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FBI vindicates all fears By Terry A. Hurlbut The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has vindicated every “conspiracy theory” anyone ever had of its attitude toward the people. Clearly it regards the American people with contempt, the same as various Communist secret police agencies did during the Cold War. (Or the Gestapo did during World War II.) Whether because the original targets of the FBI took over the apparatus and proceeded to use it against their own detractors, or whether the FBI was power-corrupt from the beginning, doesn’t matter anymore. What matters is that it’s past time to dismantle that organization and return its functions to private detective, or militia, agencies. Latest from the FBI Recall that Judge Aileen M. Cannon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, overseeing the “Trump Documents Case,” unsealed the original search warrant. That warrant contained specific instructions to the FBI and its Special Weapons Assault forces (whatever they call themselves): 1. Bring your big guns, 2. Be prepared to shoot it out with Trump’s Secret Service detail, 3. Have trained emergency medical personnel with you (same as armies travel with medics and corpsmen), and 4. Call such-a-hospital if you have to send anyone to the trauma unit. The FBI did all these things. But foolish and/or Never-Trump commentators like Erick-Woods Erickson pooh-poohed the warrant, as did Attorney General Merrick Garland. “Standard procedure!” shouted a breathless Garland. “Cut-and-paste boilerplate,” said Erickson – who nonetheless said Garland should lose his job over this, solely by reason of the “bad optics.” Special Counsel Jack Smith did worse: one of his prosecutors demanded a gag order against Trump for even mentioning that law-enforcement elements might have tried deliberately to kill him. (More on that below.) But yesterday, the FBI avowed that it wasn’t pure boilerplate. They now allege that Trump, or one of his friends, relatives, or associates, might try to: 1. Stab or slash one or more FBI operatives with meat cleavers, kitchen knives, forks, or other “sharps,” or: 2. Conk one of them on the head with a dumbbell, bare barbell bar, or similar piece of weaponized gym equipment. https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1795145593821491393 Now who are the paranoiacs in this drama? Even the donors are afraid In other news, the Democratic Party seem to have “lost Silicon Valley.” Of course, Elon Musk was never going to give money to Democrats. He has been their harshest critics. This could be one reason the bitter WEF/Soros-ite struldbrugs kicked him out of their fellowship two years or so ago. Now we learn that many long-standing Silicon Valley billionaires are prepared to “juice” Trump financially. Which means they’re not getting the government contracts they used to count on getting from Democratic administrations. And it could mean they’d be afraid to touch any such contracts with proverbial ten-foot poles. This morning, Trump’s Mississippi campaign finance director, former Gov. Phil Bryant (R-Miss.), gave an electrifying reason some are reluctant to give to Trump’s campaign. They expressed fear the FBI would show up at their doors. And, I tell them, think of what you just said. If you make a legitimate honest campaign contribution to the Republican nominee for president, the FBI will come to your door. And they acknowledge that’s a reality in the United States of America. Former Gov. Phil Bryant (R-Miss.) https://www.tiktok.com/@dancarr23/video/7371860032918523182?embed_source=121374463%2C121433650%2C121404359%2C121351166%2C121331973%2C120811592%2C120810756%2C72248228%3Bnull%3Bembed_pause_share&refer=embed&referer_url=www.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2024%2F05%2Famerican-stasi-update-trump-ms-campaign-finance-director%2F&referer_video_id=7371860032918523182 What kind of government do we live under today? Jim Hoft (The Gateway Pundit), reporting on the Mississippi scared-donor story, compared the FBI to the Staatssicherheitsdienst (Stasi) of the Cold War-era Deutsche Demokratische Republik (German Democratic Republica, or “East Germany”). He might have done better to compare to to the Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police), or Gestapo. Or to the Third Chief Directorate of the Komitet Gosudarstvennoye Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security), or KGB). Selective application – and denial Worse even than all the above, is the selective application of the “standard operating procedures” of the FBI. A parallel classified-documents case exists – except that Biden’s case is worse. He was Vice-President, not President, and thus had no authority to have the documents that rested in his garage. Merrick Garland even tried to convince people that the warrant to search for and recover documents from Biden’s home had the same “boilerplate” deadly-force authority. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Q_TtAuyYU From the beginning people asked, “Where is the documentation for that?” But when Jack Smith and company filed their motion, they didn’t mention any such detail. https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1794208062657675378 Last Friday, legal correspondent Lisa Rubin suggested Jack Smith was actually trying to change the conditions under which Trump would remain free. Furthermore, he is trying to trigger an automatic appeal in case she denies the motion. https://x.com/lawofruby/status/1794190903219036378 https://x.com/lawofruby/status/1794193260833079368 https://x.com/lawofruby/status/1794197293593448468 But the FBI might have changed the game, without telling Smith. They expressed fear that Trump or someone else would cleave someone’s skull, or crush it with a dumbbell. But they never said that a week ago, nor did Jack Smith or his team mention it. This latest expression belies their motion, and the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit could not fail to notice. Or if the Eleventh Circuit tried to ignore it, the United States Supreme Court certainly would not. Doesn’t the FBI realize this? Or are they now so brazen that they literally don’t care? Latest: Judge Cannon denies the motion This morning, according to Christina Laila (TGP), Judge Cannon denied the motion to alter terms of release. She issued a “Paperless Order,” which reads (paragraphing added): PAPERLESS ORDER denying without prejudice for lack of meaningful conferral 581 the Special Counsel’s motion to Modify Conditions of Release. Upon review of the Motion 581 [581-1], Defendant Trump’s procedural opposition 583, and the attached email correspondence between counsel [583-1], the Court finds the Special Counsel’s pro forma “conferral” to be wholly lacking in substance and professional courtesy. It should go without saying that meaningful conferral is not a perfunctory exercise. Sufficient time needs to be afforded to permit reasonable evaluation of the requested relief by opposing counsel and to allow for adequate follow-up discussion as necessary