Coming soon: Digital Identity for all Americans

This blog has linked to reports of increased surveillance and the globalists’ plan to digitize our currency.  Sundance recently reported on the extensive illegal surveillance already conducted by the DOJ on thousands of citizens;  click here.

Now Stefan J. Bos at Worthy News reports that Americans can expect even more surveillance:

US Nearing Digital Identity For All Americans

Legislative preparations are underway to establish a U.S. government-backed task force to create a digital identity for all Americans.

The controversial bill behind the initiative, known as the “Improving Digital Identity Act of 2023,” already passed the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

It has now been introduced to the entire U.S. Senate for debate, and critics fear the bill will be adopted soon.

Experts say some of the most intrusive aspects of the proposed technologies would allow governments and partnering agencies to track user behaviors across time and to develop “complex profiles of their identities.”

These behaviors are then “rewarded” or “punished” by the governments, like the social credit system used in Communist-run China, critics say.

Yet Senators Kyrsten Sinema, an Independent from Arizona, and Cynthia Lummis, a Republican from Wyoming, introduced the bill anyway, saying it would improve security. . . .

That’s always the excuse.  Read the full report here.

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Scientific “consensus”

Seen on PowerLine’s “The Week in Pictures: Tuckered Out Edition”

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Moral collapse in the medical profession

 

At American Thinker, Stella Paul has described some horrifying reports about what went on in hospitals during the COVID “plandemic.” If you’ve followed this blog, some of this will not be news, but the cumulative instances of malpractice and moral collapse are overwhelming. Here are some extracts:

Hospitals should be places you can trust to provide comfort and healing when you’re most vulnerable. But that trust may have been shattered by brutal COVID protocols that critics claim turned many hospitals into hellscapes of systematic medical murder.

. . .

It’s almost impossible to comprehend the magnitude of this moral collapse. How did doctors and nurses who spent years studying so they could help people all of a sudden turn into ruthless sadists, presiding over enforced deaths? How did hospitals metastasize from places of healing into chambers of horror? According to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), the answer is quite simple: money. The federal government incentivized this protocol with massive payouts to the hospitals. AAPS writes, “Our formerly trusted medical community of hospitals and hospital-employed medical staff have effectively become “bounty hunters” for your life.”

. . .

If you want to understand the enormity of the government money gusher, here’s AAPS on what the hospital payments included:

* A “free” required PCR test in the Emergency Room or upon admission for every patient, with government-paid fee to hospital.

* Added bonus payment for each positive COVID-19 diagnosis.

* Another bonus for a COVID-19 admission to the hospital.

* A 20 percent “boost” bonus payment from Medicare on the entire hospital bill for use of remdesivir instead of medicines such as Ivermectin.

* Another and larger bonus payment to the hospital if a COVID-19 patient is mechanically ventilated.

* More money to the hospital if cause of death is listed as COVID-19, even if patient did not die directly of COVID-19.

* A COVID-19 diagnosis also provides extra payments to coroners.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans may have died due to these protocols, and we urgently need an investigation into this butchery. Who designed this protocol, which forbade safe drugs like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, and incentivized known toxins like remdesivir? Who enforced it? . . .

And there’s more horrifying information at the link here. 

RELATED:  At Discern Report, Dr Joseph Mercola has screenshots of some of the actual evidence ("Doctors Were Bribed for Covid Jab Coercion"); click here.  

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Cashless ATM cards? Bad idea.

 

 

A report by Eric Lendrum at American Greatness references “cashless” ATMs – an obvious step on the way to digital currency.  Mr. Lendrum points out that several cities and states have banned cashless ATMs.  Ohio is not yet one of them:

A variety of businesses have begun implementing “cashless” ATMs that give out stored-value cards in exchange for cash.

. . .

However, several states and cities have passed laws to forbid businesses from doing so, in order to accommodate customers who don’t have bank accounts or credit cards of their own. The Federal Deposits Insurance Corporation (FDIC) says that these “unbanked” Americans account for roughly 4.5 percent of the overall American population.

