WATCH VIDEO: Dr. Malone lays bare the globalist plan for total control over all human behavior

Dr. Robert Malone is calling for people to “rise up” and resist the evil powers that are using “psychological warfare” to fundamentally change human nature.

Malone, one of the inventors of mRNA technology, warns that those behind the push to unleash monkeypox as the “next pandemic” are driving humanity to “the end of the line as we know it.”

Speaking during an interview with Alex Jones of Infowars, Malone declared that people must resist the pressure from globalists to strip the public of their freedoms and humanity.

Dr. Malone likened the situation to a “fight between good and evil.” That’s true, but I would take it a step further and say we are living at a time of intense spiritual warfare, not just between good and evil, but between Christ and the forces of anti-Christ. Everyone will at some point be forced to pick a side.

Dr. Malone also used the term “surveillance capitalism.” That’s a key component of the global deception.

We conservatives tend to lump all of the world’s evildoers into the category of “Marxist” or “socialist” or “communist,” but there are plenty of the devil’s minions working under the banner of “capitalism.” You find them at the World Economic Forum. You find them within the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations (remember George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and that crew? They did every bit as much to destroy freedom in America as Barack Obama.)

WEF Founder and Chairman Klaus Schwab is a big proponent of what he calls “Stakeholder Capitalism.” Others call it “corporate capitalism.” Whatever you wish to call it, it is extremely authoritarian in the way it involves both the public and private sectors to lord power over people. It’s a form of modern feudalism using the lure of technology to create digital zombies.

It’s all the same in the end, whether it’s a Marxist government, or public-private partnerships in which large and very powerful private corporations work with the government to control and oppress the people. They’re in the business of stealing human souls, canceling their God-given free will for the purpose of manipulating them, then selling off the spent husks of formerly human souls for profit. Sounds like a line right out of Revelation 18:11-13.

The end-times Babylonian system, according to this scripture, will commercialize, commoditize and monetize all manner of goods and services, including “cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; of fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; of all kinds of citron wood and every article of ivory, precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble; cinnamon and incense, fragrant oil and frankincense, wine and oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and bodies and souls of men.”

BODIES AND SOULS OF MEN = Digitized human slaves, whose most personal data gets sold and resold among governments and corporations, then bet upon like house chips on a casino table.

We cannot allow ourselves to be used and abused by these globalist techno-predator capitalists anymore than we can allow ourselves to be used/abused by the communists.

Resist man’s ever-encroaching, ever-invasive and intrusive system of control. Become ungovernable.

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HELEN RALEIGH

Helen Raleigh is an American entrepreneur, writer, and speaker. She’s a senior contributor at The Federalist. Her writings appear in other national media, including The Wall Street Journal and Fox News. Helen is the author of several books, including “Confucius Never Said” and “Backlash: How Communist China’s Aggression Has Backfired.” Her latest book is the 2nd edition of “The Broken Welcome Mat: America’s Un-American immigration policy, and how we should fix it.”

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Attorney John B. Wells is a retired Navy Commander and a disabled veteran, who served from 1972 until 1994. He was assigned to six ships and several shore commands. He is qualified in all aspects of surface warfare including command at sea. Mr. Wells attended law school at night while still on active duty. He was a member of the Law Review Staff and contributed to several law school publications. Upon retirement from the military, Mr. Wells settled in Slidell Louisiana and opened a general law practice that emphasized military and veteran’s law. Mr. Wells has represented military members and veterans throughout the country. He is at home in both state and federal courts and travels often to Washington, D.C. for cases there. Commander Wells was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court of Louisiana, and the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. He is also admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States

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Anne Elizabeth Fundner is the “America First” mom of 4 from California. Anne Elizabeth is a Conservative Commando alumnus who’s new mission, after the tragic loss of her son is to stop fentanyl. She holds a degree in Communications with an emphasis on Journalism and a minor in Broadcasting from Indiana State University. After college Anne Elizabeth moved to NYC and did a short stint with Bloomberg TV, before becoming a successful editorial print model. As a Sports and Entertainment Interviewer, Anne interviewed sports stars and newsmakers like: Kobe Bryant, Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, and Magic Johnson, to name a few.

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Tim Walz Went To War On Zyn While Pushing Free Needles, Legalizing Pot

Tim Walz has legalized pot, pushed free needles and is open to psychedelic drug legalization, all while taxing nicotine pouches at a 95 percent clip during his tenure as Minnesota’s Governor.

Democrats are attempting to sell Walz as a friend to the working class, praising his “Midwestern values.” His policy history, however, indicates a Walz-Harris Administration may be in favor of crushing the vices of blue collar and traditional America.

Walz, who Vice President Kamala Harris tapped in early August to be her running mate, amended the state’s Tobacco Tax law in May to categorize tobacco-free nicotine products like Zyn as “moist snuff,” rendering it eligible for a 95 percent tax rate.

Use of adult smokeless tobacco, which includes Zyn nicotine pouches, skew heavily towards midwestern, low-income men living in rural areas, according to data from the CDC and the UK’s National Institute of Health (NIH).

Zyn has also become a popular emblem among proponents of traditional masculinity, with popular voices like Joe Rogan and Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson championing them.

The product also became an unlikely political battleground after Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for a federal crackdown on the pouches.

The left’s war on Zyn has prompted backlash from prominent Republican lawmakers.

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are more concerned with policing working class vices like Zyn than dealing with the crisis on the border, Republican Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville told the Daily Caller.

“Democrats would rather exert more government authority over Americans instead of addressing the surge of deadly drugs pouring into our country,” Tuberville said.

Besides adding tobacco-free pouches like Zyn to the state’s Tobacco Tax, Walz also attempted to further increase the 95 percent tax on vape devices in 2021, according to Americans for Tax Reform.

He also presided over a number of policies seemingly geared towards legalizing and decriminalizing illicit drug use.

Walz signed a bill in May 2023 legalizing the recreational use of cannabis in the state. The bill mandates a ten percent tax rate on the retail sales of cannabis.

A few days later he signed the House Omnibus Judiciary and Public Safety Finance appropriations bill, a bill that expanded access to “harm reduction” services and bolstered the state’s Syringe Services Program (SSP).

The program, funded through the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), provides sterile syringes and supplies, containers for safe disposal of used syringes and overdose drugs like Naloxone at no cost to users.

While removing all language criminalizing the possession of syringes, the bill also legalized the possession of all drug paraphernalia, even that which contained residue.

In May 2024, Walz announced his plans for grants providing $100 million for combatting homelessness. One recipient of the grant was Southside Harm Reduction Services, an organization whose services include “syringe exchange, naloxone distribution, education, rapid HIV testing and referrals to social services including housing,” according to the announcement.

Walz’s pro-drug policies follow a left-wing trend of decriminalizing and legalizing drugs at the state level that are federally illegal under The Controlled Substances Act.

After Oregon became the first state to decriminalize possession of all drugs in 2020, the state’s Democratic Governor Tina Kotek reversed course, signing a bill that re-criminalized the possession of hard drugs in April 2024.

Citizens who voted yes on the bill to decriminalize drugs quickly changed their mind. In 2020, 58.46 percent of voters supported Oregon’s Measure 110, a referendum bill which made the maximum penalty for possession of drugs for personal use $100. But in 2023, 56 percent of voters believed it should be repealed as the state’s largest city, Portland, saw a surge in overdoses. The number of people who died of overdoses jumped from 610 in 2019 to nearly 1200 in 2022, according to KOIN 6 News.

