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The sacking of Rome in A.D. 410, the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863, Pearl Harbor in 1941, the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks of 9/11, and the October 7 raid by Hamas into Israel in 2023, all share a common element – victims were lulled into a false sense of security by aggressors. Historically, it was when the victims – believing a danger to be non-existent – failed to see what was developing, that the aggressors methodically implemented their sinister plans.
Nowhere among America's institutions has more success been achieved in implementing just such a sinister plan than in the education of our children. While we have been concentrating on outside dangers, we have taken our eyes off the danger within. It is one represented by a national school system that brainwashes our children to hate all for which America stands.
An African proverb states, "It takes a village to raise a child." The proverb conveys the message that it requires many people working together "to provide a safe, healthy environment for children, where children are given the security they need to develop and flourish, and to realize their hopes and dreams." In America, that means not only preparing students to contribute to society by providing them with the mental tools to do so but also by providing them with the proper foundation to understand and respect the values that have made our country great.
What we have lost sight of is that these values are not being taught in many of our school systems. Instead, children are being taught an ideology, permitted by irresponsible school boards and embraced by naive teachers, totally anathema to our capitalistic system. Yet whether taught as socialism, communism, or Marxism, it is being placed upon an ideological pedestal by which young people are promised all-inclusive equality. Public rather than private ownership of the multitude of ways for making money may sound good to these young minds, but such education ignores the historical perspective of such ideologies having failed miserably.
While many "villagers" are guilty of ideologically misguiding our students in this manner, one billionaire, Elon Musk, claims that another billionaire "wants to erode the fabric of civilization" as he basically "hates humanity." This civilization fabric eroder is the Hungarian-born and radical leftist billionaire philanthropist George Soros.
Musk warns that "Parents don't realize the Soviet level of indoctrination that children are receiving," with such indoctrination allegedly funded by philanthropists like Soros. It is such funding that ultimately and negatively influences school board members to adopt a capitalism-unfriendly agenda.
Ryan Girdusky is one person who has closely monitored the evolution of this process within the national school system and is doing something about it. He is the founder of the 1776 Project PAC. The mission of his PAC – the first of its kind built from the ground up – is to take the fight locally in getting conservatives elected to school boards. So positioned, such conservative members can then lead the fight to purge school curricula of their Marxist-oriented classes such as Critical Race Theory.
The 1776 Project PAC has attracted several conservative supporters, including Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham. Shapiro notes, to its credit, that the PAC has already successfully shifted over 100 school board races to conservatives in just the past year.
Unlike Pearl Harbor and 9/11, which provided us with no warning, Girdusky is sounding the alarm about our school systems. We would do well to heed what he has to say before it is too late to recover from the damage already done.
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A leading data expert has issued a "bone-chilling" warning after reviewing the numbers and causes of death across America since the COVID-19 pandemic and the mRNA shots – now proven to have many and dangerous side effects – hit Americans.
A report at Slay News explains it is John Beaudoin, a renowned statistician, who found an explosive surge in deaths from fatal kidney conditions following the advent of mRNA treatments.
The report said, "Beaudoin calculated that there have been 155,000 excess deaths caused by acute kidney injury (AKI) since late 2020 in the United States alone."
He looked at government numbers for a variety of factors, including state reports on excess deaths.
"As Beaudoin explains in a new interview, excess death is the figure above the expected baseline, not the total, meaning an extra 155k Americans died from AKI," the report said.
While the death toll had been documented to have had no significant changes for years, suddenly they surged, 200% above normal, for 2021. And they were up 300% in 2022.
Then, in 2023, they continued to surge "alarmingly."
Beaudoin explained, in the report, his "investigations prove that only COVID mRNA shots, and possibly COVID-19 hospital protocols, could be responsible for the staggering excess deaths from kidney failure," the report said.
"There are more life years lost to acute renal failure alone than COVID, than polio, than smallpox … than anything in the past 100 years in the United States, except for World War II," he said.