The cities that have banned such devices include New York City, San Francisco, Washington D.C., and Philadelphia. The states of Colorado and New Jersey have also implemented bans on cashless ATMs.

The complete report is here.  It’s one way to resist Central Bank Digital Currency.  Well, at least it’s a start.

RELATED:  Justin Haskins at Fox News:  “Biden administration is quietly planning for a future where you don’t own money”

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Council on Foreign Relations and media control

 

This blog recently posted on "The American Empire and Its Media"; click here.  The blog also transcribed the legend that identifies the journalists with the photograph; the readable transcription is also at the link.

Today, this blog is linking to the Swiss Policy Research’s Introduction to this expose of media allegiances.  

Largely unbeknownst to the general public, executives and top journalists of almost all major US media outlets have long been members of the influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

Established in 1921 as a private, bipartisan organization to “awaken America to its worldwide responsibilities”, the CFR and its close to 5000 elite members for decades have shaped US foreign policy and public discourse about it. As a well-known Council member famously explained, they transformed the American republic into a global empire, albeit a “bene­volent” one.

Based on official membership rosters, the following illustration depicts for the first time the extensive media network of the CFR and its two major international affiliate organizations: the Bilderberg Group (mainly covering the US and Europe) and the Trilateral Commission (covering North America, Europe and East Asia), both established by Council leaders to foster elite cooperation at the global level.

In a column entitled “Ruling Class Journalists”, former Washington Post senior editor and ombudsman Richard Harwood described the Council and its members approvingly as “the nearest thing we have to a ruling establishment in the United States”.

Harwood continued: “The membership of these journalists in the Council, however they may think of themselves, is an acknowledgment of their active and important role in public affairs and of their ascension into the American ruling class. They do not merely analyze and interpret foreign policy for the United States; they help make it. They are part of that establishment whether they like it or not, sharing most of its values and world views.” 

However, media personalities constitute only about five percent of the overall CFR network. As the following illustration shows, key members of the private Council on Foreign Relations have included:

* several US Presidents and Vice Presidents of both parties;

* almost all Secretaries of State, Defense, and the Treasury;

* many high-ranking commanders of the US military and NATO;

* some of the most influential Members of Congress (notably in foreign & security policy);

* almost all National Security Advisors, CIA Directors, Ambassadors to the U.N., Chairs of the Federal Reserve, Presidents of the World Bank, and Directors of the National Economic Council;

* many prominent academics, especially in key fields such as Economics and Political Science;

* many top executives of Wall Street, policy think tanks, universities, NGOs, and Hollywood;

* as well as the key members of both the 9/11 Commission and the Warren Commission (JFK)

Lots more at the link here.  The linked article is footnoted.  The tentacles are everywhere.

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The endless war against merit

 

This blog frequently links to historian Victor Davis Hanson’s essays. At his recent essay at American Greatness, he considers the definitions and consequences of socialism and its derivatives ("Do We Even Know We Are All Socialists Now?”).  Here’s his conclusion:

. . . A final note: the Orwellian police state is central to socialism, since the ideology is contrary to innate human nature and when fully implemented quickly ruins all that it touches and is commensurately despised in its fruition. So to force compliance is a 360 degree, 24/7 project that transcends all our institutions and culture.

That is why the woke FBI goes after counter-revolutionary parents at school board meetings or traditionalist Catholics rather than Pentagon leakers or Islamic terrorists.

That is why the FBI and the CIA respectively tried to warp the 2016 election with the phony Steele dossier and in 2020 probably did so by suppressing the truth about the “bombshell” evidence found on wayward Hunter Biden’s laptop.

That is why news disappears off Facebook and the old Twitter. That is why the order of Google search results seems bizarre. That is why Disney or Budweiser suddenly virtue signal their nihilist politics, or why Nike makes the mediocrity Colin Kaepernick a multimillionaire, or Stanford University attempts to purge vocabulary such as “citizen,” “immigrant,” and “American.”

