Ukraine and the ‘War-Time President’

Why did Fox News Corp. owner, Rupert Murdoch, take top-rated Tucker Carlson off the air but keep Carlson on the payroll at $20 million dollars per year? Even though divorced four times, costing Murdoch billions of dollars, the 92-year-old Murdoch is still sharp enough to know that no incumbent American President has ever been voted out of office during a “time of war.”

Therefore, if Donald J. Trump is to be kept out of the Oval Office, it is essential for the proxy war in Ukraine between the United States and Russia to continue through the upcoming presidential election cycle; thereby, allowing Joe Biden* to run for reelection as a “war-time president.”

Ergo: if American election history holds true, Biden* cannot lose. Even President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ), despite his increasingly obvious mismanagement of the Vietnam War, was elected to a full term in 1964.

Case study: With the Cold War over, President George H.W. Bush (a.k.a. Bush 41) began his term in January 1989 as a “peace-time president.” In August 1990, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. President Bush 41 allowed his generals the freedom of action denied by LBJ to General Westmoreland in Vietnam. The world’s fourth-largest Army was defeated in 100 hours. During those 100 hours, President Bush 41 was a “war-time president.” But, following the defeat of Saddam Hussein, President Bush 41 became, once again, a “peace-time president,” and remained so.

Then, despite the fact that Navy Lt. George H.W. Bush had been a highly decorated hero in WWII, the “peace-time President Bush 41” was defeated for reelection in 1992 by the Vietnam War draft dodger, William J. Clinton.

Consider if President Bush 41 had waited until 1992 to eject Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, President Bush 41 could have campaigned as a “war-time president.” If previous election history pertained, then President Bush 41 would have been reelected. Thus, the nation might have been spared the Clintons (Vince Foster, Monica, White Water, Russia Hoax, e-mail destructions, ad nauseum), possibly spared the reign of Bush 43 (Irag/Afghanistan/sub-prime mortgage crisis), and possibly spared Barak Hussein Obama (fundamentally transforming America by kick-starting the nation’s downhill plunge to today’s reduced position in world affairs).

Fast forward to today: Tucker Carlson and some of his guests were using Tucker’s hold on Tucker’s massive TV audience to urge that the United States get out of the proxy war with Russia. Carlson contends the U.S. has no vital interests at stake in Ukraine. Emotional, yes. Vital, no. Carlson questions the billions of dollars, the tons of military equipment, and the secret military training the Biden* Regime is lavishing on Ukraine.

Obviously, if Rupert Murdoch’s political objectives were to be fulfilled, Murdoch could not allow the nation’s most-watched TV anchor to turn Joe Biden* into a “peace-time president.”

But, if the proxy war between the U S and Russia in Ukraine could be prolonged into the 2024 presidential election cycle, even Joe Biden* (despite his dismal record) could be sold to the electorate as a “war-time president.” If so, History suggests old Joe Biden* could totter along until VP Kamala Harris takes over to finish Biden’s* second term and possibly occupy the Oval Office for two terms of her own.

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‘The Only Thing That Should Be Dragging in the Navy Is an Anchor’: Congressman

Anheuser-Busch hasn’t exactly been teaching a master class on marketing after its poisonous partnership with Dylan Mulvaney. When sales crashed, CEO Michel Doukeris tried the “It wasn’t a campaign — it was just a can” excuse for Bud Light’s relationship with the trans influencer, but it was $6 billion too late. Now, the U.S. Navy seems to be floating the same alibi for its drag queen recruiting videos. “The program has concluded, and the Navy is evaluating it,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin claimed. Well, the evaluation from House and Senate Republicans is in, and if this doesn’t stop, “heads will roll.”

For the last two months, the Navy has defended the salacious posts of 2nd Class Petty Officer Joshua Kelly (who goes by stage name “Harpy Daniels”) against the criticism of leaders like Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), who asked how and why the branch chose a drag queen as one of its five “digital ambassadors.” “Do you believe TikTok videos of sailors dressed in and performing in drag is the best use of the Navy’s recruitment efforts?” he asked, before pointing out that Kelly is dressed in lingerie, underwear, or nothing with captions too grotesque and profane to repeat.

Lt. General (Ret.) William Boykin, who spent 36 years serving his country, openly seethed about Kelly’s posts. “I can’t even watch that,” he told Family Research Council Tony Perkins of Kelly’s videos, revolted. “I mean, I saw it earlier today on the computer, and I can’t watch. … They’re trying to add another 5,000 people to the Navy,” and this is the “kind of nonsense [they think is] going to help recruiting?”

Boykin wasn’t alone in his disgust. Rob O’Neill, the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden, held nothing back on Twitter, fuming, “Alright. The U.S. Navy is now using an enlisted sailor Drag Queen as a recruiter. I’m done. China is going to destroy us. YOU GOT THIS NAVY. I can’t believe I fought for this bull—-.”

Yet officials defended Kelly’s involvement, insisting that his social media presence didn’t violate military policy since it wasn’t technically endorsed by the Navy. That’s interesting, House and Senate Republicans fired back, since the branch asked their ambassadors to use their accounts to attract new recruits.

“[The Navy said] they weren’t paying him,” Perkins, a Marine veteran, pointed out. “But when you’re in the military, all of your time belongs to the military. … And this is what he is — a ‘digital ambassador’ as a drag queen representing the Navy. I mean, think about what our enemies [are saying], how they responded. They’ve got to be laughing at this.”

The sick images caught the attention of more than a dozen senators, who sent a letter to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro on May 3, demanding to know if the Navy approves of these sexually explicit performances. “Would the Navy enlist burlesque or exotic dancers to reach possible recruits? Such activity is not appropriate for promotion in a professional workplace or the United States military,” Republicans Ted Cruz (Texas), Tom Cotton (Ark.), Tommy Tuberville (Ala.), and 11 others insisted.

The controversy has been even more infuriating when you consider that the Biden administration was already under fire for hosting Drag Queen Story Hours on military bases. At a House hearing in March, Secretary Austin testified that the DOD does not “support or fund” drag shows. But, Banks argued, “If he was testifying honestly, then he has an obligation to discipline the officials who decided that sexually explicit content should be featured [here] in the Navy’s Digital Ambassador’s program. [This] divisive and woke insanity [is what’s] helped drive recruitment to a record low.”

Like Bud Light, which should be a cautionary tale on how to offend heartland consumers, the Navy is alienating the very patriots who’ve historically made up the military. Putting a man in women’s lingerie isn’t how you appeal to people with conservative values, the most likely pool of future soldiers, sailors, and airmen.

Congressman Mark Alford (R-Mo.) agreed. “I’ll tell you what … the word salad that you just heard from the DOD [defending Kelly’s role], that is standard for the Biden administration,” he said on Thursday’s “Washington Watch.” “What is happening here, I think, is an abomination. … This is not any way to recruit anyone into the military. The only thing that should be dragging in the Navy is an anchor.”

“When we have China on the march, Russia threatening nuclear activity, China launching warships almost on a weekly basis, and we’re focused on pronouns and drag queens,” Perkins shook his head, “something is seriously wrong.”

Worse, Alford pointed out, “only 9% of young people surveyed recently said they had any interest whatsoever in joining the military. … [W]e could possibly be at war with communist China in less than three to five years. We’ve got to rebuild our military. We’ve got to bring some sanity back to the Department of Defense.”

In his testimony, Austin said he would get back to the committee in “due time.” “I’m here to tell you, Secretary Austin, it better be quick,” Alford warned. “We have some serious answers that we need on these serious questions … about the wokeness that has infected our military. … We have got to put a stop to this … and someone’s head is going to roll on this. I don’t know who, but we cannot continue down this path where we are turning our military into [a] circus.”

And before someone accuses him or other conservatives of being “anti-gay” or “transphobic,” he reminded them, “If this were a woman doing burlesque in an oversexualized manner trying to recruit people into the military, it would be wrong as well. … This is not getting people passionate about America again. We need Normal Rockwell … not the ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show.’ And that’s what we’re living in.”

Kelly, meanwhile, was quite content to play the martyr. He blamed critics for creating “toxic environments and hate.” “You only want to support the military when it benefits you and doesn’t involve queer people. … Well, as a service member, a queen, and an open queer person, you don’t scare me and you won’t stop the LGBTQ+ community [from] thriving,” Kelley continued. “Haters only hate when we’re winning.”

But winning — as a nation — is exactly what Republicans are concerned about. “The situation … is so serious with China,” Alford warned. “They are getting ready to invade Taiwan; Russia [is] in this illegal war against Ukraine. What’s going on in the Sudan? We have serious problems in America, and we are asleep. … The big bad wolf is at the door. As I’ve said before, he is huffing and puffing. Our house right now is not made out of brick. And I’m worried that it’s going to be blown down.”

