I hope today finds you well at the desk as the Executive Editor of the esteemed New York Times. I am glad that we have been able to speak so often about the major accomplishments of the Harris-Biden administration. I think the American people need to hear the truth, and nobody exudes the truth like the iconic New York Times. I know Deano, I know, it’s a constant battle with the radical right with their annoying factual information. Let’s focus on the positives Deano; that shouldn’t take too long. Then we can examine all the rest.
A couple of Highlights First
Well, during all these great milestones, there is the noise from Conservatives about inconsequential matters like:
rampant inflation
anarchy at the Southern border (whether by incompetence or complicity….apparently it’s the latter)
our leaders and country considered a laughingstock on the world stage by allies and enemies alike. Conservatives are not sure what China is considered now under Joey Talibiden, aka, the big guy.
silence on the out of control violence (mainly in Democratic cities, see statistics in NYC, Philadelphia, Chicago, Portland, Los Angles…….etc, etc, etc.)
ridiculous mask mandates, more on that later.
financing madman Putin’s war and genocide by purchasing 600,000 barrels of oil daily from Russia.
energy independence versus energy dependence, hence $4-$5 gas, home heating fuel up 90%, etc.
Not easy to do in 14 months, oh that Joey.
Best Person For The Job
Well, I could go on and on with these trivial details from these right wing lunatics, but let’s focus on little Joey’s nominee for the Supreme Court. From the get go, Brandon said he would nominate a woman of color. Well it is long overdue, and it took a man with such high moral character, to get it done. Some may say, this in itself is a racist comment. I mean, basing a nomination strictly on gender and race……..some may say that. I mean, other than the installation of Vice President Heels Up Harris, when has that happened before?
These right wingers again, bring up some minor details, in regards to this nomination. You see Deano, it seems there was a woman of color who once was up for nomination for a spot on the highest court. I know Deano, I know, I was as shocked as you were. You must be shocked, because I saw no mention of this in your unbiased, apolitical tabloid. It seems that George Bush nominated Justice Janice Brown in 2003 for appointment to the highest court. You’re not going to believe what I’m going to say next Deano, so hold on. One of those who stood directly in her path was none other than Joey Bidenflation. It seems that Joey used the FILIBUSTER to deny her nomination (the same filibuster he railed against during the Build Back Better debacle). Ah, what a difference a few years can make, eh Deano. To make matters worse, she was again up for nomination in 2005, and your not going to believe this one…………..Joey voted NO again! Next thing the radical right will be saying is, Brandon said, “he doesn’t want his kids to grow up in a racial jungle,”………oh wait a minute. President Trump is a racist.
I remember hearing a speech a long time ago by a very influential person in our country’s history. It went sort of like this, “I dream of the day when a person will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” What a unique concept, Deano. So, I take it that Joey disagrees with this statement by Dr. Martin Luthur King Jr; seeing as Joey first and foremost deciding factor, is making his recommendation was not on content of character but in fact, on gender and skin color. I don’t know Deano, I always thought it was President Trump that was the racist? It is all so confusing, you know champ?
Where is Covid?
Well, it looks like the war against Covid has been won. Just like the installed POTUS promised, when he was campaigning from his basement. Remember Deano, “I will shut down the virus, not the economy.” Sure enough, over 450,000 deaths later (more than elected President Trump), and 14 months later, here we are. A few side notes here, that are almost forgotten Deano, Pfizer announced just days after the 2020 election results that they had approval on a shot to combat the deadly virus. I mean what awful timing for elected President Trump…..purely coincidence, I’m sure. It was sort of like AG Billy Barr, not releasing Hunter Biden’s (famous artist) incriminating laptop evidence. He even said, “he didn’t want to influence the election, just bless Billy’s heart. Even Twitter boss, Jackie Dorsey banned a story implicating Joey’s little guy, as to not influence the election. See Deano, just like you guys at Pravda, I mean the Times, you all did your part to keep the election fair and square.
But I digress: Where are the mandates, mask requirements and such? Has everyone taken leave of their senses and abandoned science? What has happened to the ubiquitous presence of the honorable Dr. Fraudci? Where is the CDC? Where is Randi Weingarten speaking on behalf of the teachers union? Are we giving in to the domestic terrorists (parents evidently). For gosh sakes, deep blue states are doing away with these ridiculous, I mean absolutely necessary practices, all within days of each other. Are we supposed to sacrifice our Kindergartner’s safety by letting them roam around maskless? Well Deano, Conservatives say the only thing that has beaten this virus, are the horrible POLLS. Senator Cruz is referring to it as, “the miracle of the SOTU address.”
Darth Vader
Well it remains to be seen as to how Houseplant-in-Chief is going to handle the no mask rule at his address to the nation. Many are very curious as Joey usually takes these safety measures very, very seriously……..unless, dining out with “Dr.” Jill or shopping in Nantucket, then all bets are off. Conservatives point out that fact, saying, that when Joey Obiden got back from his recent weekend jaunt to Delaware (while madman Putin was slaughtering Ukraine civilians) he seemed to be wearing a small hefty bag on his face, with of course his trademark aviator sunglasses. They say his mask went from his Adam’s apple to under his sunglasses. It was almost like he was wearing a disguise. Someone said he resembled Darth Vader, while pointing out his shield is impenetrable by the virus or more importantly, reporters questions. Several questions were lobbed at Joey, regarding the Russia-Ukraine crisis, but alas to no avail. On a positive note, he found the door to the White House, which is always a 50/50 shot at best. Kudos Joey, on a job well done.
State of the Union Address
I just can’t wait for Brandon to knock it out of the park with his SOTU address. They may have to extend it a bit Deano, just so Joey can list all that he has accomplished in his first year. I mean, from him crawling up airliner steps as a newbie to being on the verge of a possible world war. All accomplished in his first year. I ask, what can’t this human dynamo get done in his 2 hour work days and 4 day work weeks? Of course inflation is to be blamed on Putin, previously blamed on supply chain, which was blamed on Covid; but obviously not by Joey’s sabotaging his own country, by his attack on fossil fuels to appease his far left contingent, no, not that at all. Maybe Joey can lead by example and take an electric plane to Delaware for his next long weekend, which should be in about 3 days.
Topics Joey Needs to Address
I can’t wait to hear his plans to attack the Southern border abomination. Or his ideas to combat the out of control violent crime in our cities. Or curbing the ever increasing, rampant inflation. Or how we can stymie Putin, by opening up the Keystone pipeline, and letting us drill on government property again. You know, so we can become energy independent again, and not enrich a madman dictator claiming sovereign land and killing innocent people. You know Deano, stuff like that. I’m sure these are at the top of his list of things to address.
I’m pretty sure though we might hear about his nomination for the Supreme Court. His scaled down Build Back Better Progressive wish list. Him beating Covid, with no mention of the almost half a million people who have died on his watch (no word if Joey will be wearing his garbage bag and aviators). His decisive sanctions on Putin, keeping the dictator in check……..not so much at the moment. Word is, he wanted General Milley to take this on, but he has been in constant contact giving China our missile silo locations. One question raised was if Chardonnay Pelosi will be ripping up his speech at the end, which all depends what time happy hour ends. I’m sure Jenny Goebbels Psaki will need a good night’s sleep for tomorrow. It seems she has to prepare her responses, “the installed POTUS misspoke” or “what the installed POTUS meant to say was.” I’m sure it will be a long day for Peppermint Patty tomorrow.
The Honest Review By The Times
Yes Deano, I can’t wait to get your objective, apolitical view on little Joey’s report to the American people. What do you think he’ll address first: the out of control illegal alien and drug infestation at the Southern border or rampant violent crime infecting our cities. I’m going to go out on a limb here Deano, I think it will be about him leading the charge against Putin, followed closely by his (almost) landmark nomination to the Supreme Court……just a hunch. Whatever it is, I know you will be fair and honest, in your coverage, due to you and your tabloid’s journalistic integrity. What a fine example you are for the youth of America. You should be very proud.
US. inflation is nearing levels not seen since the 1970s and early 1980s, at 7.5 percent year-over-year as of January, the largest rise in four decades. The issue is a major concern for voters, and Democrats face historic midterm losses. Inflation has even killed the Biden agenda thus far—Sen. Joe Manchin’s primary reason for nixing “Build Back Better,” a mess of largely corporatist priorities from a disjointed Democratic base, was his fear that it would push up prices further.
The left, however, is making a ridiculous effort to say that inflation is not a problem or even good for working-class Americans. CNN has run articles to this effect. New York Times writer Sarah Jeong says inflation concerns are “driven by rich people … because their parasitic assets aren’t doing as well as they’d like and they’re scared” that government stimulus—supposedly directed at the bottom half of earners—is why.
The idea that somehow government spending benefits the poor or working-class more than the rich is ridiculous. Just look at the stimulus since 2020, and its effects.
Stimulus Directly Caused the Current Inflation
Inflation took off in the second quarter of 2021, after a new Democratic Congress poured a $2 trillion in federal overspending they called “stimulus” on an economy that had already received a combined $2.8 trillion in stimulus in 2020. Republicans can blame Democrats, with some justification, but the seeds of higher inflation were already sown.
History should judge the federal government’s pandemic response harshly. A several-week lockdown may have been acceptable without hindsight, given concerns about mass deaths and an overwhelmed medical system. But as soon as the virus was known to be much less deadly than feared, and that there was no great strain on the medical system, the federal government should have punished states needlessly maintaining activity restrictions.
The original stimulus bill, passed by congressional Republicans and signed by President Trump, was ill-conceived. The payroll protection program (PPP) ended up lining the pockets of business owners with taxpayer dollars far more than protecting payrolls. Large chunks of it were stolen by fraudsters, while many employers then had incentives to not seek or call for a return to normality.
Meanwhile, enhanced unemployment paid unemployed persons $600 extra per week, on top of regular unemployment. This means a job paying roughly less than $60,000 could not compete with the benefits. Even when these benefits were extended in early 2021 at a reduced amount—$300 extra per week—millions avoided the workforce.
By mid-2021, a huge amount of money was chasing a fixed amount of goods and services—with the services shortage exacerbated by enhanced unemployment and school closures hampering the return to work, and the goods shortage caused by America’s overreliance on production overseas, especially China. Computer chip shortages are of particular concern, affecting everything from electronics to auto production. Here, note the criminality of U.S. policymakers allowing America’s chip supply to be produced in Taiwan.
Inflation Harms the Working Class Most
Because of high inflation, average Americans are seeing a decline in real wages—if your pay is up 4 percent from last year, but inflation is up 7 percent, you just got a 3 percent pay cut. Leftwing economists point out that the lowest earners aren’t experiencing negative real wages when discounting their pay increases by the CPI. There are two major problems with this analysis.
First, large gains for low-wage workers in many service industries makes sense given the labor shortage caused by the federal stimulus. But the effects of the government-caused labor shortage will only dissipate over time.
Next, pay on the bottom end is so low that small dollar increases make the percent increase look large. If hourly pay at McDonalds increases from $15 to $18 per hour, that’s a 20 percent increase and supposedly massively outpaces inflation. Jason Furman is impressed, but you shouldn’t be.
Yet the biggest reason the decline in real wages is also likely hitting low-income Americans is that low-income Americans don’t consume the CPI, an estimated basket of what the average American consumes. Low-income Americans, as a percent of expenditures, spend far more on essentials like energy, rent, and food.
Inflation in an equal weighted basket of these items—call it the working-class CPI—is far outpacing headline CPI, at 11.2 percent as of December versus 7.1 percent on headline CPI. This means the CPI is objectively undercounting shelter inflation. Home prices are up around 20 percent year over year. Private surveys of rent say rent is up by at least double digits, compared to the CPI that says rent is up only 4.2 percent.
It is beyond the scope of this article, but the actual rent inflation along with massive home price increases should feed into the CPI report over time, causing the shelter component of CPI to continue rising. High rent inflation is another reason the working class is being harmed relative to home-owners.
