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U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs: The Purple Heart

It is one of the most recognized and respected medals awarded to members of the U.S. armed forces. Introduced as the “Badge of Military Merit” by General George Washington in 1782, the Purple Heart is also the nation’s oldest military award. In military terms, the award had “broken service,” as it was ignored for nearly 150 years until it was re-introduced on February 22, 1932, on the 200th anniversary of George Washington’s birth. The medal’s plain inscription “FOR MILITARY MERIT” barely expresses its significance. On August 7, 1782, from his headquarters in Newburgh, New York, General George Washington wrote: . . . […] For unknown reasons, the medal apparently was not awarded again. […] In January 1931, General Douglas MacArthur, Summerall’s successor as Army Chief of Staff, resurrected the idea for the medal. Miss Elizabeth Will, an Army heraldic specialist in the Office of the Quartermaster General, was assigned the task of designing the medal according to some general guidelines provided to her. . . . On February 22, 1932 — the 200th anniversary of George Washington’s birth — the War Department (predecessor to the Department of Defense) announced the establishment of the Purple Heart award in General Order No. 3: . . .

NOTABLE QUOTES

Naomi Wolf contributor to Frontpage Magazine: It is, as President Trump often reminds us, not about him; it is about us. It is about setting a precedent that ends the right of the American people to ask any questions, in the future, about their election results. Which is exactly how coups operate, once the coup leaders are in power. In banana republics, they still hold elections. You just don’t get to question who you are told the winners are.

Andrea Widburg contributor to American Thinker: I don’t always agree with the strategies that Trump and his lawyers choose to defend the myriad charges being made against him, but one of them is brilliant: Trump is demanding that his trial in Jack Smith’s poorly disguised “insurrection” case be televised. Not only is it hard to run a kangaroo court when the world is watching, but this will finally allow the nation to hear all the evidence for claiming election fraud. Given Trump’s unique situation, the big question is whether the judge will bend the existing ban on cameras in federal proceedings.

Kulak Substack: The left accepts every single principle of fascism, indeed it is impossible to find a structural difference between progressivism and fascism in terms of the actual governing and economic system…

Sebastian Neri contributor to The American Mind: Modern warfare is conducted with sophisticated weapons systems that require a great deal of training and technical infrastructure. In the coming decades, we may see the rise of a new warrior class that devotes itself to developing the skills needed for modern combat, and large, quasi-state organizations with the resources to run it. PMC Wagner will be among the first of many such organizations to rise to prominence.

Tom Harris contributor to PJ media: Dr. Clauser stated that the climate change narrative is “a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people.” This is, of course, an entirely accurate description of the state of the world today. Incompetencies in government and a host of other problems facing the world are erroneously blamed on climate change. By focusing on human-caused climate change, we take our focus away from solving real-world problems, such as helping those in poverty attain cheap and reliable energy and a decent standard of living.

Ethan Huff contributor to Natural News: The world is being prepped by the globalists for some very soon, and very extreme, changes to the global economic order. Lately, there has been a lot of talk about a “nuclear armageddon” and another round of lockdowns, this time to fight climate change and global warming. The daughter of Klaus Schwab, Nicole Schwab, has been pushing the idea of “climate lockdowns” for some time now, and many others are calling on fake president Joe Biden to implement the same.

Elon Musk tweeted on 8/5/2023: If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill. No limit. Please let us know.

Elon Musk Tweeted on 8/5/2023: And we won’t just sue, it will be extremely loud and we will go after the boards of directors of the companies too

Robert Spencer contributor to PJ Media: Colin Kaepernick needs the people he no doubt thinks of as the old racists who run the NFL far more than they need him. And he doesn’t need to rejoin the NFL to benefit from them; all he has to do is go through this tired charade every year of appearing to be fit and ready to play. Then he can charge that the NFL is so systemically racist that he has once again been denied his chance to shine. It is from the resentment and hatred that this claim generates that Colin Kaepernick profits, and so he will keep it alive as long as he possibly can. When he is in his forties and older, he won’t be able to sustain it, so he has to make hay while the sun shines. The real game here isn’t football; it’s faux victimhood and the bogus claims of bigotry that fuel all the posturing. In that game, Colin Kaepernick is a sure hall-of-famer.

BIDEN’S DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: PERSECUTE YOUR OPPOSITION, PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

(Feds seek a gag order) Cheney & Gerstein: Feds alert judge to Trump’s ‘If you go after me, I’m coming after you!’ post

Prosecutors on Friday night called a judge’s attention to a social media post from Donald Trump — issued hours earlier — in which they say the former president appeared to declare that he’s “coming after” those he sees as responsible for the series of formidable legal challenges he is facing.

Attorneys from special counsel Jack Smith’s team said the post from Trump “specifically or by implication” referenced those involved in his criminal case for seeking to subvert the 2020 election. […] The prosecutors said Trump’s post raised concerns that he might improperly share evidence in the case on his social media account and they urged that he be ordered to keep any evidence prosecutors turn over to his defense team from public view.

Mondeaux: Federal judge tells Trump to respond to DOJ protective order by Monday

A federal judge issued a ruling ordering Donald Trump to respond to a protective order filed by the Justice Department that would block the former president from sharing details of evidence from his Jan. 6 criminal case proceedings. In a court order filed Saturday afternoon, Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled Trump’s legal team must respond to the special counsel’s motion by Monday at 5 p.m. The order comes after the DOJ issued a court filing at about 10 p.m. on Friday, calling attention to a message Trump posted on his Truth Social account that prosecutors say raises concerns the former president may improperly share details about his latest criminal proceedings.

