The Three Phases of the Progressive Plan: Phase III

PHASE III: POLITICAL SYSTEM X

• Grab control for “protection.” This is the moment when progressives make their move in the open. When the reckless behavior that progressives have encouraged and the chaos that they have sown become overwhelming, they will arrive like the cavalry at the end of a western movie to save the day. But their help will come at a price: they will propose System X as the only way out of the mess.

• “Liquidate” those who oppose or allies who have served their purpose. During phase II, we saw condemnation or marginalization of those who did not agree with the government line. …. Wilson himself threw political opponents into jail when they spoke out against World War I, and FDR imprisoned Americans in camps just for sharing heritage with the Japanese enemies in World War II.

• Activate shadow system. This is the unveiling of the progressives who have been infiltrating government since the beginning. While it obviously won’t be the same individuals, inculcating a progressive culture in national institutions has produced ideological descendants of the Sangers and Wilsons and Roosevelts and Chases of the world, people like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Now, in their moment of triumph, they’ll be able to show their true colors.

• Remain in crisis mode. The crisis that began in phase II will never end, despite the promises made by the white knights coming in during phase III to rescue us. It can’t. After all, if the crisis goes away, people might forget how much they need their government to take care of them.

Source: Liars: How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power and Control (2016) by Glenn Beck.

The Surprising Story of the First Thanksgiving

Commentary from Daniel Davis and Katrina Trinko on The Daily Signal.com:

Thanksgiving is a special day in this country, not just because of the turkey and football and relatives, but also because of the historical memory that lies at the heart of it. The story of the Pilgrims and the Indians is our national story, which means we’d better get it right. To do that, we had the honor of speaking with Robert Tracy McKenzie over the phone.

Dr. McKenzie is professor of American history at Wheaton College, where he serves as chairman of the history department, and is author of the book “The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God and Learning from History.” Here’s a lightly edited transcript of our conversation.

Daniel Davis: Dr. McKenzie, I think all of us have seen and grown up with those pictures of the Pilgrims eating a nice, big turkey Thanksgiving meal, sometimes with the Indians at Plymouth. Give us the straight scoop here—are those pictures accurate?

Tracy McKenzie: Well, I think you know the answer to that, Daniel. The answer is, not very. Most images of that event really date to two to two-and-a-half centuries later. So the late 19th century is when most of those images really began to crystallize.
If I were going to try to very briefly describe for you what I think the setting would’ve looked like at the time, it would probably sound to you a lot more like maybe a Fourth of July barbecue or something like that. It would’ve been outdoors, the Pilgrims had almost no furniture to speak of in 1621, so we would imagine them sitting on the ground. They’d be eating with their hands, because they had very few utensils—it would’ve been uncommon for them to have really anything more than a knife. And certainly not a fork—those weren’t really in use much among common people at that time.

So they’re sitting on the ground, they’re eating with their hands, and they’re consuming copious quantities of a meat of some kind. The evidence would say, lots of water fowl, which is something the record does suggest. No specific reference to turkeys with regard to the celebration. But we know from other sources that in the autumn, the sky would just grow dark with the geese and ducks and swans and herons and cranes, all of which could have been on the menu.

Most of the side dishes that we would expect would not have been there. Sweet potatoes weren’t indigenous to the area. There were lots of cranberries but no sugar, so if you wanted to have a really tart side dish, I suppose you could. They wouldn’t have had pumpkin pie. They almost certainly had stewed pumpkin, but they didn’t have sugar, they didn’t have flower for crust, and they didn’t have ovens to bake pies in. So that wouldn’t have been there either.

They also might have had eel—I’ll just add that because they bragged very much about the fat and juicy eels available in the area. And with regard to vegetables, their most common vegetables would’ve been turnips and maybe cabbages and carrots. So I always say for a more authentic Thanksgiving meal, I’ll sit on the ground and have turnips and eel. [read more]

Another article about Thanksgiving: Squanto and the Providence of God

Heavenly Father, I am forever thankful for Your Holy Spirit Who resides within my heart to lead me in any circumstance. As I prepare my heart for Thanksgiving Day among friends and family, I ask You to anoint me with a heart and mouth of Thanksgiving. I will thank You first, then live the day showing Your words of thankfulness to others. I truly know that I am blessed, and I want others to feel and share that heart of thanksgiving. Praise and Thanksgiving to You, my Father. In Jesus' name, Amen.