The left makes these arguments to justify more stimulus—which happens to flow to the stock market—and easier policy from the Federal Reserve, which also happens to flow to the stock market. They are completely wrong and their policies objectively increase wealth inequality.
The Rich Got Richer
Even as inflation (the loss of your purchasing power) pushed higher, all the excess money flowed to major U.S. corporations and the stock market. On top of this, corporations received direct stimulus aid from the Federal Reserve and Congress, including when the Federal Reserve said it would purchase high-yield corporate debt, which is just one reason the left’s analysis—that inflation helps the poor and harms the rich—is completely wrong.
While the U.S. economy is only 3 percent larger since before lockdowns, stocks—measured by the S&P 500 Index of the 500 largest U.S. companies—are up over 40 percent including dividends since the end of 2019. And rich families don’t just have allocations to equities, they have commodities in their portfolio, which were up massively in 2021 (commodities, especially oil, largely drove the increase in CPI).
According to Niall Ferguson, “The wealthiest 10% of American households now own 89% of all U.S. stocks, according to the Federal Reserve. The top 1% gained more than $6.5 trillion during the pandemic, as the value of their corporate equities and mutual funds soared. Corporate profits are up 17% in the last two years.”
Eighteenth-century economist Richard Cantillon noted this phenomenon: when new money was printed, those closest to the king benefited, while those furthest from the king—the lower classes—felt only the inflation of their prices and the loss of their purchasing power. When government literally redistributes wealth away from the working and middle class to the oligarchy via the loss of purchasing power to those who get the money first, it is called “the Cantillon effect.”
Just think about the composition of the Democrats’ $2 trillion stimulus from early 2021. Three-fourths of the bill went to special interests, while less than one-fourth went to direct checks to Americans. Those direct checks were the least fraud-prone and most effective stimulus measure the federal government implemented between 2020 and 2021. Yet politicians uniformly despised them—many establishment Republicans were against them, while Democrats only saw direct stimulus payments as a way to grease the wheels for the three-fourths of their bill that was a handout to special interests.
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Having served in the U.S. Army for 23-years it saddens me to see how our military has been fundamentally transformed. Today we are witnessing the Defense Department actively recruiting sissies to fill the ranks of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force. The priority of our collectivist military is not to defeat our enemies on the field of battle but rather to fight “climate change” and “white supremacism” with in their ranks.
Blowing the whistle on the wokeification of the military last year, Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier was sacked for criticising the adoption of critical race theory by his US Space Force unit. While civilians may debate CRT for sport, Lohmeier’s case is a reminder that woke ideology can pose serious national security risks in a military context.
Service members take an oath to defend the US Constitution, but when that same Constitution is portrayed as the legal foundation for white supremacy in America, what happens to the unity and cohesion of the US military? What happens when those who have sworn to defend America no longer believe in America or its values?
Don’t forget that climate change is now a national security priority for the Pentagon, with Biden’s Defense Secretary last year vowing to “prioritise climate change considerations in our activities and risk assessments”.
To understand how our military is fundamentally being transformed into sissies watch these two ads below, the first by the Russians and the second by our own U.S. Army. These ads reveal much about our civilizations’ and our militaries trajectories.
QUESTION: Which kind of a soldier would you want to go to war with to fight against Russia: alpha male warfighters or the daughters of two lesbians?
While Russia is recruiting alpha male war fighters, we are recruiting docile sissies. Add to this is a shift in policy by the Communist Chinese government concerning sissy men.
The Chinese Communist Party recently banned portrayals of effeminate men in popular entertainment, and is encouraging a stronger image for men. Yet for a regime that previously held violent campaigns to destroy tradition, and traditional social roles, why is it now changing this policy? According to John Mac Ghlionn, a psychosocial specialist and Epoch Times contributor, this reflects the regime’s top priority of ensuring the survival of the Communist Party, yet how are portrayals of weak men a danger to social stability? And what does this tell us more broadly about the pillars of a healthy society?
The Bottom Line
If you want to deter war, if you can’t deter going to war but want to win it to protect America then you must have warfighters, not sissy men and women.
Many Americans, particularly our most senior politicians and military leaders, seem to have developed a form of dementia when it comes to warfare. The result is confusion or denial about the essential ingredients of a competent military force, and the costs of major power conflict. The memory loss is largely irrespective of political bent because all too many are seduced by a Hollywood infused sense of antiseptic warfare and push-button solutions, while forgotten are the one million casualties of the Battle of the Somme in World War I, or the almost two million in the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II.
Today, instead of the Battle of the Somme and Battle of Stalingrad, we have the battle for the Ukraine. Where are our warfighters? How could our war fighters not see this coming? Why hasn’t our military taken action to neuter Russia and Putin?
Today is a date that will go down in infamy. This is the date when our warfighters are rapidly being replaced with sissyfied recruits being fed Wokeism and turned into losers, not winners.
As our military goes, so to goes our nation. If you don’t believe me then just watch how we lose in the Ukraine, Middle East and China in the weeks and months to come.
Gird your loins. The only thing that may actually defend our homeland will be the new minute men armed by our Second Amendment. It certainly won’t be our military.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Dr. Rich Swierhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngDr. Rich Swier2022-03-01 08:16:372022-03-01 09:29:42SISSY WATCH USA: How the U.S. Military has been fundamentally transformed from warfighters into sissies
“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” – John F. Kennedy
“It is imperative that worldwide administration of the mRNA vaccinations be stopped immediately until further studies are conducted to determine the extent of the potential pathological consequences outlined in this paper.” – Dr. Peter McCullough
“Fear kills more people than death.” – George S. Patton
“Pay insufficient attention to the frightening scenario of a comprehensive cyber-attack, which would bring a complete halt to the power supply, transportation, hospital services, and our society as a whole. The COVID-19 crisis would be seen in this respect as a small disturbance in comparison to a major cyber-attack.” – World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab
Have the last two years brought it home to Americans just what has happened to our once glorious nation?
One need only open the 38-page document co-authored by Dr. Peter McCullough, entitled, Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccinations: The role of G-quadruplexes, exosomes and microRNAs. Three physicians and one scientist explained the dangers inherent in the COVID-19 jab and what it does to our immune system. Others including Drs. Sucharit Bhakdi, Vladimir Zelenko and Michael Yeadon, state that Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) results after taking these injections. After the jabs, your body loses the natural ability to fight off foreign invaders.
Rhodes Scholars, Skull and Bones Society, Council on Foreign Relations, the 18 members of the intelligence community, Big Pharma, the HHS, NIH, CDC, FDA, AMA, the unelected public health officials in each county, the New World Order, the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset and ultimately United Nations Agenda 21/30…all of these consortia are controlled by those who hate America, her people, and her hard fought liberty and freedom.
The countless deaths and adverse effects are most likely the tip of the iceberg of what these evil entities have planned for us, and for the entire world.
Smart Health Cards
Up next…are digital health cards for a virus with a 99.8% recovery. The goal is total control despite Pravda’s porn fear that it’s, “for your protection.” Remember, “we’re all in this together.” Yeah, like hell we are. Nursing home residents were exterminated for lack of proper care and their families weren’t even allowed to be with them when they were dying.
While the United States government has not issued a federal digital vaccine pass, a national standard has nevertheless emerged. To date, 21 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico offer accessibility to the SMART Health Card, a verifiable digital proof of vaccination developed through the Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI), a global coalition of public and private stakeholders including Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, the Mayo Clinic and other health and tech heavyweights
And very soon, at least four more states will be rolling out access to SMART Health Cards. “We’ve seen a notable uptick in states that have officially launched public portals where individuals can get verifiable vaccination credentials in the form of SMART Health Cards with a QR code,” says Dr. Brian Anderson, co-founder of the VCI and chief digital health physician at MITRE.
Notice that IBM links with Salesforce to offer digital COVID-19 vaccine passports just as they did when IBM Hollerith machines significantly advanced Nazi efforts to exterminate Jewry during WWII. (IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black)
Isn’t that just lovely…everything about your medical history can be on a smart health card for anyone to access every time you visit a healthcare provider or travel. Your papers please!
Thanks, but no thanks.
How long will it be before these cards are obsolete because people have lost them or they’ve been stolen and the government decides a miniature capsule with all your information should be injected in your hand or forehead…. including information used to buy or sell. Without it, you starve.
And how many times did you have the thermometer aimed at your forehead to read your temperature? Refuse it! Make them use the inside of the wrist which is a more effective reading anyway.
Mask Nazis
How easily our fellow Americans caved to fear, women being the most cataclysmic in failing to understand the mass delusional psychosis. I heartily suggest everyone purchase and read the 101-page book by Dr. Mark McDonald entitled, United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis. Dr. McDonald is a psychiatrist who treats both children and adults. He recently wrote a letter to his clients banning child masking in his office. Some mothers rebelled.
Throughout the last two years, I have never worn a mask to go anywhere. If I was refused entrance, I walked away. When I had to make a doctor’s visit, I would sit in my van until they called for me, don the mask, walk through the lobby and remove the mask once I was in the room. Only one physician told me to put it back on and I will not see him again.
When I read the chapter in Dr. McDonald’s book about women being so frightened of the virus, and fearful of people who were not covering their faces, it really resonated with me. Of the five encounters of people angry that I hadn’t covered my face, four of them were women!
My husband and I were in a paint store in a separate room from the main lobby and a woman actually stopped and glared at us because we didn’t have our faces covered. I didn’t realize at first why she was doing so and just smiled at her…I wasn’t used to such overt hostility.
In a favorite high-end grocery, I had a woman scream at me that I was infecting everyone in the store by not covering my face. I asked her why she was worried about me since she was wearing a mask, but she told me in high octave that I was an inconsiderate human being who didn’t care if other people died. Oy vey! I told her to go tell that to the great big tall black man who also had his face open to others. Bet she didn’t.
Another time in that same store, a woman in front of me in line turned around and said, “They just made an announcement that you have to have a mask on.” I told her they’d still take my money whether or not my face was covered. She wasn’t very pleased.
My thrice vaxxed neighbor across the street told me that I needed to wear a mask if I was going out, and said, “Don’t forget, put it on now.” Yeah right, I’m alone in my car and I’m going to put a mask on my face. I told her I had natural immunity and didn’t need a mask. She hasn’t spoken to me since.
As for the chubby middle-aged fellow, I was in another grocery when he screamed across the dairy section that I was murdering my fellow citizens and how could I be so cruel and inconsiderate. He went so far as to follow me around the store yelling invectives at me. Finally, I called him a male donkey, and one of the managers heard me, started laughing and had to duck into the back room. A few days later, the manager saw me and apologized for the rude gentleman.
This used to be unusual behavior for our citizens. Courtesy and kindness were the rule, but now people have become overtly critical of those who are not obeying the dictates and are coloring outside the lines.
Maxine Waters extolled the virtues of getting in the faces of anyone who was a Trump supporter and screaming at them even in public places. Her hatred for our 45th President was spread far and wide and it created a class of vulgar and ill-mannered individuals. I’ve had a neighbor my same age utter the most vile things to me because we had Trump signs in our yard.
The factor for all of this is fear, fear of something that the media has propagandized as threatening and evil. As for the virus, it is less dangerous than seasonal flu! Every time I am in stores, I’m astonished at the number of lemmings who’ve fallen prey to the lies and have covered their faces with cloths that do absolutely nothing to protect them.
In these same food marts, I’ve spoken to others without masks and many of us think alike. We are embarrassed that our fellow Americans are so easily led by propaganda that is totally unscientific. I am tempted to print multiple copies of the 45 years of mask studies proving they are worthless and keep copies in my purse for interactions with others. Added to those studies is the latest one by Stanford and their conclusion is exactly the same, masks are worthless AND, they are dangerous to your health and wellbeing. Even some of the leftist media are now reporting masks are worthless and absolutely dangerous on children, after the damage to America’s children has been done.
