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John Kirby Biden’s National Security Council (NSC) Strategic Communications Director commenting on the Putin/ Xi Jinping meeting: What we have said before, and we’ll say it again today, that if coming out of this meeting, there’s some sort of call for a ceasefire, well, that’s just going to be unacceptable,” said Kirby. “Because all that’s going to do, is ratify Russia’s conquest to date. All that’s going to do is give Mr. Putin more time to refit, retrain, reman, and try to plan for renewed offensives at a time of his choosing.”

Steve McCann contributor to American Thinker: While flirting with it for a number of decades, in the latter half of the Twentieth Century the Democrat Party began to fully embrace an American version of the Marxism/socialism that underpinned the NAZI Party. Mark Levin in his seminal work American Marxism, lays out in detail this metamorphosis. For all intents and purposes, the Democrat party could easily be renamed: The National Marxist/Socialist Party. The greatest threat to the survival of United States as founded is not offshore but within its borders: the Democrat party.

Margot Cleveland contributor to The Federalist: The move to indict a former president for the first time in our country’s history will make political prosecutions the new norm in America.

Tucker Carlson Fox television host: “If the Democratic Party is allowed to do this, allowed to crush the presidential front-runner, the main threat to their power, with a bogus criminal case, where does that leave us? We’re done because that precedent will live forever and voters will never again determine the outcome of a presidential election. It’s remarkable when you think about it.”

Mitt Harris contributor to Canada Free Press: You have to ask yourself, with our elections obviously compromised, our morality crumbling and a justice system that views justice as unnecessary, how long will it be until the world views us a third world country?

Derek Hunter contributor to TownHall.com: If you’ve ever wondered why it is that no matter how many electoral wins Republicans rack up, Democrats seem to always get their way, you’re not alone. There’s a very simple answer to that: the left-wing machine never rests. Democrats are like the Terminator – they cannot be reasoned with and they will never, ever stop until they achieve their objective.

Daniel Greenfield contributor to Frontpage Magazine: America is not a dangerous or crime-ridden country. Unfortunately Democrat cities are overrun with criminals and the politicians who cater to them. The Democrats became an urban party and, after jettisoning the white working class and the small business middle class became the party of criminals. From police defunding to the Black Lives Matter riots to mass jailbreaks and the legalization of drugs and shoplifting in major cities, they embraced pro-crime policies that unleashed a massive crime wave. And now they pretend not to know what’s causing the crime.

Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh contributor to Canada Free Press: Once the frowned-upon behaviors are understood, the globalist organization makes the behavioral change mandatory, for all humans, for their own good, as determined by a high-minded bureaucrat who knows better because their science is in a consensus, stripping choices away from the people’s decision-making. And it all starts with the innocuous “nudge” to change your behavior they dislike.

Colin Wright contributor to The City Journal: When biologists claim that “sex is binary,” they mean something straightforward: there are only two sexes. This statement is true because an individual’s sex is defined by the type of gamete (sperm or ova) their primary reproductive organs (i.e., gonads) are organized, through development, to produce. Males have primary reproductive organs organized around the production of sperm; females, ova. Because there is no third gamete type, there are only two sexes that a person can be. Sex is therefore binary.

Joshua R. Farris contributor to The American Mind: Despite what physicist Sean Carrol says about the unlikeliness of the soul, physics does not exclude the soul, the notion of God, or the afterlife. In fact, physics is a hodgepodge of differing, conflicting patchwork theories of which scientists are trying to find a singular explanation.

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WAYNE ROOT: By Arresting Trump, Democrats Want Either Civil War, Marshal Law, or Another January 6th. Here is the Strategy to Protect Trump and Save America- without Ever Risking your Life or Arrest

Democrats (ie radical communist traitors) in conspiracy with a corrupt, Soros-funded, communist DA, and weaponized government goons intend to indict, arrest & perp walk President Trump this coming week. Why are they doing this? I know their playbook like the back of my hand. 1. At the very least, they want a thousand new January 6 scenarios- so they can arrest and lock away thousands of conservative patriots for years- and brand conservatives patriots as terrorists. 2. Their very best scenario is to incite civil war and rip this country apart. Then they can declare Martial Law, lock down the country, destroy all our jobs and businesses, and take away our freedom permanently. 3. To slander, demonize and destroy Trump- and hopefully disqualify him as a presidential candidate. They’re THAT scared of Trump beating them in 2024. 4. Most importantly, this is all a WMD- Weapon of Mass Distraction. Look around. The country is collapsing. Trains derailing. The supply chain failing. Democrat run inner cities in ruins. Our border is wide open- with millions of illegal aliens being waved in. Banks are failing. Inflation is raging. Crime is exploding. The national debt is out of control. Sudden deaths and heart attacks from Biden’s vaccine mandates are exploding all around us- it’s literally a vaccine holocaust. Your children are being brainwashed to change their gender. And the crimes, extortion and bribery of the Biden Crime Family are finally coming to light.

