Saturday, December 30, 2023

THIS IS AN INVASION - These people are not coming here just to vote for Democrats. They're part of Obama's army and war "IS" inevitable.

Haiti 


Uzbekistan

This from the New York Post:

The FBI is reportedly scrambling to find more than a dozen Uzbek nationals who sought asylum in the US earlier this year after intelligence officers discovered they traveled to the southern border with the help of a smuggler who has ties to ISIS.

Officials are working to “identify and assess” all of the individuals who gained entry into the country, National Security Council spokesman Adrienne Watson told CNN.

CHINA 

According to the U.S. Border Patrol, from January through September, more than 24,000 Chinese migrants crossed the border without authorization, about 13 times the number recorded during the same period last year. 


Central and South America 

Thursday, December 28, 2023

Wake up America... 80,000,000 repeats later... What? You didn't hear me! WAKE THE HELL UP AMERICA!









P.P.* Please do not send me political posts please. I am a Democrat. 

Me: If after you watch this video you still call yourself a Democrat, you're not. You are a Communist, Marxist, Racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, anti-American and ungrateful for the free education you received that enabled you to pursue your present occupation. 

 * The PP is not only the person's initials, but also represents the person's profession; Professional Pilot (both Commercial and Military).

Now watch the video, that's what you came here for. 
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Wednesday, December 27, 2023

MASSACHUSETTS... There goes the neighborhood!


From
BOSTON BROADSIDE

News without the liberal spin

Where at the ‘Immigrant’ Families Being Housed in Mass? – The List

The latest list of ‘immigrant families’ being housed and fed by Massachusetts taxpapers appears below. The list was released by Matthew J. Gorzkowicz, Secreatry of the Executive Office for Administration and Finance, and Edward M. Augustus, Jr. Secretary of the Executive Office for Housing and Livable Communities.

The state is projected to spend $1 billion per year for at least the next two years according to Gov. Maura T. Healey’s appointees and administration, on basic housing and food for what Healey calls “immigrants.” Costs for medical and associated other items are not included in the anticipated current planned $2 billion expenditure.


Town Total “Families”
Acton 11
Amherst 5
Andover 25
Arlington 15
Ashland 2
Attleboro 15
Auburn 32
Ayer 43
Barnstable 32
Bedford 92
Beverly 25
Billerica 24
Boston 1,308
Bourne 130
Braintree 23
Bridgewater 3
Brockton 168
Brookline 33
Burlington 34
Cambridge 34
Chelmsford 5
Chelsea 32
Chicopee 123
Concord 95
Danvers 98
Dartmouth 43
Dedham 160
Devens 12
Everett 107
Fairhaven 35
Fall River 75
Falmouth 9
Fitchburg 8
Foxborough 93
Framingham 158
Franklin 97
Gardner 53
Gloucester 5
Great Barrington 19
Greenfield 58
Hadley 11
Hanson 1
Haverhill 75
Holyoke 177
Hudson 44
Kingston 98
Lawrence 54
Leicester 37
Lexington 30
Lowell 168
Lynn 280
Malden 45
Mansfield 38
Marlborough 193
Marshfield 21
Medford 38
Medway 11
Melrose 1
Methuen 100
Middleborough 60
Milford 64
Milton 2
New Bedford 28
North Attleboro 67
Northborough 34
Norton 22
Norwell 15
Norwood 10
Peabody 177
Pittsfield 35
Plainville 71
Plymouth 58
Revere 66
Rockland 37
Salem 162
Saugus 69
Seekonk 38
Sharon 22
Shrewsbury 74
Somerset 27
South Hadley 10
Springfield 282
Stoneham 1
Stoughton 152
Sturbridge 49
Sutton 30
Swansea 35
Taunton 167
Tewksbury 26
Wakefield 2
Waltham 65
Wareham 14
West Springfield 104
Westminster 29
Westborough 105
Weymouth 9
Woburn 173
Worcester 303
Watertown 41
Yarmouth 36
Total 7,532


Did you know that Massachusetts has a "RAINY DAY" fund?

Massachusetts to use $800 million in interest accrued by its rainy day fund, now at $8 billion, to ensure cash on hand when needed to match federal grants, Oct 19, 2023


Compare that to Alabama. The Governor of Alabama
recently sent out a check for $300.00 to every citizen of Alabama. The money came from the state’s surplus.
Apparently Massachusetts knows how to take your money but does not know how to return it. 



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Monday, December 25, 2023

What's going on here?

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Saturday, December 23, 2023

GET YOUR PASS AT EAGLE PASS AND SHOVE YOUR COUNTRY UP YOUR ASS (I never dreamed the day that I would watch my country fall away)

 

 

 

Friday, December 22, 2023

WE ARE PAYING FOR OUR OWN DESTRUCTION

 

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Tuesday, December 19, 2023

THE BATTLE OF CIVILIZATION

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Sunday, December 17, 2023

Harvard University was once an all boys school...today they have no balls at all. By Norman Hooben....then there's that poison ivy thing by Dan Bongìno.

"Repeat the lie often enough and people will believe it." - Adolf Hitler. OK, enough of that, skip to the 2nd feature.

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Saturday, December 16, 2023

They say she was visibly scared...but don't see her.

 

Thursday, December 14, 2023

They were so different, these six: the whooping young Texan cowboy astride his white horse; the watchful Arizona Indian on his reservation; the happy-go-lucky Kentucky hillbilly skinny-dipping in the Licking River; the serious Wisconsin small-towner walking his third-grade sweetheart under the shade trees; the handsome New Hampshire smoothie checking his profile in the drugstore window; the sturdy Czech immigrant playing his French horn in the teeming Pennsylvania steel mill town.

