Javier Milei Schools the Communists & Socialists at the WEF

 

Transcript from StoppingSocialism.com:

Good afternoon. Thank you very much.

Today I’m here to tell you that the Western world is in danger. And it is in danger because those who are supposed to have to defend the values of the West are co-opted by a vision of the world that inexorably leads to socialism and thereby to poverty.

Unfortunately, in recent decades, the main leaders of the Western world have abandoned the model of freedom for different versions of what we call collectivism. Some have been motivated by well-meaning individuals who are willing to help others, and others have been motivated by the wish to belong to a privileged caste.

We’re here to tell you that collectivist experiments are never the solution to the problems that afflict the citizens of the world. Rather, they are the root cause. Do believe me: no one is in better place than us, Argentines, to testify to these two points.

Thirty five years after we adopted the model of freedom, back in 1860, we became a leading world power. And when we embraced collectivism over the course of the last 100 years, we saw how our citizens started to become systematically impoverished, and we dropped to spot number 140 globally.

But before having the discussion, it would first be important for us to take a look at the data that demonstrate why free enterprise capitalism is not just the only possible system to end world poverty, but also that it’s the only morally desirable system to achieve this.

If we look at the history of economic progress, we can see how between the year zero and the year 1800 approximately, world per capita GDP practically remained constant throughout the whole reference period.

If you look at a graph of the evolution of economic growth throughout the history of humanity, you would see a hockey stick graph, an exponential function that remained constant for 90% of the time and which was exponentially triggered starting in the 19th century.

The only exception to this history of stagnation was in the late 15th century, with the discovery of the American continent, but for this exception, throughout the whole period between the year zero and the year 1800, global per capita GDP stagnated.

Now, it’s not just that capitalism brought about an explosion in wealth from the moment it was adopted as an economic system, but also, if you look at the data, what you will see is that growth continues to accelerate throughout the whole period.

And throughout the whole period between the year zero and the year 1800, the per capita GDP growth rate remains stable at around 0.02% annually. So almost no growth. Starting in the 19th century with the Industrial Revolution, the compound annual growth rate was 0.66%. And at that rate, in order to double per capita GDP, you would need some 107 years.

Now, if you look at the period between the year 1900 and the year 1950, the growth rate accelerated to 1.66% a year. So you no longer need 107 years to double per capita GDP – but 66. And if you take the period between 1950 and the year 2000, you will see that the growth rate was 2.1%, which would mean that in only 33 years we could double the world’s per capita GDP.

This trend, far from stopping, remains well alive today. If we take the period between the years 2000 and 2023, the growth rate again accelerated to 3% a year, which means that we could double world per capita GDP in just 23 years.

That said, when you look at per capita GDP since the year 1800 until today, what you will see is that after the Industrial Revolution, global per capita GDP multiplied by over 15 times, which meant a boom in growth that lifted 90% of the global population out of poverty.

We should remember that by the year 1800, about 95% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. And that figure dropped to 5% by the year 2020, prior to the pandemic. The conclusion is obvious.

Far from being the cause of our problems, free trade capitalism as an economic system is the only instrument we have to end hunger, poverty and extreme poverty across our planet. The empirical evidence is unquestionable.

Therefore since there is no doubt that free enterprise capitalism is superior in productive terms, the left-wing doxa has attacked capitalism, alleging matters of morality, saying – that’s what the detractors claim – that it’s unjust. They say that capitalism is evil because it’s individualistic and that collectivism is good because it’s altruistic. Of course, with the money of others.

So they therefore advocate for social justice. But this concept, which in the developed world became fashionable in recent times, in my country has been a constant in political discourse for over 80 years. The problem is that social justice is not just, and it doesn’t contribute to general well-being.

Quite on the contrary, it’s an intrinsically unfair idea because it’s violent. It’s unjust because the state is financed through tax and taxes are collected coercively. Or can any one of us say that we voluntarily pay taxes? This means that the state is financed through coercion and that the higher the tax burden, the higher the coercion and the lower the freedom.

Those who promote social justice start with the idea that the whole economy is a pie that can be shared differently. But that pie is not a given. It’s wealth that is generated in what Israel Kirzner, for instance, calls a market discovery process.

If the goods or services offered by a business are not wanted, the business will fail unless it adapts to what the market is demanding. They will do well and produce more if they make a good quality product at an attractive price. So the market is a discovery process in which the capitalists will find the right path as they move forward.

But if the state punishes capitalists when they’re successful and gets in the way of the discovery process, they will destroy their incentives, and the consequence is that they will produce less.

The pie will be smaller, and this will harm society as a whole. Collectivism, by inhibiting these discovery processes and hindering the appropriation of discoveries, ends up binding the hands of entrepreneurs and prevents them from offering better goods and services at a better price.

So how come academia, international organisations, economic theorists and politicians demonise an economic system that has not only lifted 90% of the world’s population out of extreme poverty but has continued to do this faster and faster?

Thanks to free trade capitalism, the world is now living its best moment. Never in all of mankind or humanity’s history has there been a time of more prosperity than today. This is true for all. The world of today has more freedom, is rich, more peaceful and prosperous. This is particularly true for countries that have more economic freedom and respect the property rights of individuals.

Countries that have more freedom are 12 times richer than those that are repressed. The lowest percentile in free countries is better off than 90% of the population in repressed countries. Poverty is 25 times lower and extreme poverty is 50 times lower. And citizens in free countries live 25% longer than citizens in repressed countries.

Now what is it that we mean when we talk about libertarianism? And let me quote the words of the greatest authority on freedom in Argentina, Professor Alberto Benegas Lynch Jr, who says that libertarianism is the unrestricted respect for the life project of others based on the principle of non-aggression, in defence of the right to life, liberty and property.

Its fundamental institutions are private property, markets free from state intervention, free competition, and the division of labour and social cooperation, in which success is achieved only by serving others with goods of better quality or at a better price.

In other words, capitalist successful business people are social benefactors who, far from appropriating the wealth of others, contribute to the general well-being. Ultimately, a successful entrepreneur is a hero.

And this is the model that we are advocating for the Argentina of the future. A model based on the fundamental principle of libertarianism. The defence of life, of freedom and of property.

Now, if the free enterprise, capitalism and economic freedom have proven to be extraordinary instruments to end poverty in the world, and we are now at the best time in the history of humanity, it is worth asking why I say that the West is in danger.

And I say this precisely because in countries that should defend the values of the free market, private property and the other institutions of libertarianism, sectors of the political and economic establishment are undermining the foundations of libertarianism, opening up the doors to socialism and potentially condemning us to poverty, misery and stagnation.

It should never be forgotten that socialism is always and everywhere an impoverishing phenomenon that has failed in all countries where it’s been tried out. It’s been a failure economically, socially, culturally and it also murdered over 100 million human beings.

The essential problem of the West today is not just that we need to come to grips with those who, even after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the overwhelming empirical evidence, continue to advocate for impoverishing socialism.

But there’s also our own leaders, thinkers and academics who are relying on a misguided theoretical framework to undermine the fundamentals of the system that has given us the greatest expansion of wealth and prosperity in our history.

The theoretical framework to which I refer is that of Neoclassical economic theory, which designs a set of instruments that, unwillingly or without meaning to, end up serving intervention by the state, socialism and social degradation.

