Month: June 2023

WHO Declares ‘Infodemic,’ Announces ‘Misinformation’ Surveillance Program

WHO Declares 'Infodemic,' Announces 'Misinformation' Surveillance Program

BY BEN BARTEE

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/benbartee/2023/06/24/who-declares-infodemic-announces-misinformation-surveillance-program-n1706070;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

The World Health Organization (WHO), funded primarily by the CCP and Bill Gates tag team, has been very busy getting its so-called “pandemic treaties” into place, which in effect hand over national control of a state’s public health response to unaccountable multinational bureaucrats — whose interests, not unimportantly, are not shared by the populations over which they exercise authority.

Relatedly, the WHO also succeeded recently in instituting “vaccine passports” across the European Union.

Dovetailing with both of those projects of social control is the organization’s declaration of war on something called an “infodemic.”

Via the Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats (PRET) document (emphasis added):

People have now access to an enormous amount of information (which increases during crisis) from many different sources, traditional or digital, including for instance online platform offering pre-print access to scientific articles. Health institutions are not anymore, the only provider of information. This new information ecosystem has generated a new “Health Threat” that accompanies epidemics and pandemics, called infodemic.

Infodemic is the overabundance of information -accurate or not- which makes it difficult for individuals to adopt behaviours that will protect their health and the health of their families and communities. The infodemic can directly impact health, hamper the implementation of public health countermeasures and undermine trust and social cohesiveness. Infodemic cannot be eliminated it can only be managed. This is why WHO and partners have developed the approach of infodemic management which encompasses Risk Communication and Community Engagement adding additional tools and approaches to manage it more efficiently in the 21st century.

The use of the term “infodemic” might seem like a silly rhetorical invention of the kind often used by large organizations and their PR departments. However, it signifies something deeper, which is the rolling of issues ostensibly unrelated to true public health under the Public Health™ umbrella.

I have written about this phenomenon elsewhere in the context of, for example, the Democrat governor of New York fashioning gun control into a Public Health™ issue.

By this method, the government grants for itself an entirely new justification for gun confiscation, or censorship in the case of the “infodemic,” or whatever fashionable social engineering project comes along next.

If the WHO has a truly abiding interest in combatting what it calls “misinformation,” it might consider starting with the Public Health™ bureaucrats who lied over and over and over with zero consequences for over three years at this point.

Or it might start with all the corporate state news actors who claimed, with zero actual knowledge of the ingredients or mechanism of action of the shots, that the COVID-19 vaccines are totally “safe and effective” when the evidence at the time didn’t support either claim, as more and more research now bears out.

Unfortunately, we know how the WHO’s “infodemic” regime will be applied — unfairly, arbitrarily, opaquely, and with no meaningful recourse for the censored.

NYC LGBTQ Activists: ‘We’re Coming for Your Kids’

NYC LGBTQ Activists: ‘We’re Coming for Your Kids’

BY CATHERINE SALGADO

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/culture/catherinesalgado/2023/06/24/nyc-lgbtq-activists-were-coming-for-your-kids-n1706063;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

New York City LGBTQXYZLMNOP etc. etc. activists just came out of the closet… as pedophiles. At least, how else should we interpret a lot of LGBTQ activists marching about chanting, “We’re coming for your children”?

Of course, this chant is similar to the sentiment expressed by our esteemed president and his ever-brilliant White House press secretary. “There is no such thing as someone else’s child,” Joe Biden asserted in April. “Our nation’s children are all our children.” Fact-check: false. And in May, White House Press Secretary and open lesbian Karine Jean-Pierre made the same creepy claim regarding parents’ objections to transgender surgeries for children: “These are our kids. They belong to all of us.” These are the people running our country.

The alphabet soup crowd can’t reproduce naturally, thanks to their inherently infertile sexual perversions or genital mutilation. But they are doing their best — or worst — to perpetuate their insanity by indoctrinating young Americans, trying to convince children from toddlerhood to switch “genders,” surgically remove body parts, or define their whole lives around their “sexual orientation.”

The Daily Caller reported on June 24 about the New York City drag march freaks who want your children (at least one marcher had almost completely bare breasts):

“We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children,” the activists shouted as they marched. The marchers convened at Tompkins Square Park and made their way through the East Village before stopping at Stonewall Inn. Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, was the site of a police raid which sparked violent protests known as the Stonewall Riots in 1969.

Other video taken of the event shows protestors with signs reading, “Groom Cissies” and “Drag isn’t for Cissies.”

As concerns rise over explicit drag events marketed to and performed for children, some states are taking action to prohibit underage kids from attending these shows.

And no wonder. Such blatant displays of seeming pedophilic enthusiasm are enough to stand any normal parent’s hair on end.

It’s significant that legislation restricting transgender surgeries on kids or drag performances in front of children are always vilified as “anti-LGBTQ.” In April, organizers actually canceled a Florida Pride parade after legislation was passed banning kids from attending drag shows. How is that not a tacit admission that one of the main purposes of the LGBTQ Pride parade was grooming children?

We need to call these groomers out for what they are. They say they’re coming for our kids — and sadly, terrifyingly, they’re not joking.

Biden Weaponizing IRS Into a Well-Armed Paramilitary Force

BY LEE WILLIAMS

SEE: https://www.ammoland.com/2023/06/special-report-biden-weaponizing-irs-into-a-well-armed-paramilitary-force/;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

U.S.A. — Iowa Senator Joni Ernst introduced a bill last week titled “Why does the IRS Have Guns Act,” which would prohibit the IRS from buying or storing guns and ammunition, transfer all IRS firearms to the General Services Administration so they could be auctioned off to licensed gun dealers to reduce the national debt and move the agency’s Criminal Investigation Division to the control of the Justice Department.

“The taxman is fully loaded at the expense of the taxpayer,” Ernst said in a statement. “As the Biden administration has worked to expand the size of the IRS, any further weaponization of this federal agency against hardworking Americans and small businesses is a grave concern. I’m working to disarm the IRS and return these dollars to address reckless spending in Washington.”

While the outcome of Ernst’s legislation is not promising – Joe Biden will likely veto her bill, should it ever reach his desk – the Senator’s efforts have drawn much-needed attention to the massive arsenal that the IRS has amassed – is amassing.

The IRS is preparing for battle. Some of the weapons and tactical equipment currently in their inventory are used by elite military commandos, not American law enforcement officers. To be clear, none of this extreme militarization occurred until after Biden took office.

“Who are they preparing to battle?” asked Adam Andrzejewski, CEO and Founder of OpenTheBooks.com, the largest private repository of U.S. public-sector spending. Andrzejewski’s watchdog efforts have led to federal legislation, grand jury indictments, congressional hearings, subpoenas, and convictions, as well as audits by the Government Accountability Office and Congressional Research Service reports.

“It looks like it’s for domestic tax and law enforcement objectives, but the IRS has blurred the lines between civil and administrative agencies, civil and administrative duties, and federal law enforcement capability. After grabbing legal power, the IRS is amassing firepower. It’s time to scale back the federal arsenal,” Andrzejewski told the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project Wednesday.