Drug overdose deaths across the country have risen at a prodigious rate, jumping from 52,404 in 2015 to 107,941 in 2022, according to data from the National Institute for Drug Abuse.

While some analysts argue the decriminalization of hard drugs like heroin can drive revenue that can be used for education and rehabilitation programs, others say the costs of decriminalization far outweigh the benefits.

Widespread availability of illicit drugs is “the mother of use,” former United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Joseph A. Califano Jr. argued in a U.K. National Institute of Health head to head.

Califano referenced Switzerland’s “needle park,” a government initiative meant to restrict heroin users to a small area. The project “turned into a grotesque tourist attraction of 20,000 addicts and had to be closed before it infected the entire city of Zurich.”

He also noted that Italy, which decriminalized possession of small doses of drugs like heroin, has one of the highest rates of heroin addiction in Europe.

In addition to legalizing pot and making it easier for citizens to use needles, Walz green-lit a Psychedelic Medicine Task Force to study the effects of psilocybin mushrooms, MDMA and LSD.

“The task force is mandated to explore both the therapeutic benefits of psychedelics and the legal pathways by which Minnesota’s government can help patients successfully navigate the labyrinth of federal laws and regulations in order to get access to these potential medicines,” Kurtis Hanna, a drug law reform lobbyist, told Marijuana Moment.

The bill calls for $338,000 of appropriations in 2024 and another $171,000 to fund the task force in 2025. It calls for “statutory changes necessary for the legalization of psychedelic medicine” and “state and local regulation of psychedelic medicine.”

Walz signing the bill cleared the way for other leaders in his state to follow suit. In June 2023, Minneapolis’ Democratic mayor Jacob Frey ordered law enforcement to deprioritize the use of city resources to enforce laws that criminalize buying psychedelics.

Frey’s executive order stated “that the investigation and arrest of persons for planting, cultivating, purchasing, transporting, distributing, engaging in practices with, or possessing Entheogenic Plants or plant compounds which are on the federal Schedule 1 list shall be the lowest law enforcement priority for the City of Minneapolis.”

The psychedelics task force will deliver a final report to the state with findings and recommendations by January 1, 2025, according to the bill. Advocates believe that these steps are clearing a path for the legalization of all psychedelic substances in Minnesota.

“If—and hopefully when—I’m re-elected and this task force gives their final report..my hope is to bring that legislation in that session,” Democratic State Rep. Andy Smith told Marijuana Movement.

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Robert McGreevy

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Johnson: Don’t Believe the Hype; Americans See Harris as the ‘Common Denominator’ for Their Problems

The summer hasn’t been a relaxing one for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). With Republicans desperately fighting to keep and expand their majority, August has been less of a recess and more of a sprint. From the car, where he’s spent most of the month, the Louisianan said he’d been to 20 states this month alone campaigning with his party’s candidates. “And I tell you what,” he said, “I don’t really think this Democratic National Convention is going to have much of an impact at all on our chances of growing the House majority.”

The speaker’s optimism comes in part from the shockingly leftist platform draft released by Kamala Harris’s party. Clocking in at 80 pages, the Democrats’ document is five times longer than the “streamlined” GOP version and easily five times more radical. To Johnson, Harris’s party is finally “saying the quiet parts out loud.” In other words, Democrats are openly broadcasting the unpopular extremism that they’ve tried for so many years to hide. “I mean, if we compared the party platforms of the Republican and Democratic parties decades ago, 40 years ago,” he told Family Research President Tony Perkins on Saturday’s “This Week on the Hill,” maybe there wouldn’t have been that much difference. Both parties had the same ideals in mind. They wanted what was best for America. They wanted to preserve the Republic.”

Of course, the Democrats “generally wanted a lot more government involvement in our lives, and Republicans wanted less,” Johnson acknowledged, “but that was really the crux of the disagreement. Now, however, there is a wide chasm that’s developed between the two parties.” On the Republican side, he insisted, there are the “founding principles,” values like “individual freedom, limited government, the rule of law, peace through strength, fiscal responsibility, free markets, [and] human dignity. We believe all of us are made by our Creator and given our rights by him, and so every life has value. Those are principles that used to define all of us, all Americans. But now, if you talk about those founding principles in a room full of progressives, socialist Democrats, they snarl at you. They have disdain for those principles. They want to trade them in.”

This platform, the speaker believes, will reveal an agenda that is “directly the opposite” of what most Americans are fighting to defend and preserve.

Perkins, who made no secret of his frustration over the Republican Party Platform’s watered-down language as a delegate, pointed out that what Donald Trump’s camp decided to deemphasize is exactly what the Democratic Party is emphasizing. “I mean, they’re talking about abortion. They’re talking about the whole transgender push for children — all the things that really are on the minds of many Americans, especially conservative voters. Republicans are going to have to address those issues.”

His fellow Louisianan agreed, pointing to several conversations he’s had in towns across America where people are “very concerned” about transgenderism, for example. “It’s a top issue,” Johnson insisted. “They don’t want men competing in women’s sports. They don’t want as [Tim] Walz infamously did in his state, they don’t want tampons put in the boys’ bathrooms and all the rest. That really does resonate with people. All of these issues really are still very important.”

But as important as it is for Republicans to raise these issues, it’s just as crucial to understand how to talk about them. “We can be passionate,” the House leader said, “but at the same time respect people that we disagree with. … In fact, we’re supposed to have compassion for the people who don’t understand the truth. That’s kind of the whole principle of evangelism. And when you’re sharing the truth, the eternal truth, or the truth about these temporal policies, you’ve got to do it in the right way. We’re supposed to be winsome…”

Unfortunately, he conceded, “[W]e’ve devolved into this society [that’s] toxic. Politics is a blood sport right now. We are [on] the happy warrior side. Our principles are good. [They’re] for human flourishing, and we have to be able to present that in a way that’s compelling, so that people will listen and understand and come along to our way of thinking. … I call on our members, our colleagues, to go out there into the campaign trail and speak with clarity and consistency and with conviction, because we are fighting for the things that matter — that will preserve the republic and help individuals, families, and communities.”

And right now, the speaker told Perkins, what we see from the Democratic ticket is so completely outside the mainstream that it’s “working [to] our benefit.” Harris is, “quite literally, the most progressive left, the most liberal person to ever run for president [for] any major party. And she has chosen someone who matches her almost exactly. I mean, Tim Walz is a far-leftist. He’s on video in the last couple of years giving sanction to socialism. He thinks it’s a great idea. He says that we ought to have sanctuary cities and that illegal aliens ought to have driver’s licenses. … In his own words, [he] champion[s] radical abortion … with almost no limits at all. I mean, this guy does not line up with the values of the American people. … And I think what Kamala Harris did was cement her legacy as a far-left San Francisco radical.”

She can get away with that for a while, thanks to the loss of all journalistic integrity. As long as the press keeps covering for Harris, her polling honeymoon may continue. “They’re going to try to keep her quiet,” Johnson agreed. “They’re going to try to keep her in a basement. She’ll go to rallies, and she’ll speak from a teleprompter, but she won’t give any difficult interviews — if any at all. And I think if she goes off the teleprompter, they’ll be very nervous about it, because Kamala Harris has shown herself to be a failure in public policy and an empty suit in almost every regard.”

