Long overdue. No one else alive is more deserving of such an award than President Donald J. Trump. It is unfortunate that the vast majority of American Jews do not understand that fact.
Zionist Organization of America(ZOA)is presenting Donald Trump,the most pro-Israel president ever, it’s highest award, the Theodor Herzl Gold Medallion, at our Gala in NYC on Nov. 13. Also honoring Leader Kevin McCarthy, Jason Greenblatt, Israeli General https://t.co/eD4TtplhjE
Additionally, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will receive the organization’s Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Defender of Israel Award.
(October 14, 2022 / JNS) The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) on Friday announced that it will honor former President Donald Trump with its Theodor Herzl Medallion.
Trump will receive the honor, which ZOA said it “rarely gives,” at the organization’s national award dinner in New York City on Nov. 13.
ZOA stated in an email that it is honoring Trump “for being the best friend Israel ever had in the White House.” It listed a number of items in the context of Trump’s pro-Israel and pro-Jewish record, including brokering the Abraham Accords, relocating the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, an executive order strengthening Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students, recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, pulling the U.S. out of the Iran deal, halting U.S. funding of the Palestinian Authority and UNRWA, recognizing the legality of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, becoming the first U.S. president to pray at the Western Wall, and more…….
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Have you taken a peek at the balance in your 401(k) retirement accounts lately? Here’s our advice: Don’t bother. It will ruin your whole day, week and month.
Here’s why: We’ve now had seven straight months of 8%+ inflation. A year ago we were assured by the White House economic wizards that these rapid price increases in everything from groceries, to rental cars, to gasoline at the pump, to health insurance were merely “transitory.” Whoops.
The most immediate sticker shock from Bidenflation, of course, has been to shrink real take-home paychecks of workers. We have calculated that over the past 20 months, this rise in consumer prices over wages means that the average family in America has lost nearly $6,000 in purchasing power. This from the Lunch Bucket Joe president who promised to help boost the incomes of the middle class. When, exactly?
But this pay-cut effect on family incomes is only part of the curse of runaway inflation.
We’ve just completed an analysis of how the highest inflation rate in almost 40 years has impacted the retirement funds of ordinary Americans. Here is what we found.
Not surprisingly, since President Biden took office, monthly savings have collapsed, falling 83%. (We could never understand how Biden could say with a straight face that Americans are saving more. His “transformation” of the US economy has had just the opposite effect.) Many millions of Americans who are living paycheck to paycheck just don’t have the money after paying the inflated bills to save much.
But to add insult to injury, even what has been already saved and invested by older Americans over past years and even over several decades has been erased from these accounts.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attempted to spin the agency’s low arrest and deportation numbers in fiscal year 2021 by blaming them on the pandemic, a Trump-era rule and lack of cooperation with foreign countries, according to internal documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
ICE’s communications team acknowledged that the agency’s Fiscal Year 2021 Annual Report, which featured a massive decline in deportations and arrests, would likely be the subject of criticism, and prepared a response for acting Director Tae Johnson and acting Chief of Staff Jason Houser to downplay the low levels of interior immigration enforcement, according to internal communications obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The report was also delayed, which ICE attributed to the fact that the report was a compilation of what would otherwise be multiple separate reports.
Fiscal year 2021’s data is the lowest number of deportations in at over a decade, according to ICE data, with the agency’s Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) deporting 59,011 noncitizens in fiscal year 2021 compared to 185,884 noncitizens deported in fiscal year 2020. ERO also arrested 74,082 noncitizens during fiscal year 2021, a 28% decrease from the previous fiscal year’s 103,603 arrests.
“The ICE communications team is tasked with a very complex and demanding mission. But it seems to me that even they knew that the results of this administration’s policies were indefensible,” Jon Feere, who was chief of staff at ICE during the Trump administration, told the DCNF.
The agency’s talking pointsblamed the decrease in removals on the COVID-19 pandemic as well as Title 42, a public health order used to expel certain migrants. The memo also pointed to more migrants coming from “recalcitrant” countries, which hinder ICE’s ability to deport illegal aliens, as well as its shift in focus to threats to public safety, according to the documents; regarding low arrests, ICE also largely blamed the issue on COVID-19.
“Through a series of Department and agency memoranda, ICE has rebalanced its interior enforcement priorities designed to focus its resources on the greatest threats to national security, border security, and public safety,” the document stated of the question on the low deportations.
The decrease in deportations came during a surge in illegal migration at the U.S.-Mexico border, which continues to overwhelm federal authorities; in fiscal year 2021, border authorities encountered 1,734,686 migrants at the southern border, according to agency statistics, compared to 458,088 migrant encounters in 2020 and 977,509 migrant encounters in 2019. The Biden administration enacted numerous policies critics argued contributed to the increase in migration, such as issuing an immediate 100-day moratorium on deportations and to limit immigration enforcement to threats to national security, border security and public safety, which were both struck down by subsequentlawsuits.
“The ICE communications team obviously saw that the reduction in ICE arrests and removals was going to raise a lot of eyebrows with the public and the media and worked to find some justification for this dramatic fallout from the Biden administration’s policies, but the only things they could come up with were not persuasive,” Feere said.
“They used COVID and Title 42 and recalcitrant countries as arguments as to why arrests and removals have been down. But those issues existed under the Trump administration as well. And yet, we were able to achieve a much larger number of arrests and removals,” Feere added.
The documents show that ICE prepared responses to several questions, including “Why isn’t ICE arresting more noncitizens” and “Why isn’t ICE removing more noncitizens from the U.S.” when releasing the annual report.
“By focusing squarely on noncitizens who represent the greatest threats in key areas, ERO can operate effectively and efficiently, and consistently with our values as a nation. This focused approach has yielded measurable successes,” the document stated as a response to the question of low arrests.
The Biden administration faced intense criticism when the report was released from current and former officials, including former ICE Director Tom Homan, who told the DCNF at the time that “the Biden administration is even failing to live up to the extremely low level enforcement bar it has set for itself.”
ICE didn’t respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.
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“Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.” — Joseph Goebbels
Have you noticed that there are those who call others what they are themselves? Have you or a friend been bullied in school, at work or in a social setting? Have you bullied someone else?
Any person who bullies someone using name-calling is a hypocrite because that person is pretending to be better than whomever he or she is denouncing, while in reality he or she is actually the very embodiment of the pejorative used.
