Democrats Demand Big Tech Censor Trump’s Truth Social

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As I have often written in my decades long fight for free speech, beginning with the Danish cartoons, freedom of speech is the foundation of a free society. Without it, a tyrant can wreak havoc unopposed, while his opponents are silenced.

Putting up with being offended is essential in a pluralistic society in which people differ on basic truths. If a group will not bear being offended without resorting to violence, that group will rule unopposed while everyone else lives in fear, while other groups curtail their activities to appease the violent group. This results in the violent group being able to tyrannize the others

Inoffensive speech needs no protection. The First Amendment was developed precisely in order to protect speech that was offensive to some, in order to prevent those who had power from claiming they were offended by speech opposing them and silencing the powerless.

A free society is by its nature one in which people put up with others being uncivil and offensive. The alternative is a quiet authoritarian society in which only one opinion is allowed and the others are silenced, and ultimately sent to the camps.

My relentless fight was always to protect and defend us from what the Democrats are doing to us now. I was silenced. And the right stood by. Others were silenced and the right stood by. Now we are all be silenced ……

Leftists Demand Big Tech Preemptively Censor Trump’s Truth Social

By: Jordan Boyd  March 04, 2022

Former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social wants to make itself cancel-proof against leftist demands that Big Tech preemptively deplatform it.

So far, the increasingly popular free speech platform has already survived attacks from the corporate media hellbent on smearing anything associated with Trump. Now, leftists are wielding Jan. 6 as an excuse to demand Big Tech companies such as Apple thwart Truth Social before it even becomes fully operational at the end of the month.

In “Big Tech Could Save Us From ‘Truth Social,’” author Samuel O’Brient, who has a history of demanding censorship because he believes “Limiting Free Speech is Essential to Democracy,” argues that Big Tech companies should preemptively nuke the anti-political censorship platform simply because it is associated with the former president.

“Trump clearly wants to use Truth Social to rally his troops again and fire them up for another run at the White House. There’s almost no way that such a mission won’t include inciting violence in some form,” O’Brient wrote this week. “If Truth Social becomes a venue for hate-spewing and further insurrection-plotting, these big tech giants can buy themselves a lot of goodwill by honoring their credos and standing up to protect American democracy.”

While corporate media are still largely focused on downplaying the number of people abandoning propaganda sites run by the political actors in Big Tech, leaders at Truth Social know that a war on their attempt to offer a “family-friendly” social media site is coming and they are prepared to stop it in its tracks.

“The campaign by the left and the mainstream media to censor and suppress other viewpoints is a shocking threat to democracy,” Devin Nunes, CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) in charge of launching Truth Social, told The Federalist. “The fact that there’s even a need and a demand for Truth Social – a social media platform that won’t censor content based on viewpoints – is unsettling in itself. Once you begin censoring, the suppressions develop a momentum of their own. This naturally leads to demands for preemptive censorship, which until recently was a concept you only found in dystopian science fiction novels.”

Despite the difficulties presented by a market largely controlled by Big Tech monopolies, Truth Social built most of its platform from the ground up. Parler previously tried a similar strategy but was eventually nuked by dozens of companies who wanted the platform gone for political reasons. Unlike in Parler’s case, Apple is really the only Big Tech company that has the power to remove Truth Social from its app store and the new social media platform is already working to keep the illegal activity that censors use to justify suppression off of the platform.

While some are calling for Truth Social to be wiped off of the web, the leaders of the social media company are confident that their lack of reliance on corrupt, political actors for web services will guard them against sudden deplatforming.

“We’re building as much of our own infrastructure as possible from scratch. We won’t be relying on Big Tech firms to keep our website on the internet, and we’re partnering with companies that are fundamentally committed to free speech, such as Rumble,” Nunes said.

Big Tech is filled with political entities that have used their influence and authority to suppress narratives about Covid-19, biological sex, and political stances they dislike. During the 2020 election alone, social media oligarchs did their best to alter the election outcome in favor of now-President Joe Biden. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was caught red-handed funneling money into poor election practices that benefit Democrats and Twitter, aided by the corrupt corporate media, deliberately blacked out any coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop story. After the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Facebook, Twitter, and others justified wiping Trump off of their platforms for “inciting violence” but have let actual warmongers like Russia’s Vladimir Putin stay on.

Users are hungry for a social media platform that doesn’t threaten them when they think or speak differently than the regime desires and Nunes said they will find it with Truth Social.

“The Big Tech companies generally did not begin as leftwing propaganda projects. In fact, the founders of a lot of these companies were idealistic proponents of free speech. But over time, they got corrupted and transformed their platforms into appendages of the Democratic Party and the left,” Nunes said. “Truth Social won’t do that, no matter the pressure from the media, the government, the left, or anywhere else. President Trump, myself, and others here have spent years fighting back against the left’s ridiculous attempts to silence us.”

Nunes is all too familiar with political censorship that is strategically used to justify false narratives circulated by the corrupt corporate media. When he served as the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Nunes was quick to call out the fraudulent stories about Trump colluding with Russia which were repeatedly promoted by the dishonest press. Nunes also helped expose Twitter for shadowbanning conservatives like him.

“You can’t eliminate one side from the public debate and expect to keep a healthy democracy. Everyone is entitled to have their say, and we’re not going to hire a bunch of Big Tech-style political enforcers and ideological goons to force-feed you the viewpoints we decide you should be reading. That’s condescending and unfair, and we won’t do it,” Nunes said.

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WATCH FREEDOM ON THE MARCH: Thousands of Vehicles in Truck-Led Peoples Convoy on Washington, D.C. beltway

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The Democrats will criminalize and prosecute these freedom lovers like they did with the January 6th protesters? Watch tyranny in action.

Needless to say, the enemedia is ignoring this historic movement – at least until they can smear, defame and marginalize them. They are using Ukraine to drown out the massive resistance movement.

Thousands of Vehicles in Truck-Led Convoy Gather in Maryland, Last Stop Before DC Region

HAGERSTOWN, Maryland—Thousands of vehicles in a truck-led convoy gathered in western Maryland on March 4, marking their last stop before heading to the Washington, D.C., region.

By Enrico Trigoso and Mimi Nguyen Ly, The Epoch Times, March 5, 2022:

The People’s Convoy is calling for an end to the federal government’s COVID-19 emergency powers, which have enabled various COVID-19 restrictions and mandates to be imposed over the past two years.

Organizers of the convoy told The Epoch Times that the group has adjusted its plans and are no longer aiming to arrive in Washington on Saturday as previously reported. Rather, they will be staying in Hagerstown, Maryland—about 70 miles northwest of Washington—for Saturday, and will be headed to an unspecified location two miles from the D.C. Beltway area either on Sunday or Monday……

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Kamala Harris—Less than Worthless

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“All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.” – Winston Churchill

In our entire American history I doubt that we have witnessed an administration as pitiful as the one we suffer from now. Yep, not even under Jimmy the peanut Carter!! Inept does not cover it. Stupidity does not cover it. The pure unadulterated hatred they show for this country and it’s people, shown by their actions, is mind blowing.

Our nations leaders from both parties, but in particular the New Socialist Democrat Party, have bought ridicule from around the globe upon this once proud and powerful nation. We are no longer leaders but followers of the evil New World Order.

I have spoken so much about the mentally challenged and deranged, inept, corrupt, perverted and treasonous so called Commander in Chief, Sniffer Joe, but now I want to mention and talk about giggly, dumb, immoral and unethical Vice President, Kamala Harris. I won’t go into depth on her oral expertise which bought her much success and wealth in her early career as she knelt her way up the sorry food chain of Californian politics.

I want to concentrate on her achievements as Vice President. Oops. Cannot do that as this would be the end of todays blog as there have been – wait for it – zero!

So let’s look at her many, many failures. I don’t have the time today to go through them all but I will highlight some!

