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Why Your Story Needs To Be Told

Posted by M. C. on October 30, 2023

Because I am selfish, and I realize we live on the front line of what may be the greatest, most glorious battle of this era: The Battle of California, the decades, long effort to destroy the most wonderful and most influential place on this planet.

Why Your Story Needs To Be Told

By Allan Stevo

The following is the October 28, 2023, introduction by Allan Stevo for California anti-lockdown activist Theresa Buccola at the biweekly pro-freedom event Menlo Forum in Menlo Park, California hosted by the excellent Robert Mish of Mish International, an area businessman and precious metals vendor. 

There are heroes who walk among us.

There is Johan Vandertuin who believes the police of San Benito County, California have no business fabricating charges against him because he dared to walk into a UPS Store in Hollister, California unmasked in December of 2022. And that the conservative District Attorney cooperating in this should either end the matter against Johan or resign in shame.

There are heroes who walk among us.

There are the parents of Autumn Schall who believe it is their complete and total right to decide what medicines their child is given or not given, no matter what Stanford Hospital had to say, no matter what CPS has to say, no matter what a California judge has to say.

There are heroes who walk among us.

There is Anh Colton, who believes it is her right, and your right to run for sheriff where you live, not just the privilege of those who have spent years being indoctrinated by the system. You may not agree with her, but that does not mean she should walk through the world without applause for that bravery. Nor does it mean she belongs in a jail cell.

There are heroes who walk among us.

There are pastors Gabriel Abdelaziz and Dorothy Abdelaziz, who never closed the doors of their church in Paso Robles, California.

There are others like that.

Why did they not close? Because it is their duty to not close and their right to not close.

There are even some elected officials, such as Dan Dow of San Luis Obispo County, who said in response to the public health orders to close churches that his county is henceforth a sanctuary county…for churches. That in his county, no church, no pastor will be prosecuted for refusing to shut their doors.

But there are thousands more, perhaps millions more — heroes in their own right in this state, who refuse to simply do as they are told. Who know their values are worth fighting for. Who perhaps even know California is worth fighting for.

There are young men like Teyo, 17 years old, whose last name I won’t mention. Who said one day, I will never wear a mask again, and because of that he was told by the school system, that he would not be able to be educated in this community – that was likely a frightening and uncertain situation for his parents and others who love him and wanted to see him succeed, but you know what…as scary as that might have been…the day he said, he would never wear a mask again, and the day he was suspended from school, which left no other option than to homeschool him, was probably one of the best things to have happened in his life.

These stories need to be told. For there are heroes who walk among us.

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Kendi’s Critical Race Theory Is a Failed Marxist Doctrine | Mises Wire

Posted by M. C. on October 30, 2023

Marxism can be best understood as the unproductive of society demanding a place at the top of a new hierarchy. They prey upon the productive members of society and redistribute the success of others to themselves through violent revolution. It is an ideology of envy and failure.

https://mises.org/wire/kendis-critical-race-theory-failed-marxist-doctrine

David Brady, Jr.

Ibram X. Kendi, the controversial author of How to Be an Antiracist, has been revealed as not only a hustler of horrid ideas but also a poor businessman. Kendi was appointed the head and founder of Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research in 2020 following the aptly named “summer of love,” which saw riots in most major cities over calls for “racial justice.”

Now, Boston University is committing mass layoffs of employees, as the Center has lost the $43 million that was donated to it at its opening. There have also been several complaints about management practices. The Center is laying off much of its staff as it switches to a new model that it hopes will keep it alive. It is another profound case of fiat academia being inefficient and unproductive, as well as peddling half-baked half-dead ideas.

Kendi is not an original thinker so much as a wannabe-philosopher who repaints bunk ideas to drum up societal conflict. Kendi’s general philosophical thesis could be summed up simply as “Everyone is racist, and that extends to all of society. History can be understood as a white supremacist culture getting better at hiding its underlying racism.”

Kendi and other critical race theorists theorize that, throughout history, so-called advancements in the welfare of racial minorities are merely a white supremacist culture’s success at better hiding its racism. One can summarize it best with a quote from the thriller The Usual Suspects: “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”

The devil, for Kendi, would be “white supremacy” in culture. Every so-called advancement—from the outlawing of slavery to the end of Jim Crow laws—is simply this devil getting better at hiding itself.