Once socialism takes hold, every mediocrity, every ossified bureaucracy, every constipated careerist, every hack writer and nobody actor, comes out of the woodwork to find his socialist “fair share” of what he lacked in talent or accomplishment.

In the end, perhaps the best definition of socialism is simply “The endless war against merit.”

Read the rest here.

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The American Empire and Its Media: get the NAMES

 

the unreadable chart

It’s a big news day in the media.  Don Lemon is out at CNN, and Tucker Carlson and Fox News have parted company.  While going through reader comments at Conservative Treehouse, I came across this link to “The American Empire and Its Media; click here.  For Dr. Harold W. Pease’s introduction to this chart, click here.  Among the non-media names that appear in the network are Presidents Bush, père and fils, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Eisenhower, and Hoover.

The chart shown above shows the connections between major media and (1) Bilderberg Meetings;  (2) Council on Foreign Relations;  and (3)  The Trilateral Commission.  Many of the names on the media list are easily recognizable, no matter what programs or publications you access. However, it was impossible to read the fine print.  After a few tries, I was able to persuade this household’s webmaster to convert the teeny tiny print to a readable word document.  The complete list, with abbreviations, disclaimers, and the like appears below:

Note:  Transcribed electronically, so some transcription errors will appear; list includes current, former, and deceased individuals.  Disclaimer at end of this list:  “Based on official participant lists and membership rosters; non-exhaustive; no liability assumed.”

Journalists and media executives:

New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report 1: Mortimer B. Zuckerman, publisher |

Slate 2: Jacob Weisberg, group editor |

The Nation 3: Katrina VandenHeuvel, publisher |

Foreign Affairs 4: James F. Hoge, former editor 5: Gideon Rose, editor | Foreign Policy 6: Moises Naim, editor |

The National Interest 7: Jacob Heilbrunn, editor |'

American Interest 8: Francis Fukuyama, executive chairman |

Financial Times 9: Martin Wolf, associate editor & chief economics commentator 10: Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator |    

Reuters 11: Stephen J. Adler, president & EIC; 12: Tom Glocer, former CEO 13: Harold M. Evans, editor-at-large 14: David Schlesinger, former EIC

Politico 15: Robert Allbritton, publisher; Garrett Graff, former editor

Bloomberg 17: Michael Bloomberg, owner & CEO 18: John Michklethwait, EIC of Bloomberg News, former EIC of The Economists. Matthew Winkler, former EIC of Bloomberg News 20: Daniel Doctoroff, former CEO

Forbes 21: Randall Lane, editor

Los Angeles Times 22: Doyle McManus, Washington bureau chief 23: Shelby Coffey, former editor and EVP

Nc Corp 24: Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman

Fox News 25: Maria Bartiromo, news anchor 26: Heather Nauert, former news host 27: Dan Senor, commentator 28: Trish Regan, television host 29: Linda Vester, former news host

Wall Street Journal (News Corp) 30: Peter Kann, former publisher 31: Karen Elliott House, former managing editor 32: L. Gordon Crovitz, former publisher 33: Rol Bartley, former editor 34: Paul A. Gigot, editorial page editor 35: Alan Murray, deputy managing editor 36: Daniel Henninger, deputy editorial page director 37: Gerald Seib, Washington bureau chief 38: Peggy Noonan, columnist 39: Paul Steiger, former managing editor (1991-2007)

NBC 40: Pamela Thomas Graham, former CEO of CNBC 41: Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric (for owner of NBCUniversal) 42: Cesar Conde, chairman of NBCUniversal International Group 43: Steve Capus, former president of NBC News 44: Tom Brokaw, news anchor 45: Mika Brzezinski, MSNBC news host 46: Andrea Mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent 47: Richard Engel, chief foreign corr. 48: Brian Williams, NBC chief anchor 49: Joe Scarborough, news host 50: Bianna Golodryga news anchor 51: Ayman Mohyeldin, reporter