In the meantime, don’t believe all the hype, the speaker warned. As someone who’s crisscrossed the country in the last several weeks, he wants conservatives to know, “There is a real energy out there. It doesn’t always register accurately in the polls, but I’m telling you that people are very animated right now. They are fed up with the situation that they see in the country. They’re fed up with the cost of living. … They’re having a difficult time with the rising crime rates everywhere. And they’re so frustrated about the open border and all the problems that have come from that, and the weakness that we’re projecting on the world stage. They see the common denominator for all of those things as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.” Americans, he added, “are ready for grown-ups to fix these problems.

Until then, his advice to Trump is something he hopes the former president already knows: “This election has to be about policies, not personalities. It has to be about the records of both candidates and not rhetoric. The great thing we have here is an actual comparison. We had a Trump administration. We’ve had a Biden-Harris administration. And there’s not a single American who can say they’re doing better now under this team than they were under the Trump administration. And so, I think that speaks for itself. I think it’s going to give us a remarkable November.”

AUTHOR

Suzanne Bowdey

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The 6 Most Notable Moments from Day 1 of the DNC

The Democratic Party opened its 2024 national convention in Chicago’s United Center on Monday, adopting its platform, setting its agenda, and hearing the first day of speeches from Hillary Clinton, abortion activists, and President Joe Biden. The first day of the DNC featured a prayer without Christ, politicians citing Bible verses moments after promoting abortion-on-demand, and insisting pro-life protections violate “basic decency.”

Here are a few of the most memorable events of day one:

1. A “Christian” invocation without Jesus or a cross?

The Democratic National Convention began its first day in prayer — but not one that mentioned the Name of Jesus Christ or displayed the symbol associated with His death and resurrection. The invocation, offered by Roman Catholic Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of the Archdiocese of Chicago, exhorted the faithful “to root out ongoing injustices in our national life, especially those created by moral blindness and fear of the other” and to forge a “new chapter of our nation’s history.” Although Cupich did not mention Jesus, he did, however, quote Pope Francis.

“Hiding his pectoral cross, and never once [m]entioning the name of Jesus, Cdl. Blase Cupich gave the invocation at an event providing free abortions and vasectomies,” noted The Lepanto Institute, a conservative Catholic organization. Catholic Vote said simply, “The DNC is demonic.”

In April 2022, Cardinal Cupich was booed off the stage of the Chicago March for Life, where he said protecting the unborn is “not our only goal.”

2. Citing the Golden Rule, the death penalty, and love for children discussing abortion

While most of the speakers shied away from even uttering the word “abortion,” some invoked the gruesome procedure while invoking the Bible or claiming those who protect the unborn lack humanity. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (D), who made the shortlist for vice president after party leaders persuaded President Joe Biden to step down as his party’s presumptive nominee, referred to two passages of the Good Book while bashing former President Donald Trump and vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance over their openness to pro-life arguments.

“Trump says people are absolutely thrilled that women had their basic rights eliminated,” said Beshear. Trump and J.D. Vance’s “policies give rapists more rights than their victims,” he alleged, before turning to the Scriptures.

“My faith teaches me the Golden Rule: love your neighbor as yourself. The Parable of the Good Samaritan teaches us that we are all each other’s neighbors. We believe in an America that lives out these values. Let’s end anger politics and remember we are all Americans,” he said.

Those remarks contrast with his view of anyone who supports pro-life laws. Advocating for the right to life “fails any test of humanity, any test of basic decency, any test of whether you have any underlying empathy,” said Beshear (whose father, Steve, also served as Kentucky’s governor).

“Hey maybe the party that promotes abortion through all nine months until birth and all kinds of sexual degeneracy shouldn’t be quoting from the Bible that condemns both,” suggested Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life of America.

Another speaker also insisted supporting abortion proves one’s empathic nature. Kamala Harris “sees each person as just that: a person. … She sees the humanity in everyone.” said Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) in a vitriolic speech. “As women are dying, [President Trump] is bragging about overturning Roe. … Right now in Texas, they want to institute the death penalty — that is a problem — while Kamala Harris is fighting for our reproductive rights to be restored.”

Former Secretary of State and failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took a similar rhetorical approach. “Kamala cares about kids and families,” Clinton insisted, while saying Harris would sign a bill nationalizing abortion-on-demand. “Women fighting for reproductive health care are saying, ‘Keep going,’” stated Clinton. “Yes, she will restore abortion rights nationwide!” Abortion activist Hadley Duvall, who spoke alongside Behsear, also stated, “Kamala Harris will sign a national law to restore the right to an abortion.”

New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) declared, “Together, we must protect abortion rights!” She seemingly complained about the existence of President Donald Trump, saying New Yorkers are tired of him, as “we’ve had to deal with him for 78 long years.” Hochul’s remarks came 37 days after a gunman came within a fraction of an inch of killing the 45th president in cold blood.

Although abortion pervaded the proceedings, most speakers did not use the phrase at all, preferring the euphemism “reproductive rights” or “reproductive freedom” in its place. Beshear told delegates to “elect Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and protect reproductive freedom!”

“Reproductive rights” places the “right” to take an innocent life through abortion on the same constitutional level as the unalienable right to life protected in the 5th and 14th Amendments. The language shift away from naming the life-taking procedure to promoting a nebulous “freedom” mirrors the tactics of the abortion industry itself. The organization once known as the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) recently rebranded itself as “Reproductive Freedom for All.” Harris, a longtime ally of the abortion industry who prosecuted investigative journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt for exposing Planned Parenthood’s trafficking in aborted babies’ organs, has centered her campaign around “freedom” (and “joy”).

The rhetoric proved too much for many viewers. “The Democrats have become a singularly single issue party. It is all about murdering babies, and that is their definition of freedom,” observed David Limbaugh, a conservative commentator and author of numerous Christian books.

3. Planned Parenthood carries out 10 abortions and an unknown number of vasectomies during DNC

Planned Parenthood Great Rivers in St. Louis announced it would offer free abortions and vasectomies in a mobile truck not far from the Democratic National Convention. A local hot dog shop, The Wieners Circle, posted on the social media platform X that it would give anyone who had a vasectomy or abortion a coupon for a free hotdog.

“Planned Parenthood staff is saying that on the first day of the DNC, they did ten free abortions,” reported Lila Rose, founder of the pro-life organization Live Action, on Monday. “Ten helpless babies have been sacrificed so far at the DNC death cult. There are no words to express the sheer horror.”

In response, Democrats for Life held a pro-life event to give baby items to local mothers. “While Planned Parenthood is providing free abortions at the DNC, Democrats For Life is conducting a diaper drive to support local Chicago families,” said Kristen Day of Democrats for Life. She later noted the Democratic Party, which prides itself on its diversity and inclusion, “is inclusive only if you take an oath to Planned Parenthood’s pro-abortion agenda.”

4. Began with a ‘land acknowledgement’

As the party of Woke activists, the Democratic National Convention began with a land acknowledgement, a statement that all American territory once belonged to American Indian tribes. “Our country was built on indigenous homelands,” they stated, naming numerous areas tribes.

5. Trump would ‘weaponize’ the government?

In a curious about-face, Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow (D) warned, “Under Project 2025, Donald Trump would be able to weaponize the Department of Justice to go after his political opponents. He could even turn the FBI into his own personal police force.” Of course, House Republicans convened a formal investigation into the Biden-Harris administration’s multipronged attempt to weaponize government against its political foes, including instigating a now-tenuous special prosecutor case into the former president’s actions.

6. Joe Biden’s farewell speech

Joe Biden’s farewell speech to the 2024 DNC combined familiar themes from his previous speeches with the sound of Biden regularly shouting his words or rushing them together. He stumbled trying to say women were not without “electoral power” (saying, “Women are not without electrical” power) and appeared to lose his train of thought when discussing Medicare and Big Pharma.