Today many public figures use pejoratives like: deplorable, racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, white supremacist, semi-Fascist and Fascist.
Dr. Charles F. Glassman, M.D. wrote, “Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you…unless you believe them. Then, they can destroy you.”
It’s bad enough when one is called a name by a bully, it’s another thing when the name calling bullies have the power to literally destroy you, your family, your business and take away your job, freedom and even your very life.
We are now in a time best described by Russian-born American writer Isaac Asimov, who wrote,
“Well, then, arrest him. You can accuse him of something or other afterward.“
The January 6th Select Committee
H. Res. 503 which established the January 6th Select Committee reads:
Whereas January 6, 2021, was one of the darkest days of our democracy, during which insurrectionists attempted to impede Congress’s Constitutional mandate to validate the presidential election and launched an assault on the United States Capitol Complex that resulted in multiple deaths, physical harm to over 140 members of law enforcement, and terror and trauma among staff, institutional employees, press, and Members;
Thus the January 6th Committee presupposed that the Save America rally in Washington, D.C. was populated not by patriots but by “insurrectionists” who “launched an assault.”
Even before the first J6 Select Committee meeting the idea was to arrest as many patriots as possible and then accuse these patriots of something or another afterward.
We now know that the only deaths were perpetrated by the Capitol police against patriots like veteran Ashley Babbitt.
According to Insider.comat least 928 people have been charged in the Capitol “insurrection” so far.
This table includes the names, charges, links to court documents, and links to additional stories of all the people charged so far. Insider.com is keeping the below list updated as the Department of Justice releases more names and info.
Only 417 federally charged rioters have entered guilty pleas so far.
This week marks the first time in living memory that widespread violence was widely viewed as a foreseeable, and even expected, outcome of an American national election. The votes are being counted just days after riots broke out in Philadelphia, causing the governor to deploy the National Guard in the largest city of a key battleground state. Since June, in fact, such scenes have been a common phenomenon in dozens of American cities.
The Transition Integrity Project (TIP), a group that has opposed Donald Trump, ran simulations that foresee disruptions caused by pro-Trump actors. “During TIP’s exercises, Team Biden almost always called for and relied on mass protests to demonstrate the public’s commitment to a ‘legitimate outcome,’ with the objective of hardening the resolve of Democratic elected officials,” the group (somewhat predictably) reported.
On the other side of the spectrum, the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) and the Claremont Institute cast TIP’s prediction as a “candid admission of the high likelihood of Team Biden encouraging street demonstrations that might spiral out of control.” The Claremont-TPPF’s own simulation concluded that left-wing street violence was a near-certainty, and accused TIP organizers of coordinating strategically with Black Lives Matter and Antifa.
In other words, both sides predict violence—but each sees the threat through its own political lens.
Last month’s arrest of 13 men accused of trying to kidnap the governor of Michigan—including an alleged white supremacist (who’s also apparently a Trump-hating anarchist)—reminds us that the threat from right-wing groups is real, as the media reminds us often and eagerly. But the sustained, often violent street actions that have been a recurring feature of American urban life in 2020 have been almost entirely driven by left-wing protestors.
Our nation is SUFFERING. Our economy is in the gutter. Inflation is rampant. Gas prices have reached an all-time high. Ships are unable to unload cargo. Families cannot get needed baby formula. We are an embarrassment around the world. Our withdrawal from Afghanistan was a disaster that cost us precious American blood, and gave $85 billion worth of the best military equipment on earth to our enemy.
Millions and millions of illegals are marching to the border and invading our country. We have a White House in shambles, with Democrats, just this week, declaring that Biden is unfit to run for reelection. And what is the Democrat Congress focused on? A Kangaroo Court, hoping to distract the American people from the great pain they are experiencing.
Seventeen months after the events of January 6th, Democrats are unable to offer solutions. They are desperate to change the narrative of a failing nation, without even making mention of the havoc and death caused by the Radical Left just months earlier. Make no mistake, they control the government. They own this disaster. They are hoping that these hearings will somehow alter their failing prospects.
A certain Democrat once said, “It’s the economy, stupid.” Well, Democrats now seem to think that Americans are “stupid.” They are not. America is crumbling, and Democrats have no solutions. Our nation has no hope of change for the better under Democrat leadership. People are desperate. Rather than solving problems, Democrats are rehashing history in hopes of changing the narrative. During my time in office, our nation was thriving, our economy was strong, and the price of gas was very low. Above all else, we were respected, perhaps like never before.
America prospered under the Trump Administration.
The Sham Investigation
The January 6th Unselect Committee is disgracing everything we hold sacred about our Constitution. If they had any real evidence, they’d hold real hearings with equal representation.
Anicius Beothius was a Roman philosopher who lived during the 5th and 6th centuries. Born into a family of politicians, Boethius was educated in Greek and had a love for literature and philosophy. Boethius was accused of treason and eventually imprisoned. Boethius died by a cruel death. According to one account, he was cut down by the swords of the soldiers before the very judgement-seat of Theodoric, or Theodoric the Great, also called Theodoric the Amal, who was king of the Ostrogoths, and ruler of the independent Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy between 493 and 526, regent of the Visigoths, and a patrician of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Today we are seeing American patriots falsely accused of treason and cut down by those in power. We are seeing parents who speak out about what their children are taught designated by the DOJ as domestic terrorists. We are seeing pro-life Christians arrested by the FBI, while anarchists like Jane’s Revenge deface, damage and fire bomb pregnancy clinics across America.
It’s Nazi Germany in 1933, Communist Russia in 1917 and the dawn of the People’s Republic of China in 1940. Hundreds of millions were arrested, imprisoned, gassed, sent to gulags and starved to death.
The only thing that Democrats can do is lie and then deny. They call others what they are. They do what they say their opponents are doing, they use power to silence, suppress, intimidate and kill.
History really is repeating itself! Sad, isn’t it?
“A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.” — James Madison
Yes, I agree, it is perhaps both and we have it in Biden’s America. That is the reason to continue the discussion on the ideology I am maintaining for over thirty years. Hunter Biden’s lab-story has been dismissed as Russian disinformation and fifty-one CIA experts confirmed it. In fact, there was more than Hunter’s lab-story, it was a Joe Biden story and the KGB/Border Plot will expose it. Familiar to you, Mexican Cartels is a false term, those are the Russian Cartels in Mexico. People who know the history of Stalinism are aware of that. After being defeated in the Spanish Civil War, Stalin brought several thousand Spanish orphans to Russia. These boys and girls had been placed in a special dormitory and trained by the KGB. Later, in 1950-1960th the young men and women had been sent to Central America and Mexico. Though all Cartels have the Latin names, Putin’s KGB is running all of them. There are only Drug Cartels bringing annually $30 Billion earned by Russia on the American Southern border.
