The pilot program in the Zeitoun neighborhood will include ending incitement in the schools
Israel is preparing to carry out a pilot program that will see local authorities replace the Hamas terrorist group in governing the southern Gaza City neighborhood of Zeitoun, Channel 12 reported.
The military began a major aerial and ground offensive in the district on Monday night to clear it of terrorists ahead of the initiative. Led by the 162nd Division, Israeli forces killed and captured dozens of terrorists and confiscated a large amount of ammunition.
According to the report, Israel’s goal is for community leaders to manage the reception and distribution of humanitarian aid to establish an alternative to Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip. Security forces will attempt to prevent the terrorist group from interfering with this process.
Gazan representatives recently met with Israeli officials to discuss the plan.
Notably, the plan does not involve a return to the north for the tens of thousands of Gazans who evacuated to a humanitarian zone in the southern Strip at the behest of the Israeli army. Instead, the pilot will be carried out with the residents who remained there.
Additionally, the pilot includes replacing the school curricula with textbooks that do not promote violent rejection of Israel and hatred towards Jews. Israeli leaders have repeatedly stressed the importance of deradicalizing the Gaza population, including moderating the educational system, after Hamas is defeated.
Israeli War Cabinet member Benny Gantz on Wednesday evening referred to an international pilot in which moderate Arab countries would establish a civil administration to manage the Strip after the war ends, while Israel maintains full security control.
This civil administration would likely include “local Palestinians supported by some sort of regional committee or arrangement,” according to Gantz.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has previously said that he wants to see local Palestinian community leaders govern Gaza instead of Hamas or the Palestinian Authority.
“Oslo was the mother of all sins. The difference between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority is only that Hamas wants to destroy us here and now, and the P.A. wants to do it in stages,” Netanyahu said in December.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00NEWSRAEL Telling the Israeli Storyhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngNEWSRAEL Telling the Israeli Story2024-02-22 14:27:442024-02-22 14:40:05WATCH: Israel Launches Pilot Program to Replace Hamas with Local Leaders in Gaza City District
February 21, 2024 – Today is Barbara Jordan’s birthday. She would have been 88 years old. Tragically, she died in 1996, just before Congress voted on the immigration recommendations she developed over the last years of her life.
If you don’t know much about Barbara Jordan, you should look her up. She regularly appears on lists of great American orators. Jordan’s life story is full of “firsts,” including the first Southern Black woman to be elected to the House of Representatives, and the first woman to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.
If you are concerned at all with immigration policy, you must learn about Barbara Jordan and the last act of her illustrious life and career. Her work as chair of the last bi-partisan commission to study immigration is essential to understanding where we’ve been; and necessary for us to see where we need to go.
Growing up during the Great Migration
Jordan was born in 1936, twelve years after the Immigration Act of 1924 was signed into law (one hundred years ago this May). That bill permanently ended The Great Wave of European migration (after the Great War had temporarily halted it in 1917). The slowdown of ships from Europe forced Northern industrialists to do the unthinkable: they sent recruiters to the far corners of the deep South and recruited the descendants of slaves and American Freedmen. The result was The Great Migration of Black Americans into the North and West. White workers’ income went up two hundred and fifty percent. Black workers’ income went up four hundred percent. W.E.B. DuBois called the immigration slowdown “the economic salvation of American black labor.” DuBois’ declaration was echoed by Black journals and newspapers.
Jordan grew up during segregation and other forms of institutionalized racism. She also grew up during The Great Leveling and the rise of the Black middle class, whose economic gains led to new political power. In the year before Jordan was elected to the Texas State Senate (another first), Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1965. Four decades of economic empowerment had finally led to the dismantling of institutional barriers to social equality.
Righting an old wrong; creating a new one
As Jordan was on the cusp of beginning her political career in the Texas Senate, legislators in Washington, D.C. were about to make a mistake that Jordan would spend the coda of her political career trying to clean up. In the spirit of the civil rights movement, and to honor the slain President Kennedy, Congress passed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. In doing so, they righted an old wrong, and created a new one.
Multiple administrations and Congresses had criticized one aspect of the immigration system created by the 1924 law: national-origin quotas made it virtually impossible for anyone outside of Europe to immigrate to the United States. The 1924 Act drastically reduced immigration from Europe, but it effectively banned immigration from other parts of the world, regardless of an individual’s merit. If the fundamental questions of immigration policy are “how many” and “which ones,” the 1924 Act was right on the former, and wrong on the latter.
“Everywhere else in our national life, we have eliminated discrimination based on national origins,” Senator Ted Kennedy said, “Yet this system is still the foundation of our immigration law.”
Kennedy and his fellow reformers vowed to leave the successful “how many” part of the 1924 Act in place. They promised a system that would admit 265,000 immigrants per year. Their aim was only to recalibrate the “which ones” part. The new system, they promised, would be less discriminatory. A nuclear physicist, for instance, wouldn’t be denied just because he or she came from the “wrong” part of the world.
In the end, the bill changed both the “which ones” and the “how many.” The discriminatory quotas were abolished, but immigration numbers almost immediately doubled. Decades of declining inequality, an expanding middle class, and shrinking racial wealth gaps were halted and reversed. Inadvertently, it seems, Congress created new economic barriers to equality within a month of passing landmark civil rights legislation.
The 1965 Act was the photo negative of the 1924 bill. The legislation got the “which ones” right and the “how many” wrong. The challenge for policy makers today is to get both parts right. Nobody in the last half century has provided a clearer roadmap to achieving that sensible balance than Barbara Charline Jordan.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Dr. Rich Swierhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngDr. Rich Swier2024-02-21 13:01:192024-02-21 15:25:55VIDEO: Democrat Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, ‘Immigration is not a right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution’
This is the best use of AI I have ever seen. It was created by Jason Coursey and J. Youngbluth in honor of President’s Day and Donald J. Trump.
Please watch “America Lives” and share this article with your family, friends and on all of your social media platforms.
It is an endearing message on the resiliency of the American people.
In honor of Presidents Day and to support the greatest president of our lifetime, President Donald J. Trump, we are presenting "America Lives," possibly the first AI-animated video of its kind. This collaborative video is created by @JasonCoursey and myself, @JYoungbluth. pic.twitter.com/8GC2bqanNo
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Dr. Rich Swierhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngDr. Rich Swier2024-02-21 05:03:132024-02-22 09:36:18Watch “America Lives” the First AI-Animated Political Ad of its Kind
America is not simply experiencing a rush across the once semi-secure southern Border. America is deliberately under attack.
