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Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Time, History, Truth, and Pope Francis

By Rich Kozlovich

Since Pope Francis died there's been a lot of accolades, and a lot of condemnations.  The conventional wisdom is to not speak ill of the dead, and I get that. But time, history, and truth are on the same side, and history will not be kind to this Pope. Speaking truth about the dead isn’t speaking ill. It’s just the truth. 

One thing we absolutely know, wherever he got his views, the Pope didn't get many of his ideas from reading the Bible, or from traditional Catholic teachings and doctrine, instead he promoted "evolving" doctrine. How can there ever be a "true" doctrine if it's constantly evolving? 

We know he was on board with Marxists, the Chinese communists, Muslims, global warmists, open immigrationists, and he hated capitalism and America.  Under his tutelage church leaders have even openly flirted with homosexuality, and abortion, which official church teaching absolutely condemns.  

Judging his final dispensation is way above my pay grade, nor is it my job, or anyone else's for that matter.  My job is gathering and dispensing information based on history, facts, and logic, and putting together in some logical, coherent, and rational order, and, I think I do that well.  So, I'm not going to editorialize beyond this as I think the links below tell the history of Pope Francis clearly and succinctly.  Then you can decide what you will.

Abortion
  1. Vatican Chief Praises Italy’s Law Legalizing Abortion as a ‘Pillar of Society’
  2. Mother Earth - Pregnant Mothers
  3. Vatican think-tank becomes hotbed for pro-abortionists
  4. U.S. Bishops: Abortion Is a Horrible Evil, But Not Unforgivable
  5. Pope Francis Slams ‘Very Strong Reactionary Attitude’ Among U.S. Catholics
  6. Sacred Heart University Set to Host Pro-Abortion Nun as Commencement Speaker
  7. Pelosi, the Pope, and Pachamam
  8. Nancy Pelosi Receives Holy Communion at Papal Mass in Vatican
  9. Woke Pope Welcomes Pelosi to the Vatican – Just 2 Weeks After She Passed Most Radical Pro-Abortion Bill in History
  10.  Are They Catholics, or Are They Heretics?

America, Capitalism, and World Economics

  1. Pope Francis effectively admits it: He really, really hates Americans
  2. More Economic Illiteracy from Pope Francis
  3. Pope Francis Appoints Archbishop Who Urged Resistance to Trump  
  4. Trump-Bashing Pope Francis Refuses to Bash Putin for Ukraine War
  5. Correcting Pope Francis…Again 
  6. Pope Francis Rejects Prosperity for Developing Nations

Accusations of Apostasy/Heresy

  1. Archbishop Vigano: Is a Schism on the Horizon?
  2. Pope Benedict who it's claimed he's "bitterly disappointed" by Francis
  3. Biden, Barron and Bergoglio: Rockin’ the Post-Catholic World
  4. The Next Pope Should at Least be Catholic
  5. Francis: The Apostate Pope 
  6. Pope Francis Names First Woman to Head Major Vatican Office 
  7. SSPX Supports Vatican Charge that Archbishop ViganĂ² is “Schismatic”
  8. Vatican excommunicates ViganĂ², but where's the housecleaning on the left?
  9. Pope Francis and the Left’s March to the Papacy
  10. Pope apologizes for 'evil committed by so many Christians'
  11. Pope Francis Begs Forgiveness for ‘Evil’ Committed Against Indigenous Canadians  
  12. The Great Impasse
  13. Globalist Pope Francis: Suppressing the Heritage of the Catholic Church
  14. Behold The Vatican’s New Messiah And All Bow Down At His Clay Feet
  15.  Arbp. Vigano: Pope Francis is Teaching 'Blatant Heresy ... a Terrible Blasphemy'
  16.  Archbishop Jan Lenga: Pope Francis is 'Usurper and Heretic,' 'Leading the World Astray'
  17.  The Swamp Reaches the Vatican – Even the Pope is a Marxist 
  18. U.S. Priest to Pope: 'I am Wearied From Being Scorned and Demonized by You'
  19.  U.S. Cardinal: Document for Upcoming Vatican Synod 'Is an Apostasy'
China/Marxism
  1. Chinese Communists Install New Bishop of Shanghai Without Vatican Approval
  2.  Hong Kong Court Convicts Cardinal Zen for Pro-Democracy Support 
  3.  Pope Francis and the Left’s March to the Papacy
  4.  Marxist Pope Francis Abandons Freedom Activist Cardinal Joseph Zen, for His Red Chinese Allies
  5. Vatican-Beijing Accord on Chinese Catholics Extended: ‘Mistake’ to Compromise Faith for Communists, Pompeo Says
  6. Pope Francis: Not Fair to Call China ‘Undemocratic’
  7.  Vatican Apologizes for Catholic Missionaries in China, Calls on Communist “Bishops” to Rule the Chinese Church
  8. Pope Francis' Deal With Communist China Did Not Work  
  9. Vatican Whistleblower Archbishop ViganĂ² Tells Bannon Why Trump’s Leadership Key to Defeated Deep State, Deep Church & Pope Francis’ Alliance with Red China 
  10.  Cardinal Zen: 'Rome No Longer Dares to Criticize the Chinese Government'
  11.  Why is the Vatican standing up for the Venezuelan dictatorship?
  12.  Vatican (Briefly) Commemorates Cuba's Stalinist Revolution

