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JB Shurck contributor to Gatestone Institute: As many scholars on radical movements have attested, “Much of the activism currently tearing Western civilization asunder is driven by ideas that can be traced back to Maoism.” China’s “Cultural Revolution” already destroyed one great civilization; perhaps the West should reject importing a cultural revolution of its own before it finally becomes too late.

Fred Fleitz is vice-chair of the America First Policy Institute Center for American Security and contributor to American Greatness: Biden’s strategy for Ukraine is to provide military aid “for as long as it takes.” This is not a viable strategy. Americans are a compassionate people and want Ukraine to win this war. We would like to see Russian forces expelled. We want to help. We want to do the right thing. But Ukraine is not a vital U.S. interest. Therefore, our involvement in this conflict must be limited and not open-ended.

Paul Craig Roberts contributor to LewRockell.com: In the United States the majority of the population remains white despite 58 years of mass immigration of non-whites. Despite remaining a large majority, white Americans are not only being replaced but are being disappeared along with their history.

Jordan Boyd staff writer at The Federalist: Keeping incompetent, mentally compromised leaders around puts their health and safety at risk. More importantly, it puts our nation’s health and security at grave risk. Afflicted politicians like Biden and McConnell clearly have no intentions of retiring, which is why Americans like me and you must do it for them.

Dr. Sebastian Gorka contributor to AMAC: Rule-of-law is the only thing that matters. If justice isn’t blind, then you have no rights.

Dr. Meryl Nass board-certified internist and expert in Anthrax: WHO’s proposed pandemic treaty will enable the WHO to take over jurisdiction of everything in the world by saying that climate change, animals, plants, water systems [and] ecosystems are all central to health. In addition to that, it will remove human rights protections, enforce censorship and digital passports, require governments to push a single “official” narrative, and enable the WHO to declare “pandemics” on a whim. We’re undergoing a soft coup… under the pretext of pandemic preparedness and the biosecurity agenda.

Asher Pat contributor to American Thinker: For many, the greatest joy is to bring children into this world. But Wokeism shames those who want children because of “Climate.” Many young women are reluctant to have children because of this anti-human ideology. There is even a campaign for voluntary sterilization, though it seems to lack diversity. And somehow, the one-child-per-family-inspiring tyrant Mao had seven offspring, and glamorous enviro-crusaders like Sting have six children, David Suzuki has five, and Mr. Inconvenient Truth himself has four!

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

Koenig: Republicans react with fury to ‘brazen’ timing of bombshell new Trump indictment and claim charges were filed to distract from Biden family scandals after First Son’s sweetheart deal collapsed

Republican lawmakers claimed the federal government is releasing new charges against Trump to distract from Hunter Biden’s alleged crimes
Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team of prosecutors unveiled additional charges against Trump Thursday night over classified documents scandal
It came after the Department of Justice’s deal with Hunter Biden collapsed, leaving the First Son susceptible to further criminal charges

Among the new charges are allegations that the former president allegedly told aides to ‘wipe’ security footage from his Florida club’s server as a way to foil investigators probing the removal of classified documents from the White House. […] In the wake of the indictment, Trump also weighed in via his Truth Social platform. ‘Whatever happened to the Crooked Joe Biden Document’s case? He had 20 times more boxes than I did, and he wasn’t covered by the Presidential Records Act. I was!,’ the former Apprentice host wrote in part. […] Hawley: Yeah. Now we’re down to charging random people. Just throwing those into the indictment.. We cannot allow this to stand.

Whedon: Updated: Trump faces additional charges in classified documents case

The former president faces allegations of obstruction and willful retention of national defense information, the Associated Press reported. Trump has previously pleaded not guilty to 37 counts in the case. Smith’s office has also indicted the Mar-a-Lago estate’s head of maintenance in connection with the case of former President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified materials. Carlos De Oliveira is third person indicted in the case, Fox News reported. Smith has previously charge the former president’s aide, Walt Nauta, both of whom have pleaded not guilty. The specific charges against De Oliveira remain unclear as of press time.

Halff: Barricades erected outside Fulton County Courthouse in Georgia spark rumors Trump’s third indictment is imminent just hours after he was hit with MORE charges over classified document scandal

Barricades erected outside the Fulton County courthouse now,’ Bethea wrote on Twitter. ‘Looks like preparation for some big legal news …’ The barricades appeared as District Attorney Fani Willis prepares to announce her decision to spring a third indictment against Trump in connection to his alleged attempts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election as part of a years-long investigation. Last year, Willis opened the criminal investigation ‘into attempts to influence the administration of the 2020 Georgia General Election.’