Our fellow Americans have been lied to about actual science, and they’ve done no research on their own…they’ve bought the propaganda.
Just Facts states the following: In a terse essay titled “Science and Dictatorship,” Albert Einstein warned that “Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.” And on his deathbed, Einstein cautioned, “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.”
With reckless disregard for both of those principles, powerful government officials and big tech executives have corrupted or suppressed the central scientific facts about face masks. The impacts of this extend far beyond the issue of masks and have caused widespread harm and countless deaths.
Female Fear
Dr. McDonald’s book has a chapter on women and fear and another on how newly feminized men have failed their women. This conundrum is a result of the feminist movement. He explains how so many mothers of children in his practice have stated what mainstream media has daily regurgitated, and they believe the propaganda of fear. McDonald states the following:
It is a fair conclusion to state that, essentially, feminist indoctrination has wrecked the bond between men and women, consigning men to a state of perpetual confusion and impotence. As feminism exults in its triumph over men, both sexes lose. Authors Suzanne Venker and Phyllis Schlafly describe in The Flipside of Feminism exactly how women have become less happy as they have gained more freedom, more education, and more power. In this view, feminism at its core is actually an anti-female movement founded on grievance ideology that fuels resentment against men while simultaneously exhorting women to discard their femininity in place of more masculine traits such as aggression, competitiveness, and dominance.
In another part of this chapter Dr. McDonald explains how feminists have created an irrational fear of men and refer to attributes of strong men as “toxic masculinity.” Statistics claim that one out of four young women have been raped in college. If this was actually true, why would any parent send their female daughters to universities?!
Feminism seeks to destroy the family as God created it to be and each successive wave has sought to “rewrite the social contract.” Young women have been taught the virtues of competing with men rather than partnering with them as a single unit, side by side. As Dr. McDonald states, “Instead of encouraging women to marry and supporting their natural inclination to raise children, feminists have derided marriage, lauded singledom and single motherhood, and fought for abortion on demand. Where has this taken us?”
I want a man who will protect me, care for me, and open jars for me since I truly am the weaker sex. The feminists have a negative view of the magnificent male species and as such, have created men without chests. Today’s males are afraid to be what God created them to be.
In 1944, C.S. Lewis copyrighted, The Abolition of Man. The pervasive philosophy that was intermingling within the educational systems in those days is just as relevant for today, and now it is right in our faces.
C.S. Lewis looked logically at what happens when faith and tradition are removed from society. “Men Without Chests” is the curious title of the first chapter of C.S. Lewis’ short booklet. He explains that the “The Chest” is one of the “indispensable liaison officers between cerebral man and visceral man. It may even be said that it is by this middle element that man is man: for by his intellect, he is mere spirit and by his appetite mere animal.” Without “Chests” we are unable to have confidence that we can grasp objective reality and objective truth.
The result of such chest-less education, as Lewis warns, is a dystopian and totalitarian future. It is also a feminist created society where women have become far more fearful.
One Hope
Most of our friends can no longer find a place of worship where the pastor/rabbi tells the full truth to their parishioners. True believers often remain at home rather than attending services. It wasn’t this way in the founding era of America.
“If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.” Isaiah I:19-20.
This passage from Isaiah was the text of the sermon given December 14, 1786 as a day of Publick (sic) Thanksgiving by Joseph Lathrop to the Congregational Church in West Springfield, Massachusetts. Pastor Lathrop opens with the following:
What was spoken by the prophets to the ancient people of God, is written for our use, that we, through the warnings of scripture, might be moved with fear; and through the comforts of scripture, might have hope.
Our relation to God, as a people redeemed by his hand and preserved by his care, as a people enjoying his oracles and professing obedience to his laws, is so similar to theirs, that we may justly apply to ourselves what was here spoken to them. I shall therefore consider my text in accommodation to our own case: and shall observe,
That the land, in which we are placed, is a good land: and,
That our enjoyment of the good of the land depends on our obedience to God.
After his opening remarks, he speaks of the recent War for Independence.
If we should ever be so unhappy as to fall under a succession of wicked rulers, we must censure our ill choice. We have still wise and good men among us. If the time should come, when there is not a man to be found, who will execute judgment, and seek the truth, how will God pardon us for this! Nothing, but immediate reformation, can prevent the fatal consequences of such woful (sic) depravity. These follow by a divine establishment, and it is not in the power of human government to guard against them.
Perhaps it will be asked, “Is there no case in which a people may resist government?” Yes, there is one such case; and that is, when rulers usurp a power oppressive to the people, and continue to support it by military force in contempt of every respectful remonstrance. In this case the body of the people have a natural right to unite their strength for the restoration of their own constitutional government.
The full text of this amazing sermon by Pastor Lathrop is available here. His doctrine may be different than yours, but his words ring true to scripture and the times albeit 236 years later. May it lift your hearts and minds to draw closer to our Creator and to the wonderful delights of knowing Him. It is a text which extols the virtues of freedom and liberty in this great land, after our success in the Revolutionary War for Independence.
Conclusion
There is but one hope and that hope lies in our nation turning back to God.
Psalm 56:4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
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Recent data analysis shows the COVID jab is deadlier than COVID-19 itself for anyone under the age of 80. For younger adults and children, there’s no benefit, only risk
All age groups under 50 years old are at greater risk of dying after receiving a COVID jab than an unvaccinated person is at risk of dying from COVID-19
For those under 18, the COVID jab increases their risk of dying from COVID-19. They’re also 51 times more likely to die from the jab than they are to die from COVID if not vaccinated
Only when you get into the 60 and older categories do the risks between the jab and COVID infection become about even. In the 60 to 69 age group, the shot will kill one person for every person it saves from dying of COVID, so it’s a tossup as to whether it might be worth it for any given person
Data suggest U.S. deaths reported to VAERS are underreported by a factor of 20
According to a cost-benefit analysis by Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., and independent researcher Kathy Dopp, the COVID jab is deadlier than COVID-19 itself for anyone under the age of 80. The cost-benefit analysis1 looked at publicly available official data from the U.S. and U.K. for all age groups, and compared all-cause mortality to the risk of dying from COVID-19.
“All age groups under 50 years old are at greater risk of fatality after receiving a COVID-19 inoculation than an unvaccinated person is at risk of a COVID-19 death,” Seneff and Dopp conclude. For younger adults and children, there’s no benefit, only risk.
“This analysis is conservative,” the authors note, “because it ignores the fact that inoculation-induced adverse events such as thrombosis, myocarditis, Bell’s palsy, and other vaccine-induced injuries can lead to shortened life span.
When one takes into consideration the fact that there is approximately a 90% decrease in risk of COVID-19 death if early treatment is provided to all symptomatic high-risk persons, one can only conclude that mandates of COVID-19 inoculations are ill-advised.
Considering the emergence of antibody-resistant variants like Delta and Omicron, for most age groups COVID-19 vaccine inoculations result in higher death rates than COVID-19 does for the unvaccinated.”
Real-Life Risk Reduction Is Negligible
The analysis is also conservative in the sense that it only considers COVID jab fatalities that occur within one month of injection. Looking at the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), we’re now seeing that many of those who are dying got the jab around April 2021 or earlier, so we know the shots can significantly cut your life short even if they don’t kill you in the first month. As detailed in Seneff’s and Dopp’s paper:
“Absolute real-life risk reductions (ARRs) … from COVID inoculations vary from a low of negative 0.00007% (an increased risk of a COVID death from inoculation) for children under age 18 to a positive 0.183% (0.00183) risk reduction of a COVID death for persons over age 80 …
COVID vaccine inoculations increase risk of death and produce a net negative benefit, aka increased risk of death … for all age groups younger than 60 years old. In other words, the COVID inoculations cause a net increase, rather than decrease, in the likelihood of death for all persons under 60 years old.
For those over 60 years old, the benefit of COVID inoculations is negligible, ranging from a 0.0016% reduction in likelihood of death for a 60- to 69-year-old persons to a 0.125% reduction in likelihood of death for those over 80 years old. Because preventative treatments are often given to well persons, a vaccine is supposed to provide very small risk compared to benefit.
Thus, such high fatality risks (VFRs) versus low benefit of risk reduction (ARRs) from the COVID inoculations are not acceptable, especially considering that low-cost, effective treatments are available that would additionally reduce COVID-19 death rates by as much as 90% or more if provided as soon as symptoms appear in high-risk persons.”
Meanwhile, data from an analysis2 by researchers Spiro Pantazatos and Herve Seligmann suggest U.S. deaths reported to VAERS are underreported by a factor of 20. Their analysis was used to calculate vaccine fatality rates (VFR), the number needed to treat/vaccinate (NNT) to prevent one COVID death, the expected number of vaccine fatalities to prevent one COVID death, and the expected number of vaccine fatalities compared to COVID fatalities by age group:3
Age group
VFR — Vaccine fatality rate
NNT to prevent one COVID death
Expected vaccine fatalities to prevent one COVID death
Expected number of vaccine fatalities compared to COVID fatalities
Under 18
0.004%
Vaccine causes higher COVID death rate
Vaccine causes higher COVID death rate
51
18 to 29
0.005%
318,497
16
8
30 to 39
0.009%
164,538
15
7
40 to 49
0.017%
55,516
9
5
50 to 59
0.016%
11,760
2
1
60 to 69
0.026%
3,624
1
1
70 to 79
0.048%
1,300
1
0
80 to 89
0.057%
547
0
0
Summary Findings
In summary, key findings in this paper include the following:
For those under 18, the COVID jab increases their risk of dying from COVID-19; those under 18 are 51 times more likely to die from the jab than they are to die from COVID if not vaccinated.
In those aged 18 to 29, the COVID jab is 16 times more likely to kill a person than save their life if they get COVID. They’re also eight times more likely to die from the jab than to die from COVID if not vaccinated.
Those aged 30 to 39 are 15 times more likely to die from the COVID jab than prevent their death, and they’re seven times more likely to die from the inoculation than to die from COVID if not vaccinated.
Those aged 40 to 49 are nine times more likely to die from the COVID jab than having it prevent their death, and they’re five times more likely to die from the jab than to die from COVID if not vaccinated.
Those aged 50 to 59 are twice (2 times) more likely to die from the COVID inoculation than to prevent one COVID death, while their risk of dying from the jab or dying from COVID if unvaccinated is about the same.
Only when you get into the 60 and older categories do the risks between the jab and COVID infection even out. In the 60 to 69 age group, the shot will kill one person for every person it saves from dying of COVID, so it’s a tossup as to whether it might be worth it for any given person.
Cost-Benefit Analysis Must Drive Public Health Policy
Common sense tells us that COVID-19 vaccination policy ought to be rooted in a rational evaluation of the true costs and benefits, and to do that, we need to assess whether the jabs are beneficial or harmful, and to what extent. So far, governments have completely ignored the cost of this mass injection campaign, focusing solely on perceived or imagined (not proven) benefit.
As a result, we’re looking at the worst public health disaster in known history. The greatest tragedy of all is that none of our public health officials has bothered to protect even the youngest among us.
The OpenVAERS team recently started looking at injury reports in children aged 17 and younger, and to their shock, they found 34,223 U.S. reports involving this age group through February 11, 2022. You can find the Child’s Report here.4 This is a staggering number, considering the 12- to 17-year-olds have only been eligible for the shot since May 2021, and 5- to 11-year-olds since October 2021.5
Pfizer Withdraws EUA Application for Children Under 5
Interestingly, February 11, 2022, Pfizer abruptly withdrew its Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) application for children under 5.6,7 The question is why? According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Pfizer, they want to collect more data on the effects of a third dose, as two doses did not produce expected immunity in 2- to 5-year-olds.8
Three days later, former FDA Commissioner and current Pfizer board member Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC9 the EUA application was pulled because COVID cases are so low among young children that the shot couldn’t be shown to provide much of a benefit.
