Reader’s Links for February 7th, 2023

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  1. Ruth Wisse: Free as a Jew

    Ruth R. Wisse was Professor of Yiddish literature and Comparative Literature at Harvard University from 1993–2014 and before that, helped found the Jewish Studies Department at McGill University. Currently a senior fellow at the Tikvah Fund and recipient of its Herzl Prize, she has written widely on cultural and political subjects for the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, National Affairs, and other publications.

    • Prof. Wisse is great. Everything she writes is food for thought. About Holocaust education we agree totally: it’s been a mistake.

      The Dark Side of Holocaust Education
      {In a nutshell}
      Liberal conscription of Holocaust as a moral exemplum was misguided. The destruction of European Jewry was NOT about HATE. It was POLITICS – use of grievance and blame to get power.

      Perils of distortion: “oppression studies” without robust teaching of history. Appropriated for activist agendas.

      Holocaust education serves as a positive model of what can be done to the Jews.

      Wrong lesson: The will to fight for the good can defeat the forces of evil. A peace-loving people that does not train for self-defense will suffer the fate of the Jews of Europe.

      https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-dark-side-of-holocaust-education
      ………….

      Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer comes to the same conclusion:

      Thanks, Whoopi! Why Holocaust Education Is mostly counter-productive

      Shoah education proposes that Jews are easiest to murder without payback, and it makes Jewish youngsters want to escape that fate. Op-ed.

      https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/322256
      ………….

        • At some point it’ll become necessary to establish a Canadian quasi-government in exile.

          The only place that seems practical is Hungary. Where dual citizenship gives built-in legal protection for those who qualify. You need people who can cross borders and communicate as freely as possible for as long as possible. Soros Stooges are everywhere, intelligence agencies will still be on your case, but there’s room to breathe freely in Mr. Orban’s Hungary.

          No formal designation: Interpol would nip it in the bud as a terrorist org. You want to assemble a team of sensible Canadians with experience in relevant fields – law, economics, military, communications, etc. You’ll find yourselves partners with like-minded Canadian-Israelis.

          The a window of opportunity is now.

          Your options will become increasingly limited. Do it while you still control your personal assets, are able to expatriate your loonies. They’ll only continue to shrink before they disappear entirely. Your ability to travel might be curtailed before you know it.

          Why am I saying this?

          – – My father watched Pierre T and wouldn’t let me apply to McGill. He knew a whole lot of stuff, wasn’t keen on me building a future in O, Canada!

          – – I grew up in a community of Jews who either got out of Hitler’s Europe in time, or survived concentration camp and displaced persons camps. (Elie Wiesel was the only professional holocaust-shroud-waver around here.)

          – – Those Refuseniks who didn’t leave the USSR in the first round were unfortunate – the door shut and they were trapped for years. My Russki’s uncle got out; his mother died of cancer waiting for her exit visa.

          – – I had family who fled Castro’s Cuba. They lost everything but it could’ve been much worse. They took a plane; others had to bribe smugglers to get a place on a miserable little boat.

          • Yucki, for precisely the reasons you’ve written this I can’t address it directly. I will say it is absurd until five minutes have passed, and then the absurdity of it melts into something like a picture you’ve seen that can no longer be un-see.

    • Yes Canada is broken thanks to this narcissistic, WEF little puppet, our divider in chief, Justine Trudeau. When in the history of this country has a Prime Minister called Canadians racists, misogynistic, extremist and asked should we “tolerate” the unvaccinated?

      He primed the pump so “ those who were “ vaccinated” were happy to see the “unvaccinated” have basic freedoms removed ( the freedom to speak, freely, work, travel, be with loved ones at important moments such as birth, deaths, funerals, etc.) because their status as “vaccinated” allowed them to accept back as privileges for the “vaccinated” the rights that had been removed from everyone else. i.e. keep their job, go out to eat with friends. They were complicit in the destruction of the most basic rights on which society depends”.

      Justine Trudeau, the “fringe minority Prime Minister with the support of Jagmeet Singh, the leader of the New Democratic/Dole Party managed to divide Canadians, divided families, separated families, devastated lives of Canadians for his “greater good”.

      He is a shameless psychopath.

      • Speaking of “tolerating” Canadians, remember at the town hall in Winnipeg, September 28, 2015 Justine said : “A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian” when speaking about the “new” Canadians from Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran………. who were charged and in prisoned for Terrorism in Canada?

