Tuesday • November 26 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XLVIII
Manchester, N.H.
In the Not So Great White North, a 50-year-old York University professor named Nicholas Cepeda was allowed to compete in a swim meet against Tween and Teenage girls. He was also seen sharing their locker and shower room with the permission of the East Bayfield Community Centre and Barrie Trojans Swim Club.
As is often the case, one might ask why a 50-year-old man would want to be in a locker room with girls as young as thirteen. Because he’s a woman, you bigot. “Melody Wiseheart swam against girls as young as 13 during the Trojan Cup swimming competition at the East Bayfield Community Centre in Barrie, Ontario, according to a report by Rebel News.”
As alarming and disturbing as it may appear, I have a different question. Does “Melody” also believe he is a teenager?
To what purpose does an aging adult swimmer compete against pubescent girls? Might he also believe he is black, Hispanic, or Innuit? All of the above? Is there a lazy Susan of demographic characteristics from which to pick, like condiments for today’s #woke sandwich, or does he get up in the morning and take a few throws at the diversity dart board?
Teenage, and Girl. Got it!
This is not the first time Cepeda has competed against young girls. In October, Cepeda swam against children ages 13-14 during the Richmond Hill Aquatic Centre Fall Classic swimming competition.
Event organizers initially denied that Cepeda had participated in the event until confronted with his name on a copy of their schedule. They “eventually” relented, Menzies reported, “but they didn’t want to get into a debate about gender and age.” Representatives for governing bodies Swimming Canada and Swimming Toronto were reportedly “too busy” to answer questions about the incident.
You are proud to be a partner in the rainbow pride culture, then run away (or, at least, hide) when asked about it. Not so proud, or are you looking for a way to put that back in a closet?
And I don’t care where you think you stand on the issue of the gender spectrum; how is this not creepy, and why isn’t this guy on a sexual predator watchlist?
Because he says he’s a woman, Bigot!
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CBS News recently reported that inflation under Biden has cost the average American family over $11 thousand per year. Rest assured, that figure is understated because it is based on “government data.” The tweet below links to the CBS article.
Americans need an extra $11,400 today just to afford the basics. https://t.co/t79U2FLqFv
— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 29, 2023
But if you really want to take a deep dive into what can only be described as the UniParty’s decades-long war on the American middle class, check out David Stockton’s The Destruction of The American Middle Class: Some highlights:
Since money-printing went into permanent high gear after the dotcom crash in 2000, the top 1% of households have gained $20 million each in inflation-adjusted net worth. Likewise, the top 0.1% or 131,000 households at the tippy top of the economic ladder have gained $88 million each in inflation-adjusted net worth. … [in contrast] during the last 22 years the median real annual wage, as tracked by Social Security payroll tax records, has risen by only 14.5% or just $235 per annum.
[the] median annual wage for 2022 was just slightly above $40,000, and that by definition half of the nation’s 172 million workers with wage records earned less than that amount. … this figure amounts to only 65% of the Federal poverty line for a household of 4 persons ($27,750) and is barely above the $14,580 poverty level for a single person household.
Yet “traditional Republicans” … you know, the ones funded by and beholden to the donor class that have gotten richer and richer while the middle class gets poorer and poorer … continue to claim that globalization and “free trade” are good for the middle class.
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The propaganda war against conscientious objectors to the COVID-19 injections was fierce, and while most of the parroted fearmongering came from Liberals or the left, recent research identified a significant number of “Trump supporters” who blamed the unvaccinated just as they’d been told to do, by their government.
From Igor Chudov.
You would expect me to rant against the above-mentioned left-leaning individuals. Instead, I would like to point out that “Trump supporters” were also prone to scapegoating and hatred towards the unvaccinated, although to a lesser extent:
Here are a few more Liberal examples.
Consider, for instance, how in 2020, more than 30% of Americans believed that a COVID infection led to a 50% chance of hospitalization; it never did, nor was there ever evidence to suggest it might. Left-leaning individuals tended to over-estimate COVID harms to a greater degree than conservatives.”
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The results of Study 1, based on 570 American residents, revealed that people were more likely to scapegoat the unvaccinated or unvaccinated-recovered characters compared to the vaccinated characters, regardless of the characters’ risk profiles. In particular, the participants believed that unvaccinated individuals were “responsible for overwhelmed healthcare systems,” “to be blamed for the effects of hospital staff shortages,” “at fault for C19 deaths and hospitalization, and “guilty of severely jeopardizing his/her community’s public health.”
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“This last scenario focused solely on a 28-year-old healthy man who works outdoors alone and has either recovered from COVID or got vaccinated more than 6 months ago without plans for a booster. Both characters, the recovered and vaccinated, are at low risk for hospitalization and are equally capable of spreading the virus. Yet, the unvaccinated but recovered character received more blame. Moreover, individuals who identified as liberal were more likely to blame the unvaccinated compared to their conservative counterparts.”
The reasons for all of this are obvious. The Media, Government, and Public Health apparatus engaged in a 24/7/365 campaign to justify the extreme response and an all-out war on human liberty. It could brook no dissent. But it lied about the risk, and that was evident from the state-level data after the first few weeks of shutdowns and lockdowns.
Evidence was only useful to those inclined to cherish freedom before safety, so while a vector of Americans began to push back with questions, concerns, legitimate constitutional objections, and so on, the governments/global terror had already done its job even among ‘Trump supporters.”
People were told they’d die even though almost no one outside the groups typically affected by the flu did. When the vaccines rolled out and made matters worse, blaming people who refused them was easier than asking how positive cases, hospitalizations, and deaths might spike after the salvation of a vaccine had arrived.
The vaccine was the only new variable. How could that be? It had to be the people who hadn’t received it, and the media made that lie their institutional truth. Lies they tried to hide. Perceptions that linger still, even though there is no doubt that the COVID vaccines were never tested to prevent transmission or that they ever could. The long list of side effects, many dangerous, was not a mystery before launch; the real conspiracy was to hide that truth. And they are still trying to hide it.
The New Zeland Whistleblower data is not just damaging but devastating.
The same government that scaremongered you into getting an unsafe and ineffective pharmaceutical treatment with complex and dangerous side effects deliberately hid or refused to look for safety signals because had they found any, they would have had to pull the vaccine.
And we’re not done with revelations but this research shows how effective the psy-op was and continues to be.
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The memes are stacked up like cordwood. Here’s the first selection of the week…
Take heart – there will be both a Wednesday and Friday Edition. Last week’s Friday Edition.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
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When the 1965 immigration law was passed assurances were given that the demographics of America would not change. Meanwhile, the Dems used this to import millions of new voters. And with the advent of the vast majority of those coming in now being males of military age, how soon before they’re connected with the weaponry & ammo purchased for all those federal agencies under Barackus and set loose on the public? Remember:
One of the minor ironies I have seen in the latest situation is the Lebanese pr0n star, Mia Khalifa, who has done FF scenes, taking the side of Hamas against Israel… when, by dint of her now former career (and I admit, good for her for quitting that industry), she’d be stoned to death under the Sharia laws Hamas et al want to impose worldwide.