In one recent report, Andrzejewski found that IRS has spent $35.2 million taxpayer dollars on guns, ammunition, and tactical gear since 2006, but the agency’s purchasing increased dramatically under Biden.

“The years 2020 and 2021 were peak years at the IRS for purchasing weaponry and gear. Just since the pandemic started, the IRS has purchased $10 million in weaponry and gear,” the report states.

The purchases included:

  • $2.5 million on ballistic shields and various other gear for criminal investigation agents
  • $1.3 million for tactical lights, tactical gear bags, ballistic helmets, and body armor
  • Nearly $1 million on Smith & Wesson M&P15s and Beretta tactical shotguns
  • 3,000 tactical holsters for handguns with optical sights and weapon lights (As of this week, the IRS only has 2,100 armed agents.)

Trigger-pullers wanted

The IRS is recruiting people who won’t hesitate to put another American behind their front-sight post.

In a recent job posting, the agency says special agent candidates, “must be willing to use force up to and including the use of deadly force.”

Those who qualify will receive the best guns and gear taxpayer dollars can buy.

Here is a partial list of some of the agency’s recent purchases.

Night Vision Rifle Scopes

American law enforcement – even the IRS – does not operate with Rules of Engagement like the military when it encounters armed resistance. The last time law enforcement used ROE rather than the law, things went very wrong. Whatever the tactical situation, police are subject to criminal laws and deadly force policies, which are predicated upon the sanctity of human life.

Force – up to and including deadly force – must be reasonable. An American law enforcement officer must use the minimum amount of force necessary and can use deadly force in defense of their life or the life of another. Verbal warnings and other de-escalation attempts are always considered after deadly force is used to determine whether the force was justified.

That said, it’s difficult to understand why the IRS is equipping its agents with night vision rifle scopes, which are capable of hitting man-sized targets at a distance in total darkness.

How does shooting a suspect who is hundreds of yards away and unaware of an agent’s presence – at night, without warning – comply with use-of-force statutes and policies? How is this not murder? What tactical problem are the night vision rifle scopes intended to resolve?

Ballistic Shields

When the threat level is extreme, such as a report of an active shooter, SWAT teams will deploy a ballistic shield, which is designed to complement their personal body armor and further reduce the threat.

Ballistic shields come in all shapes and sizes and are rated by bullet resistance. A Level II shield will stop 9mm and other handgun rounds. A level IV shield will stop .30 caliber armor-piercing ammunition. The greater the bullet resistance, the heavier the shield. Operators must train constantly to carry the shield and shoot a pistol one-handed. It’s awkward and requires a lot of practice.

The Los Angeles Police Department has guidelines concerning the use of ballistic shields. Officers must first pass a Ballistic Shield Operator course before they can carry one into harm’s way. The course specifies the type of tactical situations where a ballistic shield should be deployed. They include but are not limited to the following:

  • Breaching (doors and windows)
  • High-risk vehicle stops
  • High-risk handcuffing
  • Door entries
  • Room clearing
  • Hallway movement
  • Rescuing wounded officers under fire

These types of tactical situations are the purview of SWAT teams and military special forces, not the IRS.

What’s in the IRS’s Gun Safe

The IRS issues Smith & Wesson M&P15 rifles to most of its special agents. It’s a good, serviceable patrol carbine – more than adequate for most needs. However, the agency issues HK416s to select agents. The difference between an M&P15 and an HK416 is staggering. Smith & Wesson designed their carbine for civilian end users. Heckler & Koch designed the 416 for special operations forces. It is currently the weapon of choice for the most elite units in the world, including Tier One JSOC teams. IRS even issues Heckler & Koch magazines with rifles, which are much more reliable, but cost as much as 10 times more than traditional AR magazines.

Why do IRS agents need the same rifle carried by Navy SEALs or members of the Army’s most elite special missions unit?

While the IRS issues .40 cal. Glock handguns to its agents, documents show the agency has purchased a limited number of 5.7x28mm handguns and ammunition, although the type of ammunition has not been specified.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives classifies the 5.7x28mm SS190 duty round, which has a steel penetrator, as armor-piercing handgun ammunition. The manufacturer restricts the ammunition to military and law enforcement customers.

The 5.7x28mm weapon system gives IRS agents the capability of defeating most civilian body armor with a handgun.

IRS Responds

The Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project asked the IRS to explain why they need ballistic shields, HK416s, night vision rifle scopes, and other highly specialized equipment.

Here is their response:

“IRS-CI special agents are sworn federal law enforcement officers who conduct criminal investigations into tax violations, money laundering, cybercrimes, as well as organized crime involving drugs and gangs. The agency’s approximately 2,100 IRS-CI special agents regularly execute and serve search, arrest, and seizure warrants; conduct covert operations; and interact with the public in law enforcement settings. They must participate in annual firearms training, briefings, and practical exercises to demonstrate they are proficient to carry firearms. Firearms and related tactical gear are – and have been – necessary equipment for CI special agents for more than 100 years,” said Carissa Cutrell, a member of the IRS Criminal Investigation division.

Takeaways

It’s clear the IRS geared up so they could start raiding.

Last week a joint IRS/ATF team raided Highwood Creek Outfitters in Great Falls, Montana. ATF agents were prohibited from seizing the gun shop’s 4473s, but the IRS agents weren’t. They seized hundreds of the forms.

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen expressed concern over the seizure, asking, “What the hell does the IRS need with 4473s?” By now, I’m sure he realizes they were all handed over to the ATF.

History has shown us that whatever a federal agency buys, it will eventually use. The only question is who will IRS point their HK416s and night vision rifle scopes at now that the raids have begun.

Most Americans are sick of watching Biden weaponize federal agencies to further his partisan political objectives. The ATF was weaponized first, and they’re going door-to-door right now, conducting unconstitutional knock-and-talks under the guise of firearm inspections.

If Joe Biden is allowed to fully weaponize the IRS like he did the ATF, he will be able to exert his executive authority whenever he wants without congressional oversight. Anyone who objects or complains could be shot without warning, at distance, at night, without ever seeing who fired the fatal round.

As Senator Ernst noted, this is a grave concern.

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About Lee Williams

Lee Williams, who is also known as “The Gun Writer,” is the chief editor of the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project. Until recently, he was also an editor for a daily newspaper in Florida. Before becoming an editor, Lee was an investigative reporter at newspapers in three states and a U.S. Territory. Before becoming a journalist, he worked as a police officer. Before becoming a cop, Lee served in the Army. He’s earned more than a dozen national journalism awards as a reporter, and three medals of valor as a cop. Lee is an avid tactical shooter.