The problem with Neoclassicals is that the model they fell in love with does not map reality, so they put down their mistakes to supposed market failures rather than reviewing the premises of the model.

Under the pretext of a supposed market failure, regulations are introduced. These regulations create distortions in the price system, prevent economic calculus, and therefore also prevent saving, investment and growth.

This problem lies mainly in the fact that not even supposed libertarian economists understand what the market is because if they did understand, it would quickly be seen that it’s impossible for there to be market failures.

The market is not a mere graph describing a curve of supply and demand. The market is a mechanism for social cooperation, where you voluntarily exchange ownership rights. Therefore based on this definition, talking about a market failure is an oxymoron. There are no market failures.

If transactions are voluntary, the only context in which there can be market failure is if there is coercion and the only one that is able to coerce generally is the state, which holds a monopoly on violence.

Consequently, if someone considers that there is a market failure, I would suggest that they check to see if there is state intervention involved. And if they find that that’s not the case, I would suggest that they check again, because obviously there’s a mistake. Market failures do not exist.

An example of the so-called market failures described by the Neoclassicals is the concentrated structure of the economy. From the year 1800 onwards, with the population multiplying by 8 or 9 times, per capita GDP grew by over 15 times, so there were growing returns which took extreme poverty from 95% to 5%.

However, the presence of growing returns involves concentrated structures, what we would call a monopoly. How come, then, something that has generated so much well-being for the Neoclassical theory is a market failure?

Neoclassical economists think outside of the box. When the model fails, you shouldn’t get angry with reality but rather with a model and change it. The dilemma faced by the Neoclassical model is that they say they wish to perfect the function of the market by attacking what they consider to be failures. But in so doing, they don’t just open up the doors to socialism but also go against economic growth.

For example, regulating monopolies, destroying their profits and destroying growing returns would automatically destroy economic growth.

However, faced with the theoretical demonstration that state intervention is harmful – and the empirical evidence that it has failed couldn’t have been otherwise – the solution proposed by collectivists is not greater freedom but rather greater regulation, which creates a downward spiral of regulations until we are all poorer and our lives depend on a bureaucrat sitting in a luxury office.

Given the dismal failure of collectivist models and the undeniable advances in the free world, socialists were forced to change their agenda: they left behind the class struggle based on the economic system and replaced this with other supposed social conflicts, which are just as harmful to life and to economic growth.

The first of these new battles was the ridiculous and unnatural fight between man and woman. Libertarianism already provides for equality of the sexes. The cornerstone of our creed is that all humans are created equal and that we all have the same inalienable rights granted by the Creator, including life, freedom and ownership.

All that the radical feminism agenda has led to is greater state intervention to hinder economic process, giving jobs to bureaucrats who have not contributed anything to society. Examples are ministries of women or international organisations devoted to promoting this agenda.

Another conflict presented by socialists is that of humans against nature, claiming that we human beings damage a planet which should be protected at all costs, even going as far as advocating for population control mechanisms or the abortion agenda.

Unfortunately, these harmful ideas have taken a stronghold in our society. Neo-Marxists have managed to co-opt the common sense of the Western world, and this they have achieved by appropriating the media, culture, universities and also international organisations.

The latter case is the most serious one, probably because these are institutions that have enormous influence on the political and economic decisions of their member states.

Fortunately there’s more and more of us who are daring to make our voices heard, because we see that if we don’t truly and decisively fight against these ideas, the only possible fate is for us to have increasing levels of state regulation, socialism, poverty and less freedom, and therefore, worse standards of living.

The West has unfortunately already started to go along this path. I know, to many it may sound ridiculous to suggest that the West has turned to socialism, but it’s only ridiculous if you only limit yourself to the traditional economic definition of socialism, which says that it’s an economic system where the state owns the means of production. This definition in my view, should be updated in the light of current circumstances.

Today, states don’t need to directly control the means of production to control every aspect of the lives of individuals. With tools such as printing money, debt, subsidies, controlling the interest rate, price controls, and regulations to correct so-called market failures, they can control the lives and fates of millions of individuals.

This is how we come to the point where, by using different names or guises, a good deal of the generally accepted ideologies in most Western countries are collectivist variants, whether they proclaim to be openly communist, fascist, socialist, social democrats, national socialists, Christian democrats, neo-Keynesians, progressives, populists, nationalists or globalists.

Ultimately, there are no major differences. They all say that the state should steer all aspects of the lives of individuals. They all defend a model contrary to the one that led humanity to the most spectacular progress in its history.

We have come here today to invite the Western world to get back on the path to prosperity. Economic freedom, limited government and unlimited respect for private property are essential elements for economic growth. The impoverishment produced by collectivism is not a fantasy, nor is it an inescapable fate. It’s a reality that we Argentines know very well.

We have lived through this. We have been through this because, as I said earlier, ever since we decided to abandon the model of freedom that had made us rich, we have been caught up in a downward spiral – a spiral by which we are poorer and poorer, day by day.

This is something we have lived through and we are here to warn you about what can happen if countries in the Western world, that became rich through the model of freedom, stay on this path of servitude.

The case of Argentina is an empirical demonstration that no matter how rich you may be, how much you may have in terms of natural resources, how skilled your population may be, how educated, or how many bars of gold you may have in the central bank – if measures are adopted that hinder the free functioning of markets, competition, price systems, trade and ownership of private property, the only possible fate is poverty.

Therefore, in conclusion, I would like to leave a message for all business people here and those who are not here in person but are following from around the world:

Do not be intimidated by the political caste or by parasites who live off the state. Do not surrender to a political class that only wants to stay in power and retain its privileges. You are social benefactors. You are heroes. You are the creators of the most extraordinary period of prosperity we’ve ever seen.

Let no one tell you that your ambition is immoral. If you make money, it’s because you offer a better product at a better price, thereby contributing to general wellbeing.

Do not surrender to the advance of the state. The state is not the solution. The state is the problem itself. You are the true protagonists of this story and rest assured that as from today, Argentina is your staunch and unconditional ally.

Thank you very much and long live freedom!

Pastor Corey Brooks: America Works, DEI Doesn't

 

Corey Brooks: A Christian Man who still believes that American ideals remain the answer for ALL individuals and communities —-not all this DEI racism crap. His ministry serves Chicago’s South Side. Read about him here

From Pastor Corey Brooks writing for Tablet Magazine:

When I step out of my church on Chicago’s South Side onto King Drive, I can see the infamous and massive Parkway Gardens—Michelle Obama’s first home before it became a dilapidated housing project. Behind the projects is an elementary school where only 4% of the kids are proficient in math and 6% in English. The nearby Walgreens and McDonald’s fled not too long ago, leaving us with no pharmacy, fewer jobs, and two boarded-up, graffitied buildings. Few people own their homes. Gangs control the streets. And nearly everybody I see on the street has had a family member shot.

My community has been bombarded with one liberal policy after another since the 1960s.

My community is so far behind that I no longer look at the data showing how we’re on the bottom of every education and socioeconomic chart. I see the evidence every day. That’s why it sickens me whenever I read news of our culture war over DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), most recently during the public trial of Claudine Gay. What struck me was that several DEI advocates, in their defense of Gay, claimed to be fighting for communities like mine. They talked of how not everybody is born equal, how systemic racism is in the DNA of America, how white supremacy keeps us down at every turn, and the absurd oppressor-oppressed binary that leaves no gray area for nuance.