(8/6/2023) CNN Dash questions Trump lawyer after Trump lashes out at special counsel

CNN’s Dana Bash speaks with John Lauro, an attorney for former President Donald Trump, about Trump’s threats aimed at special counsel Jack Smith and the DOJ probe into attempts to overturn the 2020 election

Watch the 10:57 minute interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdaKB0n43hE

Sundance: Seriously Sketchy – Judge Boasberg Sits in Back of DC District Court During President Trump Appearance

As noted in Politico describing President Trump’s court appearance yesterday, “Minutes before Trump entered the pin-drop silent room, several federal judges — who have been processing the carnage of Jan. 6, 2021 for more than two years — filed into the public gallery, turning themselves into spectators in a building they typically rule. Chief Judge James Boasberg, who presided over several of the secret grand jury battles that preceded the charges against Trump, was among those marking the moment.” […] “Boasberg’s presence in the courtroom was a statement in itself. Alongside him was Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who has in her own courtroom excoriated Republicans who have refused to contradict Trump’s continued lies about the 2020 election. The pair, flanked by other judges and magistrate judges, watched Trump’s every move intently.” In March, when I wrote the outline about Judge Boasberg being the corrupt DC judge who broke the constitutional restrictions on executive privilege, which technically forced Mike Pence to turn over his notes and testify to James Smith and the DC grand jury, I said at the time, “The entire judicial system is corrupt, soup to nuts, all of it.” I was not using hyperbole. […] I hate to say it so bluntly, but the federal court system in Washington DC is compromised and yes, weaponized […] That’s the true “conspiracy against rights”. […] This is the same Judge Boasberg who sat as presiding judge on the FISA court. The same Judge Boasberg who . . .

Widburg: As President Trump is indicted for January 6, more evidence emerges that it was a set-up.

Coincidentally, I’m sure, in the lead-up to his being taken off the air at Fox News, Tucker Carlson and his team were investigating events on January 6—the same events that are serving as the basis for Jack Smith’s creative indictment against Donald Trump. One of the things that Fox News prevented from airing was an interview with former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steven Sund, during which he told Tucker that the FBI had “a lot of operatives” in the crowd. There was more, and it all feeds into the reasonable belief that January 6 was a set-up.

January 6 has been enormously useful to the Democrats:

It allowed them to certify the electoral college votes without any objections. These objections (which Democrats have vigorously made over the years) are a prerequisite to challenging the count.
It allowed them to round up almost 1,000 Trump supporters and destroy their lives, a useful lesson to anyone else who might think about opposing the Biden regime…er, administration.
It allowed them to pretend that the lack of crowds in D.C. for Biden’s inauguration was due to security requirements rather than to the reality, which is that no one would have shown up anyway.
And, of course, most usefully at all, it’s just allowed them to indict Biden’s chief rival, President Donald Trump, in the lead-up to the 2024 election. The charge, while failing to use the word “insurrection,” essentially alleges that Trump defrauded America by ignoring those of his advisors who believed in the 2024 election (many of whom have been outed as fervent Trump haters) and, instead, looking to evidence of election of fraud and believing that election.

Knowing how useful January 6 was for Democrats—and considering that the “insurrection” narrative kicked within fewer than 24 hours —it’s worth considering a very loose rundown of the timeline. […] In event after event, it’s the system, not Trump, that’s inexorably pulling the crowd into the Capitol. And in event after event, it was Trump who tried to put the brakes on things, only to be blocked. The previously hidden revelations from former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steven Sund are entirely consistent with the above facts: . . .

THE CORRUPT & DANGEROUS U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES & THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE APPARATUS

Turley: Even lies are protected speech: New Trump indictment bulldozes the First Amendment

The latest federal indictment of former President Donald Trump was handed down this week with all of the authority of papal infallibility. Pundits lined up to proclaim that case as the greatest prosecution in history. Former Obama administration acting Solicitor General Neil Katyal even declared that the indictment touched off “the biggest legal case in our lifetimes, perhaps almost ever. It’s up there with cases like Dred Scott, it is up there with Brown v. Board of Education.” What was missing was any serious consideration of the implications of allowing the government to criminalize false statements in a campaign.

Trump was not charged with conspiracy to incite violence or insurrection. Rather, he was charged because he “spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won.” In order to secure convictions for this, Special Counsel Jack Smith would need to bulldoze through not just the First Amendment but also existing case law holding that even false statements are protected.

Benny Johnson: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆

What is really happening to America in 2023? The indictments have nothing to do with Trump. Not really. Conversely, the cover-up of impeachable crimes have nothing to do with Biden. Don’t kid yourself. Joe Biden is not powerful or smart. He’s barely alive. And that’s the point. This is a pure exercise in POWER by those who truly *wield* power in our society: The security state. The ‘security state’ is made up of a constellation of permanent Washington DC apparatchiks who cling to the power center like fossilized barnacles. The security state *never* puts their names on a ballot. Too dirty. They would not dream of stooping that low. They are the 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆 It’s far superior to control who CAN run for office. And who is allowed to WIN that office. And who is allowed to STAY in office (i.e. Nixon & JFK)

Sperry: Deception by Redaction: More FBI FISA Abuses, This Time Using Fake News in the Washington Post

The FBI’s efforts to mislead a federal court in order to wiretap an adviser to the Trump campaign were more extensive than previously reported, according to classified documents described to RealClearInvestigations. The embattled bureau tried to hide its misconduct by redacting information about its actions under the guise that it involved sensitive intelligence information. RCI has learned that at least some of the redacted material, included in a “Classified Appendix” to Special Counsel John Durham’s final report, has nothing to do with protecting “sources and methods” and other “sensitive” investigative techniques.

Instead, it covers up additional improper behavior by the FBI brass, which initiated and signed off on all four of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications to spy on former Trump adviser Carter Page and his contacts within the Trump campaign and presidency in 2016 and 2017. For example, . . .

TYRANNY IN THE NAME OF CLIMATE DOOM MYTH: GLOBALIST POLITICIANS & BIG BUSINESS ACCUMULATE MORE POWER & CONTROL

Harris: Canceling Skeptical Scientists Is the Real ‘Climate Crisis’

“There is no real climate crisis.” That statement, as well as others against the mainstream climate change narrative of impending doom, led to the cancellation of a speech that was to be given by Nobel Prize laureate Dr. John Clauser to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The censorship has been covered in media worldwide, and besides giving the IMF a huge black eye, is leading many to wonder — what has gone wrong with climate science that such a prominent expert would be canceled merely for disagreeing with a scientific hypothesis? Let’s dig into this important news story. Dr. Clauser is an experimental and theoretical physicist and was the joint recipient of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the foundations of quantum mechanics in the 1970s. He is now on the board of directors at the CO2 Coalition based in Arlington, Va. Dr. William Happer, chair of the board at the CO2 Coalition, said that “His [Dr. Clauser’s] studies of the science of climate provide strong evidence that there is no climate crisis and that increasing CO2 concentrations will benefit the world.”