 I wanted to know them as Marines, as fighting men who were also comrades.
But more than that, I wanted to know them as boys, ordinary shirt tail
kids before they became warriors.
I wanted to know their family histories. And I wanted to know how "The Photograph" affected their families' lives down into the present time. As a flag raiser’s son who had lived in the uneasy shadow of that photograph—a shadow cast by an image that itself was never visible in our household. I knew something about its lingering power within a family. I hungered to know what the Bradley household might have had in common with those of the other five.

The questions I asked generated many tears. But they opened up some bright, glowing chambers of the past as well. The whole topic of boyhood, for example, here was a many-faceted realm I had not quite expected to enter, but one that gave me endless fascination nonetheless, the lost realm of American boyhood in the years just before the Second World War.
Most of them, after all, were scarcely out of boyhood when they enlisted.
Their lives up until then had been kids' lives: hunting, fishing, paper routes; the movies, adventure programs on the radio, altar duties at church; first wary contact with girls. And, since money was scarce, helping out in their fathers' businesses and tobacco fields, lending a hand in the coal mine, at the mill.

Hard times aside, the 1930's was a terrific decade to be an American boy.
Whether in the hills of Kentucky, or on the gridirons of south Texas or astride the carnival calliope in small-town Wisconsin. Boyhood then was a deeply textured universe all its own, a universe of possibility and hope. Of fervent patriotism as the distant, hazy war clouds gathered.
An American boy's life in the thirties, whether at work or play, was about connection and community in ways that are hard to imagine today. It was about dreams, vivid and optimistic dreams of a future as radiant as Buck Roger’s cosmos. As such, these dreams provided powerful incentives for courage and loyalty in battle in the minds of thousands of ex-boys in uniform---boys very much like the figures in the photograph.
They were so different, these six: the whooping young Texan cowboy astride his white horse; the watchful Arizona Indian on his reservation; the happy-go-lucky Kentucky hillbilly skinny-dipping in the Licking River; the serious Wisconsin small-towner walking his third-grade sweetheart under the shade trees; the handsome New Hampshire smoothie checking his profile in the drugstore window; the sturdy Czech immigrant playing his French horn in the teeming Pennsylvania steel mill town. All forming their dreams of a future that would not be and yet so similar.
They were nearly all poor. The Great Depression ran through their lives. But then so did football, and religious faith, and strong mothers. So did younger siblings, and the responsibility of caring for them.
Nearly all were described again and again as quiet, shy boys, yet boys whom people cared about. Boys who somehow made a difference in their families and their communities.
Nearly all generated memories among brothers and sisters and childhood sweethearts that remained crystalline at century’s end as at the moment they occurred.
And all of them together illuminated a great deal that was wonderful and innocent in an America that was soon to leave behind its own childhood forever.

Credit: From the book, FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS by James Bradley



Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Chinese Military Hackers Increasing Attacks Against American Infrastructure

ATLAS NEWS

Chinese Military Hackers Increasing Attacks Against American Infrastructure, Per WaPo

December 11, 2023
Modified: 2 days ago
 
The Chinese military is increasing its capabilities to hack into and disrupt key infrastructure across the United States, such as power, water, communications, and transportation systems, the Washington Post has reported, citing government officials and security experts.

The hackings appear to be part of a larger military campaign called “Volt Typhoon,” which aims to attack and disrupt American logistics in the event of a war in the Indo-Pacific over an invasion of Taiwan by China.

Over the past year, Chinese military hackers have “have burrowed into the computer systems of about two dozen critical entities,” which are “part of a broader effort to develop ways to sow panic and chaos or snarl logistics in the event of a U.S.-China conflict in the Pacific,” sources told WaPo.

Impacted infrastructure includes a water utility in Hawaii, a major West Coast port and at least one oil and gas pipeline, all of which were unnamed. Likewise, the Texas power grid, which operates independently from the rest of the country, also fell victim to an attempted hacking.

Speaking to WaPo, Brandon Wales, executive director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said that “It is very clear that Chinese attempts to compromise critical infrastructure are in part to pre-position themselves to be able to disrupt or destroy that critical infrastructure in the event of a conflict, to either prevent the United States from being able to project power into Asia or to cause societal chaos inside the United States — to affect our decision-making around a crisis.”

“That is a significant change from Chinese cyber activity from seven to 10 years ago that was focused primarily on political and economic espionage,” he added.

“None of the intrusions affected industrial control systems that operate pumps, pistons or any critical function, or caused a disruption,” WaPo reported, however, the attention of these attacks appear to be focused on Hawaii, home of the US Pacific Fleet and a major logistics hub for military operations in the region. In May, Microsoft reported that Volt Typhoon activities were targeting entities in Guam, another strategic American naval location.

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

THE MEN WHO WANTED TO BE LEFT ALONE

Sounds a lot like talk around the table at the Green Dragon Tavern....in 1776 !

 

Thursday, December 7, 2023

How big does Obama's army have to be before they take control?

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded. - Barack Obama

 

Question:

How does a Chinese national travel outside of China, a country with military controlled borders, and manage to arrive at the southern border of the United States?  They come in large numbers of mostly military aged males.  How soon will they be stronger than our military...for they already appear to be we'll funded!

Are we going to be ready by the year of the dragon?  

2024 is a year of the Dragon.
According to Chinese astrology, 2024 is a Wood Dragon Year. Wood indicates calmness, loyalty, and reliability and Dragons are endowed with prominent abilities and revolutionary ideas.

Let's repeat that last line. 

Dragons are endowed with prominent abilities and revolutionary ideas.

Revolutionary!
* They're all mostly males of military age.... Now just exactly does that mean?
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Wednesday, December 6, 2023

At what point do you throw the judge in jail?