        “A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian”

        “And I’ll give you the quote so that you can jot it down and put it in an attack ad somewhere, that the Liberal Party believes that terrorists should get to keep their Canadian citizenship “ said Justine in an audio recording first reported by CTV news.

        “Because I do. And I’m willing to take on anyone who disagrees with that. Because the question is, as soon as you make citizenship for some Canadians conditional on behaviour, you devalue citizenship for everyone”.

        “Should we “tolerate” them”? Your damn right the unvaccinated, truckers, doctors, nurses, teachers, firemen, healthcare workers, ambulance attendants, police – – anyone who speaks out about tyranny should be tolerated and as soon as you stop, you devalue the citizenship for everyone.

      • Some sayings
        Not the brightest bunny in the bush.
        Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
        Smarter than a bag full of hammers.
        Bullshit baffles brains.
        Bozo’s understudy

    • the epoch times – Canada – Ministers and Departments Spent Over $800,000 on Speechwriters in the Past 3 Years

      Federal departments and their ministers have spent over $800,000 to hire speechwriters in the past three years, according to information tabled in the House of Commons.

      The Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations has been the highest spender for such services, with $142,439 in contracts since 2019. Environment and Climate Change Canada came in second at $134,139.

      The information was provided by departments following a written question by Conservative MP Mike Lake (Edmonton-Wetaskiwin). The response was tabled by the government in an Inquiry of Ministry on Jan. 30.

      Lake sought information on contracts such as dates, providers, and on the specific speeches produced.

      Ministers have used speechwriters when giving addresses to interest groups, but also when they participate in House of Commons debates or testify before committee.

      Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault had his speech written by a contractor when he spoke in the Commons in June 2021 when he was the Heritage minister.

      Guilbeault’s speech was in response to a motion tabled by the Bloc Québécois about Quebec’s constitutional status and the French language, and praised his government’s support of culture in the province.

      “Hand in hand with Quebec, we have developed many of our cultural flagships,” Guilbeault said. The speech cost $765, according to Heritage Canada.

      Guilbeault’ successor, Pablo Rodriguez, paid $487 to a speechwriter to prepare his opening remarks at a Heritage Commons committee in February 2022.

      “You’ve heard me before. I often ask the question, ‘Can you imagine a day without arts, without culture?’ It would be boring. Without theatre, television, movies, books, it would be super boring,” said Rodriguez, addressing pandemic supports to the culture industry.

      Heritage Canada spent $63,980 in speechwriting services from April 2020 to March 31 of this year.

      Some of the speeches and costs for Heritage Canada include $450 for the Pride National Conference, $350 for a virtual cocktail event with the Quebec music industry, and $975 for an Anti-Racism Action Program 2.0 funding announcement.

      Several other ministers have outsourced speeches for parliamentary procedures, such as Public Safety Marco Mendicino.

      Craig Steenburgh is by far the more sought-after speechwriter by federal government departments, receiving over $300,000 during the studied period. Contracts appear under entity names “Craig Steenburgh,” “Steenburgh & Associates,” and “Craig Steenburgh and Associates.”

      Steenburgh’s website says he’s one of Ottawa’s “busiest independent communications writers” and provides a link to a speech he wrote for Queen Elizabeth II in 2007.

      The other top provider of speechwriting services is Marshall-Daigneault & Associates, which received $145,140 in contracts over the period.

      Not all departments resort to outside speechwriters, according to the information provided. The offices of the minister of health and the minister of foreign affairs, for example, say they have not issued any contracts for speechwriting.

      Information about speechwriting for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was marked as not available.

      The information provided by the Privy Council Office says it can hire speechwriters for the Clerk, the Deputy Clerk and unspecified ministers. It spent $18,000 for the period January 2021 to end of fiscal year in March.

      https://www.theepochtimes.com/ministers-and-departments-spent-over-800000-on-speechwriters_5037116.html

      • Um um um well um yeah, we are not talking about brain surgeons here, more like brain dead, no brainiacs here.

  2. 4:20 An important Cunk moment. Consulting with academics, Cunk delves into the wonders of the universe only to discover the profound deficit academics may suffer in fathoming humour, while simultaneously displaying officious superiority, again and again. While not political, it truly nibbles at the heart of today’s humourless collectivist.