This experience was disembodying. It was like listening to people who don’t know you talk about you as if they knew you from way back when. Sometimes this disconnect between this DEI ideology and the realities of my community was so deep that it was laughable.

For instance, while DEI ideologues and beneficiaries like Gay may share the same skin color with us, there is very little, if anything, that my community had in common with a woman born to a wealthy Haitian family and schooled at the best of America’s schools. These DEI advocates were exploiting the pain of my community to gaslight their opponents and this troubled me the most because it hurts and hinders our efforts to truly make lasting progress.

The reality is that DEI is an ideology for the privileged. It helps people like Claudine Gay who exploit race for power and prestige and it hurts communities like mine by exploiting them for poverty-porn.

Let me give you an example of what my life as a pastor to my struggling community is actually like. One late night several years ago, I remember looking out my office window across the street at the empty lot where I had dreams of building a community center when I heard footsteps in the hallway. One never knows what to expect in this neighborhood and the last person I expected to see was Jonathan Watkins. I knew him around as a gang member and had tried to talk to him several times.

He stepped into my office, looked at me, and said, “Pastor, I just had my first kid and I lost her today.”

That morning he had strapped his 6-month-old baby girl, Jonylah, into the car seat. He was about to drive her to day care when a bullet entered through the car window and killed her instantly. Jonathan was shot badly, too. He belonged to a gang, and the shooting was gang related.

My community has been bombarded with one liberal policy after another since the 1960s.

The pain on Jonathan’s face was terrible. I knew retaliation was on his mind since so few murders around here are ever solved. I feared losing him back to the streets.

Over the next several months, I counseled him in the ways of Christ and how to live on the legal side of the world. He went through job trainings, learned how to build credit and opened his first bank account. I got him a job working for Pat Milligan at Metro Ford.

Then one day he quit and disappeared. He told Pat that he could make more money in the streets than washing and buffing these cars. I also knew that he had bought a gun in the days after his baby’s death and that he knew the identity of the killer. I feared losing him to prison or worse.

I feared that I had failed to help Jonathan. I knew the struggles he faced, inside and outside. God can be a powerful help in a troubled man’s life. So can regular work. So can having a mentor who knows your situation and can help you understand your responsibilities to yourself and to your community. But in that moment, I feared that the forces arrayed against Jonathan, and within Jonathan, were simply too great for him to overcome. As someone who lives and works on the South Side of Chicago, I understood what he was up against.

DEI ideology didn’t offer Jonathan a better life; it has no ability to help him. It doesn’t offer faith, and it doesn’t offer meaningful work. It doesn’t live with us on the South Side of Chicago. It’s manipulative rhetoric, a way of exploiting Jonathan’s tragedy, and the tragedy of thousands of young men like him, on behalf of professional-class ideologues who seek to use our pain to fuel their rise through American institutions. Their stock-in-trade is a soul-destroying poison whose moral and real-world effects are as negative for our communities as those of any other drug that is sold here.

When I was younger, I used to believe in the power of race. I thought there was meaning in it. When I first arrived in Chicago from the Indiana countryside where I’m originally from, I was amazed by how many diversity type of programs there were in Chicago to help my new congregation. In my youthful earnestness, I attended these workshops where I heard a variation of the same message: We will help uplift you so you can diversify the world. But whatever hopeful energy that was stirred up within these workshops was often deflated not too long after we walked out the door.

It took me a while to understand that these trainings failed because they were grounded in race and the only way to get ahead was to play the race game. Another thing I noticed about these diversity meetings was that, as time went on, there was an increasingly totalitarian focus on race that made me uncomfortable, as a pastor and as a human being. It eventually reached the point where race and racism became the only acceptable explanations within the context of diversity language for whatever happened out in the world.

But what truly bothered me was that these diversity initiatives, especially the latest DEI version, blamed the failures of my neighborhood on white supremacy. Red-lining and block-busting certainly played a role in defining our neighborhood—a negative role. But the reality is that my community has been bombarded with one liberal policy after another since the 1960s.

We were encouraged to move out of our homes—many admittedly not in good condition, but which we owned—and into housing projects where we had zero equity. Man-in-the-house rules broke apart too many families. Our schools produced far too many illiterates. For decades, our culture celebrated and rewarded Black deviancy, as shown on countless rap videos. The only way too many of our children know how to buy food is with Uncle Sam’s dollar. All the while, government officials and nonprofit overseers whispered sweet nothings into our ears while getting paid.

I saw this coming as far back as 2011. One night that year, I remember staring out my church office’s window at the garishly ugly motel across the street. For too long, I watched kids pass by the ungodly scenes of drugs, prostitution, and murder at the motel on their way to school. I pleaded for help from everyone and received nothing. I realized there was no true interest in ending the decline, and that my community was on its own.

The very government that ran our community down to the ground and seduced those coming out of four centuries of oppression with policies of dependency, would not help us.

It was at that moment that I became free. The act of looking beyond race freed me up to see real solutions to my community’s problems.

Not too long after that 2011 night, I walked across the street from my church, placed a ladder against the motel, and climbed to the roof where I stayed for 94 days until I raised enough money to buy and tear down the building that had become a blight on our community.

In doing so, I behaved not as a Black man but as an American citizen. It was when I used America’s own principles as my guiding light that I made progress. My community could see it, and they could feel it. The motel was gone. Prostitution, drugs, and murders all went down.

That is why when I hear DEI advocates describe the American principles of merit, freedom, and agency as white supremacist values, I know that this language is toxic for my community and for the lives we are trying to save. The rhetoric of victimization isn’t truthful. It only weakens our ability to solve our own problems and deepens the damage done to our communities by post-1960s liberalism.

That is why the recent decision of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to eliminate some of Chicago’s top schools in the name of equity was so devastating to our communities. What equity means for these DEI folks is achieving parity with Blacks on the bottom, instead of strengthening our ability to lift ourselves up. The framework of negative achievement that DEI offers is truly insulting. After 60 years of failing to end intergenerational poverty, intergenerational violence, and intergenerational illiteracy in my community, the DEI folks have decided to lower America down to our level—right at the moment when we’re trying to get out of it.

Ever since I came down from that motel rooftop, I have preached American principles to the kids in the streets of Chicago’s South Side. I never focus on race, the violence, or the poverty around them—they know all about that already. Instead, I tell them what they never hear in the streets: that they are worthy, that they are somebody, that they have a purpose in life, and that they have the tools and the ability to create positive change for themselves and for their community.

The tools I give them are timeless and universal: Respect your parents, be on time, study hard, work hard, pray, be responsible, be accountable, don’t blame the white man, save money, build credit, plan for the future, get married, be a parent. You fall—get back up. Just do it.

I drilled those words into Jonathan in the months before he lost his daughter, and which was why I was particularly despondent when he disappeared. Then, one day, he came up to me. We hugged, and he told me he had, as I feared, found out the name of the shooter, and had been debating taking vengeance for his daughter’s death for some time. “I wanted to,” he told me. “But you showed me my better self, and that’s what kept pulling me away from doing it.”

What I tried to explain to him was that hope lies in American principles. Despair and further generations of poverty, disease, and hopelessness lie in the DEI principles. We may be on the bottom of America, but the power of American principles and America’s promise are equally ours. The tragedy is that false promises of uplift from outsiders have blinded us to our greatest power for so long: ourselves.