The Economist 52: Lynn Forester de Rothschild, co-owner and board member 53: John Elkann (Agnelli family), co-owner and board member 54: Zanny Minton Beddoes, EIC 55: Rupert Pennant-Rea, chairman of the Economist Group 56: Vendeline von Bredow, business correspondent 57: Adrian Wooldridge, foreign correspondent 58: Bill Emmott, former EIC 59: Megan McArdle, journalist

The New Republic 60: Walter Lippmann, co-founder 61: Chris Hughes, former publisher 62: Peter Beinart, former editor 63: Morton Kondracke, former executive editor 64: J. Peter Scoblic, former executive editor 65: Ronald Steel, journalist & professor

Time 66: Norman Pearlstine, chief content officer of Time Inc. 67: Michael Duffy, deputy manag. editor 68: Nancy Gibbs, managing editor 69: Henry Luce, founding publisher 70: John Huey, former EIC 71: Richard Stengel, former managing editor 72: Joe Klein, columnist 73: Ian Bremmer, foreign affairs columnist & editor-at-large 74: James Gaines, managing editor (1993-95) 75: Jason McManus, managing editor (1985-87) 76: Henry Grunwald, managing editor (1968-77)

The New York Times  77: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, former publisher (1963-92) 78: Arthur Hays Sulzberger, former publisher (1935-61) 79: Joseph Kahn, managing editor 80: Andrew Rosenthal, former editorial page editor 81: Serge Schmemann, international affairs editor 82: Susan Chira, former deputy executive editor 83: David C. Unger, former foreign affairs editor 84: David Sanger, Washington correspondent Thomas Shanker, assistant Washington editor and former Pentagon correspondent 86: Thomas Friedman, foreign affairs columnist 87: Ethan Bronner, former deputy foreign editor 88: Andrew Ross Sorkin, financial columnist 89: Carol Giacomo, foreign affairs editor 90: Michael Gordon, chief military correspondent 91: Robert B. Semple, associate editorial page editor 92: Judith Miller, Washing bureau reporter 93: David Brooks, op-ed columnist 94: Nicholas Kristof, op-ed columnist and former associate managing editor

The Washington Post 95: Eugene Meyer, former publisher (1933-46) 96: Jeff Bezos, owner (since 2013) 97: Katharine Graham, former publisher (1969-79) 98: Donald E. Graham, former publisher & chairman (1979-2013) 99: Fred Hiatt, editorial page editor 100: Gl Kessler, diplomatic correspondent and fact checker 101: Anne Applebaum, former editorial board member 102: Walter Pincus, national security journalist 103: Jackson Diehl, deputy editorial page editor 104: Charles Krauthammer, columnist 105: Robert Kaiser, former managing editor and senior correspondent 106: David Ignatius, associate editor 107: Eugene Robinson, columnist and chair of Puli. Prize Board 108: Karen DeYoung, associate editor 109: Marc Thiessen, columnist 110: Richard M. Cohen, columnist 111: Jim Hoagland, associate editor and columnist 112: George F. Will, columnist

CNN (Time Warner) 113: W. Thomas Johnson, former president 114: Walter Isaacson, former CEO 115: Ellana Lee, SVP of CNN International and managing editor Asia-Pacific 116: Mark Whita former EVP and managing editor of CNN Worldwide 117: Fareed Zakaria, foreign affairs show host 118: Erin Burnett, news anchor 119: Sanjay Gupta, chief medical correspondent 120: David Gergen, senior political analyst 121: Christiane Amanpour, chief international correspondent 122: Judy Woodruff, news anchor 123: Peter Bergen, national security analyst 124: Kitty Pilgrim, former news anc and correspondent 125: Paula Zahn, former news anchor 126: Elise Labott, global affairs correspondent 127: Ali Velshi, former chief business correspondent 128: Jake Tapper, chief Washington corr. 129: Sam Feist, SVP and Washington bureau chief 130: Jeffrey Toobin, legal analyst

CBS News 131: Laurence A. Tisch, former CEO of CBS 132: William Paley, founder of CBS 133: Joseph Calif Jr„ CBS director 134: William Cohen, CBS director and former Secretary of Defense 135: Dan Rather, former news anchor 136: Bob Schieffer, news anchor and chief Washington corr. 137: Charlie Rose, talk show host 138: Lesley Stahl, news reporter 139: Margaret Brennan, White House & senior foreign affairs corr. 140: Reena Ninan, news anchor 141: Edward R. Murrow, former broadcast journ.