Sundance: Why Would NBC Be Stalking Members of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Grand Jury?

Nothing like a little spotlight pressure to keep all the DC participants on the right path. Nudge-Nudge, Wink-Wink, Say-no-More. Worth noting Valerie Jarrett’s daughter, Laura Jarrett, is a member of the NBC surveillance team [link here], reporting her findings to NBC headquarters. Lest we forget, it was NBC who ended up getting caught for tracking and conducting surveillance on jury members in the Kyle Rittenhouse case.

GLOBALISM (GREAT RESET/ONE WORLD ORDER) & TRANS HUMANISM (AI HUMANS 2.0) ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED

Shurk: The West Is Importing China’s Cultural Revolution

The founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Klaus Schwab, routinely applauds China’s surveillance State for its capacity to “nudge” citizens toward compliance. While China apologists turn a blind eye to the one-party communist State’s continuing genocides against Christians, Tibetans, Uyghurs, Falun Gong practitioners, and other minorities, they champion the machinery of China’s technocratic totalitarianism as a model for the rest of the world. It is deeply unsettling to see a destroyer of civilizations held up as the future for global civilization.
Schwab’s influential organization seeks to recreate a Chinese system where a small group of elites bark orders and ordinary citizens dutifully obey.
If the WEF were actually interested in projecting Enlightenment ideals, Western liberalism, and democratic norms throughout the globe, that unelected body of aristocrats would be doing everything in its power to convince Chinese leaders of the fundamental importance of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, private property, the rule of law, and respect for privacy. That they do no such thing suggests that the WEF’s loyalties are more aligned with the Chinese Communist Party’s mandarins than Schwab’s ideological followers are willing to advertise.
Given how synchronized the Chinese Communist Party and the World Economic Forum continue to be, it appears that Schwab is more than willing to help China export its totalitarian police State across the globe.

Wide Awake Media: Klaus Schwab: Humans Will Have Microchip Implants By 2026

In a 2016 interview with Radio Télévision Suisse, World Economic Forum founder, Klaus Schwab, asserts that humans will have microchips implanted in their brains, and under their skin, by 2026. “In the end, there will be a direct communication between our brain and the digital world.”

Watch the 45 second video: https://wide-awake-media.com/klaus-schwab-humans-will-have-microchip-implants-by-2026/

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

Greenfield: Blinken Gets Subpoenaed as Military Officers Testify There Was No Afghanistan Withdrawal Plan

The State Department finally issued its official ‘what happened in Afghanistan’ report that mostly absolved it of responsibility while suppressing dissenting materials. Congress has been trying to get hold of those even while State keeps stonewalling. Now Congress is beginning to lose its patience. […] US House foreign affairs committee chairman Michael McCaul on Tuesday subpoenaed the State Department in a bid to obtain documents related to its Afghanistan withdrawal report, accusing President Joe Biden’s administration of “obstruction”. Mr McCaul said in a statement that the subpoena was delivered directly to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday morning for the “Afghanistan AAR files” – the collection of underlying documents used to produce the State Department’s After-Action Review. “The committee has been forced, by the department’s obstruction, to issue a subpoena,” Mr McCaul said. […] “There was very little intelligence to suggest the Biden administration’s plan would work and a mountain range of evidence to suggest the plan would fail,” retired Col. Seth Krummrich, former chief of staff for special operations at U.S. Central Command, testified on Thursday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “The president’s decision to ignore the best military advice and execute an immediate military withdrawal was a shock and a rude awakening for all the planners.”

Boswell: EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden’s full plea deal TRANSCRIPT – and how his sneaky lawyers and prosecution team tried to hide clause giving him ‘blanket immunity’ in ‘crazy, unprecedented’ tactic until Judge Maryellen Noreika ‘smelled a rat’

