There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
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Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.John 6:37
Is there any instance of our Lord’s casting out a coming one? If there be so, we would like to know of it; but there has been none, and there never will be. Among the lost souls in hell there is not one that can say, “I went to Jesus, and He refused me.” It is not possible that you or I should be the first to whom Jesus shall break His word. Let us not entertain so dark a suspicion.
Suppose we go to Jesus now about the evils of today. Oh, this we may be sure—He will not refuse us audience or cast us out. Those of us who have often been and those who have never gone before—let us go together, and we shall see that He will not shut the door of His grace in the face of any one of us.
“This man receiveth sinners,” but He repulses none. We come to Him in weakness and sin, with trembling faith, and small knowledge, and slender hope; but He does not cast us out. We come by prayer, and that prayer broken; with confession, and that confession faulty; with praise, and that praise far short of His merits; but yet He receives us. We come diseased, polluted, worn out, and worthless; but He doth in no wise cast us out. Let us come again today to Him who never casts us out.
“I pray that the eyes of your heart may be opened in order that you may know … His incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of His mighty strength, which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion and every title that can be given…” Ephesians 1:18-23
It’s easy to lose sight of the power that is our God’s as we watch the evening news and manage day to day life. Yet “Thine is the power”, holds as true today as it did when Jesus’ took that step out of the grave! His power over the rulers and authorities in the spiritual realm is real. We can participate in that power because of the presence of His Spirit in our lives as believers.
“…you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you.” Acts 1:6-8
The despair that draws the life out of us is in direct contrast to the mighty power of God which can pour life into us. Our spiritual eyes need to be open so we can see God’s mighty power at work around us. His power works to bring life where it seems to be ebbing away. Resurrection power is the heritage of the believer!
God’s transforming power flows into us when we open our lives to Him. He reorders our lives by His power and for His glory. When we feel powerless in situations that seem impossible, we can ask God to break through the darkness with His power to intervene and move what is required…because the power belongs to Him!
Dear Father in Heaven, Thank you that all power in Heaven and in Earth belongs to You. We often feel powerless as we look around our world. Increase our faith to ask for You to intervene with Your power to transform situations and lives, so that Your glory and Your love is broadcast to those around us. In Jesus’ name I pray, amen.
“The Jews still did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they sent for the man’s parents.” John 9:18 (NIV)
When Jesus healed the man born blind, the leaders of the Salvation-by-List crowd initiated an investigation to determine exactly what happened. Yet, it appears the List-Leaders had already determined the outcome. So, when they found facts that didn’t support their predetermined conclusions, they just kept searching until they could find something that did.
Years later, John bar Zebedee, a witness the investigators ignored, shows us snapshots that reveal the flesh-weapons used by the List-Leaders:
Closed mind and closed eyes. In this story about blindness, we learn that seeing is not always believing (John 9:13–16). The List-Leaders could see the truth running counter to their pre-judgments, so they simply rejected the truth.
Discredit. The Salvation-by-List crowd asked the man, formally known as blind, who’d healed him (John 9:17). When he said it was Jesus, the leaders attempted to undermine the credibility of God’s anointed, which is perhaps the oldest flesh-weapon we use: “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” (Genesis 3:1 NIV). Did God really mean ____?
Demand. The List-Leaders returned to the question: “What did He do to you?” (John 9:26 (NIV). They demanded an explanation because their focus was on the how instead of the “wow!” Standing in front of them was a man who’d been born blind, but now he could see—wow, God! Instead, they insist on knowing exactly what happened and how it happened, walking by sight and not by faith (the opposite of 2 Corinthians 5:7)
Whistleblower leak reveals ‘missing link in government, private collusion to control online information According to the documents, the censorship framework defining the strategies of public and private censorship efforts in 2020 and beyond – including government pressure on private companies to quash objectionable content – was developed in 2019 by a group of American and British defense contractors led by former UK defense researcher Sara-Jayne “SJ” Terp, and that in addition to curbing disfavored content it entailed promoting preferred narratives through a variety of tactics, including the creation of fake or “sock-puppet” social media accounts.
EU Seeks to Confiscate and Destroy Vintage Cars from Citizens A new EU proposal could affect owners of older cars, including vintage cars, forcing them to scrap their vehicles. The proposal has attracted strong criticism from various quarters, writes Mest motor. It is about new stricter rules for car scrapping, which mean that car owners no longer have the authority to decide when their vehicles are to be scrapped. Instead, EU criteria will define when a car is considered “confiscated” and ownership of the vehicle will be lost if any of these criteria are met. The state can thus seize people’s collector cars without paying anything for them.
Russia proposes expanding mandate of UN peacekeepers in Middle East One of the options for implementing the provisions of the UN Security Council resolution in the Middle East could be to expand the role of the UN Truce Supervision Authority, the permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said, Trend reports. “We expect that the UN Secretary-General, as provided for in resolution number 2712, will present his proposals as soon as possible regarding specific options for organizing a mechanism for monitoring its implementation”, Nebenzya said.
Lightning kills 27 in one day in India’s Gujarat state At least 27 people have been killed and about 25 injured by lightning strikes amid thunderstorms in India’s western state of Gujarat. Heavy rain, thunderstorms and hail were reported on Sunday and Monday, with some places receiving up to 14cm of rain, state government data showed.
Heart issues skyrocketing in military, US Navy medic says A United States Navy Medical Service Corps whistleblower recently disclosed information from the Department of Defense that reportedly shows a major increase in military pilots with heart-related issues after the implementation of the COVID-19 vaccination. the U.S. military has experienced a major increase in heart-related issues with helicopter and fixed-wing pilots. Macie claimed that Defense Department data shows a 937% increase in heart failure
Schumer Asks Why Left Doesn’t Stand With Israel In Speech Condemning Anti-Semitism “Not long ago, many of us marched together for black and brown lives. We stood against anti-Asian hatred. “But apparently, Mr. President, in the eyes of some this principle does not extend to the Jewish people,” he continued. Mr. Schumer warned that the rise in anti-Semitism is “a five-alarm fire that must be extinguished.”
Rothschild Wants Merger Between Corporations, Governments, & AI To “Save Capitalism” If you’re not familiar with a little organization called the “Council For Inclusive Capitalism,” don’t worry, most people have never heard of it. The group was formed at the height of the covid pandemic; as fear instilled by government officials and the media propagated the news feeds, the majority of the public was rather distracted. The CIC is essentially everything that conspiracy theorists have been warning about for years packaged into a single Orwellian entity, complete with dramatic piano music and a mask of humanitarian philanthropy.
‘No way’ Israel will agree to end war against Hamas, says Netanyahu Jerusalem will not give up on its goal to destroy Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, amid rumors the terrorist organisation offered to release all hostages held in Gaza in exchange for an end to the Israel Defense Forces operation. “There is no way we are not going back to fight to the end. This is my policy, the entire Cabinet stands behind it, the entire government stands behind it, the soldiers stand behind it, the people stand behind it—this is exactly what we will do,” said Netanyahu.