Yet perhaps most concerning were his recycled tales about President Donald Trump, which fact-checkers have found to be inaccurate:

  • President Trump allegedly claimed there were “very fine people on both sides” of Charlottesville’s Unite the Right protest, Biden said, taking the Lord’s Name in vain afterwards. Yet Trump said moments later he is not talking about white supremacists and neo-Nazis, but instead about local citizens who wanted to preserve their history.
  • President Trump allegedly called Americans who died in uniform “suckers and losers,” although eyewitnesses of his trip to Europe insist the event did not occur.
  • That President Trump said, unless he is elected, America will experience a “bloodbath,” an economic term the 45th president applied to the automobile industry.
  • Biden also alleged, “We saved democracy in 2020, and now we just save it again in 2024.”

Biden concluded his speech after midnight. The second day commenced Tuesday morning.

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Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.

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Automakers Once Again in Meltdown Mode: GM announces layoffs of 1,000 tech workers

Poised for another government-funded bailout because they followed government mandates and produced cars nobody wanted. 

GM announces layoffs of 1,000 tech workers who wasted time and money designing expensive EVs and self-driving autonomous vehicles that average American consumer can’t afford and doesn’t want.

General Motors is laying off more than 1,000 salaried tech employees in its software and services division in an effort to streamline the unit’s operations.

The layoffs include roughly 600 jobs at GM’s tech campus in Warren, Michigan, just outside of Detroit, CNBC is reporting.

The cuts come as automakers attempt to reduce costs during an industry downturn and as they’re spending billions of dollars on super-expensive all-electric vehicles and so-called software-defined vehicles. These include self-driving autonomous vehicles that are continuously gathering up and sending all your personal data to a central computer, then they sell it off to third parties. These cars will also include remote kill switches.

In other words, the auto industry is pouring all of its R&D money into vehicles that nobody in their right mind would want to own.

In fact, GM is being sued for illegally selling more than 1.8 million drivers’ personal driving data to insurance companies.

Only a digital slave to Klaus Schwab’s Fourth Industrial Revolution would want a car that spies on them, reports their driving habits to the insurance companies, and offers the government the opportunity to shut their car down.

It would be nice to see some new automobile manufacturers spring up to fill the niche of consumers who would like to remain free. Free of tracking, free of those nagging beeping reminders to put your seatbelt on, free of cameras checking your every move, and with no online connection to the socialist nanny state. The time for such a car company has arrived. Will anyone answer the bell? I hope so.

What about you? Would you buy a car that’s made in America, specifically for freedom-loving Americans, who want nothing more than to be left alone, free of the entangling web of Big Brother surveillance?

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Elon Musk points to THIS video of Kamala Harris

Musk “quoted” this video on X as a warning for what her presidency would look like!

“Good afternoon. I want to welcome these leaders for coming in to have this very important discussion about some of the most pressing issues of our time,” she began.

“I am Kamala Harris. My pronouns are she and her. I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit,” she continued.

“Just awful,” is all Dave can say.

Elon Musk, who also saw the video, tweeted: “Imagine 4 years of this….”

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*** Report: China and Our Children

*** The departure of Columbia’s president isn’t nearly enough to fix one of America’s most important universities

*** PragerU video: Understanding Ayn Rand

*** Nigel Farage meets Douglas Murray

*** More Than 70% of Democrat Voters Don’t Know Kamala Harris’ Positions

*** Kamala’s Magical Media Makeover Masks Stunning Flaws

*** Trump Must Challenge Harris Eligibility

*** Victor Davis Hanson on Tim Walz’ Meltdown

*** Do People Vote on What They Know or How They Feel?

*** The 5th Circuit Stops Democrats’ Misuse of the Voting Rights Act—and That May Shift Control of Congress

*** President of Voting Machine Giant Smartmatic Indicted on $1 Million Bribery, Money Laundering Charges

*** Rewind to 2018-2019: U.S. Senators Raise Concerns Over Cyber Security in Election Equipment and Voting Machines

*** Election Crime News – Arrests & Indictments

*** Governor mandates all paper ballots for presidential elections in Virginia

*** GOP Vote-Fraud Foes Should Fight Fishy Addresses

*** The Abortion Election

*** Supreme Court strikes down Biden-Harris Title IX change that some argued would allow men in women’s sports

*** Report: Concern for religion’s future in America grows as young women stop attending church

*** Dr. Pierre Kory: The American Board of Internal Medicine Revoked All 3 of my Board Certifications

*** Who Gets To Decide What Is ‘Misinformation’?

*** US government awards billions in contracts to censorship cartel

*** Is too much pounding the table the problem with science today?

*** Truth or Consequences

*** DEI Is Ruining America’s Health System

*** The Prevailing Scientific Theory of Cancer Has Been Overturned

*** Why Health Policy Problems Rarely Get Solved

*** American Board of Internal Medicine Punishes Top Doctors Who Advocated for Early COVID Treatment

*** We were right! The ONS lied about covid vaccine safety

*** Same Pig, Different Lipstick: Covid and the Green Revolution

*** Scientists: Real-Time Self-Assembly Structures Revealed In 2-Year Study Of Pfizer And Moderna Covid-19 Shots

*** Report: Clearing the Air — Honest Truths About Clean Energy

*** Coming Clean on Clean Energy: It’s a Dirty Business

*** “Green” Hydrogen Subsidies are 1,900x Larger Than What’s Given to Nuclear

*** Report: Offshore Wind Turbines May Kill You

*** Swedes Embrace Nuclear & Join Europe’s Grand Rejection of Wind & Solar Transition

*** (Alex Epstein) Summer Talking Points: Gasoline Prices

*** Report: EVs’ impact on Power Systems and Supply Chains

*** The Great Electric Vehicle Pushback

*** Polar Bears, Dead Coral and Other Climate Fictions

*** Short video: Heat Wave? | CO2 Coalition Climate Chronicles

*** Huge Increase in Coral Produces 3rd Year of Record Highs on the Great Barrier Reef

*** The Top Five Climate Science Scandals

*** The Cognitive Tales: Volume 1: The biases that make us think too fast

*** Dr. Willie Soon’s keynote presentation for the Clintel 5th anniversary

*** An Unconvincing AI Tract

*** What Is AI Really? Digital Illusions, False Promises And Mass Reeducation

Secondary Education Related:

*** Report: The Key to Fixing the US Education System

*** 3 minute video: A Short History of Public Schooling

*** 3 minute video: A Look Inside the World of Unschooling

*** Putting Things in Perspective

*** NASA Study Reveals Uncreative Behavior & Thinking is Learned in school

*** Report: China and Our Children

Restore Education Now: A California mom’s back-to-school agenda

The Reckoning Has Come for K-12 Sex Abuse, and Taxpayers are on the Hook

The New Inquisition: Burn the Heretics

Arizona School Choice Program Makes Homeschoolers Jump Through Absurd Bureaucratic Hoops

Higher Education Related:

*** The departure of Columbia’s president isn’t nearly enough to fix one of America’s most important universities

Why Are Race-Based Scholarships and Programs Suddenly Under Attack?

