others to take away our civil liberties that are endowed to us by our Creator and guaranteed in our Constitution. If you don’t stand up to these people now, then our country will be in great peril,” she said.

TULSI GABBARD: DOMESTIC-TERRORISM BILL IS “A TARGETING OF ALMOST HALF OF THE COUNTRY”

By Brittany Bernstein, National review, January 23, 2021:

Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic representative from Hawaii, on Friday expressed concern that a proposed measure to combat domestic terrorism could be used to undermine civil liberties.

Gabbard’s comments came during an appearance on Fox News Primetime when host Brian Kilmeade asked her if she was “surprised they’re pushing forward with this extra surveillance on would-be domestic terror.”

“It’s so dangerous as you guys have been talking about, this is an issue that all Democrats, Republicans, independents, Libertarians should be extremely concerned about, especially because we don’t have to guess about where this goes or how this ends,” Gabbard said.

She continued: “When you have people like former CIA Director John Brennan openly talking about how he’s spoken with or heard from appointees and nominees in the Biden administration who are already starting to look across our country for these types of movements similar to the insurgencies they’ve seen overseas, that in his words, he says make up this unholy alliance of religious extremists, racists, bigots, he lists a few others and at the end, even libertarians.”

She said her concern lies in how officials will define the characteristics they are searching for in potential threats.

“What characteristics are we looking for as we are building this profile of a potential extremist, what are we talking about? Religious extremists, are we talking about Christians, evangelical Christians, what is a religious extremist? Is it somebody who is pro-life? Where do you take this?” Gabbard said.

She said the proposed legislation could create “a very dangerous undermining of our civil liberties, our freedoms in our Constitution, and a targeting of almost half of the country.”
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“You start looking at obviously, have to be a white person, obviously likely male, libertarians, anyone who loves freedom, liberty, maybe has an American flag outside their house, or people who, you know, attended a Trump rally,” Gabbard said.

The Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2021 was introduced in the House earlier this week in the aftermath of rioting at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month that left five dead.

“Unlike after 9/11, the threat that reared its ugly head on January 6th is from domestic terror groups and extremists, often racially-motivated violent individuals,” Representative Brad Schneider (D., Ill.) said in a statement announcing the bipartisan legislation.

“America must be vigilant to combat those radicalized to violence, and the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act gives our government the tools to identify, monitor and thwart their illegal activities. Combatting the threat of domestic terrorism and white supremacy is not a Democratic or Republican issue, not left versus right or urban versus rural. Domestic Terrorism is an American issue, a serious threat the we can and must address together,” he said.

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No More Hard Questions: Biden Team Considers Banning Conservative Media from Press Briefings

This is fascist America.

No More Hard Questions: Biden Team Considers Banning Conservative Media from Press Briefings

By Jim Hoft, The Gateway Pundit, January 27, 2021:

In January 2017 the Gateway Pundit announced we would be represented in the Trump White House with a reporter at the daily briefings.

The liberals did not take the news well and our reporter Lucian Wintrich was attacked nearly every day he set his foot into the press room. Lucian was even accosted and harassed at one point by the vicious reporter-activists in the room.

It was clear during the Trump years that the media’s goal was to smear President Trump and ignore his successes. They were threatened by any real news outlet. It is not a surprise that today the media is not trusted and despised by a significant segment of the population.
Maybe it’s all the lying?

The Biden regime is not taking any chances with confrontations by real reporters. Earlier this week Biden’s deputy press secretary announced that “conspiracy” organizations will no longer be allowed in the White House… By that, he means conservative outlets.

Like their president, they are not willing or capable of answering difficult questions on their insane policies.

Via Big League Politics:

President Joe Biden’s press team may move to restrict the briefings held at the White House to liberal mainstream media outlets, if language from the new President’s deputy press secretary if more than just talk.

“Organizations or individuals who traffic in conspiracy theories, propaganda and lies to spread disinformation will not be tolerated,” TJ Ducklo, Biden’s deputy press secretary, said in a statement to Politico, “and we’ll work with the WHCA to decide how to handle those instances moving forward.”

Given liberal media figures’ extremely wide-ranging definition of “disinformation,” it appears possible to likely that any journalist or reporter who is critical of Biden policies “will not be tolerated” at the White House.

Of course, it should be noted that anything to the right of Joseph Stalin is considered “conspiracy” by today’s far-left gatekeepers.

Questioning climate science, reporting on election fraud, or exposing flawed COVID science will get you banned and silenced by the elites.

