tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44264558403663843762024-03-13T12:30:13.883-04:00Cleveland Tea Party Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3626125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-35609988570857054152023-06-12T09:00:00.008-04:002023-06-12T09:00:00.159-04:00Moved to Substack <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT2a87V1XEZEHanRfBCHrjASYSoH1ZOOzIcwvA7dJ4qsRAElzoWEIgH8mVKOKXPW6Hxw60hJKwvtty8LqtNBOHRsPUZxNOj87EVeveF1Pa5LJoWG93lTbZrKSZXPTRHmNlSwq3oJDReGRvTzrmYX1h0F-bs_mzjjQYiQKgvv8gayXG7Qnv9TfN3ycPLw/s1600/moving.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="996" data-original-width="1600" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT2a87V1XEZEHanRfBCHrjASYSoH1ZOOzIcwvA7dJ4qsRAElzoWEIgH8mVKOKXPW6Hxw60hJKwvtty8LqtNBOHRsPUZxNOj87EVeveF1Pa5LJoWG93lTbZrKSZXPTRHmNlSwq3oJDReGRvTzrmYX1h0F-bs_mzjjQYiQKgvv8gayXG7Qnv9TfN3ycPLw/s320/moving.png" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></b></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>The Cleveland Tea Party blog has moved to Substack. </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>New URL: <https://clevelandteaparty.substack.com/></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Or click <a href="https://clevelandteaparty.substack.com/">here</a>.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face="Helvetica, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>If you’re a regular reader,
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request updates/notifications by email.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b># # #</b></span></p><p><br /></p>Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-31468278702358548022023-06-11T09:00:00.007-04:002023-06-11T09:00:00.149-04:00Turn off the television<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIsEijuHvMOztqfFNecB7MqhQhD1Veef9bBDQEkADSpviZHuSq7RMUHPiVkrZ6dvbYueSpiY9AxpQJLcagulUC0b5v0nlr5wFOLqAVX4SSirOMlKIEK-mA1Iug4bLeHCrA1OiwfId8R98ANLgA68ebRHd-12P-rz-J51JPWMQCvI8eDamdGM2EIAzUrQ/s650/aaa%20media-womd-lies.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="650" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIsEijuHvMOztqfFNecB7MqhQhD1Veef9bBDQEkADSpviZHuSq7RMUHPiVkrZ6dvbYueSpiY9AxpQJLcagulUC0b5v0nlr5wFOLqAVX4SSirOMlKIEK-mA1Iug4bLeHCrA1OiwfId8R98ANLgA68ebRHd-12P-rz-J51JPWMQCvI8eDamdGM2EIAzUrQ/s320/aaa%20media-womd-lies.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Adam <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2023/06/09/television-whats-that/ ">Mill at <i>American Greatness</i></a> shares with his readers why they need to turn off the television:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">If Americans can’t get reliable information from <br />the subverted legacy
media, then we’ll find other routes</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>. . . </b>One day we may learn the
circumstances and terms under which the legacy news media surrendered its
independence to the permanent government’s operation to control and manipulate
domestic political opinion. Totalitarian governments can look with envy upon the
message discipline across the supposedly independent American media outlets of
our supposedly free press. But like so many other things the Left touches, it
destroyed the legitimacy and effectiveness of the legacy news media. Americans
can tell when they’re being manipulated. So they’ve increasingly turned off
television news.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">To paraphrase Matt Walsh’s movie
title, “What is a television?” That flat screen mounted on your wall might be
capable of receiving televised signals from broadcasters. But more likely, the
“television” on your wall has become just another screen on which to watch
videos streaming from the internet. If you want to watch cable television, you
probably need to find an airport or to go pay your grandparents a visit.
Otherwise, there’s no longer any need to suffer through the coordinated
Soviet-style propaganda.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The full column is <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2023/06/09/television-whats-that/ ">here</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="color: black;">NOTE</span></b><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">:</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">This blog is moving to </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Substack</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> during June 2023: the above blog now also appears at
the new site </span><a href="https://clevelandteaparty.substack.com/">here</a>. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">If you’re a regular reader, bookmark the new
location!</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"># # #</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></p><br /><p></p>Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-6356313795201246352023-06-10T09:00:00.059-04:002023-06-10T09:00:00.133-04:00The Perfect Coup<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsZ6483zCRDi3IfdUmn284hz83Lrat7POZ86tRB-ArHshkmJi8astnooRrM02Un3McoIXz9AN-cAXahTReWXoURYxl7Fr0R8fPRkLRqw2YmroZ0oD83hl_Qq358cXjomR1ZEfjo9jPUaTG6G1dLEVdLqkdM9xOwCO7fUHMzvFiPs9WnB36b3IPSySCGQ/s389/banana%20Gorrell.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="274" data-original-width="389" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsZ6483zCRDi3IfdUmn284hz83Lrat7POZ86tRB-ArHshkmJi8astnooRrM02Un3McoIXz9AN-cAXahTReWXoURYxl7Fr0R8fPRkLRqw2YmroZ0oD83hl_Qq358cXjomR1ZEfjo9jPUaTG6G1dLEVdLqkdM9xOwCO7fUHMzvFiPs9WnB36b3IPSySCGQ/w356-h250/banana%20Gorrell.png" width="356" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">cartoon by Bob Gorrell</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Andrea Widburg, a/k/a </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Bookworm Room</i><span style="font-family: arial;">, </span><a href="https://www.bookwormroom.com/2023/06/09/how-to-commit-the-perfect-coup-against-a-president-and-his-supporters/" style="font-family: arial;">posted “The Perfect Coup”</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> - a hypothetical scenario – but one that’s been unfolding before our very eyes:</span></p><p>
</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;">[Trump’s] indictment isn’t the first step; <br />
it’s the last in a series of steps going back to 2016<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If I were trying to overthrow a
duly elected president, I’d start by saying that he conspired with a foreign
power to cheat in the election. I’d believe I could get away with this charge
because I would have the media on my side, relentlessly pounding away at the
narrative. It would help that members of the president’s own party, despising
him for destroying their cozy little arrangement with the opposition, refused
to support him politically.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When it became apparent that the
president was hugely effective at governing on those things that matter to
ordinary people, such as the economy, national security, immigration, energy
policy, etc., and that the false charges of treason and cheating, I’d look
ahead to throwing the next election.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">What I would need is a way to
prevent the president from campaigning and a way to institutionalize election
fraud. Thankfully, I would have <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/05/19/853816473/years-before-the-pandemic-war-games-predicted-a-global-tempest">gamed
out long before</a> the election what a government can do if faced with a
pandemic infection. COVID’s appearance was providential. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">I would disagree here. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>IMHO, COVID’s appearance was deliberate, as were
the draconian protocols of vaxxing and masking (see e.g., Emerald Robinson <a href="https://www.emerald.tv/p/the-most-important-whistleblower ">here</a> or Dr
Robert <a href="https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/prepared-testimony-pandemic-response">Malone’s speech</a> in Mexico City in March 2023). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the balance of Ms Widburg’s scenario is spot-on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Click <a href="https://www.bookwormroom.com/2023/06/09/how-to-commit-the-perfect-coup-against-a-president-and-his-supporters/">here</a> for the rest of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<br />
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Helvetica","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>NOTE</b>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This blog is moving to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Substack</i> during June 2023: the above blog now also appears at the new site <a href="https://clevelandteaparty.substack.com/ ">here</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you’re a regular reader, bookmark the new location!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"># # #<o:p></o:p></p><br /><p></p>Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-37278643039478250002023-06-09T12:23:00.001-04:002023-06-09T12:48:03.532-04:00US Enters Banana Republic Territory<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_FfcaWot6kXNrEmaSit8vR20Qh0f84ZdUl8KPj2p4RQ572ujzBG9mCWT90rjdZltbK4DB00Va5i79X7tIzT7dTQvFOBvEPGXmDex3qyl99qG5nDTUtN_fY01rSjPwrunlx1BUl485uO0waIHGu2iTp-zUYu3eZb-ZNiBZLU05ee04Dm3VOUQ7KFODkQ/s960/aaa%20a%20Uniparty.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="960" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_FfcaWot6kXNrEmaSit8vR20Qh0f84ZdUl8KPj2p4RQ572ujzBG9mCWT90rjdZltbK4DB00Va5i79X7tIzT7dTQvFOBvEPGXmDex3qyl99qG5nDTUtN_fY01rSjPwrunlx1BUl485uO0waIHGu2iTp-zUYu3eZb-ZNiBZLU05ee04Dm3VOUQ7KFODkQ/s320/aaa%20a%20Uniparty.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mark <a href="https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/its-official-us-enters-banana-republic">Wauck at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Meaning
in History</i></a> has as succinct a take on the Trump indictment as any of the
commentary I’ve read: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>. . . </b>For now I’ll simply state
that Trump is correct. He IS an innocent man, innocent of any charges stemming
