The collateral damage of lockdowns must not be ignored.
In economics, we talk a lot about unintended consequences.
It’s easy to forget that societies are complex ecosystems. Legislators often pass sweeping changes hoping to achieve one result, not realizing it will create countless other consequences not intended.
Some of the unintended consequences will be positive, but many of them will not be. A case in point can be found in new government statistics that show a surge in suicidal thoughts among young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.
One in four young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 say they’ve considered suicide in the past month because of the pandemic, according to new CDC data that paints a bleak picture of the nation’s mental health during the crisis.
The data also flags a surge of anxiety and substance abuse, with more than 40 percent of those surveyed saying they experienced a mental or behavioral health condition connected to the Covid-19 emergency. The CDC study analyzed 5,412 survey respondents between June 24 and 30.
The toll is falling heaviest on young adults, caregivers, essential workers and minorities. While 10.7 percent of respondents overall reported considering suicide in the previous 30 days, 25.5 percent of those between 18 to 24 reported doing so. Almost 31 percent of self-reported unpaid caregivers and 22 percent of essential workers also said they harbored such thoughts. Hispanic and Black respondents similarly were well above the average.
The article says the mental health crisis stems “from the pandemic,” but it’s more accurate to say it stems far more from our collective reaction to the pandemic, not the actual virus.
Locking down economies and ordering healthy people to remain isolated might have succeeded, to some degree, in slowing the spread of the virus. But it was also a surefire way to make people miserable.
Lockdowns result in job loss, anxiety, and despair. Scientists have long known the effects of social isolation aren’t just harmful, but deadly.
A wave of new research suggests social separation is bad for us. Individuals with less social connection have disruptedsleep patterns, alteredimmune systems, moreinflammation and higher levels ofstress hormones.One recent study found that isolation increases the risk of heart disease by 29 percent and stroke by 32 percent.
Another analysis that pooled data from 70 studies and 3.4 million people found that socially isolated individuals had a 30 percent higher risk of dying in the next seven years, and that this effect was largest in middle age.
Loneliness canaccelerate cognitive decline in older adults, and isolated individuals aretwice as likely to die prematurely as those with more robust social interactions. These effects start early:Socially isolated children have significantly poorer health 20 years later, even after controlling for other factors. All told, loneliness is as important a risk factor for early death as obesity and smoking.
Many of the consequences listed here will take years to analyze and document, but we’ve seen glimpses of more immediate unintended consequences already: rampant suicide, surging drug overdoses, increases in domestic violence, economic destruction, and many others.
None of these consequences were intended when lawmakers passed sweeping lockdowns, but that does not make them less real. Nor do pure intentions absolve lawmakers of responsibility.
The famed economist Milton Friedman once observed that perhaps the greatest threat to liberty comes “from men of good intentions and good will who wish to reform us.”
In this case, the well-intentioned seek not to reform us but to protect us. But as Friedman noted, “concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.” Indeed, many of the greatest atrocities in history have been perpetrated by well-meaning people.
Above all else, we must judge lockdowns by their actual results, not what they were designed to do.
If we fail in that, these troubling CDC statistics are likely to become the norm, not the exception.
Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The Federalist, the Epoch Times.
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“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought”– Ronald Reagan
We are at war. Socialism, as an ideological plague, is being spread by political operatives. I call them Socialist Charlatans. In addition to the well-known, well-worn Bernie, the Trojan Horse, the best embodiment of the term Socialist Charlatan presents itself as the New Socialist team of Biden/Harris. Republican pundits are harshly criticizing them as liberals, but I disagree. Ideology must be defined exactly, as in the case of my preceding column in which I characterized socialism as a paradox of incompetence. The real Liberals were practically annihilated by Stalinist forces in the 20th century: a few Libertarians are left, but that’s it. We are dealing now with the hard radical-left regardless ethnicity or race. Read here America’s Socialist Mafia: Putin’s Revenge, August, 12, 2020.
When talking about ideology, language matters, and a coherent strategy against Socialist Charlatans is imperative. That is the reason, I will start with a dictionary definition.
Char·la·tan–a person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge or skill; a fraud. Synonyms: Impostor, fake, cheat, pretender and fraud.
Noun: a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; quack— the characteristic harsh sound made by a duck. Definition from Oxford languages.
A charlatan is a person practicing quackery or some similar confidence trick or deception in order to obtain money, fame or other advantages via some form of pretense or deception. Synonyms for “charlatan” include “shyster”, “quack”, or “faker”. Wikipedia
Watching or hearing the team Biden/Harris next time, please remember the English dictionary—they are a double-fraud, Soviet Style candidates covering-up each other. This double-fraud will try to unify all Democrats by fraudulently claiming they can achieve a progressive utopia. The team is Putin’s revenge to America and Republican Party—Putin wants the chaos in America… There is another term, I introduced which inextricably ties to Socialist Charlatans—America’s Socialist Mafia. As a matter of fact, America’s Socialist Mafia comprises all Socialist Charlatans within the Democrat Party, as has been shown in my column of August 12, 2020. I also have the proof confirming that statement…
The Soviet Mafia – The Words Of A Witness
My colleague, the famous Russian defense attorney from Moscow, Arkady Vaksberg, published a book on the eve of the Soviet Union’s collapse and titled it The Soviet Mafia, St. Martin Press 1991. A brilliant book that gave the Free World a direct projection for the future aggressive war against Western civilization and American capitalism. The book title alone has exposed the Socialist System as a criminal clan within a one-party-system working in a concert with organized crime, spreading the Socialist/Communist ideology globally. I have analyses and the definition of the Soviet Mafia, read: What is Happening to America?The Hidden Truth of Global Destruction pp. 152-154, XLIBRIS, 2012.
I did it because it will be difficult for you to read the entire Soviet Mafia; with its thousand Russian names, both hard for you to pronounce and impossible to remember. The endless spying, falsification, deception, cheating, and fraud will intimidate and threaten you. But the number of murders and assassinations by the Soviet mafia in Russia will make you sick. Knowledge of the Soviet mafia is a must to grasp the chaos, looting, protesting and killing in America 2020. The Soviet mafia is a prototype, an original model of the collaboration of a political party with organized crime aimed at disseminating an ideology across the globe. It is not a coincidence that the KGB was a major force-doer of the Soviet mafia. In the 20th century the Soviet mafia did just that, establishing analogous mafias globally fighting capitalism to implement Socialism. Read my books and columns…
The objective of the Soviet mafia has never changed, but the name of the Soviet mafia logically was changed to Socialist mafia to eradicate the presence of the Soviets. The agenda remains the same and it was easily implemented in America decades ago. The American public is used to using a cosmetic form of Socialism, falsely portrayed by that Trojan Horse, Bernie Sanders and the KGB agent George Soros with impunity for decades. Not knowing the real essence and agenda of the ideology, Americans, the FBI, and Academia have never confronted it professionally and with time the term become a legitimate topic of debates in America. What a shame!
Had you read The Soviet Mafia you wouldn’t be surprised by the recent crusade-sham happening on the Hearing of House Judicial committee during the AG Barr’s testimony. You saw aggressive totalitarian attacks with intimidation and lies by the un-American Congressional Socialist Mafia on AG William P. Barr. I believe he himself didn’t expect such an open assault from the members of Congress. The event has confirmed for him and for us—the radical changes within the Democrat Party happening during the 20th century.