Ex-Google worker fears 'killer robots' could cause mass atrocities

From The Guardian.com (Sept. 15):

Engineer who quit over military drone project warns AI might also accidentally start a war.

A new generation of autonomous weapons or “killer robots” could accidentally start a war or cause mass atrocities, a former top Google software engineer has warned.

Laura Nolan, who resigned from Google last year in protest at being sent to work on a project to dramatically enhance US military drone technology, has called for all AI killing machines not operated by humans to be banned.

Nolan said killer robots not guided by human remote control should be outlawed by the same type of international treaty that bans chemical weapons.

Unlike drones, which are controlled by military teams often thousands of miles away from where the flying weapon is being deployed, Nolan said killer robots have the potential to do “calamitous things that they were not originally programmed for”. [read more]

I don’t think Russia or China cares about this engineer’s concern. They’ll make them regardless of anybody's fear.

Other AI stories:

• The Real Robot Threat
• Scientists fuse brains with AI implants to 'give people superhuman intelligence'
• Robot judges 'will pass sentence with no human bias' in AI courts
• Study: Driverless Cars Will Worsen Traffic Congestion On Roads
• If You Want a Robot to Learn Better, Be a Jerk to It

The Equation That Explains Evil

From Town Hall.com (Sept. 10):

Our age loves scientific equations. Here's one you weren't taught at college but which affects you as much as the law of gravity:

GI - W = E

Good Intentions (GI) minus Wisdom (W) leads to Evil (E).

You weren't taught this rule at college because the modern university believes only science has rules. "Rules of life" is another term for wisdom, and there is no wisdom -- or even pursuit of wisdom -- at our universities.

Life has rules just like the natural sciences do. Examples include:

Ingratitude makes happiness impossible.

Corrupt people think everyone else is as corrupt as they are.

Human nature is not basically good.

Feelings are far less important than actions.

Most men need a woman to mature. Most women need a man to mature.

The list is long. And the more life rules people know and live by the better people they'll be -- the better the world will be.

There is a reason Jordan Peterson's book "12 Rules for Life" has sold millions of copies, mostly to young people. It is the same reason PragerU has a billion views a year, mostly among people under 35. Many young people are sensing they have been cheated by the adults that have taught them, for example, to pursue self-esteem rather than self-control -- a "rule" guaranteed to lead to moral and professional failure.

But one rule almost no one was taught, that explains most organized evil and the left in particular, from the Bolsheviks to Mao to Castro to Chavez to your everyday leftist in New York or Iowa: Good intentions without wisdom leads to evil. [read more]

Very true.

Artificial leaf turns sunlight into medicine

From NY Post.com (Sept. 10):

Our sun is an incredible, abundant source of energy that we’re only just now beginning to learn how to tap. Plants, on the other hand, are masters at exploiting the free energy delivered from the sky, so it’s only natural that scientists look to them for inspiration.

Now, an ongoing effort from researchers with the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands has yielded a promising new type of artificial leaf. Like actual foliage, the faux leaves take in sunlight and use it to create something entirely new, only instead of generating fuel for a living plant, these “mini-reactors” can produce medicine for humans.

The research team has been working on this artificial leaf system for some time, first presenting a prototype back in 2016. Now, the technology has been refined and the researchers say that the colorful fake foliage can be used to create just about any kind of drug imaginable.

Taking cues from Mother Nature, the tiny reactors utilize intricate channels that flow like veins through the leaves. When sunlight hits certain liquids flowing through the leaves it sparks a chemical reaction. This is a process that would normally require electric power, harsh chemicals or both, but by using sunlight to power the medicine production, it becomes much more sustainable. [read more]

Cool.