Time Warner 142: Jeffrey Bewkes, chairman & CEO 143: Gary Ginsberg, communications chief 144: Richard Parsons, former chairman & CEO 145: Gerald Levin, former chairman & CEO

ABC News (Disney) 146: Ben Sherwood, president 147: David Westin, former president 148: George Stephanopoulos, chief anchor & chief political corr. 149: Juju Chang, news anchor 150: Barbara Walt news anchor and show host 151: Peter Jennings, news anchor 152: Katie Couric, news anchor 153: Diane Sawyer, news anchor 154: Jonathan Karl, chief White House corr.

Disney 155: Michael Eisner, former chairman & CEO 156: Monica Lozano, director

The New Yorker 157: David Remnick, EIC 158: Amy Davidson, senior editor international affairs 159: Hendrik Hertzberg, principal polil commentator 160: Lawrence Wright, staff writer 161: Evan Osnos, foreign affairs writer 162: Jane Kramer, European correspondent 163: Mark Danner, foreign affairs corr. 164: Nick Paumgarten, staff writer 165: Mattathias Schwartz, staff writer 166: Robin Wright, contributor

The New York Review of Books 167: Robert Silvers, founding editor 168: Barbara Epstein, founding editor

Newsweek 169: Richard M. Smith, former CEO &, EIC 170: Jon Meacham, former EIC 171: Janine di Giovanni, Middle East editor 172: Evan Thomas, former Washington bureau chief

The Daily Beast 173: Tina Brown, founding editor 174: Barry Diller, chairman of IAC (owner of Daily Beast)

USA Today 175: Joanne Lipman, EIC & chief content officer 176: David Andelman, international affairs column

PBS 177: Donald A. Baer, chairman 178: Hartford N Gunn, founder 179: Jim Lehrer, former news anchor 180: Margaret Warner, senior correspondent 181: Bill Moyers, former news anchor 182: Jonathan Barzilay, COO

NPR 183: Vivian Schiller, former CEO 184: Gary Knell, former president 185: Tom Gjelten, correspondent 186: Dina Temple-Raston, national security corr.

Alphabet/Google 1 Eric Schmidt, executive chairman

Facebook 188: Sheryl Sandberg, COO and director 189: Marne Levine, VP of global public policy

The Atlantic 190: David G. Bradley, chairman of Atlantic Media. |

Based on official participant lists and membership rosters; non-exhaustive; no liability assumed.

Abbreviations:

B: Bilderberg meeting participant;

Br: Bilderberg meeting rapporteur;

C: CFR member (incl. term members and former members);

 D: CFR director;

EIC: editor-in-chief;

F: CFR fellow;

M: married to CFR member;

S: son of CFR member;

T: Trilateral Commission member (incl. former members).

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Cash on Hand

 

Glenn Reynolds, a/k/a Mr Instapundit reports on his recent experience in a market at a time when the computer network was down:

So, shopping at the fresh market tonight, we were among the very few to buy groceries, because their computer network was down and they couldn’t process credit or debit cards. They couldn’t even accept checks because those are run through an ACH payment system rather than deposited in the old way. We, however, were able to pay and get out, something only a couple of other customers could do. (One older guy, and a couple of teenaged girls who said “we rock it old school with cash,” which I thought was hilarious.) Most people didn’t carry enough cash for groceries.

Two lessons: (1) The “cashless society” is less robust than cash; and (2) Always carry enough cash to buy groceries, a meal out, and a tank of gas. Just in case.

Good advice.  But how will this work if/when the globalists impose a digital currency on us?

