PP NewsBrief: 2021-03-01

We need to begin to reclaim control over the institutions which have such oversized roles in our lives. As you read this people work tirelessly to see to it that you are dumb and docile. Let's stop them.

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“A Date Which Will Live In Infamy”: The Other Scandal From The Capitol Riot

"Majority Leader Charles Schumer captured the outrage of many citizens when he declared the Capitol riot last month to be the Pearl Harbor of this generation that “will live forever in infamy.” It was certainly infamous, but some doubt whether the two events are comparable, given the 2,400 Americans killed in the 1941 attack that forced our entry into World War Two. Schumer’s analogy may be more apt than he might wish, however. Part of Pearl Harbor’s tragedy was that the United States had ample warning and failed to take precautions. That failure was largely covered up during the war, lost in the anger directed at the Japanese.

History may show that, due to a lack of preparation, the Capitol riot indeed was a new Pearl Harbor.

Many Americans are familiar with the negligence of Pearl Harbor’s military leaders after being warned to expect an attack. Aircraft were parked wingtip to wingtip, no torpedo nets were deployed, and “Battleship Row” was so jammed that it would be hard for a dive-bomber to miss a target.

Moreover, this was actually the third such “attack.” On Feb. 7, 1932, United States Admiral Harry Yarnell carried out virtually the same attack to demonstrate Pearl Harbor’s vulnerability, using aircraft carriers, radio silence, radar evasion and the same basic routes — even attacking on a Sunday, when he knew the Navy would be most off-guard. (The one group that paid attention was the Japanese War College, which studied Yarnell’s plan.) Another mock carrier attack in 1938 produced similar results.

Like the prior “Pearl Harbors,” the Capitol has long trained for large protests and possible breaches. Indeed, law enforcement was on edge due to violent protests in Washington the previous summer, including a protest that forced the first family to shelter briefly in the White House bunker. For that reason, as the Capitol riot unfolded, many of us were amazed by the ease and speed of the breach."

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War Mongering for Artificial Intelligence

"The ghost of Edward Teller must have been doing the rounds between members of the National Commission on Artificial Intelligence.  The father of the hydrogen bomb was never one too bothered by the ethical niggles that came with inventing murderous technology.  It was not, for instance, “the scientist’s job to determine whether a hydrogen bomb should be constructed, whether it should be used, or how it should be used.”  Responsibility, however exercised, rested with the American people and their elected officials.

The application of AI in military systems has plagued the ethicist but excited certain leaders and inventors.  Russian President Vladimir Putin has grandiloquently asserted that “it would be impossible to secure the future of our civilization” without a mastery of artificial intelligence, genetics, unmanned weapons systems and hypersonic weapons.

Campaigners against the use of autonomous weapons systems in war have been growing in number.  The UN Secretary-General António Guterres is one of them.  “Autonomous machines with the power and discretion to select targets and take lives without human involvement,” he wrote on Twitter in March 2019, “are politically unacceptable, morally repugnant and should be prohibited by international law.”  The International Committee for Robot Arms Control, the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots and Human Rights Watch are also dedicated to banning lethal autonomous weapons systems.  Weapons analysts such as Zachary Kallenborn see that absolute position as untenable, preferring a more modest ban on “the highest-risk weapons: drone swarms and autonomous chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons”.

The critics of such weapons systems were far away in the Commission’s draft report for Congress.  The document has more than a touch of the mad scientist in the bloody service of a master.  This stood to reason, given its chairman was Eric Schmidt, technical advisor to Alphabet Inc., parent company of Google, which he was formerly CEO of.  With Schmidt holding the reins, we would be guaranteed a show shorn of moral restraint.  “The AI promise – that a machine can perceive, decide, and act more quickly, in a more complex environment, with more accuracy than a human – represents a competitive advantage in any field.  It will be employed for military ends, by governments and non-state groups.”"

