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VIDEO: Transhumanism and How the Coming Digital Dictatorship Will Alter Your Life

By MERCOLA Take Control of Your Health

What You Need to Know About the Transhumanist Agenda

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

  • According to Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the goal of The Fourth Industrial Revolution is to change what it means to be human by merging man and machine
  • Humans are now “hackable,” in that technology now exists by which a company or government can know you better than you know yourself, and that can be very dangerous if misused
  • Professor Yuval Noah Harari predicts that algorithms will increasingly be used to make decisions that have historically been made by humans, either yourself or someone else, including whether or not you’ll be hired for a particular job, whether you’ll be granted a loan, what scholastic curriculum you will follow and even who you will marry
  • Harari warns that if we allow the establishment of a digital dictatorship, where the system, be it a corporation or a government, knows the most intimate details about each and every person, it will be impossible to dismantle it. Its control will be total and irreversible
  • If you believe that your thoughts and behavior are and always will remain under your own control, think again. We already have the technology to directly alter thoughts, emotions and behavior

According to Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the goal of The Fourth Industrial Revolution1 is to change what it means to be human by merging man and machine. In short, while the term “transhumanism” is not being used, that’s exactly where the global cabal intends to take us, willing or not.

In a November 2019 interview with CNN,2 history professor and bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari, a Klaus Schwab disciple, warned that “humans are now hackable animals,” meaning, the technology now exists by which a company or government can know you better than you know yourself, and that can be very dangerous if misused.

He predicted that algorithms will increasingly be used to make decisions that historically have been made by humans, either yourself or someone else, including whether or not you’ll be hired for a particular job, whether you’ll be granted a loan, what scholastic curriculum you will follow and even who you will marry.

Profound Dangers Ahead

There’s also an ever-increasing risk of being manipulated by these outside forces that you’re not even fully aware of. Looking back over the last two years, it’s rather easy to confirm that mass manipulation is taking place at a staggering scale, and that it’s phenomenally effective.

As noted by Harari in 2019,3 the available capabilities already go far beyond Orwell’s “1984” authoritarian vision, and it’s only going to become more powerful from here. He’s certain that in short order, there will be the ability to monitor your emotional state through something as simple as a wearable wristband.

You may dutifully smile and clap when listening to a speech by a government official, but they’ll know you’re angry or don’t agree with what’s being said, and could therefore take action against you based on your most personal, internal emotions rather than what you outwardly express.

Importantly, Harari warned that if we allow the establishment of this kind of digital dictatorship, where the system, be it a corporation or a government, knows the most intimate details about each and every person, it will be impossible to dismantle it. Its control will be total and irreversible. And, Harari believes we may have only a decade, at most two, to prevent this digital dictatorship from taking over.

Reengineering Life Itself

Harari also discussed the coming transhumanism at the WEF’s 2020 annual meeting in Davos (above), and in this speech, he went even further. Not only does the global elite have the technological capability to create a global digital dictatorship, but “elites may gain the power to reengineer the future of life itself.”

“For four billion years, nothing fundamental changed in the basic rules of the game of life,” he said. “All of life was subject to the laws of natural selection and the laws of organic biochemistry. But this is now about to change.

Science is replacing evolution by natural selection with evolution by intelligent design, not the intelligent design of some god in the clouds, [but] OUR intelligent design, and the design of our ‘clouds,’ the IBM cloud, the Microsoft cloud. These are the new driving forces of evolution.”

It’s hard to determine whether Harari is for or against transhumanism. He speaks of it as an inevitability, and something that can be used for tremendous good. But he also recognizes its profound dangers, and seems to believe we need to discuss how these technological capabilities can be used, and whether they should.

In the featured Davos speech, it sounds as though he’s a proponent of this human intelligent design venture, but in his 2019 interview with CNN, he also stated that “we must never underestimate the stupidity of humans.” The fact that we have the technology to design new life forms, including new kinds of humans, does not necessarily mean that we’re smart enough to design something better than what natural evolution has come up with thus far.

In his Davos speech, Harari also pointed out that science is now enabling us to create life not only in the organic realm but in the inorganic realm as well. We’re talking about “living” robots and the like. He also raises the question as to who “owns” your DNA, if it can be charted and hacked. Does it belong to you, a corporation, or the government?

‘The Days of Free Will Are Over’

Whatever Harari’s true feelings about transhumanism, he emphatically states that the idea that we have a soul and free will, those days “are over.” In other clips that have been inserted into the featured video, Harari predicts that in the future, people will be able to look back and see that the COVID pandemic was the turning point where biological surveillance took over and became norm.

The explanation for how that was able to occur is given by Schwab, who has publicly admitted (see featured video) that participants in the WEF’s Young Global Leaders program have “penetrated the cabinets” of many world governments.

In Canada, for example, about half the politicians, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, have taken Schwab’s training. Schwab is all about ushering in transhumanism and changing what it means to be human, and his minions of global leaders are sure doing everything they can to make those dreams a reality. This is a dystopian future WEF and its global allies are actively trying to implement, whether humanity at large agrees with it or not.

Changing What It Means To Be Human

Schwab dreams of a world in which humans are connected to the cloud, able to access the internet through their own brains. This, of course, also means that your brain would be accessible to people who might like to tinker with your thoughts, emotions, beliefs and behavior, be they the technocratic elite themselves or random hackers.

If you believe that your thoughts and behavior are and always will remain under your own control, think again. We already have the technology to directly alter thoughts, emotions and behavior. Some of these capabilities are described in a 2021 project report by the U.K. Ministry of Defense, created in partnership with the German Bundeswehr Office for Defense Planning.

The report, “Human Augmentation — The Dawn of a New Paradigm, a Strategic Implications Project,”4 reviews the scientific goals of the U.K. and German defense ministries, and they are precisely what the title suggests. Human augmentation is stressed as being a key area to focus on in order to win future wars:5

“Human augmentation will become increasingly relevant, partly because it can directly enhance human capability and behavior and partly because it is the binding agent between people and machines.”

Key words I’d like to draw your attention to are the affirmation that human augmentation can “directly enhance behavior.” If you can enhance behavior, that means you can change someone’s behavior. And if you can change a person’s behavior in a positive way, you can also control it to the person’s own detriment.

Theoretically, absolutely anyone, any random civilian with a brain-to-cloud connection and the needed biological augmentation (such as strength or speed) could be given wireless instructions to carry out an assassination, for example, and pull it off flawlessly, even without prior training.

Alternatively, their physical body could temporarily be taken over by a remote operator with the prerequisite skills. Proof of concept already exists, and is reviewed by Dr. Charles Morgan, professor in the department of national security at the University of New Haven, in the lecture below. Using the internet and brain implants, thoughts can be transferred from one person to another. The sender can also directly influence the physical movements of the receiver.

Project Immortality

Historically, the striving for immortality has been a faith-based venture, based in the idea that the soul is immortal while the body perishes, which is a concept I am in complete alignment with. Transhumanists more or less reverse this idea. They discard the notion of soul altogether and aim for the preservation of the perceived personality, first through radical life extension of the physical body, and later through the transfer of brain data into a replacement form.

According to Dmitry Itskov, the Russian founder of the Immortality 2045 project,6 only 2% of people are ready to accept death — a statistic that he uses to justify the search for immortality through things like artificial organs, artificial body constructs, the simulation of mental processes and, ultimately, the transferring of one’s mind into an artificial carrier.

The goals of this project include not only the creation of the cybernetic technologies needed to achieve an immortal body, but also the creation of “a new philosophical paradigm for humanity.” Schwab has talked about the same thing, using the term “social contract” rather than “philosophical paradigm.”

The Immortality 2045’s vision, published in 2011, starts with the creation of the first robotic copy of a human body that can be remotely controlled by 2020. By 2025, they want an avatar into which the human brain can be transplanted at the end of life. By 2035, they want an avatar with a synthetic brain, into which the human personality can be transferred and, by 2045, they imagine a holographic-like avatar. Itskov says:7

“The aim of the first project, known as ‘Avatar,’ is the creation of a robot copy of a human being controllable through a ‘brain-computer’ interface. When I’m asked to give the gist of this project, I tell people to recall the film ‘Surrogates,’ which depicts a world in which every person has an artificial body that he controls remotely.

The makers of that blockbuster put an accent on the negative side of such a scenario. Nonetheless, the film’s highly graphic demonstration of the idea allows one to get an immediate sense of what it is.”

Does living through an avatar sound like a life devoid of spirituality to you? Not so, Itskov says, because by ending our dependency on our physical bodies, “many things will open up spiritually.” I have my doubts about that, as most spiritual adepts will tell you that being hooked on technology tends to hinder rather than elevate spiritual pursuits, which are most easily achieved by living simply, in close contact with the natural world.

I just don’t foresee being able to elevate spiritually when any number of outside parties can access your brain and dictate what you think, feel and believe. Transhumanists like Itskov tend to focus only on the perceived benefits of synthetic life. For example, he promises that his avatars will be affordable for everyone who wants them, regardless of income bracket.

Yet the WEF has clearly announced that by 2030, nobody will own anything, and while not clearly stated, that will likely even include your own body. So, to think that your avatar would be “yours” is probably unrealistic.

Looked at through the lens of the WEF’s Fourth Industrial Revolution, it seems the plan is for the elite to literally own all of humanity, which will be refashioned to their own liking. And, if people can be hacked and controlled remotely, then we can be sure they will be. That’s particularly true for synthetic or mechanical avatars that can’t “live” or remain “conscious” without a cloud connection.

Resource to Understand the Transhuman Agenda — Blockchained

Corey Lynn is a top-notch investigative journalist who covers topics the mainstream won’t touch, including the transhumanist agenda. On her website, Corey’s Digs,8 you can find select chapters from her book, “Global Landscape on Vaccine ID Passports.”

Chapter 4 in the book is titled “Blockchained,” which explains what digital identity is all about. Digital ID is not just a piece of identification, with which you can prove who you are. It will collect and monitor ALL of your data, from your personal finances, education, work history, GPS location 24/7, everything you’ve ever typed on your computer, your search history, social media presence, emotional status and physical biometrics, down to your DNA.

I will only cover a minor part of that chapter here, the part on human augmentation and artificial intelligence (AI), so for more, be sure to browse through her website or, better yet, read her book, which can be purchased on her site. The digital PDF is only $9.95 and a print copy is $19.95.