about the specific factual and legal basis underlying the motion. This is so even when a party “assume[s]” the opposing party will oppose the proposed motion [583-1], and it applies with additional force when the relief sought – at issue for the first time in this proceeding and raised in a procedurally distinct manner than in cited cases – implicates substantive and/or Constitutional questions. Because the filing of the Special Counsel’s Motion did not adhere to these basic requirements, it is due to be denied without prejudice. Any future, non-emergency motion brought in this case – whether on the topic of release conditions or anything else – shall not be filed absent meaningful, timely, and professional conferral. S.D. Fla. L.R. 88.9, 71(a)(3); see ECF No. 28 p. 2; ECF No. 82. Moreover, all certificates of conference going forward shall: (1) appear in a separate section at the end of the motion, not embedded in editorialized footnotes, (2) specify, in objective terms, the exact timing, method, and substance of the conferral conducted; and (3) include, if requested by opposing counsel, no more than 200 words verbatim from the opposing side on the subject of conferral, again in objective terms. Failure to comply with these requirements may result in sanctions. In light of this Order, the Court determines to deny without prejudice Defendant Trump’s Motion to Strike and for Sanctions 583. Signed by Judge Aileen M. Cannon on 5/28/2024 (jf01) (Entered: 05/28/2024) https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1795476963085242772 Judge Cannon basically gave the Special Counsel what would have been an unprintable and unrepeatable anatomical suggestion. She also appears to have dared Special Counsel to appeal her order, if he really has such reserves of bilious, gonadal, or similar anatomical fortitude. This is worse than her sternly warning a member of Smith’s team to “calm down” after he pounded the podium. Judge: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? Flower Belle: No, your honor, I'm doin' my best to hide it! Except that Jack Smith and his team would appear not even to be trying. Nevertheless, CNAV hopes she will have the foresight to see to her own security, after thus throwing down the gauntlet. The FBI has outlived its usefulness As CNAV has said before, the FBI does have a cadre of agents who joined because they believed in the ostensible mission “to protect the innocent.” That’s why most people (especially boys) decide they want to be law-enforcement officers at any level. But the FBI has always extended itself to extra-constitutional missions. As we asked nearly two years ago: Where does the Constitution grant jurisdiction over bank robbery? Or kidnapping, or even interstate transportation of stolen motor vehicles or other property? The often lurid tales that Quinn Martin’s staff often depicted on their long-running show did not limit themselves to “crime on a government reservation,” “crime on the high seas,” or “crime aboard aircraft.” J. Edgar Hoover made kidnapping, bank robbery, and interstate crimes, federal offenses. Pinkerton’s Detective Agency is perfectly capable of handling that sort of affair. Would J. Edgar Hoover run an operation like what we are now seeing? By all accounts, he was an equal-opportunity, against-both-sides menace. “I have dirt on all of you, so leave me alone or I’ll burn this city to the ground.” Or words to the same or similar effect. The exceptions were: • Anything that aided or comforted those he perceived to be enemies of the United States, • Threats to those who, in his view, ran the economy and deserved protection – i.e., the rich, whom he regarded as modern aristocrats, and • Threats to the banking system. Today the FBI stands against those it once most assiduously protected, except the banks. A threat to freedom George Washington once called government “a dangerous servant and a fearsome master.” The modern FBI has proved the danger it has always posed as a servant. Today it is a servant, not of the people, but of the particular faction now in power. In fact it demonstrated its “mastery” of the people at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Another “three-letter agency” (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, abbreviated “ATF”) would showcase the “servant danger” in Waco, Texas a year later. Those two incidents happened under two different administrations – Bush Senior and Clinton. The Party differences are of no moment today; we now know that Republicans were “Democrat Lite” then. Our country didn’t get back a real two-party system until Donald Trump became President. And in his administration, the FBI, and indeed the entire Intelligence Community, mutinied against him. That mutiny continues today, with actions against a former President. Their attempt to excuse their deadly-force instructions by citing kitchenware and gymnastic equipment would be funny were the stakes not so high. (And actually this goes to whether the government wants any household to have its own kitchen, much less a gymnasium.) Abolition of the FBI should become an election campaign issue, as it was at Midterms 2022. At least when Pinkerton’s investigated thefts from railroad shipments, they never tried to assassinate a President, sitting or former. (In fact they claim credit for keeping Abraham Lincoln alive as civil war broke out.) Today CNAV will take Pinkerton’s over the FBI any day. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/28/news/fbi-vindicate-all-fears/ The Documents Case: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67643393/united-states-v-trump/ Julie Kelly’s post about the latest excuse: https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1795145593821491393 Gov. Bryant’s TikTok post about donor fears: https://www.tiktok.com/@dancarr23/video/7371860032918523182?embed_source=121374463%2C121433650%2C121404359%2C121351166%2C121331973%2C120811592%2C120810756%2C72248228%3Bnull%3Bembed_pause_share&refer=embed&referer_url=www.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2024%2F05%2Famerican-stasi-update-trump-ms-campaign-finance-director%2F&referer_video_id=7371860032918523182 Video: protest that the deadly-force instructions were boilerplate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Q_TtAuyYU Post: failure to mention details of the Biden warrant: https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1794208062657675378 Thread: motion to amend conditions of release and apparent trap for Judge Cannon: https://x.com/lawofruby/status/1794190903219036378 https://x.com/lawofruby/status/1794193260833079368 https://x.com/lawofruby/status/1794197293593448468 Judge Cannon denies the motion: https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1795476963085242772 Pinkerton’s Detective Agency history page: https://pinkerton.com/our-story/history Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Libertarian Party shows true colors By Terry A. Hurlbut The Libertarian Party, at their weekend convention in Washington, D.C., demonstrated why they do not deserve any patriot’s endorsement. At the same