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Hungary: Orban accuses Soros of ‘scheming to incite’ another migrant crisis as Soros’ son preps to take over empire~George Soros’ attempts to boost far-left candidates

 

BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/06/hungary-orban-accuses-soros-of-scheming-to-incite-another-migrant-crisis-as-soros-son-preps-to-take-over-empire;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

Six years ago, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban candidly stated his views about Soros’ role in the Muslim migrant invasion: “Never underestimate the power of the dark side.” He is correct. An opinion piece by Rebecca Hagelin of the Washington Times captures the Soros legacy:

How are illegal immigrants organized so quickly and young voters corralled overnight to demand open borders? Where did the saturation of transgender and pansexual ideology come from? How is it possible that Black Lives Matter seems to be everywhere? Or that the call for pot legalization is sweeping the nation? Or that there is an international movement for globalization simultaneously occurring in countries around the world?

Follow the money the George Soros money through his Open Society Foundation.

In this long season of cultural and political tension, Americans need to know the truth about the source of the conflicts, about why communities and our nation are being ripped apart.

Mr. Soros’ Open Society Foundation also is busy abroad in a well-financed attempt to strip America and other nations of our sovereignty and make us beholden to an international government.

Mr. Soros funds so many of these hateful, disruptive (even violent) efforts here at home and abroad that it’s hard to keep track.

Soros has poured $32 billion into the Open Society Foundation and presents the Foundation as a do-gooder enterprise. Now Alex Soros, the son of 92-year-old George Soros, is preparing to take over his dad’s empire. The younger Soros has vowed to eradicate conservatives from the Internet and declared: “I’m 100 times worse than my Dad.”

It is no surprise that Orban would accuse Soros of scheming to incite another migrant crisis. When did the scheming ever stop?

“Viktor Orban accuses Soros of scheming to ‘incite’ another migrant crisis,” Protothema, June 21, 2023:

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned that the Soros empire, the reigns of which will be handed over to 37-year-old scion Alexander, is planning to “incite” another migrant crisis in Europe.

In his weekly radio appearance, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said according to 24.hu that he believed that the latest migrant relocation scheme from the European Union was a result of pressure from George Soros’ son Alex, who is set to take over the $25 billion financial empire.

Orban, who has long maligned the mal-influence of the 92-year-old Hungarian billionaire in his country and elsewhere, warned that his heir may be more ruthless in achieving the goals of the ‘Open Society’ foundations owned by the family….

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SEE ALSO: https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-soros-succession/?mc_cid=dbf6ea0b85

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Expert issues warning on Dems’ radical primary candidates: Voters are ‘hoodwinked’

Senior legal analyst for the Heritage Foundation Cully Stimson joined ‘Varney & Co.’ to discuss billionaire George Soros’ attempts to boost far-left candidates. 

Feds catch 460 known or suspected terrorists in last nine months, most at the northern border

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/06/feds-catch-460-known-or-suspected-terrorists-in-last-nine-months-most-at-the-northern-border;

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What could possibly go wrong? Celebrate diversity!

“Feds catch more than 460 known, suspected terrorists in nine months, most at the northern border,” by Bethany Blankley, The Center Square, June 20, 2023:

There have been hundreds of known or suspected terrorists apprehended at the northern and southern borders in the current fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.

As foreign nationals illegally enter the U.S. and are apprehended, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations agents screen them against a federal Terrorist Screening Dataset, which includes sensitive information about terrorist identities. It originated as a consolidated terrorist watch list “to house information on known or suspected terrorists, or KSTs, but has evolved over the last decade to include additional individuals who represent a potential threat to the United States, including known affiliates of watch-listed individuals,” CBP states.

As of June 15, OFO agents apprehended 53 KSTs at southwest border ports of entry and 284 at northern border ports of entry, totaling 337. CBP’s fiscal year begins on Oct. 1.

They also apprehended 125 KSTs between ports of entry at the southern border and two between ports of entry at the northern border, totaling 127 KSTs fiscal year to date.

Combined, they’ve apprehended 464 known or suspected terrorists.

That’s nearly a 30% increase in one month after previous increases were roughly 87%.

Roughly one month ago, The Center Square reported OFO agents apprehended 332 KSTs at both borders. They apprehended 125 at the southern border (45 KSTs at ports of entry and 80 between ports of entry) and 207 at the northern border (205 at ports of entry and two between ports of entry).

These numbers were up from 284 KSTs apprehended by March, which was significantly up from 38 apprehended by January, an 87% increase in just two months.

By comparison, in fiscal 2022, 478 KSTs were apprehended in fiscal 2022. Agents apprehended 165 at the southern border (67 at ports of entry and 98 between ports of entry) and 313 at northern border ports of entry….

Who Expected This? First Transgender Lawmaker Had Child Porn

Shocker: Nation's First Trans Lawmaker Arrested on Child Porn Charges

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2023/06/23/shocker-nations-first-trans-lawmaker-arrested-on-child-porn-charges-n1705846;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

I know: knock me over with a feather, right? The first man who insists he is a woman to become a state lawmaker, Stacie Marie Laughton, has been arrested on charges of distributing child pornography. As PJM’s Paula Bolyard put it, “Who could have predicted that someone who immerses himself in sexual perversion could do something like this?” The answer is that no one on the Left could have predicted it, because Leftists remain determined to pretend, and demand that we pretend, that the transgender madness isn’t madness at all, and that those who are in the grip of these delusions and fantasies are perfectly normal and well-adjusted.

The Daily Wire reported Friday that a gentleman named Stacie Marie Laughton, formerly known as Barry Charles Laughton, Jr., “is now facing four counts of distributing sexually explicit images of children.” According to a Thursday report in the Nashua, N.H., Patch, Sgt. John Cinelli of the Nashua Police Department said that officers “spoke with reporting parties that indicated Laughton distributed sexually explicit images of children.”

Laughton’s claim to fame is that he was elected, not once but twice, to the New Hampshire state legislature. Apparently, he managed to conceal the unsavory details of his record from New Hampshire voters long enough to get elected the first time. But then he was elected again. It’s unclear why Granite State voters are so fond of this fellow, as his record is full of even more red flags than just the fact that he is a man who has grown his hair long and now, despite his receding hairline, demands to be regarded as a woman.

Back in 2008, according to the Patch, “she was convicted of conspiracy to commit credit card fraud and falsifying physical evidence charges while living in Laconia as a man.” That sentence neatly encapsulates the madness of our age. Patch dutifully refers to Laughton as “she,” and says he was “living in Laconia as a man,” when the reality is exactly the opposite: he is now living as a woman when he is actually a man and was living as one in 2008. And despite the fact that Laughton’s derangement and mental illness are on full display in Patch’s report, Patch feeds his destructive delusions by pretending that he really is a woman.

Laughton was elected to the New Hampshire state legislature in November 2012. By this time, he was apparently claiming to be a woman, as Patch notes that he was “the first transgender elected official in New Hampshire and one of only a handful across the United States at the time.” The Daily Wire says he was “the nation’s first transgender-identifying state lawmaker.” It was only after he was elected that Laughton’s “felony status and jail time came to light. After talking with state Democrats and eyeing the media coverage, Laughton resigned.”