(July 21, 2023- An EPA proposal that will lead to worldwide starvation) CO2 Coalition Submits Comment on EPA’s Proposed Power Plant Regulations as Dangerous and Unscientific

A proposed federal rule to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants should not be adopted because it scientifically invalid and would endanger lives by denying people the benefits of fossil fuels and increasing levels of CO₂, according to two eminent physicists. The rule has been proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), . . . Among those who have submitted comments are Drs. William Happer and Richard Lindzen, professors emeriti at Princeton University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, respectively. “We demonstrate (in the 47-page commentary) that EPA failed to consider critically important aspects and data concerning CO_2, fossil fuels and climate change, and EPA relied on numerous studies that violate the scientific method,” wrote the professors, each authors of more than 200 peer-reviewed papers on climate and closely related subjects. “As a result, the proposed rule, which could eliminate fossil fuel electricity plants that provide 61% of electricity in the United States, will be disastrous for the country for no scientifically justifiable reason.” […] First, Carbon Dioxide Is Essential to Life Social Benefits. Carbon dioxide is essential to life, creating via the process of photosynthesis the food we eat and the oxygen we breathe. Without carbon dioxide, there would be no human life or other life on earth. Further, increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere create more food for people worldwide, including more food for people in drought-stricken areas. To illustrate, . . . Second, Fossil Fuel’s Extraordinary Social Benefits. They are indispensable in creating nitrogen fertilizer and pesticides that feed nearly half the world; their combustion releases carbon dioxide and thus increases plant growth via increased CO2 fertilization effect, creating more food worldwide; and they provide the most reliable, efficient and low-cost energy for many uses, including the production of 61% of the nation’s electricity. Third, The Consequences of Net Zero Are Disastrous. Corresponding to these benefits are the disastrous consequences that would flow from “net zeroing” fossil fuels and carbon dioxide and eliminating the enormous social benefits they provide, including the disastrous consequences of eliminating 61% of the nation’s electricity provided by fossil fuel power plants. The number of people worldwide who are moderately or severely food insecure is . . .Fourth, The Scientific Method Proves There Is No Risk That Fossil Fuels and Carbon Dioxide Will Cause . . .

Read much more: https://co2coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Happer-Lindzen-EPA-Power-Plants-2023-07-19.pdf

Open The Books: The National Desk: EPA Bureaucrats Are Staffed Up, Lawyered Up & Armed Up. Does It Look Like Total Control?

Open The Books: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | OpenTheBooks Oversight Report

[…] 6. The EPA has a law enforcement arm responsible for bringing environmental criminals to justice. In FY 2023 appropriations for the Criminal Enforcement Program were $70.7 million. This spending does not include EPA’s Office of Homeland Security. Originally set up in response to 9/11, EPA documents state the office’s mandate has since expanded “and several areas (e.g., climate, natural disasters) now involve engagement from the broader national security community.” EPA budgeted $89 million for Homeland Security activities in FY 2023. 7. These enforcement offices need weapons. Between 2018-2022 EPA spent $618,602 on items categorized as “Small Arms” or “Small Arms Ammunition.” 8. If the EPA legal team was a private law firm, then it would currently rank as the 34th largest law firm in America with 1,022 “general attorneys” (and one “patent attorney”) in FY 2022. Last year this crew collectively received $157,267,047 in compensation. 960 of the attorneys make over $100,000, and 18 make over $200,000. FY 2022 has seen the highest total compensation for the general attorney workforce, swelling from 989 staffers and $146 million compensation in FY 2018. [NOTE: The EPA own IG said that the agency has so much money that it can’t properly be audited.]

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: CANCEL THE SECOND AMENDMENT

Hawkins: Democrats Push 1,000 Percent Excise Tax on AR-15s

House Democrats introduced legislation Friday that would place a 1,000 percent excise tax on AR-15s and other firearms they refer to as “assault weapons.” FOX News reported the tax would also apply to “high capacity” magazines. Rep. Don Beyer (D) and 24 other Democrats are behind the tax which they also pushed last year. The imposition would force the price of a $500 firearm to jump to $5,000 and “a weapon that normally costs $2,000 would force customers to pay more than $20,000.”

PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT/PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY

Nevradakis, PhD: Despite 12 Deaths During Clinical Trials, CDC Signs Off on RSV Shots for Newborns

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday recommended the first-ever monoclonal antibody marketed as a defense for all newborns against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. Beyfortus, also known as nirsevimab, is produced by pharma giants Sanofi and AstraZeneca.

In a press release, the CDC referred to the drug as a “powerful tool” and a “new immunization.” According to the agency: . . . […] According to The Associated Press (AP), the drug will be offered as a “one-time shot for infants born just before or during the RSV season and for those less than 8 months old before the season starts,” and for some high-risk 8-19-month-old infants. […] Brian Hooker, Ph.D., P.E., senior director of science and research for Children’s Health Defense (CHD), cited the significant number of infant deaths during Beyfortus’ clinical trial in his remarks: “This is really too bad and seems to be a part of the Department of Health and Human Services’ scare tactics recently regarding RSV, which is generally a mild infection that finds its origin during the development of the polio vaccine. “The efficacy of the antibodies from clinical trials is woefully low and the circulating half-life of such a therapeutic may be as low as two weeks. “I’m also worried about allergic reactions in newborns, especially given the high dose of antibodies and especially given that 12 infants died in the experimental arm of the clinical trial.” […] Experts are also raising questions about the CDC’s treatment of Beyfortus as a vaccine in some instances and as a drug in other cases.