The Three Phases of the Progressive Plan: Phase II

PHASE II: SOWING POLITICAL TURMOIL

I believe this is where we are right now. This is the phase of turmoil that was accelerated by Obama and precedes the introduction of Chase’s Political System X. Look at the characteristics of this phase, and see if anything sounds familiar:

• Allow chaos. Chaos is an essential ingredient for the eventual rise of a new order. Progressives and authoritarians of all stripes understand this. It’s why the Occupy movement was allowed to disrupt American cities for so long. It’s why leftist commentators such as Al Sharpton encourage protest movements that lead to rioting, looting, and communities in flames.

• Enforce negative stereotypes. This is an ongoing part of progressives’ efforts to divide our society. Efforts in the media, academia, and elsewhere—even in government—to shame certain segments of Americans are simply accepted.

• Isolate, destroy, and discourage “truth.” Progressives have a narrative, and they’ve been sticking with it for more than a hundred years. If you attempt to question them, you must be stopped. That’s why those who attempt to explain their strategy are mocked, ridiculed, and condemned—as I’m sure this book will be by those who’d rather its message never got out.

• Encourage reckless habits. Progressives want us to become ever more reliant on the government. In order to make that happen, they degrade our ability to rely on ourselves, even when we want to. Even something as rational as preparing for a natural disaster is mocked.

• Remain in shadows. It is important in phase II that progressives stay out of the spotlight or at least that they define themselves as basically conventional liberals, offering no real damage to the country. They will have an important hand in controlling events, as they always have, but they are not yet ready to reveal themselves. The revolution is still in a gradualist phase at this point.

This is the “inside-out” part of Van Jones “top-down, bottom-up, inside-out” plan.

Source: Liars. How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power and Control (2016) by Glenn Beck.

Roomba maker wants to sell your home’s floor plan

From New York Post.com (July 25):

Robot burglars had better not get any ideas.

The maker of the Roomba robotic vacuum, iRobot, wants to start selling mapped floor plans of customers’ homes to Google, Amazon and Apple, the company said Tuesday.

The privacy-invading plan will help other smart home devices operate more efficiently using movement data collected by the circular cleaning gadget, CEO Colin Angle told Reuters.

“There’s an entire ecosystem of things and services that the smart home can deliver once you have a rich map of the home that the user has allowed to be shared,” Angle said.

The home layout data will likely include info on the location of everything from lamps to home security cameras and thermostats, according to the firm.

But the thought of a robot collecting such sensitive info pushed some customers’ buttons.

“Your friendly little Roomba could soon become a creepy little spy,” one Twitter user slammed.

Others feared the data could be hacked. [read more]

Yea, I am not too sure about this idea, but I guess this is what tech companies are doing now.

Why Everything They Say About The Amazon, Including That It's The 'Lungs Of The World,' Is Wrong

Commentary from Michael Shellenberger on Forbes.com (Aug. 26):

The increase in fires burning in Brazil set off a storm of international outrage last week. Celebrities, environmentalists, and political leaders blame Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, for destroying the world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon, which they say is the “lungs of the world.”

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I was curious to hear what one of the world’s leading Amazon forest experts, Dan Nepstad, had to say about the “lungs” claim.

“It’s bullshit,” he said. “There’s no science behind that. The Amazon produces a lot of oxygen but it uses the same amount of oxygen through respiration so it’s a wash.”

Plants use respiration to convert nutrients from the soil into energy. They use photosynthesis to convert light into chemical energy, which can later be used in respiration.

What about The New York Times claim that “If enough rain forest is lost and can’t be restored, the area will become savanna, which doesn’t store as much carbon, meaning a reduction in the planet’s ‘lung capacity’”?

Also not true, said Nepstad, who was a lead author of the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. “The Amazon produces a lot of oxygen, but so do soy farms and [cattle] pastures.” [read more]

It’s not like the Amazon jungle is the only place on earth that has trees. The Amazon jungle is just another prop for the Left.

New Lip-Reading CCTV Will Have People "Cupping Hands Over Their Mouths" In Public

From Zero Hedge.com (Aug. 28):

While UK citizens are no strangers to having their every move in public captured by the country's extensive network of CCTV cameras, new lip-reading technology will leave people "cupping their hands over their mouths" just to old a conversation in the street, according to the government's surveillance watchdog, Tony Porter.

"The capability to run lip-sync technology to determine what people are saying would have a very suppressive effect. It would change the nature of our society," Porter told the Evening Standard. "People wouldn’t feel they could have a conversation outside. We increasingly see the football manager cupping his hand over his mouth to give instructions for fear of being exposed."