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New York Times Details Horrors of Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban,’ Ignores Victims of Jihad Attacks

The New York Times story opens with a scene of unmitigated horror: “On May 30, 2019, Mohamed Abdulrahman Ahmed should have been in class preparing for exams. Instead, neighbors found the gifted high school senior hanging lifeless from a beam in his home in the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya. He had taken his own life.” Since this is the New York Times, it comes as no surprise that the ultimate culprit is none other than Donald J. Trump, and his nefarious “Muslim Ban” that his wise successor’s handlers have now consigned to the dustbin of history.

Times author Ty McCormick does his best to tug at our heartstrings as he describes Dadaab, “a sea of sand and thorn scrub and makeshift tarpaulin dwellings” that is “home to more than 200,000 people — a city the size of Richmond, Va., or Spokane, Wash., except without electricity or running water.”

It’s a place absolutely mired in despair, but “over the years, refugees in Dadaab have clung to one hope: resettlement overseas, sometimes in Europe or Canada but mostly in the United States. Tens of thousands of Dadaab’s residents have come to the United States; in 2015, for instance, more than 3,000 people from the camp were resettled there.”

But then came the reign of the Evil One: “Those hopes of a better life were dashed on Jan. 27, 2017, when on his eighth day as president, Donald Trump suspended all refugee admissions and banned entry to citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, including Somalia. (Restrictions were eventually applied to 13 countries in all.)”

It’s a predictable sob story about how hard the residents of Dadaab have had it since they have been unable to come to America. One is moved to tears, but when one begins to consider the issue rationally, other considerations inevitably intrude: there are people who are having hard times all over the world. In fact, there are even people who are having hard times in the United States of America. There are people who are suffering economically, like the people in Dadaab. There are people who are suffering physically, emotionally, mentally, and in other ways. All over the world, there is suffering and pain. Why, then, is it the moral responsibility of the United States of America to alleviate the suffering of the people of Dadaab? No one in Kenya or Somalia or France or China or Australia or anywhere else is doing a thing to alleviate the sufferings of Americans; why is it up to Americans, all of whom are suffering in various ways themselves, to alleviate the suffering of everyone else?

Meanwhile, what about the suffering of those whose lives were destroyed by Somali migrants who came into the country before Trump’s travel ban came into effect? Can we get a New York Times article on them? Somali Muslim migrant Mohammad Barry in February 2016 stabbed multiple patrons at a restaurant owned by an Israeli Arab Christian. When is the New York Times going to interview the people whom Barry stabbed, and publish a piece about how they have suffered, and how their lives forever changed that day? When is the New York Times going to write a piece about the other people who were in the restaurant that day, and explore their trauma, their horror, their terror, and the nightmares and anxiety they have experienced since then?

When does the New York Times plan to profile the victims of Dahir Adan, another Somali Muslim migrant, who in October 2016 stabbed mall shoppers in St. Cloud while screaming “Allahu akbar”? Do Adan’s victims get a New York Times article about their injuries, their healing processes, any operations they may have had to undergo, and their own ongoing trauma and fear?

How about the victims of Abdul Razak Artan, yet another Somali Muslim migrant, who in November 2016 injured nine people with car and knife attacks at Ohio State University? Does the New York Times plan to explain to us how the victims whom Artan tried to run down with his car (in an instance of the common phenomenon of vehicular jihad) now find their hearts racing at the prospect of having to cross the street?

Of course, the New York Times is not going to publish even a single line about the suffering of those people and others like them, or even consider the possibility that Trump’s travel bans did anything but harm. Only the suffering of the people of Dadaab and others like them, not the suffering of victims of jihad attacks, matters to the Times. The suffering of the people of Dadaab is very real, and should be addressed, but is the only solution, or the best solution, really the resettlement in the United States of large numbers of people among whom is an unknowable number of jihad terrorists, who will enter undetected since any vetting to try to discover them will be deemed “Islamophobic”?

There will soon be new victims of Biden’s handlers’ marvelous, multicultural discarding of the “Muslim Ban.” The New York Times will ignore them, while congratulating themselves on how they helped install a president who strikes back against “racism” and “xenophobia.”

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TAKE ACTION: Bed Bath & Beyond, Kohl’s, Kroger cancel American made ‘My Pillow’ but sells merchandise from Communist China.

See THREE EMAILS prepared below one to send to each company.