But according in an email notice to subscribers, OpenVAERS stated, “None of these explanations suffice because all of that information was known prior to Pfizer submitting this EUA to the FDA on February 1 [2022]. It makes one wonder whether adverse events in the treatment group might be the factor that neither Pfizer nor the FDA want to talk about?”
Those Who Should Be in the Know Don’t Know a Thing
In related news, Jessica Rose, Ph.D., a research fellow at the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge in Israel, highlighted a February 5, 2022, Freedom of Information Request sent to the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), the Australian equivalent of the FDA.10 The inquiry asked for documents relating to the TGA’s assessment of:
The presence and risk of micro-RNA sequences within the Comirnaty mRNA active ingredient (the mRNA genomic sequence)
The presence and risk of oncomirs (cancer-causing micro-RNA) in Comirnaty
The presence and risk of stop codon read-through (suppression of codon activity) arising as a result of the use of pseudouridine in Comirnaty
The composition of the final protein product (molecular weight and amino acid sequence) produced following injection of the Comirnaty mRNA product in human subjects
The risk of the use of AES-mtRNR1 3’ untranslated region of the Comirnaty mRNA product in human subjects
As it turns out, the TGA has none of these documents, because they’ve not assessed any of these risks. Why does this matter? Well, as explained by Rose:
“Micro-RNA (miRNAs) are small (20-22 nucleotides) single-stranded non-coding RNA molecules that function to interrupt or suppress gene expression at transcriptional or translational levels to regulate gene expression.”
Considering micro-RNA can alter gene expression, wouldn’t we want to know if micro-RNAs are present in the shot, considering we’re injecting hundreds of millions of people, including teenagers and children? The same goes for oncomirs, the suppression of codon activity, protein products and the rest.
“Stephanie Seneff has warned11 of two miRNAs that disrupt the type-1 interferon response in any cell, including immune cells: miR-148a and miR-590,” Rose continues.
“I don’t know what potential connections there are here yet, but it is safe to say that any tech that involves the introduction of foreign mRNA to be mass-produced by human cells must be thoroughly safety tested.
The fact that none of these documents ‘exist’ is proof positive that they either have no idea what the potential effects of what they made are because they did no bench work/investigations/studies, or, that they know and are hiding the results. Either choice is beyond criminal.”
The Critical Design Flaw
In an August 2021 Substack article,12 British cybersecurity researcher Ehden Biber homed in on the potential risks of using pseudouridine to optimize the codon.
The COVID shots do not contain the identical mRNA found in the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The mRNA has been genetically manipulated in a process called “codon optimization,” and this process is actually known to create unexpected and detrimental side effects.
“How come Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Janssen etc. are using a technology that both they and the regulators know will cause unknown results?” Biber asked. The reason codon optimization was used is because it’s pretty difficult to get your body to produce a given protein by injecting mRNA.
It’s a slow and generally inefficient process. In order for the injection to work, they need higher levels of protein expression than is naturally possible. Scientists bypass this problem by making substitutions in the genetic instructions. They’ve discovered that you can swap out certain nucleotides (three nucleotides make up a codon) and still end up with the same protein in the end. But the increased efficiency comes at a terrible cost.
When substituting parts of the code in this way, the resulting protein can easily get misfolded, and this has been linked to a variety of chronic diseases,13 including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease and heart failure.14 As explained by Biber:15
“Turns out the protein which was manufactured when codon optimization has different ways it folds and a different 3D shape, and it ‘could cause immunogenicity, for example, which wouldn’t be seen until late-stage clinical trials or even after approval.’ This statement relates to the NORMAL approval cycle. The COVID vaccines went via an accelerated one.”
Now, the FDA has been fully aware of these problems since 2011, when Chava Kimchi Sarfaty, Ph.D., a principal investigator at the FDA, stated that “We do not believe that you can optimize codons and have the protein behave as it did in its native form.”
She went on to warn, “The changed form could cause immunogenicity, for example, which wouldn’t be seen until late-stage clinical trials or even after approval.”16
If the FDA knew all this back in 2011, why have they not raised objections against codon optimization being used in the making of the COVID jabs? The same question needs to be asked of the Australian TGA.
The FOIA requester was likely thinking of the March 2021 paper, “BNT162b2 Vaccine: Possible Codons Misreading, Errors in Protein Synthesis and Alternative Splicing Anomalies”17 when they put together that inquiry, because that paper highlights Pfizer’s extensive codon optimization using pseudouridine, which has known adverse effects, as well as the use of 3’-UTR sequence, the consequences of which are still unknown.
The fact that the TGA has no data on the risks of these modifications just goes to show that they, like the U.S. FDA, are not actually working to ensure these jabs are safe. They’re protecting the profits of the drug companies.
Pfizer even admits, in its BNT162b2/Comirnaty Risk Management Plan submitted to the FDA to get EUA, that the codon optimization they did resulted in elevated gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT),18 which is an early marker of heart failure. Elevated GGT is also an indicator of insulin resistance, cardiometabolic disease,19 liver disease20 and chronic kidney disease.21
That alone should have raised some questions, were the FDA actually looking out for public health. All in all, there’s more reason than ever to question the COVID jab mandates and the use of these shots in children.
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Writing for Christianity Today, Briggs explained that he has been in close contact with his counterpart in Ukraine, Anatoliy Raychynets, the general secretary of the Ukrainian Bible Society, who says that as the terror and grief of war have encroached upon the Eastern European nation over the last several weeks, he has seen a passionate pursuit of comfort in the pages of Scripture increase.
Praise God.
“As people grapple with unknown, many are experiencing the Bible’s message for the first time ever. According to Anatoliy, priests and pastors over the past weeks have been flocking to the Bible Society store in Kyiv to buy Bibles. Demand is so high that they’ve run out of copies,” he writes (emphasis ours.)
The biggest crisis faced by the Ukrainian church?
“We need more Bibles,” Anatoliy says.
This past Sunday at the First Sarasota Baptist Church, in Florida Pastor John Cross began the sermon with two testimonies. The first testimony was from a Sarasota family that emigrated from the Ukraine and started a bakery on Main Street. The second testimony, via phone, was from a Pastor in Ukraine.
Watch their powerful testimonies (NOTE: the first testimony begins at the 17:00 minute mark followed by the phone call with the Pastor in the Ukraine)
Why are people turning to God now?
When times get tough, the tough start praying. This is what we are seeing today in the world. Christians and Jews are praying for the people of the Ukraine and for peace.
But is prayer enough?
The Shepard Leading People to Follow Jesus church in Arizona published an article titled “Miracles in the Bible” which may explain why people around the world are reaching for their Bibles. People in great times of distress look for God’s intervention, not only in their lives, but in the world.
God revealed himself through many miracles in the Bible. The first miracle recorded in the Bible was the creation of the universe and earth itself. The author of Hebrews writes, “By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command” (Heb. 11:3). Creation continues to reveal God’s miraculous work to mankind.
Many miracles in the Old Testament involve God revealing himself by working through one particular person. God sent messengers to Abraham, Jacob, and Gideon. He spoke directly to his people through prophets like Samuel, Elijah, and Elisha.
Miracles in the Old Testament also involved nature. God caused a worldwide flood event during the time of Noah. Many of the miracles God showed Pharaoh during Israelite captivity in Egypt involved the manipulation of nature. God caused the Red Sea to part to the Israelites could walk through on dry ground. He caused the sun to stand still during the time of Joshua. There are many other examples throughout the Old Testament involving supernatural fire, rain, drought, sickness, death, and healing.
In each case, it was clear the miracle was from God and for a purpose. God revealed himself and his power through miracles.
The miracle of the birth of Jesus
Christians in the Ukraine and beyond look to Jesus, the Son of God, as their Lord, Savior and Redeemer. John 3:16 tells us:
“God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.”
The Ukrainian people want to live. But the people of Ukraine, who are now under siege by Russian forces, understand that their lives are truly in the hand of God.
Jesus’ first miracles was being born to the virgin Mary. Mary was with child by God’s spirit before she was married to Joseph. This made Jesus the son of God.
The first public miracle of Jesus was turning water into wine during a wedding. He and his mother were attending a wedding. Mary asked Jesus to help after the wedding ran out of wine. Some servants filled large jars with water and Jesus turned them into wine. This is considered the first miracle of his public ministry.
Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead (Luke 11:1-44) This was one of Jesus’ more famous miracles.
Miraculous Fish-Catching
Peter, James, and John were fishermen before following Jesus. One day Jesus challenged them to throw their nets in the water after a long night of catching no fish. They brought up so many fish their boat began to sink (Luke 5:3-10).
Jesus Calmed the Storm
One night a furious storm battered the boat Jesus and the disciples were taking across the sea of Galilee. Jesus was sleeping, but woke up long enough to demand the storm stop. The disciples stood in awe of Jesus’ power (Mark 4:35-41).
Feeding 5,000 Men and Their Families
Jesus multiplied a few loaves and fishes from a young boy in order to feed a large crowd. In the end he gathered a dozen baskets of leftover food (Mark 6:35-44).
The Resurrection of Jesus
Finally, the greatest and most important miracle of Jesus’ ministry was his own resurrection from the dead. Jesus had been gone three days after dying on a cross. His disciples were all in mourning for his death. Suddenly, the tomb where Jesus lay was open and his body had disappeared. People wondering “what miracles did Jesus perform” should know this was the most important miracle of Jesus. The resurrection of Jesus pointed to God’s power over everything ,even death. It was also the final evidence Jesus gave that he truly was the son of the living God (John 20).
Can God and His Son save the Ukrainian people and the 360 million Christians who were persecuted in 2021?
The answer for the true believer is yes!
For you see it is not this life that Christians love but rather the life everlasting promised to each of them, and you if you choose to believe.
We here are praying for a miracle that the evil in the world is conquered by those who believe in God the almighty.
Today you have two choices: 1. be a victim or 2. be a victor by embracing God and His Son.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Dr. Rich Swierhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngDr. Rich Swier2022-02-28 12:14:522022-02-28 19:41:03Are You a Victim Of Or A Victor Over Your Circumstances?
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is out with another report, this one declaring:
“Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health. Any further delay in concerted anticipatory global action on adaptation and mitigation will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all.”
There are several reasons not to take the new report at face value.
First, the IPCC does not have a good track record when it comes to credibility. A group of 900 scientists, engineers, and scholars examined a recent IPCC report and found it failed to meet objective standards of scientific integrity. Moreover, an author of earlier IPCC reports was quoted as saying,
“We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination… So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts….”
Scary scenarios, huh? There’s no shortage of those in the new IPCC report – plagues, mental health problems, species going extinct, oh no! Also, more frequent and intense extreme weather events are a product of human-induced climate change, the report declares (at p. 7-8).
There are plenty of people who dispute that climate change – human-induced, if there is such a thing – causes extreme weather. Hurricanes are no more frequent than they were a hundred years ago, as of 2013. Data from the IPCC and NOAA – the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – also show tornadoes, droughts, and floods have not increased, either. The new IPCC report also refers to sea level rise but, there as well, the U.N.’s record is not good. In 1989, a senior U.N. environmental official claimed, “entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.” Well, that didn’t happen and the data still do not support doomsday predictions of sea level rise from climate change. The same goes for the supposed imminent demise of coral reefs, to which the report also refers. A recent study supposedly documenting that demise itself said coral reefs rebounded in 2019. Too bad they can’t think they’re way out of a paper bag.