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MI to Purge Dirty Voter Rolls Months After Contested Election

"Benson’s statement reads that “Michigan’s 2020 elections were the most secure, successful and accessible in state history. More than 5.5 million citizens voted and over 1,600 election clerks on both sides of the aisle worked tirelessly to ensure all valid ballots were counted efficiently and accurately.” Benson continued, “Since November, my administration has continued to work with election officials across our state to review and strengthen all our election processes and protocols, in preparation for 2021’s local elections.” However, Jason Snead, Executive Director of the Honest Elections Project (HEP), disagrees.

According to Snead, Benson had been warned about dirty voter rolls, something she has repeatedly denied. In fact, Michigan resident Tony Daunt and Republican member of the Board of Canvassers filed a lawsuit in June of 2020 against the state under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). The lawsuit sought to “compel Benson to comply with the NVRA’s list maintenance mandates.”  The lawsuit said that Michigan failed to comply in 16 of its counties. And “for an additional 15 counties, Antrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Iosco, Kalkaska, Keweenaw, Livingston, Mackinac, Oakland, Otsego, Roscommon, and Washtenaw—have voter registration rates that exceed 90 percent of adult citizens over the age of 18. That figure far eclipses the national and statewide voter registration rate in recent elections.” It wasn’t until the lawsuit was filed that Benson decided to comply. Snead’s Feb. 3 statement reads as follows:

“This is a sharp reversal. For seven months, Secretary Benson has insisted to the court and to the public that Michigan’s voter rolls were being properly maintained. Now she admits they were not. Per her own press release, Michigan lacks ‘sufficient, comprehensive efforts’ to keep the voter rolls clean. For two years, Secretary Benson has had the responsibility to keep Michigan’s voter rolls clean. If there were longstanding problems, she should have taken steps to correct them long before today, three months after a national election. HEP will continue to ensure that Michigan’s officials are conducting the active and ongoing list maintenance that federal law requires and that voters deserve.”

Daunt said that it is a shame that “it took a federal lawsuit to force Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to comply with election law. Election integrity matters, and those who threaten it must be held accountable, regardless of party affiliation or status. I’m grateful that our hard work has forced Benson to finally comply with election law.” On Tuesday, he agreed to dismiss the lawsuit."

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Scientists Show COVID Tests Are ‘Useless’, Are Based on ‘Flawed Science’

"The first “major” issue identified in the ICSLS review is that the CD paper and the trial PCR tests were written and conducted “without having virus material available,” in the words of the CD paper itself. Instead, the PCR test method was based on “silico sequences, supplied by a laboratory in China.” The CD paper’s aims of development and deployment of a test “are not achievable without having any actual virus material available,” according to the ICSLS.

On the day the CD paper was submitted to medical journal Eurosurveillance, Google data records only 6 deaths from the virus. This leads the ICSLS to question why the CD report predicted “a challenge for public health laboratories while there was no substantial evidence at that time to indicate that the outbreak was more widespread than initially thought?”

Many errors are presented by the ICSLS. The concentration of primers used in the development of the PCR tests are “far too high” for “optimal specific amplifications of target genes.” The variations of primer pairs used in the CD paper mean, “The design variations will inevitably lead to results that are not even SARS CoV-2 related.” Thus, various laboratories could assume they have detected a positive COVID case, using a formula that does not actually detect COVID.

In order for a PCR test to be reliable, “amplification from 3 different genes (primers) of the virus under investigation is required.” Yet the ICSLS found in the CD paper that “in nearly all test procedures worldwide, merely 2 primer matches were used instead of all three. This oversight renders the entire test-protocol useless with regards to delivering accurate test-results of real significance in an ongoing pandemic.”

Continuing, the ICSLS notes that the proposed PCR test contains “severe design errors,” and since the test is unable to distinguish between “the whole virus and viral fragments” it “cannot be used as a diagnostic for SARS-viruses.” A positive test, as mentioned in the CD paper, cannot determine if one is infected with the virus, but “merely indicates the presence of viral RNA molecules.”