This is not an original idea on Kendi’s part in any respect. One can trace these ideas back to the philosophical ancestor to critical race theory: Karl Marx. When one analyzes critical race theory, it becomes abundantly clear that it is a portrayal of Marxist conflict and power theory but with the dimensions of race applied rather than class. Rather than the bourgeoise class oppressing the proletariat, it is the white class oppressing the nonwhite classes of society.

A fundamental aspect of Marxist theory is that of the substructure, or base, and the superstructures of society. Marx posited that the fundamental relations in society are economic ones, between the working class and the exploitive capitalist class. The base creates the superstructure, which includes art, politics, religion, and other social relations that supposedly exist to reinforce the base. This is where Marx’s famed line “Religion is the opiate of the masses” comes from. Religion, as an aspect of the superstructure, exists to draw eyes away from the social relations that matter in the minds of Marxists.

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Emboldened Global Jihad Is Final Nail in Coffin of Mass Migration Delusion – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Posted by M. C. on October 30, 2023

It has become obvious that assimilation of huge numbers of non-Western immigrants into Western society is simply not working.

https://spectator.org/emboldened-global-jihad-is-final-nail-in-coffin-of-mass-migration-delusion/

by Josh Hammer

The weeks since the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in Israel, in which the most Jews were slaughtered in a single day than at any time since World War II, have seen an astonishing rise in global Jew-hatred. One might have thought that the mass carnage and unspeakable barbarism of the Hamas Holocaust would instead galvanize a concerted pushback against Islamic jihadism, but it is the ancient scourge of antisemitism — and not so-called Islamophobia — that is once again the world’s most politically correct and fashionable form of bigotry.

“In every generation they rise up to destroy us,” Jews read in the Haggadah text every Passover, “but the Holy One, Blessed be He, delivers us from their hands.” Now, less than 80 years since the defeat of Nazi Germany, today’s Nazis, an Islamist Reich hellbent anew on Jewish genocide, rises up to try to finish what Hitler could not. Like their brownshirt forebears, the jihadists will fail.

Our comfort in the Lord does not necessarily ameliorate the profound pain of the last few weeks, though. For many Jews, the appalling and disgusting mass demonstrations of support for the Hamas terrorists have been just as devastating as the Oct. 7 pogrom itself.

In Berlin — yes, Berlin — a synagogue was firebombed. In Vienna, a one-time hub of Nazism, a synagogue was attacked and vandalized. In Paris, a Jewish couple’s apartment door was doused with gasoline and set on fire. In Los Angeles, a knife-wielding madman trespassed into a Jewish home while shouting, “Free Palestine.” At George Washington University in the nation’s capital, student jihadists projected “Glory To Our Martyrs” onto the side of a school library. At Cooper Union, Jewish students were locked in a library by pro-Hamas student demonstrators banging on the doors; the NYPD had to evacuate the students via underground tunnel. In the heavily Muslim town of Dearborn, Michigan, Islamists thronged the streets while waving today’s swastika, the so-called Palestinian flag, and shouting for extermination of the Jews of Israel “from the river to the sea.” Other examples abound.

There are many reasons for this dire state of affairs.

First, the chickens of once-fringe leftist ivory tower piffle, such as critical theory and intersectionality, have come home to roost in a very menacing way. The avant-garde leftism of a half-century ago has led many to now justify, or outright cheer on, genocide perpetrated against the most genocided people in world history. As this column observed during the last major Israel–Hamas conflict, in May 2021: “The American Left and the media organs it controls are exporting their paroxysms of ‘1619 Project’ rage onto a foreign stage, expiating their ‘white guilt’ sins and armchair-quarterbacking a foreign conflict on a cosplayed chess board.” It’s all just fun and games — no matter how many “eggs” are broken to make the “omelet,” to paraphrase Stalin-apologist New York Times bureau chief Walter Duranty.

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Five Quick Things: Has Mike Johnson Broken the Left Already? – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Posted by M. C. on October 30, 2023

https://spectator.org/five-quick-things-has-mike-johnson-broken-the-left-already/

by Scott McKay

I had a feeling we would see this, but boy, did it happen fast.

The Left absolutely CAN’T EVEN with Mike Johnson as the new speaker of the House. This is a level of unhinged that it took Donald Trump a little while to build up to, and we’re not even 48 hours into Johnson’s speakership as of this writing. (READ MORE: The Speaker We Need)

What am I talking about? Things like this:

Or this:

Late this evening House Republicans chose Rep. Mike Johnson as their fifth would-be speaker of the month.