Artificial Intelligence:

*** An Unconvincing AI Tract

*** What Is AI Really? Digital Illusions, False Promises And Mass Reeducation

Technocrats Get $2.2 Billion from Biden for Power Grid Upgrade for AI

Federal Criminal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act – U.S. Department of Justice

Greed Energy Economics:

*** “Green” Hydrogen Subsidies are 1,900x Larger Than What’s Given to Nuclear

Unreliables (General):

*** Coming Clean on Clean Energy: It’s a Dirty Business

(Alex Epstein) Summer Talking Points: Unreliable Power

Wholesale prices surge as wind and solar output falls to zero in South Australia

Wind Energy — Offshore:

*** Report: Offshore Wind Turbines May Kill You

Vineyard Wind turbine debris makes it to Cape Cod

Floating Offshore Wind – A Financial Catastrophe

Feds must rethink authorizing harassment of whales by offshore wind

Wind Energy — Other:

*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)

*** Report: Clearing the Air — Honest Truths About Clean Energy

Wind project shelved after landholders change their minds

Solar Energy:

State Regulations Force Bankruptcy of California Solar Company

Nuclear Energy:

*** Swedes Embrace Nuclear & Join Europe’s Grand Rejection of Wind & Solar Transition

*** Small modular nuclear reactors could be an affordable path to a carbon-free future

America’s oldest nuclear plants are in Upstate, and NY needs them. We have some big decisions to make

Fusion power might be 30 years away but we will reap its benefits well before

Fossil Fuel Energy:

*** (Alex Epstein) Summer Talking Points: Gasoline Prices

Electric Vehicles (EVs):

*** Report: EVs’ impact on Power Systems and Supply Chains

*** The Great Electric Vehicle Pushback

Reality Brings EV Buyers’ Remorse

The True Cost of Biden’s Bet on EVs

Misc Energy:

Electric Grid Load Shaping

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:

*** Polar Bears, Dead Coral and Other Climate Fictions

*** Short video: Heat Wave? | CO2 Coalition Climate Chronicles

*** Huge Increase in Coral Produces 3rd Year of Record Highs on the Great Barrier Reef

*** The Top Five Climate Science Scandals

The Toxic Fumes of Gaslighting

Twisted Truth: Lies, Extreme Lies, and Climate Statistics

Math Confirms Foolishness of Climate Alarmism

Europe’s Recipe For Disaster: The Von Der Leyen Program

Cold Kills Far More People Worldwide Than Heat

Having it both ways on climate change and wetland methane

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:

*** The Cognitive Tales: Volume 1: The biases that make us think too fast

*** Dr. Willie Soon’s keynote presentation for the Clintel 5th anniversary

Climate Deniers of the World, Unite!

Report: The Climate Disaster Fund

A radio climate debate (Goreham vs Lipsky)

Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Battle—Seize Land for Green Energy

California’s Wildfires Driven by Poor Land Management and Climate, Say Experts

US Election:

Election-Integrity.info (10 major election reports by our team of experts, plus much more!)

*** Do People Vote on What They Know or How They Feel?

*** The 5th Circuit Stops Democrats’ Misuse of the Voting Rights Act—and That May Shift Control of Congress

*** President of Voting Machine Giant Smartmatic Indicted on $1 Million Bribery, Money Laundering Charges

*** Rewind to 2018-2019: U.S. Senators Raise Concerns Over Cyber Security in Election Equipment and Voting Machines

*** View from the Left: GOP plans to win this election — in court, if not at the ballot box

Hackers’ confab shows vulnerabilities in election machines amid testing concerns ahead of November

Majority of Postal Facilities Audited by Inspector General Failed to Follow Election Mail Procedures

US National Election — Harris & Walz:

*** More Than 70% of Democrat Voters Don’t Know Kamala Harris’ Positions

*** Kamala’s Magical Media Makeover Masks Stunning Flaws

*** Trump Must Challenge Harris Eligibility

*** Victor Davis Hanson on Tim Walz’ Meltdown

Trillion-Dollar Surprise in the Inflation Reduction Act

Bidenomics: New Employment Numbers Say Recession Is Here

US Election — State Issues:

*** Election Crime News – Arrests & Indictments

*** Governor mandates all paper ballots for presidential elections in Virginia

*** GOP Vote-Fraud Foes Should Fight Fishy Addresses

*** United Sovereign Americans files Ohio Lawsuit to ensure a legally valid 2024 election

Republicans Ask SCOTUS To Greenlight Arizona’s Proof of Citizenship Requirement for Voter Registration

Misc US Politics:

*** The Abortion Election

*** Supreme Court strikes down Biden-Harris Title IX change that some argued would allow men in women’s sports

Societally US:

*** PragerU video: Understanding Ayn Rand

*** Nigel Farage meets Douglas Murray

Douglas Murray Gets It Right on Why Things Are Going Wrong in the West

A Guide for the Trans-Perplexed

This smashes the mass immigration is good for our country garbage

Make America Civil Again

Censorship:

*** Dr. Pierre Kory: The American Board of Internal Medicine Revoked All 3 of my Board Certifications

*** Who Gets To Decide What Is ‘Misinformation’?

*** US government awards billions in contracts to censorship cartel

Facebook Immediately Censors All Posts on the Musk/Trump August 12th Interview

EU Threatens Musk Over Trump Interview, Potentially Interfering in US Elections

Globalism:

A Planetary Technocracy to Manage Global Crises on Behalf of the Global Corporatocracy

Religion Related:

*** Report: Concern for religion’s future in America grows as young women stop attending church

Politics Has Become Our National Religion

Tim Walz’s Church Doesn’t Like to Call God ‘Him,’ Supports Reparations and Pride Parades

Science:

*** Is too much pounding the table the problem with science today?

*** Truth or Consequences

Health:

*** DEI Is Ruining America’s Health System

*** The Prevailing Scientific Theory of Cancer Has Been Overturned

*** Why Health Policy Problems Rarely Get Solved

How a Left-wing group is turning doctors into activists

How corporate health care is failing physicians and patients alike

Israel/Ukraine:

Pray for the safety of the Israeli people

Latest Developments in Israel

Pray for the safety of the Ukrainian people

A well-rated source to make a Ukraine donation

Latest Developments in Ukraine

COVID-19 — Misc:

*** American Board of Internal Medicine Punishes Top Doctors Who Advocated for Early COVID Treatment

*** We were right! The ONS lied about covid vaccine safety

*** Same Pig, Different Lipstick: Covid and the Green Revolution

*** Scientists: Real-Time Self-Assembly Structures Revealed In 2-Year Study Of Pfizer And Moderna Covid-19 Shots

Eye issues skyrocket after the COVID shots rolled out


 

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DNC Attendees Will Have Opportunities For Free Vasectomies, Abortions

Attendees at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago will have the opportunity to receive free vasectomies and abortions blocks away from the proceedings at the United Center.

Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, which operates in parts of Missouri and Illinois, will park its mobile health clinic near the DNC on Aug. 19 and Aug. 20, according to The New York Times. Medication abortions are reportedly available on both days, with vasectomies being exclusively offered Monday.

Appointments on the vasectomy vehicle are in high demand, with eager registrants forming a waitlist, according to the outlet. Those hoping to be sterilized must fill out a Google Form, providing their name, birthdate and contact information to secure their spot in line.

Appointments on the vasectomy vehicle are in high demand, with eager registrants forming a waitlist, according to the outlet. Those hoping to be sterilized must fill out a Google Form, providing their name, birthdate and contact information to secure their spot in line.

“Services will be provided on a sliding-fee scale — pay what you can and get the healthcare you need,” Planned Parenthood’s Google Form reads.

Persons seeking medication abortion can register online as well, but there is not yet a waitlist for either day, meaning they could also walk in without an appointment, according to the outlet.

Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, has been an outspoken advocate for abortion following the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 24, 2024 overturning of Roe v. Wade.

As vice president, Harris kicked off a nationwide pro-abortion tour in Wisconsin on Jan. 22, 2024, the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade. She referenced abortion as one of America’s “fundamental freedoms,” according to a White House release announcing her “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms.”

Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are expected to speak on abortion and IVF at the DNC.

Pro-abortion groups plan to demonstrate the night before the DNC. Abortion rights activists sued Chicago in May after the city announced permits to march outside the convention would not be issued, according to ABC7 Chicago.

Among the demonstrations will be a large “inflatable IUD,” a form of birth control activists will nickname “Freeda Womb,” The New York Times reported.

Meanwhile, more than a dozen local businesses in Chicago have barricaded their windows and doors with plywood in anticipation of destructive protests outside the DNCaccording to WGN9.

The DNC is scheduled to start Monday and will end Thursday.

AUTHOR

Julianna Frieman

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Supreme Court Denies White House Bid To Reinstate Part Of New Title IX Rule

The Supreme Court declined the White Houses’ emergency request to partially reinstate Biden’s new Title IX rule on Friday.

The 5-4 decision upholds lower court injunctions in nearly half of states that block a new rule that includes, for the first time, sexual orientation and gender identity in Title IX, according to the high court. The administration sought to narrow these injunctions, which prevent the enforcement of rules concerning gender identity.

The White House argued the injunctions should not obstruct the enforcement of other revised elements of Title IX, including enhanced protections for pregnant students and improved processes for handling retaliation and record-keeping, the document revealed. The court’s unsigned order stated the government did not provide adequate grounds to overturn the lower courts’ decisions, which found the disputed provisions were intertwined with other parts of the new rule.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, with three other liberal justices and conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, wrote the dissent. Sotomayor criticized the lower courts’ injunctions as overly broad. “By blocking the Government from enforcing scores of regulations that respondents never challenged and that bear no apparent relationship to respondents’ alleged injuries, the lower courts went beyond their authority to remedy the discrete harms alleged here,” Sotomayor wrote, The Hill reported.

The decision is not the final word on the new Title IX rules, as the ongoing legal challenges will return to lower appellate courts for further review. This ongoing litigation follows a 2020 Supreme Court ruling that established protections against employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, according to The Hill.

AUTHOR

Mariane Angela

Entertainment and news reporter.

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‘Quantum Adventures in Sparksville: Stories about the Quantum World for Kids’ by Amil Imani

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As the author, I have sought to blend scientific accuracy with the thrill of storytelling, immersing you in the strange and fascinating world of the quantum. These tales aim to ignite your curiosity and leave you pondering the profound implications of quantum phenomena on our perception of reality.

Reality is the path to the truth.

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Your children are more important than your dreams

The phenomenon known as Ballerina Farm on Instagram is one of the most popular moms in America. With her eight children, a gaggle of hogs, endless Instagram videos of baking from scratch, and her 10 million followers, Hannah Neeleman is a mom to be reckoned with. Oh, and she also wins beauty pageants like a boss. And is a Julliard-trained ballerina.

A recent article on Hannah and her husband, Daniel, threw the digital world into hysterics. A main source of outrage is that Hannah gave up her dreams of being a ballerina to be a wife and a mother. Many are also horrified that Hannah has little time to herself and sometimes works to the point of exhaustion.

Newsflash: All mothers of young children have little time to themselves and work to the point of exhaustion frequently.

Giving up dreams 

But let’s get back to the ballerina thing. When Hannah put on her first pair of ballerina slippers, did her parents think, “Hallelujah! No motherhood for her! No wifehood for her! We want our daughter to remain a single, solitary soul dancing into old age wearing tutus and toe shoes forever!” Not likely.

Here’s the thing. Hannah is not alone in “giving up her dreams” to raise a family. Almost everyone does this. And it is not a shame, a tragedy, or a sign of oppression. It’s called growing up. And women are not the only ones who regularly “give up their dreams” for the sake of their families. Most men give up their boyhood dreams of becoming professional athletes to do something far less glamorous.

My dad is such a man. He was a great football player in high school. In fact, some might say he was phenomenal. The local newspapers ran stories about him, football was his life, and he seemed destined for greatness.

Then he met my mom. They got married and soon there was a baby on the way. My dad was practicing with the college football team of his dreams at the time. My dad realised there wasn’t time in the day for him to go to school, go to work, and go to practice, and nurture his marriage. So, he gave up football.

He gave up football.

He poured himself into work and school and caring for my mother, who was throwing up multiple times a day. He eventually graduated from college. My mother eventually had the baby and then had three more. One of them was me.

My parents both worked like crazy keeping our family afloat, and it floated. Barely. I had an absolutely stellar childhood full of camping trips and backyard swings and never enough money. But that last part isn’t what mattered the most. What mattered the most is that I knew my parents loved me. I knew they’d make any sacrifice for me.

My parents when they were dating, 1966

Sacred sacrifice 

Parenthood is a position of sacrifice. Author and psychoanalyst Erica Komisar says parenthood comes with “the sacred obligation of nurturing.” To nurture others requires sacrifices of self. This does not mean we fail to care for ourselves or that we never pursue hobbies or do anything for fun ever again, but it does mean we offer humongous amounts of time, energy, resources, sleep, and emotional investment in the name of our children’s wellbeing.

All decent parents do this. All decent parents make sacrifices so that their children can eat, sleep in a bed, and possibly even take dance lessons or join a basketball club. Only a tiny sliver of the population will dance or play ball professionally, and even that won’t last forever. But family relationships will last — if we’re wise enough to forge them. And somehow, amid all the sacrifice, we end up the better for it.

If no one moved on from their dreams of throwing footballs or tying on their toe shoes in order to bear, raise, nurture, and support children, the world would be full of old people with bad knees, concussed heads, and empty homes. And the world would collapse in one generation because no one would have kids. There would be a whole lot of lonely has-beens out there without their own little cheering squad (these are known as families) to remember they used to be something — and to see that they still ARE something.

Pink tights and varicose veins 

So, should Hannah Neeleman have rejected the marriage proposal so she could “follow her dreams?” Well, if she had, she would have had the great pleasure of pulling her pale pink ballet tights on over her varicose veins when she turned 60, without an adoring audience to laud her fading grace and beauty.

But instead, she had kids. And she’s having the time of her life raising them. And when she’s 60, she’ll be surrounded by people who exist because she exists, and those people will laugh and cry and dream and dance with her.

Hannah and her family

My dad “gave up” football, but did he? He passed his love of the game on to my brothers. He spent countless hours playing catch with them and watching their games and playing football with them and the neighbourhood boys on frosty Thanksgiving mornings. His new dream was to watch them — and me — excel not just at football, or chess, or soccer — but to excel at life. His new passion became us and my mom. That is not a tragedy. It is a triumph.

My Dad and his family

A wrecked life? 

At a recent family gathering that included one of his infant great-grandsons, my dad was reflecting on walking away from football. He said,

“I’m happy I did it. It was the right choice. I know what it’s like to score a winning touchdown, but laughing with babies is better.”

If you had told the 18-year-old version of my dad that someday he’d think babies were more interesting than football, he would have laughed his head off. But the truth is, as life pushes on, we don’t just abandon our dreams; our dreams change. They mature, they grow, and they become better than we could have imagined.

