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Gary D. Barnett contributor to LewRockwell.com: Most of you have entered the final stage of your voluntary acceptance of mass slavery, and that slavery is fully dependent on the concept of fear, compliance to a false ‘authority,’ and total dependence on the very tyrant called government, whose plan is to control the world by controlling the common, ignorant, and apathetic collective crowd called ‘the people.’ The most vital component of this ‘Great Reset’ agenda, is for the majority to be dependent on the State, and that phenomenon is now close at hand. The final foundation of all restriction, control of financial and monetary transactions, and control of movement, will hinge on the farcical fraud called manmade ‘climate change.’ No worries however, because many other excuses, and aspects of control and manipulation will be used as well, but at this point, the ‘climate change’ hoax is the lynchpin of the future takeover plot.

Revolver.news: We need Republican lawmakers to move beyond pointless tweeting and stupid sound bites. It’s time for them to take real action to prevent these overreaching tyrants from pushing our country to the brink.

Raw Egg Nationalist contributor to Human Events: The unpalatable truth is that, although it’s the left that’s really making anarcho-tyranny its own, the right has aided and abetted the left for decades, belabouring ordinary citizens with extra taxation, intruding into their privacy, advancing political correctness, infringing constitutional rights and allowing violent criminals to commit crime, if not with impunity, then certainly without facing real justice. Both sides have benefitted from breaking the rules and violating the social contract, and they will continue to do so. Should we be surprised, then, that ordinary people call for an outsider, a wrecking ball to smash the whole system to pieces?

ABC News: Former President Donald Trump’s press conference previously  scheduled for Monday regarding Georgia’s 2020 election results — in which he was expected to provide more unproven claims about voter fraud — is now canceled. Trump posted on his Truth Social platform Thursday that the press conference was canceled because his lawyers would prefer putting his allegations “in formal Legal Filings.”

THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY

Solomon: Biden probe shifts to National Archives with discovery of private emails between Joe and Hunter

In a dramatic shift in the Biden family corruption probe, House investigators on Thursday demanded full access at the National Archives to Joe Biden’s communications as vice president with his son Hunter and his business partners. The demand came after the House Oversight Committee unearthed an email showing a White House staffer communicated plans for a phone call with Ukraine’s president to Joe Biden on a private email account in 2016 and copied Hunter Biden, an unusual backdoor for a sensitive conversation with a foreign leader.

Read more: https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/biden-probe-shifts-national-archives-discovery-private-emails-joe

Solomon: Pseudonym Joe: How Biden used personal email to share some government business with son Hunter

In late November 2014 — before the rest of the world knew that American Martin O’Connor was about to be released from detention in Turkey — the U.S. embassy in Istanbul sent an email to the State Department that was then forwarded to senior advisers to then-Vice President Joe Biden, the Obama White House point man for many foreign policy crises. […] State Department officials forwarded the information to the vice president’s office, where Biden aide Colin Kahl (now President Biden’s Undersecretary of Defense for Policy) sent it to the private email account robinware456@gmail.com. It wasn’t just any private account. It was one of three pseudonym accounts used by Joe Biden. Soon after the then-vice president would forward the information to his globetrotting son Hunter Biden with the subject line “Fwd: Mr. O’Connor Being Released from Detention today.” The email is one of more than a dozen that Just the News obtained and reviewed over the last two years showing how Joe Biden’s personal email accounts were sometimes used during his first White House tenure to forward government information or discuss government business with his son.

Read more: https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/ukraine-turkey-joe-biden-used-personal-email-share-some-government

Whedon: Judge dismisses Hunter Biden tax charges in Delaware, allowing Weiss probe to advance

U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika on Thursday dismissed two misdemeanor tax charges against first son Hunter Biden that were to be part of his abandoned plea deal, paving the way for special counsel David Weiss to potentially bring other charges. Weiss previously asked that Noreika dismiss the charges, which had been brought as part of the plea deal, so that he could pursue new charges elsewhere, CNN reported.