Hostages held in homes of Hamas-sympathetic UNRWA employees One of the abductees, held for nearly 50 days in an attic, reveals he was held by a UNRA teacher – a father of ten children. This teacher locked the victim away, barely provided food, and neglected medical needs,” Another abductee was held captive by a Gazan doctor who, simultaneously, cared for children. These are not isolated incidents; these civilians are terrorists. Present at the Saturday massacre, they’re now revealed as integral to holding hundreds captive, including women and children,”
Senior CIA official posted pro-Palestine propaganda on social media Amy McFadden, an associate deputy director for analysis at the CIA, posted a Palestinian flag as her Facebook background two weeks after the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks against Israel. Her LinkedIn page also showed support for the International Crisis Group, an anti-Israel organization linked to an Iranian propaganda network and previously led by Robert Malley, the suspended special envoy for Iran. The page also features the banner “I am for equity because equity starts with everyone.”
Amb. Erdan to Arab Ministers: ‘You are here to support a terror organization’ The UN Security Council met to discuss the Israel-Hamas war. Erdan: ‘The plan to eliminate Israel was unsuccessful then, just as it will be unsuccessful today.’ This is not a political conflict or about partitioning land. It is solely about the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews.”
US warship in Red Sea shoots down drone- officials The US has sent a significant amount of naval power to the Middle East in the past month, including two aircraft carriers. Washington is on heightened alert for activity by Iran-backed groups as regional tensions soar during the Israel-Hamas conflict and has been trying to ensure that it does not spread. The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the drone was shot down by the Carney, a destroyer.
Finland to close entire Russian border after migrant surge Finland is closing all crossings on the Russian border after accusing Moscow of deliberately helping migrants into the country. Seven of eight road posts have already shut over a rise in crossings this month.
Hamas founder’s son calls for Israel to kill his father if hostages not released Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, called for Israel to set a time limit for the terrorist group to release the remaining hostages it is holding and to kill its leaders – including his own father – if they fail to do so, in a video posted on X Tuesday.
Commander of Islamic Jihad’s Jenin Battalion killed by IDF Israeli security forces operating in the Samaria city of Jenin on Wednesday killed Mohammed Zubeidi, the commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Jenin Battalion, the IDF, Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and Israel Police said in a joint statement. Zubeidi, a relative of notorious Fatah terrorist Zakaria Zubeidi, was killed alongside another senior Palestinian terrorist in an exchange of fire, according to the security forces.
Top CIA official in charge of approving intel posted ‘Palestinian flag’ after Hamas attack The CIA and even the Pentagon are now full of wokes with limited real-world knowledge and strong leftist views, and yes, they hate America and support Islamic terrorists. Spy movies and shows have given the CIA a lot of cachet, but it’s by far one of the world’s most inept intelligence agencies, and the reality is that it’s little more than the State Department, with the same sorts of employees, but with more classified intel.
Israeli hostages returning from Hamas captivity tell of starvation and horrific abuse Red Cross accused of neglecting hostages: ‘Why are they there if they don’t do anything?’ “We are starting to hear details from the hostages, and they describe what amounts to torture. I am not going to detail everything we hear, just what was published by the families themselves,” Eyal wrote on X on Tuesday. The horror stories include the abuse of Israeli children by Hamas militants and regular Gazan civilians.
The Resurgence of Israel’s Military in Bible Prophecy Israel is the major focus of End Time Bible prophecy. That’s the reason that the re-establishment of the nation in the 20th Century was so important. That event signaled the fact that we are now living in the end of the end times. During the 20th Century, we were privileged to witness God beginning to fulfill in whole or in part seven prophecies regarding the Jewish people:
Amazon unveils new chips for training and running AI models There’s a shortage of GPUs as the demand for generative AI, which is often trained and run on GPUs, grows. Nvidia’s best-performing chips are reportedly sold out until 2024. The CEO of chipmaker TSMC was less optimistic recently, suggesting that the shortage of GPUs from Nvidia — as well as from Nvidia’s rivals — could extend into 2025.
Severe floods in Somalia affect 2 million, displace 746 000 and destroy 4 700 houses The ongoing Deyr rainy season continues to unleash devastating floods across Somalia and the wider Horn of Africa, wreaking havoc on an unprecedented scale. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) confirms that as of November 29, the crisis has affected 2 million people, displaced 746 000, and caused 96 deaths. The most severely impacted areas are in Somalia’s southwest, especially the Bay, Gedo, and Middle Juba regions.
Over 120 dead as widespread floods continue affecting Kenya Heavy rainfall continues affecting Kenya, causing widespread flooding. As of November 28, 2023, the floods have claimed at least 120 lives in 38 counties, with Tana River, Garissa, Wajir, and Mandera Counties bearing the brunt of the disaster. The crisis has affected over 500 000 people and displaced almost 90 000 households (around 360 000 individuals). Key infrastructure, including parts of the Garissa-Nairobi Highway, is severely impacted, and authorities are monitoring the Tana River’s major dams. Forecasts predict continued heavy rainfall, exacerbating the already dire situation.
U.S. Warns Iran Is Weighing Sending Short-Range Missiles to Russia The U.S. fears Iran is preparing to provide Russia with advanced short-range ballistic missiles for its military campaign in Ukraine, U.S. officials said Tuesday. Iran has already provided Russia with armed drones, guided aerial bombs and artillery shells, U.S. officials said.
Chase Bank branches closing in 2023: here is the complete list In 2023, JP Morgan Chase has or will close 159 branch locations across the United States. The banking giant is not alone in its decision to scale back its physical presence as banking moves online; Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Citi Bank have announced closures at similar scales that will continue into 2024.
Two Australian researchers conclude “far-right” humour is a danger to democracy Two Australian political researchers published a paper in Television & New Media to examine “the use of online humour and ridicule to promote and normalise far-right exclusionary discourses.”….And what are their conclusions? In short, as Igor Chudov surmises, the two authors are suggesting that humour is a danger to our democracy.
Whistleblower Reveals U.S. and UK Military Contractors Plan For Global Censorship. “Many people insist that governments aren’t involved in censorship, but they are” according to Michael Shellenberger, who adds “And now, a whistleblower has come forward with an explosive new trove of documents, rivaling or exceeding the Twitter Files and Facebook Files in scale and importance.” Shellenberger is just one of three investigators from a group called Public, who have documented the rise of the Censorship Industrial Complex, a network of over 100 government agencies and nongovernmental organisations, and have reported on the recently published documents from the whistleblower, which describe the activities of a group called the Cyber Threat Intelligence League, or CTI.
New Report: Young People Dying of Cancer at ‘Explosive’ Rates, UK Government Data Show Since the commencement of COVID-19 vaccines, there has been an unprecedented rise in the deaths of young people between 2021 and 2022 from rapidly metastasizing and terminal cancers, according to data from the UK’s Office for National Statistics. While we would expect that the UK government and their “health experts” who were so concerned about our health in 2020 would have conducted an urgent inquiry into the shocking data, alas no, they have remained predictably silent.
“All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride legitimately, by the grace of God.” —Thomas Jefferson (1826)
On this day in Patriot history in 1782, the British signed a preliminary treaty in Paris recognizing American independence. Hamas and the Palestinians still don’t recognize Israel’s right to exist, which is why there isn’t peace. —Mark Alexander
While a traumatized little girl is reunited with her family, many other hostages and their families await an uncertain fate.