Knowledge is Power.
I am writing this column because I know the Soviet Mafia. It took me several seconds to identify the Trump/Dossier as a fraud and Falshivka, produced by the KGB. The entire predicament was clear to me: the KGB had launched a Global Spy Ring against Trump. Yet, three FBI Directors couldn’t, recognize a fraudulent Dossier and take the actions required. This is the crux of the matter: the FBI, Intel, and DOJ were unable to complete professional investigation of a Global Spy Ring. After four years, several agencies are still in a process of investigations and nobody knows when and how it ends. The Russian saying is right: “…and the mountain gave birth to a mouse.” Justice delayed is Justice denied. Meanwhile America’s Socialist mafia continues destruction of our country in the middle of a biological war…
The Soviet mafia corrupts everything it touches. As a result of the Soviet mafia happenings–democracy is under limitless and endless assault in America and around the world. In America it was predominantly use of the race card play-book by Andropov’s KGB and his Operation Barbarossa to infiltrate simultaneously the FBI, Intel, and media. It is worth to remind you my column titled The Project 1955, a crime that has been going on ever since from the place where violence has come to America—the Kremlin. The Trump accusation of being in Putin’s pockets is a Diversion that took four years of our lives. It had the major goal to distract attention from the real crime, which had been committed by the Democrats leadership for decades—Treason!
Though the Socialist experiment of the USSR is dead, the Soviet mafia is alive and well in Russia. Go to my columns explaining the collapse of the Socialist economy and factual continuation of the term Socialism by Putin’s KGB, which took over after the collapse and now is the leading force in Russia. Putin and several of his oligarch friends are that continuation of the Evil Empire spreading Socialism. Therefore, every holdover from Obama’s Dem clan is radioactive to Trump’s administration. Just look at the Dems-led cities, ruins, chaos, looting, fake protests, and killing, which is a continuation of gigantic cover-up by the Socialist mafia. I called it Putin’s totalitarian putsch against the American Constitutional Republic. Or maybe it is a beginning of Socialist Revolution to destroy America the way Socialism had destroyed the Soviet Union.
The Evidence
The overwhelming infiltration and the ignition of evil into the midst of our soil is confirmed. Please see the infiltration in the FBI and Intel we know today: Bill Binney, the U.S. Government’s top expert on the internet, and on computer hacking stated: DNC emails were not hacked, they were downloaded and physically transported to WikiLeaks. The American Report, CIA Fabricated Russiagate ‘Evidence’, Says Former NSA Tech Chief, by Jim Hayek August 2, 2020.
For your information, I have showed just that in the Clinton mafia’s connections with the Kremlin in my book What is Happening to America? The Hidden Truth of Global Destruction, XLIBRIS, 2012. My latest column describes the members of the Clinton mafia: George Stephanopoulos, John Podesta, Tony Podesta, Terry McAuliffe, and Sidney Blumenthal. Read here my column The Origin of Washington Spy Ring and the Swamp, 3. 30, 2018. The man who physically transported the email was John Podesta.
There is another article where you can learn about Russian Club-K:
The Russian Club-K is a Russian missile. Due to the Obama administration’s decision to award Gulftainer a 35-year lease to Florida’s Port Canaveral cargo container terminal, bypassing the mandated CFIUS … the Russian Club-K can be delivered in Florida…
I predicted the KGB infiltration to our society many years ago, please read my conversation with Rush Limbaugh. Baltic Winds: Testimony of a Soviet Attorney, XLIBRIS, 2002, pp. 371-374.
Yes, Socialist mafia wants social change in America. Look at the Democrat Party and their couple in the ticket Biden/Harris and recall the behavior of the Soviet mafia described above. It is not a political opportunism it is Radical Socialism! We are dealing with Socialist Charlatans in the Democrat Party and we will never find a common language with them. The Republicans must go on offence, expose criminals and bring them to Justice. This is the only way to save the American Constitutional Republic!
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CNN’s latest poll shows the 2020 election at its closest point in over a year.
The poll, released Sunday night, gave former Vice President Joe Biden (50) a four-point lead over President Donald Trump (46) if the election were to be held today. Additionally, Trump has apparently closed the gap in consequential swing states, where he trails Biden by just one point.
After receiving a slight wartime bump in his approvals during the early days of the coronavirus, Trump has seen the overwhelming majority of polls released this summer give Biden sizable leads both nationally and in battleground states. The president and his campaign in turn have claimed the polls showing him trailing Biden are flawed and that their own internal data shows the race significantly closer nationally and in battlegrounds.
“The pollsters got it wrong in 2016 from July through November of 2016. There were 226 national public polls. Clinton led in 213 of the 226,” Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien said in his first interview since taking over duties from Brad Parscale. “It wasn’t just the national polls that got it wrong. The state polls got it wrong, too: 120 in state polls in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the president led in 1 of 120.”
“Our internal polls show strong standing. We care about our internal polls because they were right in 2016 and right now.”
Trump’s positive momentum could likely be attributed to the four coronavirus aid executive orders he signed after Congress failed to reach an agreement on another stimulus package.
The action taken by the president supplemented states’ expanded unemployment insurance fund, directed the Departments of Housing and Urban Development and Health and Human Services to identify individuals struggling to make rent or mortgage payments due to the pandemic, temporarily waived interest on federally backed student loans, and temporarily deferred the payroll tax.
CNN’s latest data sampled 1,108 people from August 12-15 and has a margin of error of 3.7%.
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“’Abdullah El Faisal has spent two decades inspiring the terrorists behind plots and attacks in London, New York, and onboard airplanes in flight,’ said NYPD Police Commissioner Dermot Shea in a statement….Faisal was previously convicted of similar charges in England for inciting murder and using inflammatory language ‘in furtherance of terrorist ideologies.’”
Why was he allowed into the United States after being convicted of jihad terror charges in Britain? Would keeping him out have been “Islamophobic”?
“Radical cleric held without bail in Manhattan for ‘trying to recruit NYPD cop,’” by Rebecca Rosenberg, New York Post, August 14, 2020:
A radical Islamic cleric was ordered held without bail in Manhattan on Friday — after encouraging a female undercover NYPD cop to carry out terror attacks, authorities said.
Shaikh Abdullah Faisal, 56, pleaded not guilty to five counts — including conspiracy as a crime of terrorism, soliciting or providing support for an act of terrorism and other raps….
The militant cleric — born Trevor William Forrest — allegedly communicated with a female undercover NYPD officer by e-mail, text and video chat to encourage her to join ISIS and carry out attacks abroad from 2015 to 2017….
A popular online figure, Faisal has overtly supported ISIS and the establishment of an Islamic caliphate through violent jihad.
In one of his online lectures, he declared, “The way forward is not the ballot. The way forward is the bullet,” according to the indictment….
“Abdullah El Faisal has spent two decades inspiring the terrorists behind plots and attacks in London, New York, and onboard airplanes in flight,” said NYPD Police Commissioner Dermot Shea in a statement….
