Look at some of the journalists DEFENDING Project Veritas at Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press following FBI raids!
Wolf Blitzer – CNN
Josh Gerstein – Politico
Karen Kaiser – AP
Matt Thompson – NYT
James Grimaldi – WSJ
Pierre Thomas – ABC News
Jane Mayer – New Yorker
Andrea Mitchell – NBC News
Jennifer Sondag – Bloomberg
From the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press:
In re Search Warrant dated November 5, 2021
Case Number: 21 MAG 10685
Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Client: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Request to Unseal Filed: Nov. 15, 2021
Background: On Nov. 5, 2021, a federal magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a search warrant permitting the government to seize and extract information from cell phones found in the home of James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas. Federal authorities executed the search warrant the next day.
On Nov. 15, 2021, Reporters Committee attorneys filed a motion to unseal the search warrant application, supporting affidavit and other judicial documents related to law enforcement’s search of O’Keefe’s home.
Quote: “The public and the press have a strong interest in access to these materials, which should provide information about the government’s justification for the search,” Bruce Brown, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, said in a statement.
CPJ concerned over FBI raid on home of Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe
Washington, D.C., November 15, 2021 — The Committee to Protect Journalists today expressed concern about the harmful precedent set by recent Federal Bureau of Investigation raids on the homes of Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe and his associates.
According to media reports, the FBI seized O’Keefe’s cellphones during a November 6 raid on his home in Mamaroneck, New York, as part of a court-ordered investigation into the theft of a diary belonging to Ashley Biden, U.S. President Joe Biden’s daughter. In a statement, Project Veritas wrote that authorities also raided the apartments and homes of other current and former members of the organization, and confiscated unspecified materials.
Project Veritas acquired the diary in 2020 but turned it over to law enforcement, those media reports said.
Founded by O’Keefe in 2011, Project Veritas is a nonprofit group that conducts exposés on groups it perceives as left-leaning, and has amplified disinformation on topics including COVID-19 vaccines and alleged election fraud, according to the independent nonprofit fact-checking group First Draft.
“While we do not endorse some of the tactics Project Veritas employs, the FBI’s recent raids on the organization’s founder and his associates represent a concerning overreach by law enforcement,” said CPJ U.S. and Canada Program Coordinator Katherine Jacobsen. “The government must provide a clear link between members of Project Veritas and alleged criminal activity before searching their homes for information about source material. Conducting raids without this kind of link sets a dangerous precedent that could allow law enforcement to search and confiscate reporters’ unpublished source material in vague attempts to identify whistleblowers.”
Some pages of the diary were published on a right-wing blog during the 2020 U.S. presidential election campaign, according to those news reports, which said that the Justice Department under the Trump administration first opened an investigation into the theft.
On a November 10 letter to U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in New York, lawyers representing Project Veritas stated that the outlet had received the diary lawfully, the New York Times reported. On November 11, Torres ordered prosecutors to pause their “extraction and review of the contents” of O’Keefe’s phones, according to Politico.
When CPJ called the FBI for comment, a representative who answered requested that CPJ submit questions via email. CPJ emailed questions to the bureau’s New York office but did not immediately receive any reply.
A representative from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York told CPJ via phone that the office could not comment on the case.
From the Society of Professional Journalists:
“I’m not a big fan of Project Veritas, but this is just over the top. I hope they get a serious reprimand from the court because I think this is just wrong.” said @UofMNLawSchool professor Jane Kirtley, former ED of @rcfp & SPJ Foundation Board member. https://t.co/mVdA3j1DmT
— Society of Professional Journalists (@spj_tweets) November 15, 2021
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Cultural Marxism is the gradual process of grinding down western democracies by subverting the pillars of their culture, the structures and institutions of family, religion, education, politics, law, the arts and the media, as they provide the social cohesion necessary to a functioning society. Undermine the principles these structural institutions embody, and a capitalist society can be overthrown from within without firing a shot. Like termites eating away at the foundation of a house, cultural Marxists in our midst have plotted since the 1960s to radically transform every cultural institution in America, including its secondary education system.
Those who think the threat of communism ended when the Soviet Union collapsed would be shocked to know what’s being taught decades later in many of America’s schools. In “Bill Ayers, the Critical Pedagogy Movement and Cultural Marxism,” author Geoffrey Brittain wrote this:
“In many of our public schools, young, impressionable children are no longer being taught to feel good about being Americans. Their school teachers, who traditionally embody socially approved values, are teaching them to be ashamed of being Americans. Spreading out from the schools that teach our teachers, this ideology is being inculcated into our nation’s K-12 schools and is anti-American in the most profound meaning of the term. It is a movement that is teaching future generations that capitalism and traditional American values are intrinsically evil. Critical pedagogy and its advocates, in their vehement antipathy toward capitalism, private property and traditional American values, is a classic fifth subversive column, no less dangerous to freedom than communism. Its advocates are seeking to radically transform our society by covertly indoctrinating the young through an essentially clandestine and subversive transformation of its culture.”
What follows are examples of how cultural Marxists in our schools are indoctrinating the young.
CAUGHT ON TAPE: UNION TEACHERS DISCUSS PUSHING MARXISM IN CLASSROOM
During a meeting of the Left Forum, two public school teachers were caught on video discussing how to slip communist dogma into classrooms. Wearing a “Tax the Rich” shirt, Sarah Knopp, a Los Angeles high school teacher and teachers union activist who contributes to “The Socialist Review,” and Megan Behrent, a New York City public school teacher affiliated with the International Socialist Organization, participated in a panel discussion about injecting Marxism into classroom instruction.
Across America, activist teachers, nearly all of whom vote Democrat, are pushing communist doctrine on captive young minds, often with the tacit approval of Democrat school administers, Democrat-controlled school boards, and the Democratic Party.
6th GRADE LESSON PLAN: DESIGN A FLAG FOR A NEW SOCIALIST NATION
A progressive-designed lesson plan for 6th graders in Texas public schools read as follows:
Note that socialist/communist nations use symbolism on their flags representing various aspects of their economic system. Imagine a new socialist nation is creating a flag and you have been put in charge. Use symbolism to represent aspects of socialism/communism on your flag. What kind of symbolism/colors would you use?
If this type of thing is taught in a red state like Texas, the odds are off the charts that communist-themed lesson plans are also being used in other states.
6thGRADE TEACHER: REPUBLICANS DON’T CARE ABOUT ANYONE BUT THE RICH.
After telling her 6th grade class that Republicans are stupid, Virginia public school teacher Kristin Martin went on to say that Republicans “don’t care about anyone but wealthy people and businesses,” an absurd claim designed to infect her students with Marxist class resentment. Martin made her comments on Mar. 6, 2012 as Republicans filed into Powell Elementary School in Fairfax County to vote on Super Tuesday.
VIRGINIA 3rd GRADERS REQUIRED TO PERFORM OCCUPY WALL STREET SONG
During an official event at an elementary school in Virginia, 3rd grade students were required to perform “Part of the 99%,’ a song with an unmistakable political overtone: support of the anti-capitalist Occupy Wall Street protests. In response to an outburst of criticism, school board officials defended the song, saying the district’s schools don’t censor songs children write or try to influence the subjects children write songs about. “It all came out of the kids’ own mouths and the kids’ own words,” said Albemarle County school board chair, Steve Koleszar. Does it appear the song was written by 3rd graders? You decide:
Part of the 99%
Some people have it all
But they still don’t think they have enough
They want more money, a faster ride
They’re not content, never satisfied
Yes, they’re the 1%
I used to be one of the 1%
I worked all the time, never saw my family
Couldn’t make life rhyme, then the bubble burst
It really, really hurt
I lost my money, lost my pride, lost my home
Now I’m one of the 99%
The song accomplished its decidedly anti-American purpose: planting the seeds of Marxist class hatred in the minds of 8-year-olds.
USING LEGOS TO TEACH SOCIALISM
Two teachers at a Seattle school banned Legos from the classroom to teach kindergarteners about the alleged evils of private property. Anxious to have the toys returned to the classroom, the children agreed to a new set of guidelines set by their teachers, including these: All structures must be public structures and all structures must be standard size. Later, the teachers proudly quoted their newly indoctrinated students:
“A house is good because it is a community house.”
“We should all have equal houses.”
“It’s important to have the same power over your building as other people.”
What the 5-year-olds were taught is explained in this Karl Marx quote: “The theory of Communism can be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.”
COLLEGE STUDENTS SHOW SIGNS OF PRIOR MARXIST INDOCTRINATION
Valencia College economics professor Jack Chambliss asked his sophomore class two questions on an essay assignment: what does the American Dream look like to you, and how much do you expect the federal government to help you achieve that vision? Eighty percent of his students expect government to provide one or more of the following:
Free college education
Free health care
Guarantee of a good-paying job
Money for down-payment on a home
Money for retirement
Take money from rich people so more money can be given to them
One student wrote, “As human beings, we are really not responsible for our own acts, and we need government to control those who don’t care about others.” The students’ expectations about government’s role in helping them achieve the American Dream made it clear that many had been indoctrinated with communist propaganda fed to them at K-12 schools they attended.
BOTTOM LINE
What children are taught in school today will determine what our country will be like in the future. In his best-selling book, “The Naked Communist,” former FBI Special Agent Cleon Skousen revealed 45 communist goals for destroying America from within. Goal 17 mandates this: “Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism and current Communist propaganda.” And that’s just what cultural Marxists in our schools have done. As a result, public-funded education is advancing communism in America one little Marxist at a time.
K-12 schools aren’t the only place communist dogma is being force-fed to impressionable young minds. A PragerU video titled “Dangerous People Are Teaching Your Kids” shows how cultural Marxists are also subverting higher education. Please consider watching and sharing.