 

THE PROBLEM WITH ERIC

This is just one of a series of mini-lectures identifying problems within the American voting system across America.  After years of witnessing that something was wrong with the outcome of elections that I quite couldn't put my finger on, the following explanation accounts for my inquisitiveness that most voters never question.  Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican and have the desire for fair and honest elections, I suggest you listen to the complete series of lectures which are available through the Cause For America's website. - N.E.H.

Sunday, December 3, 2023

VINDICATION well deserved

Quote from the following editorial:
"I am gratified to see that this is happening far faster than I predicted it would."

 I too am gratified that this is happening, for even having lost a few friends over my support for Doctor McCullough I had a strong feeling that the truth would rise to the top among reasonable people.  Does this mean my friends that I lost were unreasonable?  Yes!  And three of them would most likely still be alive. - Norm Hooben 


Dr. McCullough Feted on Nasdaq Tower in NY

IAOTP Award: "Top Internist and Cardiologist of the Year"



IAOTP Award: "Top Internist and Cardiologist of the Year"
A lot can change in two years. Just before Christmas 2021, Dr. McCullough came over to my house to spend the day discussing the events set forth in our book, The Courage to Face COVID-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex. He arrived in characteristically good spirits, even though he’d just been hit with the most outrageous attack. That morning, Medscape—a popular medical news agency—published a report titled “Physicians of the Year: Best and Worst.” An e-mail blast of the report went out to doctors all over the country. The e- mail’s subject was, “Worst Physicians of 2021: Who disgraced the profession? See who made the list and how many of them you know?”

By itself the subject was foul, and under normal circumstances McCullough wouldn’t have opened the e-mail. However, as it arrived on the heels of his Joe Rogan interview, which had sparked a flurry of negative communiques about him on the internet, it couldn’t be ignored.
He went through the report’s slide show of the “Worst of 2021.” The first 8 were a rogues’ gallery of doctors convicted of performing fraudulent, unnecessary surgery, mass murder, making false diagnoses while under the influence of drugs, sexual harassment, and assault. Peter clicked on slide number 9 and saw a photo of himself under the headline, “Baylor Gets Restraining Order Against Covid Vaccine Skeptic Doc.” The report explained that “Baylor was the first institution to cut ties with McCullough, who promoted the use of unproven therapies for COVID-19 and questioned the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.”
Peter laughed this off with his usual Stoicism, but I could tell he’d found this repugnant attack to be painful.
“Nobody with any common sense or decency believes this,” I said, trying to cheer him up. “Medscape is clearly a gutter publication.” Already then, in December 2021, I was confident Peter would ultimately be vindicated. I am gratified to see that this is happening far faster than I predicted it would.
Yesterday the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP) in New York City held its annual awards ceremony and gave Peter its Top Internist and Cardiologist of the Year award. Before the ceremony, IAOTP displayed his photograph on the seven-story Nasdaq Tower in Times Square.
I’ve spent forty years studying history, and I am very familiar with how discerning dissidents have been relentlessly persecuted, only later to be vindicated. When the English statesman and poet, John Milton, visited Galileo in the summer of 1633, shortly after Galileo’s trial for heresy, Milton perceived that the astronomer had been unjustly persecuted for simply stating what he’d observed. It was a moving experience that influenced Milton’s famous defense of free speech that he published in a 1644 pamphlet titled Areopagitica. In this speech Milton described censors as “oligarchs” who “bring a famine upon our minds.”
For the last three years, we have contended with a formidable array of oligarchs who have tried to bring a famine upon our minds. As long as a good portion of this nation’s citizenry retains its allegiance to free speech and the free exchange of ideas and observations, the oligarchs will never win.
With each passing day, Richard J. Baron and his fellow inquisitors at the American Board of Internal Medicine Committee—which continues its effort to strip Dr. McCullough of his board certifications—increasingly look like the Inquisitors who punished Galileo with house arrest for the last nine years of his life.
The news that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton suing Pfizer for fraudulent misrepresentation of its COVID-19 vaccine gave me hope that his discovery will explore a probable connection between Pfizer and the ABIM. On the face of it, this suspicion is highly warranted, because the ABIM, Pfizer, and Moderna all share the same powerful PR firm, Weber Shandwick. Indeed, I wouldn’t be surprised if Weber Shandwick was behind the Medscape hit piece in December 2021.
If Dr. Baron has indeed allowed commercial interests to influence the ABIM’s certification and decertification of medical doctors, he should be carefully examined for possibly having civil and perhaps even criminal conflicts of interest.
In the meantime, congratulations to Dr. McCullough for his much deserved award.

Saturday, December 2, 2023

Think Google knows your secrets? Wait until you meet Yodlee. The company knows where you invest your money and how much you owe on your mortgage. It knows your credit card numbers, the amount of your weekly paycheck, and how much you really spend on shoes.

 Think Google knows your secrets? Meet Yodlee

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by Blake Ellis, staff reporter 
November 16, 2010: 3:51 PM ET


NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Think Google knows everything about you? Wait until you meet Yodlee.
The company knows where you invest your money and how much you owe on your mortgage. It knows your credit card numbers, the amount of your weekly paycheck, and how much you really spend on shoes.

If you've banked online, you've probably used Yodlee without even knowing it. More than 200 financial institutions, including Citibank and Bank of America use its services, touching nearly 26 million consumers. Your bank probably uses its technology, too, though Yodlee doesn't like to name names.

Yodlee is the proverbial man behind the curtain. So what, exactly, does he do?

When you log into your bank and transfer money between your savings and checking accounts, that's Yodlee providing to the technology to make the transaction happen. Paying a bill online? Yodlee. Signing up for a new account? Yodlee. Analyze how much you spend? Yodlee.
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Then there are its fancier financial-management tools. Yodlee can aggregate all of consumer's financial information and serve it up to a bank or personal finance website, such as Mint.com, allowing you to see your financial health in one snapshot.

