We're coming up on the "12 Days of Christmas," aren't we?
Or, as I call them, "The 11 Days Before I Start Shopping."
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Earlier today, I saw a bumper sticker that said, "I'm a veterinarian, therefore I drive like an animal."
It made me realize just how many proctologists there are out there on the roads.
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Oneliners:
Today, I ordered Christmas gifts for our nanny, our housekeeper, tutor, chef and chauffeur: Yep, I ordered them for ME!
You can be your own Santa with a bottle of Tequila and Amazon Prime.
Shout out to all the married folk out there waiting for their spouse to fall asleep on the couch so they can watch what they really want to.
Welcome to adulthood, where you'll be constantly tired except for when its time to go to bed.
My favorite part of being a parent is being told I'm wrong constantly by someone who depends on me for their food, clothes and shelter.
Today's world is a good example of what happens when you let the clowns run the circus.
My brain has too many tabs open.
I just did a week's worth of cardio walking into a spider web.
Our mountains aren't just funny; They're hill areas.
A worm is a pretty disappointing prize for someone who makes the effort to get up early.
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Top 5 New Holiday Songs:
"Santos Baby"
"Grandma Got Run Over By An Autonomous Tesla"
"I'll be in a Home by Christmas"
"O You're-the-Bomb"
"It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like You'll Get My Christmas Card in January"
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A blind golden mole has been rediscovered in South Africa, 87 years after wildlife experts feared it had gone extinct.
I wonder how long until it shows up in my front lawn?
Quote of the Times;
“That obligation is false because the private central banking system, by design, creates more debt than money with which to pay the debt,” Rivero explains. “There is no way out, the way it’s set up. It’s impossible to escape as long as you’re playing by their rules. And you need to understand, private central banking is not science. It is a religion. It’s a set of arbitrary rules created to benefit the priesthood, meaning the bankers, and is supported only because people believe this is the way it’s supposed to be. The fraud persists with often lethal results only because the people are brainwashed into believing that this is the way life is supposed to be and no alternative exists or should even be dreamt of.”
Link of the Times;
Popular Small Health Food Companies We Trusted That Sold Out:
https://deeprootsathome.com/popular-small-health-food-companies-sold-out/
Issue of the Times;
Mass Migration, Ethnic Cleansing, and The Great Reset by Dr. Joseph Sansone
When it comes to biological systems, totally open or totally closed systems die. This is true of a single cell. A cell in the human body has a semi permeable membrane. It has a boundary that allows materials in and out, however, it would not survive if it were totally open nor if it were totally closed. This is true of nations as well. A nation that is totally closed becomes repressive and withers away under that oppressive system. This would likely be politically, culturally, and intellectually. If a nation has no boundaries, it will also eventually die. Its culture and people will fade away.
The American Indians may be the perfect example of this phenomenon. The North American continent was peopled with various different Indian nations. The Iroquois, the Sioux, Cherokee, and other Indian nations or tribes no longer exist because they had a mass migration problem stemming from Europe. Tribes were victims of a technologically more advanced culture combined with massive numbers of migrants that could not be countered. The result was genocide in various forms and the surviving Indians either being pushed into reservations or genetically intermingled with European peoples. The net result was ethnic cleansing, and this ethnic cleansing would have occurred even without the violence, merely from a diluting of the existing population and culture.
This process is occurring in Ireland. In this recent interview with Steve Bannon on Tucker Carlson the issue of massive immigration impacting Ireland was discussed in detail. Bannon explains to Carlson that Ireland is being targeted with 125,000 immigrants in the past year which would be the equivalent of the 9 million illegal aliens that have entered the United States since fake president Biden took office coming to the United States in one year. Bannon points out that the Irish political class have totally sold out. Tucker Carlson pointed out that it appears to be a form of racial hatred or punishment toward the Irish by the British. In a hundred years the Irish population with be displaced and become a minority in Ireland if the trend continues.
This of course has created animosity in Ireland and recent riots broke out after a citizen of Algerian decent stabbed a child. The Irish government has essentially made it a crime to criticize immigration policies under the blanket of hate speech.
The 9 million people that have invaded the United States under fake president Biden is likely to be 15 million by the time the fake election comes. It is subtle, but if you pick up a slight degree of cynicism on my part directed toward the computer elections, you’d be right…
This unfettered migration will clearly lead to Americans of European decent becoming a minority in the United States relatively soon. This is unique because it is an intentional effort to displace a dominant population. It may also lead to the culture itself withering away.
Why is this happening?
The deliberate policy of destabilizing immigration has multiple purposes. The overarching intention is to overthrow the United States by sublimating it into a Global government. Displacing the current population is part of the process. It is a deliberate intention to splinter the culture enough to eliminate an American identity. Once an American Identity is fractured enough there will be less resistance to a Global government. The understanding and identification of the ideals of the American republic and the principles of the Declaration of Independence can be easily undermined as this process continues.
Forcibly removing a population and relocating them is a form of ethnic cleansing. So is forcibly displacing a population with massive migration. Make no mistake about it, this is being done by force by ignoring the will of the populace and Constitutional duty to protect the borders, and through wealth redistribution.
Understand, that even with the radical levels of immigration into the United States since the 1965 immigration act, and the constant flow of illegal immigration into the United States since then, there is still a process of assimilation occurring. Second and third generation Americans, even of non European decent, are assimilating and adopting the dominant culture while simultaneously shifting the already pliable Western culture. The migrants adapt to the culture while the culture adapts to their contributions. This is evident as many recent Americans of non-European decent are equally outraged by the massive amount of illegal immigration occurring. Due to this process of assimilation, the illegal immigration campaign has been enhanced dramatically over the past few years.
The American cultural history and concept of individual liberty must be erased completely. In other words, the flow of immigration into the United States must outpace the process of assimilation, or the destruction of this thing we call the United States and the American culture, will not occur. This is because culture is not only inherited, it is also adopted.
Gaining votes is part of the plan by creating a perpetual underclass. Cheap labor is of course a secondary gain for corporations to support this self-destructive campaign. However, for the taxpayer there are financial burdens placed on government and infrastructure. According to CIS:
"The average immigrant household consumes 33 percent more cash welfare, 57 percent more food assistance, and 44 percent more Medicaid dollars than the average native household. Housing costs are about the same for both groups."
It also appears that reliance on welfare is relevant to the area of origin.
‘The cost of immigrant welfare use varies by the immigrants' region of origin. Figure 2 shows that the highest-cost households are those headed by immigrants from Central America and Mexico, consuming an average of $8,251 in welfare spending. Households headed by immigrants from Europe and Asia tend to be the least costly.”
A shocking 49.5 million or 15% of the United States population is foreign born. This is the highest it has been in any government survey or census ever conducted. According to CIS:
“The foreign-born population has grown on average by 137,000 a month since President Biden took office, compared to 42,000 a month during Trump’s presidency before Covid-19 hit, and 68,000 a month during President Obama’s two terms.”
It is true that this United States is a nation of immigrants or the descendants of immigrants. That is obvious. Actually, every nation is a nation of immigrants or their descendants. Humans have been migrating across the planet and displacing each other since they learned to walk. However, while not always the case, this process often involved conflict and war.
The advances in technology communication and transportation make enhanced migration inevitable. The difference with the situation in the United States and Europe especially, is that it is being done on purpose and coordinated by their own governments in cooperation with a Global deep state bent on global governance.
While the warfare and welfare state have bankrupted the United States economically, the massive migration into the United States is designed to splinter the United States culturally and ethnically. The United States can’t remain a superpower. There must be a multipolar world in order to submerge the United States into this New World Government.
The current levels of legal and illegal immigration have created a degree of havoc that outweighs the contributions and innovations that inevitably arise out of each wave of immigration. Just as the American Indian, their culture, and their way of life, were displaced, America and the American way of life may face a similar fate.
Massive unfettered migration is one puzzle piece in The Great Reset.
Chaos and conflict are part of the plan…
News of the Times;
John Podesta's Friend, Who 'Debunked' Pizzagate, Arrested for Child Rape:
https://www.eutimes.net/2023/11/john-podestas-friend-who-debunked-pizzagate-arrested-for-child-rape/
Pentagon Just Failed its Sixth Straight Audit:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/report-pentagon-just-failed-its-sixth-straight-audit/
Obama-Produced Netflix Apocalypse Movie Warns of Dangers of “White People”:
https://modernity.news/2023/12/11/obama-produced-netflix-apocalypse-movie-warns-of-dangers-of-white-people/
South Dakota saw 94% jump in home-school students:
https://www.keloland.com/news/capitol-news-bureau/south-dakota-saw-94-jump-in-home-school-students/
Martial Arts Competition Changes Rules After Female Fighters Pull Out:
https://resistthemainstream.com/martial-arts-competition-changes-tune-after-female-fighters-pull-out-to-avoid-facing-transgender-fighters/
Ex-editor of left-leaning news site charged with child pornography:
https://nypost.com/2023/11/14/media/ex-editor-in-chief-of-the-recount-charged-with-child-pornography/
Examples From 10 Different Cities Of The "Mad Max" Environment That Now Reigns:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/10-examples-10-different-cities-mad-max-environment-now-reigns-americas-streets
China’s unfinished property projects are 20 times the size of Country Garden:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/15/chinas-unfinished-property-projects-are-20-times-the-size-of-country-garden.html
Female Astronauts Accidentally Launch $100,000 Tool Bag Into Orbit:
https://www.infowars.com/posts/female-astronauts-accidentally-launch-100000-tool-bag-into-orbit-in-cosmic-blunder/
Charges dismissed for Calgary pizzeria owner who served unvaccinated customers:
https://www.rebelnews.com/charges_dismissed_for_calgary_pizzeria_owner_who_served_unvaccinated_customers_during_lockdown
Angry Dem Voter Who Threatened GOP Poll Greeter Identified as Federal Employee:
https://resistthemainstream.com/angry-dem-voter-who-threatened-gop-poll-greeter-identified-as-federal-employee/
Bronx judge frees men charged with beating up NYPD officer:
https://nypost.com/2023/11/16/metro/nyc-cop-attackers-released-without-bail-after-beating-up-nypd-officer/
Teen Beaten to Death on Video by Mob:
https://www.eutimes.net/2023/11/black-teen-beaten-to-death-on-video-by-mob-of-15-kkk-evil-racist-white-supremacist-teens-no-media-reporting-no-outrage/
Oscar-winning folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie is another fake Indian:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/birth-certificate-and-family-testimony-reveal-oscar-winning-folk-singer-buffy-sainte-marie-is-another-fake-indian
NObamacare? Americans Are Skipping Doctor Visits Due To Costs:
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/nobamacare-americans-are-skipping-doctor-visits-due-costs
Open?