Sadler: ‘Politically motivated’: Rep. Jim Jordan demands answers from DA allegedly pursuing Trump arrest

“You are reportedly about to engage in an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority: the indictment of a former President of the United States and current declared candidate for that office,” said Rep. Jordan, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and head of the House Judiciary Committee ‘s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. “This indictment comes after years of your office searching for a basis — any basis — on which to bring charges, ultimately settling on a novel legal theory untested anywhere in the country and one that federal authorities declined to pursue,” Jordan argued in the letter, which is also signed by Reps. Bryan Steil and James Comer.

Brown: Alvin Bragg’s End Run Around the Constitution

Let’s be clear. The feds have already declined to prosecute anything surrounding Trump’s civil settlement with Stormy Daniels. Perhaps that is because confidentiality clauses are part of millions of civil settlements in lawsuits around the country every day. I’ve seen hundreds in my own career as a civil litigator.

In other words, nothing to see here. Enter radical Democrat prosecutor Alvin Bragg, the most recent publicity-seeking Trump-hunter, most noted for releasing criminals onto the streets while reducing over half of pending felony charges to misdemeanors. […] Yet, while Democrat Bragg goes soft on real crime, sprinkling pixie dust and granting hall passes galore for real thugs and criminals, suddenly he’s hard on Trump. Wonder why?

GLOBALISM (GREAT RESET) & TRANSHUMANISM (HUMANS 2.0) ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED

Archbishop Viganò: Reject Soros, Schwab, and Gates, ‘We Need an Anti-Globalist Alliance’

Archbishop Viganò addressed the event in Moscow in a live video and took sharp aim at Globalists such as George Soros, Klaus Schwab, and Bill Gates. “We need an Anti-Globalist Alliance that returns to citizens the power that has been taken from them and to nations the sovereignty eroded and ceded to the Davos lobby.” Meanwhile, he warns against Globalists’ schemes, such as their woke ideology, Great Reset, and Agenda 2030, which constitute an enormous threat to the survival of mankind. He reminds listeners that “victory belongs to Christ and to those who choose to align themselves under the holy banner of the Cross.”

Salgado: Moderna CEO Said He Knew in 2019 a Lucrative Pandemic Would Happen

During the January 18 World Economic Forum (WEF) panel State of the Pandemic at Davos 2023, Moderna CEO said, “When the [COVID] pandemic happened, Moderna had made a hundred thousand doses in 2019 for the whole year. And I remember walking after those into the office of my other manufacturing and I say, ‘How we make [sic] a billion dollars next year?’ And they look at me a bit funny and say, ‘What?’ And I say, ‘Yeah, we need to make a billion dollars next year, there’s going to be a pandemic.’” A very strange remark, yes?

Berenson: URGENT: Bill Gates, the world’s most dangerous centi-billionaire, proves he has learned NOTHING from the last three years

Bill Gates is becoming a menace. He will not leave us alone. And he’s learned all the wrong lessons from Covid. At this point he is worse than merely clueless. As one of the world’s 10 richest men and controller of a $50 billion charitable honeypot, Gates has the power to drive public health policy in dangerous directions. He appears hellbent on doing so. […] Gates wants you to be afraid. And not just of the flu and the ro, which turned out to be a big disappointment to Team Apocalypse, since – as the infamous Sam Harris explained – it didn’t kill enough kids to be properly scary and force everyone to be vaccinated.

No, Gates has other fears: What if the next pandemic-potential pathogen spreads through surface droplets? Or if it is sexually transmitted like H.I.V.? What if it’s the result of bioterrorism? Yeah, what if?

McArthur: Gods in the machine? The rise of artificial intelligence may result in new religions

We are about to witness the birth of a new kind of religion. In the next few years, or perhaps even months, we will see the emergence of sects devoted to the worship of artificial intelligence (AI). The latest generation of AI-powered chatbots, trained on large language models, have left their early users awestruck —and sometimes terrified — by their power. These are the same sublime emotions that lie at the heart of our experience of the divine. People already seek religious meaning from very diverse sources. There are, for instance, multiple religions that worship extra-terrestrials or their teachings. As these chatbots come to be used by billions of people, it is inevitable that some of these users will see the AIs as higher beings. We must prepare for the implications.