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“We talk about price tags. It is zero price tag on the debt. We’re paying — we’re going to pay for everything we spend.”— President Biden, remarks to reporters, Sept. 24
“My Build Back Better Agenda costs zero dollars.”— Biden, in a tweet, Sept. 25
TOPLINE: We as congressional Republicans have an urgent duty to tell the truth about what’s REALLY in the Democrats’ $3.5T big government socialist takeover and warn the American people what’s coming.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), the chairman of the Republican Study Committee (RSC), released an exhaustive list of some of the most radical aspects of the Democrats’ “socialist takeover bill.”
Perpetuates labor shortage: Continues welfare benefits without work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents at a time where there are 10.1 million job openings—more openings than there are people looking for work.
Commissions a climate police: Democrats stuffed $8 billion into the bill to commission a cabal of federally funded climate police called the Civilian Climate Corps (CCC) who will conduct progressive activism on taxpayers’ dime (pages 8, 21, and 926).
Pushes Green New Deal in our public schools: Requires funding for school construction be used largely on enrollment diversity and Green New Deal agenda items (page 55).
Pushes Green New Deal in our universities: Democrats include a $10 billion “environmental justice” higher education slush fund to indoctrinate college students and advance Green New Deal policies (page 1,935).
Forces faith-based child care providers out: The bill blocks the ability of many faith-based providers from participating in the childcare system and will lead to many of their closures (page 280).
Hurts small and in-home daycares: Requires pre-K staff to have a college degree. (page 303)
Includes new incentives for illegal immigration: Illegal immigrants will be eligible to take advantage of Democrats’ new ‘free’ college entitlement (page 92) as well be eligible for additional student aid (page 147) and the enhanced child tax credit (page 1,946).
Includes legislative hull for Biden’s vaccine mandate: Increases OSHA penalties on businesses that fail to implement the mandate up to $700,000 per violation and includes $2.6 billion in funding for the Department of Labor to increase enforcement of these penalties (page 168).
Gives unions near-total control: The bill includes insane prohibitions that would bind employers’ hands in union disputes and dangerously tilt the balance of power, subjecting employers to penalties that exempt union bosses and officials… among other things this bill would prevent employers from permanently replacing striking workers (page 175). It coerces businesses to meet union boss demands by increasing Fair Labor Standards Act penalties by an astronomical 900% (page 168).
Makes unions bigger and more powerful: The bill would subsidize union dues that would only serve to strengthen the influence of union bosses and not American workers (page 2323).
Pushes Democrats’ wasteful and confusing school lunch agenda: $643 million for, among other things, “procuring…culturally appropriate foods” (page 333).
Furthers radical abortion agenda: Does not include the Hyde amendment and would mandate taxpayers pay for abortions (page 198) & (page 336).
Drives up costs on Americans’ utility bills: Issues a punitive methane tax (page 367) and includes a tax on natural gas up to $1,500 per ton that could cost the American economy up to $9.1 billion and cost 90,000 Americans their jobs (page 368).
Includes dangerous & deadly green energy mandate: Effectively forces Americans to get 40% of their energy from wind, solar and other unreliable forms of energy within 8 years (page 392). Reliance on these energy sources has proven deadly.
Includes kickbacks for the Left’s green energy special interest network: $5 billion for “environmental and climate justice block grants” (page 377) and another $100 billion in green energy special interest subsidies, loans and other carve outs.
Gives wealthy Americans tax credits: $222 billion in “green energy” tax credits will be given to those who can afford expensive electric vehicles and other “green” innovative products (page 1832).
Furthers Democrats’ social justice agenda: Includes “equity” initiatives throughout the bill and, in one instance, Democrats inserted “equity” language into a title which should have been focusing on the maintenance of the United States’ cyber security efforts (page 897).
Grants amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants: House Democrats have included in their reconciliation bill a plan to grant amnesty to around 8 million illegal immigrants at a cost of around $100 billion over ten years that would largely be spent on welfare and other entitlements (page 901). Trillions more would be spent long term on their Social Security and Medicare.
Opens border even wider: The bill would waive many grounds for immigration inadmissibility, including infection or lack of vaccination status during a Pandemic, failure to attend removal proceedings in previous immigration cases, and the previous renouncement of American citizenship. DHS may also waive previous convictions for human trafficking, narcotics violations, and illegal voting (page 903).
Increases visa limit: At least 226,000 family-preference visas would be administered each year (page 905).
Grants fast-tracked green cards for those seeking middle-class careers in America: Language included in the bill exempts certain aliens from the annual green card statutory limits and has been described as a “hidden pipeline for U.S. employers to flood more cheap foreign graduates into millions of middle-class careers needed by American graduates” (page 910).
Includes pork for Nancy Pelosi: $200 million is earmarked for the Presidio Trust in Speaker Pelosi’s congressional district (page 933).
Increases energy dependence on OPEC, Russia and China: The bill prohibits several mineral and energy withdrawals (page 979). It overturns provisions included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that authorized energy production in the Arctic that will result in 130,000 Americans losing their jobs and $440 billion in lost federal revenue (page 983) and the mineral withdrawals it prohibits would, ironically, include minerals necessary for renewable energy sources (pages 934, 940, 943).
Exacerbates the chip shortage: The bill would mandate the conversion of the entire federal vehicle fleet from internal combustion engines to electric engines at a time when there is a global microchip shortage and crippled supply chains (page 1,043).
Democrats’ feckless China bill is included: Concepts from the insanely weak Endless Frontier Act included, including $11 billion in research funding that will likely result in American intellectual property going to China (page 1079 – 1081).
Chases green energy pipe dreams: $264 million to the EPA to conduct research with left-wing environmental justice groups on how to transition away from fossil fuels (page 1063).
Fixes “racist” roads and bridges: Adds a nearly $4 billion slush fund that would help left-wing grassroots organizations that, among other things, want to tear down and rebuild or otherwise alter infrastructure deemed “racist” (page 1183).
Punishes red states for failing to adopt Green New Deal provisions: Mandates “consequences” for conservative states that don’t meet the radical Left’s “green” climate standards while at the same time adding nearly $4 billion for “Community Climate Incentive Grants” for cooperating states (page 1179).
Includes new massive, bankrupting entitlement: The new paid leave entitlement would mandate workers get 12 weeks of paid leave and would cost $500 billion over ten years according to the CBO (page 1245). It would apply to those making up to half a million dollars a year (page 1254).
Advances a totalitarian and paternalistic view of the federal government: Includes grants for organizations to treat individuals suffering from “loneliness” and “social isolation.”
Further detaches individuals from employment and more reliant on government handouts: The bill spends $835 billion on welfare through manipulating the tax code [not including the expansions of Obamacare subsidies] (page 1943).
Tax benefits for the top 1%: The bill will possibly lift the SALT deduction cap meaning many of the top 1% wealthiest Americans would pay less in taxes.
Tax credit for wealthy donors who give to woke universities: The bill creates a new tax credit program that gives tax credits worth 40% of cash contribution that are made to university research programs (page 2094).
Expands worst parts of Obamacare: Obamacare’s job-killing employer mandate will become more severe by adjusting the definition of “affordable coverage” to mean coverage that costs no more than 8.5 percent of income rather than current law’s 9.5 percent of income (page 2041).
Increases taxes on Americans at every income level: $2 trillion in tax hikes will fall on those making under $400,000 per year, contrary to what the White House says. Individuals at all income levels will be affected (Ways and Means GOP).
Lowers wages for working families: The corporate tax rate will increase by 5.5%, meaning American companies will face one of the highest tax burdens in the world. According to analysis, two-thirds of this tax hike will fall on lower- and middle-income taxpayers (page 2110).
Penalizes marriage: The bill would permanently double the EITC’s marriage penalty on childless worker benefits (page 2036).
Imposes crushing taxes on small business: Guts the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act small business deductions that reduced pass-through entity taxes to keep them comparable to taxes imposed on corporations (page 2235) as well as hammer small businesses that file as individual tax earners with the 39.6% rate (page 2221) and Obamacare’s 3.8% tax on net investment income.
Crushes family businesses and farms: The bill would impose a 25% capital gains rate (page 2226) and makes alterations to the Death Tax including cutting the Death Tax exemption in half (page 2240).
Violates Americans’ financial privacy: $80 billion slush fund to hire an 87,000-IRS-agent army to carry out the Biden administration’s plan to review every account above a $600 balance or with more than $600 of transactions in a year. (page 2283).
Increases out of pocket costs for those who rely on prescription drugs: The bill repeals the Trump-era Rebate Rule which passes through rebates directly to consumers at the point of sale (page 2465).
Imports policies from countries with socialized medicine: The bill includes healthcare policies imported from systems in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom—all countries that have government-run healthcare systems (page 2349).
The bill also has other lesser-known provisions, including:
$5 million per year for the Small Business Administration for an entrepreneurial program for formerly incarcerated individuals.
$2.5 billion for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to award competitive grants or contracts to local governments, community-based organizations, and other groups to support “intervention strategies” to reduce community violence.
Banks charged in the RSC release,
“Each of these 42 bullets is enough to vote against the bill. Taken together—it’s mind-blowingly corrupt. We need to loudly oppose it.”
Banks added,
“Democrats are scattered. The Biden agenda is in question. It’s the perfect opportunity to build public sentiment against this bill. The American people need us to be the vanguard against the Left’s radical plans.”
Banks concluded,
“It’s not an understatement to say this bill, if passed, will fundamentally change our country forever—Americans will wake up in a few years and wonder what happened to their freedom. We can’t let that happen . “
A Bangladeshi social media sensation in a recent interview exposed the extent of online hate, bigotry, abuse and chilling threats from Muslims she had to endure, all because of her religious identity. Hundreds of people not only used unspeakable profanity against her and her family, but also the Gods she prayed to. Some even left threats describing how they would molest her. The virtual terror unleashed upon her not only wrecked her mental wellbeing, but made her second guess every aspect of her identity and life in Bangladesh. Is it a sin to be born as a Hindu in Bangladesh? She recounts that she couldn’t sleep for days.