Bed Bath and BeyondKohl’s and Kroger stopped selling American manufactured My Pillow because of the owner’s political beliefs.  But ALL THREE companies are major retailers of products made in Communist China.  Consider these three articles:

BED BATH AND BEYOND:  Thestreet.com headline:   Bed Bath & Beyond Plunges 21% After Slashing Sales Forecast on China Tariffs.  The article states in part:  Bed Bath and Beyond Inc. (BBBY) – Get Report shares plunged Thursday after the struggling home retailer posted much-weaker-than-expected second quarter earnings and cited the impact of trade tariffs on China-made goods as it slashed its sales and profit target for the rest of the year.

KOHL’S:  Supplytraindive.com headline:  Kohl’s prepares for diminishing gross margins amid tariff hike.  The article states in part:  Kohl’s lowered its outlook for gross margin rate by 20 to 30 basis points for the year due to the tariff hike from 10% to 25% on $200 billion worth of goods from China, executives told analysts on the retailer’s first quarter earnings call. “That increase wasn’t contemplated when we first put out our guidance,” said CEO Michelle Gass.  “China is not our largest source of merchandise, but it is a big one,” CFO Bruce Besanko said on the call. He said the retailer sources just over 20% of its goods from China.

KROGER:  Reuters headline:  Kroger partners with Alibaba in China grocery sales venture.  The article states in part:   Kroger Co KR.N has partnered with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd BABA.N to sell nuts, supplements and other products in China, venturing outside the United States for the first time in what is fast becoming a fierce global battle to dominate online grocery sales.

Bed Bath and Beyond, Kohl’s and Kroger find Mike Lindell’s freedom of speech and political beliefs offensive enough to drop My Pillow which is “Made in America” but appears to have no problem with Communist China’s tyrannical treatment of its citizens including the 1 million Uighurs that have been forcibly detained by the Chinese government in a widespread network of prison like facilities.  Bed Bath and Beyond, Kohl’s and Kroger are so deeply troubled by Mike Lindell’s constitutionally protected speech that it cancels business relations with him but these companies do not react the same way regarding its products made in Communist China which imprison citizens if they express a political opinion different from the party.  There is no First Amendment free speech in China.

Bed Bath and Beyond, Kohl’s and Kroger’s un-American freedom denying reaction to Mike Lindell is incomprehensible considering these companies’ trade with Communist China.

Florida Family Association has prepared THREE EMAILS for you to send one for each company.

BED BATH AND BEYOND

Click here to send your email to Bed Bath and Beyond.  (For Gmail, Yahoo and other email clients that require comma separation of addresses.)  YAHOO works best in Yahoo Mobile App, not so well with internet browser.

Click here to send your email to Bed Bath and Beyond.  (For Outlook and other email clients that require semicolon separation of addresses.)

KOHL’S

Click here to send your email to Kohl’s.  (For Gmail, Yahoo and other email clients that require comma separation of addresses.)  YAHOO works best in Yahoo Mobile App, not so well with internet browser.

Click here to send your email to Kohl’s.  (For Outlook and other email clients that require semicolon separation of addresses.)

KROGER

Click here to send your email to Kroger.  (For Gmail, Yahoo and other email clients that require comma separation of addresses.)  YAHOO works best in Yahoo Mobile App, not so well with internet browser.

Click here to send your email to Kroger.  (For Outlook and other email clients that require semicolon separation of addresses.)

These emails will open in your email browser because these companies are is blocking normal form emails sent through the Florida Family Association email server.  If the above link does not open in your email browser or if the email is returned to you please prepare an email using the suggested subject line, content and email addresses provided below. Please feel free to change the wording.

BED BATH AND BEYOND

Suggested subject line:

Bed Bath Beyond cancellation of My Pillow given its sale of products from Communist China is incomprehensible.

Suggested content:

It is truly disheartening that Bed Bath and Beyond finds Mike Lindell’s freedom of speech and political beliefs offensive enough to drop My Pillow which is Made in America but appears to have no problem with Communist China’s tyrannical treatment of its citizens including the 1 million Uighurs that have been forcibly detained by the Chinese government in prisonlike facilities.  Bed Bath and Beyond’s un-American freedom denying reaction to Mike Lindell is incomprehensible considering its trade with Communist China.  I will remember your decision when in the marketplace.

Email String separated by commas

mark.tritton@bedbath.com,
gustavo.arnal@bedbath.com,
ir@bedbath.com

Email String separated by semicolons

mark.tritton@bedbath.com;
gustavo.arnal@bedbath.com;
ir@bedbath.com

Contact information:

Mark J. Tritton
President and Chief Executive Officer
mark.tritton@bedbath.com

Gustavo Arnal
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Treasure
gustavo.arnal@bedbath.com

KOHL’S

Suggested subject line:

Kohls cancellation of My Pillow given its sale of products from Communist China is incomprehensible.