As we all know, since this administration stole the 2020 election, our mainly southern border has become so porous as to really not exist. Millions of illegals and probably hundreds, if not thousands, of America hating extremists and criminal elements have poured across like Niagara Falls on a good day! Regardless to Covid status, they are all welcomed, fed, clothed, bussed to free housing and benefits and released among good tax paying citizens. Well, Bidens great plan was to put Harris in charge of that issue !! That was oh so long ago and she hasn’t got round to actually doing anything yet. She has had a few tax payer funded junkets to some South American countries like Guatemala where she promised them money but nothing else apart from stating she is trying to fix the underlying problems that make these illegals want to come here. (let me tell her why they come:/ It’s the American agenda under this POS leadership that is bringing them here. Easy crossing. Money and housing plus food and education are all awaiting them free of charge!)

Lately Kamala, the giggling hyena, has been oh so very focused on the LGBTQI agenda. All this while Americans, gay and straight, are suffering through major hyper inflation again caused by the anti American agenda of the current president and his extreme leftist party. How is that for equality? She seems to think the LGBTQI Equality Act, written to protect transgender people, is more important than say Russian aggression and criminal acts against humanity in Ukraine or inflation or gas prices etc. In her words the deranged Harris just stated in a Tweet,

“Let’s send the Equality Act to President Biden’s desk, we must increase protections for LGBTQ+ Americans across the country. The onslaught of state bills targeting transgender Americans and their families is wrong.”

This woman, some say brainless slut, is unable to multi task. She could become more dangerous if she tried juggling more than say one ball at a time! Her answer to our problems appears to be, let’s get more transgender men into female sports!! Her stupidity reminds me of something equally stupid her fellow libtard and traitor John Kerry said about the current war in Ukraine,

“Massive emissions are consequences to the war but equally importantly, you’re going to lose people’s focus, you’re going to lose big country attention because they will be diverted and I think it could have a damaging impact on global warming!” 

Irrelevant that men, women and children are being massacred. The blowhard and cowardly liar extraordinaire is only concerned with furthering the lie of global warming as the left, including Kerry, get richer and richer off it.

Harris has been an utter disaster since becoming Vice President, including traveling to the wrong border, making movies with child actors, and temporarily sporting a fake French accent. Oh. Have I mentioned that giggle?

She is traveling to Poland and Romania next week. Being as she has not accomplished one solitary thing as VP to date, I am not sure what expectations Europeans can have. Even simple tasks have been left unfinished or started so why would anyone think she could avert a possible WWIII? Remember, she was in Munich just a few days ago and she told them that,

“they had to remember they were a part of Europe, that there was a war and therefore this meant there was a war in Europe. War’s bad.” 

Wow! Words of wisdom? Not! Embarrassing? Heck yeah!

One thing is certain. Kamala Harris is 100% unqualified to be Vice President.

She is 100% unqualified to be a public servant.

She is 100% irrelevant as a politician.

Heck, let’s say it. She is 100% incapable of being a true American.

I believe she has put black politicians back several decades. Her pitiful dealings on the international and domestic stage are nothing anyone would expect from a Vice President of the United States of America.

She is a liability for the country but also for Biden and the ever more dangerous Democrats who know that their days in power are done. Her constant negative press and constant bumbling every time she opens her mouth or travels abroad or even round the country, makes her a liability coming into the mid terms and then the 2024 presidential election cycles. Working for her as a member of her staff is also hazardous to your health. She runs a dysfunctional office and belittles her staff. As one stated, she makes you feel like a piece of sh*t. Nice huh?

Anyway America. Not much longer to put up with this woman or her Boss, the Big Guy! They will become a lame duck administration come November as the whole country moves away from the left towards the center and right.

Quick question for you all!! Which of the two pictures below are the real Kamala Harris? I am going with the furry one!

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Why College Degrees Are Working Against Many Job-Seekers

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No degree is the new degree.

‘Would you rather hire someone who ran a marathon, or had a college degree?’

I remember when I saw the question posed on LinkedIn. It got hundreds of responses, almost all of whom said they’d pick the marathoner.

It turns out, the story most young people have been told about the value of degrees on the job market isn’t true, and it’s getting less true every day.

A few years ago, I talked to a business owner who turned down a candidate I passed along because he had a Master’s degree. He told me, “He seems smart and has some skill, but he’s been in school too long. It will take me too much time to get those habits out of him. Plus, I’ve found people with advanced degrees tend to be entitled and assume they’re worth more than they are.”

The famous venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz developed a framework for evaluating which entrepreneurs were most likely to succeed with their startups. One of the strongest indicators was being a college drop-out. The courage and out-of-the-box thinking needed to overcome social pressure and quit school was a bullish sign.

All of these stories share one takeaway in common: a college degree doesn’t do a good job of signaling employability. In fact, choosing not to get one can be a better signal.

And no wonder. Employers routinely report that college grads lack basic skills they look for in new hires. (See here, here, and here, for example). In fact, less than 10 percent of employers think colleges do a good job of preparing students for the working world. (Study cited here.)

A lack of useful skills is only part of the problem. Grads are saddled with debt, often taught absurd ideas from professors disconnected from the real world, and encouraged to see themselves as victims. Add to that binge-drinking and increasingly draconian policies around health and politically correct speech, and campuses have become a place to pick up bad habits and bad ideas.

Employers want to know you can create value. ‘BA – Communications’ on a resume doesn’t convey much. But you know what does?

A good opt-out or drop-out story.

I have seen hundreds of young people with no degree and no experience get jobs that said a bachelor’s and 2-3 years of experience were required. They won these jobs because they showed something more valuable than a few static bullets on a resume. They explained why they chose not to go to college, and that they did an apprenticeship, internship, self-guided study program, or project instead.

Employers love it. They get excited. Instead of someone simply taking the path of least resistance and muddling through college because their parents paid for it, they see individuals willing to forge their own way, think clearly about costs and benefits, and take initiative.

That’s why college alternative programs often boast placement rates of 90 percent or better immediately upon graduation, while just 40 percent of university students have jobs within three months after graduation.

Young people who prioritize real-world experience, self-directed learning, and creating an interesting life for themselves are increasingly sought after over those who do the normal college thing.

What began as a counter-signal for startup founders and high-tech jobs is spreading to more and more roles as hiring managers discover the best traits are better correlated with opt-outs than the college-educated. The most dynamic companies need to see more than the same piece of paper everyone else has.

It’s not that college is too good for many young people; it’s that more and more young people are too good for college.

COLUMN BY

Isaac M. Morehouse

Isaac Morehouse is the CEO of Crash and Founder of Praxis. He is a member of the FEE Faculty Network. He blogs at IsaacMorehouse.com.

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AWED MEDIA BALANCED NEWSLETTER: Special Coverage of Ukraine

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Ukraine:

*** Short video: Biden 2019: ‘If I’m President, Putin’s Days of Tyranny and Trying to Intimidate U.S. and Eastern Europe are Over’

*** Putin’s Real Goal is Toppling US

*** Answers to 6 Big Questions About Putin’s Nuclear Threats

*** What is Swift and why is banning Russia so significant?

How to get to a place of peace for Ukraine

More than 150 senior Russian officials sign letter condemning Putin’s Ukraine invasion

Lies and Truth about Ukraine

Ukraine’s finest hour

A Ukrainian Climate Scientist is Uniquely Positioned to Explain the Real Global Threat

As Russia Wages War, US Army Announces Woke Mandatory Training

Ukraine’s Deadly Gamble

Ukraine and Energy Policies:

*** US must lead again on energy before it is too late

*** Short video: Anyone with a ‘functioning frontal cortex’ knew the dangers of a Russian energy superpower

*** The West’s Green Delusions Empowered Putin

*** Germany Goes For Full Energy Policy Overhaul Amid Ukraine Crisis

Stop Letting Russian Funded Environmental Groups Dictate America’s Energy Policy

Energy Policy Is Too Important To Be Left to Climate Activists

Putin blows up NetZero and the green reset

Ukraine Trigger: New Energy Order, Digital Transformation, Health Architecture

Ukraine And Energy Realism

Biden’s green agenda becoming casualty of Russia’s Ukraine invasion

Biden embarrassing the US as energy agenda is exposed by Russian invasion

Europe’s ‘green’ transition put it at Russia’s mercy

European Industry Faces Shrink or Shut Decisions on Energy Pain

Stop these Fuelish Policies

Energy Realism Emerges In Germany While The US Doubles Down

We need to talk about energy

Stop Worrying About Chernobyl – It’s The Russian Invasion That’s Deadly

Former Head of MI6 calls for ‘immediate lifting of fracking moratorium’

European Ships Sail For South African Coal After Russia Sanctions

UK is sitting on gas gold mine which would blitz bills & Putin monopoly

US President State of the Union  Address:

*** President Biden’s State of the Union report card: Experts give their grades

*** The Delusional SOTU

*** Senator McConnell: President Biden Needed To Pivot — But Chose Not To

*** The Five Biggest Takeaways from Biden’s First State of the Union Address

The Climate Crisis Disappearing Act

Gov. Kristi Noem Responds to Biden’s State of the Union Address

Iowa Governor Slams Biden in Republican State of the Union Response

Video: ICAN CEO Delivers States of the Union Response

Biden Disinforms on the State of the Union About COVID Vaccines

Biden Using Ukraine As An Excuse for His Own Failures

Biden’s SOTU reassured nobody

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Biden’s FEMA: In case of a nuclear explosion ‘maintain social distancing’ and ‘wear a mask’

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Just when you thought the Biden administration couldn’t get further down the Covid rabbit hole it digs deeper. Biden’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on February 25th, 2022 put out new guidance on what to do should America come under a nuclear attack.

The first scary thing is that FEMA wants us to be prepared for a nuclear attack. The second scary thing is how we should respond to it when we, like the Ukrainians, seek shelter from the nuclear attack.

FEMA warns that in case of a nuclear explosion:

“Try to maintain a distance of at least six feet between yourself and people who are not part of your household. If possible, wear a mask if you’re sheltering with people who are not a part of your household.”

If you come under a nuclear attack and are injured here is what FEMA recommends you do:

FEMA’s Ready.gov website on nuclear explosions states:

Stay inside for 24 hours unless local authorities provide other instructions. Continue to practice social distancing by wearing a mask and by keeping a distance of at least six feet between yourself and people who not part of your household.

[ … ]

If you are sick or injured, listen for instructions on how and where to get medical attention when authorities tell you it is safe to exit. If you are sick and need medical attention, contact your healthcare provider for instructions. If you are at a public shelter, immediately notify the staff at that facility so they can call a local hospital or clinic. If you are experiencing a medical emergency, call 9-1-1 and let the operator know if you have, or think you might have, COVID-19. If you can, put on a mask before help arrives.

Engage virtually with your community through video and phone calls. Know that it’s normal to feel anxious or stressed. Take care of your body and talk to someone if you are feeling upset. Many people may already feel fear and anxiety about the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). The threat of a nuclear explosion can add additional stress. Follow CDC guidance for managing stress during a traumatic event and managing stress during COVID-19. [Emphasis added]

It appears that FEMA has become a part of the Covid theatre and is pushing social distancing and masks even when Americans are in nuclear bunkers or are injured and need medical attention. BTW, FEMA does not explain how social distancing and wearing a mask protects one from nuclear fallout. I guess FEMA is part of the problem and not part of the solution in case we Americans come under a nuclear attack.

The Bottom Line

A friend of ours told us about a conversation that his daughter, who lived in the Ukraine for two years, had with friends of hers in Ukraine. The daughter said that Ukrainian women and children are sheltered in unheated basements in freezing weather without food or fresh water. These women and children are making Molotov cocktails for their men to fight the invading Russian forces.

I would humbly suggest that in the case of a nuclear explosion near you that you show the same courage and tenacity of the men, women and children of Ukraine.

We are wondering if the “F” in FEMA stands of “Feminine” having qualities or an appearance traditionally associated with women?

Our advice on what to do in case of a nuclear attack is start praying to the God of Abraham.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

Welcome to the Pentagon – No Non-Marxists Allowed!

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“Perhaps wisdom…is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.” – Anthony Bourdain

The Pentagon just instituted mandatory transgender training for all Army personnel.  Soldiers are being schooled in transgender pronouns and officers are being trained to be on the lookout for soldiers to whom they should be offering gender transition surgery.

This is pure communism.  How do I know?  Because transgender activists themselves have told us so, on video.  There’s a video on YouTube with four trans activists saying, among other things.  “Trans liberation calls for communist revolution.”  In the video, they discuss ways to bring about a “communist society” to benefit trans people.  Revolution would “require the abolition of society as it currently is.  When we demand that society be arranged in certain ways, this is part of the project.”  There you have it, in-your-face Hegelian dialectical negation in spades, and proof that transgenderism is at root communism.  It couldn’t be any clearer.

The Pentagon threw former Space Force commander Matthew Lohmeier out of the military for writing a bookcalling out the Pentagon for going communist.  In the book, he describes how communist countries extract false confessions from POWs.  The results are self-loathing and paralysis from being conflicted.  Uttering a false confession sets up an internal struggle whereby you conquer yourself – you beat yourself in your own mind.  (p. 87-88)

The Pentagon is essentially treating the entire military as POWs.  The Pentagon is using the communist technique of extracting false confessions from them.  The Pentagon had already been demanding white soldiers confess their so-called ‘white privilege’.  Now it’s demanding they confess they are not biological males or females, but their gender is just a construct they can change on a whim.    The mandatory transgender training uses the language of the Left – ‘people are assigned male or female at birth’ – with the implication that gender is not a biological reality but is just all in their head and it doesn’t have to stay that way.  This is patently false and, as a policy analyst observed, arguably the vast majority of people in the military do not agree, but the Pentagon demands they utter a false confession.   You can have the surgery and take the drugs the rest of your life, you can jump through all those hoops and pretend, but you will never change biological reality.

I’ve said often there will always be transgender people and nobody should hate them or wish them harm.  But that doesn’t mean I want them in control of public policy or the Pentagon.

In other Woke Pentagon news lately, experts again warned the Pentagon’s dalliances with climate change and diversity are undermining the military’s ability to wage war.  A military family echoed the warning, saying the U.S. military will get smashed by any country that focuses on winning wars instead of electric vehicles and sensitivity training.

The National Defense University hosted a lecturemaking the case for ‘global justice’ and ‘democratic socialism’ and saying we cannot meet the challenge of China unless we adopt ecological and post-colonial socialism.  Karl Marx would be proud.

Marines are saying privately the military’s COVID vaccine mandate is crushing military readiness and, is in reality, a political purge.  Personnel who requested religious exemptions are being denied and booted out.  The message: people with strong religious convictions need not apply.

Finally, the Pentagon is still chasing after supposed white supremacy and extremism in the ranks in the false belief there are zillions of Timothy McVeigh’s out there just waiting to be discovered.  Despite all the effort the Pentagon is pouring into this, the number identified remains miniscule, according to the military’s own data.

The Pentagon is no longer a military, but is instead chasing after phantoms and ideological unicorns found only in the putrid imagination of Karl Marx.  Let us hope a future administration will stop the insanity and right the ship before the Vladimir Putins of the world get the wrong idea about us.

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Antisemitism, the story of multilayered hatred

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Jewish identity is religious, but also ethnic and bespeaks national existence going back thousands of years- all reasons for hatred.