While speaking with Manju Ahmad, anchor of a Bangladeshi talk show, the celebrated TikToker Samonty Shoumi stated that she had posted a video of herself at the Durga Puja Pandal on the seventh day of Durga Puja this year. In response, Muslims, who had so far been unaware of her religious background, hurled unimaginable abuse at her, including: “You are a sub-human”; “You Hindu whore”; “F*ck you and f*ck your fake idol-worshipping religion”; “Dirty Hindu maid,” and so on. There were choicest of obscenities, very descriptive ones, for the Hindu Goddess Durga as well. While most of the expletives were beeped out on the show, we have tried to provide the closest possible translations of the Bengali slang. Apart from these, in numerous comments people said that they were unfollowing her upon learning that she was a Hindu. Muslims, irrespective of gender or age, tagged each other, directing people in their network to unfollow her because she was a Hindu. Samonty further revealed that around a thousand people unfollowed her that day.
In response to the Islamic attack, Samonty said that she was raised in Bangladesh, but it never occurred to her that she didn’t belong there; she has, however, now been introduced to the jihadi side of the society of which she is a part. Looking into the camera, she asserted that she took extreme pride in the family she was born into and the religion she belonged to. She emphasized that it was not Hindus who carried explosives onto a plane, and pointed out that the recent attacks on the Hindus were carried out for alleged blasphemy against Islam, though everyone knows now who is the real culprit was (a Muslim man, Iqbal Hossain, placed a Quran at a Durga Puja pavilion, triggering an anti-Hindu pogrom in Bangladesh).
Samonty is not the first Bangladeshi celebrity to be harassed for not being a Muslim. All hell broke loose when National Award-winning actor Chanchal Chowdhury posted a picture of him with his mother on Mother’s Day this year. As he has a religiously ambiguous name, most people had no idea he was a Hindu. However, the bright vermillion on his mother’s hair partition (a sign of matrimony worn by Hindu women) gave away his religious affiliation. Rabid religious fanatics came out of the virtual woodwork to spew vitriol against him and hurl revolting epithets at his mother. Some suggested that he must convert to Islam, while others explained how every human being is born a Muslim, but goes astray after he starts worshipping idols.
Things are not very different either for Hindu sportsmen in Bangladesh. A couple of years ago, Hindu cricketer Liton Das drew massive hate for being a Hindu after he shared good wishes for Durga Puja on social media. Some Bangladeshi Muslims can get remarkably creative with their slurs. One Md Metun stated that the status of the Hindu goddess Durga was lower than that of a strand of a fur on a dog’s paw in a Muslim’s home (domesticating dogs is haram in Islam). Liton was compelled to concede and take down the picture featuring good wishes for Durga Puja.
Interestingly, in portraying itself as a sad, hapless, underprivileged South Asian country struggling with lack of educational and medical infrastructure, Bangladesh has received massive grants from international welfare bodies. But beyond that pity-arousing surface, Bangladesh is home to hundreds of thousands of Muslims who have no interest in the growth of their country. Their efforts are all directed toward hating non-Muslims, forming massive mobs and ransacking Hindu villages, putting up fake stories of blasphemy by Hindus, and then attacking them. If they are not able to attack anyone physically, these religious zealots quench their fanaticism by hounding non-Muslims online. It is funny because just a couple of forefathers ago, this entire demography was a Hindu civilization converted to Islam through the application of force or fear, by some Muslim invader or the other from across Asia.
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Raised on Porn exposes the ways pornography has become the new sex education for children and unpacks the dangerous lifelong implications of this global phenomenon.
Through riveting firsthand accounts, cinematic re-enactments, 3D animation, and interviews with the world’s leading neurologists, sociologists, psychologists, and therapists, Raised on Porn is filled to the brim with raw, compelling insight on how pornography is poisoning us and our relationships. This film shatters cultural myths about the “harmless” nature of pornography and provides a sobering framework to understand how this graphic genre of media has shaped our world, eliciting a desperately-needed call for change.
CONTENT WARNING: While the film doesn’t contain any nudity, it
features discussions and images of a sexual nature that some viewers will find disturbing. Our editors have worked hard to create something that is watchable for most viewers while still conveying the essence of the problem. We recommend the film for mature teens and above.
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If you are on Instagram or TikTok, you have likely come across videos hyper-sexualizing some form of sexual violence, tagged with #KinkTok.
Many videos feature “kinks” such as being forcefully pushed up against a wall, choking, BDSM and even fantasies involving “knife play.” One video of a girl encouraging her reluctant boyfriend to choke her has 1.1 million views.
The root of all of these trends? Porn culture and their idea of sexualized fantasy.
CEO and founder of Exodus Cry, Benjamin Nolot, said in a podcast interview that the porn industry has created a porn universe with its own set of norms. “It is about giving power to men to subjugate, dehumanize, and humiliate women while they never say no and enjoy every advance. And the more aggressive, the more pleasurable it is for them. This formulaic script gets played out over and over and over, and then it gets injected into the minds of our children.”
#KinkTok has 6.9 billion views. #Choke has 375.5 million views.
Glorified sexual violence is rampant on social media. Other trends on TikTok include the “psychotic boyfriend” trope, “things girls want but won’t ask for,” and showing off bruises obtained during sex. This is further perpetuated by popular films like 50 Shades of Grey and 365 Days (a kidnap-porn film), both of which portray sexual violence, dominance, and submission as something the woman desires.
It’s undeniable that our culture’s view of sex has been deeply shaped by porn. As a result, many don’t see anything wrong with the glorification of sexual violence.
This is incredibly problematic. Porn is grooming children to see abuse and violence within the context of sex to be desirable. In fact, porn is so effective at normalizing abuse that abusers use pornography to groom victims.
What’s worse is that now if you aren’t into violence during sex, you are shamed and called “vanilla”—that is to say boring, and perhaps a bit uncool. A 17-year-old girl from Arkansas shared another user’s TikTok referring to the problem of glamorizing rough sex. She was immediately met with accusations of kink-shaming, with people calling her a prude and a snowflake.
News flash: rough sex is in. Vanilla sex is out. The devastating reality is that choking and strangulation are deemed more desirable than vanilla sex among many young people.
There was a time when seeing a woman’s body covered in bruises inflicted by her boyfriend would have been cause for serious concern, but now, it’s considered normal and desired.
In a post-#MeToo culture, why are we fantasizing rape? Especially on an app widely used by children. TikTok has one billion international users. In July, TikTok announced that one-third of their 49 million U.S. users are 14 years old and under!
By that metric, it’s possible that 300 million kids around the globe are being exposed to violent sexual fantasies on a daily basis on this platform alone.
For an app that is widely used among kids and young teens, these videos are acting as the educators on sex and sexual expectations between partners. One study found that 70% of high school boys want to try out what they see in porn. Another study of 14 to 19-year-olds found that females who watched pornographic videos were at significantly greater likelihood of being victims of sexual harassment or sexual assault.
So not only is increasingly violent sex becoming more and more violent as a result of porn, but the likelihood that these kids will at some point abuse or be abused is significantly increasing, and the acts perpetrated during said abuse are becoming more sinister.
One of the more concerning trends on TikTok is called consensual non-consent (CNC). It is a form of BDSM in which participants engage in play that mimics non-consensual behavior. Otherwise known as resistance, reluctance, or “rape play.”
In an article titled, “Rape Fantasies Have Nothing to Do with Rape“, Octavia Morrison, who admits she has always had rape fantasies, wrote, “Rape fantasies are mistakenly named—it is an imaginary act of being taken by a passionate male, free from any possible assault. As it is happening in our minds, consent is out of question. No harm comes of it. It’s about nothing but surrendering to our lizard brain, giving up power. These ‘rape’ scenarios are arousing because they are creating the illusion of danger without actually being in danger. It is a desire for submission, that can be lived in safe BDSM Dom/Sub scenarios—with full consent, without the fear of being hurt.”
In another article for Medium called “Understanding Consensual Non-Consent,” Rachel Hope claims, “Negotiating a CNC play session, or scene, must involve discussing the fantasy, setting boundaries, and agreeing on how the scenario will be ended if anyone involved changes their mind.” She continues, “People who fantasize about rape or CNC do not want to be assaulted,” and while that may be true, it is conditioning the participants to be turned on by dominance and force. And for a child or young teen who does not have the framework to understand what they are watching, it is communicating a very dangerous message.
Hope writes, “It can be a lot of fun to imagine or playact things that you would never want to do in real life,” and some people enjoy CNC because of the “pleasure found in the addition of adrenaline and heightened awareness/arousal caused by fear, even when it’s a controlled experience.”
By the very definition, fantasy is the desire for something to happen. So while CNC might not be real rape, it is playing out a desire for sexual abuse. And it is becoming increasingly normalized.
A 2019 study for the BBC found that “more than a third of UK women under the age of 40 have experienced unwanted slapping, choking, gagging or spitting during consensual sex.” The Centre for Women’s Justice told the BBC, the figures showed the “growing pressure on young women to consent to violent, dangerous, and demeaning acts. This is likely to be due to the widespread availability, normalization and use of extreme pornography.”
Steven Pope, a psychotherapist specializing in sex and relationships, told the BBC that violent sex is a “silent epidemic. People do it because they think it’s the norm but it can be very harmful. What we see is that for many, it devalues the relationship but—at its worst—violence becomes acceptable.” The line between consensual sex and sexual abuse are becoming more and more blurred.
