April 24, 2023
Matt Talibi says we are being Sovietized.
Authored by Matt Taibbi via Racket News,
An all-time media blackout is in effect. We’re experiencing real-time Sovietization.
It transpires that the infamous incident before the 2020 election in which50 former intelligence officials signed an open letterdeclared aNew York Postexpose about Hunter Biden’s laptop to have the "classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” was instigated at the behest of the Joe Biden campaign. This at least is the allegation in aletterto Secretary of State Anthony Blinken released by Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, and Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government.
In that letter, which is not easy to find, you’ll see three snippets of dialogue from questioning of Morell, who appears to have organized the open letter. In the first snippet, he explains that the idea originated with a callfromBlinken, then of the Biden campaign, and that absent that call, Morell wouldn’t have done what he did:
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I recently wrote about Kim Gardner, the Soros-funded radical prosecutor who has gotten away with murder in St. Louis. I said the judge in a recent case was holding her in contempt for not showing up to court in a murder trial.
I spoke too soon.
The Judge decided to drop charges against her because "he couldn't prove definitively" it was willful. The lawyer on the case was allegedly sick.
I guess he got a doctor's note.
At any rate, once again Kim Gardner is let off the hook by a cowardly judge.
I suspect this judge dismissed charges out of fear of rioting.
This is modern America; there are two classes and two sets of laws. We no longer have the rule of law. If this were a conservative white prosecuting attorney he or she would be going to jail.
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TUCKER CARSON,HAS BEEN REMOVED BY FOX ! Remember who asked for Tucker to first be removed after he showed January 6 video’s showing different scenes that was showned by Democrats.While
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How well this protest by the early Christian Tatian (ca. 110-172) fits our own day! Christians, faint not. We have done battle with such wickedness before, and prevailed.
"And of what sort are your teachings? Who must not treat with contempt your solemn festivals, which, being held in honour of wicked demons, cover men with infamy? I have often seen a man—and have been amazed to see, and the amazement has ended in contempt, to think how he is one thing internally, but outwardly counterfeits what he is not—giving himself excessive airs of daintiness and indulging in all sorts of effeminacy; sometimes darting his eyes about; sometimes throwing his hands hither and thither, and raving with his face smeared with mud; sometimes personating Aphrodité, sometimes Apollo; a solitary accuser of all the gods, an epitome of superstition, a vituperator of heroic deeds, an actor of murders, a chronicler of adultery, a storehouse of madness, a teacher of cynædi, an instigator of capital sentences;—and yet such a man is praised by all. But I have rejected all his falsehoods, his impiety, his practices,—in short, the man altogether. But you are led captive by such men, while you revile those who do not take a part in your pursuits. I have no mind to stand agape at a number of singers, nor do I desire to be affected in sympathy with a man when he is winking and gesticulating in an unnatural manner. What wonderful or extraordinary thing is performed among you? They utter ribaldry in affected tones, and go through indecent movements; your daughters and your sons behold them giving lessons in adultery on the stage. Admirable places, forsooth, are your lecture-rooms, where every base action perpetrated by night is proclaimed aloud, and the hearers are regaled with the utterance of infamous discourses! Admirable, too, are your mendacious poets, who by their fictions beguile their hearers from the truth!"
Address to the Greeks, chap. XXII.
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The human brain is an amazing thing, but it is built, not born. Neuroplasticity means we create neural pathways based on what we do and how we think. We now have a generation of young people who have never been long absent from their electronic communications. Their brains are wired to be part of a collective now.
And by acquiescing to this the older generation has created a group that is extraordinarily vulnerable to control; they are lost without the gadgets to make them part of the Borg Collective. They believe what they see online and ONLY that.
In short, we are making slaves, slaves who prefer their bondage to the vicissitudes of freedom.
Like the Israelites who feared leaving Egypt, they fear leaving the electronic plantation. It feels horribly unnatural to them. They cannot function precisely because they have not made the neural pathways for social intercourse and to actually live as real people. Their brains can grow these but it will be a difficult, painful effort.