from his possession of documents relating to his presidency. Make no mistake
about this. It’s a joint, bipartisan, project of the Uniparty. The Republican
participants—key among them Bluto Barr—retain the right to criticize Zhou, whom
they helped put in the White House, but they will support the attempted
lynching of Trump. The DC political establishment has closed ranks with the
Deep State to assert its right—as against We The People—to select the POTUS and
to punish anyone who transgresses against their Will to Power. This is a day
that will live in infamy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mr. Wauck’s posting is <a href="https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/its-official-us-enters-banana-republic">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Moving
to Substack</b>: this blog now also appears <a href="https://clevelandteaparty.substack.com/">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br />
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"># # #</span><o:p></o:p></p>Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-82773184046037714062023-06-09T11:29:00.004-04:002023-06-09T12:17:56.647-04:00Moving to Substack<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjw_K-MM4AfMJmDv8CuMgaqjtH4-UIhcNDGUuZGvi1TyFKNZtVFLbqVZ0wStLiloD6RrT9l5aqG9UyFNQHWLKOHt4k5cn9AH3dw4TIZ7iuuS7yIlfo0POXzXM3rGH1HP6jzLekLAt75dEq7lZXsUT-a-7aCqMw8IdxCHMbEi9o4pZHNm9cFz4Ch-lzSBw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="996" data-original-width="1600" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjw_K-MM4AfMJmDv8CuMgaqjtH4-UIhcNDGUuZGvi1TyFKNZtVFLbqVZ0wStLiloD6RrT9l5aqG9UyFNQHWLKOHt4k5cn9AH3dw4TIZ7iuuS7yIlfo0POXzXM3rGH1HP6jzLekLAt75dEq7lZXsUT-a-7aCqMw8IdxCHMbEi9o4pZHNm9cFz4Ch-lzSBw" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To
readers of the Cleveland Tea Party blog:</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Starting
today, this blog re-introduces itself on its new Substack
platform.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For about two weeks
thereafter, the blogs will post concurrently on this site as well as on
Substack, to give readers time to update their “favorites” list. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Substack
has attracted many posters, including high-profile contributors such as Dr
Robert Malone, Steve Kirsch, Matt Taibbi, and Salman Rushdie. Many of these
contributors have been censored or marginalized for questioning official
narratives, challenging government policies, and the like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I visit these pages, I do not find critical
content labeled as “misinformation.” </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Cleveland Tea Party blog is a small fish in the blogosphere, yet it has been
censored as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three times, there’s
been a noticeable and otherwise inexplicable spike in web traffic; the spike
lasts for a few days, and as far as I can tell, only a deliberate testing and manipulation of the
algorithms can explain the phenomenon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And in all three cases, when the numbers are no longer artificially
inflated, the traffic reverts to approximately half of the previous
averages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After three such episodes, the
most recent being in May, instead of getting hundreds of hits a day, it’s rare
to get over 100 in a day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does seem
to be a pattern.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some
readers have asked why they cannot find this blog doing an e-search: they report getting links to a robot about tea-drinkers. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So
we’ll be maintaining both sites for a couple of weeks before closing down the
blogspot site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The new Cleveland Tea
Party at Substack is <a href="https://clevelandteaparty.substack.com/">here</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"># # #</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-66944308986601614082023-06-08T20:15:00.003-04:002023-06-08T20:15:51.608-04:00A Dark Day for America<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQjK5QGgvb4fFKEt9LyYJ2iHU53-3daXYh3BiHcTZLaMsAtz0b6hp5t4jcLVuDLFjL1XDNS2maokWexPAIK6jHW-f6NL2rlbieLlbWLxogrmXFb6Iri3dNUKnQgXaNkhrmyS2fhU3d4_3YB1FZV1tnPG1Qfq21vbJweohkw5c_DAg6XpuuKwqWBmmFMA/s651/Trump%20hugs%20flag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="651" data-original-width="540" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQjK5QGgvb4fFKEt9LyYJ2iHU53-3daXYh3BiHcTZLaMsAtz0b6hp5t4jcLVuDLFjL1XDNS2maokWexPAIK6jHW-f6NL2rlbieLlbWLxogrmXFb6Iri3dNUKnQgXaNkhrmyS2fhU3d4_3YB1FZV1tnPG1Qfq21vbJweohkw5c_DAg6XpuuKwqWBmmFMA/s320/Trump%20hugs%20flag.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This will come as news to nobody. From the announcement <a href="https://americafirstreport.com/dark-day-trump-indicted-by-corrupt-biden-harris-regime/">on America First Report</a>):</span></span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 15pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;">President Donald Trump has been indicted by the Department of
Justice over the classified documents debacle. He posted about it on his <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #195ea9; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Truth Social account</span></a>:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-left: .5in; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Page 1: The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my attorneys that I
have been Indicted, seemingly over the Boxes Hoax, even though Joe Biden has
1850 Boxes at the University of Delaware, additional Boxes in Chinatown, D.C.,
with even more Boxes at the University of Pennsylvania, and documents strewn
all over his garage floor where he parks his Corvette, and which is “secured”
by only a garage door that is paper thin, and open much of the time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Page 2: I have been summoned to
appear at the Federal Courthouse in Miami on Tuesday, at 3 PM. I never thought
it possible that such a thing could happen to a former President of the United
States, who received far more votes than any sitting President in the History
of our Country, and is currently leading, by far, all Candidates, both Democrat
and Republican, in Polls of the 2024 Presidential Election. I AM AN INNOCENT
MAN!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Page 3: This is indeed a DARK DAY
for the United States of America. We are a Country in serious and rapid
Decline, but together we will Make America Great Again!<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">A dark day indeed. </span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"># # #</span></p>Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-46397723350042018782023-06-08T13:00:00.000-04:002023-06-08T13:00:00.141-04:00Dr Scott Atlas: A Plague Upon Our House<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilXKGL8u2H6Jnf22XVA_loHkkrRfr-FK0s1iPvEuuF2d9U1xK-a4KgYqWwJowwadm_EV-vm4kcgFsnEBfQ44uY7t54qMU5fd6laHCcFESuskmsrJTRLbydqY0heEF7GUSyWEo2-iqMCZE82phqS4euXvcOkRIh0oNlcL0We9fzHTj7GdxRuQ0eNsjUKw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="166" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilXKGL8u2H6Jnf22XVA_loHkkrRfr-FK0s1iPvEuuF2d9U1xK-a4KgYqWwJowwadm_EV-vm4kcgFsnEBfQ44uY7t54qMU5fd6laHCcFESuskmsrJTRLbydqY0heEF7GUSyWEo2-iqMCZE82phqS4euXvcOkRIh0oNlcL0We9fzHTj7GdxRuQ0eNsjUKw=w257-h388" width="257" /></a></span></div><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Wendi Strauch <a href="https://www.uncoverdc.com/2023/06/06/deborah-birx-the-pandemics-master-of-the-lockdown/">Mahoney at <i>UncoverDC</i></a> summarizes some of the shocking politics inside the Trump White House's COVID Task Force: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">According to a book by Dr. Scott
Atlas, Deborah Birx, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator for the Trump
Administration, controlled most of the messaging and communication coming from
the Coronavirus Task Force to the American people and governors. In his book, “<a href="https://a.co/d/6kwT66i">A Plague Upon Our House</a>,” he describes his
time as an advisor to the President starting in late July 2020. He resigned at
the end of November of the same year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">During his brief tenure, Atlas was
a lone voice against Birx’s absurd fixation on COVID cases rather than
infection rate fatality data as a metric to justify the widespread lockdowns
that destroyed the lives of many Americans for almost three straight years. He
and many others believe the lockdowns probably did more harm to the American
people than the virus itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Atlas is a neurologist and a Robert
Wesson Senior Fellow in health policy at Stanford University’s Hoover
Institute. His expertise in public policy far exceeded others on the task
force, including Birx. Atlas served as a dispassionate, apolitical, and
objective voice in the White House. His many relationships with respected
scientists outside D.C. also served him well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The conclusion:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It is also well understood that
there was an unstoppable governmental apparatus in place that would <a href="https://www.uncoverdc.com/2020/07/30/the-targeting-of-dr-stella-immanuel/">frustrate</a> the
ability to get new information to the American people. To be clear, these
thoughts are not to badger but to prepare. It is critically important to
recognize that life-saving information was and still is available to those who
want to see it. Just know that the apparatus of control has not disappeared. A
refusal to acknowledge the truth will almost certainly ensure the pandemic of
2020 or, worse, will unnecessarily control you again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The rest of the coverage is <a href="https://www.uncoverdc.com/2023/06/06/deborah-birx-the-pandemics-master-of-the-lockdown/">here</a>, and it’s not fun to read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while Dr Atlas faults the COVID task
force for resisting President Trump’s initiatives, he faults Trump for not