The review then deals with the amplification cycles of the tests. The CD paper does not even define what a positive or negative test result is, but does suggest that “45 PCR cycles” are to be performed. While a PCR test can have up to 60 cycles of amplification, both Dr. Sacré and the ICSLS point out that PCR test data from a cycle value of 35 or more is “completely unreliable.” “Only non-infectious (dead) viruses are detected with [cycle] values of 35,” the group adds, as even above 30 cycles there is “a grey area”, where a positive result cannot be trusted.

After the amplification process is complete, “biomolecular validation” is “essential” to determine the presence of COVID-19, since “amplified PCR products can be anything.” But the CD paper’s protocol does not do so, and the ICSLS consequently calls any PCR test developed on such a basis “useless as a specific diagnostic tool to identify the SARS-CoV-2 virus.”

The proposed PCR tests also ignore the “essential scientific gold standard” which is to have a positive control and a negative control, by which to identify COVID-19 from other coronaviruses. Furthermore, the CD paper itself notes the gene used in the tests is not specific to COVID-19, and thus detects “a broad spectrum of other SARS viruses.”

Based on all these errors, and even drawn from text in the CD paper itself, the ICSLS warns that it is “inevitable” that “the PCR test described in the Corman-Drosten paper generates false positives.” This is echoed by Dr. Sacré, who wrote that the chief limitation of PCR tests is the “extreme sensitivity (false positive) if a suitable threshold of positivity (Ct) is not chosen.”

Swiss Policy Research has found that a positive PCR test run at 35 cycles or more, as is common in Europe and the U.S., has a 97% chance of being a false positive."

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Whistleblower reveals Saleforce's plans to deplatform customers over political beliefs

"In the video, Bret Taylor, Salesforce President and COO: can be heard to say: "Since the events of the 6th [of January], I think one of the things that really impacts Salesforce is the national conversation about the role of technology in inciting that mob, disseminating misinformation and fomenting extremism."

He went on to say that "What we've done in light of the events of Jan. 6 is recognize a much broader range of messages have the potential to incite politically motivated violence."

"We've engaged with the RNC to communicate that no messages on behalf of President Trump and no messages questioning the validity or integrity of the election are allowed on our platform under the guidelines that they may incite violence," Taylor said."

You know what topic is sure to encourage political violence? Giving money to people based on their skin color in the middle of an economic crisis created by government overreaction.

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Air Force Surgeon: It’s Your ‘Duty’ to Get COVID Vaccine

"The transcript of a mandatory video briefing for airmen at a Texas Air Force base reveals false statements made by Lt. Gen. Dorothy A. Hogg about COVID vaccine safety, and shows a clear intent to coerce, not inform.

The 59th Medical Wing in the U.S. Air Force posted on its website a transcript of the U.S. Air Force Surgeon General’s mandatory video briefing for airmen at the Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.

In the video, Lt. Gen. Dorothy A. Hogg narrates several unsubstantiated statements about the safety of the COVID vaccine — and then shockingly conveys to airmen that it is their “duty” rather than their choice to take an experimental mRNA injection.

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Hogg provides a personal endorsement of the vaccine, instead of following the guidelines for informed consent which require listing the adverse reactions found in the vaccine clinical trial data:

   “I was concerned about the lack of information and the expedited process at first, but with my friends and family being vaccinated and them saying they had little to no side effects my concerns went away.”

The Moderna clinical trial lists local and systemic adverse effects ranging in severity from Grade 1 to Grade 3: pain, erythema, swelling, lymphadenopathy, fever, headache, fatigue, myalgia, arthralgia, nausea or vomiting, chills, Bell’s Palsy and death.

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine FDA fact sheet lists the following adverse reactions: pain at the injection site (84.1%), fatigue (62.9%), headache (55.1%), muscle pain (38.3%), chills (31.9%), joint pain (23.6%), fever (14.2%), injection site swelling (10.5%), injection site redness (9.5%), nausea (1.1%), malaise (0.5%), and lymphadenopathy (0.3%). Pfizer-BioNTech also reports anaphylaxis, appendicitis, Bell’s Palsy and death.