Big Data, Data Sharing and AI

Make no mistake, transhumanism is the ultimate goal of the technocratic elite, and both “big data” and AI are integral components of that. Without one or both of those, the transhumanist dream is dead in the water. The goal of transhumanism is undoubtedly why there’s been so much focus on those two areas in the first place.

So, remember, data gathering, data sharing and AI are not about making your life more convenient. They’re to make you obsolete. The intention is to replace you with a synthetic copy of you that can be remotely controlled.

In 2021, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental organization that consists of 38 countries that work with various working groups and policy makers, issued a report on the “State of Implementation of the OECD AI principles.” So far, 46 countries have adopted these AI principles.

The strategy is to develop centralized repositories of public datasets in each country, and then enable public-private data sharing to build a vast network where each dataset is connected with all the others.

Biosecurity Will Be Used to Justify Surveillance Tyranny

Another report, by the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI), founded “to advance the development of artificial intelligence” and “comprehensively address the national security and defense needs of the United States,” highlights the need to combat digital disinformation and prioritizing biosecurity.

To help with that, a U.S. government-funded supercomputer is being set up at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory under the direction of the Department of Energy. This AI supercomputer can do more than 1 quintillion calculations per second.

Some of this data sharing is already taking place. As noted by Corey, NATO launched an in-house biometrics system for data sharing between nations in November 2020, and in May 2021, the U.S. military merged its biometrics-enabled watch list with the Department of Defense’s automated biometric identification system (ABIS).

“They are working on multi-modal fusion matching and improving biometric face-matching capability through AI and machine learning, and have already improved their long-range infrared cameras,” Corey writes. “Looking toward the near future, they are also focused on palm print biometrics, faces in crowds, integration to identify threats online, and non-traditional latent DNA collection.”

We Need Biometric Privacy Laws NOW

While surveillance science is moving at lightning speed, regulations and privacy laws are trailing at a snail’s pace. A federal biometric privacy bill, the National Biometric Information Privacy Act, was introduced in 2020 but didn’t go anywhere. As noted by Corey, it could be resurrected if enough people speak up.

In the U.S., a handful of states do have biometric privacy laws, Illinois’ being one of the strictest, but the vast majority have no such protections in place. As reported by Corey:

“The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) requires private entities to inform people in writing that their information is being collected and stored, what the purpose is, and term for collection and storage, and must secure a written release from the person.

Those same private entities are not allowed to sell, lease, trade, or profit from a person’s biometric information. A person may file suit at $1,000 for each negligent violation or $5,000 for each intentional or reckless violation, plus attorneys’ fees and costs. Actual harm is not required to establish standing.”

Clearly, we need these kinds of protections everywhere, in all states and all countries, because as it stands, the global cabal of transhumanist technocrats are building a data-sharing system that is intended to become global. The lack of legal protections against data collection, analysis and sharing is what allows this reckless expansion of surveillance. As noted by Corey:

“If it’s not crystal clear by now, globalists and eugenicists (sometimes one in the same) are running the show, and they are working very hard at achieving their ultimate desires of a controlled human race, evolution of transhumanism with a strong artificial intelligence taking the place of many humans, while they fly to Mars during their years of immortality, and observe humanity through endless surveillance systems. But their dream only becomes a reality if people allow it to.”

EDITORS NOTE: This MERCOLA column is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

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The Collapsing American Family — From Bonding to Bondage

By Dr. Rich Swier

Linda’s book accurately chronicles the evil, repeated and constant attacks on the traditional American family consisting of a mother, father and their biological children. This comes at a time when Walt Disney is releasing its latest family film ironically titled “Turning Red.”

There has been concern voiced that the media, social media and now Disney is attacking not only traditional families but also Asians and their families.

Linda is the devoted wife of Rob and they are the parents of four children and the grandparents of four.

Linda’s book exposes the sinister attack on the nuclear family as the primary strategy in globalism’s asymmetric warfare on America.

Linda explains how the American family must be destroyed in order to collapse our Constitutional Republic from within and impose the Great Reset of technocracy and transhumanism.

The “New Normal” replaces family bonding with feudal bondage in the global Managerial State where you will own nothing and be happy. Globalism’s war on America is psychological warfare, an information war fought without bullets. Linda’s closing line warns the nation:

Kahlil Gibran, the gifted Lebanese-American poet, philosopher, and artist, writes about family in his 1923 masterpiece, The Prophet. In the book, the prophet describes the role of parents:

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness:

For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Gibran’s poetry captures the American Judeo-Christian ideal of family love, growth, independence, and continuity. His exquisite image of the archer and bow is an iconic depiction of idealized parenthood—the preparation and exemplary launching of children into adulthood. The stillness of the archer’s pose contrasts with the perpetual motion of the children being launched into the future, becoming parents who will prepare their own children for adulthood in the magnificent, ongoing cycle of life.

Family is the most fundamental, universal, and powerful social structure in human society. America was founded on the infrastructure of the nuclear family—a man and a woman and their children. Parents providing for, protecting, and preparing their children for a future in a free society. The nuclear family is the source of family love, family loyalty, and family appreciation for the unparalleled individual freedoms guaranteed by our U.S. Constitution.

The nuclear family is the foundation of American freedom, American ideals, and American morality rooted in the Judeo-Christian tenets of the Ten Commandments. Family is the supporting structure that provides stability and continuity for the American Constitution, American sovereignty, and the American dream.

My purpose for writing this book is to expose the multidimensional, coordinated attacks on the American family as strategic, operational, tactical, asymmetric warfare.

The enemies of America have targeted the American family, intentionally inverting the natural growth process and interrupting the cycle of life. The war on America is a war on children. Centuries of American parents preparing their children for independence and launch into responsible adulthood are being disparaged, discredited, and replaced by a socialist movement determined to keep the children eternally dependent. Socialism is unapologetic in its goal to destroy the American family as a competing ideology.

The war on America is an ideological war—a battle between Americanism and socialism, between individualism and collectivism, between freedom and slavery. The war on America is a multipronged information war that must destroy the American family in order to succeed.

The immediate political goal is to overthrow our constitutional republic and replace it with socialism, which is presented as the superior replacement ideology. This book exposes the humanitarian hoax of socialism, its fraudulent narrative of social justice and economic equality, and its purpose in the war on America. Socialism is the deceitful stepping-stone to a New World Order.

Socialism is the beginning of the war on America. This book connects the sequential dots that begin with socialism and end with transhumanism in a dehumanized planetary managerial state, where you will own nothing and be happy. Private property, the hallmark of freedom in a constitutional republic, is being threatened with extinction. Ownership and upward mobility will be replaced with totalitarian control of the population and all its resources by world government managers empowered to distribute all goods and services. The process of reordering the world economy and its resources is called the Great Reset.

Sequentially, the collapse of the American family is required to transform America into socialism. Socialism is required to centralize government power and surrender American sovereignty to globalist one-world government. One-world government is required to enslave the global population in the New World Order of a planetary managerial surveillance state.

Socialism establishes a collectivist nation of dependent citizens who, like children, are easily controlled—for our own good, of course. The socialist authoritarian state denies the archer, discredits the bow, and deliberately prevents the arrows from being sent forth. The socialist state replaces parental authority with state authority, and replaces family loyalty with state loyalty.

The collapse of the American family awards total centralized social control to the authoritarian state. The end of the American nuclear family is the end of the greatest experiment in individual freedom the world has ever known. A nation of children cannot sustain itself. To survive, it requires a central government that usurps the traditional roles of parents.

The ideological war between socialism and Americanism being fought today on U.S. soil is part of the greater globalist effort to regress the world back to feudalism and establish a New World Order of planetary governance. Today’s Marxist-Leninist soldiers are the legions of radical leftist Democrats, socialists, communists, and anarchists who graduated college in the 1960s, cut their hair, put on suits, and entered the American workforce with the goal of destabilizing and collapsing our country from within.

This socialist army successfully infiltrated every sphere of American life, and it particularly targeted education. Educational indoctrination is asymmetric warfare. The children and grandchildren of America’s 1960s activist generation are being indoctrinated to become citizens of the “equitable” globalized world deceitfully promised by United Nations Agenda 2030.

Students of history know that socialism’s familiar promises of social justice and economic equality are not the reality of socialism. “Free stuff” is never free—the price of socialism is your freedom! Yet Americans are being propagandized to believe the never-ending Marxist socialist lies.

Americans carefully teach their children not to accept candy from strangers. This book shows how socialism is the political candy that is seducing unsuspecting Americans into surrendering their precious freedom and that of their children. Familiarity breeds acceptance, and socialism is no longer a stranger in America.

The managerial elite driving the Great Reset support an end justifies the means approach to achieve its goals. The methodology includes psychological conditioning and sociological pressures to conform to a new normal in the New World Order.

Propagandized education and the mainstream media are essential components for coordinating disinformation, censoring dissenting opinions, and non-stop echoing of the managerial elite message. The vehicle for transitioning the U.S. to the managerial state is COVID-19. The narrative of political medicine provided by the global predators is part of the asymmetric warfare and fear campaign designed to regress the public to childish compliance.

The globalists running the war on America have successfully infiltrated American institutions and corrupted them. Political institutions no longer protect American sovereignty. Judicial institutions no longer provide American justice. Educational institutions no longer provide American education. Military institutions no longer protect America’s borders. Medical institutions no longer protect American public health.

This is classic asymmetric warfare––revolution without bullets. The shots fired in this war on America are coming from a needle. The coronavirus debacle has shattered family bonds and further bifurcated the country between “vaccinated” and “unvaccinated.”

The fear and divisiveness within families reflects the fear and divisiveness in the nation. Divisiveness has left American families and America in disarray, vulnerable to the insatiable globalist elite appetite for planetary domination.

Without public awareness and political intervention by states’ rights activists, history will trace American freedom from its birth in 1776, through its extraordinary growth nurtured and supported by American family bonding, to its collapse into socialism and 21st-century global bondage.

The Collapsing American Family: From Bonding to Bondage is a must read because itis dedicated to American sovereignty, and to those who continue to fight the good fight to preserve our precious American freedom and families.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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VIDEO: Talk show host goes ballistic over Psaki rant about dismantling Polish MIG fighters before sending them to Ukraine!