As a result, there are a number of cases in which men facing criminal charges for harming or killing women during rough sex claim that the violence was consensual and accidental. Research by We Can’t Consent to Thisdocumented 52 homicides in the United Kingdom where men who have killed women during rough sex claimed that the deceased consented to “a sex game gone wrong.” In several cases, the men walked free.
In a post-#MeToo culture, why are we fantasizing rape?
Strangulation is a common feature of about two thirds of the deaths recorded by the organization and is linked to the rising popularity of sex acts inspired by violent and misogynist pornography. According to the Femicide Census, on average, one woman is strangled to death by her partner every two weeks in the U.K.
There was a time when seeing a woman’s body covered in bruises inflicted by her boyfriend would have been cause for serious concern, but now, it’s considered normal and desired. It is certainly normal enough among young people to amass millions of views and likes. What kind of message is this sending to girls about how they should be treated in a relationship and during sex? What is it communicating to young men about how they ought to treat a woman?
According to a 2019 study, about 25% of women in the U.S. report feeling scared during sex. Among 347 respondents, about 7% described feeling scared because their partner had attempted to strangle them unexpectedly, and 13% of sexually active girls ages 14-17 reported having already been strangled.
Dan Savage, a sex columnist and host of the Savage Lovecast podcast, wrote, “kids consume and learn such violent sexual acts from porn and come to believe that’s what their partners want, rather than learning that what they see in porn might not resemble real life.”
This is yet another horrific result of a pornified culture. One which devalues, humiliates, degrades, and abuses women for the sexual pleasure of a man. In fact, an article in Ireland’s Independent describes how “many men seem to consider rough sex such a common part of a normal sexual experience that they no longer feel it’s something for which they even need to ask consent.”
The precedent being set forth by #KinkTok is extremely harmful. Not only does it glorify sexual violence, but it also grooms kids for sexual assault and rape. We must push back against the dangerous influence of porn on the culture and rise against these new norms of violence. It is time to stand up and #ProtectChildrenNotPorn.
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“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principle.” – From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.
Sin is real. Sin causes death and destruction, not only of the individual but a culture.
Sinful behaviors lead to more sinful behaviors. Once an adulterer always an adulterer. Once a thief always a thief. Once an addict always an addict. Once a corrupt politician always a corrupt politician or is it once a politician is elected he or she then becomes corrupted?
Lying, Cheating and Stealing
Have you noticed that Western civilization is dying, slowly but surely? Have you felt that our Constitutional Republican form of government is being replaced with Communism? Are you uncomfortable with what is happening around you? Have you noticed that lying has now become an artform? Do you feel cheated in how you are treated by your family, friends, work collogues and government at every level? Do you see politician trying to steal from you in the name of social justice?
Here are some uncomfortable truths that the media and politicians don’t want you to know about:
Biden’s Build Back Better agenda will cost more than $0.
Mankind cannot control the climate.
Work is better than welfare.
Taxing the rich always leads to taxing every worker.
Communism is not the answer to the world’s economic problems.
Totalitarianism’s cultural war is not the answer.
There are only 2 genders – male and female.
Science is never fixed, science requires that every theory be tested again and again.
Propaganda, in all of its forms, is the enemy of the people.
Killing the unborn is murder.
There is no such thing as social justice, there is only equal justice under the law.
All lives matter.
Judging someone by the content of their character is the gold standard of any society.
God is real.
Politics Without Principle
Terry Pratchett, in his novel Carpe Jugulum wrote, “And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.”
People are beginning to see their government treating them like things. Here’s one example of a government treating its citizens like slaves.
Beginning tomorrow in Austria, anyone unvaccinated over the age of 12 is not allowed to leave their home except for “essential” reasons such as grocery shopping.
There is no longer an option to present a negative test.
Covid is the hammer that has put politics without principle in the forefront. Covid is all about control. It is science without humanity.
George Orwell, in his novel 1984 wrote,“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
Politicians are now “woke.” Woke’s focus is on social justice and racism. Politicians have learned how to use social justice and racism to attack their political opponents. Politicians decide who is a racist and who deserves social justice. This is the antithesis of a free society.
Politicians, and their media allies, want to fundamentally transform our cultures to fit their woke beliefs.
Politicians use their powers to empower themselves and thereby enslave us. Obey or starve!
Conclusion
Ayn Rand wrote, “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
The greatest sin of all is coveting. Politicians covet power, our wealth, our freedoms and our lives, our liberties and our pursuit of happiness.
We need to look once again to the God of Moses who gave us the Ten Commandments.
“I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt not have any gods before Me.”
This commandment forbids idolatry, the worship of false gods and goddesses, and it prohibits polytheism, the belief in many gods, insisting instead on monotheism, the belief in one God. This commandment forbids making golden calves, building temples to Isis, and worshipping statues of Caesar, for example.
“Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.”
The faithful are required to honor the name of God. It makes sense that if you’re to love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, then you’re naturally to respect the name of God with equal passion and vigor.
“Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.”
The Jewish celebration of Sabbath (Shabbat) begins at sundown on Friday evening and lasts until sundown on Saturday. Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christians go to church on Sunday, treating it as the Lord’s Day instead of Saturday to honor the day Christ rose from the dead.
“Honor thy father and mother.”
This commandment obliges the faithful to show respect for their parents — as children and adults. Children must obey their parents, and adults must respect and see to the care of their parents when they become old and infirm.
“Thou shalt not kill.”
The better translation from the Hebrew would be “Thou shalt not murder” — a subtle distinction but an important one to the Church. Killing an innocent person is considered murder. Killing an unjust aggressor to preserve your own life is still killing, but it isn’t considered murder or immoral.
“Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
The sixth and ninth commandments honor human sexuality. This commandment forbids the actual, physical act of having immoral sexual activity, specifically adultery, which is sex with someone else’s spouse or a spouse cheating on their partner. This commandment also includes fornication, which is sex between unmarried people, prostitution, pornography, homosexual activity, masturbation, group sex, rape, incest, pedophilia, bestiality, and necrophilia.
“Thou shalt not steal.”
The seventh and tenth commandments focus on respecting and honoring the possessions of others. This commandment forbids the act of taking someone else’s property. The Catholic Church believes that this commandment also denounces cheating people of their money or property, depriving workers of their just wage, or not giving employers a full day’s work for a full day’s pay. Embezzlement, fraud, tax evasion, and vandalism are all considered extensions of violations of the Seventh Commandment.
“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.”
The Eighth Commandment condemns lying. Because God is regarded as the author of all truth, the Church believes that humans are obligated to honor the truth. The most obvious way to fulfill this commandment is not to lie — intentionally deceive another by speaking a falsehood. So a good Catholic is who you want to buy a used car from.
“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife.”
The Ninth Commandment forbids the intentional desire and longing for immoral sexuality. To sin in the heart, Jesus says, is to lust after a woman or a man in your heart with the desire and will to have immoral sex with them. Just as human life is a gift from God and needs to be respected, defended, and protected, so, too, is human sexuality. Catholicism regards human sexuality as a divine gift, so it’s considered sacred in the proper context: marriage.
“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods.”
The Tenth Commandment forbids the wanting or taking of someone else’s property. Along with the Seventh Commandment, this commandment condemns theft and the feelings of envy, greed, and jealousy in reaction to what other people have.
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“A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of a higher obligation…To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus, absurdly sacrificing the ends to the means.” – Thomas Jefferson, Letter to J.B. Colvin, September 20, 1780
“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.” ― George Orwell, 1984
“A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.” – Henry A. Wallace, 33rd VP of the United States.
“If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.” – Henry A. Wallace
Book Burning – On May 10, 1933, university students in 34 university towns across Germany burned over 25,000 books. The works of Jewish authors like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud went up in flames alongside blacklisted American authors such as Ernest Hemingway and Helen Keller, while students gave the Nazi salute. They called it “purging.”
Digital book burnings are happening in America with Amazon, Target and other superstores dropping books deemed inflammatory or “racist.” History has no part in America if it offends the minds of snowflakes and race baiters.
Book burning is also happening in 21st Century Canada as reported by the WSJ on October 7th, 2021. More than 4,700 children’s books from 30 schools across CSC Province were targeted. The list included old encyclopedias, biographies of French explorers Jacques Cartier and Etienne Brule, and even French and Belgian comics including Tintin, Asterix, Obelix and Lucky Luke. All were destroyed in a “flame purification” ceremony.
Canada claims they’re purging the ashes of racism, discrimination and stereotypes in an inclusive country where all can live in prosperity and security. This is a lie, a scandal and an evil unto itself. The destruction of history is the willful destruction of the records and the knowledge that can help humanity better understand itself.
Just what is a “flame purification” ceremony when the destruction is of historic documents? The banned documents in America include Disney’s “The Song of the South,” now considered “racial discrimination.”
Where books are burned, people will also be burned.
American Education – Americans who have studied the decline of education in our country know that academic education has been deleterious since 1880 when John Dewey’s progressive (read socialist) education was used on the four sons of John Rockefeller Jr. All four of them, including Vice President, Nelson Rockefeller, who was one heartbeat from the presidency under Gerald Ford, were dyslexic and functionally illiterate. Nelson hired Henry Kissinger to read to him.
Buffalo Public Schools go on to suggest that George Washington, the man who founded this country, was a fraud; that Colin Kaepernick is a moral hero; and that we should celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day. Apparently, we have no right to give thanks for a country that isn’t ours. The Marxist revisionist history taught in our schools today is anathema to the truth of the founding of this nation…it is apostate. Historic truth is reported in the books, Dogs of God The Inquisition and Defeat of the Moors and Simon Wiesenthal’s Sails of Hope.
America’s education is steeped in deviate sexual training. Government schools are barren academic education. Long gone is the teaching of American and world history, phonics and the ability to read past a third-grade level, cursive writing, easy and understandable simple math and of course, civics. Race baiting exists throughout the country with critical race theory taught in every school and the Marxist Black Lives Matter groups are within 20 of the largest school districts in America…now probably far more.