Faisal was previously convicted of similar charges in England for inciting murder and using inflammatory language “in furtherance of terrorist ideologies,” according to prosecutors….
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This post is probably going to grow for a few days. So do check back from time to time as we update it with more info and hopefully really fun videos of ANTIFA fascists getting their organs handed to them on pewter plates.
Google’s new little trick is to remove sound from videos they don’t want us to see. Back in the day, they did that if there was a song playing and they could pretend it was a CR issue. But the video above has sound and the one below does not, just like the Alex Jones video posted earlier today. So we know what is really going on. Its that question that should be plaguing everyone:
If power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, then how corrupt is google, given that they have more power than any institution of any kind before in world history?
Sound and fury. ANTIFA commie tries to push over a rider on his bike with his foot.
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The only way these haters get attention is to incite and destroy. Never does anything positive or good come from their quarters. Never.
The evidence is overwhelming. The Democrat Party is dangerous. They must go down hard in November. No party that is this radical should have any kind of political power. By the way, if Joe Biden wins in November it is folks such as Pressley, Omar, Tlaib, AOC and others who will be in charge of the country. Biden needs their support, so he will always appease them as POTUS.
Ayanna Pressley has sent the message out to the Democrat friends rioting across the country to continue to do what they do, but to make sure you target Republicans when you do it.
If President Trump had sent out a message like this the mainstream press would having a field day… but it’s okay when it’s a Democrat.
UNHINGED: Squad member Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley calls for targeting GOP officials with “unrest in the streets” pic.twitter.com/WmHartKDDz
What does she mean when she says unrest I wonder? I think we all know what that means. After all, the squad refuses to condemn violence from Muslim terrorists.
Should they expect less from Godless terrorists? Democrats for some strange reason believe the riots benefit them in 2020 even when the voters feel that they are siding with the rioters.
Remember when the passive Tea Party came onto the scene? The mainstream media played them up as the second coming of the Nazis. But now that the Democrats approve of, or at least refuse to condemn the riots, the silence is deafening.
In fact the media is avoiding even talking about the looting, the burning of private and public property and the assaults on anyone who gets in their way, as if they aren’t really happening.
The IRS should investigate the media because their favored treatment of Democrats is the largest in-kind contribution they have ever gotten. In fact they would be guilty of making contributions far beyond legal limits.
Pressley is a member of The Squad that also includes fellow radicals AOC, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, or as I affectionately call them “The Four Horse’s A**e* of the Apocalypse.
They are the most radical group in the US Congress. They consider Moa, Stalin and Lenin as being too far right wing for their tastes.
President Donald Trump has suggested cutting the capital gains tax as part of the economic recovery from COVID-19. And indeed, cutting capital gains taxes could help spur new businesses, increase the availability of funds for existing businesses, and encourage innovation and entrepreneurship.
Reducing taxes on capital gains also could be a good thing for the recovery from the pandemic, but doing it right will be important.
Without decisive spending cuts, the threat of future tax increases will erode the benefits of near-term tax cuts and other policy options may be better suited to support the recovery.
When you sell an investment, such as a share of a company, the government charges a capital gains tax on the increased value. The top long-term capital gains rate currently is 23.8%, with lower rates for lower income levels.
Investment income is taxed twice: once when you earn it as wages, and a second time on any investment earnings. If your money is invested in a corporation, the corporate income tax takes another slice of your investment.
This system makes it more expensive to invest in the future and encourages Americans instead to spend their money today, which reduces overall levels of investment and economic growth.
Our tax code’s built-in bias against saving for the future is partially mitigated by having a lower tax rate on capital gains and dividends than the top income tax rate of 37%. The lower rate is a necessary, pro-growth feature of our tax code. A key promise of Democrats is to tax capital gains as ordinary income, raising the tax significantly.
Because the capital gains tax is assessed at the time of realization–when the asset is sold–it creates an incentive to hold the asset to defer paying taxes. This has the side effect of encouraging investors to hold appreciated assets longer than they otherwise would for fear of having to pay tax on the gain, creating a “lock in” effect.
This “lock in” has real economic costs when investors hold assets due to fear of taxes rather than belief in a smart investment choice.
These “malinvestments” mean that Grandma still might be holding onto that $100 of Disney stock she bought in 1957 when the company went public. Her investment is now worth over $300,000 and if she cashed out, she could owe more than $70,000 in taxes.
Maybe her dollars might be invested better in her granddaughter’s small business. Or perhaps a different publicly traded company.
Lock in and double taxation mean that high capital gains taxes reduce companies’ ability to raise funds for new investments through equity offerings. They also impose higher taxes on riskier investments, such as startups that run large losses in the initial years with a small probability of successfully making a profit in the future.
Freeing up domestic capital and reducing the tax penalty for entrepreneurs have the potential to be particularly helpful as the economy retools after this current crisis.
The current high capital gains rate actually could be costing us revenue. The anti-realization incentives of the tax are so strong that under conservative estimates from Congress’ Joint Committee on Taxation, the revenue- maximizing tax rate is 28.5%.
When factoring in state taxes, the total capital gains tax rate in states such as California and New York is over 30%, and in 2016, the U.S. average cumulative capital gains rate was 28.9%. Investors are so sensitive that high capital gains tax rates lead to lower revenues simply through investors’ behavioral responses.
The revenue-maximizing rate should not be confused for any measure of economic efficiency. Ideally, the tax rate on capital income should be zero. Anything above zero unnecessarily reduces jobs and productivity growth. This harms not just the investors but workers and consumers too.
The capital gains tax also applies to inflationary gains. Inflation isn’t a big deal for the investor who has seen high returns. In our Disney example, less than $1,000 of the $300,000 gain is inflation. But most investments don’t have such great returns.
Poorer-performing investments can be swamped by inflation. In some cases, the effective capital gains rate can be more than 100% during times of high inflation on low return assets. The Tax Foundation estimates that about a third of unrealized household gains are inflationary.
To this aim, Trump previously has talked about the need to index capital gains to inflation so that the tax system stops taxing these phantom gains. Indexing capital gains would increase fairness and could unlock meaningful new domestic investment resources.
Indexing capital gains should be done carefully through the legislative process, since the Constitution empowers only Congress to enact new tax policy. The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel agrees “that Treasury does not have legal authority to index capital gains for inflation by means of regulation.”
Leaving new legislation to Congress is not only what the Founders envisioned but also has the economic benefit of being more permanent, which is essential to gaining the full benefit of any tax policy.
Congress may want to index other parts of the tax code to avoid opportunities for gaming and ensure administrative simplicity. This requires careful deliberation.
Congress also must weigh the economic benefits of different kinds of tax cuts. Reforms such as expensing and corporate income tax cuts can provide larger economic gains per dollar of reduced revenue.
A capital gains tax cut or indexing also will have little long-run effect if Congress does not also pair the reform with significant spending cuts.
Projected annual deficits of $2 trillion over the next decade will force Congress to cut spending, increase taxes, or risk fiscal collapse. Without decisive spending cuts, any tax cut is destined to be temporary.
Reducing taxes on capital gains could be a good thing. But without spending reforms, the necessity of higher taxes in the future likely will blunt the impact of otherwise good tax policy.
