Timothy Birdnow

This is a good read.

Indeed he is right. Hamilton was a proto-fascist. People think of Fascism as a 20th century thing, but it had it's roots in the 18th century and Hamilton personified it. That is the war we are fighting today - fascist/marxist v. Jeffersonians.

I would add that the Civil War was a battle between these two forces, something Livingston was afraid to touch on here but it was true enough.

Frankly, America owes its one-time freedom (it's no longer a free country) to a number of men, among them Jefferson, Aaron Burr (who put an end to Hamilton) and Andrew Jackson, who killed the Bank of the United States. Oh, and don't forget James Polk, the best unsung President in American history. .

And it can be argued Robert E. Lee helped by being so capable in prosecuting the War Between the States. Had that not happened the U.S. would likely have grown to leviathan size in short order.

Anyway, here is the article from Bob Livingston:

" Thomas Jefferson wrote about Alexander Hamilton in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush:

The room being hung around with a collection of the portraits of remarkable men, among them were those of Bacon, Newton and Locke. Hamilton asked me who they were. I told him they were my trinity of the three greatest men the world had ever produced, naming them.

He paused for some time: "The greatest man," said he, "that ever lived, was Julius Caesar."

Mr. Adams was honest as a politician as well as a man; Hamilton honest as a man, but, as a politician, believing in the necessity of either force or corruption to govern men.

Indeed, "The people are a beast," said Alexander Hamilton. This seems to imply that the people collectively are the common herd, subject to manipulation. Hamilton had great contempt for the people. As far as he was concerned, anything goes that authority wants.

Hamilton's Federalists were the party of big government, British mercantilism (crony capitalism), and a national bank. They supported debt, tariffs, money creation and strong ties to England (Hamilton was a hireling of the Bank of England).

Is it any wonder the mainstream would laud a theater production depicting Hamilton's exploits?

While it's true that Hamilton was a principal author of The Federalist Papers and championed the adoption of the United States Constitution to replace the Articles of Confederation, as Thomas J. DiLorenzo points out in his book "Hamilton's Curse," Hamilton immediately began to work to undermine the Constitution's tenants as President George Washington's first Treasury Secretary.

What Hamilton really favored was a strong central government. In fact, Hamilton opposed the Articles of Confederation because it did not empower a centralized government. He wanted America to be ruled by a king that would have supreme power over all the people. He favored making the states provinces with governors appointed by — and therefore loyal to — the king, or "His Highness the President of the United States of America and Protector of Their Liberties," as the Senate one proposed as the official title.

Reminiscent of today's Democrats, Hamilton later described the Constitution as "a frail and worthless fabric."

Among the legacies of Hamilton and his acolytes is the idea that the Constitution granted the Federal government "implied powers"—powers that were not actually in the Constitution but that statists like Hamilton wish were there.

While small government advocates in the Jeffersonian tradition won out over the Hamiltonians in the beginning, the statists in the Hamiltonian tradition never relented in their efforts.

Finally, in 1913 with the establishment of the Federal Reserve and the passage of the 16th Amendment (granting the power to lay and collect taxes) and 17th Amendment (changing the way Senators are selected), the Hamiltonian philosophy prevailed.

Hamilton's economic philosophy is in play today, and is the source of our country's economic ills.

If we are to return to the republic the Founding Fathers like Jefferson and James Madison envisioned, we must end the Federal Reserve and repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments.

Freedom-loving Americans who are interested in devolving themselves of the glossed-over public school history they learned — and the false history being perpetuated today — should read "Hamilton's Curse," but also, realize the true nature of our political divide: statism vs individualism.

As the Abbeville Review pointed out: "America's political divide began as an ideological battle, and thus far the only one in our history, between two of President George Washington's Cabinet officers, a fight that also pitted the two great regions against each other — Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton from New York and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson from Virginia. It is a clash that is still raging today. In essence, the real breakdown today is not Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, but Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian. This is the sum total of our whole political dispute."

While he was Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton used the Gazette of the United States as a house organ for the Treasury Department and in turn supported the paper with money from the Treasury Department in the form of "advertising." He also leaned on friends and business associates to purchase ads in the paper in exchange for "favors" from the government. He also used the paper to prop himself up and excoriate his enemies — most notably Thomas Jefferson.

Why? As Abbeville noted, "Jeffersonians believed in limited government, federalism, sound money, low taxes and tariffs, no national debt, government separation from banks, no support for corporations or big business, a strict construction of the Constitution, including the protection of civil liberties held by the people and a non-interventio nist foreign policy. Simply put, the Hamiltonians believed in the merits of government; Jeffersonians trusted in the people to govern themselves."

The assault on Jeffersonian individualism by statists in the media has not abated. In the almost 250 years that Americans have existed as a distinctly different people, the citizens of the country that French political writer Alexis de Tocqueville first called "exceptional" in his 1835 work "Democracy in America" have lost a great deal of exceptionalism by placing their trust in the "news" delivered by Hamiltonian hands.

What would Hamilton think of the presidency now? Over the years, particularly since the middle of the last century, politicians have sought to turn the presidency into a pseudo-monarchy . They adore and expand upon the trappings of office rather than eschew them. They grovel for great sums of money, sell their souls to the banksters and corporatists, and lie to the people in order to obtain office.