He was down, but he wasn’t out, reports the Patch: “A special election was scheduled a few weeks later, and Laughton signed up to run again. However, officials determined she was ineligible to hold public office, according to state law, because she had not completed her sentence — her sentence included a 10-year good behavior clause and a restitution requirement.” Laughton didn’t quite make it through ten years of good behavior: in 2015, he was “arrested on a felony charge, accused of making a bomb threat against the Southern New Hampshire Medical Center.” With admirable self-awareness, Laughton “blamed ‘mental illness’ for the bomb threat incident.”

Yet despite openly acknowledging being mentally ill, Laughton hadn’t given up on his dream of a political career. Patch notes oddly that “after paying restitution on the fraud charge from 2008 and serving the good behavior clause, Laughton was allowed to run for office again in 2019.” Yet the good behavior clause was for ten years, which he could not possibly have fulfilled, given his 2015 bomb threat. Nevertheless, Laughton was elected a New Hampshire state representative in 2020, and a selectman in 2011, 2019, and 2021.

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The popular statesman, however, just couldn’t keep on the right side of the law. He was “arrested in July 2021 on seven counts of penalty for false information, accused of misusing the state’s 911 texting system. According to a report on Patch, she claimed she was being spoofed at the time.” Then, after being re-elected yet again in Nov. 2022, he resigned again, after being arrested again for “stalking a woman in Hudson.” Yet again, Laughton had kept the unsavory details of his life from voters until after he was safely reelected.

So we have serial women’s luggage thief Sam Brinton and now Stacie Laughton and no doubt innumerable others to show us the obvious: those men who genuinely think that they’re women are not of sound mind. Their delusions should not be catered to. They should not be in positions of responsibility. And they most certainly shouldn’t be lauded as heroes and role models.

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GOP strategist calls out Democrats: 'Why don't you care' about evolving Biden probe?

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The UN is a Terrorist Organization

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/06/the-un-is-a-terrorist-organization;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

And the U.S. should get out.

The United Nations arose out of the ashes and rubble of World War II with the promise of genuine international cooperation and lasting world peace. But that promise has long since turned into a cruel joke, as was vividly and revoltingly demonstrated on May 15, when for the first time in its history, the UN observed Nakba Day, the Palestinian Arabs’ lamentation over the “catastrophe” of the founding of the modern state of Israel in 1948. Would the UN mark the founding of any other nation as a “catastrophe”? Of course not. But the august international body has become a mouthpiece for the most genocidally minded advocates of the “Palestinian” jihad, while the supporters of Israel lack both conviction and unity.

The centerpiece of the UN festivities was a vicious speech from Palestinian Authority President-For-Life Mahmoud Abbas, who at 87 years of age makes Old Joe Biden look youthful and vigorous. Abbas, now in the nineteenth year of the four-year term to which he was elected in January 2005, lashed out at Britain and the U.S. for inflicting Israel upon the poor, suffering Palestinian people: “Britain and the United States, specifically,” he declared, “bear direct political and moral responsibility for the Nakba of the Palestinian people. They are the ones who participated in making our nation a victim when they decided to establish and plant another entity in our historical homeland, and this for their own colonialist purposes. It was called a land without a people so that it would be given to Israel. The truth is that these countries, the Western [countries], wanted to get rid of the Jews and enjoy having them in Palestine – two birds with one stone.”

These statements, as you likely expect, are riddled with falsehoods. As The Palestinian Delusion demonstrates, the Jewish presence in the land that now comprises the State of Israel has been continuous for several thousand years. The Romans did formally expel the Jews from the area in 134CE, after the Bar Kokhba revolt, but many Jews never left; they remained there through the Arab invasion, the Turkish occupation, and up until the advent of the Zionist movement in the nineteenth century. That movement had its impetus in the work of Theodor Herzl and others, who argued that the persecution of Jews worldwide could be ended if they had their own land, and indeed, reclaimed the land of their forefathers, in which some had always remained. The impetus for this didn’t come from Britain and the U.S. but from Jews themselves.

Nor was Abbas telling the truth when he said that “it was called a land without a people so that it would be given to Israel.” In reality, in 1857, the British consul in Palestine wrote that “the country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is that of a body of population.” Henry Baker Tristram, an English traveler, reported in the 1860s that “the north and south [of the Sharon plain] land is going out of cultivation and whole villages are rapidly disappearing from the face of the earth. Since the year 1838, no less than 20 villages there have been thus erased from the map and the stationary population extirpated.” The most celebrated chronicler of Palestine’s pre-Zionist desolation was Mark Twain, who wrote in 1869 that “Nazareth is forlorn; about that ford of Jordan where the hosts of Israel entered the Promised Land with songs of rejoicing, one finds only a squalid camp of fantastic Bedouins of the desert; Jericho the accursed, lies a moldering ruin, to-day, even as Joshua’s miracle left it more than three thousand years ago; Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and their humiliation, have nothing about them now to remind one that they once knew the high honor of the Saviour’s presence….Renowned Jerusalem itself, the stateliest name in history, has lost all its ancient grandeur, and is become a pauper village.”

Undaunted by facts, Abbas called on the UN to suspend Israel’s membership. Emboldened by the organization’s recognition of the founding of Israel as a “catastrophe,” he added: “I am certain and hope that this international organization will spare no effort to restore the Palestinian people’s status… through action to realize the Palestinian people’s national rights, including the right to self-determination… and the refugees’ [right to] return to their homes from which they were removed.”

Ironically, the “Palestinian people” didn’t even exist when Israel was founded. The world didn’t start hearing about them until the 1960s after the KGB and Yasir Arafat devised their existence as a strategy to undercut Israel’s image as a plucky underdog facing off against twenty-two massive and hostile Arab states. What’s more, the Arab “refugees” were not “removed” from their homes. In reality, the Arabs for the most part left Israel because they were ordered to do so by Muslim Arab leaders. Contrary to the contention of the Palestinians and their allies today, the Arab Higher Committee actually exhorted Arabs to leave the new State of Israel, and they obeyed in large numbers.

The Economist magazine reported on October 3, 1948, that “of the 62,000 Arabs who formerly lived in Haifa, not more than 5,000 or 6,000 remained. Various factors influenced their decision to seek safety in flight. There is but little doubt that the most potent of the factors were the announcements made over the air by the Higher Arab Executive, urging the Arabs to quit…. It was clearly intimated that those Arabs who remained in Haifa and accepted Jewish protection would be regarded as renegades.” The Jordanian daily Falastin complained on February 19, 1949, that “the Arab state which had encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies, have failed to keep their promise to help these refugees.” The Near East Arabic Broadcasting Station confirmed this on April 3, 1949: “It must not be forgotten that the Arab Higher Committee encouraged the refugees’ flight from their homes in Jaffa, Haifa, and Jerusalem.”

The UN knows all this or should know it. Yet it sides with entities that have repeatedly declared their determination to destroy Israel utterly, which would result in a new genocide of the Jews and the deaths of millions of innocent people. The UN is, accordingly, a terrorist organization. It is no surprise that the criminal Biden regime would support it wholeheartedly, but if we get an administration that has the best interests of the American people at heart, it should end all funding for the UN and expel it from New York. Would we tolerate an organization that marked the destruction of National Socialist Germany as a “catastrophe”? So why tolerate the UN?