replacing members of the task force who blocked him. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"># # #</span><o:p></o:p></p><br /><p></p>Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-19857033185370574532023-06-08T09:00:00.002-04:002023-06-08T09:00:00.161-04:00Wildfires: why so many across the lake?<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjblEECUkOLvKCNLaNrrFWLF4gywwfiP_AZ1QaP1jWpAbDVCKEBOdtNaXRA5fK_0Jk21nwavLl8oSg6sM7j4skJzdi48ed_RELHaD2-fHpg6oQSROH3Feueys0XXmFjqZI23n67ZUmbZnJ634NTfDA0ywFOafM_Ed_GJa_WNtHtBFzzJ304tfEwLoO0Dg/s500/fire%20haze%20New%20York.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjblEECUkOLvKCNLaNrrFWLF4gywwfiP_AZ1QaP1jWpAbDVCKEBOdtNaXRA5fK_0Jk21nwavLl8oSg6sM7j4skJzdi48ed_RELHaD2-fHpg6oQSROH3Feueys0XXmFjqZI23n67ZUmbZnJ634NTfDA0ywFOafM_Ed_GJa_WNtHtBFzzJ304tfEwLoO0Dg/w340-h340/fire%20haze%20New%20York.jpg" width="340" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The haze was not so bad over Lake Erie yesterday, but the
east coast was <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/everyone-should-avoid-outdoors-100-million-americans-under-air-quality-alerts-canadian">under an air quality alert</a> due to the wildfires in Quebec and
Ontario. John Carter raises questions about who or what caused these
wildfires.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eco-terrorists?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Canada’s deep state?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From <a href="https://barsoom.substack.com/p/canada-burning">his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Substack</i>
column</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There are currently over 100 fires
raging throughout Quebec and, now, Ontario. The number goes up every time I go
to check Google, last I saw was around 160. The closest is just over 100 km
from here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Wildfires on this scale, at the
point in the year, are in my experience unprecedented. Ten of thousands of
people in outlying communities have already been evacuated. So far about 3.5
million hectares have burned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU3Za3cp2TLnk0Q7-zYAUPeinEsGxVf2wb2TAU0m7VJz2Z67bF3kcpze8PDmGtr7HFfjlr_UdRcaVAJbLgE2c1G8Us2hvUjNYizbLcq-aS79TgG0bVGX0Pckprv19jfJYvNBUYx5dBl8stskmL-l5SLsAXleap67_LBKLp-7byzDozCadoVP_Ug9R2bQ/s770/wildfire%20graph.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="507" data-original-width="770" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU3Za3cp2TLnk0Q7-zYAUPeinEsGxVf2wb2TAU0m7VJz2Z67bF3kcpze8PDmGtr7HFfjlr_UdRcaVAJbLgE2c1G8Us2hvUjNYizbLcq-aS79TgG0bVGX0Pckprv19jfJYvNBUYx5dBl8stskmL-l5SLsAXleap67_LBKLp-7byzDozCadoVP_Ug9R2bQ/w379-h250/wildfire%20graph.webp" width="379" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">click to embiggen or check it out at the link</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As you can see, not only are we on
track for the worst wildfire season on record, the temporal pattern is
completely out of step with what we normally see. In every other year, wildfire
season is mid-August, mid-July at the earliest. The beginning of June is
unheard of.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> . . .</b></span></p></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">That leaves, as far as I can make
out, three broad categories of perpetrators: a foreign state actor; the
Canadian government itself; or non-state actors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">So which is it? Mr Carter leans to the Canadian government
itself, and he explains why.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he
concludes with a reasonable disclaimer:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I want to finish by emphasizing
that neither I nor anyone else I know has any proof that these wildfires are
caused by arson, or if so that this arson is the result of self-inflicted
damage by the Canadian state. That is all pure speculation based on the highly
anomalous behaviour of the wildfires (a large number starting more or less simultaneously
two months earlier than normal), along with the known policy vectors of the
current ruling class, and the demonstrated tendency of that ruling class to
‘make their own reality’, so to speak. This is the same ruling class, remember,
that blew up the NordStream pipeline and then pretended Russia did it. They’re
not above committing acts of terrorism on a vast scale if they think it will
benefit them. With the reputation they’ve made for themselves, it’s easy for
many of us - certainly for me - to believe that they would do something like
set an entire country on fire purely to spook the populace, and that is perhaps
the grimmest comment possible on the times in which we live.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Read his column <a href="https://barsoom.substack.com/p/canada-burning">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"># # #</span><o:p></o:p></p>Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-48881460389937067332023-06-07T09:00:00.018-04:002023-06-07T09:00:00.153-04:00Digital control of your finances and your Health ID<p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzo_toLkiQkbYVQ3I_ko8_cCpTVcWPsmq9wv6uC0YS599TAZzVhSMFbnPR5kxGgmKfRhb50f54Fa04ANTKfi3HMFRFCFuZY8qHpwK0L0FUKRRyyqHhKe-SkmhJCCbdPb-728N0IIyGhc77FB7HAvEghRXGqkt0uHlxClaGRjLAXlpRf58-x0utMyslYg/s1170/COVID%20passport.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="658" data-original-width="1170" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzo_toLkiQkbYVQ3I_ko8_cCpTVcWPsmq9wv6uC0YS599TAZzVhSMFbnPR5kxGgmKfRhb50f54Fa04ANTKfi3HMFRFCFuZY8qHpwK0L0FUKRRyyqHhKe-SkmhJCCbdPb-728N0IIyGhc77FB7HAvEghRXGqkt0uHlxClaGRjLAXlpRf58-x0utMyslYg/s320/COVID%20passport.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ken </span><a href="https://americafirstreport.com/bis-plans-to-use-ai-to-monitor-global-bank-transactions/" style="font-family: arial;">Macon at America First Report</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> has the update on the
excuses we will hear about as the globalists go about controlling our financial
transactions:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Bank of International
Settlements (BIS) is working on an AI system to monitor global transactions. It
says it’s in an effort to combat money laundering.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The system, dubbed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kmbsa19T1k&">Project Aurora</a>,
will use machine learning to track financial transactions globally to flag
patterns of money laundering. According to the BIS, the system can identify
money laundering structures performed by money mules.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">However, for the system to achieve
its goal, governments and corporate banks will have to allow streamlined access
and open their systems for the AI to monitor transactions. Some banks already
use AI systems to flag unusual behavior. However, Project Aurora will require
global access on a terrifying scale in terms of privacy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The idea of combatting “money
laundering” is being used to justify giving governments and banks surveillance
power over financial transactions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The project could be abused to
target people for both their financial and political activities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The BIS is also working on <a href="https://www.bis.org/publ/othp61.pdf">Project Icebreaker</a>, which would
create a system where all banks can regulate and homogenize all currencies to
create one global exchange model and give the BIS the power to punish and
country or company that goes against its ideologies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">And then there’s the digital health ID initiative. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The headline to this report:</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">“Another COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory Is Coming True.” </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Leah </span><a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2023/06/06/european-commissionwho-on-digital-health-initiative-n2624081" style="font-family: arial;">Barkoukis reports at Townhall</a><span style="font-family: arial;">:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The World Health Organization
announced Monday it is expanding on the European Union’s digital COVID-19
vaccine passports, using the system as "the first building block"
towards creating a WHO Global Digital Health Certification Network. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"Building on the EU's highly
successful digital certification network, WHO aims to offer all WHO member
states access to an open-source digital health tool, which is based on the
principles of equity, innovation, transparency and data protection and
privacy," said WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a
statement. "New digital health products in development aim to help people
everywhere receive quality health services quickly and more
effectively." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">According to the WHO <a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/05-06-2023-the-european-commission-and-who-launch-landmark-digital-health-initiative-to-strengthen-global-health-security" target="_blank">statement</a>, the world body will take up the EU system this
month, reportedly to “facilitate global mobility” and protect people “from
on-going and future health threats, including pandemics.”<b> . . .</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">"Protect people"? No, it’s all about control.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">More at the link <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2023/06/06/european-commissionwho-on-digital-health-initiative-n2624081">here</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"># # #</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-34433774246784653522023-06-06T10:41:00.000-04:002023-06-06T10:41:06.970-04:00Remembering D-Day<p><span style="font-family: arial;">On this day in 1944, the Normandy Invasion, also called
Operation Overlord or D-Day, was launched. D-Day marked the
beginning of the Allied invasion of western Europe during World War II.