Current law enforcement statistics show that Jews are targets of bias and hate crimes more than any other minority group, and these numbers are consistent with increases in violent antisemitism seen worldwide. The one constant seems to be the breadth of the pallet used to spew hatred against Jews on religious, ethnic, or national grounds, to minimize their identity by distorting its essence, and to trivialize their suffering by falsely equating it with all other prejudices. Even those who condemn Jew-hatred often exacerbate it by misstating the nature of Jewish identity and inadvertently giving credence to stereotypes that have been used to degrade Jews for thousands of years.

And these stereotypes are now legitimized by a diversity industry that disparages Jewish history and national claims and a social media establishment that provides forums for antisemitic content. The effect on the mainstream has been a blasé tendency to discount Jewish history and suffering – as reflected by the FBI’s ludicrous claim that Jews were not targeted in January’s synagogue hostage takeover in Texas, Whoopi Goldberg’s revisionist explanation of the Holocaust on national TV, and the Democratic Party’s continuing failure to purge progressive antisemites from its ranks.

The roots of antisemitism are often disparate but never mutually exclusive, whether based on religious doctrine, ethnic stereotypes, or ancient xenophobia. Regardless of the enabling ideology, it ultimately focuses on the Jews’ enduring continuity as a people and stubborn refusal to assimilate out of existence.

1.Despite frequent attempts at historical revisionism from both right and left (though mainly these days from the left), the Holocaust was no exception. And whereas European societal complicity may have been facilitated by generations of hostile Church doctrine, Jews were not exterminated for their religious beliefs.

Indeed, the Holocaust was very much about “race” as that term was understood outside the US for generations. That is, the term was variously used to mean heritage, ethnicity, or descent, particularly for people like Jews, whose major subgroupings (i.e., Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Mizrahi) share a basic genomic profile reflecting common Mideastern ancestry. According to geneticist Doron Behar and colleagues in 2010, this is “consistent with a historical formulation of the Jewish people as descending from ancient Hebrew and Israelites residents of the Levant” and “the dispersion of the people of ancient Israel throughout the Old World.” (Nature, doi:10.1038/nature09103.)

Accordingly, Jews are a people possessing a characteristic faith, not simply a religious community connected by belief alone.

Whether race is biological (a notion disputed by biologists and geneticists) or a social construct informed by heredity, there is no doubt that distinct cultural groupings can possess multilayered heritages defined by ancestry, ethnicity, and tradition. This is certainly how friends and foes alike regard the Jews, and it is this identity that evokes perhaps the most virulent of hatreds based on religious, political, or cultural grounds. For many bigots, Jewish belief is irrelevant to their enmity for Jewish people. The Nazis persecuted Jews based on heritage and ancestry – not religious faith – and exterminated them regardless of whether they were observant, secular, or baptized.

Though antisemitic hatred may spring from many wells, its enduring hold on society is clearly premised on the Jews’ identity as a distinct people with a unique heritage. This holds true whether relating to Nazi racial theory or Church doctrine.

2.Christian antisemitism is certainly religious in its canonical basis. Indeed, antisemitic themes flow through Christian scripture and figure prominently in the passion narratives that accuse the Jews of deicide and of supposedly declaring, “his blood be on us and on our children.” (Matthew, 27:25.) Aside from the incompatibility of such accounts with history and halakha, they emphasize the perception of Jews as a distinct people singled out for opprobrium and abuse. It’s no surprise that the European Churches traditionally used passion plays to instigate deadly pogroms during Easter week.

The Reformation did nothing to mitigate theological Jew-hatred, and Martin Luther was just as malevolent as the Church he rejected. After realizing Jews would not embrace his version of Christianity, Luther in 1543 wrote “Von den Jüden und iren Lügen” (“On the Jews and Their Lies”), arguing that their homes, holy books, and synagogues should be burned, property confiscated, and legal protections denied. Luther described Jews as “poisonous envenomed worms,” advocated their expulsion or enslavement, and lamented that “we are at fault in not slaying them.”

Everything Luther wrote would be reiterated by the Nazis in the Nuremburg Laws and on the pages of Der Stürmer.

3.Then there is the antisemitic foundation of replacement theology, which seeks to replace the Jews – an extant people defined by ancestry, language, and a unique relationship with G-d – with a faith community possessing no indicia of peoplehood. Those who claim they are “spiritual Jews” want to usurp “chosen” status without accepting the obligations and can only identify thus by corrupting Jewish Scripture and sacred text. Replacement theology is fundamentally antisemitic and no less repugnant than Luther’s pernicious dogma.

4.Though Christendom’s domination waned with the Enlightenment, Jews fared little better during the Age of Reason. The fathers of progressivism from Voltaire on down disliked Jews, whose ethnoreligious identity was anathema to emerging ideologies seeking to marginalize faith and nationality. The Enlightenment’s disregard for traditional Jewish identity (even among Jewish sympathizers) was succinctly articulated by Count de Clermont-Tonnerre in 1789, when he stated to the French National Assembly that “the Jews should be denied everything as a nation, but granted everything as individuals.”

Those who seek to portray Jewishness as either solely religious or purely national miss its unique essence as an ethnoreligious identity comprising both ancestry and faith. Jews are not defined solely by what they believe. Rather, their beliefs are obligatory because of their descent. The tendency to bifurcate Jewish identity or consider it religious only may come from well-meaning but ill-informed friends who believe similitude breeds acceptance. Such redefinitions, however, are also used to deny the Jews’ national integrity and ancient territorial origins.

This is why remarks stating the Holocaust “was not about race” or that Jews have no national past are so troubling. One might ask whether these comments reflect ignorance or ideology. There is no question that progressives deny the Jews’ national existence and connection to their homeland (which are supported by the archeological, historical, and literary records) in favor of a revisionist Palestinian Arab narrative (which is not). Therefore, whenever progressive media figures or celebrities make such statements, one can reasonably ask whether they are being politically doctrinaire or merely naïve.

Ignorance can be corrected by education, but ideological revisionism cannot; and they should not be allowed to deflect criticism when their comments are exposed by simply claiming some amorphous affinity for the Jewish people. If they want to disclaim antisemitic intent regarding any slurs they may have uttered, they would do better to accept responsibility for their words and condemn Jew-hatred among their peers.

5.The denial of Jewish history and national identity is itself a form of antisemitism that has become politically stylish among progressives; and it has international ramifications, particularly when the UN passes resolutions claiming the Jews have no connection to their homeland or that the Temple never stood in Jerusalem. These claims are reminiscent of Hitler’s “Big Lie” and consistent with propaganda entrenched in the Palestinian National Charter.

Indeed, Article 20 of that charter states:

“The Balfour Declaration, the mandate document and what has been based upon them are considered null and void. The claim of a historical or spiritual tie between Jews and Palestine does not tally with the historical realities nor with the constituencies of statehood in their true sense. Judaism in its character as a religion of revelation, is not a nationality with an independent existence. Likewise, the Jews are not one people with an independent personality. They are rather citizens of the states to which they belong.”

Such dissimulations are parroted by those who delegitimize Israel by denying Jewish history, ancestry, and provenance.

Jewish identity is certainly religious, but it’s also ethnic and bespeaks national existence going back thousands of years. Those who came from the shtetls of Europe surely understood the intrinsic nature of their Jewishness. My grandmother came from a Ukrainian shtetl and survived multiple pogroms. One of the only Slavic words she knew was “Zhyd” and she understood from experience that marauding Cossacks were not interested in how her community prayed or whether they ate kosher. The pogromists came to rape, pillage, and murder people they considered foreigners – quintessential strangers distinguished by language, belief, and blood.

To deny this is to steal the Jews’ history, and to steal their history is to reject their humanity.

And that’s the point.

©Matthew Hausman, J.D. All rights reserved.

Biden is officially the Appeaser-In-Chief: Let us count the ways

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“I would rather die standing than live on my knees.” ― Emiliano Zapata

We have been watching Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., his administration and Democrats in the U.S. Congress since his inauguration on January 20th, 2021.