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Suzanne Bowdey

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Amid Rising Antisemitism, Jews Are Embracing The Second Amendment

  • As antisemitism continues to climb in the U.S., the Jewish community has turned to the Second Amendment to protect themselves, according to several experts that spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
  • Tzvi Waldman, leader of the NYS Jewish Gun Club, told the DCNF that many synagogues can’t afford expensive private security but they have little choice when states like New York simultaneously ban guns in synagogues and don’t curb rising antisemitism.
  • “In the last six and a half years, I have seen, unfortunately, and fortunately, a massive uptake in Jews going out and getting guns, training and starting to be a lot more vocal about how important the Second Amendment is,” Yehuda Remer, founder of The Pew Pew Jew, a Jewish Second Amendment advocacy organization located in Texas, told the DCNF.

In response to rising antisemitism over the past few years, Jews are increasingly embracing firearms as a means of self-protection, community leaders and experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Jews reported 814 antisemitic incidents in 2021 alone, while the number of anti-Jewish assaults across the country in 2021 increased by 16% from 2020, according to FBI hate crime statistics. In response, more Jews have begun exercising their rights under the Second Amendment to protect themselves and their communities, according to experts that spoke with the DCNF.

“I entered the [gun] industry about six years ago, and at the time, I was kind of disheartened to see that Jews didn’t have representation in the Second Amendment world,” Yehuda Remer, founder of The Pew Pew Jew, a Jewish gun rights advocacy organization located in Texas, told the DCNF. “In the last six and a half years, I have seen, unfortunately, and fortunately, a massive uptick in Jews going out and getting guns … and starting to be a lot more vocal about how important the Second Amendment is. I think a lot of these people never would have picked up a gun, or even given it a second thought, if it wasn’t for the rise in antisemitism.”

Rabbi Yossi Elifort, the founder of Magen Am USA, a non-profit organization that helps create armed security teams within the Jewish community, also noted the increasing amount of interest in self-defense in the Jewish community.

“I probably trained 300 first-time shooters in the last two years,” Elifort said. “So there are a lot of first-timers coming out. What’s interesting about American Second Amendment culture is that I found the people who own guns for longer and grew up shooting tend to be less interested or concerned [about] training and those that are getting into it now are more open to it.”

One study, from Americans Against Antisemitism, found that, in New York City, those who were easily identified as Jewish made up 94% of the victims of antisemitic hate crimes from 2018 to 2022. Remer said that Jews have traditionally been silent about the hate directed at them, but as the incidents have escalated, from swastikas spray-painted on synagogues to muggings and shootings while walking down the street, there has been a greater push to learn how to defend themselves.

Raziel Cohen, also known as the Tactical Rabbi, and founder of the National Defensive Firearms Training Academy, told the DCNF that many of the people they’ve helped train in recent years had never even held a firearm.

“A big portion of what we’re dealing with is people who have never touched a firearm before,” Cohen said. “So there’s definitely a different level of training that goes into teaching a beginner so that they are confident and safe, especially since owning a firearm, in general, is obviously a very serious responsibility. There is a large amount of people who have never been involved but either had an attack happen to them or came to the understanding that it’s very possible and that’s why they’re now making the decision to go forward with it.”

Remer and Cohen noted that the number of Jewish women looking to learn how to shoot has also heavily increased. Cohen explained that women are typically more serious about training because the risk to females at home, or walking down the street, is much greater than to men.

Jewish synagogues have also experienced an increasing level of violence. In December, a man was arrested in Michigan after threatening a Jewish synagogue and preschool, and then, in February, another man walked into a San Francisco synagogue, firing blank rounds into the ceiling, during a small gathering.

Tzvi Waldman, who heads the NYS Jewish Gun Club in New York, told the DCNF that part of the reason Jews are at risk is because of laws that prevent them from carrying guns in houses of worship. Waldman said that many synagogues can’t afford expensive private security, but they have little choice when states like New York ban guns in places of worship.

“We shouldn’t have to rely on a third party nor the government,” Waldman said. “I mean the First Amendment, it’s our right to free speech, [but] I don’t have to hire a press secretary to talk and I’m allowed to get on social media, or just stand in front of my house with a microphone and say whatever I want to say. The more effective way, and the way of constitutional law, is to have [trained] citizens within the community to be there, just in case, … [but] you’re not allowed to do that under the current law.”

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KATE ANDERSON

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Michigan Supreme Court Embroiled in Pronoun Battle Prompted by ACLU—Thomas More Law Center Joins Fray

ANN ARBOR, MI — On Monday, May 1, the Thomas More Law Center (“TMLC”) filed its written opposition in the Michigan Supreme Court challenging the wisdom of a proposed amendment to Michigan Court Rule 1.109, which would require all judges in the state to refer to parties and attorneys by any personal pronoun they select.

Erin Elizabeth Mersino, TMLC’s Chief of Supreme Court and Appellate Practice, authored the eight-page opposition to the proposed rule.  She commented that the proposed amendment “is the ACLU’s latest attempt to destroy the very fabric of our nation by subjugating our inalienable right to free speech to mandatory endorsement of its transgender agenda.”  The proposed amendment is so extreme, judges will no longer be able to make judgments on a case-by-case basis.  Failure to use a requested pronoun could result in the judge being punished for violating the court rule by the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission.

The pronoun controversy erupted when Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Mark Boonstra criticized the other two members of the three-panel court over their use of the Defendant’s preferred pronoun in a concurring opinion in People v. Gorbick.  The Defendant, convicted of multiple counts of criminal sexual abuse on children and self-identifying as having multiple personality disorder, told the court he wanted to use the preferred pronoun, “they” and “them.”  Judge Boonstra expressed his concern for blindly following such a request and wrote that the court “should not be altering its lexicon whenever an individual prefers to be identified in a manner contrary to what society throughout human history has understood to be immutable truth.”

Read Judge Mark Boonstra’s one-page concurring opinion here.

The ACLU along with 18 other LGBTQ organizations including the LGBTQA section of the Michigan State Bar Association sent a letter to Chief Justice McCormack of the Michigan Supreme Court and Chief Judge Gleicher of the Michigan Court of Appeals condemning Judge Boonstra’s words.  The letter also suggested that judges undergo “cultural competency training [a.k.a. indoctrination camp] which would include training on the use of pronouns.”

The proposed amendment to the court rule provides:

“Parties and attorneys may also include any personal pronouns in the name section of the caption, and courts are required to use those personal pronouns when referring to or identifying the party or attorney, either verbally or in writing. Nothing in this subrule prohibits the court from using the individual’s name or other respectful means of addressing the individual if doing so will help ensure a clear record.”

Read TMLC’s written opposition to the proposed rule here.

Although the proposed rule covers judges only, TMLC is concerned that this is the first step down the slippery slope.  If the ACLU and its allies succeed in forcing pronouns on judges, the next demand will be on the lawyers, and then all the people.

Richard Thompson, TMLC’s president, observed, “Every freedom-loving American must be alert to this form of thought control.  By controlling our use of language, the ACLU seeks to control our ability to discern and think.  The “name your pronoun game” has become the absurd obsession of a significant number of large corporations, many law firms, and of academia.  Now, this variation of wokeness poses a danger to our national security as the U.S. Navy is foolishly using a drag queen video in an attempt to increase recruiting.  Ignoring the disastrous financial consequences of having a drag queen promote Bud Light beer, the U.S. Navy sees nothing wrong with using a drag queen to attract young men with similar bizarre sexual eroticism [autogynephilia] to infiltrate their fighting ships.”

Click here to view a short video of the Navy’s Drag Queen Digital Ambassador.

Thompson continued, “The ACLU has become an instrument of tyranny.  If the Michigan Supreme Court adopts the proposed amendment, it will be up to Michigan judges to stop this madness.”

This proposed amendment creates a serious constitutional problem.  It would compel judges to adopt and express a uniform viewpoint that affirms the ACLU’s extreme position on gender identity ideology.  It flies directly in the face of the First Amendment.  The proposed rule also reflects the sad state of our society where the far-left cares more about misgendering and offending the feelings of a convicted pedophile than it does about upholding free speech and the inalienable rights protected by the United States Constitution.

The Thomas More Law Center’s written opposition filed in the Michigan Supreme Court, concludes:

“The State Bar of Michigan has no right to force this compulsion.  In its ostensible effort to be ‘tolerant’ or ‘diverse,’ it would, in fact, be enacting the least tolerant court rule in all its history.  It would be taking a side in the culture war—one that it knows would alienate all of its members who disagree with the amendment for religious, political, moral, personal, constitutional, or scientific reasons.”