Prosecutors tried to ‘hide’ a blanket immunity clause for Hunter Biden in a ‘crazy’ and ‘unprecedented’ tactic – but were exposed by the judge during the three-hour hearing with the president’s son and his lawyers in her Wilmington courtroom Tuesday, says a former government lawyer. Ex-Assistant US Attorney (AUSA) Will Scharf slammed prosecutors and Hunter’s legal team, led by Chris Clark, for allegedly trying to fool U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika into approving the generous and unorthodox plea deal without proper scrutiny, […] ‘Judge Noreika smelled a rat. She understood that the lawyers were trying to paint her into a corner and hide the ball,’ he said. ‘Instead, she backed DoJ and Hunter’s lawyers into a corner by pulling all the details out into the open and then indicating that she wasn’t going to approve a deal as broad as what she had discovered.’ […] In the hearing, Norieka grilled Delaware AUSA Leo Wise over the strange way they had arranged their deal. ‘We looked through a bunch of diversion agreements that we have access to and we couldn’t find anything that had anything similar to that,’ she said, according to a transcript. ‘Have you ever seen a diversion agreement where the agreement not to prosecute is so broad that it encompasses crimes in a different case?’ ‘No,’ Wise admitted, then tried to follow up but was cut off by the judge and told to ‘sit down’.

War Room: Mike Davis Explains The Latest On Hunter Biden’s Sweetheart Plea Deal.

Watch the 5:58 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v32pa6q-mike-davis-explains-the-latest-on-hunter-bidens-sweetheart-plea-deal..html

Meads: Rapid Reaction: Major Dem Donor Let Off The Hook For Alleged Campaign Finance Fraud

1. DOJ Lets Sam Bankman-Fried Off The Hook For Campaign Finance Fraud The Department of Justice will not pursue campaign finance charges against the disgraced former crypto-king Sam Bankman-Fried after the DOJ learned that the U.S. hadn’t obtained permission from the Bahamas to extradite Bankman-Fried on that charge. Bankman-Fried, who ran the multi-million dollar crypto-investing firm FTX, was charged on eight counts, including fraud, money laundering, and campaign finance violations. He was a major Democrat donor. The change in his indictment came late Wednesday night. Rapid Reaction: Is it any wonder trust in the U.S. government is slow when the infamous SBF gets treated like this by the DOJ? As TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk said, “There’s a very real chance that one of the worst scammers in American history will get a slap on the wrist.”

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

Roberts: White America: Disappeared and Replaced

In the United States the majority of the population remains white despite 58 years of mass immigration of non-whites. Despite remaining a large majority, white Americans are not only being replaced but are being disappeared along with their history. You no longer see white families in corporate ads. If a family is shown, it is a black man, white woman and mixed race children, or it is an Asian woman, white man and mixed race children. A white family has been given negative meaning as a statement against “diversity.” Diversity has trumped the basis of a nation state, which is a homogeneous population. A diverse, multicultural population is a Tower of Babel, not a nation. Without a common culture, there is not a common interest. Without a common interest, there is no nation, only a geographical boundary. Ever since the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission created racial quotas in defiance of the statutory prohibition in the 1964 Civil Rights Act, white Americans, especially heterosexual males, have been second class citizens in law. It has been legal for 59 years to discriminate against white heterosexual males in university admissions, employment, promotion, and protection by law.

[…] White Americans are helpless to stand up for themselves, because half of them–the blue state half–have succumbed to the brainwashing and indoctrination that white people–only white people–are “aversive racists” by birth and skin color, and as such are threats to people of color. This argument justifies restraints on white people, such as second class legal status in order to ameliorate “white privilege.”

War Room: ‘It’s Going To Collapse’: Dave Brat Walks Through Alarming Economic Indicators.

Watch the 10 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v32psv4-its-going-to-collapse-dave-brat-walks-through-alarming-economic-indicators..html

I & I Editorial Board: Biden’s Awful Plan To Raise Your Taxes To Support Global Socialism

he Biden administration has just spent two years negotiating with a group of foreign countries to raise taxes on U.S. companies operating overseas. Now we’re being told it’s been “delayed” for two more years. But why delay a bad decision? It’s an awful idea that should be rejected out of hand.

“Americans have already been crushed by inflation caused by the Biden administration,” argued West Virginia congresswoman Carol Miller, in a recent op-ed. “But now, they want to add fuel to the fire by giving American taxes to foreign countries, raising costs for Americans, and sticking us with the bill for funding a global socialist agenda.” Her analysis is spot on. The U.S. Treasury and White House have no business negotiating a deal to subvert America’s sovereignty and erode its economic power, which the accord with the 38-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), headquartered in the ultra-deluxe Château de la Muette in Paris, is clearly meant to do.