Baletti, Ph.D. What’s in New Anthrax Vaccine? Aluminum, Formaldehyde and Benzethonium Chloride

Emergent BioSolutions’ new anthrax vaccine contains dangerous toxins and may cause severe side effects, according to the product’s package insert. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which approved the vaccine last week, posted the package insert late Friday. “Is this a label or a cartoon?” asked Meryl Nass, M.D., a bioterrorism and anthrax expert who published an analysis of the insert on Substack. “You can’t make this stuff up,” she said. The insert reports that Cyfendus uses two adjuvants, an aluminum adjuvant and a new synthetic adjuvant — CPG7909. The vaccine also contains a saline solution containing formaldehyde and benzethonium chloride as preservatives. Aluminum adjuvant is a known cytotoxic and neurotoxic substance used to induce autoimmunity in lab animals. Peer-reviewed research published in Neuromolecular Medicine linked the aluminum adjuvant in the existing anthrax vaccine to Gulf War Illness (GWI), a cluster of symptoms including muscle aches, joint pain, dizziness, memory lapses, headaches, fatigue, insomnia, emotional disorders, posttraumatic stress reactions, headaches, and memory loss.

FAUCI LIED. PEOPLE DIED.

NIH: IgG4 Antibodies Induced by Repeated Vaccination May Generate Immune Tolerance to the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein

To date, 72.3% of the total population has been injected at least once with a COVID-19 vaccine. As the immunity provided by these vaccines rapidly wanes, their ability to prevent hospitalization and severe disease in individuals with co-morbidities has recently been questioned, and increasing evidence has shown that, as with many other vaccines, they do not produce sterilizing immunity, allowing people to suffer frequent re-infections. […] However, emerging evidence suggests that the reported increase in IgG4 levels detected after repeated vaccination with the mRNA vaccines may not be a protective mechanism; rather, it constitutes an immune tolerance mechanism to the spike protein that could promote unopposed SARS-CoV2 infection and replication by suppressing natural antiviral responses. Increased IgG4 synthesis due to repeated mRNA vaccination with high antigen concentrations may also cause autoimmune diseases, and promote cancer growth and autoimmune myocarditis in susceptible individuals.

J. Gehrett MD, B. Gehrett MD & Flowers MD: Report 78: Thirty-Two Percent of Pfizer’s Post-Marketing Respiratory Adverse Event Patients Died, Yet Pfizer Found No New Safety Signals.

The War Room/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysis Project Post-Marketing Group (Team 1) – Joseph Gehrett, MD; Barbara Gehrett, MD; Chris Flowers, MD; and Loree Britt – wrote a compelling analysis of Respiratory Adverse Events of Special Interest (AESIs) found in Pfizer document 5.3.6 Cumulative Analysis of Post-Authorization Adverse Event Reports of PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) Received Through 28-FEB-2021 (a.k.a., “5.3.6“). This category of AESIs contains conditions of damaged lung structure or impaired oxygen or carbon dioxide exchange.

It is important to note that the AESIs in the 5.3.6 document were reported to Pfizer for only a 90-day period starting on December 1, 2020, the date of the United Kingdom’s public rollout of Pfizer’s COVID-19 experimental mRNA “vaccine” product.

Key information from this report:

Of the 130 total patients in this SOC, 41 (32%) died.
Of the 137 relevant adverse events, 126, or 92%, were categorized as “serious,” which, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), includes patient outcomes such as death, life-threatening events, hospitalizations, and disability or permanent damage.
Diagnosis included: . . .

Daily Clout: Shocking FOIA Results: $11 Million to Bribe OB-GYNs to Lie to Moms About Safety of MRNA-Vaccines

Dr. Naomi Wolf interviews Dr. James Thorp. Dr. Thorp reveals FOIA results: $11 million to bribe OB-GYNs to lie to moms about often-abortifacient MRNA injections.

Watch the 41:50 minute interview: https://dailyclout.io/shocking-foia-results-11-million-to-bribe-ob-gyns-to-lie-to-moms-about-safety-of-mrna-vaccines/

McCullough, MD: Two Waves of Illness, Injury, Disability, and Death

In this age of social media and internet censorship, Americans are coming out to live public events in order to learn more about what has happened during the pandemic and what can we expect next. None of the major university medical centers or medical schools held public forums or updates on the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak. Americans were given no information on how to defend themselves or protect their families. […] Tarrant County Citizens Defending Freedom held a well attended event on August 3, 2023, which led off with a heart-breaking personal vignette given by Kenya Alu, BSN, Executive Director of the society. She is a former nurse who gave a gripping account of how her 69 year-old father fell ill with COVID-19 and was entrapped in a hospital as desperate family members attempted to advocate for advanced care, multi-drug treatment in the McCullough Protocol, and his basic nutrition and hydration needs.

Read more/Watch the 3: 22 minute video: https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/two-waves-of-illness-injury-disability

MEDICAL CARTEL CANCELLED THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH

McCullough MD: American College of Cardiology Pushing COVID-19 Vaccines

Organization Endorses Heart Damage as a Necessary Price to Pay. I have been impressed with the lockstep of medical organizations supporting COVID-19 mass vaccination at all costs since December 10, 2020 to the present day. With record rates of myocarditis and a multitude of reports indicating skyrocketing cardiac arrests, one would think the American College of Cardiology would draw concerns over the new genetic products which have an FDA warning for myocarditis. Before COVID-19, it was well known in the field of cardiology, that exercise in the setting of myocarditis could trigger cardiac arrest. However, like so many aspects of COVID-19 vaccine injury syndromes, acute COVID-19 vaccine myocarditis is obscured in the . . .

Emmons: EXCLUSIVE: Oregon medical group blames Libs of TikTok after being exposed for denying woman breast cancer treatment over her gender critical views

After an Oregon breast cancer patient was dismissed from the medical practice where she was getting treatment due to her refusal to believe men are women, the medical group doubled down and backed their initial reaction, which was to ban her from the practice. The Richmond Family Medicine Clinic, part of OHSU, in Portland, Oregon, said that they are taking “measures to guard against harassing behavior.” In an email obtained by The Post Millennial, the medical clinic also complained that the account from their former breast cancer patient as to how she was dismissed was shared by Libs of TikTok.

