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The ripples from Joe Biden's outlandish – and outrageous – suggestion his uncle, lost in a plane crash during World War II, was eaten by cannibals on New Guinea, continue to spread.
And not in a good way.
Biden, 81, who has a well-earned reputation for verbal stumbles, flubs and blunders, this week claimed, "He got shot down in New Guinea, and they never found the body because there used to be a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea."
Actually records show the uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, was lost when the airplane in which he was a passenger, lost power and crashed into the ocean in that region.
Biden's claims since have been the subject of widespread debunking and ribald talk-show levity.
Now the Daily Mail is documenting that academics in Papua New Guinea are not amused by Biden's claims.
The report said, "Outraged Papua New Guinea academics have slammed President Joe Biden for his 'unacceptable' suggestion that his uncle was eaten by cannibals in the country after his plane was shot down during World War II."
It continued, "Historically, cannibalism has been reported Papua New Guinea, the Pacific nation that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, but local academics say Biden's categorization of the act is 'very offensive.'"
Michael Kabuni, described in the report as a political science lecturer at the University of Papua New Guinea, explained to The Guardian cannibalism existed, but in very specific contexts.
They "wouldn't just eat any white men that fell from the sky," the report said.
Others charged Biden's comments were "unsubstantiated and poorly judged" and "unacceptable."
The report noted economics lecturer Maholopa Laveil agreed with Kabuni, explaining Bien was painting the island "in a bad light."
"PNG has already had a lot of negative press around riots and tribal fighting and this doesn't help, and [the claims are] unsubstantiated," he said.
WND has reported that among many of Biden's tall tales, this one ranks among the tallest.
Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley noted that Biden "has been long accused of false stories that have ranged from an invented arrest with Nelson Mandela to a zombie-like train conductor." But he said the new one "stood out."
"President Biden suggested that his uncle Ambrose 'Bozey' Finnegan may have been eaten by cannibals in World War II. What is striking about this story is the specificity of the key facts … and the fact that they are entirely false (other than his uncle dying near New Guinea)."
Turley did the research and reported the facts: "The more glaring problem is that Bozey was not flying a plane and was not shot down. It was not a single engine plane but a Douglas A-20 Havoc with two Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior 9-cylinder radial engines. He was not the pilot but a passenger on a plane. (Indeed, he was not referenced in the official report as a pilot but a staffer at the Headquarters of the Fifth Air Force). The plane had mechanical problems and crashed near New Guinea. He did not disappear in a sea of cannibals but the actual sea when he and other passengers failed to get out of the wreckage."
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Next Friday, April 26, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to accept the case of 38 Defense Department military chaplains who are challenging Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s implementation and enforcement of the Biden administration’s 2021 COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
WND spoke to Chaplain Milton Corby (a pseudonym), one of 38 chaplains in Alvarado v. Austin who filed a petition with the Supreme Court to challenge the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ dismissal of their claims for an injunction against continued retaliation for requesting religious accommodation, as well as the district court’s dismissal of their constitutional and statutory claims.
Corby spoke to WND using a pseudonym because of concern over reprisals.
Arthur A. Schulcz Sr., a retired Vietnam War veteran and lead attorney for the case, told WND the chaplains on March 21 filed an application for injunctive relief with the Supreme Court, asking the high court to protect them from the Defense Department’s continuing retaliatory actions for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine due to their religious objection.
On April 26, the Supreme Court will make the decision to stay, or pause, the policies that have continued to impact chaplains like Corby.
"It’s important for the Supreme Court to pick up our case," Corby told WND, "because the Department of Defense has been picking and choosing winners and losers, deciding which religious accommodation they want to accept and which to deny." While serving as an Army chaplain for over 10 years, he has helped process religious accommodations not only for Christians, but for Jews, Muslims, paganists and others.
To that end, he said, "I am not there to proselytize, but rather fulfill my oath to the U.S. Constitution – to protect and advocate for the free exercise of religion [of all service members regardless of their religion]."
"The free exercise of religion is supposed to be protected and the government is not allowed to pick winners and losers regarding which religious beliefs it accepts and which ones it does not," he said. "If one group loses its protections, then no group is safe from losing their protections."