Adam Michel focuses on tax policy and the federal budget as a policy analyst in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Twitter: @adamnmichel.
Democratic Socialists say, “America should be more like socialist countries such as Sweden and Denmark.” And millions of young people believe them…
For years, “Democratic Socialists” have been growing a crop of followers that include students and young professionals. America’s future will be in their hands.
How are socialists deluding a whole generation? One of their most effective arguments is that “democratic socialism” is working in Scandinavian countries like Sweden and Norway. They claim these countries are “proof” that socialism will work for America. But they’re wrong. And it’s easy to explain why.
Our friends at The Heritage Foundation just published a new guide that provides three irrefutable facts that debunks these myths. For a limited time, they’re offering it to readers of The Daily Signal for free.
Get your free copy of “Why Democratic Socialists Can’t Legitimately Claim Sweden and Denmark as Success Stories” today and equip yourself with the facts you need to debunk these myths once and for all.
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Your children are being indoctrinated. The education system designed to teach them how to think critically has been weaponized by the radical left to push an anti-American agenda.
As someone who has worked in education for four years, I have seen firsthand how your children are being ensnared by the left and their teachers.
I worked with kids from ages 3 to 13 and saw the brainwashing that exists at all levels of education. The left uses a combination of propaganda and suppression to push kids into the ensnaring grip of socialism and anti-patriotism.
First is the propaganda. Teachers will assign work instilling the idea that the pillars of Western civilization were evil, and their memories deserve to be thrown in the trash.
Here’s an example. I was helping one of my elementary school students with a homework assignment about listing famous Britons throughout history. She already had some of the more obvious ones: Shakespeare, Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth.
“Well, how about Winston Churchill?” I recommended.
“Oh no, not him,” she replied. “He was a racist and didn’t think women should have rights. He wasn’t a good guy.”
I was floored. It clearly wasn’t something she came up with on her own. She was just regurgitating propaganda her teacher had taught her. All sense of nuance and critical thinking about the man who saved Europe from the Nazis was gone. Churchill committed “wrongthink,” so in the bin he goes.
Another way the left propagandizes is through the normalization of its views and positions as nonpolitical.
The Black Lives Matter organization is a prime example of this. Many of my colleagues wore Black Lives Matter pins and apparel to school in blatant violation of school rules forbidding political statements on clothing.
When I asked for a justification of the behavior, I was told it wasn’t political to support the group, it was a matter of human rights. The children would see these pins and clothes and connect radical leftist groups with basic human dignity. “How dare you question Black Lives Matter? I was taught this is a matter of human rights!”
But it isn’t just a matter of actively teaching that America and the West are evil. Suppression of “wrongthink” is equally as important to the brainwashing process. The lessons I was allowed to teach also were censored.
I was preparing a lesson on Thanksgiving involving Pilgrims and American Indians, with an activity centered on making paper teepees for arts and crafts. Cue the progressive panic.
Other teachers at the school were incensed that a non-Indian was “appropriating” Native American culture for an activity. Of course, these teachers weren’t Indians either, they just wanted to virtue signal.
The whole thing culminated in a hilarious incident where my colleagues tracked down the one teacher on staff who was one-sixty-fourths Native American and asked her if it was cultural appropriation. In her esteemed authority, it most certainly was. The school administrators pulled me aside and promptly nixed the project.
The suppression extends to American religious values as well. I would try to engage my students with folk stories from around the globe to teach them world history and other cultures.
Story time went on without a hitch until I decided to tell stories from the Bible. Other teachers began to complain I was preaching Christian values to the children and attempting to convert them.
Keep in mind, this wasn’t a problem when I was sharing stories from other ancient cultures throughout history. Stories about ancient India and China were fine and encouraged as “sharing unheard voices.” After sharing the story of the Tower of Babel, I was told to switch back to non-Christian stories or face consequences.
The young adults who today gleefully tear down statues of the Founding Fathers were incubated in our very own schools, groomed to burst from the education system and burn America down.
The left argues the great men and women who built this nation are problematic and must be destroyed. Conservatives must demand an end to the indoctrination of our youth or face a new American public taught since childhood that the country shouldn’t exist.
Democratic Socialists say, “America should be more like socialist countries such as Sweden and Denmark.” And millions of young people believe them…
For years, “Democratic Socialists” have been growing a crop of followers that include students and young professionals. America’s future will be in their hands.
How are socialists deluding a whole generation? One of their most effective arguments is that “democratic socialism” is working in Scandinavian countries like Sweden and Norway. They claim these countries are “proof” that socialism will work for America. But they’re wrong. And it’s easy to explain why.
Our friends at The Heritage Foundation just published a new guide that provides three irrefutable facts that debunks these myths. For a limited time, they’re offering it to readers of The Daily Signal for free.
Get your free copy of “Why Democratic Socialists Can’t Legitimately Claim Sweden and Denmark as Success Stories” today and equip yourself with the facts you need to debunk these myths once and for all.
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Many patriotic Trump supporting Americans are frustrated and many apathetic when it comes to justice being served with regards to the deep state players and the long anticipated Durham investigation. I can understand this. Do your homework. Connect the dots. Stay the course and trust the plan. Please take note of my WARNING message in the summary section of this article.
Back in June of 2020, AG Barr is on the record stating “the wheels of justice grind slowly”. Barr went on to say that “we will hold those accountable”. “This isn’t being driven by producing a report, we are trying to get to a point where we can hold accountable anyone who crossed the line and committed a criminal violation”. “I cannot discuss any future charges”. Then AG Barr in an unplanned interview live on Hannity last week said the following. “The second aspect of this is, if people crossed the line, if people involved in that activity violated criminal law, they will be charged. And John Durham is an independent man, highly experienced, and his investigation is pursuing apace. There was some delay because of COVID, but I’m satisfied with the progress and I’ve said there are going to be developments, significant developments, before the election. “But we’re not doing this on the election schedule,” Barr added. “We’re aware of the election. We’re not going to do anything inappropriate before the election. But we’re not being dictated to by this schedule.
Well, Friday of last week, former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith will plead guilty to making a false statement in the first criminal case arising from U.S. Attorney John Durham’s review of the investigation into links between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign. We have now reached steps 6-10 on the “Scale of Discovery and Action” that I wrote about on June 13, 2018. Then soon after in President Trump’s second term, Military Tribunals at GITMO will commence. I wrote about this too back in August of 2017.
Indictments – Prosecutions – Charges – Arrests
Thousands of CEOS as reported on my daily news broadcast, “Making Sense of the Madness“, over the past couple of years have taken early retirement, resigned or have been terminated, (this in part is a result of their personal liability when you look into EO Dated 04/03/17 and EO 12/21/17 ). Then there are over 160,000 Federal Sealed Indictments. AG Barr stated, “we will hold those accountable” and “I cannot discuss any future charges”. Then, “if people crossed the line, if people involved in that activity violated criminal law, they will be charged”. Well, those of us who have been following the deep state and the campaign spying, the Russia hoax, the Epstein case, pizza-gate, the impeachments hoax Q and the Flynn case, know darn well that there have been scores of felonies, crimes, treasonous acts and crimes against humanity. Remember, it’s either us or them. Failure is not an option and the ultimate victory is ours.