Marlene Barbera, who was set to receive a mastectomy later this month due to her breast cancer . . . […] LGBTQ Nation covered the story as well, saying that Barbera, in seeking treatment in an environment that respected her existence, was “oppressing” trans people. In dismissing Barbera, the medical group said that her comments were “hurtful” to the LGBTQ community. The trouble began when Barbera went to an appointment at the Richmond Family Medicine Clinic, and a trans flag was on display. “I wrote my Doctor a MyChart message all about how offensive, I, as a gender-critical woman, found political messaging in a healthcare setting,” she said. […] Barbera said it was “daunting” to be a natal woman who doesn’t believe that men can become women and to go to her doctor’s office to discuss her upcoming mastectomy for breast cancer, a traumatizing experience for many women, and to find this harmful ideology on full display. She asked for a telephone appointment in order to discuss her treatment. “May I please have a telephone appointment to discuss how I may access your medical care without walking under a banner that seeks to negate all I am?” Barbera asked. The answer was a resounding “no.” She had been with the practice for 12 years.

JUDICIARY

Murdock: Federal Court Upholds Connecticut Law Eliminating Religious Exemptions For Childhood Vaccines

A Connecticut law eliminating religious exemptions for childhood vaccines is constitutional and legal, according to a federal appeals court. In a Friday ruling, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit dismissed the claim that refusal to accept religious exemptions for vaccinations was unconstitutional.

“[I]t is not enough for a law to simply affect religious practice; the law or the process of its enactment must demonstrate ‘hostility’ to religion,” stated the court. “[E]xempting a student from the vaccination requirement because of a medical condition and exempting a student who declines to be vaccinated for religious reasons are not comparable in relation to the State’s interest.”

La Mahieu: Federal Judge Blocks Illinois Law Targeting Crisis Pregnancy Centers: ‘Violation Of The First Amendment’

The bill that was signed into law last week by Governor J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) allows the state’s attorney general to investigate a case of alleged consumer fraud against crisis pregnancy centers accused of deceptive practices, but it has raised concerns that it would be used to target pro-life centers that suggest an association between abortion and breast cancer or infertility. “The bill is painfully and blatantly a violation of the First Amendment,” U.S. District Judge Iain Johnston said on Thursday.

CHINA: AMERICA’S MORTAL ENEMY

Schmad: Energy Secretary Granholm Consulted Top Chinese Energy Official Before Draining U.S. Strategic Oil Reserve

According to internal Energy Department calendars obtained by Fox News, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm spoke with Zhang one-on-one multiple times in meetings that had not previously been made known to the public. Granholm and Zhang met on November 19 and November 21, 2021, just days prior to the administration’s announcement that they would be releasing oil from the strategic reserve on November 23. The timing of Granholm’s meetings has critics questioning China’s level of influence over the Biden administration’s energy policy. “Secretary Granholm’s multiple closed-door meetings with a CCP-connected energy official raise serious questions about the level of Chinese influence on the Biden administration’s energy agenda,” Americans for Public Trust executive director Caitlin Sutherland told Fox News.

Greenfield: China Recruits BLM to Protest for Slavery

Not to be outdone, the People’s Republic of China decided to join the fun by paying black nationalists to organize rallies against a ban on solar panels produced by its slave laborers. In a historical irony, black nationalists went out to protest in defense of slavery. At least two known protests were organized in Washington D.C. where a crowd waved signs outside the White House with terrible slogans like ‘Solar Panels are Paneless, Leave Them Alone’, and ‘I’m Getting Heated,- Leave My Solar Panels Alone.’ Coverage of a previous rally by an alleged Chinese propaganda outlet claimed that “except for Caucasians, other races are restricted by law in terms of rights, and they even do not have the right to participate in politics.” […] The Chinese Communist dictatorship obviously doesn’t have any respect for its useful idiots, but this latest revelation is a reminder that black nationalism remains a dangerous fifth column.

There had already been evidence of collusion between Chinese front groups and BLM activists during the race riots of 2020, but here the Communist dictatorship appeared to be recruiting black activists to explicitly campaign for its own economic goals inside the United States. In 2020, Black Lives Matter riots inflicted the worst enemy assault on American cities since 9/11. It’s not surprising that on seeing the handiwork of the racist domestic terrorist movement that China is interested in being in the BLM business. Chinese propaganda outlets have amplified and tried to incite racial conflict after police shootings. Xinhua, a state propaganda outlet, has tweeted out the racist BLM hashtag and showed up to interview people in hot spots.

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

Sundance: Secretary of State Antony Blinken Condemns Russian President Vladimir Putin for Arresting Political Opposition

Da comrade citizens, the Biden regime is intent on breaking the global hypocrisy meter and winning the 2023 UN charter challenge for geopolitical laughter amid con-dem-nations. Russian President Vladimir Putin is going to release the snark filled retort in 3…. 2….

Greenfield: Read more: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/08/04/secretary-of-state-antony-blinken-condemns-russian-president-vladimir-putin-for-arresting-political-opposition/

Greenfield: China, Russia Show Biden’s Weakness by Sending 11 Ships to Alaska

While Biden keeps talking about Ukraine, America is under siege at home. Our enemies are closing in and testing us. From China’s spy balloons and hacks to this latest incursion, the threats are close to home. A combined Russian and Chinese naval force patrolled near the coast of Alaska earlier this week in what U.S. experts said appeared to be the largest such flotilla to approach American shores. […] “It is a historical first,” said Brent Sadler, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a retired Navy captain. It’s also an escalation. […] This is an escalation that we’re not paying attention to.

Fleitz: Biden Admin Planning to Evade Congress with Secret New Nuclear Deal with Iran

Question: How can the Biden administration implement a new nuclear agreement with Iran that is far more dangerous than the Obama administration’s 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement and avoid criticism of the agreement from the American public and Congress?