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EU lawmaker dies of ‘heart attack’, age 70, following accusation of Von Der Leyen in corruption. – Rivasi was investigating EC head von der Leyen and Pfizer, who are preparing to extend their contract to supply the vaccine until 2026 at inflated prices with a 40% oversupply of doses. – Rivasi was preparing to give a report to the European Parliament on December 15. She wanted to announce the results of the investigation and provide copies of documents to the press. Very conveniently timed heart attack! https://t.me/LauraAbolichannelRemember. Money on this scale buys anything, including “convenient” deaths of “inconvenient” people. And it’s not just money, but untold power… total tyranny, plus getting rid of the useless eaters. The 7.3 Billion Dollar, er, Person Question – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info) Proverbs 16:18… and What’s Coming? – Granite Grok Dark Thoughts in the Small Hours – Granite Grok Borrowing from a Dog Food Ad – Urban Scoop Depopulation Speculations – Granite Grok These people are SERIOUS about this. Meanwhile: More on that: The Ministry of Health granted vaccine exemptions to hundreds among its key staff whilst hypocritically insisting that the public be vaccinated – Daily Telegraph NZ >>>>>=====<<<<<
I foresee a “tragic accident” in his near future.
The ability of people to deny evidence – a la Yuri Bezmenov – that’s right in front of them is astonishing. Consider… I once mentioned that in a TED talk Gates talked about reducing the population with vaccines. He said it. The person didn’t believe me. I said Gates smirked at the prospect of the “next pandemic” waking people up. They didn’t believe me – so I showed them the video.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Bill-Melinda-Gates-Giggle-Smirk-Over-2nd-Wave-of-Pandemic_ZmP6_gy-MIE_360p.mp4
And they STILL didn’t believe that he said what he said and they both smirked. “Oh, that’s just faked”. Out of context too, don’t you know?
We talk about trying to wake people up. They won’t… until it affects them personally, either directly or through a loved one. Related is this next meme:
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Pick of the post:
This is subtle. But once you “get it”… powerful.
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As Republicans search for a successful messaging strategy on abortion, one Candidate for President, Pro-Life Democrat Tarissa Bukovinac, is dropping all posturing an pretense, hoping to expose the extremism of her party on the issue.
The American left is almost singularly obsessed with aborting the unborn from conception to birth. No other nation does it. Most Western Countries prohibit them after 15-20 weeks. New Hampshire Dems called the state’s Republicans extreme for passing restrictions after 24 weeks, while many more liberal states surrounding New Hampshire have similar or more restrictive laws in place.
But Dems have had electoral success painting Republicans as out of touch on the issue when they are more in line with America and the world. But, it works at the ballot box.
We have to wonder what this will accomplish. According to a Campaign press release (below) the Bukovinac Ad is extremely graphic, airing tonight, during the Jimmy Fallon Show.
“Although this strategy has generated controversy, the Bukovinac Campaign remains steadfast in exposing the violence of abortion.”
The goal is to get the reality of abortion, especially late term abortion, in front of people who refuse to see it for what it is.
All I can say is imagine if a Republican candidate for anything did this? Would they even have the nerve to try it?
Here’s the press release.
Contact: Stephanie Luiz, (305) 877-0893, stephanie@terrisa2024.com
Washington, D.C. (December, 11th, 2024) — Today, the Terrisa Bukovinac for President Campaign announced it will begin airing explicit anti-abortion ads in the Boston/New Hampshire market. Bukovinac is on the ballot in New Hampshire for the Democratic Primary.
The advertisements will air during The Jimmy Fallon Show on NBC in Boston/New Hampshire and Massachusetts on December 11. The scheduled TV ad can be accessed here.
The 30-second TV ads show in gruesome detail the gut-wrenching remains of five babies killed by later abortion, featuring footage captured by Bukovinac when she recovered the remains last year outside an all term abortion business in Washington DC. This effort is part of the campaign’s strategy to engage voters on the atrocity of later abortion during the 2024 presidential election by embracing the power of visual storytelling to expose the brutality of abortion. The ad condemns the Biden administration and the Democratic party’s extreme, out-of-touch abortion platform, which stands at odds with 30% of Democrats.
Although this strategy has generated controversy, the Bukovinac Campaign remains steadfast in exposing the violence of abortion.
Bukovinac stated that her aim with this advertisement is to “disrupt the consciences of the American people, particularly leftists who are complicit in abortion by supporting pro-abortion candidates.”
Bukovinac also states: “pretending like millions of pro-life Democrats like myself don’t exist isn’t a winning strategy. The right to life must be protected at every age, everywhere, and that is why I am on the ballot as a presidential candidate—to be a voice for the innocent and oppressed and rekindle the debate inside the Democratic Party. ”
FCC regulations stipulate that news stations “have no power of censorship over the material” in campaign ads. The campaign aims to communicate the gravity and urgency of the abortion issue to American voters through impactful visuals. As the 2023 presidential race intensifies, the Bukovinac Campaign remains dedicated to educating voters about the violence associated with abortion.
Terrisa Bukovinac is a leading secular progressive pro-life activist running for President of the United States. She previously served as the President of Democrats for Life of America, and is the Founder of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU). Bukovinac’s bid for the Democratic nomination amplifies the voices of the 1 in 4 Democrats who support common sense abortion limits.—
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It is impossible not to have a wave of patriotism and pride take over your body as you settle in for the annual Army-Navy Game. This year, it is even more special as the Cadets and Mid-Shipmen gather in Foxboro, Massachusetts, the home of the Original Patriots and the six-time Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots.
The young men who took the field are not your typical student-athletes. These men take the field in their unique uniforms designed just for this game, but tomorrow, they will don the United States Army or Navy uniforms. These are the future leaders of the most powerful military in the world. But for sixty minutes, they will defend their end zone from the team on the other side of the line of scrimmage. Adversaries on the field, men united on a mission every other day to keep the enemy away from you and me. These men are football players, but they are also our heroes. They are indeed a unique lot.
This game is the greatest rivalry in sports. Forget the Yankees and Red Sox. This matchup eclipses the Celtics and Lakers. Move over, Bruins and Canadians. On this Saturday, it is not Tom and Peyton exchanging touchdowns. Only one game is on the schedule: Army vs Navy. The khaki vs the navy blue and the spread doesn’t matter. These men will leave everything on the Gillette Stadium Field. As the Black Knights of the Army and the Midshipmen of the Navy ran onto the field, their respective classmates roared with support. This meeting is the 124th edition of a tradition like no other. It is not only sport but Americana.
Of course, these teams are playing to win and the bragging rights for the year, but to us, they are all winners. The score is immaterial to the rest of us. Every player on that field is a winner. There will be a losing team but never a losing player. At the end of this game, hard knocks will turn to firm handshakes and friendly embraces. The next time some of these players meet, they may be on a battlefield on the other side of the world.
At a time when the country cannot be more divided comes a sporting event in which every American can find pride. The Left and Right may differ on when we should use our military might, but both sides love our men and women with the American flag on their shoulders. These men represent the best and brightest our country has to offer, and God Bless those young men and women willing to put their personal lives on hold while they serve their country. There was no outstanding offensive outburst, and it was a defensive battle, which is fitting for defending the homeland is what these young men will do. The game ended at the one-foot line with a mass of twenty-two massive athletes in a stand-off.
Army won the game, but all these men will be Brothers in Arms forever.