By Conservative Commandos Radio Show

Just when you thought that the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of Defense and White House spokesperson Jen Psaki couldn’t get any crazier they do, in spades. Here’s a video during a White House press briefing where Psaki says that the Polish MIG fighter jets need to be “dismantled” before they can be shipped to the Ukraine:

This is how we responded to this insanity.

Here’s a report on the U.S. Department of Defence rejecting the offer of the Polish government to send MIG fighter jets to the Ukraine:

©Conservative Commandoes Radio and All Uncensored News Network (AUN). All rights reserved.

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Company Contrast: Vista Outdoor

By 2ndvote .com

Each week 2ndVote takes a look at popular companies that either score well or score poorly. We then provide alternatives that either better align with the 2ndVote values, or that should be avoided to the best of your ability. This weekly series is called The Company Contrast, and the company we will be focusing on this week is Vista Outdoor, Inc (3.49).

Vista Outdoor, Inc started as an ammunition manufacturer ATK in the early 2000’s. After many years of serving hunters, civilians, and law enforcement ATK spun off the ammunition and outdoor business into Vista Outdoor in 2014. Vista Outdoor today is a huge holdings company that owns some of recreational shooters favorite brands. CCI, Federal Ammunition, Speer, and many more brands are owned by Vista. Starting in 2016 Vista started acquiring all manner of sports and outdoor equipment manufacturers. These brands produce everything from camp stoves to GPS systems. Vista has an unsurprisingly good score for their support of the second amendment, but also practices sensible environmental stewardship. They also partner with the salvation army which is Christian and pro-life organization. Hop on over to https://vistaoutdoor.com/brands/ and see if their brands have what you need for your next trip into the great outdoors.

REI (2.01) is both a used outdoors equipment market and an online shop for gear. REI started as an outdoor enthusiasts co-op in 1938. The company has shifted more focus on family camping and outdoor wear in the years since the founders were just trading climbing equipment. REI has received a low score in Life, 2nd Amendment, and Environment due to support for policies like cap-and-trade. REI also ended a business relationship with a supplier due to that company’s ties with the NRA. Since this company leans to the liberal side on several important conservative issues, it might be a good idea to look at different marketplaces for used gear. There is also a huge variety of conservative companies that make new equipment for adventures in the outdoors. New or used, there’s plenty of higher scoring brands that deserve your hard earned money.

EDITORS NOTE: This 2ndVote column is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

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Save America Ad Targets Hillary: ‘Justice Is Coming!’

By Dr. Rich Swier

Donald J. Trump’s Save America Pac has released a new ad that puts Hillary Clinton and the Democrats in the crosshairs.

Remember that in August 2020, during his Republican National Committee acceptance speech, Trump said, “Remember this: They spied on my campaign.”

Now Durham has proven it.

Watch:

Trump was right. It was Hillary and the Democrats who paid people to spy on the Trump campaign and his presidency.

On February 17th, 2022, Byron York reported:

We learned that in the final days of the 2016 presidential race, when the Clinton campaign came up with the Steele dossier — a collection of sensational and unsupported allegations about Trump and Russia — the FBI used the dossier to win approval to wiretap Carter Page, a low-level former Trump campaign adviser. Then we learned that also in 2016, the FBI used a confidential informant, a professor named Stefan Halper, to spy on Page and George Papadopoulos, another low-level Trump adviser.

Then we learned that in 2016, the FBI sent an undercover agent — a woman who used the alias Azra Turk — to secretly record conversations with Papadopoulos.

So there is ample evidence to say that the FBI spied on the Trump campaign. Now we are learning about another type of spying — the Clinton campaign spying on the Trump campaign. The revelations are coming from the investigation of John Durham, the special counsel appointed by the Trump administration, and retained by the Biden administration, to probe the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation.

In a court filing Friday, Durham reported that in July 2016, a tech executive named Rodney Joffe (he is unnamed in the court papers, but his name has been widely reported) worked with the Clinton campaign’s law firm to “mine internet data,” some of it “non-public and/or proprietary” — that means secret — to search for information that could be used to claim a Trump-Russia connection. Among the secret data that was “exploited,” according to Durham, was internet traffic from Trump Tower, from Donald Trump’s Central Park West apartment building and — after Trump was elected — the executive office of the president of the United States, or EOP.

Democrats commissioned, payed for and distributed the Russian collusion story and the media picked up the ball and ran with it.

Today Biden and his administration are blaming Russia for our economic woes. Go figure. For Democrats it’s always never take the blame, shift it to someone else.

This is worse than Watergate. It is worse than anything see in America ever before.

It is a tragedy and sadly, under a Biden DOJ Hillary and those involved won’t be prosecuted.

Sad, but true.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Everything’s Bigger in Texas, Even the Lies

By The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US

On Friday, I listened to a completely one-sided story on NPR agitating against Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s order, now paused by litigation, that state agencies investigate transgender treatment and surgery for minors as potential child abuse.

Before I get started on this, let me repeat what I’ve said many times before: there have always been transgender people and nobody should hate them or wish them harm.  But if you back out the people infected by social contagion or pushed into it by self-interested educators and medical professionals, and you also back out the children who grow out of gender dysphoria by the time they’re 18, there are very few genuine cases left.

NPR interviewed Texas parents with transgender children. The interview was conducted in hushed reverential tones with supposedly saintly persecuted parents, with the interviewer saying “Oh, my God” and “Wow” to emphasize how cruel the state was being to them.   Total affectation on the part of the interviewer, and not one word about why the state wanted to investigate the transgender industry in Texas for child abuse in the first place.  This was not reporting.  It was what has come to be called ‘advocacy journalism’, the idea that journalists should no longer report the news but, instead, try to change the world into a left-wing Utopia.  A story on NBC on the same subject was just as one-sided and a story on CBS, aside from one brief quote from a Texas lawmaker in favor of the investigations, was also lop-sided.  I’m immediately suspicious when major news outlets won’t tell me both sides of the story and I have to go hunt for it.  I’m also suspicious when transgender activists, some of whom expressly admit to being communists, attempt to shut down anybody trying to present the other side of the story, as happened in Texas recently.

The parents in the NPR story said “they’re just doing what they can to keep their children happy and healthy, and that includes gender-affirming care.”  One of their children had “been up all night crying, having nightmares” over the investigations. Another child announced preferred pronouns one day at the age of 7.  One parent said they were just providing “medical care” to their children and, if they were to leave the state, “thousands and thousands of families” in Texas wouldn’t have anybody to speak for them.  This all sounds coached and way too pat.    Thousands and thousands of families?  Medical care?  A whole sob story about children ages 3-7 to whom the law does not even apply?   Children that age aren’t given drugs or surgery, but NPR uses them as props anyway to campaign against a state order involving drugs and surgery for older children.

So what is the other side of the story?  The Texas Attorney General found that sex change drugs and surgery can constitute child abuse under the law because they can cause “mental or emotional injury to a child that results in an observable and material impairment in the child’s growth, development, or psychological functioning.”   They can also cause physical injury and sterilization. Therefore, people like parents and medical professionals with a duty of care are legally obligated to make reasonable efforts to prevent these injuries to minors. “Child abuse” is defined broadly under state law and you don’t need a separate statute if parents start beating their kids with a board instead of a stick. It’s undeniable that people who try to switch genders have a higher risk of suicide and psychiatric hospitalization.  It’s also undeniable there are many kinds of age restrictions in the law to protect children.  We don’t let them drink or drive, nor should we let them have permanent life-altering mutilating surgery when they are too young to understand all the consequences. The minute they turn 18, fine, that’s a different story.

Back to the poor persecuted parents interviewed on NPR.  There’s not one word in that story about them following a protocol or consulting a variety of experts to see how to handle the situation appropriately. Did they investigate when children typically grow out of gender dysphoria?  Not a word about this.  In the story, the parents just jumped right to so-called “medical care”. So maybe that IS child abuse for causing physical and emotional injuries to their children which the parents have a legal – and I would say, moral – duty to prevent.  I don’t know the facts of these individual cases because NPR failed to tell us more about the choices these parents made, so we could evaluate their actions intelligently instead of just having transgender propaganda shoved down our throats.

The NBC story noted the Texas legislature failed to pass a bill last year that would have criminalized  transgender drugs and surgery for minors.  That may be true, but it’s also true the legislature did not take away the state’s discretion that lawmakers previously gave to decide what constitutes “child abuse”. This will all play out in the courts which is fine because, the more the transgender-industrial complex and the avowedly left-wing apparatus supporting it are put under the microscope, the less people are going to like this entire enterprise.

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Biden’s Deadly National Security Policies are and will cause World Wars III (now happening), IV and V coming soon!

By Dr. Rich Swier

Biden and his administration’s policies has and are leading to World Wars 3, 4 and 5.

World War 3 has already begun in the Ukraine. This war has multiple characters in it: Russia, Syria, China and Chechnya.

World War 4 will be in the Middle East between Iran and Arab nations in partnership with Israel. Arab nations, and Israel, cannot allow Iran to become nuclear capable.

World War 5 will take place in the Eastern Pacific. It will begin with China becoming more aggressive against Taiwan and other nations in the region including South Korea, Japan and Vietnam.

Biden’s national security policy is appeasement.

Biden is Appeaser-In-Chief

Biden and his administration have neutered U.S. foreign policy. Biden and his administration have dissed our allies while going out of the collectivist way to appeasing our enemies.

Biden’s appeasement of Radical Islamists.

Biden appeased the Muslim members of his party by taking a harsh stand against Israel and the Jewish people. On February 16, 2022, Biden killed the Israeli Pipeline Project thus empowering Russia’s energy dominance in Europe. According to The Hill, “The proposed pipeline would have given Europe an alternative to its heavy dependence on Russian gas. It would have conveyed about 10 billion cubic yards of Israeli and Cypriot natural gas to Europe via Greece and Italy each year.”

Biden has appeased Iran.