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The Democrat playbook for stealing elections

 

Wayne Allyn Root presents the Democrat playbook for stealing elections:

. . .Because Fox News settled with Dominion, now the Marxist-controlled mainstream media will go into full bait-and-switch mode. They will claim “the case is settled and closed. It’s now proven the 2020 election wasn’t rigged and stolen.”

What a scam. What a con. This is the all-time bait and switch.

. . .

The 2020 election was stolen. . . .

And I believe elections are still being rigged and stolen. . . .

Here are some of Mr Root’s bullet points on HOW they do it:

• No government-issued Voter (or photo) ID.
• Mail-in ballots handed to everyone (in many states mass mailed to voters without even asking), without Voter ID.
• Five states colluding to stop the vote count on election night- for the first time in history. 
• Voter Rolls contain millions of inactive or improper registrations.

More bullet points and details here.

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The Cleveland Haemosporidians?

 

The Cleveland Indians will always be the Cleveland Indians for me. The Indians’ mascot will always be Chief Wahoo.  But over at PJ Media, Robert Spencer explains what's really going on:

With skyrocketing crime and inflation, a steady exodus of sane people from her state, and test scores of students in the state plummeting, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-Planned Parenthood) and her henchmen have turned their attention to the most burning issue of our day: sports team mascots that offend the woke. Now New York’s remaining residents can look around at their smoking ruin of a state, as they watch the people who broke into their house drive off in their car and console themselves with the thought that nowhere in their formerly green and pleasant land is anyone being traumatized because there’s a sports team around called the “Indians.”

The Albany Times-Union reported Tuesday that “the New York Board of Regents has officially banned all uses of images and names for school mascots related to indigenous people.” At this late date in the woke-ification of America, there wasn’t even any controversy over this: “The board voted unanimously Tuesday morning, without discussion.”

This was the culmination of a process that has been going on for a good while: “The proposal was announced by the state Education Department in November, and education officials have been urging school boards to begin the process to change mascot images and names ever since.” Why is anyone on the New York Board of Regents paying attention to this matter at all? Because, you see, fans of teams called the Indians and Chiefs and Braves and even Redskins never realized it, but all the time they were rooting for their teams, they were really indulging in an act of hate.

In the Left’s view, you see, people name their sports teams after things they despise. 

. . .

The war against mascots is also completely inconsistent. There are ongoing efforts to force the Minnesota Vikings to change their name because the name “Viking” supposedly glorifies colonialism and white supremacism. But if the “Viking” name glorifies whiteness, why don’t the “Chief” or “Warrior” or “Indian” names glorify Native Americans? The war against mascots is, in other words, simply another Leftist effort to make Americans generally ashamed of their own culture and heritage. A nation that is ashamed won’t have the will to defend itself. . . .

Read the rest here. 

Exit question:  In the interest of keeping fans ashamed of themselves and their team, why did not the Tribe owners select The Cleveland Worms instead of the Cleveland Guardians?  Or, if it was important to keep “dians” in the new name, well then, how about

The Cleveland Haemosporidians?

(For utterly fascinating information about the “avian haemosporidian parasite,” click here.)

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Bud Light Tea Party meme

The Bud Light Tea Party seen at Power Line:

Click to embiggen or visit the link above and scroll down

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New Book: The Biomedical Security State

 

Janet Levy at American Thinker previews a new book about biomedical surveillance: 

The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State

The pandemic of 2020 saw the imposition of shocking restrictions. For the first time, healthy people were confined to their homes. Vaccines cleared for emergency use – meaning not rigorously tested – were forced on all citizens. Debate, even by scientists, was censored. Refusal to obey these arbitrary impositions could mean arrest, legal action, or, as Dr. Aaron Kheriaty found out, losing one’s job.

A psychiatry professor in good standing at the University of California at Irvine (UCI), Dr. Kheriaty became persona non grata when he demurred to the mandatory vaccine policy, claiming natural immunity as a Covid-recovered individual. Not caring for scientific debate, the university declared him a “threat to the health and safety of the community,” suspended him without pay, barred him from campus, and eventually fired him.