Douglas Andrews
Soon after the barbaric October 7 attack by Hamas on innocent Israeli civilians, Thomas Hand learned that his eight-year-old daughter Emily had been killed at the kibbutz where she’d spent the night with friends.
“I was sort of relieved,” he told the Associated Press, “because I’d rather that than have her taken hostage. The way they told me was Emily has been found. She was found in the kibbutz, and she’d been found dead. I’ll never forget those three statements.”
Imagine thinking the unimaginable — that because of the barbarism of your little girl’s would-be captors, you’re relieved to know that she’s dead.
All that changed on October 31, however, when Hand was informed by the Israeli military that Emily’s body had not been recovered at the kibbutz. Nor was her blood found there among the many dead. “I had to shift my whole brain,” said Hand, “and digest this new information.”
Then, finally, miraculously, Emily Hand came home. On Tuesday, having recently spent her ninth birthday in captivity, she was among a group of 13 Israelis and four Thais released by Hamas on the second day of the Gaza ceasefire.
“Emily has come back to us,” said her Dublin-born dad. “We can’t find the words to describe our emotions after 50 challenging and complicated days. We are overjoyed to embrace Emily again, but at the same time, we remember all the hostages who have yet to return. We will persist in doing everything in our power to bring them back home.”
Clearly, there’s cause for relief and rejoicing in Israel, as the continuing ceasefire affords the release of one handful of hostages after another. But there’s also cause for remorse and rage as some families continue to mourn their dead while others now learn how their loved ones were taken and treated during nearly two months of captivity at the hands of Hamas terrorists.
“Last night she cried until her face was red and blotchy, she couldn’t stop,” said Emily’s dad following his daughter’s first night of freedom. “She didn’t want any comfort, I guess she’s forgotten how to be comforted. She went under the covers of the bed, the quilt, covered herself up and quietly cried. The most shocking, disturbing part of meeting her was she was just whispering, you couldn’t hear her. I had to put my ear on her lips. She’d been conditioned not to make any noise.”
We don’t know precisely what Emily endured, but, as Israel’s Yeshiva World reports, “The hostages were beaten with sticks as they were abducted and many of them had bleeding wounds.” They were malnourished, too, with one of them having lost 44 pounds. And they were moved from place to place.
We also know that their Hamas captors played cynically for the cameras. “On the day of the release of the first group of hostages,” Yeshiva World continues, “the terrorists told [their captives] that they were going to be released and returned to Israel. In order to create a false impression that the hostages were well-cared for, the terrorists brought them new clothing — after 50 days of no showers and wearing the same clothing.”
It’s worse. As Legal Insurrection reports: “Abducted women were kept in cages. Hostages, including children, were beaten and deprived of food, the Israeli media reports. At least in one instance, Hamas abductors forced Israeli hostages, including a 12-year-old child, to watch the horrific videos of October 7 atrocities.”
In addition, as The Jerusalem Post reports, one hostage, a mother, was forced to write a letter thanking Hamas for its “extraordinary humanity” toward her daughter, who “felt like a queen.”
Largely silent during this lengthy ordeal are many of the women’s groups that typically sound off whenever women are mistreated, and especially when women are raped as a weapon of war. As National Review’s Noah Rothman writes, “Western organizations supposedly devoted to women’s issues have spent the weeks since the 10/7 massacre of Israeli civilians — a slaughter that featured the methodical rape, abuse, and torture of Hamas’s female victims — laying low.”
Rothman’s reporting is grim, even gruesome. And it makes one wonder: Why does the cat have the tongues of these leftist women’s groups? What is it about Hamas that makes their crimes against women somehow more tolerable? Could it be because their victims are Israeli women — “occupiers” and “oppressors”?
Little Emily Hand is home, but we suspect her ordeal has left her permanently scarred. How could it not? The same goes for each of the 240 hostages taken by Hamas. And how can any group of any political affiliation not loudly and repeatedly condemn what these Hamas barbarians have done, and continue to do?
New foster care placement rules claim that non-LGBTQ-affirming foster parents are guilty of child abuse.
Emmy Griffin
Foster care is a challenging calling. The children in your care are there temporarily before they are placed either back with their own families or with an adoptive family. Foster care is also a challenging place for children. There are significantly more children in need of foster care services than there are homes and parents available.
Yet what does the Department of Health and Human Services’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF) want to do? Left-wing bureaucrats there want to make it even more difficult to be eligible as a “safe and proper” foster parent by adding extra regulations for children who identify as LGBTQ. Frankly, the ACF aims to make it a rule that any foster parent who doesn’t affirm their ward’s LGBTQ “identity” is guilty of child abuse.
According to the ACF, LGBTQ kids are overrepresented in the foster care system and are more at risk from bad outcomes than straight kids. What it means is that LGBTQ kids who aren’t in “affirming” foster homes are more likely to commit suicide. This is the same tactic used by LGBTQ activists, and it’s emotional blackmail based on junk science.
The ACF has proposed a new rule stating that agencies placing children must go through a discriminatory process to ensure LGBTQ kids are placed only in “affirming” foster homes. The safety requirements on these homes are:
The fosterer “will establish an environment free of hostility, mistreatment, or abuse based on the child’s LGBTQI+ status.”
The fosterer “is trained to be prepared with the appropriate knowledge and skills to provide for the needs of the child related to the child’s self-identified sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.”
The fosterer “will facilitate the child’s access to age-appropriate resources, services, and activities that support their health and well-being.”
By making these the safety requirements, the ACF is saying that only affirmation of LGBTQ+ identities is safe and appropriate.
For the first requirement, the ACF doesn’t explain what constitutes hostility, mistreatment, or abuse. Isn’t that a requirement for all foster parents, or is the bar set extra high for fostering LGBTQ kids because their feelings might get hurt more easily if contradicted?
Affirmation, particularly when it comes to kids who claim to be transgender, nonbinary, or any other made-up gender, feeds a delusion and doesn’t fix the actual mental issues that the child has going on. In other words, it’s not affirming at all. Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala, one of the pioneers of the gender-affirmation model for treatment of gender dysphoria, recently wrote an article explaining in detail her scientific findings and why the affirmation model is the exact wrong solution for 99.9% of kids.
Which leads to the absurdity of the second requirement. The affirmation model in the U.S. is a political agenda, not a scientific method. What that requirement would entail is that the provider is sufficiently an activist, not necessarily a person who would actually provide a child with the tools and the care to help him or her.
Finally, that third requirement is merely words. “Age-appropriate” is apparently subjective to the Left. Books like Gender Queer or Lawn Boy are deemed perfectly appropriate in middle school classrooms and libraries even though they depict sexually explicit and highly inappropriate material for children. These are the same lunatics that banned the Bible in Utah schools and libraries because of some passages that were deemed inappropriate.
It’s also worth asking: What constitutes age-appropriate “services”? Gender mutilation? Puberty blockers? Cross-sex hormones? If so, who deems those services appropriate?
The language is vague enough to be sinister. More importantly, this requirement doesn’t actually take into account the best interests of the child.
Children who have been removed from their homes and put into foster care are there because their families are in crisis. They are in need of a safe and loving place to provide that lacking care in their own homes. The last thing they need is a foster care placement that is going to lead them down the path to more gender confusion, risky sexual behavior, or targeting by abusers and groomers. It feeds a fantasy and doesn’t fix the underlying mental issues that are going on with that gender-confused child.