It was announced by the Russians that the U.S. and Iran have reached a nuclear deal. National Review on March 4, 2022 reported, “President Joe Biden vowed this week to isolate Russia, yet his negotiators stayed at the table with their Russian counterparts in Vienna, putting the finishing touches on an Iran nuclear deal 2.0 that will benefit Russia and Iran and endanger the U.S. and its allies. The new agreement is even worse than the 2015 deal made by the Obama administration. Biden’s version would lift U.S. terrorism sanctions on Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, and leave Tehran’s illicit nuclear infrastructure intact without first demanding a full accounting of Iran’s secret nuclear work.” Death may finally be coming to America solely because of Biden’s appeasement of the mullahs.

Biden’s appeased Russia and Putin.

Biden by cutting our domestic oil and natural gas production, see items 1 and 4 above, has turned the energy keys to Europe over to Putin and this has directly lead to the invasion of the Ukraine. Craig Rucker during a talk in Virginia said, “Efforts to go net zero have diminished the ability of nations to provide sufficient energy to meet demand, and this gives tyrants like Vladimir Putin an opportunity to provide that energy in the form of natural gas and rake in millions to fund his war machine.” Marc Morano took Biden to task on Fox and Friends explaining,  “Russian oil imports are at an 11 year high. We’re importing 600,000 barrels a day from Russia. And Russia’s federal budget is 40% based upon oil and gas revenue.” Finally we have seen Russia produces 3 times more gas than Europe produces.  Why?  Because climate activists, partly funded by Russia, blocked fracking.

Biden’s appeasing of Communist China.

Finally, we are looking at Communist China, not because of what Hunter Biden did there, but because his father is in full blown appeasement mode to kowtow to the Chinese when it comes to Taiwan and the South China Sea. Since the end of the Olympics China has ramped up its pressure on Taiwan. The  in an April 16th 2020 article warned, “Amid coronavirus upheaval, the Chinese government’s evasion and deception has remained constant. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) alone is responsible for the global pandemic and resulting consequential economic devastation. However, if the medical community had been skeptical of the totalitarian regime –and the World Health Organization (WHO) had not aggressively defended it –the outbreak may not have spread. Taiwan, kicked out of the WHO in 2017 at Beijing’s behest, was denied access to WHO data. Taiwan’s successful containment of coronavirus was an alternative possibility for the rest of the world; had Beijing’s reports been challenged instead of accepted…The most important CCP objective is to maintain control. Ultimately the party does not care about human rights, or even human lives. To protect itself, the Chinese regime suppressed life-saving information at the cost of 22,071 American lives, a number projected only to grow.”

The Bottom Line

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

Biden appeasement has lead to:

  • Higher energy prices.
  • Higher food and consumer goods prices.
  • A national supply chain crisis.
  • A war in Europe, and potentially in the Middle East and Western Pacific.
  • Arming Iran with nuclear weapons.
  • Turning America from energy independent to energy dependent from our enemies, e.g. Russia and Iran.
  • Caused inflation.
  • Raised taxes.
  • Increased spending and gifting those who hate America.

Each of the above policies have weakened America, not only domestically, and are directly a threat to our national security.

Americans are now pushing back against Biden and his policies.

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

Prove us wrong.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Thailand has Paid Out $45 Million to Victims of Covid Vaccines, Why Don’t Americans Have the Same Right?

By Dr. Rich Swier

Day by day we are learning of the negative effects of Covid vaccines. We have reported on it here, here, here and here. Covid kills, Covid vaccines kill and maimed tens of thousands in America including the death of a 3-year old girl who died of a heart attack after getting jabbed. We now know that nine in 10 COVID deaths are in vaccinated people.

We have now lost more American millennials due to the jab than we did in the Vietnam War.

The Jab is a war against the American people and so why are we holding drug companies harmless?

It’s time for Biden, Congress, the CDC and NIH to give Americans harmed by the vaccines the right to sue. It is important that pharmaceutical companies be held accountable for killing and maiming American citizens.

Democrats love to talk about human rights. Well isn’t it a human right to seek restitution for harm caused upon we the people by companies like Pfizer? Isn’t our government supposed to protect us not companies? Time to call the White House and your members of Congress. Tell them to lift the ban on suing drug companies that are killing and maiming our people.

Country pays out $45 million to victims of COVID vaccines

Nearly 16,000 claims so far of injury from shot

By Art Moore

Published March 14, 2022 at 8:13pm

The government of Thailand has paid more than $45 million as compensation to people who developed illnesses and injuries after receiving COVID=19 vaccine shots.

So far, 12,714 people have received the compensation, the Phenom Penh Post reported.

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Thailand’s National Health Security Office said last week that from May 19, 2021, to March 8, 2022, a total of 15,933 people had filed complaints of negative reactions to COVID-19 vaccines.

The NHSO rejected 2,328 complaints after the agency ruled that the side-effects were not related to the vaccinations.

Of the rejected cases, 875 complainants are under appeal and 891 cases are pending consideration.

Over the weekend, WND reported data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show the Millennial generation suffered a “Vietnam War event,” with more than 61,000 excess deaths in that age group in the second half of 2021, according to an analysis by a former Wall Street executive who made a career of crunching numbers to make big-dollar investment decisions.

Read the full column.

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Thailand has Payed Out $45 Million to Victims of Covid Vaccines, Why Don’t Americans Have the Same Right?

By Dr. Rich Swier

Day by day we are learning of the negative effects of Covid vaccines. We have reported on it here, here, here and here. Covid kills, Covid vaccines kill and maimed tens of thousands in America including the death of a 3-year old girl who died of a heart attack after getting jabbed. We now know that nine in 10 COVID deaths are in vaccinated people.

We have now lost more American millennials due to the jab than we did in the Vietnam War.

The Jab is a war against the American people and so why are we holding drug companies harmless?

It’s time for Biden, Congress, the CDC and NIH to give Americans harmed by the vaccines the right to sue. It is important that pharmaceutical companies be held accountable for killing and maiming American citizens.

Democrats love to talk about human rights. Well isn’t it a human right to seek restitution for harm caused upon we the people by companies like Pfizer? Isn’t our government supposed to protect us not companies? Time to call the White House and your members of Congress. Tell them to lift the ban on suing drug companies that are killing and maiming our people.

Country pays out $45 million to victims of COVID vaccines

Nearly 16,000 claims so far of injury from shot

By Art Moore

Published March 14, 2022 at 8:13pm

The government of Thailand has paid more than $45 million as compensation to people who developed illnesses and injuries after receiving COVID=19 vaccine shots.

So far, 12,714 people have received the compensation, the Phenom Penh Post reported.

Advertisement – story continues below

Thailand’s National Health Security Office said last week that from May 19, 2021, to March 8, 2022, a total of 15,933 people had filed complaints of negative reactions to COVID-19 vaccines.

The NHSO rejected 2,328 complaints after the agency ruled that the side-effects were not related to the vaccinations.

Of the rejected cases, 875 complainants are under appeal and 891 cases are pending consideration.

Over the weekend, WND reported data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show the Millennial generation suffered a “Vietnam War event,” with more than 61,000 excess deaths in that age group in the second half of 2021, according to an analysis by a former Wall Street executive who made a career of crunching numbers to make big-dollar investment decisions.

Read the full column.

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The Beacons Are Lit: “Unraveling Gender”

By The Catholic Thing

Brad Miner reviews a new book about views of human sexuality (especially transgenderism) that undermine the natural-law basis of Catholic moral theology.

John S. Grabowski is a professor of moral theology and ethics at Catholic University of America, and the epigram to the first chapter of his new book, Unraveling Gender: The Battle over Sexual Difference comes from Tolkien’s The Return of the King – Gandalf’s rallying cry (in part) to the people of Gondor to defend their way of life: “See! The beacons of Gondor are alight, calling for aid. War is kindled.”

But Unraveling Gender is not a manifesto for conflict. In fact, it’s a compassionate appeal for Christian charity and clarity. “Our battle is against the powers of evil – sin and the devil – in ourselves, and in the world around us (see Eph 6:10–17). Other human beings are not the real enemy in this battle.” Perhaps. But it seems clear that those of us who reject the idea of gender fluidity are the enemy to those who endorse it – just ask them.

Grabowski takes pains to show the long (since St. Paul VI’s papacy) Catholic history of compassion in matters of sexuality. But he also sees the new gender ideology as aligned with what St. John Paul II so memorably called “the culture of death.”

Underlining this whole business is a simple question: Is sex (or gender) binary? The simple answer is yes, although there is such a thing as intersex, a very rare genetic anomaly (and like “gender” a word that’s been hijacked by contemporary enthusiasts). Grabowski refers to this as the Babel Effect: “Gender ideology rejects both the realist’s belief in a reality where things have common natures or essences and in the ability of language to correspond with that reality.”

And the genesis is obvious. As Grabowski writes: “The presupposition of this Marxist feminist program is clear – sexual difference itself is unjust and must be overcome as much as possible.” So true is this, that those advocating the LGBT agenda have no qualms about killing their unborn children and throwing biological women under the bus whenever a man pretending to be a woman steps forward to compete against them in sports.

And it’s always male athletes unable to compete successfully against other men who do this. Had Bruce Jenner decided to become Caitlyn in 1976, the year he won Gold at the Montreal Olympics, people would have thought him nuts, and U.S.A. Track and the IOC would never have allowed him to compete as a woman. Of course, he wouldn’t have, because he was the best man in the men’s field. (By the way, Jenner thinks mate-to-female transgender athletes should not be permitted to compete against biological women.)

Speaking about the divine plan for sexuality, Professor Grabowski makes the marvelous point that Scripture is “bookended” by marriage: by Genesis 2 (“This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh”), humanity begun; and by Revelation 21 (“And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband”), humanity fulfilled. Unraveling Gender is a Biblically based and very Catholic book.

Faith and reason are key to figuring out how to deal with what amounts to the heresy of the Left’s sexual ideology. The “synthesis” that they cravenly seek always invokes “science”:

relatively new questions posed by more recent scientific research that have been intensified by the cultural upheaval that we are just beginning to grapple with and think through – the causes of sexual attraction, the phenomenon of persons whose expression of sexual difference is ambiguous on some level (i.e., intersex persons or those with disorders of sexual development), and the best ways to respond to persons who experience the pain of gender dysphoria.

Putting aside a man’s insistence that he’s a woman (for which genetic reality offers irrefutable evidence of the absurdity of such a claim), I look at the transgender movement as a sideshow in the garish, earsplitting, and mind-blowing carnival that is American culture.