New York City is one of many school systems in the United States set to roll out BLM-themed lesson plans this fall. According to the NYC Department of Education, teachers will delve into “systemic racism,” police brutality, and white privilege in their classrooms. Their site lays out a cult-like recruiting process for students to follow. Step one: Recognize your white privilege. Step two: Learn the dos and don’ts of being an ally. Step three: Recruit more members to learn steps one and two.
End result is to hate whitey just as the end result in Nazi Germany was to hate Jewish friends and neighbors and worship the state.
Prayer in School – Prayer in America’s schools was eliminated in 1962 by the same leftist Warren Supreme Court who destroyed states’ rights for slander and libel. Obtain a copy of Charlotte Iserbyt’s magnificent book, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America for the entire evil machinations of those in power who desired the elimination of academic education.
The gradual transformation of our once academically successful educational system into one devoted to training children to become compliant human resources to be used by government and industry for their own purposes has succeeded. This is how fascist-socialist societies train their children to become servants of their government masters.
All financed through your own taxes! One out of 12 children are now home schooled.
Two-Tiered Society – The 1935 Nuremberg Race Laws served as the legal cornerstone of Jewish persecution by the Nazis. Hitler publicly presented the Laws at the Nazi party’s annual rally in Nuremberg, Germany. The Laws consisted of two directives: (1) Law of the Reich Citizen, and (2) Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor. Each part of the Laws controlled the Jewish population in a different way.
The Laws stripped Jews of their German citizenship. As such, each Jew was made a subject of the German state, meaning that such person was considered a second-class citizen and belonged to the state. Since a Jew belonged to the state, the state could decide what such person could do professionally and what he or she could own. Therefore, the Nazis were able to use the Laws to push Jews out of certain professions such as those of doctors and lawyers. They were also able to dis-enroll Jews from educational programs that required its pupils to be German citizens.
Compare this to America’s two-tiered society of Covid vaxxed and non-vaxxed. How many educators, first responders, healthcare providers and even prison guards are out of a job for refusing an untested inoculation for a virus with a 99.8% recovery? How many employees of corporations with more than 100 employees are demanding the jab or your job? (Biden is now threatening an unconstitutional vax mandate on businesses with less than 100 employees.)
How many of our military are going to be dishonorably discharged by Biden if they refuse an untested and Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) jab? Watch the three-minute video of two nurses and a doctor being escorted from hospitals for being unvaxxed. And the unvaccinated may soon face steep financial penalties. Link
America’s society allows full freedom only for those who accepted the government jab mandate. For those who preferred medical freedom, according to our Fourth Amendment which is “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,” you are banned from many societal enjoyments.
Aaron Rogers of the Green Bay Packers contracted the virus and treated it with ivermectin. He refused to be inoculated. He now has to wear a yellow wristband around his teammates to show he is not vaxxed, whereas everyone who is vaxxed wears a red wristband.
A few months ago, we bought tickets to the Righteous Brothers and Chicago at our wonderful Tennessee Theatre. After the purchases, we received notice that we had to present vax papers, or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours of the show to get into the theatre and we had to wear face diapers during the concerts! No allotment was made for natural immunity from Sars-coV-2. I called the theatre and we got our money back.
“Your papers please” is already here.
Your Papers Please – After the events of Kristallnacht of November 9-10th of 1939, the German authorities implemented a new set of identity papers for its citizens: ID cards for its “German” citizens and a set of papers for non-Aryan citizens, or to be more precise, for the Jews which carried a large red “J” for Jew on the paper. Non-Jews had the Swastika affixed ID card. (The ID cards would also have a large yellow J imprint inside the left part of the document.)
The Rise, Align, Ignite, Reclaim (RAIR) Foundation exposed that in 2018 the European Union already planned vaccination certificates, monitoring vaccine status and combating vaccine hesitancy. In 2018, a year before the coronavirus outbreak, the European Commission released a document already addressing plans to combat vaccination hesitancy, monitoring citizens’ vaccination status, squashing vaccine dissent, and European vaccination certificates.
Euthanasia
As mentioned in Part One of this article, euthanasia was common in the early 20th century of America. Deaf children were sterilized believing they were mentally deficient and should not bear offspring. In 1935, Hitler’s Nuremberg Laws provided for the forced sterilization of the unfit. Not only did Hitler have in mind such “inferior races” as Jews and Gypsies, he also included unfit Aryans—the mentally defective, severely handicapped, the incurably insane and the incurably sick. Anyone considered “genetically inferior” was put to death by inoculation or Zyklon-B to “purify” Hitler’s master race.
At least five states culled their elderly “useless eaters” by sending Covid patients into nursing homes where comorbidities were high. Decades old safe generic drugs would have kept them alive, but hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin were disallowed. Thousands upon thousands died.
In America, Bill Gates has his fingers in the sterilization/depopulation/UN Agenda 21 pie, hoping to cull the “useless eaters” from society and massively downsize our population. Gates has used his largesse for vaccines that have sterilized women in various countries and we’re seeing the same thing happen with the Sars-coV-2 jabs.
As if that’s not evil enough, the Covid jab has been approved for children ages five to eleven. Only 330 children have died in the US from Covid and all of them had high risk comorbidities. Giving children this untested vaccine is, at the least, negligent homicide.
Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of messenger RNA said, “There is no reason to vaccinate children. They don’t have a risk of disease. Natural immunity is superior to vaccine immunity; don’t vaccinate those who have full immunity. Don’t interfere with physicians who are providing lifesaving medications to their patients. Stop it!”
Dr. Joseph Mercola reported that a heart attack ingredient has been added to the Pfizer jab for children. It is a blood acid reducer which is used intravenously to stabilize people with heart attacks and during cardiac surgery. Lord help us!
Tony Fauci held people hostage unto death waiting for the money-making cure-all vaccine and Dr. Ezekiel Immanuel, advisor to illegitimate President Biden on Covid, spouts the rhetoric that none should live after age 75. All of them have been instrumental in the deaths of hundreds of thousands.
America has physician assisted suicide (PAS) in nine American states; the first being Oregon in 1994. After 48 years of legalized abortion in all fifty states at any time for any reason throughout pregnancy, there have been over 63 million abortions that have destroyed the lives of unborn children in their mother’s wombs. Massive amounts of money are being made selling the bodies of these unborn children to various labs and they are being used for the most macabre and evil scientific experiments, including the creation of vaccines.
Conclusion
Nazi ruthlessness was murder for a lie. European Jews were robbed of their human and civil rights and then murdered. History is repeating itself in the “land of the free.”
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Kelleigh Nelsonhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngKelleigh Nelson2021-11-15 06:43:562021-11-15 06:44:35THE GATHERING STORM AND ITS HISTORIC PRECEDENT: Part Three – America
To cure the genocide of real weapons of war in other lands, and yet sustain the medical genocide of abortion that kills 3000-4000 Americans daily in our own land, is sheer lunacy… [letter written by a woman who experienced two abortions years ago]
Galatians 5:14: “The entire law is summed up in a single command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” (I think that INCLUDES an unborn child and euthanasia of the elderly.)
How can we possibly believe God is still blessing this nation when we have thrown Him out of every facet of American life? How can we possibly believe God would still bless this nation when we are sacrificing our unborn children to Molech and Ashtaroth at the rate of thousands per day? The innocent dead now total nearly 57 million. It is my firm belief this is why we are losing our once great country at an exponential speed….we’ve turned our back on God. All government corruption and blatant destruction of our freedoms are the result of us leaving our first love, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and His Son, Jesus, the King of Glory.
The decay and moral turpitude of our nation shows how far we’ve sunk in depravity. There is no sin anymore. The churches no longer preach sin and salvation much less the full Bible. Not only are we murdering the innocents in the womb, but euthanasia is accepted as a kind and caring way to pass the elderly from life to death with deprivation of food and hydration. This is, in fact, a terribly painful death. This form of passive euthanasia has been practiced for many decades in America’s nursing homes. Sin used to slink around in the back allies of America, but now the broken sewer spews it’s filth down Main Street America and no one seems to notice.
Obamacare will be fully active in 2013, but we’re already seeing changes in health care that are showing us what socialized medicine will give us. For the first time in my life, I had to pay the surgeon the balance of what our insurance would not cover PRIOR to a surgery taking place. It now takes over a month’s wait to get an appointment for a particular problem, even when you’re a patient. Next year all the Flex plans will be dropped from the maximum of $5000 to a maximum of $2500. For most, this will not even cover the yearly deductible for two people. (Flex plans are untaxed monies held from paychecks in an account by the employer for payment of medical fees not covered by insurance.) All care will be rationed, and the elderly will not even be able to get care after a certain age. Allegedly, after age 76, no cancer treatment will be given.
From Sam Blumenfeld’s article in the New American, “In America, our national healthcare administrators will point out that the elderly require the most expensive medical care to prolong their lives, and that our younger taxpayers cannot afford the burden of keeping these people alive. So various means will be employed to do away with this very large class of citizens: in order to save money!
Treatment will be delayed so that the elderly can die before they can get the treatment they need. Drugs will be developed to permit the elderly to end their lives gracefully. Suicide by the elderly will be considered a patriotic act, and medals will be given to suicide assisters.”
Death of the elderly, the “useless eaters,” those ostensibly no longer able to produce in society in the global work force, are destined for an early demise to “save” the expense of their end-of-life care. The most defenseless in our society are the most at risk.
What we are allowing to be done to America’s babies is truly an abomination. It makes me weep. We are allowing the merchandizing and cannibalizing of our own young. May God have mercy on us. Please watch this video of “Conception to Birth” before you read further.