Suggested content:

It is truly disheartening that Kohls finds the freedom of speech and political beliefs of Mike Lindell offensive enough to drop My Pillow which is Made in America but appears to have no problem with the tyrannical treatment by Communist China against its citizens including the 1 million Uighurs that are forcibly detained in prison like facilities.  The un-American and freedom denying reaction by Kohls toward Mike Lindell is incomprehensible considering your trade with Communist China.  I will remember your decision when shopping.

Email String separated by commas

michelle.gass@kohls.com,
doug.howe@kohls.com,
jill.timm@kohls.com

Email String separated by semicolons

michelle.gass@kohls.com;
doug.howe@kohls.com;
jill.timm@kohls.com

Contact information:

Michelle Gass, Chief Executive Officer
michelle.gass@kohls.com

Doug Howe, Chief Merchandising
doug.howe@kohls.com

Jill Timm, Chief Financial Officer
jill.timm@kohls.com

KROGER

Suggested subject line:

Kroger cancellation of My Pillow given its sale of products from Communist China is incomprehensible.

Suggested content:

It is truly disheartening that Kroger finds the freedom of speech and political beliefs of Mike Lindell offensive enough to drop My Pillow which is Made in America but appears to have no problem with the tyrannical treatment by Communist China against its citizens including the 1 million Uighurs that are forcibly detained in prison like facilities.  The un-American and freedom denying reaction by Kroger toward Mike Lindell is incomprehensible considering your trade with Communist China.  I will remember your decision when shopping.

Email String separated by commas

rodney.mcmullen@kroger.com,
gary.millerchip@kroger.com,
michael.donnelly@kroger.com

Email String separated by semicolons

rodney.mcmullen@kroger.com;
gary.millerchip@kroger.com;
michael.donnelly@kroger.com

Contact information:

W. Rodney McMullen
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
rodney.mcmullen@kroger.com

Michael J. Donnelly
Chief Operating Officer
michael.donnelly@kroger.com

Gary Millerchip
Chief Financial Officer
gary.millerchip@kroger.com

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VIDEO: Biden describes America as ‘morally deprived because of systemic racism’

So much for unity. Biden in an incoherent video said that America, and therefore a vast majority of Americans, are “a nation of morally deprived because of systemic racism.”

The newspeak and Biden’s battle cry to impose fascism in America is “systemic racism.”

Is there Systemic Racism in America?

It is important to look at the data which is available to Biden. The most recent database of statistics on hate crimes in America is maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

According to the FBI’s 2018 Hate Crime Statistics there were “8,819 victims of hate crimes. Of these victims, 173 were victimized in separate multiple-bias incidents…Of the 6,698 individuals for which victim age data were reported in 2018, 5,986 hate crime victims were adults, and 712 hate crime victims were juveniles.”

Of the 8,819 victims of hate crimes, according to the FBI, 5,256 (59.6%) were targeted because of the offenders’ bias against race/ethnicity/ancestry.

Of these, 4,154 were victims of crimes motivated by offenders’ anti-Black or African American bias.

Therefore of the 330,000,000 people who live in America only 0.00125% of them experienced an anti-black/African American hate crime in 2018, according to the most recent FBI data available.

QUESTION: How is this .00125% systemic racism?

Analyzing Biden’s Statement

Biden said,

I believe we are in a battle for the soul of this nation. And the simple truth is our soul be troubled as long as systemic racism is allowed to persist. We can’t eliminate ‘zimply’ overnight. We can’t ‘eliminate everthing.’ But it’s corrosive, it’s destructive and it’s costly. It costs every American. Not just who felt the sting of racial injustice. We’re not just less of a – We’re not just a nation of morally deprived because of systemic racism. We’re also less prosperous. We’re less successful. We’re less secure.”

There is no systemic racism in America. However there are those who are “morally deprived” in the Biden family.

In a December, 2020 Wall Street Journal article titled “Hunter Biden’s Family Name Aided Deals With Foreign Tycoons” James T. Areddy and Andrew Duehren wrote:

Hunter Biden ramped up business activities with European and Chinese tycoons as his father exited the vice presidency four years ago. For him it was a potential path to income; for the tycoons, the Biden family name promised to burnish their reputations.

The dealings got the younger Mr. Biden a discounted stake in a private-equity firm in China and consulting arrangements with a Romanian property magnate and overall allowed him to maintain a globe-trotting lifestyle, according to interviews, documents and communications reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. A Chinese energy tycoon [Shanghai energy entrepreneur Ye Jianming] gave Mr. Biden a 2.8-carat diamond, and entities linked to him wired nearly $5 million to Mr. Biden’s law firm, according to an investigation by Senate Republicans.