We must realize the political fallout should we escalate the process of indictments at this time and arrest prior to the election. And so it has begun with FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleading guilty to making a false statement in the first criminal case arising from U.S. Attorney John Durham’s review of the investigation into the links between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign. Tip of the iceberg. And there will be more to come prior to the election. And in my view the acceleration of indictments, charges and arrests gains momentum after the November 4th election and certainly in President Trump’s second term.
Intelligence Battle Information Warfare
One could say we have a front row seat to the greatest show on Earth. It’s important to note that this is an intelligence battle, information warfare, thus we have many actors on both sides of the issues playing their part on the global stage. Deception in battle. Remember that, deception in battle. You must read between the lines. This is why if you are only getting your data from MSM, and this includes FOX NEWS to an extent, you would come to the conclusion that nothing is happening and that we are losing the battle. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you begin to look in the right places for information, (check out the “Story Behind The Story section), you can begin to connect the dots and have a greater understanding of what is actually happening rather than the the false and empty narratives you are bombarded with 24/7. Change the channel.
Summary
And so we have now our first indictment and guilty plea resulting from the Durham investigation and there is much more to come. Check out this .40 clip as the President weighs in on Clinesmith. So we have the Durham report complete and it’s now hammer time. And don’t forget the other ongoing investigations and processes.
Ghislaine Maxwell / Epstein
Biden Ukraine and China
Lyndsey Graham’s Senate Judiciary Hearings
General Flynn case
So what is a common theme here? What has shifted? The hunters have now become the hunted and now the captured with plenty more to come. We are on the offense and timing is key. The deep state and its operatives were all caught. We caught the swamp. They have nowhere to run to and nowhere to hide. The Constitution and law are on our side and the day of reckoning is upon them. The President is on the record numerous times in pressers, news interviews and tweets stating that treason as high as Obama and Biden has been committed.
And so, follow my daily news broadcast and visit the many other sources I have provided in the “Story Behind The Story” section on the JMC Report. Pray daily for our President and his family. Share content on social media. Help awaken those who need our help. The storm is now upon us. Very dangerous and challenging days are here and lie ahead.
THIS IS A WARNING!
Don’t get prepared, be prepared! Food, water, personal protection, gold and silver and more. Things will deeply intensify over the days, weeks and coming months. Cyber attacks? Communication shutdowns and perhaps worse. We are at war! This is what the battlefield looks like. It’s not fun nor easy. But it is a matter of survival as individuals and survival as a sovereign nation. But make no mistake about it, we are winning. We are on God’s side and God always wins. Stay the course. Trust the plan. The President needs your help and support. Freedom, it’s up to U.S. Stay safe my friends and fellow patriots and God Bless. WWG1WGA
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00John Michael Chambershttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngJohn Michael Chambers2020-08-16 14:04:512020-08-16 14:05:24Trust The Plan
The following is a very compelling 25 minute scenario regarding the ‘one world’ movement; and attempts to change the world and to take down President Trump, – who stands in their way.
It is well worth watching. He presents a probable and frightening scenario of why we are in these times of chaos; and all the more reason to be strong in support of President Trump.
From the Editor’s Desk, Michael Matt takes a look at some good news regarding the Covid recovery rate before exploring what’s really going on with the global pandemic. To understand this, he takes us to Switzerland—to the World Economic Forum—where the movers and shakers of the world have been meeting on a regular basis, especially since January 2020, to plan ‘The Great Reset’ at the Davos 2021 Summit in January.
Using multiple video clips, Michael shows how everyone from Soros, to Gates, to Schwab, to Al Gore and the Secretary-General of the United Nations are only too eager to admit that Covid offers them a rare opportunity to reset the world economy, population control, global commerce, climate change regulation, education and the UN Sustainable Development Goals in order to “reorder,” “reimagine” and fundamentally transform every aspect of life as we know it. Is this the rest of the story behind the Russia hoax, Ukraine, the phony impeachment and all the other deep state attempts to cripple Trump’s efforts to ‘make America great again”? The folks at Davos want a new world order, and the only thing standing in their way at the moment is US.
And if they get their New Normal, nothing will be the same ever again…unless, perhaps, if Donald Trump wins in November.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Wallace Bruschweilerhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngWallace Bruschweiler2020-08-16 12:25:482020-08-16 12:27:28VIDEO EXPOSE OF THE GREAT RESET: Davos and the Plot to Cancel Trump
“The men whom the people ought to choose to represent them are too busy to take the jobs. But the politician is waiting for it. He’s the pestilence of modern times. What we should try to do is make politics as local as possible. Keep the politicians near enough to kick them. The villagers who met under the village tree could also hang their politicians to the tree. It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.” —G. K. Chesterton
“Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the truth.” – Socrates
“History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.” – Mark Twain
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.” – George Orwell, 1984
The Coronavirus, which includes the common cold, will come and go, but the government found out how easily the American people were manipulated and how easily they controlled your life. Remember what they took from us, every “non-essential” job, every sporting event, every school, every restaurant, and most importantly every church. And we allowed it.
But it’s even worse. Historically and by definition, quarantines had always been about sequestering the sick. Never before had anyone beat a virus by quarantining the healthy. We were not told that quarantining healthy people was a first-of-its-kind experiment. And the experiment failed.
In America, the homeless population is exploding as people are displaced from homes and apartments. This was fully predictable after more than two months of economic shutdown and underscores the sheer lack of concern for any other lives except those “saved” from Covid-19. And we know the Covid death counts and those who have tested positive are lies promoted by those who love controlling the dumbed down American masses who haven’t been taught the Constitution and their God given rights in more than six decades. The CDC has confessed to lying about the Covid death counts.
We know that hospitals make more money when people are diagnosed with Covid, so even if they had comorbidities of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc., or if they died in an accident, if they had tested positive, their death certificates recorded Covid. No one seems to die of flu anymore…everything is Covid.
Killing the Elderly
Several democratic state governors have sent Covid patients to senior care facilities which has exponentially raised the death rates of the virus, and witnesses in New York City are convinced Cuomo is intentionally hiding the actual number of deaths. These residents make up only six percent of the nation’s population, but they count for 42 percent of nationwide deaths. There were 6,600 deaths in Pennsylvania, but 4,500 or 70 percent were in nursing or senior care facilities.
Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry is pushing for a further probe of deadly nursing home orders. He believes the numbers are far higher than reported. He says the State Attorney General is now threatening to prosecute the nursing homes for murder. Perry has sent a letter to AG’s in four other states, including Pennsylvania demanding an investigation. He said the Pennsylvania administration is choosing to blame the nursing homes when they had no choice in the matter. Watch the three-minute video.
The murder of our weakest elderly Americans was purposely done in at least five democrat run states.
Muzzling Mask Mandates
The Biden-Harris team is saying they’ll have a mask mandate for all of America. To hell with the Constitution and freedom, they love muzzling the entire nation with face diapers. There are questions every American should be asking about indefinite mask mandates. When governments grab powers, they tend to hang onto them. Indeed, unless the government is comprised entirely of halfwits, they must realize that the lockdown will have already killed far more than the coronavirus. We have only a handful of constitutional conservatives who actually serve the people.