The letter signed by fifty-one experts presented a very troublesome event. Their signatures illustrate their incompetence, uselessness, and even stupidity. The question is who organized the event and signing of the letter by those incompetent experts. In this respect, I have to remind you that the FBI and CIA are failed to protect us and the American interests due to their incompetence pertaining Russia and its KGB’s Mafia/Army. None of the four FBI Directors was able to identify the Trump/Dossier produced by the KGB. You can answer the question, knowing that it took me a couple of seconds in 2017 to recognize the Trump/Dossier as a KGB’s Falshivka, a usual KGB’s FRAUD. But my writings have been banned by the FBI to prevent you from knowing the truth since 2002. It could be Mueller himself who submitted my name to the FISA Court to cover-up the Dems’ crime.
There are other evidence of old KGB’s profession—human trafficking. Those who know the history of the KGB should remember the events under the Warsaw Pact in the Eastern Europe. Blond young women from Poland and Czechoslovakia had been sold by the KGB to the Muslim countries. Human smuggling started by the KGB in the 20th century and continues by Vladimir Putin in the 21st century. Human smuggling organizations run by the KGB are alive and well today. Whether you know it or don’t know, the fact remains: Russia was and is a Terrorist State destabilizing people’s life globally.
Did you know that Russia has been systematically sabotaging America through drugs since the 1955 Soviet Law of the Revolutionary War? A hundred thousand Americans killed by drugs in 2021. Biden’s open borders policy works in unison with the KGB’s terrorist activities across the globe, promoting drugs and illegal migration to America. The scale of the KGB’s activities is unprecedented—180 countries. Pay attention to the strategy of targeting children without the parents in those countries. Why was the government transporting children by night in America? Who needs the secrecy? Does it remind you Stalinist motivation and projection to use those children later on? Do you recognize Stalinist ideology?
The similarities are even more threatening. Stalinist agenda to destroy American Capitalism has been a model for Biden’s presidency since the first day in the White House by closing a Key Stone pipeline and waging war on fossil fuel. In fact, Biden’s policy has initiated a global crisis: the natural resources fossil fuel, gas, and coal are the driving force of the global economic engine and there is nothing else now to substitute it. The Putin/Biden plot had established a Globalist World Order against a free market capitalism. This is the beginning of WWIII, deliberately choreographed by the Dems to save their traitorous existence.
Now, when your eyes are more open, don’t be surprised by the number of countries infiltrated by the KGB: the agency has been operating during the 20th century and beyond. It spread from North to South, from a girl-Greta in Sweden, an emotional and nervous agitator for “climate change” to “prevent people’s extinction” to the South-Africa Communist government where the KGB is in control and power. Although John Durham’s hands were tied, he is on the right path. Unfortunately, his investigation will not be completed. But the major focus now emphasizes the FBI as a main bad actor. John Durham is right. I was warning you about the FBI and CIA for the last thirty years…
Fascism Never Sleeps
As a former Soviet attorney, I know the Soviet System pretty well and write about it in my books and columns over thirty years. The resemblance to fascism I saw living through Stalinism and learning it in reality. People surrounding me called the Soviet System—Stalinism. The special features of Stalinism and Fascism had been identical: the weaponization of Law Enforcement and establishment of a variety of punitive agencies to control and power over the population. This is the reason that the major topic of my writings is the KGB’s Mafia/Army, which represents all of them.
I choose the term KGB to represent all those punitive agencies, because these three letters have been pretty well familiar to America and the world. The more I write, the more I am convinced that this discussion is a necessity in America and the world today. Some people in America have heard Stalin’s name, but only some. The discussion on whether we are dealing with Soviet Socialism or Soviet fascism is vital today under Biden’s Presidency. Biden called me “Semi-Fascist,” but when I am experiencing something very familiar to me, I recognize it. By the way, the Soviet people called the KGB—the Soviet Gestapo. In this respect, I have to remind you of W. Churchill’s idea: “The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists.” Pay attention to Antifa and BLM—they have the same parents.
I was following Biden’s Clan-family for decades. For me, Biden’s personal and open participation in the Clan began in 2013-2014, when Obama appointed him as a point man for Ukraine. You saw it, when Biden publicly pronounced quid-pro-quod, threatening Ukraine with $Billion if a prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden hasn’t fired. It was the time, when Putin/Biden were together suffocating the young Ukrainian democracy. Nothing has changed since and The Putin/Biden KGB/Border Plot proves that. James Madison was right: “It is a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.”
There is another “Red Flag” for the Biden presidency—the Iranian Deal. I was writing about and introducing you to the term “Axis of Evil” for decades. It was created under the Russian umbrella to wage the war against Western civilization in the 20th century. You are watching the continuation of this war by Putin and Chairman Xi Jinpin, both united by the ideology and agenda left to them by Comrade Stalin: One World Socialist Government under the Kremlin Rule. Look at the “Axis of Evil” countries: North Korea, China, Belarus, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, they are all terrorists’ countries. Biden’s Iranian Deal is his attempt to join the group, instead of fighting their Socialist agenda “under the Russian umbrella.” Isn’t This Treason?
The Biden alternative universe has been built by Socialist modus operandi: lies, deception, fabrication and fraud… Stalinist Soviet Union had been built the same exact way in the 20th century. I was stunned, watching Dan Bongino interview with the FBI whistleblower Steve Friend. He described events in the FBI that gravely affected his family. Steve Friend told the story of hundreds of my clients, who came to my law office and like him said that they didn’t want to comply with the regime of Stalinist Socialism… In all my books and columns I was introducing you to Socialist modus operandi to warn you: The Democrat Party behaves the same exact metastasized way—it shapes Soviet Socialism with the help of the FBI in America. Read my column: A Global Spy Ring.