According to the chaplains' lawsuit, "The Department of Defense didn’t play by their own rules while strictly enforcing the mandate." Varying within each branch of service, there are regulations in place that allow for the religious objection to specific issues, but these were not followed, Corby explained.
For this reason, he told WND, "SCOTUS [should] take our case because the Secretary of Defense’s mandate defied the religious conscience of thousands who were subsequently denied accommodation for their sincerely held religious beliefs."
"In order to keep a job, or gain promotion," Corby said, "thousands felt as if they had to violate deeply held religious beliefs." He added, "The widespread denial of religious accommodation to the shot does not exhibit the free exercise of religion guaranteed to us by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution."
Schulcz explained to WND how fitness reports retaliating against chaplains for exercising those rights remain in their records despite Congress's specific protections for chaplains adhering to their conscience and Congress’s order to remove such adverse actions – which, he said, "DOD deliberately ignores."
If the Supreme Court refuses to hear the case, Corby will consider it "an erosion of one of our most basic, constitutionally guaranteed freedoms." Schulcz agreed, adding that the court’s message would suggest "forbidden retaliation is acceptable."
If SCOTUS does accept the case, Corby said, "it will pave the way for future chaplains to come into service with solid precedent protecting the nation’s constitutionally held freedoms." Again, Schulcz agreed.
"Brave people had to stand up and say the Department of Defense was wrong," Corby said. "If DOD had it their way, they would purge us."
Uncertain promotion
The 2021 military vaccine mandate, insisted Corby, should never have been implemented and enforced as it was during the coronavirus pandemic, and at the very least, should have allowed for any service member to claim religious objection to it.
"Religious accommodation is supposed to be different for everyone because every individual is different," he explained. "Every person was supposed to have the right to file a religious accommodation, and each accommodation was supposed to either stand or fall on its own on its own merits – but that didn’t happen."
Thousands of religious accommodations were either blanketly denied or ignored. In January 2023, the military vaccine mandate was rescinded, due to Congress passing the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act. And according to Corby and Schulcz, if the Secretary of Defense Austin had his way, the COVID mandate would still exist.
Prior to the enforcement of the mandate, Corby had superior ratings on Officer Evaluation Reports, or OERs. After objecting to the COVID vaccine, reports began to reflect a downgrade to a lower rating, which were intentionally accompanied by "blandly written comments," he said. Schulcz emphasized, "That is clearly retaliation for a protected right."
"The lower rating and bland comments made clear to any promotion board that I should not be considered for promotion," Corby told WND. Because he remained unvaccinated, like many other service members, he was also denied the ability to relocate with a "permanent change of station," or PCS, from his location to another, as his orders were revoked only due to his vaccination status.
After his PCS was re-instituted, Corby was finally able to move to his current location. Under new command, he began to receive higher ratings for his service. However, with the previous disparaging OER’s in his permanent file, all for exercising his religious rights, he questions whether he will be given the opportunity to be promoted to a higher rank. "I’m not sure how any future board will look at me," he told WND.
"That is why a judicial decree is essential," Schulcz argued.
Corby emphasized that his views do not reflect those of the Department of Defense or the Department of the Army. The DOD did not respond to WND’s requests for comment.
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The Palestinian Authority has lashed out angrily at the United States after it stymied the PA's attempted end-run around Israel and the peace-seeking process for the Middle East by having the United Nations issue a unilateral declaration.
A report from MorningStar Online said the PA accused the U.S. of "blatant aggression" against peace.
It rejected, in the U.N.'s security council, a resolution demanding that Palestine become a full member of the world body.
A dozen nations approved it, but not the U.S. Further, Britain and Switzerland abstained.
The PA has been an "observer" since 2012, but does not vote.
"Unfair, unethical and unjustified" is how the office of PA chief Mahmoud Abbas slammed America's decision.
He claimed that the action would push "the region ever further to the edge of the abyss."
In fact, terrorists from Hamas, based in Gaza, unleashed atrocities on Israeli civilians last fall, killing some 1,200, including hundreds attending a music festival.