Recent presidents have usurped more and more authority from Congress, and Congress has ceded its authority willingly. Now the President and the Republican who seeks to replace him will both believe the president has the authority to make war without Congressional approval, kill U.S. citizens at his discretion and imprison Americans without charges and hold them indefinitely without trial.

Would Hamilton be mortified by those prospects? His venerators certainly are not. Believing in the necessity of either force or corruption to govern men is the mantra of the politician and government bureaucrat, and they believe that, by the high and lofty positions they've obtained, they and only they are capable of governing the American "great beasts."

Your duty as an American is to counter these abuses.

So on this Presidents' Day, let's recall some wisdom from Victor Sayer writing in the US Observer:

When you step up to the ballot box, you have a duty to support only a public servant who will faithfully uphold and obey the Constitution, as they will swear an oath to do.

When you bear arms to defend yourself and others against the aggressive wrongdoer, you perform your duty as a citizen in preserving a free state.

When you refuse to accept a share of the loot seized from your fellow Americans, you take a stand for what is right. Your rights do not allow you to take something from another person against his will — or to have agents of government do that taking for you. That would be wrong.

Remember what is wrong, learn to identify it and put a stop to it. Civil liberty exists only when the people take action to prevent natural wrongs from being inflicted upon any one of us."

Yours for the truth,
Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter®

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Timothy Birdnow

They did it. The wokeratti and Project Verinomas have driven out James O'Keefe.

Exclusive: @JamesOKeefeIII, my friend and former boss at @Project_Veritas, just read his resignation letter to his former team and board members at their Mamaroneck, N.Y. headquarters. James will make his own way—as he always has before. @OANN pic.twitter.com/knOqtFTw7e

— ReporterMcCabe (@NeilWMcCabe2) February 20, 2023

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KIEV?  He thought they said Kenosha...

Ukraine war latest: Biden makes surprise visit to Kyiv ahead of anniversary - BBC News
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Jim Church

Once again NOAA caught deliberately manipulating the data. They can give all the phoney excuses they want but this deliberate changing the data to suit their narrative is amongst the greatest frauds of history.

Is NOAA trying to warm the current 8+ year pause? | Watts Up With That?
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Chester McAteer

A frightened mind seeks certainty because certainty feels safe, which is why a frightened mind rejects anything that undermines the feeling of certainty. Uncertainty is scary. Uncertainty is effectively used to herd people in a political and ultimately social direction. Discernment of such manipulative tactics is an absolute necessity when judging the rational from the irrational. Fear Not!

Tim adds:

A man on a life raft will thank the Good Lord for the most remote, inhospitable chunk of rock he can find. That is the plan of the Left, to make life a makeshift raft tossed about in stormy waters so we grab onto anything handy. They will, of ocurse, supply that little chunk of land. Michael Crichton observed this in his book "State of Fear". Fear is the control mechanism for society by our modern ruling class. The universities gin up some emergency, the media promotes it, the political class enshrines it into law. It wouldn't happen without the unscrupulous use of fear against the public. Sadly it works. Global Warming is one example.

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Lance Sjogren

The radical trans movement is complaining that the New York Times is failing to drool hard enough on its behalf.

This is apparently because the NYT is treating the performing of "gender affirming" medical atrocities against children as an issue for debate, rather than something that should be...
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Elite Meltdown: Hundreds Sign Letter Denouncing NY Times’ Trans Coverage, Nikki Haley’s "Racist” Nickname, & More | SYSTEM UPDATE #43
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My friend from Down Under, the inestimable James Doogue, was unhappy with me for defending the Russians in this Ukraine war. Here is the debate: more...

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The China Doll Party

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See the
china doll on the shelf
eating ice cream all by itself
in mindless amusement the sugar it spoons

at the door the wolves howl and moan
while it plays with balloons and takes another cone.

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Judi McLeod

Almost all prophetic ministries and websites oft quote this famous verse from the prophet Joel. The prophet was speaking of events that would take place right before the Lord will return to earth and bring the nations into judgment.

Even in the midst of the worst moral decline in world history and the apostasy of the church, God will create revivals of the faithful everywhere throughout the world. It is in keeping with another verse that promises, God is not hindered in doing his best for mankind, even as mankind does its worst against God.

Amazing Revival Draws People from Around the Globe at Asbury University, Wilmore, Kentucky
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Tim adds:

This is spreading like wildfire, moving onto other university campuses. It is encouraging, to say the least.

We cannot see our land healed until we repent.

In 2Chronicles 7-14 it says:

"if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

At least some are seeking His faith and repenting of their wicked ways. Is it enough? I hope and pray so.

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Well, well, well...Baby Doc stole the election with the help of the Chicoms!  And Canada is out in the streets over it.

Canadians Take to Streets to Demand Trudeau's Ouster after Spy Agency Reveals Chinese Interference in Election
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Sound familiar, Americans?

Here is another article on the subject.

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This from the incomparable G.K. Chesterton:

The Aristocrat

G.K. Chesterton

(Collected 1915)

The Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stay

At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far away).