Watch Biden’s deceptive-maneuvering on Ukraine, he learned a lot from the KGB policy of “disinformation.” He is the KGB’s puppet with dementia. As Putin started war on Ukraine February 24, 2022, the White House reaction was unambiguous: the war will last three days and Ukraine will be defeated. Then Biden offered President Zelenskyy to send a plane and bring him and his family to America. That infuriated me. By continuing my public discussion of the ideology, I wrote a column defending Ukraine and expressing my disagreement with the White House: The Global Threat of Anti-Semitism: Fascism, February 28, 2022. The next day, March 1, 2022 was Biden’s State of the Union Address at 9 p.m. EST. I couldn’t believe my eyes and ears, the attitude to the Russian war on Ukraine had been changed to 180 degree. It took me sometimes to find the rationale, but I did.
History is the Mother of all sciences and my column on February 28, 22 presented a misfortunate fate of Ukraine under Soviet Socialism. It also reveals Putin’s desire to build again the Russian Empire in Europe. As a matter of fact, without Ukraine there can’t be a Russian Empire. Ukraine is a European country and the Putin aggressive war where Russia is killing everything alive is the dictator’s desire to build the Russian Empire. The White House has been reading my columns since 2002. Reading the last one gave Biden’s team the idea of saving the Democrat Party and preventing its extinction for the crime they had been committing for decades. That was the rationale for using Ukraine…
But hold your horses! The Republicans still don’t perceive the global scale of the issue. The sabotage against the American Constitutional Republic began many decades ago. I had evidence about Bill Clinton and since him the Democrat Party was engaged in malfeasances against the American political system. In 2016 Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Vladimir Putin cooked up a plan to destroy Donald J. Trump and the KGB’s production of Trump/Dossier had popped up. We are still in the labyrinth, puzzled to find the correct answers today in 2022, six years later. This is a result of our incompetence about Russia and its Intel Apparatus that destroying us from within. For America to survive that knowledge is imperative today.
American existence is at stake: Warning by a Former Soviet Attorney.
Joe Biden signed a dozen executive orders in his first hours as president. Do you know who produced those executive orders? It is obvious now that Biden himself couldn’t do it. Who did? Loving my adopted country with all my heart, I am telling you for over thirty years the story of What is Happening to America? The Hidden Truth of Global Destruction Part III. This is the story of the war against the American Constitutional Republic from within—the history of first unprecedented infiltration of the foreign agencies into the heart of America. Do you know what the KGB’s Mafia/Army means? Racial division, refusal to prosecute crime, corrupt conflicts of interest, compromising connections between the Dem leaders and Russian & Chinese Intel agencies is exposed. Violent crime is rising and public safety escapes America until we learn of the KGB’s Mafia/Army. We are dealing with the ideology of Soviet fascism that never sleeps, hence our national security is at stake. Please, read this book, to prevent the American Tragedy.
House of Dragon, like its predecessor Game of Thrones, is The Godfather of epic fantasy. Westeros is a land where power rules and individual rights do not exist.
The first season of HBO’s House of Dragon is nearing its conclusion, and the Game of Thrones prequel has not disappointed.
Based on George R. R. Martin’s novel Fire & Blood, the new series depicts House Targaryen’s efforts to rule the Seven Kingdoms amid its own internal power struggles. The story takes place about 170 years before the events depicted in Game Thrones and centers on Rhaenyra Targaryen, a princess who’s named heir to the Iron Throne by her ailing father King Viserys. This puts her at odds with her uncle Daemon (Matt Smith) and later her infant brother, who also have claims to the throne.
While I was initially skeptical that House of Dragon would bring back the magic of Westeros, the series has managed to live up to the hype (so far). The show’s writing and acting are superb, and just like GoT, the series explores power and morality through the gritty lens of realism. The realism is conveyed not just through the show’s ample sex and violence, but also the promise that the hero might actually not win or may not do the right thing. House of Dragon, like its predecessor Game of Thrones, is The Godfather of epic fantasy.
Viewers may be pleased to notice that, with the exception of the size of Targaryen dragons, almost nothing has changed in the Seven Kingdoms, even though nearly two hundred years have passed. Armies still fight with swords and arrows. Most of the people are still poor. Soldiers ride horses. Farming is presumably the primary occupation for the vast majority of people who are not lords or ladies.
To understand why so little has changed in Westeros, one need only look to our own world. Though many of us have personally witnessed massive change and innovation in our own lifetime, this was the exception, not the rule, in history.
A Wealth Explosion
Economist Brad Delong has noted that the standard of living didn’t change much for most of the last two thousand years, and GDP figures from Our World in Data confirm this.
In 1 AD, the GDP of the entire world was less than $182 billion (in 2011 US dollars). A thousand years later, global GDP was higher, but not by much—an estimated $210 billion. A few hundred years later, the world’s GDP was actually lower. Four hundred years after that, in 1700, the world’s total GDP was still only about $640 billion.
In other words, the world had changed very little over a period of 1700 years, at least in terms of material wealth.
That changed the next century, however. By 1820, global GDP had increased to $1.2 trillion. By 1870 it was $2 trillion. On the eve of World War I, global GDP was $4.74 trillion and by1950, despite the two most catastrophic and deadly wars in human history, it was up to $9 trillion. By 1998, it was $58 trillion and by 2013 it was $101 trillion.
The evidence for this miraculous growth in wealth is visible all around us. From automobiles and computers, microwaves and laundry machines, to sunglasses, TVs, and cell phones, most middle-class families own goods that were scarcely imaginable a century ago. Things as vital as toilet paper, toothpaste, and hot showers are available to most of the people in the world.
‘Peace, Easy Taxes, and Justice’
It’s no coincidence that the rise in material wealth the world witnessed over the last 250 years coincided with the global rise of capitalism.
When Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776, he offered the world a roadmap to wealth creation. It was surprisingly simple. Peace and trade—not brute force, coercion, or the yolk of slavery—was the formula.
“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things,” Smith wrote in The Theory of Moral Sentiments.
The formula might be simple, but its execution is not. The world of Westeros shows us why.
While many of the characters in Game of Thrones and House of Dragon are interesting, and some are even good, it’s impossible to miss that Westeros is a land defined by war, injustice, power, and plunder.
In the first season of Game of Thrones, we see the Crown is basically bankrupt. King Robert is spending money the Crown doesn’t have, and “beggaring” the realm in the process, placing an immense burden on his people (who will eventually be the ones to pay off the Crown’s debts). Over the course of eight seasons, viewers witness what is largely a bloody power struggle to rule.