For example, on Bank of America's website, customers can see all of their bank accounts in one place. Behind the scenes, Yodlee has scraped your financial data from your various lenders -- student loans, mortgage holder, credit cards, 401(k), checking, savings -- and fed it to Bank of America. (With your log-ins and permissions, of course. But more on that later.) That way, you can analyze spending, budget and set goals across all of your accounts.

"Unlike Facebook and Google, which are very visible, Yodlee has quietly powered the same kind of services across every bank," said Schwark Satyavolu, who co-founded Yodlee and worked there for eight years before moving on to start his own company, an online personal finance startup called BillShrink. "Yodlee is the 800-pound gorilla in the room, but you may not even realize it's there."

It's also the only gorilla in the room. Founded in 1999, the Redwood City, Calif.-based company has a strong head start on its few competitors, such as Geezeo and Strands.

"Yodlee was clearly the most innovative and technologically savvy from a cultural standpoint -- they were all about taking calculated risks," said Devon Kinkead, CEO of Micronotes, a new startup that is using Yodlee's services. "What they've done is build a platform and invited a bunch of sharp, innovative companies and the top banks, so they are extremely well-positioned for growth and have become very hard to compete with."

In fact, some competitors -- like Strands -- are actually turning to Yodlee for their data aggregation services.
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"Even their so-called competitors are their customers, which is a pretty good situation to be in," said Ron Shevlin, a senior analyst specializing in retail banking at Aite Group. "While the market isn't going to get handed to them, given their capabilities and their history, they have a good shot of staying on top."

And for some companies, working with Yodlee has been a life-or-death decision. Wesabe, an early financial-management site, attributes its failure to spurning Yodlee. Wesabe was a competitor to Mint.com, and one chose to work with Yodlee, and one did not.

"Since [Yodlee] had effectively no competitors, we didn't believe we should tie our company to a single-source provider," Wesabe founder Marc Hedlund recently wrote in his blog. "Mint used Yodlee... to automatically get user's data from bank sites and import them into Mint, and as a result had a much easier user experience getting bank data imported."

Mint.com is now considered the leader in the personal finance management space and was recently acquired by Intuit. As part of the deal, however, it is transitioning to Intuit's internal aggregation system, rather than Yodlee's.

One reason Wesabe gave for avoiding Yodlee was its finances, something that had concerned Mint, as well. Particularly, Mint said it was concerned because the company had yet to be acquired.

"That's always been a concern," said Aaron Patzer, vice president of Intuit Personal Finance and founder of Mint.com. "They've been around for 11 years so it's less of a concern now, but since they're a private company it's hard to know how they're doing."

Yodlee, which is backed by investors such as Accel and Warburg Pincus, said it has seen revenue climb more than 30% over the past three years and now has 700 employees.

"Our financials are extraordinarily solid," said Yodlee's chief marketing and strategy officer, Joe Polverari. "In terms of not being acquired, our objective is not to be the classic model of 'pump it up and hype it up' so someone will buy it -- our goal was to be the next real financial services platform."

But Shevlin said he can think of a number of companies that likely have Yodlee on their radar.

"The tech firms that provide all the really boring core applications for managing transactions to banks -- that space has really been consolidating," he said. "Fidelity Information Services, Fiserv, Jack Henry -- any one of them could be good candidates for acquiring Yodlee and creating a single stop shop for banks."

So, with Yodlee having such broad access to consumer information, should you be worried about your privacy?

"There's no reason that anyone should be any more concerned about Yodlee's security than their bank's security, or any other firm they do business with online," Shevlin said.

Yodlee is audited and supervised by the federal government, much like a bank. It is also audited by the financial institutions it works with. And, said Polverari, Yodlee has never had a security breach.

"The proof of the pudding is that we have had all the major banks audit every single piece of our infrastructure -- everything from our data center to our office -- and we've taken that cumulative feedback from all the banks and turned Yodlee into a fortress," said Satyavolu. "Not only is it secure, but with [Yodlee's] privacy policy, an individual's financial data is completely unusable."



SORRY SENATOR, BIDEN WILL NOT COMPLY...you're wasting your time.



Tuberville urges Biden to ban travel from China to prevent spread of ‘mystery illness’
Daniel Taylor | 12.01.23



On Friday, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) signed a letter demanding President Joe Biden ban travel from China until more is learned about a mysterious respiratory disease infecting the country.

Since October, China has seen a significant and unexplained rise in respiratory illnesses and pneumonia. However, Chinese health officials told the World Health Organization (WHO) they had not detected any "unusual or novel diseases," Fox News reported.

"[W]e should not wait for the WHO to take action given its track record of slavish deference to the [Chinese Communist Party]," the letter read. "We must take the necessary steps to protect the health of Americans and our economy. That means we should immediately restrict travel between the United States and the [People's Republic of China] until we know more about the dangers posed by this new illness."

The letter pointed to the success of former President Donald Trump's travel bans at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

"Many officials and commentators—including you—criticized his decision as being influenced by 'xenophobia,'" the letter stated. "But history and common sense show his decision was the right one… A ban on travel now could save our country from death, lockdowns, mandates, and further outbreaks later."

U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) also signed the letter.



To connect with the story's author or comment, email daniel.taylor@1819news.com.

Nowhere in the Constitution does it say a sitting president cannot be arrested...and it definitely does not say the Justice Department can make such a ruling.

 

Thursday, November 30, 2023

Foreign-Born Population Hits 49.5M Under Biden – Largest Ever in U.S. History

Foreign-Born Population Hits 49.5M Under Biden – Largest Ever in U.S. History

November 30, 2023 by John Binder

The nation’s foreign-born population has hit an unprecedented 49.5 million, the largest ever recorded in American history, under President Joe Biden.

Analysis by Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) revealed that in October the foreign-born population reached almost 50 million, increasing by 4.5 million foreign-born residents since Biden took office in January 2021.