Israel has since begun a military campaign to end that terror threat.
Palestinian UN ambassador Riyad Mansour said that the "state of Palestine" is inevitable.
U.S. deputy ambassador Robert Wood explained Washington supports a two-state solution in the Middle East, but any change in the current status needs to be part of a negotiated settlement with Israel, not imposed by outsiders on Israel.
Reuters reported the U.S. veto stopped action on the pro-Palestinian move.
Israel's ambassador, Gilad Erdan, explained Palestinians failed to meet the criteria to become a full U.N. member, which he outlined as: a permanent population, defined territory, government, and capacity to enter relations with other states.
He charged, "Who is the council voting to 'recognize' and give full membership status to? Hamas in Gaza? The Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Nablus? Who?"
The Palestinians are demanding their own state, including the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip, which all were territories captured by Israel in 1967 when it fought off a determined attack my multiple Arab neighbors.
The New York Sun reported just days before the vote Israel's envoy said that the PA's request would reward "evil."
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Hitler was the worst. Ever.
Not that Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong were lightweights when it came to killing, both having been assigned responsibility for the deaths of millions, too.
But when mass murder is mentioned, many in the civilized world today think Hitler, who, in fact, ordered the deaths of millions of innocents, and not just Jews.
So labeling someone a "Hitler" means that they are the worst.
And when the epithet "pig" is added, it suggests not just "evil" but "dirty" and "evil."
Which is what some Democrats have decided to use to reference President Donald Trump.
A report in the New York Post explains, "White House staffers and campaign aides first started using the term after Trump dined with rapper Kanye West and notorious Holocaust skeptic and white nationalist Nick Fuentes at his Mar-a-Lago estate two days before Thanksgiving in 2022," Politico reported.
The report noted the response often follows what some consider outlandish comments from Trump.
"Hey, did you see what Hitler Pig said?" Biden aides will say in those situations, the report said.
"Why do Biden and other top Democrats continually compare Donald Trump to Hitler, and not only that, but also slander his supporters as Nazis and fascists?" asks author and WND Vice President and Managing Editor David Kupelian. "They do it because, if Trump really were another Hitler, and if Christian conservatives really were Nazis and fascists, then all the normal rules of society – all laws, all moral standards, all boundaries – would vanish, which is exactly how the radical Left likes things: No rules.
"Of course," he adds, "their premise is insane: Adolf Hitler murdered 11 million people, Donald Trump murdered zero. Yet in their minds, they’re in a war against Hitler. In which case it becomes not only morally permissible – but a moral imperative – for them to daily lie, bribe, steal, censor, rig elections and much more, if doing so enables them to get rid of Hitler and save millions of innocent lives."
"Trump campaign adviser Chris LaCivita argued that the nickname is more of a reflection of the White House staffers that use it," the Post reported.
"[Politico] thinks this is funny it’s actually more a representation of what a rag they’ve become and the level of s–t that works in the White House 'Hitler Pig,'" he wrote on X.
A report in Politico said, "that moniker," is "one that aides to and allies of the president – generally younger, more digitally native individuals, not senior staffers, one person clarified – frequently use to describe Trump."
The publication's own reporting confirmed that Biden is "often far saltier" about President Trump behind closed doors. And none of the report's sources expect Biden to start using "Hitler Pig" right away.
"According to the four people who were granted anonymity to speak to West Wing Playbook about the term’s usage in Biden world, it started in late 2022 after Trump invited NICK FUENTES, an avowed white nationalist and Holocaust denier, to dinner at Mar-a-Lago along with the rapper KANYE WEST."
"Joe Biden talks a lot about decency, but he and his staff don’t have a decent bone in their bodies," said Brian Hughes, a senior campaign adviser for Trump. “These ridiculous and gross comments reflect the failure and dishonesty of the entire Biden operation."
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The chief of the FBI is warning that China already has "burrowed" into critical infrastructure in the United States and now is just waiting for "the right moment to deal a devastating blow."
The FBI's Christopher Wray said in a Reuters report that an ongoing hacking campaign, known already as Volt Typhoon, has gained access to American telecommunications, energy, water and other companies, including pipeline operators.