Recently, I found myself standing next to Jonathan in front of the office window. He now works for my community center, Project H.O.O.D. (Helping Others Obtain Destiny), as a core member of our violence-impact team. He is also a father to three beautiful children. Across the street, we watched workers, cranes, and lifts working together to build the community center of our dreams. It was not the tomfoolery of DEI, which is a modern form of blackface, but our belief in ourselves and our own dignity, belief in the power of our community, and belief in America that is making the reversal of decades of decay possible.

THE TEN MOST DANGEROUS COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD FOR CHRISTIANS IN 2023

Also see the GCC Post of Raymond Ibraham’s A Pandemic You Rarely Hear About: 360 Millon Christians Persecuted Worldwide

From Open Doors US World Watch Report for 2023 

Over the 30 years of the Open Doors World Watch List reporting, the global phenomenon of Christian persecution has grown exponentially. Today, more than 360 million Christians suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith. In 1993, Christians faced high to extreme levels of persecution in 40 countries. This number has nearly doubled to 76 countries in 2023. For this reporting period, in the top 50 countries alone, 312 million Christians now face very high or extreme levels. Worldwide, 1 in 7 Christians now experience at least “high” levels of persecution or discrimination; with 1 in 5 in Africa, 2 in 5 in Asia, and 1 in 15 in Latin America.

NORTH KOREA

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is unique because there is not even an appearance of religious freedom. As the regime cracks down on what it sees as foreign influences, if Christians are discovered, they and their families are deported to labor camps as political prisoners or executed. For Christians, gathering together is almost impossible and is only attempted in absolute secrecy with minimal numbers.

SOMALIA  

Christians in Somalia face extreme persecution. They are explicitly targeted by the terrorist Islamist group al-Shabaab and are frequently killed immediately upon discovery. Even being suspected of having converted to Christianity can greatly endanger one’s life. Anyone found in possession of any Christian materials, including the Bible, is executed, often with the blessing of their family and community 

YEMEN

In the midst of war and strife, Christians in Yemen are increasingly facing violent attacks and lengthy incarceration. Converts to Christianity are even more vulnerable to physical and mental abuse, sexual assault, rape, forced marriage, and honor killings.

ERITREA

The Eritrean authorities only recognize the Eritrean Orthodox, Catholic and Lutheran churches, along with Sunni Islam. As a result, non-traditional Protestant churches are frequently subjected to raids and members imprisoned for long periods of time. Members of these churches are regarded as unpatriotic foreign agents. The lifting of UN sanctions has not corresponded to any alleviation in pressure for Christians.

 

 LIBYA

Libya has no functioning government and is primarily run by Islamist terrorist organizations, Organized Crime Groups and drug cartels. Christians are targeted for kidnap, rape, slavery and extra-judicial killings. These crimes are perpetrated with complete impunity. Christians who convert from Islam are routinely killed by their own families as a matter of honor.

 

 

NIGERIA 

Nigerian Christians face violence from Fulani Militants in the Middle Belt, Boko Haram and ISWAP in the north and bandits throughout the border regions. This year, terrorist attacks happened as far south as Ondo State, with 41 Christians murdered in one church on Pentecost Sunday.

 

 PAKISTAN

Apart from Nigeria, Pakistan is the only country awarded the maximum violence score by the Open Doors World Watch List. Christian women and girls are still regularly targeted for abduction, rape and forced conversion. The country’s infamous blasphemy laws remain a constant threat to Pakistan’s beleaguered Christian community. All Christians suffer institutional discrimination.

 

IRAN 

Violent attacks and abductions targeted at Iranian Christians have increased this year. Converts face extreme hostility from their families and communities, and pastors are regularly arrested, prosecuted and given lengthy prison sentences for “crimes against national security.”

 

AFGHANISTAN

Afghanistan remains a brutal place for Christians to live. It has dropped significantly in the World Watch List ranking solely due to the fact that many Christians were forced to flee in the wake of the Taliban’s takeover last year. Christian converts remain in grave danger in Afghanistan and their mere existence requires they live in deep hiding.

 

SUDAN 

Last year, Sudan dropped in the World Watch List after the fall of the al-Bashir government and some positive legislative changes. Current authorities are now, however, forcibly closing churches and arresting pastors, and it is clear that extremist rule has returned. In addition, the integration of local community police forces and the continued presence of armed militia and terrorist groups mean that Christians remain under the constant threat of violence.

 

READ THE REST OF THE REPORT HERE.

Goodbye White America and Western Civilization

Railing against 'White' or so-called 'White Supremacy' is really a hatred & rejection of Western Civilization. It’s all truly insane, evil and stupid, but here we are. It’s just reverse racial discrimination against white people in a country that more than corrected black discrimination more than 50 years ago.

Indiscriminate MASS IMMIGRATION is and was always intended to marginalize and reduce the White population to a minority in the country that White Europeans (and some E. Asians) built. And it’s promoted by people who are unable to build anything. It’s been ongoing since the Hart-Cellar Act of 1965. You can read about it at my post Dem's Plan to to Assure Electoral Dominance: Make the US a 3rd World Shit-hole.

So migrants from anywhere and everywhere, entirely unvetted, with few to no qualifications and often with no English language skills have been flooding our country during the entire Obama administration, and now again in Obama’s 3rd term, ie., the Biden term. No doubt, prisons are now being emptied and prisoners are sent out of their countries to Amerika. I wonder how many radical Islamists have entered? Today’s radical Democrats continue to deny this is happening through bald-face lies that deny the obvious.

Elon Musk posted several tweets this week that show how out-of-control our indiscriminate immigration flood is. The first one below is a re-tweet from Texas Congresswoman Mayra Flores Vallejo about an impending flood coming from Mexico:

And to PROVE that the Democrats literally want the worst of the worst and not the best of the best, they are NOT APPROVING higher/highest qualified immigrants applying for H1B visas. The backlog of H1B visa applications has soared:

So the entire strategy of the Democrats is to "dumb down" our populace so that they can better fleece and trick the public to guarantee their power. 

Democrats are the anti-white party who are dedicated to illegality to boost their power. They are continually trying to allow these illegals to vote and are gradually succeeding. Democrats stand for the same disastrous "diversity" that is also ruining Europe and this country.

Whites MAY ALREADY be a minority in the USA

In my 2015 blog post "Democrats strategy for electoral dominance: make the US a 3rd world shithole" Julia Hahn at Breitbart said; 

"Fifty years ago today, Ted Kennedy began changing the face of the United States by ushering the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act through Congress. That legislation resulted in the fundamental transformation of the demographic, economic, social, and political landscape of nation, exactly the opposite of what its supporters promised."

She explains that "in 1965, the US was, according to Pew, was 84 percent white, 11 percent black, 4 percent Hispanic and less than 1 percent Asian."  

Hahn said in 2015 that:

"as a result of Kennedy’s immigration law, the country is now 62 percent white, 12 percent black, 18 percent Hispanic and 6 percent Asian."

But just a few years later, from the 2020 Census, the White-alone non-Hispanic population is at 57.8% (DOWN FROM 84% IN 1965). But that is likely another Government lie.