Aborted Fetal Cells in Food
There’s so much more in the American death parade, but just when you think you’ve heard it all, we find aborted baby fetal cells in our food. Lifenews.com states: Dozens of pro-life groups are calling on pro-life Americans to boycott PepsiCo because it has contracted with a company that uses fetal cells from babies victimized by abortions to test and produce artificial flavor enhancers. Obama’s Security and Exchange Commission rules PepsiCo cannibalizing aborted babies is “Ordinary Business.” Link
LifeNews.com reported on the controversy in March when information came to light showing biotech company Senomyx was found to be testing their food additives using fetal cells from abortions. Senomyx ignored a letter from the pro-life group Children of God for Life, which complained about its practices.
Debi Vinnedge, the director of the group Children of God for Life is calling for a public boycott of major food companies partnering with Senomyx. Vinnedge states, “What they don’t tell the public is that they are using HEK 293 – human embryonic kidney cells taken from an electively aborted baby…”
Related to the supply of the fetus, is the supply of fresh and more mature fetuses. The timing of abortion becomes an important consideration to the researchers and medical community who benefit from a more matured and developed fetus. The majority of abortion procedures are performed between the sixth and eleventh weeks of pregnancy, however delaying until the fourteenth to sixteenth weeks will yield fetal tissue that is usable in pancreatic transplants. Simply put, the older the fetus the more valuable!
After exposing the practice, Vinnedge’s group called for pro-life people to contact the companies using Senomyx to test their products. While some companies stopped contracting with it, others did not. The original list of companies contracted with Senomyx included PepsiCo, Nestle, Kraft, Starbucks, Campbell’s and Nestea. Here is the list of all aborted fetal products.
Vaccines and Cosmetics
Sound Choice for Life Pharmaceuticals has been refused government funding for their research of the link between vaccines and diseases like autism and autoimmunity and autism is a worldwide epidemic! The use of aborted fetal cells for vaccine production has been expanded to now include cosmetics, foods and beverages. Sound Choice has been told their research is TOO CONTROVERSIAL for publication and is not innovative and not significant enough for federal funding. Cell lines taken from electively aborted fetuses are used to manufacture vaccines including MMR lII (mumps, measles, rubella), chickenpox, shingles, Hepatitis A, hepatitis A & B, poliovax, and rabies. Therefore, when inoculating children with these vaccines, we are also injecting them with residual aborted fetal DNA and cellular debris. These contaminants put children at risk for autoimmune disease and gene insertion and mutations. Link
Neocutis is one cosmetic company that uses Senomyx. The company produces anti wrinkle creams that contain cells from a 14 week gestation aborted male baby. It is recommended that we boycott all Neocutis products, especially Bio-Gel Prevedem Journee, Bio-Serum Lumiere, Bio Restorative Skin Cream. Link
Selling Aborted Baby Parts
Aborted babies are being chopped up and sold from abortion clinics every day. Some of these infants are still alive when the technicians (middlemen) step in for the “harvesting” of organs. They literally have to kill the baby a second time. These tiny babies’ body parts end up in Research and Development Labs which are funded by large corporations. The babies’ uses include research, experimentation and product development. Ethics and Medics reports, “The predominant industries engaged in fetal tissue research are components of the emerging life science industry: the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and biologics sectors. The pharmaceutical industry is involved in the discovery, development, production, and marketing of drugs licensed as medications.”
American researchers have engaged in fetal tissue research since the 1930’s. In an article published by the Christian Research Institute Journal in 1992, Scott B. Rae, Professor of Christian Ethics at Talbot School of Theology in Los Angeles, observes: “Abortion clinics stand to reap a substantial increase in revenue simply from the small amount (on average $25 per organ, multiplied by the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed annually) that the nonprofit acquisition organizations offer. ”
Many abortion clinics are paid $1200 a month for fetal corpses. A brain can go for $999, a spinal cord for $325, bone marrow for $350 and both eyes for $75.00. See page 33 of this article, Commercial Markets Created by Abortion where Life Dynamics, Inc. a Texas non-profit pro-life organization founded by Mark Crutcher in 1992, exposes the marketing of aborted babies. The organization is known for its undercover investigations of abortion providers.
Harvesting Tissue
Harvesting fetal tissue is not yet illegal in the US. In fact, the program at five major universities including the University of Washington is in part funded by the US National Institutes of Health. Of course, trafficking in baby parts for profit is a criminal offense. To get around the problem, universities and researchers pay a fee – not for the parts themselves, but for the “cost of extraction.” Shipping and handling costs are extra.
The University of Washington has been supplying Keely Bumsted O’Brien at the University of Auckland, New Zealand with some of her eyeball retinas of elective aborted babies from America. Ian Wishart reported in Investigative Daily about massive industry harvesting pieces of dead children for experiments, research, and/or transplanting into animals. According to Investigative Daily, “Another brokerage is Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR) of California. ABR supplied aborted baby brains to be injected into mice, as part of experiments creating a part human/part mouse chimera. The genetically-engineered mice have been given – all courtesy of aborted fetuses from ABR – a human immune system, a human fetal thymus, liver and lymph node. The mice are then infected with HIV as part of AIDS research.”
In an expose` interview on ABC’s 20/20, abortion technician insider, Dean Alberty told of the harvesting of eyes, brains, hearts, limbs, torsos and other body parts for sale to scientific markets for testing and research. The trafficking was taking place inside abortion clinics run by…who else? Planned Parenthood, which is the affiliate of New Zealand’s Family Planning organization.
Alberty was the middle man so to speak. He worked for an agency out of Maryland called the Anatomic Gift Foundation (AGF) which acted as a brokerage between researchers and university medical schools seeking body parts. The clinics would report the races, and gestations of the babies to be aborted each day. AGF would match the “offerings” of these aborted infants with the lists their clients ordered. Alberty and his fellow techs would go to the abortion clinics to dissect and extract exactly what they needed from these innocent infants before decomposition set in. They actually had contractual agreements with the abortion clinics and the clinics supplied lists so AGF could weed out anyone who had STDs or fetal anomalies. Alberty stated, “We were taking eyes, livers, brains, thymuses, and especially cardiac blood…even blood from the limbs that we would get from the veins.”
The most horrific tale was the one Alberty told of seeing wounded babies who had survived the abortion procedure…one he remembered was a pair of twins still moving on the table when the techs arrived to dissect the babies. He said, “The babies were cuddling each other and gasping for breath when the medics moved in for the kill. Even with late term abortions where the baby is killed with a spike to the back of the head prior to exiting the birth canal, babies were still coming out alive. Alberty reported, “The doctor would either break the neck or take a pair of tongs and basically beat the baby until it was dead.” He tells about another incident that haunts him where a woman 26 weeks pregnant was given medication to induce labor and sent to her hotel room where she delivered the baby. She brought the baby back to the clinic. It was laid on a table in a towel and Alberty saw the baby’s arm move. The doctor came in and put a puncture hole in the chest of the living child. This man has to be more than haunted with what he did for a living before he came forward on 20/20.
Women have to give their consent for their babies to be used in research. This is law that cannot be bypassed. However, the consent forms are so generic, the mother has no idea of what type of scientific experiment or research the child might be used for, nor where the remains will be shipped. One wonders if they even read the forms or are verbally told of the remains being used for research.
Conclusion
How depraved and macabre is a society where mankind can do this to their young? Shades of Hitler’s justification wherein the few are sacrificed for the good of the many. I’ve written about the Nuremburg Code of justice resulting from the Nazi war crimes trials after WWII. Link The Nuremburg Code includes 10 principles to guide physicians in human experimentation. Prior to the Nazi war crime tribunals, there was no written code for doctors other than the Hippocratic Oath which today’s abortion doctors seem to have discarded along with their ethics. Mengele had a special penchant for experiments with twins and on eyes, just as the latter is preferred by Ms. O’Brien in the Auckland experiments.
I cannot fathom the pain of abortion on even one human baby, let alone the horror of what these so-called scientists and physicians are perpetrating on remains and on those who survive their abortions. There are no words to express my revulsion of this grotesque and ungodly satanic abomination nor the pain I felt and the tears I shed in writing this article. How can God hold back his wrath? For this alone, our country is doomed. The only thing that will save us from total destruction is national repentance for our sins, pleading for God’s mercy and begging His forgiveness. This vile slaughter must be stopped.
A future article will cover American eugenics and proposed after -birth abortions on babies up to two years of age.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Kelleigh Nelsonhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngKelleigh Nelson2021-11-15 05:46:242021-11-15 05:46:24The Culture of Death
Kash Patel says the public was misled for years because reporters were blinded by Trump hatred.
The congressional investigator who played a key role in unraveling the Russia collusion narrative says his next mission is to force the news media to make necessary corrections to the avalanche of false stories they produced over the last many years.
“The course correction that I’ve been trying to work on since I left government service is you have to find a way to correct the media,” Kash Patel told Just the News.
“Because for years, they lied to 50% of the American population who believe everything they said, that Trump was in bed with Russians and Putin and that Trump was getting paid. And Trump knew that Vladimir Putin was using U.S. dollars to kill American soldiers.”
Patel, a former national security prosecutor who worked as chief investigator for the House Intelligence Committee, said the media errors and omissions have extended long after the Russia case to the pandemic because reporters can’t let go of their hatred for former President Donald Trump.
“Their hatred for Donald Trump intentionally blinded their ability to report credibly, and America is finally seeing it,” he said during an interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast.
“Look I’m not celebrating that we’re finally getting to the truth. But I’m pretty upset that our media has gone so far down the toilet. That’s not a free press that we want. That’s not what our founders envisioned when they enshrined the First Amendment and the rights therein.”
Patel is pursuing lawsuits against false stories against him and has created a group called Fight with Kash to help others pressure the media for corrections when warranted.