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U.S. Air Force Ran A Social Experiment To Graduate More Minority Pilots. It Didn’t Go As Planned

The U.S. Air Force abandoned an experiment aimed at boosting pilot training graduation rates for women and minority pilots after the 2021 initiative failed to achieve the intended results and officers privately warned it could violate anti-discrimination policies, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

As part of the larger military-wide effort to promote diversity in the service’s pilot ranks, the 19th Air Force command near San Antonio, Texas, “clustered” racial minorities and female trainees into one class, dubbed “America’s Class,” to find out if doing so would improve the pilots’ graduation rates. However, not only did the effort fail to boost minority and women candidates’ success rates, but officers involved say they were ordered to engage in potentially unlawful discrimination by excluding white males from the class, documents show.

Unlawful or not, the Air Force’s actions raised red flags for an active-duty pilot instructor who spoke to the DCNF.

“When other priorities, like gender or race, are introduced as a metric of assignment and advancement, the foundations of performance-based competition are sacrificed and the emphasis on safety takes a backseat,” a current Air Force instructor pilot and former trainer for Undergraduate Pilot Training, who spoke on a condition of anonymity due to fear of reprisal, told the DCNF.

A “significant backlog” of pilot candidates waiting to begin classes offered the 19th Air Force, which conducts pilot training for the entire service at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas, a chance to build a class from scratch, a spokesperson for Air Education and Training Command (AETC) told the DCNF. So, the 19th Air Force “clustered” candidates from “underrepresented groups” into Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training (SUPT) class 21-15, with the initial intent of roughly mirroring the racial and gender makeup of the U.S.

Class 21-15 was known as “America’s Class,” according to a class patch also embroidered with the motto, “hand picked for excellence.”

The class ended up being comprised of at least 62% underrepresented groups, according to a demographic breakdown of classes from 2020 to 2023 obtained by the DCNF. The DCNF did not include males who chose the “other” option, which includes those who declined to specify their ethnicity, in that calculation.

All other classes for 2020 and 2021 are comprised of one-third or less underrepresented groups, the document shows.

‘Anybody Non-White’

Officers ordered to participate in the creation of class 21-15 expressed concerns that selection criteria amounted to unlawful discrimination, according to a memo obtained by the DCNF.

“We have been verbally ordered through the chain of command by the 19AF/CC [19th Air Force commander] to purposefully restructure the students assigned to [SUPT] class 21-15 to meet specific racial and gender demographics,” reads the 2020 memo signed by two 19th Air Force officers whose names were redacted.

The 19th Air Force initially intended the class to include roughly the same race, ethnicity and gender proportions as in the broader U.S. population, according to the memo, echoing the AETC spokesperson who explained the class to the DCNF. However, as of fall 2020, base officials realized the demographics of the incoming cohort would prevent such an arrangement, and so the order was changed to exclude certain groups from the incoming class, the memo said.

“The order was changed by verbal order of the 47 OG/CC to restructure the class with ‘anybody non-white,’” on Aug. 10, the officers wrote.

Classes were previously structured on a first-come, first-served priority basis according to the number of months a student served in their unit, according to the memo.

One individual brought concerns about the order’s legality to the base’s equal opportunity office in August 2020, but he was told the class restructuring itself was not illegal, according to the memo. The equal opportunity office also instructed the unnamed individual to draft a memo documenting the complaint in case the situation came under investigation in the future.

However, the two officers who signed the memo argued base commanders violated the Air Force’s non-discrimination policy, which defines illegal discrimination as “any unlawful action that denies equal opportunity to persons or groups based on their race, color, sex (including sexual harassment), national origin, religion, or sexual orientation.

“None of the parties signed below agree with the order from an ethical standpoint,” the officers wrote. “SUPT class structures have never been based on a minimum quota for a student’s race or gender, and the message this sends to students and future students is harmful.”

However, the officers pledged to obey the lawful order as given unless further inquiry showed it to be illegal.

“Each and every USAF pilot training class is America’s Class,” one of the authors, a captain and instructor pilot for the SUPT course, told the DCNF on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

‘Harnessing Diversity’

The Air Force doubled down on efforts intended to improve diversity in the ranks in 2020 following the death of George Floyd, the Air Force Times reported. DOD identified a more extreme lack of racial and gender diversity among so-called “rated” officers, like pilots, who are most often promoted to top leadership positions.

AETC took the lead on diversity initiatives in rated career fields in 2020, according AETC’s website.

On March 17, 2021, AETC and the service’s top officials released a formal strategy to improve gender and racial diversity metrics in rated careers. The strategy calls for data-driven approaches to “develop and retain the Air Force’s best rated aircrew by harnessing diversity as a force multiplier and fostering a culture of inclusion.”

AETC’s strategy prohibits the use of numerical racial quotas for recruitment and promotions, or using race, religion, sex or sexual orientation as “a basis for admission to any training or development program.” The strategy does, however, permit addressing “barriers and hindrances to cohesion among students and instructors” in training programs and to “remove rated minority and female aircrew integration and retention barriers.”

The rated strategy document, published as SUPT class 21-15 reached its midway point, is indicative of the Air Force’s broader strategy to diversify its ranks, a goal that’s only grown in importance under the Biden administration.

The “clustered” class graduated on Sept. 10, 2021, according to an AETC release. Based on photos included in the release, 22 students out of the 29 who began the class completed it. For comparison, the class before graduated 23 out of 26 students on Aug. 20, and the subsequent class finished on Oct. 1 with just 17 of 30 students, according to press releases.

Initial results and student feedback from the clustering experiment was “inconclusive,” the AETC spokesperson told the DCNF. Minority students did not progress at faster rates than in previous classes, and “not all students saw clustering as beneficial.”

While AETC has not completely discarded clustering as a strategy, “no further clustering activities are planned at this time,” the spokesperson told the DCNF, who pointed to curriculum changes allowing students to progress at an individualized rate rather than all together in a single class.

“AETC recognizes the potential clustering may have on UPT graduation rates, but that potential remains unproven in today’s UPT environment,” the spokesperson said. “AETC will continue to seek innovative and legally sufficient ways to further develop an atmosphere of dignity and respect for both students and instructors.”

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A ‘Watershed’ Moment: Pornhub Blocks Access to Utah in Response to Age Verification Law

In response to a Utah law set to go into effect Wednesday requiring pornography sites to verify the age of users in order to block access to minors, MindGeek, one of the world’s largest pornography companies, has blocked all Utahans from accessing their flagship site Pornhub, along with a number of other porn sites owned by the company. In light of MindGeek’s move, experts are pointing to a potential sea change that could occur in internet safety for minors if more states follow Utah’s lead.

In March, Utah Governor Spencer Cox (R) signed SB 287 into law, a bill that requires “a commercial entity that provides pornography and other materials defined as being harmful to minors … to verify the age of individuals accessing the material.” The bill also stipulates that publishers and distributors of porn will be held liable if they do not comply with the requirements.

Michael Toscano, executive director of the Institute for Family Studies, extolled the Utah governor and legislature’s efforts in enacting laws designed to protect minors from obscenity.

“Utah has put itself forward as a leader for governing the internet on behalf of the American family,” he said on Tuesday’s edition of “Washington Watch.” “Under the leadership of Governor Cox, he has decided that he was going to challenge the powers of Big Tech and Silicon Valley and Big Porn with a raft of legislation that would require these companies to verify the age of its users before admitting access. And it’s sending shock waves across the country. Legislatures across the country are looking at it, as well as on the federal level. It’s a remarkable watershed in the history of this country.”

The legislation is part of a growing nationwide push to implement laws designed to protect minors from being exposed to sexually explicit material online. In January, Louisiana enacted an almost identical law to Utah’s. Four other states (California, Virginia, Arkansas, and Mississippi) have also enacted bills restricting minors’ access to porn and social media sites. In addition, 21 other states have introduced legislation addressing the issue.

Toscano applauded the efforts of the Utah legislature despite protests from pornography industry lobbyists.

“[These] brave men and women were uncowed by the lobby, the lobbyists that were whispering in their ear, telling them that this would be an invasion of privacy or that this would be too burdensome for their companies and legislation,” he observed. “Good policy is a matter of balancing interests, and the legislators in Utah decided that they were going to balance their laws in favor of American families, and I think that was the right choice.”

Haley McNamara, vice president of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, echoed Toscano’s support for the Utah law and for MindGeek’s response to block their sites statewide in a statement to The Washington Stand: “Even better for children in Utah!”

She went on to note that “age verification for pornography is not a new technology or idea. There is an entire existing industry of age verification technology and standards that respect privacy. … Our laws have long held that those who distribute harmful material to minors are liable for any harm they cause, and the internet should not be different. Just as one must show an ID to enter, or make a purchase in, an adult bookstore or theatre, one should have to demonstrate he or she is an adult to access online pornography.”