We believe Biden has become the consummate Appeaser-In-Chief.

Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum breaks down Joe Biden’s policies and how they are impacting Putin’s war on Ukraine. Santorum states Biden’s strategy is to appease our enemies, turn his back on our friends.

Let us explain the who, what, where, when and why we believe this.

Let Us Count The Ways

In order to understand, we must look at what Biden, his administration and Democrat majorities in Congress have actually done. We judge people, including politicians, by their actions, not their words.

Here is our list of reasons that we named Biden as Appeaser-In-Chief:

    1. Biden appeased the Environmentalists. One of the first things Biden, via a January 20th, 2021 Executive Order killed the Keystone XL pipeline to appease the environmentalist lobby. The Executive Order titled “Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis” effectively undid everything President Trump did during his time in office to make America energy independent, encourage drilling in Alaska, providing cheap and reliable energy to the American people and give leverage to America in negotiations with other oil and natural gas producing countries like Russia.
    2. Biden appeased those selling murder. Biden become murder-in-chief by: expanding funding for Planned Parenthood, supporting assisted suicide by appointing Xavier Becerra as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and mandating the use of experimental Covid vaccines, like that produced by Pfizer which have serious side effects.
    3. Biden appeased Big Pharma. Biden began mandating the use of experimental Covid vaccines, like that produced by Pfizer which have serious side effects. His and Democrat leaders at the local, state and national levels began imposing draconian polities including the “get the jab or lose your job” agenda that has caused America workers, including doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, to be fired at a time when their services are most needed.
    4. Biden appeased radical Islamists. Biden appeased the Muslim members of his party by taking a harsh stand against Israel and the Jewish people. On February 16, 2022, Biden killed the Israeli Pipeline Project thus empowering Russia’s energy dominance in Europe. According to The Hill, “The proposed pipeline would have given Europe an alternative to its heavy dependence on Russian gas. It would have conveyed about 10 billion cubic yards of Israeli and Cypriot natural gas to Europe via Greece and Italy each year.”
    5. Biden appeased Russia and Putin. Biden by cutting our domestic oil and natural gas production, see items 1 and 4 above, has turned the energy keys to Europe over to Putin and this has directly lead to the invasion of the Ukraine. Craig Rucker during a talk in Virginia said, “Efforts to go net zero have diminished the ability of nations to provide sufficient energy to meet demand, and this gives tyrants like Vladimir Putin an opportunity to provide that energy in the form of natural gas and rake in millions to fund his war machine.” Marc Morano took Biden to task on Fox and Friends explaining,  “Russian oil imports are at an 11 year high. We’re importing 600,000 barrels a day from Russia. And Russia’s federal budget is 40% based upon oil and gas revenue.” Finally we have seen Russia produces 3 times more gas than Europe produces.  Why?  Because climate activists, partly funded by Russia, blocked fracking.
    6. Biden has appeased Iran. It was announced by the Russians that the U.S. and Iran have reached a nuclear deal. National Review on March 4, 2022 reported, “President Joe Biden vowed this week to isolate Russia, yet his negotiators stayed at the table with their Russian counterparts in Vienna, putting the finishing touches on an Iran nuclear deal 2.0 that will benefit Russia and Iran and endanger the U.S. and its allies. The new agreement is even worse than the 2015 deal made by the Obama administration. Biden’s version would lift U.S. terrorism sanctions on Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, and leave Tehran’s illicit nuclear infrastructure intact without first demanding a full accounting of Iran’s secret nuclear work.” Death may finally be coming to America solely because of Biden’s appeasement of the mullahs.
    7. Biden is appeasing the LGBTQ+ agenda. The LGBTQ+ radicals have many friends in the White House and in the Biden Cabinet. We did a series on how Biden, Democrats and the media have sissyfied America. Biden’s Gay Cabinet includes, Karine Jean-Pierre Kamala Harris’ chief of staff, Pili Tobar deputy White House communications director, Denise Juneau, Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation and Rachel Levine a four star general and the Assistant Secretary for Health. Non-binary, a.k.a. gender queer, individuals are running the Biden Build Back Better agenda and pushing public policies and legislation that empowers gays over straights. These individuals are harmful to traditional families and anti-Muslim, anti-Christian and anti-Jewish. The LGBTQ+ agenda is anti-science, anti-feminist and anti-social.
    8. Biden and Democrats appease Black Identity Extremists (BIE). Black Identity Extremists were identified by the FBI as a threat to our national security. A report published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on August 3rd, 2017 stated, “The FBI assesses it is very likely that BIEs’ perceptions of unjust treatment of African Americans and the perceived unchallenged illegitimate actions of law enforcement will inspire premeditated attacks against law enforcement over the next year. This may also lead to an increase in BIE group memberships, collaboration among BIE groups, or the appearance of additional violent lone offenders motivated by BIE rhetoric. The FBI further assesses it is very likely additional controversial police shootings of African Americans and the associated legal proceedings will continue to serve as drivers for violence against law enforcement. The FBI assesses it is likely police officers of minority groups are also targeted by BIEs because they are also representative of a perceived oppressive law enforcement system.” Black Identity Extremists include Black Lives Matter, which was co-founded by a self-identified Marxist, some members of the Democrat Black Caucus and black members of the Biden administration and cabinet.
    9. Appeasing The Squad, the most radical members of the U.S. Congress. The six members of the Squad are Democrats: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, NY-14, Ilhan Omar (MN-5), Ayanna Pressley ( MA-7), Rashida Tlaib (MI-13), Jamaal Bowman (NY-16) and Cori Bush (MO-1). These individuals have lead the charge to push the Green New Deal, which has become the cornerstone of Biden’s BBB agenda, demonize Israel, embrace Iran and the Palestinians, embrace the LGBTQ+ agenda and attack white people. On July 18th, 2019 we wrote, “There is no doubt that the narrative of the Democratic Party is being driven by freshmen (no misogyny intended) Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley…The Squad feels empowered by the President [Trump] to take action to defend themselves. What has happened is that they have confirmed what President Trump tweeted [about them]. What follows is this Squad then works to control of the narrative of the Democratic Party. They instantly become the face of the Democratic Party via social media, news networks and headlines in print publications.” What we predicted has come true.
    10. Biden is appeasing Communist China. Finally, we are looking at Communist China, not because of what Hunter Biden did there, but because his father is in full blown appeasement mode to kowtow to the Chinese when it comes to Taiwan and the South China Sea. Since the end of the Olympics China has ramped up its pressure on Taiwan. The in an April 16th 2020 article warned, “Amid coronavirus upheaval, the Chinese government’s evasion and deception has remained constant. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) alone is responsible for the global pandemic and resulting consequential economic devastation. However, if the medical community had been skeptical of the totalitarian regime –and the World Health Organization (WHO) had not aggressively defended it –the outbreak may not have spread. Taiwan, kicked out of the WHO in 2017 at Beijing’s behest, was denied access to WHO data. Taiwan’s successful containment of coronavirus was an alternative possibility for the rest of the world; had Beijing’s reports been challenged instead of accepted…The most important CCP objective is to maintain control. Ultimately the party does not care about human rights, or even human lives. To protect itself, the Chinese regime suppressed life-saving information at the cost of 22,071 American lives, a number projected only to grow.”

These are out top ten appeasements. We didn’t include issues like the border crisis, rising unemployment, his sissyfication of our military, his naming of a Muslim Brotherhood supporter to head the Department of Veterans Affairs, his federal support for illegal aliens and human trafficking by drug cartels. More on these issues will come in future articles.

If you have others please leave them in the comments section below.

The Bottom Line

Biden is Appeaser-In-Chief. He appeases our sworn enemies while attacking our long time allies, like Israel. Biden and his cabinet are bent on making America worse for its citizens.