I fear for them should something take out the internet; they would be like people suddenly blinded. But it may well be the most important thing we can do to stop the drive to the cliff-edge of our civilization.
The computer is a seeming good but in fact a terrible trap, I fear, for young minds. Everyone is worried about AI taking over, but I think it has already taken over the young. This is a form of mind control.
As the novel 1984 observed, in the end "he loved Big Brother". That is what computer technology is doing; making us love our jailers.
Human beings are made to think, reason, plan. Computers take much of that away and give it to machines - and to those who program the machines and run the information nexus.
Human beings are not supposed to exist in an alternate reality. But that is where we are at now. It is no coincidence we are seeing the rise of truly insane ideas like transgenderism now; our young live in a dream world of zeroes and ones and colorful screens with flashing lights and dancing images. They do not read, except where it is required along with their photos and videos and music. They do not learn to discipline their minds. They do not learn anything outside of what is online. They do not come to understand the complexities of life (which was learned through the arts and humanities in the past.) They live rather in an artificial reality and so they believe artificial things.
They believe in transgenderism, in socialism, in all sorts of easily disproven concepts. Why not? Reality doesn't really exist in their worlds.
This had been coming for a long time, well before computers, but it has metastasized with the machines.
The Book of Revelation says the False Prophet will create an "image" of the Beast and all will worship him. What does that mean? Is the image of the Beast what the young see on their computers? Certainly the term Beast could be applied to the leviathan nature of the internet, to the multiple tendrils that curl around all aspects of our society. It is much like the hydra, which just grew new heads when they were cut off in battle.
The internet is a beast even if it is not THE Beast.
So young people have plugged their brains into this new electronic god. And committed their souls to the void of zeroes and ones pulsing about the planet.
The God of our fathers has been replaced by a cheap usurper. And this god isn't full of forgiveness as is Yahweh. On the contrary if a young person bucks the system he or she will be destroyed by those who they once thought of as friends. There are ample stories about young people cast out by the woke mob online. And there are stories about young people committing suicide over cyber bullying and the like. If nothing else there is little in the way of hope offered to anyone via the internet. It is full of judgment and demands.
But of course you can't just pull kids off-line; the schools require they work on the computer. We've made it mandatory for our society. Take a kid permanently off-line and you are condemning him or her to failure and irrelevancy, and probably taking away what passes for friends. No parent wants to do that.
But the price is the kids' souls. And our country's survival.
The computer is a very useful tool in the hands of a mature and, well, just plain wise person. It is a danger to those who are not. Much like fire, or a knife, it is a menace in the hands of children. And yet they are better at using it than are the older folks who actually have the capacity to use it properly. It is, in fact, that very capacity - the unwillingness to become one with the machine - that makes the older generation less capable at using the machine. The young merge with it. Well, there is a terrible price to be paid for that. Loneliness, social isolation, intellectual stultification, an inability to experience pleasure without the machine, short attention spans, etc. are all the "gifts" of the electronic Beast.
The same was true of television when it became ubiquitous. Parents used it as a babysitter. But it is not as interactive, as powerful at getting at the core of the person. You had to take what programming was offered with t.v. You were passive, absorbing things like sponges, but that limited it's power to a degree; much of the brainwashing failed due to boredom with the content. Now we have the power of the media to manipulate thoughts and emotions and beliefs with the ability to entertain at all times. The youths are eternally engaged. But they are engaged with the Devil.
Dance with the Devil and you'll do it in Hell.
I think the computer culture must die if we are to have any hope of saving or restoring our culture. It is the stealer of souls.
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The Communist Susan Rice is stepping down as Biden's Policy Chief.
Question; Rice was Obama's primary adviser and then Biden's "policy chief", so was she purposely ill-advising him? Certainly no mere mortal could accidentally screw up as badly as did Joe Biden in his three years in office.
Susan Rice to step down as Biden's domestic policy chief
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Susan Rice was quite possibly the person who ran the Obama Administration. Certainly she was hugely influential over him. And then she is given a critical role in the Biden junta.
Now she's stepping down. Does that mean Biden is out?