Long?
Let's take a moment and be thankful for how well-sewn our pants pockets are.
They are more important than at any other time in recent history with our $1,200 mini-computers.
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Macaulay Culkin got his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame last week.
He was supposed to be there.
But of course, his family showed up and had left him behind at home.
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With Christmas just around the corner, Mayor London Breed of San Francisco encouraged residents to get their shoplifting done early this year.
"Hard to believe the looting season is already upon us!" said Mayor Breed. "We are encouraging all residents to begin shoplifting for Christmas before everything, including the stores themselves, are shuttered and gone!"
Though typically last-minute shoplifters, local couple Jared and Stacey Adams said they would be committing grand larceny much earlier this year. "I waited until Christmas Eve last year and every store in the city had been cleared out and turned into safe injection sites for hobos," said Mr. Adams. "This year, I'm going out with my crowbar the moment Thanksgiving dinner is over. Gosh, it seems like the season for knocking over Apple Stores gets earlier every year, doesn't it?"
At publishing time, Mayor Breed was seen following her own advice as she carefully picked out $949 worth of Macy's merchandise for friends and family.
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Top 5 Most Unpopular Reindeer Names:
Venison
Nixon
Gasher
Pantser
Donner Party
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How much cocaine can Charlie Sheen do?
Enough to kill Two and a Half Men.
Quote of the Times;
"On September 18, 2023, the U.S. national debt crossed $33 trillion. It will reach $34 trillion in late December, a little over 90 days. It took the U.S. over 200 years to have national debt exceed $1 trillion. The national debt now exceeds gross domestic production by 122%. The U.S. government’s 2023 expenditure ratio is 23% of GDP, creating an economy dependent on money printing. The last time the government had a surplus was in 2001, and the last time it paid down treasury debt was in 1961." - Larry Johnson
Link of the Times;
Hunter Biden’s Drug, Prostitute, Spending Sprees Laid Out in Stunning Detail:
https://mytruthnews.com/hunter-bidens-drug-fueled-prostitute-filled-wild-spending-sprees-laid-out-in-stunning-detail/
Issue of the Times;
A short history of Joe's long record of lying about Biden Inc. by David Harsanyi
David Harsanyi notes left-wing media have been forced to change their language over the years.
After being asked the other day why he's interacted with "so many" foreign associates of his son Hunter and brother James, President Joe Biden responded by claiming the allegations were "a bunch of lies."
This, of course, wasn't the first time the president blatantly lied about his role in the family influence-peddling business.
You might recall that during a 2020 campaign event, the then-presidential hopeful was asked by an Iowa man if the former vice president's son Hunter Biden had ever had "access to the Obama administration."
The future president, who had vowed to bring decorum and decency back to the White House, called the man a "damn liar" and "fat" and told him he was "too old" before insulting his IQ.
This act of projection from Biden should have been a warning. It was modus operandi for Joe, whose preternatural dishonesty was impressive even for a politician, to question the mental fitness of those who caught him in a lie.
Biden would go on to contend to have never "discussed with my son anything having to do with what was going on in Ukraine. That's a fact." Another time, the former veep claimed he "never discussed a single thing with my son having to do with Ukraine. No one has indicated I have. We've always kept everything separate."
Not a single thing.
When the New York Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story, strongly indicating that Joe had lied, virtually the entire left-wing media tried to bury the story by relying on the claim of former intelligence officials that the story smelled like Russian "disinformation." Even Joe noted that the "vast majority of the intelligent people have come out and said there's no basis at all."
Well, we soon found out there was plenty of basis to the story. Hunter had hosted a dinner in a private room at Cafe Milano in Washington, D.C., with his dad and an executive from the Biden-funders at Burisma. And in an email dated the next day, the Ukrainian exec thanked Hunter for the meeting with his dad.
In scores of other emails and texts, Hunter talks about his dad helping him secure payments and taking a cut. Indeed, one of Hunter's former business partners contends Joe was involved in the family business, as does Hunter's former close friend, who testified under oath that Joe was on upward of 20 calls with business associates.
At this point, there was overwhelming direct evidence that Joe was a willing participant, at the very least, in creating the impression that influence trading was happening and plenty of circumstantial evidence that the elder Biden was getting a 10% cut for his troubles.
And as evidence of the president's lies about his family's influence-peddling business mounted, "fact-checkers" and the media began struggling to keep up with fresh information. At first, we were told there was "no evidence" that Biden knew anything. Suddenly, there was "no evidence" that Biden had personally benefited from Biden Inc. (as if enriching your entire family wasn't personal enough).
Why then, people wondered, had James Biden written his brother Joe a personal check for $200,000, that also happened to be the exact amount James had received from the failed Chinese-connected Americore family venture on that very same day? Talk about crazy coincidences.
It was around this time that White House language began subtly shifting from blanket denials to finely tuned Clintonesque turns of phrase about Joe never being "in business with his son."
This week, the House Oversight Committee released financial documents illustrating that Hunter signed off on monthly transfers to Joe through Owasco PC, a Biden shell company that pulled at least $5 million from the Chicom energy concerns in 2017 and 2018. The Daily Mail reports there were at least three payments, from September 2018 to November 2018, or a few months before Biden announced he was running for president.
Granted, it's not always easy to find the money trail. The Biden family operated through at least 20 shell companies – as one does when running a completely above-board legit business venture. It's not easy to keep up.
You might also recall that in 2020, Biden had claimed Hunter never "made money in terms of this thing about – what are you talking about – China." But Hunter had not only tagged along on an Air Force Two trip to China in 2013; he'd introduced his dad to the Chinese banker that would be working on a Biden private equity fund.
So I eagerly look forward to fact-checkers, media and the White House clarifying why this is all just fine. From Joe Biden "knew nothing" to Joe Biden "did nothing" to none of what Joe Biden did was "illegal" – it's been a wild ride.
News of the Times;
Gold Bars Discovered in Sen. Bob Menendez’s Residence Linked to 2013 Robbery:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/report-gold-bars-discovered-sen-bob-menendezs-residence/
Former U.S. ambassador arrested on charges of being an agent for Cuba:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/former-american-ambassador-arrested-accused-agent-cuba-rcna127931
3 reasons for the Democrat "great replacement":
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/3_reasons_for_the_democrat_great_replacement.html
Jezebel to shut down after 16 years as parent company lays off staff:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/nov/09/jezebel-news-shut-down-layoffs-go-media
More U.S. military families turning to food bank:
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2023/11/10/military-families-food-banks/3851699627372/
Maryland Teachers Union 'Milking' Taxpayers While Test Scores Plummet:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/maryland-teachers-union-milking-taxpayers-while-test-grades-plummet
If Biden is against antisemitism, why does he continue to fund it:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/if-biden-is-against-antisemitism-why-does-he-continue-to-fund-it
Black man with mile-long rap sheet murders beautiful 18-year-old:
https://revolver.news/2023/11/black-man-with-mile-long-rap-sheet-murders-beautiful-18-year-old-blonde/
FBI Whistleblowers Reveal Agency Is Targeting Agents Based on Their Political Beliefs:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/fbi-whistleblowers-reveal-agency-is-targeting-agents-based/
Studies Show Ivermectin Is A Safe, Potent Cancer Fighter:
https://deeprootsathome.com/shockingly-studies-show-this-drug-is-safe-potent-cancer-drug-fighter/
Researchers discover 'kill switch' that causes cancer cells to self-destruct:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/cancer-cure-breakthrough-kill-switch-cells-research
Owner Of Chinese Biolab Busted In California Linked To CCP Military Program:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/makeshift-california-biolab-owner-tied-ccp-military-program-house-report
Archbishop Viganò Condemns Pope’s Decision to Remove Conservative Catholic Bishop:
https://thenewamerican.com/news/archbishop-vigano-condemns-popes-decision-to-remove-conservative-catholic-bishop-strickland/
Bill Gates buying up land, threatening small farms under guise of saving planet:
https://nypost.com/2023/11/14/news/bill-gates-buying-up-land-threatening-small-farms-under-guise-of-saving-planet-author-claims/amp/
Chevrolet app turns off vehicle involved in Janesville police chase:
https://www.nbc15.com/2023/11/15/chevrolet-app-turns-off-vehicle-involved-janesville-police-chase/
They are more important than at any other time in recent history with our $1,200 mini-computers.
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Macaulay Culkin got his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame last week.
He was supposed to be there.
But of course, his family showed up and had left him behind at home.