You have no rights; you only have the responsibility to follow the state’s dictates and wear your mask at all times. Get on the train, we’re taking you to a work camp.
I’ve had two run-ins with these mask Nazis who believe I could kill them all by not wearing a mask, but if my not wearing a mask can infect those who are wearing a mask, what is their mask doing for them? These people will scream at you from 12 to 15 feet away as though you’re polluting the entire environment. I’ve stated that I have a medical reason not to wear a mask, but that doesn’t assuage their fears. My 6’2” husband doesn’t wear a mask either, and when I’m with him, no one says a word, but go out alone and the Nazis feel that a 105-pound woman is fair game.
American people do not venture from their homes without a face diaper that hides who they are. The Associated Press-National Opinion Research Center, (NORC) Center for Public Affairs Research found that 75% of those polled were “strongly” or “somewhat” in favor of requiring people to wear masks in public when around other people. Only 13% of respondents “strongly” or “somewhat” opposed such requirements. Of democrats, 89% said they were “strongly” or “somewhat” in favor while 59% of republicans said the same. What does that tell you?! Our citizens are willing accomplices in destroying their freedoms.
Mainstream media as well as conservative media are all singing the same song, wear your mask, cover your face, eliminate expressions, smiles, frowns, fear, happiness, look like a Muslim! It’s patriotic! The hell it is! And media fails to give both sides of the issue. Anyone who fights the mask attacks is silenced by censorship. We are in a war and most Americans haven’t figured that out yet. George Orwell said, “Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect, and unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.” Our unalienable first amendment has a boot stomping on it.
Only a few will stand against the tyrants. Only a few know fear is not from the Lord. Only a few realize what is happening to our nation. And only a few will refuse to bend their knees to tyranny.
Mandating masks has not kept death rates down anywhere. The 20 U.S. states that have never ordered people to wear face masks indoors and out have dramatically lower COVID-19 death rates than the 30 states that have mandated masks. Most of the no-mask states have COVID-19 death rates below 20 per 100,000 population, and none have a death rate higher than 55. All 13 states that have death rates higher than 55 are states that have required the wearing of masks in all public places. It has not protected them.
Okay, okay…some people should wear masks, masks that will really protect them and their loved ones…because this virus targets the elderly and those with comorbidities. But get an N95 mask and have it properly fitted and wear it only for short periods. The paper and homemade masks do nothing and actually can make you sick and that means sick with this Wuhan virus. Did any of us wear masks in 2009-2010 when so many died of H1N1? Nope…we never even thought about it, and we never think about it during yearly flu season. Oh yes, we have vaccines for that, but people still die of the flu every year.
Hello Darkness
In Shirley Edwards’ recent column, she included a four-minute video that was telling as to what we’re facing in America today. Please watch it!
The visual effects set to the song, Sound of Silence, which starts out, “Hello darkness, my old friend,” are startling in their true portrayal of what is happening to our country and to other so-called free countries. There are pockets of Americans crying for freedom, but they are only whispers.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources wants its employees to wear masks for meetings that are held on teleconferences from home even when no one else is around. They said, “Set the safety example which shows you as a DNR public service employee care about the safety and health of others,” he said. How utterly fatuous are these people?
In Nashville, Tennessee, at a virtual meeting of committees, Nashville Metro Council, at-large member Sharon Hurt addressed some remarks to Mike Jameson, Nashville Mayor John Cooper’s director of legislative affairs. She suggested that people who refuse to wear masks, be charged with murder or attempted murder. Link
Mask Dangers
Not only is there little evidence (if any) to support masking; there are at least seven gold-standard randomized controlled trials showing that muzzling yourself won’t stop the spread of infection. Masks are only really effective if they fit perfectly and if the wearer does not move their head while wearing them. Touching a mask appears to stop the mask providing protection. It has been suggested that you should put on a new mask if you have touched the one you are wearing. Check out how many times a child touches a mask, not to mention adults.
Wearing masks for extended periods will make us sick and will probably make us more vulnerable to illness. They can damage the immune system. Fear and stress also weaken the immune system. Forcing masks is partly to dehumanize us and they isolate us from one another. The government wants us frightened to death and dehumanized for a virus that 97 % to 99.75% of people recover from. Think about it, bandits and robbers wear masks. Are we safer wearing masks? Hardly, but the fear factor has been sold so well that Americans are afraid to hug their friends and family and will run from someone without a face diaper.
“We’re seeing inflammation in people’s gums that have been healthy forever, and cavities in people who have never had them before,” says Dr. Rob Ramondi, a dentist and co-founder of One Manhattan Dental. “About 50% of our patients are being impacted by this, so, we decided to name it ‘mask mouth’ after ‘meth mouth.’” Link
Schools in China are now prohibiting students from wearing masks while exercising. Why? Because it was killing them. It was depriving them of oxygen and that killed them. At least three children died during physical education classes, two of them while running on their school’s track while wearing a mask. And a 26-year-old man suffered a collapsed lung after running two and a half miles while wearing a mask.
Surgical Masks
Surgical masks are worn to stop bits of food or hair falling from the surgeon or nurse into an open wound. They will stop some bacteria, but will not usually stop viruses.
However, Neil Orr’s study was published in 1981 in the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Dr. Orr was a surgeon in the Severalls Surgical Unit in Colchester. And for six months, from March through August 1980, the surgeons and staff in that unit decided to see what would happen if they did not wear masks during surgeries.
They wore no masks for six months, and compared the rate of surgical wound infections from March through August 1980 with the rate of wound infections from March through August of the previous four years. And they discovered, to their amazement, that when nobody wore masks during surgeries, the rate of wound infections was less than half what it was when everyone wore masks. Their conclusion: “It would appear that minimum contamination can best be achieved by not wearing a mask at all” and that wearing a mask during surgery “is a standard procedure that could be abandoned.”
There is no medical evidence that masks do any good but there is very real evidence that they can do harm. The death rate from the Covid-19 bug has fallen considerably in recent weeks; most of the really vulnerable people have already died. The authorities have successfully cleaned out eldercare homes and exterminated a good chunk of the population receiving social security and Medicare. I wonder how much that has saved the treasury?
Other Mask Risks
A report published in the British Medical Journal summarized some other risks.
First, when you wear a face mask some of the air you breathe out goes into your eyes. This can be annoying and uncomfortable and if, as a result, you touch your eyes you may infect yourself. And get them off the children who touch them all the time! My God, have parents gone insane?!
Second, face masks make breathing more difficult and, as I have pointed out in previous articles, anyone who has a breathing problem will find that a mask makes it worse. Also, some of the carbon dioxide which is breathed out with each exhalation is then breathed in because it is trapped. Together these factors may mean that the mask wearer may breathe more frequently or more deeply and if that happens then someone who has the coronavirus may end up breathing more of the virus into their lungs. If a mask is contaminated because it has been worn for too long then the risks are even greater. How long is too long? No one knows. No research has been done as far as I know.