CLIMATE EMERGENCY: GLOBALIST POLITICIANS & BIG BUSINESS ACCUMULATE MORE POWER & CONTROL

Demastri: California Could Use ‘Backdoor’ To Kickstart The End Of Diesel Trucks In The US, Experts Say

The Biden administration is set to provide California with a waiver for its new rules, allowing it to enforce stricter guidelines than what were set out in the federal Clean Air Act, The Washington Post reported. California’s proposed rules to dramatically limit emissions from heavy-duty vehicles could effectively result in a nationwide ban on the sale of new diesel-powered heavy-duty vehicles, thanks to a “backdoor” in the Clean Air Act, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation Monday. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will approve California’s proposed rules, which would obligate all new heavy-duty vehicles — including shipping trucks and delivery vans — sold in the state after 2045 be fully electric or hydrogen-powered, The Washington Post reported Monday, citing three individuals familiar with the agency’s plans. New York, New Jersey, Oregon, Massachusetts, Washington and Vermont have all committed to following California’s lead on this issue, a move which experts told the DCNF was tantamount to a nationwide ban. […] “It’s a way to backdoor allow — under the auspices of the Clean Air Act — for California that set standards for the U.S.,” Dan Kish, senior fellow at the Institute for Energy Research, said to the DCNF. […] “This is a unique provision in federal law that allows one single state, of course it’s a big, powerful state, California, with its markets, to to essentially dictate the regulation of interstate commerce for other states,” Steven Bradbury,

BASTASCH: The UN’s Newest Climate Report Is A Woke Dumpster Fire Masquerading As Science

Like clockwork, the United Nations is out with yet another climate report, and the usual suspects are already blaring the global warming alarm sirens. The New York Times warned the planet is on track “to cross a critical threshold for global warming within the next decade” and the only way to “hold global warming to relatively safe levels” would “require global cooperation, billions of dollars and big changes.” The Associated Press declared the world is on “thin ice” due to warming. The BBC characterized the UN report as a “survival guide” — if we don’t follow it, we’ll see “the worst effects of climate change.” The alarmist frenzy was joined by prominent scientists, eco-activists, Democratic politicians and even the UN chief himself, who called the report a “how-to guide to defuse the climate time-bomb. In other words, the media, elites and the scientific establishment want you to take this report very, very seriously. The problem is no one who actually cares about sound science should give it the time of day.

THE CORRUPT U.S. INTELLIGENCE/ADMINISTRATIVE STATE APPARATUS

McMurray: DOJ Releases Sentencing Statement On Violent Jan 6 Defendant Who Smashed Capitol Window, Sprayed Cops In Face With Pepper Spray…Doesn’t Mention He Encouraged Others to Attack Cops, Voted For Obama TWICE, and Did NOT Vote For Trump in 2016

On March 17, Mitchell Todd Gardner II, a 34-year-old Florida resident who was arrested on June 25, 2021, was sentenced on Wednesday to 55 months in prison for his role in the January 6 “insurrection” in the District of Columbia. In addition to his prison term, U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta ordered Gardner to serve 36 months of probation and a $3,500 restitution fee. Gardner pleaded guilty on June 27, 2022, to felony charges of civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, and assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon. […] Mr. Gardner’s actions sure sound an awful lot like those of a member of the cop-hating, leftist, domestic terrorist group Antifa. It wasn’t until Mr. Gardner was inside the building that he removed his black jacket to reveal a red “Reagan-Bush” sweatshirt and a “Trump 45” hat, a curious move by a man who, according to his sentencing statement, was not a fan of Trump.

Info Wars: J6 Video: Capitol Police Body Cam Footage Proves Alex Jones Tried To Keep The Peace

New Capitol Police body cam footage from the Jan. 6 protest shows Infowars founder Alex Jones telling protesters to be respectful to police at the barricades outside the Capitol building. In the footage, a voice from an officer’s radio can be heard saying that Jones was telling protesters to back off the barricades and march peacefully. The body cam footage also paints a clearer picture of how events unfolded outside the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, including how police were given stand-down orders at critical points during the protest.

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: CANCEL THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Cleveland: Grants Reveal Federal Government’s Horrific Plans To Censor All Americans’ Speech

Our government is preparing to monitor every word Americans say on the internet—the speech of journalists, politicians, religious organizations, advocacy groups, and even private citizens. Should those conversations conflict with the government’s viewpoint about what is in the best interests of our country and her citizens, that speech will be silenced. While the “Twitter Files” offer a glimpse into the government’s efforts to censor disfavored viewpoints, what we have seen is nothing compared to what is planned, as the details of hundreds of federal awards lay bare. Research by The Federalist reveals our tax dollars are funding the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning (ML) technology that will allow the government to easily discover “problematic” speech and track Americans reading or partaking in such conversations. Then, in partnership with Big Tech, Big Business, and media outlets, the government will ensure the speech is censored, under the guise of combatting “misinformation” and “disinformation.” The federal government has awarded more than 500-plus contracts or grants related to “misinformation” or “disinformation” since 2020. One predominant area of research pushed by the Department of Defense involves the use of AI and ML technology to monitor or listen to internet “conversations.”

Cleveland: Time Is Running Out To Speak Freely About Free Speech In America

he Censorship Complex — whereby Big Tech censorship is induced by the government, media, and media-rating businesses — threatens the future of free speech in this country. To understand how and why, Americans need to talk about speech — and the government’s motive to deceive the public.