On the foster parent end of this preposterous new rule, it discriminates against the religious ones. The ACF claims that it will judge on a case-by-case basis, which is merely a placating ploy.
The ACF says it doesn’t want to discourage faith-based foster care parents from participating in this vital service. However, as Christian Alliance for Orphans points out: “Despite these attempts at religious accommodation, it is important to recognize the deeper consequences the proposed regulations would likely have over time. Almost certainly, they would create two distinct classes of partner nonprofit agencies: those certified as ‘safe’ because they have embraced the Biden Administration’s new definition of this term and those viewed as less safe because they have not. While some governments may continue to place some children in families through these agencies, it seems likely that the new two-class system would promote both implicit and explicit bias against these agencies and increasing exclusion by government, foundations and other funders, fellow nonprofits, and others.”
If the government can create this two-tiered foster care system, foisting child abuse on foster kids and smearing perfectly great foster parents, who’s to say the government won’t take it a step further and try to force parents to bend the knee under threat of taking their children away? It’s already happening in California.
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Joe Biden avoids the UN’s annual climate summit as he faces growing free market problems with realizing his “green dream.”
Thomas Gallatin
If climate change is the greatest “existential threat to human existence as we know it,” as Joe Biden ridiculously declared back in 2021 at the United Nations’s climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, then what has changed in two years? Well, carbon emissions have kept rising, but the globe is not heating up as the climate alarmists have been direly warning.
Maybe that’s why the green dream simply isn’t selling — literally, as renewables are struggling and EVs are piling up on dealer lots. More on that in a minute.
Even Biden won’t be making an appearance at the UN’s upcoming annual climate summit, COP28, in Dubai. The White House excused Biden’s planned no-show by noting that the administration is sending Special Climate Envoy John Kerry as well as National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi and senior advisor John Podesta. White House spokesman Angelo Fernandez Hernandez added, “Since day one, President Biden has led and delivered on the most ambitious climate agenda in history, both at home and abroad.”
At this latest summit, the assembled climate alarmists should be eating a little crow as they admit that the planet has not heated up nearly as fast as they all warned back at the signing of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
Meanwhile, COP28 plans to engage a first-ever assessment of progress in the “battle” against climate change. But what of the conundrum of the 2015 climate model predictions showing a global 3.5ºC temperature increase that has failed to materialize? Well, this is being dismissed by once again moving the proverbial goalposts. The summit plans to admit that global temperatures are rising at a slower rate than predicted, but it will double down on it still being a crisis.
One of the blatant optical hangups, however, is the fact that the oil-rich nation of Dubai is hosting the conference. That fact has made Jean Su, director of the climate alarmist group Center for Biological Diversity, rather upset. “An oil chief is hosting these talks, so we really needed the president at the table pushing for the strongest action to phase out fossil fuels,” she said. “President Biden’s absence on this crucial world stage shows he’s not taking that phaseout seriously at the time when we need it most.”
Biden has indeed hampered oil production here at home, but he’s gone hat in hand to OPEC more than once to make up the production shortfall and help his poll numbers in the face of skyrocketing gas prices. OPEC did not oblige.
The problem is that, despite Biden’s aggressive push to turn the country into a “green dream” nightmare, America’s free market economy has been throwing quite the wrench in the works. The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of Americans aren’t buying the climate alarmism narrative, and for good reason — the offered/mandated “solutions” don’t make any economic sense.
A great example set up the conference just this week. Nearly 4,000 car dealers across the nation sent Biden a letter explaining the problem. As automakers have been pumping out more and more electric vehicles — which are subsidized during production and at the time of sale — dealers have been struggling to sell them. As a result, vehicles have been filling up their lots and costing them money. As the letter reads, “[Battery] electric vehicle [BEV] demand today is not keeping up with the large influx of BEVs arriving at our dealerships prompted by the current regulations,” and “BEVs are stacking up on our lots.” According to the letter, EVs take twice as long to sell as other vehicles, even with big tax incentives.
People don’t want EVs due to their higher price tags, but also for many practical reasons. EVs are simply limited when compared to gas-powered cars. Driving range, lack of adequate fast-charging stations, and the impact of severe weather are just a few of the reasons why consumers aren’t buying them.
The Biden administration is having trouble getting the EV revolution to stick, but Team Biden is also stumbling with the transition from fossil fuel-based energy to renewables. Once again, basic economics combined with the inherent limits of wind and solar energy production are tough to overcome.
Biden wants net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. That is a pipe dream, as we have repeatedly observed. As of 2022, wind turbines provided roughly 10% of the nation’s energy supply, and solar power contributed an additional 3% — again, even with massive subsidies to prop up those forms of energy production. Most leftists won’t even hear of nuclear power, which is the real solution.
While the Biden administration still preaches the renewables pipe dream, growing energy costs have Americans seeing a different reality. As Manhattan Institute energy expert Jonathan Lesser observes, “Wind power is running into an economic wall, and the public doesn’t want it.”
Even with Biden putting the federal government’s hand on the scales, the costs are simply too much. At least that’s what the Danish company Orsted decided back in October when it pulled out of a years-long plan to build wind farms off the coast of New Jersey. Development, construction, and upkeep costs would have New Jersey residents spending significantly more for their electricity, not less, than was promised when the plan was first adopted.
Well, Barack Obama did say that, under green fiats, “electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”
The cost of renewables includes questions of negative impact to the local wildlife. Are wind farms off the New England coast responsible for recent whale deaths? What of the number of birds being killed annually by wind and solar farms?
As the American people have become more familiar with the litany of genuine problems associated with the net-zero green dream, many are souring on it. The truth is, there is no climate crisis. That’s not to say that the climate has not been changing, but the earth’s climate has always been in a state of flux. Furthermore, there is little that humanity can do about it. Adaptation is the answer, as it always has been, not the hubris that humanity has the power to exert control over the planet.
No, we love guns because we love protecting life and Liberty.
Nate Jackson
Nothing about leftists’ approach to the Second Amendment surprises us anymore. They use caskets as platforms for their agenda when it suits their purposes of undermining gun rights. They cynically exploit emotion while pushing “safety” measures that would do little or nothing to stop an evil or deranged person. This time, a historian argues that Americans love their guns more than they love life.
“America once valued life more than guns. How did that change?” reads the headline on a CNN op-ed by historian Dominic Erdozain, author of One Nation Under Guns. His op-ed is full of historical revisionism, false or manipulated statistics, dripping hatred for Americans who cherish their rights, and emotional incontinence that frankly should embarrass a teenage girl.
The prime example of his revisionism is this farcical news flash:
This “constitutional right” to own a gun for self-defense is another product of our times — a right unknown before the “dramatic upheaval” of the District of Columbia v. Heller decision of 2008.
Erdozain pretends that the vast majority of Americans, as well as public officials, understood this until a “madman” named Ronald Reagan came along with his NRA hordes and politicized the issue.
Remember, this guy’s a historian.
The Second Amendment couldn’t be more clear: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Our Mark Alexander has written extensively on this constitutional right — no scare quotes necessary — including the Heller ruling. James Madison, the author of the Constitution, insisted on its inclusion in the Bill of Rights. Madison appointee Justice Joseph Story, in his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833), called the right to keep and bear arms the “palladium of the liberties of the republic.” And the 19th-century authors of the 14th Amendment counted it among the rights protected therein, which eventually led to the Supreme Court’s ruling in McDonald v. City of Chicago.