Those in public office, regardless of political party, whose loyalty is elsewhere than America First, are encouraging the onslaught leading to the collapse of this Republic. Make no mistake, a sophisticated plan was launched by Una-party/Globalist elected and related to collapse the United States into the New-World Order. The flood of humanity illegally flowing into America is one example of the plan launched to destroy our sovereignty.
Former Director of ICE (Immigration and Custom Enforcement) Tom Homan and former Arizona State Rep. Mark Finchem are my guests. Director Homan is announcing a program he launched called Border911. You will learn the seriousness of this program and where he is taking this over the next ten months. Mark Finchem is wholeheartedly participating given the critical position of Arizona in relation to the border, and as a candidate seeking the Office of State Senator.
I have met Tom Homan previously away from cameras and the public, and his sincerity and patriotism is beyond reproach. His caring heart for the values of America and what we are on course to lose if people do not step up immediately and say, “Enough” are also real and measurable. I urge you to reach out and learn about Border911 now; please don’t wait.
Mass immigration is completely destroying our country. Why is no one doing anything about it? Because they’re afraid of ending up like Lydia Brimelow. pic.twitter.com/B5B0bh6t5O
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D.http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngLyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D.2024-02-20 06:00:262024-02-22 05:47:36Watch Border 911 with former Director of ICE Tom Homan and former Arizona State Rep. Mark Finchem
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”
George Orwell, 1984
George Orwell’s writings have experienced a spike in popularity over the past several decades and for a good reason – modern societies are becoming ever more like the dystopia Orwell depicted in his novel 1984. Whether it be mass surveillance, the incessant use of propaganda, perpetual war, the manipulation of language, or the cult of personality surrounding political leaders, many consider Orwell’s novel to be prescient. While the West remains freer than the dystopian society of 1984, the trend of more and more power being concentrated in the hands of politicians and bureaucrats does not bode well for those who favour a free society. Orwell believed that the totalitarianism he portrayed in his novel was a distinct possibility for the West and at times he went as far as to suggest that it may in fact be inevitable. Or as he wrote:
“Almost certainly we are moving into an age of totalitarian dictatorships.”
George Orwell, Complete Works – Volume XII
In this video we will look at the cause of Orwell’s pessimism, focusing on two trends that increase the risk of a totalitarian future – the movement toward collectivism and the rise of hedonism. We then contrast Orwell’s views with those of another author of dystopian fiction – Aldous Huxley.
Collectivism is a doctrine, central to several ideologies, in which the goals of a certain collective, such as a state, a nation, a socio-economic class, an ethnic group, or a society, are given precedence over the goals of individuals. Socialism, communism, nationalism, and fascism are all collectivist ideologies. Orwell believed that a pre-condition for the rise of totalitarianism was the widespread adoption of a collectivist mentality, and all the totalitarian nations of the 20th century were organized based on some form of collectivist ideology – in the Soviet Union and China it was communism, in Germany and in Italy, fascism.
Orwell’s view of the connection between totalitarianism and collectivism has proved puzzling as Orwell was a staunch leftist, a critic of capitalism, and a socialist. How could someone who favoured socialism, a collectivist ideology, at the same time write a dystopian novel which portrays a collectivist society in such a horrific manner? To understand his position, it must first be realized that Orwell did not consider capitalism to be a viable system, or as he explains:
“It is not certain that Socialism is in all ways superior to capitalism but it is certain that, unlike capitalism, it can solve the problems of production and consumption.”
George Orwell, Complete Works – Volume XII
Capitalism was such an inadequate system in Orwell’s mind, that like many other leftists of his day, he believed it was on its deathbed and would soon be replaced by some form of collectivism. He saw this as inevitable. The issue for Orwell was what type of collectivism would take its place.
“The real question…is whether capitalism, now obviously doomed, is to give way to oligarchy [totalitarianism] or to true democracy [democratic socialism]”.
George Orwell, Complete Works – Volume XVIII
Following the death of capitalism Orwell hoped that democratic socialism would rise in the West. Democratic socialists, like Orwell, advocated for a centrally planned economy, nationalization of all major industry, and a radical decrease in wealth inequality. They were also strong supporters of civil liberties such as freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, which they hoped could be maintained in a society which would largely deprive people of their economic freedoms.
The problem, however, which Orwell and other socialists had to grapple with, were the lack of examples, past or present, of any country successfully adopting democratic socialism. Furthermore, when a government rids a populace of its economic freedom, the destruction of civil liberties tends to follow. For a centrally planned economy is rife with corruption, waste, and mismanagement and so for a government to maintain power as it parasitically saps wealth and resources from a populace it must limit their ability to speak out and protest. To make matters worse, all the states that had turned to collectivism in the first half of the 20th century, such as Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, adopted what Orwell called oligarchical collectivism, not democratic socialism.
Oligarchical collectivism is a totalitarian system in which an elite few, under the guise of a collectivist ideology, centralize power using force and deception. Once in power these oligarchs take away not only the economic freedoms of their citizens, a move which socialists like Orwell favoured, but also their civil liberties. Orwell was concerned that following the death of capitalism the possibility existed that the entire Western world would succumb to oligarchical collectivism. One of the main reasons for this fear was his recognition that hedonism was on the rise in the West, and a hedonistic populace, according to Orwell, is a populace ripe for the taking by totalitarians.
Hedonism is an ethical position which maintains that life’s ultimate goal should be the maximization of pleasure and the minimization of pain and discomfort. In an increasingly urban and consumerist West, Orwell believed that many people were structuring their lives in a hedonistic manner. A hedonistic lifestyle, according to Orwell, weakens people, it makes them feeble and incapable of mounting any resistance against those who desire to rule over a society with force. Or as David Ramsay Steele writes:
“Orwell thinks that any group which gives itself over to hedonism must ultimately become easy meat for fanatical ideological enemies, which are more self-sacrificing, more dedicated, and more remorseless. The real enemy is not the lover of pleasure but the fanatic who is against pleasure, and the former is conceived as defenceless in face of the latter.”
David Ramsay Steele, Orwell Your Orwell
The West, since Orwell’s death in 1950, has become more hedonistic, and most people have been indoctrinated to accept collectivism in one form or another, but this has not led the permanent entrenchment of oligarchical collectivism. Rather, Aldous Huxley, the author of another famous 20th century dystopian novel, Brave New World, may have had a better grasp of the way Western societies would become enslaved in the late-20th and early-21st centuries.