To frame this discussion, consider these hypotheticals:

Two American soldiers training Ukraine soldiers in Poland cross into the war zone, ambushing and killing five Russian soldiers. Unbeknownst to the American soldiers, a Ukrainian soldier filmed the incident and provides the footage to an independent journalist who authors an article on Substack, providing a link to the video.
Russia uses its intelligence service and “bots” to flood social media with claims that the Ukrainians are misusing 90 percent of American tax dollars. In truth, “only” 40 percent of American tax dollars are being wasted or corruptly usurped — a fact that an independent journalist learns when a government source leaks a Department of Defense report detailing the misappropriation of the funds sent to Ukraine.
A third of Americans disagree with the continued funding of the war in Ukraine and organically prompt #NoMoreMoola to trend. After this organic hashtag trend begins, Russian operatives amplify the hashtag while the Russian-run state media outlet, Russia Today, reports on the hashtag trend.
Following the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank, the communist Chinese government uses social media to create the false narrative that 10 specifically named financial institutions are bordering on collapsing. In reality, only Bank A1 is financially troubled, but a bank run on any of the 10 banks would cause those banks to collapse too.

In each of these scenarios — and countless others — the government has an incentive to deceive the country. Americans need to recognize this reality to understand the danger posed by the voluntary censorship of speech.

Kelly: The Death of Dissent

The lead prosecutor in charge of the January 6 investigation, the largest probe in Justice Department history, just confirmed what American Greatness has reported for months: the number of criminal cases related to the Capitol protest is expected to at least double before it’s all over. U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, an advisor to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign who took over the powerful office in late 2021, sent a letter to the chief judge of the D.C. District court warning up to 1,200 more individuals could face charges. “We expect the pace of bringing new cases will increase, in an orderly fashion, over the course of the next few months,” Graves told Beryl Howell, who ended her term as chief judge last week. Graves’ office just surpassed 1,000 total defendants in what he renamed the “Capitol Siege” investigation—which means the final caseload might well exceed 2,000. […] News of the imminent arrest of Donald Trump demonstrated the degree of the regime’s success. After NBC News reported that law enforcement agencies were preparing for unrest following the announcement of state charges against Trump in the Stormy Daniels saga, Trump responded on Truth Social. “[THE] FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK! PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!” Trump wrote on March 18. Trump followed up with a second post: “WE MUST SAVE AMERICA! PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST!!!” Before January 6, 2021, an American political leader who called for mass protests would not be heard as calling for violence. Trump, in fact, did not encourage his followers to behave violently. He merely—and perhaps unwisely, given the current Gestapo-like conduct of the FBI and federal prosecutors—asked his supporters to protest the unprecedented act of arresting a former president and current candidate for president.

(A government/private partnership) Lenthan: Craigslist Craig Funded The Censorship-Industrial Complex To Silence Dissent Online

The billionaire founder of Craigslist, Craig Newmark, is using his fortune to further shape journalism into partisan activism to help Democrats win elections. He is the nation’s leading financier of the “mis”- and “disinformation” industries and is now the largest private stakeholder in America’s legacy journalism schools.

The most recent Twitter Files released by Matt Taibbi add a deeply disturbing new layer to the story. They show Newmark is at the very heart of an incestuous web of government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and corporate media institutions operating in concert to censor political opponents on social media. Newmark is financing the largest coordinated assault on American free speech in living memory. […] To add another layer to this sordid story, the glue that binds this fusion of government, NGOs, and the media together are the billionaire investors funding the NGOs. Chief among these is Newmark. His fingerprints, and financial backing, are all over the Censorship-Industrial Complex. For example, First Draft was set up to counter what it decided is “misinformation” in newsrooms in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. In 2017 it was incorporated into Harvard’s Shorenstein Center, to which Newmark donated $5 million to set up Joan Donovan’s now disgraced Technology and Social Change Project. In 2019 Newmark further gave First Draft $1.5 million to help train journalists to identify disinformation in the run-up to the 2020 election.

THE FIGHT FOR ELECTION INTEGRITY

(Soros funded) Marshall: Ohio, Iowa Withdraw From Democrat Operative-Controlled Voter Roll ‘Maintenance’ Group ERIC

Ohio and Iowa are the latest states to withdraw from the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), an interstate voter list maintenance group controlled by Democratic operatives, after a meeting of its board failed to deliver the aforementioned states’ requested reforms. The two midwestern states follow in the steps of Florida, Missouri, and West Virginia, which withdrew from the alliance in early March over ERIC’s failure to remove its founder, Democrat operative David Becker, from its board, and its requirement that member states conduct voter registration outreach to eligible but unregistered residents in their states. Louisiana and Alabama withdrew last year. […] Alaska and Texas are two more member states considering withdrawing from ERIC.