Read more: https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/judge-dismisses-hunter-biden-tax-charges-delaware-allowing-weiss-probe

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

Fried: Fani’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame

Poor Fani. Her moment of glory will be a short one. Lawyers tell us that Fani’s case against President Trump is likely to be moved to a federal court — because it is directed at federal officials and because the accusations are very similar to those made by Jack Smith in the January 6th indictments. In the end, however, Fani may be happy to let the feds conduct the trial because some of the 161 “Acts of Racketeering” (ACTs) in the indictment involve dangerous criminals doing dangerous things. For example, here is ACT 6 (in its entirety): On or about the 21st day of November 2020, MARK RANDALL MEADOWS sent a text message to United States Representative Scott Perry from Pennsylvania and stated, “Can you send me the number for the speaker and the leader of PA legislature. POTUS wants to chat with them.” This was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. Exchanging telephone numbers: That is pretty scary stuff. ACT 22 is also deeply disturbing. Here is the entire Act, but be advised that reading it may cause stress: On or about the 3rd day of December 2020, DONALD JOHN TRUMP caused to be tweeted from the Twitter account @RealDonaldTrump, “Georgia hearing now on @OANN. Amazing!” This was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. I bet you didn’t realize that watching TV is one of the main ways that racketeers perpetrate their crimes.
What options does Trump have as he faces down this tidal wave of Deep State attacks? Well, the folks at the National Constitutional Law Union recently laid out a legal strategy in a memorandum that outlines a theory of presidential immunity. This theory could be applicable to the three indictments against Trump. The crux of their argument rests on a hypothetical scenario: “Would George Washington have faced prosecution if he had committed similar actions, assuming that the relevant laws were in place during his presidency?” If the answer is “no,” then they argue that prosecuting Mr. Trump under these indictments would be improper as well. This viewpoint is rooted in the Bruen and Dobbs decisions, asserting that all constitutional provisions must be interpreted based on their original meaning from 1787-1789. Gavin Mario Wax, the executive director at NCLU shared the memorandum on X (Twitter) after the fourth indictment against President Trump was just handed down.

Read more: https://revolver.news/2023/08/this-briliant-nclu-legal-strategy-against-trump-indictments-might-blow-the-supreme-court-away/

The Right Scoop: Mark Levin REFUTES Jonathan Turley over a president being able to pardon himself from state convictions

Mark Levin argues that a president can pardon himself from state convictions because of the Constitution’s supremacy clause. He’ll explain it more in his refutation, so I’ll let you read it there. But in Newsweek’s article about it, Turley disagreed with Levin: . . . […] Levin responded to this on Twitter, explaining in detail why he takes this position. Respectfully, Jonathan Turley is simply wrong. The Constitution is silent on whether you can indict a sitting president or whether a president can pardon himself, even for federal offenses. I challenge Jonathan to demonstrate otherwise. Moreover, the argument that a president cannot be indicted is based on practicality and rationality, nothing more and nothing less. That is the position of the Justice Department under attorneys’ general of both parties — first in a 1973 memorandum by the Office of Legal Counsel (under the Nixon administration), and subsequently endorsed by a second memorandum by OLC in 2000 (under the Clinton administration). The position taken is that you cannot have the executive branch decapitated or crippled by a president who is having to spend an enormous amount of time defending his freedom; that we cannot have an elected president who is convicted running the executive branch from prison; and, of course, the impact on foreign policy and national security could be disastrous. The idea, . . .