They say the sport is splendid; there is always something new,

And fairy scenes, and fearful feats that none but he can do;

He can shoot the feathered cherubs if they fly on the estate,

Or fish for Father Neptune with the mermaids for a bait;

He scaled amid the staggering stars that precipice, the sky,

And blew his trumpet above heaven, and got by mastery

The starry crown of God Himself, and shoved it on the shelf;

But the Devil is a gentleman, and doesn't brag himself.

O blind your eyes and break your heart and hack your hand away,

And lose your love and shave your head; but do not go to stay

At the little place in What'sitsname where folks are rich and clever;

The golden and the goodly house, where things grow worse for ever;

There are things you need not know of, though you live and die in vain,

There are souls more sick of pleasure than you are sick of pain;

There is a game of April Fool that's played behind its door,

Where the fool remains for ever and the April comes no more,

Where the splendour of the daylight grows drearier than the dark,

And life droops like a vulture that once was such a lark:

And that is the Blue Devil that once was the Blue Bird;

For the Devil is a gentleman, and doesn't keep his word.

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This from Dita Sullivan:

Josh Alexander was suspended last November over comments made about gender in class and told he couldn’t return to class until he recanted.
"I said there were only two genders, and you were born either a male or a female, and that got me into trouble. And then I said that gender doesn’t trump biology.

A lawyer representing Alexander said that the school won’t let him attend classes again until he agrees "not to use the ‘dead name’ of any transgender student and agreed to exclude himself from his two afternoon classes because those classes are attended by two transgender students who disapprove of Josh’s religious beliefs.”
The school administration is turning this young man into a martyr, while also showing they long ago abandoned the Catholic beliefs they say they uphold as a school.
What does it teach the trans students who don’t want Alexander in their class because they disagree with his religious beliefs? It teaches them that they have special powers, are more important than other students, and don’t need to learn to deal with those they disagree with.
No one is well served by this.
This incident shows why it might be time to finally say goodbye to Ontario’s publicly funded Catholic school system. There’s nothing Catholic about it, they adhere to the same secular gospel as all of our other public institutions, and it is beyond saving.

Tim adds:

Maybe he should do what is falsely attributed to Galileo, genuflect and say "and yet it still moves". See what they do. Of course that won't work and we will not hear about it if it did. He needs to find another school. And his parents ought to refuse to pay property taxes because of this.

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John Lees

This is from the Hoover Institution. It's a woman giving a detailed analysis of the logic behind Putin's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Towards the end at 1hr 05min 20 sec, she describes how the exit of Angela Merkel was seen as an opportunity. As if the woman who had presided over the Nordstream gas deals and, shut down Germany's nuclear energy program, banned German enhanced gas development and committed to dependency on Russian controlled gas imports, THAT MERKEL - was keeping Putin at bay.
AND THEN - she claims that Putin saw the rise of Donald Trump as an opportunity, because "if he could get away with Crimea under Trump..."
FFS... you total dimwit!! Putin took control of Crimea when Obama was in office. Not Trump!!!
These beautiful spoken international affairs "experts" seem to invariably turn out to be uttterly clueless buffoons.
Merkel was the friend of Putin and his plans.
Obama did basically nothing in response to the Russian taking of Crimea, and nor did Merkel.
Then Trump came along and was widely lambasted for telling Merkel to get herself away from dependency on Russian energy and to make a serious commitment to German military spending and NATO contributions.
But, in the world of geopolitical experts, the simple facts can be turned completely upside down.
Even when that past is thoroughly documented and only 5 or 6 years ago.

Tim adds:

If Trump was such a golden opportunity for Putin why didn't he attack when Trump was still in office. It would have been really easy to attack after the election in 2020 when Trump was fighting for his political life and the window of opportunity open. But he waited until well after Biden was in office.

These "experts" don't know what they are talking about most of the time.

Biden greenlighted the Nordstream II after Trump stopped it for years. Couple that with Biden's disaster in Afghanistan and it was clear there was a patsy in the White House.

And Biden's Green fantasies led to a massive rise in oil and gas prices which in turn gave Putin the money he needed to do this. Low gas prices under Trump held the Russians at bay.

I would add NATO has deployed Aegis missile defense systems in Poland. https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/2849023/aegis-ashore-in-poland-on-target-for-2022/ and that the U.S. has been deploying all manner of missile defense systems right along the Russian border. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/352-missile-defenses-eastern-europe-who-threatens-whom Ukraine would undoubtedly be the next candidate for an ABM system if the chance presents itself.

It very much is about Ukraine and NATO. Up to this point Ukraine was luke-warm about joining, and NATO luke-warm about having them. But the annexation of Crimea changed that. Putin had to strike now or face a possible NATO membership in just a few years.

But these "experts" don't seem to grasp that.

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The hidden agenda of the gang green and EV enthusiasts:

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James Doogue

This 17 minute video by DW News presents some of the better known disinformation and misinformation and even 'deep fake' moments from both sides in the war.

Not surprising to anyone who's been following the war, they conclude there are examples on both sides. But "..there is much more pro-Russian propaganda, and it is more aggressive."

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