ARIZONA 2022 ELECTION UPDATE

(3/20/23) War Room: Kari Lake: If Supreme Court Takes My Case, Faith In Elections Will Be Restored.

The Lake lawsuit goes to the Arizona Supreme Court today. It may take a few weeks to hear from the court if it will take the case.

Watch the 3:59 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v2dzr0s-kari-lake-if-supreme-court-takes-my-case-faith-in-elections-will-be-restore.html

CHINA: AMERICA’S MORTAL ENEMY

War Room: Dr. Bradley Thayer Explains 5 Steps China Is Taking To Prepare For War.

Watch the 5:15 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v2dzpvg-dr.-bradley-thayer-explains-5-steps-china-is-taking-to-prepare-for-war..html

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF FOREIGN POLICY

Kredo: Israel Could Strike Iran in Three Months, Retired Israeli General Says

Biden’s failure to present a credible military response to Iran’s nuclear program has left Israel with limited options, ex-general says

Keane: Top Zelensky adviser suggests Putin sent body double to Ukraine

A top adviser to the Ukrainian government stoked conspiracy theories Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been using body doubles to attend public events in his place. Anton Gerashechenko, an adviser to the minister of internal affairs of Ukraine, shared three recent photos of the Russian leader on Twitter — including two that were supposedly taken during a trip this weekend to Ukrainian territories. The side-by-side images feature red circles around the neck and chin area of the man in each photo, seeming to suggest not all three men pictured are Putin.

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA

Brown: ‘Absolutely Infuriating’: Biden Slammed for Using First Veto to Kill Bipartisan Resolution

More than two years into his administration, President Joe Biden used his veto power for the first time on Monday, killing a bipartisan resolution that would have reversed a final rule from the Department of Labor that pushes woke ESG standards as a priority over profitability for Americans’ retirement accounts.

[…] Conveniently, Biden omitted the fact that Democrats — including those in the Democrat-led Senate — also voted to overturn the Labor Department’s final rule. Instead, Biden suggested the resolution was solely the work of “MAGA House Republicans,” and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) which is false. Greene was one of the 216 bipartisan House members who voted to pass the resolution, as did the Senate which, again, is controlled by Biden’s party.

McCann: Eight Startling and Uncomfortable Ways the Democrat Party Emulates the Nazi Party

The Democrat Party has been a stain on the nation since its founding in 1828 by a virulently racist president, Andrew Jackson. It was the party of slavery and the Confederacy, it initiated racial segregation by legislating and brutally enforcing Jim Crow laws. It unabashedly aligned with and supported the Ku Klux Klan for over nine decades, thus promoting antisemitism, religious persecution and xenophobia. Over the past sixty-years the Party has embraced and promulgated cultural Marxism which espouses the transformation of traditional American culture and society. The Party has succeeded in undermining the family structure and religious freedom as well as mainstreaming abortions up to the point of birth and what was once considered deviancy. The Democrat party’s two most exalted figureheads are the fervently racist Woodrow Wilson who set the Party on the path of undermining the Constitution in order to remold the United States into a “modern administrative state” (i.e., socialist) and Franklin Roosevelt who was enamored with and utilized Fascist principles in his “New Deal” thus permanently embedding them in the Party’s psyche. An unemotional examination of the underlying philosophies and the tactics the Nazi Party used to gain and maintain power reveals not just the common impulse to weaponize the judiciary to eradicate one’s political opponents (e.g., Donald Trump) but numerous other similarities between the Nazis and the Democrat party that cannot be ignored. Here are eight uncomfortable dimensions of that resemblance.

First, racial and ethnic division was a central component of Nazi political strategy and philosophy. The Nazi Party was . . .

BIDEN’S COVID VACCINATION JAB MANDATES

McMurray: Physician Assistant Fired After Reporting Adverse Reactions to COVID-19 Vaccine to VAERS

n 2021, Conrad began to notice that the side effects of the COVID-19 vaccines were being ignored by fellow medical professionals and that her colleagues were hesitant to report them. “After the vaccines came out, there was this uptick in unusual symptoms, some of which I had never seen in my 20-year career,” Conrad told The Epoch Times. “In every case, it was in somebody who had received the COVID-19 vaccine.” Until the Covid vaccines were released to the public, Conrad had never encountered an adult patient with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Suddenly, patients were being admitted with RSV and, according to Conrad, “Every patient who came in with RSV was vaccinated for COVID. It wasn’t normal.” Conrad also revealed that she saw children who had recently been vaccinated come down with intense cases of pneumonia who had previously been completely healthy. “They weren’t able to walk or eat, and they were completely and totally fatigued,” Conrad said of the adolescents with pneumonia.