*.*
With Christmas just around the corner, Mayor London Breed of San Francisco encouraged residents to get their shoplifting done early this year.
"Hard to believe the looting season is already upon us!" said Mayor Breed. "We are encouraging all residents to begin shoplifting for Christmas before everything, including the stores themselves, are shuttered and gone!"
Though typically last-minute shoplifters, local couple Jared and Stacey Adams said they would be committing grand larceny much earlier this year. "I waited until Christmas Eve last year and every store in the city had been cleared out and turned into safe injection sites for hobos," said Mr. Adams. "This year, I'm going out with my crowbar the moment Thanksgiving dinner is over. Gosh, it seems like the season for knocking over Apple Stores gets earlier every year, doesn't it?"
At publishing time, Mayor Breed was seen following her own advice as she carefully picked out $949 worth of Macy's merchandise for friends and family.
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Top 5 Most Unpopular Reindeer Names:
Venison
Nixon
Gasher
Pantser
Donner Party
*.*
How much cocaine can Charlie Sheen do?
Enough to kill Two and a Half Men.
Quote of the Times;
"On September 18, 2023, the U.S. national debt crossed $33 trillion. It will reach $34 trillion in late December, a little over 90 days. It took the U.S. over 200 years to have national debt exceed $1 trillion. The national debt now exceeds gross domestic production by 122%. The U.S. government’s 2023 expenditure ratio is 23% of GDP, creating an economy dependent on money printing. The last time the government had a surplus was in 2001, and the last time it paid down treasury debt was in 1961." - Larry Johnson
Link of the Times;
Hunter Biden’s Drug, Prostitute, Spending Sprees Laid Out in Stunning Detail:
https://mytruthnews.com/hunter-bidens-drug-fueled-prostitute-filled-wild-spending-sprees-laid-out-in-stunning-detail/
Issue of the Times;
A short history of Joe's long record of lying about Biden Inc. by David Harsanyi
David Harsanyi notes left-wing media have been forced to change their language over the years.
After being asked the other day why he's interacted with "so many" foreign associates of his son Hunter and brother James, President Joe Biden responded by claiming the allegations were "a bunch of lies."
This, of course, wasn't the first time the president blatantly lied about his role in the family influence-peddling business.
You might recall that during a 2020 campaign event, the then-presidential hopeful was asked by an Iowa man if the former vice president's son Hunter Biden had ever had "access to the Obama administration."
The future president, who had vowed to bring decorum and decency back to the White House, called the man a "damn liar" and "fat" and told him he was "too old" before insulting his IQ.
This act of projection from Biden should have been a warning. It was modus operandi for Joe, whose preternatural dishonesty was impressive even for a politician, to question the mental fitness of those who caught him in a lie.
Biden would go on to contend to have never "discussed with my son anything having to do with what was going on in Ukraine. That's a fact." Another time, the former veep claimed he "never discussed a single thing with my son having to do with Ukraine. No one has indicated I have. We've always kept everything separate."
Not a single thing.
When the New York Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story, strongly indicating that Joe had lied, virtually the entire left-wing media tried to bury the story by relying on the claim of former intelligence officials that the story smelled like Russian "disinformation." Even Joe noted that the "vast majority of the intelligent people have come out and said there's no basis at all."
Well, we soon found out there was plenty of basis to the story. Hunter had hosted a dinner in a private room at Cafe Milano in Washington, D.C., with his dad and an executive from the Biden-funders at Burisma. And in an email dated the next day, the Ukrainian exec thanked Hunter for the meeting with his dad.
In scores of other emails and texts, Hunter talks about his dad helping him secure payments and taking a cut. Indeed, one of Hunter's former business partners contends Joe was involved in the family business, as does Hunter's former close friend, who testified under oath that Joe was on upward of 20 calls with business associates.
At this point, there was overwhelming direct evidence that Joe was a willing participant, at the very least, in creating the impression that influence trading was happening and plenty of circumstantial evidence that the elder Biden was getting a 10% cut for his troubles.
And as evidence of the president's lies about his family's influence-peddling business mounted, "fact-checkers" and the media began struggling to keep up with fresh information. At first, we were told there was "no evidence" that Biden knew anything. Suddenly, there was "no evidence" that Biden had personally benefited from Biden Inc. (as if enriching your entire family wasn't personal enough).
Why then, people wondered, had James Biden written his brother Joe a personal check for $200,000, that also happened to be the exact amount James had received from the failed Chinese-connected Americore family venture on that very same day? Talk about crazy coincidences.
It was around this time that White House language began subtly shifting from blanket denials to finely tuned Clintonesque turns of phrase about Joe never being "in business with his son."
This week, the House Oversight Committee released financial documents illustrating that Hunter signed off on monthly transfers to Joe through Owasco PC, a Biden shell company that pulled at least $5 million from the Chicom energy concerns in 2017 and 2018. The Daily Mail reports there were at least three payments, from September 2018 to November 2018, or a few months before Biden announced he was running for president.
Granted, it's not always easy to find the money trail. The Biden family operated through at least 20 shell companies – as one does when running a completely above-board legit business venture. It's not easy to keep up.
You might also recall that in 2020, Biden had claimed Hunter never "made money in terms of this thing about – what are you talking about – China." But Hunter had not only tagged along on an Air Force Two trip to China in 2013; he'd introduced his dad to the Chinese banker that would be working on a Biden private equity fund.
So I eagerly look forward to fact-checkers, media and the White House clarifying why this is all just fine. From Joe Biden "knew nothing" to Joe Biden "did nothing" to none of what Joe Biden did was "illegal" – it's been a wild ride.
News of the Times;
Gold Bars Discovered in Sen. Bob Menendez’s Residence Linked to 2013 Robbery:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/report-gold-bars-discovered-sen-bob-menendezs-residence/
Former U.S. ambassador arrested on charges of being an agent for Cuba:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/former-american-ambassador-arrested-accused-agent-cuba-rcna127931
3 reasons for the Democrat "great replacement":
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/3_reasons_for_the_democrat_great_replacement.html
Jezebel to shut down after 16 years as parent company lays off staff:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/nov/09/jezebel-news-shut-down-layoffs-go-media
More U.S. military families turning to food bank:
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2023/11/10/military-families-food-banks/3851699627372/
Maryland Teachers Union 'Milking' Taxpayers While Test Scores Plummet:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/maryland-teachers-union-milking-taxpayers-while-test-grades-plummet
If Biden is against antisemitism, why does he continue to fund it:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/if-biden-is-against-antisemitism-why-does-he-continue-to-fund-it
Black man with mile-long rap sheet murders beautiful 18-year-old:
https://revolver.news/2023/11/black-man-with-mile-long-rap-sheet-murders-beautiful-18-year-old-blonde/
FBI Whistleblowers Reveal Agency Is Targeting Agents Based on Their Political Beliefs:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/fbi-whistleblowers-reveal-agency-is-targeting-agents-based/
Studies Show Ivermectin Is A Safe, Potent Cancer Fighter:
https://deeprootsathome.com/shockingly-studies-show-this-drug-is-safe-potent-cancer-drug-fighter/
Researchers discover 'kill switch' that causes cancer cells to self-destruct:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/cancer-cure-breakthrough-kill-switch-cells-research
Owner Of Chinese Biolab Busted In California Linked To CCP Military Program:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/makeshift-california-biolab-owner-tied-ccp-military-program-house-report
Archbishop Viganò Condemns Pope’s Decision to Remove Conservative Catholic Bishop:
https://thenewamerican.com/news/archbishop-vigano-condemns-popes-decision-to-remove-conservative-catholic-bishop-strickland/
Bill Gates buying up land, threatening small farms under guise of saving planet:
https://nypost.com/2023/11/14/news/bill-gates-buying-up-land-threatening-small-farms-under-guise-of-saving-planet-author-claims/amp/
Chevrolet app turns off vehicle involved in Janesville police chase:
https://www.nbc15.com/2023/11/15/chevrolet-app-turns-off-vehicle-involved-janesville-police-chase/
Exposing?
The devil whispered in my ear, "You're not strong enough to stand the storm."
I replied, "Well, at least I didn't lose my golden fiddle to some hillbilly in Georgia!"
*.*
Two women on a bus were fighting bitterly over the last seat available.
Frustrated, the driver having already tried unsuccessfully to intervene, when another passenger yelled; "Let the ugly one take the seat!"
Both women stood for the rest of the trip.
*.*
Oneliners:
Surgeons probably get their money's worth when eating a T-bone steak.
Whatever sprinkles your donut.
If no one comes from the future to stop you from doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?
You know you're in trouble when the little voices in your head start a chat group.
I'm staying home because as soon as I step outside, I'll spend $100.
Looking for a professional way to tell people at work, "I really don't care."
I can't find a single good reason to act my age.
Life is like a video game, we have someone trying to help us with the tutorial, however we just try to skip the instructions, then end up just mashing buttons trying to figure out how the game works.
OK, last time I'm asking: What the heck is the K doing in 'knife'?
I wouldn't need Facebook if there was a website that just told me whether or not my exes got fat.
Biscuits 'n Gravy is just wet flour on really dry flour.
*.*
I bought a bottle of wine today and the label on the back read, "Usually drunk with pizza."
I thought, "What a coincidence, so am I."