Homosexuality

  1. Pope Francis who made a gay rights advocate a Cardinal
  2. Paths to God and Pope Francis
  3. Jesuit Father James Martin: Church Would Be ‘Immeasurably Poorer’ Without Gay Priests
  4. Vatican Reverses Ban on Blessing Gay Couples
  5.  Seminaries Can Admit Gay Men, Vatican Says, if They're Celibate
  6.  More than half of Jesuit Catholic universities promote 'Pride Month'
  7.  Archdiocese of Chicago priest blesses same-sex couple, asks if they ‘recommit’ themselves ‘as holy spouses’
  8. Jesuit University to Host Annual ‘Drag’ Show Friday
  9. Pope Francis Names 3 Pro-Gay Prelates to Vatican Doctrinal Office

Open Immigration

  1. Archbishop: Catholics Rebelling Against Church’s Pro-Migration Policies
  2. On migrants, perhaps the pope can have a word with his Venezuelan pal Nicolas Maduro
  3. D.C. Cardinal: Mass Deportation of Illegals ‘Incompatible with Catholic Doctrine’
  4. Pope blames illegal migration to capitalist countries ... on capitalism

Islam

  1. The Pope's Genocide Cowardice    
  2. All Religions Are a Path to Reach God   
  3. Vatican Papal Academy Sells Out the Virgin Mary for Muhammad
  4.  Vatican: The Shadow Islamic State
  5.  Robert Spencer: Pope Says God Wants Catholic/Muslim Fraternity

 

Trump Impeachment Syndrome

By Rich Kozlovich

Let's talk about Rep. Shri Thanedar, another Democrat who seemingly has gone over the sanity cliff suffering from the Trump Impeachment Syndrome, and mental condition predicated on Trump Derangement Syndrome.  Or does he have other motives behind his actions? 

Andrea Widburg, one of my favorite writers, published this article yesterday, The man behind the newest Articles of Impeachment against Trump, saying, "he’s a colorful character, and I don’t mean that in a good way."

Rep. Shri Thanedar is not alone in this mental disorder.  Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff told a town hall crowd that Trump “has already exceeded any prior standard for impeachment” because of his meme coin contest, and Little Chuckie Schumer, who apparently thinks he's still the majority leader in the Senate is on board.  
 
Andrea goes on to list Thanedar's claims that justify impeaching Trump, and they're all nonsense, just as all the other impeachment scams the Democrats promoted.  
 
But the hits just keep right on coming.  
 
It appears he has some serious financial issues, potentially involving fraud.   Wow! A corrupt Democrat politician trying to hide his corruption by trying to destroy someone else. Imagine that. I keep seeing this pattern and wonder if it ever occurred to them if they’d just keep their mouths shut no one would have noticed? This failed pattern of thinking is ubiquitous among all on the left. All now thinkers.  All failures at long range thinking.  All embracing the con. 
 If Joe Biden hadn’t become President would all of his crime family corruption come to light?    If Letitia James hadn't been such a disgrace as New York's Attorney General would her corruption have come to light?  Would Fani Willis have been exposed for her corruption?  And the pattern plays out over and over again.