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Talking about Hillary’s illegal server was election interference. Discussing Hunter Biden’s Laptop was also election interference. Everything being done to Trump, however, is not – according to political elites, but a majority of voters disagree. Recent polling suggests they see it for what it is.
If ever there were a definition of election interference, understanding that the definition of anything is a moving target on the Left, it would be frivolous politically driven litigation during an election season.
And so it is.
Among all voters, 60% agreed that the unprecedented legal charges against Trump were politically driven by the Democratic Party, while 31% disagreed.
What’s surprising isn’t that majorities of Republicans (81% “agree,” 13% “disagree”) and independents (53% “agree,” 35% “disagree”) see eye-to-eye, but that a plurality of Democrats (49% “agree,” 44% “disagree”) also believe the prosecutions are politically motivated.
Even Democrat voters appear nearly in the majority on the matter, but the ominous undertones don’t stop there. 76% of Republicans and 63% of Independents polled said they would still vote for Trump (in the Primary) if he were convicted of something. The folks at AFP-HQ must be scratching their wooden heads over that one.
Did we send all those glossy mailers for naught? I think perhaps you did, but as I’ve noted in the past, you can do with your money what you like. Pick a candidate, an issue, and be whoever you are in defense of that. But I think you backed the wrong horse. Trump won in 2016 because he was an outsider—a disruptor. Eight years later, despite being President for four of them, Donald Trump is still the outside/disruptor candidate, at least in the eyes of most Republicans, and that’s whose Primary he needs to win.
And at a time when more Americans, perhaps than ever, see the political establishment as a threat to their privacy, lives, and livelihoods.
It doesn’t make AFP or anyone who claims Trump can’t win the General wrong (given the lack of attention to election integrity, what Republican can). Still, they’ve been unable to prove that to Republican primary voters, and the NH Primary is in six weeks, the Iowa Caucus is in five weeks, and the wind is blowing favorably in Trump’s direction.
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Conservatives focus on their base, but even the most ardent now recognize that their failure to persuade swing voters, and particularly women, is a giant wall — maybe the only wall the left likes — dropped across the road to victory.
That wall shattered the “red wave” conviction that inflation and Biden’s sorry track record were sufficient appeals to prevail in ’22. Yet, while there’s plenty of discussion about the need to appeal beyond the base, many campaign consultants act as though putting the same talking points in a dress will solve the problem. It won’t.
At Independent Women’s Voice (IWV), we think there are many issues conservatives should talk about and about which they will find common ground with women and other swing voters. They’ll not only win support among these essential audiences but create momentum for actionable solutions that will actually yield positive results for the American people.
This can start with IWV’s Hope Agenda, which includes elevating five issues that matter deeply to most Americans, first and foremost women. (RELATED: BOB EHRLICH: It’s Not All Doom And Gloom. Here Are Some Signs Of Progress Against The Woke Onslaught)
In polling done in early October, Independent Women’s Voice asked 1,000 likely 2024 voters the following question: How important are each of these issues to you when making your decision on who to vote for?
The answers, totaling “Very Important” and “Somewhat Important” for the following five statements, all polled at 70% or better not only nationally but across women, independents, Hispanics, millennials, and 18-35-year-olds:
Interestingly, conservatives are talking about shifting from abortion to transgender issues as their chief cultural focus. While at IW we take a back seat to no one when it comes to fighting to protect minors and provide fully informed consent and equal rights and protections for detransitioners (health insurance generally fails to cover anything that might alleviate or repair, where possible, what has been done), we note that “preventing the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones on minors” while important is not yet as strong a concern as the other five issues. It polls nationally at 68%, with 42% of women viewing this as “very important.” (RELATED: HIGGINS: COVID Precautions Are Back — Everywhere But On The Southern Border)
At Independent Women’s Voice, we don’t think it’s enough to flag an issue; we want to help our fellow Americans learn about it, know who will advance it, and do something about it. To that end, we have initiatives on each: education materials, video stories, and policy solutions.
Patient Protection Commitment – supports true healthcare price transparency and affordability—implementation of which would drop our nation’s health care costs 40% and would benefit patients and businesses rather than private equity investors and the healthcare special interest groups.
Free Speech Commitment – promotes free speech and opposes the bigotry of cancel culture and – as Vivek Ramaswamy neatly puts it – the psychological slavery it engenders.
Trust Through Transparency Commitment – commits to schools being transparent and pro-parent, returning schools to teaching academics and pathways to success, not ideology and victimhood.
Safe Borders Commitment – highlights the importance of securing borders to prevent economic, national security, and public health issues in America, applying the same rules we have for entering the country via air to those coming on land.
Stand with Women Commitment – lets constituents know who is pro-woman pro-science and will fight for policies that prevent sex discrimination and preserve women’s rights, safety, and opportunities.
Our Hope Agenda commitments on health care, safe borders, free speech, women’s rights, and educational trust through transparency will help elevate the importance of these policy issues that will genuinely benefit women and all Americans. They’ll be backed by a range of proven educational approaches, including:
There is more to come. But each of these components of the Hope Agenda will help bring hope back to America, and we welcome partners and allies in elevating a Hope Agenda that talks about the issues that women, as well as Independents, Hispanics, and younger Americans, care deeply about and want addressed.
Heather R. Higgins is the CEO of Independent Women’s Voice.
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The gaming industry has always been at the forefront of technological innovation, and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into game development is no exception. In recent years, AI has been making significant strides in transforming various aspects of the gaming experience, and one area that stands out is slot game development. The combination of AI and slot technology has opened up new frontiers, enhancing player engagement, personalization, and overall gaming satisfaction.
AI-Powered Game Design: Crafting Unparalleled ExperiencesTraditionally, slot online game development relied heavily on manual processes and creative intuition. However, with the advent of AI, game designers now have a powerful tool at their disposal. AI algorithms can analyze player preferences, playing styles, and feedback to generate data-driven insights. This data is then utilized to design games that are more likely to resonate with the target audience, leading to the creation of more engaging and immersive slot experiences.
Moreover, AI allows for the creation of dynamic and adaptive gaming environments. Slot games can now adjust their difficulty levels, themes, and rewards based on the player’s skill level and preferences. This level of personalization ensures that players remain captivated, as the game evolves to meet their evolving interests and skill sets.
Intelligent RNG (Random Number Generation): Fairness and unpredictabilityRandom Number Generation is the backbone of slot machines, determining the outcome of each spin. AI has brought about a revolution in this aspect by introducing intelligent RNG systems. These systems leverage machine learning algorithms to analyze vast datasets and generate more complex and unpredictable number sequences. This not only ensures a fair gaming experience but also adds an extra layer of excitement as players can never predict the outcome with absolute certainty.
The intelligent RNG systems also enable slot game developers to create more intricate and varied game scenarios. From bonus rounds to jackpot triggers, AI-driven RNG adds an element of unpredictability that keeps players on the edge of their seats, enhancing the overall thrill of the gaming experience.
Adaptive Gameplay: Tailoring the Experience in Real-TimeOne of the most remarkable ways AI is transforming slot game development is through adaptive gameplay. Traditional slots offered static experiences, with predetermined paylines and fixed features. However, AI allows for real-time adjustments to the gameplay based on player behavior.