Moms Who Objected to CRT File Suit After Being Harassed by School

Moms Who Objected to CRT File Suit After Being Harassed by School

BY LINCOLN BROWN

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/lincolnbrown/2023/06/22/moms-who-objected-to-crt-file-suit-after-being-harassed-by-school-n1705379;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

Two years ago, Amy Gonzalez and Andrea Gross, two Ohio moms with children in the Columbus Academy, had had enough of the school’s CRT and DEI policies. And like moms across the United States, they decided to take a stand and even gathered a coalition of like-minded parents to demand answers and solutions. In the video below, you can see why they spoke up and how the school tried to exact punishment and enforce compliance.

At the time, Gross and Gonzalez told ABC 6 in Columbus that their coalition wanted to know what was being taught and felt that they were not being heard. Gross said that people felt, “marginalized. Intimidated. Isolated. And ultimately discriminated against.” Gonzalez stated that the DEI agenda at the school felt like “inherent bigotry.”

The pair were accused by the school of “false and misleading attacks” and later informed them that their children would be denied re-enrollment that fall. The school also took the extra step of informing other families of the expulsion. In that letter, Head of School Melissa Soderberg claimed that Gross and Gonzalez  had “pursued a course of action that has been anything but civil, respectful, and faithful to the facts.” She also accused the pair of causing pain and fear for physical safety among the faculty, staff, students, and even their families. The station said that the pair made an appearance on a podcast. One parent who supported the school’s position listened and commented:

The language was very incendiary and I actually contacted the school after that podcast. We know there were children recording their class lectures and discussions in class at the urging of their parents. I think there is a chilling of discussion in the classroom that I think it’s really problematic. The school does not teach, per se critical race theory. There are certainly components the students, especially in the upper school are exposed to, but they are not taught how to think and they are not told what to think. I think it is heart-wrenching that the children are sort of collateral damage. The school does not teach, per se critical race theory. There are certainly components the students, especially in the upper school are exposed to, but they are not taught how to think and they are not told what to think. I think it is heart-wrenching that the children are sort of collateral damage.

Gross told the outlet, “I believe they are trying to send a message to the other members of our coalition that if you speak out and you ask questions that they will punish your innocent children.”

On June 12 of this year, Gonzalez and Gross filed an official complaint in the Court of Common Pleas in Franklin County. Fox News notes that the pair are seeking damages from the academy. The complaint states in part, “One teacher stated, on the first day of class, that he would not communicate with any student who supported President Trump. Politically charged issues were regularly taught and discussed in the classroom without opposing viewpoints presented.” The complaint also alleges that Latinos were not offered inclusion to the extent that other minorities enjoyed. The head of the academy’s security filed a report with the local police department and the school told faculty that it had reported the pair to the FBI. That portion of the complaint reads:

During the meeting when faculty was told the FBI had been alerted, the environment was such that one of the Academy’s faculty members raised his/her hand and asked if the Child Plaintiffs should be treated differently. Another member of faculty stated, “it sounds like we have a mole’” The actions of the Academy and those of its affiliates, as directed by the Academy, had an extreme impact on the wellbeing of Plaintiffs. The Academy falsely accused the Parent Plaintiffs of being dangerous to the health and wellbeing of the entire Academy community and destroyed their reputations with many of the people they had spent years working and learning with.

Gross told Fox that the school’s retaliation turned the community against her family to the point that her daughter left the state for her schooling.

Four Children Rescued From Drag, Drugs and Sex Party in Squalid Boston Apartment (Oh, Yeah—There Was a Dead Guy There, Too)

Four Children Rescued From Drag, Drugs and Sex Party in Squalid Boston Apartment (Oh, Yeah—There Was a Dead Guy There, Too)

BY ATHENA THORNE

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/athena-thorne/2023/06/22/four-children-rescued-from-drag-drugs-and-sex-party-in-squalid-boston-apartment-oh-yeah-there-was-a-dead-guy-there-too-n1705360;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

After crying out for help, four frightened children were rescued from a back bedroom in a squalid Boston apartment. Authorities had been called to the scene to assist an adult who had gone into cardiac arrest. They walked into an apparent drag party that featured sex toys, drug paraphernalia, and six adults who “appeared to be male.”

Boston 25 News reported:

Emergency crews responded to the apartment shortly after 11 a.m. Saturday morning, according to the police report. Boston Fire and EMS arrived first, followed by police. They found an adult dead. The cause of death remains under investigation.

[…]

According to the fire department report that I reviewed, firefighters found six adults “who appeared to be males” in the apartment, with four kids in a back bedroom. One of the men tried to stop first responders from going into the room where they found the children, who are ages 5 to 10. The report said the adults were uncooperative and denied having children inside the apartment.

[…]

The relationship between the four children and the adults remains unclear. The fire and police departments both filed reports with the state Department of Children and Families [DCF]. Police officers cited the “conditions of the home.”

NECN interviewed Boston City Councilor Erin Murphy, who told him she spoke with the Boston firefighters who found the children. “There was hoarding, a lot of uncleanliness in the apartment,” Murphy related. “Lots of sex toys and drug paraphernalia all over the place.”

Murphy said it was then that “One of the firefighters heard what they thought was a child’s voice calling for help.” She related that some of the revelers attempted to stop the firefighters from finding the children. “And when he opened the door, he saw four children and what I believe are two adults in the back room, and it was really disturbing to him and they just seemed scared.”

Sam Dillon, president of Boston Firefighters Local 718, told NECN, “I believe that our firefighters did save [the children’s] lives.” In an apparent reference to the deplorable and depraved conditions in the apartment, he added, “Had it not been for the quick response of Boston firefighters, had it not been for their diligence to observe everything that was going on, this would have been a lot worse.”

A DCF spokesperson confirmed that they’d since taken custody of the children, who lived in the Southie (South Boston) public housing apartment.

In a related story, the number of Americans who say same-sex relationships are morally acceptable plummeted by seven percent in the last year. A few years back, when it was just LGB, almost no one cared about consenting adults suiting themselves. But when the TQ+ crowd hitched their wagon to the rainbow and started grooming and indoctrinating toddlers and school children, parents took notice.

Don’t expect the Boston children’s story to get a lot of love from the mainstream media. They don’t want you to know about this sort of thing. Their only purpose is to promote woke narratives and suppress any news that exposes the dark side of their ideology. Here are some other horrifying stories my PJ Media colleagues have dragged up into the sunlight:

These transgender activists communicate with minors online and try to lure them from their families

This gay married couple caught raping and pimping their adopted special needs boys

This 12-year-old girl was raped by an older boy who was allowed in the school girls’ bathroom

There are more, but you get the idea. Any one of these hideous crimes, if committed by someone in a MAGA hat or at a Catholic school, would be front-page prime-time news for days. But because they were committed by the Left’s pet perverts, they get the silent treatment from Big Media.

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Obama Brings Back the Race Card

In 2023, Obama is still addicted to the politics of racial division.