Will the Pravda media take notice of all this?  Nah, they've ignored the financial dealings of the Clinton clan for decades, but crossed every "t" and dotted every "i" involving anything Trump was involved with.  If a legitimate investigation was held I'm guessing..... just guessing mind you ......  the big difference would be Trump would be found innocent and the Clinton's would be in jail.

Andrea quoted Saul Alinsky saying: 

in his Rules for Radicals, warned that “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Democrats would do well to heed that advice when it comes to Donald Trump. Having unsuccessfully tried twice to impeach him, they’re still invested in impeachment.

What this may really be all about a "political move and more of a fundraising stunt and a way to deflect attention from possibly problematic financial moves", and he's potentially facing a serious challenge in his district in the next election, which lends credibility to that thinking.    

Here's more about his shady character and actions, along with a host of other "ethnic" politicians who are trying to turn America into the countries they left. 


David Horowitz R.I.P.

We are very saddened to announce the passing of our Center’s founder – a giant in the conservative liberty movement for over 40 years.

April 30, 2025 by @ Front Page Magazine

Editor's Note I've not asked for nor have I received permission to publish this announcement, but I think it needs the broadest distribution possible.  If the Frontpage administration objects, I will delete it.   RK

On behalf of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, we are very saddened to announce the passing of the Center’s founder, David Horowitz. After a lengthy battle with cancer, David passed yesterday at the age of 86.

The Freedom Center’s founder and guiding force was a relentless conservative warrior who survived a previous brush with death (chronicled in his book Mortality and Faith), confrontations with the Black Panthers, campus radicals, government investigations, death threats, and hate campaigns, some led by his former friends and allies, without ever considering giving up or letting up. Nothing short of the end that comes for us all could silence his voice. He continued writing, working, and steering the Center to the very last; his final article, “The Biggest Lie of All,” appeared earlier this month.

Although he was a giant in the conservative liberty movement for over 40 years, David was raised a Marxist and was one of the leading intellectuals of the New Left movement at Berkeley in the 1960’s. But David, along with his writing partner and Freedom Center co-founder Peter Collier, eventually had a political epiphany and joined the side of freedom in the early 1980‘s. They committed the second half of their lives and work warning Americans of the dangers of the Progressives whose intellectual roots and totalitarian aims they understood better than many Leftists themselves.

David’s legacy is vast and the number of people that he inspired, mentored, and impacted is incalculable. That we live in a world today where there is a fighting chance of defeating the Leftist utopians who would enslave us is due in no small measure to the rare courage and unflagging passion that exemplified David’s work these past 40 years.

Over the years, David became something of a Saul Alinsky for the conservative movement, shaking a complacent Right out of its sleep and reinventing it as a war machine, laying out the strategies and principles for defeating the Left in too many bestselling books, articles, and pamphlets to count.

David’s message to the conservative movement was that it needed to abandon its habit of embracing noble failure and instead fight to win. Indeed, Donald Trump’s MAGA movement was shaped and guided by David and his disciples like Stephen Miller. And while his passing is an incalculable loss, David lived long enough to see his ideas and tactics become the heart and soul of a new movement to take back America.

David Horowitz, 1939-2025. Requiescat in pace.

First 100 Days of Trump Upends the Left

With little more to do than shout, sing, and swear, the left finds itself in disarray.

By | Apr 29, 2025 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Opinion, Politics

Disrupter, firebrand, or provocateur – call him what you will – but in the first 100 days of his second and last term, President Donald Trump has shaken and stirred American progressives to their core. His commanding presence is not for the faint of heart, as he proceeds at breakneck speed to fulfill his campaign promises. Today (April 29), which marks the 100th day of his presidency, is cause for reflection. And unsurprisingly, satisfaction with his priorities, projects, and plans has fallen along party lines.