Read more: https://therightscoop.com/mark-levin-refutes-jonathan-turley-over-a-president-being-able-to-pardon-himself-from-state-convictions/

Dixon-Hamilton: Judge in Donald Trump’s D.C. Case Related to ‘Most Influential’ Marxist Revolutionaries

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1962, Chutkan’s grandfather, Frank Hill, and great uncle, Ken Hill, played a key role in founding Jamaica’s People’s National Party (PNP). Ken Hill was “by far the most influential” member of a Marxist group within the PNP, according to one member of the group. As one online encyclopedia recounted: In 1939 Hill joined a Marxist group in the PNP, which became known simply as the left. One member, Richard Hart, wrote, “Ken Hill, by far the most influential, was more pragmatic and less concerned with political theory than most members of the left. He probably began to consider himself a communist both as a result of the influence of his brother Frank and also his observation of the course of world events” (Hart, 1999, p. 56). Three years later, former Jamaican Governor Sir Arthur Richards jailed Ken and Frank Hill for subversive activity. Richards singled Ken Hill out as “probably the most dangerous subversive agent in Jamaica.” Chutkan’s mother, Noelle, is Frank Hill’s daughter and Ken Hill’s niece. Appointed to the federal judiciary in 2014, Chutkan is one of the many far-left judges former President Barack Obama nominated to the federal bench. […] Chutkan is also known to give harsher sentences to January 6 defendants than her peers on the federal bench. Four of the six cases where judges sentenced January 6 defendants to prison over federal prosecutors’ requests for lesser punitive measures happened in Chutkan’s courtroom.

Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/16/judge-in-donald-trumps-d-c-case-related-to-most-influential-marxist-revolutionaries/

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

Arnold: Disturbing Photos Show the Brutal Mistreatment of J6 Prisoner

Leaked photos show the disturbing treatment January 6 protestors are enduring while real criminals such as President Joe Biden and his corrupt son walk free. January 6 prisoner Ryan Samsel has been held in prison with no future trial date since January 2021 and has moved to 17 different facilities.
During those two and a half years behind bars, Samsel has allegedly been beaten, tortured, and neglected while being kept in a small room the size of a child’s closet. According to photos shared by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Samsel’s tiny cell is constantly illuminated and under surveillance 24/7 with a thin blue mattress and no sheets, blankets, or clothing. He also reportedly is forced to use a bucket as a bathroom. He has lived like this for five months at the Central Regional Virginia Jail (CVRJ). Samsel detailed his experience to the Gateway Pundit.

Read more: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/08/17/disturbing-photos-show-mistreatment-of-j6-prisoner-n2627185

Piper: State Department hides vast majority of emails in FOIA suit about funding disinformation group

A U.S. Department of State office called Global Engagement Center deliberated at length on how to respond to reporters asking about its funding of a group that tries to convince advertisers to shun predominantly conservative publishers, with the goal of starving them out of business. The details that GEC staff discussed, however, are being kept secret and away from the prying eyes of the press and public. Heavily redacted documents were obtained this week by former Education Department lawyer Hans Bader as result of his Freedom of Information Act suit in the District of Columbia federal court against the State Department. The suit sought documents concerning the London-based Global Disinformation Index, a non-profit organization that claims its mission is “to disrupt the business model of disinformation.” The GEC is known for funding anti-populist internet games abroad, such as “Cat Park”, which led the Foundation for Freedom Online to call the GEC “the global-facing political censorship arm of the Internet.”

Read more: https://justthenews.com/accountability/watchdogs/state-department-blacks-out-vast-majority-emails-foia-funding

REPUBLICAN U.S. HOUSE MAJORITY

Congressman Byron Donalds’ August 15, 2023 fight for liberty speech at The David Horowitz Freedom Center

Watch the 45 minute video: https://vimeo.com/854913005

THE 2024 ELECTION

Fleetwood: Wyoming Secretary Of State Warns Election Officials To Repel Dems’ ‘Blatantly Partisan’ Dark Money Election Scheme

Wyoming’s leading election official is sounding the alarm about nefarious actors’ attempts to use private money to influence election administration throughout the state. “As Wyoming’s 23 county clerks continue to prepare for the 2024 Election, I am writing to warn and caution against any attempts made by third parties to fund the administration of elections in Wyoming,” Secretary of State Chuck Gray wrote in an Aug. 10 letter to local election officials. In his warning to county clerks, Gray specifically highlighted ongoing efforts by the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence to use private funds as a means of influencing the electoral process. The Alliance is an $80 million venture funded by left-wing nonprofits to “systematically influence every aspect of election administration” and advance Democrat-backed voting policies in local election offices.

Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/17/wyoming-secretary-of-state-warns-election-officials-to-repel-dems-blatantly-partisan-dark-money-election-scheme/

Scott: Fight over felons’ voting rights heats up for 2024

Voting rights activists and Republican officials across the country are battling over whether felons should have their voting privileges restored once they’ve served their punishments. Why it matters: The tussle is largely partisan, with most Republicans opposing felons voting and Democrats — including those in Congress seeking a national standard for restoring felons to voting rolls — backing the idea as a key step toward rehabilitation. A big reason for that divide: Felons are four times as likely as non-felons to be Democrats or politically unaffiliated, a 2019 study found. Only 20% of felons identified as Republicans after being released. That’s made felon voting a key point of contention in the run-up to the 2024 elections. Zoom in: Voting laws vary from state to state. All felons can vote in Maine, Vermont and D.C., for example.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2023/08/16/felon-vote-where-us-map

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

Fleitz: Smoke and Mirrors Middle East Diplomacy

Despite recent media stories about two supposed Biden Administration foreign policy “wins” in the Middle East, a closer look indicates these wins are not what they seem and may harm U.S. national security. One of the alleged wins concerns the Biden Administration’s effort to normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. On August 9, the Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. and Saudi officials agreed to a framework for a deal under which Saudi Arabia would recognize Israel in exchange for Israeli, Saudi, and American concessions. Although Biden Administration officials said this agreement would take nine months to a year to finalize and faced long odds, they also described it as potentially “the most momentous Middle East peace deal in a generation.” Another alleged Biden foreign policy win, announced on August 10, is a tentative deal to swap American and Iranian prisoners in exchange for unfreezing $6 billion of Iranian assets held by a South Korean bank. Biden officials said these funds would go through a Qatari bank to ensure they are used only for humanitarian purposes. Five Americans have been released from an Iranian prison under the deal but are under house arrest in Iran until an agreement allowing them to leave the country is finalized. On the surface, both initiatives appear to be diplomatic breakthroughs. But a closer look indicates the Biden Administration is trying to claim credit for dubious, unfinished agreements and hide some dangerous details from the American public and Congress.

Read more: https://amgreatness.com/2023/08/18/smoke-and-mirrors-middle-east-diplomacy/

Chang: Will China, Russia, and North Korea Launch Their Nukes?

  • Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un see the world in the same terms, and they all realize that none of them will accomplish their goals unless they get the United States out of the way.
  • Perhaps of greatest concern is that all three regimes [China, Russia and North Korea] share a nuclear weapons doctrine of “escalate to de-escalate” or “escalate to win”: threatening the use of nuclear weapons to keep others from defending their intended victims. Xi and Putin appear capable of actually using their most destructive weapons.
  • Kim has made threats to use nuclear weapons preemptively. His regime last year even enacted a law authorizing such use.
  • When aggressors threaten the use of nuclear weapons, anything can happen. America will have to be prepared that China, along with its friends, are willing to do anything to get what they want.

Read more: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19905/china-russia-and-north-korea-nukes

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

Ballasy: Biden’s CBP phone app a ‘boon for alien smugglers’ as migrant encounters surge

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection smartphone app known as “CBP One” is “facilitating illegal immigration” and has become a “boon for alien smugglers” as migrant encounters surge at the border, according to an immigration policy expert.[…] Krikorian said the Biden Administration took a victory lap too early after the number of migrant encounters had dipped in June compared to May when Title 42 ended. He noted that leaked data reported in The Washington Post shows migrant encounters surging about 30% in July. “A lot of people, smugglers and regular illegals, you know, potentially illegal, said, ‘Okay, well, let’s wait and see. Let’s see how it’s going there. We’re holding back.’ That’s what happens anytime we change policy,” Krikorian said, referencing the initial implementation of the CBP One app for migrant appointments. “There was a brief pause in June in border patrol numbers, some of which was made up for by people being illegally let into the country with CBP One but even that brief reduction looks like it has been eliminated.” In addition, The National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) – the union representing more than 18,000 Border Patrol agents –  reported that the August encounter numbers are on track to be even higher than July.