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: ANTI POLICE ANTI VICTIM PRO CRIMINAL

Greenfield: 1% of Democrat Counties Make Up 42% of America’s Murders

Democrats desperately trying to spin high crime rates caused by their pro-crime policies began falsely claiming that crime was a Republican problem. The media began running articles with headlines like, “Red States Have Higher Murder Rates” and “Republicans Like to Talk Tough on Crime — But They’re the Ones with a Real Crime Problem”. […] The 1% of bloody red counties include such Democrat strongholds as Philadelphia, New York City, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Dallas, D.C., Miami-Dade, Milwaukee, San Diego, St. Louis, Chicago’s Cook County, L Houston’s Harris County, Detroit’s Wayne County, Memphis’ Shelby County, Pheonix’s Maricopa County, Cleveland’s Cuyahoga County, and many others. […] There isn’t a red state murder problem, red states have a Democrat crime problem. Biden won Cook County, the bloodiest county in the country, by 66%. He won Los Angeles County, the second bloodiest, by 71%, Harris County by 56%, Philadelphia by 81%, New York City by 76%, Wayne County by 68%, and Shelby County by 64%.

Mac Donald: The Great Abdication

In California, public officials now favor the lawless and deviant over the law-abiding and hardworking. […] Lessening the consequences of crime on criminals has not improved California’s safety and habitability. Law-abiding residents are migrating to states that still take seriously government’s responsibility for public order, with a net exodus of 700,000 Californians from 2020 to 2022. Only the continued influx of illegal and legal aliens has prevented California’s population from shrinking more than it already has. The avoidable degradation of the nation’s most beautiful state is heartbreaking. It remains to be seen how catastrophic that degradation must become before officials—and the voters who choose them—reject the Great Abdication and the ideology of antiracism that underpins it.

Hoft: Philadelphia Pays Over $9 Million to Rioters for Injuries Incurred in 2020 George Floyd BLM Riots

Burn down US cities and get paid for it. In May of 2020, the country’s inner cities were destroyed by BLM and Antifa rioters across the country. In response, major US companies were extorted and coerced to pay millions to BLM. Philadelphia was the same as other cities across the country as the rioters burnt down businesses and injured police. TGP reported at the time of a Starbucks that was set ablaze by these violent and destructive rioters.

Greenfield: SF Dems Campaigned Against Gun Violence With Gang Member Who Killed 15-Year-Old

This story isn’t unusual. What’s unusual is that it was exposed in the San Francisco Chronicle. Gang members are a regular feature of urban politics and the assorted protests against the criminal justice system. Consider this a perfect embodiment of a pro-crime party that loves criminals and hates victims.

It was a chilly, cloudy midnight in 2019 when 21-year-old Fernando Madrigal drove through the Mission District with fellow Norteños gang members hunting for rivals. They had a tip that a teenager walking through the neighborhood was affiliated with the Army Street Gang, a chief antagonist of the Norteños. They found him at 24th and Capp streets. Fifteen-year-old Day’Von Hann wasn’t in the Army Street Gang – or any gang. It didn’t matter. The Norteños believed their tipster. So Madrigal shot the teenager to death with an AR-15 assault rifle, according to court documents.

CULTURE

Mores: The ‘Trad-Wives’ Get a New Hip Hop Anthem and Women Are Loving It

The new trend sweeping TikTok has feminists fuming but has men everywhere applauding and women becoming interested. The trend is called “trad wife” and while it might be a “trend,” it has all the groundswell to become something more. And now they have an anthem courtesy of musician Bryson Gray. […]

Enter musician and commentator Bryson Gray who uploaded a song called the “Homemaker’s Anthem,” which celebrates these hardworking wives and mothers and their quest to help provide a stable and well-run home. The hip-hop song points out the difference between a traditional girl and a leftist girl.

Mac Ghlionn: Men in Crisis

The United States is far from united. More than 60 percent of the country’s young men are now single; that’s nearly twice the rate of single young women. Males are now responsible for 80 percent of suicides, according to the CDC. Every 13.7 minutes, somewhere in the U.S., a man takes his own life. The masculinity crisis is real, and it’s getting worse. Why is this the case? Research shows that reciprocal love is a strong predictor of happiness and mental well-being. Sadly, a growing number of men can’t even find a date, let alone a long-term partner. Instead of finding love, more men are finding themselves alone, turning to pornography, video games, and hard drugs to ease the pain. […] Also, for any men reading this who fear that they have below normal levels of testosterone, don’t smoke weed. Today, more Americans smoke cannabis than tobacco, and more men smoke cannabis than women. Marijuana has been shown to decrease testosterone levels, and to create ancillary problems like weight gain and infertility. As testosterone levels continue to plummet, obesity levels continue to skyrocket, and an increasing number of men slip into a pit of existential angst, it’s time to view the masculinity crisis as a national emergency. The men are not okay. In fact, many are drowning in a sea of despair. American culture needs to repair its broken relationship to masculinity.