The report noted fellow data expert Ed Dowd confirmed the trend.
"Using data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) database, Dowd estimates 153K excess deaths nationwide from acute kidney injury alone over the last few years."
Previous studies have suggested deaths "from all causes" actually are up significantly among those who were given the mRNA treatment.
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Under Barack Obama, America's national debt exploded, increasing from about $10 trillion to just under $20 trillion. Under President Trump's first term, it also went up – most of the increase coming during the COVID pandemic. Under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, it's exploded by almost $8 trillion.
That's mostly from the profligate spending found in the misnamed "Inflation Reduction Act" and their massive scheme to make taxpayers pay for loans students took out and spent. It most recently passed the $35 trillion mark.
Now a report from the Washington Examiner explains President Donald Trump's planned economic agenda, if he's elected, would slow down the borrowing and increase it by only about $4 trillion over the next decade.
Of course, without his plan, American taxpayers will be on the hook for that $4 trillion over that time period.
"Trump's plans for tax cuts would see revenues fall by $5.8 trillion over the next decade, according to the estimate from the Penn-Wharton Budget Model, a group housed at the University of Pennsylvania's business school that analyzes the fiscal effects of public policies. Under current law, the government is supposed to take in about $63 trillion in revenues, according to congressional projections," the report said.
Allowing for economic growth, that would make the deficits, actually, only $4.1 trillion.
It's because Trump would want to extend expiring individual and business rate cuts from his 2017 law, eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits and cutting the corporate tax rate from 21% to 15%.
Many people think taxing corporations is an easy way to generate government revenue, but actually those taxes paid by companies actually are funded by the company's stockholders or customers or both.
"Permanently extending the expiring individual income tax provisions of TCJA would add $3.4 trillion to deficits (before interest costs) over the next ten years," the report said. "Restoring the original TCJA regime for taxing business investment adds another $623 billion to increase the total cost of TCJA extension to more than $4 trillion."
Canceling taxes on Social Security has just been "floated" for now. Seniors pay income taxes on half their benefits, or 85% depending on their income.
That would raise the deficit another $1.2 trillion over the decade, while lowering the corporate tax rate would cost $595 billion.
"Low, middle, and high-income households in 2026 and 2034 all fare better under the campaign proposals on a conventional basis," the report confirmed. "These conventional gains and losses do not include the additional debt burden on future generations who must finance almost the entirety of the tax decreases."
The report warned that "a large chunk" of middle-class voters would be hit with a huge tax hike if Trump's rates are not extended under a Kamala Harris administration.
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Mark Zuckerberg, the chief of Facebook's parent company Meta, has delivered a letter to Congress stunningly confessing to censoring Americans on the orders of the Joe Biden administration – and in an effort to help him politically.
It's the second major election influence scheme Zuckerberg now is known to have pursued during that time period.
The newest confession came in a letter to Congress in which he stated, "Senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor COVID-19 content, including humor & satire. … I believe the government pressure was wrong & I regret we were not more outspoken about it."
He also admitted downgrading information about the scandals uncovered in Hunter Biden's laptop, which he abandoned at a repair shop and which ultimately revealed the details of a number of family issues that have shocked Americans.
It was that laptop that dozens of former intel industry officials falsely claimed was Russian disinformation in another election influence operation when the FBI already knew it was factual.
Zuckerberg's earlier scandal was his delivery of $400 million plus, through foundations, to various local elections officials who largely used it to recruit leftist voters in leftist districts who would vote for Joe Biden.
The Daily Mail characterized Zuckerberg as admitting the censoring and then pointed out he "whines" about "pressure" from the White House.
He claimed his company would resist such pressure in the future.
The letter was to House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan.
Zuckerberg wrote, "We made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn't make today."
He claimed to have told staff at the time he was against changing the content of the site because of pressure from "any administration."
In the letter, he also claimed that his cash handouts were intended to be nonpartisan. He confirmed that "some people believe this work benefited one party over the other."