Johnson is one of the biggest anti-choice extremists in Congress, he wants to ban all abortions without exception — to the point of criminalization with prison sentences. pic.twitter.com/vRFaMqpT82

— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) October 25, 2023

It’s hilarious to see Beyer act like he’s never heard the pro-life position articulated. Yes, Don, making the killing of a pre-born human being illegal means that if you do it anyway you will face jail time.

What should be understood is that a year ago Louisiana had a bill percolating in the state legislature that would have criminalized abortion on the part of the woman procuring one — and Johnson actively opposed it as going too far. He’s actually a very conventional pro-life leader who would certainly see the law enforced against abortionists but views those having abortions as women in extreme circumstances who need counseling and options rather than cops.

Not that Beyer would know, or care to share, that context.

There’s more. For example:

Mike Johnson built a legal career in Louisiana opposing the basic civil rights and civil liberties of the LGBTQ+ community. Last fall, he introduced a national Don’t Say Gay Law. Voting for him as Speaker is despicable. https://t.co/HmUQ1AqlTl

— Mondaire Jones (@MondaireJones) October 25, 2023

That chair is not a pulpit. That chamber isn’t a church. That man isn’t a preacher.

This is Christian Nationalism in action from the new Speaker of the House. https://t.co/GfAKaFrGD8

— American Atheists (@AmericanAtheist) October 25, 2023

I could belabor this, but you get the gist of it.

For me, the most entertaining of these came back home in Louisiana, where Katie Bernhardt, the AWFL (affluent white female leftist) who runs the state Democrat Party, put this out…

Louisiana Democratic Party Chair’s Statement on the election of Mike Johnson as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives ⬇️ #LaGov #LaLege #SpeakerOfTheHouseVote pic.twitter.com/uimsAMvjOj

— Louisiana Democrats (@LaDemos) October 25, 2023

…and was immediately ratioed — not by the conservatives, but by her own party.

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Fractional Reserve Banking, Present Discounted Value, and the Austrian Business Cycle Theory

Posted by M. C. on October 30, 2023

Worth viewing just for the description of the fraud that is fractional reserve banking.

Also…Why does the government hate gold?

For the faint of heart this is about…economics!

https://substack.com/inbox/post/138403200

Walter Block

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There Is No Legitimate Role for Any Government or Rule

Posted by M. C. on October 28, 2023

“The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.”

~ Murray Rothbard

There Is No Legitimate Role for Any Government or Rule

By Gary D. Barnett

“Government is for slaves; free men govern themselves.”

~ Albert Parsons, Autobiography

Recently I wrote about a “World Gone Mad,” and I now understand that my title was a gross understatement. Madness indicates psychotic behavior, but what is going on today, while most assuredly psychotic, is also intentional, completely planned, and being implemented with full consciousness by evil forces. To make matters worse, the pathetic masses are taking sides, fomenting hate, supporting their chosen masters, and tearing apart all that is right; thus allowing this insane tyranny and carnage to continue unabated. If one was to step aside, and take stock of this insanity, he would at once be faced with the reality of the heinous agendas being pursued, but few are willing to take that step. Most all continue to look toward the complicit and abhorrent State to save them from the premeditated and monstrous policies being pursued by all governments at the behest of their controlling overlords.

Religion has always been a control mechanism used to subdue the crowd, so it is no surprise that the worship of the State by its subjects is reverent in nature. The State and the church throughout time have acted as one; both seeking compliant and devoted followers. This was the plot all along, as history will certainly support. This is why the ruling class through its controlled government, has always been the people’s church, and the government agents have always sought to be seen as gods by the collective hordes of votaries. All power seekers have to destroy the idea of individualism, self-sufficiency, critical thinking, and independent sovereignty, in order to be seen as superior to the members of the dependent herd. This tenet is mandatory for rule of one over another to exist, and it has been accomplished throughout time.

One of the main goals of government is to place itself and its illegitimate authority above all others in ‘society,’ thereby eliminating the possibility of critical scrutiny or prosecution from immoral and illegal acts. Government does not only rule, they make and enforce all the ‘laws,’ laws that are meant only for the lowly people, not for those in power. Many of those who pretend to be anti-state, will preach that all in government should be held to the same standard as the plebiscites, but they completely disregard reality. Government always and forever protects itself at all costs by controlling every aspect of what is referred to as law and ‘justice.’ Government controls the Executive, (king) the Congress, the courts, including what is referred to as the “Supreme Court,” the police, the military, and all aspects of total regulation of people and commerce. Those involved in this fraud will rarely if ever be investigated, or held to account for criminal activity, because they own and control all the judicial systems.