    • Developing: Biden White House Has NOT Briefed Gang of 8 Over China Spy Balloon Scandal – THEY’RE SLOW-WALKING THE DETAILS
      By Jim Hoft
      Published February 7, 2023 at 10:45am
      0 Comments

      It’s been a week since the China spy balloon started crossing over Alaska and the continental United States.

      The Biden regime has been aware of the Chinese spy balloon in US air space since Saturday, January 28th.

      The Biden administration initially ignored the threat hoping the balloon would not be detected. But after amateur photographers captured the balloon flying over Montana the Biden White House had to admit they knew about the balloon.

      Now we know that the Biden White House has not briefed the Gang of 8 congressional leaders on the border incursion by the Chinese Communists.

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/developing-biden-white-house-not-briefed-gang-8-china-spy-balloon-scandal-slow-walking-details/

  3. This Was More of a Provocation and a Thumb at Joe Biden Making Him Look Like the Fool that He Is” – Former Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer on China’s Spy Balloon
    By Joe Hoft
    Published February 7, 2023 at 9:00am
    13 Comments

    Former Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaffer discussed the handling of the China spy balloon and his reactions to it.

    Tony Shaffer is a former U.S. Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel who became known for his claims about mishandled intelligence before the September 11 attacks, and for the censoring of his ghost-written book Operation Dark Heart. Shaffer is now the President of the London Center for Policy Research.

    Yesterday, Shaffer joined the Joe Hoft Show on TNTRadio.live to discuss the recent China spy balloon and Biden’s reaction to it.

    Shaffer had a lot to share but here are some key points. Joe Hoft discussed why American companies get their butts handed to them when they deal with China because Americans believe that the Chinese are just like Americans. But the Chinese have a different culture that comes from a different history and rather than allowing less checks and balances, Americans need to demand more.

    At the 29:00 minute mark Shaffer joined the discussion. Shaffer shared the following:

    The Chinese are not a competitor they’re a nation with a long history of working to dominate their neighbors. This goes back literally thousands of years…The Chinese believe our law is older than yours so we have the right to do what we want over what you want.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/provocation-thumb-joe-biden-making-look-like-fool-former-lt-col-tony-shaffer-chinas-spy-balloon/

  4. Elon Musk Identifies Dangerous Player in US Government Censorship and Media Manipulation – Obscure Agency Called the GEC
    By Joe Hoft
    Published February 7, 2023 at 8:15am
    187 Comments

    According to Elon Musk, the entity that led the US government censorship and media manipulation is an obscure agency called the GEC.

    Musk released a Twitter thread on the GEC calling the entity a threat to our democracy.

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    [Think of that – a government entity that is so corrupt that it is a threat to our democracy. It’s like a cancer to its host – America.]

    Musk provided some more info on the GEC. The GEC like the rest of the Deep State blamed everything on Russia.

    [It’s how they address everything that is and holds the truth – President Trump, the Mueller coup, COVID, Hunter Biden’s laptop, etc…]

    Kanekoa tweeted in response to Musk that the DHS, CISA and the State Department (GEC) should not be involved in censoring American citizens. Elon Musk replied in agreement that it would be illegal.

    [But since the DOJ is in on it and part of the transformation of the US to communism, nothing will be done at this time.]

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/elon-musk-identifies-worst-offender-us-government-censorship-media-manipulation-obscure-agency-called-gec/

  5. Mob of Trans Activists and Supporters STORM Oklahoma Capitol – Which Is OK because They Support a Leftist Cause
    By Anthony Scott
    Published February 7, 2023 at 7:45am
    455 Comments

    A large mob of trans activists and supporters recently stormed the Oklahoma Capitol in an attempt to stop Republican lawmakers from passing a bill that would ban gender transitioning surgery for children.

    Videos of the trans activists taking over Oklahoma’s capitol quickly made their way on Twitter and showed close to 200 activists filling the main atrium of the capitol.

    Many members of the mob were waving trans flags along with holding signs that read “we are not a threat.”

    At one point the mob started to chant “trans lives matter.”

    WATCH:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/mob-trans-activists-supporters-storm-oklahoma-capitol-ok-support-leftist-cause/

  6. Elementary School Starts Student Club That Excludes White Kids
    By Cullen Linebarger
    Published February 7, 2023 at 7:15am
    511 Comments

    Racism remains alive and well in our nation’s public schools, particularly in dark blue states. A recently released email shows that Centennial Elementary School in Olympia, Washington engaged in blatant segregation by barring white children from a student affinity group that meets during lunchtime.