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Hogg highlights that racial and ethnic minorities were included in the vaccine trials, and then she shares a shocking anecdotal testimonial that vaccinating in pregnancy is safe without any research on developmental and reproductive toxicity:

   “I was hesitant to receive the vaccine, but after talking to my OBGYN, I realized vaccinating was the safest option for myself and my little boy. You might see claims that the COVID-19 vaccine can make someone infertile, harm a developing fetus in the womb, make the immune system attack the placenta or hurt a baby who is breastfeeding from a recently vaccinated mother. There is no scientific reason to think any of these are true.”

Hogg adds:

   “In fact, the virus can be more severe in pregnancy while getting the vaccine during pregnancy is low risk.”

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine FDA Fact Sheet does not demonstrate the vaccine is safe or low-risk in pregnancy. In fact, pregnant women were excluded from Pfizer’s vaccine trials. As the fact sheet states:

   “All pregnancies have a risk of birth defect, loss, or other adverse outcomes;” “Available data on Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine administered to pregnant women are insufficient to inform vaccine-associated risks in pregnancy;” and “Data are not available to assess the effects of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine on the breastfed infant or on milk production/excretion.”

Under the medical ethics of “Do No Harm,” the UK advises against the COVID vaccine for pregnant women. In the U.S., the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) contains 17 reports of miscarriages after the COVID-19 vaccine, as of February 5, 2021.

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But by far the most inexcusable part of Hogg’s presentation, which neither upholds the ethics of “Do No Harm” with pregnant women nor follows informed consent guidelines, is that a general officer is using her position with undue influence, patriotic coercion and emotional manipulation to persuade airmen that it is their duty to participate in a Phase 3 clinical trial of an experimental medical intervention:

   “Those of us in uniforms have taken oath to protect the country against all enemies. But this virus isn’t just a threat to our country but to the world. It’s our duty to do everything possible to protect not just ourselves, but our fellow countrymen. I encourage you to make the best educated decision for yourself and for your family. A choice is yours if you choose to decline. But change your mind later, we’re standing by to vaccinate you when you are ready. Our goal is to simply give you the information to make an informed decision. This is our shot to save our loved ones, friends and family. The more people that get vaccinated, the safer we are. Choosing to vaccinate protects your community, your unit, your mission and, most importantly, your family. What choices will you make to help get back to normal?”"

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The Last Stop Before Thermopylae

"In The Art of War, Sun Tzu wrote “If you know yourself and you know the enemy you need not fear a thousand battles.” Let’s take an honest look at who we are and the threat we face.

American society is now cleaved into two factions that are intrinsically at odds with one another.

On one hand, you have traditional Americans. They come in every race, creed, and religion. They believe in law and order, expect everyone to follow the rules, and mostly just want to be left alone.

Family-oriented, self-reliant, and armed, traditional Americans populate the working-class ranks of the military, law enforcement, and industry. Sadly, most are technically illiterate. They underestimate the threat from the surveillance state and Securitate. Many still believe the FBI only goes after bad guys, and they cannot grasp that the national security apparatus now views them as the enemy. They rightly bristle when slandered with “white supremacist” or “terrorist” labels. A habituated trust in authority makes them vulnerable to snitching on others and collaborating with those they shouldn’t. Many are infected with white knight conspiracy theories that counsel remaining submissive. In general, they have nearly zero control of the nation’s money, media, government, academia, legal system, and surveillance state.

On the other hand is the ruling elite. They advocate a multi-tiered justice system and expect others to follow their rules, beliefs, and norms. They are politically savvy and disciplined. They view traditional Americans and their beliefs as an impediment to their wealth and utopian dreams, going so far as routinely to advocate extreme actions such as genocide, re-education, and the removal of the children of their political opposition.

They employ proxy forces, such as Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and journalists to bully ordinary Americans and weak-willed corporations. In order to intimidate and discredit their political opposition, they’ve weaponized the use of labels such as “white supremacist” and “terrorist” on their enemies. They are generally opposed to religion and personal firearm ownership, and they cannot allow you to be left alone. They will attempt to nudge wrong-thinkers into accepting the ruling elite’s ideology. If that doesn’t work, they’ll force compliance via law enforcement, military, and the intelligence agencies they now command. They control most of the national wealth and all of the media, government, academia, legal authorities, and surveillance state.