Put another way, the Biden administration has added more immigrants to the nation’s population than the annual number of U.S. births in fewer than three years. Similarly, the growth of the foreign-born population under Biden exceeds the resident populations of 25 states.

“At 15 percent, the foreign-born share of the U.S. population is also the highest ever recorded in American history,” Camarota and Zeigler wrote:

As the debate rages over the ongoing border crisis, this finding is important because administrative numbers such as border encounters or even legal immigrant arrivals do not measure the actual size of the immigrant population, which is what ultimately determines immigration’s impact on the country. [Emphasis added]

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In numbers even excessive for a liberal White House, Biden has doubled the monthly inflow of immigration. Under former President Barack Obama, for example, the foreign-born population grew by about 68,000 every month and under former President Donald Trump it grew by about 42,000 a month.

Biden, on the other hand, has grown the foreign-born population by a whopping 137,000 every month since taking office. More than half — about 2.5 million — of those arriving under Biden, the CIS researchers note, are illegal aliens with the remaining two million arriving as legal immigrants.

More than 6-in-10 foreign-born residents who have arrived since Biden became president are from Latin America while others are primarily from Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.

Though much attention is given to illegal immigration, the nation’s policy of annually importing more than a million legal immigrants accounts for 75 percent of the total foreign-born population today.

Without reductions to legal immigration levels, the foreign-born population is expected to hit 70 million by 2060.

American voters continuously tell pollsters they want cuts to overall immigration, mostly legal immigration. The latest survey from Rasmussen Reports showed 56 percent of likely voters want legal immigration levels cut to at least 750,000 admissions a year — including a plurality who said they want to see fewer than 500,000 admissions a year.

Likewise, 62 percent of likely voters said they oppose current immigration law which allows for so-called “chain migration,” the process where newly naturalized citizens can sponsor an unlimited number of foreign relatives for green cards.

Most relevant to the CIS analysis, nearly 7-in-10 likely voters said they want immigration-driven population growth either slowed or halted altogether so that the U.S. population can stabilize at a comfortable rate.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News.




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Monday, November 27, 2023

North Korean satellite takes pictures of White House, Pentagon

TASS (Russian News Agency)


27 NOV, 15:38Updated at: 16:17

North Korean satellite takes pictures of White House, Pentagon

According to the news agency, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has already familiarized himself with the pictures


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MOSCOW, November 28. /TASS/. A North Korean reconnaissance satellite has taken pictures of the White House and the Pentagon, Reuters reported, citing the North Korean Central News Agency.

According to the news agency, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has already familiarized himself with the pictures.

Reuters also said that the reconnaissance satellite also took photos of aircraft carriers at the US naval base in Norfolk, Virginia.

On November 21, North Korea launched a reconnaissance satellite. In response, on November 22, South Korea announced a partial suspension of the agreement with North Korea to reduce tensions. The measure affected the no-fly zone provision. On November 23, the North Korean Defense Ministry announced that it would no longer abide by the entire agreement and would resume actions prohibited by the document.
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Sunday, November 26, 2023

To rescue a nation "some voice must be raised” against the collaborationists’ outrages, and that voice should be Donald Trump, there is no other.

 I don't know why I post stuff like this, for very few will read it and fewer of them will comprehend its meaning. At the present time there is only one voice out there that has some semblance of a rescue mission and that is Donald Trump...there are no more de Gaulle s waiting in the wings. - N.E.H.

When France’s entire ruling class dissolved, delivering the country to Hitler, Brigadier Charles de Gaulle, stranded in London, begged that class’s better parts to take up France’s cause. All refused. He resisted instinctively the prospect of doing it himself, comparing it to “trying to cross the ocean by swimming.” But then, when nobody showed up to shoulder the impossible burden, he put his personal insignificance aside and told his radio audience that “some voice must be raised” against the collaborationists’ outrages, and that “tonight, that voice will be mine.” There was no other.

 

To Rescue a Nation

Like any other way of life based on self-rule, ours can be re-founded only by the people themselves. 

Editor’s Note – This essay was originally published by the American Mind on June 22, 2021 under the title, “To Rescue a Nation.” The late Angelo Codevilla explains what is required of a leader, when, as is the case today, it is necessary to rescue—or re-found—a country.

A leader must, by definition, set himself apart from the cause he leads, but at the same time, he must “dissolve” into that cause. He must make it clear that the cause is greater than himself just as he inspires the people’s dedication to a cause greater than themselves. His purpose and character will define the substance of the cause and provide its cohesion. For Washington, Lincoln, or Churchill, that substance and cohesion were necessarily unique to their crises.

In our crisis, a leader must make it clear to citizens that we are at war, that our choice is between American freedom and Woke tyranny. It’s one or the other. There is no avoiding the issue. And everything we revere and hold dear is at stake.

Codevilla argues that Donald Trump has been deficient as a leader because he has made the cause too much about himself. Fair enough. But we must fight with the leaders we can get. So far, Trump is the best we have. Clearly he understands we are at war. When he gets back into office, we can expect him to do everything in his power to eliminate the cancer that is the woke regime and to fight resolutely for the American way of life.

Peoples become nations by following those who lead them to worship the same God or idols, and to act habitually as they do. The Greeks called these habits “ethics.” These change for good and ill as prominent persons change, or develop new ways of life, or foreign influences impose themselves. The general population tends to follow. Plato and Aristotle led subsequent generations to note that peoples tend to take on their leaders’ character.

Some see such changes as betrayal. If these alienate a large enough proportion of people, the body politic itself loses the capacity to act as a whole. Enough disarticulation, and the body politic ceases to exist for practical purposes. Serious changes, regardless of their sources, lead some to want a resetting the country on what they regard as its proper basis—or outright resuscitation.