time, Donald Trump sharpened his rhetorical sword on them, and tempered his armor, for the next time he speaks under fire. Only in this way could he have eliminated the one possible spoiler of his reelection chances. What the Libertarian Party stands for The Libertarian Party (home page) has always represented an amoral, almost anarchistic, flavor of individual liberty – or rather, license. To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Origin of the creation of God, says this: ‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of My mouth….’” Revelation 3:15-16, NASB As one may infer from their platform, they attract: • Business owners and small-to-medium-portfolio investors fed up with the typical tax and regulatory regime, and • Would-be prostitutes, “johns,” recreational drug merchants, addicts and other habitues, hedonists, and Alphabet Soup adherents. Furthermore, Libertarian Party activists and fanatical adherents can’t appreciate the inconsistency – because they don’t recognize the concept civilization. Moreover they weaken the concept minor. This time-honored sticker would never appear on cigarette vending machines: Sales of cigarettes to MINORS are FORBIDDEN by Law. We support this law. Parents are urged to help prevent violations. The Management Moreover they want to see those vending machines offer marijuana, not merely tobacco. True, they do mention parental rights, including an absolute educative power, subject to: the rights of children to be free from abuse and neglect which, sadly, they do not define. They qualify some rights by speaking of “adult[s].” But offering for sale to a minor, a product no sane parent would permit their minor child to have, isn’t a crime. Not according to the platform. Abortion on demand? Surgical mutilation and hormonal poisoning? Sure. But! Under no circumstances would they recognize the authority of any government to support such activity through taxation. They give a nod to Thomas Jefferson’s notion that no government may ever force its subject(s) to support that which makes them shudder to contemplate, violating as it does their deepest moral precepts. But the real reason they oppose such taxpayer support is that they don’t believe in taxes. You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how will it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by people. You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor do people light a lamp and put it under a [peck-]basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Your light must shine before people in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven…. Matthew 5:13-16, NASB International relations and the use of force The platform offers a decidedly mixed position on international relations and national defense. On one hand, they recognize that government should have only enough military to repel invasions. The concept “military secret” is foreign to them. On this alone they would agree with Donald Trump: America should not wage war for the sake of war. But they do not define the concept invasion, and would never recognize a surge of migrants as an invading force. The Libertarian Party would defend that position by saying that they would abolish many government “handout” policies (“welfare”) that make America uniquely attractive so such hordes. Nevertheless they propose no system to “vet” a prospective voter. Again, their distinction between adult and child is sloppy. (For instance, they specify no age of majority.) Beyond that, to them, absolutely anyone may vote. Their article on “adult rights and responsibilities” creates confusion: Once individuals are presumed to have adequate judgment to vote and serve on a jury or in the military, they should also be presumed to have sufficient judgment to decide their own purchase and use of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, cannabis, and engage in other activities currently restricted by government due to age. Who makes that “presumption” of “adequate judgment to vote and serve on a jury or in the military”? Upon what basis does said authority so “presume”? Their platform doesn’t say. As it should, because political authority is force. They also forbid the death penalty – even for murder in the first degree (i.e., premeditated). But they also demand respect for the right of any person to keep or bear arms. May a judge enjoin an individual from bearing arms on any grounds? Again, their platform doesn’t say. Expect self-defense, in a “libertarian” society, to include shoot-to-kill rules of engagement. What happened at the Libertarian Party convention? Reports of events at the Libertarian Party convention are sketchy, although this livestream replay is available: https://rumble.com/v4v2xa9-live-president-trump-addresses-libertarian-national-convention-in-d.c.-5252.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Apparently the very idea of Donald Trump addressing their convention, mortified many attendees. A throng of delegates walked into the main convention hall, only to find several Trump supporters seated in front. A Party official politely asked them to relinquish their seats to the delegates – which, by all accounts, they did. But someone shouted something to them to the effect that they didn’t belong there. In answer, the Trump supporters began a chant of, Trump! Trump! Trump! This provoked the regulars to bellow things like: This is not your convention! When Trump did speak, most of the attendees present cried “Boo!” on him, and use unprintable language. Trump let that go on, and when it was at its height, he actually challenged them to nominate him, or else give him “lots of votes.” The quality of coverage of his speech is uneven. David Smith of The Guardian emphasized the booing and catcalling – and said nothing of the cheers Trump got later. Right Side Broadcasting Network emphasized the areas of agreement. https://x.com/RSBNetwork/status/1794528739126075547 https://x.com/RSBNetwork/status/1794530291693895944 https://x.com/RSBNetwork/status/1794533344195068238 https://x.com/RSBNetwork/status/1794535542970810432 Highlights Other influencers selected their own highlights. Chief among these: Trump, who has already announced that people can make cryptocurrency donations to his campaign, pledged to commute the life sentence of Ross Ulbricht, creator of the Silk Road marketplace, to time already served (presumably as of Trump’s inauguration). According to Anthony Scott at The Gateway Pundit most sales on Silk Road were of illegal drugs. Nevertheless Trump announced his intention to commute Ulbricht’s sentence, and that drew loud cheers. https://x.com/alx/status/1794536061575766172 https://x.com/Cernovich/status/1794536187438522652 Jim Hoft reported that Trump quoted Patrick Henry’s famous closing line: Give me liberty, or give me death! In fact he spent most of his speech emphasizing points of mutual agreement: • Respect for freedom of speech, and rights to property, and • Rejection of “endless wars.” Libertarians reject the concept hell. So his criticism of Marxism (“from the ashes of hell”) might have