BY DANIEL GREENFIELD

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/obama-brings-back-the-race-card/;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

In ‘Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America’, a book edited by Jamie Glazov and containing vital essays by different conservative thinkers, I went back in time to Obama’s 2004 DNC speech in which he celebrated that, “there’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.” And then I contrasted those inspiring words with the ugly politics of racial division that he used to tear apart the nation.

Obama recently revisited those words on a CNN podcast with former consigliere David Axelrod. “I think may be the best speech you ever gave,” Axelrod told his old boss, quoting those lines. “I believe in these lines. You believe in these lines, but they feel almost sepia colored now because of what we’ve seen since. And the question is, what happened?”

Barack Obama dismisses “a bunch of post-racial fantasies” and then states that “those lines are aspirational and always have been”. To paraphrase Axelrod, of a lot of lies that Obama told, this may be the worst of them. The DNC lines were in the present tense and addressed to the moment. Obama began by claiming that “there are those who are preparing to divide us” and declared, “I say to them tonight, there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America. There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.”

Then he contended that pundits like “to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States… but I’ve got news for them, too… we are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.”

None of this is aspirational. It claimed to be a present day description of the country and its current issues, right down to there “are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported it.” Any notion that it was some future aspiration could only exist as a secret equivocation living in one of the many chambers of Obama’s mental double life.

That Obama lies with shameless facility about things that are easy to check and that, unlike his successor, he doesn’t have the excuse of dementia or stuttering, isn’t new. And yet this particular big lie is important because it’s at the root of the damage that he inflicted on us.

Obama was telling the country that he did not believe it was racist. His agenda is now just the opposite. On the Axelrod podcast, he lashed out at Senator Tim Scott for using that message.

“I listened to Tim Scott, who’s running for president, and half of it sounds a lot like us. Half of it sounds a lot like what you were talking about in the speech in 2004 and in all of our speeches from that point on, which was, I am living proof that we are making progress as a country. I wouldn’t be here but for that progress,” Axelrod told Obama.

“I haven’t spent a lot of time studying Tim Scott speeches,” Obama sneered, in his trademark petty way. ” I think there is a long history of African-American or other minority candidates within the Republican Party who will validate America and say, everything’s great, and we can all make it.”

Obama attacks Scott for being willing to “validate America”. What was Obama doing then if he wasn’t validating America? The obvious answer is that he was invalidating America. And that may be the best possible description of Obama’s cultural and ideological legacy. After emerging as a trojan horse promising to validate America, he spent his career destroying its validity.

“Those quotes you made about, you know, from my speech in 2004 about there’s a United States of America, that has to be undergirded with an honest accounting of our past and our present,” Obama complained. Barack Obama has never even made an honest accounting of his own past, let alone his presidency, yet he keeps demanding that Americans account for things.

Barack Obama, the millionaire son of wealthy parents, invokes the myth that black people suffer “crippling generational poverty that is a consequence of hundreds of years of racism in the society”. In fact, generational poverty is a choice in each generation. Black children are three to five times more likely to be poor when they’re being raised by a single parent. The household wealth of a two parent black family is more than three times that of a single black family.

Obama knows this. Much like his DNC speech, he used to say these things.

“If we are honest with ourselves, we’ll admit that what too many fathers also are is missing — missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men,” he told a black church in Chicago in 2008.

“You and I know how true this is in the African-American community. We know that more than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children. We know the statistics — that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and 20 times more likely to end up in prison. They are more likely to have behavioral problems, or run away from home or become teenage parents themselves.”

Then he continued by dismissing all the excuses that he now invokes, “yes, we need more money for our schools, and more outstanding teachers in the classroom, and more after-school programs for our children. Yes, we need more jobs and more job training and more opportunity in our communities. But we also need families to raise our children. We need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception. We need them to realize that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child — it’s the courage to raise one.”

Government and the welfare state were not going to fix the black community, fathers were.

There are some political hacks and leftist ideologues who don’t know what the truth is. They sincerely repeat lies because they don’t know any better and can’t think their way past them.

The infuriating thing about Obama was that he told the truth when it was politically convenient. And then, having won over white liberals and moderates, he pivoted to weaponizing race to divide Americans by treating black people like the perpetual victims of a racist country.

In 2023, Obama absurdly insists that black people can’t get jobs or buy houses, and that they’re still suffering from living in a perpetually racist country. Minority Republicans who want to offer a message of hope are dismissed for not “addressing some of the deep inequality that still exists in our society that tracks race and is a consequence of our racial history.”

Barack claims that there’s discrimination when it comes “to buying a house”. Which real estate agent, the one selling him his $8 million D.C. mansion or his $11 million Martha’s Vineyard mansion, objected to a half-black man buying the homes? The only people who protested Obama buying property in their neighborhood were Chicago black residents pushing back against his grandiose Obama Foundation construction project wrecking the area.

Nearly two decades after his famous 2004 post-racial DNC speech, Obama is even more of a racist hack addicted to the politics of racial division. He laughs at minority Republicans giving speeches that say, “look at me. I’m a Asian Indian-American woman. And my family came here and we worked hard. Clarence Thomas has probably gave the same speech at some point, I guarantee in some commencement, as did Alan Keyes, the first guy that I ran against.”

Scott replied to Obama by asserting, “let us not forget we are a land of opportunity, not a land of oppression. Democrats deny our progress to protect their power. The Left wants you to believe faith in America is a fraud and progress in our nation is a myth.” In this, he’s correct.

The power of the Democrats in general and Obama in particular is intimately tied up with invalidating America. As a post-racial president, Obama knew that his power would be limited, but as a crusader against a racist country, he would have the moral, if not the legal, authority to destroy all the infrastructure of an imaginary systemic racism and usher in a new world.

Obama sneers at minority Republicans for refusing to embrace unlimited power. The race card is unlimited and he has kindly lent it out even to old white guys like Joe Biden.

In ‘Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America’, I wrote that, “Barack Obama was, first and foremost, a community organizer. It was central to how he thought and acted. America was just a larger community to organize through the familiar tactics of division. As a candidate, Obama had preached healing and unity, but as a national leader, his overriding agenda was to convince some that they were the oppressed and others, oppressors.”

“What happened?” Axelrod asked Obama. What happened is that Obama didn’t want to unite us, he wanted to rule over us.

Obama started out claiming that, “there’s not a black America and white America”. And that’s true, there wasn’t until he brought them into being, dividing us in order to conquer us.

What’s Really to Blame for the Canadian Wildfires

Is it really about climate change?

BY WILLIAM D. BALGORD

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/whats-really-to-blame-for-the-canadian-wildfires/;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

Smoke from forest fires arriving from Canada this summer is choking residents of the United States and millions more Canadians in the prairie and eastern provinces. Thick, roiling smoke may pose health hazards to the aged and infirm in both countries.

The origin of the fires traces back to late winter and spring.

An abnormally dry winter left Canada’s boreal forests in conditions ripe for fire outbreaks from various causes, including ignition from lightning strikes in tinder-dry material.