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Some Insights into the Orban-Putin Meetup in China

Posted by M. C. on October 28, 2023

Hungary has been accused of “democratic backsliding” by EU counterparts more closely tied to Washington. Most honest experts consider this the height of hypocrisy, given drowning censorship, warmongering on pretense, and the economic and societal breakdown in many European nations.

https://journal-neo.su/2023/10/27/some-insights-into-the-orban-putin-meetup-in-china/

Author: Phil Butler

Some Insights into the Orban-Putin Meetup in China

The U.S., the EU, and NATO are freaking out over Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s recent meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing.

Orban is the first EU leader to hold personal talks with Putin since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a ludicrous arrest warrant for the Russian presenting. Hungary is also one of the few European countries that has not knuckled under U.S. pressure to condemn Russia for the special military operation in Ukraine.

U.S. Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman said was cited staying, “The United States is concerned about Hungary’s relationship with Russia.” Hungary opposing many EU initiatives to support Ukraine has infuriated the country’s puppet Dictator Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and photos of Orban and Putin meeting reportedly made Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas lose her lunch. At least, she admitted that “photos of EU member state Hungary’s prime minister shaking hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin were “very, very unpleasant.”

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TGIF: Don’t Police the World

Posted by M. C. on October 28, 2023

On top of that misery, intervening in wars sets the stage for terrible events to follow: revolution, dictatorship, government control of everyday life, atrocious recriminations, and plain chaos. That’s the safe bet too.

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/tgif-dont-police-world/

by Sheldon Richman

police

“We” — to be precise, U.S. policymakers and their quasi-private-sector, tax-nourished enablers-beneficiaries–  must not police the world, become directly involved in wars, covertly assist belligerents, or act as arms merchants and bankers.

The central government can’t be a benign policeman, even if its intentions were as stated (which they may be): international rules-based order and economic stability. But it can wreak havoc by trying. We know this because it already has. Pick your start date, but the last 30 years present evidence beyond a reasonable doubt of what U.S.-sponsored “order” really looks like, thanks to an unbroken bipartisan chain of presidents and a bunch of presumptuous bumblers who wear weighty political titles from the executive and legislative branches. (The judiciary isn’t off the hook either.)

The U.S. government’s inherent ineptness speaks volumes. “Ought” implies “can,” and the policy mavens cannot. Wishful thinking is no substitute for real thinking. Each new crisis is not so different from previous ones as to make it unique. We can and must learn from the past, even the past that is so recent it’s still the present.

Government “crisis management” is a contradiction in terms. War typically has calamitous results, however optimistic the prognostications and later assessments. Helping a belligerent bloodies the hands of the helper, even if only metaphorically. Fighting proxy wars, which the policymakers might prefer to direct war these days, or engaging in covert operations is no moral shield. The horrendous consequences are foreseeable. Pleading that “We didn’t intend the bad stuff” does not wash. Call it “collateral damage,” whatever the policymakers call it, they enable the ruin of innocent lives and entire societies. We should have no part of it.

We know what war brings. It brings the death and dismemberment of innocents, always including children. It brings the utter destruction of the things that make life possible, such as food, water, homes, hospitals, and infrastructure. The chance of killing only bad guys is zero. I think the government’s own war simulations would agree. Hypothetical rosy scenarios offered in somber tones from secure stateside arms chairs don’t count. Even moves intended as defensive may understandably be perceived as aggressive, bringing snowballing countermoves that threaten more innocents and risk turning a local conflict into a big-power confrontation. The danger of nuclear war always looms.

Before considering joining in a war, assume the worst. Then don’t join. It’s the safe bet.

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Europe Facing Civil War?

Posted by M. C. on October 28, 2023

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger explained in an interview recently that Europe had made a serious mistake by creating within itself, through mass immigration, populations that reject all its norms, values and a “constitutional basis“.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/europe-facing-civil-war

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by Tyler Durden

Saturday, Oct 28, 2023 – 07:00 AM

Authored by Drieu Godefridi via The Gatestone Institute,

In Vienna, London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels and dozens of other European cities, demonstrations “in support of Palestine” were organised even before the Israelis responded the jihadist pogrom perpetrated by Iran-backed Hamas on October 7, while the corpses of more than 1,400 Israeli victims — tortured, raped, murdered and mutilated, babies decapitated or burned alive — were still warm. According to a JNS report:

“[T]he IDF on Monday [Oct 23] published two segments from the interrogation of Hamas terrorists who participated in the massacre..