Machiavelli wrote that doing that amounts to re-founding a nation, and that this is considerably more difficult than founding one in the first place.

What does it take to re-found a nation? The question is lively for twenty-first century Americans because the changes that have taken place in the bipartisan ruling class that controls nearly all our institutions have explicitly denied and denigrated what had made America itself. Today’s ruling class leads and even forces Americans to act, speak, and think as if all that they had thought good were bad, and vice versa. Almost as if a vengeful power had conquered the country. At least half the country yearns for some kind of rescue.

Though history does not lack examples of nations rescued and refounded, most rescues involve overthrowing the dominion of foreigners rather than of mutated ruling classes. But as the Book of Exodus shows, the removal of foreign influence is almost always much less than half the battle. Reference to foreign oppression is often a necessary, but always an insufficient factor. Charles de Gaulle’s success against the Germans was not enough to overcome resistance to his efforts to restore France’s corrupt body politic. Without a foreign focus however, refounding can only be a civil war of variable temperatures. Abraham Lincoln’s failure to avoid the Civil War is as clear an example as there is.

Machiavelli’s near equation of reform with re-founding mostly abstracts from the fact that, for nations and regimes founded on and tailored for the people’s characteristics, repeating something like the founding is not possible once these have changed. Peoples are far less malleable than regimes.

On the one hand, successive generations of Romans were able to re-set Rome more or less on the basis on which Romulus had set it by killing his brother, Remus, who had trespassed on what became the Urbe’s fundamental law: war against outsiders. Successive Fathers of the Fatherland reaffirmed that law. And when Cleomenes judged that Sparta’s ephors had violated Lycurgus’s constitution, he deftly re-established it by killing the ephors and their followers. The Soviet regime’s fundamental law was the Communist General Secretary’s murderous discipline of the Party, which suffused society with fearful uncertainty. When Mikhail Gorbachev tried to rescue tyranny from the feudalism into which it had fallen under Brezhnev, he might well have succeeded had he been willing to kill as Lenin and Stalin had done.

Doubtless, rescuing disrespected constitutions has always required and will always require undoing any number of enemies.

But there is little historical evidence that peoples who had constituted themselves nations on the basis of freedom can convert that nationhood’s lively memory into rebirth.

Self-government ever reflects self, and lost civic virtue is almost as unrecoverable as lost virginity.

Divisive leadership

The political conflict in which we are engaged pits some Americans who revere the legacy and memory of the Republic founded in 1776-1789 against those who despise it and have corrupted the Republic’s institutions into an oligarchy.

The concentration of corruptions in the ruling class does not minimize the reality that a part of the U.S population are that oligarchy’s eager subjects, either uninterested in or opposed to any kind of restoration. We who resent that our ruling class’s corruption deprives us of self-government are another part. Hence governing ourselves again, resetting America on the bases on which it was founded is necessarily by, of, and for only we who want it.

In short, America has changed so much from what it had been just a half century ago that any restoration implies some sort of mutual alienation, separation, or secession, whether as a substitute for civil war or as a result of it. What kind of conflict might it take to rescue ourselves from what we regard as contemporary America’s corruptions?

The process of rescue necessarily consists of republican Americans’ would-be leaders convincing their followers to ignore, to disdain, to resist, the directions from society’s commanding heights in favor of what they believe is more consistent with what America had been and should be again. It is essentially a revolutionary (or counter-revolutionary) process that requires equal doses of negation and affirmation.

Silent secession by alienated individuals is inevitable and deadly. In 1967, hippie songster Arlo Guthrie invited those who wanted to drop out of the America they despised to mock its authorities by singing them the meaningless “you can get anything that you want at Alice’s restaurant.” Millions of East Germans said to themselves “ohne mich,” without me, as they pretended to go along. Many more Soviet subjects also kept their heads down as they spat out official lies with ever more evident mockery. Live not by lies, said Solzhenitsyn. In the long run turning one’s back, tacit hemorrhage of legitimacy, dooms regimes. But it reforms and refounds nothing.

large terms, to seek commitment to themselves. There is no greater pitfall. Effective espousal of a cause means that the leader dissolves into the cause.

A serious attempt to rescue Americans from an alien regime at war with our way of life awaits the rise of a person to embody their sentiments, focus and lead them to act successfully in their own interest.

Leadership and identity

Though it seems obvious that trying to lead, or even to take part, in such an enterprise requires outsized self-confidence, historical examples show that the authority by which some have rallied peoples behind flags picked from the dirt flowed more from the flags themselves—from the enterprise itself—than from any attempt by the leader to project himself onto them. Presuming to lead something far greater than one’s self on the basis of that self is likeliest to prove mere conceit. In fact, those who have effectively placed themselves at the head of nations became great by becoming one with causes that daunted them, as they should have.

Moses first rejected his comfortable place in Egyptian life by protecting an Israelite. But when the call came from the Burning Bush, Moses begged off. Not me. “I am slow of speech.” But the voice from the fire told him that rescuing Israel was not about Moses. It was what I Am wanted done. He would tell Moses what to say and give what help was needed. Moses’ insufficiencies mattered less than the cause.

Thus did Moses remind his people that they were the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, bound not to the Egyptians, but by covenant to serve the one true God; and that this God was in the process of rescuing them. At every point in the Exodus, Moses pointed to the signs of the Lord’s sustaining power. Moses organized them for survival and war. His successes rallied the people behind his leadership, and enabled him to lead them into a new covenant on the basis of the Decalogue. This re-founding arguably was as significant as Abraham’s original.

When France’s entire ruling class dissolved, delivering the country to Hitler, Brigadier Charles de Gaulle, stranded in London, begged that class’s better parts to take up France’s cause. All refused. He resisted instinctively the prospect of doing it himself, comparing it to “trying to cross the ocean by swimming.” But then, when nobody showed up to shoulder the impossible burden, he put his personal insignificance aside and told his radio audience that “some voice must be raised” against the collaborationists’ outrages, and that “tonight, that voice will be mine.” There was no other.