Huxley, like Orwell, was an anti-hedonist, but his aversion to hedonism differed from Orwell’s. Huxley’s main concern was that hedonism could be used as an effective tool to oppress a society because people will willingly forgo freedom so long as their appetite for pleasure and consumption is fulfilled. If a society is structured so that people can devote much of their time to pursuing pleasures, gratifying material wants, and even drugging themselves to escape from reality, then persuasion and conditioning, rather than coercive force, will be sufficient to exert extreme control over a society. Under such conditions most people won’t even notice the chains of servitude that slowly tighten around them, or as Huxley wrote:
“In Brave New World non-stop distractions of the most fascinating nature…are deliberately used…for the purpose of preventing people from paying too much attention to the realities of the social and political situation.”
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
Neil Postman in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, contrasts the differing fears of Orwell and Huxley:
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one…Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture…In 1984 people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.” (Neil Postman)
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
The West, it seems, finds itself in a situation analogous to what Huxley feared. We live in a society that is drowning in distractions. Most people spend more time staring at screens than interacting with people in the flesh and blood, and popping prescriptions pills, or self-medicating with alcohol or illicit drugs, has become the normal mode for coping with any form of distress. Most people still believe the West is free and the overt physical coercion that Orwell thought would be required to enslave a society has so far proven unnecessary. Through endless distractions, diversions, and the easy availability of pleasurable and distracting experiences, many embrace their lack of freedom and worship the society which has made their hedonistic lifestyle possible.
“The world’s stable now,’ says the Controller in Huxley’s Brave New World. ‘People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get.”
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Before dismissing Orwell’s fears completely, however, it must be noted that Orwell was familiar with Huxley’s position, and he did not deny that the hedonistic society Huxley feared was a possibility. But he saw it as a temporary stage creating the ideal conditions for a more brutal regime to seize control and impose its will on a society composed of weak and apathetic men and women. Whether Orwell will be proven correct remains to be seen, but as was revealed in the first few years of this decade, if a societal crisis emerges, most people will accept the more brutal form of totalitarianism that Orwell feared. So perhaps all that is missing to throw us permanently into the dystopian world depicted in 1984 is one more major social crisis.
EDITORS NOTE: This Academy of Ideas video is republished with permission. All rights reserved.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Academy of Ideashttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngAcademy of Ideas2024-02-19 12:50:252024-02-19 12:51:30VIDEO: 1984 vs Brave New World – How Freedom Dies
On Dissent Television we are honored to have Jeffrey Sanow a a 24-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Jeffrey is an accomplished social skills instructor and expert at training military members and civilian intelligence personnel in the art of leveraging civilian business tools for the conduct of intelligence operations.
In simpler terms, it was Jeffery’s job to recruit spies and steal secrets.
Jeffrey retired from the CIA in 2009 and taught intelligence operations at the Advanced Tradecraft Center and at the U.S. Army Joint Readiness Training Center.
Jeffrey served as a Senior Instructor focused on providing clients with the necessary planning, communications and field skills for U.S. government affiliated and commercial sector-based intelligence operations.
As a result of years in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, first as an agriculture development technician and then as a CIA field operations officer, Jeffrey developed a deep, personal understanding of the three monotheistic religions, their social constructs, and the inherent conflicts within.
Combined with his experience and desire to help, Jeffrey speaks with Dissent Television host Dr. Rich Swier understanding the nature of the conflicts and their resolution.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00DISSENT Television Networkhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngDISSENT Television Network2024-02-19 12:37:442024-03-03 12:19:27Former CIA Officer Jeffrey Sanow on ‘Global Conflicts and their Resolution’
Ryan Hartwig is an American unsung hero. For two years Mr. Hartwig was responsible for censoring conservative messages and especially anything Trump from Facebook, Instagram and social media. As you will learn, Ryan did not grasp the subtle messages and internal memos he received with sometimes nebulous instructions as to the screening he was being ordered to impose. Steadily, however, Ryan saw the diabolical scheme unfolding which began a whole new level of heaviness for him to contend with – namely, to continue or stop.
Ryan Hartwig is a man of integrity who seriously began struggling with the demands of his employer, versus what his conscience was beginning to stir. “Newsworthy exceptions” is one term his employer used in pushing the censoring that was steadily becoming dominant. As you listen to the process Mr. Hartwig underwent, you will learn he honored ARIZONA TODay by unpacking a lot of information that hereto before has not seen the light of day.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D.http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngLyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D.2024-02-17 09:51:352024-02-17 09:52:35MUST WATCH INTERVIEW: With Mr. Ryan Hartwig, formerly of Facebook
Butler County, Ohio Sheriff Richard K. Jones recently returned from the National Sheriff’s Association in Washington D.C. He states the both Biden and Harris refused to meet with the Sheriffs.
He spoke directly to the public on what he learned, including threats to the U.S. and “need-to-know information.”
Xi’s Pearl Harbor: It’s Not Just the Plan; the CCP is Acting on It
With the benefit of hindsight, experts debate whether we had foreknowledge about the deadly Pearl Harbor and 9/11 attacks on our homeland. There can be no such dispute about those being readied by the Chinese Communist Party.
For example, FBI Director Chris Wray warned last week that the CCP is planning to “wreak havoc” here with cyberwarfare. The same day, the Justice Department announced it had just thwarted such an attack. And a new multinational report says Chinese government hackers have been “hiding” inside our critical infrastructure for five years.
Last month, ten former senior FBI executives wrote that Chinese and other military-age men invading our border threaten catastrophe. That could be especially the case if those invaders marry up with the deadly pathogens that could abound in any other CCP biolabs here like the one discovered in Reedley, California over a year ago.
This CPDC webinar maps out Xi Jinping’s incipient Pearl Harbor – and what we must do about it now. Every American should see it.