McNamara continued, “Pornhub says that it’s a site only for adults, so why would it fight to stop Utah’s law to enact age verification to prevent minors from accessing its site unless it knows its traffic and profits will be impacted once minors aren’t on there?”

Toscano was equally suspicious of MindGeek’s stated reasons behind shutting off their sites in the state.

“They’re acknowledging that a very large share of their traffic comes from underage users,” he concurred. “Pornhub is worried, as one of its senior officials admitted online [this week]. It’s worried that its traffic could decrease in Utah by 50%. And part of that concern is from their perspective that its age verification is enough of a block for people to decide not to go on a porn site. But it also is an admission that many of the people that are going on their site are underage to begin with. This is obviously a bad thing, and it’s only a sign of the effectiveness of this legislation that Pornhub has decided that it was going to play hardball by withdrawing its platform altogether from Utah.”

Studies show that minors are a significant portion of those who view online porn. A report from Common Sense Media found that up to 73% of minors between 12 and 17 had watched internet smut.

Toscano further underscored that policymakers can do more above and beyond age verification in order to combat the porn industry from exploiting children.

“They should actually enforce the existing obscenity law,” he emphasized. “The existing obscenity law does not permit websites or any other producers of media to provide underage Americans with obscene content. The problem is a lack of enforcement. And I think what you see from Pornhub is [they realize] that Utah is very serious. And so they’re withdrawing. And I encourage other states to do the same thing and to show that they are serious about this obscenity problem.”

AUTHOR

Dan Hart

Dan Hart is senior editor at The Washington Stand.

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They Hanged Her for Teaching Love

She is called the Angel of Iran because she lived her short life angelically. True to their nature, the demonic Islamist Mullahs couldn’t bear an angel in their midst. On June 18, 1983, they hanged the young woman, barely past childhood, for refusing to renounce her belief: the belief in love, justice, and equality for all children of God.

Her name was Mona, a 17-year-old Baha’i Character School (Sunday school) teacher. Her pupils loved the gentle, gentle teacher who taught them to grow up as exemplary humans with hearts brimming with the love of God, all his people, and creation.

One day the Mullahs’ agents came to her house while the young school-girl was studying for her next day’s English exam. The savage Islamists had another much tougher exam in mind for her to be administered in the horrific prison of the Mullahs. They were certain that they could break the frail young woman under pressure and torture; that they could make her recant her faith and adopt their bigoted creed.

Our great Zoroaster, the luminous ancient prophet of Persia, spoke of the ongoing battle between the forces of good under Ahuramazda—God, and the forces of evil directed by Ahriman—Satan. Zoroaster warned us not to fall for the enticements or be deceived by the machinations of Ahriman. He further informed us that evil can be recognized by the deeds of its people; people who would oppose the precepts of Ahuramazda.

And the child-woman Mona was seen by the Islamist clergy as a threat to their very demonic precepts and practices. They felt compelled to either convert her to their creed of darkness or extinguish her young life.

Mona, the young teacher, deeply loved children and believed that they had to be brought up as champion workers for Ahuramazda.

Baha’is claim that the founder of their religion, Baha’u’llah, is the reappearance of the spirit of Zoroaster; that Zoroaster’s triad teachings of Good Thoughts, Good Speech, and Good Behavior are elaborated in greater detail by Baha’u’llah.

Mona’s lessons for the children, a detailed exposition of Zoroaster’s teachings, are summarized in the passage below by Baha’u’llah:

“Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer to the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge. Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be unjust to no man, and show all meekness to all men. Be as a lamp unto them that walk in darkness, a joy to the sorrowful, a sea for the thirsty, a haven for the distressed, an upholder and defender of the victim of oppression. Let integrity and uprightness distinguish all thine acts. Be a home for the stranger, a balm to the suffering, and a tower of strength for the fugitive. Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring. Be an ornament to the countenance of truth, a crown to the brow of fidelity, a pillar of the temple of righteousness, a breath of life to the body of mankind, an ensign of the hosts of justice, a luminary above the horizon of virtue, a dew to the soil of the human heart, an ark on the ocean of knowledge, a sun in the heaven of bounty, a gem on the diadem of wisdom, a shining light in the firmament of thy generation, fruit upon the tree of humility.”

Ten Baha’i women of Shiraz, Iran were among the many Baha’is who were arrested by the Islamists for their faith. The young Mona was one of them. These women endured months of endless abuse in the prison of the Mullahs, yet every one of them refused under threat of death to recant their faith in love.

The heartless Mullahs finally decided to make good on their threat and hanged these magnificent human beings, one by one. The Angel of Iran was the last to be hanged for she wished to pray for each woman as she was hanged. When Mona’s turn came, she kissed the noose and placed it around her own neck with prayers on her lips.

The savage Islamists hanged the magnificent child woman Mona after long tortuous imprisonment. By killing her, the agents of Ahriman aimed to kill love. But assuredly they can never kill love. They only kill the lover.

Oh, you earthly angels!
You migrating birds,
Whose only adornment
Is a bed of white feathers!
The innocent children of Iran,
Are wearing your white glowing robes,
And have left the memories of life,
To others!
I see the poor black swallows,
Flying over the ruins of our cities!
I see overflowing pain,
Intertwined,
With the hearts of every Persian!

My heart stops palpitating!
My breath starts to dry up!
My faith simply fades away,
And my bed falls silent.

©2023 Amil Imani. All rights reserved.

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Florida County Republican Registrations Report and Elections Analysis — April 2023

Let’s Pretend

There is one politically critical question that Republicans, including candidates, should be asking: How is the Republican’s nominee going to carry Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin, the three least Republican of the group of the most Republican states that the Republican presidential candidate needs to win to capture the 2024 Electoral College vote?

The simple answer to a seemingly complicated question may be available from a Vero Beach, Florida street named Woodland Circle.

The publicly available information tells us the following about voter registrations:

  • At the end of April 2023, the percentage makeup of IRC voters, derived from the voter registrations numbers listed at the Indian River County (IRC) Supervisor of Elections website, were 48.7% Republican, 24.9% Democrat, and 26.4% registrants who were neither Democrat nor Republican.
  • At the end of April 2023, the percentages derived by the voter registrations listed for Woodland Circle at the website VoterRecords.com, were 14.9% Republican, 48.6% Democrat, and 36.5% registrants who were neither Democrat nor Republican.

Woodland Circle voters would have to become 33.8% more Republican, 23.7% less Democrat and 10.1% less neither Republican nor Democrat to match the IRC average.

Republicans, regarding streets such as Woodland Circle, play the childhood game of “let’s pretend”. Republicans pretend streets like Woodland Circle don’t exist. This allows us to go forth with our traditional campaign efforts to satisfy ourselves, that even though we may lose the election, we will have done everything in our power to win!

Democrats, and their allies, don’t play “let’s pretend”. Democrats create streets like Woodland Circle, and they do so without Republican opposition. Republicans have reached a tipping point. If we Republicans keep playing the political version of “let’s pretend”, we lose.

Woodland Circle is a street created when an apartment complex was created. Property ownership is a common good. Singapore has an enviable world-class rentership rate of 10%. The great State of Florida is at a 33.5% rentership rate. This 33.5% needs to be lowered!

The Best Use of Resources?

The Republican Party actions are dictated by candidates and therefore their actions are focused on campaigns. This is worth keeping in mind in primary season. The money donated to candidates who will be participating in a primary does not go to growing the Republican base. Republicans may have been able to ignore growing their base in the past, but judging from recent election outcomes and election trends, Republicans certainly cannot afford it today! Consider donating to efforts which grow the Republican base.

Better Local Metrics

To make these reports more relevant, a more detailed, county specific, template has been created. An example of tables and chart specifically created for Indian River County is attached for evaluation. These county specific reports are not difficult to create. Contact information is provided for those wishing for the creation of county specific tables and charts for their REC members. Any suggestions for improvements are also welcome.

Registrations

Congratulations to Liberty County for their joining the now 54 Florida Counties where Republican registrations exceed the number of Democrat registrations!

Florida Republicans continue the trend of making gains as Republican registrations relative to Democrat registrations increased by 17,782 registrations in April and by 163,196 registrations since the book closing for the 2022 general election. Florida Republicans now have a 469,146 relative registrations advantage over the Democrats.  Republican registrations were 36.71% of total registrations and Republicans now enjoy a 3.24% of total registrations advantage over the Democrats (see attached tables).