Read more: https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/cbp-one-app-facilitating-illegal-immigration-migrant-encounters-surge

Montgomery: Docs Warn Migrants Bring Tuberculosis, Hepatitis, Measles, & Syphilis Over Border.

Diseases including syphilis and tuberculosis carried across the border by illegal immigrants threaten New York City and the wider United States, doctors warn, including deadly drug-resistant strains. “When they are bussed to New York and elsewhere, these diseases go with them,” writes Dr. Marc Siegel, a professor of medicine at New York University. One physician working at the Texas border told Dr. Siegel that migrants were increasing the prevalence of tuberculosis resistant to antibiotics – a.k.a. “Super TB” – while other medics warned of migrants potentially causing a measles epidemic.

Read more: https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/08/17/docs-warn-migrants-bring-tuberculosis-hepatitis-measles-syphilis-over-border/

Zahn: Mortgage rates surge to 21-year high

The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 7.09% over the week ending on Thursday, marking a significant increase from 6.96% the week prior, the data showed. The Federal Reserve has put forward an aggressive string of  interest rate hikes as it tries to slash inflation by slowing the economy and choking off demand. That means borrowers face higher costs for everything from car loans to credit card debt to mortgages.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/mortgage-rates-surge-21-year-high/story?id=102348330

Hagstrom: Americans overwhelmingly oppose Biden’s handling of the economy, poll finds

The poll, conducted by The Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, found that just 36% of Americans approve of Biden when it comes to the economy, lower than his overall approval rating of 42%. Biden’s economy numbers remain as low as they were two months ago, despite weeks of pushing his “Bidenomics” messaging from the White House. According to the poll, 55% of Democrats say Biden should not run for president again, though 82% indicated they would vote for him if nominated.

Read more: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/americans-overwhelmingly-oppose-bidens-handling-economy-poll-finds

MAGA War Room Tweet: Larry Kudlow: “This is the story. There was a Trump boom and there is a Bidenomics bust.”

Watch the 1:51 minute video: https://twitter.com/MAGAIncWarRoom/status/1692269410386387040

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

Feland: Walker Art Center holds ‘playful demon summoning session’ for families

The Walker Art Center held a pagan ritual geared toward families last weekend, with a performance called “Lilith the Empathic Demon.” “Demons have a bad reputation, but maybe we’re just not very good at getting to know them,” an event description reads. The event, which took place at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, was part of the Walker’s Free First Saturdays program and featured artist Tamar Ettun who  creates “demon traps.” “Families are invited to create a vessel to trap the demon that knows them best — perhaps the ‘demon of overthinking’ — and then participate in a playful ceremony to summon and befriend their demon,” the website explains.

Read more: https://alphanews.org/walker-art-center-holds-playful-demon-summoning-session-for-families/

Greenfield: Radicals Want Porn, Not PragerU, in Schools

Florida has been falsely accused of “book bans” for pulling graphic pornography and racism from schools. A Florida school district  was sued for keeping,  “All Boys Aren’t Blue”, which features lines such as “he reached his hand down and pulled out my d____”, away from kids. The Biden administration claimed that it was“incomprehensible” that the DeSantis administration had rejected a black history AP course featuring the works of Amiri Baraka whose poems included lines such as “we are all beautiful (except white people, they are full of, and made of s__t)” and “Rape the white girls. Rape / their fathers. Cut the mothers’ throats.” But now the Left has discovered educational materials in Florida schools that it wants to ban. Outrage, condemnations, petitions and threats greeted the revelation that Florida had allowed schools to use PragerU materials if they wanted to. After months of accusing Florida of banning books, the media and leftist activists mounted a crusade to ban PragerU from schools.