Below is a Navy team in training:</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvVcJf2CJQMR9gWSF50QrUWzGNjxkY2f4AuLHuYNzik0dQT4DoO6fb77b42Ui_CtkFTkEdJYjsmmHZv5sy9Vv6wNUe93nRC1p3_7XXGqubGA0Zdr_mzWR6pT9gAsWIaVP7oXogFozDtEo2W5qym6i-KkmisW5h1Tre-QVuOMNwA_0DtEw0PAq07upqnA/s1076/2015_08_16_16_22_120004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="1076" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvVcJf2CJQMR9gWSF50QrUWzGNjxkY2f4AuLHuYNzik0dQT4DoO6fb77b42Ui_CtkFTkEdJYjsmmHZv5sy9Vv6wNUe93nRC1p3_7XXGqubGA0Zdr_mzWR6pT9gAsWIaVP7oXogFozDtEo2W5qym6i-KkmisW5h1Tre-QVuOMNwA_0DtEw0PAq07upqnA/w381-h268/2015_08_16_16_22_120004.jpg" width="381" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">They landed on Utah Beach. Blogger's late father is first
row center -- the skipper.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"># # #</span><o:p></o:p></p>Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-14650498268728939052023-06-06T09:00:00.001-04:002023-06-06T09:00:00.146-04:00Descent into a Clown World<p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaw4aeOd8aT7xRQjLKulENEslNq8BvxpNJebPvmkHcwtvm2Cx6dIzi3ml0-sPev7UTNKJdNszW4I6ybliYwE7oFORLKdJZsjVK_skOd5corJKAgV9MFtKH9fnnrbRCqV9QfR-TlgNZApeFPxF3LbIV-5Ac1JyVxfRf5gu5ms1LsEV7bl1bics5ihJZKg/s758/clipart-clown-car-2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="758" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaw4aeOd8aT7xRQjLKulENEslNq8BvxpNJebPvmkHcwtvm2Cx6dIzi3ml0-sPev7UTNKJdNszW4I6ybliYwE7oFORLKdJZsjVK_skOd5corJKAgV9MFtKH9fnnrbRCqV9QfR-TlgNZApeFPxF3LbIV-5Ac1JyVxfRf5gu5ms1LsEV7bl1bics5ihJZKg/w369-h205/clipart-clown-car-2.gif" width="369" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><p></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">At <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Freedom First
Network</i>, J B Shurk explores America’s <a href="https://freedomfirstnetwork.com/2023/06/our-descent-into-clown-world">“Descent into a Clown World</a>.” Here’s
an extract: <span style="text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Just as the beer companies, fake
conservative news networks, and so many iconic American companies before them,
the sports leagues have turned their backs on generations of loyal fans in a
display of repugnant pusillanimity. I wonder whether the Judases
will one day regret it. I know that the ESG- and DIE-pushing
communists are castrating corporate holdouts that resist the Woke Borg, but by
bending to the Borg’s will, these companies have destroyed any goodwill with
lifelong allies. When the Marxists come for another pound of flesh
from their corporate vassals — and another after that — those in charge will
eventually be forced to fight back or surrender. By that time,
though, nobody will be willing to come to their defense.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This has always been the
shortsighted corporate gamble of the Woke Wars — there’s never been a communist
revolution that did not devour itself. By yielding to those who have
always hated them and betraying those who have long defended them, companies
choosing to comply with woke orthodoxy are now entirely dependent on remaining
in the Marxists’ good graces. Yet <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">grace</i> is not something Marxists possess in any discernible
quantity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It is not that politically
conservative and religious Americans have blindly defended corporate interests
in the past, but rather that liberty-loving, rights-protecting people tend to
mind their own business. Their first reaction to a company’s success
is not envy. They do not immediately turn their sights on how best
to confiscate another’s good fortune.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">People who work hard for what they
own do not worry about what somebody else owns. They simply seek to
be left alone. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. . .</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">One problem is that while communists are organized,
passionate, and good at messaging, conservatives “simply seek to be left alone”
– it’s just not an effective marketing message.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The full article is <a href="https://freedomfirstnetwork.com/2023/06/our-descent-into-clown-world">here</a>.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"># # #<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-45206899458476522822023-06-05T12:11:00.000-04:002023-06-05T12:11:54.609-04:00FISA abuse: corruption at the DOJ and FBI<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju2YbZj0BP-3_QJLP6FZXLobftckg0tpaKUMqIuibA3lGz6OSCTNQ9cJySmq-1wjS9IqLuHnXzV1VZIhEyfmEHZrU7NlmSMaPxLv4-Ie8Mb7tnG4Xg4X_vff0QPLGo6QBcoqqoCkuvtV3rhmO3Kidj9dM-FsVp-vOPU_r_rFp2dirZIHD-6RolLFcM6Q/s542/Washington%20DC%20corruption.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="321" data-original-width="542" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju2YbZj0BP-3_QJLP6FZXLobftckg0tpaKUMqIuibA3lGz6OSCTNQ9cJySmq-1wjS9IqLuHnXzV1VZIhEyfmEHZrU7NlmSMaPxLv4-Ie8Mb7tnG4Xg4X_vff0QPLGo6QBcoqqoCkuvtV3rhmO3Kidj9dM-FsVp-vOPU_r_rFp2dirZIHD-6RolLFcM6Q/s320/Washington%20DC%20corruption.webp" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">When the DOJ’s abuse of the FISA court procedures first came to </span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/07/23/631343524/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-much-discussed-carter-page-fisa-document" style="font-family: arial;">light in 2018</a><span style="font-family: arial;">, this blogger thought that violation of FISA rules – </span><a href="https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/12/12/where-is-john-roberts-supreme-court-on-the-fisa-abuse/ " style="font-family: arial;">lying to a judge is a felony</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> – would finally result in indictments and successful
prosecutions.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">It’s now 2023.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The fearless investigative reporter,
Sundance, has gone through the Durham Report, footnotes and all, and exposes yet
more layers of corruption.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">It’s a long
read, but it’s also a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the extent
of the rot.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Some have commented that the FBI is in need of reform.</span><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><span style="font-family: arial;">No, it needs to be shut down.</span><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><span style="font-family: arial;">Here’s the opening </span><a href="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/04/big-question-and-a-big-coverup-durham-report-brings-sunlight-on-detail-never-released-by-ig-michael-horowitz-about-fbi-targeting-trump/#comments" style="font-family: arial;">at <i>Conservative
Treehouse</i></a><span style="font-family: arial;">:</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;">BIG QUESTION and A BIG COVERUP – <br />
Durham Report Brings Sunlight on Detail Never Released <br />
by IG Michael Horowitz About FBI Targeting Trump<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I’m going to go into the deep weeds
on this story, because many people are missing a key facet. The names
behind the Trump targeting operation are included, along with citations for
independent checks by House congressional investigators.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Inside the recently released report
by John Durham [<a href="https://www.justice.gov/storage/durhamreport.pdf" target="_blank">CITATION</a>], the special counsel outlines how former FBI
Director James Comey was intimately involved in the creation of the Carter Page
FISA application. Durham notes that Comey kept asking the DOJ National
Security Division and FBI counterintelligence investigators, “Where’s the FISA,
we need the FISA.” However, John Durham never interviewed James Comey or
Andrew McCabe. The former FBI Director and Deputy refused to cooperate or
give testimony to John Durham. So, how did John Durham have details about
the demands of Comey?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The answer is found in the
footnotes. Durham reviewed transcripts of interviews given by Andrew
McCabe to the Office of the Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, who previously
investigated FBI conduct in the origin of the Carter Page FISA. Durham
pulled quotes from that transcript. [<a href="https://www.justice.gov/storage/durhamreport.pdf" target="_blank">Footnote
#1207, page 199 – Durham Report</a>]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">[facsimile of transcript with
footnote]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">♦QUESTION: If Andrew McCabe
gave testimony to the OIG about the motives and impetus of FBI Director James Comey
in pushing for the Carter Page FISA application, why did the OIG report never
outline those transcribed interviews? Why was the interview transcript
never included in the 2019 OIG report?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">[NOTE to Congress. Now
that you know a transcribed interview of Andrew McCabe exists in the OIG
office, request the transcription and release it to the public.]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Let me answer those questions
without the customary pretending from the DC professional political
class. The short version is that OIG Michael Horowitz was trying to
protect the DOJ and FBI. The longer version is a coverup that includes Rod
Rosenstein, Bill Barr and yes, John Durham. I will share that story
below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>“Where’s
the FISA? We need the FISA?” ~ James Comey</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The DOJ-NSD and FBI Co-Intel needed
to find a safe and legal way to spy on the Trump campaign. The 2016 FISA Title
1 surveillance of former FBI employee Carter Page became the fraudulent
justification for that intent. <b> . . .</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Much more <a href="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/04/big-question-and-a-big-coverup-durham-report-brings-sunlight-on-detail-never-released-by-ig-michael-horowitz-about-fbi-targeting-trump/#comments">here</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