Moderator:
Frank Gaffney, Founder and Executive Chairman, Center for Security Policy; Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China, co-author, “The Indictment: Prosecuting the Chinese Communist Party and Friends for Crimes Against America, China, and the World”
Panelists:
Charles “Sam” Faddis, Former Career Clandestine Service Officer, Central Intelligence Agency; Army veteran; author, “The Decline and Fall of the CIA”; editor, AndMagazine at Substack – Topic: “The Chinese Communist Party: Inside our Wire”
Gordon Chang, Senior Fellow, Gatestone Institute; columnist, Newsweek; author, “The Coming Collapse of China” – Topic: “Xi’s Determination to Remove the Only Real Impediment to His Global Ambitions: The USA”
Lieutenant Colonel Tommy Waller, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.), Former Commanding Officer, the Marines’ only Reserve Force Reconnaissance Company; President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy (CSP, SecureFreedom.org) 2023, CSP Director of Infrastructure Security until 2021 — Topic: “How is the CCP inside our Grid and Other Infrastructure?”
John Guandolo, Founder, Understanding the Threat; combat veteran U.S. Marine Force Reconnaissance Officer; Former FBI Special Agent and Investigator, Counterterrorism Division –Topic: “The FBI is Warning of Coming “Havoc” and “Catastrophe,” But What is It Doing to Prevent Such Threats?”
Brian T. Kennedy, Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China; President, American Strategy Group; former President, Claremont Institute; author, “Communist China’s War Inside America” – Topic: “The Danger is Present:What Must America Do NOW?”
POST ON X:
The DOJ is bringing felony charges against the "credible" FBI informant who said Joe & Hunter Biden were involved in a $10m bribery scheme with Burisma. Everyone who blows the whistle on the Biden's seems to get locked up. pic.twitter.com/QwjjbPe09a
Local action guide provided in 2020 | Sign up in the sidebar to receive a PDF copy of “ARE YOU SAFE? A Guide to Protecting Your Family from the Coming Insurrection and Violence” | https://www.securingamerica.tv/category/tv-show/
Update from National Sheriffs meeting in DC with FBI Dir Wray. Biden refused to meet with them. More red flags than prior to 9/11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvNukzNQawo
EDITORS NOTE: This Vlad Tepes Blog column with video posted by is republished with permission. All rights reserved.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Dr. Rich Swierhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngDr. Rich Swier2024-02-16 14:36:112024-02-19 05:37:28MUST WATCH: Ohio Sheriff Richard K. Jones Describe the ‘State of the Union’ under Biden
Fetterman continues to confound expectations and talk sense. He is getting to be the strongest voice of reason in the senate.
Talk about plot twists!
Sen. Fetterman:
“To anyone protesting or demanding a ceasefire, let’s be honest here, why aren’t you protesting to bring them all home right now? Why aren’t you demanding Hamas surrenders as well?”
President Joe Biden gave a rare, unexpected press conference Thursday night in which he blamed his staff for mishandling classified documents and snapped at reporters’ questions.
The president delivered remarks Thursday evening in response to a special counsel report on his handling of classified documents. Biden’s address comes after Special Counsel Robert Hur concluded his investigation by declining to press charges despite stating that Biden had, in fact, mishandled classified documents.
Biden pinned the findings on his staff. “I take responsibility for not having seen exactly what my staff was doing,” he said.
“Things that appeared in my garage, things that came out of my home, things that were moved, were moved not by me, but my staff, but my staff,” he continued.
Biden asked if he was careless: "I take responsibility for not having seen exactly what my staff was doing." pic.twitter.com/BOe6rLGYpg
The report noted that during an interview with Biden, he forgot when his term as vice president began and ended and when his son Beau had died. The president shot down claims that he had forgotten his son’s death and responded to language in the report that characterized him as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
“I don’t need anyone to remind me when he passed away,” Biden said.
Once Biden opened up the press conference to questions, reporters began peppering him with inquiries about his memory and mental acuity, which had become a major point of debate after Hur’s report was released. Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Biden, “How bad is your memory?”
“My memory is so bad I let you speak,” Biden said. “My memory is fine. Take a look at what I’ve done since I’ve become president.”
Biden reached his most heated when another reporter began to ask a question about the American people’s concerns about his mental state, a premise which is backed by vast amounts of polling.
“That is your judgement! That is your judgement! That is not the judgement of the press!” Biden shouted back at her. He then mistakenly referred to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as the President of Mexico.
Documents relating to U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan and handwritten notebook entries concerning sensitive national security matters were recovered by FBI agents at Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, estate. Hur cited the DOJ policy surrounding prosecuting a president to justify his decision not to press charges against Biden.
The classified documents span from Biden’s career in the Senate all the way to his vice presidency with former President Barack Obama. The handwritten notes Biden took during the Obama administration frequently covered materials from daily briefings and National Security Council meetings.
EDITORS NOTE: This Daily Caller column is republished with permission. All rights reserved.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00The Daily Callerhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngThe Daily Caller2024-02-15 12:49:292024-02-15 13:09:21Biden Throws Staff Under The Bus, Lashes Out At Reporters In Rare Press Conference After Special Counsel Report
“Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.”
Hippocrates
Modern medicine has achieved remarkable results. Its ability to save people from ailments which a mere generation ago would have led to an untimely death, borders on the miraculous. But when it comes to chronic illness modern medicine has its limits. Sometimes the treatment is worse than the disease. Sometimes the treatment only provides temporary relief from symptoms. Sometimes there is no treatment. Fortunately, modern medicine does not possess a monopoly on our ability to heal as the body possesses innate powers that can heal many chronic health issues. In this video we explore the body’s natural capacity to heal and look the role self-transformation plays in promoting these healing abilities.
“. . .health and illness are not random states in a particular body or body part. They are, in fact, an expression of an entire life lived. . .”
Gabor Mate, The Myth of Normal
Our body is constantly at work healing itself. White blood cells clean out wounds and combat infections, fibroblast cells create new tissue to repair ruptures to our skin and flesh, new bone cells are created to fuse fractures, and the immune system can identify and neutralize all sorts of harmful pathogens. But the body can do more than just heal from wounds, infections, fractures, and viral and bacterial illnesses, it also has the ability to heal itself from virtually all forms of chronic disease as is evidenced by the phenomenon of spontaneous recovery.
A spontaneous recovery occurs when an individual is unexpectedly cured from a disease in a way that cannot be explained through the paradigm of modern medicine. Absent any intervention by doctors, without surgery or pharmaceutical drugs, some people heal from cancer, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, Chron’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and other forms of chronic illness. For example, with regards to cancer, it is well-established that tumors can shrink in size, or even disappear absent surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation, or as was written in the medical journal Oncology Letters:
“. . .malignant tumors as well as metastases, of almost all histological types, can regress spontaneously although certain histological types regress more frequently than others.”