I’m too old to care. Except, that is, when it comes to sports – to men arrogating women’s competitions. Professor Grabowski writes that “second-wave” and later feminist theorizing are to blame: “Having sown the existentialist and postmodern wind, modern feminism now faces a transgender whirlwind to which it helped to give birth.”

It is obvious that, in this case, women seeking to affirm male-to-female transgender “women” hurt biological women. They wound them deeply. Worse, they can’t now bring themselves back from the edge of the self-destructive, post-modern abyss they helped to spawn.

Self-determination is alluring. But, from the Garden onwards, it’s the root of sin.

I’m informed that Grabowski’s publisher, the estimable TAN Books, has decided not to bother listing the book at mega-retailer Amazon – this to avoid the travails of cancel culture that we witnessed when the smug and self-congratulatory “earth’s biggest store” refused to sell Ryan Anderson’s When Harry Became Sally, a book Professor Grabowski cites often.

The Amazonians, in concert with other leftist organizations, sincerely believe that a better world will only arise through the suppression of ideas that do not conform to the neo-Marxist rainbow they’re chasing. It’s almost inevitable, I fear, that Amazon will soon purge from its inventory any faithful Catholic book not written by a contributor to the National Catholic Reporter, Commonweal, or America magazine.

Prof. Grabowski ends where he began – back in Middle Earth, quoting Galadriel, the elven queen, (and this was Tolkien’s own view) that the culture war we’re fighting against gender ideology is “an engagement in. . .‘the long defeat.’” He explains:

Human beings and even the Church herself cannot by themselves overcome the powers of evil arrayed against them. But they do not have to because victory is assured – and not just at a future eschatological finale to history. This victory has been accomplished in Christ’s life, death, and Resurrection.

So be it – as long as we keep fighting, here and now.

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Brad Miner

Brad Miner is senior editor of The Catholic Thing, senior fellow of the Faith & Reason Institute, and a board member of Aid to the Church In Need USA. He is a former Literary Editor of National Review. His most recent book, Sons of St. Patrick, written with George J. Marlin, is now on sale. His The Compleat Gentleman is now available in a third, revised edition from Regnery Gateway and is also available in an Audible audio edition (read by Bob Souer).

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Democrats are Grooming Our Children to become Transsexuals One Day at a Time

By Dr. Rich Swier

We have written about how since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed gays to marry that Democrats have been the champions of so called “gay rights.”

But what about parent’s rights, children’s rights and human rights? What about science? What about the harm done to our children who are groomed to go gay?

The Democrat objective is to hold onto the trans-voter by pushing policies, programs and medical procedures that create more trans-voters.

Democrats and the Biden administration are working hard while they have the power to “groom” our children to be gay, non-binary, transsexual, lesbian, gay and members of the LGBTQ+ movement.

The Democrats are in full mode to turn our children and grandchildren into transsexuals. They are doing this using four key strategies: 1. Normalizing sodomy, 2. Promoting The LGBTQ+ agenda and homosexuality in our public schools via classes, gay porn in public school libraries and gay clubs, 3. Pushing gender change surgeries upon children as young as 12-years old and 4. making our children gender confused by unscientifically repeating the myth that there are more than two genders (XX-male and XY female).

Helping Biden and Democrats are media and social media (e.g. Facebook has over 60 gender pronouns), corporations (e.g. Apple adding a pregnant man and pregnant person emojis), the Walt Disney Corporation pushing the grooming of children to become transsexuals, public schools who allow homosexual cross dressers to read books to elementary school children, The DOD holding mandatory classes on “gender identity”, and Biden’s appointment of multiple non-binary (a.k.a. gender-queer) people to his cabinet and administration.

Examples of Democrats Going Full Trans

In this video clip Beto O’Rourke proposes a plan to take “trans” children away from their parents.

In the video below posted on on March 4, 2022 a Albemarle County principle and teachers discuss their elementary school “transgender advocacy program.”

The Schilling Show reported:

In this edited clip of the full presentation, Mountain View Principal, Cyndi Wells, presides over a rambling seminar clearly intended to provide methods of elementary school student indoctrination in contemporary transgender culture, language, and comportment. Myriad concepts and techniques were presented with the underlying premise of “honoring” students’ gender “experiences” while pawkily flouting parental rights and involvement. [Emphasis added]

Public schools have pushed the idea that transsexuals are in danger and need to be protected from bullying when in fact it is these same public schools who are bullying children to become transsexuals.

In a March 12th, 2022 article in The Post Millennial titled “Sydney Watson exposes Texas gender identity clinic for performing breast removal on 12-year-olds” reported:

Sydney Watson exposed a gender identity clinic in Texas that, until very, very recently, was performing double mastectomies on the healthy breasts of 12-year-olds, for the purpose of pediatric gender transition. This is the same clinic where Blaire White claimed to have been treated.

“Gonna go ahead and confirm that this is the clinic I was treated at,” White said in reply to Watson’s video on Twitter. “I’m sickened that I ever gave them my money.” White is a prominent YouTuber who underwent gender transition, but has been honest and forthright about that not changing the underlying biological sex.

I asked my friend @ArielleScarcell to call a clinic here in Texas that I’d been told performs breast removals (“top surgery”) on children.

The clinic told Arielle that the surgeons operated on children 12 AND OVER. This is NUTS.

Watch my full video here: https://t.co/K0cD03avmN pic.twitter.com/YCRziSqJvI

— Sydney Watson (@SydneyLWatson) March 11, 2022

Read the full article.

The Bottom Line

Parents are taking their children out of public schools in an effort to protect them from this transsexual grooming agenda.

Kerry McDonald in a March 4th, 2022 article titled “New Data Show the Exodus From Public Schools Is Continuing” reports:

Since 2020, more families have been fleeing local district schools for other options. Homeschooling rates doubled in that year alone and remain high today. Home-based “pandemic pods” have evolved into established microschools and co-op arrangements that have worked better for many families than a conventional classroom. Catholic schools, like other private schools, were more likely to remain open while district schools were closed and have experienced their first enrollment hike in two decades. More students are now learning in virtual schools and charter schools than they were pre-pandemic.

Parents are recognizing that they have many more options for their children’s education and are continuing to abandon government-assigned district schools.

While it was understandable that parents might seek different learning settings for their children amidst 2020 school closures, new data suggests the exodus from district schools isn’t letting up.

[ … ]

The educational realignment from institutions to home- and community-based models that accelerated in 2020 isn’t slowing down. Now that parents and teachers have glimpsed educational possibilities beyond a traditional classroom, they are less willing to put up with the schooling status quo.

Read the full article.

Parents need to and are taking back control of what and who teaches their children.

We do not want the United States of America fundamentally transformed into the the Dysfunctional Transsexual States of America.

Parents are now considered “domestic terrorists” for pushing back against school boards and public schools if that’s so then count me in too!

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Biden Backs Critical Race Theory Trojan Horse: ‘International Social Emotional Learning Day’

By Discover The Networks

In a statement released last Friday, President Joe Biden celebrated “International Social Emotional Learning Day,” declaring, “I believe the government has a responsibility to support you.”

“One of the things we have gained during this time is a renewed understanding of how important it is to see one another, hear one another, and take care of one another, especially in times of challenge and need,” the proclamation reads. “That’s what International Social Emotional Learning Day is all about.”

Actually, what Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is all about is promoting the subversive, neo-Marxist race essentialism of Critical Race Theory (CRT).

“SEL is the Trojan horse through which critical race theory and gender ideology is injected into children’s heads,” Parents Defending Education (PDE) President and Founder Nicole Neily said. “Since 2018, SEL has had a destabilizing effect on children’s mental health and that must be stopped.”

SEL, an in-school “psychological training” for children, claims it teaches empathy, “advances educational equity,” and “can help address various forms of inequity and empower young people and adults to co-create thriving schools and contribute to safe, healthy, and just communities.”

Wherever the word “equity” rears its ugly head, social justice revolution is the aim.

PDE Director of Outreach Erika Sanzi wrote in a statement that SEL is “a lever for equity and social justice, more about the collective and less about the individual child’s development of important life skills. Lessons on sexual and gender identity, racial identity and social justice activism in the earliest elementary grades are part of SEL programming.”

And programming the impressionable minds of young children to become a generation of social justice activists is the Left’s sole educational mission.

Critical Race Theory

9 Known Connections

Founded by the late Derrick Bell, critical race theory is an academic discipline which maintains that society is divided along racial lines into (white) oppressors and (black) victims, similar to the way Marxism frames the oppressor/victim dichotomy along class lines. Critical race theory contends that America is permanently racist to its core, and that consequently the nation’s legal structures are, by definition, racist and invalid. As Emory University professor Dorothy Brown puts it, critical race theory “seeks to highlight the ways in which the law is not neutral and objective but designed to support white supremacy and the subordination of people of color.”

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The Psalms in Times of War

By The Catholic Thing

Robert Royal: The psalms are both disturbing and comforting. They are about you and me. About the world that desperately now needs to wake to wisdom.

A reader asked the other day, how is it that with the millions of prayers offered daily for Ukraine (actually billions around the world) that God allows the ongoing death and destruction? It’s a good question. A hard one.

It’s been asked for thousands of years in times of war, as well as during plagues, floods, fires, earthquakes, drought, famine that – pace the environmentalists – are part of the natural history of the human race. Anyone who reads the psalms in the Bible or daily prays the Liturgy of the Hours, knows that it’s been a central lament even in Scripture. Lord, we trust in you, but are you really there for us when we need you most?

This existential question is even more troubling than the usual questions of war and diplomacy. In secular terms, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has united Europe, America, and most of the world’s nations. Despite differences of opinion about earlier policies or the threat of Western decadence, even Poland and Hungary, which in the recent past leaned towards Putin on cultural questions and resisted the European Union’s “woke” cultural imperialism, have joined the rest of the civilized world in calling the invasion wrong.

If that can happen at the mundane human level, where is the divine solidarity we would expect in this just cause?

The Psalms are a poignant reminder of things that many of us, especially those who have been fortunate to live for years in relatively peaceful societies, would rather not face – even might be tempted to deny.

Our God is not a suburban God who guarantees prosperity and peace. Several psalms praise the wonders of Creation and remind us that such good as we enjoy comes from following God’s law. But they also never let us forget that evil is real and powerful, which is why God had to die on a Cross to defeat it.