"Just extrapolate that by millions and what it would mean if people knew there was a capability of walking down the town and your lips moving could be picked up and extrapolated into a conversation," he added. [read more]

Big Brother is watching.

Other stories about surveillance:

• Orwellian Nightmare: Six US Cities Make List Of Most Surveilled Places In The World
• New AI cameras catch drivers texting behind the wheel in stunning detail

Google’s Secretive Blacklists

Commentary from Michelle Malkin on The Daily Signal.com (Aug. 22):

I learned last week from a Silicon Valley whistleblower, who spoke with the intrepid investigative team at Project Veritas, that my namesake news and opinion website is on a Google blacklist.

Thank goodness the Big Tech giant hasn’t taken over the newspaper syndication business yet. Twenty years of column writing have allowed me to break news and disseminate my opinions without the tyranny of social justice algorithms downgrading or whitewashing my words.

But given the toxic metastasis of social media in every aspect of our lives, especially for those who make their living exercising the First Amendment, it may only be a matter of time before this column somehow falls prey to the Google Ministry of Truth, too.

Armed with internal memos and emails, former Google software engineer Zachary Vorhies exposed how MichelleMalkin.com (online since 1999) was placed on a news blacklist banning my content from appearing on news feeds accessed through Android Google products. I do not advocate violence, publish porn, or indulge in vulgarity or profanity (other than my occasional references to Beltway crapweasels). But I triggered the Google Social Credit System and there’s no going back.

My apparent sin: independently growing a large organic following of readers on the internet who share my mainstream conservative views on immigration, jihad, education, social issues, economic policy, faith, and more. [read more]

I guess the motto “Do no evil.” doesn’t mean anything anymore? Or do they think conservatives are evil, so it is alright to ban them? Hmmm.

Other stories about Google:

• Michelle Malkin: Stop Mental Health Data Mining of Our Kids
• Google and Its Pals Are Worse than Anyone Thought
• How Google demonizes WorldNetDaily
• Google gets green light to access FIVE YEARS' worth of sensitive patient data from NHS, sparking privacy fears
• The secret Google doesn't want you to know about its tool to auto-delete your data
• Google exec: Warn your guests they're being recorded if you have a smart speaker
• Whistleblower: Google Is Developing AI for ‘Planetary Surveillance’
• Google Maps banned by Italian town after too many people got lost
• Google has suspended its controversial ‘field research’ that allegedly scanned homeless people
• Privacy warning: Google has detailed health records on millions of Americans

The Three Phases of the Progressive Plan: Phase I

PHASE I: INFILTRATION

Phase I was the genesis of the modern progressive movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was launched by the cast of characters….people such as Teddy Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, Margaret Sanger, Wayne Wheeler, John Dewey, and others.

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It would be followed by three more waves, each of which shared the following goals of the infiltration phase:

• Goal 1: Organize groups for control. The collectivization of society began. Instead of focusing on individual rights and freedoms, progressives focused on organizing people into groups that set them apart.

• Goal 2: Infiltrate. Slowly but deliberately, progressives inserted themselves into key American institutions, including the government, the labor movement, academia, the media, the military, and the courts. Progressives not only ran for high office, but they also made a point of inserting their operatives into a permanent government bureaucracy.

• Goal 3: Weaken the social fabric. For the collectivization of society to succeed, the natural, organic fibers of our social fabric—faith, tradition, family, heritage—needed to be ripped apart. Progressives systematically drew wedges between different segments of society by collectivizing and organizing them against one another.

• Goal 4: Confuse the concept of right and wrong. Sometimes it feels as if we’re living in a moral house of mirrors—up means down, down means up, and everything is distorted. That is exactly how progressives want it. By preaching moral relativism and shaming us into thinking our traditions are wrong and outdated, by convincing us that our moral compass needs to “progress,” they can lead us ever closer to the final step of phase I . . .

• Goal 5: Bring society to a state of near crisis. At some point, the confusion becomes too great, and those who could stand up to bring some sanity to the public sphere are successfully shamed into silence. The nation is brought to the edge of collapse so that progressives can step in and take power, all in a false-prophet effort to relieve people’s fears and anxieties.