A White House statement justified Biden's pressure on Zuckerberg.
"When confronted with a deadly pandemic, this Administration encouraged responsible actions to protect public health and safety. Our position has been clear and consistent: we believe tech companies and other private actors should take into account the effects their actions have on the American people, while making independent choices about the information they present."
The administration largely targeted what it called misinformation, disinformation and malinformation regarding COVID countermeasures, even though much of that banned information was accurate, and in fact revealed alternatives to the government-endorsed program that now has proven to have injured many people.
The Daily Mail confirmed, "He and his wife Priscilla Chan gave nearly $420 million to nonprofits that aided in the administration and infrastructure of the 2020 election , and heavily favored Democrat counties."
That money was used to fund "local governments to implement administrative practices, voting methods, data-sharing agreements, and outreach programs for the 2020 elections."
"Analysis shows Biden-winning counties were three times more likely to get funding from the organizations than Trump ones, and the Democrats were reportedly given a significant boost in key swing states through promotion of practices that have typically favored their vote tally, such as mail-in voting," the report confirmed.
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Gov. Tim Walz's ban on faithful Christians from teaching in Minnesota's public is set to hit the state's schools in just months.
It also bans adherent Jews and Muslims.
And a report at the Federalist warns that he is "poised to make similar bigoted, totalitarian and unconstitutional policies" for the entire nation, "should he be elected vice president."
The report from the publication's executive editor, Joy Pullmann, explains the state has new teacher licensing rules that will take effect in July 2025, and they will "ban practicing Christians, Jews, and Muslims from teaching in public schools."
It's because under the plans of the leftist governor, the state will demand that teacher license applicants "affirm transgenderism and race Marxism."
No license? No job for anyone to teach in the state's public schools. Or private schools if they require that certification.
Specifically, the rules will demand: "The teacher fosters an environment that ensures student identities such as race/ethnicity, national origin, language, sex and gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical/developmental/emotional ability, socioeconomic class, and religious beliefs are historically and socially contextualized, affirmed, and incorporated into a learning environment where students are empowered to learn and contribute as their whole selves."
Administrative law judges already have approved the anti-faith ideologies.
The report pointed out that universities also are impacted because they must now provide the anti-Christian training.
The state already was demanding that teachers, renewing licenses, demonstrate "cultural competency," which includes evidence of "self-reflection and discussion" of the state's new ideologies.
Doug Seaton, of the Upper Midwest Law Center, said some "Christian" universities will obey, and others will not, but will disobey "quietly," to sue only when they are punished.
The report pointed out, "Faithful members of the world's largest and oldest religions cannot in good conscience 'affirm' non-heterosexual sexual orientations and gender identities. Christians who do so publicly deny their faith, something Jesus Christ said endangers a person's soul and eternal bliss after death: 'Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven' (Matthew 10:32, 33)."
The state action actually is called "compelled speech," the report noted, which "is clearly unconstitutional."
Seaton said, "They're essentially requiring people to affirm these ideas that they don't really believe, in many cases, as a condition of being a public school teacher or being part of a program to be a licensed public school teacher. You can't force that kind of speech, you can't require adherence to ideas that aren't believed."
The Federalist report noted an investigation by the Wall Street Journal found that "ethnic studies" demands in Minnesota "mirror" the demands for affirming sexual deviations.
For example, the report said, "Fourth-graders must 'identify the processes and impacts of colonization and examine how discrimination and the oppression of various racial and ethnic groups have produced resistance movements.' High-school students are told to 'develop an analysis of racial capitalism' and 'anti-blackness' and are taught to view themselves as members of 'racialized hierarchies' based on 'dominant European beauty standards.'"
A Child Protection League analysis notes the state demands teachers "understand" that teaching is shaped by race and ethnicity, to the detriment of some "races," and that those include indigenous people, blacks, "Latinx Americans" and others.