As C.S. Lewis remarks in his little book Reflection on the Psalms, “These poets [i.e., psalm writers] lived in a world of savage punishments, of massacre and violence, of blood sacrifice in all countries, and human sacrifice in many.” We tend to discount that such things – along with gulags, laogai, slavery, child sacrifice (i.e., abortion), and sex trafficking – still exist. And not only in far distant places but in subtle – sometime quite open – forms, in our own world. But they continue because human nature doesn’t change.

Every Christian at some point comes face-to-face with evil and suffering, and must try to make sense of them. St. Augustine famously argued that evil does not have real existence – that it’s a lack of some good that should be present. True at a very high conceptual level, but difficult to hold on to when bombs are falling in your neighborhood. He comes closer to our ordinary experience when he speaks of the mysterium inquitatis, “the mystery of evil.”

There are many mysteries in the world, but perhaps why evil exists in the Creation of a Good God is the mystery that challenges us most. Many people, as in the times of the Psalmists, just accept that evil exists, and God does not. Some lose their faith when they experience evil. The difficult thing for us at times like these – but really, as we should know, at all times – is to take the full measure of the evil both around and within us. And to grapple with it, despite the ways it not only causes pain but even raises doubts.

God intends some good to spring from allowing things like COVID and the invasion of Ukraine. In many cases, the good that results is that we are forced finally to become “woke” in understanding how radically we depend on Him.

For reasons not entirely clear to me, I started studying the psalms weeks before the invasion of Ukraine. I usually make it part of my morning routine to study some part of Scripture in a systematic way. Even before the bombs started falling, the psalms woke me up to something different than “woke” culture.

Because of the politicization of everything in our world, we’ve lost the basic perspective on human existence. We want – really want – to believe that all suffering or evil in the world is the result of faulty policies, or capitalism, or racism, or the “patriarchy.”

We can take some steps to deal with particular problems, to be sure. But how much of what our media daily flood us with really reflects our belief that we could control evil, if only the right political party or politicians were in power?

This is nonsense, on stilts, of course.

Just now we love to blame one another for the invasion of Ukraine, as if it’s our fault and not Russia’s. Every Christian should, of course, examine himself first when some evil appears. And there’s no question that the West might have taken a different tack and made war less likely. But that only partly explains Mr. Putin’s war. He made it clear for years what he intended to do, questions about NATO notwithstanding. Anyway, a proper self-examination should not be a “Kick Me” sign that we affix to our own backs.

Read the news in these troubling days, and try to sort things out, as we all must. But also read the Psalms. They dissipate our usual illusions that we’re in control.

As Newman’s prayer puts it, “I will trust Him, whatever I am. . . .If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him, in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him. If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about. He may take away my friends. He may throw me among strangers. He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide my future from me. Still, He knows what He is about.”

The psalms are both disturbing and comforting. Puzzling and enlightening. They don’t sugar-coat life or speak only of ancient struggles, but of today and the future. About you and me. About the world that desperately now needs to wake to wisdom.

COLUMN BY

Robert Royal

Robert Royal is editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing and president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C. His most recent books are Columbus and the Crisis of the West and A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century.

EDITORS NOTE: This The Catholic Thing column is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

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Is Florida Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-16) Biden and Pelosi’s Lap Dog?

By Dr. Rich Swier

Lapdog: a servile dependent or follower. – Merriam-Webster.

The co-chairs of Florida’s congressional delegation are Republican Rep. Vern Buchanan, and Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings. Rep. Buchanan, as co-chair has great influence over the other members of the delegation when it comes time to voting on key policy issues such as government spending bills.

We weren’t shocked when we learned that eight members of the Florida delegation, including Buchanan, voted for the $1.5 trillion Omnibus Spending Bill.

Those Republicans from Florida who helped pass the $1.5 trillion bill were Representatives: Neal Dunn (FL-02), John Rutherford (FL-04), Scott Franklin (FL-15), Florida Congressional Delegation co-chair Vern Buchanan (FL-16),  Greg Steube (FL-17), Brian Mast (FL-18), Carlos Gimenez (FL-26) and Marla Salaquez (FL-27).

If Buchanan had held the line on this massive government spending bill it would have sent a clear message. However, he didn’t!

Why weren’t we shocked?

On October 18, 2013 we wrote a column titled “FL Rep. Buchanan votes to fund government by defunding America.” In our column we stated:

Floridians woke up on October 17th to learn the government shutdown had ended and the debt ceiling had been raised. One of the key votes cast to pass the US Senate Budget Agreement was from Rep. Vern Buchanan (R – FL District 16).

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Buchanan is one of eighty-seven Republicans who voted to fund the government, raise the debt ceiling and allow the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to move forward. Buchanan is the only representative from Florida on the powerful House Committee on Ways & Means. He also co-Chairs the twenty-seven member Florida Congressional delegation with Rep. Alcee Hastings (D – FL District 20).

And if this isn’t enough John Binder, from Breitbart News, on March 11, 2022 reported this about the Omnibus Spending bill that Buchanan voted for:

A Democrat spending bill, negotiated with Republicans, uses American taxpayer money to fund “border security” measures in eight foreign countries while including no new funds to construct a border wall along the United States-Mexico border.

The government funding package spends about $370 million in taxpayer money to fund “enhanced border security” in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman. At least $150 million of that funding is allocated for Jordan’s borders.

Likewise, the package includes taxpayer money to fund border security in Libya, “border security activities” in Nepal, and “border security programs” in Pakistan.

Vern Buchanan a RINO or GOPe?

We’re wondering if Buchanan is now either a Republican In Name Only ( RINO) or a member of the Grand Old Party elite (GOPe) or both.

Buchanan has a history of siding with anti-American and anti-Florida causes, in addition to voting for Democrat policies.

Here is a list that we covered since his election to the Congress:

  1. Buchanan has been endorsed by radical Environmentalists. Buchanan at on time listed on his Congressional website receiving the Ocean Champions Congressional Champion award. Under the Obama administration Ocean Champions supported the implementation of the National Ocean Policy on July 19, 2010, known as “Ocean Zoning.” This Obama era policy was fully supported by Ocean Champions and twelve other environment groups.
  2. Buchanan has voted consistently to increase spending. See our comments on Buchanan’s latest vote to increase government spending.
  3. Buchanan has refused efforts to explore off of Florida’s shore lines for oil and natural gas. At the start of March, 2017 U.S. Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke announced that 73 million acres in the Gulf would be open to drilling for five years starting in August. Up for reelection Republican Representative Vern Buchanan (FL – District 16) sent out a poorly phrased email asking about offshore drilling on Sunday,  January 7, 2018. We found Buchanan’s email survey seriously flawed in four ways. First, the survey is unscientific. Second, respondents have no way of knowing who got the email and their level of knowledge on the topic of drilling for oil and natural gas in the Gulf Coast. Third, an individual on our staff answered the survey multiple times without being told that he had already voted. Fourth, the second possible answer to the question invokes the “precautionary principle.”
  4. Buchanan at times says one thing to get elected then abandons those who elected him to do the opposite. His consistency on supporting liberal policies has been noted many times. He and his staff tend to ignore those who want him to hold the line on government spending.
  5. Buchanan has sent constituents misleading and fake information as well as Al Gore like talking points about sea levels rising. In 2017 Buchanan sent out the following in an email with an accompanying ABC Channel 7 video: “Climate change is a serious issue for a state like Florida that has two coastlines vulnerable to rising waters. That’s why I am again calling on President Trump to reconsider his decision to withdraw the U.S. from the landmark Paris Climate Accord. Take a look at the video below and let me know what you think by replying to this email.” – Vern. Vern must’ve smiled when Biden, on the day of his inauguration, reentered the Paris Climate Agreement.
  6. Buchanan even voted in favor of a “slush fund” to protect members of Congress against sexual abuse and harassment charges. Buchanan says he’s a Christian. If so where’s his morals? Why did he vote to provide money to protect possible sexual predators? Is this the kind of action you should or would expect from a moral man?

The Bottom Line

Vern Buchanan needs to be on the side of lower taxes, less government spending, pro-fossil fuels and against the Biden-Schumer-Pelosi cabal.

We wrote in 2020 that Florida must become energy independent because the Sunshine State imports 99% all of our oil, natural gas and refined petroleum products from other states.

Buchanan siding with the greens and Democrats has led to higher gasoline and diesel prices, higher costs for consumer goods and inflation due to higher government spending.

Buchanan and his fellow Florida delegation members who voted for higher spending are part of the problem.

American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy, Milton Friedman said,

“Inflation is an old, old disease. We’ve had thousands of years of experience of it. There is nothing simpler than stopping an inflation—from the technical point of view.

The only cure for inflation is to reduce the rate at which total spending is growing. There is no way of slowing down inflation that will not involve a transitory increase in unemployment, and a transitory reduction in the rate of growth of output. But these costs will be far less than the costs that will be incurred by permitting the disease of inflation to rage unchecked.”

The inflation that Floridians are experiencing isn’t just Biden’s but it’s also Buchanan’s. Biden and Buchanan did this. Make no mistake about it!

Dear Vern, get it? Got it? Good.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Republicans Help Democrats Pass $1.5T Excessive Omnibus Spending Bill — See The Florida RINO List

By Royal A. Brown III

This 3,000 page bill was passed by Congress.  The House passed it in the middle of the night with less than 24 hours for House Members to read – the Senate rushed it thru as well adding hundreds of earmarks to pass pet projects.

Unfortunately 8 Florida Republicans in the House voted with all the Democrats to approve it – shame on them. 

They are as follows:

District     Name 

02            Neal Dunn

04            John Rutherford

15             Scott Franklin

16            Vern Buchanan

17            Greg Steube

18            Brian Mast

26            Carlos Gimenez

27            Marla Salaquez

Both Florida Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott were among 31 of 50 Senate Republicans who voted NO – please thank them.

Shame on the 19 Republicans who voted Yes along with all Democrats.

Heritage Action: Congress Passes an Omnibus

With government funding slated to run out this past Friday, the House and Senate scrambled to pass a bill to keep the lights on and avoid a shutdown of Congress’s own making.. We have been warning conservatives for months that an omnibus appropriations bill was likely and would be bad – unfortunately, we were right.