    The authenticity of the email has been confirmed by school officials according to conservative talk show host Jason Rantz.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/elementary-school-starts-student-club-excludes-white-kids/

  7. Rancher, 73, is charged with murder on his Arizona land after shooting dead Mexican, 48, who had history of illegal crossings into US and multiple deportations: Judge refuses to reduce $1M bail despite plea his wife is alone

    An Arizona rancher has been charged with first-degree murder and had his bail set at a whopping $1million for fatally shooting a Mexican citizen on his property.

    George Alan Kelly, 73, was arrested following the January 30 fatal shooting of Gabriel Cuen-Butimea, 48, on his ranch in Kino Springs, just a mile and a half north of the US-Mexico border.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11720325/Arizona-rancher-73-charged-degree-murder-shooting-dead-Mexican-migrant.html

    • The left has created the problem that invites this solution to the border problem. We can expect more actions like this until the border is closed.

      • These judges don’t appreciate their own vulnerability. Their contempt for rule of rule and perversion of justice makes vigilantism almost inevitable.

        Wild West cowboy DNA – like hillbilly genes – have been diluted, but they’re dominate alpha. They’ll kick in, it’s just a question of when.

  8. PAYBACK: GOP Leaders Freeze Out US Chamber Of Commerce After They Supported Dem Candidates
    By ProTrumpNews Staff
    Published February 7, 2023 at 10:00am
    65 Comments

    The Chamber of Commerce endorsed Democrats in the 2020 and 2022 election cycles.

    After January 6th, they said they would not support lawmakers who called out 2020 election voter fraud.

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    McCarthy told Breitbart News last year before the recent November elections that “the Chamber left the party a long time ago” and criticized the organization for endorsing Democrats. ” I just assume they have as much influence in the future as they do now — none,” McCarthy said at the time.

    Axios reported that McCarthy has privately discussed with Chamber of Commerce board members and state leaders the idea of replacing current president and CEO Suzanne Clark. The Chamber’s CEO was recently approved for a new five-year term, according to a memo sent to the board of directors by Mark Ordan, the chair of the board. The memo was sent to members of the board on Monday.

    Advertisement – story continues below

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/gop-leaders-freeze-us-chamber-commerce-payback-supporting-dems/

  9. Estimates Are Now Up to 20,000 Dead in Turkey Quake – 5,600 Buildings and Ancient Castles Collapsed
    By Joe Hoft
    Published February 7, 2023 at 8:45am
    388 Comments

    The massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey on Sunday was devastating and now authorities fear that there may be as many as 20,000 deaths from the series of quakes.

    The earthquake in Turkey was calamitous. Conservative Treehouse reported:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/estimates-now-20000-dead-turkey-quake-5600-buildings-ancient-castles-collapsed/

  10. CITIZEN FREE PRESS
    Thailand to become first country to hold Pfizer liable for Vaccine Injuries…
    Posted by Kane on February 7, 2023 10:55 am

    Thailand will become the first country to make the contract null and void, meaning that Pfizer will become responsible for all vaccine injuries.
    The Royal Family have now been alerted to the fact that the princess has most likely been a victim of the jab.

    https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/thailand-to-become-first-country-to-hold-pfizer-liable-for-vaccine-injuries/

  11. Speaker of the house – a lame duck by Brad Johnson

    Anyone at any time can call for a vote on the speaker. Speaker of the house – a lame duck. Big in the news right now, of course, is that McCarthy was finally elected speaker of the House. He`s the old fashioned type of Republican that just kind of plays it out of both sides of his mouth and tries to be everything for everyone, something that I hope is kind of fading from the realm of possibility. You know, they play to their base all the time, and the Republicans try to be everything for everyone. So it`s one of those things where the Republican Party and people like McCarthy

    https://intelreform.org/speaker-of-the-house-a-lame-duck/

    Big Picture: Jim Jordan and Gaetz are winners, McCarthy – is not
    Brad Johnson
    Brad Johnson

    February 3, 2023

    https://intelreform.org/big-winners-and-losers/

  12. Sooner or later there will be a ~M 7.5 #earthquake in this region (South-Central Turkey, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon).
    Frank Hoogerbeets – February 3, 2023 – 7:30 AM
    https://twitter.com/hogrbe/status/1621479563720118273

    SSGEOS
    https://www.youtube.com/@ssgeos/videos

    Plantery/Seismic Update 2 February 2023
    SSGEOS – February 2, 2023
    Larger seismic activity may occur from 4 to 6 February, most likely up to mid or high 6 magnitude. There is a slight possibility of a larger seismic event around 4 February.

