10 Realities of Ukraine

From Town Hall.com (Mar. 17):

One -- Reassuring an enemy what one will not do ensures that the enemy will do just that and more. Unpredictability and occasional enigmatic silence bolster deterrence. But President Joe Biden's predictable reassurance to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he will show restraint means Putin likely will not.

Two -- No-fly zones don't work in a big-power, symmetrical standoff. In a cost-benefit analysis, they are not worth the risk of shooting down the planes of a nuclear power. They usually do little to stop planes outside of such zones shooting missiles into them. Sending long-range, high-altitude anti-aircraft batteries to Ukraine to deny Russian air superiority is a far better way of regaining air parity.

Three -- Europe, NATO members, and Germany in particular have de facto admitted that their past decades of shutting down nuclear plants, coal mines, and oil and gas fields have left Europe at the mercy of Russia. They are promising to rearm and meet their promised military contributions. By their actions, they are admitting that their critics, the United States in particular, were right, and they were dangerously wrong in empowering Putin.

Four -- China is now pro-Russian. Beijing wants Russian natural resources at a discount. Russia will pay for overpriced access to Chinese finance, commerce, and markets. Yet if Russia loses the Ukraine war, goes broke, and as an international pariah is ostracized, then China will likely cut the smelly Russian albatross from its neck  - in fear of new Western financial, cultural, and commercial clout.

One -- Reassuring an enemy what one will not do ensures that the enemy will do just that and more. Unpredictability and occasional enigmatic silence bolster deterrence. But President Joe Biden's predictable reassurance to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he will show restraint means Putin likely will not.

Two -- No-fly zones don't work in a big-power, symmetrical standoff. In a cost-benefit analysis, they are not worth the risk of shooting down the planes of a nuclear power. They usually do little to stop planes outside of such zones shooting missiles into them. Sending long-range, high-altitude anti-aircraft batteries to Ukraine to deny Russian air superiority is a far better way of regaining air parity.

Three -- Europe, NATO members, and Germany in particular have de facto admitted that their past decades of shutting down nuclear plants, coal mines, and oil and gas fields have left Europe at the mercy of Russia. They are promising to rearm and meet their promised military contributions. By their actions, they are admitting that their critics, the United States in particular, were right, and they were dangerously wrong in empowering Putin.

Four -- China is now pro-Russian. Beijing wants Russian natural resources at a discount. Russia will pay for overpriced access to Chinese finance, commerce, and markets. Yet if Russia loses the Ukraine war, goes broke, and as an international pariah is ostracized, then China will likely cut the smelly Russian albatross from its neck  - in fear of new Western financial, cultural, and commercial clout. [read more]

The other realities:

1. Americans are finally digesting just how destructive the humiliating flight from Afghanistan was. The catastrophe signaled to Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran that Western deterrence had died.
2. The Ukraine war did not cause inflation and record gas prices. Both were already spiking by early February 2022.
3. Putin did not invade during the Trump tenure, although he had been more aggressive under previous American leadership with his prior attacks on Georgia, Ukraine, and Crimea.
4. It is not "escalation" to send arms to Ukraine. The Russians far more aggressively supplied the North Koreans and North Vietnamese in their wars against America, without spreading the war globally.
5. Putin may never fully absorb Ukraine as long as it can easily be supplied across its borders by four NATO countries.
6. It is not "un-American" to point out that prior American appeasement under the Obama and the Biden Administrations explains not why Putin wished to go into Ukraine, but why he felt he could.

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How a Potential Russia v. Ukraine War of 2022 Parallels the Germany v. Poland War of 1939

From American Thinker.com (Feb. 14):

Joe Biden is clearly not a student of recent history. Most specifically, he needs to revisit the lessons learned from the start of the Second World War in Europe.

If he doesn’t wake up and smell the coffee, he may be as guilty of starting the Third World War as was British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, the leading advocate of the “appeasement” of Germany’s militaristic supreme leader. The parallels between 1939 and 2022 are stunning, and if we fail to learn from recent history, we absolutely will be forced to re-live it.

On Sept. 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland without provocation, merely because it coincided with Germany’s strategic effort to restore its pre-Versailles territorial boundaries.  With more bravado than military capability, three days later, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany, acting in defense of Poland.  However, having done so, France and Great Britain then did exactly … nothing.  They didn’t start a second front along the Franco-German border.  They didn’t even launch an aerial assault that could easily flown over borders.  They knew that Poland wasn’t strategic to their needs, and despite their moral angst, Poland wasn’t worth the loss of lives by the western Allies.

Despite their seeming invincibility, Germany was still re-arming after their rejection of the Versailles Treaty four years earlier. Their army wasn’t prepared to stand against either kind of attack from the Allies.  Essentially all of Germany’s vaunted Wehrmacht (the army) including its powerful Panzer force, and again, literally all of its rightly-feared Luftwaffe (air force), were involved in Poland, unable to defend the “West Wall.”  The Army that invaded France in 1940, or the Soviets in 1941, did not yet exist.

In 1939 – not largely recognized then, or now – France and Britain had a potentially dominant superiority over Germany’s armed forces.  France not only had the largest land army on earth in 1939, it also had the largest armored force, with tanks in many ways superior to Germany’s best.  Great Britain, while not fielding a larger army – though what they had was a tight army of long-service regulars – was perhaps the most professional army on earth in 1939. In addition, Britain had pioneered armored warfare, and had hundreds of tanks equal or superior to the best Germany had to offer.  Both western countries also had air forces that, when combined, were stronger than the Luftwaffe.  The best aircraft of those two allies were as good as the best the Luftwaffe could field.  Most obviously, the Supermarine Spitfire, the Hawker Hurricane and the French Dewoitine D.520 were all the equal to the vaunted Messerschmitt Bf-109.

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So what does all of this have to do with Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin, and Ukraine?  Unfortunately, a great deal.  First, the United States has no pressing strategic interest in Ukraine. Back in 2014, the Russian Federation seized Eastern Ukraine and the Crimea.  America under President Obama (and, presumably, Vice President Biden) denounced these moves, and even instituted a few sanctions which didn’t do much. However, the Obama/Biden administration never pretended that we had any strategic interests worth shedding American blood over. That was a savvy “Realpolitik” move – it may have felt unpalatable for those who support liberty and democracy, but it recognized that we were not the world’s policemen.  There were compelling strategic reasons to have strong – or at least stable – relations with nuclear-armed Russia. But there were few defensible reasons to militarily defend Ukraine from limited Russian aggression. [read more]

Hopefully, history doesn’t repeat itself—another world war.

Russia Scales Up Warhead Production Ahead of Alleged Ukraine Offensive Next Year

From Newsmax.com (Nov. 27, 2021):

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the mass production of the Zircon hypersonic nuclear missile ahead of an expected offensive into Ukraine early next year, The Sun reported.