So, what does all this mean? Many traditional Americans are sleepwalking into a conflict they are not mentally prepared to handle. The ideals of blind justice and due process are now, for all intents and purposes, quaint relics, and relying on constitutional rights for protection is dangerously naïve.

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There is a way forward—one that is not based on conspiracy theories, white knights, or fanciful ideas of a Second Amendment American Thermopylae. Instead, it is built on the structure of a grassroots political movement designed to return control of the country to the citizenry. This is something to be implemented locally, in communities, towns, and cities. And, importantly, it doesn’t require an elected representative to make the message heard. The movement structure has five major components, all of which need to be tailored locally and coordinated across regional areas.

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One cannot get small enough or anonymous enough to avoid the tyranny and oppression associated with authoritarian regimes. Do not delay. Always keep in mind the adage no one is coming to save you."

This is a variation on the concept of "wings" as it applies to the MAGA Shadow Government. The piece advocates a more traditional, focused approach which given the more concrete nature of the project seems like a good idea. But I still believe that more abstract, less traditional, more experimental forms of organization like the MAGA Shadow Government will have important roles to play as well.

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No More School

"In the film “Apollo 13,” after the explosion has crippled the spacecraft and everyone at NASA has been gotten out of bed, all the engineers are gathered together in a room trying to calculate the hours of life support remaining and debating which systems have priority. Finally, a soft-spoken engineer explains that without electrical power nothing else matters—“power is everything.”

This engineer was a real person, named John Aaron. He held a bachelor’s degree in physics from Southwestern Oklahoma State University and was 27 at the time of Apollo 13. Half a year earlier, his quick thinking had saved Apollo 12 from a mission abort when it was hit by lightning a few seconds after blastoff, and the phrase “steely-eyed missile man” was coined to describe him.

I only bring this up because America is having its own Apollo 13 moment. An election stolen from a sitting president, the cowardice of Congress, the moral bankruptcy of the judiciary, corruption of federal agencies, violent mobs in our cities, and compulsory masks on every face. We are trying to sort out what to address, and how. How do we save our freedom? We seem to have more problems than we can possibly handle.

There are a lot of useful suggestions out there—reforms to the judiciary, term limits for Congress, election law reform, and anti-fraud measures. These are important, vital things. They are the oxygen, the fuel, the telemetry, and guidance computers. But knowledge is power.

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...It is a mistake to think our kids will learn to love America or to live by the Golden Rule or even to have basic respect for freedom of speech in today’s schools. The teachers whom we have been commanded to applaud as heroic frontline workers are, in too many cases, the arch-destroyers of the future generation. More dangerous than actual agents of an enemy power, they do their damage in earnest ignorance and delight in the results. And we mindlessly deliver up our children—the most precious thing in this world—to their devouring maws.  

But you can stop that trend today, this moment. Schools this past year have finally managed to combine teaching nothing with simultaneously keeping children in isolation. Never has there been a better time to dispense with the charade of progressive schooling. Team up with other families. Take your children out of the hands of professional teachers, and give them a real education. Teach them to love reading. Save America."

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North Dakota House Passes Bill Banning Face Masks

"The North Dakota House of Representatives just passed a bill – 50 to 44 – banning state and local governments, businesses and schools from enforcing mask mandates.

The bill’s sponsor, Jeff Hoverson, called the initial mandate “diabolical silliness,” BizPacReview reports.

“The mask is a part of a larger apparatus of a movement of unelected, wealthy bureaucrats, who are robbing our freedoms and perpetuating lies,” Hoverson said. “Our state is not a prison camp.”"

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The Oligarchical Revolution

"Eighty years have passed since James Burnham wrote the 20th century’s most important, insightful, and ignored work of political science, The Managerial Revolution. Burnham, a former Trotskyite-turned-conservative political philosopher, argued that capitalism as a social organizing structure had been on its deathbed since the beginning of the First World War and would soon pass into insignificance. And, just as capitalism had struggled against and replaced feudalism, so too a new socio-economic principle—what I like to think of as “managerism”—was supplanting it.