The Democrats continue the Biden era phenomena of losing registrations as Democrats lost 14,784 additional Registrations in April and 124,134 registrations since the 2022 book closing. The registrations of Republicans increased by 2,998 registrations in April, and the number of registrations which are neither Republican nor Democrat decreased by 5,327 registrations in April (view April 2023 chart).

©Stephen R. Meyer, Vero Beach, Florida, May, 2023 – Issued 05/07/23. All rights reserved.

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The Coronation in the UK — May 6th, 2023

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


May 6th, 2023, will no doubt go down in the history books as being a jubilant and glorious celebration for the people of the UK; an event   attended by dignitaries and presidents from all corners of the world.

The crowning of 74-year-old King Charles III of the UK, will also be portrayed and broadcast to the world by the images of well-wishers lining the streets of London, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, placing the infamous crown upon his head, and all of the pageantry and pomp which England is well known for in its association with royalty.

Images of his family, including his grandchildren and his prodigal son, Prince Harry will also be expounded upon, sometimes in a non-factual or speculative manner, but mainly it will be to the favour of indicating that this family is no different to yours and mine in an affectionate, yet sometimes troubled history.

Under different circumstances, and possibly under the same era of the coronation of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II during her coronation on 2nd June 1953 at the age of 25, the atmosphere and the images portrayed for 2023 may have been an accurate representation of the event.    However, the general consensus across the country and the atmosphere outside of the history book representation which is being portrayed across the world, is completely different.

Memories

For those of us born before 1980, our memories of Charles, the first-born son to Queen Elizabeth II are of a rather awkward young man waiting in line to fulfil his destiny.  Someone who we believed would never get married.    A man who was rarely shown affection.   He later went on to become endearingly interested in organic farming and talking to plants and trees, showing what we thought was a sensitive and holistic side to his nature.   However, Charles later went on to become a man who was later revealed to have always had another lover, even on the eve of his wedding to the late Princess Diana of Wales.  He was not starved of affection.

During his marriage, the obvious attention which was paid to Princess Diana appeared to create some enmity between them.    He is famously known to have commented it would have been easier to have 2 wives so that he could have one of either side of him during royal walk-abouts.

However, after Diana’s death and despite the country’s acceptance of his mistress, who later became his wife; Camila Parker Bowles then became HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, and is now Her Majesty the Queen Consort of England, there were obviously memories of Princess Diana on Coronation Day of the wife who prophetically knew she would never be queen.

Present Connections

Apart from these obvious memories for many people, the last few years have also revealed that Prince Charles is closely attached to the World Economic Forum who are responsible for Agenda 2030.  He has openly stated that we need a Global Marshall Plan to save the environment.

For those that have studied this Agenda they know that their plans for a one world government have revealed that they want to create a world that does not honour the sovereignty of people, and their rights to freedom, in every aspect.   They have implemented:

  • The silencing of freedom to speech, was blatantly exercised against thousands of experts in the fields of science and medicine in relation to Covid 19, in order to dictate a narrative, they wanted to portray.
  • They silence climatologists who do not fit the narrative of their agenda for the environment, and have installed mayors across major cities of the world to implement 15-minute zones which ultimately will not allow you to leave your area without their permission.
  • They promote sexual immorality at every level of society starting with the very youngest in order to demoralize, confuse and control them.
  • They promote illegal immigration, but not for the reason of equality or humaneness, but to dilute the natural patriotism and respect we should have for each individual country, and their faith.
  • They control every system in society, and their plan is to create a world for the super-rich who will have everything, and a world for the rest of us who will possess nothing.
  • There plans which have been known for many years were made obvious through their experimentation upon the world during 2020 onwards, to see how we would comply to many rules which did not make sense, most especially against a virus which had a 99% recovery rate.

Thankfully, many people are aware of this agenda across the world.   They have connected the dots which all lead back to the same place.   For this reason, I believe there has been little interest in the Coronation Day 2023 in relation to the Queen’s Coronation in the UK.

Elsewhere in the UK

On May 6th across the country well away from the City of London there was very little indication that a monumental occasion was taking place.  There were very few signs of patriotism and a need to be present to witness history.

It was a dark cold rainy day, and was exceptionally oppressive.  It was not a joyous atmosphere.    A few houses in each road had rain sodden flags hanging from their bedroom windows.   In the areas where I drove there were a few teenagers roaming the streets aimlessly wandering what to do.  Some shops and stores were open and inside were bored shop assistants inside wearing carboard crowns on their heads.   No one seemed happy.

Friends reported that in the cities which they visited, the shops were open and that they were mainly crowded.    For some, it was an excuse to visit their local pub and have a drink together, but it was not to celebrate a King.

On my way home I called in at a local park which is also home to a stately manor and which was once the ancestral home of Viscount Ednam, a close friend of the Royal Family.  Although it is now a popular tourist attraction and wedding venue it was once a famous weekend retreat for royalty and in 1934 The Duke and Duchess of Kent spent 2 weeks of their honeymoon there. They had erected a large screen in the grounds in order for visitors to watch the live event of The Coronation, but by all accounts, the event had not been well attended.

As I sat alone in the coffee lounge overlooking the grounds, a family with 2 children came in out of the cold and damp.

The family had obviously made some attempt to recreate some excitement for their children and they were dressed in red white and blue.  They sat at the next table crayoning in some pictures of the king.

I felt sad for the efforts they had made and understood their need for some patriotism and a sense of history which would create some stability in their lives.  People want to be united.

Unfortunately, I feel King Charles III will not provide that stability or unity.   The Royal Family live by a different set of rules completely.   They are exempt from paying taxes and exempt from the law, and this appears to now include many other people who are in positions of power.

The reality of those who have everything and those who are being left with nothing has never been more evident than it is now for people, not just in the UK, but for those across the world.

The Coronation was for spectators who have not yet realized that their governments and their elected leaders are not serving them at all.  They have placed themselves above them and see people as resources to be ‘controlled’ and not respected as the sovereign beings which they are.  Who have they signed an allegiance to?

Pledges and Vows

King Charles III is meant to pledge and make a vow to be the defender of the Christian faith, but 30 years ago said he would defend all faiths.

From a religious perspective it was reported that on his coronation and behind a screen, he was anointed on his head, hands and heart with holy oil consecrated in Jerusalem, as a symbol of his divine right to rule.

It is reported that the screen is new, and it had 3 sides to it to make it more private.

The main panel features a tree with the names of the Commonwealth’s 56 members states embroidered on each leaf.   The 2 side screens have embroidered crosses 2.6 meters high x 2.2 meters wide.   It features a dove on each side of the screen and an angel blowing a trumpet.

Vows and pledges are of course very important because they are meant to be binding.   Historically, we make our vows before God, sometimes in public and sometimes in private.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, defended his command to swear allegiance to the King, later stating it was ‘hospitality’ and an open invitation.   The archbishop is well known for adapting biblical beliefs to conform to some very diverse beliefs which are promoted in society.   His words are often twisted.

My thoughts, along with the thoughts of many others are that vows and actions should be adhered to, and if you are following the rules of Agenda 2030, you will not be following the rules of God, which are always for the good of people.

Let My People Go

On 6th May 2023, I could not physically watch the Coronation.  On a personal level I felt I would be betraying the one who Christians believe is above all humanity.  One who cares for people.  A king above all kings.

Would those vows be adhered to?

As I sat in the empty coffee lounge of a stately home, once used by royals, I thought about his crown, the one made of thorns, his humility, his persecution, and yet the powerful message he conveyed to all, which still exists today if we really listen.

As I looked out the window, I also noticed a small white dove was sitting on the window ledge.   The waitress commented she thought he had been injured and the groundsman had given him some food that morning.

He was pure white and sat within feet of my visit and remained.   He appeared to convey a simple message of Hope to me amidst a world that is being systematically taken over with lies.

I believe that the overwhelming feeling of oppression which was reported by many people on the 6th May was the opposite of what this simple message of Hope conveyed.  In one space and in this one moment of time there was a collective gathering, many of whom have pledged an allegiance to a One World Order, a 2-tier system of the super elite against the people of this world.

Is King Charles III one of them?

©2023 Shirley Edwards. All rights reserved.