Third, there is a risk that the accumulation of the virus in the fabric of the mask may increase the amount of the virus being breathed in, especially if the mask is reused. This might then defeat the body’s immune response and cause an increase in infections, other infections, not just the coronavirus.
If masks work so well, why didn’t they give them to all the prisoners instead of letting them out into the public to rape, rob, murder, etc.? They have no answer for that question. There really is no medical evidence that masks help, but there is evidence that they harm.
The lockdown is now killing so many people that even if the number dying from the bug were to double in the next month the total would still not come anywhere near to the total who die every year from the flu, when you add on the number who have died because of the lockdown. Mental illnesses, anxiety and depression, will be the new pandemics. The government admits that the number dying from the ordinary flu has fallen, what a surprise that is, but they cannot tell us how many have committed suicide since we were all put under house arrest.
American citizens do not realize that Covid-19 is psychological warfare. We are now frozen in fear of a virus that has proven to be no more of a killer than the pretty standard yearly flu virus. Fear is the factor, and fear is not from the Lord God Almighty.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Kelleigh Nelsonhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngKelleigh Nelson2020-08-16 09:27:302020-08-16 09:27:30The Mask Nazis Have Blood On Their Hands
Brendan Daly, former Communications Director for Nancy Pelosi and a political appointee of the Obama administration, is a registered foreign agent who provided the Chinese Communist Party’s premier state-run media outlet China Central Television Network with “strategic counsel” as it expanded into the United States, The National Pulse can reveal.
During his tenure as Executive Vice President at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, Daly secured a contract between the lobbying behemoth and China Central Television Network (CCTV).
Specifically, the firm helped the state-run propaganda outfit CCTV expand into American homes by “providing strategic counsel, identify relevant parties to communications activities, and media relations to support the launch of CCTV America.”
“Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide will work with CCTV America to communicate to the American public that CCTV America will provide compelling, comprehensive, and balanced news programming from an Asian perspective that is relevant to a global audience,” the 2012 filing in accordance with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) noted.
Per CCTV’s FARA registration, however, the outlet is “supervised, owned, directed, controlled, financed, and subsidized” entirely by the Chinese Communist Party.
Pelosi accompanied by Daly, pictured on her right
Email correspondence from Daly identifies him as taking the lead on the account, as he spoke with CCTV’s American representative on the phone.
He also provided the outlet with a memo detailing Ogilvy’s strategy on the count, detailing how to best bridge the gap between American homes and Chinese Communist Party propaganda:
The memo, sent from Daly, outlines how Ogilvy would provide CCTV with comprehensive support, including “influencer engagement” and “media relations support,” to achieve the “overall message that CCTV Americas is the source for business news in and with China, with credentialed, experienced and trusted journalists doing in-depth stories and reporting.”
“We are excited about the prospect of working with you to help establish CCTV Americas as the program to watch to succeed in an interconnected global economy,” the email concludes.
CCTV has been identified by Freedom House think tank as a “long-standing weapon in Beijing’s arsenal of repression” whose mission “is to attack designated enemies of the Communist Party,” chiefly the U.S.
Daly informed fellow employees that CCTV had hired Ogilvy, noting the CCP-funded outlet would pay the firm $15,000 monthly for three months.
“China Central Television is the national television station of the People’s Republic of China. CCTV America is the bureau located in Washington DC.
CCTV falls under the supervision of the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television which is in turn subordinate to the State Council of the People’s Republic Of China,” the FARA registration noted, placing Daly on the payroll of the Chinese Communist Party.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00The Geller Reporthttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngThe Geller Report2020-08-16 08:03:132020-08-16 08:05:52Top Pelosi Staffer Registered As ‘Foreign Agent’ to Lobby For Chinese State Media Outlet
Ilhan Omar will not be prosecuted, or even investigated. She can do whatever she wants. Why? Because she is a leftist, a black person, a woman, and a Muslim. Those are the groups that really have privilege in American society today. Those four aspects of Omar’s identity are the reasons why she will not be prosecuted. Anyone who dared to prosecute her would be excoriated in the establishment media as a racist “Islamophobe.” Few have the courage to stand up against that onslaught.
“Ilhan Omar must resign: New evidence from nearly three dozen Somalis reveals a probable spree of felonies,” by David Steinberg, The Blaze, August 10, 2020:
According to the media’s general judgment, 2020 U.S. voters are most concerned with purportedly complex issues of crime and justice. Voters should place no trust in this. This same media forbade itself to investigate a simple, yet objectively historic corruption scandal of national interest.
The mainstream media judges this remarkable situation to be irrelevant to Minnesota voters, let alone the dominant concern. Editorial malpractice on issues of crime, justice, and the 2020 election spreads everywhere this summer; by no coincidence, the spread can be traced to irresponsible media coverage of a deadly riot in Rep. Omar’s district.
Below are 32 new, verifiable, archived pieces of evidence of Omar’s historic crime spree.
Above: One of many Somali-language tributes to “Colonel Nur Said Elmi,” Rep. Ilhan Omar’s father, sent from around the world by family, friends, and contacts following his tragic June 2020 death from a COVID-19 infection. As a high-ranking officer in Somalia’s (U.S.-backed) military from the 1970s until 1991, he was well known by this name and title.
In mid-June, Ilhan Omar’s father tragically died from a COVID-19 infection. Expressions of grief, condolences, and prayers arrived from around the world, but particularly from the Somali-speaking immigrant community of Minneapolis and from the U.K. By all accounts, he earned his reputation as a gentle, kind neighbor, well known and beloved within Cedar-Riverside, as he had been in Somalia.
His relevance to Rep. Omar’s landmark scandal is, of course, his birth name. Upon arriving in the United States in 1995, he claimed to be “Nur Omar Mohamed” and received a Social Security number with this name. However, all appeared to know him as Nur Said. He presented himself as Nur Said. Both Ilhan and her sister Sahra Noor referred to their father as Nur Said (prior to deleting the evidence). He is identified on-screen as “Nur Said, Ilhan’s father” in the 2018 documentary film “Time for Ilhan” and again as “Nur Said” in the credits. Twice.
From 2009 until 2017, Ilhan Omar was married (by a Christian minister) to British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Somali naming customs are patrilineal and do not use family surnames. For example, “Ahmed Nur Said Elmi” implies that Ahmed’s father is “Nur,” his grandfather is “Said,” and his great-grandfather is “Elmi.”
Just a couple months after marrying, Ilhan and her legal husband both enrolled at North Dakota State University and received federal financial aid. Married couples are not required to submit evidence of their respective parents’ assets on FAFSA applications and thus likely receive much more favorable loan terms.
Almost certainly, Rep. Omar fraudulently married her brother, a British citizen, in the service of immigration fraud, education fraud, and federal student loan fraud. Along the way, she filed at least two years of fraudulent tax returns, and possibly eight. She lived in several different subsidized housing units during this time. She likely received subsidized health care and child care during this time. For eight years, every application she signed for state and federal aid was likely fraudulent. During her 2017 divorce from Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, Ilhan submitted a nine-question statement to the court signed under penalty of perjury. Literally — she signed just below the statement of acknowledgment. Eight of her nine answers appear to be perjurious. Each instance is punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment.