Putin has said Zircon could fly at nine times the speed of sound and have a range of 620 miles, according to The Associated Press. He has ordered the Zircon missile to be deployed in 2022 by the Russian Navy, boasting that it is "truly unparalleled … in the world," per The Sun.

There was a successful hypersonic missile test from a frigate in the White Sea on Nov. 18, following a submarine test a month earlier. The missiles have been in development for over 20 years and are considered a critical next step for Putin's arsenal.

Russia's deputy premier Yury Borisov claimed last month that Russia had outpaced the West in hypersonic weapons.

"We have broken forward, specifically, in the sphere of hypersonic weapons and (those) based on new physical principles," he said. "We now have serious advantages in this regard over the leading Western countries — and will try to maintain this position."

Ukrainian commander Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Kyiv's defense intelligence agency, said that Russia has planned an attack in late January that would involve some 100,000 Russian soldiers on 10 fronts.

In an article published on Friday night, Putin ally Fyodor Lukyanov, chairman of the Russian Foreign Affairs Council, said that Moscow would be seeking more than verbal reassurances from NATO, per The Sun. [read more]

It’s not alleged anymore. The Demented Lying Pedophile admin. should have been more prepared and given weapons to Ukraine before Russia invaded. Now, it’s almost too late.

I get paid to be a Putin impersonator – but now I fear for my life

From NY Post.com (Mar. 1):

A man who made bank being a dead ringer for Vladimir Putin claims he fears for his life after the Russian president ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Slawek Sobola, 53, has spent the past eight years professionally impersonating 69-year-old Putin — and has traveled to the US, the UK and Hong Kong for special gigs.

Sobola — who hails from the city of Wroclaw in southwestern Poland — told the Daily Star he has earned “good money” parodying the president, but is now concerned that locals will turn on him.

“Before the war, I wasn’t afraid for my safety on the street, but now … I’m a little afraid because in Wroclaw, there’s a lot of people from Ukraine who work and live here,” the infamous celebrity lookalike told the outlet.

“There have been many times that these people told me I look like Putin, and now because of the war, I’m a little afraid that these people could be angry or aggressive when they see me,” he further explained.

Putin has been the aggressor in Russia’s conflict with Ukraine, and is seen as a villainous figure across much of the world.

Sobola says he used to “respect” Putin, but his opinion has changed since the war in Ukraine began last week.

He has vowed to no longer impersonate Putin, saying he does not want to profit from the conflict. [read more]

That’s too bad. He does resemble Putin though. Maybe he should wear a shirt that says “I am NOT the real Putin!” 😊

More Putin madness:

A French restaurant says it received insults and threats from customers who thought its signature Quebecois dish poutine was named after Putin

Why The Church Has Such a Long History of Leading in Education

From John Stonestreet on Break Point.org (Sept, 22, 2021):

Some people think that Christian interest in education is only instrumental. In other words, we start schools so that we can tell our kids about Jesus Christ and how to become Christians. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with that, but the Christian understanding of education goes much deeper.

Throughout human history, wherever the Church has gone, education has followed. This is because of how Christianity understands life and the world, particularly the nature of reality itself and the human person. Education doesn’t make sense in a worldview that is only about survival. In a worldview that is only about survival, education is only utilitarian.

But within a worldview that says that the world itself came from a first cause that is intelligent, reasonable, knowable, and – this is important – wants to be known, there is solid grounding for actual knowledge, and therefore education.

Christianity says that God has made us in his own image. In other words, not only is God knowable, but humans are knowers. So, the act of learning is nothing less than, as Johannes Kepler put it, thinking God’s thoughts after him. Knowing God’s world leads to knowing God, and knowing God is what life is all about.

This week, on a very special edition of the Breakpoint Podcast, I spoke with one of the most outstanding leaders in education in the Christian world, Vishal Mangalwadi. He’s the author of several books, including The Book That Changed Your World, and most recently The Third Education Revolution, in which he traces both the history of the Christian promotion of education around the world and the opportunity we have in front of us right now. Here’s a segment of that interview with Vishal Mangalwadi:

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In a biblical worldview, Satan is out to deceive the nations, that’s Revelation 20. The church is out to disciple the nations. God says to Abraham, “if you follow me, I will bless you. I will make you a great nation.” But how would Abraham become a great nation?

God says in Genesis 18: 18-19 that Abraham would become a great nation because he would instruct, he would teach, he would command, he would disciple his children. And his household is a blessing and is non-ethnic.

So, it was by teaching them to walk in God’s ways that Israel would become a great nation and Israel would become a light to the nations. Nations would flock to the love of God to learn to bring peace. So from the very beginning of the calling of Abraham to follow Him is a teaching of education.

In India, 100 years ago, a carpenter, or a fisherman, or a shepherd did not go to school. But what you find in the New Testament is a tentmaker writing, a shepherd writing, a fisherman writing. Where did they learn to read and write? They’d entered the synagogue. The priest, on the sabbath, was the teacher. He was a master educating others during the five days of the week, or whatever.

Every child has to be educated. God has given his law, and is saying, “You make copies of them.” They complained, “We don’t have pen and paper.” God says, “Don’t complain, don’t make excuses. You write it on your doorpost, you write it on your walls. You teach your women to learn to write as they’re stitching their clothes. They must write them in your clothes.” The objective is, if you’re meditating upon the law of God, day and night, you’re not just memorizing, but meditating. It is written on your heart.

You can’t reform a nation if there is no objective written text with which you can critique your teachers. Martin Luther critiqued universities, he critiqued the church, and said this is what God says: the church needs to reform. So, the written Word is people becoming people of the book. And this was key to the opening of the Western mind.

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That was a portion of my conversation with Vishal Mangalwadi, one of the great education leaders of our day. To hear the entire conversation, go to www.breakpoint.org and click on the Breakpoint Podcast, or search for the Breakpoint Podcast wherever you listen to your podcasts from the Colson Center.[source]

Other articles about Christianity and education:

• How Christianity Elevated Women Through Education
• How the Irish (Christians) Saved Education

Why Progressives Think Confronting CRT is 'Terrorism'

From American Thinker.com (Oct. 17, 2021):

The cornerstone of tyranny is to delegitimize the opposition. In the age of terror, there is no easier way to delegitimize the opposition than to assert they are terrorists. The Justice Department, led by that petty tyrant Merrick Garland (thank God he isn’t on the Supreme Court), has asserted that parents and anyone in general concerned with critical race theory and other tools of educational propaganda are domestic terrorists. What a surprise. Not.

The reason that progressives consider any concern against federal indoctrination as tantamount to terrorism is because progressives cannot allow any opposition to their totalitarian whims. So much for tolerance and respecting other peoples’ opinions. This is always the impetus of tyrannical movements. Any disagreement threatens to shatter the illusion of Utopian totalitarian progress.