Answer: Negotiate a secret, oral nuclear agreement with Iran so there is nothing for the American people and Congress to see. Several press outlets, including Haaretz, Axios and The Jerusalem Post, have confirmed this secret nuclear deal. The agreement reportedly is a set of unwritten “understandings” and is the result of indirect talks between the U.S. and Iran that began in May, with Oman serving as a mediator.

(H/T WC) SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER: SITREP 8/5/23: Projecting the Intermediate Future

. . . here’s what the advisor to the former president of Ukraine had to say about Zelensky’s outlook: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy faces civil war if he continues to illegally hold power in the country. A former adviser to Leonid Kuchma, Oleh Soskin, said this on YouTube. “If martial law is not cancelled and elections are held, this power will be considered illegitimate. And since illegitimate, it is outlawed, and any Ukrainian within the framework of the fifth article of the constitution can destroy the rebels,” he said. Earlier, Soskin said that the decision announced on 26 July to extend martial law shows Zelenskyy’s fear of losing the election. The expert also noted that the failed policy of the Ukrainian president was the reason why many spheres of the state, including the economic and military ones, were almost completely destroyed. “The Kiev regime has no popular support. As soon as the external supports fall away, everything will collapse at once,” the politician said. In short, Ukraine faces flagging support from the West and is forced to resort to increasingly escalatory ‘gimmicks’ like mass terror drone attacks on Moscow in the same vein as the terminal phase of the Wehrmacht in WW2 vindictively launching V1/V2 rockets at London. This is nothing more than a dying animal, thrashing out its last gasps.

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

Mish Talks: America’s Fiscal Time Bomb and the Fitch Downgrade of US Debt in Pictures

“Everybody who reads the newspaper knows that the United States has a very serious long-term fiscal problem,” said Fitch in its downgrade of US debt. Government Expenditures and Receipts Notes

The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) numbers are incomplete for the second quarters so these numbers are through 2023 Q1.
Expenditures are $6.443 trillion while receipts total only $4.779 trillion. That’s a gap of $1.664 trillion.
Transfer payments include . . .

(H/T WC) Tverberg: Our Oil Predicament Explained: Heavy Oil and the Diesel Fuel it Provides Are Key

It has recently become clear to me that heavy oil, which is needed to produce diesel and jet fuel, plays a far more significant role in the world economy than most people understand. We need heavy oil that can be extracted, processed, and transported inexpensively to be able to provide the category of fuels sometimes referred to as Middle Distillates if our modern economy is to continue. A transition to electricity doesn’t work for most heavy equipment that is powered by diesel or jet fuel. A major concern is that the physics of our self-organizing economy plays an important role in determining what actually happens. Leaders may think that they are in charge, but their power to change the way the overall system works, in the chosen direction, is quite limited. The physics of the system tends to keep oil prices lower than heavy oil producers would prefer. It tends to cause debt bubbles to collapse. It tends to squeeze out “inefficient” uses of oil from the system in ways we wouldn’t expect. In the future, the physics of the system may keep parts of the world economy operating while other inefficient pieces get squeezed out. In this post, I will try to explain some of the issues with oil limits as they seem to be playing out, particularly as they apply to diesel and jet fuel, the major components of Middle Distillates. […] The substitution of electricity for oil so far has been mostly in the direction of replacing gasoline usage for private passenger automobiles. Substitution of electricity for Middle Distillates would be virtually impossible.

(Targeting certain journalists) Bluey: White House Purges 442 Reporters Using New Press Credential Rules

Over the past three months, the number of reporters with access to the White House dropped by 31%. There are now 442 fewer reporters with a coveted “hard pass”—the result of new rules announced in May that took effect Tuesday. The Daily Signal’s Fred Lucas was among the reporters slated to lose his White House press credentials, although he was given a 10-day extension “to submit the required materials.” The White House now requires reporters to obtain press credentials from Congress or the Supreme Court to fulfill its new requirement; Lucas is currently awaiting a decision on his applications to the other branches. […] The White House announced new rules in May to limit the number of journalists who are eligible for a White House hard pass. Reporters are still allowed to apply for a day pass, but they must do so daily and undergo Secret Service review. Up until this week, the White House didn’t disclose the number of reporters who had a hard pass. Politico reported, “Within the past three months, the number of hard pass holders dropped from 1,417 to 975,. . . […] The Daily Signal, a media outlet founded by The Heritage Foundation in 2014, doesn’t have press credentials to cover Congress or the Supreme Court, although Lucas has applied for both and continues to await a decision from each institution. […] A lawyer representing Matthew Anthony Harper, the White House correspondent for InterMountain Christian News, sent the White House a cease-and-desist letter on July 24 objecting to the new rules.

Wilson: Biden Admin Withdraws Troops From Border Amid New Migrant Spike

An anonymous Defense Department official told the Associated Press that the Pentagon will pull 1,100 troops from the border by August 8. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin first sent the troops in May for a 90-day stint amid the migrant surges surrounding the expiration of Title 42, the pandemic-era rule that allowed officials to turn migrants away. Austin has authorized 400 troops to stay at the border through August 31. The pulled troops assist with tasks such as warehouse support and data entry, freeing up Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents, officials say. The removal comes as the border sees a surge in crossings, especially in Arizona, the Texas Tribune reported: . . .

Otterbein & Lemire: Biden world moves to stave off Cornel West and No Labels threat

Top Democrats, including those close to Joe Biden, are moving to dull the possibility that not one but two third-party challengers could siphon away critical votes in the upcoming election. Inside the party, there is bubbling concern of a repeat from what happened seven years ago, when Green Party candidate Jill Stein drew more votes in three critical battleground states than the amount by which Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in those places.

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: CHILDREN ARE THE TARGET OF THE DARKNESS AFFECTING OUR NATION

Alfonseca: ACLU files lawsuit against drag show restrictions in Texas

The law doesn’t specifically mention drag performances, but local politicians have made it clear that the law is intended on restricting drag performances in the state. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said in a statement that the bill would prohibit “sexualized performances and drag shows in the presence of a minor.” The law is set to go into effect on Sept. 1. The law restricts the “exhibition or representation, actual or simulated, of male or female genitals in a lewd state” as well as “the exhibition of sexual gesticulations using accessories or prosthetics that exaggerate male or female sexual characteristics” which could restrict the use of cross-dressing in public performances, according to the bill. These performances would be restricted from public properties or in the presence of someone under the age of 18. […] Supporters of laws like the one in Texas believe drag shows are inappropriate for minors.