Under this new socio-economic order, managers, not capitalists, control the instruments of production, and acquire more real power in society every passing year. According to Burnham, the state, laws, and culture would gradually transform politics and society to favor managerial rule and managerist thinking: a world in which all economic, social, and foreign relations problems can be solved on the national level by expert dominance, planning, and manipulation.

Written in 1941, The Managerial Revolution predicted a number of subsequent historical events, including the rise of globalism, the abandonment of the gold standard, and the United States’ entry into the European theater of WWII—and, as we shall see, the identification and criticism of managerism. What Burnham could not foresee, however, was just how unstable managerism would prove. Capitalism, for its part, had lasted hundreds of years after pushing out feudalism. Burnham seemed to think managerism might enjoy similar longevity as a social organizing principle.

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A close student of Machiavelli, Burnham’s realism set him apart from his conservative contemporaries and made him a bestselling author in his day (Suicide of the West). His philosophy of political analysis might be summed up as such: Pay less attention to what political movements say and more to what they do. This philosophy made Burham an early skeptic of Stalinism and National Socialism (Nazism) when both ideologies were hailed by progressives and conservatives alike as the cutting edge of governance. Burnham’s approach strikes most Americans as strange, accustomed as they are to bickering over ideologies and terms, while reality marches resolutely forward. Today, pundits of the American Left and Right obsess over ideological debates like ‘socialism versus capitalism,’ seemingly oblivious that both socio-economic theories are passé.

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...In a sense, modern democratic socialists are correct when they say, ”Socialism has never really been tried,” but this is not for want of creating the proper conditions—that is, overthrow of the capitalists and seizure of the instruments of production. That has been tried many times. ‘Socialism,’ as it is used today, actually just serves as an edgy misnomer for power concentration in the hands of a managerial class, and bears no relation to theoretical socialism.

As for the ‘triumph of capitalism,’ the early and middle 20th century saw nominally ‘capitalist’ western democracies assume supervision or full control over countless areas of private property. It’s important to note that this was not a free market economy at all, and not capitalism. The emergency measures of WWI, FDR’s New Deal, and later President Johnson’s Great Society, saw public health, retirement benefits, food production, infrastructure, schooling, scientific research, rent and housing, energy production, arms manufacturing, banking and finance, transportation, communications, labor relations, and countless other economic concerns fall under state interference, management, or outright monopoly. Under these programs, the number of persons directly or indirectly employed by—or dependent on—the government exploded. Effective rule over these concerns vested not in elected politicians but in manager-bureaucrats ensconced in regional and federal agencies. In the United States, this industrial-bureaucratic complex has come to be known popularly as the administrative state—some going as far as to call it the 4th branch of government.

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In many ways, the false binary of ‘either socialism or capitalism’ has allowed managerism—unlike past socio-economic power structures—to avoid notice by the public as such. (If this binary isn’t obvious, try naming a third alternative with any widespread understanding or support.) Public figures swing between calling for ‘capitalist reform’ and ‘friendly socialism’ under Nordic-style government control. Nevertheless, the underlying struggle in recent years obtains not between capitalism and socialism—or even capitalism and managerism—but between conflicting visions of managerism.

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...No longer do working-class parents hope their children start a business, take over the family farm, or learn a trade—those paths that held so much hope for advancement under capitalism. Parents today want their children to pass through the gate of managerial life (the universities) and join a government or corporate bureaucracy, living inside the high walls separating the managerial class from the scrabblers outside. As with all resentment, envy and disgust intertwine throughout.

Peoples living under managerism, however, hold a tiger by the tail. The complicated modern lives they lead are held together by esoteric technical management. The management may be less effective than advertised, and leave the masses struggling, but it at least keeps the lights on. Overthrow of the managerial class means the chaotic reversion to pre-Information Age living. To cite just one glaring example, without Tim Cook and the other managers at Apple, there will be no more iPhones to type out Twitter messages about how awful Twitter is. Americans have ceded control of virtually every aspect of their lives to managers, in areas as diverse as food production, medical care, and national defense. The managerial class cannot be guillotined or thrown into gulags as in previous class revolutions—not without a catastrophic loss of living standards or even total social breakdown.