So the second reason not to take the new IPCC report at face value is that it’s full of stuff that is disputed or just wrong. The third reason is the hidden agenda. You can’t quite tell what the report is talking about in its recommendations to policymakers. It’s full of phrases like “key systems transitions”, “low regrets options”, and “inclusive governance”, whatever that means. It all centers on something the report calls “Climate Resilient Development”. They won’t spell out what they really mean, but they do use the language of the Left – “equity”, “climate justice” – so we can guess. Actually, we don’t have to guess. One of the authors told the BBC addressing climate change has to do with making changes in education, healthcare, poverty, and inequality. Beats me how changing what goes on in the classroom or transferring money from one wallet to another keeps the planet from burning up, but I can tell you what the IPCC global warming crowd really wants: Every American will have to cut their energy use by 90 percent. Energy use will have to fall by half, the world over. The climate crackpots also want to limit your travel, only let you have 16 gallons of gas a year, cut your food consumption by almost a third, and allow you to buy only 9 pounds of clothing annually. Ready for that? No wonder this crowd has to hide what it’s really talking about under layers of generalized gobbledygook and Leftist platitudes. ‘We must rise to higher and higher platitudes, together,’ as Chicago’s famous Mayor Daley used to say.
So much for the IPCC’s new report. Tomorrow, I’ll go through some recent news stories and show you that, despite the ever-more shrill pronouncements life on the planet as we know it will soon cease to exist, the wheels are actually falling off the entire phony climate change narrative, no matter how big the paychecks at the U.N. get.
Good day Dean “Deano” Baquet, Executive Editor of the New York Times,
I hope today finds you well over at your desk at esteemed NY Times. There certainly is a lot in the news these days, huh sport? There seems to be quite the contrast in the news coverage though, even more than usual. We have, of course the fair, and always unbiased and objective reporting of your NY Times, as well as such trusted news agencies like CNN, MSNBC, WAPO, and the like; and then we have all those radical right wing outlets with their pesky factual information. Let’s take a look at each their contrasting styles, shall we Deano.
Objective Reporting of The Old Gray Lady
It seems this Russian invasion of the Ukraine has taken you guys at The Times, away from your primary news issues, namely: the 5 year investigation of elected President and his family’s business dealings, and of course the INSURRECTION!
Priorities!
It seems two prosecuting attorneys have resigned from the case, against elected President Trump. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was quoted saying, “he has doubts about moving forward with this case.” What a quitter, eh Deano. Just because New York’s crime rate has risen exponentially, this shouldn’t draw resources from the never ending Trump investigation; I mean at least until November 2024. So, a few more people get flung in front of subway trains, slashed, murdered or just recently, a woman bashed in the head repeatedly with a hammer, and robbed. Come on AG Letitia James, and Alvin, get your priorities straight: focus on Trump business dealings, it’s only been 5 years! Forget about your no bail policies and relaxing of arresting offenses. The right infers that these asinine , moronic revolving door policies, just embolden criminals more and more, and we are seeing the results of said policies. Thank goodness, the Times doesn’t agree with these radical views Deano. President Trump is a racist!
Also, Deano your INSURRECTION coverage has dropped off dramatically. No, no not the obvious one that occurred on November 3, 2020. The one that was a group effort, by some overzealous protesters and assisted by what some say, was part of our own governmental agencies. Can this be true Deano? It seems the honorable House Speaker, Chardonnay Pelosi does not want to release all video of that fateful day. Why in heaven’s name not, Deano? Or what has happened to FBI stooge Ray Epps, who was seen moving barriers and urging others to push on and storm the Capitol? I mean people have been held in custody for over a year now. Miraculously though, Ray Epps has not been brought to justice, and remains free…..shocking, don’t ya think? The right screams of conspiracy and coverup! I’m glad you take the high road Deano, these issues never make it into print over there at the always unbiased NY Times. Stick to your Trump, white supremacist narrative, just exclude those other minor facts, very professional.
Joey: Master Strategist or Incompetent Buffoon
This is where the news coverage really gets differentiated Deano. I agree with all these liberal news outlets, as well as noted politicians: that Joey’s handling of the Russian-Ukraine crisis has been brilliant so far. Some are even saying it has eclipsed the marvelous work that he did with the Afghanistan withdrawal, if that is even possible? I mean threatening sanctions for weeks on end to deter Putin and make him think twice about invading the Ukraine. Well, that sure worked……….wait a minute, just wait a minute, aah, President Trump is a racist!
Just last week Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff (impeachment expert) were complimenting the sheer genius of the installed POTUS and his sanctions approach, evidently this was after an extended happy hour. All Climate Czar John Kerry could say was, “I hope Putin is focusing on climate change during the invasion.” Of course he is, Johnny, that is his top priority. It’s amazing this fella was never elected President. Even those lovely even keeled women on The View (in between bashing President Trump), were singing their praises for Joey Talibiden. They tried to reach out to Barry Soetoro/Barack Hussein for comment, but he was busy at one of his seaside estates with remodeling projects, not sure if it was $12,000,000 Martha’s Vineyard or his (price yet to be determined) Hawaiian mansion. I’m almost positive it wasn’t at his $9,000,000 Washington estate. Not bad for a community organizer, huh Deano?
Well the radical right was having none of this. Saying, those token sanctions did absolutely nothing to deter Putin in the least. Besides, we are in fact actually funding this madman and genocide with U.S. dollars, yep Deano: importing 600,000 barrels of oil DAILY from Mr. Putin. Not sure if Hunter (famous artist) or the big guy (Brandon) are getting the usual 10%. I think someone mentioned this to Obiden: that this is the result of his no drilling on government property, and of course the stopping of the Keystone pipeline (on Joey’s very first day, mind you). Well, when asked to comment little Joey said something like , “what a stupid question, those stupid sons of b*****s!
Then reportedly, he took out the 14 car caravan for a waffle cone. When then asked about the carbon footprint, he said, “what a stupid……………..” Well, you get the idea Deano.
Brandon Sets Them Straight.
He sat down for a couple of his presser’s recently, to set the record straight. I believe, it was Peter Doocy who asked him, “if he underestimated Putin.” Well, what was Joey’s, aka, Neville Chamberlain’s response? Well Deano, there wasn’t any: he just smiled and stared straight ahead blankly and then to really get his point across, he started picking his teeth. If that doesn’t portray strength and leadership skills, I don’t know what does. Word is when they used to ask Winston Churchill questions in regards to Hitler, he would break out some dental floss and just lean back and go to town. So, Brandon is in good company.
Let’s Try it Again
At the next presser, Joey Bidenflation came prepared. Peter Doocy, this time asked, if he still thought his sanctions were a deterrent” (this after the invasion commenced), and then, “ if he thought the sanctions, matched up to the guns and missiles of Putin’s?” Well, NOW Joey said, “sanctions were never to be used as a deterrent.” Just hold on a minute Deano, they have Brandon on tape saying exactly that, the aforementioned politicians saying it, Jen Goebbels Psaki saying it, and even the problem solver Heels up Harris saying it. So, what gives, it’s not like Joey to lie! Then, his concise answer to the second question was a resounding, YES! Case closed, nothing to worry about then (except Putin announced today he is putting his NUCLEAR armament on high alert). So, that’s a wrap, time to warm up the motorcade, Joey sure earned his waffle cone this time. By the way, Little Red Lying Hood Psaki cleared things up the next day saying, “the installed POTUS misspoke.” See Deano, it’s all good.
SOTU Address
I am sure all of this progress will be made crystal clear during the SOTU address this Tuesday. I, like you Deano, have all the faith in the world in this installed administration. Just look at all they have accomplished in just 13 months, just incredible. So, now we just have to get little Joey prepped for the big speech. Conservative’s suspect that they usually like to have him get about 18 hours sleep, then use hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and then to try and time the administration of adderall just right for maximum effect, for lucidity.
Italy Saved
On a serious note Deano, with all the turmoil, death and destruction going on around us, I would like to take a moment and point out even more devastating news. It seems the warm and fuzzy Joy Behar, the lovely co-host of The View has to cancel her vacation plans to Italy due to the Russian-Ukraine conflict. Oh the humanity! Please keep her in your prayers. The sacrifices this gem of a woman has had to make are endless. Word on the street is Putin’s palace is being besieged………..with gifts from all parts of Italy for keeping Joy out. Putin is reportedly buried in salami and provolone. They say the only one happier is apparently, Mr. Behar.
That’s a Wrap
Well, that is it for today Deano old sport. You just keep on doing what you do: provide accurate, unbiased, objective, apolitical, honest reporting. We are counting on you at the helm over there at The Old Gray Lady, to uphold that journalistic integrity. How those propaganda machines on the right live with themselves is beyond me……factual information be damned I say. Rumor is you may be leaving your post in April. Please, just make sure someone like you with such high moral standards takes over. You owe it to the readers of Pravda, sorry, I mean The NY Times.
Lastly, does Joey have any more sanctions in mind with Vlad’s hand on the nukes? Maybe, no more waffle cones or propeller hats shipped, that will show him. If not that, then no more discounts on Hunter’s (famous artist) work. From now on he pays full price, $500,000……….just make sure the money is sent anonymously!
Sincerely,
Chris Cirino
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It is becoming all-too apparent that proponents of Critical Race Theory seek the demise of our great Republic. They are using the age-old “divide and conquer” strategy to turn Americans against one another, seeking to instigate conflict and violence to undermine our peaceful society.
Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized —the belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another.
Racism is racism, and no matter who bears the brunt of it, is wrong-headed and dangerous. It is inherently and supremely unfair and leads all people, of all races, down a dangerous path of resentment and hostility that likely will ultimately result in violence. Critical Race Theory, or CRT, actually promotes racism.
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
The point is that since its founding the United States has labored mightily to achieve progress in many areas to erase barriers to success and happiness for all Americans. Hard-fought Civil Rights Laws were enacted in the quest of forming that “more perfect union.”
American children should be taught history that honestly addresses all aspects of the history of our nation — including the struggles to overcome injustice, that should serve to encourage students to celebrate how far we have come and how positive change is always possible. Those lessons would be inspirational and provide an optimistic viewpoint.
Children should also be taught productive ways to achieve conflict resolution instead of the conflict instigation that is the clear goal of CRT.
Anti-American Critical Race Theory seeks to erase these achievements and turn Americans against one another. Its proponents, for example, push for “social justice” through the “Defund the Police” movement and, in the name of “criminal justice reform,” promote “cashless bail” that has resulted in the release of violent criminals who simply attack, injure and kill more victims.
As an INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) Special Agent I frequently testified at bail hearings in state court as well as in federal court. In some instances the federal prosecutors called on me to make the bail presentation because of my familiarity with the defendant who was being charged in criminal proceedings. The issue of bail should rest on only two issues: whether or not the defendant is likely to show up in court in the future or abscond and become a fugitive; and if the defendant poses a threat to public safety.
Illegal aliens who have no community ties, and who have used multiple false identities should be considered “flight risk.” You could add to this the fact that the alien in question would be facing deportation (removal from the United States) after completion of the imposed prison sentence, if found guilty of his or her criminal charges.
The issue of danger to public safety does not require a crystal ball. Any individual who has prior arrests for violent crimes and/or crimes involving weapons demonstrates the risk they pose to the safety of the community.
We measure the civility of a society by how it looks out for the most vulnerable members of that society. Turning sociopathic criminals loose, resulting in violent attacks on innocent victims, including children, flies in the face of that notion of protecting the most vulnerable.
When I was growing up my parents always told me to seek to find common ground with others, particularly if I had an argument with a classmate or friend. They suggested that I turn the situation around and ask myself how I would feel if whatever it was I said or did that upset the other person was done to me.
That ability to metaphorically stand in my friends’ shoes has served me well throughout my life. Although my parents died when I was in college, I like to say that I am still standing on their shoulders, each and every day.
Let us for a moment ask how turning criminals loose on society constitutes any sort of justice. Let us also pose a question I have never heard asked — what sort of social justice is it that does not address a fundamental question: what is our society doing to prevent children from growing up to become societal scavengers and career criminals?
When teenagers are asked about their dreams for their future many will talk about jobs or professions that they hope to have when they perhaps graduate from college. They may talk about owning a home or having kids of their own.
But children who get sucked into gangs or depend on criminal activities don’t have long-term goals — their concerns about the future likely do not extend beyond the next day or two.
Many of these children are functionally illiterate. Many come from broken homes and may have become addicted to illegal drugs and by the time they are in their teens they are well on their way to becoming career criminals. Not exactly a “career” anyone should aspire to.