HISTORY 101

Federer: War on Prayer by Atheists, Socialists, & Communists: “Eliminate prayer in the schools … Control schools … as transmission belts for socialism and communist propaganda”

The war on prayer by progressive lawyers and judges has limited “mandatory” school-sponsored prayer, but students still have the right to “voluntarily” pray! … “In every case defending students’ rights to pray, the students have prevailed, even teachers have the right to pray in school.” (legaltopray) Since 1990, “See You at the Pole” is an annual student-led gathering around a school’s flag pole for voluntary prayer. In 2006, school officials at South Floyd High School in Floyd County, Kentucky tried to hinder students but backed down. The Rutherford Institute successfully defended the rights of the students, as John Whitehead stated: “It’s important that students, teachers and others know about their right to participate in See You at the Pole events — a right affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court … The rallies are part of a long tradition of free and equal participation in expressive activities guaranteed by our Constitution.” A generation ago, President Bill Clinton stated at James Madison High School, July 12, 1995: “The First Amendment does not require students to leave their religion at the schoolhouse door … If students can wear T-shirts advertising sports teams, rock groups or politicians, they can also wear T-shirts that promote religion … Religion is too important to our history and our heritage for us to keep it out of our schools …” Clinton concluded: . . . […] Many are unaware of when and where the effort began to remove prayer from schools? In 1959, . . .

WOKE MEDICAL CARTEL HAS CANCELLED THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH

Frontpage Magazine: Cutting Off Children’s Breasts and Penises

Watch the 1:48 minute interview: https://www.frontpagemag.com/dhfc_videos/cutting-off-childrens-breasts-and-penises/

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: LEFTIST INDOCTRINATION, CHILD MUTILATION, CHILD SACRIFICE, CHILD SEXUALIZATION = CHILD ABUSE

MacDonald: WTH? Trans Activist Dylan Mulvaney Makes Video Pretending to Be Six-Year-Old Character Eloise (VIDEO)

Mulvaney is in New York City celebrating one year as living as a “girl” and is staying at The Plaza hotel — where the Eloise books take place. The jarring video begins with Mulvaney opening the hotel room door and pantomiming as Eloise. “I am Eloise. I am six,” Mulvaney says. “I’m a city child. I live at the Plaza Hotel, which is huge and wonderful and très élégant — especially at Christmas time.” Throughout the video, Mulvaney acts like a small female child, prancing around in a skirt and flopping onto the bed.

Caldwell: Boston School Distributes Explicit Survey on Oral Sex, Transgenderism to Middle-Schoolers

A Boston public school elicited outrage among parents this week when it presented pre-teen students with an explicit survey asking them about their sexual history, including whether they’ve performed oral sex. The principal of Eliot K-8 Innovation School in a Thursday letter to parents acknowledged the “many concerns” over the survey, which was administered on Wednesday to some sixth- and seventh-graders. […] The controversy over the explicit survey comes as schools across the country have faced scrutiny from parents over inappropriate content in the classroom. In 2021, thousands of parents in the Worcester, Mass., public school district pulled their children out of the district’s sex education classes over content they called “dangerous.”

MOVIE REVIEW: AGE OF EASY MONEY

Jacobs: From 2008 To The SVB Bailout, New Documentary Traces The Fed’s Same Old Recklessness

he irony was palpable. An interview with a Federal Reserve Bank official from last fall, claiming that “we’re a long, long way from any kind of disruption” to the financial system — followed in short order by television clips showing the failure of Silicon Valley Bank. But as “Age of Easy Money” shows, the recent bailout of Silicon Valley Bank represents only the latest example of the Fed disrupting the economy and banking system — almost always with long-term consequences. The two-hour documentary, an episode of the PBS series “Frontline,” was more than two years in the making. Some of the interviews aired as part of an earlier one-hour “Frontline” program broadcast in July 2021. For a program so long in production, its airdate proved auspicious. The events of recent days have brought into renewed focus the way in which the Federal Reserve has distorted financial markets with interventionist policies and how unwinding those policies will not come quickly — or easily.

OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION

Farris: Maybe the Idea of the Soul Isn’t Crazy After All

We have all had that unusual guest who doesn’t quite fit in, at least not in our respectable circles. The belief in the soul is like that unusual and unwelcome guest that doesn’t quite fit in, at least not in respectable scientific circles. The notion of the soul as being the core of persons who are free, have religious experiences, and potentially exist disembodied is deemed by scientists of various backgrounds as outmoded and expired. Physicist Sean Carrol implies this when he attributes the supposedly crazy idea to Adam Frank that science should have something to say about the soul and the afterlife. He states: “When we disagree it’s with the kind of respectful dialogue that should be a model for disagreeing with non-crazy people. But here he couldn’t be more wrong.” But Carrol doesn’t end here. He makes one clearly outrageous claim when he says: “Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay into their constituent atoms face one huge, insuperable obstacle: the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood, and there’s no way within those laws to allow for the information stored in our brains to persist after we die.” But maybe this has less to do with ideas about gods, souls, and the afterlife and more to do with the deficiency of physics as an explanation for all things. New Atheists like Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Sam Harris express contempt for the soul, the afterlife, and God, among other things. They too would have you believe