Looking to the east for harbingers of things to come, Russia has pursued an alternative path to managerial-class eradication; but their alternative is almost as unsettling as guillotines and gulags. When the USSR fell apart, the power held by its managerial class passed into the hands of a wealthy, quasi-criminal oligarchy. The oligarchs allowed the managerial class of Russia to do their work on a leash, much as the managers allowed the capitalists to persist in a diminished capacity under managerism. Russia’s path seems a likely template for the United States in the near-term future."

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Obama: 'White Resistance and Resentment' Prevented Reparations Push

"Former President Barack Obama says that "the politics of White resistance and resentment" kept him from pushing for financial reparations for Black Americans while he was in office.

In the second episode of his podcast with Bruce Springsteen, “Renegades: Born in the USA,” released on Monday, Obama said that he thinks reparations are “justified,” despite having opposed it during the 2008 election.

Obama said, "there’s not much question that the wealth … the power of this country was built in significant part — not exclusively, maybe not even the majority of it, but a large portion of it — was built on the backs of slaves."

He added that a proposal for reparations failed during his presidency because of "the politics of White resistance and resentment.""

There are far more poor whites that have been exploited by the elite than blacks.

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Open note to those who voted for the Dems

"It sure did not take Biden very long to, as the US politicians like to say, “send a message” by illegally attacking a sovereign nation and murdering 17 people.

If you voted for the Dems, then

This act of international aggression, and all those which will now follow, are on YOU!

Yes, you.  There is simply *no way* that you could argue that “oh I did not know” or “but, but, Biden promised to be a good president“.  Sorry, because for the past 4 years thousands of us have been trying to warn you, to explain to you in detail what would happen if the Neocons fully took control of the USA. We predicted it all, we gave you all the evidence, but you refused to listen.  Now it is too late."

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What’s Not Being Said About the Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine. “Human Guinea Pigs”?

"Both US and EU authorities and presumably also Chinese, waived the standard animal tests using ferrets or mice and have gone straight to human “guinea pigs.” Human tests began in late July and early August. Three months is unheard of for testing a new vaccine. Several years is the norm. Because of the degree of global panic engendered by WHO over the coronavirus, caution is thrown to the wind. Vaccine makers all have legal indemnity, meaning they can’t be sued if people die or are maimed from the new vaccine. But the most alarming fact about the new Pfizer-BioNTech gene edited vaccine is that the gene edited mRNA for human vaccine application has never before been approved. Notably, two year peer reviewed tests with mice fed genetically modified corn sprayed with Monsanto glyphosate-rich Roundup first showed cancer tumors after nine months as well as liver and other organ damage. Earlier Monsanto company tests ended at three months and claimed no harm. A similar situation exists with the gene edited mRNA vaccines that are being rushed out after less than 90 days human tests.

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The experimental technology is based on a rather new gene manipulation known as gene editing. In a major article in the 2018 New York Council on Foreign Relations magazine, Foreign Affairs, Bill Gates effusively promoted the novel gene editing CRISPR technology as being able to “transform global development.” He noted that his Gates Foundation had been financing gene editing developments for vaccines and other applications for a decade.

But is the technology for breaking and splicing of human genes so absolutely safe that it is worth risking on a novel experimental vaccine never before used on humans? Contrary to what Bill Gates claims, the scientific answer is no, it is not proven so safe.

In a peer reviewed article in the October, 2020 journal Trends in Genetics, the authors conclude that “the range of possible molecular events resulting from genome editing has been underestimated and the technology remains unpredictable on, and away from, the target locus.”

Dr. Romeo Quijano, retired professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila, noted some of the dangers of the experimental gene editing when applied to human vaccines. Quijano warns of,

   “the danger that the vaccine might actually “enhance” the pathogenicity of the virus, or make it more aggressive possibly due to antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), as what happened with previous studies on test vaccines in animals. If that should happen in a major human trial the outcome could be disastrous. This serious adverse effect may not even be detected by a clinical trial especially in highly biased clinical trials laden with conflicts of interest involving vaccine companies. Even when a serious adverse event is detected, this is usually swept under the rug.”