They are likely to blame others for the situation in which they find themselves, fueled by the victimization narrative pedaled as Critical Race Theory. This does not empower anyone to strive for success.
Further exacerbating this nightmare are our open borders that, thanks to President Biden, are flooding huge numbers of transnational gang members into our country who have been dispersed across our country, posing a threat to ethnic immigrant communities and the children, in particular, who live in those communities.
Our open borders have also enabled record quantities of deadly narcotics to flood into our communities causing unprecedented overdose fatalities and increasing crimes associated with the drug trade.
Meanwhile the proceeds from the drug trade fill the coffers of transnational gangs. Even terrorist organizations have come to work with drug- and alien smugglers to fund terrorism and move sleeper agents into the United States (consider my article, “Iran Threatens U.S. And Its Allies With “Drugs, Refugees, Bombs And Assassination”).
The point is that those who profess to seek “Social Justice” by releasing violent criminals never seem to want to talk about creating an environment that is less likely to result in youngsters becoming criminals, but that instead produces children who can dream of success and then have a real likelihood of attaining that success.
Social Justice in general, and Critical Race Theory in particular, are not about justice or even about helping any racial group, but about the destruction of our society through record levels of violence and carnage.
A new public orthodoxy is being imposed upon the United States.
What are we to make of “cancel culture” and what Mary Eberstadt has dubbed the “new intolerance”? One of the most astute analyses was offered by Megan McCardle several years ago in The Washington Post. Societies, McCardle wrote, do have “orthodoxies,” beliefs that they place “beyond debate” — “sacred dogmas”— enforced through a variety of social, economic, and even legal sanctions.
Normally, public orthodoxies are largely “self-enforcing” and navigating them is “effortless,” but orthodoxies can and do change over time. In the 1950s, for example, a “youthful … flirtation with communism could be career-ending.” The “messiness” and confusion surrounding cancel culture is explained by the fact that we are at a “liminal moment between the eradication of an existing orthodoxy and the establishment of a new one.”
While this strikes me as largely on target, I think that it misses something important about the present situation. Specifically, it exaggerates the normality of what we are experiencing.
A violent rupture with America’s past
Yes, societies have orthodoxies, and yes, these orthodoxies change over time, but normally significant changes in a society’s orthodoxy occur incrementally. One thinks here of the gradual transition in our self-understanding from thinking of America as a Protestant society for most of our history to thinking of it as a Judeo-Christian society in the 1940s and 1950s. One also thinks of evolution of thinking on the subject of race between the Reconstruction era and the Civil Right Act of 1964.
The transition from “Protestant America” to “Judeo-Christian America,” moreover, merely marked a transition from one version of Biblical theism to a broader version of Biblical theism that encompassed Catholicism and Judaism as well. Likewise, the transition in our thinking of race between 1865 and 1964 consisted in a more faithful application in practice of principles we had traditionally professed (if not practiced). In Martin Luther King’s language, it represented a long-overdue payment on a promissory note. Neither represented a wholesale rupture with the past.
What we are experiencing today is something different.
To begin with, it represents not a development in our previous self-understanding, but a rupture with it. Most obviously, this finds expression in things like the 1619 Project with its transvaluation of values — with its wholesale rejection of America, its history, its founders, and its attempt to reframe our national story as one of tyranny and oppression. The founders and even Lincoln are seen not as heroes to be celebrated but villains whose works and very persons are to be condemned as fundamentally evil.
A rejection of all of Western tradition
The new orthodoxy, however, doesn’t stop there. It continues on to a wholesale rejection of the Western civilizational heritage — the heritage bequeathed to us, as Russell Kirk remarks, by five cities: Athens, Jerusalem, Rome, London, and Philadelphia. As Ellis Sandoz has shown, the American experiment in self-government and ordered liberty drew upon “the whole amplitude of Western civilization and is not intelligible apart from a generous recognition of this fact.” It thus included classical, Biblical, and modern elements.
Yet, if America was shaped in part by the Enlightenment, it was by the conservative form which the Enlightenment had taken in the English-speaking world, a form that was neither anti-religious nor morally nihilistic. Indeed, the conservative character of the American Enlightenment received signal expression in the latter’s commitment to “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,” a commitment to the idea that reason can discern a body of substantive moral truths embedded in the structure of reality, combined with an insistence that these truths were broadly consistent with the principles of Christian morality.
Today we are witnessing today is a wholesale assault on the Western civilizational tradition, in particular, a rejection and condemnation of the classical and Christian heritages —and even the more sober and moderate expressions of the Enlightenment — in favour of various currents of radical modernity (the radical Enlightenment, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Marcuse, Foucault, deconstructionism, postmodernism, etc., etc.).
A new religion of Autonomous Man
Over and against the religious heritage of the West, today’s emergent orthodoxy champions a thoroughgoing naturalism and a Promethean ethic of human autonomy, a new religion of the Autonomous Man. Indeed, as Sandoz notes, “the chief object of [its] rejection, repudiation and annihilation is the God and morality of Christianity.”
Likewise, over and against the metaphysical and moral realism of the Western tradition, today’s emergent orthodoxy rejects the idea of a knowable human nature with natural needs and tendencies and an objective moral order accessible to the human mind insisting instead that, in Francis Canavan’s words, “truth is only what the individual thinks is true, [and] good is only what the individual personally prefers.”
Viewing human beings as sovereign wills existing in a godless and meaningless universe, unbound by ends they have not chosen, and free to make of themselves and the world whatever they choose, it embraces what can only be described as moral and cultural nihilism. The project of human emancipation demands the rejection of all that restricts human self-creation: unchosen social ties and obligations, the very idea of an objective moral order, the assertion of an objective truth to which the mind must assent, and even reality itself.
The enemies of the new orthodoxy
From the perspective of the new orthodoxy, the America, the West, and all their works are evil and the project of human emancipation demands their replacement by something radically different. Furthermore, the new orthodoxy seeks to destroy not only the intellectual, spiritual and moral legacy of the West, but the structures (both social and political) in which this legacy has found institutional expression.
At the social level, this finds its most vivid expression in the assault on the family as it has been traditionally understood (that finds expression in things like no-fault divorce, same-sex marriage, and polyamory).
At the political level, it finds expression in the attempt to create a unitary national state, the transformation of our once independent institutions of civil society into handmaidens of the state, the transfer of political authority from elected legislatures to unelected judges and bureaucrats insulated from political control, and the replacement of a decentralized system of self-government by rule by executive order, judicial decree, and administrative fiat. As a result, we find ourselves operating with two conflicting constitutional orders: the original order established by the founders and the new and different order that the Left has sought with considerable success to superimpose upon it.
If today’s new orthodoxy is revolutionary in both its intellectual and institutional substance, it is equally revolutionary in the very manner in which it seeks to be established. As the bitterly contested and seemingly interminable culture war that rages around us suggests, the new orthodoxy is, to put it very gently, controversial.
Rather than being designed to immediately translate the will of the numerical majority into law, the American political system — through its division of government power between three different branches selected in different ways and serving different terms in office, and thus representing different constituencies — was designed to foster consensual decision-making. This fact helps explain, as Willmoore Kendall and George W. Carey pointed out more than a half-century ago, why, with the exception of the Civil War, America has little experience of “drastic governmentally imposed social or economic” changes requiring “large-scale coercion,” or of “a legacy of irredentism.” This helps explain the exceptional stability of American democracy.
Making democracy unworkable
What we are witnessing today is an attempt by cultural elites—in the absence of a broad-based public consensus, indeed in the absence even of clear-cut majority support—to impose this new orthodoxy from the top-down, through a combination of raw political power (i.e., control of the executive branch, the administrative apparatus and much of the judiciary); cultural power (i.e., domination of the academy, educational system, entertainment industry, Big Tech and Big Business); and mob rule (e.g., “the 1619 riots,” shouting down speakers on campus, etc.)
The proponents of the new orthodoxy have no interest in (and no patience for) the slow and painstaking work of building a consensus around their new public orthodoxy, of changing the hearts and minds of Americans. They are not interested in having a debate with their opponents, rather they seek to banish them from the public square.
This is not only undemocratic and foreign to the American political tradition, it is profoundly destabilizing, “What makes a democracy workable,” as Kendall and Carey remark, is its ability to combine “the majority-principle” with the “unanimity-principle”—in other words, its ability to have “decisions made by the majority, but in such fashion that these decisions elicit” the “acquiescence” of the outvoted minority.
While simple majority votes may suffice on routine matters like tax rates, much more than a simple majority vote is needed in the type of matters addressed by a society’s public orthodoxy, namely, the society’s fundamental commitments. Absent a consensus, the effort to impose such an orthodoxy in this fashion can only strain the bonds of civic amity to the breaking point, threaten to divide the community “into warring camps committed … to irreconcilable positions,” create the possibility of widespread civil disobedience, raise the spectre of violence, pose the prospect of large-scale coercion, and endanger the very legitimacy of the state.
Is this not exactly what we are seeing all around us today?
The new Jacobins
While the analogy shouldn’t be pushed too far, as Michael Lind points out, the American Left increasingly resembles the Jacobins of revolutionary France. He’s not suggesting that they want to guillotine their opponents; rather, he is calling attention to their wholesale repudiation of the Western heritage, their alienation from America’s political traditions, their ideological iconoclasm, their desire to use state power to eradicate political and cultural traditions and to “substitute new, ideologically useful replacements,” their commitment to a radical remaking of the whole social order, their fanaticism and refusal to compromise, and their thoroughgoing oikophobia.
If the French Revolution marked the eruption into European political life of the ideological forces of radical modernity, what the “Great Awokening” signifies is the sudden eruption of these forces —which here had previously been confined to the academy — on to the American public scene.
To return to where we started: Yes, societies have public orthodoxies; yes, they change over time; and yes, at the moment we stand at a “liminal moment” between the collapse of an of an existing orthodoxy and the establishment of a new one.
There is however nothing normal or typical in what we are experiencing. Today’s battle over the American public orthodoxy is indicative of a fundamental cleavage in our body politic the likes of which we haven’t seen since at least the Civil War. Even during that war, Lincoln could affirm that both sides read the same Bible and prayed to the same God. Would anyone claim that to be true today?
What we confront today is nothing less than an updated and Americanized Jacobinism which seeks nothing less than the wholesale remaking of our political and social order and which is unwilling to take “no” for an answer. The emergence of this new Jacobinism marks a new epoch sea change in our political life and its triumph would mark a fundamental rupture in American history comparable to that created by the Jacobinism of old in French history.
Our disagreements today transcend normal political differences, and are of sufficient magnitude to produce dysfunction, strife and even violence, of sufficient magnitude to make it difficult, if not impossible, for the contending parties to live together in peace in the same body politic. We’re living at a revolutionary moment and the old rules of the game no longer apply. And, make no mistake about it: our adversaries are playing for keeps.
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The post-Cold War world has been easy on us. What comes next?
There is much about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin’s fantasies of a reconstituted Soviet empire that remain an impenetrable mystery to us Westerns. Some of this is due to distance — cultural, geopolitical and physical.
But we have also been blindsided. The post-Cold War world has been easy on us, and even the warnings of Western intelligence agencies did not prepare us for what now ranks as the largest military attack in Europe since WWII.
Arguably, the ease we have enjoyed these last decades helped create conditions Putin saw good to exploit. As the famed proverb puts it, good times create weak men. Or in modern parlance, good times create woke men — and woke militaries.
Consider how Western militaries have spent their time while Russia was modernising and mobilising its army against Ukraine.
In recent years and at breakneck speed, the US military has adopted the goal of gender neutrality, integrating both sexes in all branches and roles of its armed forces. Once focused on deterring and winning war, America’s military has instead pursued the same inane diversity, equity and inclusion agenda of the corporate, education and political world.