Tariffs, immigration, and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) headline the start of Trump’s second time around as commander-in-chief, and all three have caused hysteria on the left – and that’s not an exaggeration. Progressives have been reduced to firebombing Tesla dealerships, keying cars, assaulting Tesla owners, and more.
 
The reason for this appears to be the leadership of billionaire Elon Musk, who stands at the helm of DOGE. The fact that Musk was a former darling of the left seems to be lost on them, as is the reality that their actions signal what — that they support government waste, fraud, and abuse?

At this writing, the website DOGE.gov reports $160 billion in savings from a “Combination of asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions.” According to DOGE calculations, the bottom line is a saving of almost a thousand dollars per taxpayer. That the left finds this reason to protest is unfathomable.

100 Days of Immigration Reform

The first few months of the Trump presidency have demonstrated – beyond any reasonable doubt – that the United States was never in need of additional immigration legislation to defend US borders, but rather a chief executive who had the courage to enforce the laws already on the books. Many Americans intuitively knew this, but somehow it got drowned out by all the Swamp noise. So how has the president performed thus far?

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Border Czar Tom Homan, not one to be trifled with, asserted yesterday, “Well, today as I’m standing here, we have the most secure border in the history of this nation and the numbers prove it.” 

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters in the White House briefing room yesterday that illegal immigration has been down 95% in March of this year compared to 2024. She also reported that more than 85 miles of a new “border barrier” is now in various stages of construction, with “75 additional miles of temporary barriers across the southern border.” Both Homan and Leavitt maintain this massive reduction in crossings has severely limited fentanyl distribution in the United States, and deaths of women and children trying to make their way across the southern border have been almost entirely eliminated.

The progressive response to the crackdown on illegal immigration has been the rabid defense of one suspected MS-13 gang member who lived in Maryland. This sparked a coalition of Democratic lawmakers to travel to El Salvador seeking the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Their chief aim was to return him to the United States. Yet another example of tone-deaf hysteria, considering roughly three-quarters of Americans support the removal of illegal gang members from US shores.

Tick-Tock, It’s Tariff Time

Perhaps the most controversial move in his first 100 days has been Trump’s ratcheting up US tariffs worldwide. It’s a policy in its early stages that needs time to play out. And this is what has many so jittery, especially on Wall Street. Still, the president is moving forward with renegotiating long-standing unfair trade deals one country at a time. Where this change in policy lands could be Trump’s most significant victory or his most agonizing defeat. However, it is a necessary move for the future of US economic stability and the one systemic economic problem that no other president has been able to rectify. The simple truth is that the United States is bathed in red ink, mired in an untenable situation that cannot last much longer.

The economy, immigration, and government spending make up the trifecta of Trump’s first 100 days in office. Changes are coming fast and furious, and the chaos of such large-scale shifts in US policy has reduced the left to ironic and, many maintain, laughable actions. The legacy media still stands athwart these presidential priorities, bashing them daily with front-page headlines and negative political analysis.

Remarkably, the president does not seem to care. He’s acting very much like a man on a mission who will not be diverted from what he believes is right for the United States and what he contends Americans voted for when they put him back into the Oval Office against all odds. But, above all, President Trump’s first 100 days have been a wild ride, and if the past is prologue, tough days lie ahead for the status quo and those who support it.

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Have The Intermittent Energy Blackouts Begun?

April 28, 2025 @ Manhattan Contrarian 

Today there have been widespread electricity blackouts across Europe, beginning in Spain and Portugal in the early afternoon (local time), and then spreading to other countries including France, Andorra, Belgium and the Netherlands. Is this related to the increasing penetration of intermittent generation from wind and solar facilities?

For years, many in the climate skeptic community have warned that expansion of intermittent renewable electricity generation on the grid will, sooner or later, lead to frequent blackouts. The reason for the warning is easy to understand: The grid has some rather exacting operational requirements that the intermittent renewable generation technologies cannot fulfill. Primary among these requirements are, first, minute-by-minute matching of electricity supply with electricity demand and, second, grid-wide synchronization of the frequency of the alternating current. When wind and solar provided relatively small portions of the electricity consumed, other generation sources, particularly thermal (fossil fuel) and hydro, would fulfill these requirements. But as wind and solar come to dominate generation, the problems become much more difficult to solve.