Wray charged China is assembling the "ability to physically wreak havoc on our critical infrastructure at a time of its choosing. … Its plan is to land low blows against civilian infrastructure to try to induce panic."
The report explained, "Wray said it was difficult to determine the intent of this cyber pre-positioning which was aligned with China's broader intent to deter the U.S. from defending Taiwan."
That is a fast-developing conflict that has the potential to draw the United States into a fight on the other side of the globe. China claims it owns Taiwan, while Taiwan says its own people will decide their future.
China has suggested that Volt Typhoon has nothing to do with the government but is a criminal ransomware group.
WND has reported several times on the threat of China infiltrating and damaging American infrastructure.
In February, it was the Epoch Times that reported on CISA documentation that the Communist regime is installing "malware" in key U.S. systems in preparation for the chance that there would be a major conflict.
"A Feb. 7 advisory released by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) seeks 'to warn critical infrastructure organizations' about China’s attempts to infiltrate, disrupt, and destroy vital U.S. facilities," explained a report in the Epoch Times.
CISA warned, "[Chinese] state-sponsored cyber actors are seeking to pre-position themselves on IT networks for disruptive or destructive cyberattacks against U.S. critical infrastructure in the event of a major crisis or conflict with the United States."
That threatening computer code would be intended "to launch destructive cyber-attacks that would jeopardize the physical safety of Americans and impede military readiness," the agency warning said.
The report noted a week earlier, 'intelligence experts confirmed the U.S. already had removed Chinese malware from more than 600 computer systems linked to 'critical U.S. infrastructure.'"
A report about that same time frame said China was capable of launching cyberattacks against critical United States infrastructure, including oil and gas pipelines as well as rail systems, based on the discovery of a Chinese hacking group reaching into various networks.
And report from late last year said China's threat included schemes to disrupt power and water supplies, communications and even transportation.
Experts quoted by the Washington Post explained that hackers linked to China's People's Liberation Army already have succeeded in breaching "the computer systems of about two dozen critical entities over the past year."
The goal, the report describes, is to find ways to "sow panic and chaos or snarl logistics in the event of a U.S.-China conflict in the Pacific."
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Congress has the constitutional right and authority to investigate the possible reasons for impeaching Joe Biden, and his refusal to answer questions actually provides further impeachable offenses to investigate.
That's according to House Oversight Chairman James Comer, who commented on the refusal by the White House to respond to congressional questions.
"[The] White House’s continued hostility towards Congress's prerogative to investigate these matters constitutes obstruction and contempt of Congress – which are themselves impeachable offenses," he informed the White House in a letter.
A report from Just the News explained Comer's comments came after Biden refused an invitation from Congress to answer questions about the issues being investigated.
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Joe Biden insists that transgender treatments, the chemicals, the hormones, the surgical mutilations, are just more "health" care.
His advocacy while in the White House has raised the profile of the industry and its impact on its victims.
But some of the worst atrocities just now are coming to light, including the testimony from a whistleblower that patients of a children's gender clinic were "begging to have body parts put back on."
It is Fox News that reported on the comments from a children's gender clinic whistleblower who appeared on a daytime television talk show.
The whistleblower, Jamie Reed, who used to work at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital, wrote an expose last year calling such treatments "morally and medically appalling."
The report noted Reed, "who is queer and married to a transgender person herself," explained what changed her ideas on the subject.
"Several things. We started to see patients who were experiencing very significant medical harm being rushed to the emergency room with lacerations requiring stitches. We had patients contact us who were begging to have body parts put back on within months of having surgeries."
She continued, "The thing that kept happening is every time I would raise concerns and ask about the protocols and ask about the guidelines – this is just how the industry works, if a child says they're trans there's no questioning it. We just say, 'Yep, you're trans, what would you like?'"
Multiple studies have documented that nearly all of the children who experience gender dysphoria during their early years resolve those conflicts and live ordinary lives as their birth sex – if they are not influenced by those promoting the extremism.
Reed worked with children at that clinic.