Biden appeasement has lead to:

  • Higher energy prices.
  • Hight food prices.
  • A national supply chain crisis.
  • A war in Europe.
  • Arming Iran with nuclear weapons.
  • Turning America from energy independent to energy dependent from our enemies, e.g. Russia and Iran.
  • Caused crime to rise in our towns, cities and states.
  • Caused people to lose their jobs.
  • Caused inflation.
  • Raised taxes.
  • Increased spending and gifting those who hate America.

Americans are now pushing back against Biden and his policies. The latest was The People’s Convoy that travelled across country to protest the vaccine mandates.

We stand here firm in our belief that Biden is Appeaser-In-Chief. Prove us wrong.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Selling Murder

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Francis X. Maier reflects on Nazi outrages that could never happen here. Physician-assisted suicide? Sixty million abortions? Catholic public officials endorsing such things?

This is a naked commercial, but the product is worthwhile.  If you haven’t yet seen the Netflix short film Forgive Us Our Trespasses, released on February 17, find a way to do so soon.  Barely fourteen minutes long, it feels more like the trailer for a feature movie than a film in its own right.  Nor is it a work of cinematic genius. The film’s writing, direction, and production values are all very simple; almost primitive.  And yet, as one reviewer wrote, it’s packed with “the notes of tension, dramatic action, and release that would usually embody a film with a much wider scope.”  It succeeds as “grand filmmaking on a small scale.”  The reason why is memorable.

Over the past 70 years, dozens of films have dealt with the tragedy of the Holocaust.  And rightly so.  But few have examined the program that set the precedent for the Final Solution and perfected its techniques.  Between 1939 and 1945, the Third Reich’s Aktion T4 campaign murdered 300,000 mentally and physically disabled persons through involuntary euthanasia.  The killings were expertly portrayed in state propaganda as “merciful” for the victims, economically necessary for the nation, and genetically beneficial for the German people.

Forgive Us Our Trespasses tells a very different story: the story of a mother who sacrifices her own life to help her disabled son escape a campaign of clinically organized inhumanity.

How could the most cultured and, at least nominally, Christian nation in Europe embark on such an effort?  It’s tempting to explain Aktion T4 as the creature of Nazi ideology.  But that would be only partly true.  Much of the German medical establishment had “followed the science” and accepted the value of forced sterilization and euthanasia, voluntary and otherwise, years before Adolf Hitler took power.  Doctors and scientists, not SS thugs, first embraced the idea.  The Reich simply exploited their implicit, and at times quite vigorous, support.  Medical personnel faked thousands of death certificates to disguise Aktion T4 murders.  And many of the same doctors escaped postwar prosecution.

At first, the killings involved individual lethal injections.  But this proved time-consuming and hopelessly disproportionate to the scope of the disability “problem.”  The program progressed to sealed mobile vans that could kill dozens of the defective and unwanted at a time, through piped-in carbon monoxide.  At places like the Hadamar psychiatric asylum, victims – often described by medical staff as “human husks” – were gassed en masse in a cellar disguised as a shower room.

In his brilliant, moving, and profoundly disturbing history of Aktion T4, Death and Deliverance, the British historian Michael Burleigh wrote that the disabled were undressed, weighed, and examined by a doctor who selected a fictional “cause of death” from a list of 61 factors.  Then,

patients descended a dozen or steps in batches of sixty at a time, and were then shut into the gas chamber.  A doctor stationed in the alcove outside turned on the valve, and gas streamed in through [a] pipe. . . .[F]ar from being a “gentle death,” the victims experienced extreme terror, as well as the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning.  After an hour, all was quiet.

A team of “disinfectors” would then move in to disentangle the corpses.  “Those who had been marked beforehand as being of special scientific interest,” noted Burleigh, were “separated out and taken to a nearby autopsy room. Their brains would go to the university clinics in Frankfurt or Würzburg.”  The dead had their gold teeth extracted, and the bodies were then burned in crematoria.  Ashes were scattered.  Bones were crushed in a mill.

The Holocaust simply mirrored this procedure on a far more massive scale with three innovations:  bigger showers; bigger ovens; and Zyklon B gas.

Confidential opinion surveys conducted by the Reich at the time found an uneasy and deeply divided German public.  The more actively religious the person, the more likely he or she was to oppose Aktion T4.  But many ordinary citizens supported the euthanasia campaign, so long as it was presented as “voluntary” on the part of adult victims, or in the case of children, their parents.

Reich propaganda took great care in softening perceptions of the campaign, framing the euthanasia program as sympathetically as possible.  This included remarkably skillful film melodramas like I Accuse, a movie entirely devoid of vulgar Nazi cant.

The plot of I Accuse involves an attractive, faithful married couple.  The wife, terminally ill, begs her husband to end her suffering.  Moved by love and her insistent appeals, he euthanizes her and is promptly dragged into court as a murderer.  But the husband, unrepentant, rivets the courtroom with words that might sound familiar:

Here I stand, the accused, and now I accuse.  I accuse the proponents of outmoded beliefs and antiquated laws.  This is not just about myself, but about the hundreds of thousands of those who suffer without hope, whose lives we unnaturally prolong, and whose suffering we unnaturally increase. . .and it is about those millions of healthy people, who cannot be protected against illness because everything that is needed to do so has to be employed keeping beings alive whose death would be a deliverance for them and liberation from a burden for the rest of humanity. . . .and now, Gentlemen Judges and Jurors, please deliver your verdict!

Many Catholic and Lutheran clergy resisted the euthanasia program in whatever way they could.  The most forceful such voice was Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen, bishop of Münster.  But too many were silent.  Religiously-run homes for the disabled typically caved in to regime pressure and handed over their patients for “treatment.”

So. . .what’s the point of all this remembering?  Just this:  Here in America, such things could never occur.  Physician-assisted suicide?  Sixty million abortions?  Selling unborn baby parts?  Fetal tissue experiments?  Catholic public officials who ignore or allow such things?  It can’t happen here.

Or maybe we have our own trespasses that need to be forgiven.

If you are interested in knowing more about all this, consider watching the award-winning (and harrowing) documentary, also written by Michael Burleigh, Selling Murder: The Killing Films of the Third Reich, available on YouTube.

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Brad Miner’s Never Again, Again?

George J. Marlin’s The Lion of Münster

COLUMN BY

Francis X. Maier

Francis X. Maier is a senior fellow in Catholic studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the 2020-22 senior research associate at the Notre Dame Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government.

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The Clintons’ Russia-Ukraine Grift

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was quick to cast blame as war unfolded in Ukraine. On MSNBC last week, she blasted former President Trump for “giving aid and comfort to Vladimir Putin” with an offhand remark that the Russian president was a “genius.” Mrs. Clinton conveniently omitted mention that not too long ago, she and her husband had raked in millions working both sides of a Russia-Ukraine grift.

Judicial Watch broke the story of former president Bill Clinton’s multi-million-dollar haul from speech fees while his wife presided over U.S. foreign policy. In a joint investigation with the Washington Examiner, Judicial Watch found that Mr. Clinton gave 215 speeches, taking in $48 million. According to documents obtained by Judicial Watch in Freedom of Information Act litigation, State Department officials charged with reviewing proposed Bill Clinton speeches for possible conflicts of interest did not object to a single one.

The speech fees included a jaw-dropping $500,000 check from the Russian investment firm Renaissance Capital for a single speech. Years later, leaked emails revealed the close connection between Renaissance Capital and Putin’s inner circle. Reuters reported that the emails show top Renaissance officials awarding an unspecified stake in the firm to Matthias Warnig, a close Putin ally. “Warnig served as an officer in East Germany’s Stasi secret police at the same time as Putin was a KGB officer in Dresden in the late 1980s,” Reuters noted.

The Clintons also cultivated a relationship with Putin-connected oligarch Victor Vekselberg, who donated an estimated $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation. In 2018, Vekselberg was one of seven oligarchs sanctioned by the Trump Administration for activities related to the Russian government’s “malign activity…including continuing to occupy Crimea and instigate violence in eastern Ukraine.”