For instance, if a player consistently enjoys a particular type of bonus round or theme, the AI can dynamically increase the frequency of these elements in the gameplay. On the other hand, if a player seeks a new challenge, the AI can introduce novel features or adjust difficulty levels to keep the experience fresh and engaging.
This adaptability not only keeps players entertained but also contributes to longer sbobet gaming sessions and increased player retention. By tailoring the gaming experience to individual preferences, AI ensures that players feel a sense of connection and personal investment in the games they play.
Behavioral Analysis for Responsible Gaming: Mitigating RisksWhile the primary goal of AI in slot game development is to enhance the gaming experience, it also plays a crucial role in promoting responsible gaming. AI algorithms can analyze player behavior in real-time to identify signs of problem gambling or compulsive patterns.
By monitoring factors such as playing frequency, bet sizes, and session durations, AI can detect anomalies and trigger interventions to encourage responsible gaming practices. This might include pop-up messages suggesting a break, setting deposit limits, or providing information on resources for seeking help with gambling-related issues.
End NoteThe integration of artificial intelligence into slot game development represents a paradigm shift in the gaming industry. From personalized gaming experiences to intelligent RNG systems and adaptive gameplay, AI is redefining the way players interact with slot machines. As technology continues to advance, we can expect even more groundbreaking innovations that will further elevate the excitement and engagement levels in the world of slot gaming. The future of slot tech is undoubtedly AI-driven, promising a landscape where every spin is a unique and tailored experience.
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Nikki Haley is campaigning to the wrong crowd. Her campaign would probably say that’s part of her strategy. To conservative voters, that’s exactly the problem with Nikki Haley: Republican primary voters aren’t Haley’s real constituency.
The individuals Haley is truly trying to appeal to, the people whose opinions she cares about the most, are the neoliberal elites who run establishment institutions like the media and Wall Street banks.
Tucker Carlson, my former boss, made this point over a year ago. I was with him in Iowa when he gave a speech explaining why Haley is unfit to lead the Republican Party.
In the speech, Carlson recalled Haley’s response to George Floyd’s death in 2020. Just days after the incident (and notably, before any facts had emerged), Haley tweeted that “in order to heal,” Floyd’s death “needs to be personal and painful for everyone.”
“I thought, why should what happened between a cop and George Floyd outside a convenience store in Minneapolis be personal and painful to anybody,” Carlson wondered. “What are you even talking about? Oh, you have no idea what you’re talking about. You’re trying to please the people whose opinions you actually care about at The New York Times.”
Carlson was and is, of course, right. He added that Haley’s tweet was a perfect example of why she’s unfit to lead the country.
“The second things get intense and the second the other side really unleashes and starts yelling so loudly that you can’t think clearly — I want a leader who can still think clearly,” he said.
Nikki Haley may be a nice person and a good politician, but she’s not that type of leader. More often than not, she’s been the type of Republican who behaves exactly like the institutional left believes Republicans should. She is the media’s favorite Republican running this cycle, and it’s not hard to see why.
For one, Haley believes in identity politics. She’s made her gender a central part of her pitch, from her bizarre comment about the “ammunition” in her heels at a primary debate to the campaign gear on her website. Haley sells bumper stickers and t-shirts that say “Sometimes It Takes A Woman,” which sounds more like Hillary Clinton than your average female GOP voter.
When asked recently why minorities should vote for her, Haley didn’t cite any policy proposals. Instead, she answered, “I am a minority first, so I think I’m as diverse as it gets.”
In other words, Haley wants people to vote for her because she’s an Indian woman. That message has earned Haley praise from the media.
On Wednesday, NPR ran a piece titled “Strong but ‘feminine’: how Nikki Haley navigates gender as the only woman in the GOP race.” The author wrote that Haley has been “highlighting the traits that make her unique … including her gender and her family’s immigration story.” As if those things weren’t obvious to voters.
It’s clear the media is attempting to rehabilitate Haley’s image on the left to make her more palatable to their audiences.
After the first Republican debate, MSNBC host Joy Reid said Haley “seemed like a reasonable Republican politician who kind of made sense.” Comedian Bill Maher recently called Haley an “as-good-as-it-gets Republican.” A November piece in Politico said Haley was “consolidating the NeverTrump vote” among donors and organizers.
Then there’s the support for Haley from the corporate establishment on Wall Street. Last month, fresh off declaring she would end limits on legal immigration and instead reform the system based on what corporations “need,” Haley met with BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and other business executives to court their support. BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is arguably the most significant proponent of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing in the United States.
When asked after the meeting if she was concerned about those ESG policies, Haley ignored the question. Instead, she pointed to her record as governor and said, “I partnered with my businesses. I use them as a resource. One, they hire people that we need to hire. They help us with our economy.”
Around the same time as Haley’s meeting with Fink, Axios reported that she had been having private conversations with J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon. Days later, he publicly called on business leaders, even liberal Democrats, to support her.
Perhaps even more important, her ties to the neoliberal establishment are that Haley is a staunch proponent of involving the United States in foreign military conflicts like the war in Ukraine. By extension, Haley also supports enriching the defense contractors that benefit from those conflicts. In fact, no other Republican currently running can be counted on to protect that system — the military-industrial complex — the way Haley would.
That’s because Haley herself was part of it. She also directly benefited from it.
As South Carolina governor, Haley signed over a billion dollars worth of economic development legislation for Boeing. The company rewarded Haley with a seat on its board just months after she left the Trump administration in 2018. That relationship, along with Haley’s work with several other companies with ties to the defense industry, gave a huge boost to her personal finances. As journalist Lee Fang reported earlier this year, Haley went from being over a million dollars in debt and having just $15,000 in a bank account to amassing a fortune worth over $12 million.
Amassing personal wealth is not in itself disqualifying. But Haley ingratiating herself with the defense industry is part of a pattern. At a time when conservatives increasingly want leaders to buck the establishment, Haley has been too willing to go along with it.
Whether because of her own personal conflicts of interest, her general desire to be embraced in the mainstream and by donors, or simply her lack of courage, Nikki Haley has repeatedly shown conservatives that she can’t be trusted to take principled stances on controversial issues.
Republicans deserve a nominee who represents them first, before the interests of Wall Street and permanent Washington. They want a nominee who will not cower when faced with criticism from the media establishment.
Not only does Nikki Haley fail to fit that bill, but she’s the exact opposite. There’s a reason why establishment forces are coalescing to prop up her campaign. Voters: beware of the moderate dressed in conservative clothing.
Eduardo Neret is a conservative writer and political commentator, and a former producer for Tucker Carlson.
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In the new black century, the race-baiters have been working overtime to undermine one of their own. MLK, once an icon of the civil rights movement, can no longer be honored as he once was. The color of your skin is the only thing that matters, and it must be black.
From Barry Obama, the “black” president who destroyed decades of progress on race relations, to Ibram Kendi, CRT, and the 1619 Project, content and character only matter if you are repeating their divisive rhetoric. Whites are born racist. There is no such thing as reverse racism. And we must now ask this question. Did the black 26-year-old female suspect who was pouring gasoline on the home where MLK was born prevented from perpetrating a Hate Hoax or from exacting New Age Civil Rights Revenge on an old age icon? (Related: If MLK Were Alive Today, White CRT Advocates Would Shout Him Down.)
This dumb bish AKA Laneisha Shantrice Henderson was just arrested after she tried to burn down MLK Jrs. birth home.