"You're telling me that a 12- or 13-year-old, who can't decide which pajamas to wear, can come in and say, 'I've decided that I want to transition,' and with no more than a couple of hours or two visits – not even a couple of hours, two visits – they say 'Okay, start taking this, start doing this,' which alters their biochemistry in a way that you can't come back from?" show host Dr. Phil wondered.
Reed: "Correct."
The ideology has boomed under Biden's presidency, during which he has insisted its "health care," must be normalized throughout the federal government and even promoted overseas.
Reed was blunt: "Doctors are acting like they're God when it comes to medically transitioning children."
"I saw a young person who was begging to have their breasts put back on after having surgery, we were encouraged not to make a big deal out of it and not to tell other families. I couldn't continue to be silent on it."
Many prominent figures now are seeking investigations into trans clinics after a flood of heart-wrenching stories from those who adopted the agenda, but now are "detransitioning." Some of those even have taken those who "treated" them to court for damages.
The Washington University clinic already is under investigation by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
At one time, dealers who sold illegal, and addictive, drugs like heroin were called "pushers," as that's what they did with their lethal wares.
Now that label apparently can be applied to China, according to a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.
A report from Just the News documented a new congressional report that confirmed, and provided details of, the Chinese Communist Party's role in pushing the fentanyl crisis that is infecting multiple nations, including the U.S.
The report revealed the Chinese government "subsidizes the manufacturing and export of fentanyl materials and refuses to crack down on the illicit market."
The report is from the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and coincided with a hearing that included former Attorney General Bill Barr, former DEA Chief of Operations Ray Donovan, and others.
"And yes, it wants more dead Americans," he charged.
The Chinese government claims it is cracking down on drugs, but actually, the committee warned, it is giving Value-Added Tax rebates that "incentivized" the sales of at least 17 illegal narcotics.
Just the News noted, "These rebates alone may have had a significant impact on the amount of fentanyl and fentanyl-like substances exported abroad, specifically to the United States. Studies cited by the committee found that for every percentage point increase in the VAT rebate for a product, exports increased by 13%."
The report said the evidence revealed China not only subsidizing the narcotics trade but providing grants to companies that trafficked fentanyl.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr called the scandalous details "eye-opening."
"The committee’s work has uncovered persuasive evidence that the PRC and CCP are not just bystanders; they are the prime movers. They are knee deep in actively sponsoring, encouraging, and facilitating the production and export of fentanyl and fentanyl precursors for distribution in the United States," he said.
A report in the Daily Mail called the House documentation "damning" of Chinese leaders and their support for a drug culture.
The Mail said, "America suffered more than 111,000 overdose deaths in the year to April 2023 — more than 70 percent of them due to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, says the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
The report noted that in light of Chinese verbal commitments to fight drugs, and the evidence of the promotions, questions are raised about whether Beijing can be trusted.
Barr suggested part of the solution could be victims bringing civil actions companies and individuals involved in the drug trade.
Fentanyl is so strong that even a minor overdose can be lethal.
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“There is nothing the political establishment will not do, and no lie they will not tell to hold on to their prestige and power at your expense. The Washington establishment, and the financial and media corporations that fund it, exists for only one reason: to protect and enrich itself.”
That was Donald J. Trump speaking the most forbidden truth of all, just days before the historic November 2016 election that, to the dismay of the “Washington establishment,” made the brash billionaire outsider America’s 45th president.
Today, as the nation approaches a truly life-or-death election, it is coming to light that an extraordinary revolution has been secretly taking place in the United States of America under everyone’s noses – a revolution that could largely determine the outcome of November's election.
Consider the undeniable truth that not only Donald Trump but also the tens of millions of decent, law-abiding, America-loving citizens who intend to vote for him this November, somehow inspire unending fear and loathing throughout the Washington, D.C. ruling class. That would include not only the ever-more-deranged Democratic Party and the entire “mainstream media” (today a virtual clone of the former Soviet Union’s fake news organs Pravda and Izvestia, which published only official government propaganda), but also the “Deep State,” the permanent federal government bureaucracy that remains – and grows ever larger, like “The Blob” in the classic horror film – regardless of which party is currently “in power.”