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If You Only Have Time to Read a Few Select Articles:

*** Would Our Founding Fathers Recognize America Today?

*** The 45 Communist Goals Were Just The Initial Blueprint To Take Over America

*** Tucker Carlson’s Recent Talk at Heritage

*** Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: “There Is No Time In History Where The People Who Were Censoring Speech Were The Good Guys”

*** Welcome to the Great Spiritual War of our Time

*** Congresswoman Tenney Introduces the Promoting Free and Fair Elections Act

*** Republicans need a serious counter-offensive if they want to stand a chance

*** The IPCC’s perversion of science

*** Insanity: Biden Energy Secretary Wants All US Military Vehicles to be Electric by 2030

*** Charge!

*** Smaller, cheaper, safer: The next generation of nuclear power, explained

*** Long List of SMR Manufacturers

*** China Dominates U.S. Solar Market as Lawmakers Tussle Over Tariffs

*** DOE vs. Gas Cooking: A Review of Critical Comments

*** Right, OilPrice.com, Wind Power is Unprofitable

*** The Renewable Capital Cost Green Trick

*** The Statistics That Come Out of Nowhere

*** The ‘Hurtful’ Idea of Scientific Merit

*** Though Beleaguered, Science Education is Alive in America

*** Study: Ivermectin, a potential anticancer drug

*** Fauci’s ‘Humble’ Attempt to Rewrite History

*** Another Op-Ed Attack At Fauci’s Never-Ending Victory Tour

Higher Education Related:

*** Restoring Real Debate on College Campuses

*** 673 university professors sign letter opposing courses on America’s founding, Constitution.  NC Academics Dig in against the Constitution

*** College Professor made ‘The Real Anthony Fauci’ Required Reading for Her Students

Whitworth Students Bar Survivor of Maoist China from Speaking

Here is how big the global edtech market will grow by 2030

Secondary Education Related:

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

*** How To Shush Your Negative Inner Voice, Think More Positively and Teach Kids To Do the Same

*** Advanced Public Education — Based on Merit, not Equity!

*** A list of school districts that have Transgender/Gender Nonconforming Policies that openly state that district personnel can or should keep a student’s transgender status hidden from parents

Are Public Schools Broken, or are the Defects Part of the Design?

How the woke, like all totalitarians, are targeting our children

Science Education Now About Squelching Science?

Greed Energy Economics:

*** Right, OilPrice.com, Wind Power is Unprofitable

*** The Renewable Capital Cost Green Trick

*** Green Energy Is Stuck at a Financial Red Light

Wind lobby demands ever more subsidies from poor Europeans

Renewables (General):

*** How Greening the Economy Will Destroy America

*** The inhumanity of the green agenda

*** Environmental Bootleggers and Baptists Fleece Consumers

Video: The Great Renewable Energy Con explained by Dr Benny Peiser

A not-so-green reality behind green transition

Wind Energy — Offshore:

*** The Pentagon Tilts at Windmills

*** Whales and Offshore Wind: The Verdict Was in Before the Coroner’s Report

*** Conservative watchdogs highlight ‘alarming’ surge in whale deaths as wind projects grow off NY, NJ coasts

Wind energy developer funneled cash to Dem senator pushing offshore wind

NOAA proposes hammering 208% of vanishing Right Whales

Calls mount to stop offshore wind project as more whales wash up dead: ‘Need to take a very hard look at this’

Biden Admin Energy Official Won’t Say if Offshore Turbines Can Survive Hurricane

California Wind-power auction shows how money matters in climate projects

We Oppose Delaware Offshore Wind because it’s Expensive, Unreliable, and Threatens the Natural Environment

Cargo ship arrives in Germany with large hole after striking wind turbine

Wind Energy — Other:

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

Wind Energy Poll: Nearly 60% say embrace natural gas

Solar Energy:

*** China Dominates U.S. Solar Market as Lawmakers Tussle Over Tariffs

Wisconsin Town Fights Big Solar (And Climate Corporatism)

Firefighters struggling to contain solar facility fire

Utility Scale Solar Kills Jobs

Nuclear Energy:

*** Smaller, cheaper, safer: The next generation of nuclear power, explained

*** DOE Report: Pathways to Commercial Liftoff — Advanced Nuclear

*** Long List of SMR Manufacturers

*** France Delivering a Second Nuclear Era

Doomberg re Nuclear

NC Senate Republicans pave way for nuclear fusion in North Carolina

Nuclear Energy is a Game Changer, But Not For Climate Reasons!

Bill Gates: I’m in Wyoming to celebrate the next nuclear breakthrough

Nuclear Gaining Steam in Canada

Fossil Fuel Energy:

*** DOE vs. Gas Cooking: A Review of Critical Comments

*** Biden’s New ‘Green’ Power Plant Rule Is Probably Illegal

An Earth Day discussion with Alex Epstein, Rick Perry, and the TX State Climatologist

China’s coal boom accelerates as Beijing strengthens energy security

Electric Vehicles (EVs):

*** Insanity: Biden Energy Secretary Wants All US Military Vehicles to be Electric by 2030

Will Electric Vehicles Disappoint You?

Survey: Growing portion of US shoppers are rejecting EVs

Ford is losing roughly $60,000 for every electric vehicle sold

Misc Energy:

*** The IPCC’s perversion of science

*** Charge!

*** Capacity Factors: Comparing Apples & Kumquats

Global Energy Security and Net Zero

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:

*** The Geothermal Paradox: How the Earth’s Second Largest Heat Source May Be Driving the Most Recent Warming

*** Study: Satellite global temperature data series bolsters the case that climate models are running way too hot

*** The climate scaremongers: How the ‘world disaster’ figures lie

King Charles III: The climate prophet of doom

The Practical Impossibility of Large-Scale Carbon Capture and Storage

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:

Climate Change Papers You Should Read

“No Bricks, No Glass, No Cement” – What Net Zero 2050 Demands According to Government-Funded Report

Simon the Solar Powered Cat :A Climate Scam Subversive?

US Election:

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

*** Congresswoman Tenney Introduces the Promoting Free and Fair Elections Act

*** Republicans need a serious counter-offensive if they want to stand a chance

*** Report: The Fingerprints of Fraud

*** Corrupt Media Fight Election Accountability With Democrat-Manufactured Lies

*** Dominion vs. ‘Russian Collusion’ and ‘Disinformation’

*** Republicans Hope to Block Biden’s Use of Government to Get Out Vote

Is Blinker’s Boat Sinken

US Election — State Issues:

*** North Carolina Supreme Court tosses out electoral maps, reinstitutes voter ID law

Full Committee Hearing: American Confidence in Elections: State Tools to Promote Voter Confidence

Voter confidence is hurt when voting lists are not being cleaned up

Al Gross should have stayed on U.S. House ballot, Alaska Supreme Court says

Georgia Victory: Legislation Enforcing Ban on ‘Zuckerbucks’ Scheme Signed into Law

Appeals Court in Florida Voids Obama Judge’s Ruling in Win for Election Integrity

Longtime Democratic Campaign Strategist Charged with Election Fraud

Albany NY Area Officials Indicted for Election Fraud

Iran-linked hackers broke into election results website in 2020, general says

Tucker Carlson:

*** Tucker Carlson Out at Fox

*** Tucker Carlson Video Exceeds 60M Views in Less Than 24 Hours

What Happened to Tucker at Fox Proves Mencken and Liebling Right

The Crime of “Talking to Tucker Carlson”

Victor Davis Hanson on Tucker Carlson’s firing, ‘Fox News can’t replace him’

Tucker Shows Us the Way Through A Sandstorm of Lies

Misc US Politics:

*** Big Pharma’s Destruction of American Journalism

*** Biden’s Energy Secretary Endorses Suicidal Mission for the U.S. Military

*** How Corrupt is our Current Situation? It’s Worse that Most Can Fathom

*** DeSantis Made Himself a Conservative Juggernaut…

What is a Democrat?

Now They’re Trying Censor Your Text Messages

Biden Leans Even Further Left to Secure the Votes of ‘Progressive’ Young Adults

The Transgender Cult Owns the Democratic Party

On the Debt Ceiling, GOP Should Unplug DOJ

Federal Court Halts Biden Administration’s Clean Water Overreach

Societally US:

*** The Violent Legacy of Anti-Parent Policies

*** Americans are not working, nor is their collapsing culture

*** Stossel Confronts a Professor

*** Coming to grips with the deadly impact of information overload

Female Crash Test Dummy Says She Doesn’t Know How Car Got Totaled

NY taxpayer outflow hit a new net high of 261,785 in 2020-21

Some Real Life Effects of Equity

A DEI Meeting You’ll Never See

“Transgender” Toddlers as Young as 2 Undergoing Mutilation/Sterilization by NC Medical System, Journalist Alleges

Wokeness And Conservative Economic Power

US Politics and Socialism:

*** Critically Thinking about Woke

*** Would Our Founding Fathers Recognize America Today?

*** The 45 Communist Goals Were Just The Initial Blueprint To Take Over America

*** Need to Keep Masses Afraid is Behind Elite Embrace of Wokeism and Censorship

*** Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: “There Is No Time In History Where The People Who Were Censoring Speech Were The Good Guys”

*** Central banks and ESG investing: A fatal combination of incompetence and overreach

What Drives The Anti-American Left

What Happened to First Republic Bank?