Ever since the 1960s, and especially since the 1980s, American education—primary and postsecondary—has vilified America and wanted to destroy the American inheritance. “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has got to go!” Education is a battleground for politics, progressives long ago made it so and now we’re seeing the monster they’ve created rear its totalitarian head.

If parents are in control of, or at least have an influence over, their children’s education, that means the next generation is not entirely enslaved to the state and those who run it. From Jean-Jacques Rousseau, that prophet of the Terror during the French Revolution, to Karl Marx, totalitarian theorists have yearned for absolute control over education. Why? Because they know that the future rests in the next generation. And to control the next generation from their youth through their adolescence all but ensures their subservient to whatever ideology is propagated from the halls of power.

Rather than see parents and other Americans engaged in the noble task of educational shepherding and instruction, progressives must consider all who differentiate themselves from the official handbook of progressivism as deplorable terrorists who threaten the construction of their paradise on earth. If they permit other actors in education to have freedom, then their control over the future is threatened and dreams for a new society tarnished. It’s the logic of educational progressivism and tyranny. They cannot abide by educational freedom. They must enforce uniformity to achieve their goals.

Make no mistake about it. The battles we are witnessing now over school boards and public schools, which have already begun to poison the well of some private and even religious educational institutions, will lead to progressive totalitarians targeting the very nature of those private and religious schools refusing to submit to their tyranny as hotbeds of domestic terrorism. Schools of any stripe not complying with the lies of the 1619 Project and critical hate theory targeting the very fabric, history, and spirit of America will be harassed by the full force of the American government in the hands of the petty progressive tyrants and bureaucrats who run them and staff them.

Every totalitarian movement bans books, bans art, and destroys the spirit of culture which feeds and nourishes the soul. While the more direct tyrannical movements of the past torched anything they didn’t approve in the flames of destruction, today’s tyrants—especially in the West—have a gentler approach which masks their lusts. They “substitute” or “replace” books, ideas, and people whom they do not like. They claim that the removal of dead White European males, all of whom, mind you, are racist and misogynistic from Homer to Shakespeare, and their replacement by contemporary authors (all of whom are ideologically leftwing and agree with drag queen story hour) will enrich our educational institutions and enrich the lives of students. [read more]

To the radical Left, education is just a way to program, or if you prefer, brainwash children to their distorted ideals. That’s why Marx promoted public education.

Another article on CRT: Critical Race Theory Is a Form of Marxist Reeducation

BOOM! Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Union (SMART) with 203,000 Members Announces Stand Against Forced Vaccines

From The Gateway Pundit.com (Oct. 14, 2021):

SMART, the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, is one of North America’s most dynamic and diverse unions with 203,000 members.  The union consists of sheet metal workers, service technicians, bus operators, engineers, conductors, sign workers, welders, production employees and more.  SMART is the largest railroad operating union in North America, with more than 500 Transportation locals.

On Thursday SMART Union General Chairperson Roy Davis sent a letter to advise Union Pacific Company that the SMART Union strongly disagrees with the company’s “unilateral” requirement for COVID vaccinations.

SMART demanded an immediate response and demands that Carrier negotiates in good faith.

This is a huge move by America’s transportation employees union. [read more]

Good for them!

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EXCLUSIVE: DHS drafts plan to allow fraudsters to keep citizenship

From Washington Times.com (Oct. 13, 2021):

The Homeland Security Department is circulating a draft proposal that would severely curtail its attempts to strip citizenship from people who were naturalized based on fraud.

The Washington Times saw a draft of the memo, from Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the heads of the three immigration agencies. The memo says people might not apply for citizenship because they worry about losing it in the future.

“Naturalized citizens deserve finality and security in their rights as citizens,” the memo says. “Department policies should not cause a chilling effect or barriers for lawful permanent residents seeking to naturalize.”

The Homeland Security Department is circulating a draft proposal that would severely curtail its attempts to strip citizenship from people who were naturalized based on fraud.

The Washington Times saw a draft of the memo, from Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the heads of the three immigration agencies. The memo says people might not apply for citizenship because they worry about losing it in the future.

“Naturalized citizens deserve finality and security in their rights as citizens,” the memo says. “Department policies should not cause a chilling effect or barriers for lawful permanent residents seeking to naturalize.” [read more]

Well, I guess it doesn’t matter if they commit fraud or not if they are going to vote for the Dems which in a way is a fraudulent party.

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EXCLUSIVE: Biden’s pick to lead ICE was probed over domestic violence complaint

From Washington Times.com (Mar. 7):

President Biden’s nominee to lead the country’s deportation agency faced a domestic violence accusation from his wife, according to documents filed in a tangentially related sexual harassment lawsuit.

Police were called to investigate Ed Gonzalez, currently the sheriff of Harris County, Texas, after his wife, Melissa, said he became “physical or violent” because she was having an affair with a supervisor at her job, according to an affidavit from one of the officers who responded to investigate.

The affidavit does not say what the officer concluded about the accusation.

President Biden’s nominee to lead the country’s deportation agency faced a domestic violence accusation from his wife, according to documents filed in a tangentially related sexual harassment lawsuit.

Police were called to investigate Ed Gonzalez, currently the sheriff of Harris County, Texas, after his wife, Melissa, said he became “physical or violent” because she was having an affair with a supervisor at her job, according to an affidavit from one of the officers who responded to investigate.

The affidavit does not say what the officer concluded about the accusation. [read more]

That doesn’t sound good. Biden can sure pick them.

Another article on his pick:

Democrats delay vote on ICE nominee after Washington Times report on domestic violence allegations

Robert Spencer Deconstructs Islam

From American Thinker.com (Sept. 12, 2021):

“A thorough review of the historical records provides startling indications that much, if not all, of what we know about Muhammad is legend, not historical fact,” writes Robert Spencer in his new edition of Did Muhammad Exist? An Inquiry into Islam’s Obscure Origins. Therein this bestselling author, scholar, and world-renowned “Islamophobe” details numerous factual, fatal objections to the received faith-based narrative of Islam’s founding by a prophet named Muhammad.

Spencer surveys the historical record of various of various societies like the Byzantine Empire that bore the brunt of Arab invasions in the Middle East and North Africa following Muhammad’s supposed death in 632. The surprising documentary result:

No one who interacted with those who conquered the Middle East in the middle of the seventh century ever seems to have gotten the impression that a prophet named Muhammad, whose followers burst from Arabia bearing a new holy book and a new creed, was behind the conquests.