According to findings by investigative reporter John Solomon, Vekselberg also was involved in the Uranium One controversy—another lucrative source of cash for the Clinton network. Uranium One was a Canadian uranium mining firm with U.S. holdings that the Russians wanted to buy. The vehicle for the purchase was Rosatom, the Russian state atomic energy corporation. Because uranium is a strategic asset, the U.S. government had to approve deal. Enter Vekselberg and Secretary of State Clinton.

At the time of Bill Clinton’s $500,000 Russian speaking engagement, the former president sought permission from the State Department to meet with Vekselberg and Arkady Dvorkovich, a senior official of Rosatom, during the Moscow trip. Russia needed sign-off from the State Department on the inter-agency panel responsible for deciding the fate of the deal.

You don’t need to be a genius to connect the dots between a $500,000 “speaking fee,” a trip to Moscow, and Russia’s goal of cornering a big chunk of the global uranium market.

The sale of Uranium One to Rosatom was approved by both the U.S. and Canadian governments. In the years surrounding the deal—including before it became public knowledge—entities connected to Uranium One donated $145 million to the Clinton Foundation.

The Clintons had a Ukrainian benefactor as well. According to a New York Times report, Ukrainian oligarch and steel baron Victor Pinchuk steered between $10 million and $25 million to the Clinton Foundation, loaned his private plane to the Clintons, flew to LA to attend Mr. Clinton’s big 65th birthday party, and went to a dinner party at the Clintons’ home. Pinchuk hired Doug Schoen, Mr. Clinton’s former consultant, to arrange meetings with State Department officials to discuss Ukraine. Pinchuk also donated $150,000 to the Trump Foundation.

Pinchuk has been embroiled in controversies in Ukraine for years, but he has never been charged with a crime. In 2013, the Commerce Department began investigating complaints that Pinchuk and others were illegally dumping steel on the U.S. market. The investigation went nowhere. According to recent reporting, Pinchuk and his fellow Ukrainian oligarchs have put aside their sometimes bitter rivalries and are working to support Ukrainian independence.

As for Mrs. Clinton, last week she declared that Americans should be “calling out those people” who have given aid and comfort to Vladimir Putin and his allies. Good idea. She can start by looking in the mirror.

COLUMN BY

MICAH MORRISON

Micah Morrison is chief investigative reporter for Judicial Watch. Follow him on Twitter @micah_morrison. Tips: mmorrison@judicialwatch.org

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Pfizer Vaccines’ 8 PAGES of Side Effects, ‘I’ve never seen anything like it. I can’t even get my head around this’

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I can’t say it enough. This is the worst medical experiment on humankind in history.

Pfizer vaccine data. Pfizer wanted you to wait till 2085 to know that the vaccine you took has 9 PAGES of side effects. Start with page 30. I’ve never seen anything like it. I can’t even get my head around this.

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I can’t say it enough. This is the worst medical experiment on humankind in history.

Pfizer vaccine data. Pfizer wanted you to wait till 2085 to know that the vaccine you took has 9 PAGES of side effects. Start with page 30. I’ve never seen anything like it. I can’t even get my head around this.

1223 reported fatalities during a 3-month period, out of 42K reports? Was this covered up? I am really confused. This is not what we see in real life. Oy.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE CHART: SELECTED CHARACTERISTICS OF ALL CASES RECIEVED DURING THE REPORTING INTERVAL

While protection against hospitalization is still strong, the vaccine offered almost no protection against infection, even just a month after full vaccination.

In a large new set of data cited by the New York Times, Pfizer’s COVID vaccine showed negative vaccine effectiveness (VE) in children age 5 to 11 after 35 days, with children age 5 to 11 over 40% MORE likely to test positive 42 days after vaccination.

While protection against hospitalization is still strong, the vaccine offered almost no protection against infection, even just a month after full vaccination.

Why was Pfizer FORCED to release safety data?

Pfizer wanted this info delayed 75 years.

9 (NINE!) pages of recorded adverse vaccine events.

The government paid for this vaccine.

Large German health insurance company analyzed data from 10.9 million insured individuals regarding vaccination complications.

The new data is “alarming,” says BKK board member Schöfbeck in a report by WELT.

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“Tell me you hate America, without telling me you hate America.”

The Biden administration is still fighting congressional efforts to stop the importation of Iranian oil. In a surreal exercise, Biden expects the rest of the world to sanction Russia even as we keep buying Russian energy products. And if that’s not enough, the former Mayor of South Bend is down with Iranian oil.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday that “all options are on the table” during a discussion about oil prices after MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle asked if President Biden would consider “working something out with Iran.”

Do all options also include the 25th Amendment?

Biden will get oil anywhere and from any of our enemies… just not from Americans.

While Biden gives meaningless quotes about Russia and Ukraine, the Russians are negotiating an even worse version of the Iran Deal that Biden is expected to sign on to.

The Russians may be getting kicked out of the Paralympics and the cat shows, but Putin is still in the driver’s seat at the White House

The rest of it, the hollow saber-rattling, the sanctions, and the propaganda are a show. The reality can be seen quickly enough if you follow the power and the money.

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Russian Collusion Exposed: Russia Funded Environmental Groups to Oppose Fracking in Europe and U.S.

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From 2018 Congressional Report: 

A Republican staff report by the Senate suggests that Russian funds have been funneled through off-shore corporations and passed on to U.S.- based environmental activist organizations with the intent to effect political change.

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In January 2017, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a report stating there is “clear evidence that the Kremlin is financing and choreographing anti-fracking propaganda in the United States.”

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Hillary Clinton in 2014 said: ‘We [the State Department and the U.S.] were up against Russia pushing oligarchs and others to buy media. We were even up against phony environmental groups, and I’m a big environmentalist, but these were funded by the Russians to stand against any effort, ‘Oh that pipeline, that fracking, that whatever will be a problem for you,’ and a lot of the money supporting that message was coming from Russia.’

2018: CFACT & Climate Depot’s billboard went up: — ‘Russia funneled Green groups millions of dollars to oppose fracking & cripple American energy. – How’s that for COLLUSION?’

2018 CFACT report: Russian efforts to disrupt U.S. energy markets exposed – By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

2018: CFACT report: Real Russian collusion the MSM ignores– By Paul Driessen

March 2022: Michael Shellenberger: “15 years ago Europe exported more natural gas than Russia does today. Now, Russia exports 3x more gas than Europe produces. Why? Because climate activists, partly funded by Russia, blocked fracking.” 

The Russia “collusion” no one seems to want to remember. Here are excerpts from a 2-18 U.S. Congressional report from the Committee on Science, Space and Technology. It details how Russian

From March 1, 2018 U.S. Congress Report: United States House of Representatives – Committee on Science, Space, and Technology – Russian Attempts to Influence U.S. Domestic Energy Markets by Exploiting Social Media Majority Report

Excerpt from 2018 Congressional Report: Fracking Threatens the Kremlin’s Agenda

Republicans and Democrats agree the Kremlin is manipulating environmental groups in an attempt to carry out their agenda

The Kremlin has a motive to disrupt U.S. energy markets and influence domestic energy policy, since American energy represents a direct threat to Russian energy interests. Russia’s efforts to influence U.S. energy policy are well documented in the public domain. U.S. presidential candidates, European officials, and the U.S. intelligence community have all publicly noted that Russia and its government corporations are funding a covert anti-fracking campaign to suppress the widespread adoption of fracking in Europe and the U.S., all in an effort to protect the influence of the Russian oil and gas sector.22

The substantial increase in domestic production has resulted in an abundant supply of American energy, which is increasingly making its way into the global marketplace. While this stands to provide substantial economic benefits to the U.S., it simultaneously represents a direct threat to Russian energy interests. First, an abundance of American supply in the global energy marketplace stands to reduce Russian market share and thus revenues generated from oil and gas activities. Second, by providing supply alternatives for European countries dependent on Russian supply and infrastructure, American energy stands to disrupt the Kremlin’s ability to leverage energy consumption for geopolitical influence.