Morabito: Beware Of Bureaucrats Wanting To Be Your BFF

The feds want to fix your loneliness with another set of policies and bureaucracies while sustaining the policies and bureaucracies that helped create that sense of isolation in the first place. […] So I hope you’re alarmed to learn that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been charged with curing the nation of its loneliness epidemic. Seriously. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Ct., recently introduced the National Strategy for Social Connection Act. Among other things, the bill would create a new bureaucracy: a federal “office of social connection policy” to advise the White House. If you think it will end there, I have a lovely bridge in Wuhan to sell you. In fact, the urge to federally monitor human relationships looks like it’s becoming a trend. The United Kingdom created its Ministry of Loneliness in 2018. Japan followed suit in 2021. Murphy’s legislation is the sound of the other shoe dropping after Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released in May an 81-page advisory titled “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Social Isolation.” Here at The Federalist, I published a three–part series on the perils of the surgeon general’s advisory. It looks very much like a blueprint for a federal invasion of the private sphere of life in America. The pretext is that it is for our own good since social isolation adversely affects health. The advisory outlines a six-pillared strategy that reads like a Big Brother plan to invade every nook and cranny of private life in America. It first calls for . . .

Brannock: Navajo Nation Leader Says Biden, AOC Energy Policies Cripple Tribe’s Economy

Members of the Navajo Nation in the southwestern U.S. say the federal government is leaving their people behind with its energy policies, crippling their economy and leaving more people in poverty. Republicans on the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources are attempting to overturn such Biden administration policies, including the Department of Interior’s land withdrawal and ban on oil and gas leasing outside of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, where members of the Navajo tribe reside. […] “The Department of Interior’s decision […] represents Mr. Biden’s latest effort to impose his radical agenda by locking up our nation’s land and water while further crippling domestic energy production and pushing the United States into greater dependence on foreign sources for energy,” Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., said in the hearing. U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said that the Navajo were placed in an “economic hostage situation,” with the tribe believing that continuing to mine oil and gas is the only source of possible income.

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY

Kelly: One DOJ Official Could Have Stopped Biden Family Crime Racket Years Ago: Jack Smith

As head of DOJs Public Integrity Section from 2010 until 2015, the now Special Counsel was responsible for investigating corruption among government officials and their associates. Why not the Bidens? In May 2014, the Obama/Biden White House was scrambling to deflect questions related to Hunter Biden’s new gig as a board member at Burisma, the compromised Ukrainian energy conglomerate; the news came just a few weeks after Vice President Joe Biden visited Kiev and promised Ukrainian leaders that the U.S. was “ready to assist” the country’s efforts to accelerate natural gas exploration. (At the time, Burisma was Ukraine’s biggest natural gas producer.) The day after Burisma issued a public statement boasting about their latest hire, White House press secretary Jay Carney ducked questions about the younger Biden during a May 13, 2014 briefing: . . .

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

Cash: 5-Year-Old Who Fatally Shot Infant Brother Was High On Cocaine, Prosecutors Say

The five-year-old shot his younger brother in the head on March 28. Officers administered a drug test to the five-year-old, which came back positive for cocaine, prosecutors said. An autopsy of the deceased toddler revealed he had marijuana in his system at the time of the killing. The announcement was made when prosecutors unsealed charges against the children’s parents, Deonta Johnson, 27, and Shatia Welch, 24, of Lafayette, Indiana, related to the shooting. The couple has been hit with three charges of child neglect and several drug charges.

Hoge: Detransitioner Chloe Cole Stuns Congress, This Is ‘One of Biggest Medical Scandals’ in U.S. History

Nineteen-year-old Chloe Cole brought a strong (and heartbreaking) message to Congress Thursday, saying that the so-called “gender-affirming” care she received “ruined” her childhood and has caused lasting negative consequences which she will live with forever. President Biden, along with his transgender Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, has forcefully advocated that such care be given to minors even when the long-term effects of surgeries and hormone treatments are largely unknown. What is known, however, is that 15-year-olds who aren’t old enough for a cigarette, a tattoo, a beer, or a driver’s license should not be allowed to opt to disfigure their bodies simply because they’re having complicated adolescent feelings. Speaking before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, Cole was harshly critical of the medical establishment and the toll their advice has taken on her life: . . . […] Cole started hormone therapy at 13 years old and had a double mastectomy at 15.