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I wrote this back in March of 2012. It is even more pertinent today than it was then, even if some of the references are a bit dated. Links are no inserted, BTW, so copy and paste to read them.
Pyrrhic victory \PIR-ik\ , noun:
A victory achieved at great or excessive cost; a ruinous victory.
The Founding Fathers understood the necessity of the upper class. That much is crystal clear; there was great fear - and justifiably so - of raw democracy which the Founders saw as little more than mob rule. The Founders understood that the upper class was far smaller than the middle and lower classes, and would therefore be much easier to pressure than would a rabble of commoners. Efforts were taken when establishing the United States to dilute the power of the lower classes; a bicameral Congress with the Senate acting as a type of House of Lords, Senators being appointed by state legislatures and not elected, the College of Electors to place the actual election of the President in the hands of upper class, responsible men, the vote being given only to male landowners, etc. The Founders had to deal with a number of realities, among them an illiterate population, large immigrant communities, a populace spending far too much time toiling with their hands and far too little time studying the issues. The wealthy class was best equipped to deal with the mechanics of governing, and had the most stake in the success of the society. They were also the smallest class, most capable of governing against their own interests because the classes below them held real power - economic, political, social. Their wishes could not simply be ignored, while a pure democracy would guarantee the wishes of smaller classes would be disdained. The Founders hated democracy. more...
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"The Adams administration has announced a plan to begin tracking the carbon footprint created by household food consumption as well as a new target for New York City agencies to reduce their food-based emissions by 33% by the year 2023.
Mayor Eric Adams announced the plan on Monday along with the Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice as part of the city's ongoing pledge to reduce the impact of climate change. At the same event, the Mayor's Office of Climate & Environmental Justice published a new chart in the city's annual greenhouse gas inventory that publicly tracks the carbon footprint created by household food consumption — primarily generated by meat and dairy products.
The new analysis is a spin on the emissions data that comes standard with the annual inventory. It was made through a partnership with American Express, C40 Cities and EcoData lab.
Adams, an ardent evangelist of plant-based diets, announced the new tracker and policy at a Brooklyn culinary center run by Health + Hospitals, the city’s public health care system."
OPEN TO CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE
NYC will target food choices in its battle against climate change
gothamist.com
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April 23, 2023
The Red Cross used to be immune from politics. No more.
It seems they have been putting out a brochure telling illegal aliens how to break into America.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is not taking it lying down.
Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said his office is reviewing information regarding the Red Cross after a Daily Caller News Foundation report found that the organization had guides for migrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, he revealed exclusively to the DCNF in a sit-down interview.
Paxton noted that his office has yet to open any formal investigation into the matter, telling the DCNF that his team is "starting to gather facts and determine whether that is something we need to dedicate some of our resources to it.” The DCNF obtained the guides in February that showed routes to the U.S. border and provided a paper on what to do when encountering the dangers along the trip.
The American Red Cross sits on the board of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Food and Shelter program that hands millions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer funding to nonprofit groups supporting migrants released into the U.S. interior.
Paxton is also investigating the Texas Bar Association for helping to fund groups that recruit and aid illegal aliens in their quest to invade America.And the Red Cross should also be held culpable if they are aiding and abetting such a crime.
America doesn't punish crimes as long as they serve the purposes of those in power. We no longer have the Rule of Law. This is an ooligarchy and a poorly run one at that.
Plato said an Oligarchy was the second to last stage before a nation collapsed.
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What is that giant sucking sound? It's the sound of the rich getting richer!
Big Banks, Corporations Getting 90 Percent Of Biden’s Green Energy Credits: Congressional Study
Most of the green energy tax benefits provided by President Joe Biden’s $750 billion Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 are going into the coffers of big banks and billion-dollar corporations, according to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.).
"While President Biden’s supercharged IRS is warming up to target working Americans, his administration is getting ready to spend those tax dollars to subsidize special interest green energy projects of billion-dollar companies,” Smith saidin a statement based on a new congressional analysis issued by the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT).
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The plot thickens.