A 2018 study from Yale shows (surprise, surprise!) that there might be as many as 2 to 3 times the number of illegals hiding in our country than is being reported by the lying media. So, rather than 11 million illegals, we more likely have 22 million or even 33 million. Even that is probably low that Biden is adding untold MILLIONS more. I wrote in 2013 that whites would be a minority in the US by 2050, but it's possible that whites are already a minority now.

This is the goal of Democrats in order to get all of these greatful persons to vote Democrat; legally or not.

White = Western Civilization

For 80% of American history, the vast majority of immigration into the US was mostly from white, high-IQ Europe and East Asia. This worked very, very well. Remember, it's only Northern Europeans, East Asians and their descendants that have median IQs greater than 100.  The rest of the world has an median IQ of about 82. 

Only 18 median IQ points, and 1000 years of cultural and intellectual development separates mostly white and East Asian nations from all others. These nations have enjoyed high levels of prosperity, law and order, democracy, tolerance and happiness. Much of the rest of the world (lower median IQ) countries are often relatively impoverished, crime-ridden, run by corrupt tyrants, sometimes near collapse and miserable. 

So, mixing of different populations with entirely different cultures, history and intellectual acheivement is sure to cause a disastrous clash of civilizations. See my 2015 post Clashes of Civilization.

This is NOW the ideal faces of America’s future according to Democrats. (Hint: whites, straights, or men need not apply:

(WHITES NEED NOT APPLY) Harvard's Disgraced Gay, Maxxie the crook, Biden's LGBT press secretary, immigrant masses, Fani Willis, Ketanji, Patrisse Cullors, Nikole Hannah-Jones, "The Squad"

The US needs the best and brightest, not the lowest of the low. The Latino Americans and Black streaming across our borders, really an invasion, are lower skill, lower productivity workers. Latin countries of full of incompetent voters, incompetent politicians and these countries have large criminal elements. Murders and crime in most Latin America and Africa countries are quite high. Many of these countries are basically failed states. For Democrats, THIS IS APPARENTLY WHAT THEY WANT FOR AMERICA.

Whites are already a minority in California and their poverty level is higher than ever. Why? Because, the average pay (and therefore their productivity) of Central Americans and Mexicans is miles below the US poverty level. For example, the minimum wage in Mexico and most central American countries is about $4 PER DAY!  (50 cents per hour). Those same people are invited by The Left to arrive illegally into California and everywhere else --- then insist that businesses pay them 30 times more or $15 per hour as a minimum wage. Then local hospital and public schools are forced to give these people free medical treatment and free education. And you wonder why we have non-stop truck-loads, train-loads, and multiple caravans at our southern border?

All of this is, of course, the strategy of the Left's destruction of this country -- their quest for unending power. It's working!

Leftists love the fact that non-white immigrants tend to gravitate to the disaster of Marxism like Chavez, Castro or even Obama. Many 3rd worlders think they want a big government and/or tyrant leader to take care of them. You see, they can't handle freedom like the self-organizing white/east Asian people have done.

Another example, look at the formerly prosperous, but white minority-ruled South Africa. The Left couldn’t stand this! They had to end it. Now the violent and militant Marxist ANC blacks are now running the country into the ground. Violent S.Africa blacks are persecuting and executing white citizens and farmers, a breakdown of law and order has emerged, the economy is being ruined and they can't even keep the power on now more than half the time. It's just a few short months until starvation and calamity arrives.

In short, and in the most politically incorrect way, we ideally need to make America white again. Unfortunately, that ship has sailed.  America and Western Civ., it's was good knowin' ya.

And Don't Forget the Shame and Idiocy of Oberlin College Prez Carmen Ambar

Like Claudine Gay, US colleges MUST have black presidents; for show and 'virtue signaling' of course.

Although Claudine Gay is in the news, don’t forget the sad, vindictive, and stupid Oberlin College President, Carmen Twillie Ambar. When will ‘they’ ever learn—the fools that hire other fools that is?

Oberlin’s Affirmative Action Hire: College Prez, Carmen Ambar

In 2016, three Oberlin students, Jonathan Aladin, Endia Lawrence and Cecelia Whettstone, all black, two were arrested (Lawrence and Whettsone) for simple battery and Aladin for shoplifting.

Later the University President Ambar and her administrator claimed racial profiling at Gibson's Bakery, which, after serving Oberlin for over 100 years, was nearly put out of business by their false claims.

The court system ruled in favor of Gibson’s Bakery, a family business near Oberlin College and was awarded $36 million dollars in damages. Still wrong, Ambar continued to refuse to pay the massive damages awarded to the Gibson family. Finally the school was forced to pay the Gibson family $36.4 million in damages to their reputation. No apology, no contrition, no remorse. These insane people are, well, insane!

Here’s a summary of the 2016 police incident report:

After interviewing the witnesses and due to Sgt. Ortiz and Officer Feuerstein's observations when they arrived on scene, the reporting officer believed there was enough probable cause to place Aladin under arrest along with the two females, one of which was already in custody due to her physically assaulting Gibson as officers pulled up.

Once in custody the females were identified as Endia Lawrence and Cecelia Whettstone. All three subjects were transported to the Oberlin police department where they were booked per department procedure without incident.

Lawrence and Whettstone were booked for Assault, Orc. #2903.13 (M1). Both individuals were assigned a court date of Friday, November 11, 2016, at 8:30am and then released on a personal recognizance bond of $1,000.00. Aladin was booked for one count of Robbery, Orc. #2911.02 (F2), and also assigned a court date of Friday, November 11, 2016, at 8:30am. Aladin was transported to the Lorain County Jail to be held until his arraignment in Oberlin Municpal Court.

In the Oberlin case, the entire incident was a shoplifting attempt that was foiled by the small business owner who called the cops on the BLACK PERPS and violent kids. The REAL basis for this problem is “Affirmative Action programs who promote blacks who very likely don't even belong in college.” AND half-wit black college presidents like Ambar and Gay.

What a dumb ass! She has proven herself to be a MASSIVE LIABILITY to Oberlin. That’s ok, they’re rolling in US Government student loan money as ‘government’ has now turned colleges into remedial High Schools to accommodate the unqualified; including destructive affirmative action “presidents”. 

She’s still fighting the verdict by the way. There’s no telling the legal costs to Oberlin because of this complete and total idiot. And think of the Gibson family who ran this bakery for decades and decades before this “affirmative action” madness.

It's ALL Obama: Ruin, Racism and Revenge From Obama to 'Fraudine' Gay

 

From Scott McKay at The American Spectator:

You’ve no doubt seen a lot of discussion of the fact that, despite her manifest lack of qualifications, Claudine Gay got the big job at Harvard because she checked all the boxes: black, female, dedicated heart and soul to the vileness of DEI [Doug here: in other words, she’s a total idiot].

And that’s all true. Claudine Gay got that job running Harvard on the strength of identity politics and identity politics alone. This is a woman who is now under suspicion for some 40 allegations of plagiarism. Far from being the “distinguished scholar” she was advertised as, Gay is essentially a serial academic rapist. And Harvard, for having installed her atop its hierarchy, deserves to be deposed from the ranks of elite, or even noteworthy, universities.

Harvard has been utterly corrupted and defiled. It’s now an institution without honor or quality. Its reputation has been exposed as a fraud.

That’s the effect Claudine Gay has already had on Harvard. The only potential fix for it is her immediate resignation, along with that of all of the people involved in hiring her.

And that won’t happen.