jaw-dropping. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"># # #</span><o:p></o:p></p><br /><p></p>Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-49179587299918721432023-06-05T09:00:00.014-04:002023-06-05T09:00:00.158-04:00Diversity vs competency<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWV7N8k3XUxXfqsa6me1HjHQJlJVhA6f0w5AsxgN9Jc41deLfjb4XAijt4nv2dz6rQyOginUuKw0ldwGiXlgB48whCC7GLAn6-aQ34VKAmV0gJKs2Es3G-pV44P2KynpsydJgshHu9IWW2DG2qjyIg1P8sWuEnC2Zrn1EkX0tjJxYCZw9lr-SViuxCaw/s720/picture-of-a-report-card-D.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="720" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWV7N8k3XUxXfqsa6me1HjHQJlJVhA6f0w5AsxgN9Jc41deLfjb4XAijt4nv2dz6rQyOginUuKw0ldwGiXlgB48whCC7GLAn6-aQ34VKAmV0gJKs2Es3G-pV44P2KynpsydJgshHu9IWW2DG2qjyIg1P8sWuEnC2Zrn1EkX0tjJxYCZw9lr-SViuxCaw/s320/picture-of-a-report-card-D.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Harold </span><a href="https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/complex-systems-wont-survive-the-competence-crisis " style="font-family: arial;">Robertson at Palladium Magazine</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> has an essay “Complex
Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis” (h/t Andrea Widburg).</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">He starts off:</span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">At a casual glance, the recent
cascades of American disasters might seem unrelated. In a span of fewer than
six months in 2017, three U.S. Naval warships experienced three separate
collisions resulting in 17 deaths. A year later, powerlines owned by PG&E started
a wildfire that killed 85 people. The pipeline carrying almost half of the East
Coast’s gasoline shut down due to a ransomware attack. Almost half a million
intermodal containers sat on cargo ships unable to dock at Los Angeles ports. A
train carrying thousands of tons of hazardous and flammable chemicals derailed
near East Palestine, Ohio. Air Traffic Control cleared a FedEx plane to land on
a runway occupied by a Southwest plane preparing to take off. Eye drops
contaminated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria killed four and blinded
fourteen. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">While disasters like these are
often front-page news, the broader connection between the disasters barely
elicits any mention. America must be understood as a system of interwoven
systems; the healthcare system sends a bill to a patient using the postal
system, and that patient uses the mobile phone system to pay the bill with a
credit card issued by the banking system. All these systems must be assumed to
work for anyone to make even simple decisions. But the failure of one system
has cascading consequences for all of the adjacent systems. As a consequence of
escalating rates of failure, America’s complex systems are slowly collapsing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">And here’s his conclusion:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Americans living today are the
inheritors of systems that created the highest standard of living in human
history. Rather than protecting the competency that made those systems
possible, the modern preference for diversity has attenuated meritocratic
evaluation at all levels of American society. Given the damage already done to
competence and morale combined with the natural exodus of baby boomers with
decades worth of tacit knowledge, the biggest challenge of the coming decades
might simply be maintaining the systems we have today. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The path of least resistance will
be the devolution of complex systems and the reduction in the quality of life
that entails. For the typical resident in a second-tier city in Mexico, Brazil,
or South Africa, power outages are not uncommon, tap water is probably not safe
to drink, and hospital-associated infections are common and often fatal. Absent
a step change in the quality of American governance and a renewed culture of
excellence, they prefigure the country’s future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Read the rest <a href="https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/complex-systems-wont-survive-the-competence-crisis ">here</a>. It’s a long read, and Mr. Robertson is
not optimistic, but as <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/is_americas_collapse_inevitable.html">Ms. Widburg concluded</a>: “<span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">If we recognize and address it, maybe it’s still
possible to pull the airplane of state out of its deep dive toward the earth.</span>”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"># # #<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-86603669965782900222023-06-04T09:00:00.003-04:002023-06-04T09:00:00.142-04:00Your Sunday meme with Bert & Ernie<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpyGgOpBqUuFGUONHTBb0XJgA4_uGyq-cs8y9jahXfhzd6MbLVyhRD8izKsSuyfSw6DUcoB9mBrx9qNiuE7osyNyikfeLyUYa_bAqDUWpzrVcOR1o4K22383AA73RXWYkqKCmJcAJ72pKgXVbcHG2oU1XzA22p-DZJH5CZfLXE5Dq6-M8KpC8RU54N7w/s321/meme%20big%20govt%20sesame%20street.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="321" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpyGgOpBqUuFGUONHTBb0XJgA4_uGyq-cs8y9jahXfhzd6MbLVyhRD8izKsSuyfSw6DUcoB9mBrx9qNiuE7osyNyikfeLyUYa_bAqDUWpzrVcOR1o4K22383AA73RXWYkqKCmJcAJ72pKgXVbcHG2oU1XzA22p-DZJH5CZfLXE5Dq6-M8KpC8RU54N7w/s320/meme%20big%20govt%20sesame%20street.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Posted in observance of the suspension of any Debt Ceiling</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"># # #</span></p>Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-60099610948052202422023-06-03T09:00:00.021-04:002023-06-03T09:00:00.142-04:00It’s Up to the States<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Luis <a href="https://thenewamerican.com/congress-wont-drain-the-swamp-its-up-to-the-states/ ">Miguel at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New
American</i></a> is looking beyond the DC swamp – in order to drain the swamp: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Congress Won’t Drain the Swamp — It’s Up to
the States<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;">No politician at the federal level is
going to drain the swamp, because the federal government <i>is</i> the
swamp.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It’s human nature. No one with
great power is going to strip himself of that power. That’s like expecting
Genghis Khan to step down from the throne. It’s not going to happen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>. . .</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The United States began as a
federation of sovereign states unified for mutual defense. But eventually, the
capital they created — Washington, D.C. — became its own political entity and
usurped control over the states that had created it. The state-created federal
government, seated in Washington, D.C., now operates on its own independent of
the states and opposed to their interests.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>. . .</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Furthermore, Washington is a
city-state in which the ruling dynasty is the globalist cabal. Everything else
is a facade. All the congressmen, senators, bureaucrats, intelligence officers,
and generals who live and work there are servants of the globalist oligarchy,
not representatives of the people. The entire system in D.C. is designed to
protect the interests of the cabal — Congress can’t completely reform it from
within.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">“Everything else is a façade”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, that fits right in with <a href="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/04/02/sunday-talks-the-anvil-and-the-woodchipper/#more-245050">Sundance’s scenario</a> that all of the DC political construct is a “Potemkin Village”,
maintained to provide us plebes with the “Illusion of Choice.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr. Miguel concludes:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This is why it is up to the states,
through nullification and an aggressive reasserting of their states’ rights, to
rein in the federal government. For if D.C. is the swamp, then the city must be
drained — and only the states have the power to do it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Read the full column <a href="https://thenewamerican.com/congress-wont-drain-the-swamp-its-up-to-the-states/ ">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"># # #</span><o:p></o:p></p>Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-42032663681892085102023-06-02T09:00:00.010-04:002023-06-02T09:00:00.143-04:00The Biden pResidency takes a fall<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc1HNeYiQMceU6jUrdgKuqDe24XUtH25k8oY0f62kwcDxEEEgO3Cs1tpMs8GvEcBXrnGRi9XRSVMmynvDiZ4nk9rzCK0pbjlh_uMxB3CdWlVpCqtDHLZ7aiwGbESa4zmc6FU87PtviHMrbCJltAYO4vdr5rrPyfvcAWge-ZuQreyYHWvJ5iyG3SCt8TQ/s855/prat%20fall.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="855" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc1HNeYiQMceU6jUrdgKuqDe24XUtH25k8oY0f62kwcDxEEEgO3Cs1tpMs8GvEcBXrnGRi9XRSVMmynvDiZ4nk9rzCK0pbjlh_uMxB3CdWlVpCqtDHLZ7aiwGbESa4zmc6FU87PtviHMrbCJltAYO4vdr5rrPyfvcAWge-ZuQreyYHWvJ5iyG3SCt8TQ/s320/prat%20fall.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Yesterday, pResident Joe Biden took a nasty prat fall at the
US Air Force Academy graduation ceremony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The short video is at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Treehouse</i>
<a href="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/01/joe-biden-takes-a-hard-fall-at-u-s-airforce-academy-graduation-ceremony/ ">here</a>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the clip is also up on the Telegram
channel Slavyangrad, a Russian channel (no link; it’s subscribers only).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">So the world watches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Many call Biden’s presidency a case of elder abuse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>True, but it’s also tragic and embarrassing to witness America now as a global laughingstock. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Matthew G.