House of Dragon offers its own examples. We quickly see that the Crown is a source of aggression, not benevolence. In the very first episode, Daemon Targaryen, the king’s brother, descends on Flea Bottom (the most poverty-stricken party of King’s Landing) with his Gold Cloaks (i.e. the city watch) to bring “law and order” to the district.
“My brother’s city has fallen into squalor. Crime of every breed has been allowed to thrive,” he says. “No longer. Beginning tonight, King’s Landing will learn to fear the color gold.”
In the darkness, men are accused by the Gold Cloaks—”thief!” “raper!”—and rounded up. They are not tried, but executed on the spot. Daemon himself takes at least one man’s head. All it takes is the accusation from a Gold Cloak.
While there is some fuss the next day over Daemon’s actions, the king’s council ultimately overlooks the carnage, reasoning that Daemon’s actions, draconian though they may be, project strength and power.
This is why nothing changes in Westeros. It’s a land where power rules and individual rights do not exist. Whatever wealth people manage to accumulate can simply be taken from them by anyone—whether it be their lord, pirates, or the Crown itself—who has more power than they do. The king’s justice is rarely to be found.
Adam Smith was correct when he observed that the formula to wealth creation is surprisingly simple: easy taxes, peace and the adequate administration of justice. But Westeros shows us this is hardly easy to achieve, especially where power is concentrated and those who wield it are rarely held accountable.
Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The Federalist, the Epoch Times.
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Kanye West, formally known as Ye, is set to acquire the conservative social media platform Parler just days after getting kicked off Twitter.
Parler’s parent company, Parlement Technologies, announced Monday that “it has entered into an agreement in principle to sell Parler” to Ye, who has been “taking a bold stance against his recent censorship from Big Tech.”
“The terms of the proposed transaction would include ongoing technical support from Parliament and the use of private cloud services via Parliament’s private cloud and data center infrastructure,” the statement continued. Ye and Parliament Technologies are expected to close the deal in the fourth quarter of 2022.
Parler CEO George Farmer said “this deal will change the world.”
It will “change the way the world thinks about free speech. Ye is making a groundbreaking move into the free speech media space and will never have to fear being removed from social media again.”
“In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves,” West said.
Ye was recently removed from Twitter after posting an antisemitic tweet. In the now-deleted tweet, Ye said he was “going death con 3 [sic] On JEWISH PEOPLE.” His account was locked for violating Twitter’s policies.
Ye has since made several other antisemitic remarks, including saying that Jewish people are responsible for doing “bad business” in Hollywood.
QUESTION: In 2018 the Democrats saw how easy it was to steal an election. Did this give them a ideas on how to steal the 2020 election?
Even our most senior elected officials have become flip flappers on key issue, like election integrity by have voters vote in person using hand counted paper ballots.
Here’s two examples of Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. and Kamala Devi Harris on election integrity.
SEN KAMALA HARRIS 2018: “We recently also, I actually held a demonstration for my colleagues here at the Capitol, where we we brought in folks who before our eyes hacked election machines, those that are being used in many states” pic.twitter.com/IRBREQdFPd
I remember watching Dr. Marin Luther King, Jr. who, standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, inspired me.
Dr. King gave his historic “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. In the speech, Dr. King called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. At that time the Republican Party, founded by President Abraham Lincoln, embraced his words.
Dr. King said,
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nationwhere they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Watch Dr. Kings remarks,
Fast forward to 2020 when the below was caught on video.
Thousands of white people gather to “pledge allegiance” to black people (2020) pic.twitter.com/kIBrjcDPhx
This is the most racist thing that one group of individuals can do, pledge their allegiance to a race, not to God and our Constitution. This in not build on the “rock of brotherhood”, it is the “new slavery” under the guise of diversity, inclusion and equity pushed by Democrat Party. It’s the new “soft bigotry” mantra of Democrats.
Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina slammed Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams Saturday night over her opposition to voter ID, labeling it “soft bigotry.”
“The soft bigotry of low expectations is not soft, it’s as hard as a punch. It’s as devastating and has been as detrimental in the black community as a stick of dynamite from the Ku Klux Klan,” Robinson said. “This stuff is ridiculous. To suggest those who survived the Middle Passage, survived the horrors of slavery and then survived Jim Crow now have reached a point where they can’t go down to the DMV to get a free ID to secure their vote not only is insulting, it’s ridiculous.”
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“It’s a false narrative myth, the propagation that black folks are victims and they need the Democratic Party to supply them with everything they need,” Robinson continued. “We know it’s not true and we have got to push back against that narrative.”
It’s amazing how far many have fallen from reality and what is just and right. As Dr. King said,
“You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the Word which the Lord Who receives sinners preaches to you.“
And this ends today’s lesson on right versus wrong.
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And still the Democrats are pushing this poison. They hate you. Start fighting back.
50% increase in miscarriages; 50% decrease in fertility after COVID vax
But Eric Topol says there is “no evidence” that the vaccine causes harm. That’s reassuring. So Eric, if it isn’t the vaccine, what IS causing it? He blocked me. Can you ask him?
By: Steve Kirsch, Oct 15, 2022:
Watch this exclusive 30 second video of Kimberly Biss, MD an OB/Gyn in Tampa Bay, FL explaining what they’ve observed in their large practice:
However, Dr. Eric Topol, who is an expert on the COVID vaccine, says this isn’t caused by the vaccine
I’d love to know what IS causing it, but Dr. Topol blocked all of my accounts on Twitter and Twitter has banned me for life twice, so I am not allowed to ask that question.
It cannot be COVID since the problem only surfaced after the vaccines rolled out. So his explanation just doesn’t fit the observation.
So maybe you can ask Eric for me?
Watch this exclusive 30 second video of Kimberly Biss, MD an OB/Gyn in Tampa Bay, FL explaining what they’ve observed in their large practice:
The U.S. government is rotten, rotten to its core. Martha Stewart went to jail for far less.
This is insider trading on steroids. Every single official should be indicted. This is very definition of corruption and depraved abuse of the public trust.
WASHINGTON — Thousands of federal government officials across the executive branch reported owning or trading stocks that stood to rise or fall with decisions made by their agencies, a Wall Street Journal investigation found.
More than 2,600 officials at agencies from the Commerce Department to the Treasury Department, during both Republican and Democratic administrations, disclosed stock investments in companies that were lobbying their agencies for favorable policies. That amounts to more than one in five senior federal employees across 50 federal agencies reviewed by the Journal, is said in an article published Oct. 11.