struck many attendees as over-the-top. When he said, “teaching [Marxism] to our children is … child abuse,” that’s consistent with the Libertarian Party plank that parents, and only parents, decide their children’s education. And perhaps they recognize that Marxism violates most (if not all) of their platform. But having recognized the absolute authority of parents over education, would they necessarily agree that teaching particular political principles, even faulty ones, is child abuse? He did say that the greatest enemies of America are not from without, but from within. But that applies mainly to crime, to which a Libertarian’s solution is: vigilantism. Lowlights Finally, Jim Hoft observed that Trump, shouting over the “Boo” chorus, shot back: The Libertarian Party should nominate Trump for the President of the United States, [but o]nly if you want to win. Maybe you don’t want to win. Keep getting your 3% every four years. Not only was he only half kidding, but in fact he is correct. Three percent is the typical popular vote share the Libertarian Party receives. Trump spoke further to that, as this post shows: https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1794532970822504474 Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) made this tart observation: https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1794536636270649623 Of course Trump didn’t get the nomination – and indeed didn’t appear on the ballot. But he admitted that he filed no papers for that; thus he harbored no resentment. In fact the law does not allow a major Party nominee to have the nomination of any other national Party. The reason I didn’t file paperwork for the Libertarian Nomination, which I would have absolutely gotten if I wanted it (as everyone could tell by the enthusiasm of the Crowd last night!), was the fact that, as the Republican Nominee, I am not allowed to have the Nomination of another Party. Regardless, I believe I will get a Majority of the Libertarian Votes. “Junior” Kennedy is a Radical Left Democrat, who’s destroyed everything he’s touched, especially in New York and New England, and in particular, as it relates to the Cost and Practicality of Energy. He’s not a Libertarian. Only a FOOL would vote for him! https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112509356997089896 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. did register for the Libertarian Party nomination. Delegates eliminated him in the first round. This X post shows the results: https://x.com/BrendanMcInnis/status/1794821398487253025 Instead, according to TGP’s Ben Kew, the Libertarian Party nominated Chase Oliver, formerly a Democrat, and definitely an Alphabet Soup adherent and promoter – after eight rounds of balloting. https://x.com/LPNational/status/1794921341721964745 In accepting the nomination, Oliver railed against Israel and its conduct of the Gaza war, according to The Washington Examiner. Reaction: has the Libertarian Party flipped its collective lid? Reaction to his candidacy was immediate and, to a surprising extent, negative. Tim Pool accused Oliver of being “pro-vaccine mandate.” https://x.com/Timcast/status/1794959146237956600 That might not be fair. Two and a half years ago, Oliver suggested property owners had the right to require vaccination of their visitors. That’s not quite the same as saying the government may require such a thing. These two posts were less gentlemanly: https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1794941706279977332 https://x.com/ItsVictorNieves/status/1794940488803582292 Nick Sortor had a point: Chase Oliver appears in a campaign poster, wearing a mask. Another user pointed out that Chase Oliver accepted every recommendation any health authority made about coronavirus. This included the six-foot social-distance rule, a rule many authorities now admit had no evidence to support it. Many X users signaled their agreement with Sortor that the Libertarian Party might have betrayed all their principles. Maybe, or maybe not; after all, Libertarians have always included a large proportion of libertines. But this one fact remains: for the first time, the Libertarian Party nominated a positively repulsive candidate. In so doing, they threw away any chance at spoiling the election for Donald Trump. The only way they’re going to get even their habitual three percent, is at Biden’s expense, not Trump’s. Speaking under fire On the other hand, Trump now stands out as the bravest (though some would say most reckless) candidate in history. Presidential candidates especially do not speak before hostile audiences, if they can avoid it. Trump seems to think it worth it, if he can turn even one head – and he is most probably correct. After all, he is such a polarizing figure that a few people – verifiable from actual, personal interviews – did vote for Biden over Trump, while voting straight Republican down-ticket, in 2020. Not nearly as many as the margin of victory, given new evidence of electronic vote-switching. But Trump did lose enough genuine, verifiable, exit-polled votes to get his attention. In any event, “speaking under fire” is a skill every seeker of elective office must master. Donald Trump is breaking new ground – and couldn’t have chosen a better time. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) is actually exhorting people to “vote against Biden” for his wishy-washy stance on the Israel-Gaza War. This matches a wider “Abandon Biden” campaign among Muslims. They will probably suggest voting for another “spoiler.” Maybe Chase Oliver will get their votes, and maybe he was seeking them in his acceptance speech. Elsewhere, James Carville despairs of victory now – and blames his fellow Democrats for not staying on-message. https://x.com/EricAbbenante/status/1794490294760550531 In sum, Donald Trump need not worry about the Libertarian Party anymore. He gave them their chance to redeem themselves, and they blew it. Trump didn’t – so expect him to do it again, before more hostile audiences. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/27/foundation/constitution/libertarian-party-show-true-colors/ Libertarian Party Home: https://www.lp.org/ Platform: https://www.lp.org/platform/ Convention: https://lnc2024.com/ Livestream replay: https://rumble.com/v4v2xa9-live-president-trump-addresses-libertarian-national-convention-in-d.c.-5252.