*.*
Male snake: hissssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
Feminist snake: herrrssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
Quote of the Times;
“Germany’s unforgivable crime before World War II was its attempt to loosen its economy out of the world trade system, and to build up an independent exchange system from which the world finance couldn’t profit anymore. We butchered the wrong pig.” – Churchill
Link of the Times;
"It's A Powder Keg":
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ireland-powder-keg-tucker-carlson-and-steve-bannon-ireland-stabbing-insanity-and
Issue of the Times;
Exposing The 2020 Fed-Ordered, Academic-Run, Corporate-Censorship Extortion Racket from the New York Post Editorial Board
The Department of Homeland Security was censoring speech before the 2020 election, new emails released by the House Judiciary Committee show.
How? Through the favorite weapon of America’s intelligence apparatus, fake claims of disinformation.
Stanford University’s Election Integrity Partnership was set up at the request of DHS and its Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, says a senior member of one of the EIP’s founding groups, and they were “in weekly comms to debrief about disinfo.”
That was in July 2020.
It’s beyond clear that this was part of battlespace prep to help Joe Biden win that November.
The EIP came after a number of other “disinformation” operations had been deployed against then-President Donald Trump.
Most notorious was RussiaGate, a scheme in which 100%-false claims that Trump was colluding with the Russian government were laundered through the Justice Department and Congress.
Another was the effort to suppress our reporting around Hunter Biden’s laptop (also 100% correct).
But this was about more than Trump.
It was about total control of everybody’s speech and thought.
Per the Judiciary Committee, feds and universities “pressured social media companies to censor true information, jokes, and political opinions.”
And guess what? The companies did.
Turns out, implicitly threatening an industry whose regulation you oversee works.
Shocking no one, “this pressure was largely directed in a way that benefitted one side of the political aisle: true information posted by Republicans and conservatives was labeled as ‘misinformation’ while false information posted by Democrats and liberals was largely unreported and untouched by the censors,” the committee notes.
And the overall purpose of this effort was to “censor Americans engaged in core political speech in the lead up to the 2020 election.”
You know the rest of the story.
Once in office, Biden kept up the censorship push.
Recall the short-lived Disinformation Governance Board, a literal Ministry of Truth the administration attempted to convene in spring 2022 that sank under the weight of its obvious unconstitutionality.
And the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit has revealed that this censorship-via-cutout extended beyond political speech to COVID claims and other key issues.
Most claims about a “deep state” end up sounding like conspiratorial hogwash.
But it’s increasingly hard to deny that high-powered elements of our intelligence and security apparatus were working to oust Trump — and doubled down on violating the rights of all Americans once Biden took over.
News of the Times;
High-end brothel ring sparks concerns national security has been compromised:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12735769/Congress-sex-brothel-targeting-military-officials-politicians.html
How The Democratic Party Faked An American Insurrection:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/how-democratic-party-faked-american-insurrection
Jan 6th tapes prove Biden prosecutors knowingly falsified the charges that caused Matthew Perna to kill himself:
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/jan-6th-tapes-prove-biden-prosecutors-knowingly-falsified-the-charges-that-caused-matthew-perna-to-kill-himself/
MP who had sex with prostitute on a billiard table while four Tory MPs cheered him on:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12711071/MP-sex-prostitute-Tory-MPs-cheered-on.html
Jeff Bezos’ move out of Washington state sparks questions about wealth taxes:
https://www.geekwire.com/2023/jeff-bezos-move-out-of-washington-state-sparks-questions-about-wealth-taxes/
Virginia Democrat Just Got Indicted: Adkins Is Charged With 82 Counts:
https://borenews.com/2022/05/14/virginia-democrat-just-got-indicted-adkins-is-charged-with-82-counts-including-dozens-of-election-felonies/
Alabama preacher F.L. ‘Bubba’ Copeland kills himself after being outed:
https://nypost.com/2023/11/04/news/alabama-preacher-kills-himself-after-being-outed-as-transgender-curvy-girl/
Putin: First Soviet government was mostly Jewish:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/putin-first-soviet-government-was-mostly-jewish/
Central Bank Gold Buying Continued Unabated in September:
https://schiffgold.com/key-gold-news/central-bank-gold-buying-continued-unabated-in-september/
Look What They Found In Back Of Starbucks Big Rig:
https://borenews.com/2023/08/09/breaking-news-out-of-washington-look-what-they-found-in-back-of-starbucks-big-rig-holy-hell/
Former head of Spain's People's Party is ambushed and shot in the face:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12730127/Gun-horror-Madrid-former-head-Spains-Peoples-Party-ambushed-shot-face.html
‘We came to kill White people!’ — 9 arrested for murder of French teen:
https://rmx.news/crime/we-came-to-kill-white-people-9-arrested-for-murder-of-french-teen-in-mass-stabbing-attack/
Lonely on campus: Students are siloed, silenced:
https://www.joannejacobs.com/post/lonely-on-campus-students-are-siloed-silenced
Only 2% of 140,000 Migrants In NYC Applied for Work Permits:
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2023/11/11/only-2-of-140000-migrants-in-nyc-applied-for-work-permits-n2389668
Trump Plans Massive Deportations, Detention Camps for Illegals:
https://amgreatness.com/2023/11/13/trump-plans-massive-deportations-detention-camps-for-illegals-if-re-elected-in-2024/
I replied, "Well, at least I didn't lose my golden fiddle to some hillbilly in Georgia!"
*.*
Two women on a bus were fighting bitterly over the last seat available.
Frustrated, the driver having already tried unsuccessfully to intervene, when another passenger yelled; "Let the ugly one take the seat!"
Both women stood for the rest of the trip.
*.*
Oneliners:
Surgeons probably get their money's worth when eating a T-bone steak.
Whatever sprinkles your donut.
If no one comes from the future to stop you from doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?
You know you're in trouble when the little voices in your head start a chat group.
I'm staying home because as soon as I step outside, I'll spend $100.
Looking for a professional way to tell people at work, "I really don't care."
I can't find a single good reason to act my age.
Life is like a video game, we have someone trying to help us with the tutorial, however we just try to skip the instructions, then end up just mashing buttons trying to figure out how the game works.
OK, last time I'm asking: What the heck is the K doing in 'knife'?
I wouldn't need Facebook if there was a website that just told me whether or not my exes got fat.
Biscuits 'n Gravy is just wet flour on really dry flour.
*.*
I bought a bottle of wine today and the label on the back read, "Usually drunk with pizza."
I thought, "What a coincidence, so am I."
*.*
Male snake: hissssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
Feminist snake: herrrssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
Quote of the Times;
“Germany’s unforgivable crime before World War II was its attempt to loosen its economy out of the world trade system, and to build up an independent exchange system from which the world finance couldn’t profit anymore. We butchered the wrong pig.” – Churchill
Link of the Times;
"It's A Powder Keg":
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ireland-powder-keg-tucker-carlson-and-steve-bannon-ireland-stabbing-insanity-and
Issue of the Times;
Exposing The 2020 Fed-Ordered, Academic-Run, Corporate-Censorship Extortion Racket from the New York Post Editorial Board
The Department of Homeland Security was censoring speech before the 2020 election, new emails released by the House Judiciary Committee show.
How? Through the favorite weapon of America’s intelligence apparatus, fake claims of disinformation.
Stanford University’s Election Integrity Partnership was set up at the request of DHS and its Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, says a senior member of one of the EIP’s founding groups, and they were “in weekly comms to debrief about disinfo.”
That was in July 2020.
It’s beyond clear that this was part of battlespace prep to help Joe Biden win that November.
The EIP came after a number of other “disinformation” operations had been deployed against then-President Donald Trump.
Most notorious was RussiaGate, a scheme in which 100%-false claims that Trump was colluding with the Russian government were laundered through the Justice Department and Congress.
Another was the effort to suppress our reporting around Hunter Biden’s laptop (also 100% correct).
But this was about more than Trump.
It was about total control of everybody’s speech and thought.
Per the Judiciary Committee, feds and universities “pressured social media companies to censor true information, jokes, and political opinions.”
And guess what? The companies did.
Turns out, implicitly threatening an industry whose regulation you oversee works.
Shocking no one, “this pressure was largely directed in a way that benefitted one side of the political aisle: true information posted by Republicans and conservatives was labeled as ‘misinformation’ while false information posted by Democrats and liberals was largely unreported and untouched by the censors,” the committee notes.
And the overall purpose of this effort was to “censor Americans engaged in core political speech in the lead up to the 2020 election.”
You know the rest of the story.
Once in office, Biden kept up the censorship push.
Recall the short-lived Disinformation Governance Board, a literal Ministry of Truth the administration attempted to convene in spring 2022 that sank under the weight of its obvious unconstitutionality.
And the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit has revealed that this censorship-via-cutout extended beyond political speech to COVID claims and other key issues.
Most claims about a “deep state” end up sounding like conspiratorial hogwash.
But it’s increasingly hard to deny that high-powered elements of our intelligence and security apparatus were working to oust Trump — and doubled down on violating the rights of all Americans once Biden took over.