An official at the Environmental Protection Agency reported purchases of oil and gas stocks. The Food and Drug Administration improperly let an official own dozens of food and drug stocks on its “no-buy” list. A Defense Department official bought stock in a company before it won new business from the Pentagon, according to the report.
Title 18, section 208 of the U.S. Code, a criminal statute, prohibits employees in the executive branch from participating in a government matter that will have a direct and predictable effect on their financial interests, Federal Times has reported.
Such conflict-of-interests can include insider trading, a hot-button issue that the U.S. House of Representatives has grappled with in seeking to reform the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act.
The STOCK Act, by some experts’ estimation, is the closest the government has come thus far in targeting stock trading by members of Congress. Then-President Barack Obama signed it into law in 2012, amending the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and making explicit that the prohibition against insider trading would apply to members.
The Journal said it analyzed more than 31,000 financial-disclosure forms for about 12,000 senior career employees, political staff and presidential appointees. The review spans 2016 through 2021 and includes data on about 850,000 financial assets and more than 315,000 trades in stocks, bonds and funds by the officials, their spouses or children.
While the Ethics in Government Act, passed on the heels of the Watergate scandal, mandated that senior employees of the executive branch submit public financial disclosures, the vast majority aren’t available online or readily accessible. The review amounts to the most comprehensive analysis of investments held by executive-branch officials, who have wide but largely unseen influence over public policy, the Journal said.
Among the findings:
— While the government was ramping up scrutiny of big technology companies, more than 1,800 federal officials reported owning or trading at least one of four major tech stocks: Meta Platforms’s Facebook, Alphabet’s Google, Apple and Amazon.com.
— Dozens of officials at agencies including the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department reported trading stock in companies shortly before their departments announced enforcement actions.
— More than 200 senior EPA officials, nearly one in three, reported investments in companies that were lobbying the agency.
— At the Defense Department, officials in the office of the secretary reported collectively owning between $1.2 million and $3.4 million of stock in aerospace and defense companies on average each year examined by the Journal. Some held stock in Chinese companies while the U.S. was considering blacklisting the companies.
Not every member of the executive branch is a public filer. Most that are hold high-level leadership positions. In addition to new entrant, annual, and termination reports, public filers must also report transactions of certain securities as they occur so that ethics officials can evaluate potential red flags.
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Kanye West recently became the object of worldwide opprobrium when he tweeted: “I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda. The tweet was removed, his account was locked, and he has faced a storm of justified criticism over his paranoid anti-Semitism.
Kanye West speaks out after getting debanked: “I put $140 million into JP Morgan and they treated me like sh*t. So if JP Morgan Chase is treating me like that, how are they treating the rest of y’all?” pic.twitter.com/YYuMgqfqT5
There is no indication, however, that Louis Farrakhan, whose Jew-hatred is abundantly documented and far longer-standing than West’s, has never been subjected to any comparable treatment from his Leftist friends who are piling on Kanye these days. Why the double standard?
That most unhinged exponent of the Left’s propaganda industry, Rolling Stone magazine, tried to pin an accusation of hypocrisy on Ben Shapiro for writing: “Two things can be true at once. Kanye’s moves toward pro-life, faith, and family conservatism are encouraging; his ‘death con 3’ posts and Black Hebrew Israelite language are clearly anti-Semitic and disturbing.” The real hypocrisy, however, is not Shapiro’s, it is the Left’s, for embracing Farrakhan while excoriating Kanye West.
The Daily Caller reported in October 2020 that Farrakhan “has blamed Jewish people for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the Holocaust, and referred to them as ‘satanic.’ He also praised Adolf Hitler as a ‘very great man.’ At a Nation of Islam event in February 2018, Farrakhan asserted that ‘Jews were responsible for all of this filth and degenerate behavior that Hollywood is putting out, turning men into women and women into men.’ ‘White folks are going down,’ he also said, according to CNN. ‘And Satan is going down. And Farrakhan, by God’s grace, has pulled the cover off of that satanic Jew and I’m here to say your time is up, your world is through.’”
In February 2020, Farrakhan declared: “Mr. Trump killed my brother Qassem Soleimani. Mrs. Clinton killed my other brother Muammar Qaddafi.” In December 2019, a neighbor of a couple that murdered Jews in a kosher market said that Farrakhan had inspired them. In April 2019, Farrakhan said that “Jesus died because he was 2,000 years too soon to bring about the end of the civilization of the Jews.”
This is a longstanding pattern. In February 2019, Farrakhan said: “The wicked Jews want to use me to break up the women’s movement.” He gently chided Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) for apologizing for her own anti-Semitic remarks: “Sweetheart, don’t do that. Pardon me for calling you sweetheart, but you do have a sweet heart. You sure are using it to shake the government up, but you have nothing to apologize for.” Farrakhan’s rhetoric has led to violence. In April 2021, a self-described “follower of Farrakhan” crashed his car into a Capitol barricade and charged at police with a knife.
Nonetheless, Farrakhan continues to enjoy respect and wield influence on the Left. During the 2020 campaign, a Joe Biden ad featured a rapper who referred to Farrakhan as his “mentor.” He is friendly with Barack Obama. A taxpayer-funded mural in New York features his image. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Gaza) wrote a column for Farrakhan’s blog. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has denounced Kanye West, but she has never denounced Farrakhan. Ilhan Omar has never denounced Farrakhan. Rashida Tlaib has never denounced Farrakhan. Nor has Joe Biden.
The double standard is glaring and obvious. The Democratic Party establishment is increasingly anti-Semitic. The House of Representatives couldn’t manage to censure Ilhan Omar in 2019 after her repeated anti-Semitic remarks, opting instead for a catchall, virtue-signaling condemnation of “hate.” When the same people who defended Omar and stood proudly with Farrakhan condemn Kanye West for saying the same kinds of things their own friends and allies say, there’s the real hypocrisy. The Democrat Party is anti-Semitic until it becomes politically expedient for Democrats to denounce anti-Semitism, but when they issue these denunciations, they never break off relations with people who frequently and unrepentantly traffic in anti-Semitic rhetoric.
What Kanye West said was as reprehensible as it was idiotic. But JP Morgan Chase and the others who attacked West afterward were clearly only attacking him because he has publicly broken ranks with the Left’s race-baiting establishment and has defended Donald Trump. If they were attacking him for anti-Semitism, there are plenty of their friends that they’re going to have to throw under the bus. Don’t hold your breath.