A state lawmaker earlier condemned the "horrific chaos" Walz has brought to schools by demanding that districts "report student discipline by race and require equal outcomes."
The results could be predicted: the student achievement in the state is plummeting.
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It is just another day in the Kamala Harris campaign for president, having been handpicked by the Democrat party's elite to replace the aging and mentally failing Joe Biden, and it's another flip-flop.
She's already, in pursuit of remaking herself as acceptable to voters, changed her ideologies on fracking, border security, single-payer health care, the confiscation of "assault" weapons, earning herself the "Kamala chameleon" nickname.
Now, even though she blasted Trump's work to build a wall along the southern border to cut down on illegal aliens entering from Mexico as "waste of taxpayer money," and a "medieval vanity project," it apparently isn't quite that bad.
Actually, hundreds of millions of dollars in materials that President Trump has assembled for border-wall construction were abandoned and have been sitting unused in piles ever since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office.
Harris' "flip-flop" was confirmed at the party's convention, when she said she would sign a bipartisan border security bill that ultimately failed.
A statement from the Trump campaign noted, "As a senator, she tried to block President Trump's construction of the border wall. And as Border Czar, Kamala Harris halted construction of the border wall. Maybe if Kamala Harris sat down for an interview she could explain her views on the border wall, until then we can only look to her record of supporting open borders."
Over recent years she's uttered wild claims including that the wall is Trump's "medieval vanity project" and won't stop smugglers from moving drugs and humans into the U.S. It's also, to her, "a complete waste of taxpayer money."
Taking aim at Harris for the shifting sands on which her policies appear based, Heritage Action for America Executive Vice President Ryan Walker said, "Kamala Harris' newfound support for the border wall is the latest flip-flop of many in her fledgling campaign, which just goes to show she's a phony that will do anything to get in power."
He said she clearly wants to disaffiliate from the "Biden-Harris administration's historically awful record."
The Daily Caller explained now Harris is in support of plans to spend "hundreds of millions" to be spent on more construction, a major project put into motion by Trump.
It added, "The flip-flop on the border is the latest instance of Harris and her team distancing the vice president from left-wing positions she previously endorsed, such as banning fracking and supporting a Medicare-for-All health care system."
"Kamala's RECORD proves she is pro-open border. She called the wall 'un-American,' a 'waste of taxpayer money,' 'medieval,' and said it isn't going to 'stop' illegal immigration," explained Karoline Leavitt, press secretary for the Trump campaign.
When Biden and Harris took office, they immediately, on the first day, canceled a long list of border security efforts launched by Trump, including the wall construction.
Since then, millions of illegal aliens have entered the U.S.
The New York Post said Trump supporters immediately started "calling out" Harris for her flip-flop.
"What is that in this ad?" Mike Howell, executive director of the conservative Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project, said on X. "Looks like the @realDonaldTrump BORDER WALL to me!"
Another commenter noted: "Hey Kamala Harris I thought 'walls' are racist? You and Biden stopped building a wall. Now you use it in your campaign video?" one wrote.
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Housing security programs that limit options for criminals are unfair, target minorities, and must be dismantled, according to the Biden-Harris Department of Justice.
Kristen Clarke, the controversial appointee who got into trouble after falsely claiming to the U.S. Senate she never had been arrested, deliberately omitting her record from a domestic disturbance, claims programs that aim to keep crime out of housing developments are wrong.
A report from Judicial Watch explains the Biden-Harris duo is "threatening – and has sued – local governments and law enforcement agencies across the country "that have implemented measures to curb an epidemic of crime, drugs and gang violence in rental properties."
The programs, Clarke has claimed, penalize communities of color and that's unfair.
"The popular laws, enacted by thousands of cities nationwide are commonly known as 'crime-free' and 'nuisance' programs that restrict housing based on criminal and arrest records and punish landlords and tenants with excessive calls to police and emergency services or those engaged in criminal activity," the report said.