News of the Times;
High-end brothel ring sparks concerns national security has been compromised:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12735769/Congress-sex-brothel-targeting-military-officials-politicians.html
How The Democratic Party Faked An American Insurrection:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/how-democratic-party-faked-american-insurrection
Jan 6th tapes prove Biden prosecutors knowingly falsified the charges that caused Matthew Perna to kill himself:
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/jan-6th-tapes-prove-biden-prosecutors-knowingly-falsified-the-charges-that-caused-matthew-perna-to-kill-himself/
MP who had sex with prostitute on a billiard table while four Tory MPs cheered him on:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12711071/MP-sex-prostitute-Tory-MPs-cheered-on.html
Jeff Bezos’ move out of Washington state sparks questions about wealth taxes:
https://www.geekwire.com/2023/jeff-bezos-move-out-of-washington-state-sparks-questions-about-wealth-taxes/
Virginia Democrat Just Got Indicted: Adkins Is Charged With 82 Counts:
https://borenews.com/2022/05/14/virginia-democrat-just-got-indicted-adkins-is-charged-with-82-counts-including-dozens-of-election-felonies/
Alabama preacher F.L. ‘Bubba’ Copeland kills himself after being outed:
https://nypost.com/2023/11/04/news/alabama-preacher-kills-himself-after-being-outed-as-transgender-curvy-girl/
Putin: First Soviet government was mostly Jewish:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/putin-first-soviet-government-was-mostly-jewish/
Central Bank Gold Buying Continued Unabated in September:
https://schiffgold.com/key-gold-news/central-bank-gold-buying-continued-unabated-in-september/
Look What They Found In Back Of Starbucks Big Rig:
https://borenews.com/2023/08/09/breaking-news-out-of-washington-look-what-they-found-in-back-of-starbucks-big-rig-holy-hell/
Former head of Spain's People's Party is ambushed and shot in the face:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12730127/Gun-horror-Madrid-former-head-Spains-Peoples-Party-ambushed-shot-face.html
‘We came to kill White people!’ — 9 arrested for murder of French teen:
https://rmx.news/crime/we-came-to-kill-white-people-9-arrested-for-murder-of-french-teen-in-mass-stabbing-attack/
Lonely on campus: Students are siloed, silenced:
https://www.joannejacobs.com/post/lonely-on-campus-students-are-siloed-silenced
Only 2% of 140,000 Migrants In NYC Applied for Work Permits:
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2023/11/11/only-2-of-140000-migrants-in-nyc-applied-for-work-permits-n2389668
Trump Plans Massive Deportations, Detention Camps for Illegals:
https://amgreatness.com/2023/11/13/trump-plans-massive-deportations-detention-camps-for-illegals-if-re-elected-in-2024/
Trilemma?
Dear Black Friday, we all have big screen TVs.
Put those groceries on sale.
*.*
Thanksgiving is a time to count your blessings.
One by one, as each goes home.
*.*
As cancel culture has come under attack in recent weeks, liberals have begun to grow worried that it might get canceled. And if that happens, they'll be in the terrible situation of having to discuss and defend their ideas with people who disagree with them.
Progressives have felt a growing anxiety over the thought of losing cancel culture and having to stand by their ideas and defend them with logic.
It's especially hard for the Far Left, as Communists much prefer silencing people and murdering them to having to explain their defense of a system that has killed over 100 million people. "It's what Joseph Stalin would have done," said Portland anarcho-communist Jayde Wilson.
*.*
I just found out my wife is having an affair. I asked, "What the fuvk does he have that I don't?"
She said, "Sex!"
*.*
Apparently, Patrick Mahomes has a cold.
But his teammates aren't worried, since they apparently can't catch anything.
Quote of the Times;
The fools of the world love to declare “there is no evidence” even when they are staring directly at irrefutable and conclusive proof. But the weight of the evidence, when seen through the lens of history, is absolutely staggering. And the provable fact of the matter is that nearly everything you were taught, from the innocent English settlers being forced to seize land from savage Indian tribes to the need to drop atomic bombs to force the Japanese to surrender to the assassination of President Kennedy to Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to the inevitable Ukrainian victory in the Donbass, has been an absolute lie. - Vox Day
Link of the Times;
All Wars Are Bankers Wars:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/10/joseph-mercola/all-wars-are-bankers-wars/
Issue of the Times;
The "Trilemma" That Runs The World by James Rickards
Today we’re considering the real environment that determines economic conditions.
It has nothing to do with short-term data, Fed policy, conventional economic models or other factors most economic commentary focuses on.
Instead, it has to do with the “trilemma,” identified in the 1960s by economist Robert Mundell.
Mundell identified three critical policy variables that nations face:
1. the central bank policy rate,
2. the exchange rate,
3. and open capital accounts.
He said that nations could control any two of these variables, but not all three at once.
If you want to control the policy rate and the exchange rate you can, but you have to close your capital account. Otherwise, if your policy rate is high and your capital account is open, capital will flow in and make your exchange rate higher than you want.
Or if you have a set exchange rate and open capital account, you have to let your policy rate float along with other central banks to avoid the exchange rate pressure.
In the first case, you control the policy rate and have an open capital account, but you lose control over exchange rates. In the second case, you control your exchange rate and have an open capital account, but you lose control of your policy rate. The only way to control the policy rate and the exchange rate is to close the capital account.
As Mundell explained, you can control two of the three factors, but not all three.
If you try, you will fail — markets will make sure of that. A country that attempts to have all three will fail in one of several ways including a reserve crisis, an exchange rate crisis or a recession.
Freedonia Can’t Escape the Trilemma
Consider the case of a country — call it Freedonia — that wants to cut its interest rate from 3% to 2% to stimulate growth. At the same time, Freedonia’s main trading partner, Sylvania, has an interest rate of 3%.
Freedonia also keeps an open capital account (to encourage direct foreign investment).
Finally, Freedonia pegs its exchange rate to Sylvania at a rate of 10-1. This is a “cheap” exchange rate designed to stimulate exports from Freedonia to Sylvania.
In this example, Freedonia is trying the impossible trinity. It wants an open capital account, a fixed exchange rate and an independent monetary policy (it has an interest rate of 2% while Sylvania’s rate is 3%).
What happens next?
The arbitrageurs get to work. They borrow money in Freedonia at 2% in order to invest in Sylvania at 3%. This causes the Freedonia central bank to sell its foreign exchange reserves and print local currency to meet the demand for local currency loans and outbound investment.
Printing the local currency puts downward pressure on the fixed exchange rate and causes inflation in local prices.
Eventually something breaks.
Country Freedonia may run out of foreign exchange forcing it to close the capital account or break the peg (this is what happened to the U.K. in 1992 when George Soros broke the Bank of England).
Or country Freedonia will print so much money that inflation will get out of control forcing it to raise interest rates again.
The exact policy response can vary, but the end result is that country Freedonia cannot maintain the trilemma. It will have to raise interest rates, close the capital account, break the peg or all three in order to avoid losing all of its foreign exchange and going broke.
This shows you how powerful the trilemma is as an analytic tool.
The Trilemma Explains the Strong Dollar
The major economies today all have mostly open capital accounts (although China does impose some restrictions), which means they can control interest rates or exchange rates, but not both.
Most major economies fix short-term interest rates, which means they lose control over exchange rates.
This means the interest rate and the exchange rate have to be thought of as a pair. A higher interest rate generally results in a stronger currency. That’s exactly what the U.S. is experiencing today where sharply higher interest rates have resulted in a stronger dollar.
The ability of central banks to pursue any interest rate policy they might prefer is further constrained by conditions in the real economy.
Central banks target policy rates intended to produce maximum real growth, low unemployment and price stability.
As noted above, if maximum potential real growth in the U.S. is about 3%, the Fed will target a neutral rate of interest (also called r*) that will produce 3% growth, which is consistent with price stability and should optimize employment at the same time.
If the Fed guesses at a neutral rate that is too high, they will slow the economy, hurt job growth and cause disinflation or deflation. If the Fed guesses at a neutral rate that is too low, they will cause the economy to run hot, tighten labor markets and cause inflation.
Since the Fed is guessing, they are likely to guess wrong. Sooner than later, the Fed’s incorrect guess shows up in economic data.
Still, the result of trying to hit a neutral rate means central banks will wander high or low while trying to converge on the unseen target. Other central banks are doing the same.
This neutral rate targeting combined with Mundell’s trilemma shows us that all major central banks with reserve currency status are not really free agents but are highly constrained by the need to hit the neutral rate, avoid inflation or deflation and maintain reasonably stable exchange rates.
This is a highly imperfect process with many errors committed along the way, but it does provide a framework for forecasting international monetary policy using just a few key factors.
The One Big Exception to the Trilemma
By the way, there’s historically been one big exception to the trilemma. That’s the United States.
The U.S. sets interest rates independently and has an open capital account. The U.S. does not officially peg the dollar to any other currency (thus technically not breaking the trilemma). But it does work with other countries to allow them to informally peg to the dollar.
Why hasn’t the U.S. suffered adverse consequences? Because the U.S. doesn’t need foreign exchange.
The dollar is still the leading reserve currency in the world (about 60% of global reserves and close to 90% of global foreign exchange trades), so the U.S. can never run out of foreign exchange to pay for things. It can just print more dollars!
This is what the French called the dollar’s “exorbitant privilege” in the 1960s.
Now you see why so many trading partners like the BRICS nations are trying to escape from a dollar-denominated global system (among other reasons, like escaping dollar-based sanctions).
The game is rigged against other countries, and in favor of the U.S.
This is why the game won’t last — and why King Dollar’s days are numbered.