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Iranian protesters have demanded “justice” for a woman who was assaulted by anti-riot police, with one officer forcibly grabbing her bottom and then pushing her on the ground.
The video, captured on a security camera at the Argentina Square in Tehran on Wednesday, shows police surrounding the woman. When they start to cart her away, one officer grabs the woman’s bottom before she drops to her knees.
Another woman can be heard saying that the officers were pulling the victim’s hair as she knelt on the ground.
Tehran’s Police Public Relations office has said the incident will be investigated, the BBC reported, but the police provided no statement as to what might have happened. Instead, the police accused “enemies” of “using psychological warfare” to cause “public anxiety and incite violence.”…
Iranian officials and authorities have tried to suppress media of the protests from reaching the outside world, but the protesters have managed to supply the internet with plenty of videos and pictures showing the brutality police have used.
Lisa Daftari, a Middle East expert and editor-in-chief of The Foreign Desk, told Fox News Digital about another “horrific” incident in which regime forces dragged a screaming female protestor to the ground before putting her in a van….
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The wave of protests against sexual materials and agendas in schools spreading around the country appeared in Dearborn, Michigan. Islamists in America had long grappled with how to manage both their leftist alliances and the sexual agendas of those allies. Most opted for public expressions of support and private repression. The breach broke out in the open in Dearborn with videos of angry Arab Muslims, among others, speaking out at school board meetings.
They waved signs, booed speakers, and denounced the board members. The same sort of stuff that led Biden and Garland’s DOJ to illegally coordinate a school board association letter preparing to treat them like terrorists.
But they can’t treat Muslims like terrorists.
The sheer awkwardness was captured by the local NPR affiliate’s story on the protests.
.Community members within the Dearborn Public School District have been in heated debate over several LGBTQ-positive books and their availability to students. The debate in Dearborn came to a head at a school board meeting this week.
It’s not the first time a religious, conservative group has opposed the availability of books that include LGBTQ-positive stories and sentiments.
However, unlike we’ve seen before, many of those religious conservatives are Muslim. It’s the first time someone other than Evangelicals and far-right constituents have been a sizeable force in the protests at the school board.
Reporter Niraj Warikoo provided some context on this multifaceted issue. We also heard from someone who’s taken a stand in favor of age-appropriate, LGBTQ-positive books.
When American parents protest sexual materials being inflicted on their kids, it’s terrorism. But when Muslims protest, it’s “multifaceted”.
That’s especially true since the local CAIR appeared to be involved in guiding some parents behind the scenes while cautioning them away from public protests. Others however, with fewer woke alliances, took a more vocal stand.
One of Michigan’s most prominent faith leaders, Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini of the Islamic Institute of America in Dearborn Heights, urged people during his Friday sermon to attend the protests.
“Some of those books are completely inappropriate for our children to read,” Al-Qazwini said. “Some of those books promote pornography. Some of them promote homosexuality. We don’t need this. Go and attend this meeting.”
Al-Qazwini and others said that they have the democratic right to decide what is appropriate in their schools since their faith is now in the majority. Dearborn is about 47% Arab American, most of them Muslim, and Dearborn Heights is about one-third Arab American, according to census data
What’s the Left going to do? Shut up and take it. At least in public. And explain how multifaceted it all is, and double down on pushing this stuff anyway. Publicly, dissent is impossible. And impracticable. The Left hopes to run the same routine that it did with the black community, but it doesn’t understand the territory. Or the players.
They’re the majority and they mean it.
When similar incidents happened in the UK, there was some handwringing and inspectors were sent to investigate Jewish and Christian schools. Expect the media and activist lefties to loudly shift attention back to safer targets. And then call them terrorists.
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Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis intends on sending more migrant aliens to two states considered Democratic strongholds.
After sending nearly 50 immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard last month, a DeSantis spokesperson said that the Governor’s administration is poised to send more migrants to Illinois, as well as President Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware, The Associated Press reported.
Approximately 100 migrants will reportedly be distributed between the two states, according to the outlet.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis will fly migrants to Illinois and Delaware https://t.co/oo43aQOrqx
The relocation efforts were scheduled to occur in early October but were delayed due to the devastation that the state of Florida experienced due to the recent wrath of Hurricane Ian. Now, the deadline is set for the first of December, according to the outlet.
DeSantis Communications Director Taryn Fenske told The AP in an email that “While Florida has had all hands on deck responding to our catastrophic hurricane, the immigration relocation program remains active.”
The governor has faced legal scrutiny and backlash for the decision to send the migrants to Martha’s Vineyard where which former President Barack Obama owns a sizable home. The Florida gubernatorial administration is apparently unperturbed.
As a result, there is speculation that the group sent to the Massachusetts island could potentially be on a path to attain U.S. citizenship due to a pending investigation by a Texas sheriff, Politico reported.
A Texas sheriff has certified that the nearly 50 migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard by Ron DeSantis were victims of a crime. That certification is a key step in qualifying them for a special visa they would not have otherwise been eligible for. https://t.co/plrLRGLXln
BREAKING: Texas Sheriff says that because Ron DeSantis tricked migrants into flying to Martha's Vineyard, they should now be able to STAY in the US under a "U Visa", which is for victims of a crime.
UF Health’s Youth Gender Program offers medical treatments to minors to help them present as the opposite sex; the program boasted about helping a minor undergo hormones and feminizing facial surgery and obtain a referral for “gender affirmation surgery,” according to the institution’s website.
UF Health did not respond to dozens of requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation and ignored many requests for their age guidelines.
“Your parents may not understand and may fight your transition, but this is the way you were born,” one patient said in a UF Health testimonial prominently featured on their website. “Your authentic life is worth fighting for.”
UF Health, a medical network affiliated with the University of Florida located in Gainesville and Jacksonville, boasted about helping a child with gender dysphoria undergo hormone blockers and surgeries in a testimonial on their website.
UF Health’s Youth Gender Program boasts of nationally recognized endocrinologists who specialize in administering pubertal suppression and cross-sex hormone medications to minors and connects children and their families with a host of resources that unquestioningly encourage medical transition for children. One testimonial on their website highlights a minor who, with the help of UF Health, received facial surgery, hormone blockers and a referral for an unspecified cross-sex surgery before turning 18.