Source: Liars: How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power and Control (2016) by Glenn Beck.

Scientists are building a real-life version of the Starship Enterprise's life scanner

From Fox News.com (Aug. 23):

When the crewmembers of the Starship Enterprise pull into orbit around a new planet, one of the first things they do is scan for life-forms. Here in the real world, researchers have long been trying to figure out how to unambiguously detect signs of life on distant exoplanets.

They are now one step closer to this goal, thanks to a new remote-sensing technique that relies on a quirk of biochemistry causing light to spiral in a particular direction and produce a fairly unmistakable signal. The method, described in a recent paper published in the journal Astrobiology, could be used aboard space-based observatories and help scientists learn if the universe contains living beings like ourselves.

In recent years, remote-life detection has become a topic of immense interest as astronomers have begun to capture light from planets orbiting other stars, which can be analyzed to determine what kind of chemicals those worlds contain. Researchers would like to figure out some indicator that could definitively tell them whether or not they are looking at a living biosphere.

For instance, the presence of excessive oxygen in an exoplanet's atmosphere might be a good hint that something is breathing on its surface. But there are plenty of ways that nonliving processes can generate oxygen molecules and trick remote observers into believing a world is teeming with life.

Therefore, some researchers have suggested looking for chains of organic molecules. These living chemicals come in two arrangements — a right-handed and a left-handed version that are like mirror-flipped images of each other. In the wild, nature produces equal amounts of these right- and left-handed molecules.  [read more]

That is cool. Hope the scientists can fully develop the technology.

Artificial skin changes color like a chameleon, with the help of nanomachines

From CNET.com (Aug. 22):

Scientists at the University of Cambridge are using nanomachines, or extremely tiny robots, to create artificial skin that changes color in the light. Researchers think the skin could be used to create active camouflage or dynamic images.

The material consists of tiny particles of gold coated in a polymer shell which are then squeezed into microscopic droplets of water in oil, according to the research published Tuesday in Advanced Optical Materials. When exposed to heat or light, the particles stick together and the artificial skin's color changes.

The scientists modeled the skin's design after animals like chameleons and cuttlefish, which are able to change color because of chromatophores found in their skin. The color is determined by how close or far apart the particles are. If the nanoparticles spread apart, they show as red. If they're clustered together, they look dark blue. For now, since the researchers have only developed a single layer, the skin can only change to one color. Adding more layers could make the skin more dynamic.

"Loading the nanoparticles into the microdroplets allows us to control the shape and size of the clusters, giving us dramatic color changes," Andrew Salmon, a study co-author, said in a statement.  [read more]

Cool. Not sure what they are going to do with the tech, but interesting nonetheless.

New gene-editing technology could help treat Huntington's disease, premature aging, study says

From Fox News.com (Aug. 28):

A new genetic editing tool could give hope to people who suffer from Huntington’s disease and progeria, which causes premature aging, a study says.

Published in Cell Research, the study says researchers at Salk Institute have created a new tool, known as SATI, that enables them to edit the mouse genome and target a large swath of genetic mutations and cell types.

“This study has shown that SATI is a powerful tool for genome editing,” said Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a professor in Salk’s Gene Expression Laboratory and the study's lead author, in a statement. “It could prove instrumental in developing effective strategies for target-gene replacement of many different types of mutations, and opens the door for using genome-editing tools to possibly cure a broad range of genetic diseases.”

Instead of replacing the trouble genes entirely, the researchers used SATI to put a good copy of one of the genes into a certain part of the mouse's DNA. The gene is later inserted into the genome and essentially corrects the mutation without replacing the entire gene. [read more]

Hope it does help.

Another gene-editing technology article:

Report: Human Sperm Gene Editing Aims to Alter Generations

Quantum Gravity Could Reverse Cause and Effect

From Live Science.com (Aug. 28):

You've probably heard of Schrödinger's cat, the unfortunate feline in a box that is simultaneously alive and dead until the box is opened to reveal its actual state. Well, now wrap your mind around Schrödinger's time, a situation in which one event can simultaneously be the cause and effect of another event.