Some of what Erdozain says is true. There were anti-gun laws in various states and cities, sometimes for decades. There has been a movement — long preceding Heller, however — of states passing more permissive gun laws. And a certain number of Americans have always hated guns and didn’t want them in public or even owned by private citizens at all.
But despite shifting public opinion over certain kinds of firearms — as if a person’s response to a pollster has any bearing on a fundamental right — Americans have always had the right and cherished the right to keep and bear arms. The Patriots at Lexington and Concord fired the first shots in a war to protect it.
What sticks most in our craw, however, is Erdozain’s utterly mendacious framing of the debate. Repeatedly, he asserts various slurs that effectively challenge the moral motivation of anyone who values guns. “Americans love their guns … and no suffering, no slaughter can loosen their grip.”
As if that’s the binary choice, and as if gun-rights defenders care nothing for innocent lives.
It reminds us of the obnoxious virtue-signaling and false-dichotomy signs found in wealthy, white suburban enclaves: “Protect Kids, Not Guns.” We say, Protect Kids WITH Guns.
We certainly challenge the motivation of leftist activists who want to erode Liberty and exert control over law-abiding citizens. And we don’t for a second think that most of the measures they propose would do much if anything to reduce murder or other crimes. Some, in fact, would increase crime by making criminals of otherwise law-abiding people.
But we don’t doubt they are genuine in their desire to protect children (at least the ones already born) or to reduce murders overall. Why do they so readily assert that Second Amendment advocates want dead kids?
What Erdozain and many like him utterly fail to talk about are the cultural influences that plague America with a high murder rate. The words “drugs” or “gangs” never show up in his screed, though he uses the word “gangster” once — to rail about the “fully automatic ‘Tommy’ guns” they used “to terrorize the nation.” Erdozain doesn’t say a word about Democrat mayors and district attorneys who are so soft on crime that criminals routinely return to the streets to commit more crime. He completely ignores the racist and deadly Black Lives Matter riots and the rampant rise in inner city crime since 2020. He’s silent about the scourge of black men killing other black men.
It is those latter considerations, by the way, that have led since 2019 to a 17-point increase in the number of black homes with firearms. More than half of Americans now say they own guns, and there are likely more guns than people in America. Erdozain can libel his fellow Americans all day, or cast out a few wishes that things were different, and it will change nothing.
One thing that needs to change: He and other gun grabbers should stop throwing around libelous straw man arguments.
At this writing, the “ceasefire” in Gaza continues while Hamas dribbles out hostages (who depart the territory amid the bellowing and threats of Palestinian civilians calling for their deaths). How long will this go on? As long as Hamas can stretch it out.
John Hinderaker over at Powerline blog has expressed concern that Israel may be losing its momentum in the war against the terrorists who attacked on Oct. 7, slaughtered 1,200-plus people and took hundreds more hostage. As well he might. If one wonders why Hamas (and their sister group Hezbollah) keeps up the relentless attacks on Israel, the answer should be obvious — because it works; numerous commentators have remarked that the terrorists seem to be winning the “battle for hearts and minds.”
Frankly, it isn’t much of a battle. In fact, I’d wager that even Hamas did not anticipate the ease with which they could drum up support for their position that the slaughter of innocents in the most horrific ways imaginable is somehow “justified” as a mechanism for obtaining their purported political objectives. They are profiting from the ignorance of the American public and the widespread antisemitism that has taken root here, especially among so-called intellectuals and on college campuses.
These terrorists’ tactics strike me as bloodier, more vicious and more lethal versions of the schoolyard bully who hits another kid repeatedly; when the bullied kid finally gets fed up and punches back, the antagonizer runs to the recess monitor and demands that his victim be punished: “He hit me!”
In another, more sensible era, grown-ups would have recognized the persistent provocation for what it was and told the bully to knock it off. But grown-ups with sense are harder to find in today’s culture.
Despite Islamic fundamentalists’ expressed intention to kill all Jews and wipe Israel off the map, our international “recess monitors” cluck their tongues and start talking again about “proportionality” and a “two-state solution,” as if this conflict were merely a matter of land or economics.
It is not, a fact that even former President Bill Clinton was forced to admit in 2016. It is a function of an ideology of hatred.
If Hamas stopped attacking Israel, they could cease being an “open-air prison” and have peace tomorrow. It’s inscrutable that this isn’t obvious to those demanding that Palestine must be free.
But in truth, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that so many of America’s leading lights are willing to effectively reward Hamas’ deplorable behavior. That is the modus operandi these days.
When mobs looted and burned swaths of U.S. cities down in the 2020 riots, we were told that these “mostly peaceful” protests were legitimate acts against “systemic racism.” States like New York and Illinois have eliminated cash bail for most crimes, putting hundreds of criminals back on the streets. And even in states where they have bail — like Wisconsin — state officials release dangerous criminals on de minimis bonds. Darrell Brooks, who killed six people and injured 62 others when he plowed into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin two years ago, had been released on a paltry $1,000 bond just three weeks prior, after having tried to run his girlfriend over with his car.
Millions of migrants pour across our southern border in violation of our immigration laws. There are few if any consequences, including for those who exploit the non-enforcement of immigration laws to traffic sex slaves, children or drugs. Our Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas — whose job it is to keep illegal immigrants out — insists that they should be rewarded with amnesty and citizenship.
Hundreds of thousands of homeless people sleep in the streets of our major cities, many using drugs, urinating and defecating in public places. City officials do nothing. (Except, apparently, when the leader of a communist countries pays a visit.)
Every day, videos are posted to social media showing mobs of shoplifters brazenly stealing inventory from stores. Theft cost U.S. retailers more than $112 billion in 2022, an amount that more than doubled in just four years. Nothing is done. (California leads all states for amount of stolen goods; the state reduced shoplifting of $950 or less to a misdemeanor just a few years ago.)
Cellphone videos also reveal the widespread student disrespect and violence in our schools. Last week, a riotous mob of high school students in Queens forced a Jewish teacher to hide in a locked office until police could escort her from the building safely.
Politicians run on promises to solve the country’s problems, but once in office, double down on the policies that caused the problems in the first place. Why? Is it about money? I don’t think so. I think it is far more fundamental than greed.
Proclaiming a belief in objective standards of right and wrong is unpopular. It is an acknowledgement that there are principles that supersede our own wants and decisions. This is anathema in an era when people are told that everyone can decide for themselves what is “right” and “wrong,” “good” and “bad,” “true” and “false.”
This is nothing more than setting ourselves up as God.
The carnage wrought by these attitudes should have long since proven to even the biggest skeptic that an objective moral order is not merely a matter of personal preference, like deciding what dish to order at a restaurant. An objective moral order is scientifically rooted in the nature of human beings and therefore necessary for human society to flourish. Like all demonstrable scientific laws, it is immutable. You can decide you “don’t believe in” gravity, but if you throw yourself off a building, you’ll be dead nevertheless.
Similarly, decisions to reward — or at least, not to sanction — those who engage in bad behavior have terribly unpleasant results, including punishing those who do not.