Spencer notes that “this silence is extremely strange. Islam, in its canonical texts, is an unapologetically supremacist religion.” Tellingly, “coins minted in the 650s and possibly as late as the 670s” by early Islamic caliphs like the Damascus-based Umayyads make no “reference to Muhammad as Allah’s prophet or to any other distinctive element of Islam.” Some of these coins even feature crosses, but “it is hard to imagine that such a coin would have been minted at all had the dogmatic Islamic abhorrence of the cross been in place at the time.”

Muhammad’s normative biography raises grave doubts for Spencer, based as it is largely on the hadith, or canonical narratives about Muhammad’s words and actions. Spencer observes that Islamic orthodoxy holds that the hadith passed from Muhammad’s lifetime to the ninth century in an uncorrupted oral tradition before Islamic scholars verified and transcribed hadith. “Seldom, if ever, has such a feat of memory been documented,” Spencer skeptically comments.

While theologically the short Quran’s sparse content is Islam’s primary document, “functionally, if not officially, the Hadith are the primary authority in Islam,” Spencer notes. This particularly results from the doctrine in Quran 33:21 and other verses that Muslims should emulate Muhammad, whose biography the hadith minutely chronicles in “dizzyingly voluminous collections.” Additionally, to a large extent, even the “Muslim holy book—not just its Arabic neologisms and turns of phrase -- would be incomprehensible without the Hadith,” Spencer analyzes, which “detail the occasions for the revelation of every passage in the Qur’an.”

The resulting potential for hadith fraud surrounding a holy lawgiver Muhammad is enormous, Spencer observes. Thus, “with Muhammad held up as an exemplar, the Hadith became political weapons in the hands of warring factions within the Islamic world. And as is always the case with weapons in wartime, they began to be manufactured wholesale.” “The consequence of all this was inevitable: utter confusion,” Spencer concludes; the “Hadith is riddled with contradictions.” [read more]

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• The Saladin Paradigm: Finding the ‘Good’ in Islamic Terrorists

OMG: China's Artificial Intelligence can kick our AI's ass

From Jarrad Winter on American Thinker.com (Oct. 12, 2021):

Artificial Intelligence technology is scary enough even when wielded with nothing but good intentions. The uncountable and calamitous potential unintended consequences fill the imagination of anyone who knows anything about anything (or has seen a Terminator movie). If that ain't bad enough, the former software guru for the Pentagon dropped this bomb on us recently:

China has won the artificial intelligence battle with the United States and is heading towards global dominance because of its technological advances, the Pentagon's former software chief told the Financial Times.

China, the world’s second largest economy, is likely to dominate many of the key emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, synthetic biology and genetics within a decade or so, according to Western intelligence assessments.

Nicolas Chaillan, the Pentagon's first chief software officer who resigned in protest against the slow pace of technological transformation in the U.S. military, said the failure to respond was putting the United States at risk.

"We have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years. Right now, it’s already a done deal; it is already over in my opinion," he told the newspaper. "Whether it takes a war or not is kind of anecdotal."

The damn Chi-comms have better AI than we do!

Insofar as the health, safety, and future of our nation is concerned, this is more of a disaster than Joe Biden being installed as president. I'm not being cute here. It would be better to have Joey "The Grinch" Biden for 12 years as a belligerent and unlawful president than for the CCP to be further ahead with AI than we are at this point.

Who let this happen? What collection of know-nothings decided to sit on intelligence reports, not throw the appropriate fit on national TV, and let China surpass us in the most critical area of modern technology?

I was personally caught off guard by this news, but maybe I shouldn't have been. It has stuck out in my mind that when the UFO situation was all over the news, China came out and stated they were throwing AI at the problem.  AI can see things, make correlations, pattern match, discover variance, and outperform (with respect to data analysis) legions of human beings. It is the best idea out there for bringing clarity to the UAP mystery -- AND it didn't come from America. Alarm bells should have been sounding.

Your children and grandchildren will suffer in unimaginable ways if we don't regain technological superiority in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

PS: I'm a professional Hacker by trade. Proof is available here. [source]

Yea, that’s not good. But I don’t think it is a done deal—yet.

Scandals from top to bottom in Joe Biden’s cabinet of horrors

From NY Post.com (Oct. 11, 2021):

Halloween came early this year, courtesy of the Biden administration. While the president is primarily to blame for the choices in Afghanistan, the border and holding an infrastructure bill hostage to the Squad, his team is facing their own crises, many self-created. Here, some of the lowlights of many of the members of Joe Biden’s Cabinet of Horrors.

KAMALA HARRIS
Vice president

Put in charge of the border crisis, Harris quickly clarified that she would concentrate on “root causes,” not the border itself. After a cursory trip to Guatemala and Mexico, Harris has declared victory and moved on even as a record number of illegal immigrants cross into the US. Even more caravans are headed our way after the US waved in thousands of Haitians. Meanwhile, Harris has gone into hiding, barely making public appearances as her favorables have tanked.

ANTONY BLINKEN
Secretary of state

As his appearance before the Senate made clear, he has no answers for the debacle in Afghanistan. Said they had no idea the Taliban would advance so fast. Had no real plan to get Americans out — which led to the deaths of 13 US service members. By his count, there are still at least 100 Americans behind enemy lines, and thousands of green card holders. But since the US abandoned the embassy in Kabul and Bagram Airfield, there’s no way to get them out. Then Blinken managed to anger ally France by announcing a nuclear submarine deal with Australia with little notice.

JANET YELLEN
Secretary of the Treasury

During her confirmation hearings, Yellen promised that she would “be a voice for fiscal sanity.” So much for that! Yellen is going to bat for the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion (and probably much more) spending plan, even after trillions in stimulus. The eminent economist now seems to think that, despite all evidence to contrary, inflation and interest rates won’t rise — and increasing our astronomical $23 trillion in national debt won’t be a drag.

LLOYD AUSTIN
Secretary of defense

Besides the Afghanistan horror, Austin now knows that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, secretly went behind President Donald Trump’s back to assure the Chinese he would tip them off to the US military’s plans. How can Austin ever trust him? How can he not tell Biden he must be removed from his post? [read more]

A bunch of clowns.

An article about Commie Harris: The Disturbing And Shocking Plan To Replace Kamala Harris

The Purpose Of The Jan. 6 Select Committee Is To Suppress Free Speech

From The Federalist.com (Oct. 12, 2021):

A third round of subpoenas issued last week by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s select committee on the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol has revealed the committee’s investigation for what it is: a brazen attack on the First Amendment rights of peaceful, law-abiding Americans.

Indeed, it’s not too much to say that the committee’s targeting of ordinary Americans poses a far greater threat to freedom and democracy than the Capitol riot ever did.

Why? Because the subpoenas were issued to a pair of private citizens, right-wing activist Ali Alexander and a man named Nathan Martin, as well as a group the men were associated with called Stop the Steal, which had applied for and received a permit from the U.S. Capitol Police to hold a rally on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6.