Did giving up professional ballet wreck Hannah Neeleman’s life? Did giving up football wreck my dad’s life?

You decide.


What do you think of Hannah’s choice to be a mother instead of a professional ballerina? Leave your thoughts below.


AUTHOR

Kimberly Ells is the author of The Invincible Family. Follow her at Invincible Family Substack.

EDITORS NOTE: This Mercator column is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

Kamala Harris has a David Daleiden problem

Since Kamala Harris wrested the Democratic Party’s nomination from the grip of Joe Biden late last month, the legacy media machine has been working overtime to rebrand her into an American saviour.

Her marketers have several large hurdles to overcome, not least that the Harris-Walz ticket is the most stridently left-wing outfit ever offered to the American public.

To highlight just the contentious issue of abortion, Harris has called for Roe to be codified federally, and is the only sitting vice president to have toured an abortion mill. For his part, Tim Walz, as Governor of Minnesota, has delivered his state the most radical abortion laws in the US, with foeticide legal at all stages of pregnancy in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.

Perhaps no one has more effectively exposed Kamala’s enchantment with abortion as undercover journalist David Daleiden, of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP).

Undercover

In 2015, Daleiden and a colleague attended the National Abortion Federation’s commercial trade show in San Francisco while posing as laboratory wholesalers. As reported by Mercator at the time, Daleiden surreptitiously recorded conversations with a series of Planned Parenthood executives at the event who eagerly discussed the harvesting and exchange of fetal body parts. If the footage is to be believed, the babies in question were aborted late-term, with some delivered alive and mostly intact.

Instead of investigating Planned Parenthood for potential illegalities, Kamala Harris, then Attorney-General of California, launched an investigation against David Daleiden for recording confidential communications without permission, in supposed violation of the state’s Invasion of Privacy Act.

Daleiden faces eight felony charges and possible jail time in California, with his trial date set for December this year.

With Harris now at the top of the Democrat ticket, the Daleiden affair is once again trending on social media, demanding explanation from Kamala’s newsroom fan base.

AAP Factcheck came to the rescue late last week, giving a verdict of “false” to the claim that “Kamala Harris prosecuted two journalists for exposing that a US reproductive health organisation was selling aborted fetal body parts.”

As is often the case with such screeds, however, the devil is in the details, and the “fact check” is itself crying out for scrutiny.

The first paragraph describes Daleiden and his colleague not as journalists but as “journalists” — scare quotes intact. Bias much?

The second paragraph makes the technically correct observation that “multiple investigations into the nonprofit, Planned Parenthood, found no evidence it sold fetal body parts for profit”. What it fails to disclose is that the fetal tissue trade is a legal grey area in the United States.

Planned Parenthood has indeed thus far evaded any legal guilt for buying or selling fetal tissue for profit. However, the multi-billion dollar organisation luxuriously exploits a legal loophole that allows abortion providers to receive “reasonable payments” to offset the cost of acquiring, preserving, storing and transporting this valuable commodity.

The more abortions that are performed and bodies that are preserved, the more money an abortion provider can collect — and many providers offer bonuses to their technicians that are pegged to these metrics because of the financial windfalls involved.

All of this information, conveniently ignored by AAP Factcheck, is essential in comprehending the giddy glee of the women who made Daleiden’s acquaintance at that fateful trade show.

What else was AAP Factcheck hiding?

Vendetta

In the third paragraph, we read that “while Ms Harris was California’s Attorney-General when a probe was announced into the actions of two anti-abortion activists, she had left the post by the time they were charged”.

Relevance? Zero. It was Kamala Harris as AG who opened the investigation against Daleiden, and her office’s legal pursuit of the whistleblower persisted until — and beyond — her election to the US Senate. Her investigation saw 11 armed agents raid Daleiden’s apartment armed with rifles and K-9 dogs in order to seize all of his undercover footage.

Consider a few other facts that AAP Factcheck failed to disclose, but that were covered by the New York Post:

  • Daleiden’s case is one of the first times the California AG’s office has ever launched a stand-alone prosecution involving the state’s video-recording law, according to the defendant’s lawyers.
  • Daleiden’s lawyers also contend that Kamala Harris singled Daleiden out to “do the bidding of Planned Parenthood”, who have contributed heavily to her campaigns for office. They believe it was “a selective prosecution for huge donors”.
  • Planned Parenthood executives in California had arranged for in-person meetings with Kamala Harris about the videos, according to letters obtained from court documents.
  • During her 2016 Senate bid, Harris enjoyed Planned Parenthood’s endorsement, all the while overseeing Daleiden’s investigation, including authorising the raid on his home.
  • Once Kamala Harris was elected to the Senate, she hired Lily Adams, the daughter of Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards, to be one of her top aides.
  • Several months after the investigation was launched, the LA Times editorial board called the criminal charges against Daleiden a “disturbing overreach” by the AG’s office.
  • When one of the Planned Parenthood executives recorded by Daleiden made a complaint to the Los Angeles Police Department, the LAPD refused to take the case, saying the taping had been done in a public place where many could hear the conversation.

Consider this vital context while watching the new video footage recently released by David Daleiden.

Kamala Harris might have the mainstream media’s might behind her, but the truth may not be as enthusiastic an ally.

It is doubtful that most Americans would be thrilled to learn about her cosy relationship with Planned Parenthood and her callous disregard for the harvesting and peddling of unborn baby body parts.

Whether they will ever be told about it is another matter entirely.


What do you think of Kamala Harris’ conduct in the Daleiden case? Leave a comment below.


AUTHOR

Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.

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Poll: Do Americans Really Care about where Companies Stand Politically?

A recent Gallup poll revealed only 38% percent of American adults “want businesses to take a stance on current events.” The remaining majority, however, would prefer corporations to stay quiet on their beliefs.

After several years of political madness, society has witnessed waves of boycotts from the Left and the Right. For instance, many conservatives and Christians have chosen to stray from doing business with organizations such as Bud Light, Target, Starbucks, and others, that unabashedly promote LGBT ideology. The same is true on the opposite side of the spectrum, as pro-Palestinian groups that support Hamas have chosen to boycott organizations with Israeli ties.

But notably, the poll, which measured the opinions of 5,835 people, found that “nearly all age groups, genders, races, and partisan groups” were represented in those who felt corporations should keep their political views to themselves. The groups that most strongly felt otherwise included Democrats, black adults, and those who promote LGBT ideology.

The question is: why is this the case? Is it possible consumers are tired of having to pick and choose where they buy a cup of coffee? Or could it simply be that the American people don’t want to associate everyday shopping with a particular worldview? To help give possible explanations to these questions, Family Research Council’s Director of the Center for Biblical Worldview David Closson commented to The Washington Stand.

“We live in incredibly hyper-politicized times,” he stated. “For the last several years, it seems that politics has exploded onto the headlines, and one can’t navigate through the public square without being forced to confront the latest cultural or social issue.” As such, Closson noted he’s “not at all surprised that Americans are expressing to pollsters the fact that they are utterly exhausted” to be faced with politics 24/7.

According to Closson, there are times when political engagement within an everyday shopping experience is justified. For instance, “The backlash against Bud Light and Target for their aggressive LGBT activism” had a purpose. Considering that many of the leftist companies faced severe drops in sales, it’s now obvious that the boycotts “sent a warning shot across the bow to many corporations that tens of millions of Christians were tired of having a moral agenda shoved down their throat that was not congruent with their biblical worldview.”