    • Yucki, for precisely the reasons you’ve written this I can’t address it directly. I will say it is absurd until five minutes have passed, and then the absurdity of it melts into something like a picture you’ve seen that can no longer be un-seen.

  13. High school student throw out of school in Ontario, for saying there are 2 genders, returns to his school and GETS ARRESTED. Oh ho hum, oh well he should have done what he was told. He should get in touch with the Ministers in Canada and learn how this country works now. It all depends on who you are, IF you should be “tolerated.”

    Line from Phantom of the Opera – you’re trying my patience Christine.

    Line from Canadians – government is trying our patience Justine.

    Where are the adults?

  14. For close to 100 years the left has been illegally changing the Constitution by ignoring the formal amending process. They have been using activist Judges (at all levels of the Federal Judicial System) to “discover” Constitutional Rights that are not enumerated in the Constitution.

    They are using the same illegal method to rewrite laws they don’t like or to get laws written that would never be passed by the legislature.

    They also use this tactic to shift rights from the States to the Federal Government. They did this with abortion and now that a honest Supreme Court that believes the Courts shouldn’t “write laws” has (correctly) returned that issue the left is trying to get a Federal Judge to “discover” the right in a different section of the Constitution.

    They are doing this because they don’t like the ideas of Federalism and the Laboratory of Democracy. The first is the idea that all levels of government should be limited in power/authority. With the level of authority with the most power should be the level that is closest to the voters. While the level of authority that is the most distant from the voters should have the most limitations on it.

    The Founders wanted the States to have different laws so the voters could vote with their feet and move to the States whose laws give the voters the most freedom.

    The Founders wanted to create a government that would respond to the voters instead of becoming a oppressive government. We are seeing the voters moving from high tax states to low tax states. And the high tax states working to stop the loss of tax revenue. New York is checking to ensure the voters have really moved, as well as trying to get a Federal Law to require all states to have the same taxes. California is taking a different approach and is trying to tax the people after they have moved out of State.

    All of the efforts to shift all laws and law enforcement to the Federal Government are.based on the idea that the Leftist Leaders are elites who are superior in intelligence and have higher, greater moral values. This superiority gives them the right to make all of our decisions for us. This includes the right to limit the population to a level the self proclaimed elites think is the proper level.

    Through inattention brought about by a very sever pandemic of it can’t happen hare syndrome we have allowed the left to seize close to total power in the nations that use to be the foundation of Western Civilization. We are facing the possibility that freedom is going to disappear from the earth for several decades. The fight to preserve the ideas of freedom, individuals and the rule of law is going to be a long, hard and bloody fight.

    During and after the war we are going to have to amend the Constitution to prevent the wanna be Dictators and Oligarchs from using the same tactics in the future.

    Keep your musket clean.

    Your powder dry.

    Your bugout bag packed.

    Pray for the survival of freedom and the rule of law.

  15. I hope it works this time.

    For close to 100 years the left has been illegally/s>changing the Constitution by ignoring the formal amending process. They have been using activist Judges (at all levels of the Federal Judicial System) to “discover” Constitutional Rights that are not enumerated in the Constitution.

    They are using the same illegal method to rewrite laws they don’t like or to get laws written that would never be passed by the legislature.

    They also use this tactic to shift rights from the States to the Federal Government. They did this with abortion and now that a honest Supreme Court that believes the Courts shouldn’t “write laws” has (correctly) returned that issue the left is trying to get a Federal Judge to “discover” the right in a different section of the Constitution.

    They are doing this because they don’t like the ideas of Federalism and the Laboratory of Democracy. The first is the idea that all levels of government should be limited in power/authority. With the level of authority with the most power should be the level that is closest to the voters. While the level of authority that is the most distant from the voters should have the most limitations on it.

    The Founders wanted the States to have different laws so the voters could vote with their feet and move to the States whose laws give the voters the most freedom

    The Founders wanted to create a government that would respond to the voters instead of becoming a oppressive government. We are seeing the voters moving from high tax states to low tax states. And the high tax states working to stop the loss of tax revenue. New York is checking to ensure the voters have really moved, as well as trying to get a Federal Law to require all states to have the same taxes. California is taking a different approach and is trying to tax the people after they have moved out of State.