Such a scenario may be inevitable in any theory of quantum gravity, a still-murky area of physics that seeks to combine Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity with the workings of quantum mechanics. In a new paper, scientists create a mashup of the two by imagining starships near an enormous planet whose mass slows time. They conclude that the starships could find themselves in a state where causation is reversed: One event could end up causing another event that happened before it.

"One can devise this kind of scenario where temporal order or cause and effect are in superposition of being reversed or not reversed," said study co-author Igor Pikovski, a physicist at the Center for Quantum Science and Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. "This is something we expect should take place once we have a full theory of quantum gravity." [read more]

The Truth About Progressives Part 3

Hitler’s Nazi platform sounded a lot like Obama’s or Clinton’s does today: a planned centralized economy with strict gun control, separation of church and state, a ban on private schools, universal health care, and a demand that “the state be charged first with providing the opportunity for a livelihood.” That’s not to mention sharing the eugenics vision of progressives such as Margaret Sanger, by attempting to exterminate an entire race of people in the most monstrous crime in history. Small wonder that today’s progressives like to overlook their support for the Nazi dream.

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There was also the infamous Walter Duranty, Moscow bureau chief for the New York Times, who won a Pulitzer Prize for parroting Stalinist propaganda. In one of his (many) notorious “reports” from the Soviet Union, Duranty denied the deaths of thousands of Soviet citizens resulting from Stalin-imposed starvations: “There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be,” he wrote in the Times on November 15, 1931.

Source: Liars. How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power and Control (2016) by Glenn Beck.

Uh-oh: Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system

From Fast Company.com (Aug. 26):

Have you heard about China’s social credit system? It’s a technology-enabled, surveillance-based nationwide program designed to nudge citizens toward better behavior. The ultimate goal is to “allow the trustworthy to roam everywhere under heaven while making it hard for the discredited to take a single step,” according to the Chinese government.

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IT CAN HAPPEN HERE

Many Westerners are disturbed by what they read about China’s social credit system. But such systems, it turns out, are not unique to China. A parallel system is developing in the United States, in part as the result of Silicon Valley and technology-industry user policies, and in part by surveillance of social media activity by private companies.

Here are some of the elements of America’s growing social credit system.

INSURANCE COMPANIES

The New York State Department of Financial Services announced earlier this year that life insurance companies can base premiums on what they find in your social media posts. That Instagram pic showing you teasing a grizzly bear at Yellowstone with a martini in one hand, a bucket of cheese fries in the other, and a cigarette in your mouth, could cost you. On the other hand, a Facebook post showing you doing yoga might save you money. (Insurance companies have to demonstrate that social media evidence points to risk, and not be based on discrimination of any kind—they can’t use social posts to alter premiums based on race or disability, for example.)

The use of social media is an extension of the lifestyle questions typically asked when applying for life insurance, such as questions about whether you engage in rock climbing or other adventure sports. Saying “no,” but then posting pictures of yourself free-soloing El Capitan, could count as a “yes.”  [read more]

Big Brother reimaged.

Another article on the social credit system:

Why US businesses should be worried about China’s corporate social credit system

The Unchanging Principles of Conservatism Defined

From The Daily Signal.com:

Since principles are meant to represent our highest ideals and should be based on fundamental truths, they should mostly be unchanging.

While good conservatives may have differing viewpoints about some aspects of conservatism, there are certain fundamental principles where we must remain resolute. In fact, at The Heritage Foundation, we call them the True North principles because they represent a fixed direction on which to stay focused, regardless of which ways the forces may be pressuring us.

Some of these major principles include:

• The federal government is instituted to protect the rights bestowed on individuals under natural law. It exists to preserve life, liberty, and property—a mission that includes not only protecting the sanctity of life, but defending freedom of speech, religion, the press, and assembly, and the right of individuals to be treated equally and justly under the law, and to enjoy the fruits of their labor.

• The federal government’s powers should be limited to only those named in the U.S. Constitution and exercised solely to protect the rights of its citizens.

• Government functions best when it is closest and most accountable to the people and where power is shared between the federal government and the states.

• Individuals and families make the best decisions for themselves and their children about health, education, jobs, and welfare.