The patient, referred to as “Hunter,” underwent hormone blocker injections and sperm cryopreservation as a minor upon adopting a transgender identity at age 15 after watching “I Am Jazz,” a show about a transgender child, according to a testimonial featured prominently on the Youth Gender Program’s website. Hunter received facial feminization surgery, which can include altering the hairline, shaving down the chin and jawbone or augmenting the lips and nose, upon turning 16 with the help of then-UF Health clinical psychologist Anyaliese Hancock-Smith, and was slated to undergo “gender affirmation surgery” in the summer of 2017.
“At the age of 15, Hunter was watching TLC’s transgender reality series, I am Jazz, when she realized she could no longer continue living uncomfortably in the wrong body. Hunter immediately ran into her mother’s room and told her she needed to be on puberty blocking medication,” the testimonial reads.
Hunter was 17 in April 2017, and it is unclear whether the adolescent turned 18 before the surgery; it’s also unclear precisely which surgery Hunter had and whether UF Health performed it or wrote a referral, though Hunter vaguely gives credit to UF Health.
“After meeting with Dr. Silverstein and being diagnosed with Gender Dysphoria, Hunter was prescribed hormone blocker injections and later underwent sperm cryopreservation, a procedure which would eventually allow her to produce biologic children if she wishes,” the post read. “Hunter now believes she looks on the outside like the gender she has always been on the inside, and she credits much of it to her team at UF Health.”
“Hunter now meets with clinical psychologist Anyaliese Hancock-Smith, Ph.D., who assisted Hunter in healthy development of gender identity and expression congruency. This included Hunter getting some facial feminization surgery for her 16th birthday,” the post continued. “Now seventeen years old, Hunter is preparing to have gender affirmation surgery in the summer of 2017, which will allow her to finally feel comfortable in her own skin. She hopes her story will inspire others to embrace their true selves.”
UF Health also included a quote from the patient encouraging others to go against their parents’ wishes when pursuing medical transitions.
“Your parents may not understand and may fight your transition, but this is the way you were born,” Hunter said in the testimonial. “Your authentic life is worth fighting for.”
UF’s Youth Gender Program was following about 50 children receiving puberty blockers and had about 200 patients total on hormones, according to data supplied to the Tampa Bay Times. Fewer than 50 patients in the practice had mastectomies, which are not performed on children under 16, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
The program collaborated with transgender activist group Equality Florida, a group that supports childhood gender transitions and has staunchly opposed efforts to limit those procedures for minors in Florida.
UF Health did not respond to dozens of requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation, including numerous requests over phone, voicemail and email for the institution’s age guidelines for gender-related procedures. UF Health also has yet to share records requested through Florida’s freedom of information law regarding its Youth Gender Program.
Many medical professionals criticize administering puberty blockers and performing sex change surgeries on minors, arguing that children can’t consent to the irreversible procedures and questioning their purported benefits. However, prominent medical organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics support affirming transgender identities through medical procedures, even for minors, and view the procedures as a way to improve adolescents’ mental health.
“All the up-to-date evidence shows that puberty blockers are neither safe nor reversible. The evidence shows that 98% of children who take puberty blockers go on to cross-sex hormones,” Stella O’Malley, an Irish psychotherapist and founder of the gender-critical organization Genspect, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “We are roughly 10 years into this large-scale experiment and already we have reports on issues with cognitive development, bone mineral density and fertility. It is only with class action suits, like that taken in the UK, will we see a full exploration of this issue.”
Detransitioners, people who regret undergoing medical gender transitions, are also speaking out against the procedures. Helena Kirshner, a young woman who took cross-sex hormones and socially transitioned to a male identity as a teenager, attributed her temporary trans identity to emotional struggles, peer influence and social media.
“The adolescent brain is in a developmental stage primed to incorporate experiences into the process of identity formation,” she wrote in a February Substack post. “At my first appointment, I was prescribed testosterone, and I would remain on this regimen for a year and a half. It had an extremely negative effect on my mental health, and I finally admitted what a disaster it had been when I was 19 … It has not been easy, and the whole experience seriously derailed my life in ways I could never have foreseen when I was that fifteen-year-old kid playing with pronouns on Tumblr.”
The Youth Gender Program offers consultation, psychotherapy and assessment of medical readiness for cross-sex hormone therapy, according to its website; though it does not list surgical procedures it provides for minors, the first item on its resource page is financing advice for “gender confirmation surgery.” Resources for transgender youth also include a guide to “tucking,” or using tape to hide one’s penis, along with various activist groups including GLAAD which are vocal proponents of childhood medical transitions.
The Youth Gender Program claims its services are consistent with World Professional Association For Transgender Health (WPATH) guidelines; WPATH’s most recent standards of care do not list any age restrictions for minors to be eligible for cross-sex procedures including surgeries, and the organization is generally supportive of adolescent medical transition.
Yesterday, WPATH published their newest “Standard of Care” for “Transgender and Gender Diverse People.”
They issued a correction on the same day. What was corrected?
Without justification, it was “corrected” to remove all age restrictions for receiving “gender-affirming care.” pic.twitter.com/luNvLfYpWX
Dr. Michael Haller, chief of pediatric endocrinology at the University of Florida, publicly criticized detransitioner Chloe Cole on Twitter in August after she voiced regret about undergoing a medical transition as a minor and criticized the interventionist approach to gender dysphoria that Haller endorses. Cole, who underwent a “gender-affirming” double-mastectomy at age 15 along with cross-sex hormones that permanently altered her voice, no longer identifies as transgender and advocates against sex change procedures for minors.
“She states she was ‘rushed’ through care but notes her first endocrinologist actually said ‘no’ to rapid transition,” Haller wrote. “She sought alternative avenues for treatment. She then speaks as if her case should justify full scale elimination access for all trans patients.”
“You chose internet notoriety over anything that will ever help patients,” he wrote in another tweet.
“At this point, Dr. Haller has a creepy obsession with me. He’s a corrupt Dr. and Prof. who recommends children for double mastectomies and cross sex hormones. Dr. Haller exhibits abusive habits towards outspoken victims of gender care,” Cole wrote.
Haller initially agreed to an interview with the DCNF before cancelling and instructing the DCNF to direct questions to an outside organization, the American Academy of Pediatrics, which also did not respond to a request for comment.
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