Blowing the whistle on the wokeification of the military last year, Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier was sacked for criticising the adoption of critical race theory by his US Space Force unit. While civilians may debate CRT for sport, Lohmeier’s case is a reminder that woke ideology can pose serious national security risks in a military context.
Service members take an oath to defend the US Constitution, but when that same Constitution is portrayed as the legal foundation for white supremacy in America, what happens to the unity and cohesion of the US military? What happens when those who have sworn to defend America no longer believe in America or its values?
Don’t forget that climate change is now a national security priority for the Pentagon, with Biden’s Defense Secretary last year vowing to “prioritise climate change considerations in our activities and risk assessments”.
Or take Britain, where soldiers are now calling for vegan uniforms to be made available. Worse, the Daily Mail reported just this week that MI5 and MI6 officers are being urged to consider their “white privilege”, declare their pronouns, and avoid words like grip, strong and manpower.
Not to be left out, the Australian Defence Force was last year reprimanded by Defence Minister Peter Dutton after its leadership called on all staff to wear rainbow clothing in support of the “International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia”.
At the risk of giving airtime to Russian propaganda, the contrast between ads by the Russian and US militaries reveals much about our civilisations’ two trajectories.
Indeed, Putin gave a scathing assessment of wokeness in the West in a speech last year. He railed against our erasure of our own history, the deconstruction of the traditional family, and the intolerance of dissenting opinions.
Given Putin’s own murderous dogmatism on display this week, it was a clear case of the pot calling the kettle black. Nevertheless, he correctly identified many Western weaknesses, and this week met as little tangible resistance from Western nations as he apparently expected.
To finish the proverb we started, woke men create hard times. Let’s hope those hard times create strong men without the need for World War III.
Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate… More by Kurt Mahlburg
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Either you use your brain or you lose it…. to the global left and their lapdogs in the Democrat media ministry of propaganda. Don’t be brain dead. Dr. Malone explains.
The “Gell-Mann Amnesia effect” was coined by Michael Crichton, MD to describe the experience of encountering unreliable information in main stream media and the “approved narrative” in your area of expertise, and knowing by first person experience that this narrative is wrong. And then suspending your own critical thinking skills and trusting these same type of “experts” (legacy/mainstream “approved” media) in another area outside of your expertise.
His point was that one must use critical thinking skill even when outside your core competencies. Crichton’s writes:
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
– Michael Crichton (1942-2008)
In other words, think for yourself.
As we transition into a new era of another war. We must think for ourselves. Government(s) will want to control the narrative. They will control how main stream media and big tech respond to this crisis. Do not fall for the dominant paradigm, but instead do your own thinking. Dig deeper. We are so lucky to live in an era of alternative media. As much as the government hates it and those of us who look for “truth,” we still have this ability to think for ourselves and to find information that is not readily available on MSM.
This morning, while I was having breakfast with my wife Jill, we were talking about our personal finances. As I sipped coffee, I said to her “I don’t know enough about economics to make an assessment on crypto currency, how the situation in Ukraine will affect world economies, and the global push to transition from fiat money to digital currency.“ In so many words, she said to me that I had actually spent my whole life studying politics, investing and global economies as a way of living in the world. So why in the world would I now think that I was incapable of making an analysis of the current economic situation? And then the punchline- I needed to get going and do more research into the subject. She is right, I was being intellectually lazy. More than that, I was letting the legacy main stream media and pushed propaganda take my mind. I was giving over my critical thinking skills to MSM.
“Gell-Mann Amnesia” is exactly the trap I had fallen into. It happens all the time. Back in the day of the “founding fathers”, 250+ years ago, people did not have the luxury of being intellectually lazy. You had to think for yourself. That is what is so different about a more rural life. The problems that crop up are constantly changing, and they are very much in the present. You have to solve them yourself. That reality is what gave rise to the United States of America, as a country and as a culture.
The United States must re-create an army of critical thinkers. It is how We the People take back our power. We must find candidates for elected office who think for themselves, and we need to work to elect them. Now is the the time to not accept mediocracy and corruption in our elected officials. And no more WEF-trained hacks that do what they are told by non-US, non-elected third parties.
Elements of the Republican party are revitalizing its core belief system to fight the heavy-handed governmental edicts coming from the globalized public health deep state. They recognize that big pharma and the World Economic Forum acolytes that backs it has infiltrated every level of our government and virtually all “world leaders” from the Western “Democracies”. They recognize that corporatism and totalitarian thinking guided by the WEF has become the norm for many elected officials. That these officials have been trained by the WEF. This must stop. The army of critical thinkers that is emerging with the Great Awakening has to support this effort in every way possible. Why? Because public health is just the “camel’s nose”; the WEF has great plans for us in all aspects of our lives!
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February 21, 2022, the Canadian Parliament approved Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s motion to invoke the Emergencies Act in response to the peaceful trucker protest against vaccine mandates
Under the Act, Canadian banks can seize the personal bank accounts of anyone suspected of participating in or supporting the protest, and these financial surveillance powers are intended to become permanent
February 14, 2022, Canadian finance minister Chrystia Freeland said the government was using the Emergencies Act to broaden Canada’s anti-money-laundering and terrorist financing rules to cover crowdfunding platforms and their payment service providers. The broadened surveillance power requires all digital transactions, including cryptocurrencies, to be reported to the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Center of Canada. (Fintrac)
What’s happening in Canada should be a sobering wakeup call for the whole world. Governments intend to control dissent through financial blackmail, which is why they’re also pushing for programmable central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)
Programmable currency is digital cash programmed to ensure it can only be spent on essentials or goods that an employer or government deems to be sensible. In other words, the issuer of the money would have complete control over how you spend your own money, and could punish you for undesirable opinions or behavior by restricting your purchasing ability or seizing your funds altogether
February 21, 2022, the Canadian Parliament approved Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s motion to invoke the Emergencies Act, with 185 votes for and 151 against, in response to the peaceful trucker protest against vaccine mandates.1 While Trudeau in a February 14, 2022, press conference (above) promised the Act would be limited in time, geographical location and scope, he’s already reneging on that promise.
Financial Surveillance Powers Will Be Permanently Expanded
The act was invoked to allow the government to physically disperse the trucker convoy without actually listening to their complaint, and to punish anyone who has supported the protest.
Under the act, banks are empowered to seize the personal bank accounts of anyone suspected of participating in the protest, or supporting it with as little as a $25 donation. Disturbingly, the surveillance powers over financial transactions granted by the act are actually intended to become permanent. As reported by National Review:2
“In a February 14 news conference, Canadian finance minister Chrystia Freeland said that the government was using the Emergencies Act to broaden ‘the scope of Canada’s anti-money-laundering and terrorist financing rules so that they cover crowdfunding platforms and the payment service providers they use.’
That broadened power requires all forms of digital transactions, including cryptocurrencies, to be reported to the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Center of Canada. (I.e., ‘Fintrac’).
‘As of today, all crowdfunding platforms and the payment service providers they use must register with Fintrac, and they must report large and suspicious transactions to Fintrac,’ Freeland said.
She justified the move as a way to ‘mitigate the risk’ of ‘illicit funds’ and ‘increase the quality and quantity of intelligence received by Fintrac and make more information available to support investigations by law enforcement’ …
Freeland said the trucker convoy, which had assembled to protest coronavirus restrictions, had ‘highlighted the fact’ that digital assets and funding mechanisms ‘weren’t captured’ by the Canadian government’s pre-existing surveillance powers.
As a result, she said, ‘the government will also bring forward legislation to provide these authorities to FinTrac on a permanent basis.’”
As noted by the National Review, we can already tell what the Canadian government will do with those expanded surveillance powers. We’re seeing their intentions in action. By invoking the Act, Trudeau has given himself the unilateral power to destroy the lives of Canadians who happen to disagree with him, regardless of the issue at hand.
Without court order or due process, the government can now freeze bank accounts, cancel insurance policies and revoke drivers’ licenses, and the victims have no recourse or remedy.
“All this, of course, flies in the face of Trudeau’s promise that the Emergencies Act powers would be temporary,” National Review notes, adding:3
“When he announced his invocation of the order, he promised the Canadian people that his expanded authorities would ‘be time-limited, geographically targeted, as well as reasonable and proportionate to the threats they are meant to address.’ Not a single part of that sentence has proved to be true.”
Government Wants to Decide How You Spend Your Money
What’s happening in Canada should be a sobering wakeup call for the whole world. They’re showing us exactly what’s in store for all of us. Governments will basically control dissent through financial tyranny and blackmail.
The next step in that direction is the implementation of programmable digital currencies, worldwide. As reported by The Telegraph in June 2021, the Bank of England has already started moving on a programmable central bank digital currency (CBDC), and there’s no doubt that this is the plan of all central banks worldwide.4
Executive board member of the European Central Bank, Fabio Panetta, mentioned it in his December 10, 2021, lecture on the future of digital money in Rome, Italy.5
What’s meant by a “programmable” currency? As explained by The Telegraph,6 “Digital cash could be programmed to ensure it is only spent on essentials, or goods which an employer or government deems to be sensible.” In other words, the issuer of the money would have complete control over how you, the recipient, spend it.
“Tom Mutton, a director at the Bank of England, said during a conference … that programming could become a key feature of any future central bank digital currency …” The Telegraph reported.7
“He said … what happens if one of the participants in a transaction puts a restriction on [future use of the money]? There could be some socially beneficial outcomes from that, preventing activity which is seen to be socially harmful in some way. But at the same time it could be a restriction on people’s freedoms.’”
Absolute Control Through Financial Slavery
That programmable currency might restrict freedom is probably the understatement of the century. It’s an absolute given. Imagine your employer, your government and the central bank itself having the privilege to dictate how you spend your own money!
Imagine a third party deciding how much you’re allowed to spend on rent, what kind of food or clothing you’re allowed to buy, or what hobbies you’re allowed to spend money on and when. That’s the power they intend to obtain, and current events in Canada prove it.
The “socially beneficial outcomes” Mutton is hinting at are basically that an unelected cabal will have the ability to micromanage your personal finances, and hence dictate your behavior in every area of your life. As noted by British activist and radio presenter Maajid Nawaz in the Joe Rogan clip above, with a programmable CBDC, the British government would have complete control over anyone who disagrees with their policies or activities.
For example, with other surveillance, they could determine that he was planning to appear on Rogan’s show and simply reprogram his CBDCs with the click of a button, such that he would not be allowed to purchase a plane ticket. So much for that plan then.
Of course, CBDCs will exist by themselves. They’re designed to be used together with digital ID and a social credit score, like that in China. The COVID vaccine passports are one type of platform that could be used for this, but even if a state or country rejects vaccine passports, don’t for a moment think you’re out of the woods, not by a long-shot. Chances are, they’ll introduce a digital ID system instead, which will serve the exact same function.
Global Leadership Has Been Infiltrated
In the full Rogan interview, Nawaz goes on to discuss how governments around the world have been infiltrated by World Economic Forum (WEF) members whose agenda it is to implement global authoritarianism. As reported by Life Site News:8
“… the WEF has installed its members in national leadership roles around the world to further the organization’s sprawling authoritarian agenda. Explaining that government leaders worldwide have begun lifting COVID-19 mandates and restrictions while leaving in place an apparatus of digital tracking and identification that forms the embryonic stages of a digital social credit score.
Nawaz said the WEF under Schwab has worked on ‘embedding people in government who are subscribed to’ the Great Reset agenda. ‘That’s what they say themselves,’ Nawaz said, pointing out that the so-called Great Reset, whose advocates have famously asserted that by 2030 people will ‘own nothing and be happy,’ is explained in detail on the WEF’s website.9
In a 2020 book entitled ‘COVID-19: The Great Reset,’ Schwab openly argued that the COVID-19 response should be used to ‘revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions’ …
The WEF has clearly articulated10its interest in pursuing a global digital ID system. ‘So this is going to be this never-ending process to slowly move the goal posts,’ Rogan surmised. ‘Towards more and more authoritarianism,’ Nawaz added. ‘Checkpoint society. It’s all there. They’ve told us this.’”