It did not matter that his psychiatry clerkship was the highest rated clinical course at UCI’s medical school; that he’d been chosen keynote speaker to address incoming medical students; and that when the pandemic broke out, he had risked his life to work long hours at the hospital, often uncompensated, while many colleagues stayed home in safety.

Uncowed, Dr. Kheriaty sued the university. In a more far-reaching action, he authored The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State, a sober analysis and exposure of the tyranny of pandemic policies and the devastation they wrought. 

. . .

Kheriaty goes so far as to assert that the lockdown was driven by an economic agenda disguised as public health protocol. It helped Big Pharma, multinationals, and the global elite who control them achieve the largest transfer of wealth in history by eliminating competition and spelling doom for small business.

The ultimate plan, devised by the global elite, is for a new world order, shifting government authority from sovereign states to powerful NGOs like the World Economic Forum (WEF) . . .

Read the rest of the column here.

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The only way out is: out

 

Bob Maistros thinks America has passed the point of no return.  Here’s the opening of his essay at American Greatness:

Victor Davis Hanson has recently pondered in back-to-back essays whether there is any way out of America’s previously “fast-tracked” and now accelerating decline. 

Meanwhile, Julie Kelly appears to see no way out of the “near-certainty” that a “D.C. grand jury . . . will indict Trump on multiple counts” in ways that will cause him to be treated “[n]ot as a former president but as a traitor.” 

Columnist Josh Hammer, addressing both Trump’s judicial travails and the broader “decadent civilizational morass,” insists in his own consecutive submissions that “sometimes, the only way out is through”—tit-for-tat action from the Right. 

The depressing reality? This time, with the progressive Left’s assault on America, in Hammer’s words, having far passed the “point of no return,” the only way out is: out.  . . .

Read the full essay here.  Not for the faint of heart.

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The Democrat Party we grew up with

 

Ben Garrison cartoon

The Democrat Party that many of us grew up with in the 50’s and 60’s is long gone.  Long gone.  The Progressive left has taken it over.  At PJ Media, Victor Davis Hanson (VDH) explains why so many of our family and friends can’t see it:

President Joe Biden is now 80 years old. He will be 82 when he campaigns for the 2024 presidency — and a clearly debilitated 86 should he be elected and fill out his second term. He has been in government for over a half-century.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and current representative from California is 83.

Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., the second-ranking Democratic House member behind Pelosi, was House majority leader until early this year. He is 83, and has been an elected official for nearly 60 years.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is 72, with 48 years in elected government.

Democratic luminary and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is 89, and ailing — after 53 years as an elected official.

James Clyburn, D-S.C., is House minority whip and 82.

These are the official faces of the Democratic Party.

They came into power and maturity three decades ago during the Clinton years of 1993-1999.

Decades ago, they sometimes supported strong national defense, secure borders, gas and oil development, fully funding the police, and a few restrictions on partial-birth abortions.

Not now.

Their role has changed from that of liberals of the Clinton era to serving as the thin power-holding veneer that masks the new real Democratic Party.

The party has been changed beyond recognition by Senators Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., the so-called Squad, the Congressional Black Caucus, newly elected senators like the Georgia duo of Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock – and Antifa and Black Lives Matter.

Yet Biden and company are still familiar American faces.

Their final role is to acculturate the electorate to the new Democratic Party.

Its radicals are breathing down their necks to get out of the way. Yet for a while longer they still need such an ossified veneer of respectability to ease the transition to what is now essentially a socialist-European green party. . . .

A socialist-European green party”.  That’s putting it nicely.  Some might say the “Progressive left” is completing the “fundamental change” of America’s constitutional republic into the New World Order.  Global communism.    

VDH concludes:

The new majority of radical Democrats allows the old fogies to bask in the limelight until they drop — exempt from counter-revolutionary criticism or inter-party primary challenges or demands to retire.

In return, the codgers reassure the nation that old faces like theirs cannot possibly be polyester revolutionary socialists — despite their role in airbrushing and photo-shopping the radical catastrophe unfolding before our eyes.

Read all about it here.

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