He cites the case of another Gates mRNA vaccine candidate, Moderna, where “three of the 15 human experimental subjects in the high dose group suffered serious and medically significant symptoms. Moderna, however, concluded that the vaccine was “generally safe and well tolerated,” which the corporate-dominated media dutifully reported, covering-up the real danger…”

He notes,

   “Exogenous mRNA is inherently immune-stimulatory, and this feature of mRNA could be beneficial or detrimental. It may provide adjuvant activity and it may inhibit antigen expression and negatively affect the immune response. The paradoxical effects of innate immune sensing on different formats of mRNA vaccines are incompletely understood.” Quijano adds, “A mRNA-based vaccine could also induce potent type I interferon responses, which have been associated not only with inflammation but also potentially with autoimmunity… and may promote blood coagulation and pathological thrombus formation.”

Quijano writes in the extensively documented article,

   “among other dangers, the virus-vectored vaccines could undergo recombination with naturally occurring viruses and produce hybrid viruses that could have undesirable properties affecting transmission or virulence. The…possible outcomes of recombination are practically impossible to quantify accurately given existing tools and knowledge. The risks, however, are real, as exemplified by the emergence of mutant types of viruses, enhanced pathogenicity and unexpected serious adverse events (including death) following haphazard mass vaccination campaigns and previous failed attempts to develop chimeric vaccines using genetic engineering technology.”"

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Lessons Learned From 2020 – You Have To Show Up To Have A Chance

"Earlier in this series, we have focused on the many lessons to learn from the failures by Team Trump that allowed allegations of fraud, failures to follow election law, and the flouting of the Constitution’s provisions to become decisive factors in the election (We know that these are factors because, in Time magazine, the allegations were all but admitted to.). Team Trump’s failures included bad personnel decisions, the failure to plan, how they didn’t “prepare the battlefield” prior to the election, not anticipating attacks or thinking about how his message came across, the inaccurate assessment of the situation – all of which were massive tactical and strategic failures created by not thinking ahead and which warrant some serious housecleaning.

But there was something that just about everyone on the right did that also was short-sighted – something that made the conspiracy Time covered in glowing terms possible. Many on the right simply left the field in a number of arenas, ranging from entertainment to education to government to finance to technology. When that happened, the vulnerability was there for something akin to the 2020 election to happen.

The most important development in the long struggle to return our country did not come from Washington, D.C., where President Trump was acquitted on the sole charge of his second impeachment. The person who struck the biggest blow to the Left since, was actually based out of Nashville.

It came Friday, February 12, when the Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro announced that the conservative site, which has been branching into entertainment, struck a deal with Gina Carano, who had been dropped from the hit online series The Mandalorian, to star and produce a film. The site had already streamed the film Run, Hide, Fight. But in this, Shapiro is not only highlighting one last lesson we should learn from the 2020 election, but he has also been taking action.

Think about how often you heard Trump (or some stand-in) vilified in entertainment or from the teachers in your child’s school. Did you notice how big business – not just the tech companies – have fallen in line with the demands of the Left? How about the times where financial services were pulled from legal businesses the Left hated? Many of the things we feel outraged over happened because the Left was allowed free reign in those areas.

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In one sense, we need to understand that it is not enough to think down the road. After one has thought and come to conclusions about what to do, one has to act effectively. When entities are getting on the field to challenge those who have sided with the Left against those seeking a return to constitutional government and a world view that puts American interests first, all you have to do is back them. It’s not that hard, and you don’t even need to boycott anyone.

Similarly, if there are people whose kids are interested in going into some of the fields where the Left has dominated, whether it is teaching, technology, marketing, it should be encouraged. Even a desire to work in government at any level, be it federal, state, county, or local level, should not be squashed. After all, the techniques that unelected bureaucrats used to obstruct Trump could always be turned on the Left provided the right people are there."