How exactly has the WEF infiltrated governments and leadership roles around the world? In part by getting members of its Young Global Leaders group elected or installed in key positions. Would it surprise you to learn that Trudeau went through Schwab’s Young Global Leaders program?
Other members whose dictatorial mindset cannot be disguised any longer are New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron. Bill Gates and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg have also gone through the program, and both are clearly supporting and promoting The Great Reset agenda through their respective business ventures.
Globalists Plan to Seize Control of Health Systems Worldwide
Your money isn’t the only thing the globalist cabal wants to control, however. In a February 18, 2022, article, Dr. Peter Breggin, author of “COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We Are the Prey,”11 warns that the next move in the globalists’ war on humanity is to seize control over the health care systems of the entire world:12
“We have discovered the next move of the global predators — already in progress — in their escalating assaults against individual and political freedom. The next big assault on human freedom involves a legalized takeover of national healthcare systems by the World Health Organization (WHO).
This stealth attack — with its initial plans already backed by many nations — will begin full implementation in 2024 if it is not quickly recognized and fought! … The Chinese Communist influence over WHO has been solid for more than a decade, and the party was able to install Tedros without any competition.
He became the first and only Director-General who is not a physician and instead is a communist politician. Now the Director-General of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus — known simply as Tedros — has unveiled plans to take charge of all global health.
While addressing the WHO Executive Committee on January 24, 2022, Director-General Tedros spelled out his global health plan, including his final priority for his enormous scheme: ‘The fifth priority is to urgently strengthen WHO as the leading and directing authority on global health, at the center of the global health architecture.’
Tedros’s closing words to his report to the executive committee are chilling in their grandiosity and echo Marxist exhortations to cheering mobs by a Stalin, Mao, or Xi Jinping: ‘We are one world, we have one health, we are one WHO.’ Tedros seeks to become super-Fauci for the world, and, like Fauci, he will do it on behalf of the global predators.”
Health Fascism
As explained by Breggin, the global health care takeover really began with Gates’ Decade of Vaccines, announced in 2010 at the WEF’s annual meeting in Davos. At that time, Gates installed Dr. Anthony Fauci on his vaccine advisory board, thereby guaranteeing his plans would receive support from the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which Fauci is the head of. Breggin continues:13
“A theme for the Decade of Vaccines was ‘Public-Private Partnerships Drive Progress in Vaccine Development, Delivery’ — essentially the precursor to the Great Reset establishing a world governance of public and private health united in the spirit of fascism.
By 2012, Gates achieved official UN approval for his scheme, establishing a broad network of global predators aimed at exploiting and dominating humanity through public health. Communist China would play a prominent role through its control over the UN and WHO and through its close relationships with global predators like Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, Mike Bloomberg, Big Tech executives, and many other billionaires and world leaders.
A decade and more later, during COVID-19, WHO has proven its usefulness to the predators in orchestrating science, medicine, and public health in the suppression of human freedom and the generation of wealth and power for the globalists.”
Under the guise of a global pandemic, the WHO, the WEF and all of its installed leaders in government and private business, were able to roll out a plan that has been decades in the making. The pandemic was a perfect cover. In the name of keeping everyone “safe” from infection, the globalists have justified unprecedented attacks on democracy, civil liberties and personal freedoms, including the right to choose your own medical treatment.
Now, the WHO is gearing up to make its pandemic leadership permanent, and to extend it into the health care systems of every nation. “The idea is ‘the principle of health for all’ — universal health care organized by WHO as part of the Great Reset,” Breggin explains.
Pandemic Treaty Is Being Established
May 24, 2021, the European Council announced it supported the establishment of an international Pandemic Treaty, under which the WHO would have the power to replace the constitutions of individual nations with its own constitution under the banner of “pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.”14
“The world has already seen how any pandemic emergency, real or concocted, now or in the future, could then justify WHO taking over the entirety of government operations of sovereign nations, robbing all individuals of their freedoms, and fully crushing the democratic republics of the world,” Breggin warns.15
“The spirit of Communism can be felt throughout the document. We are told that the ‘purpose’ of the new strategy will be ‘guided by a spirit of solidarity, anchored in the principles of fairness, inclusion, and transparency.’ Notice, as in all pronouncements by global predators; there is no mention of individual rights, political liberty, or national sovereignty.
The great engine of human progress, human freedom, will be replaced by the great destroyer of humanity, collectivism, under the rule of the elite. Tucked into the report were the real goals … Here are three main purposes or goals of the proposed treaty:
1.response to any future pandemics, in particular by ensuring universal and equitable access to medical solutions, such as vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics 2.a stronger international health framework with the WHO as the coordinating authority on global health matters 3.the ‘One Health’ approach, connecting the health of humans, animals, and our planet
The report adds, ‘More specifically, such an instrument can enhance international cooperation in a number of priority areas, such as surveillance, alerts, and response, but also in general trust in the international health system.’ Clearly, they were building support for Tedros’s January 24, 2022 announcement that WHO would take over the international health care system.”
Even Your Food Will Be Under Their Control
In addition to your finances and your health care, the global cabal also intend to control the food supply and dictate what you can and cannot eat, in the name of combating climate change and saving the planet. The Great Reset16 is indeed the reset of life and society as we know it. Not a single area will be left untouched.
Sustainable development, Agenda 21, the 2030 Agenda, the New Urban Agenda, the Fourth Industrial Revolution,17 “Build Back Better,”18 green economy, the Green New Deal, the Paris Climate Agreement and the global warming movement in general all refer to and are part of The Great Reset agenda and its resource-based economics.
The common goal of all these movements and agendas is to capture all of the resources of the world — the ownership of them — for a small global cabal that has the know-how to program the computer systems that will ultimately dictate the lives of everyone.
When they talk about “wealth redistribution,” what they’re really referring to is the redistribution of resources from us to them. The goal is for you to own nothing. Everything you need, from the shirt on your back to a roof over your head, you’ll have to rent from the globalist owners.
Even the food you put into your mouth is planned to be under their complete control. To this end, the WEF has partnered with the EAT Forum, which will set the political agenda for global food production. The EAT Forum was cofounded by the Wellcome Trust, which in turn was established with the financial help of GlaxoSmithKline.
EAT collaborates with nearly 40 city governments across Africa, Europe, Asia, North and South America and Australia, and maintains close relationships with imitation meat companies such as Impossible Foods, which was cofunded by Google, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.19 Gates has also been gobbling up farmland, becoming one of the largest private land owners in the U.S.20
EAT has developed a “Planetary Health Diet” that is designed to be applied to the global population and entails cutting meat and dairy intake by up to 90%, replacing it largely with foods made in laboratories, along with cereals and oil.21
Not surprisingly, Gates is on record urging Western nations to stop eating real meat altogether,22 and articles have been published in the past three years insisting people need to get used to eating bugs and drinking reclaimed sewage,23 all in the name of sustainability and saving the planet.
Being able to see the globalists’ plan as clearly as we can see it now, we have an obligation to future generations to resist, denounce and refuse any and all implementations of the technocratic agenda. We can win, for the simple fact that there are more of us than there are of them, but we have to be vocal about it — we need to join forces and present a united front, resisting peacefully, like the Canadian truckers.
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The right to bear arms has always been about liberty, and many are beginning to see in the wake of the conflict in Ukraine.
Russian soldiers flooded into Ukraine Thursday under orders from President Vladimir Putin, threatening to obliterate a peace that has existed on the European continent for more than 75 years.
News reports say cities were bombarded by land, air, and sea, and Ukrainian forces were struggling to hold ground surrounding Kiev, Ukraine’s capital, against tens of thousands of Russian soldiers.
Prior to the attack, Ukrainian officials took steps to help Ukrainian civilians protect themselves.
“Ukraine’s parliament on Wednesday voted to approve in the first reading a draft law which gives permission to Ukrainians to carry firearms and act in self-defense,” Reuters reported.
The 30-day emergency order, National Reviewreports, would “grant citizens the right to bear arms.” It would also allow the government to conscript Ukrainians between the ages of 18 and 60, “adding nearly 200,000 troops to the country’s defense.”
‘Next Time, Bear Arms Earlier’
Permitting Ukrainians to arm themselves is a sensible measure. But as Charles Cooke points out at NRO, “it’s also a bit late.”
While Ukraine has relatively loose gun control laws by European standards, estimates suggest only about 1.3 million firearms exist in the country, which has a population of some 43 million. This diminishes the chances of Ukrainian civilians being able to offer serious resistance, an idea that is hardly far-fetched, Stephen Gutowski points out at The Reload:
“…the history of warfare is rife with examples of smaller, weaker, and less organized forces besting even the greatest militaries in the world. From the American Revolution to Vietnam, Iraq, and multiple wars in Afghanistan, it isn’t difficult to find templates for how a Ukrainian resistance could eventually prevail if Russia attempts to capture and hold it.”
Speaking on CNN, Nina Lvovna Khrushcheva, a professor of international affairs at the New School in New York, also said small arms could be decisive.
“If every Ukrainian takes a gun, Russians don’t have a prayer,” she told John Berman. “I mean the military can fight, but… Ukrainians are really ready today.”
Ukrainian leaders apparently agree. The government on Thursday took the unusual step of issuing thousands of automatic weapons to civilians, following the issuance of its emergency order.
Unfortunately, the likelihood of serious resistance is low because the Ukrainian government embraced the right to bear arms so late.
Cooke’s words could be construed as flippant, but his point is a deadly serious one.
The Founding Fathers enshrined the right to bear arms in the Second Amendment of the Constitution, and they made it clear that they were not “granting” citizens the right, but codifying what was a natural right.
“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,” James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, explained in 1789. “A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country.”
As some astute observers pointed out on social media, the Second Amendment was never “about hunting” or even self-defense (in a civil sense). It was always about liberty.
“This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty,” the legal scholar Tucker St. George wrote in 1803. “The right of self defence is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any colour or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.”
“The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers,” Story wrote, “and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.”
It’s wonderful that Ukrainian officials finally sought to extend the full, natural right to bear arms to their people. The only tragedy is that it took so long.
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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Tucker Carlson: “So we wanted to walk you some of the likely consequences of what they are now doing in Eastern Europe and Marc Morano seemed like a good man to start with. Thanks so much for joining us tonight. So, without even getting into whether or not Ukraine is a democracy – I’m embarrassed to even – I mean, who cares. But I want to know what the effect on the United States and on the purchasing power of the average person, is likely to be from what they’re doing right now over there.
MORANO: “We are already seeing – the first part of it is in California, $6 a gallon. Gas is already up a dollar. Estimates are seven, $8 a gallon possible with recession if Putin, who we’ve given all of this power to by literally shutting down U.S. domestic energy.
So a war on fossil fuels happens. We are now in a much, much weaker position one year into this administration to where now Vladimir Putin is the direct beneficiary of all this. And you can’t keep Europe out of this. Europe is many years ahead of their version of a disastrous Green New Deal. One professor in Europe actually said it’s typical Marxist garbage — what they’ve engaged in. Europe began shutting down their energy, so the whole world has been empowering basically three places. The Middle East for the OPEC, China, and now of course Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
So the people that are screaming the loudest that we need to go in and save democracy in Ukraine have destroyed our energy independence and dominance and made us so much more vulnerable to whatever Vladimir Putin may or may not want to do.”
Tucker Carlson: If you’re making energy more important for your own people, you are these we hate your own people. I think it’s that simple. In one sentence just if you could answer this question, is the Chinese government, which clearly has no respect for human rights or even its own people, are they making energy more expensive for Chinese?
Watch CFACT's Marc Morano @ClimateDepot on Tucker Carlson from last night slam net zero energy policies: "the people that are screaming the loudest that we need to go in…Ukraine have destroyed our energy independence, made us so much more vulnerable"https://t.co/ajPzkpuV3Q
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