Ali and Martin didn’t take part in the riot and have no connection to it. Both men were indeed present at the Capitol grounds that day, along with hundreds of thousands of other people, to host a rally for which, I repeat, their organization applied for and received a permit from U.S. Capitol Police. But their permitted event never even took place.

As Martin told me back in January, about a week after the riot, he was setting up for the event when he saw people entering the U.S. Capitol building from a side door, which didn’t seem right to him. Shortly thereafter, Martin received a text that the event was canceled and he left the Capitol grounds. He didn’t find out about the riot and the breach of the Capitol until he got back to his hotel room later that day.

Martin, an Iraq War veteran and city councilman in Shelby, Ohio, was much like the vast majority of people who came to Washington, D.C., to protest the election in January. He wasn’t there to cause trouble or incite violence, and he didn’t think the protest would change the outcome of the election. His hope, he told me, was that Republican lawmakers would put their objections on the record and go through claims of election fraud “line by line,” especially from states where instances of fraud and irregularities were well-documented. [read more]

Now the stupid, partisan commission said President Trump committed crimes to overturn the election. Specifically from the Washington Times articles it said:

The panel said Mr. Trump was told repeatedly that claims of voter fraud were minor or unfounded* and that he had legitimately lost the election. But he rejected them and continue to mislead the public to lay the groundwork to reverse the Electoral College result.

So, now I guess it’s a crime to give an informed opinion. Geez. The Dems just don’t want Trump to run again. Never mind that Crooked Spying Hillary basically said that Trump stole the election from her. That’s okay. No commission needed on her. Nothing to see here. She conceded the election though. He didn’t. So, at least he is being consistent.

*So, which is it? Minor or unfounded? It can’t be both. Also, since when is it that voter fraud at any amount is good? Hey, you have minor bone cancer. Don’t worry about.

Other articles on Jan. 6:

• Going full Soviet: Judge releases Jan. 6 defendant on bond after he renounces Trump
• Marjorie Taylor Greene Meets With Jan. 6 'Political Prisoners'
• Man Charged in Jan. 6 Capitol Attack Seeks Asylum in Belarus
• Jan. 6 Defendants Taken Out of Cells on Stretchers: Court Filing
• J6 Defendant Ryan Nichols Speaks with Greg Kelly From DC Gitmo – Prisoners are Beaten, Denied Calls, Denied Communion, Locked Up Indefinitely (VIDEO)
  
• We Already Know Capitol Police Killed 2 Female Trump Supporters on Jan. 6 – Now Video Shows a Third Dead Trump Supporter Killed After Police Fired on the Crowd (VIDEO)
• J6 Defendant Speaks Out from Florida Jail: What Capitol Police Did on Jan. 6 “Resembled War Zones I’ve seen as a Combat Veteran”
• ANTIFA TERRORIST WITH PIPE BOMB Who Targeted Jan. 6 Patriot Event Is Released from Jail Without Posting Bond — While J-6er Jeremy Brown Is Still Held in Same Jail on Misdemeanor Charge
• Jan. 6 defendant reportedly commits suicide
• January 6 prisoners evacuated on stretchers after guards gas them
• The political prisoners of January 6
• January 6 Defendant Being Illegally Detained – Locked up More Than 80 Days With No Indictment
• Babbitt shooting internal police docs reveal 'no good reason for shooting,' according to Judicial Watch
• Ashli Babbitt's Mother to Newsmax: My Daughter Was Murdered
• 'Astonishing': Cop who killed Ashli Babbitt cleared without interview
• 3 Babbitt Shooting Witnesses Removed from FBI Most-Wanted List
• “Q Shaman” Sentenced to 41 Months in Prison For Non-Violent Offense After He Was Allowed Inside US Capitol by Police
• Congress claims sovereign immunity prevents Capitol Police from sharing January 6 emails and videos
• DHS intelligence office bungled warnings about Jan. 6 violence, inspector general finds
• RNC files lawsuit against Pelosi, Jan. 6 committee
  
• EXCLUSIVE: J6 Witness Ali Alexander Reveals Exonerating Information About 3 GOP Congressmen In Lawsuit Against Pelosi
  
• U.S. jail violated civil rights of Capitol riot defendant, judge says
  

Ted Cruz introduces bill to 'restore American energy independence’

From Fox Business.com (March 4):

Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas introduced a bill to "restore American energy independence" amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine that is hitting the energy sector hard.

Cruz announced on Friday his new bill, the Energy Freedom Act, in a press release in which he blasted President Biden for having led America to lose our "status as a net petroleum exporter" with his energy sector executive orders.

"These policies have poured billions of dollars into countries such as Russia and Iran, which use those funds to attack our allies and undermine the national security of America," Cruz said in his release.

"President Biden has imposed more restrictions on U.S. oil companies than he has on Russian oil," the senator continued. "With Iran, he has looked the other way as the regime busted through sanctions and raised their exports to more than one million barrels per day for the first time in almost three years."

Cruz also said he was introducing the Energy Freedom Act "to reverse Biden’s actions so we can restore American energy independence" and that the bill "won’t cost taxpayers a dime" while creating "billions in revenue in the coming years" for the U.S. "by expediting permitting, leasing, safe new pipelines, and exports, and providing much needed regulatory certainty."

"It would create new jobs, lower energy costs, and because modern energy production in the United States is far cleaner than in any other country’s by every measure, it would help the environment," Cruz said. "The Energy Freedom Act would put a stop to the Biden administration’s sabotage of the American energy industry, and Congress should take it up without delay."

The Texas Republican’s bill comes as Americans across the nation are experiencing skyrocketing gas prices.

Republicans have long pushed for U.S. energy independence and Russia's invasion of Ukraine has only amplified those calls.

Several House members have also introduced legislation taking aim at Russia’s primary market and Achilles’ heel: the energy sector.

Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, introduced the Republican Study Committee-backed Midland Over Moscow Act last month that would require Biden to create a plan to beef up U.S. energy security while pushing back on Russia, reapply sanctions onto the Russian Nord Stream II pipeline, and make it easier for American companies to export liquid natural gas. [source]

Good for him! I don’t think the bill will pass Congress until we get Congressmen and a president who are patriotic and looking out for America.

An Eerie Warning from Hans Morgenthau

From American Thinker.com (Sept. 15, 2021):

Hans J. Morgenthau was one of the leading scholars of international relationships during the mid-20^th century. He served as a consultant to governments and an advisor to presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, before resigning due to disagreements over LBJ’s Vietnam policy.

Among his many books was Politics Among Nations (1948), at one time the “bible” of international relations scholars. In 1970, a volume collecting some of his articles and essays written in the 1960s was published under the title Truth and Power. Essays of a Decade 1960-1970. Included in that volume are essays that have particular relevance to U.S. politics in the early 2020s.