Why? Claudine Gay also checks another set of boxes, not coincidentally the ones set out in the very title of my new book: Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It’s All Obama.

Indeed, there is no more apt poster child for the America Obama left us than the pathetic Ms. Gay. In a time when not just race but adherence to noxious neo-Marxism govern hiring decisions everywhere from the campus to the “entertainment” world, (and, increasingly, Fortune 500 boardrooms), no one better exemplifies the ruinous legacy of our 44th president.

Claudine Gay

And ruinous by intention. This is only one facet of the “fundamental transformation” of America that Obama promised on the eve of his 2008 election. All the American people really wanted in electing Obama was to neutralize race as a persistent issue in politics and culture, thinking that taking a chance on a not-particularly-qualified politician as our president would prove we aren’t a racist country, and further, we’d be proving that we’d realized the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., that men and women would be judged in America by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.

What a vile bait-and-switch that was.

Barack Obama’s own academic qualifications were dubious. It’s still not particularly well-understood how he managed to secure admission to Columbia and Harvard with undistinguished grades or how he managed to serve as president of Harvard’s law review without authoring a single article in that publication.

He advanced based on the color of his skin and not his individual merit. Everyone understands that now. Obama then demonstrated at Harvard Law along with the bizarre racist professor Derrick Bell, the inventor of Critical Race Theory, when the latter demanded the university hire more black faculty simply because they were black. This after Obama was made president of the law review simply because he was black [Doug here: …and he never published a thing; what a f*cking slacker].

As Claudine Gay was made president of the university simply because she is black.

Harvard’s prestige now lies in ruins. And that isn’t enough for Obama. Last week, it’s said that he “privately lobbied” the Harvard Corporation, a secretive entity chaired by his former Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, to back Gay amid the controversy.

And as damaging as the Gay scandal — which brewed up thanks to her inability to publicly condemn the pro-Hamas demonstrators making genocidal statements about Jews and Israel on her campus – has been, it’s nonetheless not a surprise that Obama would demand Pritzker and the rest of the Harvard governors hold the line.

Benjamin Weingarten, writing at the New York Post, got this right:

To fire her would be to acknowledge the evil hatred of the West at DEI’s core; admit DEI elevates politics over merit, given Gay has proven to be something of an academic fraud; and therefore delegitimize the movement as a whole given Gay’s and Harvard’s symbolic and substantive prominence in it.

The DEI project falling in the academy would be cataclysmic for the left given these institutions are pivotal for indoctrinating and credentialing the next generation of leftist leaders atop society’s commanding heights.

Elite schools are the left’s center of gravity, feeding power centers from Washington to Wall Street to Silicon Valley.

That Obama stepped in to support Gay suggests he believes it to be a political imperative of the highest order.

Presumably he thinks circling the wagons around the besieged Harvard president will cause this scandal, exposing the emperors of the Ivy league have no clothes, to blow over.

DEI, you must understand, is the constantly metastisizing tumor of the ugly racism and full-steam identitarianism that Barack Obama inflicted on America in a hundred ways (many of them described in Racism, Revenge and Ruin) through his own hires, executive actions, corrupt legal settlements, federal grants and other activities during his eight years in office. Now, with the Obama Redux administration of Joe Biden, it isn’t just in-your-face race-based pandering blowing apart our American meritocracy.

The DEI activism standing in for competence gives us people like Ketanji Brown Jackson, Karine Jean-Pierre, “Rachel” Levine and Sam Brinton. Nobody in America still equates the holding of a high-profile job with the possession of real qualifications for it — or the ability to do that job well.

Claudine Gay is a classic case of the institutional corruption Obama set loose in America. Her continued tenure at Harvard is a bright-line crucible for the survival of King’s dream.

It’s dying. So is Harvard. And so is the America we’ve pledged allegiance to. It’s Obama holding the murder weapon.

This Is What Happens When You Align Your Country with 'Amerika'

 Ukraine’s Maidan Square BEFORE the US Coup d’Etat in 2014:

Ukraine’s Maidan Square AFTER the US Coup d’Etat in 2014 ; thanks to Hillary, Obama, Victoria Nuland and fellow Deep State Neo-cons. 

THIS HAPPENS When You Ally Your Country with the US Government, US Neocons and other Fools. This is Maidan Square After the US Manufactured Coup d’Etat and “Revolution” in 2014

 

Except now, the entire country of Ukraine is in complete shambles and upwards of 500,000 Ukrainians dead, 8 million displaced and a huge financial black hole for broke-ass Amerika.

From Strategic Culture:

Ten years on from the Maidan [manufactured] uprising in Kiev, the country of the Ukraine has descended into utter chaos, corruption, fascism, destruction and suffering. And yet the Kiev regime and its Western state supporters have the audacity to call the tragic, bloody morass “a decade of dignity”.

European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen declared this week: “Ten years of dignity. Ten years of pride. Ten years of striving for freedom. The cold November nights of Euromaidan changed Europe forever. The whole country took to the streets and spoke with one voice… The future for which Maidan fought has finally begun. Glory to Ukraine! Long live Europe!”

It is nauseating to hear such bare-faced lies and distortions. “The whole country took the streets”? It was a minority of Nazi ideologues bankrolled by Western powers. “Speaking with one voice”? The Maidan coup leaders murdered and burned opponents to death as in the Odessa pogrom on May 2, 2014, or in the deadly air strike on unsuspecting Lugansk civilians on June 2, 2014.

Bitterly amusing, though, Von Der Leyen inadvertently speaks the truth when she said the Maidan event “changed Europe forever”. It certainly did that, but in an opposite and awful way to her ridiculous, rosy view.

As this excellent documentary film makes clear, when the Western transAtlantic powers couldn’t get their way in dragooning Ukraine into joining the EU-NATO axis, the next step was to orchestrate a violent coup d’état in Kiev.

This week ten years ago, the elected president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych rejected a vigorously promoted “association agreement” with the EU, preferring instead to orient the country towards closer economic integration with Russia and the Eurasian markets. That decision by the president triggered relatively minor protests in Kiev dubbed the EuroMaidan which began on November 21, 2013.

The rapid escalation of violent protests was obviously fomented and mobilized by external forces: the United States, European Union, the CIA and NATO. It was a repeat of the U.S.-sponsored Orange Revolution in Kiev in 2004 which had failed back then to fully decouple Ukraine from historically close relations with Russia.

A second time around, however, the color revolution process would be more deadly and determined. Three months after the initial street demonstrations and amid mounting organized deadly subversion, the coup was executed on February 20, 2014. President Yanukovych fled the country. A NeoNazi regime seized power and immediately transformed Ukraine into a bastion of anti-Russia hate. World War Two Nazi collaborators were venerated and made public heroes. Russian-speaking people were attacked and lynched. This is all documented, albeit censored out of history by the Western media.

American and European politicians midwifed the birth of a monster. The objective was always to create a fascist Frankenstein terrorist state that would do the Western imperialists’ dirty work of destabilizing Russia. American imperialist ideologues like Zbigniew Brzezinski had touted and written books about Ukraine as the bridgehead for destabilizing Russia. The roots of such intrigue can be traced back to the early CIA recruitment of Ukrainian Nazis in the aftermath of World War Two to harass the Soviet Union.

Joe Biden, who was then the vice president in the Obama administration (2008-16), was intimately responsible for the transmogrification of Ukraine. Along the way, Biden even got his drug-addict playboy son Hunter a lucrative job as an executive in the country’s largest gas company.