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/26/no-wannabe-dictators-donald-trump-booed-at-libertarian-convention Right Side Broadcasting Network posts: https://x.com/RSBNetwork/status/1794528739126075547 https://x.com/RSBNetwork/status/1794530291693895944 https://x.com/RSBNetwork/status/1794533344195068238 https://x.com/RSBNetwork/status/1794535542970810432 Other posts: https://x.com/alx/status/1794536061575766172 https://x.com/Cernovich/status/1794536187438522652 Trump’s Truth about why he didn’t really seek the nomination: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112509356997089896 “Do you want to win, or not?” https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1794532970822504474 Mike Lee’s post: https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1794536636270649623 First-round LP ballot results: https://x.com/BrendanMcInnis/status/1794821398487253025 Nomination of Chase Oliver: https://x.com/LPNational/status/1794921341721964745 Reactions: https://x.com/Timcast/status/1794959146237956600 https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1794941706279977332 https://x.com/ItsVictorNieves/status/1794940488803582292 James Carville’s despair: https://x.com/EricAbbenante/status/1794490294760550531 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Supreme Court and Constitution under attack By Terry A. Hurlbut The United States Supreme Court as an institution is under attack as never before. Today this attack comes from the Democratic Party – but it also comes from at least one of its own members. This tells us the low regard that too many people – even judges and Justices – have for the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution is the legal basis for the existence of the national judiciary, including the Supreme Court. But too many people respect only the basic framework of the Constitution – what powers it vests in what institutions – and none of the explicit restraints the Constitution places on the exercises of the powers it so vests. Some might say this hazard has always plagued the Court. But this hazard is worse today than ever – and if the people want their Constitution, they must prepare to defend it, by any means both necessary and effective. Latest examples of attacks on (and from within) the Supreme Court As everyone knows, the two prime (and older) members of the Originalist Bloc of the Supreme Court have come under the strongest – and most scathing – attack. Clarence Thomas stands accused of accepting gifts from a family friend who, his detractors say, is protecting an ideological interest. Simply put, both Thomas and his apparent benefactor are to the right of center. Recently Justice Samuel A. Alito’s wife got into a political spat with a neighbor. In reply, she controversially flew a United States flag, inverted, then the Appeal to Heaven flag from the American Revolution. This has provoked calls for him to abstain from all cases involving those under detention over the January 6 Event. One such call came from a sitting federal district judge in Massachusetts. Another came from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). https://x.com/CREWcrew/status/1794073874604118034 https://rumble.com/v4xl3nh-leftists-call-for-justice-alito-to-recuse-himself-from-all-j6-cases-and-202.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 But an even worse attack now comes from a Court member: Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Yesterday in The Daily Mail she said she often shuts herself up in her chambers and weeps on the strength of “conservative,” i.e. Originalist, rulings. Cullen Lineberger cited that in The Gateway Pundit and also mentioned that Sotomayor has done this before. The last time, she said it to an audience at the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. The Hill quoted her speech, including this most disturbing excerpt: Change never happens on its own. Change happens because people care about moving the arc of the universe towards justice. It’s your turn now, to carry that burden. More recently, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), House Democratic Leader, called on Congress to “control” the Originalist Bloc and their occasional allies the Moderates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wkd5f2VCzY Critical Legal Studies These spectacles might, according to one Republican National Committeeman, reflect the influence of a movement, during the 1970s, called Critical Legal Studies. Critical Legal Studies, like all Critical movements, finds fault with its subject, in this case, the law. A key leftist movement in America’s law schools, Critical Legal Studies held that: 1. Statutes and court rules make legal results indeterminate, so that a judicial ruling results from a judge’s ideological animus, 2. The law benefits certain groups and institutions that happen to hold the most power at the time of controversy, 3. Judges and lawyers typically throw up clouds of terminology to make their decisions and holdings seem reasonable and logical, and 4. Social justice requires letting “new or previously disfavored social visions” “win” for a change. The “Too Long; Don’t Read” version of the above is: all law is politics. And not law only, but Constitutions also. According to Critical Legal Studies, the law can never be neutral. But the proponents of this theory undermine their own arguments with their emotion-fraught commentary on Constitutional rulings. When they decry a ruling like, say, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, they pretend that the Supreme Court, in finding as they did, somehow violated the Constitution. But if the Constitution is indeterminate, then they have no argument. How can they charge a violation of a principle that, they have previously held, does not even exist? Behold their “Living Constitution” argument, and its logical endgame! The shoe is squeezing the other foot Besides, the Supreme Court, in Roe v. Wade, indulged in exactly the sort of behavior Critical Legal Students decry. It introduced the word penumbra to stand for a kind of unwritten corollary to the Bill of Rights. By that device they “found” a “right” to abortion in the Constitution. Justice Alito, in Dobbs, laughed that idea to scorn, and properly so. But, like their predecessors on the Roe Court, the three dissenters wrote what reads like a script for a rear-guard action against an advancing – and avenging – army. Sadly, this kind of flawed analysis has plagued the Supreme Court before. One can read it in Dred Scott v. Sandford and the notorious Plessy v. Ferguson. But here, Critical Legal Studies falsifies itself. In those thoroughly awful decisions – Dred Scott, Plessy, and Roe – the Justices involved threw all logic aside and simply stated their ideologies, up-front. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, writing for the court in Scott, raised the spectacle of (horrors!) armed blacks. To a section of the country with fresh memories of Nat Turner’s Rebellion and Harper’s Ferry, that was red meat. In fact it started a war. The attacks on the Supreme Court continue The Daily Mail cited, and briefly quoted, a March op-ed in The Atlantic by editorial contributor Josh Barro. He cited Sotomayor’s poor health – in fact she’s a diabetic who must have a doctor in attendance when traveling. She is 69 years old, and, according to Barro, should retire as soon as possible. Otherwise, he says, the “conservative majority” will grow from six members to seven. (Trump’s record of Court appointments consists of replacing one Originalist by another, one Moderate by another, and – the key – one Liberal with a Moderate. So either the Moderate Bloc or the Originalist Bloc will grow to four, depending on the quality of Court nominating advice Donald Trump gets.) These quotes of Barro by The Daily Mail show how infused with Critical Legal Studies Barro is: You're worried about putting control of the Court completely out of reach for more than a generation, but because she is Latina, you can't hurry along an official who's putting your entire policy project at risk? If this is how the Democratic Party, operates, it deserves to lose. And: [If she doesn’t retire this year, she’ll be] making a bet that she will remain fit to serve until possibly age 78 or even age 82 or 84 – and she'll be forcing the whole Democratic Party to make that high-stakes bet with her. That sounds as though he’s afraid Trump will not only win but also pass the torch to a Republican successor. But this is arguably the worst: I thought Democrats had learned a lesson from the Ruth Bader Ginsburg episode about the importance of playing defense on a Court where you don’t hold the majority. All liberals have to show for this stubbornness is a bunch of dissents and kitsch home décor. Lay aside the (lack of) quality of those dissents. This is the language of a fanatical cultural-Marxist would-be destroyer, not a friend of Constitutional government. The bad news is that Sonia Sotomayor shares with Barro the same contempt for the Constitution, and results-oriented attitude. CNAV has noted time and again that she and Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan routinely treat the Supreme Court as if it were a court of equity, not law. The good news is that she seems to share the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s stubbornness. Badly needed reform If this is the caliber of lawyers and judges coming out of law schools today, then those schools badly need systematic, top-down reform. The Constitution sets forth protections of life, liberty and property. Furthermore the Constitution should be readable as determinate. Thomas Jefferson famously worried about the Supreme Court “shap[ing] and mold[ing]” the Constitution as if it were made of wax. Clearly Sotomayor – and Jackson and Kagan – would like to so shape and mold the Constitution. Equally clearly, people like Jeffries and Barro want to see that happen – and resent the efforts of Originalists to reshape and re-mold the Constitution back to the way it should be, correcting the errors the Supreme Court made under Justices like Earl Warren and Warren Burger. Sometimes the Court under one or both men corrected earlier errors of the opposite kind. But other times they went from one extreme to the other. Ideally, Justices Jackson, Kagan and Sotomayor rate removal from the bench on impeachment for, and conviction of, contempt for the Constitution. Failing that, appointing another Originalist to replace Sotomayor would be a good start. (She’s the least temperate of the Court’s members, and might rate removal just for one of her temperamental outbursts. And that’s assuming she didn’t perpetrate the Great Leak of the Dobbs opinion.) But above all, the people must elect a President and Senate with the proper respect for the Constitution. They then need to reform the entire judiciary, one judge or Justice at a time. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/26/foundation/constitution/supreme-court-constitution-under-attack/ CREW calls for Alito’s abstention from J6 cases: https://x.com/CREWcrew/status/1794073874604118034 https://rumble.com/v4xl3nh-leftists-call-for-justice-alito-to-recuse-himself-from-all-j6-cases-and-202.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Alito-Flag-Letter.pdf Hakeem Jeffries calls for “control”: of the Court: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wkd5f2VCzY Sonia Sotomayor describes her crying jags in chambers: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13458625/Sonia-Sotomayor-says-cries-rulings-conservative-majority-court.html Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Depopulation agenda advancing By Terry A. Hurlbut As CNAV has mentioned often before, an exclusive club of Western billionaires is advancing an agenda for depopulation. They speak openly of how much better they say the world will be with many fewer people on it. But what they really want is to have no one on the planet except themselves and possibly their allied families. (Possibly because they might also be pursuing techniques to achieve immortality and invulnerability.) Less than a year ago, Vice-President Kamala Harris let their goal slip. Today certain club members are boasting openly of their goals, thinking no one else will understand what they imply. But others – from nationalist-populist movements among Western peoples to countries as powerful as the Russian Federation – do understand the implications. Those implications should be an election campaign issue as what could be the Last American Election fast approaches. The depopulation agenda Recall that the Georgia Guidestones – before God wrecked them with lightning – specify the depopulation agenda. Specifically they called for “maintain[ing] humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.” The world already has 7.5 billion people on it, so that means killing off seven billion people. Professor Bill McGuire at University College London called for that very thing. If I am brutally honest, the only realistic way I see emissions falling as fast as they need to, to avoid catastrophic #climate breakdown, is the culling of the human population by a pandemic with a very high fatality rate. https://x.com/Babygravy9/status/1789955734714634446 Prof. McGuire deleted the post and snidely tried to excuse it by saying the world must reduce its economic activity by a proportional amount. This would require reducing that activity by more than 93 percent, to achieve a Georgia Guidestone-level reduction. The notion that the Earth has too many people on it dates back to Paul (The Population Bomb) Ehrlich. It doesn’t quite date back to Margaret Sanger, because she was a racist who sought only to eliminate nonwhite races. Even then, one country – the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics – famously disappointed her by refusing her “enlightened” message of contraception. A long line of Secretaries General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Josef Stalin, Nikita S. Khrushchev, and Leonid Brezhnev – looked forward to raising a conquering army to spread Communism worldwide by force of arms. To do that, one needs population growth, not decline. But every other leftist movement has sought to reduce population. (The Chinese Communist Party achieved a downtrend in population, and now wish they hadn’t.) Further evidence of a depopulation agenda In July of last year, Kamala Harris famously said: When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water. https://x.com/DailyCaller/status/1679940886401019905 Oops, said the White House days later; we meant to say pollution reduction. They even redacted the transcript of her remarks to strike the word population and substitute pollution. Nevertheless Darrell L. Castle of the Constitution Party caught it and publicized it. Kamala Harris is not a member of the Billionaire Struldbrugs’ Club. (Apologies to Jonathan