News of the Times;
Police Ignited the Crowd on Jan. 6, Threw a Grandma Down a Flight of 10 Steps TWICE:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/making-rounds-how-police-ignited-crowd-jan-6/
NYC City Council funneled $9 MILLION in taxpayer dollars to anti-Israel groups:
https://thepostmillennial.com/nyc-city-council-funneled-9-million-in-taxpayer-dollars-to-anti-israel-groups-that-sponsored-massive-protests
Offshore wind project touted as ‘Bidenomics in action’ immediately shuttered:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/11/offshore_wind_project_touted_as_bidenomics_in_action_immediately_shuttered_due_to_high_inflation_and_rising_interest_rates.html
DCG School Board candidates ‘unite’ in favor of pornographic books:
https://theiowastandard.com/dcg-school-board-candidates-unite-in-favor-of-pornographic-books-and-gender-affirmation-for-minors/
1 administrator for every 3 undergrads:
https://www.thecollegefix.com/washington-and-lee-university-employs-1-administrator-for-every-3-undergrads/
Ohio State University doubled DEI staff in five years:
https://www.thecollegefix.com/ohio-state-university-doubled-dei-staff-in-five-years-payroll-costs-almost-tripled/
Double Standards at Princeton:
https://www.city-journal.org/article/double-standards-at-princeton
Five Nordic nations are slowly ending their love affair with Muslim immigration:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/11/five_nordic_nations_are_slowly_ending_their_love_affair_with_muslim_immigration.html
After Failing 6 Audits, Guess What the Pentagon Is Asking For:
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2023/11/22/after-failing-6-audits-pentagon-wants-114-million-for-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-n4924118
E-Bus Loses Power Going Up Hill, Rolls Backward, Crashes Into Row Of Cars:
https://climatechangedispatch.com/e-bus-loses-power-going-up-hill-rolls-backward-crashes-into-row-of-cars/
Hard-Left activist is Met Police adviser:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12712683/Hard-Left-activist-led-river-sea-chant-pro-Palestine-rally-Met-Police-adviser-leadership-coordinator-Scotland-Yard-says-support-Israel-investigated-hate-crime.html
Southern Poverty Law Center Turns Blind Eye to Real Hate:
https://theiowastandard.com/southern-poverty-law-center-turns-blind-eye-to-real-hate/
NYC Struggles With Post-COVID Recovery As Foot Traffic Falls 33%:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/nyc-struggles-post-covid-recovery-foot-traffic-down-33
Biden Spent $1 Billion To Get Schools E-Buses. It’s Been A Disaster:
https://climatechangedispatch.com/biden-spent-1-billion-to-get-schools-e-buses-its-been-a-disaster/
Leonkov Doesn't Hold Back:
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/11/leonkov-doesnt-hold-back.html
Put those groceries on sale.
*.*
Thanksgiving is a time to count your blessings.
One by one, as each goes home.
*.*
As cancel culture has come under attack in recent weeks, liberals have begun to grow worried that it might get canceled. And if that happens, they'll be in the terrible situation of having to discuss and defend their ideas with people who disagree with them.
Progressives have felt a growing anxiety over the thought of losing cancel culture and having to stand by their ideas and defend them with logic.
It's especially hard for the Far Left, as Communists much prefer silencing people and murdering them to having to explain their defense of a system that has killed over 100 million people. "It's what Joseph Stalin would have done," said Portland anarcho-communist Jayde Wilson.
*.*
I just found out my wife is having an affair. I asked, "What the fuvk does he have that I don't?"
She said, "Sex!"
*.*
Apparently, Patrick Mahomes has a cold.
But his teammates aren't worried, since they apparently can't catch anything.
Quote of the Times;
The fools of the world love to declare “there is no evidence” even when they are staring directly at irrefutable and conclusive proof. But the weight of the evidence, when seen through the lens of history, is absolutely staggering. And the provable fact of the matter is that nearly everything you were taught, from the innocent English settlers being forced to seize land from savage Indian tribes to the need to drop atomic bombs to force the Japanese to surrender to the assassination of President Kennedy to Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to the inevitable Ukrainian victory in the Donbass, has been an absolute lie. - Vox Day
Link of the Times;
All Wars Are Bankers Wars:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/10/joseph-mercola/all-wars-are-bankers-wars/
Issue of the Times;
The "Trilemma" That Runs The World by James Rickards
Today we’re considering the real environment that determines economic conditions.
It has nothing to do with short-term data, Fed policy, conventional economic models or other factors most economic commentary focuses on.
Instead, it has to do with the “trilemma,” identified in the 1960s by economist Robert Mundell.
Mundell identified three critical policy variables that nations face:
1. the central bank policy rate,
2. the exchange rate,
3. and open capital accounts.
He said that nations could control any two of these variables, but not all three at once.
If you want to control the policy rate and the exchange rate you can, but you have to close your capital account. Otherwise, if your policy rate is high and your capital account is open, capital will flow in and make your exchange rate higher than you want.
Or if you have a set exchange rate and open capital account, you have to let your policy rate float along with other central banks to avoid the exchange rate pressure.
In the first case, you control the policy rate and have an open capital account, but you lose control over exchange rates. In the second case, you control your exchange rate and have an open capital account, but you lose control of your policy rate. The only way to control the policy rate and the exchange rate is to close the capital account.
As Mundell explained, you can control two of the three factors, but not all three.
If you try, you will fail — markets will make sure of that. A country that attempts to have all three will fail in one of several ways including a reserve crisis, an exchange rate crisis or a recession.
Freedonia Can’t Escape the Trilemma
Consider the case of a country — call it Freedonia — that wants to cut its interest rate from 3% to 2% to stimulate growth. At the same time, Freedonia’s main trading partner, Sylvania, has an interest rate of 3%.
Freedonia also keeps an open capital account (to encourage direct foreign investment).
Finally, Freedonia pegs its exchange rate to Sylvania at a rate of 10-1. This is a “cheap” exchange rate designed to stimulate exports from Freedonia to Sylvania.
In this example, Freedonia is trying the impossible trinity. It wants an open capital account, a fixed exchange rate and an independent monetary policy (it has an interest rate of 2% while Sylvania’s rate is 3%).
What happens next?
The arbitrageurs get to work. They borrow money in Freedonia at 2% in order to invest in Sylvania at 3%. This causes the Freedonia central bank to sell its foreign exchange reserves and print local currency to meet the demand for local currency loans and outbound investment.
Printing the local currency puts downward pressure on the fixed exchange rate and causes inflation in local prices.
Eventually something breaks.
Country Freedonia may run out of foreign exchange forcing it to close the capital account or break the peg (this is what happened to the U.K. in 1992 when George Soros broke the Bank of England).
Or country Freedonia will print so much money that inflation will get out of control forcing it to raise interest rates again.
The exact policy response can vary, but the end result is that country Freedonia cannot maintain the trilemma. It will have to raise interest rates, close the capital account, break the peg or all three in order to avoid losing all of its foreign exchange and going broke.
This shows you how powerful the trilemma is as an analytic tool.
The Trilemma Explains the Strong Dollar
The major economies today all have mostly open capital accounts (although China does impose some restrictions), which means they can control interest rates or exchange rates, but not both.
Most major economies fix short-term interest rates, which means they lose control over exchange rates.
This means the interest rate and the exchange rate have to be thought of as a pair. A higher interest rate generally results in a stronger currency. That’s exactly what the U.S. is experiencing today where sharply higher interest rates have resulted in a stronger dollar.
The ability of central banks to pursue any interest rate policy they might prefer is further constrained by conditions in the real economy.
Central banks target policy rates intended to produce maximum real growth, low unemployment and price stability.
As noted above, if maximum potential real growth in the U.S. is about 3%, the Fed will target a neutral rate of interest (also called r*) that will produce 3% growth, which is consistent with price stability and should optimize employment at the same time.
If the Fed guesses at a neutral rate that is too high, they will slow the economy, hurt job growth and cause disinflation or deflation. If the Fed guesses at a neutral rate that is too low, they will cause the economy to run hot, tighten labor markets and cause inflation.
Since the Fed is guessing, they are likely to guess wrong. Sooner than later, the Fed’s incorrect guess shows up in economic data.
Still, the result of trying to hit a neutral rate means central banks will wander high or low while trying to converge on the unseen target. Other central banks are doing the same.
This neutral rate targeting combined with Mundell’s trilemma shows us that all major central banks with reserve currency status are not really free agents but are highly constrained by the need to hit the neutral rate, avoid inflation or deflation and maintain reasonably stable exchange rates.
This is a highly imperfect process with many errors committed along the way, but it does provide a framework for forecasting international monetary policy using just a few key factors.
The One Big Exception to the Trilemma
By the way, there’s historically been one big exception to the trilemma. That’s the United States.
The U.S. sets interest rates independently and has an open capital account. The U.S. does not officially peg the dollar to any other currency (thus technically not breaking the trilemma). But it does work with other countries to allow them to informally peg to the dollar.
Why hasn’t the U.S. suffered adverse consequences? Because the U.S. doesn’t need foreign exchange.
The dollar is still the leading reserve currency in the world (about 60% of global reserves and close to 90% of global foreign exchange trades), so the U.S. can never run out of foreign exchange to pay for things. It can just print more dollars!
This is what the French called the dollar’s “exorbitant privilege” in the 1960s.
Now you see why so many trading partners like the BRICS nations are trying to escape from a dollar-denominated global system (among other reasons, like escaping dollar-based sanctions).
The game is rigged against other countries, and in favor of the U.S.
This is why the game won’t last — and why King Dollar’s days are numbered.