Patel, who also worked at the Trump National Security Council and Pentagon, said he is heartened by Special Counsel John Durham’s indictments and continuing investigation of the origins and spread of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative by a shady network of partisan operatives and contractors.
He said more indictments are likely and are important for America to regain trust in this FBI and Justice Department.
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“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” – Ralph Ellison
After the Second World War, as Germany was being divided up and the Nazi war machine was being dismantled, the American spies were thick on the ground. They were the early version of a department that would be called the CIA. The CIA was created and actually signed into place by President Truman on July 26, 1947. From the day they were created they have never been the friend or savior of the American people. They have done so many evil jobs around the world, performed unspeakable crimes all in the name of security and safety. Two words Americans seem unable to provide themselves. The CIA is a civilian foreign intelligence organization- apparently. It is supposed to gather human intelligence around the world and then provide that information as intelligence to the President of the United States. It has tactical divisions such as the Special Activities Center. This division is the one used to exert political influence in foreign countries. Trust me, like their work in Africa, they are not working for good but evil.
It trains countries in torture methods, it provides money to terror groups and affects violent changes of government supposedly to complement American political ideologies at that time in history. A shining example was the destruction of strong pro western governments in Africa, like Zimbabwe, that are now communist or Marxist hellholes whose citizens are now living lives that cannot be worse than Hell.
Planned assassinations of world leaders are subject to their operational status. If you think that they were not involved somehow in Kennedys assassination, you are surely misled.
One of their first jobs after being created was to investigate the Nazi propaganda machine and also the scientific experiments being carried out by evil Nazi scientists. ( They also offered a home to the Nazi scientists involved in rocket development as their technology was well ahead of our own. )
One of these experiments that Nazi Germany was very much world leaders in was brain washing – best described by Wikipedia as:- Brainwashing (also known as mind control, menticide, coercive persuasion, thought control, thought reform, and re-education) is the concept that the human mind can be altered or controlled by certain psychological techniques. Brainwashing is said to reduce its subjects’ ability to think critically or independently, to allow the introduction of new, unwanted thoughts and ideas into their minds, as well as to change their attitudes, values and beliefs.
Hmmmmm…..Any of that seem familiar?
Now, America gathered up all the Nazi scientists involved in this program, and under the CIA quietly bought them to the United States. Here, under the direction of the CIA, they perfected the science and the ability to brainwash a nation. (They also bought evil criminal Nazi scientists and professors over here who were experts in propaganda.)
One way the CIA put their now tame scientists to work was that they used the techniques through their secret department in Hollywood, Ca. Here their agents had the film companies to submit their future movies, scripts, lists of actors and also ensured the strengthened grip of the Actors Union. A communist organization.
These scripts and films were edited and brainwashing techniques added. Propaganda that was relevant to the political agenda of the left was also added. Therefore, every movie, TV Show, documentary and many books were filled with indoctrination and propaganda and our nation began its slide into the abyss of ignorance and our acceptance of everything that up to them was foreign and wrong to everyday Americans.
The CIA also used these techniques to alter the minds of our young by using the same brainwashing techniques in music. This was seen in particular in the 1960’s where minds, music, morals, ethics etc. were now controlled by the CIA special teams appointed to do this terrible work. A book I highly recommend is : “Weird scenes inside the Canyon – Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream” written by David McGowan. All your favorite musicians from that era have ties unknown previously to the CIA and the military. The book is available from Amazon for $21.61 and should be a must read to understand the depths of depravity the CIA has always sunk to and the methods of brainwashing and propaganda they have used as a weapon against we, the people.
Their strength and budget has increased dramatically since 9/11 where they failed us. Their budget is secret but is north of $62.8 Billion plus their secret parts that perform work unknown to us but most likely dangerous for freedom and liberty get another secret budget north of $20.7 Billion.
Now America – that is a short synopsis of why Americans were so easy to control during Covid. The unconstitutional orders and mandates, some issued by the CDC or OSHA and therefore unconstitutional as Congress didn’t make some of the laws, that were sucked up by the majority of non critical thinking sheep. Those that wore stupid masks, stayed locked down, shuttered their businesses, went bankrupt, watched hours of brainwashing TV shows, listened to traitors and Devil worshippers like Dr Fauci and his ilk as he lied and lied. Listened to round the clock 24/7 propaganda spewed out by the tame puppets of this Administrations MSM as they lied and lied. The basis of this is if the same lie is told often enough they would be believed. And they were.
Critical thinking and common sense were other targets of these special units of the CIA. They have abolished both from school curriculum nationwide through the Education Department and School teachers unions. Many Americans are totally unable to think for themselves, research, work out what makes sense and what doesn’t. It was also destroyed in higher education facilities where our youth were indoctrinated fully and trained to be good little serfs of a dictatorial tyrannical government warned against by our Founding Fathers.
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The following is adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on September 20, 2021, during a Center for Constructive Alternatives conference on “Critical American Elections.”
Sixteen years ago, in 2005, the Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform issued a report that proposed a uniform system of requiring a photo ID in order to vote in U.S. elections. The report also pointed out that widespread absentee voting makes vote fraud more likely. Voter files contain ineligible, duplicate, fictional, and deceased voters, a fact easily exploited using absentee ballots to commit fraud. Citizens who vote absentee are more susceptible to pressure and intimidation. And vote-buying schemes are far easier when citizens vote by mail.
Who was behind the Carter-Baker Commission? Donald Trump? No. The Commission’s two ranking members were former President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, and former Secretary of State James Baker III, a Republican. Other Democrats on the Commission were former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and former Indiana Congressman Lee Hamilton. It was a truly bipartisan commission that made what seemed at the time to be common sense proposals.
How things have changed. Some of the Commission’s members, Jimmy Carter among them, came out last year to disavow the Commission’s work. And despite surveys showing that Americans overwhelmingly support measures to ensure election integrity—a recent Rasmussen survey found that 80 percent of Americans support a voter ID requirement—Democratic leaders across the board oppose such measures in the strongest terms.
Here, for instance, is President Biden speaking recently in Philadelphia, condemning the idea of voter IDs: “There is an unfolding assault taking place in America today—an attempt to suppress and subvert the right to vote in fair and free elections, an assault on democracy, an assault on liberty, an assault on who we are—who we are as Americans. For, make no mistake, bullies and merchants of fear and peddlers of lies are threatening the very foundation of our country.” Sadly but predicably, he went on to suggest that requiring voter IDs would mean returning people to slavery.
But the fact is that the U.S. is an outlier among the world’s democracies in not requiring voter ID. Of the 47 countries in Europe today, 46 of them currently require government-issued photo IDs to vote. The odd man out is the United Kingdom, in which Northern Ireland and many localities require voter IDs, but the requirement is not nationwide. The British Parliament, however, is considering a nationwide requirement, so very soon all 47 European countries will likely have adopted this common-sense policy.
When it comes to absentee voting, we Americans, accustomed as we are to very loose rules, are often shocked to learn that 35 of the 47 European countries—including France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden—don’t allow absentee voting for citizens living in country. Another ten European countries—including England, Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, and Spain—allow absentee voting, but require voters to show up in person and present a photo ID to pick up their ballots. It isn’t like in the U.S., where a person can say he’s going to be out of town and have a ballot mailed to him.
England used to have absentee voting rules similar to ours in the U.S. But in 2004, in the city of Birmingham, officials uncovered a massive vote fraud scheme in the city council races. The six winning Labor candidates had fraudulently acquired about 40,000 absentee votes, mainly from Muslim areas of the city. As a result, England ended the practice of mailing out absentee ballots and required voters to pick up their ballots in person with a photo ID.
Up until 1975, France also had loose absentee voting rules. But when massive vote fraud was discovered on the island of Corsica—where hundreds of thousands of dead people were found to be voting and even larger-scale vote-buying operations were occurring—France banned absentee voting altogether.
On the topic of buying votes, I should point out that we in the U.S. did not always have secret ballots. It wasn’t until 1880 that the first state adopted the secret ballot, and the last state to adopt it was South Carolina in 1950. Perhaps surprisingly, when secret ballots were adopted, the percentage of people voting fell by about twelve percent. Why was that? Prior to the adoption of the secret ballot, lots of people would get paid for voting. In those days, people voted by placing pieces of colored paper in the ballot box, with different colors representing different parties. Party officials would be present to observe what color paper each voter put into the box, and depending on the color, the voter would often get paid. Secret ballots put an end to this practice.
France learned in 1975 that the use of absentee ballots led to the same practice—it allowed third parties to know how people voted and pay them for voting a certain way. This same problem is now proliferating in the U.S. in the form of “ballot harvesting,” the increasingly common practice where party functionaries distribute and collect ballots.
Defenders of our current voting rules point out that in lieu of absentee voting, some European countries allow “proxy voting,” whereby one person can designate another to vote for him. And while it is true that eight of the 47 European countries allow proxy voting—meaning that 39 do not—there are strict requirements. In five of the eight countries—Belgium, England, Monaco, Poland, and Sweden—proxy voting is limited to those with a disability or an illness or who are out of the country. In Poland, it also requires the approval of the local mayor, and in Monaco the approval of the general secretariat. In France and the Netherlands, proxy voting has to be arranged through a notary public. Switzerland is the only country in Europe with a relatively liberal proxy voting policy, requiring only a signature match.
How about our neighbors, Canada and Mexico? Canada requires a photo ID to vote. If a voter shows up at the polls without an ID, he is allowed to vote only if he declares who he is in writing and if there is someone working at the polling station who can personally verify his identity.
Mexico has had a long history of election fraud. Partly because its leaders were concerned about a drop in foreign investment if it wasn’t perceived to be a legitimate democracy, Mexico recently instituted strict reforms. Voters must present a biometric ID—an ID with not only a photo, but also a thumb print. Voters also have indelible ink applied to their thumbs, preventing them from voting more than once. And absentee voting is prohibited, even for people living outside the country.