Swift. A struldbrug is a special kind of curmudgeon, condemned to live on, growing more miserable and infirm every year, seeking the release of death but never achieving it.) That Club counts among its members: • Bill Gates, of the Foundation that bears his name, • Larry (The) Fink, CEO of BlackRock, • Klaus Schwab, until recently the Chairman of the World Economic Forum, and • The infamous George Soros. The (literal) devil lies in the details In 2009 Bill Gates called a meeting of a “Good Club” of several billionaires, including David Rockefeller and Warren Buffet, to consider the population “problem.” The world surely has followed their agenda since. According to Mr. Castle, Michel Chossudovsky, and other sources, that agenda includes: • Abandonment of agriculture and animal husbandry, even to slaughtering cattle and chickens and letting their meat go to waste. • Creating pathogens with high communicability and case fatality, and “immunizations” that make the patient more susceptible rather than less. • Promotion of, and active recruitment into, Alphabet Soup lifestyles. Transsexualism or “transgender-ism” especially attracts these struldbrugs, because it provides an excuse to perform surgical sterilization in the guise of “transitioning.” They have introduced rumors of projects to enable “transgender,” so “transitioned,” to reproduce. Don’t believe it. That will never work, and they know it; talking about it is yet another cruel confidence trick. • Abortion on demand, and even infanticide. In the United States, abortion tourism is already a booming industry. (This interactive map provides obvious abortion tourist traps and their markets.) California became the worst-offending abortion tourist trap by granting to abortion providers based in Arizona, the privilege of performing their procedures in California within only five business days of applying for a California medical license. Buying land, so you can’t have it Lately, the richest struldbrugs have been doing even more nefarious things: • Deliberate reduction of the nation’s housing stock, especially single-family residences. Larry (The) Fink avows buying up such houses, at far above fair-market value. He will not say what he wants to do with them, but one can guess: ◦ Rent them out, ◦ Idle them, or: ◦ Raze them. In which case he might – or might not – build high-rise mixed-use “dingbat dorms” on the tracts where they once stood. • Reduction of arable farm and ranch land. If Bill Gates isn’t buying up farms and ranches, the Chinese Communist Party are. Gates wants people to eat gigantic sheet mushrooms instead of meat. Klaus Schwab spoke of making insects a human dietary staple. Any society, in order to grow, must have land upon which to raise crops and livestock, and build homes. Some commentators suggest that Larry (The) Fink wants to transform the United States from ownership to leasing. But suppose what The Fink really wants is simply to make land unavailable, and price housing units out of reach? Suppose Bill Gates wants to do the same, by buying arable land, intending simply to let it lie fallow forever? In fact The Fink revealed his secret three weeks ago. I could argue [that], in the developed countries, the big winners are countries that have shrinking populations. That’s something that most people never talked about. You know, we always used to think that a shrinking population is a cause for negative growth. But in my conversations with the leadership of these large developed countries that have xenophobic immigration policies, they don’t have anybody to come in, shrinking unemployment (excuse me) tricky demographics. These countries will rapidly develop robotics and AI and technology. And if the promise – I didn’t say it’s going to happen, but – if the promise of all that transforms productivity, which most of us think it will, we’ll be able to elevate the standard of living [of] a country as the standard of living of individuals, even with shrinking populations. And so, the paradigm of negative population growth is going to be changing, and the social problems that one will have, in substituting humans for machines, is going to be far easier in those countries that have declining populations. And so, for those countries that have rising populations, the answer will be education. And so rapidly developing, for those countries that do not have a foundation for the rule of law or education, they’re going to be left [behind]. That’s where the divide [is] going to get more and more extreme. And unfortunately,… https://rumble.com/v4t25qx-larry-fink-explains-the-real-goal-of-depopulation-is-to-make-it-easier-to-s.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 To a normal person, that’s Arch Oboler’s “Laughing Man” script, ending with the authorities “killing [the children] by the tends of thousands.” To a miserable struldbrug like The Fink, or George Soros, or Klaus Schwab, it’s pure bliss. Competition and counterexample That Struldbrugs’ Club has competition, in the Chinese Communist Party. They, too, have been buying farmland in America. But they’ve also hit a dead end. They are harvesting the organs of the healthiest among their political prisoners, just to stay alive. (Even Arch Oboler didn’t think of that one!) This has made them an even more miserable Struldbrugs’ Club than we find in the West! On the other hand, the Russian Federation refuses to embrace the idea of deliberate depopulation. True, they prefer to keep their homogeneous ethnic Russian population, so not just anyone may emigrate there. But they did talk of building a village for American “ideological refugees,” i.e., conservatives. Furthermore, far from shrinking their population, they are looking to re-expand it. So while Jens Stoltenberg, SecGen of NATO, openly plumps for Alphabet Soup friendship in NATO member States, https://x.com/jensstoltenberg/status/1791356439161933945 Vladimir Putin passes laws against the active promotion of such behavior. In taking power, he kept the one good thing about the old Soviet Union: laws protecting marriage and discouraging divorce. That’s anathema to those struldbrugs, of course. Putin understands what the struldbrugs want to hide – and what Elon Musk also understands. Which is: depopulation leads to civilizational collapse. Who will build the mechanical slaves that Larry (The) Fink seems to want to wait on him? Will a human workforce actually build the self-maintaining factory that will be the means for their own replacement? Do they not care? So either those miserable struldbrugs pushing depopulation haven’t thought matters through – or they don’t care. They will have their depopulated world, and believe they have the means to bring it about. Certainly they have gained the confidence of many people who deviate from the norm regarding the one human activity that ensures a next generation. As Leo Hohmann tells us, they have a military arm: NATO. Thus far, NATO promotes Alphabet Soup attitudes and laws friendly to them. (Already we hear of the government taking a 14-year-old girl across the U.S.