Airman's Leaks Started Just 48 Hours After Russia Invaded Ukraine
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Richard Cronin chimes in:
Much like the Jan. 6 victims, Teixeira will be held incommunicado for months and denied legal council. To get out of his condition, he’ll plead guilty to some b.s. charges and released — on the proviso that he shuts his mouth.
Otherwise, his mother will have a freak "accident” with a self-driving Tesla.
Tim adds:
The article states:
"So far, Teixeira's been chargedwithunlawful retention and transmission of national defense information and unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents."
So how is this fundamentally different than Joe Biden's possession of classified documents in his garage? Anybody?
It IS different than Trump's; Trump can declassify anything, and had a right to those documents. Not so Joe Biden.
I am convinced the government wanted this stuff out there for some reason.
And if not? It means our security is beyond worthless. A kid can get top secret intel and post it online and the Clouseau's of the FBI can't catch him! It takes journalists to find him.
But when did mainstream journalism ever break such stories with a Democrat in office? Something stinks about this.
And there is scant little information being dug up on the leaker. Who is he? What other stuff has he posted online?
Somebody pass the noseplugs.
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Are we entering a cooling trend?
Whetgher hot or cold it will matter nary a wit to them. They will blame any cooling on "climate change" and proceed with their insane "decarbonization" and other schemes without missing a beat.
NoTricksZone: "Not here to worship what is known, but to question it" – Jacob Bronowski. Climate and energy news from Germany – by Pierre L. Gosselin
notrickszone.com
Oh, and we are seeing astronomical events influencing our climate.
NTNU Open: The influence of solar system oscillation on the variability of the total solar irradiance
ntnuopen.ntnu.no
We find that a stationary component of the solar variability is controlled by the 12-year Jupiter period and the 84-year Uranus period with subharmonics. For TSI and sunspot variations, we find stationary periods related to the 84-year Uranus period. Deterministic models based on the stationary periods confirm the results through a close relation to known long solar minima since 1000 A.D. and suggest a modern maximum period from 1940 to 2015. The model computes a new Dalton-type sunspot minimum from approximately 2025 to 2050 and a new Dalton-type period TSI minimum from approximately 2040 to 2065."
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You have never used digitized money issued by a central bank (CBDC).Your current credit card transactions are still based at present in fiat, paper money, paper currency whose standard relies on control of your own money. This is because paper money cannot be controlled once in your own hands.
In a digitized currency the central issuing bank actually controls and owns the money supply, and your own bank account is no longer yours, as it can be instantly changed by central control.
Your basic financial freedom to decide what you can buy or sell is then gone forever, and you are force conscripted into tyranny.
Keep using cash, and don’t stop!
The FED NOW system already planned for launch is the predecessor to complete financial tyranny!
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This from the Gates Institute:
"Nothing seems to stop the Biden administration from wanting to reward the ruling mullahs of Iran with a nuclear deal that will pave the way for the Islamist regime of Iran legally to obtain as many nuclear weapons as it likes, empower the ruling mullahs with billions of dollars, lift sanctions against their theocratic regime, allow them to rejoin the global financial system and enhance their legitimacy on the global stage.
These benefits presumably include further enabling the regime's ruthless expansion throughout the Middle East -- Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and the terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip -- and into Latin America.
"The Americans are keeping their desire to negotiate with the Islamic Republic [to revive the nuclear deal] in secret in the midst of denial and silence". — Independent Persian, February 23, 2023.
In addition, Iran, called by the US Department of State a "top sponsor of state terrorism," has been ratcheting up its presence and terror cells in Latin America while using the continent as a sanctuary.
During the Biden administration, the Iranian regime has also attempted to assassinate US officials on American soil.
Even The Washington Post pointed out that the attempted kidnappings should be a serious warning to the Biden administration: "The message for the Biden administration, which has frequently proclaimed its intention to defend pro-democracy dissidents, is that Iran and other foreign dictatorships won't shrink from launching attacks inside the United States unless deterred..."
Instead, the Biden administration remains silent and evidently still wants to reward the mullahs with the nuclear deal and it continues to see "diplomacy" -- read: appeasement -- as the only path to deal with the Iranian regime.
Nothing.... seems to be deterring the Biden administration from trying to give the Islamist regime of Iran the ultimate gift:" unlimited nuclear weapons.