Von Der Leyen, who now so absurdly eulogizes Ukraine, was the German minister of Defense during the Maidan coup. Her family’s Nazi past was quite fitting for the role she played in pumping NATO weapons and training to build up Ukrainian paramilitaries for launching terror attacks on the Russian-speaking regions in the weeks, months and years after 2014.

CIA Director John Brennan was also fully involved in orchestrating what would become a civil war in Ukraine between the far-right Kiev regime forces and the ethnic Russian population of Donbass. Fortunately for the people of Crimea, they seceded in March 2014 and joined the Russian Federation. The Peninsula was spared the genocidal violence that the NATO-backed regime launched against the Donbass. It was that systematic aggression (largely ignored by the Western media) that finally propelled the Russian military intervention in February 2022.

The Maidan events 10 years ago are a case study of how the U.S. and its Western allies infiltrated and destroyed a country with their geopolitical objectives.

The culmination of the machinations resulted in a full-blown proxy war against Russia. NATO has failed in its criminally reckless plan to defeat nuclear power Russia. A sizable portion of formerly Ukrainian territory is now part of the Russian Federation. Some would argue it has rightfully reunited with Mother Russia owing to deep historical and cultural ties that preceded Ukrainian independence in 1991.

Meanwhile, up to 400,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in nearly two years of conflict against superior Russian forces. The Kiev regime is floundering from corruption and internecine disputes as its Western patrons run out of taxpayer money to keep propping it up. Puppet president Vladimir Zelensky is despised by many Ukrainian citizens for his betrayal of peace promises and for selling off the country’s natural resources to Western corporations. The country is a vastly indebted shambles.

In reality, the Kiev regime is a NeoNazi rump reich that somehow manages to persist (so far anyway) through draconian repression against popular dissent or criticism. It has shut down opposition political parties and media, as well as persecuting the Orthodox Church as “agents of the Kremlin”. You could hardly make up an instance of a more vile regime.

And yet Western autocrats like Frau Von Der Leyen override any democratic principle to insist on lauding Ukraine as an exemplar of Western democracy which is entitled to EU and NATO membership.

Elsewhere, U.S. President Joe Biden and America’s European allies (elitist regimes one and all) have been exposed as morally bankrupt over their complicit support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It is a stunning exposure in a sudden compressed episode of horrific violence over the past six weeks.

Nonetheless, it is perfectly consistent with the West’s complicity in the genocidal conflict that it unleashed in Ukraine over a longer timeframe. Ultimately, the Western imperialist states are the evil root of both.

When Von Der Leyen proclaims that Ukraine’s decade of “dignity”, that is disaster, represents the “future of Europe”, it is something to behold with contempt. It is also deeply chilling. Her statement shows the despicable malevolence and fascism of such Western so-called leaders.

Ukraine and Gaza are testaments to the criminality of Western regimes masquerading as democracies. [Doug here: I’m not as disgusted with Israel’s war on Gaza for many reasons—I may post something explaining why. I already have if you’ve read my recents posts about Israel, the “Palestinians” and Islam]

Greenwald: The Grave Insanity of Colorado Court's Ruling

The Collapse of the Roman Empire

From Glenn Greenwald's Site on Locals: A transcript of his video posting

"The establishment effort to avoid facing Donald Trump before the electorate at the ballot box saw one of its gravest and most unprecedented escalations yet. Just as Trump rises to his highest point yet in polling for 2024 and as Biden sings to his worst level of disapproval yet, a state court in Colorado full of Democratic Party-appointed judges just decided yesterday by a 4 to 3 ruling that Trump is ineligible to appear on the Colorado Republican presidential primary ballot. In the view of these four judges, he is guilty of being an insurrectionist and thus ineligible to run for the presidency under the 14th Amendment. 

There are so many grave and glaring flaws in the legal reasoning of this decision, which we will show you, but one need not have a law degree to detect its most significant error: Donald Trump, despite being indicted in four separate jurisdictions, has never once been charged with, let alone convicted of the crime of insurrection. Both DOJ special prosecutor Jack Smith, as well as the Democratic Party prosecutor in Atlanta, charged Trump with multiple felonies relating to his conduct regarding the 2020 election. And yet both of them, despite being able to do so, opted not to charge Trump with engaging in an insurrection or even inciting an insurrection. But no matter these four state court judges, without any of the due process required for judging someone guilty of a crime, have decreed that he is nonetheless guilty of that crime, one with which he has never even been charged and thus never had the opportunity to claim all of the constitutional safeguards guaranteed to someone when charged with a crime. 

As this court itself recognized, this ruling will almost certainly now be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. That's why they stayed the order until January 4 to give the court time to say whether it will rule on it or not. This is especially so since the same liberal advocacy groups that spearheaded this case in Colorado have done the same in at least 14 other states where they're trying to block the presidential frontrunner, meaning the person who more Americans say they want to be president next year, from even appearing on the ballot. Yet again, what we have here are the very same people, in politics and media, who endlessly glorify themselves as the Sole Guardians of American Democracy, relying on classically anti-democratic weapons to try to cling to political power. Beyond this ruling, Trump has been charged with felony counts in four other cases, the first one brought by a liberal prosecutor in Manhattan; the other state case brought by the Democratic Party machine prosecutor in Atlanta and then, the two federal cases brought by a special prosecutor under the auspices of the Biden Justice Department. 

Regardless of one's views on January 6 and Trump's conduct concerning it, it is beyond dispute now that the primary tactic of the Democratic Party and their media allies for winning in 2024 is not to convince voters to vote for them, but instead to imprison their chief political opponent and to prevent American citizens forcibly from voting for him. Whatever else this is, “saving democracy” most definitely has nothing to do with it. Quite the contrary: on top of the ongoing attempts to impose increasing levels of constraints on the expression of political speech, it is genuinely hard to imagine a more glaring and more dangerous full frontal assault on democratic values than what American liberals in the Democratic Party is doing to prevent Trump from running or even remaining free."

The Inestimable Virtues of Flyover People, Part 3

Also see The Inestimable Virtues of "Flyover" People and The Inestimable Virtues of Flyover People, Part 2.  Conservative and common sense Americans can see reality. Cucked Democrats are trapped in a manufactured and even entirely inverted reality:

Truly conservative Christian men and woman in America are authentic PATRIOTS and usually, and accurately see reality:

• they’re fiercely ANTI-GLOBALISM,
• they are PRO LIFE & ARDENTLY AGAINST FETAL MURDER,
• they’re well aware of the transparent CLIMATE CHANGE FRAUD,
• they loathe the LGBTQIA AGENDA,
• they despise CULTURAL MARXISM even more,
• they especially detest the SEXUALIZATION of their children,
• they abhor the harmful CHILDHOOD VACCINATION SCHEDULES,
• they dutifully HOMESCHOOL their children, they completely reject society-wrecking CRITICAL RACE THEORY,
• they recognize how perilous UNIVERSITY & COLLEGE EDUCATION have become,
• they’re quite informed about the highly organized plot to socially engineer America’s school children into camps like the HITLER YOUTH & COMMUNIST YOUTH LEAGUE,
• they even grasp the true depth and breadth of government- and corporate-directed Tavistock-level MIND CONTROL PROGRAMMING going on 24/7,
• they perceive the MAINSTREAM MEDIA as organs of propaganda and prevarication producing nothing but fake news all day every day,
• they see right through the IDENTITY POLITICS of the phony virtue-signaling social justice warriors,
• they firmly believe ALL LIVES MATTER,
• they know BLACK LIVES MATTER & ANTIFA are Soros-funded, Democrat-directed domestic terrorist organizations,
• they stand for LAW & ORDER,
• they are well-trained GUN OWNERS,
  