She was dousing the outside with gasoline when two tourists stopped her.
Do you think she is mentally ill or pulling a Jesse Smollett? pic.twitter.com/25lOgip7MF— Chris Randolph (@TrumpAF2024) December 8, 2023
No one seems to know (as of this writing) what her motivation was, but she appears to be a former Navy Vet, and it is impossible to dispute that she was dousing the home in gasoline. FOX Atlanta 5 says the judge has denied her bail as a flight risk, but the motive remains unclear. No one is reporting why she traveled to Atlanta (she gave an out-of-state address to police) to buy a gas can gasoline and then dose the home with it. (Related: Did the Slaves or MLK Know Freedom Was Actually a Dog Whistle for White Supremacy?)
It seems like a lot of effort to perpetrate a Smollett, but in contrast, not nearly as consulted, planned, and perpetrated as Jussie’s not-so-excellent adventure. I’ve also yet to find significant commentary from the new generation of race baiters who consider quitting King’s content of their character quite as racist.
We’ll try to update the story as it develops.
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During the 2020 election, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) partnered with the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), a consortium of groups led by the Stanford Internet Observatory, to track and counter what they considered mis- and disinformation.
EIP surveilled hundreds of millions of social media posts and collected from the cooperating government and non-governmental entities that it calls its “stakeholders” potential violations of social media platforms’ policies concerning election speech.
It coordinated its efforts primarily through a digital “ticketing” system. There, one of its as many as 120 analysts or an external partner could highlight a piece of offending social media content or narrative consisting of many offending posts by creating a “ticket” and share it with other relevant participants by “tagging” them. Tagged participants could then communicate with each other, in something of a group chat, about the veracity of the flagged content, concerns about its spread, and what actions they might take to combat it.
For social media companies, this meant removing the content outright, reducing its spread, or “informing” users about dubious posts by slapping corrective or contextualizing labels on them.
During the 2020 election cycle, EIP generated a total of 639 tickets, covering some 4,784 unique URLs – representing content shared millions of times – disproportionately related to the “delegitimization” of election results. Major platforms, including Twitter, Google, and Facebook, responded to tickets in which they were tagged at rates of 75% or higher. The platforms “labeled, removed, or soft blocked” 35% of the URLs shared via EIP.
RealClearInvestigations has obtained data associated with nearly 400 EIP tickets, data produced for the House Homeland Security Committee in connection with its oversight efforts. The tickets come in the form of a series of spreadsheets. Each row represents one ticket. The Stanford group provided no key for the spreadsheets. Much of the information is redacted.
Here are just a few examples of the tickets EIP produced:
Ticket EIP-482 (created October 27, 2020) was originated by the CISA’s Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing & Analysis Center (EI-ISAC). It concerns a tweet from then-President Trump indicating “most” states permit one to change one’s original vote after engaging in early voting, which EIP categorized as potential “Procedural Interference.”
The analysts point to fact-checks from, among other sources, Buzzfeed and ABC News challenging the president’s claim. Following two redacted comments on the ticket, an unnamed commenter writes, “Twitter received and is reviewing.” A subsequent comment reads: “We heard back from Twitter through CISA with this response: Our team concluded that the Tweet was not in violation of our Civic Integrity Policy.”
CISA-produced documentation shows the sub-agency’s chief counter-MDM (mis-, dis-, and malinformation) officer, Brian Scully, had also reported the tweet to Twitter, which responded to him directly about it. Therefore, EIP and its stakeholder, an executive agency, both forwarded the chief executive’s speech to a social media platform for potential censorship.
Ticket EIP-257 (Sept. 29), originated by the EI-ISAC, concerns a social media post from an unnamed user, alleging an absentee ballot had been delivered by mail to his dead father. An EIP stakeholder “flagged the post to Facebook for removal and the link is no longer active which means it has either been taken down or made private to the individual’s Facebook.” A subsequent comment notes that “We also received confirmation from Facebook (by way of CISA) that Facebook took action on this case,” again showing EIP and CISA seemingly working as force multipliers in content moderation.
Ticket EIP-301 (Oct. 2), originated by the EI-ISAC, concerns a “tweet regarding voting machines.” An elected official reported that the since-deleted and unavailable tweet “is false. Voting machines work the vast majority of the time. Old machines do have issues, but to phrase it like [this] vastly overstates the scope of the problem.” CISA inquired as to whether Twitter took the tweet down. It did.
Ticket EIP-954 (Nov. 8), the origins of which are not discernible, concerns social media posts sharing an article from The Federalist, where I am a senior contributor, titled “America Won’t Trust Elections Until The Voter Fraud Is Investigated.” According to the ticket, the article “Misconstrues Disinformation as Evidence.” One tagged post comes from Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway. A stakeholder writes to Facebook and Twitter in connection with the ticket that “this seems to be the greatest hits from the past 3 days wrapped up in one article. The article links to several of the gateway pundit links which have received action since Tuesday.” Twitter indicates it was reviewing the tweet, though it appears not to have taken action on it. RCI asked Hemingway for comment on the flagging of her tweet and publication’s work. She replied:
This unconscionable censorship of The Federalist and its reporters is sadly unsurprising. The censorship-industrial complex in this country clearly views free speech as its enemy and will do anything to shut it down, including spreading lies and using intimidation to coerce private companies to censor factual, legal speech on behalf of the regime.
Hemingway concluded with a warning: “The censorship-industrial complex better buckle up because the days of conservatives taking this lying down are over.”
Ben Weingarten | RealClear Wire
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Artificial Intelligence apps have begun to proliferate across the internet that allow you to take pictures of clothed girls and women with a smartphone and make them nude. Victims feel humiliated, and the potential for abuse is enormous, but I’m sensing a disturbance in the transgender force.
While the rare and few who actually suffer from gender dysphoria deserve appropriate medical and mental health, there is also a known faction of male abusers who use the culturally accepted feelings of femininity to gain access to vulnerable women in once-private spaces.
When I read about young men using some new idea or bit of technology to creep on girls and women, even when the naked parts don’t truly belong to the person to which they are attached, I am offended but, at the same time, reminded. A boy can let his junk hang out while ogling girls in a locker room if he claims to be one, but no one has a right to feel humiliated by that.
To borrow from one of the victims of the AI App incident at Westfield High School in New Jersey.
‘We’re aware that there are creepy guys out there but you’d never think one of your classmates would violate you like this.’
What if these creepy boys announced that they were girls so they could watch you change in front of them or step in and out of a shower in the girl’s locker room? You have zero consent with an understanding that if you complain about the locker room, you are an intolerant bigot.
To be clear, neither of these things is acceptable, but when you invest that much time and energy sexualizing the culture and dehumanizing the meaning or product of intercourse, then build onramps to voyeurism and sexual assault, you’re going to have a hard time justifying any outrage over things we used to just accept as inappropriate or offensive.
Before you get offended, ask yourself: did you enable it, were you forced to enable it, and are you prepared to do whatever is necessary to reel that back in, if that is even possible? And if not, how do you expect to move forward in that world if this isn’t going away?
So many questions.