Read the rest!
Biden Administration Still Negotiating a Secret 'Deal' with Iran: As Many Nuclear Weapons as They Like?
gatestoneinstitute.org
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Oops, she did it again!
The Soros-backed partisan hack prosecuting attorney for the St. Louis area is facing contempt of court charges for simply not showing up at a murder trial. She just blew it off; didn't even bother to send a junior prosecutor to plead the case.
Gardner is already facing removal from office for malfeasance and dereliction. She has repeatedly, willfully, refused to follow the law.
It was Gardner who pursued Missouri Governor Eric Greitens with trumped up charges involving an affair he had. Gardner committed multiple violations of both ethics and law in her quest to destroy Greitens. She hired a private eye to do the investigations, and this former FBI agent violated Greiten's civil rights. She also hid evidence from the Greitens team, and when called to testify over her malfeasance simply refused to answer any questions. The judge should have convicted her for contempt of court then. But Greitens was hated by the Missouri GOP (in no small part because he was a reformer and trying to make it illegal to become a lobbyist for five years after leaving government service). I wrote about the whole sordid affair here.
Gardner also had a list of police officers she refused to work with. Any arrests by them were deemed racist and she would not prosecute.
Crime has skyrocketed as Madam Gardner has willfully refused to prosecute black criminals.
Amazingly she was re-elected to her office with over 60% of the vote here. So the State has refrained from taking action against her despite this.
But it all came to a head a few months back when a criminal under house arrest ran over a high school girl in town for a volleyball tournament. She lost both her legs. The man - a black thug who had jumped his electronic shackle over 45 times - had remained out of jail and Gardner had a basic duty to ask for a revokation of his bond. She neglected to do so.
This was a national news story and it started a movement to get her out of office. She refused to resign.
She has also promised to run again. The only way to guarantee she is gone for good is to convict her of a crime. She must be forced out.
This will probably trigger rioting here in St. Louis.
Missouri Attnorney General Andrew Bailey has been moving to force her out. He's taking huge amounts of abuse from the black community and Progressives around town, who accuse him of being a racist for demanding a proseuctor actually prosecute.
Crime has skyrocketed in St. Louis since Gardner took office. Dismissed cases are up while prosecutions are down. And Gardner got rid of half the staff she had at the start of her reign of error; they were professionals and unwilling to sit by while a political hack turned the Circuit Atttorney's office into a weapon.
So now she's run into a judge who is citing her for contempt of court.
Will this be enough? Everyone has treated her with kid gloves in the past.
But even the liberal St. Louis mayor Tishuara Jones has said Gardner has lost the trust of the public and should step down.
Gardner had appealed Bailey's supeona and lost. Now she is saying she might not show up in person for hearings.
This is a national disgrace and the outcome of this is of great importance to all of America. Gardner must be removed from office and punished to the fullest extent of the law. Other leftists have to be made aware of the fact that the prosecuting attorney's office is not a political weapon and may not be so used. Politics was never a big part of it until the Soros Prosecuting Attorneys Project. Soros saw a loophole; buy those offices and use prosecutorial discretion to attack conservatives and the normal people to promote their leftist agenda. It has worked beautifully.
I want Soros to be in jail with Kim Gardner, frankly.
Until we have severe punishment for abuse of power it will continue. AG Bailey must win this, and send Kim Gardner to the state penitentiary.
Kim would look good in orange.
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In response to this article by Chester McAteer:
Federal debt as a ratio to GDP is an utterly meaningless statistic. It is analagous to comparing my home mortgage against my employer'srevenue. Federal debt as a ration of federal revenue is meaningful, and that formerly was the measure that economists used, until it got too big and scared people. Then they switched to the Debt/GDP, not because it meant anything, but because it was a smaller ratio and was comforting. Now it, too, it to big but they have nowhere else to go.