<a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/06/why_the_white_house_wants_war.html ">Andersson at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">American Thinker</i></a> just published a column, “Why the White House Wants War,” and he thinks Biden’s
pResidency is even worse than embarrassing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mr. Andersson’s frightening conclusion: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">An unsettling aspect of the Biden
administration’s foreign policy is that, while it seeks war, it isn’t prepared
to fight one (especially with a putative civilian commander qualified for 25th
Amendment removal): it invites a confrontation with Russia (and to some extent
with China) not to win, but in an unprecedented perversion of U.S. national
security interests, to lose: it has declared America, Americanism, and a
majority of Americans, as its enemy. It will use Russia as a tool for its
own domestic “transformation” which means the attempted dismantling of U.S.
constitutional law. The White House wants war, but an effective internal civil
war that results in a reconstructed government, legal system, and political
order. Biden was installed not just as an Obama proxy, but as a signal of
weakness. . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The full article is <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/06/why_the_white_house_wants_war.html ">here</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"># # #</span><o:p></o:p></p><br /><p></p>Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-47898535579498033562023-06-01T10:05:00.000-04:002023-06-01T10:05:18.483-04:00Now we know where Jim Jordan stands<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgThTGexY5nZYjc-PN1okrGNAsivBM2fg20_Dgqehgca4Tqe8P0qQiCsuu178DkEkFN4aMovdHOwUN_2UuLKU04AABqx0ZBRulBpDkB_sI9ElInf0Z7J2fqYqTtUEAxNQxsdx_mVdjcxpOdcO_q-2_QZHqhDYOOIBe9khVc1qFi6m-BeTwzZAUTaNBlWw/s196/RINO.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="196" data-original-width="192" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgThTGexY5nZYjc-PN1okrGNAsivBM2fg20_Dgqehgca4Tqe8P0qQiCsuu178DkEkFN4aMovdHOwUN_2UuLKU04AABqx0ZBRulBpDkB_sI9ElInf0Z7J2fqYqTtUEAxNQxsdx_mVdjcxpOdcO_q-2_QZHqhDYOOIBe9khVc1qFi6m-BeTwzZAUTaNBlWw/s1600/RINO.jpg" width="192" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Freedom Caucus can now re-brand as the RINO Caucus.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/31/mccarthy-debt-limit-deal-gop-divisions-00099567" style="font-family: arial;"><i>Politico</i>
reports</a><span style="font-family: arial;">:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Jim Jordan and other key
conservative firebrands have caused a fair share of House Speaker Kevin
McCarthy‘s biggest headaches. But instead of leading the rebellion this time,
they helped him quash it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As the House Freedom Caucus was
preparing to discuss whether to officially oppose the speaker’s bipartisan debt
deal — a move that would potentially galvanize conservative opposition — Jordan
(R-Ohio) phoned several fellow members with a request, according to a person
familiar with the calls. The former chair of the group urged them to hold back,
effectively giving conservatives who wanted to vote with McCarthy license to do
so.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Jordan, a longtime McCarthy
antagonist turned ally, almost got his wish. The group took no official
position until hours before the vote, when most members had already made up
their minds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The beloved House Freedom Caucus
co-founder — who gravitated toward McCarthy after the now-speaker tapped him
for a senior spot on the Oversight Committee — helped out in other ways. The
Ohio lawmaker spoke up in favor of the deal in private calls and meetings,
including taking the mic at a closed-door huddle on Tuesday night, just hours
after many of his fellow conservatives had spent the day trashing the deal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">This report concludes with this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If most Republicans get on board,
it means threats against his speakership won’t gain real traction. And with
two-thirds of the GOP conference backing the deal Wednesday, it seemed to be
working.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“We didn’t do it by taking the easy
route,” McCarthy said in a celebratory post-vote press conference. “It wasn’t
an easy fight, I had people on both sides upset.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">But he added: “I think we did
pretty damn good for the American people.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">No debt ceiling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No
serious budget process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>J D Rucker
considers this bill an existential threat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His take is <a href="https://discernreport.com/worse-than-anyone-realizes-eliminating-the-debt-ceiling-is-the-catalyst-for-our-nations-demise/">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"># # #</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p></p>Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-61333643329907762612023-05-31T11:17:00.009-04:002023-05-31T15:56:54.465-04:00COVID studies: The Retractions<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAkL5Lpixb95brp10YFQP4XP3aj5atj4EIU5RrNiwfhZbwXneKJHAH8iCeffkTNjVqqF_pxgtCSGHBEtOKStzVdST-ezmPLE1WsLsvPT3ih-fSJxsjRo1QiBNCFx6MDCXB03az6NBbvKc5Uw1s3TmrOdVrmHOeWnpFaPsEtWBVEb56y78bX-KOFu7Mwg/s780/covid%2019%20logo).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="780" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAkL5Lpixb95brp10YFQP4XP3aj5atj4EIU5RrNiwfhZbwXneKJHAH8iCeffkTNjVqqF_pxgtCSGHBEtOKStzVdST-ezmPLE1WsLsvPT3ih-fSJxsjRo1QiBNCFx6MDCXB03az6NBbvKc5Uw1s3TmrOdVrmHOeWnpFaPsEtWBVEb56y78bX-KOFu7Mwg/s320/covid%2019%20logo).jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><i style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://retractionwatch.com/retracted-coronavirus-covid-19-papers /">Retraction Watch</a></i><span style="font-family: arial;">
monitors retractions of peer-reviewed articles/research that don’t hold up under
scrutiny. It’s utterly damning to see the sheer number of peer-reviewed reports -- on COVID -- retracted – always after the damage is done:</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We’ve been tracking retractions of
papers about COVID-19 as part of our <a href="http://retractiondatabase.org/">database</a>. Here’s a running list:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Retracted<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“<a href="https://www.biolifesas.org/biolife/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/FIORANELLI.pdf">5G
Technology and induction of coronavirus in skin cells</a>,” published in Biological
Regulators & Homeostatic Agents on July 16, 2020, <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32668870/">withdrawn on July 24, 2020</a>.
Our coverage <a href="http://retractionwatch.com/2020/07/26/paper-blaming-covid-19-on-5g-technology-withdrawn/">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666084920305842">A
Case Series of Stent Thrombosis During the COVID-19 Pandemic,”</a> published
on May 27, 2020 in JACC: Case Reports; retraction date is
unknown. Retracted as a duplicate publication by journal error.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“<a href="https://www.cureus.com/articles/124048-a-comparison-of-early-rehabilitation-in-the-intensive-care-units-of-patients-with-severe-covid-19-a-propensity-score-matching-analysis#!/authors">A
Comparison of Early Rehabilitation in the Intensive Care Units of Patients With
Severe COVID-19: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis</a>,” published November
10, 2022 in Cureus; <a href="https://www.cureus.com/articles/124048-a-comparison-of-early-rehabilitation-in-the-intensive-care-units-of-patients-with-severe-covid-19-a-propensity-score-matching-analysis/retraction#!/">retracted</a> on
April 4, 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“<a href="https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.24677?s=03">A
data-mining based analysis of traditional Chinese medicine in diagnosing and
treating COVID-19</a>,” published on June 24, 2021 in The Anatomical
Record; unknown when <a href="https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.24677?s=03">retracted</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11051-020-05041-z">A deep
learning model and machine learning methods for the classification of potential
coronavirus treatments on a single human cell</a>,” published on October 17,
2020 in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research; <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11051-021-05266-6">retracted </a>on
August 16, 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11366-020-09692-6">A Discourse
Analysis of Quotidian Expressions of Nationalism during the COVID-19 Pandemic
in Chinese Cyberspace</a>,” published on September 8, 2020; <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11366-022-09799-y">retracted</a> on
April 12, 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1092913420300708">A
mechanistic analysis placental intravascular thrombus formation in COVID-19
patients</a>,” published on April 25, 2020 in Annals of Diagnostic
Pathology. Retracted on June 22, 2020 as a duplicate publication by journal
error.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20406223211039699">A
meta-analysis of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF)
antibody treatment for COVID-19 patients</a>,” published on August 20, 2021
in Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease; <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20406223211056430">retracted </a>on
November 21, 2021. See our coverage <a href="http://retractionwatch.com/2021/12/02/authors-retract-resubmit-very-poorly-conducted-meta-analysis-of-covid-19-treatment/">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“<a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.11.20128231v1?versioned=true">A
Model Based Analysis for COVID-19 Pandemic in India: Implications for Health
Systems and Policy for Low- and Middle-Income Countries</a>,” preprint possted
on June 12, 2020 in medRxiv; <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.11.20128231v2">retracted </a>on
August 18, 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgwh.2021.669013/full">A
psychosocial exploration of body dissatisfaction: A narrative review With a
focus on India during COVID-19</a>,” published on July 29, 2021 in Frontiers in
Global Women’s Health; <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgwh.2022.1124853/full">retracted</a> on
January 19, 2023. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> . . .</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The rest of the list is <a href="https://retractionwatch.com/retracted-coronavirus-covid-19-papers /">here</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> (Links via the original article)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>RELATED</b>: Ben <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/benbartee/2023/05/30/peer-reviewed-study-the-higher-the-number-of-vaccines-previously-received-the-higher-the-risk-of-contracting-covid-19-n1699197">Bartee at <i>PJ Media</i></a>: “Peer-Reviewed
Study: 'The Higher the Number of Vaccines Previously Received, the Higher the