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Thousands of busybodies have descended on Abu Dhabi to forestall what they see as an imminent apocalypse. The twenty-eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP28) being held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), is presided over by its president, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and UAE Special Envoy for Climate Change. Al Jaber is also the chief executive officer of Adnoc, the state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, as well as the chairman of Masdar, otherwise known as the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, a state-owned renewable energy firm. The irony of an oil executive leading a meeting intended to eliminate fossil fuels from the world economy was not lost on participants.
In fact, the climate conference was rife with controversy and intrigue even before it began. Immediately after Al Jaber’s appointment as president, climate activists decried his presidency as a conflict of interests and an outrage, with one activist complaining, “This appointment goes beyond putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.” COP28 is the first conference to have an industry CEO, let alone an oil industry CEO, placed at the helm of the climate change mitigation agenda. Calls for Al Jaber to step down from his CEO position at Adnoc soon followed his appointment and were promptly ignored.
The controversy only increased as the summit approached. A mere month before the conference began, in an online meeting of a She Changes Climate event, Al Jaber responded angrily to Mary Robinson—an Irish politician, the chair of the Elders group, and a former UN special envoy for climate change—after Robinson challenged Al Jaber to commit to phasing out fossil fuels entirely. Robinson claimed, “We’re in an absolute crisis that is hurting women and children more than anyone.” Making such absurd connections is typical of climate activists, who often roll identity politics into their climate activism, which apparently gives them the sense that they are tackling all the world’s supposed problems in a single effort.
Al Jaber responded by countering:
I accepted to come to this meeting to have a sober and mature conversation. I’m not in any way signing up to any discussion that is alarmist. There is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says that the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5C [the temperature increase cap decreed in the Paris Climate Accord]. . . .
. . . Please help me, show me the roadmap for a phase-out of fossil fuel that will allow for sustainable socioeconomic development, unless you want to take the world back into caves. (emphasis mine)
Al Jaber’s remarks have been regarded as verging on, if not explicitly representative of, climate change science “denial,” and he has been savaged for them. Yet, they represent the only rational, evidence-based statements made during this embattled conversation.
Further charges that Al Jaber aims to undermine the climate change agenda came from leaked communications between COP28 and Adnoc staff members, some of whom have been working in both capacities. The leaked documents strongly suggest that Al Jaber planned to use his position as the COP28 president to make oil deals on the side with government officials of participating nations. These revelations caused a frenzy among climate activist groups. One can only hope that these plans are true and that Al Jaber will have succeeded in making some oil deals for Adnoc and its potential customers. Such economic activity is not so much a sign of hypocrisy as it is evidence that economic actors will pursue rational exchanges, despite the obstacles posed by the market interference of interventionists like the United Nations and its political accomplices, including obstacles that are self-imposed by the economic actors themselves.
Other accusations leveled at Al Jaber’s presidency of COP28 include the charge that Adnoc “has the largest net-zero-busting expansion plans of any company in the world.” Adnoc, it is claimed, has been vastly expanding its development of fossil fuels, which would betray efforts to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Given that fossil fuel exports account for approximately 70 percent of the UAE’s merchandise exports, such efforts at expansion only make economic sense.
Al Jaber may be the only sane person in attendance at COP28, but he will likely be pressured into acceding to the demands of climate catastrophists. The rest of the participants appear to be in hysterics while under the sway of a mass delusion. Against the facts of science and the benefits of fossil-fuel-enabled technology, they believe that CO2 is “pollution,” that “sustainability” requires imposing an enormous tax on humanity for the respiration and growth of plant life, and that the farming methods of the original Green Revolution—which have increased yields by many factors—must be eliminated and replaced with a new environmentalist Green Revolution. They believe that industrial production must be undertaken using non-fossil-fuel inputs and that myriad industrial products must exclude fossil-fuel-based materials. These demands are as delusional as anything enacted by Chairman Mao Zedong during the Great Leap Forward.
Carbon neutrality by 2050 is an insanely impossible demand. Our industrial civilization and the population it supports depends on the advances made in fossil fuel extraction and use. Even Canadian scientist and polymath Vaclav Smil—a believer in climate change who is an otherwise credible source—agrees. In his book, How the World Really Works, Smil writes:
For those who ignore the energetic and material imperatives of our world, those who prefer mantras of green solutions to understanding how we have come to this point, the prescription is easy: just decarbonize—switch from burning fossil carbon to converting inexhaustible flows of renewable energies. The real wrench in the works: we are a fossil-fueled civilization whose technical and scientific advances, quality of life, and prosperity rest on the combustion of huge quantities of fossil carbon, and we cannot simply walk away from this critical determinant of our fortunes in a few decades, never mind years.
Complete decarbonization of the global economy by 2050 is now conceivable only at the cost of unthinkable global economic retreat or as a result of extraordinarily rapid transformations relying on near-miraculous technical advances.
As Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber seemed to suggest, the climate change catastrophists of COP28 would consign humanity to preindustrial conditions—relegating those in poorer regions to misery and hunger—all while tackling a phantom whose existence is dubious at best.
The economics of climate change catastrophism involve global centralized planning and interventionism on a scale hitherto unexampled. It is irrational to the extent that it purposefully forgoes known economic advantages, jettisons tried-and-true methods, and rejects the market-based approach that has proven to maximize inputs for efficient wealth production. It artificially imposes technological change rather than allowing it to develop of its own accord. Furthermore, it aims to curtail economic freedom by supplanting the choices of producers and consumers and overwriting them with the plans of a climate change dictatorship.
The full results of COP28 will become known by December 14. One can only hope that it ends in abject failure. Climate activists have suggested that it already has.
Michael Rectenwald is the author of twelve books, including The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda, Thought Criminal, Beyond Woke, Google Archipelago, and Springtime for Snowflakes. He is a distinguished fellow at Hillsdale College.
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The headline is “property taxpayers bear the brunt of costs.” The subject is education funding, which, if you are paying any attention, is a dramedy akin to The Money Pit but with no beautiful anything at the end of the “movie.”
There is no conclusion. Viewers, or in their case, taxpayers, get nothing for the effort except a larger bill every year and a declining return on investment. But the goal here, aped by the Valley News, is to increase taxes by pretending to offset the burden. They argue that programs will be cut without proper funding but never broach at least one very real problem.
Bloated administrative overhead sucks up most of the resources you would otherwise have for those programs.
Instead of addressing the contradiction that more money does not provide better results, they argue that the current funding model is unconstitutional. A cherished opinion backed by robed activists willing to screw taxpayers by giving progressives what they want. To expand the administrative state in Concord and add a metastasizing statewide taxing authority with an always carbon footprint.
They seek to wreck what has made New Hampshire a great place to live, with low poverty, high quality of life, the most economic opportunity, and better growth and freedom than any state in New England and most of North America.
There’s a reason for that: low tax burden and a focus (at least recently) on reducing bureaucratic burden—the opposite of the public education funding model.
Property taxes are an anchor around the neck of expanding government. A tax bill is a visible reminder of costs and obligations. But, the Schoolies, the Education Industrial Complex, effortlessly grinds conscientious objectors into dust. Towns negotiating contracts with national teachers’ union lawyers or reps can’t compete and almost always cave. Anyone daring to challenge an expansion of the money pit is met with a political firestorm.
Sure, 60% of funding comes from property taxes, but 75% of that tax bill is public education, and much of that has nothing to do with providing students with an education.