Warren: ‘Arrested – Simply for Reading the Bible’: Police Detain 4 Young Christians at Drag Queen Event

Four young Christians were arrested Saturday in Watertown, Wisconsin while they were preaching the gospel at a public drag queen show focusing on children. Organizers of the city’s annual event known as “Pride in the Park” had advertised the show being held in a public park as “family-friendly.”

A video of the arrest of one young man, Marcus Schroeder, was posted and shared on various social media platforms. The one-minute and 29-second video clip shows several police officers approaching Schroeder as he is standing on a public sidewalk outside the event reading the Bible over a loudspeaker. One of the officers, who has sergeant stripes on his sleeves, suddenly grabs the microphone away from him. As he questions what they are doing, the officers inform Schroeder he is being arrested for violating a sound ordinance about noise amplification. […] “Rather than arrest those sexualizing children – the police arrested four Christians exercising their First Amendment rights including my daughter and one of my sons-in-law.” […] According to Wisconsin law, causing a child under the age of 13 to view or listen to sexual activity is a Class F felony. If the child has not attained the age of 18, it is viewed as a Class H felony.

Pullmann: In Classical Schools, Kids Don’t Test For Weeks And The Quiet Ones Can Shine

Due to their mission to ‘support good government and the happiness of mankind,’ classical schools are seeing surges in enrollment — and hatred from legacy media. […] Classical education has been taking a battery of negative fire in recent years, all of it untethered to students and teachers’ daily work. A Washington Post report in June, for example, claimed pictures of the Founding Fathers and the colors red, white, and blue are racist. In May, NBC News attacked a small-town charter school and school board for devoting themselves to virtue and citizenship. It’s a coordinated smear campaign that reveals the leftists making massive dividends from running public schools are defensive about what they teach kids. […] Students in classical schools recite timeless poetry and study key historical documents. The students at Hillsdale-affiliated public schools all learn the “Pledge of Allegiance” and “The Star-Spangled Banner.” They learn about slavery’s persistence throughout all cultures and history. They learn the ideals that have inspired millions of Americans to spend their lives ending slavery, and later racist laws such as Jim Crow and affirmative action: the natural rights elucidated by America’s founders. They learn about the numerous differences between those ideals and reality that persist to this day. Facts like these don’t always support leftist ideology. That’s a problem for big-media outlets like The New York Times, which have gone all-in on guilting Americans into voting for Democrats. Public schools’ capture by Democrat-benefitting special interests has corrupted their original purpose of promoting “religion, morality, and knowledge” to support “good government and the happiness of mankind.” Their schools aim to resuscitate this kind of education, says Hillsdale College’s “K-12 Program Guide,” which outlines the curriculum affiliate schools use. It’s due to this kind of mission that they and broadly similar schools are seeing surges in enrollment and school openings.

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY CANDIDATES

Sundance: Megadonor Tells DeSantis to Get Moderate or Else, Within Hours DeSantis Dismisses 2020 “Stolen Election Theories” as False

These two events are not coincidental. Ron DeSantis megadonor Robert Bigelow (below right) is already into the failing DeSantis campaign for $20 million. Billionaire donor Bigelow tells Reuters that he has told the DeSantis managers the candidate needs to take moderate positions, or he will not donate any more money {LINK HERE}. Ron DeSantis is then questioned by reporters in Iowa about the Trump indictment and the claims of the 2020 election being stolen. Immediately DeSantis changes his talking points. “All those theories that were put out did not prove to be true,” Mr. DeSantis said in response to a reporter’s question after a campaign event at a brewery in Northeast Iowa.” {LINK} It’s very easy to see the dynamic as it unfolds. In the big picture, Ron DeSantis has been trying to court the MAGA base of voters, the current heart of the new Republican Party. However, DeSantis has failed in his effort to pull away Trump supporters, and simultaneously DeSantis is running out of money. That’s the context for the changed dynamic. […] “He does need to shift to get to moderates. He’ll lose if he doesn’t … Extremism isn’t going to get you elected,” Bigelow said in an interview, adding that he had communicated these concerns to DeSantis’ campaign. […] Bigelow said he would not donate more money for now. “Not until I see that he’s able to generate more on his own. I’m already too big a percentage,” Bigelow said. “A lot of his donors are still on the fence.” (read more)

RSBN: President Donald J. Trump Speaks at Alabama GOP Dinner – 8/4/2023

Start the video at the 1;47:38 mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj6Z8QsvexU

DOCUMENTARY REVIEW: THE ESSENTIAL CHURCH

Plain: The Essential Church’: Faith vs. COVID

The Essential Church opened in theaters nationwide last weekend. The documentary reminds me that many individuals throughout history fought state-mandated interference in how Christianity could be practiced, often sacrificing their lives. As I watched three pastors whose churches reopened in May 2020 shepherd their flock, I was encouraged by their faith but also reminded of all the leaders who failed me. After churches were ordered closed by California’s Governor Newsom, the documentary’s protagonist, Pastor John MacArthur, preached to a mostly empty 3,000-seat sanctuary. The church doors were not locked, and people, including uniformed police officers, started showing up. The need for church was evident as more and more people, many who had never been to church, gathered on Sunday to hear his sermon. Many heard God’s word, and many accepted Christ. Most pastors and Christians, however, allowed the state to deem church services “non-essential” and adopted the false morality touted by public health officials, where the virtuous treated his fellow man as a biohazard, with keeping him at six feet’s distance as the loving thing to do.