Globalism:

*** WHO: The Most Dangerous International Treaty Ever Proposed

*** UN, Harvard, And Facebook-Google Launch Push For Censorship Worldwide

*** World On Cusp Of Woke Totalitarianism As Governments Act To End Freedom Of Speech

*** Kennedy: WEF And Bill Gates Are Using ‘Climate Change’ To Control Population

Scoundrels In A Bubble

Report: ESG — A Threat to Individual Liberty, Free Markets, and the U.S. Economy

The Great Reset and the Grand Refusal | Michael Rectenwald

Religion Related:

*** Welcome to the Great Spiritual War of our Time

‘Imagine’

As Religious Faith Continues to Decline, a Faithful Remnant Has Outsized Political Impact

How Christian Popular Culture’s Revival Cast Out the Money Changers

Science:

*** The Statistics That Come Out of Nowhere

*** The ‘Hurtful’ Idea of Scientific Merit

*** Though Beleaguered, Science Education is Alive in America

*** Study: Ivermectin, a potential anticancer drug

Biden Administration Supports ‘Gain of Function’ Research

Artificial Intelligence:

*** What is ChatGPT?

Study: ChatGPT Answers Beat Physicians’ on Info, Patient Empathy

Artificial Intelligence Is Here — Friend, Foe or Both?

Ukraine:

*** Pray for the safety of the Ukrainian people

*** A well-rated source to make a Ukraine donation

*** Latest Developments in Ukraine: May 7th

War Threatens Ukraine Auto Empire of Biden Mega Donor — Who is Urging Greater U.S. Role

COVID-19 — Injections:

*** Serious Harms of the Covid-19 Vaccine: A Systematic Review

*** 500 Australians Join World’s First COVID Vaccine Injury Class Action Lawsuit

*** The FDA knew on September 17, 2021 that people who got the COVID vaccine were 2X more likely to be infected

Don’t let anyone gaslight you on VAERS

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*** Fauci’s ‘Humble’ Attempt to Rewrite History

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Biden regime hosts Muslim leaders linked to Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood at White House to discuss ‘Islamophobia’

Note first that all the participants shared the same point of view. No one who would tell the truth about “Islamophobia,” that it’s a propaganda term designed to intimidate people into thinking it’s wrong to oppose jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women, was even anywhere close to being invited.

Note also that the Biden regime doesn’t hesitate to associate with representatives of groups with demonstrable links to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Robert McCaw of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was there. CAIR officials have refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) CAIR chapters frequently distribute pamphlets telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. A CAIR operative has called for the overthrow of the U.S. government.

Mohamed Magid was there. According to Focus On Western Islamism, “Magid’s previous organization, ISNA, was designated by the Justice Department as an unindicted co-conspirator in the terrorism-financing trial of the Holy Land Foundation in 2007. The Justice Department also listed ISNA as an ‘entity’ of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. In 2009, a federal judge upheld the designation because of ‘ample’ evidence linking ISNA to the Hamas-financing network. Magid fanned the flames during the Holy Land investigation by stating that elements of the U.S. government were acting with ‘intent on dismantling Muslim organizations and bringing them down.’ Magid spoke at a fundraiser for the rabidly anti-American imam Jabil Abdullah Al-Amin (previously known as H. Rap Brown), who was convicted of murdering a police officer in 2008. Al-Amin is the spiritual leader of a violent extremist group called Ummah that, according to the FBI, is a ‘nationwide radical fundamentalist Sunni group’ whose ‘primary mission is to establish a separate, sovereign Islamic state within the borders of the United States, governed by Shariah law.’ Magid… [played a] role in hindering discussion of the Islamist political motives of jihadist terrorism while serving on the Obama Administration’s working group dedicated to Countering Violent Extremism program said Kyle Shideler, director of the Center for Security Policy. Under pressure from Magid and others, this group ‘totally erased any discussion of the Islamist political motives of jihadist terrorism,’ he said.”

Salam al-Marayati was there. Again according to Focus On Western Islamism, “in 1999 he called Hezbollah attacks as ‘legitimate resistance.’ Marayati suggested that Israel perpetrated 9/11 to distract attention away from its actions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. His involvement with MPAC is remarkable because the organization was founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood and has a history of concerning rhetoric. For example, the organization has claimed that the War on Terror was actually a ‘war on Islam’ perpetuated by a conspiracy of anti-Muslim ‘special interest groups’ working with U.S. government officials to promote ‘Islamophobic’ policies in the aftermath of 9/11. In 2010, a MPAC policy paper argued that the Muslim Brotherhood’s ‘peaceful activism’ is an asset to the U.S.’s efforts to fight Al-Qaeda.”

Dalia Mogahed was there. According to the Global Influence Operations Report, she is “the Director of Research at the US Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, a group whose Board of Advisors and staff includes prominent figures in the US Muslim Brotherhood.”

Muslim Brotherhood organizations in the United States are dedicated, according to a captured internal document, to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its miserable house.” And even its miserable White House.

“Readout of White House Listening Session on Islamophobia,” WhiteHouse.gov, May 3, 2023:

Yesterday, Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, White House Domestic Policy Advisor Ambassador Susan Rice, Deputy Homeland Security Advisor Joshua Geltzer, U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Rashad Hussain, and Office of Public Engagement Director Stephen Benjamin hosted a listening session with Muslim community leaders to discuss efforts to counter Islamophobia, which is hate, discrimination, or bias directed at people who are or are perceived to be Muslim. During the convening, Muslim leaders outlined the challenges facing their communities and shared recommendations for confronting Islamophobia and all forms of hate and bigotry.

Biden-Haris [sic] administration officials conveyed their gratitude to the participants for their leadership and underscored the President’s commitment to countering Islamophobia. The listening session followed President Biden’s White House Reception to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, and is a part of the ongoing efforts of the President’s interagency task force to counter antisemitism, Islamophobia, and related forms of bias and discrimination within the United States.

Participants included:

  • Imam Mohamed Magid, Executive Imam, All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS)
  • Dalia Mogahed, Director of Research, Institute for Social Policy & Understanding
  • Suzanne Barakat, Board Chair, Our Three Winners
  • Rais Bhuiyan, Founder and President, World Without Hate
  • Arsalan Suleman, President and Co-Founder, America Indivisible
  • Robert McCaw, Government Affairs Director, Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)
  • Farhan Latif, President, El-Hibri Foundation
  • Catherine Orsborn, Director of Program Operations, El-Hibri Foundation
  • Wa’el Alzayat, CEO, Emgage
  • Iman Awad, Deputy Director, Emgage
  • Maha Elgenaidi, Founder and Executive Director, Islamic Networks Group
  • Rahmah Abdulaleem, Executive Director, Karamah
  • Omar Farah, Executive Director, Muslim Advocates
  • Salam Al-Marayati, President, Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)
  • Faiyaz Hussain, Senior Advisor for Strategy, Policy, and Programs, Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)
  • Rahat Husain, President, Shia Muslim Foundation

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EU Backs Dutch Scheme to Forcibly Shut Down Thousands of Farms to Meet EU’s Climate Goals

Dutch Scheme Bans Farmers From Returning to Agriculture Forever.


The buyout scheme prohibits Dutch farmers from moving to other countries and starting up farms abroad, meaning that their knowledge and expertise would be lost.

No one is safe.

Responding to the announcement from the EU, Dutch political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek said: “This is how they do it: they put a knife to the farmers’ throats. They make sure they don’t get their licenses renewed, they’re plaguing them with new rules & restrictions every day and then offer them a bride, knowing many will take it out of pure desperation. It’s all so vile.”

“I also highly doubt that prohibiting them to start over elsewhere in the EU is even legal. The whole idea of the EU was supposed to be about freedom of movement and freedom of workers. This is some next-level USSR stuff,” Vlaardingerbroek added.

EU Backs Dutch Scheme to Forcibly Shut Down Thousands of Farms, Ban Farmers From Returning to Agriculture Forever

By: Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart News, 3 May 2023:

The European Commission in Brussels has backed a scheme by the globalist government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte in the Netherlands that would see thousands of farms shut down in order to comply with EU climate goals.

On Tuesday, the governing arm of the European Union officially threw its support behind plans by the Dutch government to buy out thousands of farmers from their lands in order to meet the EU’s Natura 2000 scheme to protect certain environments. The plan, which would offer farmers 120 per cent of the value of their farm, could see some 3,000 so-called “peak” emitters of nitrogen shut down.

It was unclear before this week whether the EU would permit such a scheme, as it could have potentially fallen afoul of regulations surrounding state aid or subsidies. However, Brussels said that the plans were “necessary and appropriate” as they met the broader goals of the European Green Deal.