Sante Basso Ricci & Ugo Cerchiari, Spontaneous regression of malignant tumors: Importance of the immune system and other factors
A spontaneous recovery does not necessarily occur suddenly, or without cause, rather as Caryle Hirshberg and Marc Barasch explain in their book Remarkable Recovery:
“The original meaning of the word “spontaneous” (derived from the Latin sponte, “of free will”), has little to do with the suddenness, rapidity, or immediate change without cause which contemporary usage implies. The word, the dictionary reveals, originally had more to do with something occurring due to a “native internal proneness,” a tendency to “act by its own impulse, energy or natural law.” It implies a natural process that arises from within.”
Caryle Hirshberg & Marc Barasch, Remarkable Recovery
While only a small fraction of individuals with a chronic disease will spontaneously recover, and while most spontaneous recoveries go unreported, there are still many cases of this phenomenon documented in the medical literature. For example, in Mind Over Medicine the physician Lissa Rankin points to a case of a man suffering from pancreatic cancer, one of the most devastating forms of this disease. This man was scheduled for surgery, but had a heart attack due to a presurgical procedure which forced delay of the surgery and as Rankin writes:
“Within four weeks of his heart attack, while he was recovering from the cardiac event, the symptoms and laboratory findings of his pancreatic cancer began to resolve. Four months after the initial diagnosis, a CT scan revealed that his tumor had disappeared completely – without surgery, chemotherapy, or any other cancer treatment. Four other case studies in the medical literature report “spontaneous” remissions from inoperable pancreatic cancers.”
Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine
An article titled Notes on Spontaneous Regression of Cancer examines twelve cases of spontaneous remissions and tries to understand what life changes may have led to these recoveries. One of the most remarkable cases involved a patient with a grade four brain tumour:
“Dr. Maurice Green, as an intern, observed the treatment of a physician with glioblastoma multiform [grade 4 brain tumour]. The operation was unsuccessful. The patient, however, had a regression rather than progression of symptoms… Eventually he left the hospital completely well, indicating only that he felt differently about life after facing death ….”
Charles Weinstock, Notes on spontaneous regression of cancer. Journal of the American Society of Psychosomatic Dentistry & Medicine
Examples of spontaneous recoveries are not limited to cancer; they span the spectrum of chronic diseases, from cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases to neurological disorders, blood disorders, and skin conditions. There is even the mysterious Lazarus phenomenon which is the unassisted, or spontaneous recovery, from cardiac arrest after a patient has been declared dead and all attempts at resuscitation have ended.
If the body can bring itself back from the brink of death and cure itself from diseases believed to be terminal, then its capacity for healing is far greater than most of us realize. Our goal should be to harness this power to help us heal from chronic ailments or to prevent their onset. For even if we turn to conventional medicine to treat whatever ails us, when our body is optimized to heal the efficacy of such treatments will improve.
Research into spontaneous recovery has yet to unveil a universal formula or specific set of steps to unlock the body’s vast healing potentials, as many factors influence this capacity, and individual needs vary. Those who have studied numerous cases of spontaneous recovery, however, suggest that there are recurring patterns and shared contributing factors that offer potential insights into how we can prime our body to heal.
On the one hand there are the physical factors that contribute to healing, these include changes to diet, regular exercise, improving the quality of sleep, and the breaking of addictions to drugs or alcohol. Factors related to the health of the body are crucially important to our ability to heal. But there is a psychological factor that stands above these in rank of importance, and this is the willingness to undergo a self-transformation.
Self-transformation is critical to the process of physical healing for two main reasons. Firstly, it is often only when we transform our sense of self that we develop the courage, discipline, and desire to change the physical habits that are thwarting our ability to heal. Secondly, self-transformation helps correct for the unhealthy patterns of thought, belief, and emotion, that through the body-mind connection, keep us locked in a state of sickness. Many of these thought and emotional patterns operate below the threshold of conscious awareness and are the product of our conditioning, bit it an upbring in an unhealthy environment or years of conforming to the sickness of modern society. If we free ourselves from this conditioning through self-transformation, we free ourselves from the damaging physiological responses that are dictated by our maladaptive thoughts, behaviours, and emotions.
The literature on spontaneous recovery supports the assertion that self-transformation facilitates healing, for example in the book Cured Jeffrey Rediger who examined hundreds of cases of spontaneous recoveries, writes:
“People who experienced spontaneous healings disrupted the default mode, got out of that rut, saw and experienced themselves in an entirely new way. . .”
Jeffrey Rediger, Cured
Or as Caryle Hirshberg and Marc Barasch write in Remarkable Recovery:
“. . .it has been noted by a number of researchers that extraordinary healing is often preceded by profound personal change, sometimes even what seems like a startlingly different personality.
Several researchers have noted sudden psychological turning points [or what are called] “existential shifts” preceding remarkable recovery. Dr. Marco DeVries and his associates found that a group of spontaneous remission cases they studied all showed a relatively sudden change toward increased autonomous behavior, and significantly altered attitudes toward illness, treatment, relationships, and spiritual beliefs.”
Caryle Hirshberg and Marc Barasch, Remarkable Recovery
In a paper titled “Psychological Changes Preceding Spontaneous Remission of Cancer” several researchers discovered that common among those who spontaneously healed from cancer was:
“…an increased dystonic reaction to limited aspects of the personality and an increased syntonic reaction to a wider set of characteristics than normally accessed.”
Schilder, J. N., de Vries, M. J., Goodkin, K., & Antoni, M. (2004). Psychological Changes Preceding Spontaneous Remission of Cancer. Clinical Case Studies
In layman’s terms this amounts to a rejection of the limiting aspects of one’s personality and an opening up to, and acceptance of, a greater sense of self.
As self-transformation can lead in many directions, some good and some bad, which form of it primes the body for healing? The etymology of the word heal offers a clue, as at root this word means a return to wholeness. A movement in the direction of psychological wholeness, which Carl Jung identified as the epitome of psychological health, is the form of self-transformation that promotes healing. Psychological wholeness is an ideal state which can only ever be approached, never fully attained, and it entails increased awareness of all aspects of who we are and integration of these aspects into our conscious sense of self. In volume 16 of his Collected Works, Carl Jung wrote that:
“…no previous age has ever needed wholeness so much. It is abundantly clear that this is the prime problem confronting the art of psychic healing in our day.”