Forested portions of Alberta and British Columbia have been the sites of pine bark beetle infestations that have left millions of acres of dead trees and combustible residue on the ground. Beetle-damaged areas in remote locations are ideal places for conflagrations to start, where effective control is almost impossible. Wildfires in remote areas are often left to burn themselves out or await the arrival of rain.

Likewise, the situation in Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia involves leftover dryness from lack of normal snow-pack and spring rainfall leaving millions of acres susceptible to the fire outbreaks ultimately responsible for the influx of smoke clouds into the United States.

Once more environmental groups are hard at work seizing the opportunity to advance the notion that the wildfires that destroyed the homes of hundreds of California and Oregon residents in 2021, and now in Canada, are evidence for man-made climate change.

It has been shown instead that high summer temperature and dry conditions are the climate norm for portions of the Pacific states east of the Coast Range. Southern California and interior Oregon are seasonally dry and, on average, receive less than 10 inches of rainfall (total precipitation) throughout the year.

Rather than unusual dryness brought on by the effect of some nebulous man-made climate change, it is often government policies that guide or demand strict avoidance of functional fire prevention measures that had helped suppress wildfire in earlier decades and are now outlawed in California. These are the underlying causes of the wildfires.

No longer can California homeowners, ranchers, or commercial forest managers conduct sensible brush removal operations or controlled burns to reduce flammable material in vulnerable forest land near their domiciles or farm structures. Controlled burns had played an integral role in controlling the severity of wildfire in California and in many other rural parts of the country since the times indigenous tribes inhabited the land.

But at the insistence of modern-day preservationists, it became no longer an acceptable practice to groom the landscape to prevent outbreaks of catastrophic wildfires, abetted by a plethora of prohibitive laws and regulations.

The Livermore Laboratory study funded by the National Academy of Sciences suggests that increasing carbon dioxide levels derived from the combustion of fossil fuels is the primary culprit responsible for wildfire in North America. Livermore’s computer model outputs serve no instructive purpose since it has become common knowledge that climate models can be (and often are) groomed to yield the results their creators desire.

Reviews of the prevalence of wildfire by hazard expert Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr. show no clear trends to date over the previous hundred years, neither increases nor decreases in the incidence of major wildfires within the natural setting. Attempting to attribute increases in dollar-value losses from natural fires to climate change simply ignores the role of vastly increased casualty losses from private and public property (infrastructure) being destroyed.

The actual reason behind recent outbreaks begins with deficient management practices leading to forest overgrowth and disease, lack of use of fire to clear out excess tinder, pressure by naïve environmental groups to preserve lands in their pre-conceived “primeval” state, pine-bark beetle infestations leaving behind dead trees and combustible litter, drier than normal weather patterns beginning in 2021, lack of preparedness on the part of forestry agencies. The Canadian wilderness, along with burnt over California forests, becomes the unwitting victim.

Stubborn dryness prevails over much of western Canada and the US that can be understood as the result of a tardy reappearance of the El Nino phase of the cyclical ENSO oscillation in the Pacific Ocean. The La Nina (cold surface-water phase in the eastern Pacific) has been slow to decay resulting in less than average moisture being added to the atmospheric streams headed landward and into the Gulf of Mexico. This important effect is entirely lost in media accounts of the Canadian fires.

An estimated 6.7 million plus acres are affected across Canada, including earlier fires in Alberta and British Columbia. Now in Quebec, Ontario, and Nova Scotia, the fires continue to burn as of mid-June. Today, the Midwest once again lies under a gray haze of Canadian smoke.

The current situation begs comparison with the single worst outbreak of wildfire in United States history. The Great Peshtigo fire (October 8, 1871) stands as the worst in terms of loss of life. An estimated 1,500 to 2,500 residents in the lumbering community perished in the firestorm, following four-months without measurable rainfall.

The conflagration roared through the community and several counties north of Green Bay up into Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. This tragedy cannot be attributed to climate change effected by man-made greenhouse-gas CO2 yet to be emitted more than a century later.

North American wildfires have been a common occurrence spanning the millennia since before the arrival of the first settlers from Asia. Repeated periods of drought are evident in tree-ring and lake varve sequences. The current dry periods in the desert southwest are more often the climate norm, than otherwise representing departures suggestive of man-caused interventions.

The earlier fires in Alberta and British Columbia correlate with region-wide infestations of the mountain pine-bark beetle that has killed millions of acres of lodge-pole pines in British Columbia. The pest is aided by overcrowding of forest stands left unattended, but has been part of that ecosystem for many centuries.

Wildfire is nature’s own way of dealing with over-abundance, whether in standing forests or shrub and grasslands. Regular fire outbreaks reduce the buildup of combustibles, pests and disease vectors, usually before the arrival of a far more intense crown fire with devastating effect on plant and animal life, including endangered plant and animal species.

Native Americans were known to set “controlled burns” during mild weather (low winds and moist conditions) to reduce combustibles that might trigger a conflagration. The indigenous are often wiser than many modern-day experts, who demand our forests and scrub-lands be left to their own devices.

Without benefit of timber harvesting or controlled burns, benign neglect inevitably leads to destructive wildfires, whether set by lightning, careless campers, or sparks from a power line. The act that ignites the fire is less important than the underlying cause connected with derelict forest mismanagement.

Unreasonable demands by groups intending to preserve forest and range lands in a “primeval” state lead to the adoption of unwise management policies by agencies charged with the welfare of the natural order.

Love, absent proper direction, offers no guarantee of a positive outcome.

William D. Balgord, Ph.D. (geochemistry) heads Environmental & Resources Technology, Inc. in Middleton, WI.

 

Nashville Victims Testify

The trans ideology is a justification for deadly violence.

BY LLOYD BILLINGSLEY

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/nashville-victims-testify/;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

The FBI is still blocking release of Audrey Hale’s manifesto that could reveal her motive for gunning down six people at the Covenant School in Nashville on March 27, in the run-up to the “Trans Day of Vengeance.”  While revelations await, Hale’s youngest victims can testify through their recently released autopsies. Consider, for example, Hallie Scruggs, daughter of Covenant Presbyterian pastor Chad Scruggs.

The nine-year-old girl sustained an “indeterminate range gunshot wound of the head,” that caused injuries to the scalp, left temporal bone, and left temporal lobe of the brain. An “indeterminate range gunshot wound of the pelvis,” entering at the left lower abdomen, caused injuries to Scruggs’ left femoral artery, vein and soft tissue.

Hale also shot Scruggs in the “lower left extremity,” on the “left proximal thigh.” The shot caused injuries to multiple ribs, lungs, spleen, kidneys, thoracic vertebra, thoracic spinal cord, diaphragm and liver. A bullet was recovered, with “a small amount of green paint at the tip,” an indicator that Hale deployed the 5.56/223 Remington caliber ammunition. The trajectory of the shot was “left to right, downward, back to front,” with “the entrance wound on the left upper lateral back.”