[ … ]

By 2017, Mr. Ye and Hunter Biden had struck up a relationship leading to the formation of the joint venture, which also included Mr. Biden’s uncle, James Biden, who owns an investment firm and has been associated with his brother’s political campaigns. James Biden said he and Hunter helped Mr. Ye get his daughter into an exclusive Manhattan private school, according to text messages the Journal reviewed. James Biden didn’t respond to questions.

“I was his first guest at his new apartment he cooked me lunch himself and we ate in the kitchen together,” Hunter Biden wrote in one message to a business associate after visiting Mr. Ye’s $50 million New York penthouse. “He has me helping on a number of his personal issues.”

Read more.

Here is a short list of those Biden’s who are morally deprived:

  • Hunter Biden. Crack and Heroin addict. Using the Big Guys’ help, when he was Vice President, to gain access to key figures in China and Ukraine to gain massive wealth.
  • James Biden. Using the Big Guys’ help, when his brother was Vice President, to gain access to key figures in China and gain massive wealth.
  • Joe Biden. Who was endorsed and then eulogized former Democrat Senator Robert Byrd from West Virginia, who was a recruiter for the Klan while in his 20s and 30s, rising to the title of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter.

Conclusion

Those who live in a glass house should not be throwing stones. Especially not at the American people who are not systemically racist.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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‘Canceling’ Student Debt is Unfair to Graduates Like Me Who Sacrificed to Pay Off Our Loans

I gave up a lot to accomplish what I did, but debt ‘forgiveness’ would punish taxpayers like me for our hard work and frugality.


A year after graduating from college, I was able to pay off my student loans in full. Now, President Biden wants me to pay for my peers who have yet to do the same.

Biden’s platform includes “student loan forgiveness” of at least $10,000 per person. Meanwhile, Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer have proposed $50,000 in debt forgiveness per individual. On its surface, this sounds generous. American student loan debt is nearing $1.6 trillion, and the cost of college is higher than ever. But what does this “forgiveness” entail on a moral level?

Loans are not “forgiven” or magically disappeared. They are paid off by taxpayers. Whether it is through higher taxes, printing more money, or contributing directly from the national debt, you and I will end up being the ones that pay for it. The United States is already over $27 trillion in debt and $125 trillion deep in unfunded liabilities.

Essentially, the debt burden is shifted off of the shoulders of those who signed the loans and on to everyone who pays federal taxes. If you’re like me, that’s fundamentally unfair.

Paying off my student loans was a concerted effort that took sacrifice. I started working after graduating from SUNY Albany in 2018. Following Dave Ramsey’s financial plan, I cut my living expenses, took on a side gig, and threw all that I could at my $27,000 in student loans.

I cooked my own meals and bought the most affordable groceries. Although I could afford an apartment, I chose to live in subsidized company housing one-and-a-half hours away from my workplace. Commuting for 15 hours a week was part of the price I paid to square my debt sooner.

I packed lunch most days, even when I had to wake up early to do so. It saved money at the cost of the convenience of eating out. Some nights after work I stayed up late to do freelance translation work instead of enjoying leisure time. I gave up a lot to accomplish what I did, but debt “forgiveness” would punish taxpayers like me for our hard work and frugality—just so others don’t have to take responsibility for their own choices.

Rather than stopping at saying that student loan forgiveness is unfair (it is), or that we can’t afford it (we can’t), we should take a deeper look at the root of the debate surrounding student loans. The student loan forgiveness camp is operating from the assumption that people are entitled to a college education and other peoples’ hard work. It codifies in policy the idea that adults are not responsible for their own actions (i.e. taking on debt). In a free society, I am not entitled to a college education and neither is anyone else.

Taking out a loan is a choice, and personal responsibility shouldn’t be supplanted by taxpayer bailouts. “Canceling” student loans means penalizing people like me for honoring my word and repaying the debt I chose to accept.

COLUMN BY

Matthew Noyes

Mathew Noyes graduated from SUNY Albany summa cum laude with majors in Political Science and Japanese Language. He is a columnist at Lone Conservative.

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Is ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’ Newspeak for Economic Fascism?

The changes favored by the ‘Great Reset’ movement would force businesses to serve the interests of ruling elites and leave true stakeholders out in the cold.


Leaders of the World Economic Forum are seeking to implement a Great Reset of capitalism whereby “global stakeholders” cooperate to achieve “shared goals.” In the true spirit of not letting a crisis go to waste, they see the COVID-19 pandemic as presenting a unique opportunity to push their agenda.