"To improve living conditions in mainly low-income rentals 2,000 cities across 48 states have adopted crime-free and nuisance policies," the report noted.
But Clarke's DOJ claims they are "discriminatory."
"Even when well-intentioned, these programs can disrupt lives, force families into homelessness and result in loss of jobs, schooling and opportunities for people who are disproportionately low-income people of color – all in violation of federal law," Clarke has claimed.
"These programs can also discourage people with disabilities and their loved ones from seeking help during a mental health crisis and prevent victims of domestic violence from seeking the protection they desperately need."
She's promised the federal government, using taxpayer funding, will keep up its fight over such programs
The DOJ actually also added some bragging, noting that several cities have had to pay up under its prosecutions, for things including civil penalties, damages and lawyers' fees.
The report cited Hesperia, California, which changed its practices and paid some $1 million after the DOJ sued.
"Faribault, Minnesota doled out nearly $700,000 to settle its federal case and is prohibited from enforcing the types of criminal history that may be considered by private landlords when screening tenants. Bedford, Ohio repealed its laws after dishing out a $350,000 monetary award. Hemet, California got rid of its measures and was forced to create a $200,000 remediation fund. Anoka, Minnesota made "substantial program amendments" and paid $175,000 to settle with the DOJ," the report said.
A massive Second Amendment-based legal victory was handed down last week by a federal judge regarding a machine gun-related case.
According to MSNBC, a federal judge appointed by former President Donald Trump tossed out criminal charges for machine gun possession in a case involving the prosecution of Tamori Morgan.
Morgan had been charged with two counts of possessing a machine gun under federal law.
The Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge John Broomes quashed the charges, citing both the Second Amendment and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, scoring a potentially massive victory for gun rights activists.
Fighting for their innocence, Morgan argued that the charges should be thrown out on Second Amendment grounds. They cited the Bruen ruling issued by the high court in 2022 as the basis for their defense.
Morgan and their attorney were successful in that argument, as Broomes dismissed the charges.
A machine gun possession charge was dismissed by a district court in Kansas yesterday on Second Amendment grounds.
The court found that machine guns are clearly bearable arms, and in this case at least, the government failed to show a historical tradition to justify their ban. pic.twitter.com/tCou5USFmE
— Kostas Moros (@MorosKostas) August 22, 2024
MSNBC noted:
The Kansas federal judge wrote that in Morgan’s case, the government failed to meet its burden “to demonstrate through historical analogs that regulation of the weapons at issue in this case are consistent with the nation’s history of firearms regulation.”
The ruling could have a nationwide, profound effect if the government doesn't ultimately win the case on appeal, which some believe is somewhat likely to happen.
MSNBC added:
The vast implications of Broomes’ ruling might not be fully realized if the government gets it reversed on appeal. The judge noted that the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Kansas and neighboring states, had yet to apply Bruen to the law at issue in Morgan’s case.
Users across social media had plenty of reactions to the bombshell Second Amendment ruling.
"Absolutely amazing to see a court actually got this right! We'll see if it holds up through appeals and scotus, I guess," one X user wrote.
Another X user wrote, "Another massive win made possible by President Trump."
Many are hoping the conservative majority Supreme Court will ultimately rule in Morgan's favor, as the case could very likely end up there when the dust settles.
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Those people who have sustained brain injuries and are hospitalized in an unresponsive state sometimes provide the biggest puzzles in health care.
Sometimes their condition is a result of an accident, or injury, and sometimes it may come about because of a heart attack or stroke.
There are no strict rules for such cases as some patients live for years and then die without returning to consciousness, while others spring suddenly awake after weeks or even months in what appears to be a coma.
Stunningly, there are those who die from deliberate actions, starvation and the deprivation of fluids, as doctors and family give up on them.
But those suffering those conditions may be more cognizant that many realize.
A report from the Christian Institute in the United Kingdom explains, "Researchers have demonstrated that a quarter of patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) can follow simple commands cognitively. In an international study of 241 brain injury patients, 60 performed 'a cognitive task' as detected on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) scans."