The paperwork she signed for her successful 2016 run and two-year tenure as a Minnesota state representative may contain instances of perjury as well.
It appears that the media may be waiting for verifiable references to her father as “Nur Said Elmi” rather than “Nur Said.” Logically, this should not be considered necessary, considering the following:
Ilhan’s father and her father-in-law would have been named “Nur Said.”
Only one “Nur Said” in the necessary age range appears in publicly available archives in either the U.S. or U.K.
However, here these references are. Below are dozens of new, verifiable, archived references to father as “Nur Said Elmi” from family, friends, and contacts. You will also find many new references to his daughter Leyla Nur Said Elmi, his son Mohamed Nur Said Elmi, and even to his son Ahmed Nur Said Elmi…
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Jihad Watchhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngJihad Watch2020-08-16 07:49:092020-08-16 07:51:30‘Ilhan Omar has almost certainly committed the most extensive spree of felonies by a congressperson in U.S. history’
It’s not about race or the color of our skin;
It’s character, integrity and honesty that wins!
Character is “color-blind.”
Integrity embraces truth.
Honesty knows humility,
is never arrogant or aloof.
It’s not about race or the color of our skin;
It’s truth, transparency and accountability that wins!
Truth doesn’t lie.
Transparency doesn’t deceive.
Be leery of those who have a “race card” up their sleeve.
It’s not about race or the color of our skin;
It’s courage, conviction and honor that wins!
Courage stays the course.
Conviction bravely stands.
Without honor among our leaders,
We’ll lose our sovereign land.
It’s not about race or the color of our skin;
It’s about trust and understanding,
Goodwill among men.
Our trust has been over-tested,
Our tolerance has long spread thin,
Understanding has its limits,
Goodwill makes amends.
It’s not about race or the color of our skin;
The race card incites anger,
fosters bitterness between men.
It’s not about race or the color of our skin;
Government gamblers play the “race card”,
to destroy America from within.
In a weakened Republic…
Tyranny wins!
Kamala Harris basically accused Joe Biden of being a racist during the debates and her only defense is “it was a debate”.
So did you never think he was racist and knowingly falsely accused him of being one or are you now just ok with being on a ticket with a racist? pic.twitter.com/0axLvxtf9Z
Patra Minocha, a retired registered nurse, has spent past 10 years working as a Conservative Activist and nine years booking guests for radio and TV interviews. Patra has scheduled over 120 people for interviews. Patra is the President of Brave Hill Productions.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Dr. Rich Swierhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngDr. Rich Swier2020-08-16 07:08:002020-08-16 07:36:23The Race Card of Discontent: Dividing America at the People’s Expense by Patra Minocha
David G. Bonagura, Jr.: Detractors say trivializing sin was part of Vatican II’s spirit and is still in the post-conciliar Church. But the perennial problem is really sin itself.
The Second Vatican Council is back in the news lately, with two prominent, tradition-minded bishops revisiting well-known arguments of conciliar interpretation in light two recent Vatican documents, Amoris Laetitia and the Abu Dhabi statement on world religions. Their analyses of the Council, the difficulties in reconciling certain expressions with tradition, and the frightening breakdown of the Church that followed – a breakdown that some even justified under the Council’s nebulous “spirit” – are serious, though faithful Catholics will find their premises and conclusions worthy of debate.
Yet their analyses are now also very familiar. Blaming the Council for the Church’s ills has been a hobbyhorse for 55 years now. At this point, when it comes to arguing about the Council, Ecclesiastes’ tired observation comes to mind: “There is nothing new under the sun.”
Just weeks earlier, as public Masses were resumed after the coronavirus suspension, a little-noticed controversy impressed on me that the problems in the Church today stem from something far more fundamental, and simple, than the formulation of documents that few know about and fewer have read. When the proposal circulated of having Mass without reception of Holy Communion, some faithful and some clergy blanched. Their issue was not solely the deprivation of union with our Lord. It was that they did not see the point of having Mass at all without reception.
Such a thought stems from a profound misunderstanding what the Mass – and the sacrifice that it represents – is for: the salvation of souls. And there is no wonder the goal of salvation has been forgotten, since sin, the tyrannical reality from which we must be saved, has itself been deliberately banished from view, trivialized as a human psychosis, or written off as an obsession of earlier, unenlightened times.
It is the marginalization of sin, more than Vatican II or anything else, that has transformed the life of the Church as we know it in the last half-century. Our entire faith and the structure of the Church rest on three acts: creation, fall, and redemption. By dismissing the fall, and every sin that has come after it, the understanding of redemption necessarily takes on new meaning.
If Jesus did not need to redeem us from sin, then essential doctrines and the sacramental economy have to be reconceived. Consider:
* Jesus Christ ceased to be emphasized as our Savior who sacrificed His life to atone for our sins. Instead, images of “Jesus is my homeboy” became popular. Without a message of salvation, Jesus was reduced to a “great moral teacher” on par with Socrates.
* Shifting the view of the Savior and salvation caused worship to shift as well. Witness how few people today know the phrase “the holy sacrifice of the Mass.” We know from the work of Dr. Lauren Pristas and Father John Zuhlsdorf that, after the Council, the formal prayers of the Mass were deliberately reworked to eliminate references to sin. The turning of the altars to face the people, never mentioned by the Council, heightened a new experience of a community celebrating itself above the sacrifice of Calvary. The general desacralizing of Catholic worship made the Mass seem as it were of no consequence rather than the enduring basis of our salvation.
* Sacramental Confession was abandoned by nearly all the faithful. There is no need to confess if we have not sinned. And if we do not need to confess, then surely there is no need for acts of penitence or reparation. Eight days of the year that still call for abstinence from meat is all that is left of Catholic penitential practice.
* If there is no sin, then everyone goes to Heaven, Catholic or not, virtuous or not. Funerals became canonizations, and Hell was dismissed as a tactic to coerce good behavior. Catholicism became just another world religion on par with the others, since it no longer had anything unique to offer.
* If people do not need to be saved from sin, then there is no need for priests to give up their lives in service of those seeking redemption. The collapse of vocations is a direct result of the banishment of sin.
* Catholic theology, morality, and education all took turns for the worse after this constitutive understanding of sin and redemption was morphed.
Were there other causes of the Church’s post-Conciliar malaise? Yes, of course. But it is not an oversimplification to home in on the trivialization of sin as the root cause of it all. Throughout Church history, lying at the root of heresy is not an intricately woven system, but a misunderstanding of the first principle of revelation. To minimize sin alters the view of God’s entire plan of salvation, from the covenant with Abraham, to the redemption by Christ, to the role of the Church in perpetuating His salvation.
Vatican II’s perpetual detractors will argue that the trivialization of sin was part of the Modernist spirit that infiltrated conciliar documents and the post-conciliar Church. Yet that implies the Council itself is not the definitive problem; the Council and its “spirit” have been invoked to cloak a deeper issue.
It is, therefore, this deeper issue of properly understanding sin and the need to be saved from it that requires our attention above all. For Benedict XVI’s hermeneutic of continuity to have the final word on interpreting the council, sound Catholic doctrines – Creation, Fall, Redemption – must first be restored to their proper place.
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