“The level of cooperation and ambition this implies is unprecedented. But it is not some impossible dream,” World Economic Forum Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab recently observed. “In fact, one silver lining of the pandemic is that it has shown how quickly we can make radical changes to our lifestyles.”

Of course, when they say “our lifestyles” they mean your lifestyle, not their own. Their preferred vehicle for achieving their goals is other people’s businesses. In short, what they want is for private businesses to serve the interests of their own curated list of stakeholders rather than (as they see it) concentrating on returning profits to business owners. They want governments to pass laws and tax regimes to cajole businesses towards their favored ends. Since this arrangement still involves a modicum of private ownership of the means of production, they call it “Stakeholder Capitalism.”

It is important to recognize the subversive use of language here. Such a system is all about sidelining the true stakeholders, and undermining capitalism. This is Orwellian Newspeak at its best, since it misuses the word “stakeholder” and is actually closer to economic fascism than capitalism.

There is one reliable way to know if a business is serving the needs of stakeholders: profit and loss. Absent any government bailouts or monopoly privileges, the higher the level of profit, the greater the degree to which stakeholders’ needs have been balanced and served.

Profit means value has been created for all stakeholders, by turning resources into finished goods that people value more highly than the resources used to make them. Losses indicate that scarce resources have been wasted and value destroyed, turning out finished goods that are worth less than the resources that went into them.

In order to please customers and generate profits in a world of uncertainty, companies need entrepreneurial insight to decide what to produce and in what quantities and varieties. They also need to attract good employees, material suppliers, a management team, and financial resources, all on favorable terms. Any failure will result in losses. Under this arrangement – which could be called unhampered capitalism – a company does not need to be told by some outside expert who their “stakeholders” are.

The profit and loss system offers them the information they need and reveals any mistakes. As Ludwig von Mises explained:

Profits convey control of the factors of production into the hands of those who are employing them for the best possible satisfaction of the most urgent needs of the consumers, and losses withdraw them from the control of the inefficient businessmen. In a market economy not sabotaged by the government the owners of property are mandataries [servants] of the consumers.

When those who seek to modify capitalism speak of “stakeholders” they will often include customers, employees, suppliers and shareholders on their list, to at least give some context. But invariably the aim of these reformers is to extend the list to include nebulous collective entities like “societies” and “communities” or even “global” stakeholders. Since these collectives cannot speak with one voice, these social reformers are all too happy to speak on their behalf and lay out the demands.

Imagine a pizza restaurant, Joe’s Pizza. They exist in a society, which includes:

A: people who enjoy eating Joe’s pizzas

B: people responsible for supplying the pizzas (at all levels of the supply chain)

C: everybody else

It is easy to see who the stakeholders are. Group A profits in pizza, which they prefer over the money they offer for it; Group B profits through remuneration which they also prefer. The entrepreneur, being the residual claimant, profits only if they do. Meanwhile, Group C is unaffected, being left alone to do other things they prefer above eating or producing pizza at the prices offered.

It is possible there exists a fourth group:

D: those who suffer a negative externality, such as neighbors who put up with bad smells or rats coming from Joe’s bins.

This fourth group ought to have a legal right to compel Joe’s to properly deal with their waste. Assuming this group has their property rights protected (thus joining group C), “society as a whole” is definitively better off from this endeavor, since all actions involved were voluntary. People either benefited from Joe’s, or were left no worse off. It is the job of entrepreneurs to coordinate this socially beneficial process, and profits or losses indicate success or failure.

Nobody serves “all members of society” directly. Yet all members of society, including group C, are benefited indirectly through this process, even those who cannot afford the products of the firm.

A highly profitable activity indicates an urgently felt need of consumers that is being underserved. The entrepreneurial process impels other entrepreneurs who see this profit signpost to move additional resources into this area. Alternatively, the reporting of losses becomes a signpost to avoid further destruction of value, freeing up resources for a more urgent need.

Through this process, consumer goods become increasingly more affordable, exhausting fewer resources in the process, and people’s productive efforts become increasingly valued.

When global re-setters insist that “all” stakeholders should be represented, what they really mean is “I neither eat pizza nor help to produce pizza… but WHAT IS THE PIZZA SHOP DOING FOR ME?!”

It is a boldfaced attempt to substitute the interests of non-stakeholders for the interests of stakeholders, using surreptitious language to blur the line.

“Society as a whole” has no unified goal, and if it did there would be no way to ascertain what it was. So those who try to install “society” as a stakeholder in the activities of corporations, are eager to insert their own goals and interests.