In the broad analysis, it stands to reason that Christians aren’t the only ones to be “getting tired of the constant, frantic political news cycle” that’s seemingly impossible “to extricate ourselves from.” However, arguably, Christians do face a unique dilemma when it comes to the political stance of an organization. As Closson emphasized, “Fundamentally, Christians are called to be good stewards” — a call applicable to both our time and resources.

However, from Closson’s perspective, “Christians should be good stewards with everything God has entrusted us with, which would include our consumer habits.” He continued, “When Target was putting chest-binders in swimsuits for those who identify as transgender on the very front display rack, I do believe Christians have an obligation not to support companies that so flagrantly and blatantly disregard traditional biblical ethic.”

Ultimately, in a fallen world, Christians will never be truly free of businesses that reflect anti-biblical beliefs. But that doesn’t mean, as Closson contended, that we should “worry about every little detail” and rob ourselves of joy. “Some of these large companies do our homework for us by virtue signaling and seemingly taking every step possible to let us know where they stand on the moral issues of our day.” And “when an organization, company, or business tells you what they believe on certain hot button issues, it’s appropriate for Christians to take them at their word.”

Closson concluded that when it comes to these matters, “Wisdom is needed.”

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Sarah Holliday

Sarah Holliday is a reporter at The Washington Stand.

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Planned Parenthood Came from the ‘Same Racist, Elitist Pseudoscience that Birthed the Holocaust’: Expert

In an article published on the Ohio State Senate’s website, Michele Reynolds wrote, “Abortion is killing the black community.” Abortion “is not health care,” it “is extermination.” And Reynolds is right — this industry is not only murderous, but its origins are inherently racist.

Margaret Sanger, the founder of the infamous abortion hub Planned Parenthood, was an open believer in eugenics, which is the theory that “humans can be improved through selective breeding of populations.” When Sanger put her “birth control” plan into action, she had her eyes set on decreasing the amount of black people that walked the earth. And interestingly enough, Planned Parenthood does not hide this disturbing history.

On its website, the organization provides a multi-paragraph explanation of its history, including the details of Sanger’s “harmful” vision. “Margaret Sanger’s racism and belief in eugenics are in direct opposition to Planned Parenthood’s mission,” the abortion group concluded. “Planned Parenthood denounces Margaret Sanger’s belief in eugenics. Further, Planned Parenthood denounces the history and legacy of anti-Blackness in gynecology and the reproductive rights movement.”

But the reality is, these claims can only be described as pure lip service. Only a brief overview of modern statistics proves that Planned Parenthood, for all intents and purposes, is still discriminatory to its core.

As guest host and former Congressman Jody Hice said on Tuesday’s episode of “Washington Watch,” Planned Parenthood is “obviously trying to run from their racist roots.” Ryan Bomberger, co-founder and chief creative officer of the Radiance Foundation, agreed. “Well, sure,” he said, “they can try to run, but they can’t change their DNA.” But even beyond their inability to alter the foundation upon which they were built, Bomberger argued that this baby-victimizing organization has no interest in changing their DNA.

As if murdering babies of any ethnicity wasn’t enough, a policy report published by the Center for Urban Renewal and Education highlighted data from a 2011 report that found “black women make up 14 percent of the childbearing population, yet obtained 36.2 percent of reported abortions.” Additionally, “Percentages at these levels illustrate that more than 19 million black babies have been aborted since 1973.” And yet, the statistics only get increasingly bleak.

The research emphasized that an analysis of “abortion by ethnicity” confirms “black women disproportionately lead in the numbers.” For example, “in Mississippi, 79 percent of abortions are obtained by black women; in Washington, D.C., more than 60 percent; in Georgia, 59.4 percent; in Alabama, 58.4 percent.” And “in state after state, similar numbers are found, with black women aborting at two, three or more times their presence in the population.”

These details, the report contended, are but a small fraction of evidence that points to a startling reality: “In the 1850s, it was the black slave who sought freedom and equal protection under the law. Today it is the unborn child.”

Bomberger did not hold back any punches. Planned Parenthood, he urged, was “birthed out of the same racist, elitist pseudoscience that birthed the Holocaust, which is called eugenics,” and “they can’t run away from that.” While they like to pretend they’re different from the days of their founder, “They’re actually worse now … [with] over 360,000 [babies] every year killed by Planned Parenthood.”

Needless to say, “The origins of Planned Parenthood are rooted in this mindset that certain people didn’t deserve to live,” Bomberger said. In the early days of the rising push for abortion, those who were considered “unfit,” such as children conceived out of wedlock and poor black communities, were the primary target. But “today,” he stated, “it’s abortion on demand, where literally abortion is the number one killer in the black community. It kills more black lives in two weeks than the KKK killed in a century. That’s the reality.”

“That’s stunning,” Hice stated. “I would imagine there [are] many women who may not know about Planned Parenthood’s origin.” As such, he added, “How can we get this out?” Because “people need to know.” In response, Bomberger explained that Radiance Foundation started “with a billboard campaign that called out the insane and inherent racism in the abortion industry.” Their journey of uncovering the racism in the abortion industry began by calling out the falsehoods that abortion giants promote. “Planned Parenthood and these Planned Parenthood-funded minority groups are trying to say [that] ‘abortions are [an] uplift out of poverty. Abortion is equality. It’s our empowerment.’” However, as Bomberger went on to ask, “How is any community empowered by killing its posterity?”

The truth is, “[A]bortion, no matter the color [of the baby], is devastating and wrong and so tragic.” But these abortion hubs are pushing the notion that there needs to be “more abortions in the black community.” And what people don’t realize, Bomberger urged, is that “Planned Parenthood brags … about how black people are their base,” and it “touts itself as an anti-racism organization.” But when all is said and done, “How can you be anti-racism when you’re the leading killer of black lives?” It just “goes to show the fraud of the anti-racism movement.”

It “is incredible information” to take in, Hice shook his head. But it begs the question, what about “black Christians who have accepted abortion as just simply part of the package when it comes to supporting Democrats?” Additionally, how do we respond to “the preachers who are more Democrat[ic] than they are gospel preachers when it comes to standing up for the unborn?”

According to Bomberger, “[T]he dissonance is just unbelievable.” He elaborated, “[Y]ou’ve got the Democratic Party, which is the party of slavery, the party that went to war for slavery, the party of Jim Crow, the party of poll taxes and literacy tests — all the Jim Crow policies.” This is also “the same party today that is pushing unlimited abortion in the black community.” As such, he said, “What I say to those pastors” is that they need to “wake up.” Abortion is nothing other than “having lives made in the image of God destroyed under the name of some fake sort of equality [and] fake sort of reproductive justice.”

Ultimately, “[T]he only justice that pastors or … any other Christian … should be concerned with is biblical justice. And it’s not biblical justice to slaughter our unborn and to have women exploited by a multi-billion dollar abortion industry.”

So, Hice asked, where’s the encouragement in all this? As Bomberger put it, the encouragement buried in the grim facts is that “we’re seeing an awakening by pastors being bold and actually speaking out about this.” It’s not necessarily a “seismic shift, but even if it’s a handful of people here and a handful of people there, it’s a victory.” And as Hice noted, every movement “starts with a few.”

Bomberger agreed, and he concluded that what he wants to impart to people is this: “Have hope. Because when you are awakened, when you understand the truth, you have clarity and context. And it sets people free.”

AUTHOR

Sarah Holliday

Sarah Holliday is a reporter at The Washington Stand.

EDITORS NOTE: This Washington Stand column is republished with permission. All rights reserved. ©2024 Family Research Council.


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