If property taxes in New Hampshire are too high, then the first question should be, why are we spending so much for public education and getting so little in return? And is it, perhaps, time for the town to consider separating some of the things a public school does that have nothing to do with reading, writing, or arithmetic and getting them out of the budget?
If a school can’t teach more than 4 or 5 kids out of ten to read at grade level, then no one deserves to be rewarded with anything extracurricular.
Alternatively, a town could probably hire a third-party vendor to run their schools and get better results, with more accountability to taxpayers, parents, and town officials at a fraction of the cost. And guess what? If they start to suck, you can replace them, and all you are doing is changing one lean management team for another.
The Valley News is more interested in pandering to the growing government education industrial complex than saving taxpayers money or educating kids.
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Over the weekend, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin explained to the American people what’s really wrong with US foreign policy. Some might find his conclusions surprising.
The US standing in the world is damaged not because we spent 20 years fighting an Afghan government that had nothing to do with the attacks on 9/11. The problem has nothing to do with neocon lies about Iraq’s WMDs that led to untold civilian deaths in another failed “democratization” mission. It’s not because, over the past nearly two years, Washington has taken more than $150 billion from the American people to fight a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine.
It’s not the military-industrial complex or its massive lobbying power that extends throughout Congress, the think tanks, and the media.
Speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum in California’s Simi Valley, Austin finally explained the real danger to the US global military empire.
It’s us.
According to Secretary Austin, non-interventionists who advocate “an American retreat from responsibility” are the ones destabilizing the world, not endless neocon wars.
Austin said the US must continue to play the role of global military hegemon – policeman of the world – because “the world will only become more dangerous if tyrants and terrorists believe that they can get away with wholesale aggression and mass slaughter.”
How’s that for reason and logic? Austin and the interventionist elites have fact-checked 30 years of foreign policy failures and concluded, “Well, it would have been far worse if the non-interventionists were in charge.”
This is one of the biggest problems with the neocons. They are incapable of self-reflection. Each time the US government follows their advice into another catastrophe, it’s always someone else’s fault. In this case, as Austin tells us, those at fault for US foreign policy misadventures are the people who say, “Don’t do it.”
What would have happened if the people who said “don’t do it” were in charge of President Obama’s decision to prop up al-Qaeda to overthrow Syria’s secular leader Assad? How about if the “don’t do it” people were in charge when the neocons manufactured a “human rights” justification to destroy Libya? What if the “don’t do it” people were in charge when Obama’s neocons thought it would be a great idea to overthrow Ukraine’s democratically elected government?
Would tyrants and terrorists have gained power if Washington did NOT get involved? No. Tyrants and terrorists got the upper hand BECAUSE Washington intervened in these crises.
As Austin further explained, part of the problem with the US is democracy itself. “Our competitors don’t have to operate under continuing resolutions,” he complained. What a burden it is for him that the people, through their representatives, are in charge of war spending.
In Congress, “America first” foreign policy sentiment is on the rise among conservatives, and that infuriates Austin and his ilk. He wants more billions for wars in Ukraine and Israel, and he wants it now!
And our economic problems? That is our fault, too. Those who “try to pull up the drawbridge,” Austin said, undermine the security that has led to decades of prosperity. Prosperity? Has he looked at the national debt? Inflation? Destruction of the dollar?
There is a silver lining here. The fact that Austin and the neocons are attacking us non-interventionists means that we are gaining ground. They are worried about us. This is our chance to really raise our voices!
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Progressives have been working hard to conquer the problem of Christmas. Undermine might be a better word. Erase it would be a likely goal. And this story about a #woke black female Santa has me pondering whether they ever wanted her to appear.
The story.
A city in Belgium has cancelled a scheduled Christmas event in which a black female ‘Santa Claus’ was set to reeducate attendees about “colonial ideology” and how “generations of Flemish people are racists.”
The Telegraph reports that people in Ghent have pressured the mayor to call off the appearance of one Queen Nikkolah, a character created by artist Laura Nsengiyumva, who would have ‘reworked’ Christmas fables about Santa for children at the event.
The report claims that the character was set to be dressed in the colours of the Palestinian flag (for some reason) while handing out gifts to children.
Was the point of featuring Queen Nikkolah (and to be honest, wouldn’t it have been better if she was a Drag Queen) to have her do her thing, or was it to get people so outraged they’d just cancel Christmas – or in this case, the Christmas event?
I’ve no issue with a black Santa or one of any other color. The message of individuals giving of their own free will is far too important to get muddled in minute details, especially since Jesus was most certainly not a pale white guy with Fabio’s hair. But how far from the template was this, and to what end?
Belgium is not known for its conservatism, but Europeans have begun to push back against the #woke cultural mandates of the EU, especially with regard to immigration and climate policy. So, was the choice of Queen Nikkolah to further bend and then overwrite the culture or to get it to cancel itself?
Who won?
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This past Thursday marks the 82nd anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941, was described by then-President Franklin Roosevelt as “a date that will live in infamy.”
This attack happened on a Sunday, and it is interesting to see the schedule for the crew on the ships:
0745- Rig for Church (starboard forecastle, weather permitting).
0750- Send boat to Officers’Club landing for Chaplain Maguire.
0830- Chaplin’s Bible discussion class (port side Crew’s Reception Room).
0830- Confessions (Crew’s Library)
0900- Divine Service (Catholic)
1000- Divine Service (Protestant)
Of course, the attack began around 8:00 am, and this schedule was never followed.
I included this officer’s schedule to emphasize again the role of God, the Bible, and its doctrines of faith in the daily affairs of our country, and especially our military. From George Washington to Pearl Harbor, God was honored in our military.
Today, sadly, not so much. Chaplains have been instructed to recuse the name of Jesus Christ in their prayers. The “Woke” agenda has become the measuring line of acceptance and tolerance.
Few people know that Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto actually studied English at Harvard University from (1919-21). He was also assigned first as an aide to an admiral and then as a naval attache in Washington (1926-28).
He grew to have a deep respect for the industrial aspect of America but a little affinity for the military as he viewed them as an officers club of bridge players and golfers.
It is said after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, that Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto said, “I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with terrible resolve.”
And that is exactly what happened. Americans did not pursue peace as he naively believed they would but instead took action to destroy those who had done such a vicious act of tyranny on innocent people.
President Abraham Lincoln, in his famed Cooper Union address, used a phrase that had been a part of philosophical writings and Stoics quotes since the 14th century. The phrase, Might Makes Right, had been a harbinger of the use of force to bring about social change at the behest of a leader strong enough to overcome everyone else and impose his/her will on others.
President Lincoln reversed the words of the phrase to say that “Right Makes Might.”
Lincoln, affectionally known as Honest Abe, understood, perhaps more than other leaders during his era, that if you are living the right lifestyle and doing the right things by your neighbor, i.e., the golden rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Then, when the odds are against you, though you appear to be weak or even vulnerable to defeat, there is a spiritual law of truth that will prevail against every lie.
Pearl Harbor was an example of people doing the right thing who were severely wronged. Because they were doing life as they should, their might proved to be unstoppable.