    All of the efforts to shift all laws and law enforcement to the Federal Government are.based on the idea that the Leftist Leaders are elites who are superior in intelligence and have higher, greater moral values. This superiority gives them the right to make all of our decisions for us. This includes the right to limit the population to a level the self proclaimed elites think is the proper level.

    Through inattention brought about by a very sever pandemic of it can’t happen here syndrome we have allowed the left to seize close to total power in the nations that use to be the foundation of Western Civilization. We are facing the possibilitythat freedom is going to disappear from the earth for several decades. The fight to preserve the ideas of freedom, individuals and the rule of law is going to be a long, hard and bloody fight.

    During and after the war we are going to have to amend the and after the war we are going to have to amend the Constitution to prevent the wanna be Dictators and Oligarchs from using the same tactics in the future.

    Keep your musket clean.

    Your powder dry.

    Your bugout bag packed.

    Pray for the survival of freedom and the rule of law.

  16. New Zealand’s Largest Egg Producer Goes Up in Flame Killing 50,000 Hens Amid Nationwide Shortage (VIDEO)
    By Jim Hoft
    Published February 7, 2023 at 11:45am
    361 Comments

    Fears are growing that New Zealand’s already severe egg shortage could get much worse after a major fire devastated the country’s largest egg farm, killing more than 50,000 hens.

    John McKay, CEO of Zeagold Nutrition, has confirmed that a fire broke out at the company’s Waikato egg farm on Monday morning.

    A supervisor on-site at our farm called the fire department at 7:40 am today. All 12 staff members on site are safe and unharmed,” McKay told NZ Herald.

    “Ten emergency vehicles are currently on site to contain the spread of the fire.”

    McKay said the cause of the fire was unknown and the safety of the chickens was the primary concern.

    “The cause of the fire is yet to be determined and investigations will continue.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/new-zealands-largest-egg-producer-goes-flame-killing-50000-hens-amid-nationwide-shortage-video/

  17. (Richard: The Satanist are probing their abortions are Child Sacrifices/> to Satan. The greatest propaganda victory was when Satan convinced people he doesn’t exist.)

    Satanic Temple Opens Clinic for “Religious Abortions” Named After Catholic Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s Mother
    By Jim Hoft
    Published February 7, 2023 at 11:15am
    216 Comments

    Choose your side:
    The Satanic Temple joined Democrats in their battle against the Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling on Roe v. Wade.

    The Satanic Temple released a statement following the ruling on their plans to fight in court for the right to “religious abortion.”

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    The satanists believe abortion is a “religious” sacrament.

    Last Wednesday the Satanic Temple announced they will open a “religious medical services clinic” in New Mexico. The clinic will provide free religious medication abortion care to women in the state.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/satanic-temple-opens-clinic-religious-abortions-named-catholic-supreme-court-justice-samuel-alitos-mother/

  18. Biden Will Call for Billionaire Tax, Bigger Levy on Stock Buybacks in State of the Union
    Josh Wingrove and Jordan Fabian – Yesterday 2:24 PM

    22

    (Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden will call for quadrupling the levy on corporate stock buybacks and renew his calls for a minimum tax on billionaires during his State of the Union address Tuesday.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-06/biden-to-call-for-billionaire-tax-bigger-levy-on-stock-buybacks

    • This sounds like the “People’s Capitalism” that communist science fiction author Mack Reynold” wrote about in the 1960s and 1970s. The Federal Government takes part of the corporate income tax in dividend paying stocks them redistributes it to the people based on their social level.

  19. twitter @KanekoaTheGreat

    You’d never guess from this official Facebook video that this guy was one of the most senior people at the CIA until 2019.

    Now, he decides what we all see and don’t see on Facebook.

    + 1 min 47 video

    https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1622694630734299136

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    MEET THE EX-CIA AGENTS DECIDING FACEBOOK’S CONTENT POLICY

    […]
    https://www.mintpressnews.com/meet-ex-cia-agents-deciding-facebook-content-policy/281307/

    • twitter @MikeBenzCyber

      The founder of the GEC literally called to end the First Amendment

      https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1622768040948469760

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      Washington Post – Why America needs a hate speech law

      By Richard Stengel

      Richard Stengel, a former editor of Time, is the author of “Information Wars” and was the State Department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs from 2013 to 2016.