The sooner we admit our errors, the sooner we can reclaim a civilized society.
Henry Kissinger’s death, DeSantis vs. Newsom, Native American responds to Deadspin libel, and more.
Douglas Andrews, Thomas Gallatin, & Jordan Candler
Cross-Examination
Henry Kissinger dies at 100: It’s odd that musician Tom Lehrer is known not for his talent as a performer or songwriter but instead for an enduring quip from the world of geopolitics: “Political satire,” he said many years ago, “became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” Lehrer’s quote is also instructive as to the enduring impact of Kissinger, which has probably been greater than that of any unelected government official of the past half-century. Kissinger, Richard Nixon’s secretary of state, was a diplomat, a pragmatist, and a foreign policy advisor to every president from John Kennedy to Joe Biden. He died yesterday at age 100. Having fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1938, the Jewish Kissinger embarked on a career of scholarship and diplomacy whose effects we feel yet today. During the Cold War, Kissinger was the architect of our dealings with the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, and Israel and its Arab neighbors. He practiced “shuttle diplomacy,” and his fingerprints are everywhere in the world we inhabit today. But Kissinger was no Ronald Reagan. Whereas the former pursued a policy of détente with the Soviets, the latter forcefully denounced what he saw as the Evil Empire and was the architect of its demise. Historian Niall Ferguson, in an exceptionally good Wall Street Journal obituary, calls it “Kissinger’s Century,” while Rolling Stone’s Spencer Ackerman calls Kissinger a “war criminal” and sneers: “The infamy of Nixon’s foreign-policy architect sits, eternally, beside that of history’s worst mass murderers. A deeper shame attaches to the country that celebrates him.” If history tells us anything, it’s that condemnation from the likes of Rolling Stone is a badge of honor. The truth about this historic figure is, as is often the case, somewhere between these polar opposites, although certainly closer to Ferguson’s take.
DeSantis vs. Newsom: Tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern, two state governors and one (and possibly two) presidential candidates will be crossing rhetorical swords in a debate moderated by Fox News’s Sean Hannity. Agreed to months ago, Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom will take their contrasting governing records and make the case for their divergent policies. In a sense, it’s Florida versus California, but the bigger issue is the contrasting ideologies of Republican America First ideals versus Democrat neo-Marxism. This promises to be a substantive debate, with both men well-practiced in making and defending their arguments. Of course, there is much at stake. For DeSantis, who has been struggling to make up ground on frontrunner Donald Trump, a good debate could serve to boost his national profile. For Newsom, the stakes are less high, as he has continued to play the good soldier by refusing to challenge the increasingly unpopular Joe Biden. Yet a good showing could ignite the current rumblings within the Democrat Party into outright calls for Biden to “do the right thing” and bow out. And no doubt Newsom would then eagerly take up the Party standard.
Record suicides: In 2022, almost 50,000 Americans committed suicide. According to the National Center for Heath Statistics (NCHS), that number is a new record. The rate of suicides by gender were 23.1 per 100,000 for men and 5.9 per 100,000 for women. The average irrespective of gender was 14.3 suicides per 100,000, the highest recorded since 1941. Military veterans make up a significant and growing percentage of suicides, with a jump of 11.6% between 2020 and 2021 alone. Cole Lyle, Marine Corps veteran and executive director of Mission Roll Call, attributed the spike in veteran suicides to two things: COVID and Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan because it meant their sacrifice was wasted. Lyle noted, “Personally, I had to talk a few friends down off the ledge during the Afghanistan withdrawal crisis, so I don’t think anybody necessarily is surprised by this increase.” A significant number (36%) of Americans age 18 to 34 have also reported contemplating suicide.
Charitable donations are down in Biden’s America: One telling factor that helps to reveal the state of the U.S. economy is seeing how generous Americans are. When the economy is going well, people tend to donate more money to charities, but when the economy is going poorly, the rate of donations tends to diminish. Bidenomics, with its sustained high inflation rate, has clearly taken a toll on Americans’ bank accounts. According to a recent survey, 70.5% of charities across the country are anticipating a drop or a maintained level of donations for the year. This follows last year’s 3.4% decline in donations. Though demonized by Democrats, it is wealthier Americans with household net worths of over $1 million or annual incomes of over $200,000 who have upped their giving since the pandemic — by an average of 19%. That has helped to shore up some of the overall decrease in donations. Americans’ savings are shrinking as they are forced to spend more for everyday goods, so it’s not surprising that their donation to charities has shrunk.
Native American responds to Deadspin libel: Evidently for the Leftmedia sports outlet Deadspin, narrative trumps truth. When Deadspin “reporter” Carron Phillips sought to create a “hate crime” hoax out of whole cloth based upon a deceptive photo of a young Chiefs fan at an NFL game, he was deservedly blasted for his racism. He doubled his offense by claiming that the kid was not just wearing blackface but was also hating on Native Americans because of the headdress and red face paint he was also wearing. Well, it turns out that the young Chiefs fan just happens to be of Native American ancestry, as his father explained his family is part of the Chumash tribe, and they used to live on a reservation. “We never in any way, shape or form meant to disrespect any Native Americans or any tribes,” the father said. “The tribe we’re from doesn’t even wear that type of headdress. This specific headdress is a novelty piece. It’s a costume piece.” Motives should matter, but to woke leftists, apparently the only motives that matter are the ones they unilaterally assign to those they target, irrespective of the truth.
What’s the deal with George Floyd Square? It’s a sad reality in urban centers across America that the very thing its leftist leaders hope to memorialize ends up getting mugged by reality. Such is certainly the case in Minneapolis, where businesses in and around the unfortunately named George Floyd Square are suing the city for allowing rampant crime and driving away their customers. We can’t blame these beleaguered merchants, but what on earth did the do-gooders of Minneapolis expect? They named the place after a career criminal and a drug-addicted thug. The five plaintiffs in the 19-page lawsuit are reportedly seeking more than $1.5 million in damages from the city. “The Mayor, the City, the City Council, and the Minneapolis Police Department collectively agreed to severely limit police response in the barricaded area surrounding Plaintiffs’ businesses,” according to the suit, which adds that the cops “only responded to the most serious calls and actively avoided the area.” George Floyd Square is thus the successor to the crime-ridden Martin Luther King avenues and boulevards in many big cities: Just because you gave it a new name doesn’t mean it’s no longer a crime-ridden wasteland.
Biden pressured YouTube to censor vaccine info: It’s no secret that Democrats in government have unconstitutionally conspired with Big Tech and social media to censor opinions and information with which they disagree, but the vigor with which the Biden administration did so is only now coming to light. As Fox News reports, Team Biden “worked together with employees of Google-owned YouTube in 2021 to target alleged ‘misinformation’ relating to the COVID-19 virus and its vaccinations.” Indeed, the White House pushed pro-vaccine content regardless of whether it was right or wrong, and it pushed YouTube and Google to do its dirty work, to censor inconvenient opinions. As Fox continues, “The campaign was led by former White House Director of Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty, who has since left the administration to [fittingly] help run Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign as a Deputy Campaign Manager.” According to one internal YouTube email, “There is a very high degree of interest now coming from the White House now regarding vaccine misinfo/vaccine hesitancy and our work around borderline content.” House Republicans have taken an interest in these communications. “The committees will continue their critical investigative work to protect Americans’ First Amendment rights,” said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, “and put an end to the vast government censorship enterprise.”