Here at Manhattan Contrarian, I have mostly steered clear of covering this topic. Although I think I understand the main issues, I am certainly not a grid engineer. And there are many smart people who are engineers and who have the job of “balancing” the grid to keep it consistently up and running in the face of the challenges of intermittent wind and solar generation. Maybe they can succeed. I doubt it. But I definitely have wanted to avoid “crying wolf,” predicting over and over that frequent blackouts are imminent, only to find that the engineers have come up with solutions that seem to work reasonably well.

As of this writing, it does not appear that a definitive cause (or causes) of today’s blackouts has been established. However, there is every reason to think that the increasing penetration of wind and solar generation in Spain is the most important part of the problem. Here are links to some articles that have appeared so far today: this one from the Daily Mail at 8:41 AM EDT (which would be 2:41 PM in Spain); this one from Yahoo News at 10:21 AM EDT (4:21 PM in Spain); and this one from Climate Change Dispatch (no time indicated, but based on a paywalled piece from the Telegraph, with a time stamp of 3:21 BST).

According to the piece in the Daily Mail, Spain’s state electricity network operator, known as Red Electric, reported that today’s problem began with “‘a very strong oscillation’ in the electrical network [that] caused Spain’s power system to ‘disconnect from the European system.’” On the question of the initial cause of the “oscillation,” there is only speculation. Proposed causes range from “extreme temperature variations along very high-voltage power lines in Spain,” to a hacking attack.

But whatever the initial cause of the “oscillation,” what is clear is that the Spanish system then lacked the ability to respond sufficiently to keep the power on. Why? The Daily Mail puts forth a very plausible explanation of grid instability resulting from heavy reliance on wind and solar generation. The Mail attributes the theory to “some analysts” (unnamed):

[S]ome analysts have suggested that the Spanish grid operator's reliance on renewable energy sources to supply the majority of the nation's electricity could have led to the blackout. Traditional generators, like coal and hydroelectric plants or gas turbines, are connected directly to the grid via heavy spinning machines.  

When turned on, these massive machines are in constant motion and the inertia created by their weight and momentum acts like a shock absorber, helping to insulate the grid against a sudden disturbance - for example, in the event of a transmission failure.  Solar and wind power do not provide the natural inertia generated by these so-called 'spinning machines', leaving the grid more vulnerable to disruptions and subsequent oscillations in the electrical frequency.

Just before the blackout hit, it seems that solar facilities were generating over 60% of Spain’s electricity:

At 12:30pm local time today - five minutes before the widespread blackouts occurred - solar power was generating some 60% of Spain's electricity. . . .

But how about wind generation? This is from the Yahoo News piece:

Spain has one of Europe’s highest proportions of renewable energy, providing about 56pc of the nation’s electricity. More than half of its renewables comes from wind with the rest from solar and other sources. That means Spain’s electricity supplies are increasingly reliant on the weather delivering enough wind to balance its grid. For much of the last 24 hours, that wind has been largely missing. The website Windy.com, for example, shows wind speeds of 2-3mph, leaving the country reliant on solar energy and old gas-fired power stations.

So when the “oscillation” occurred, what is going to keep the grid steady on its 50 Hz frequency? From Michael Schellenberger today on X:

[A]ll of Europe appears to have been seconds away a continent-wide blackout. The grid frequency across continental Europe plunged to 49.85 hertz — just a hair above the red-line collapse threshold. The normal operating frequency for Europe’s power grid is 50.00 Hz, kept with an extremely tight margin of ±0.1 Hz. Anything outside ±0.2 Hz triggers major emergency actions. If the frequency had fallen just another 0.3 Hz — below 49.5 Hz — Europe could have suffered a system-wide cascading blackout.

The bottom line is that there were multi-hour blackouts in many places today. A random “oscillation” of some sort, which could have been easily handled in a world of fossil fuel power plants, became a huge problem when wind and solar generators could not respond to it appropriately. And so people were stuck for hours in elevators or subway trains; traffic lights went dark; banking and cell phone networks stopped working; and so forth. But within a few hours all of those were back in business.