Carl Jung, Collected Works Volume 16
Wholeness is attained through self-acceptance, coupled with self-knowledge, and expressed through acts of courage. Without self-acceptance we tend to deny and repress aspects of who we are, thus blocking their healthy expression. Without self-knowledge we never discover our true potential and what we value in life. Without courage we never express our potentials in the service of valued ends. Or as Mate wrote:
“When we heal, we are engaged in recovering our lost parts of self, not trying to change or “better” them. As the depth psychologist and wilderness guide Bill Plotkin told me, the core question is “not so much looking at what’s wrong, but where is the person’s wholeness not fully realized or lived out?””
Gabor Mate, The Myth of Normal
While self-transformation can enhance the healing capacities of the body, the fact remains that we are never in complete control of an illness, nor of matters of life and death. We can take all the steps necessary to heal and yet remain sick. But this does not invalidate the benefits of self-transformation as a response to illness or disease. For the pursuit of wholeness is an enriching and meaningful experience that will help us endure life no matter the health of our body. In fact, many people only wake up to their more authentic self when faced with their mortality and so amidst the great suffering that accompanies disease, a silver lining can be found. An illness or disease may be the necessary spark that inspires us to discover who we truly are and which imbues us with the courage to live in a way more aligned with our authentic sense of self.
“It is only in the face of death that man’s self is born.”
Saint Augustine
Or as Martin Heidegger wrote:
“If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.”
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
EDITORS NOTE: This Academy of Ideas video is republished with permission. All rights reserved.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Academy of Ideashttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngAcademy of Ideas2024-02-15 06:54:162024-02-15 06:55:24Spontaneous Recovery – The Body’s Power to Heal from Cancer and Chronic Disease
Brigitte Gabriel visits the PBD Podcast for independent and critical thinkers with podcast sensation Patrick Bet-David and his co-hosts Adam Sosnick, Tom Ellsworth, and Vincent Oshana as they cover the biggest stories in news, politics, business, and current events!
8:47 – Brigitte talks about her upbringing in Lebanon and how it affected her view of Arabs and Muslims worldwide.
58:04 – Does a shadow war with Iran risk turning into a direct conflict?
1:21:20 – James O’Keefe records White House cyber security expert Charlie Kraiger saying Joe Biden is “mentally slowing down” and Kamala Harris is unpopular.
1:30:39 – Mark Zuckerberg addresses families of victims of online child exploitive content during Senate hearing.
1:41:06 – Woman filmed giving her teenage daughter puberty blockers.
1:49:31 – California Governor Gavin Newsom discusses witnessing a criminal walking out of a Target without paying.
2:07:01 – UPS to Cut 12,000 jobs and mandate return to offices five days a week
2:14:49 – Illegal immigrants in NYC caught on film assaulting NYPD cops, released without bond.
2:24:40 – PBD and crew surprise Adam Sosnick with a big birthday surprise!
EDITORS NOTE: This Act for America column is republished with permission All rights reserved.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00ACT For America!http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngACT For America!2024-02-14 08:24:272024-02-14 15:28:25VIDEO: Act for America founder Brigitte Gabriel Shares Her Views on News, Politics, and More!
In this eye-opening interview, investigative journalist Nick Bryant takes us behind the scenes of his relentless quest to expose the sinister truths of the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Known for his advocacy for children’s rights and safety, Bryant shares his journey from unveiling Epstein’s infamous “Black Book” online to his pivotal role in contributing to the discourse on child trafficking. His commitment to revealing the uncomfortable truths hidden in plain sight has placed him at the forefront of investigative journalism, earning him the respect of his peers and the gratitude of those who stand against child exploitation.
Bryant’s insights not only shine a light on the Epstein case but also emphasize the power and responsibility of investigative journalism in the fight against injustice. Recognized with the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation’s 2022 Therese O. Clemens Advocacy Award, his work serves as a clarion call to all of us: to be vigilant, to demand accountability, and to protect the most vulnerable among us.
Join us as we delve into the depths of one of the most notorious cases in recent history, guided by a journalist who dares to challenge the status quo and advocate for the voiceless.
This is more than an interview; it’s a testament to the power of truth and the collective responsibility we share in safeguarding innocence and demanding justice.
🚨 BREAKING: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says he will sign bill to release the Epstein files from the 2006 Florida grand jury, SLAMS the U.S. government for hiding information from the public.pic.twitter.com/iEk3rlYShW
This is the first interview with Putin conducted by an American journalist since October 2021, when CNBC’s Hadley Gamble sat down exclusively with him. Carlson traveled to Moscow, Russia, in early February after the Kremlin granted the interview.
Carlson and Putin talked about a range of topics, including the war in Ukraine, the history of Russia, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Russia’s current relationship with the U.S. during the two hour-long interview.
While discussing foreign relations with the U.S., Putin said Russia attempted to “build relations” with the U.S., the Middle East and others across the world. Putin said he warned the U.S. not to support separatism in the Middle East, but said the country did it anyways.
On the topic of Ukraine, Putin said nations opened the door for Ukraine and Georgia —both former Soviet Union counties — to join NATO. He said this 2008 proposition was reportedly not agreed upon. Putin then accused the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of backing a coup in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, which he called a “colossal mistake.”
“This is a coup, and the U.S. supported it and it came to power,” Putin alleged. “Imagine if in the U.S., something was not to someone’s liking and the third round of election, which the U.S. Constitution does not provide for, was organized. Nonetheless, it was done in Ukraine.”
“Technically, they did everything right,” Putin said. “They achieved their goal of changing the government. However, from a political standpoint, it was a colossal mistake.”
He accused Ukraine of starting a war in the Donbas region in the 2010’s and said the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was an “attempt to stop” the war.
“It was they [Ukraine] who started the war in 2014. Our goal is to stop this war, and we did not start this war in 2022,” Putin said. “This is an attempt to stop it.
“Do you think you’ve stopped it now?” Carlson asked the Russian president. “I mean, have you achieved your aims?”
“No, we haven’t achieved our aims yet because one of them is the de-Nazification,” Putin said. “This means the prohibition of all kinds of neo-Nazi movements. This is one of the problems we discussed during the negotiation processes which ended in Istanbul this year.”
He appeared to suggest that Ukraine has made Neo-Nazis “national heroes” in its country and separates itself from Russia on the basis of Nazism. He further warned the U.S. to stop supplying Ukraine with billions of dollars in weaponry so a peace deal with Zelenskyy could be made.