News of the Times;
Police Ignited the Crowd on Jan. 6, Threw a Grandma Down a Flight of 10 Steps TWICE:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/making-rounds-how-police-ignited-crowd-jan-6/
NYC City Council funneled $9 MILLION in taxpayer dollars to anti-Israel groups:
https://thepostmillennial.com/nyc-city-council-funneled-9-million-in-taxpayer-dollars-to-anti-israel-groups-that-sponsored-massive-protests
Offshore wind project touted as ‘Bidenomics in action’ immediately shuttered:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/11/offshore_wind_project_touted_as_bidenomics_in_action_immediately_shuttered_due_to_high_inflation_and_rising_interest_rates.html
DCG School Board candidates ‘unite’ in favor of pornographic books:
https://theiowastandard.com/dcg-school-board-candidates-unite-in-favor-of-pornographic-books-and-gender-affirmation-for-minors/
1 administrator for every 3 undergrads:
https://www.thecollegefix.com/washington-and-lee-university-employs-1-administrator-for-every-3-undergrads/
Ohio State University doubled DEI staff in five years:
https://www.thecollegefix.com/ohio-state-university-doubled-dei-staff-in-five-years-payroll-costs-almost-tripled/
Double Standards at Princeton:
https://www.city-journal.org/article/double-standards-at-princeton
Five Nordic nations are slowly ending their love affair with Muslim immigration:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/11/five_nordic_nations_are_slowly_ending_their_love_affair_with_muslim_immigration.html
After Failing 6 Audits, Guess What the Pentagon Is Asking For:
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2023/11/22/after-failing-6-audits-pentagon-wants-114-million-for-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-n4924118
E-Bus Loses Power Going Up Hill, Rolls Backward, Crashes Into Row Of Cars:
https://climatechangedispatch.com/e-bus-loses-power-going-up-hill-rolls-backward-crashes-into-row-of-cars/
Hard-Left activist is Met Police adviser:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12712683/Hard-Left-activist-led-river-sea-chant-pro-Palestine-rally-Met-Police-adviser-leadership-coordinator-Scotland-Yard-says-support-Israel-investigated-hate-crime.html
Southern Poverty Law Center Turns Blind Eye to Real Hate:
https://theiowastandard.com/southern-poverty-law-center-turns-blind-eye-to-real-hate/
NYC Struggles With Post-COVID Recovery As Foot Traffic Falls 33%:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/nyc-struggles-post-covid-recovery-foot-traffic-down-33
Biden Spent $1 Billion To Get Schools E-Buses. It’s Been A Disaster:
https://climatechangedispatch.com/biden-spent-1-billion-to-get-schools-e-buses-its-been-a-disaster/
Leonkov Doesn't Hold Back:
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/11/leonkov-doesnt-hold-back.html
Akbar?
The new Napoleon movie hits theaters this week.
Ironically, the week when we look for the wishbone so we can pull the bone apart.
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Let us pause for a moment and give thanks for something that we are all truly grateful for.
Sweatpants!
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Reverend Jimmy Elymas of Saint Balaam Episcopalian forcefully condemned a growing number of conservative churches who have spoken out against abortion, claiming they care more about politics than following Jesus. "The church shouldn't be political," he said while standing in front of the giant BLM and pride flags in front of his own church building.
When asked if the comically oversized BLM flag draped over the entrance to the church sanctuary constituted a double standard, he declined to comment. "Are you saying black lives don't matter?" he instead demanded.
The reverend's sermons have drawn attention from the community in recent weeks due to his tendency to arbitrarily condemn certain biblical teachings as "political." Curiously, members who grow in their faith appear to be leaving the church in droves, but overall membership hasn't waned thanks to a recent sermon series entitled "God is love and I love sin, therefore God loves sin" which has attracted many new members who are really into sinning.
"I don't think saving the lives of babies is a political matter — " one church member began to say before being excommunicated for overt-politicalness.
"Look, it's not hard! The church is not of this world, therefore it should never have any noticeable effect on the world whatsoever," answered Rev. Elymas. "Unless we're talking about supporting BLM. Or attending a pride parade. Or handing out pre-filled Democratic ballots with communion so that our local tax levy to give the poor free electric scooters will pass. Those are different, obviously."
Rev. Elymas had further condemned churches in the area for making the overtly political statement of not displaying a "Free Palestine" banner.
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Heinz has come out with a pickle-flavored ketchup. Isn't that sweet?
Oh, it's dill.
Never mind.
*.*
Question: How much should I spend on a really good bottle of wine?
Half an hour?
Twenty minutes?
Quote of the Times;
Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, do hereby appoint and set apart Thursday, the twenty-fourth of this November, to be observed as a day of festival and thanksgiving by all the people of the United States at home or abroad, and do recommend that on that day they cease from their ordinary occupations and gather in their several places of worship or in their homes, devoutly to give thanks unto Almighty God for the benefits he has conferred upon us as individuals and as a nation, and to beseech Him that in the future His Divine favor may be continued to us.
Link of the Times;
Proof that the DOJ Incriminated Oath Keepers, Video Proves DOJ’s Main Witness Lied:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/confirmed-gateway-pundit-cowboy-logic-offered-proof-that/
Issue of the Times;
Still Think ‘Allahu Akbar’ Means ‘God is Great’? You Should Probably Read This by Robert Spencer
Conditioned by years of “religion of peace” public relations and propaganda, many still believe the scream of “Allahu akbar” — heard with increasing frequency these days — is as simple as announcing “God is Great.” But indifference towards the phrase is misplaced. Every time this cry is sounded, it’s a warning. Hear it.
Last weekend, demonstrators yelling “Allahu akbar” tried to breach the gate outside the White House. In Crown Heights in late October, a knife-wielding Muslim screamed “Heil Hitler,” “I will kill you, Jew”and yes, “Allahu akbar” at a nine-year-old Jewish boy. On New Year’s Eve in Times Square, a convert to Islam from Maine attacked three policemen with a machete while also screaming “Allahu akbar.”
This cry is particularly popular these days in modern France, where a teenage defendant recently screamed in juvenile court, “Allahu akbar, you’re all going to die together.”
Another made a series of false bomb threats against a hospital, declaring: “It’s going to blow, Allahu akbar!” A third announced to his stunned non-Muslim roommate: “You are not a Muslim, this Friday I am going to pray against you. Allahu akbar, we must eliminate the kuffar [disbelievers] like you.”
“Allahu akbar,” however, is international. At the end of October, a mob repeated it as it moved through Makhachkala airport in Dagestan, hunting for Jews who had landed there on a flight from Tel Aviv. If they had been able to catch up to the passengers, they would no doubt have slaughtered them.
Why “Allahu akbar”?
While most media outlets routinely translate “Allahu akbar” as “God is great,” it actually means “Allah is greater.” That is, the god of Islam is superior to anything that non-Muslims worship or hold dear. This declaration of superiority frequently accompanies acts that are designed to enforce the subjugation and submission of the non-believer or “infidel,” amounting to a kind of explanation of why a particular act of violence is being perpetrated.
As such, it’s actually an essential part of jihad. Thus chief 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta reminded himself to shout it out as he began his jihad mission: “When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world. Shout, ‘Allahu Akbar,’ because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers.” Striking fear, or terror, into non-Muslims is an Islamic imperative:
“Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” (Qur’an 8:60)
Yet despite the mountain of evidence that “Allahu akbar” is anything but a benign phrase, New York City even recently began allowing the Islamic call to prayer, which repeats this phrase several times. This was the culmination of a years-long process to normalize it, and stigmatize those who sounded the alarm.
Media Deceptions.
In the New York Daily News, Zainab Chaudry of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) argued that non-Muslims shouldn’t “believe the worst” about “Allahu akbar” because Muslims don’t just scream it while murdering non-Muslims, but use it in a variety of contexts. She even offered this chilling advice, certain to get people killed were it ever heeded: “So the next time you hear Allahu Akbar — whether it’s in a media report, on an airplane, or in a shopping mall, remember that the phrase used by millions of Muslims and Christians daily to praise God regardless of their circumstances, can never be justified for use when harming His creation.” In other words, stay put and risk it. Because fleeing for your life would be “Islamophobic.”
On CNN, the popular imam Omar Suleiman also argued that Muslims say “Allahu akbar” in a variety of contexts, many of them positive. And the New York Times actually tweeted that the phrase “Allahu akbar” had “somehow” become “intertwined with terrorism.” Yeah, “somehow.”
But in politics, geopolitics, and national security, there are rarely prizes for being correct. In fact, the most successful practitioners are the ones who routinely, and often willfully, get things incorrect. There’s not of a lot of money in closed borders and peace, after all.
But for the serious, the watchful, and the wise, “Allahu akbar” is a phrase that should not be normalized nor sanitized in the West. It is a statement of Islamic supremacy at best, and one of war and aggression too often. It’s worse than yelling fire in a theater. It is often used incitement to cause harm. Hear it.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a ShillmanFellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 27 books, including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad. His new book is Empire of God: How the Byzantines Saved Civilization. Follow him on X, here.
News of the Times;
Biden officially attempts to remove God from Thanksgiving:
https://www.wnd.com/2023/11/biden-officially-attempts-remove-god-thanksgiving-2023-proclamation/
Multiple People, Including Children, Stabbed Near School in Dublin, Ireland:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/just-multiple-people-including-children-stabbed-near-school/
Irish Rioters Set Holiday Inn Express on Fire in Dublin:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/update-2-irish-rioters-set-holiday-inn-express/
I’m getting more Jewish by the day:
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/im-getting-more-jewish-by-the-day/
It's Simple Why No Arab Countries Are Taking Palestinian Refugees:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/11/19/its-simple-why-no-arab-nations-want-palestinian-refugees-they-know-better-n2631386
'We're going to kill their f*cking children’:
https://thepostmillennial.com/were-going-to-kill-their-f-cking-children-trans-identified-male-arrested-after-alleged-vow-to-copy-nashville-school-shooter
Feds spend $270,000 to repaint political slogan on street:
https://www.wnd.com/2023/11/judicial-watch-feds-spend-270000-repaint-political-slogan-street/
The actual 'climate change' agenda"
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/10/the_actual_climate_change_agenda.html
Greenies Are All About the Green:
https://dailyreckoning.com/greenies-are-all-about-the-green/
“Too Favored to Fail:” Taxpayers Bailout Biden’s Green Friends:
https://realclearwire.com/articles/2023/11/06/too_favored_to_fail_taxpayers_bailout_bidens_green_friends_990550.html
Families in desperate struggle under soaring inflation, Biden regulations:
https://www.wnd.com/2023/11/families-desperate-struggle-soaring-inflation-biden-regulations/
Polish truckers blocking Ukraine military cargos:
https://www.rt.com/news/587893-media-polish-truckers-military-goods-ukraine/
Zelensky advisor admits they're 'stealing like there's no tomorrow':
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/11/ukraine_rathole_zelensky_advisor_admits_theyre_stealing_like_theres_no_tomorrow.html
Marines active-duty suicide rate highest in US military in 2022:
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/11/marines-active-duty-suicide-rate-highest-in-us-military-in-2022/
Watters Obtains WH Cocaine Docs, Says Everything They Told Us Was a Lie:
https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/jesse-watters-obtains-wh-cocaine-docs-says-everything-told-us-lie
Ironically, the week when we look for the wishbone so we can pull the bone apart.