So was this really a big deal? As Schellenberger points out, with just “a hair” more frequency variation it could have been far worse. Will that happen some time soon? I’m not going to pretend I know. But I do know that the electricity system in most of Europe and many U.S. states is in the hands of crazed fanatics who have no idea what they are doing. My own bet would be that there are many far worse blackouts to come, until this idiotic “net zero” thing is abandoned.


Taxes and Incentives: The Italian Version

April 29, 2025 by Dan Mitchell  @ International Liberty

Basic economy theory, depicted by supply-and-demand curves, tells us that taxes will cause “deadweight loss.” 

This is the economic activity that no longer occurs because taxes creates a wedge between buyers and sellers.

And this analysis applies whether we’re looking at taxes on income, taxes on consumption, taxes on trade. or taxes on investment. And “sin taxes” as well, for those who want to discourage certain behaviors.

That’s a good segue to today’s topic, which involves how taxes are being used to discourage a particular kind of tourism in Italy.

Here are some excerpts from a story by Colleen Barry for the Associated Press.


Venice is charging day-trippers to the famed canal city an arrivals tax for the second year starting Friday, a measure aimed at combating…overtourism… Visitors who download a QR code at least three days in advance will pay 5 euros ($5.69) — the same amount charged last year throughout the pilot program.

But those who make last-minute plans pay double. …2.4 million euros…is the amount Venice took in during a 2024 pilot program for the tax. The city’s top budget official, Michele Zuin, said last year the running costs for the new system ran to 2.7 million euros, overshooting the total fees collected.

This year, Zuin projects a surplus of about 1 million euros to 1.5 million euros, which will be used to offset the cost of trash collection and other services for residents.

I’m sharing this story because it illustrates that politicians understand tax policy when they want to.

Venice wants to reduce the number of tourists, so they’re following Ronald Reagan’s insight about how you get less of something.

What frustrates me, however, is that the same politicians conveniently forget this lesson when they push for class-warfare tax policies and pretend those taxes won’t discourage work, saving, investment, and entrepreneurship.

And since Italy ranks next-to-last for tax competitiveness among developed nation, that’s a lesson that desperately needs to be heeded.

P.S. I can’t resist making one final observation about Venice spending more money to administer the tax (2.7 million euros) than they actually collected (2.4 million euros). Sounds like their foolish German cousins (who have some weird tax policies, as seen here, here, and here).

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Observations From the Back Row

By Rich Kozlovich

Where did federal district judges get the idea they were in charge of the nation's immigration polices?  First of all, illegal aliens are all ..... all.... criminals because entering the nation illegally is a felony, so deportation should be an automatic.  The only due process they merit is to determine if they're here legally or not.  If not, that ends due process and goes right to deportation.   Federal courts are even demanding illegal aliens who are known members of criminal gangs with have a history of serious crimes be returned to the United States. 

Americans are now second class citizens in their own country in favor of illegal migrants costing taxpayers billions.  In fact, we're now seeing judges and governors openly breaking the law protecting them and attempting to prevent deporting them.  

This is all part and parcel of Joe Biden's scheme to assure unending control of America by the Democrat party.  He allowed hundreds of thousands to swarm over the border and then shipped them inland as quickly as possible never to be seen again, with a due process scheme that would take ten years.  In the meanwhile they're having children.  Then the left claims since they now have children who are America citizens they can't be deported.  Wrong, they can be deported, and taking their children with them isn't like Nazis sending children to the gas chambers.  

This wasn't an original idea by Joe Biden, if he ever had one, and it's now clear he had no idea what was going on in his administration.  It turns out there were three auto-pens in the White House, and the far left staff controlled all three.   This has been in the works for decades.  It's the Cloward-Piven scheme to destroy the nation by creating a massive welfare state then over loading and collapsing the system in order to create a crisis so grave it would justify overturning the Constitution and imposing a tyrannical system of socialism on America.   These illegal alien schemes are the perfect fit to that corrupt treasonous scheme.