      When I was a journalist, I loved Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s assertion that the Constitution and the First Amendment are not just about protecting “free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”

      But as a government official traveling around the world championing the virtues of free speech, I came to see how our First Amendment standard is an outlier. Even the most sophisticated Arab diplomats that I dealt with did not understand why the First Amendment allows someone to burn a Koran. Why, they asked me, would you ever want to protect that?

      It’s a fair question. Yes, the First Amendment protects the “thought that we hate,” but it should not protect hateful speech that can cause violence by one group against another. In an age when everyone has a megaphone, that seems like a design flaw.

      It is important to remember that our First Amendment doesn’t just protect the good guys; our foremost liberty also protects any bad actors who hide behind it to weaken our society. In the weeks leading up to the 2016 election, Russia’s Internet Research Agency planted false stories hoping they would go viral. They did. Russian agents assumed fake identities, promulgated false narratives and spread lies on Twitter and Facebook, all protected by the First Amendment.

      The Russians understood that our free press and its reflex toward balance and fairness would enable Moscow to slip its destructive ideas into our media ecosystem. When Putin said back in 2014 that there were no Russian troops in Crimea — an outright lie — he knew our media would report it, and we did.

      That’s partly because the intellectual underpinning of the First Amendment was engineered for a simpler era. The amendment rests on the notion that the truth will win out in what Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas called “the marketplace of ideas.” This “marketplace” model has a long history going back to 17th-century English intellectual John Milton, but in all that time, no one ever quite explained how good ideas drive out bad ones, how truth triumphs over falsehood.

      Milton, an early opponent of censorship, said truth would prevail in a “free and open encounter.” A century later, the framers believed that this marketplace was necessary for people to make informed choices in a democracy. Somehow, magically, truth would emerge. The presumption has always been that the marketplace would offer a level playing field. But in the age of social media, that landscape is neither level nor fair.

      On the Internet, truth is not optimized. On the Web, it’s not enough to battle falsehood with truth; the truth doesn’t always win. In the age of social media, the marketplace model doesn’t work. A 2016 Stanford study showed that 82 percent of middle schoolers couldn’t distinguish between an ad labeled “sponsored content” and an actual news story. Only a quarter of high school students could tell the difference between an actual verified news site and one from a deceptive account designed to look like a real one.

      Since World War II, many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred. These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.

      I think it’s time to consider these statutes. The modern standard of dangerous speech comes from Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) and holds that speech that directly incites “imminent lawless action” or is likely to do so can be restricted. Domestic terrorists such as Dylann Roof and Omar Mateen and the El Paso shooter were consumers of hate speech. Speech doesn’t pull the trigger, but does anyone seriously doubt that such hateful speech creates a climate where such acts are more likely?

      Let the debate begin. Hate speech has a less violent, but nearly as damaging, impact in another way: It diminishes tolerance. It enables discrimination. Isn’t that, by definition, speech that undermines the values that the First Amendment was designed to protect: fairness, due process, equality before the law? Why shouldn’t the states experiment with their own version of hate speech statutes to penalize speech that deliberately insults people based on religion, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation?

      All speech is not equal. And where truth cannot drive out lies, we must add new guardrails. I’m all for protecting “thought that we hate,” but not speech that incites hate. It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/29/why-america-needs-hate-speech-law/

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      Did I mention Rick Stengel, the founder of the GEC, is also a constant keynote and panel speaker at Atlantic Council censorship consensus-building events:

      https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1622768685575290881

      Information Wars: A Conversation with Richard Stengel

      In a conversation hosted by the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, Richard Stengel will explain not only why disinformation is a threat to democracy, but what we can do about it.

  20. US Plans to Sell Poland $10 Billion in Himars Rocket Launchers and Ammunition

    Poland has been seeking Himars to bolster its defenses
    Congress has been notified of the proposed weapons sale

    The US plans to sell Poland about $10 billion in weapons including 18 Himars rocket launchers and ammunition for the highly accurate mobile platform, the Pentagon announced Tuesday, shoring up a crucial NATO ally as Russia presses its war in neighboring Ukraine.

    The package will also include the ATACMS long-range missile system and the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System, according to a Defense Department statement. Two people familiar with the matter said Congress has been notified of the proposed deal, under the Foreign Military Sales program.

    The sale builds on stepped-up US assistance since Russia’s Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine nearly a year ago. Poland has been a strong supporter of Ukraine, including successfully pressing Germany for permission to send German-made Leopard II tanks to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s forces.