In relation to warnings of Putin expanding his war to bordering countries, Carlson asked if there was any scenario in which Russia would invade Poland. Putin accused NATO of invoking fear of an “imaginary Russian threat,” and assured the Daily Caller co-founder that Poland attacking Russia would be the single scenario in which Russian troops invaded the country.
“We have no interest in Poland, Latvia or anywhere else,” Putin said. “Why would we do that? We simply do not have any interest. It’s just threat-mongering.”
The Daily Caller co-founder addressed the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been imprisoned in Russia for almost a year. Carlson bluntly told Putin that the reporter was not a spy and was being held hostage by the Russian government.
“I just want to ask you directly, if as a sign of your decency, you’d be willing to release him to us, and we’ll bring him back to the United States?” Carlson said.
“We have done so many gestures of goodwill out of decency that I think we have run out of them,” the Russian president said. “We have never seen anyone reciprocate to us in a similar manner. However, in theory, we can say that we do not rule out that we can do that. If our partners take reciprocal steps.”
The Russian president alleged Gershkovich received “classified, confidential information.”
Carlson said he conducted this interview because it is a journalist’s job to inform the American public about the war in the region.
“Two years into a war that’s reshaping the entire world, most Americans are not informed,” Carlson said in a Tuesday video. “They have no real idea what’s happening in this region, here in Russia or 600 miles away in Ukraine. But they should know. They’re paying for much of it in ways that they might not yet fully perceive.”
He expressed his concern of how the American media has spent a substantial amount of time conducting “fawning pep sessions” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to amplify his demand that the U.S. become more involved the Ukrainian war.
Carlson said he previously planned on conducting a sit-down interview with Putin, but the National Security Agency (NSA) allegedly “illegally spied” on Carlson’s team by obtaining their text messages and emails in 2021. A whistleblower told Carlson about the alleged spying, according to the Daily Caller co-founder.
Carlson said during a Jul. 7, 2021, interview that the NSA leaked his emails to journalists, with one journalist allegedly calling him and reading back to him the contents of his emails.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday that Carlson’s allegation was a “ridiculous statement” during a press conference.
A handful of figures from the corporate media have lamented the fact that Carlson has interviewed the Russian president. Bill Kristol, the director of Defending Democracy Together, called for a “total and complete shutdown” of Carlson reentering the U.S., and Bill Browder, the CEO of Hermitage Capital, said Carlson is “either remarkably stupid or consciously evil,” according to The Spectator.
CNN anchor Erin Burnett accused Carlson of being a “Putin-loving celebrity” for traveling to Russia.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said they normally deny American media’s requests to interview Putin, though they accepted Carlson’s since “he has a position that differs from the rest [of the Western media].
“It’s not pro-Russian by any means, and it’s not pro-Ukrainian; rather, it’s pro-American. But at least it stands in clear contrast to the position of the traditional Anglo-Saxon media,” Peskov said, according to Meduza.
Several corporate media outlets, including NBC News and The Associated Press (AP), have interviewed Putin in the past decade. The New York Times published a Putin op-ed in Sept. 11, 2013, as well as an op-ed written by the deputy leader of the Taliban in Feb. 2020.
Dr. Robert Katz was born and grew up in the same neighborhood as Louis Farrakhan and Malcom X, but alas, just wasn’t the right skin color. In this general area, was where the Jewish Defense League first came into prominence.
Dr. Katz graduated from Boston Latin, the oldest high school in the nation, where 5 signers of the Declaration of Independence attended. Contrary to popular belief, he was not in the same graduating class.
In 1970 he immigrated to Israel and spent most of the seventies on a border kibbutz, working in a number of positions, including Intelligence.
After returning to the United States, for treatment after an assassination attempt, he underwent rehabilitation and as a result eventually entered the health care field.
Dr. Katz sold his practice after 9/11 to return to his first love, involvement in Intelligence issues, by becoming Program Director for The National Intelligence Conference (INTELCON), and then Executive Director of The Intelligence Summit, and later, America Resurgent.
In addition, Robert spent 11 years in the U.S. military.
Dr. Rich Swier is the Publisher of DrRichSwier.com e-magazine. He was the former State Editor for Watchdog Wire – Florida and RedCounty.com. He holds a Doctorate of Education from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, a Master’s Degree in Management Information Systems from the George Washington University, Washington, D.C., and a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from Washington University, St. Louis, MO. Richard is a 23-year Army veteran who retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1990. He was awarded the Legion of Merit for his years of service. Additionally, he was awarded two Bronze Stars with “V” for Heroism in ground combat, the Presidential Unit Citation, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry while serving with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam. He is a graduate of the Field Artillery Officers Basic and Advanced Courses, and U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Richard was the Founder/CEO of Sarasota Online, a high technology company that was sold to Comcast Cable in 1996.
By Three AM, June 12, 2016, Muslim jihadi, Omar Mateen, had slaughtered forty-nine club-goers and severely injured fifty-three more. Where only a short time before, music had vibrated the multi-colored darkened room, and young people at the crowded bar had raised their voices to compete with the cacophony of party people and band. Now the floor was slippery with blood and eerily quiet with the fallen dead and those pretending to be dead. It would be another two hours before police would bulldoze the exterior wall and take out the suicidal mass terrorist.
June 12, 2016 changed forever our nondescript little neighborhood. Although I personally didn’t know the victims, I have been an integral part of this average little Orlando neighborhood for years. I raised my kids here. I know all the shops and can greet small business owners by name. A trip to Publix is as much about running into longtime friends as it is about stocking the pantry. We wondered if the pall that hung over our neighborhood in the massacre’s aftermath would ever go away.
I wrote the following short piece a couple of days following the unspeakable attack as we were all processing this unprecedented horror:
6-12-16 PULSE: Ground Zero
June 14th, 2016
“SINCE I HAVE BEEN TAKING, STRICTLY FOR PERSONAL ENRICHMENT, A NUMBER OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND TERRORISM CLASSES AT OUR LOCAL COLLEGE, I THOUGHT I HAD A PRETTY REALISTIC OUTLOOK AS TO THE PROBABILITY OF A TERRORIST ATTACK IN OUR AREA. THERE ARE MANY REASONS FOR CENTRAL FLORIDA TO BE TARGETED. MILLIONS OF PEOPLE A YEAR FUNNEL THROUGH ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT – THOUSANDS A DAY. THE MOST OBVIOUS TARGET, THE TOURIST CORRIDOR, ATTRACTS AN INTERNATIONAL DIVERSITY OF MILLIONS. WE ALSO KNOW THAT THE CRUISE SHIP PORT AND THE GAS PIPELINE RUNNING UP THE COAST ARE PRIME TARGETS. I’M PREPARED FOR ALL THAT.