“The positive effects transcend any distortions of the free market,” the statement added.

In addition to the plan to buyout — or eventually force out if they refuse — the “peak” emitting farms, the government is also planning a separate scheme that would give dairy, pig, and poultry farmers a deal for 100 per cent of the value of their farm if they wished to shut down. In total, some 1.4 billion euros is expected to be set aside for both farm shutdown schemes.

Should the plan go ahead, it would not only be a major blow for the farming industry in the Netherlands, which is one of the most productive in Europe but could potentially impact other nations as well, given that part of the condition of the buyout scheme is that the Dutch farmers would be prohibited from moving to other countries and starting up farms abroad, meaning that their knowledge and expertise would be squandered.

Responding to the announcement from the EU, Dutch political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek said: “This is how they do it: they put a knife to the farmers’ throats. They make sure they don’t get their licenses renewed, they’re plaguing them with new rules & restrictions every day and then offer them a bride, knowing many will take it out of pure desperation. It’s all so vile.”

“I also highly doubt that prohibiting them to start over elsewhere in the EU is even legal. The whole idea of the EU was supposed to be about freedom of movement and freedom of workers. This is some next-level USSR stuff,” Vlaardingerbroek added.

The plan to shut down thousands of farms is by no means a done deal, however, given that it would need to be managed mostly at the provincial level. This may be complicated for the fledgling Rutte government as the upstart tractor protest backing Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB) party not only became the single largest party in the Dutch Senate in March but also one of the largest parties at the provincial level where many of the farms are located.

There have also been some cracks within Rutte’s coalition, with the CDA party expressing doubt over the general nitrogen emission crackdown following the surprise victory of the BBB party.

Read more.

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SEAL Who Helped Kill Bin Laden Fuming Over Navy’s Drag Queen Ambassador: ‘Can’t Believe I Fought Bor This Bullsh–t’

Thank you, hero. Everyone is so afraid to state the obvious.

The military has a huge recruiting and retention problem because they went woke. They’ve hit bottom. So why keep digging?

SEAL who helped kill bin Laden fumes over Navy’s drag queen ambassador: ‘Can’t believe I fought for this bullsh–t’

By: NY Post, May 4, 2023:

A decorated Navy SEAL veteran, who was a part of the mission that killed Osama bin Laden, has spoken out against the Navy’s new recruitment campaign.

Former US Navy SEAL Team Six member, Robert J. O’Neill, took to Twitter Wednesday morning to share his disapproval of the Navy’s hiring of an active-duty drag queen to help recruit “the most talented and diverse workforce” for the military branch.

“Alright. The US Navy is now using an enlisted sailor Drag Queen as a recruiter. I’m done. China is going to destroy us. YOU GOT THIS NAVY. I can’t believe I fought for this bulls-t,” O’Neill wrote to his 590,500 followers.

O’Neill’s comments were targeted at Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, the first of five new “Digital Ambassadors” for a new program the Navy piloted from October to March.

Kelley, who identifies as non-binary and goes by the stage name Harpy Daniels, has shared their journey of being a non-binary, drag queen with the Navy through their Instagram and TikTok accounts.

“Thank you to the Navy for giving me this opportunity! I don’t speak for the Navy but simply sharing my experience in the Navy! Hooyah, and let’s go Slay!” Daniels said in a November post.

Kelley was an ambassador of a program “designed to explore the digital environment to reach a wide range of potential candidates” as the Navy battles “the most challenging recruiting environment it has faced since the start of the all-volunteer force,” a Navy spokesperson told Fox News.

O’Neill, who was self-credited with delivering the fatal blow to bin Laden during the May 2, 2011 raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, has published two books since leaving the military in 2014.

Keep reading.

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Zelensky and Biden May Be On Their Way Out

There is no doubt now that Bakhmut will soon fall to the Russians. How soon? Probably a few days and no more than one week.

Ukraine says it has managed to evacuate its elite forces from the city, leaving only rearguard elements to hang on until the end. Efforts by Ukraine to provide counterattacks have not borne fruit, and all efforts have been stopped by Russian paratroopers and Wagner PMC fighters, along with generous amounts of Russian artillery.

Meanwhile, the Russians themselves are refocusing on the newly created Ukrainian brigades that are supposed to lead the counteroffensive. These are the brigades that have been stuffed up to their ears with Western hardware but lack well-trained troops.

Such brigades also face complex, perhaps impossible, logistical challenges, since the Western supplies require spare parts, repair centers and in many cases different types of ammunition. Even the Leopard II tanks supplied can’t all use the same ammunition.

More worrisome for Ukraine’s army is the lack of replacement supplies if their coming offensive drags on. Simply put, there are almost no supplies around. The US is mostly out of ammunition and has been stripping stockpiles in South Korea and Israel – something that has alarmed Israel’s generals, who think a hot war with Iran is only weeks away.

The South Koreans have kept quiet, mostly because President Yoon Suk Yeol has just completed a visit to Washington that was stage-managed to make Joe Biden look good. So far as can be determined, the visit was completely ceremonial and basically fruitless.

(Strictly speaking, the only result was that Yoon used the occasion of a state dinner to sing “American Pie,” no matter whether Joe drove his Chevy to the levee, or went over the side. The fact that the levee was dry is a current-time social commentary.)

At the eleventh hour, Ukraine is trying hard to recruit more soldiers, sometimes using rough tactics to dragoon young men.  Such troops can’t possibly be trained in time. Practically speaking they are, at most, cannon fodder.

But the Ukrainians want to look credible to their American masters, so not only do they grab young people from street corners or in front of popular watering holes such as McDonald’s, but they beat them up if they resist.

The same is happening to any Ukrainian journalist who tries to write anything the so-called democratic government of Ukraine does not like. Volodymyr Zelensky’s regime has arrested political opponents or chased them out of the country, or worse. And these days Ukrainian special operations groups are assassinating journalists and commentators in Russia and elsewhere who oppose Ukraine.

After Bakhmut is gone, it is possible the Russians will suggest negotiations with the United States. Biden, who is running for re-election, does not want any status quo change until he is re-elected.

But Biden’s re-election is getting more and more remote as the semi-senile president stumbles and bumbles and as a number of his government’s policies will, in the end, bring down his administration notwithstanding his faltering mental status or how many dead Ukrainians pay the price for his re-election effort.

A vast wave of immigrants will soon flood across the southern border of the US; new taxes will soon be slapped on mortgages for people with good credit scores (without bothering to get congressional approval); inflation keeps killing the middle class; and worst of all, the Biden administration demands control of all children’s sexuality without the parents having any say-so.

Without negotiations, the Russians will attempt to systematically destroy Ukraine’s new brigades. With larger forces, better tactics, and more air power, air defenses and ground equipment, the Russians could very well defeat the Ukrainian army and force regime change in Kiev.

In short, in the not-too-distant future, Biden may have to hang up his walker and Zelensky may be looking for a job in California.

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Stephen Bryen

Senior Fellow.

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This Weeks STARRS Headlines On ‘Wokeism In The U.S. Military’

Excellent articles showing how our military is fully indoctrinated with CRT, DEI, and WOKEISM including embracing LGBTQMxyz.


Here are this week’s articles on topics STARRS tracks — the Marxist CRT/DEI woke agenda in the military and the vax issue pertaining to service members.

Things exploded this week as people learned the Navy acknowledged it was using a Yeoman, who is also an over-the-top “non-binary” drag queen as an influencer (“Navy Digital Ambassador”) on social media to attract new recruits. That created an uproar on conservative sites and social media, but silence from mainstream media (that great divide again).

VIDEO: LTC Lohmeier: Why do senior military leaders continue to push an agenda like this?

However, the controversy has made more people aware that the problem of DEI wokeness in the military is affecting recruitment and retention. Awareness is the first step towards fixing the problem.

Click on the STARRS’ headlines to read the articles on our website.

US Navy Used Drag Queen Influencer To Attract A ‘Wide Range’ Of New Troops As Recruitment Plummets

New York Times thinks only qualification of Gen. Charles Brown is that he’s black

Open Letter to Virginia’s Chief of Diversity who said DEI is Dead

Critics explode over US Navy’s use of drag queen to solve recruiting crisis: ‘What NOT to do’

The “Spirit of VMI” Speaks: Youngkin Administration Official Declares DEI Dead.

Navy OK with Drag Queen Ambassador’s Racy Instagram Content as Long as It’s ‘Unofficial’

DEI’s New Battleground: the U.S. Military

Military Political Commissars get paid $95K-$195K

Going ‘woke’ won’t fix the military’s recruitment problem

Woke is Marxism Evolved to Take on the West

Navy drag queen influencer has House GOP cranking up heat on Defense Secretary Austin

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