Risk of Contracting COVID-19' “</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">And <i>American Greatness</i> has more: click <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/31/over-300-covid-era-medical-papers-retracted-due-to-scientific-errors-ethics-concerns/">here</a>. </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"># # #<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-76159856595535468572023-05-30T09:00:00.035-04:002023-05-30T09:00:00.146-04:00America’s Fundamental Transformation<p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfLxjxypuMgzeoNPi1zN4DtVMYDStWAvsuRZvqZdjq8MQA5pE2Wio5eal8mjlztj9x7WqDZKm7V7-wyrl4LZN41YaPwWC6hmmio9ziVAdELFMAy3B4h3YWwlObLBwBwNv4fAyd7VpOVXOKmQVsa5B9yPHh1UIn_CwTQuA1UZAKUXndWr_7Hl9LOS9xEA/s1200/dc-eye-of-sauron%20in%20DC.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="791" data-original-width="1200" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfLxjxypuMgzeoNPi1zN4DtVMYDStWAvsuRZvqZdjq8MQA5pE2Wio5eal8mjlztj9x7WqDZKm7V7-wyrl4LZN41YaPwWC6hmmio9ziVAdELFMAy3B4h3YWwlObLBwBwNv4fAyd7VpOVXOKmQVsa5B9yPHh1UIn_CwTQuA1UZAKUXndWr_7Hl9LOS9xEA/w355-h234/dc-eye-of-sauron%20in%20DC.webp" width="355" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Over the Memorial Day weekend, Sundance </span><a href="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/05/27/the-thirst-for-truth-big-picture-explanation-of-what-happened-in-the-past-15-years-that-flipped-the-social-cultural-media-leftist-and-govt-relationship/#more-247100" style="font-family: arial;">at Conservative Treehouse</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> posted a piece on how America suddenly went off the rails, and it’s
persuasive.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Here’s a big chunk of it:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">. . . As some continue to say with
jaw agape, WTF happened?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The answer “why” is not
complicated…. not complicated at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In 2008, the ‘activists’ took
control of government.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In January of 2009, the leftists,
community organizers and activists took control of the systems they had opposed
for the preceding 50+ years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In January of 2009, and inflection
point took place; an inflection point that no one realized in forethought,
scale or consequence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Starting in 2009, all of the
systems of federal government were now under the control of the people who
previously fought against the systems of federal government. Everything
since is an outcome of that inflection point; that’s why everything flipped.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">All of it, and I do mean every
scintilla of the thing; every single granular detail and example you can put in
front of me can be traced back to that moment when the activists were no longer
outside government railing against the corrupt system they hated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Starting in January of 2009, the
activists took power over the United States government, and every outside
institution, including media, necessarily and ideologically followed that
inversion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Starting in 2009, the systems and
institutions of the U.S government now came under the control of the radical
activists.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the eight years that followed,
the mission of every institution was changed. Government was weaponized
on behalf of the leftist activists who now took control of it. Everything
thereafter is a consequence of this change.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When I use the word “suddenly”, it
is only for understanding the inflections point that came as a
consequence. In actuality, the severity of change inside each institution
took place over several years. That’s why the intensity of the weaponized
and corrupt systems became worse over time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As each institution was infiltrated
to become more aligned with the mindset of the activists, the institutions
became more radical in their targeting and weaponization.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The activists went from being
outside government to being inside government.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Suddenly, the left-wing supportive
media changed mission priority from railing against corrupt government, to
defending the corrupt weaponization of govt.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Suddenly, the FBI went from
targeting domestic threats, to targeting only the domestic threats defined as
against the interests of the left-wing activists.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Suddenly, the outside activists
went from being defined as social elements creating turmoil, to social elements
now being defended and even promoted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This is why we see outside activist
groups like the Dream Defenders, New Black Panthers, Black Lives Matter, Occupy
Wall Street and more recently ANTIFA, as protected and supported by the
activists inside government now in control of the systems and institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">All of the social, cultural and
political dynamics that changed traditional “liberalism” are easily understood
once you realize and accept that activists took control of the power centers of
the U.S. government.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Everything that followed, including
our current state of social and political turmoil, is simply a natural
conclusion of that fundamental change.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The radical activists are now in
control of the institutions of power. This core shift is what created the
dynamic of a very visible two-tiered justice system. Each institution was
weaponized and continues to be weaponized against those who are not aligned
with the activist ideology. . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Read the entire piece <a href="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/05/27/the-thirst-for-truth-big-picture-explanation-of-what-happened-in-the-past-15-years-that-flipped-the-social-cultural-media-leftist-and-govt-relationship/#more-247100">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-67689562319112530772023-05-29T09:00:00.016-04:002023-05-29T09:00:00.156-04:00Remembering on Memorial Day<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkGRHfJxRuIld1FJujgILXJz7r4awwC7Ux7A6chCNPdHkALy8_gXaNfDO9EefpEck2a6RFLbuLV6WcIr6m6Xd4w5FvVDvdEIIqNkCT55Ati-aZYe7OUtLAuggJ1re4Cpc1nzKFGNaKkUYkZ7-O0nGzNDj6CqiPIxHa8G9rA5nka-ImbJiQzhAghydIbQ/s1024/aaa%20memorial-day-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="1024" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkGRHfJxRuIld1FJujgILXJz7r4awwC7Ux7A6chCNPdHkALy8_gXaNfDO9EefpEck2a6RFLbuLV6WcIr6m6Xd4w5FvVDvdEIIqNkCT55Ati-aZYe7OUtLAuggJ1re4Cpc1nzKFGNaKkUYkZ7-O0nGzNDj6CqiPIxHa8G9rA5nka-ImbJiQzhAghydIbQ/w382-h191/aaa%20memorial-day-1.jpg" width="382" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Memorial Day: vintage Trump message</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">click to embiggen</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"># # #</span></div><p></p>Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-17938521906111179682023-05-28T13:44:00.001-04:002023-05-28T13:44:17.651-04:00Debt Ceiling: bad news<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq8YSZL39njA6Y5ngpOdNr_i2Vy7u9gRKKN-zxJaT_ajEQdS1V--i1Gcl_EwTuhehMT4Sj_QC08dUpJNCWOXexqfLBXXPW9DhhYPze7f1aNFTweSI1bEXgF5QAHaxDhFhfW2ZEbSPlgI7-Vc8muGIH4jxktapfPfxwV8vq-_N1vRKXY-QhLtok_o1qLw/s400/aaa%20congress%20money.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq8YSZL39njA6Y5ngpOdNr_i2Vy7u9gRKKN-zxJaT_ajEQdS1V--i1Gcl_EwTuhehMT4Sj_QC08dUpJNCWOXexqfLBXXPW9DhhYPze7f1aNFTweSI1bEXgF5QAHaxDhFhfW2ZEbSPlgI7-Vc8muGIH4jxktapfPfxwV8vq-_N1vRKXY-QhLtok_o1qLw/s320/aaa%20congress%20money.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">JD </span><a href="https://discernreport.com/who-won-the-debt-ceiling-battle/" style="font-family: arial;">Rucker at <i>The
Discern Report</i></a><span style="font-family: arial;"> saw it coming:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The debt ceiling battle may be
over. We’ll know for sure Wednesday when the vote is scheduled, but it seems
Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy may have come together. Considering the most basic
and obvious elimination of fruitless spending — 87,000 IRS agents — <a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/bad-news-middle-class-98-87000-irs-agents/">was
NOT addressed</a>, this seems like a huge loss for patriots.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">McCarthy will herald spending cuts,
but they won’t be in the same ballpark as the absolute overhaul that is
necessary to give this nation any hope for the future. Instead, we will
continue down our path to unavoidable Modern Monetary Theory crushing the
country into oblivion.<b> . . .</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">McCarthy caved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another
win for the Uniparty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Read the rest of the report <a href="https://discernreport.com/who-won-the-debt-ceiling-battle/">here</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"># # #</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<br />Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-54448023610133769922023-05-27T14:47:00.003-04:002023-05-27T14:47:17.572-04:00Memorial Day weekend<p> <span style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">Gary Varvel cartoon:</span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijDD4beFV7zkr6lDOr093YpPwHYX2ByF2UzDNPmJHXurVj0wTLpocoVVaoO5DTRmKZtv4MYYhsQOQy5BAMHnbMXDTZCnhjHA_fzgvDdmCnNLyEtEng6JQ92QpPVvsu5f4oi48D-I4V0hw8I1zafdEPlgzq05TgXks3NOb6zlRzjTgHe3Usf1FyRpvYCw/s630/Varvel%20Memorial%20Day.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="630" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijDD4beFV7zkr6lDOr093YpPwHYX2ByF2UzDNPmJHXurVj0wTLpocoVVaoO5DTRmKZtv4MYYhsQOQy5BAMHnbMXDTZCnhjHA_fzgvDdmCnNLyEtEng6JQ92QpPVvsu5f4oi48D-I4V0hw8I1zafdEPlgzq05TgXks3NOb6zlRzjTgHe3Usf1FyRpvYCw/w383-h274/Varvel%20Memorial%20Day.jpg" width="383" /></a></div><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Remember our fallen warriors this weekend.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"># # #</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-25021799030796246972023-05-26T09:00:00.013-04:002023-05-26T09:00:00.156-04:00Bilderberg’s Agenda for Global Control<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8hAI2Micp_OHEe9ixpGtAEXrD2qVKLuyih-GlnIvKKmHr_z6eIpq0k9sLmhZ5eGwa4tZpQsZku8BQD5YrN_cglefA7f8brmWzkUC7n00oeHgQCIKd_nYfmxw0nK2ThXphiumYNpU3OPylXSY9vcuC_SgL2ffMM7F8FiuYA5FlrbvwSVlPy8JhzUFnEQ/s1068/new-world-dis-order.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="1068" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8hAI2Micp_OHEe9ixpGtAEXrD2qVKLuyih-GlnIvKKmHr_z6eIpq0k9sLmhZ5eGwa4tZpQsZku8BQD5YrN_cglefA7f8brmWzkUC7n00oeHgQCIKd_nYfmxw0nK2ThXphiumYNpU3OPylXSY9vcuC_SgL2ffMM7F8FiuYA5FlrbvwSVlPy8JhzUFnEQ/w362-h204/new-world-dis-order.jpg" width="362" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">William F <a href="https://thenewamerican.com/bilderbergs-2023-agenda-for-global-control-ai-cbdc-china-censorship-and-more/ ">Jasper at <i>The New American</i></a> reports on last weekend's Bilderberg meeting:</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Bilderberg’s 2023 Agenda for Global
Control: <br />
AI, CBDC, China, Censorship, and More<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">What do the would-be Masters of the Universe have
planned for us for the coming year? Economic collapse? A new digital currency?