Murray Rothbard puts it well:

Whenever someone begins to talk about ‘society’ or ‘society’s’ interest coming before ‘mere individuals and their interest,’ a good operative rule is: guard your pocketbook. And guard yourself! Because behind the facade of ‘society,’ there is always a group of power-hungry doctrinaires and exploiters, ready to take your money and to order your actions and your life. For, somehow, they ‘are’ society!

A better way to understand society is the sum total of all voluntary interactions between individual people. Voluntary activity is pro-social, while use of coercive force is antisocial. Those who want to hyphenate capitalism invariably prefer the use of government force over voluntary interaction.

It is important to understand how those who claim to represent the interests of non-stakeholders (by holding out their hand for a piece of the action) are actually doing social harm. If companies end up masking their level of profitability in order to appear more ‘ethical’ and placate the mob, the process of market alignment that indirectly benefits everybody is hampered. Resources that ought to be moved into an underserved area of production are not, as the ‘profit signal’ has been obscured.

Elsewhere, further resources are wasted as the ‘loss signal’ is cloaked by bailouts.

“Critics may consider eliminating the profit motive the equivalent of giving the Tin Man from Oz a heart; in fact it’s much more like Oedipus’ gouging out his own eyes,” as Professor Steve Horwitz put it rather brilliantly.

As this Wall Street Journal article explains, profits and losses keep corporate leaders honest, whilst a so-called stakeholder view allows them to be opaque or even corrupt. So our “great resetters,” in order to substitute their own interests for the interests of others, need to destroy the profit and loss system, leaving only their own will backed by force to guide productive efforts.

Let’s now turn our attention to the second weasel word in “stakeholder capitalism.” If you are confused about whether national socialism (a.k.a Nazism) is indeed a form of socialism, you should read this article and this one and this one.

Socialism means the abolition of private ownership of the means of production in favor of mythical “collective ownership,” but the brutal reality is that it is a system of forceful centralized control.

In the same vein, “for fascism the state is absolute, individuals and corporations [are] relative” said Mussolini. Either way, the holders of centralized power, by controlling production, control your life. They become the solitary “stakeholder” in all decisions involving material resources.

As Ludwig von Mises showed, without real private ownership there is no buying and selling and therefore no market price system, so the planners have no way of knowing what people value. They are flying blind, creating chaos in place of economic coordination. For his scathing but inescapable insights Mises had the honor of being intellectual enemy number one of both the Nazis and the Soviets.

In what Mises called Russian style socialism, the owner of the widget factory would be shot or sent the gulag, to be replaced by a party apparatchik, often with no background in widget production at all. Not only would there be no way of knowing whether widgets were socially beneficial, but you wouldn’t get very good widgets anyway.

Under what Mises called German style socialism, the former owner of the widget factory would be left nominally in charge, but made into a party apparatchik, using as much coercive pressure as necessary to force him to serve the interests of the state. This ownership in name only, is why people sometimes confuse national socialism with capitalism rather than correctly identifying it as another path to socialism. Resources are de-facto nationalized by different means.

Under this system, there is also no way of knowing whether widget production is socially beneficial, since the widget factory is following state orders rather than responding to consumers. But nevertheless, by retaining knowledge from the past, things would still get produced, whether they are goods or “bads.” This is why Germany was able to produce abundant planes and other war machines in World War II – by harnessing private expertise for state ends; by the “merger of state and corporate power.”

Under German style Socialism, Mises explained, even before the outbreak of war, former capitalists were reduced to the status of “shop managers”, and:

No German capitalist or entrepreneur (shop manager) or anyone else is free to spend money on his consumption than the government considers adequate to his rank and position in the service of the nation… Nobody is free to buy more food and clothing than the allotted ration. Rents are frozen; furniture and all other goods are unattainable… Travel abroad is permitted only on government errands… German corporations are not free to distribute their profits to the shareholders. The amount of the dividends is strictly limited according to a highly complicated legal technique… For many years German business has not been in a position to replace its equipment… Warring Germany lives on its capital stock, i.e., on the capital nominally and seemingly owned by its capitalists.

This is a picture of “stakeholder capitalism” made manifest. To varying extents, all governments adopt these kinds of policies during wars or pandemics using what Robert Higgs calls the ratchet effect. This is why groups like the World Economic Forum view the COVID-19 crisis as a great opportunity.