History affords few examples of a nation as thoroughly abandoned by its ruling class as France was in 1940, and of the re-construction of an alternate ruling elite—piece by piece, individual by individual—as Charles de Gaulle accomplished between July 1940 and July 1945. His circumstances were special, as all are. But what de Gaulle accomplished was nothing less than to re-infuse life into a mostly dead body politic, or to re-articulate a paralyzed one. He re-connected the French people with one another for collective action on their own behalf.

Founders and re-founders turn peoples’ resentments and hopes into action by asking them to think of themselves as together—as being in the same boat, as it were—and jointly dedicated to a nation greater than themselves; and hence to stand together, first in small, and then in ever greater ways. Inevitably, this means joining to overcome resistance. It means fighting and prevailing together in the name of their nation. Their successes counterbalance the inconveniences and burdens involved.

Moses secured the Israelites’ coherence and adherence to the Decalogue and the rest of the Law because he fed them, defeated the Amalekites, and put violent dissenters to the edge of the sword, in the name of the Lord. In the name of France, de Gaulle asked the people to regard occupiers and collaborators as future “prisoners or corpses,” and to act only as commanded by “la rĂ©sistance” that he organized. But that encouragement was meaningful only because his troops, fighting alongside the Allies, delivered inspiring victories, such as at Bir Hakeim. That, and deft maneuvering against rivals, made possible the effective, triumphant, re-founding of the French nation on the Champs Elysees, August 26, 1945.

lie that this has anything to do with public health and leave no doubt that such passports—necessarily digital—inevitably would carry information that amounts to what the Chinese call “social credit.” States that prohibit them within their borders thereby de-legitimize them and make them impracticable nationwide. But only national-level leadership can make sure that the American people treat this power grab as part of the oligarchy’s war on republican America.

Universities and colleges, largely financed through government, having been the fountainhead of the oligarchy’s intellectual/moral character, nothing would reduce that fountain’s pressure on republican America like curtailing that financing. Republican America’s would be leaders could campaign to make individual institutions liable for unpaid student debts incurred there and make them into lending institutions. The Democrats’ objections notwithstanding, that cause would prevail, sober the educational establishment in countless ways, and lower tuition costs. National-level involvement in K-12 education also having been a source of inflation and all manner of corruption, and attempts to use the Department of Education to remedy the harm it has caused having miscarried, today’s leaders should, like Ronald Reagan, promise to abolish that Department. And then do it, reminding parents that if they do not educate their own children, the government is sure to mis-educate them.

The oligarchy’s perversion of American law, its partisan seizure of the justice system, of the intelligence agencies, and of the military, is the deadliest weapon in the war of annihilation it wages against our Republic. Led and largely staffed by partisan Democrats, scarcely distinguishable from the private corporations and institutions it oversees, the bureaucracy legislates and administers against the rest of us. The Constitution? “Are you kidding?” asked Nancy Pelosi. The oligarchy lets rapists and robbers walk, and punishes only demonstrations against its regime. The only crimes are political. The intelligence agencies know—only pretend to know—the evils of republicans. The armed forces’ leadership purges them as the enemy within. The oligarchy having seized our Constitutional system’s control, only a presidential election can take this weapon from them.

But wise leadership can circumscribe its effects as it prepares such an election. Depriving these perversions and seizures of any shadow of legitimacy is key. Any argument we make against bureaucratic, prosecutorial, or power-agency actions as if these actions were errors within our republican system only give credence to a falsehood, a lie. In fact, the bureaucracy’s, the intelligence agencies’, the armed forces’ actions against republicans are not errors. They are the oligarchic regime’s acts of war. As the majority of Americans grasp that reality, they deprive the regime’s powers of the legitimacy that gives them force.

Since the persons who actually wield these powers have careers that transcend electoral cycles, whoever would lead the republican nation can limit the harm they do by forcefully warning them that, sooner or later, a president will take office who, as the American republic’s vigorous partisan and unlike predecessors, will work terrible vengeance upon any and all persons who have served the oligarchy. Such leaders can show their seriousness by using whatever powers they may have to block funding for parts of the justice system, for the FBI and CIA, for certain of the armed forces’ activities, and especially for contractors whom they judge to be excessively tied to the oligarchy.

Success in battles to protect republicans will make it possible to work out some arrangement whereby peoples who now belong to two incompatible civilizations and who look for leadership to two hostile regimes may live in peace though intermingled with one another.

Working out such an arrangement is what rescuing America today means.

Federalism as never before

The more fine-grained the maps of the American people’s electoral choices, as well as of their opinions about the most important things, the clearer it is that its “blue”—Democrat, Woke, etc. —parts are concentrated not simply in California, New York, Illinois, etc., or even in the 16.7 percent of U.S. counties the Democratic Party carried in the 2020 election. Within those states, counties, and even within their cities (e.g., Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Austin) there are substantial parts the residents of which vote for and prefer differently. By the same token there are parts, even of Wyoming, as Woke as Venice, California.

This intermingling is more fraught with horrid consequences than the 19th century division between Northerners and Southerners. Both of those sides, Lincoln reminded them, “prayed to the same God.” Their family lives, their personal habits and preferences, were identical. All revered America’s founders, albeit somewhat differently. None doubted the others’ probity. Today, by contrast, America’s Woke side regards worship of the God of the Bible as the source of the White man’s rapacity, racism, and oppression. It regards the very words male and female, mother and father as poisonous, and rejects reason itself as the arbiter of argument in favor of identity. Through education, it enforces relativism regarding mathematics—never mind sexuality—and wholly denigrates anything that America has been other than the enabler of themselves.

decisions, it finds no barrier in the Constitution’s letter. Congress and the president can do this.