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April 22, 2023
He did not believe in God. Considering himself an atheist, Dr. Miller saw no evidence for God and believed the idea of God was incoherent. However, after asking God to reveal Himself to Him, Dr. Miller experiences God in amazing ways. Dr. Miller shares amazing evidence as to why the laws of thermodynamics point to an Intelligent Designer and as to why life could not have arisen by chance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKHo1GlKGho
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Joe Biden is damned and determined to wreck the American economy. He seems hell-bent on plunging this nation into a full blown depression.
He's implementing a mad scheme whereby people with good credit scores will have to subsidize those without in homebuying.
This is basically what the Democrats did during the leadup to the Great Recession. The subprime mortgage market was bundled with good mortgages so they could be taken off the books. Biden is reinstituting that here.
The fee changes will go into effect May 1 as part of the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s push for affordable housing, and they will affect mortgages originating at private banks across the country. The federally backed home mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will enact the loan-level price adjustments, or LLPAs.
Mortgage industry specialists say homebuyers with credit scores of 680 or higher will pay, for example, about $40 per month more on a home loan of $400,000. Homebuyers who make down payments of 15% to 20% will get socked with the largest fees.
The National Association of Realtors is not happy. Here is their statement:"We appreciate FHFA’sefforts to revise the structure for loan level pricing adjustments as well as making the 2022 changes permanent. NAR and our members were supportive of most of the changes made to LLPAs this past fall, and we will continue to advocate for LLPA reform as the housing market continues to struggle with the sharpest blow to affordability in decades. These changes make permanent reduced or eliminated fees for first-time homebuyers and those with low or moderate incomes. Furthermore, these changes include significant reduced fees for many borrowers with lower credit scores, but strong down payments. However, fees are raised on some borrowers with good credit scores and moderate down payments, hitting middle-wealth homebuyers. Furthermore, FHFA included new fees on borrowers with higher debt-to-income scores. NAR will review other changes in the new LLPA structure and share our concerns with the FHFA.
In the wake of a three-percentage point increase in mortgage rates, now is not the time to raise fees on homebuyers. Furthermore, the FHFA needs to address its recent increase in fees on homebuyers in high-cost markets as well as guarantee fees that impact all homebuyers. Homebuyers are hurting and these changes are overdue. Now is the time.”
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac charge both a market-wide flat guarantee fee as well as upfront fees LLPAs that are tailored to credit scores and down payments for individual borrowers. The FHFA directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to reduce the LLPAs in 2022 on homebuyers but raised them in high-cost markets. Furthermore, guarantee fees were never reduced in the wake of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that lowered their costs. NAR looks forward to continuing our work with the FHFA to collaborating to improve affordability for homebuyers.
Here's more on our government's Marxist "from each according to his ability to each according to his need" program.Homebuying has dropped off precipitously as interest rates have risen, inflation has risen, and wages have not kept pace. Now Biden is going to strangle the real estate market by manipulating the cost to homebuyers.
What will happen is people won't buy, they'll rent, or stay put. And as the housing markets slows to a crawl the entire economy suffers, from construction companies to contractors to municipal governments losing tax revenue to the banks that lend and service loans.
And for whom are we making this sacrifice? People who will probably not be able to afford the houses they purchase and will probably wind in default - same as in 2008.
And this at a time when our economy is barely breathing.
I refuse to believe Biden is that incompetent.
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No doubt the woman showed she was a leftist and not a "right wing terrorist" as the powers that be have labored so hard to find. I knew something was dirty when they refused to call her by her chosen pronoun and talk about her being trans. There was something they feared there.
This reminds me of the Las Vegas shooting where a country music festival got shot up. The shooter - and the whole story - disappeared after about one week. Completely. Why? I suspect he was going to sing like a canary, and probably implicate people in our own government.
I suspect that is what this manifesto does too.
Joanne Moen-Yarwood
A spokesman for the FBI said the FBI will probably never release all of the manifesto of the Nashville transgender killer Audrey Hale .it’s . way to dangerous and detailed of total destruction.It would be a danger to the public .So it must be more then just a gun issue .So what ever the issue the public may never be told why six innocent people lost their lives
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11997511/Tennessee-Republicans-demand-FBI-release-Audrey-Hale-manifesto-amid-stalled-investigation.html
Tennessee Republicans demand FBI release Audrey Hale manifesto amid stalled investigation, despite councilmember warning it is a 'blueprint on total destruction'
- A Nashville councilmember believes there will only be a heavily redacted release
- Multiple Republicans are calling for full release of Audrey Hale's manifesto
- Two thirds of US voters said they want Nashville police to release the manifesto
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Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain and Just Stop Oil are all funded by the Climate Emergency Fund.