Russia provides roughly 75 percent of the natural gas imported by countries in Central and Eastern Europe while the countries in Southeast Europe “receive almost all of their natural gas from Russia.” 17 “Russia’s Gazprom has acknowledged for the first time a threat to its dominant position in European gas market from an expected influx of liquefied natural gas (LNG) produced in the United States under [the Trump] administration.” 18 Shortly after this acknowledgment, U.S. LNG made its way to Poland 19 and Lithuania. 20 In fact, Poland recently signed a five-year deal with the United States to import liquefied natural gas into the country in an attempt to decrease dependency on Russian energy supplies. 21 …

As the threat of American energy continues to grow, so does the Kremlin’s incentive to influence energy operations in Europe and the United States. Moreover, as they have demonstrated, the Kremlin will use any and all tools at their disposal to preserve Russia’s dominant energy status and to maintain its stranglehold over Eastern and Central Europe. …

Former Secretary of State and then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, with access to intelligence reports, made a private speech in 2014, according to documents from WikiLeaks, which included statements about the struggles of dealing with Russian-backed environmental groups. According to a media report, Secretary Clinton said the following: “We [the State Department and the U.S.] were up against Russia pushing oligarchs and others to buy media.
We were even up against phony environmental groups, and I’m a big environmentalist, but these were funded by the Russians to stand against any effort, ‘Oh that pipeline, that fracking, that whatever will be a problem for you,’ and a lot of the money supporting that message was coming from Russia.”24 …

In January 2017, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report that contained “clear evidence that the Kremlin is financing and choreographing anti-fracking propaganda in the United States.” 25 The report found that the Russian-sponsored news agency RT (formerly Russian Today) “r[an] anti-fracking programing, highlighting environmental issues and the impacts on public health,” which “is likely reflective of the Russian Government’s concern about the impact of fracking and the U.S. natural gas production on the global energy market and the potential challenges to [Russian energy companies’] profitability,” such as state- controlled Russian energy giant Gazprom.26 …

A Republican staff report by the Senate suggests that Russian funds have been funneled through off-shore corporations and passed on to U.S.- based environmental activist organizations with the intent to effect political change. 27 …

More recently Senator Ben Cardin released a voluminous report on Russian manipulation of the media over decades. Specific to oil and gas, the Cardin report cited a “study by the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies [which] reports that the Russian government has invested $95 million in NGOs that seek to persuade EU governments to end shale gas exploration,” which illustrates how American energy directly clashes with the Russian energy agenda.28 Senator Cardin’s work reiterates that “according to NATO officials, Russian intelligence agencies also reportedly provide covert support to European environmental groups to campaign against fracking for natural gas, thereby keeping the EU more dependent on Russian supplies.”29

Additionally, as further evidence of Russian attempts to spread propaganda in the United States, U.S. Department of Justice officials have demanded that the U.S. based affiliate of RT register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).30 FARA requires that agents representing the interests of foreign governments in any political or quasi-political capacity disclose public communications aimed at influencing American political debate or public policy.31 Through local programs all over the world, RT and other news agencies operate as a government-funded arm of Russia in its attempts to destabilize and disrupt democratic institutions and the free market. Under FARA, the American people have the right to evaluate the “statements and activities of [persons acting as foreign agents] in light of their function as foreign agents.”32

To that end, the Kremlin is attempting to make, as Senator Cardin’s report states, “useful idiots” of unwitting environmental groups and activists in furtherance of its energy influence operations.33

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2018: CFACT & Climate Depot’s billboard went up: — ‘Russia funneled Green groups millions of dollars to oppose fracking & cripple American energy. – How’s that for COLLUSION?’

2018 CFACT report: Russian efforts to disrupt U.S. energy markets exposed – By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. – In January 2017, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a report stating there is “clear evidence that the Kremlin is financing and choreographing anti-fracking propaganda in the United States.”

2018: CFACT report: Real Russian collusion the MSM ignores– By Paul Driessen

Driessen Excerpt: The US Senate “Billionaires’ Club” and Environmental Policy Alliance “From Russia with Love” reports, articles by investigative journalists like Ron Arnold and Lachlan Markay (here and here), studies by the US National Intelligence Director and Iowa State University, and a March 2018 report by the US House Science Committee reveal money laundering by Putin cronies and ongoing propaganda efforts by Russian media groups to undermine American drilling, fracking, pipeline and agricultural programs. … Hefty portions of Klein funds come from Russia: Rosneft, the Russian-government-owned oil and gas giant that is one of Wakefield’s largest clients; Spectrum Partners, a Moscow-based energy investment firm with major assets in Russian oil and gas; the IPOC Group, an international growth fund owned by Russian minister of telecommunications and Putin friend Leonid Reiman; and other Russian companies. (Other Sea Change donors include the Gates Foundation, eBay’s Omidyar Network Fund, David Rockefeller’s personal foundation, the Walmart Foundation and the extended Simons family.)

The Science Committee Report explains how the Russian government funnel money through surrogates to US environmentalist organizations to fund attacks on the fossil fuels industry. It also reveals how Russian operatives create and spread propaganda on US social media platforms, to manipulate American opinions about pipelines, fossil fuels, fracking and climate change.

Standing up to Putin means ditching Net-Zero (& Green New Deal) – ‘The West can’t win a geopolitical conflict…with an economy powered intermittently by wind & solar’–

Rupert Darwall: In late 2019, Boris Johnson banned commercial fracking. Earlier this month, the British government ordered that concrete be poured into the country’s two exploratory shale wells and for them to be abandoned. The move was blasted by Cuadrilla Resources CEO Francis Egan, who pointed out that the Bowland shale formation could supply 50 years of current U.K. gas demand. … Germany’s and the EU’s net-zero policies will deepen their dependence on Putin’s goodwill as they increase their exposure to unreliable wind and solar, phase out coal, and – in the case of Germany and Belgium – prematurely close their nuclear power stations. Strategically, that’s a win for Putin.

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Federal Reserve Chief Powell, ‘It’s Possible to Have More than One Reserve Currency in the World’

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Surrendering America’s financial dominance in the world. 

While everyone screams about Ukraine, the Democrats are blowing up this country.

Fed Chief Powell Says It’s Possible to Have More than One Reserve Currency in the World – Diminishing America’s Financial Dominance

Joe Hoft, March 2, 2022:

Fed Chief Jerome Powell says it’s possible to have more than one reserve currency in the world.  How does this make America great again?

Jerome Powell is planning on raising interest rates this month from the zero percent that Democrats have benefitted from in the White House this century.  Rates have been kept at zero percent for almost all the time that Democrats are in the White House since 2000.

He spoke in front of Congress this morning.  PBS reports:

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell made clear Wednesday that the Fed will begin raising interest rates this month in a high-stakes effort to restrain surging inflation.

Fed Chief Jerome Powell also shared the potential to have more than one reserve currency in the world.  This is a shocking statement coming from the head of the Fed.

The US has benefitted from having the reserve currency of the world. We’ve reported on this for months and how under Biden the US has reached the lowest point in decades.

As the Biden gang continues to spend the dollar continues to get weaker.  Now the US is pushing Russia away from using the US dollar as its reserve currency and this may not be so smart.

As the Biden gang continues to spend the dollar continues to get weaker. Now the US is pushing Russia away from using the US dollar as its reserve currency and this may not be so smart.

In addition, the US has benefitted from having the USD the currency used for oil transactions worldwide.  This ‘petrol dollar’ arrangement may go by the wayside as some fear Russia and the Saudis have already made an arrangement to trade oil outside of the dollar.

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