One key part of this gargantuan permanent bureaucracy, which operates largely in darkness, has recently been dragged into the light, exposing its hidden but central role in the censorship and silencing of all who oppose the Deep State and its increasingly totalitarian agenda. That highly influential entity, about which most people know very little, is the federal defense/foreign-policy establishment widely referred to within the Capital Beltway simply as … “The Blob.”
Recently, former Trump State Department official Mike Benz, who currently serves as executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, turned whistleblower and dramatically went public with exactly how the Western defense and foreign policy establishment has been turned against America, the Bill of Rights, and democracy itself.
This massive bureaucracy headed up by the Central Intelligence Agency, explains Benz, literally funded and developed the technology years ago that enabled internet free speech – and then encouraged dissident groups worldwide to use that new free-speech capability to organize and network with other patriots and help them overthrow oppressive regimes.
Yet incredibly, says Benz, the CIA has in more recent times turned against the concept of free speech – at least, when it comes to what it considers dangerous and subversive groups within America! Some of the most “dangerous” groups include conservatives, Republicans, constitutionalists, “MAGA” Trump supporters, and politically active Christians.
One of the chief pretexts for this suppression of domestic speech has been the claim that supposedly subversive domestic groups and individuals were spreading “Russian disinformation,” which of course was a key focal point for the years-long near-destruction of Trump’s presidency. As it turned out, of course, the claim that Trump “colluded with the Russians” was not only definitively proven to be entirely false; it was created (and the damning “Trump dossier” actually paid for) by the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, who did collude big-time with the Russians.
Nevertheless, the claim that Donald Trump somehow had been ushered into the presidency by Russia – and the corollary accusation that virtually anyone defending Trump was a “Putin ally” – defamed and marginalized good people for years.
Not just ‘Putin allies,’ but ‘domestic terrorists’ too
Normal Americans have long wondered how and why law-abiding citizens – including, for example, parents who would stand up and speak their minds at school board meetings to complain about teachers brainwashing their children with Marxist propaganda – could be maligned by the Biden administration as “violent extremists” and possible “domestic terrorists.” (Yes, that happened.)
A previously hidden dimension to this surreal spectacle of branding regular Americans as “terrorists” has now emerged, and it has to do with “The Blob.”
The vast foreign-policy establishment (Pentagon, CIA, State Department, etc.) seemingly was on the right track when promoting internet free speech to democratic resistance movements in other countries – perhaps the most memorable example being the “Arab Spring” in 2010-2012. Dissident groups were aided in throwing off tyrannical regimes by being enabled to communicate, strategize, and organize via social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Internet free speech was helping freedom-loving peoples around the world throw off oppressive ruling regimes.
Sounds good, but even that didn’t always work out so well. William J. Burns, the current CIA director since 2021, took the time in 2020, when he was out of government, to write an article for The Atlantic, headlined “The Blob Meets the Heartland,” in which he expressed some doubts and misgivings about what the agency had been doing:
For most of my three and a half decades as an American diplomat, the foreign-policy establishment (known unaffectionately in some quarters as “the blob”) took for granted that expansive U.S. leadership abroad would deliver peace and prosperity at home. That assumption was lazy, and often flawed.
Riding the waves of globalization and American geopolitical dominance, we overreached. We deluded ourselves with magical thinking about our capacity to remake other societies, while neglecting the urgent need to remake our own. Unsurprisingly, the disconnect widened between the Washington policy establishment and the citizens it is meant to serve.
Ironically, in light of Burns’ comment about “the citizens” whom the Washington policy establishment “is meant to serve,” it turns out that permanent Washington’s stateside activities took a dark turn shortly before Donald Trump became president.
“The Blob,” which up until 2014 or 2015 had been targeting ISIS and other actual terror groups in foreign nations by facilitating the free speech and activism of freedom-loving dissident groups, somehow determined that within America itself, certain groups of people and certain ideas and speech – including being considered a conduit for “Russian disinformation” – were dangerous and needed to be suppressed, censored and thereby defeated.