“‘The purpose of entering Israeli territory… was to kidnap civilians; they want as many hostages as possible,’ one of the terrorists revealed. He added, ‘They [Hamas] promised us that whoever brings a kidnapped person will receive an apartment and $10,000.'”

All the same, each and every one of these demonstrations in Europe was the scene of hate-filled slogans against Israel and Jews.

In Brussels, those slogans were shouted, and the atmosphere of violence and blood-lust was everywhere. Around me, surrounded by about 2,000 hate-filled demonstrators, a group of a dozen young Arabs were shouting “Death to the Jews” and “Death to Israel”, all the while exchanging knowing smiles and a few jokes. One of them ordered me to stop filming. I did.
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger explained in an interview recently that Europe had made a serious mistake by creating within itself, through mass immigration, populations that reject all its norms, values and a “constitutional basis”. He deplored the fact that in 2023 in Berlin, almost 80 years after the Holocaust, people, with complete impunity, are shouting “Death to the Jews” in the streets.
In the hours following the revelation of the butchery committed by Hamas, a wave of racist violence and attacks began in Europe, especially in France. Against Arabs or Muslims? Not at all. Against Jews, of course. In Europe, Jews are still the victims of hatred and violence. Apparently it is a way for our local pro-Hamas Europeans to celebrate the jihad pogrom of October 7.
Even though the media have been warning us for 30 years about the risk of violence against Muslims, in deeds and figures, our Jewish fellow citizens are infinitely more victims of violence and abuse than are Muslims living in Europe. Already in 2015, Jeffrey Goldberg warned in The Atlantic: “In 2014, Jews in Europe were murdered, raped, beaten, stalked, chased harassed, spat on and chased for being Jewish.”
I feel a certain fatigue towards those who hold Israelis and Arabs equally responsible. Not just the European Left, which often no longer takes the trouble to hide its anti-Semitism. No, also those on the right who, out of cowardice or ignorance, tell us that Israel had it coming.

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Fighting the Surveillance State Begins with the Individual | Mises Wire

Posted by M. C. on October 26, 2023

It’s a simple fact of life that when the government is given a power—whether that be to regulate, surveil, tax, or plunder—it is nigh impossible to wrestle it away from the state outside somehow disposing of the state entirely. This is why the issue of undoing mass surveillance is of the utmost importance. If the government has the power to spy on its populace, it will.

https://mises.org/wire/fighting-surveillance-state-begins-individual

Joseph Lawrence

It’s a well-known fact at this point that in the United States and most of the so-called free countries that there is a robust surveillance state in place, collecting data on the entire populace. This has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt by people like Edward Snowden, a National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower who exposed that the NSA was conducting mass surveillance on US citizens and the world as a whole.

The NSA used applications like those from Prism Systems to piggyback on corporations and the data collection their users had agreed to in the terms of service. Google would scan all emails sent to a Gmail address to use for personalized advertising. The government then went to these companies and demanded the data, and this is what makes the surveillance state so interesting. Neo-Marxists like Shoshana Zuboff have dubbed this “surveillance capitalism.”

In China, the mass surveillance is conducted at a loss. Setting up closed-circuit television cameras and hiring government workers to be a mandatory editorial staff for blogs and social media can get quite expensive. But if you parasitically leech off a profitable business practice it means that the surveillance state will turn a profit, which is a great asset and an even greater weakness for the system.

You see, when that is what your surveillance state is predicated on you’ve effectively given your subjects an opt-out button. They stop using services that spy on them. There is software and online services that are called “open source,” which refers to software whose code is publicly available and can be viewed by anyone so that you can see exactly what that software does. The opposite of this, and what you’re likely already familiar with, is proprietary software. Open-source software generally markets itself as privacy respecting and doesn’t participate in data collection. Services like that can really undo the tricky situation we’ve found ourselves in.

It’s a simple fact of life that when the government is given a power—whether that be to regulate, surveil, tax, or plunder—it is nigh impossible to wrestle it away from the state outside somehow disposing of the state entirely. This is why the issue of undoing mass surveillance is of the utmost importance. If the government has the power to spy on its populace, it will.

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