Politics in America today includes a dangerous collusion between scientists, big-tech/social media oligarchs, and the federal government that promote their version of the “truth” and try to stifle and in some cases punish dissenting voices. This dangerous conglomeration of social and political power is cheered on and abetted by the mainstream media. Whether the issue is climate change, pandemic mandates, the validity of the 2020 election, or combating “systemic racism,” only one “truth” is acceptable, and those who dissent from the “truth” can be canceled, socially ostracized, publicly condemned, denied employment, or worse.

Morgenthau wrote the essays in Truth and Power during the turbulent 1960s, but some of his observations have an eerie relevance to today’s politics. For example, in 1964, in an essay entitled “Modern Science and Political Power,” Morgenthau warned that our democracy was endangered by the scientific-technological-governmental trinity. “Power,” Morgenthau wrote, “has shifted from the people to the government. Within the government, power has shifted from democratically responsible officials to certain technological elites, military and

scientific, which are not democratically responsible.” This development, he wrote, had “drastically decreased” voters’ control over the affairs of government. And this situation, he warned, “makes totalitarianism possible.”

Modern scientific and technological innovations, Morgenthau explained, “have given modern governments the tools with which to penetrate and overwhelm the sphere that tradition has reserved for the individual and his freedom -- to condition his thoughts and control his actions without limitation.” “Our age,” he continued, “has given modern governments the ability to make themselves total masters of the individual.”

Morgenthau foresaw the emergence of a governing system involving rule by a “scientific elite.” “The ascendancy of such elites,” he explained, “is the inevitable result of the central positions science and technology occupy in the affairs of modern government.” Science and technology are increasingly serving the interests of those who wield political power. “This utilitarian orientation of science and technology toward the interests of the state,” Morgenthau wrote, “constitutes a radical break with tradition.” [read more]

Morgenthau nailed it.

The Left's Psychiatric Weapon

From D. F. Mulder on American Thinker.com (Oct. 11, 2021):

It was from the 1940s through the 1970s, the height of the Cold War, that Soviet authorities notoriously politicized the field of psychiatry. One should always be very suspicious of any government official appealing directly to the “science.” Politicians know science like they know ethics. In 1963, Russian-Jewish poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky was twice placed in a psychiatric facility against his will and ultimately charged with the crime of “social parasitism” (according to the lawful authorities, not making sufficient contributions to society). He was eventually expelled from the country.

The Soviet government even went so far as to make up fictitious psychological illnesses like “sluggish schizophrenia” to justify the forcible psychiatric incarceration of people who committed no obvious wrongs but were simply brave enough to criticize the Soviet regime or to reject communism altogether. Not that governments making people into criminals for entirely contrived, inane, power-serving reasons is historically abnormal. Jesus of Nazareth was a famous criminal of course. So were Tresckow and von Stauffenberg. So were all the Founders. This is really quite normal for “law” and “order,” but adding the “crazy” element to the equation (placing people in institutions Russians came to call “psikhushkas”) was really the cherry on top. Using phony science to discredit and destroy enemies of the state for rejecting the state’s official ideology is a quintessentially lefto-Bolshevist tactic.

This is why it is quite interesting that our own government has now entered a very similar business, a softer form of politicizing lunacy to be sure, but no less absurd or sinister. You are all probably familiar with Stuart Scheller, the Marine who famously criticized the sloppy, poorly planned, poorly conceived Afghanistan withdrawal. Our corrupt government’s unconscionable treatment of the man has been nothing short of scandalous, throwing him in the brig, accusing him of a litany of crimes, and refusing to allow him to resign his post. However, what really jumped out at me was that to top it all off they demanded he get a “psychiatric evaluation.” There is absolutely no evidence or reason to think there is anything wrong with Col. Scheller psychologically. None. Zero. So why would the government order him to get a psych eval? Well, Scheller thought his superiors were trying to do him a solid, maybe get him diagnosed with PTSD so that he might be found less than fully (legally and otherwise) responsible for his public statements. I happen to think that is a very naïve take.

This kind of thing is never done with good intentions. Governments are not benevolent entities. This was a tyrannical assault on the state’s critics, just as in the case of Brodsky, Grigorenko, and Solzhenitsyn. It is an attempt to discredit critics of power. The mention of a psychiatric evaluation taints the source of the ideas/critiques, and thereby strengthens the position of the state, especially states run by criminals. [read more]

The Soviets like the Left just use science as a weapon against their enemies.

A Few Steps More Toward Authoritarianism

From American Thinker.com (Oct. 11, 2021):

A few days back, the Harris-Biden administration floated a proposal that would require banks to report data to the Internal Revenue Service on transactions over $600. This would apply to both business and personal accounts. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen defended this proposal, citing the “enormous tax gap” where information pertaining to income “can be hidden” by tax dodgers as the reason for this information-gathering exercise.

Also fairly recently, Attorney General Merrick Garland sent a memo to the FBI directing it to protect schools from the "imminent threat" of parents sending "threatening letters and cyberbullying" school officials, terming these activities to be akin to "domestic terrorism." The move is probably in reaction to an increased number of recent community meetings at which parents expressed grave concern that their children are compelled to follow gratuitous COVID-19 restrictions and are being indoctrinated in material unrelated to their education.

A few days back, Joe Biden urged more U.S. businesses to compel their employees to take COVID-19 vaccinations, he cited ending the pandemic and sustaining the economy as the reason. This has successfully be implemented for employees of the federal government. Obviously, those who refuse will be sacked.

Also, recently, the Harris-Biden administration warned Arizona that the state stands to lose millions of dollars in pandemic recovery funds if it continued to use grants to undercut school mask mandates.

It may seem like stating what is blatantly obvious, but a free and democratic society is defined by the inherent freedoms and rights a citizen possesses. They are inherent because they are not given to citizens as an offering from the state, they belong to the citizens by virtue of their birth.

The citizen owns the right to absolute freedom of expression without fear of repercussions. The citizen owns the right to protests without fear of repercussions especially if they witness their values or morals being trampled upon. The citizen owns the right to decide what to consume, which includes medicine or vaccines. The citizen owns the right to privacy in matters pertaining to health, finance, and personal activities. The citizen owns the right to move freely in public places.

The state cannot revoke what it does not own and this categorically applies to the freedoms and rights of a citizen.