So when leftist elites today malign and degrade conservatives, Christians, Republicans, pro-lifers, and MAGA folks as “violent extremists,” “domestic terrorists” or – as Biden called Trump and his supporters in a major speech, “semi-fascists” – this is not simply hyper-partisan election-year name-calling. Somehow, thoroughly decent and law-abiding American citizens, if they oppose the narratives and agendas of the Deep State, are now apparently regarded as the newest ISIS-type threat needing to be suppressed.
How can that possibly be? How can good people ridiculously be likened to “domestic terrorists”? What’s really behind the official government obsession with targeting for censorship large swaths of political and cultural views they label “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and an Orwellian term that never before existed – “misinformation,” defined as “truth used to inflict harm”?
It’s all because, according to the permanent government in Washington, D.C., all of this “mis-,” “dis” and “mal”-information represents a huge threat to … wait for it … “democracy.”
But wait, rational people might respond: Democracy simply means the will of the people! The Oxford Dictionary defines democracy as “a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.” The word democracy itself derives from the Greek words “demos,” meaning people, and “kratos,” meaning power. Democracy is, and always has been, a system wherein the governing power depends on the will of the common people – which is precisely how Americans have always understood the term.
However, in today’s “1984”-style world where, as George Orwell wrote, “War is peace,” “Freedom is slavery,” “Ignorance is strength” and everything means its opposite, “democracy” today has been given an entirely new and precisely opposite definition.
What the Deep State has determined, Benz explained to Tucker Carlson during their epic hour-long February interview, is that “preserving democracy” no longer has anything to do with enabling and honoring the will of American citizens/voters, but rather, it is all about preserving the sanctity of so-called “democratic institutions.”
"And who are the democratic institutions?” Benz asks rhetorically. “Oh, ‘it's us’: It's the military, it's NATO, it's the IMF and the World Bank. It's the mainstream media, it is the NGOs [non-governmental organizations]. And of course, these NGOs are largely State Department-funded or CIA-funded. It's essentially all of the elite establishments” that have felt threatened by “the rise of domestic populism,” Benz explained, and who have “declared their consensus to be the new definition of democracy.”
In light of this new official definition of democracy – which has literally nothing to do with the will of the people – it finally becomes clear what politicians from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to Chuck Schumer and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mean when they continually warn that Donald Trump and his tens of millions of law-abiding, taxpaying, America-loving supporters somehow “threaten our democracy.”
The key word is “our.”
In reality, of course, they loathe true democracy, the idea that “the rabble” might choose their leaders. A shocking new Rasmussen survey shows that when polled, more than two-thirds of America’s wealthiest and most politically engaged elites – 69% – admitted they would be willing to win an election by cheating. That kind of attitude, the willingness to lie, cheat, and steal one’s way into gaining and holding power, helps explain not only the entire “Trump-Russia collusion” hoax, which became a Deep State pretext for censoring and defaming all of Trump’s supporters but also the continual and ever-expanding persecution and mass lawfare campaign directed at Donald Trump himself.
The Washington establishment is described here, which as Trump boldly proclaimed days before the 2016 election, will do anything “to hold on to their prestige and power at your expense,” are not people who believe in “democracy.” Rather, they openly embrace political corruption, oppression, and an explicitly undemocratic ruling system.
But then, just as in the famous horror movie, bad things happen when you encounter “The Blob.”
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
A new report has revealed a real stunner in fourth place among America's leading causes of death: The abortions from Planned Parenthood.
The leading player in the nation's lucrative abortion industry said in its annual 2022-23 report that the corporation ended the lives of nearly 393,000 during a single year.
And SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser quickly pointed out the unwelcome significance of that figure.
"Planned Parenthood’s business is abortion, abortion, and more abortion. Their annual report shocks the conscience, showing that they ended nearly 393,000 American lives in a single year. This puts abortions performed by Planned Parenthood in the top four leading causes of death in the United States, after heart disease, cancer, and COVID-19," she explained.
"Once again, pregnant women who walk into Planned Parenthood are sold an abortion 97% of the time, rather than helped to keep their child or make an adoption plan. Meanwhile, they saw 80,000 fewer patients, provided 60,000 fewer pap tests and breast exams, and even gave out less contraception."