American Spirit: A quarterback and a Patriot: While the name-image-likeness revolution in collegiate sports has made this once-amateur enterprise increasingly more mercenary, there are still glimmers of goodness and decency and academic excellence to be found. And, in the case of Utah State quarterback Levi Williams, there is patriotism, too. In a decision that reminds us of the one Pat Tillman of the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals made more than 20 years ago in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Williams announced that he’s forgoing his senior season on the gridiron to enlist in the U.S. military and train to be a Navy SEAL. “I love football and it’s so great,” Williams said. “But I knew that, eventually, it was going to come to an end. I just want to be in a spot where I can protect this great country where we get to play football with the freedom to do that. I think this is the best country in the world. So I’d like to keep it that way and protect it as long as I can.” There are few things on earth more grueling and more challenging than BUD/S training, so we wish this young man every success, and Godspeed.
Headlines
Biden to Colorado workers: “Look, my Marine has a code to blow up the world” (Not the Bee)
Biden confirms second American hostage released by Hamas (The Hill)
UN Women rep refuses to condemn Hamas attacks on Israeli women and girls (Daily Wire)
Dean of Columbia Law School resigns amid anti-Semitism scandals (Washington Free Beacon)
Chuck Schumer rips the woke Left for rise in anti-Semitism across U.S. (Daily Wire)
Elon Musk curses out advertisers who left X over anti-Semitic content (Reuters)
Thousands of autoworkers at Toyota and Honda move to unionize after UAW victory over the Big Three (NBC News)
California will spend $300 million to clear homeless encampments (Daily Wire)
Fed’s favorite gauge shows inflation rose 0.2% in October and 3.5% from a year ago (CNBC)
The worst kind of hackers: “Gay furry hackers” breach U.S. nuclear research facility (National Review)
Recognizing “fake news”: “Media literacy” now required subject in California schools (USA Today)
2023 hurricane season: Least impactful for U.S. in nearly a decade (Fox Weather)
Humor: Squirrel wearing MAGA hat seen scampering away from falling National Christmas Tree (Babylon Bee)
Humor: Taylor Swift dumps Travis Kelce for Face Paint Boy (Babylon Bee)
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Chinese Biolab Mystery: FBI, CDC Refused to Investigate? — A new congressional report says the FBI and CDC refused to investigate the mysterious illegal Chinese biolab discovered in California. Matt Christiansen breaks down the details.
‘Blatant Corruption’ — Rep. Byron Donalds gave a fiery rundown of the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into President Biden and allegations of a connection to his son’s business dealings.
Is Disney’s ‘Wish’ Anti-Christian? — The newest Disney movie has been released, causing some Christians to accuse the movie of being the biggest anti-Christian Disney film yet. But is that the case?
Elon’s Message to Leftists Boycotting X — After Disney and other leftists virtue-signal by announcing they are pulling advertising from X, Musk shows he does not care.
“Look, my Marine … has a code to blow up the world.” —President Joe Biden
The BIG Lies
“Almost everything we now live with, from assault rifles to stand-your-ground laws, is new. This crushing pattern of domestic armament is not the American heritage or the will of the people. It’s a political experiment, conjured and contrived by a militant minority. … What changed? The short answer is President Ronald Reagan, whose crisp, Cold War thinking reduced domestic policy to a series of simple choices. Good and evil. Light and darkness. Arm the righteous, he promised, and crime will take care of itself.” —historian Dominic Erdozain
“This ‘constitutional right’ to own a gun for self-defense is another product of our times — a right unknown before the ‘dramatic upheaval’ of the District of Columbia v. Heller decision of 2008. For decades, gun activists have claimed history for their radicalism, framing gun control as a failure of patriotism. But theirs is an imagined past, a brutalized freedom — and one that is now tearing American communities apart.” —Dominic Erdozain
“I cut the federal deficit by over $7 billion.” —Joe Biden
“We’ve created over 14 million brand-new jobs. Good-paying jobs.” —Joe Biden
“When I took office, I vowed I’d be president for all Americans, whether you live in a blue state or a red state, whether you live in rural or urban areas, and we’re delivering on that promise.” —Joe Biden
For the Record
“Team Biden is taking on ‘misinformation’ about inflation. But here’s a problem for the White House: Americans have experienced Biden-era inflation in their own lives. They know what it has done to their finances. They don’t feel positively about an economy that has made it difficult for them just to get by. And no Biden effort to suppress discussion or attack ‘misinformation’ will change what those Americans already know to be true.” —Byron York
Upright
“There is no free speech if the government can forbid anonymous speech. Like all expression, nameless social media posts can be put to repugnant uses. But under the Constitution, we err on the side of freedom. Anonymous speech can be vile. Banning it would be worse.” —Jeff Jacoby
“Abortion, the collapse of marriage and family, and dropping fertility rates have everything to do with the overall health of our society. As we look at this data from the Census Bureau projecting an aging country and a shrinking population, we need to look at the changing values prevailing in our culture as the number one culprit driving our problems.” —Star Parker
A Broken Clock Is Right Twice a Day
“While the dead bodies of Jewish Israelis were still warm, while hundreds of Jewish Israelis were being carried as hostages back to Hamas tunnels under Gaza, Jewish Americans were alarmed to see some of our fellow citizens characterize a brutal terrorist attack as justified because of the actions of the Israeli government. A vicious, bloodcurdling, premeditated massacre of innocent men, women, children, the elderly — justified! Even worse, in some cases, people even celebrated what happened, describing it as the deserved fate of quote ‘colonizers’ and calling for quote ‘glory to the martyrs’ who carried out these heinous attacks.” —Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
And Last…
“No one with two functioning brain cells looks at Hamas’ massacre and rape and kidnapping and says, ‘Let’s give these people a state.’ No one.” —Erielle Davidson
The globalist insider who helped mentor Klaus Schwab and many others has passed on at age 100 and LeoHohmann.com shares the thoughts of Technocracy guru Patrick Wood, who has followed Kissinger’s career for more than 50 years.
The last of the “three amigos” has left the building. Henry (nee Heintz) Kissinger has been reunited with David Rockefeller (1915-2017) and Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-2017), all founding members of the Trilateral Commission. Whatever fate awaits them is God’s business, but if they end up in Hades together, I expect they will be conspiring to demote the Devil and take over his legions of demons.
Rockefeller, Kissinger and Brzezinski were the undisputed original architects of modern globalization, changing the world forever. They recreated China in the 1970s in the image of Technocracy, rebranded Technocracy as Sustainable Development, Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 through the United Nations. All of this served to enslave mankind while taking over the resources of the world.
Oh, Henry. You single-handedly turned the Middle East upside down when you turned Iran over to crazed Islamists in 1979 when you stabbed the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlav, in the back and deported him to the United States. Kissinger himself answered his critics in a 1979 editorial in The Washington Post:
“Since then I have read and heard myself described by high White House officials as acting deviously and dishonorably; as advising the shah — strangely enough — to seek the advice of our government about whether to stay or leave this country; and as having exerted pressure to get him here in the first place.”