The Canada Free Press asked why Trump is the focus in their election instead of the Liberal party’s scandalous mismanagement?  The author points out "Canadians have long hated any Republican in power, having been conditioned to do so by a longstanding Marxist media", with writer after writer pointing out leftists are ruining Canada.  Well, apparently Canadians like being ruined because within three hours of the polls closing they called the election for the leftists who are there now, globalist tyrants all.   All of whom want to pick a fight with Trump.  Good luck with that Canada. 

And we want to make Canada America’s fifty-first state why?  They refuse to control their borders, crime is rampant, everything costs more there, their health care system is a mess, rights as we know them do not exist in Canada and their citizens are abused by their government, free speech is punished, Canada is not a free nation.  Not to mention the fact there would end up being so many more leftists in the Congress conservatives would never gain control again.  Canadians are not Americans and it's fairly clear their frozen country is a banana republic. 

Finally, these globalists who go into apoplectic hysteria over people flying from one destination to another claiming the world will burn up into a cinder if that's not stopped, are all flying to Davos, in private jets, for the meeting of the World Economic Forum, to which USAID gave $68 million dollars.

Bernie Sanders, a long time advocate of climate change tyranny, along with AOC, traveled all around the nation.... in a private jet..... to express their outrage at the rich.  And she wants to be President of the United States.  A young energetic bartender who, like Bernie Sanders, wants to be one of the rich she hates.  Imagine that!

 

Events From Around the Nation and the World

By Robin Itzler

Editor's Note:  This is one of the commentaries selected from Robin's weekly newsletter Patriot Neighbors.  Any cartoons will have been added by me.  If you wish to get the full edition, E-mail her at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com to get on her list, it's free. 
 
 

Events From Around the Nation

It wasn't that long ago when the leftist meme of the moment was "no one is above the law", but now we're seeing Letitia James has committed serious and provable crimes she accused Trump of doing, and she says it's all racism.  Trump was innocent, but she's not.  

Now we're seeing judges behaving like criminals, and acting like immigration activists, so arrests are warranted.  Now the leftist meme is in a civilized society judges aren't arrested.  Well, they are if they've committed crimes..... and they are committing crimes...... and so to are some of the Democrat governors over illegal immigration and deportation, and they need to be arrested also.

No one is above the law.

California: California is dying under Democrat leftist policies, but it will be very difficult getting a Republican elected due to Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego—three major cities that are liberal political cesspools. These are the announced candidates (so far):

· State Senator Toni Atkins – Democrat
· Former U.S. Health Secretary Xavier Becerra – Democrat
· Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco – Republican
· Hospitality entrepreneur Stephen Cloobeck – Democrat
· Commentator and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Hilton—Republican
· Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis – Democrat
· Entrepreneur Daniel Mercuri – Republican
· Former U.S. Representative Katie Porter – Democrat
· State Superintendent of Public Instruction – Tony Thurmond – Democrat
· Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa – Democrat
· Vice Chair of the California Democrat Party Betty Yee - Democrat
· Entrepreneur (Zacky Farms) Leo Zacky - Republican

"There’s a reason for the mass exodus from Democrat-run states that have mismanaged their economies and driven residents to the nearest Republican-led state.” —White House Spokesman Harrison Fields     

Georgia: Fearful of losing federal funds, the Peach State will remove diversity, equity and inclusion programs in schools. 

Texas: The House passed Senate Bill 2 that would create a $1 BILLION private school voucher program. The plan would create education savings accounts that families could use to pay for private school tuition and other school-related expenses, such as textbooks, transportation and therapy. If it passes, expect more Republicans from red states to move to the Lone Star state.

Wisconsin:  Voter fraud is now proven in Wisconsin.  A Newly Discovered Algorithm in Wisconsin Voter File is Indisputable Evidence of Criminal Election Fraud - Andrew Paquette, Ph.D., has discovered a never-before-seen algorithm in the Wisconsin Election Commission’s (WEC) voter registration database, leaving no doubt someone has penetrated the WEC’s computer system to impose a criminal reordering on the voter files. This finding alone should draw the attention of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and FBI Director Kash Patel. Yet, to date, we see no action whatsoever from the DOJ or the FBI investigating criminal election fraud. 