I am not suggesting that Klaus Schwab and cadre aim to produce Messerschmitts and mustard gas. But whatever their goals are, if they were socially beneficial then no force and no “great reset” would be required to achieve them – people would voluntarily cooperate toward those ends. By contrast, the apparent need to overturn market cooperation using government coercion indicates their agenda is one that suits the elite, to the detriment of the voluntary society.

A system that replaces the goals of true stakeholders with the iron will of ruling elites, which retains nominal private ownership, but uses government force to pressure firms to serve centrally determined goals, looks and smells an awful lot like economic fascism.

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Mark Hornshaw

Mark Hornshaw is a lecturer in Economics, Entrepreneurship and Management at The University of Notre Dame Australia.

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New Research Debunks Claim That a $15 Minimum Wage Would Not Reduce Employment

A new paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research finds a “clear preponderance” of evidence that minimum wage laws reduce employment.


President Joe Biden is pushing a federal $15 minimum wage in his sweeping $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, and the policy is only gaining steam in progressive circles. But newly released research undercuts the main argument progressive economists make in favor of minimum wage increases.

new paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research surveys the body of economic research on minimum wage increases and rebuts the notion that empirical data show no impact of increases in minimum wage hikes. The authors find that of all the available research on the subject they reviewed, there is a “clear preponderance” of findings that show a job-killing impact. The documentation of job losses is even more pronounced for teenagers, young adults, and the less-educated.

“[The] body of evidence and its conclusions point strongly toward negative effects of minimum wages on employment of less-skilled workers, especially for the types of studies that would be expected to reveal these negative employment effects most clearly,” economists David Neumark and Peter Shirley write.

This research is a direct rebuttal of one of the most popular pro-minimum-wage-hike arguments offered by progressive economists. They rarely engage directly with the ironclad theory of supply and demand in competitive labor markets that proves the minimum wage causes unemployment just like any other price floor creates surplus.1

Many advocates simply pivot to empiricism and handwave about “the data” not showing any impact.

“There’s just no evidence that raising the minimum wage costs jobs, at least when the starting point is as low as it is in modern America,” economist turned left-wing New York Times  columnist Paul Krugman has argued. (Reversing his own former position). Similarly, economist and former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen recently reversed her prior position during a confirmation hearing for her political position as the Biden administration’s Treasury Secretary. Now, she argues that the research suggests a “very minimal” impact on employment from minimum wage increases.

The same argument has pervaded through much of academia.

“The last decade has seen a wealth of rigorous academic research on the effect of minimum wage increases on employment, with the weight of evidence showing that previous, modest increases in the minimum wage had little or no negative effects on the employment of lowwage workers,” reads a letter signed by prominent pro-minimum-wage economists in 2019.

But this new research, after surveying the field of empirical evidence, finds that reaching these progressive economists’ conclusions “requires discarding or ignoring most of the evidence.”

When the government mandates a price for labor—aka a minimum wage—that exceeds the market rate, employers will inevitably purchase less labor. It’s just like consumers would purchase less soda if the government arbitrarily mandated higher prices for it than what it’s actually worth to people. In fact, that’s the exact point of  “soda taxes” passed in the name of public health; they reduce soda consumption. The same thing happens with labor.

The lucky workers who end up being able to keep their jobs may benefit from the artificially high wage, but many others will not find work at all. As far a federal $15 minimum wage is concerned, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that it would eliminate 1.3 to 3.7 million jobs altogether.

This was before the COVID-19 pandemic. Layoffs would likely be much worse now, with so many small businesses already on the brink of collapse amid lockdowns and a struggling economy.

No amount of empirical squirming can eliminate the reality of trade-offs. Minimum wage proponents bury their heads in the sand in order to argue that you can simply pass a law to miraculously make everyone richer without any consequences. You can’t.

“There are no solutions, there are only trade-offs,” economist Thomas Sowell once observed, “and you try to get the best trade-off you can get, that’s all you can hope for.”

“Economics teaches you that making a choice means giving up something,” economist Russ Roberts has similarly explained.

The job losses that come with minimum wage hikes are a fundamental economic reality. This latest research offers yet another reminder that, no matter how much wish-casting progressives engage in, there’s no escaping trade-offs in public policy.

  1. Some progressive economists engage with supply and demand theory by arguing that if a business has a labor monopsony, aka they are the only employer for that type of labor, then minimum wage increases will not cause unemployment. But this makes little sense, as the types of employers who hire minimum wage workers, such as restaurants, retail stores,  fast food, coffee shops, and so on, have nearly innumerable competitors for other places that will hire workers at the minimum wage.)

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Brad Polumbo

Brad Polumbo (@Brad_Polumbo) is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Opinion Editor at the Foundation for Economic Education.

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