Moore: Michigan Is Headed Back to Rust Belt Poverty

Now the shine is off the engine. The Democrats took back control of the politics in the state, and the first thing they did was repeal “right to work” — a big wet kiss to the union bosses for all those campaign contributions. “Right to work” is the law of the land in 26 states. These laws do not prohibit unions. There are many unions in these states. “Right to work” simply means that workers cannot be compelled to join a union. Democrats are falsely advertising this as a restoration of workers’ rights. That’s a bald-faced lie. Now, to keep your job in Michigan, you must join the union, and you must pay dues to the union bosses. The United Auto Workers union has been plagued with corruption, including massive pay packages to the union leaders. This bill will not only take away the right to choose from Michigan workers, but it will also do great damage to the state’s economy. States that have “right to work” laws create jobs at almost twice the pace of states with forced union policies.

Hawkins: Judge Drops Hammer, Orders Man to Be Chemically Castrated for Raping Child

A Louisiana judge threw the book at a man convicted of raping a child by ordering the pervert to be chemically castrated. After Ryan Clark, 34, pleaded guilty to felony second-degree rape, molestation of a juvenile under 13, and sexual battery, Judge Brian K. Abels dropped the hammer. The judge sentenced Clark to 35 years in prison with the first 25 years to be served without the possibility of parole. Abels also ruled that Clark must register as a sex offender for life, forfeit all parental rights, never contact his victims, and submit to chemical castration before he is ever released back into society. Tangipahoa Parish District Attorney Scott Perrilloux said: . . .

Fine: Library director terminated for ‘unkind pushback’ during Kirk Cameron’s Christian book event

A library director in Tennessee has been fired by The Sumner County Library Board after actor, writer, and vocal Christian, Kirk Cameron, accused him of “unkind pushback” during an event last month. That public library event included Cameron, Missy Robertson of “Duck Dynasty” fame, and acclaimed competitive swimmer Riley Gaines, now an advocate for the rights of women athletes who have been forced to share locker space and compete against biological males, such as swimmer Lia Thomas. Hendersonville library director Allan Morales was ousted by the board in a 4-3 vote on Wednesday after organizers of the event, held in conjunction with Brave Books, a conservative publishing group that published Cameron’s book for children, “As You Grow,” and Robertson’s “Because You’re My Family,” accused the director and his staff of treating “us terribly, unfortunately.” “A head official at the library threatened to . . .

Evbeling: Here’s What Happens at the IRS After You File Your Taxes

Refunds can come in five days—or a few months

INTERNATIONAL

Ali Pour: The Biggest Threat to Democracy

[T]hose who took to the streets and protested the regime were all too aware that the most inhuman punishments and executions awaited them as retaliation for their struggle for freedom. Such courage and sacrifice for democracy and human rights must not be swept aside — these heroic people need and deserve immediate support.
More than 19,600 Iranians have been arrested during the protests; several have been executed. The information, coming from human rights organizations, about how Iran treats political prisoners is terrifying.
In addition, more than 1,000 schoolgirls have been poisoned as “retaliation” and to shut down schools in a move to stop education for girls. As the Wall Street Journal remarked, compared to Iran, Saudi Arabia is Switzerland.

Kaufman: Another Golan Expedition for Convicted US Member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Over the last few years, Hatem Fariz has been spending time in Israel – a lot of time. He did not always have that opportunity. Following his 2003 arrest and, later, his conviction for material support of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Fariz spent several years in jail, unable to travel, let alone overseas to Israel, the nation he and his co-conspirators allegedly sought to destroy. But Israel, it seems, has a serious gap in her security, and because of this, Fariz and his associates have been permitted to roam the countryside, including at times when Israel faces serious threats from PIJ. Last month was one of those times, as Fariz toured Israel’s Golan Heights. Over the last few years, Hatem Fariz has been spending time in Israel – a lot of time. He did not always have that opportunity. Following his 2003 arrest and, later, his conviction for material support of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Fariz spent several years in jail, unable to travel, let alone overseas to Israel, the nation he and his co-conspirators allegedly sought to destroy. But Israel, it seems, has a serious gap in her security, and because of this, Fariz and his associates have been permitted to roam the countryside, including at times when Israel faces serious threats from PIJ. Last month was one of those times, as Fariz toured Israel’s Golan Heights. […] And for Fariz to be traveling back and forth into Israel through Hezbollah-occupied Lebanon is equally serious, if not more so. Why would Israel let him back in? Why would he be let in, in the first place?

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