    “The proposed sale will improve Poland’s military goals of updating capability while further enhancing interoperability with the United States and other allies,” the Pentagon said. “Poland intends to use these defense articles and services to modernize its armed forces and expand its capability to strengthen its homeland defense and deter regional threats.”

    The latest Himars equipment is in addition to launchers purchased from the US in 2019, which have yet to be delivered. Warsaw also has sought rocket launchers from South Korea. Washington in December approved the sale of up to 116 Abrams tanks and related equipment to Poland, which is providing key equipment to Ukraine even as it looks to bolster its own military.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-07/us-to-sell-poland-10-billion-in-himars-ammunition

  21. What’s Going On? US Military NOW SAYS There Were SIX China Spy Balloons Spotted During Trump Years – BUT NO ONE WAS NOTIFIED
    By Jim Hoft
    Published February 7, 2023 at 2:50pm
    517 Comments

    This story continues to change by the hour

    The Pentagon NOW says there were SIX Chinese spy balloons spotted over US territory during the Trump years.

    But no one was notified in leadership in the Trump administration or the US intelligence department.

    The story is literally changing by the hour.

    And General Keith Kellogg, who was the Executive Secretary and Chief of Staff of the United States National Security Council in the Trump administration, says he was never notified

    Via Midnight Rider and FOX News.

    Previously…

    On Saturday the Biden regime admitted the China spy balloon was first spotted a week earlier in Alaska back on January 28, flew from there into Canada and down into the continental US. On Tuesday the balloon entered Idaho and crossed the US for the next four days. The China spy balloon was then shot down after it left US territory and had collected all of its data for the Chinese Communist Party. This was an unprecedented event in US history.

    The fake news media on Saturday played clean up for the Biden regime. The media hoped to convince Americans that these China spy balloons cross the US all the time. In fact, fake news insisted that this happened during the Trump years – three times.

    On Sunday morning a FOX News reporter pushed back on these claims. She spoke with Michael Bolton, Ric Grenell, Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and others who said they had never heard of this happening. And if it did occur, they were not notified – which is just as bad

    Former Trump advisor John Bolton, former DNI Ric Grenell, Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Former Secretary of State and CIA Direcor Mike Pompeo, President Trump , Defense Secretary Mattis, and former DNI John Ratcliffe, spoke out that that this was a lie.

    This never happened during the Trump years. And if it did happen, the top officials in Trump administration were not notified – which is just as bad.

    The military is changing their story. Now they want you to believe that the intelligence community discovered the balloons during the Trump years — BUT NEVER NOTIFIED THEIR INTEL LEADERS!

    Former DNIs Ratcliffe and Grenell have already denied the claims.

    So now the military AND the intelligence community have been caught in a lie! Or they committed treasonous acts by aiding and abetting the enemy and not notifying their leadership.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/going-us-military-now-says-six-china-spy-balloons-spotted-trump-years-no-one-notified/

  22. Guard Opens Fire After Intruder Breaks Into Joint Base Andrews Housing Area
    By Cristina Laila
    Published February 7, 2023 at 3:11pm
    97 Comments

    An intruder on Monday broke into Joint Base Andrews where Air Force One and other presidential aircraft such as a “doomsday” plane is stored.

    A guard opened fire on the intruder before security rushed in to make an arrest.

    A man gained unauthorized access to a JBA housing area. A resident discharged a firearm, security forces arrived on scene to apprehend the intruder and law enforcement is investigating the incident,” Joint Base Andrews said in a tweet.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/guard-opens-fire-intruder-breaks-joint-base-andrews-housing-area/

  23. Woke Church Of England To Consider “Gender-Neutral” God
    By Cullen Linebarger
    Published February 7, 2023 at 3:52pm
    439 Comments

    The woke left has infected Christianity. Prominent forces within the Church of England want to abandon the Gospel in favor of referring to God in a “gender-neutral” manner.

    The Bible since it was first written has primarily used male pronouns when referring to God. But this does not mean that God is male, however.

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    Unlike humanity, God does not have a biological sex for He is not made of matter. In fact, no one actually knows what God looks like.

    Basic theology remains a foreign concept to woke forces, however, including those within the Church.

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    The Telegraph reported:

    For decades, the gender of God has prompted debate within the Church, with many calling for male pronouns He and Him, as well as reference to Our Father, to be scrapped in favor of either gender neutral or female alternatives.

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    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/woke-church-england-consider-gender-neutral-god/

    (Richard: The people who want to change the sex of God don’t really believe in God.)