Expanded surveillance state? Global food shortages? Energy grid collapse?
Pandemic 2.0? We do not know precisely, but we can get a general idea of the
ugly agenda the globalists are pursuing from the just-concluded Bilderberg
meeting. This is the annual ultra-secretive, ultra-high-level assembly of the
world movers and shakers</span><b> . . .</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">They are all in on the </span><a href="https://thenewamerican.com/print/the-great-reset-deep-state-globalists-taking-over-the-world-and-you/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; outline: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white; color: #0053a4; text-decoration: none;">Great Reset</span></a><span style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, their grand plan to “reset” humanity, as Klaus Schwab and
the World Economic Forum (WEF) have infamously proposed and are relentlessly
promoting. Don’t be fooled by false claims that Bilderberg and WEF are
competing organizations. While the WEF is the larger, flashier organization,
with its annual Davos extravaganzas of billionaires, presidents, and prime
ministers, it is a junior partner to Bilderberg in the globalist scheme of
things. Almost all of the Bilderbergers are also WEFers</span><b> . . .</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">Bilderberg sits atop (or near the top) of the
globalist pyramid of power, devising, revising, promulgating, and coordinating
the latest blueprints for their developing </span><a href="https://thenewamerican.com/print/the-great-reset-deep-state-globalists-taking-over-the-world-and-you/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; outline: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white; color: #0053a4; text-decoration: none;">New World Order</span></a><span style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The report includes the agenda and the roster of attendees.
Click <a href="https://thenewamerican.com/bilderbergs-2023-agenda-for-global-control-ai-cbdc-china-censorship-and-more/ ">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"># # #</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-17318826652301833832023-05-25T09:00:00.029-04:002023-05-25T09:00:00.152-04:00Radical Green New Deal predictions<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizlzRdJL3Oc0s-gZD29z1m-7YvZ9ZqzhAjl7qDbM79FHJWEf0hrADHXacs7IB9aI-OYwJ3Uv1qyzcEVJbwOldHp8ZOG6g1TVN-5xzXY4YDg-xdtrohEsVphPEX8e_gPwSJqyrkcgxprRPiibXiAmj_l7w48qrZnlREm8wqjAESh4zPYHaj4AZx_AYuiA/s474/earth%20melt%20climate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="474" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizlzRdJL3Oc0s-gZD29z1m-7YvZ9ZqzhAjl7qDbM79FHJWEf0hrADHXacs7IB9aI-OYwJ3Uv1qyzcEVJbwOldHp8ZOG6g1TVN-5xzXY4YDg-xdtrohEsVphPEX8e_gPwSJqyrkcgxprRPiibXiAmj_l7w48qrZnlREm8wqjAESh4zPYHaj4AZx_AYuiA/s320/earth%20melt%20climate.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Jack <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/on_global_warming_so_many_problems_with_the_data.html ">Hellner at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">American
Thinker</i></a> debunks some “global warming” myths:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Here are some of the destructive
policies of the radical greenies that are based on predictions, not scientific
data:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The destruction of energy-producing
companies that produce reasonably priced energy. (They clearly don't
care about the harm to the poor and middle class by high inflation.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The promotion of the highly
flammable pollutant lithium while seeking to control CO2, a non-pollutant clear
gas that makes plants grow and allows the world to be fed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Spending trillions on carbon
capture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Selling worthless carbon credits
so people like John Kerry can pretend they care as they fly in their private
jets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Outlawing gas stoves, furnaces,
lawnmowers, leaf-blowers, and gas grills.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The destruction of fishing and
killing of whales by wind farms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Read the rest <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/on_global_warming_so_many_problems_with_the_data.html ">here</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>RELATED</b>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Edward Ring
at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">American Greatness</i> just published “The
Corruption of Climate Science”;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>click
<a href="https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/23/the-corruption-of-climate-science/">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"># # #</span><o:p></o:p></p>Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575503720251350415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426455840366384376.post-79217580458367884222023-05-24T09:00:00.032-04:002023-05-24T09:00:00.135-04:00Wind & solar renewables: pointless<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVTUYbKR_0naYxa5JsFUaWN9PBX_6DIf7gx_RSTJyBs-74q2IG_eWmde10Tx_OEI_gA7Tsa3_xRcypjhW0kqC07JBKYFjzHl-MA7nqfiPsMhdxkUDt2ZTq2u8t142YyqxV3u_lZKGWzUocHYxbgDTvDEX-tYjBxix9Km18p7-BCqGgmSckaJLYKmJsHg/s1140/wind%20turbine%20fail.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="1140" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVTUYbKR_0naYxa5JsFUaWN9PBX_6DIf7gx_RSTJyBs-74q2IG_eWmde10Tx_OEI_gA7Tsa3_xRcypjhW0kqC07JBKYFjzHl-MA7nqfiPsMhdxkUDt2ZTq2u8t142YyqxV3u_lZKGWzUocHYxbgDTvDEX-tYjBxix9Km18p7-BCqGgmSckaJLYKmJsHg/w418-h209/wind%20turbine%20fail.jpg" width="418" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />Bryan<a href="https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2F2023%2F05%2F10%2Fwind-solar-renewables-pointless-waste%2F "> Leyland at <i>The Telegraph UK</i></a> explains why renewable energy sources (wind and solar) are never going to achieve "net zero". I missed this column when it appeared a few weeks ago, but it's still current. And it's still a pipe dream:<br />
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Many governments in the Western
world have committed to <a href="https://issuesinsights.com/2023/05/22/will-we-wake-up-when-were-hungry/">“net zero</a>” emissions of carbon in the near future. The
US and UK both say they will deliver by 2050. It's widely believed that wind
and <a href="https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/solar-power/" target="_parent">solar power</a> can achieve this. This belief has led the
US and British governments, among others, to promote and heavily subsidise wind
and solar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">These plans have a single, fatal
flaw: they are reliant on the pipe-dream that there is some affordable way to
store surplus electricity at scale.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the real world a wind farm’s
output often drops below 10 per cent of its rated “capacity” for days at a
time. Solar power disappears completely every night and drops by 50 per cent or
more during cloudy days. “Capacity” being a largely meaningless figure for a
wind or solar plant, about 3000 megawatts (MW) of wind and solar capacity is
needed to replace a 1000 MW conventional power station in terms of energy over
time: and in fact, as we shall see, the conventional power station or something
very like it will still be needed frequently once the wind and solar are
online.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The governments of countries with a
considerable amount of wind and solar generation have developed an expectation
that they can simply continue to build more until <a href="https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/net-zero/" target="_parent">net zero</a> is achieved. The reality is that many of them
have kept the lights on only by using existing fossil fired stations as backup
for periods of low wind and sun. This brings with it a new operating regime
where stations that were designed to operate continuously have to follow
unpredictable fluctuations in wind and solar power. As a result operating and
maintenance costs have increased and many stations have had to be shut down.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In fact it's already common to see
efficient combined-cycle gas turbines replaced by open-cycle ones because they
can be throttled up and down easily to back up the rapidly changing output of
wind and solar farms. But open-cycle gas turbines burn about twice as much gas
as combined cycle gas turbines. Switching to high-emissions machinery as part
of an effort to reduce emissions is, frankly, madness!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Much more at the link <a href="https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2F2023%2F05%2F10%2Fwind-solar-renewables-pointless-waste%2F ">here</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But try sharing any of these facts with a green zealot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may be that only after unimaginable damage
and suffering resulting from reducing access to energy that the greenies will wake
up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe not even then . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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