Written out of view of Americans and the rest of Congress, an exclusive group of leaders from both parties dumped a bill almost 3,000 pages long and costing an eye-popping $1.5 trillion taxpayer dollars on the House floor with less than 24 hours for members to read the bill before the vote.

Heritage Action key voted against the legislation, urging lawmakers to vote no.

The bill failed to rescind Biden’s unconstitutional vaccine mandates that have ousted our service members and fired our healthcare workers, advanced Biden’s climate policies, and included over $4 billion dollars worth of earmarks so lawmakers could bring their pet projects to fruition in their home states. Unrelated to government funding, the bill also jammed a version of the Violence Against Women Act which threatens American values such as our Second Amendment rights and fails to protect women from predators who may identify as a woman and gain access to facilities and programs alongside battered women. The bill even gives the Left exactly what they want by dramatically increasing the IRS’s budget to almost $13 billion, the same agency that under the last Democrat president targeted conservative Americans.

Oh yeah, and with energy prices at record highs, the omnibus even pushed an earmark tackling racism in our energy system. You can’t make this stuff up.

Lots of Republican members who voted yes will point to the national security funding, but the way Speaker Pelosi wrote the rules for this vote ensured that a vote for the national security provisions was also a vote for the whole bill. Read our key vote to see how she did this.

It’s never been more clear to Americans that Washington is out of touch and not representing hard working Americans. This trillion dollars plus spending package comes at a time when Americans are reeling from Biden’s failed economic policies that have stuck us with record inflation and gas that tops well over $4 a gallon.

Even though this bill passed, many conservative senators and representatives heard your voice and stood up for you. More than half of GOP senators stood with you!

Be sure to thank them!

Check the links below to see how your elected officials voted.

Click here to see how your Representative voted

Click here to see how your Senator voted

©Royal A. Brown, III. All rights reserved.

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Biden and the Alexandra Ocasio Cortez’s Green Energy Agenda

By Robert Heller

Alexandra Ocasio Cortez (AOC) is neither a climatologist or scientist. Before she was elected to Congress she was a bartender.

Nothing wrong with being a bartender but creating a program called ‘The Green New Deal’ is above her pay level.

Nevertheless the Biden White House is in the process of implementing AOC’s Green New Deal which was voted down by the Senate in 1979 by a vote of 57 Republicans against, and 47 Democrats voting present.

Not one Democrat Senator voted for it.

Can you think of any country other than the U.S. under Biden’s management that would vote to give up its energy independence?

Can’t think of one, because it never happened before.

Shortly after being sworn in as president Biden cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline. While electioneering he promised to do so and promised to put the fossil fuel business out of business. Few people understood by going to war against oil and gas that the U.S. would no longer be energy independent; or that U.S. security would be compromised plus high inflation would follow.

Everything we eat, drink or use is affected by the price of energy.

Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, gasoline prices increased by about a dollar a gallon and natural gas rose as well. Biden’s claim that inflation is a result of the Russian-Ukraine war doesn’t wash.

We can thank AOC and the commitments Biden probably made to her to get her and the ‘Squad’  to support  his election has resulted in our current state of affairs.

The White House has been pleading with Venezuela and Saudi Arabia to pump more oil to make up for Biden’s monumental error. How does this help climate change considering the U.S. produces cleaner energy than either of these countries?

It is high time for Congress and the Senate to take action to make the U.S. energy independent again and end Biden’s war on energy and the American people.

©Robert Heller. All rights reserved.

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FAKE NEWS ALERT: President Donald J. Trump’s Boeing 757 Was Not ‘Mothballed’ and More …

By Dr. Rich Swier

Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America

The story is Fake News about my plane being “mothballed” in Stewart Airfield in Newburgh, New York because “I didn’t think I would need it until 2025.” My plane, a Boeing 757, is going through a major scheduled maintenance program, which will be completed in approximately 90 days. It will then be put back into service. I was not allowed to use it during the Presidency, and didn’t.

We are seeing attacks increasing against the 79 million who voted for President Donald J. Trump. President Trump has consistently called the media “fake news” and the media continues to prove him right. It’s like watching dumb and dumber when reading the New York Times.

On June 6th, 2020 our good friend, fellow citizen journalist and black Conservative activist in his column “Disciples of the Gospel of Democrats and Fake News Media” wrote:

At the root of my sadness is the fact that my black family and friends are disciples of the Gospel of Democrats and Fake News Media. Whatever these two wicked entities tell them, they believe. God says allowing someone or something to trump His word is idolatry.

Eagles fly alone. “…all that will live godly in Christ Jesus suffer persecution.” (2 Timothy 3:12) Christians are martyred around the world. Therefore, complaining about deceived fellow blacks disapproving of my politics is hardly worth mentioning.

Still, it is extremely frustrating that facts nor commonsense seem to penetrate my family and friends blind loyalty to the far-left-extremist, hate-generating, anti-Christian, and anti-American Democratic Party.

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We must stand together as Americans while praying for God’s strength to be like Daniel in the Bible. Tell the Democrats, fake news media, ANTIFA, and Black Lives Matter that we “ain’t” kneeling nor worshiping their vile false gods of social-justice, socialism and communism.

While Lloyd has passed away, his legacy of telling the truth lives on.

The Attack on Individualist Conservatism

The attacks against Trump are in reality an attack on every freedom loving patriot. Individualism and Conservative/Christian values founded this nation.

As Ayn Rand pointed out:

“America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more—and nothing less. The rest—everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything “noble and just,” and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history—was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle. The first consequence was the principle of political freedom, i.e., an individual’s freedom from physical compulsion, coercion or interference by the government. The next was the economic implementation of political freedom: the system of capitalism.”

Individual rights trump the “vile false gods of social-justice, socialism and communism.”

Daniel Greenfield in a FrontPage column titled “UN Warns ‘Individualistic Conservatives’ Threaten the Planet” warned:

If you blinked you might have missed the momentous occasion of the release of the second part of the UN IPCC’s sixth assessment report of how we’re all going to die unless we all board jets and attend global warming conferences. Or give lots of money to those officials who do it for us.

Since no one reads these things anyway, by the time the fourteenth chapter of the second part of the sixth assessment rolled around, everyone was drunk and decided to take shots at conservatives.

Chapter 14 was on North America and warned of the threat posed by “individualistic” conservatives who refuse to accept “collective responsibility” for driving pickup trucks.

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The IPCC, or Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which changes its predictions of the incoming apocalypse more often than a phone psychic, is very upset about misinformation. [Emphasis added]

Do you seen the pattern? First is was don’t criticize Biden, Covid mandates or report on the ill effects and deaths from getting the Covid vaccine. Then is went to don’t report on or criticize Biden and his administration for the failed pullout from Afghanistan, the Russian invasion of the Ukraine and sky rocking energy prices.

Then it was Biden’s DOJ who classified parents as “domestic terrorists” when they attend school board meetings and spoke out about what their children are taught in public schools and the pornographic books in public school libraries and have gay crossdressing males giving classes promoting homosexuality and the LGBT lifestyle to elementary students.

Now it’s all about if you drive a truck you are destroying the planet and you are labeled an evil “individualist conservative.:

It is now the truth versus myths and lies told by the media, social media, Biden, Democrats and the Democrat Party.

Today speaking the truth has become a revolutionary act indeed.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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UN Warns ‘Individualistic Conservatives’ Threaten the Planet

By The Geller Report

Let’s be clear, individualistic conservatives is the very definition of Americanism, or better yet, American exceptionalism.

As America’s greatest political philosopher Ayn Rand wrote,

“America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more—and nothing less. The rest—everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything “noble and just,” and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history—was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle. The first consequence was the principle of political freedom, i.e., an individual’s freedom from physical compulsion, coercion or interference by the government. The next was the economic implementation of political freedom: the system of capitalism.”

UN Warns Individualistic Conservatives Threaten the Planet

Save the world from free speech. Before it’s too late.

By: Daniel Greenfield, FPM, March 11, 2022:

If you blinked you might have missed the momentous occasion of the release of the second part of the UN IPCC’s sixth assessment report of how we’re all going to die unless we all board jets and attend global warming conferences. Or give lots of money to those officials who do it for us.

Since no one reads these things anyway, by the time the fourteenth chapter of the second part of the sixth assessment rolled around, everyone was drunk and decided to take shots at conservatives.

Chapter 14 was on North America and warned of the threat posed by “individualistic” conservatives who refuse to accept “collective responsibility” for driving pickup trucks.

Once upon a time, we agreed to disagree about things. Those were the good days.

The liberalism of, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”, has long since been replaced by, “You’re spreading misinformation and I’m going to tell on you to Mark Zuckerberg.”

The IPCC, or Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which changes its predictions of the incoming apocalypse more often than a phone psychic, is very upset about misinformation.

Misinformation contradicts the science and under the IPCC’s current chair, Hoesung Lee, who has a PhD in Economics from Rutgers, and was, according to the IPCC, named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, the UN body is all about the science.

Even though economics is as much of a science as the chicken entrails of global warming.

But say what you will about Lee, who used to work for ExxonMobil, he still has better credentials than former chair, railroad engineer, and sexual harasser Rajendra Pachauri. As a Nature orbituary put it, Pachauri, who shared a Nobel Peace Prize and sexual misconduct allegations with Al Gore, died “following a prolonged battle with multiple heart ailments and charges of sexual harassment.”

Forget climate change, it’s the sexual harassment allegations that will really kill you.

“If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late,” Rajendra Pachauri said in 2007. In 2009, he claimed, “we have just about 6 years left in which we will have to bring about peaking of emission.” It’s 2022, Pachauri is dead, and the planet is very much alive. Sadly, so is the IPCC.

With a past history like this you can understand why the IPCC is sensitive about misinformation.

If there were a Nobel prize for misinformation, the IPCC would win it hands down. And that’s the only Nobel prize that it deserves. Unless there were another Nobel for blowing the most hot air.

A year after Pachauri was ousted over his personal contribution to global warming, Hoesung Lee took over and began warning that it’s not too late to save the planet from cheap energy and a decent standard of living.

Six years later he’s still at it.

IPCC WGII 6, the latest alphabet soup report that no one read, directs the blame for the imminent destruction of the planet at “resistance from individuals with conservative political ideologies” and “individualistic worldviews” who oppose “regulation”.