Read more: https://www.frontpagemag.com/radicals-want-porn-not-prageru-in-schools/

Kirkwood: Company Fires Concerned Mom Who Spoke Against Perverted Sex-ed Curriculum

Organized Grooming, Inc., pressured a concerned mother’s employer to fire her because she spoke against a perverted sex-ed curriculum. Janet Roberson, who worked for the real estate giant Compass, says the company pink-slipped her after a top “progressive” Democrat notified the company about her short speech before the school board in Benicia, California. Roberson is “hateful,” groomer ally Nathalie Christian wrote in an email to the company. Roberson’s “hate” involved exposing the school board’s sex-ed curriculum aimed at grooming kids to be perverts and “transgenders.” Her other crime is running a conservative website that exposes the city’s relentless promotion of sexual perversion and critical race theory.

Read more: https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/company-fires-concerned-mom-who-spoke-against-perverted-sex-ed-curriculum/

FAUCI LIED. PEOPLE DIED.

Quoth the Raven: The Unforgivable Ivermectin Swindle

This month, lawyers for the Food and Drug Administration admitted in a U.S. court that doctors “do have the authority to prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID”, an admission that stands at stark odds with a multiple year campaign to misinform, misalign and tarnish the reputation of one of the world’s most successful drugs, which could have been used to save hundreds of thousands of lives during the pandemic. […] For those who haven’t followed the story, during the course of the Covid pandemic, it was revealed that ivermectin – a drug that has been administered billions of times to humans and is on the World Health Organization’s list of Essential Medicines – was found in numerous clinical trials to have efficacy in early treatment of Covid-19. If you’re looking for a primer on this, here is a website that aggregates all of the clinical trials and here is a discussion with Bret Weinstein and Dr. Pierre Kory that serves as a great introduction to the topic. If you’ve been at least semiconscious over the last two years, you’ve noticed that early means of treating Covid outside of the vaccines (like Vitamin D, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin) were routinely shunned by “the science” and then, by proxy, the useful idiots in the mainstream media.

Read more: https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/the-unforgivable-ivermectin-swindle

Watch the 34:39 minute interview: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/08/no_author/spike-protein-heart-inflammation-still-present-one-year-post-mrna-injection/

(Covid vaccination related?) William Makis MD Tweeted: BREAKING NEWS: Another PILOT has died inflight!! Aug.16, 2023 – Quatar Airways QR579 (DEL-DOH) Delhi to Doha, Quatar diverted to Dubai as 51 year old senior pilot collapsed inflight and died! 2nd pilot death & 4th collapse THIS WEEK! Aug.14, 2023 – LATAM Flight LA505 (MIA-SCL) pilot died Aug.9, 2023 – United Airlines UAL1309 (SRQ-EWR) pilot collapsed Aug.7, 2023 – TigerAIR Flight IT237 (CTS-TPE) pilot collapsed.

Read more: https://twitter.com/makismd/status/1691882670505210323

<h3″>AS GOES CALIFORNIA SO GOES THE NATION

Thomas & Korte: Behind the math: How California got to $1.2 million for reparation payouts

A state task force recommended cash payments for five types of discrimination Black Californians faced. California legislators are expected to consider a plan that would make it the first in the nation to provide reparations for systemic discrimination against Black Americans. Just what those reparations would look like, however, is proving to be a much trickier question. A task force convened by the Legislature’s Democratic supermajority  wrapped up two years of work this summer, culminating in more than 1,000 pages of findings that discuss eligibility and compensation in the form of both policy changes and direct payouts. The group considered factors beyond slavery, including housing discrimination, health harms, mass incarceration and excessive policing. It recommended that only residents descended from slaves or from free African Americans who lived in the U.S. prior to 1900 be eligible for reparations. The task of putting those ideas to paper now falls to the lawmakers. So far, few have committed to backing any specific statute, including cash payments. Based on the annual amounts recommended by the report’s authors, a person could receive reparations of more than $1.2 million. Here are the five recommendations for reparations the legislature is considering as it looks to carve out a policy for Black Californians.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/17/black-reparations-price-tag-california-00110137

OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION

RedpillUSAPatriots: Kudlow interviewed President Trump – Parts 1 and 2

Watch the two part interview: https://rumble.com/v38n9th-president-trump-part-1.html

Cathell: Big Government Has Come for This Small-Town Amish Farmer. Here’s How He’s Fighting Back.

“They came with a search warrant,” softly spoke Samuel B. Fisher, a mild-mannered cattle farmer operating a 100-acre farm tucked away in Virginia’s heartland. Fisher’s bread-and-butter, Golden Valley Farms, carves out the scenic countryside that’s a hop, skip, and a jump away from historic Farmville, a postcard-perfect small Southern town with classical Main Street charm. The father of five had graciously invited us down to his idyllic pasture to rehash the whirlwind of unforeseen events that unfolded over the cruel summer. It was a tumultuous time on the Fisher farm, an upheaval that threatened to upend the man’s livelihood.” Then, they tagged the meat, so that we can’t touch it; we can’t sell it; we can’t feed our family with it,” Fisher told Townhall.

Read more: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2023/08/18/golden-valley-farms-n2627121

Allen: California Is Trying to Use Its ‘Market Power to Change How We Farm,’ Iowa AG Says

Iowa is calling on Congress to prevent California from overregulating the agricultural sector. “California [is] trying to use their market power to change how we farm [and] I think that violates the Constitution,” Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird says. California’s Proposition 12 regulations, implemented in 2022, “require veal calves, breeding pigs, and egg-laying hens to be housed in systems that comply with specific standards for freedom of movement, cage-free design, and specified minimum floor space,” according to the  California state government. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Proposition 12 in May, leaving the law in place. Now, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and 10 other GOP governors have sent a letter to Congress asking lawmakers to protect the “nation’s agricultural interests from states that are working to put onerous and unfounded regulations on livestock producers that will ultimately increase food costs and hurt farming operations.”

Read more/Listen to the 14 minute interview: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/08/18/california-is-trying-use-its-market-power-change-how-we-farm-iowa-ag-says/

Justice: GOP Rep Aiming More Fire At Christian Tweet Than Trump Indictment Shows Why Republicans Keep Losing

That’s more concerning: that a Republican congressman has religious liberty fundamentally backward or that he’s focused on harassing grassroots conservatives while the GOP presidential frontrunner is indicted with the latest of 91 charges? On Tuesday, freshman Rep. Max Miller from Ohio went on X, formerly known as Twitter, to decry a call for “faith in Jesus Christ alone” as “bigoted.” A post from an Ohio activist apparently set him off. “There’s no hope for any of us outside of having faith in Jesus Christ alone,” wrote Lizzie Marbach. Miller, who is Jewish, took offense. “This is one of the most bigoted tweets I have ever seen,” Miller wrote, demanding Marbach “Delete it,” because she had “gone too far.” “Religious freedom in the United States applies to every religion,” he added. It’s quite a comment from a congressman who spoke at the 30-year anniversary of the apparently bigoted Ohio Christian Alliance. Miller didn’t stop there. […] Miller apologized for the post after drawing online rebuke. “I posted something earlier that conveyed a message I did not intend,” Miller wrote three hours after the initial post. “I will not try to hide my mistake or run from it.” Miller’s office, however, did not respond to the Federalist’s repeated inquiries over what the congressman did intend by the Wednesday morning deadline.

Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/16/gop-rep-aiming-more-fire-at-christian-tweet-than-trump-indictment-shows-why-republicans-keep-losing/

Boose: The Right Can’t Beat the Left at Its Own Game

The phrase “our democracy” has become a pervasive cliche in American politics. But who is the subject in this presumptuous expression? Although never defined explicitly, the answer is implicit in what it does not include. To a greater and greater extent, American politics revolves around black people, women, and immigrant populations from the Third World, which together form the core of the Democratic party. The remnants of the old country are now facing obsolescence, with only a weak and ambivalent vessel, the Republican party, to defend them. The right, whether out of denial, cowardice, or a lack of imagination, has failed to grapple with the deep roots of its demise. Republicans ostracized “nativists” and helped facilitate the demographic replacement of their own voters with the delusion that cheap Third World day laborers are “natural conservatives,” overlooking the most naturally conservative constituency of all: white men. The right failed to conserve gender roles, as women left the home and became angry foot soldiers of a socialist revolution. Now we observe the results.

Read more: https://amgreatness.com/2023/08/18/the-right-cant-beat-the-left-at-its-own-game/

Jewell: Hundreds Of New Yorkers Protest ‘Tent City’ For 1,000 Illegal Immigrant Men Opening Near Elementary School

The protesters held up signs and chanted “no tent city,” opposing the move by state officials to house illegal immigrants in the new shelter as hotels and homeless shelters in the Big Apple are overrun with thousands of people who illegally entered the country and were bused to New York. The tent city, approved by state leaders, opened Tuesday after being set up in 10 days in the parking lot of a psychiatric facility in Queens, Fox 5 reported.

Read more: https://www.dailywire.com/news/hundreds-of-new-yorkers-protest-tent-city-for-1000-illegal-immigrant-men-opening-near-elementary-school

The National Pulse: Woman Who Threatened Trump Trial Judge Has History of Threats, Criminal Mischief, & Drug Abuse.

Corporate media worked overtime Wednesday night to report threats received, via voicemail, by D.C. Trump judge Tanya Chutkan, including calling her a “slave n*gger,” and adding “you are in our sights, we want to kill you… If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you, so tread lightly, b****.”

What every single media outlet failed to report, however, is that the now charged Abigail Jo Shry has a sad record of arrests dating back to mid-2022, and a series of mugshots which clearly identify the same woman, but with varying ages, heights, and weights.

Read more: https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/08/16/trump-judge-threat-lady-is-drug-mischief-serial-offender-with-terrorist-threat-charge-from-july/

INTERNATIONAL

Welch: Brits Turning Away from Socialized Medicine In Favor of Private Coverage.

The British are abandoning the country’s so-called “envy of the world” – the socialized and monolithic National Health Service (NHS) – opting instead for private healthcare, mostly due to record length waiting times for routine treatments. Aviva, Britain’s largest insurance provider, saw health insurance premium sales increase by 58 percent in the first six months of 2023, with both individuals and companies looking to improve both the quality and speed of treatment and consultation. […] More than 7.6 million Britons are waiting for medical treatment – equivalent to around 12 percent of the population – with nearly 400,000 on standby for heart conditions. Two in five patients have to wait up to 18 weeks to be seen by their general doctor.

Read more: https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/08/16/brits-turning-away-from-socialized-medicine-in-favor-of-private-coverage/

Sundance: Stunningly Low Prices – A Visit to an Average Russian Supermarket

I wouldn’t normally write a post like this, but WE ARE NOT going to find this level of ground reporting anywhere in U.S. media.  As you might be aware, I have been doing extensive research on the Russian economy specifically with the outcome of western sanctions. In his video a Youtuber I follow visited a local supermarket, similar to a Walmart Super Center to share information for his USA followers. Dima Dear, a remarkably nice young man, lives in St Petersburg, Russia (formerly Leningrad), and he shares various experiences with his audience at their request.  There is a lot of U.S interest as people following his story are starting to realize life in Russia is not what western media portray.

Read more/Watch the video: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/08/17/stunningly-low-prices-a-visit-to-an-average-russian-supermarket/

U.S. DEBT CLOCK

https://www.usdebtclock.org/

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