Absolute power always lies with the citizen, the power is lent on a temporary basis to an elected government, via a vote, since it is impossible for every citizen to govern simultaneously. Those who are occupying various seats of power are merely representing the citizen. [read more]

The Rise of Weak Men is Killing American Innovation and Prosperity

From American Thinker.com (Oct. 10, 2021):

Donald Trump failed at business…a lot. USFL, Tour de Trump, Trump Resorts, Trump Airlines, Trump University, etc. Leftists love to point that out. But that’s not the whole story. Trump had great successes as well. Not only has he developed world-class properties around the globe, but he was also produced and starred in one of the most popular television shows for more than a decade. Most telling of all was his renovation of the Wolman Ice Rink. New York City had spent $13 million and six years trying to renovate the Central Park icon when, in 1986, NYC admitted it had failed and must start from scratch. Trump offered to do the job in six months and under the $3 million budget. Reluctantly, the city gave him the contract and he finished in 4 months at a cost of $2.25 million. In just four months Donald Trump demonstrated exactly how dysfunctional government is!

But it’s his failures that provide the life lesson that leftists never get: Whether in business, love, or most non-government-related things, failure is the sign that someone was willing to risk the consequences to try and accomplish something. I say “non-government related” because government is one of the few areas of life where failure is the rule rather than the exception and it rarely results in soul searching.

Proof abounds! From a failed fifty-year War on Poverty to the abject failure of government schools to twenty-year wars that end exactly where they started, government continues to grow and accumulate more power year after year, regardless of its demonstrable and perpetual lack of success.

But government is not the nation. Government is not the people. Government is supposed to be a mechanism by which citizens protect individual rights and defend the nation—but that’s not what it is today. Today it’s everywhere, all the time. There is nothing in our lives that is more ubiquitous than government regulation.

In 1958, Leonard Read wrote an essay called I, Pencil that looked at the countless elements and activities necessary to make a #2 pencil. The whole point of this Cold War-era piece was to demonstrate how complex it is to make a simple pencil, how society benefits from freeing up markets to provide all the necessary inputs, and how it’s unlikely government control could accomplish that task. It’s extraordinary and it’s just a simple pencil! [read more]

Attorney General Garland Abuses Power He Doesn’t Have to Threaten Parents

From Daily Signal.com (Oct. 5, 2021):

Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo on Monday directing the Department of Justice and the FBI to “launch a series of additional efforts in the coming days designed to address the rise in criminal conduct directed toward school personnel.”

The Garland memo looks like an effort to use the FBI to threaten and silence parents who are outspoken opponents of critical race theory in schools. That alone would be a stunning partisan abuse of power.  What Garland has done, however, is even more disgraceful.

Maybe Garland doesn’t actually intend to use the FBI to go after parents—maybe he knows that he doesn’t have that power. In that case, he’s trying to trick parents into thinking that he does. This tactic, he hopes, will suppress parents’ free speech, and throw a bone to a powerful ally of his political party.

Even a few FBI agents questioning parents may be enough to convince others that standing up for their values is not worth the risk.

To understand what Garland is doing with this memo, you’ll need a short primer on the background facts and government legalese.

Starting with the facts: What is this “rise in criminal conduct” against school officials?  You won’t find any evidence cited in Garland’s memo. You won’t find any evidence in the FBI’s crime data either.

This claim is parroted from a letter sent to President Joe Biden by the National School Boards Association—a powerful leftist group representing many of the school boards around the country pushing critical race theory curricula. That letter made vague claims about “threats and acts of violence” against school board members from parents who oppose critical race theory.

The letter complained about “disruptions” by angry parents but managed to find only one example of violence against a school official (likely a security guard), which was handled by local law enforcement. [read more]

So, parents complaining to a school board is now a crime? Hmmm. So much for free speech. What is a crime is the abuse of power of the FBI.

Other articles on the subject:

• AG Merrick Garland is at war with American families: Devine
• AG Merrick Garland Admits Federal War On Parents Sprang From School Boards Letter, Not Evidence
• Rep. Jordan Seeks to Force AG to Rescind 'Terrorist' Parent Memo
• EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans launch probe into White House, school board group ‘collusion’
• Virginia mom who survived Maoist China says DOJ, school board association use ‘communist tactics’
• So it begins: FBI raids home of mom who protested school board
• School boards group apologizes for letter linking protesting parents to domestic terrorism
• ‘DISGUSTING’: FBI to investigate anti-CRT parents as 'threats' [video]
• Why Bill O’Reilly is ‘GLAD’ the FBI is targeting parents [video]

All it takes is 1: This is how tyranny ends

From WND.com (Sept. 14, 2021):

"One is the loneliest number," Three Dog Night famously sang over five decades ago. But all it takes is one brave soul fighting against the tide to inspire 10. Ten become hundreds. Hundreds become thousands. Thousands become millions. Millions become a new majority.

Riverside County, California, Sheriff Chad Bianco is one.

On Monday, Sheriff Bianco announced he "will not enforce the (COVID-19) vaccine mandate on Sheriff's Department employees.'' In response to a cascade of draconian state directives and the Biden administration's overt war on the unvaccinated, Bianco asserted his constitutional duty to protect the public "from the criminal element, as well as being the last line of defense from tyrannical government overreach." Local media and establishment public health "experts" have condemned Bianco, but he refuses to back down:

"In November 2018 the residents of Riverside County elected me as their sheriff. I stood before God and swore an oath to the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of California. … As your sheriff I have an obligation to guard your liberty and freedom.''

Chicago police officer and Fraternal Order of Police president John Catanzara is one.

Catanzara is leading the charge against heavy-handed Mayor Lori Lightfoot's vaccine mandate. Speaking on behalf of the rank and file, he declared two weeks ago that his union is "100% against mandated vaccines for our members" and blasted the dearth of studies for long-term side effects or consequences. "To mandate anybody to get that vaccine, without that data as a baseline, amongst other issues, is a 'hell, no' for us."

The multiplier effect is real: "It ain't just our guys. It's the sergeants, lieutenants and captains," Catanzara points out. "This is a united front."

New York public school teacher and founder of Teachers for Choice Michael Kane is one. He has been a tireless advocate for parents and educators in the Big Apple. His group is "100% against forced medical mandates for any American to keep their job, especially educators." On Monday, Kane was joined by several hundred public school employees, families and city workers who overtook Foley Square in opposition to Mayor Bill "The Bully" de Blasio's authoritarian vaccine mandate with no testing opt-out alternative. Those who claim religious or medical exemptions will be barred from teaching in the classroom; school employees have until Sept. 27 to get the jab or lose their job. [read more]

Good for them!

Cold case team says Zodiac Killer ID'd, linking him to another murder

From Fox News.com (Oct. 6, 2021):

A team of specialists who investigate cold cases says it has identified the Zodiac Killer, one of America's most prolific serial murderers who terrorized communities in the San Francisco area in the late 1960s with a series of brutal slayings and unsolvable riddles.

The Case Breakers, a team of more than 40 former law enforcement investigators, journalists and military intelligence officers, has tackled other mysteries such as the D.B. Cooper hijacking heist, the disappearance of former labor union boss Jimmy Hoffa and other unsolved cases. The group believes the killer is responsible for a slaying hundreds of miles away that was never linked to him.