Save the world from free speech. Before it’s too late.

The IPCC’s preferred solution to the conservative problem (at least the one that it’s willing to put in print) is more media censorship. The report complains about the “journalistic norm of balance” that give “equal weight to climate scientists and contrarians” and are “unevenly amplifying certain messages that are not supported by science”.

I don’t know which planet the IPCC is reporting from, where the media provides equal weight to both the establishment and its critics, but it isn’t this one. But the one thing we know about the IPCC from all its reports on the state of the planet is that it doesn’t know much about Earth.

The media is already saturated with the IPCC’s chicken little propaganda. Big Tech companies actively censor those who dissent from the notion that only high taxes can change the weather. To say nothing of the even more outrageous suppression of any other point of view within the scientific community and Corporate America than the one making Big Green investors very rich.

Nevertheless the IPCC report complains that “much online social media discussion of climate change takes place in ‘echo chambers’”. These echo chambers, unlike the ones operated by the IPCC and the establishment, are obviously a threat to all intelligent life on earth.

A category that no one involved in the IPCC and the media qualify for anyway.

The censorship will continue until everyone comes to believe that the world is ending as many years from now as it takes to create a sense of crisis while still making it possible to cash in.

The UN solution to all of those “individualistic” and “conservative” Americans is for “the rest of the human collective” to adopt “collective conduct” from “indigenous” people. Unfortunately the United States has no indigenous people, only immigrants from various eras, tribes traveling across a land bridge from Siberia, paddling canoes, and then Columbus and his three ships.

But the UN might want to check in on Africa and see how the “indigenous” people of that continent exercise their “sense of duty or responsibility toward human and other-than-human relations” by wiping out endangered species and killing entire tribes with equal gusto.

Or Hoesung Lee might want to look toward Manchuria where his distant ancestors came from and examine just how that region shows us that we can “(re)learn from Indigenous cultures to (re)consider our responsibility/ies to the land”.

The idea that a native population is less likely to pollute the earth and water, hunt animals to extinction, and treat their territory like a trash heap is more white nonsense, as Lee knows.

The noble savage is the romanticized invention of European fourth-generation colonists who condescendingly presume that their neighbor is less likely to want an SUV or a weekend at the shore because his ancestors had a lower technological level and less civilizational scope.

The native population consists of stone, iron, and bronze age colonists who wiped out whatever indigenous peoples there were and then got down to the business of killing each other until the Europeans showed up. Your average American and Canadian tree hugger has as much of a mystical relationship with the great outdoors as a California casino owner or the Hawaiian businessman whose many times great-grandfather killed and enslaved the natives he found living there after he finished making the long imperialist canoe journey to colonize the islands.

The lead authors of the North American chapter who urge us to learn magical indigenous skills of collectivism are largely the descendants of European immigrants. And they know a whole lot more about collectivism than North American Indians who were a good deal more independent, conservative and individualistic than the hive mind of two dozen authors behind a UN report.

But if the UN really wants to model respect for the land, it should lead the way by demolishing its Manhattan headquarters and returning Turtle Bay back to the turtles.

The one mystical quality that the IPCC does have is magical thinking.

After failing to convince Americans that the planet will burn unless everyone gives environmental consultants more money to change the weather, the IPCC is convinced that suppressing political dissent will surely convince those individualistic conservatives.

As everyone knows, using your power to silence people wins the argument every time.

It’s not American individualism that threatens the planet. The environmental movement not only stole trillions and spent it on trips and worthless windmills and solar panels, it brought the planet closer to war by making the world dependent on Middle Eastern and Russian fuel. After generations of wars that could have been avoided with cheap nuclear energy and domestic drilling, there is yet another war that is being fought over energy resources in Ukraine.

Conservative individualism doesn’t threaten the planet, environmental collectivism does.

The UN’s attack on the individual is the collective’s war on the individual, the state versus the individual and it defines the eternal struggle of mankind.

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Biden Worse Than The Worst Five U.S. Presidents Combined

By Dr. Rich Swier

In January 2021 just hours into his presidency Biden signed directives banning the Keystone XL pipeline, implemented a sixty-day hiatus for new drilling leases on federal lands, and recommitted the United States to the terms of the Paris Agreement for reducing carbon emissions. After these Biden policy decisions many warned about the impacts of them on ordinary Americans.

Thomas Pyle, President of the American Energy Alliance warned,

“President Biden’s ban on oil and natural gas production on lands owned by all Americans will result in higher energy prices, job losses, and reduced economic growth.” –

Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon stated,

“It’s much better for us to be selling energy to our friends than it is to be buying it from our enemies. It’s just a matter of really making sure that we put America first, that we make sure that American leadership and innovation [are] something we showcase and celebrate.”

On March 12th, 2022, just 13 months into the Biden presidency, at a ‘Save America’ Rally in Florence, South Carolina, President Donald J. Trump said,

“You could take the five worst presidents in American history and put them together they would not have done the damage the Joe Biden has done is just 13 months.”

On March 10th, 2022 Katie Pavlich wrote:

Inflation hit another high in February, marking the worst numbers since 1982 for American consumers. The new number, measured by the Consumer Price Index, sits at 7.9 percent. Inflation, which is a tax on the poor and middle class, is expected to keep rising as President Joe Biden and Democrats call for more government spending.

Spencer Brown wrote:

Earlier this week, President Biden called rising fuel costs “Putin’s price hike,” a cute but meaningless phrase that is just more of Biden trying to blame a scapegoat rather than keep his promise that the buck stops with him.

On March 10th, 2022 PBS News Hour reported:

Propelled by surging costs for gas, food and housing, consumer inflation jumped 7.9 percent over the past year, the sharpest spike since 1982 and likely only a harbinger of even higher prices to come.

The increase reported Thursday by the Labor Department reflected the 12 months ending in February and didn’t include most of the oil and gas price increases that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. Since then, average gas prices nationally have jumped about 62 cents a gallon to $4.32, according to AAA.

WATCH: Biden’s Fossil Fuels Blockade.

Recently, decals of a finger-pointing President Biden, with the words “I did that!” in big, bold print, have been appearing on fuel pumps across the country — including New York City — as gasoline prices skyrocket.

So, how did Biden reply to what is so obvious to each and every American?

Biden: “I’m sick of this stuff! The American people think the reason for inflation is the government spending more money. Simply. Not. True.” pic.twitter.com/e0XAeeqv7f

— Jewish Patriot 🚛 (@MAGAJew2) March 11, 2022

“Make no mistake, inflation is largely the fault of Putin,” Biden says.

Except inflation has been soaring above 5% since last May. pic.twitter.com/DfU1969ZT5

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 11, 2022

Biden’s Inflation

American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy, Milton Friedman said,

“Inflation is an old, old disease. We’ve had thousands of years of experience of it. There is nothing simpler than stopping an inflation—from the technical point of view.

The only cure for inflation is to reduce the rate at which total spending is growing. There is no way of slowing down inflation that will not involve a transitory increase in unemployment, and a transitory reduction in the rate of growth of output. But these costs will be far less than the costs that will be incurred by permitting the disease of inflation to rage unchecked.”

Watch:

Milton Friedman explains who is really responsible for inflation:

The Bottom Line

During a March 12th, 2022 “Save America” rally in Florence, South Carolina President Donald J. Trump said:

“You can take the five worst presidents in American history and put them together they would not have done the damage that Joe Biden has done in just thirteen months.”

Biden and his administration are focused on fixing the blame rather than fixing the massive inflation every American is feeling today.

WATCH: You cannot have an American president that has an America-last policy.

America is now facing a quadruple threat to our domestic and national security: Russia, Iran, China and the Biden administration.

The only way to fix the problem is to get the worst president in the history of the United States out of office.

In the interim legal American voters need to give control of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate back to conservative politicians.

Not to do so in November 2022 will see this Bidenflation turn into a Biden disaster with dire consequences both domestically and globally.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Trump’s ‘Save America’ Rally in Florence, South Carolina

By The Geller Report

There is nothing that is more therapeutic in these horrific times than a Trump rally. President Trump is going to run in 2024. And he is going to win. Every rational American must get behind the re-election of President Trump with everything they have. The country and the free world are on the line.

Thousands already in Florence for Former President Donald Trump’s ‘Save America’ rally

By WPDE, March 11, 2022

FLORENCE, S.C. (WPDE) — People from across the country have camped out near the Florence Regional Airport ahead of former President Donald Trump’s ‘Save America’ rally that takes place Saturday.

Sharon Anderson said she drove nearly six hours from Tennessee to attend the event.

Anderson has been to 23 rallies so far.

“Donald Trump, he’s fighting so hard for us. 24 hours a day. I want him to look out in that audience and see thousands just like me. That’s his cheerleaders,” said Anderson.

Rick Frazier traveled 10 hours from Ohio.

He’s a part of the group Front Row Joe’s that attend Trump’s rallies.

Frazier said he’s been to 55 rallies so far.

“We like to come to the rallies. And support the President, number 45. Primarily, because I believe in what he’s done for the country. It’s big family. I’m from Ohio. So, we give Ohio state tailgating. And when the folks come to these rallies. It’s like a big tailgate and most of these folks are like-minded. Everybody here comes for President Trump,” said Frazier.

Crews have been setting up most of the week.

They’ve brought in big lights, porta johns, tents for security, food trucks and other equipment.

ABC15 asked organizers as to how many people will attend the rally.

They said they don’t give numbers, but are preparing for thousands.

Florence Police Dept. said they’ll have 24 officers on hand to provide mutual aid to the Florence County Sheriff’s Office.

The Sheriff’s Office hasn’t said if they’ve been given an estimate of how many people will attend the event.

South Carolina Highway Patrol is providing officers to help with traffic.

Frazier said from the looks of how crews are preparing, he expects this rally to be huge.

“This is a big one. I think we’ve got more room here. This is probably one of the larger ones we done since we started in Burlington Ohio. And that was about 8 months, ago, I think they’ll be standing room only,” said Frazier.

Doors will open at 2 p.m. and the event is set to start at 7 p.m.

Also, Trump will be joined by endorsed candidates, members of the South Carolina Congressional Delegation, and other special guests.

Details about the event, including the newly listed speakers, have been highlighted and sectioned below.

EDITORS NOTE: This Geller Report column is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

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