• they stand against DEFUND THE POLICE,
• they know that POTUS IMPOSTER JOE BIDEN outright stole the 2022 election (and that he will do it again in 2024 if he runs),
• they know the MAGA JAN 6 PROTEST was taken over by an FBI-CIA black op and used as a Democrat psyop,
• they get that the communist-controlled DEMOCRAT PARTY & RINOS want to forever destroy the American Republic,
• they know JFK was assassinated by the C.I.A.,
• they comprehend the complexity of the Zio-Anglo-American COVID-19 BIOWEAPON that is not a coronavirus,
• they will never submit to the highly weaponized COVID ‘VACCINES’,
• they now know that all mRNA ‘VACCINES’ are extremely deadly and dangerous,
• they’re hip to the workings of the MEDICAL MAFIA and Rockefeller-created ‘American Healthcare System’,
• they have a healthy fear of the exceedingly hazardous BIG PHARMA DRUG CARTEL,
• they understand the extreme dangers of the MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX,
• they oppose the FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM as the yoke of the foreign Central Banking Cartel,
• they know the U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has become their arch-enemy,
• and they entirely reject the US EMPIRE OF LIES ——–

The End of Our Hyper-financialized Road to Ruin is Eventually Coming

From James Howard Kunstler at Clusterfuck Blog:

“Society lives and acts only in individuals…. Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find a safe way out for himself if society is sweeping towards destruction. ” —Ludwig von Mises

Remember, you are a sovereign individual and the blob in our nation’s capital city is an undifferentiated mass of feckless protoplasm. You contain a cosmos of ideas and aspirations. The blob is an agglomeration of sham and failure. The blob stands for itself, not for our country. You and I can stand for our country.

    Remember, also, that the economy of our country at its best was the sum of choices made by sovereign individuals, while the economy of the blob is a gelatinous buildup of unsound hypotheses having nothing to do with the pursuit of happiness. We sense this in the menacing rumors of a Federal Reserve digital currency, which entails the rehypothecation of our hopes and dreams into the blob’s waste-stream, turning everything we do — it can’t be put delicately — into shit.

      The Fed digital currency will be used to cover-up the failure of end-state financialization of the economy. Finance, you understand, used to be a module of the economy, with a particular role to play. The purpose of finance, formerly, was to marshal surplus wealth from prior productive activity to make new productive activity possible. Financialization, however, does not do that. Financialization was an effort to replace the economy of real production with a hologram of production. Financialization is a racket — and a racket, remember, is an effort to get something for nothing, that is, dishonestly. The blob feeds and thrives on dishonesty, its favorite food.

     Financialization seeks to replicate value not from wealth-producing activity but from things that only claim to represent wealth: stocks, bonds, currencies, and anything else that can pretend to hold value, clear up to notions and wishes. Its operations are based on “derivatives” because they aim to derive additional “wealth” from things that signify wealth, but which are not wealth itself. Each iteration of a derivative further abstracts its value from the real things originally signified, such as revenue-producing businesses, interest-bearing loans, leases, and contracts for delivery of commodities. Derivatives can be understood as false wealth, and when enough of them accumulate in a financialized economy, they will blow up the economy, spewing wreckage across an economic landscape.

     Many observers of that landscape await such a blow up at any time now. They say it can take the form of a stock market crash, a bond market failure, bank shut-downs, and disorders in money (currencies). All of that can impoverish and immiserate a lot of people. We are living through a corrosive early phase of that now, the overture of a big blow up itself. The effects are felt keenly through the middle classes, who struggle in futility to pay their bills, keep their cars running, and feed their children.

      The financialized economy was primed to blow up in September of 2019 when symptoms of severe distress materialized in an arcane corner of the system known as the reverse repo market where banks loan each other money on extremely short term, usually overnight, to provide so-called “liquidity” — meaning the appearance of solvency. The crisis expressed itself as a dangerously sharp rise in interest rates. The Fed came up with enough liquidity to paper over the crisis, and then, miraculous to relate, the Covid-19 “emergency”  a few months later gave them cover to “print” trillions of dollars and distribute the “money” rapidly into the on-the-ground economy where people bought the things of daily life.

      The result of that monetary mischief was today’s inflation. Inflation, of course, is one way of going broke. You have a lot of money that is increasingly worthless. The other way of going broke is deflation, where you have no money. In the aggregate of a deflation, nobody will have any money, so at least you’ll have company in the misery of being broke. My guess is that a grievous deflation is where the current situation is headed. Deflations are provoked when people and companies can’t meet their debt obligations — can’t “service” their loans (pay interest), or pay back contracted sums of borrowed money, or simply can’t pay their bills. Every loan that goes bad causes some money to disappear — poof! — and when a whole lot of that happens there is no money.

    The Federal Reserve digital currency is a kind of last resort way around that. It is a simple way for the system to pretend there is a lot of money around when there really isn’t any. It has the huge additional advantages, by way of computerized accounting, to allow the authorities to control what everybody spends their money on, especially the ability to block the purchase of this or that: a train ticket, gasoline, meat, if the authorities feel like it. It also enables the authorities to extract taxes, duties, and penalties at will, without any cooperation from the citizen. A Fed digital currency would be a giant step into the worst kind of exquisitely targeted tyranny. The excuse, of course, would be a “national emergency.”

      A digital currency would likely first be tested among the most indigent in society, those with little or no income. It already is, actually, in the debit cards currently issued to illegal border-jumpers. Their card accounts are refilled monthly, making this the equivalent of a guaranteed basic income. Next, this privilege will be extended to the lower economic ranks of American citizens, and so on upward, until the whole middle-class and even the higher levels are enlisted, and then the authorities will have the ability to push everyone around.

     That’s the hypothesis, anyway. I don’t believe it’s going to work. The authorities have underestimated the number of citizens who know what it means to be sovereign individuals. They will decline to be pushed around. They might even push back, start stomping on the blob’s tentacles as it reaches across the land. The citizens of one region or another of our country might go so far as to establish their own money, which would make them sovereign regions of sovereign individuals. That is going to be a problem that the blob and blobism cannot overcome.

Essential Gulfcoastcommentary Index for 2023

Link to the post at Substack HERE.

Google deleted this index post version due to my "violation" of "hate speech" rules. It's funny as it's just a list of blog titles and a further explanation that Google has 100% shadow banned searches for ANY posts at Gulfcoastcommentary at Blogger (here). They didn't ban any of the specific articles listed! I think it's a automated bot?  

How do I know that I'm banned at Google search?  Because I have to use a search engine to find my own blog posts! Duck Duck Go works well with the guidelines of putting parentheses around "gulfcoastcommentary" being the first rule to improve search results (explained in the Index post).

Fortunately I have Substack and ALL 1396 posts I have made since year 2012. I feel the free-speech site at Substack is much safer.  I don't see any reason to delete this blog, but Google might delete it entirely one day. You just can't predict these things.