America as a nation has done a lot of right things…but we must seek God to reform the dark areas of our culture…we have accepted abortion, alternate sexual lifestyle choices, sex trafficking, homelessness, drug addiction, prescription (legal) and illegal, lawlessness, drunkenness, mutilation of our most precious commodity our young children, the future of America. I can add to this list; however, if we do not have a great awakening or a return to morality, we will continue to lose our might. By that, I mean our ability to have a civil society of peace and prosperity, which we have all known for most of our lives.
So far, all the major attacks against our country have come from enemies from foreign shores…but little by little, we are seeing riots, burnings, looting, and murders from within on an unprecedented scale…the open border should put the fear of God in all of us. We are being inundated by thousands of young men, (healthy, strong). As one Texas ranger asked a group of young men they captured…if you are fleeing persecution and your life is threatened, why did you leave your family? ( Many of them had been questioned as to whether or not they had a family), they simply smiled.
Meanwhile, many Congressional Leaders, men, and women, are reaping personal financial gains beyond anything we could imagine. They boldly lie to us without a twinge of conflict in their souls. They refuse to reform the laws they have created for their own personal gain. They refuse to stand up for the innocent Americans who have been lied against in the media and jailed without a fair trial, and they refuse to stop the twisting of laws to condemn the innocent. All the while, bribery is the mode of operation in our government. Isaiah, the prophet, said, Truth is trampled in the streets, and we are living in an age where evil is called good and good is called evil. We put darkness for light and light for darkness…bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. ( Isaiah 5:20 )
I realize that some Congressmen and Women do go on TV and speak about these issues, however have you noticed there is rarely if ever any action in a timely manner to bring justice? I certainly have…those who have taken the oath to protect our country and us in return seem to be incapable of not only naming what is wrong…. (You know the buzzwords… alleged, appearances, follow the story where it leads? (Whatever that means?) With that attitude, it appears we are creating the story as we go along. How about we know where it leads? How about we know how the story ends? It is clear what you have done. Of course, it never leads to any conviction or justice for the person doing the wrong, no matter which political party they are a part of. Slaps on the wrists, pardons, daytime prison while you live in your own home, these are the rules for those who govern us.
However, we pay with our lives for infractions far less devastating than what they have done to us and our country. We have seen people go to jail before a trial. We no longer accept innocent until proven guilty. You are guilty and must prove you innocent…a bit like old England under Monarchial rule. Or Communist culture on steroids. We’ve all heard the song and dance. But the song and dance is usually on just one side…the other side just tells the lie as if it were true! No dancing around what they see as wrong…
But remember, right (actions based on moral integrity and truth) will always win…light will always triumph over the darkness.
In closing, if you have the time this week, read Deuteronomy 28. Here, Moses told the Nation of Israel that if they turned away from following God and His Laws, this would be the end result. A lot of it fits our country right now.
Awakening is not just a social buzzword; it is a necessity if we are to survive!
Until next week,
Allen
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Perky CDC Director Mandy Cohen seems to have been picked for the job based on her communications skills, though she does have a bunch of letters after her name. And while the delivery is better, the message is the same.
With elevated cases of Flu, RSV, and even Pneumonia, the CDC wants you to know that you should do what you’ve always done to protect yourself, where “Always” means since mid-2020, and where “protection” means those things that didn’t work.
Masks were a fail. The Shots made things worse. But here we are, so this message is for those still not paying attention because the rest of us can’t believe it.
Virus season is here! Hear the latest. https://t.co/4jNWBWWzzl pic.twitter.com/RkMVttAygw
— Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH (@CDCDirector) December 6, 2023
COVID and flu vaccines, masking, and staying home if you are sick. The last one is the only one we’ve always done, so credit where due, but without knowing whether cases of this, that, or the other thing are up – well, they should be. It is almost winter. That’s also something we’ve always done. And I understand that Perky Mandy must do her Public Service Announcements. Pfizer money doesn’t launder itself. And maybe she’s just another useful idiot.
A perky, useful idiot. The CDC Glee Club president. The vaccine cheerleader. This is the program. It may have resulted in millions of unnecessary deaths worldwide, but much like socialism, if we keep trying, it will eventually work. Get vaccinated. Obstruct your airway. Again, with the understanding that we do not know what they mean by “work,” but we have our suspicions.
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Nobody can say Hunter Biden doesn’t see himself above all others. Being the son of Joe Biden, he learned early on that he was one of the elites in America and rules do not apply to that group. Hunter Biden has been a self-proclaimed porn star, pop artist, and chief financial officer of the Biden Family Cartel.
CFO may not be totally accurate as Hunter was the front man who shook down foreign companies, officials, and governments for money in exchange for access to his Vice President, now President, father. Hunter had one of his Dad’s puppets in his corner protecting the First Son, but that puppet has been forced to the center of the ring. Special counsel David Weiss leveled a nine-count indictment against Hunter Biden late Thursday, accusing President Joe Biden’s son of failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes from 2016 to 2020.
There is so much to this story that is not in the headline. The period that Hunter failed to file with the IRS goes back to 2014, but due to Weiss dragging his feet, the statute of limitations has run out on the sins of those earlier years. Coincidentally, those earlier years are when Joe was the Vice President. Weiss did his job well, not for the American people, but for the Biden family by ensuring the information from this period never hits the light of day. Hunter’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, caused many to scratch their heads when he claimed that Hunter was charged solely because he is a Biden. Most people with minimal insight see the special treatment Hunter received by delaying action on these charges for five years. If his name were not Biden, he would be in prison serving his sentence. Attorney Lowell got the message on Biden Communications: lie, lie again, and end your lie with “That’s a fact.” It is that last part that makes everything so believable. People are beginning to see through the smoke.
The glitch in the Biden Administration’s handling of Hunter’s felonious crimes was the IRS Whistle Blowers. These two gentlemen came before Congress, at dire penalties to their careers, exposed the delay tactics of David Weiss, and crushed the plea deal Weiss tried to ram through the system. They stood their ground in front of a barrage from the Democrat members of the committee, and their conviction was absolute. They were not going to let the injustice they witnessed go unchecked. Weiss had no choice but to act quickly to bring indictments against Hunter Biden in Los Angeles. This trial will take place next year while Joe is trying to win a second term and continue the era of Biden Corruption in D.C.
This action by Weiss comes on the heels of Hunter being subpoenaed to appear in front of a House Committee, and he is to appear next week or face possible contempt charges.
Hunter displayed a higher level of hubris by offering to testify in front of the House Ways and Means Committee regarding his role in the Biden Family money laundering scheme. The problem is that Hunter had already been served a subpoena to testify, so he really did not have an option. He was subpoenaed for a closed-door meeting. He has offered to testify in a public hearing. Hunter loves the bright lights and thinks the truth will be buried in a closed hearing. He will probably negotiate for a primetime made-for-TV hearing.
Getting into Hunter Biden’s head is a scary thought. It is challenging to uncover his motive for pushing for a public hearing. There does not appear to be an upside, but he has a history of airing his sins on primetime, as he did a 60 Minutes interview to discuss his Pornhub videos, womanizing, and drug use. He is banking on the format of a public hearing being easier to manipulate. Jordan and Comer will have no part in his offer. He can have his public hearing after the private deposition and the release of the transcripts to the public. Hunter may have directed his porn videos, but he is only the star of this show. Comer and Jordan will be calling the shots, and Hunter will keep his clothes on, but hopefully, his story will be stripped naked.
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