The Zodiac Killer has been connected to five murders that occurred in 1968 and 1969 in the San Francisco area. Unlike most serial killers, the Zodiac taunted authorities with complex ciphers in letters sent to newspapers and law enforcement. The slayings have spawned books, movies and documentaries in the years since, and amateur and professional sleuths have pored over the case in an effort to unmask the killer.

In the decades since the first murder, many potential suspects have been investigated.

The Case Breakers is now saying it has identified the Zodiac Killer as Gary Francis Poste, who passed away in 2018. The team's years of digging uncovered new forensic evidence and photos from Poste's darkroom. One image features scars on the forehead of Poste that match scars on a sketch of the Zodiac, the team said.

Other clues include deciphering letters sent by the Zodiac that revealed him as the killer, said Jen Bucholtz, a former Army counterintelligence agent who works on cold cases. In one note, the letters of Poste's full name were removed to reveal an alternate message, she told Fox News.

"So you've got to know Gary's full name in order to decipher these anagrams," Bucholtz said. "I just don't think there's any other way anybody would have figured it out."

The team believes Poste also killed Cheri Jo Bates on Oct. 31, 1966, in Riverside, Calif., hundreds of miles south from the San Francisco area and two years before the first killing linked to the Zodiac occurred. Bates, 18, was found dead in an alleyway on the Riverside City College campus after her father phoned police to report her missing. [read more]

Trudeau Invoked ‘Emergency’ Act Only After Biden Administration Urged Canada to Use ‘Federal Powers’

From Breitbart.com (Feb. 14):

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in the country’s history to crack down on protests against his vaccine mandate — just days after the Biden administration urged him to use “federal powers.”

Last Thursday, several Biden administration officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, spoke to their counterparts in Canada as protesters closed the Ambassador Bridge.

The protests are part of nationwide demonstrations against the government’s imposition of vaccine mandates on truckers — a year after Trudeau called mandates ““extreme measures that could have real divisive impacts on community and country.”

The Ambassador Bridge connects Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Canada, and carries 25% of U.S.-Canada trade. Protesters closed down commercial traffic from the U.S. to Canada for several days, impacting production in several industries.

By Sunday, Canadian authorities had cleared the bridge. However, blockades continued at other ports of entry, and truckers remain encamped in the capital city of Ottawa. Several provincial authorities rolled back COVID-19 restrictions in response.

In the U.S., Democratic-run states and cities reversed many coronavirus restrictions and mandates, partly because of declining case counts, but also out of fear that the Canadian truckers’ protest could inspire similar demonstrations.

Still, Trudeau held out, defying conservative criticism — and criticism from left-wing allies who faulted him for not cracking down on the protests sooner. Trudeau’s emergency powers override some civil liberties to allow law enforcement to crack down on protests and to intercept donations intended for the truckers.

The Biden administration has said publicly that the truckers have freedom of speech, while telling Canadian officials that the U.S. wanted to see the border protests cleared. [source]

Perfect example of power corrupting. I guess the Canadian pajama tyrant got what he wanted. All he had to do is talk and listen to the truckers. Then again why talk when you can command and try to force the people to do what you want.

The Canadian bill of rights is similar to American’s except they don’t have a right to bear arms, self-incrimination, cruel and unusual punishment, etc. You can read the rest of their bill of rights. 

Other articles about Canadian injustice:

• Trudeau's Government Goes Nuclear in Attempt to Crush Canadian Truckers
• Trudeau vows to freeze anti-mandate protesters' bank accounts
• Let's Go Brandeau! Trudeau Channels His Inner Daddy, Fidel Castro
• Tyrant Trudeau shows his true colors
• Ottawa Police Start Carrying out Justin Trudeau's Authoritarian Mandates Friday
• Ottawa Police Threaten to Arrest Media Covering Freedom Convoy Arrests
• How the Canadian truckers’ frozen bank accounts affect YOU [video]
• Canada Nice No Longer: Trudeau's Totalitarian Response to Trucker Protests
• RCMP ESCALATION: Mounted Police on Horseback Trample Handicapped Woman with Walker in the Street (VIDEO)
• Trudeau’s Deputy, Chrystia Freeland, Whose Grandfather Was a Prominent Nazi and Who is Director at the World Economic Forum, Says She Plans to Make Her Emergency Powers Permanent
• Ottawa Mayor Announces Cars Seized During Freedom Protests Should be Sold to Cover Costs Incurred by City
• Mayor Of Ottawa Says He’s Trying To Sell The Trucks They Confiscated From Protesters
• Trudeau Government Moves to Make Expanded Surveillance Powers over Financial Transactions ‘Permanent’
• Canada lawmakers extend emergency powers for truck protests
• Is Canada Becoming Cuba?
  

Hidden camera: FDA exec says Biden will impose annual COVID shots on Americans

From WND.com (Feb. 16):

A U.S. Food and Drug Administration executive disclosed in a conversation captured on hidden camera by a Project Veritas journalist that President Biden plans to require Americans to get an annual COVID-19 shot, which will be a "fountain of revenue" for the drug companies.

Christopher Cole said Biden "wants to inoculate as many people as possible."

"You'll have to get an annual shot," he said. "I mean, it hasn’t been formally announced yet ‘cause they don’t want to, like, rile everyone up."

Cole, captured on camera at a restaurant, acknowledged the financial "incentive for Pfizer and the drug companies to promote additional vaccinations."

"It'll be recurring fountain of revenue. It might not be that much initially, but it’ll be recurring -- if they can -- if they can get every person required at an annual vaccine, that is a recurring return of money going into their company," he said.

And he said that despite the lack of safety and efficacy data, the FDA will grant emergency use authorization for COVID-19 shots for children from 6 months to 5 years of age.

The FDA said in a statement on the Project Veritas video that the "person purportedly in the video does not work on vaccine matters and does not represent the views of the FDA." [read more]

Nice. The drug companies can’t even be sued if the person getting the vaccine has a bad reaction. Will there be any allergy or side effects warnings on the vaccine I wonder? There were none when I got my two Moderna shots.

Talking about the COVID shots:

• MIT scientist warns of major brain damage to kids from COVID shots
• CDC reports 21 cases of anaphylactic shock in first 2M doses of COVID-19 vaccine
• PURE EVIL: Disturbing Pfizer Ad Tells Kids They’ll Get Superpowers from COVID Jab (VIDEO)
• Dr. Robert Malone: Children Who Have Had COVID Are at Higher Risk of Adverse Effects If You Vaccinate Them (VIDEO)
• Texas scientists say they have developed a 'game changer' affordable COVID vaccine ignored by US government
• “Everyone is at Risk for Blood Clots!” – CDC and Pfizer Issue Urgent Warnings on Blood Clots Even in “The Healthiest Athletes”