SCARED STRAIGHT

Censored Men Tweet: 10-year-old child was disrespecting his mother, so she called a veteran to come and set the record straight

Watch the 1 minute video: https://twitter.com/CensoredMen/status/1687451507287785472

OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION

Saavedra: Elon Musk Vows To Go To War Against Companies That Punish Employees For Activity On X

X owner Elon Musk said on Saturday night that his company would go to bat for people who are punished by their employers for things they do on his social media platform. […] X filed a lawsuit last week against a non-profit organization accusing it of unlawfully accessing private data and cherry-picking posts to show a rise in hate speech on the social media platform under Musk’s ownership. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the social media company formerly known as Twitter claims the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) — a British non-profit that researches so-called online hate and disinformation — orchestrated a “scare campaign to drive away advertisers from the X platform” by publishing so-called hate speech reports.

Drey: Jordan Peterson Invites Elon Musk To Join Legal Battle Against Canadian Regulator Threatening His License

Dr. Jordan Peterson invited billionaire business magnate Elon Musk on Sunday to join his legal battle against the College of Psychologists of Ontario, which has threatened to remove Peterson’s clinical psychology license over his social media activity. Peterson and the Canadian regulator have been facing off against each other since November after the government-backed college levied accusations that Peterson “may have lacked professionalism” in some of his social media posts, The Daily Wire previously reported. The regulator, which governs the psychology profession in the province, ordered Peterson to undergo “social media communications retraining,” which includes “coaching” for his commentary on X, formerly known as Twitter, or potentially have his license suspended.

Ghlionn: Illegal immigrants in colleges soar to nearly 2% of population, study finds

At least 408,000 students without legal documentation to be in the country enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities, yet another system impacted by the surge in illegal immigration, according to a new study. The new report by the American Immigration Council and the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education, found that undocumented migrants now account for nearly 2 percent of the higher education population. The vast majority, the authors noted, arrived in the U.S. in their formative years, either as children or teenagers and most often through former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program that blocked deportation of certain foreign youth.

Elordi: Wyoming Tennis President Resigns Over Trans-Identifying Male Competing Against Women: ‘Very Unfair’

Jackie Fulkrod stepped down from her position as president of the Cheyenne Tennis Association board, saying she opposed trans-identifying male player Brooklyn Ross competing against women in the Wyoming Governor’s Cup this weekend. “I think a man playing against a woman is a very unfair matchup when it’s specifically meant for women in that specific draw,” Fulkrod told the Cowboy State Daily. “I feel like having a transgender athlete compete in the women’s draw is against my personal integrity and what I believe and value.” “My decision to resign was solely based on the fact that we didn’t have any way to protect our organization or protect our female athletes that are going to be playing in the tournament,” Fulkrod told the outlet.

Megan Rapinoe slammed by USA fans for LAUGHING after missing a crucial penalty in the World Cup shootout against Sweden…before crying on the field as her team are knocked out

It meant that Rapinoe, 38, has played her last World Cup game for the USA. She was crying on the field with her devastated teammates in Melbourne after Sweden won but it was her immediate reaction to her own penalty miss that left many fans with little sympathy. She took USA’s fourth penalty in the shootout to give her team a 4-2 lead in the shootout and blazed her shot high over the crossbar. But as she jogged back to the halfway line, she was – much to the confusion of fans watching back home – smirking and laughing to herself. ‘I don’t see what’s funny about this?’ one fan wrote on Twitter in response. ‘The laughing shows how much this team took this as a joke. So much for being a role model for the rest of the team.’

INTERNATIONAL

Whedon: Trump isn’t the only ex-world leader in legal jeopardy

While his indictments are unprecedented in American history, legal woes for an ex-head of state are far from unique around the world. Since 1980, nearly half of the world’s countries have had a former leader face prosecution or be imprisoned, Axios reported. Of leaders who have left office just since 2000, that figure stood at 78 countries. Here are some of the major world leaders to have recently found themselves in legal jeopardy: Benjamin Netanyahu. The recently re-elected Israeli prime minister is currently facing a corruption trial in his home country that combines years of investigation and three separate cases of corruption and bribery into a single prosecution. Last month, testimony in that case focused on gifts from a Hollywood producer and pressure that Netanyahu applied to create tax breaks for Hollywood movie moguls. Netanyahu has vehemently denied the charges, dismissing such gifts as friendly gestures and not bribes and insisting he was not acting in Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan’s personal interest. Imran Khan Khan served as Pakistan’s prime minister from 2018 to 2022, before losing a no-confidence vote in April of his final year in office. He subsequently survived an assassination attempt in November 2022 and was later arrested in May 2023 on corruption charges. Khan’s arrest by Pakistani paramilitary troops came the same day that the former head of state warned that authorities sought to arrest him to prevent him from seeking reelection . . . Jacob Zuma . . . Jair Bolsonaro . . .

Joseph: Mexican city bans live music degrading to women

Officials in Chihuahua, Mexico, voted to ban live musical performances with lyrics that degrade or discriminate against women last week. Those who violate the restriction could face fines from 674,000 to 1.2 million pesos, or the U.S. equivalent of $39,000 and $71,000. The move comes as Mexico, especially Chihuahua, has been dealing with a high rate of violence against women. In a video update on Facebook July 26, Chihuahua Mayor Marco Bonilla called the recent surge in attacks on women a “pandemic.” […] Two distinctive forms of Mexican music, namely narcocorridos and corridos tumbados, have been associated with violence and the drug trade. The ban imposed in Chihuahua could have repercussions on these genres, which have gained popularity through popular artists like Peso Pluma and Natanael Cano.

Murray: Scottish government axes 16 million trees to clear the way for ‘greener’ solutions

Stupidity is increasingly state-sanctioned. Since 2000, the Scottish government has felled around 1,700 trees on a daily basis, all to make way for “green” initiatives. Leave it to the government and their leftist abettors to harp on the “destruction of the environment” then chop down literal trees to create barren wastelands—all to make room for obtrusive, industrial, inanimate behemoths that obliterate all sorts of animal populations, and create massive amounts of environmental pollution (in production, maintenance, and disposal). […] They squeal about “carbon pollution” then level green (literally and figuratively) CO2 consumers, and replace once-thriving forests with technological, ecological, and fiscal abominations. Every day, they “do something stupider” than the day before. Low-brow Greenies are the quintessential “useful idiots” and it certainly shows.