Oh, Henry. After you died, Huffpost weighed in for the left to call you “America’s Most Notorious War Criminal,” saying “The titan of American foreign policy was complicit in millions of deaths — and never showed remorse for his decisions.” That stings, but Huffpost accurately continues,
“During his time in charge of the American foreign policy machine, Kissinger also directed illegal arms sales to Pakistan as it carried out a brutal crackdown on its Bengali population in 1971. He supported the 1973 military coup that overthrew a democratically elected socialist government in Chile, gave the go-ahead to Indonesia’s 1975 invasion of East Timor, and backed Argentina’s repressive military dictatorship as it launched its ‘dirty war’ against dissenters and leftists in 1976. His policies during the Ford administration also fueled civil wars in Africa, most notably in Angola.
“Even the most generous calculations suggest that the murderous regimes Kissinger supported and the conflicts they waged were responsible for millions of deaths and millions of other human rights abuses, during and after the eight years he served in the American government.”
Oh, Henry. The Wall Street Journal sort of came to your aidby falsely suggesting that it is really the left who hates you. Actually, almost everybody on the right and the left hated you, except your globalist cronies, like Klaus Schwab who you mentored to start the World Economic Form.
When at Harvard as a young professor, it was recorded in Medium that Kissinger, “was leading a 22-man panel of advisors to help shape ‘European Policy’ and Klaus Schwab caught his eye early. It was later revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had been funding Kissinger’s Seminars to the tune of $135,000.”
Medium filled in the details:
The year 1973 was described by Richard Nixon as being the “Year of Europe.” It was a willing ally in the project of European Economic Community (EEC), formed in 1957, which has now evolved into European Union (EU).
Kissinger, left, with his devoted student, Klaus Schwab at the World Economic Forum.
Kissinger was quick to grasp the essence of “Year of Europe” and revived the dying North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), working on the war-fears of the Europeans.
Klaus Schwab was chosen to be the vehicle for such a goal. In 1970, Klaus wrote to the European Commission about setting up a “non-commercial think tank for European business leaders.” Galbraith was to fly over to Europe, along with Kahn, to help Schwab convince the European elites to back the project. The European Commission came aboard to sponsor this so-called “European Management Symposium” which within a year was to transform itself into the World Economic Forum.
On the face of it, the World Economic Forum was a European project — in reality, it was the handiwork of the U.S. establishment, for the CIA after all had been funding Kissinger for the same.
Oh, Henry. Klaus Schwab’s prediction that “By 2030, you will own nothing and be happy” came early for you. You now own nothing. You are likely not happy.
Oh, Henry. Were you also a founding member of the Club Of Rome in 1968 when it was created at David Rockefeller’s villa in Rome? Did you green-light the Club’s seminal book, The First Global Revolution, 1991 just in time for the UN’s 1992 summit that hatched Agenda 21? Was it you, David and Zbig who developed this strategy:
“In searching for a common enemy against whom we can unite, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like, would fit the bill…all these dangers are caused by human intervention in natural processes, and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy then is humanity itself.”
Oh, Henry. Did you pass your evil baton in 2021 to Eric “Don’t be evil” Schmidt when you co-authored the book with him, The Age of AI? We saw your and Schmidt’s interview with Time Magazine where you said,
We live in a world which, in effect, has no philosophy; there is no dominant philosophical view. So the technologists can run wild.They can develop world-changing things, but there’s nobody there to say, ‘We’ve got to integrate this into something.’
I see your problem: “technologists running wild” and not under your control. We trust that Schmidt will solve this little problem in your absence.
Lastly, Oh Henry, at least we see China heaping praise on you: “History will remember what the centenarian had contributed to China-US relations, and he will always remain alive in the hearts of the Chinese people as a most valued old friend.” It’s good to get some accolades when you die.
Well, Henry, we are not sad that you left us. But on the other hand, the devil who that we knew is probably is better that the devil(s) who we don’t know. Many will try to fill your shoes in the future, but you will always get credit as “founding father” of master of deceit and perpetrator of evil.
‘If we lose this war, we will have full-fledged tyranny,’ Ramaswamy tells Claremont Institute Chairman Tom Klingenstein in an interview transcript released to The Federalist.
Rice prices are on the verge of hitting new 15-year highs as the damage effects of the El Nino weather phenomenon across Asia have damaged farmlands, leading to dwindling supplies.
Thai white rice 5% broken hit $640 per ton this week. These prices are back to levels not seen since October 2008. Prices are up over 50% since the start of 2022.
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) joined Chris Salcedo on Newsmax recently to discuss the government operation on January 6, 2021.
Rep. Higgins told Salcedo that “at least 200” FBI agents dressed as Trump supporters were in the crowd on January 6, 2021. It was a government operation.
Jeffrey is a decorated former 3rd Special Forces Group soldier and US government contractor. Jeffrey McKellop is being held as a political prisoner after he served his country for 22 years. After his arrest in March 2021, Jeffrey delved into video footage and documented evidence from the January 6 protests. Jeffrey was able to identify numerous government informants and agitators in the massive Trump crowd that day. After putting together his evidence, he sent it to numerous contacts. That was when the FBI came into his prison cell and took his research. They then attempted to silence him and banned him from phone and mail privileges. We recently heard that Jeffrey was moved to a mental hospital. They really want him silenced.
Jeffrey McKellop, who is trained in crowd control and worked overseas for much of his career described Jan. 6 as a government operation. Jeffrey told TGP in March, “I know for a fact that there were undercover agents, man. I saw them. I spotted it. And when you find one, then you know what to look for, and then you find them. All undercover agents, they all wear the same thing. They all move the same way. They all get together the same way. Why do I know this? Because I used to do the same thing.”
On Wednesday, Rep. Clay Higgins expanded on his earlier accusations.
Rep. Clay Higgins: The FBI was not only involved in the actions on January 6 from within, they had, I suspect, over 200 agents embedded within the crowd, including agents or as they would call, human assets inside the Capitol dressed as Trump supporters before the doors were opened. Beyond that, the FBI had embedded themselves and infiltrated online chat groups and websites, and social media accounts across the country with any group that was discussing objections to COVID oppression. And the FBI effectively infiltrated those groups.
And when you track the text threads and the communications within those groups and find the origins of suggestions of potential violence or an active occupation of the Capitol on January 6, you’ll find that those messages were led by members of the groups that ended up to be the FBI agents that had infiltrated the group. So the FBI’s involvement was deep, not just on J6, but on the days and weeks and months prior.
Rep. Higgins told Newsmax that conservatives, Republicans certainly must stand against funding a DOJ and FBI that has clearly become weaponized against the American people.
This was after Blinken stressed the need to protect civilians. The US top diplomat “stressed the imperative of accounting for humanitarian and civilian protection needs in southern Gaza before any military operations there,” according to a summary by the State Department, which added that Blinken “urged Israel to take every possible measure to avoid civilian harm.”
As for the murders referenced by Netanyahu, on Thursday a pair of gunmen unleashed M16 and pistol fire on a crowd waiting at a Jerusalem bus stop, killing three Israelis and injuring 16. Shortly after the attack, Hamas claimed responsibility.
The Hamas statement said “the operation came as a natural response to unprecedented crimes conducted by the occupation” and further called for “an escalation of the resistance.”
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