Forensic pathologist Kevin B. Jenkins, M.D., also found “a 1-1/4 inch gaping exit wound on the left back located 12 inches from the top of the head.” There was also a “3/4 inch gaping exit wound on the right lateral chest,” from a shot in the back. The exit wounds are “are consistent with exit of the bone fragments.”

According to forensic pathologist Emily H. Dickinson, M.D., nine-year old William Joseph Kinney suffered a tangential graze wound “through the scalp, skull, and bilateral cerebral hemispheres,” causing “subgaleal hemorrhage, skull fractures, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and lacerations of the brain.”

Hale also shot the male child in the torso and right arm, causing perforation of the ribs and thoracic vertebrae, right lung and soft tissue of the right arm. The victim also sustained “spinal cord laceration with associated epidural and subdural hemorrhage, and thoracic vertebral fractures.” The direction of the shot was “left to right, back to front, and downward.”

William Kinney also sustained a “perforating gunshot” of the abdomen and a “graze gunshot” of the left wrist. Hale also shot the boy in the torso, perforating the left shoulder, two ribs, left lung and diaphragm. The entrance wound showed stippling, evidence that Hale shot the male child at point blank range. Kinney’s right arm and forearm also showed stippling and the pathologist discovered “minor blunt force trauma of the body.”

Dr. Dickinson also performed the autopsy on Covenant School student Evelyn Dieckhaus. The nine-year old female suffered a perforating gunshot wound of the bilateral arms and torso. The shot damaged both lungs, the aorta, right brachial plexus, right axilla, right humerus and soft tissue of the right arm. Hale also shot the girl in the “posterior torso,” perforating the left lung, seven thoracic vertebrae and the spinal cord. The direction of the shot was “back to front,” and shooter Audrey Hale wasn’t done.

The nine-year-old  Evelyn Dieckhaus also suffered perforating gunshot wounds in the left arm and right hip, causing tissue hemorrhage and crest fracture wounds to the right buttock. Hale also shot the child in the left leg, left thigh and left buttock, causing soft tissue damage and fractures.

Another shot grazed the child’s abdomen and a shot in the pelvis caused wounds to the vasculature, the bladder, and a fracture of a lumbar vertebrae. The direction of the shot was “from back to front.”

Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney and Hallie Scruggs all died from “multiple gunshot wounds” and were “shot by another person,” which indicates “homicide.” The three youngest victims were also shot “in school,” the same school Audrey Hale had attended. The shooter gathered school yearbooks, drawn maps and surveilled the site for months.

On March 27, the 28-year-old Hale armed herself with an AR-15-style rifle, with a retractable stock  labeled “CRUNT///,” in bold white letters. Hale also packed a 9mm Kel-tec SUB carbine, a Smith & Wesson 9mm handgun, and significant ammunition. She shot her way into the school and her first victim was African American custodian Mike Hill, 61.

Hale gunned down schoolmaster Katherine Koonce and substitute teacher Cynthia Peak but children were the primary targets. Hale shot the three nine-year-olds in the head, back, abdomen, pelvis, legs and arms. She shot at indeterminate range, and close enough to leave stippling. The shooter also took the time to apply blunt force trauma to William Kinney.

Each shot would have been enough to maim and kill the children but Audrey Hale kept on firing, unleashing 152 rounds in all. Homicide investigators call this “overkill” and it should not be surprising from Audrey Hale, who thought she was a man.

As Bruce Bawer explains, the trans movement is a “revolution against reality itself,” and with the loss of reality comes the loss of humanity. Empathy and reason go missing, replaced by hatred and violence. Those who adhere to biological reality are smeared as “transphobes” presumed to be guilty of “genocide.” That, in turn, justifies any action against them.

The Trans Resistance Network proclaimed that Audrey Hale “had no other effective way to be seen than to lash out by taking the life of others.” On March 27, 2023, she did.

Joe Biden failed to identify or condemn the shooter, failed to name a single murder victim, and did not attend any of the funerals. Days after the massacre, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said “our hearts go out to the trans community as they are under attack right now.”

Audrey Hale doubtless clarified her motive, but trans activists were adamant that her manifesto not be released. With the FBI involved, the material may never be released in full and true form. In the meantime, the autopsies of Hallie Scruggs, William Kinney and Evelyn Dieckhaus don’t lie. The trans ideology is a justification for deadly violence.

China Is Certainly Getting Their Money’s Worth Out of Joe Biden

China Is Certainly Getting Their Money's Worth Out of Joe Biden

BY STEPHEN GREEN

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2023/06/21/china-is-certainly-getting-their-moneys-worth-out-of-joe-biden-n1704743;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

China is certainly getting its money’s worth out of presidentish Joe Biden, who used a fundraising event on Tuesday to repeat Chinese propaganda about that spy balloon from last March.

“The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two boxcars full of spy equipment in it is he didn’t know it was there,” Biden told the gathering of Democratic donors. “That wasn’t supposed to be going where it was, it was blown off course.”

The path that China’s spy balloon followed on its totally accidental course over the continental United States included at least two of our most sensitive Air Force facilities. As the balloon meandered around totally inadvertently, it loitered over both facilities with its two boxcars worth of electronic surveillance gear.

Despite the balloon’s presence over Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri and Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, Biden refused to order the balloon shot down until it had fully transversed U.S. territory and was out at sea over the Atlantic. Nevertheless, Biden insisted to his big-money donors that Xi Jinping “is in a situation now where he wants to have a relationship again.”

Who wouldn’t want a relationship with a guy that stays bought?

Malmstrom, by the way, is home to more than 3,000 Air Force personnel of the 341st Missile Wing. They operate three squadrons of Minuteman III nuclear missiles — one-third of our ground-based nuclear deterrent. Whiteman is where the Air Force houses its only wing of B-2 stealth heavy bombers.

A report from April indicated that Xi’s toy balloon was able to transmit secret intelligence to Beijing “in real-time.”

“No, I’m serious,” Biden insisted on Tuesday, “That’s what the great embarrassment for dictators — when they didn’t know what happened.”

Uh-huh.

Beijing protested the description of Xi Jinping as a dictator, calling the remark an “open political provocation,” immediately following Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s official visit to China this week to repair relations.

The New York Post argued on Monday that Biden’s “policy on China is now outright appeasement.”

“Crucially, Washington had to bribe Beijing to even get this meeting,” the Post’s editors wrote. “It has played down Beijing’s intensifying intelligence-gathering (the Cuba spy base, the spy balloon, China’s ‘secret police’ stations inside our country) and is delaying the declassifying of intelligence on COVID’s origins.”

Whatever Beijing’s official protests were to Biden’s remarks, China must be not-so-secretly pleased by Biden following the Communist Party line about their spy balloon being somehow off course and that Xi would never-ever-ever allow such a thing if only he’d known.

And they’ve got to be thrilled by Blinken’s visit where China gave nothing and got much, including Blinken’s blink on the balloon issue: “That chapter should be closed,” he said right there in Beijing.

But mostly, Beijing must be happy to have gotten their money’s worth — “Chinese elite have paid some $31 million to Hunter and the Bidens” — out of the President of the United States.

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