The Climate Emergency Fund was set up in 2019. One of its founders is Aileen Getty, heiress of the Getty family who made their fortune in oil. Another major donor and power within the organisation is Hollywood film director Adam McKay. I think a Disney heir has also been a major contributor.
On its website The Climate Emergency Fund boasts of supporting 106 separate climate activism organisations, of ‘training’ over 30,000 climate activists and of mobilising over 1 million activists.
It has targeted Britain for disruption, and it is essentially super rich US ‘liberals’ who inherited their money then assuaging their guilt and privilege by funding the disruption of the lives of much poorer people in another country.
Most of these movements are the moral colonialism of the US elite which after themselves succumbing to various batshit crazy causes feel the need to use the power they gained by an accident of birth to force poorer people to lead even poorer lives.
Climate activism is not a grassroots protest of the people, it is an artificially created, top-down imposition from the ideologically crazed, mentally disturbed super wealthy, who are so entitled and remote from reality that they feel justified in funding acts of disruption to prove their ‘goodness’ to their own little social circle of likeminded privileged wankers.
Even the people they recruit, whilst far less elite than themselves, are almost exclusively from well off middle class families. Their disruptive activities and crimes involve no real personal risk for them, and they are frequently paid to do it and know that the Fund will hire lawyers for them if they are arrested.
This is a pattern in the entire Green farce, which at its bottom presents itself as anarchist and communist but which at its top is the moral plaything of the super-rich. At the bottom it claims to be the people protesting against an Establishment disregard for the planet, but at the top it is entirely a vehicle for the ACTUAL Establishment.
People who want to drive a car they can afford or go on a foreign holiday or heat their homes without bankrupting themselves are not the Establishment. Super rich founders and patrons of grubby Funds and seedy NGOs and crooked charities and brainwashed pressure groups are the Establishment. The middle class Jeremy, with his communist rhetoric and unwashed style, blocking the working class Dave from getting about his real activities because Jeremy’s performative, narcissistic virtue signalling matters more than any ordinary life. And all of it is really serving the super rich, acting as their eager enforcers, whilst pontificating about Greed.
This alliance of leftist radicalism and super rich interests is not new. It works in every other modern madness we can think of. It funded BLM. It backed radical feminism, radical black supremacism and critical race theory, it’s what has wrenched our entire society away from sanity and seized every institution. The radical march through the institutions and the direction of public money to radical causes, the mainstreaming of insanity until it is everywhere, was founded on the seduction of the super rich to ‘the cause’. Once the super rich thought they could BUY virtue by funding radicalism, it became their favourite indulgence. 1960s radicals like Bill Ayers and the Weathermen perfected the formula that ruined the West.
Radical leftist social ideas UNITED with the interests, power and privilege of the super-rich elite. Funding disruptive climate activism AND investing in ‘green solutions’ at the same time, so they will profit from where policy is forced to go. It works this way in everything. The Gates Foundation driving global health and energy policies, for instance.
Every time there is an alleged high moral purpose (saving the planet, preventing a pandemic, making a more just and equitable society, fighting racism) that appeals to the moral vanity and narcissism of participants and also acts as a cover for the real agenda. Every time there is a huge involvement of the money of the super rich creating thousands of puppet organisations. Every time the activities disrupt ordinary lives and the policies reduce ordinary standards of life. Every time you can bet the founders and funders will ultimately profit just as much as ordinary people suffer.
So that’s the root problem. The money tap. The river of wealth which backs every insane cause. The alliance of radicalism and ACTUAL privilege. The seizure of corporate power by wokeness is just the final stage of that, as is the turning of all State and institutional funding into a vehicle for pushing radical ideas most people don’t want.
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