[read more]

Good principles to live by.
Other conservative articles:

• ‘True North’ Outlines 14 Conservative Principles
• Meet 17-Year-Old Conservative Activist Described as ‘Left’s Youngest Nightmare’
• ‘I’m Black, I’m Supposed to Be a Democrat’: 2 Women Explain Why They Veered Right

THE US IS SET TO DROWN THE WORLD IN OIL

From Global Witness.org (Aug. 20):

The sheer scale of this new production dwarfs that of every other country in the world and would spell disaster for the world’s ambitions to curb climate change – the effects of which we’re already witnessing through massive heat waves, flooding, and extreme weather.

Earlier this year, we crunched the numbers from the latest climate science and industry forecasts and found that we can’t afford to drill up any oil and gas from new fields anywhere in the world if we’re to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

In our analysis, we assumed that existing oil and gas fields are going to keep on pumping for as long as they can. That means that the decisions about new projects will shape the future for the oil and gas industry and our climate.

And when it comes to these new oil and gas fields, production from the US is set to eclipse the rest of the world. [read more]

Yea! According to the article America produces 61% of the world’s oil. Canada is 2nd with 7%.  If you read further in the article the authors are not happy with the 61% because that much production supposedly increases global warming. Well, that’s just too bad. Besides it is water vapor (read: humidity) not CO₂ that causing any kind of warming. You never hear any meteorologist talk about CO₂ when they talk about the heat index.

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• Staying in Paris Agreement Would Have Cost Families $20K

Seeing Is Believing: Fake News May Lead To False Memories, Voter Study Finds

From Study Finds.org (Aug. 21):

CORK, Ireland — “Fake news” is a term that has been impossible to escape in the United States over the past few years. Misinformation and fabricated stories, especially those posted on social media, played a troublingly large role in the 2016 election, and unfortunately there is every indication that this trend is going to continue heading into another big election year in 2020. But, just how persuasive is fabricated news? According to a joint study conducted by both American and Irish researchers, fake news almost certainly influences voters, and can even cause many to form false memories based on fabricated news reports they’ve seen.

After analyzing voters in the week leading up to the 2018 Irish referendum on abortion, researchers say that individuals are more likely to form false memories based off of a fake news report if it aligns with their political beliefs. Furthermore, the more a topic elicits an emotional response, the more likely a person is to form false memories that support their preconceived notions. With this in mind, the study’s authors say they expect fake and fabricated news to have a similar effect on U.S. voters in 2020.

“In highly emotional, partisan political contests, such as the 2020 US Presidential election, voters may ‘remember’ entirely fabricated news stories,” explains lead author Gillian Murphy of University College Cork in a media release. “In particular, they are likely to ‘remember’ scandals that reflect poorly on the opposing candidate.” [read more]

Darn those Russians! Or is it those Ukrainians? I am so confused.

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The Truth About Progressives Part 2

The first president who actually enacted progressive policies and embraced the antidemocratic, antibusiness rhetoric of the progressive movement wasn’t a Democrat. He was a Republican, one of the most popular in American history: Theodore Roosevelt.

Roosevelt was so zealous about creating a Washington, D.C.–based empire that he destroyed the Republican Party in 1912 to do it, running a mad, quixotic campaign against his former friend, William Howard Taft, that guaranteed the election of Woodrow Wilson.

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Progressives actually do believe in equality for everyone—as long as everyone is equally strong, brilliant, and “Nordic.” Progressives may talk a lot about fighting for the rights of African-Americans, disabled Americans, and other minorities now, but the movement from which they continue to claim inspiration fought for exactly the opposite: their lynching, their sterilization and abortion, and their political neutralization. In perhaps less offensive and less overt ways than a century ago, that fight continues today.

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The reality is that it’s progressives, not conservatives, who have been backers of authoritarians throughout history, from Hitler to Mussolini to Stalin.

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W. E. B. Du Bois, cofounder of the NAACP, called the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship in Germany “absolutely necessary to get the state in order.”

Joseph P. Kennedy, father of Jack, Bobby, and Teddy, was a legendary apologist for the Nazis, a truth that the mainstream media glossed over for years.

Source: Liars: How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power and Control (2016) by Glenn Beck.