There are an estimated 25,000 such patients in U.K. hospitals and homes, the report said.
"Some patients with severe brain injury do not appear to be processing their external world. However, when they are assessed with advanced techniques such as task-based fMRI and EEG, we can detect brain activity that suggests otherwise," said study author Yelena Bodien.
She continued, "These results bring up critical ethical, clinical, and scientific questions, such as how can we harness that unseen cognitive capacity to establish a system of communication and promote further recovery?"
The report warns of horrific consequences, such as withholding food and water or withdrawal of life support, and cited the case of U.K. teenager Jack Dolan, left in an apparent vegetative state following an accident, who rallied after his life support was removed.
Jack's stepfather, David Dolan, explained in the report, "Jack is blowing everything doctors said out the water. He is moving his arms, wiggling his toes, holding eye contact and, while in pain with belly ache, looked his mum in the eye and said 'help.'"
A report at the Independent explains the study monitored brain activity while patients were told to imagine opening and closing your hand or imagine playing tennis.
The report said experts believe now there is "an ethical obligation to engage with these patients, to try to help them connect to the world."
Chicago experienced dozens of shootings with several of them fatal during the Democratic National Convention, the Washington Times reported. It followed a bloody weekend leading up to the convention as the party that made the Windy City so dangerous turned out to celebrate its presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris.
The DNC lasted from August 19 to 22, culminating Thursday night with Harris' official nomination. However, outside the convention center and all of its splendor was a bloodbath that is par for the course in the Democrat-controlled city.
Even as President Joe Biden spoke about a recent in national crimes nationally on the first night of the convention, there were eight shootings, four of which were fatal in Chicago. There was also an armed robbery as Democrats convened in the city.
The next night brought an aggravating battery shooting and 12 victims from a total of five more shootings. The third night was just as bloody, with a stabbing as well as nine shootings impacting 13 victims, including one fatality.
The weekend before the convention also brought violence and death in a troubling trend for the city. Although estimates varied about the actual number of victims, WLS-TV reported at least 30 shootings, with five fatalities as preparations were underway at the United Center.
One of those included a 17-year-old who died at an area hospital after being wounded in the stomach and back, according to WTTW-TV. He and a 16-year-old were shot Saturday night as they stood on a porch in a residential neighborhood.
This comes after a summer of violence, including a bloody July 4th weekend when 109 people were shot, with 19 of them fatally wounded, the New York Post reported. Police were out in force for the convention that championed the Democratic Party, which only a few years ago denigrated law enforcement.
"Our officers are out there. They're out there. They're highly visible," Chicago Police Department Superintendent Larry Snelling said Monday, according to Fox News.
"And we have officers not only along the corridors downtown, in and around the venues of the Democratic National Convention, but also in our neighborhoods to continue to protect our people who are living in areas that are the most vulnerable. Our officers are protecting the entire city," Snelling added.
Judging from the wake of the destruction their policies leave, it's clear that Democrats are the party of chaos and disorder. Besides the normal crime in Chicago, Democrats also drew anti-Isreal protesters on the fourth day of the convention.
As Fox News reported, several protesters waved Palestinian flags, clashed with counterprotesters, and taunted police. "You guys are the ones with guns!" one of the protestors shouted at the police.
Just like with crime, Democrats are attempting to play both sides of the issue in the war between Israel and Hamas. While trying to court anti-Israel groups, the party sidled up to Israel at the convention by snubbing a pro-Palestine speaker, The Hill reported.
Although Democrats accuse former President Donald Trump of being divisive, they are the ones who routinely sow chaos and discord with their policies. Whether it is support against America's allies or abolishing police, Democrats do the exact thing that will bring misery and social decay every time.
It's the same reason Chicago was in shambles as the Democratic Party showcased its platform and politicians. Ironically, they made their case for the White House in a place full that shows their policies only bring violence, death, and civil unrest.