Then she noted how ordinary Americans are forced by Democrats in Washington to subsidize the abortion industry.
"As a reward, Democrats in Washington and the states sent them almost $700 million from the taxpayers – one-third of their revenue – to end the fiscal year with $2.5 billion in net assets. Vice President Kamala Harris even made a campaign stop at a Planned Parenthood abortion center. In turn, their political arm spends more than any other abortion-related group to lobby the federal government against commonsense policies like protecting babies born alive after failed abortions," she said.
Abortion is one of two major agenda points that Biden adopted upon assuming the Oval Office, and he's promoted the industry at every available opportunity. His other campaign goal is transgenderism for children.
Dannenfelser continued, "Planned Parenthood dropped this bombshell report while many Americans are still recovering from tax day. Any family that hasn’t been living under a rock has noticed that necessities get more expensive by the day. We know that 60% of women who’ve had abortions would rather have kept their babies if they just had more emotional or financial support."
The Democrats' response to that problem, however, has been to "demonize and strip funding from pregnancy resource centers that serve women and their children. Bidenomics has turned into abortionomics. Just like their hero Margaret Sanger, their 'solution' to the struggle of families to keep their heads above water is to kill their children and let the abortion industry rake in record profits," she said.
Planned Parenthood is working hard to grow its industry, a scholar from the Charlotte Lozier Institute explained.
Michael New, Ph.D., noted Planned Parenthood’s annual reports "consistently provide solid evidence that Planned Parenthood continues to prioritize abortion."
He said, "Overall, this new report shows that Planned Parenthood performed 392,715 abortions in 2022. This is a record number of abortions for the organization and represents approximately 40 percent of the abortions performed in the United States. The report also indicates that Planned Parenthood continues to cut back on several health services. Between 2022 and 2023, preventive-care visits fell by 31.0 percent, pap tests fell by 13.5 percent, cancer screenings fell by 1.4 percent, and adoption referrals fell by 4.5 percent. Interestingly, for every adoption referral in 2023, Planned Parenthood performed over 228 abortions."
The report confirms Planned Parenthood's results as being "consistent with Planned Parenthood’s long-term trend of performing more abortions and providing fewer health services," he said.
"In fact, in the past ten years, the number of abortions performed by Planned Parenthood has increased by 20 percent. Meanwhile, cancer screenings fell by more than 58 percent, and prenatal services declined by more than 67 percent."
The organization, in preparation for the coming election, has documented online the anti-life agenda of the Biden administration.
For example, it has tried to force doctors and nurses to participate in abortion and has tried to suppress the rights of those who object to the wanton destruction of the unborn.
Biden worked on this by eliminating the HHS Office for Civil Rights, trying to push through Congress an "equality" plan that demands that abortion at any time is a "right," and pushing for the legitimization of the Equal Rights Amendment, which died decades ago for lack of support.
Explains the report, "The profit-seeking abortion industry wants to erase medical safety standards on the abortion pill Mifeprex – and promote dangerous chemical abortions that put women at risk of heavy bleeding, severe infection, and sometimes death."
Biden even has promoted a piece of legislation known by critics as the "Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act," which would give abortion business operators "carte blanche to carry out abortions throughout pregnancy for any reason."
Biden also has worked to block popular legislation that would stop abortion on demand after five months, refused to protect babies who survive abortion attempts, canceled safety rules protecting Americans from dangerous chemical abortions, refused to recognize an existing federal law banning partial-birth abortions, and more.
Biden also has named the most pro-abortion cabinet ever, with his HHS chief, Xavier Becerra, exhibiting just this week for Congress his refusal to say an abortion of a healthy baby the day before a due date should be wrong.
Further, Biden's administration has been aggressive in trying to make changes that would require all Americans to fund the abortion industry's lavish lifestyle.
He even nominated to the Supreme Court Ketanji Jackson, who "maligned pro-life sidewalk counselors … in ugly and false ways."
Biden's DOJ, further, has ignored a long list of vandalisms against pro-life pregnancy centers while jailing those who try to counsel women against abortion outside industry locations.