Haynes: California’s new Marxist math

California has approved new radical K-12 math standards that are openly a vehicle for Marxist ideology. The stated goal is equity in math learning for non-whites and those from low-income families. The framework notes that “black, latinx, indigenous, women and poor students” have been underrepresented in the curriculum throughout history.” Equity will be implemented in the curriculum by dumbing down and sugar-coating the lessons and infusing them with political issues and student organizing. Tom Loveless, education researcher and former Brookings Institute fellow, predicted that the new framework “would place Golden State 6th graders years behind the rest of the world—and could eventually skew education in the rest of the U.S., too.” The framework boldly states that “teaching toward social justice can play an important role in shifting students’ perspectives,” with reference to Constantinos Xenofontos’ 2019 book, Equity in Mathematics Education: Addressing a Changing World. The author notes that education for social justice has its roots in Brazilian Marxist education theorist, Paulo Freire. Xenofontos contends that teachers should “discuss controversial topics,” and “allow social issues to drive instruction.” To teach social justice and equity successfully, teachers must be activists themselves.

A PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT/BIG PHARMA

Paul: ‘It’s Murder’: Remdesivir Victims Decry FDA’s Shocking New Move

Remdesivir may be the most despised drug in American history, earning the nickname Run Death Is Near for its lethal record during COVID. Experts claimed that it would stop COVID; instead, it stopped kidney function, then blasted the liver and other organs. Now this reviled destroyer of kidneys has been approved by the FDA for COVID treatment of kidney patients. Does anybody else feel as if the FDA is shoving its power in our faces and laughing at us? I’ve been joining online support groups for people who lost loved ones to the Remdesivir Protocol — a nightmarish sequence in which a patient is isolated in the hospital, bullied into taking Remdesivir, ventilated, and then sedated to death. Thousands of Americans were killed this way, possibly hundreds of thousands.

BIDEN’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL MANDATED COVID VACCINATIONS

Heine: Doctor Calls Vaccine Mandates ‘Scientifically Inconsistent and Illogical,’ Forced ‘Humiliations’ in Testimony Before Coronavirus Subcommittee

In testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Thursday, a doctor from the University of Washington said that Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates subjected Americans “to the humiliations of forced medical treatments,” were “scientifically inconsistent and illogical,” and “an insult to our American foundation of freedom.” Dr. Kevin Bardosh, an affiliate assistant professor, cited an academic paper he published in the BMJ in March of 2023 on COVID-19 vaccine boosters for young adults which found vaccine mandates on college campuses to be inappropriate and unethical because it likely resulted in a net harm to young people. “In our paper, we combined empirical risk-benefit assessment and ethical analysis,” Bardosh explained. “We estimated that to prevent one COVID-19 hospitalization over a 6-month period, between 31,000–42,000 young adults aged 18–29 years would have to receive a third mRNA vaccine,” he continued. “But this would mean that for each hospitalization prevented with these booster mandates, at least 18.5 serious adverse events from mRNA vaccines would occur, including 1-5 booster-associated myopericarditis cases in males (typically requiring hospitalization).”

Three other witnesses testified before the Committee hearing

OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION

Curl: Just 18% Of Young Adult Say They Are ‘Extremely Proud’ To Be American

Is American patriotism going through a major identity crisis? It seems like the young folks just aren’t feeling the love anymore, and it’s hitting new lows. In the most recent Gallup poll reveals that pride in national identity is kind of embarrassing, especially among those aged 18-34. Talk about a generational rift right in the midst of all the political chaos. The 18-34 crowd isn’t feeling the love, with only a measly 18% declaring they’re “extremely proud” to be American. Meanwhile, in the same poll, the 55 and older club is gloating, being almost three times more likely to feel super duper proud to be American.

Kelly: J6 Celebrity Cop Appears Uninjured in New Video Despite Testimony He Was Going to “Die” on January 6

Capitol Police officer Aquilino Gonell has repeatedly testified under oath and in federal court that he suffered near-death injuries on January 6. New security video contradicts his claims. For nearly two years, Capitol police officer Aquilino Gonell was off the job or on partial duty, insisting the severe physical and mental injuries he sustained on January 6, 2021 prevented him from doing his job as a federal law enforcement officer. In news interviews and on social media, Gonell has told his sob story about how violent rioters inflicted debilitating foot, shoulder, and head injuries that day. He routinely posts images of those alleged injuries, including several photos of a foot with stitches and surgical tape and pictures of his ongoing shoulder therapy.

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