Read The Triumph of Freedom by W. H. Lamb. 

Let's never forget what these fellows said about us.  During the first Trump administration started the COVID.gov website to provide the public with access to tools and guidance related to COVID-19 prevention, testing, treatment, and updates. Under the second Trump administration, COVID.gov now exposes the infinite crimes that took place during the pandemic.

Let’s remember what these supposed influencers said over the Covid shots: 

  • Howard Stern: “When are we gonna stop putting up with idiots in this country and just say it’s mandatory to get vaccinated? F—k ‘em, f—k their freedom!”
  • Piers Morgan: “Love the idea of COVID vaccine passports for everywhere: flights, clubs, gyms, shops. It’s time COVID denying, anti-vaxxer loonies had their bullshit bluff called.”
  • Jimmy Kimmel: “Who gets an ICU bed Vaccinated person, come right in. Unvaccinated person who gobbled horse goo … Rest in peace, whizzy.”
  • Gene Simmons: “You’re willing to walk among us unvaccinated, you are the enemy.”
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger: “Screw your freedom!” 
The question they were never asked, and never answered, was if they're "vaccinated", and they believe the vaccinations work, why do they care if someone else isn't vaccinated?  
 
Read The Rebirth of a Christian America by Katherine Daigle.

Events from around the globe

Austria: The largest religious group in Vienna’s compulsory schools is Muslims. They are at 41.2 percent—and growing—of all students across Vienna’s primary, secondary and vocational education levels. Maximilian Weinzierl, national council member and leader of the Freedom Party’s (FPĂ–) youth wing said: 

“This is no longer immigration. This is displacement. 41.2% of Muslim students—that’s no longer a minority, that’s the new majority. What we as the FPĂ– have been warning about for decades, but which was always dismissed as right-wing scaremongering, is now reality: Immigration has completely overrun our country.”

China: How China Steals -The main vectors of technological theft are not conventional theft. Instead, China focuses on acquiring ownership stakes in strategic American corporate assets, and strong arms American companies doing business in China.....

Germany: German government failed to properly screen a whopping 88% of Afghan migrants -  According to a report from Thomas Brooke at Remix News, the German government failed to properly screen and vet a whopping 88% of Afghan “refugees” entering the nation. That number equates to seven out of eight individuals—from a notoriously violent, anarchic, and backwards nation—being admitted into the German public without the appropriate background checks.  But that 88% isn’t a figure in relation to a trivial whole; the German people are dealing with tens of thousands of unvetted third world foreigners.......

India: Muslims Flog Muslim Woman in Front of Mosque - A disturbing case of mob violence has been reported from the state of Karnataka, India, and has left people shocked, especially because the last thing one expected from a rather educated and cosmopolitan state was the spectacle of a woman being punished in true Sharia style in broad daylight. A video that surfaced on social media a few days ago and has since gone viral shows a Muslim woman in what appears to be a hijab being brutally beaten with sticks, clubs, and plastic pipes outside a mosque in Karnataka. The attack, carried out by a group of Muslim men following the orders of a local mosque committee, has drawn disturbing comparisons to Taliban-style extrajudicial punishments......

Israel: Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, was more than 80 percent Christian under Israeli control. In 1995, the Palestinian Authority took over Bethlehem. After 30 years, Bethlehem is now less than 10 percent Christian!

“This is no longer immigration. This is displacement. 41.2% of Muslim students—that’s no longer a minority, that’s the new majority. What we as the FPĂ– have been warning about for decades, but which was always dismissed as right-wing scaremongering, is now reality: Immigration has completely overrun our country.”  

United Kingdom:  There are 1,500+ mosques in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland). In London, Muslims are 15 percent of the population. The most popular name in the United Kingdom is Mohammed.    

Oh boy! (pun intended) Liberal Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is overdosing on aspirin as he and his administration handle their Supreme Court’s recent ruling that legally defines the intent of the original Equality Act: your sex is the one you are born with no matter what you identify as.