Those who oppose election integrity reform here in the U.S. often condemn it as a means of “voter suppression.” But in Mexico, the percent of people voting rose from 59 percent before the reforms to 68 percent after. It turned out that Mexicans were more, not less, likely to vote when they had confidence that their votes mattered.
H.R. 1, the radical bill Democratic Party leaders have been pushing to adopt this year, would prohibit states from requiring voter ID and require states to allow permanent mail-in voting. And mail-in voting, I hardly need to point out, is even worse, in terms of vote fraud, than absentee voting. With absentee voting, a person at least has to request a ballot. With mail-in voting—as we saw in too many places in the 2020 election—ballots are simply mailed out to everyone. With loose absentee voting rules, a country is making itself vulnerable to vote fraud. With mail-in voting, a country is almost begging for vote fraud.
If the rhetoric we hear from the Left today is correct—if voter ID requirements and restrictions on absentee (or even mail-in) voting are un-democratic—then so are the countries of Europe and the rest of the developed world. But this is utter nonsense.
Those opposing common sense measures to ensure integrity in U.S. elections—measures such as those recommended by the bipartisan Carter-Baker Commission in 2005—are not motivated by a concern for democracy, but by partisan interests.
John R. Lott, Jr., is founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from UCLA and has held research or teaching positions at the University of Chicago, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, Yale University, and Rice University. He served in the Trump administration as Senior Advisor for Research and Statistics at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he studied vote fraud. He has written for numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Times, and is the author of ten books, including More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws.
There was a brief pause in America during the 1920s, but overseas the anti-capitalist mindset ran rampant. The consequences were disastrous.
The 20th century was a period of startling technological advancement. Compared to the lifestyle of average people in 1925, most of human history before that time amounted to what we’d now call “camping.”
Just 30 years earlier, most people traveled on foot or by animal power, except when taking trains. They lit their homes with candles and provided themselves with heat mostly by burning wood, just as their prehistoric ancestors had. They went outside to use the bathroom. They died from diseases we brush off today with a 10-day regimen of pills.
The technological explosion in the early 20th century had its roots in the 19th, when what used to be called liberal values informed the Western world. By “liberal,” I mean individual liberty, free markets, and limited government. Today, we call that worldview “classical liberal” or “libertarian” (really the same philosophy at different stages of development) because “liberal” no longer means anything of the sort.
Many people believe the cataclysmic world wars were an inevitable price the world had to pay for too much freedom. That’s the opposite of the truth. The early 20th century saw a violent reaction against the tidal wave of freedom that had swept the world during the previous century. At the center of this anti-liberal sentiment was resentment against free markets.
“Laissez faire is dead,” politicians routinely said. It was a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The anti-capitalist mindset was international and, within America, bipartisan. The Progressive Era became mainstream with Republican president Teddy Roosevelt in the White House. It was under Roosevelt that the seeds of the modern, omnipotent executive branch were planted. Those seeds were given tender-loving care by Woodrow Wilson as he attempted to militarize the economy, hoping wartime anti-capitalist policies would become permanent.
There was a brief pause in America during the 1920s, but overseas the anti-capitalist mindset ran rampant. People have forgotten – or perhaps were never taught – how central anti-capitalist thinking was to Italian fascism and Naziism. That’s why during the 1930s even Hitler had admirers here in the United States. He was seen as a “man who could get things done” in terms of overriding the voluntary relationships of the free market to achieve government-promulgated economic outcomes.
It is also the reason both Hitler and Mussolini praised FDR’s New Deal. No, the New Deal wasn’t quite as totalitarian as what Mussolini or Hitler were doing in Europe. FDR never legally prohibited people from quitting their jobs, as Hitler had done, in order to maintain “full employment.” But as Vincent Vega would say, “it’s the same ballpark.” The New Deal brought the economy under the arbitrary orders of executive branch bureaucrats, where much of it remains to this day.
WWII is widely believed to be a glorious event. Supposedly, the forces of totalitarianism were defeated by the champions of “democracy,” establishing a New World Order (novus ordo seclorum) under which the United States would lead the world in stamping out tyranny forever.
It’s a nice story that is somewhat undermined by the facts. In truth, both world wars were disasters for Western civilization. Yes, Hitler was defeated, but it’s hard to argue in retrospect that bringing half of Europe under the brutal rule of the Soviets, who killed ten times more people than the Nazis and were at least as totalitarian, was a slam dunk win.
Worse yet, the relatively freer societies among the Allies became significantly less free. The United States became a garrison state, first ostensibly to oppose the Soviets, and then terrorism, and now…a virus. The European allies descended into socialism from which they only marginally retreated during the late 20th century. The US now seems eager to repeat their mistakes.
The progenitor of the world wars and everything that followed was the anti-capitalist mindset that swept the world in the first half of the 20th century. It was the belief that political power could improve economic outcomes that led to the rise of dictators like Hitler and Mussolini in Europe and dictators-lite like Wilson and the Roosevelts here in America.
Like a bad sequel, the anti-capitalist mindset is back. While the Republican Party may never have delivered the laissez faire market they campaigned on, they understood the need to at least give it lip service. Why? Because a large segment of their constituents wanted to hear it. And that sentiment among a large segment of the public – even if not a majority – is the only thing that can check further destruction of our liberty.
Now, with “economic nationalism” on the right and “democratic socialism” on the left dominating the thinking of close to 100 percent of the population, we are back to the near-unanimous contempt for laissez faire markets that defined the 1930s. And this time, the nation states are armed with nuclear and biological weapons.
How will this latest epidemic of anti-capitalist thinking end?
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The plan would simply waste money, create zero jobs on net, and do nothing to mitigate climate change.
The fate of President Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar social spending agenda, the “Build Back Better” plan, has consumed the political conversation in recent weeks. Amid all the furious attempts at reading political tea leaves, a curious fact has flown under the radar: The latest iteration of Biden’s plan includes one of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s worst ideas.
“Happy to announce creation of a US Civilian Climate Corps is now in the Build Back Better Act,” the far-left congresswoman recently tweeted. Referencing the public works “job creation” scheme first proposed as part of the Green New Deal, Ocasio-Cortez claimed the initiative will create 300,000 jobs while combating the “climate crisis” and “environmental injustice.”
Happy to announce creation of a US Civilian Climate Corps is now in the Build Back Better Act.🌎
Estimated to create 300k+ public jobs w/ Dept of Labor + Americorps to combat the climate crisis & enviro injustices.
Indeed, a perusal of White House communications makes it clear that the plan for a Civilian Climate Corps—not long ago considered a radical pipe dream—is now part of the president’s plan.
“The Build Back Better Framework will create a Civilian Climate Corps with over 300K members that look like America,” the official White House Twitter account wrote. “This workforce will conserve public lands, bolster community resilience, address the changing climate, and put good-paying union jobs within reach for more people.”
“Climate change has become a climate crisis,” Vice President Kamala Harris similarly said in a speech promoting the plan. “But today we know that this moment of crisis is also a moment of opportunity… an opportunity to create good, union jobs.”
“Once these bills are passed… young people will join our new Civilian Climate Corps,” she continued. “These are the opportunities we have within our grasp right now.”
.@VP Kamala Harris: "Once these bills are passed, plumbers will fill the jobs we need to replace all those lead pipes. Young people will join our new Civilian Climate Corps. These are the opportunities we have within our grasp right now." pic.twitter.com/qwAOYTQXHD
The Build Back Better Framework will create a Civilian Climate Corps with over 300K members that look like America. This workforce will conserve public lands, bolster community resilience, address the changing climate, and put good-paying union jobs within reach for more people.
With the proposal gaining momentum in Washington, DC, it’s well worth examining its actual merits. And even a cursory glance reveals that in reality the plan would simply waste money, create zero jobs on net, and do nothing to mitigate climate change.
According to Fox News, the latest bill text allocates $8 billion in taxpayer funds for this Civilian Climate Corps initiative. That’s a sizable sum that could be spent elsewhere—or better yet, left in our pockets to begin with. Yet under the Biden-AOC plan, the federal government would use that $8 billion to create well-paying jobs for young people who want to be employed full-time doing environmental activism and community projects.
Yet the claim that this would “create” jobs is false, at least on net. Sure, it would “create” some jobs in this new Climate Corps. But the government cannot create resources out of thin air. Whatever money it spent to put these climate change activists to “work” would have to, directly or indirectly, come from elsewhere in the economy.
As Henry Hazlitt wrote in Economics in One Lesson, “It is highly improbable that the projects thought up by the bureaucrats will provide the same net addition to wealth and welfare, per dollar expended, as would have been provided by the taxpayers themselves, if they had been individually permitted to buy or have made what they themselves wanted, instead of being forced to surrender part of their earnings to the state.”
Simply put, a dollar spent paying a 19-year-old to plant flowers is a dollar not spent by a private company paying them to deliver food, and so on. So, there’s no reason at all to believe a Civilian Climate Corps would create jobs on net.
Perhaps most damning, the Civilian Climate Corps would make a statistically negligible difference in reducing US carbon emissions, the stated goal of the Biden administration’s plans. Even halting all US vehicle emissions would barely make a dent in global emission levels, and make-work schemes like this would have no noticeable impact, simply as a matter of scale. Even many supporters of the idea acknowledge this.
“Emissions reduction, obviously, is the goal we need to achieve for the sake of safety,” Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said. “To be clear, I support a Civilian Climate Corps. It just doesn’t measurably reduce emissions.”
So, if a Civilian Climate Corps wastes billions, creates zero jobs, and doesn’t even help the climate, why on Earth has President Biden included it in his spending agenda? Whatever his reasons, wasting $10 billion on AOC’s fever dreams is a raw deal for American taxpayers.
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