“WHAT I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR IS THE MASSIVE, HORRIFIC MOWING DOWN OF A HUNDRED INNOCENT YOUNG LIVES A FEW BLOCKS FROM MY KIDS’ HIGH SCHOOL AND A BLOCK FROM MY GO TO “FOUR CORNERS.” THAT’S WHERE I DO MY GROCERY SHOPPING AND MY DRY CLEANING, POP INTO MY DRUG STORE AND MY POST OFFICE, AND MAYBE EVEN SWING BY MY LITTLE ACE HARDWARE. ACROSS THE STREET FROM PULSE ARE A COUPLE OF SHOPS AND MOM & POP RESTAURANTS. BEFORE THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB OPENED, IT WAS LORENZO’S, A LITTLE ITALIAN PLACE WITH GREAT BREAD STICKS WHERE MY KIDS HUNG OUT AFTER SCHOOL. THE GHOST OF THEIR FOOTPRINTS IS ALL OVER THAT PLACE. THE PARK WHERE THE NATIONAL NEWS OUTLETS HAVE BEEN STAGING INTERVIEWS IS A COUPLE OF BLOCKS TO THE EAST IN AN OLDER RESIDENTIAL SECTION NEXT TO THE HIGH SCHOOL. THIS IS OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. THERE IS NOTHING NOTABLE ABOUT IT. IT IS JUST A NORMAL LITTLE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE NORMAL PEOPLE GO ABOUT DOING THEIR NORMAL LITTLE ROUTINES.
“OUR COMMUNITY HAS FORTY-NINE FUNERALS TO GO THROUGH IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS. FORTY-NINE! FOR MOST OF US, IF WE DON’T KNOW SOMEONE WHO WAS THERE, WE KNOW SOMEONE WHO KNOWS SOMEONE. AS A PERSON WHO WORKS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE, I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR FAMILIAR NAMES ON THE LISTS. THANKFULLY, NOTHING SO FAR. BUT MY DAUGHTER HAS THREE FRIENDS WHO LOST SOMEONE CLOSE. FRIENDS FROM CHURCH ARE ALSO SUPPORTING OTHERS WHO HAVE SUFFERED MULTIPLE LOSSES. THE BROTHER OF A YOUNG FRIEND HAD PLANNED TO BE AT PULSE WITH SOME BUDDIES THAT NIGHT, BUT WAS JUST TOO LAZY TO GET DRESSED. A NEAR MISS CAN TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY. THE UNFOLDING STORIES OF SO MANY LIVES OF PRODUCTIVE, ENERGETIC AND TALENTED YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SO MUCH PROMISE – SO MUCH UNFULFILLED PROMISE – ARE SHATTERING.
“LIVING A BLOCK FROM THE PARK WITH THEIR TWO YOUNG CHILDREN, CLOSE ENOUGH TO HAVE BEEN AWAKENED BY THE BARRAGE OF WARRING BULLETS, ARE OTHER FRIENDS WHO ARE NOW FACED WITH HOW TO MAKE THEIR CHILDREN FEEL SAFE IN THEIR OWN HOME EVEN AS, DAYS LATER, THEY CONTINUE TO BE CONFRONTED WITH A SWATH OF DETOURS, SQUAD CARS’ FLASHING LIGHTS, BARRICADES AT EVERY STREET CORNER, AND THE MEDIA INVADING THEIR PARK
“ALTHOUGH AT THE BEDROCK OF MY FAITH IS GRACE AND FORGIVENESS, THANKFULLY, IT DOES MAKE ALLOWANCE FOR RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION – RIGHTEOUS ANGER. THAT’S A GOOD THING BECAUSE THAT’S WHERE I AM NOW. THE ENDLESS STORM OF BULLETS THAT OMAR MATEEN LET LOOSE ON JUNE 12TH IS HORRIFIC BEYOND WORDS. BEYOND IMAGINATION. THIS TIME IT WAS THE GAY COMMUNITY. LAST TIME IN SAN BERNARDINO IT WAS A SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY. NEXT TIME IT WILL BE ANOTHER UNKNOWN TARGET. ISIS INSTRUCTS ITS FOLLOWERS TO FIGHT THEIR JIHAD IN PLACE IF THEY CANNOT TRAVEL. IT HAS NEVER BEEN ABOUT WHO WE ARE. IT IS ABOUT WHO THEY ARE AND THEIR TWISTED IDEOLOGY AND ESCHATOLOGY
“FOR THE TIME BEING, UNTIL FORTY-NINE SOULS ARE BURIED, THE FLASHING LIGHTS AND BARRICADES GO AWAY, AND ALL THE STORIES UNFOLD, THIS IS OUR WORLD.”
That was who we were seven years ago. Then it seemed such a one-off for a “Pulse” to even occur. There was, of course, the occasional “dirty mosque,” breeding the next generation of jihadis against Western Civilization; but with immigration largely tamped down under the Trump administration, the probability of Islamic terror attacks seemed pretty low.
The mosaic of our country is patterned much differently today. When Biden ill- advisedly took his foot off the Trump immigration brakes, he exponentially accelerated the lack of controls guiding who and what is crossing onto our soil. According to Customs and Border Protection data, the single year of 2022 saw 2.2 million illegals cross unimpeded. Those are the ones we know of. Among them, almost 11,000 originated from the countries of Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran and Syria. If only one in ten of those is an Islamic jihadist, we have ushered in over one thousand illegals whose goal is to form cells, terrorize our citizens, and destroy our nation and all of western civilization. It doesn’t take many. It took a mere handful to take down the Twin Towers. Today’s failed policy invites scores more Pulse massacres in scores more unremarkable communities. Pulse will no longer be a one-off. We need to be prepared for the siege of well-coordinated horrific attacks of terrorism that will, without warning, explode upon on our normal little neighborhoods where normal people go about doing their normal little routines.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Dr. Rich Swierhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngDr. Rich Swier2024-02-04 08:48:202024-02-04 11:01:47WARNING: Jihadis and Commies want to destroy America in 2024! Army Vets Dr. Rich Swier and Dr. Bob Katz give you the facts!