*.*
Let us pause for a moment and give thanks for something that we are all truly grateful for.
Sweatpants!
*.*
Reverend Jimmy Elymas of Saint Balaam Episcopalian forcefully condemned a growing number of conservative churches who have spoken out against abortion, claiming they care more about politics than following Jesus. "The church shouldn't be political," he said while standing in front of the giant BLM and pride flags in front of his own church building.
When asked if the comically oversized BLM flag draped over the entrance to the church sanctuary constituted a double standard, he declined to comment. "Are you saying black lives don't matter?" he instead demanded.
The reverend's sermons have drawn attention from the community in recent weeks due to his tendency to arbitrarily condemn certain biblical teachings as "political." Curiously, members who grow in their faith appear to be leaving the church in droves, but overall membership hasn't waned thanks to a recent sermon series entitled "God is love and I love sin, therefore God loves sin" which has attracted many new members who are really into sinning.
"I don't think saving the lives of babies is a political matter — " one church member began to say before being excommunicated for overt-politicalness.
"Look, it's not hard! The church is not of this world, therefore it should never have any noticeable effect on the world whatsoever," answered Rev. Elymas. "Unless we're talking about supporting BLM. Or attending a pride parade. Or handing out pre-filled Democratic ballots with communion so that our local tax levy to give the poor free electric scooters will pass. Those are different, obviously."
Rev. Elymas had further condemned churches in the area for making the overtly political statement of not displaying a "Free Palestine" banner.
*.*
Heinz has come out with a pickle-flavored ketchup. Isn't that sweet?
Oh, it's dill.
Never mind.
*.*
Question: How much should I spend on a really good bottle of wine?
Half an hour?
Twenty minutes?
Quote of the Times;
Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, do hereby appoint and set apart Thursday, the twenty-fourth of this November, to be observed as a day of festival and thanksgiving by all the people of the United States at home or abroad, and do recommend that on that day they cease from their ordinary occupations and gather in their several places of worship or in their homes, devoutly to give thanks unto Almighty God for the benefits he has conferred upon us as individuals and as a nation, and to beseech Him that in the future His Divine favor may be continued to us.
Link of the Times;
Proof that the DOJ Incriminated Oath Keepers, Video Proves DOJ’s Main Witness Lied:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/confirmed-gateway-pundit-cowboy-logic-offered-proof-that/
Issue of the Times;
Still Think ‘Allahu Akbar’ Means ‘God is Great’? You Should Probably Read This by Robert Spencer
Conditioned by years of “religion of peace” public relations and propaganda, many still believe the scream of “Allahu akbar” — heard with increasing frequency these days — is as simple as announcing “God is Great.” But indifference towards the phrase is misplaced. Every time this cry is sounded, it’s a warning. Hear it.
Last weekend, demonstrators yelling “Allahu akbar” tried to breach the gate outside the White House. In Crown Heights in late October, a knife-wielding Muslim screamed “Heil Hitler,” “I will kill you, Jew”and yes, “Allahu akbar” at a nine-year-old Jewish boy. On New Year’s Eve in Times Square, a convert to Islam from Maine attacked three policemen with a machete while also screaming “Allahu akbar.”
This cry is particularly popular these days in modern France, where a teenage defendant recently screamed in juvenile court, “Allahu akbar, you’re all going to die together.”
Another made a series of false bomb threats against a hospital, declaring: “It’s going to blow, Allahu akbar!” A third announced to his stunned non-Muslim roommate: “You are not a Muslim, this Friday I am going to pray against you. Allahu akbar, we must eliminate the kuffar [disbelievers] like you.”
“Allahu akbar,” however, is international. At the end of October, a mob repeated it as it moved through Makhachkala airport in Dagestan, hunting for Jews who had landed there on a flight from Tel Aviv. If they had been able to catch up to the passengers, they would no doubt have slaughtered them.
Why “Allahu akbar”?
While most media outlets routinely translate “Allahu akbar” as “God is great,” it actually means “Allah is greater.” That is, the god of Islam is superior to anything that non-Muslims worship or hold dear. This declaration of superiority frequently accompanies acts that are designed to enforce the subjugation and submission of the non-believer or “infidel,” amounting to a kind of explanation of why a particular act of violence is being perpetrated.
As such, it’s actually an essential part of jihad. Thus chief 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta reminded himself to shout it out as he began his jihad mission: “When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world. Shout, ‘Allahu Akbar,’ because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers.” Striking fear, or terror, into non-Muslims is an Islamic imperative:
“Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” (Qur’an 8:60)
Yet despite the mountain of evidence that “Allahu akbar” is anything but a benign phrase, New York City even recently began allowing the Islamic call to prayer, which repeats this phrase several times. This was the culmination of a years-long process to normalize it, and stigmatize those who sounded the alarm.
Media Deceptions.
In the New York Daily News, Zainab Chaudry of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) argued that non-Muslims shouldn’t “believe the worst” about “Allahu akbar” because Muslims don’t just scream it while murdering non-Muslims, but use it in a variety of contexts. She even offered this chilling advice, certain to get people killed were it ever heeded: “So the next time you hear Allahu Akbar — whether it’s in a media report, on an airplane, or in a shopping mall, remember that the phrase used by millions of Muslims and Christians daily to praise God regardless of their circumstances, can never be justified for use when harming His creation.” In other words, stay put and risk it. Because fleeing for your life would be “Islamophobic.”
On CNN, the popular imam Omar Suleiman also argued that Muslims say “Allahu akbar” in a variety of contexts, many of them positive. And the New York Times actually tweeted that the phrase “Allahu akbar” had “somehow” become “intertwined with terrorism.” Yeah, “somehow.”
But in politics, geopolitics, and national security, there are rarely prizes for being correct. In fact, the most successful practitioners are the ones who routinely, and often willfully, get things incorrect. There’s not of a lot of money in closed borders and peace, after all.
But for the serious, the watchful, and the wise, “Allahu akbar” is a phrase that should not be normalized nor sanitized in the West. It is a statement of Islamic supremacy at best, and one of war and aggression too often. It’s worse than yelling fire in a theater. It is often used incitement to cause harm. Hear it.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a ShillmanFellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 27 books, including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad. His new book is Empire of God: How the Byzantines Saved Civilization. Follow him on X, here.
News of the Times;
Biden officially attempts to remove God from Thanksgiving:
https://www.wnd.com/2023/11/biden-officially-attempts-remove-god-thanksgiving-2023-proclamation/
Multiple People, Including Children, Stabbed Near School in Dublin, Ireland:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/just-multiple-people-including-children-stabbed-near-school/
Irish Rioters Set Holiday Inn Express on Fire in Dublin:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/update-2-irish-rioters-set-holiday-inn-express/
I’m getting more Jewish by the day:
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/im-getting-more-jewish-by-the-day/
It's Simple Why No Arab Countries Are Taking Palestinian Refugees:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/11/19/its-simple-why-no-arab-nations-want-palestinian-refugees-they-know-better-n2631386
'We're going to kill their f*cking children’:
https://thepostmillennial.com/were-going-to-kill-their-f-cking-children-trans-identified-male-arrested-after-alleged-vow-to-copy-nashville-school-shooter
Feds spend $270,000 to repaint political slogan on street:
https://www.wnd.com/2023/11/judicial-watch-feds-spend-270000-repaint-political-slogan-street/
The actual 'climate change' agenda"
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/10/the_actual_climate_change_agenda.html
Greenies Are All About the Green:
https://dailyreckoning.com/greenies-are-all-about-the-green/
“Too Favored to Fail:” Taxpayers Bailout Biden’s Green Friends:
https://realclearwire.com/articles/2023/11/06/too_favored_to_fail_taxpayers_bailout_bidens_green_friends_990550.html
Families in desperate struggle under soaring inflation, Biden regulations:
https://www.wnd.com/2023/11/families-desperate-struggle-soaring-inflation-biden-regulations/
Polish truckers blocking Ukraine military cargos:
https://www.rt.com/news/587893-media-polish-truckers-military-goods-ukraine/
Zelensky advisor admits they're 'stealing like there's no tomorrow':
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/11/ukraine_rathole_zelensky_advisor_admits_theyre_stealing_like_theres_no_tomorrow.html
Marines active-duty suicide rate highest in US military in 2022:
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/11/marines-active-duty-suicide-rate-highest-in-us-military-in-2022/
Watters Obtains WH Cocaine Docs, Says Everything They Told Us Was a Lie:
https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/jesse-watters-obtains-wh-cocaine-docs-says-everything-told-us-lie
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