The alternative is already unfolding: people on all sides have learned that “stop me if you can” is today’s operative constitutional law. Pretty soon, everywhere will be a sanctuary for something. The willful and well-organized obey what they will and disobey what they dare. Better for all if the separation follows the law of logic rather than force.

What then?

Geographically, republican America will reign from shore to shore, from Canada to Mexico. Its birth rate, its educational system’s products, its economic vigor, its social stability, its degree of happiness will reflect how fit today’s republicans are for self-government. We cannot foresee and should not speculate how their successes and failures might affect Woke America. We can be sure however that radical de-centralization at home can only reduce the matters with which U.S. foreign policy deals, and hence increase the likelihood that they be dealt with soberly.

Angelo M. Codevilla (1943-2021) was a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute and professor emeritus of International Relations at Boston University.




Saturday, November 25, 2023

Taxing you for breathing plus Bill Gates' DEPOPULATION AGENDA

 


Taxing Us for Breathing

By Robert Tracinski

Last week, the New York Times published an extraordinary editorial complaining that "Right now, everyone is using the atmosphere like a municipal dump, depositing carbon dioxide free." The Times editors suggested that the government "start charging for the privilege" by imposing a "carbon tax."

We all knew it would eventually come to this: the New York Times thinks the government should tax us for breathing.

Of course, the editorial was supposed to be aimed at big corporations who build coal-fired power plants--but why should the logic stop there? Right now, eight million people are walking around on the streets of New York City heedlessly inhaling precious oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide, treating the skies over their fair city "like a municipal dump, depositing carbon dioxide free." Shouldn't they be forced to pay for the "privilege," too?

And the connection is a logical one, because the generation of power by industrial-scale power plants is as much a vital activity as breathing.

I mean this in a literal, biological sense. In biology, "respiration" doesn't just refer to the act of breathing; it refers to the chemical reactions made possible by breathing. My dictionary defines this sense of "respiration" as "the processes by which a living organism or cell takes in oxygen from the air or water, distributes and utilizes it in oxidation, and gives off the products of oxidation, especially carbon dioxide." (Wikipedia has all the biochemical details.)

Sound familiar? That's right: there is no difference in principle between your cellular mitochondria and a coal-fired power plant. Our lungs take in oxygen and emit carbon dioxide so that they can provide the energy our cells use to keep us alive and to allow us to move, to grow, to thrive. Ditto for the power plants. They augment the biological process of respiration with a process you might call "industrial respiration," which we can define as follows: the processes by which a living civilization takes in fuel, distributes and utilizes it in oxidation, and gives off the products of oxidation, especially carbon dioxide.

There is an old, tired slogan used by environmentalists: that the Amazon jungle is the "lungs of the earth," because its mass of overgrown vegetation works the opposite way our lungs work: plants take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen, so that the Amazon allegedly produces something like 20% of the world's oxygen. It turns out this isn't true. An old-growth forest like the Amazon releases more carbon dioxide, from rotting vegetation, than it absorbs. But the problem with that slogan is much deeper. It denies the fact that the real lungs of the earth--or at least, the lungs of global human civilization--are power plants. They take in fuel and turn it into the energy we use to live.

For all of their "green" pose, environmentalists don't have a genuine biological perspective on the world. They regard mankind as if we were non-biological. They talk endlessly about the "ecosystem" required for the survival of every creature on earth--but they never ask what is mankind's means of survival.

Man's primary organ of survival is his brain. We use our minds to understand the world around us, to derive scientific principles, and then to put science to work for us by rebuilding our surroundings to better suit our needs. The inscription that rings the rotunda of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago--built in an age that had a better appreciation for progress--sums it up perfectly: "Science discerns the laws of nature. Industry applies them to the needs of man." That is the real biological imperative of human existence.

Industry is not "unnatural," not in any fundamental sense. It is the product of our biological means of survival, our minds, and it is the means by which we secure our survival and extend the reach of our action. And central to all of this is the development of "industrial respiration," the process by which we turn oil, natural gas, coal, or uranium into energy we can use.

That's why it is absurd to complain that America is "addicted" to oil. An addiction is an unhealthy dependence. So would you say that you are "addicted" to breathing, because you feel like you will die if you stop doing it? Of course not. The only difference between industrial respiration and the kind that we do with our lungs is that a human body can only use a limited quantity of energy, while the power made available to us by industrial respiration is unlimited. That's not a problem. In fact, it's the whole secret by which we rose from the cave to the skyscraper--and from the campfire to the power plant--with the result that we can now reliably stretch our lives into their eighth decades and beyond. It is the added power from industrial respiration that makes the modern human animal a healthy, vigorous, thriving organism.

That is why the environmentalist crusade against industrial power plants is so dangerous. In attempting to construct a phantom threat to our survival, the dubious theory of anthropogenic global warming, they are attempting to suppress the central source of human vitality.

What would you say if someone told you that he was concerned you might get sick because it's hot and humid out--and then told you that his "cure" was to constrict your supply of oxygen by 80%? Would you believe that he was sincerely concerned with your health? Well, you had better start asking the same question of Al Gore and the rest of the global warming fanatics, because that's exactly what they're trying to do. In denouncing fossil fuels, they are seeking to tax, reduce, and ultimately to eliminate the fuels that provide our civilization with 80% of its energy. Their goal is a fatal constriction of the process of industrial respiration.

That is the deepest, fullest reason why a "carbon tax" is just as dangerous as a tax on breathing.

If we really care about the biological health of human civilization, we need to guard it against the environmentalist charlatans who are seeking to suffocate the real lungs of the earth.

Robert Tracinski writes daily commentary at TIADaily.com. He is the editor of The Intellectual Activist and TIADaily.com.

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