-Canadian border for “transitioning” without telling her parents.) Will NATO someday send its armies to start slaughtering people wholesale? One problem with that: Alphabet Soup-ism permeates all member States’ officer corps (including ours). With such weak leadership, even armies with such a dreadful mission should prove easier to resist. (Or do they plan replacing their armies with robots?) And maybe those struldbrugs do care – whence repeated attempts to disarm the populace and destroy institutions that build virtue, i.e., manly honor. (Witness the Boy Scouts.) As CNAV said last January, the elites are at war with the next generation – such war being essential to depopulation. So those who want the human race to continue, must care. Whether that means legislating to force disgorgement of all that farmland and those housing units, or simply refusing to sell to them – or take a job building a robot factory – human beings must recognize they are in a war, and fight it. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/25/editorial/talk/depopulation-agenda-advancing/ The Bill McGuire post, screencapped before its deletion: https://x.com/Babygravy9/status/1789955734714634446 Kamala Harris reveals the goal: https://x.com/DailyCaller/status/1679940886401019905 White House transcript, as clumsily redacted: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/07/14/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-on-combatting-climate-change-and-building-a-clean-energy-economy/ Interactive map giving state of abortion law: https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/abortion-state-tracking-trigger-laws-bans-restrictions-rcna36199https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/abortion-state-tracking-trigger-laws-bans-restrictions-rcna36199 Video: Larry Fink explains his agenda of depopulation and human replacement with AI: https://rumble.com/v4t25qx-larry-fink-explains-the-real-goal-of-depopulation-is-to-make-it-easier-to-s.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Jens Stoltenberg celebrates International Alphabet Soup Friendship Day: https://x.com/jensstoltenberg/status/1791356439161933945 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

South Bronx event changes the game By Terry A. Hurlbut Yesterday President Donald J. Trump did something no previous President (sitting or former) had ever done before. He came to New York City’s South Bronx – “coming to the ‘hood,’” as one local put it. And the South Bronx welcomed him warmly. But Donald Trump accomplished more than to win over the residents of one Democrat-run city (and that the country’s largest). Many neighborhoods, in many American cities, are the South Bronx today. Trump could indeed “flip” New York State, with the level of support he demonstrated yesterday. But even if he does not, he will likely “flip back” three of the five States (Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona) where fraud likely decided the Election of 2020. And when he returns to the White House, he will have a mandate to reverse decades of decline in our nation’s cities, or at least make a good start on that. Leading up to the South Bronx rally Yesterday CNAV noted that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) foolishly predicted that the South Bronx event would be a flop. On the day before the rally, she suggested that Trump was desperately seeking money to replenish a depleted war chest. She also boasted that Judge Juan Merchan, now trying the case of New York v. Trump (now in holiday recess), had slapped “the legal equivalent of an electronic ankle monitor” on him. https://x.com/CortesSteve/status/1793257372560847331 She went on to say that she expected the people in the South Bronx to repudiate him. Maybe she expected a small or medium-sized crowd to greet him with the legendary Bronx Cheer, i.e., a raspberry. On the morning of the rally, rain was falling in Crotona Park, where the rally eventually took place. Another user took video of the rain, and predicted the park would be “a muddy mess.” In a quote-post, Rep. “AOC” actually said, “God is good” and picted a praying-hands emoji. https://x.com/AOC/status/1793650774872031316 Except that the weather cleared up, even faster than it did for General George S. Patton as he was famously racing to Bastogne to lift the siege of the 101st Airborne. Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee, of Thy great goodness, to restrain these immoderate rains with which we have had to contend. Grant us fair weather for Battle. Graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call upon Thee that, armed with Thy power, we may advance from victory to victory, and crush the oppression and wickedness of our enemies and establish Thy justice among men and nations. Amen. Similarly, God granted Donald J. Trump fair weather to address a crowd he must have known would be extremely skeptical. Or they would have been – had not the infamous Atlanta Mug Shot primed them to receive him as a friend. https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/1793367885932634144 God had granted him those two favors; the opportunity was his to use – or waste. Resounding success Crowds began to arrive quickly. Organizers had estimated that Crotona Park might hold 3500 people. The New York Post estimated, this morning, that 8,000 to 10,000 people attended. This represents the people who were able to get in! Dinesh D’Souza shared this picture of the overflow, which he said was larger than any crowd Joe Biden could attract. https://x.com/DineshDSouza/status/1793791707936411809 Tim Pool’s Timcast shared video of the long line of people waiting to get in: https://x.com/TimcastNews/status/1793732899210207350 So did influencer Savannah Hernandez: https://x.com/sav_says_/status/1793737758537826613 The total crowd size, including overflow, might have been as high as 25,000. https://x.com/IanJaeger29/status/1793753440952123562 It was also an enthusiastic, even vociferous, crowd. https://x.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1793764741858635929 Here are samples of what those people enjoyed: https://x.com/ConradsonJordan/status/1793689434418004267 https://rumble.com/v4x0mxl-tgp-live-george-santos-interviews-up-and-coming-black-conservatives-at-trum.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 https://rumble.com/v4x0qrh-cara-castronuova-must-see-at-the-bronx-trump-rally-the-excitement-is-real.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 https://rumble.com/v4x0ndt-thousands-gather-ahead-of-president-trumps-bronx-rally.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 https://rumble.com/v4wy9mz-president-trump-will-hold-a-rally-in-south-bronx-ny-we-are-live-1pm-est.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 https://rumble.com/v4wciyo-live-president-trump-visits-the-south-bronx-in-new-york-52324.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Trump made a speech, actually speaking to the tragic pathos that affects New York City today. Clearly the crowd appreciated it, because he showed that he cared. https://rumble.com/v4x1n9o-truly-the-greatest-ever-president-trump-rallies-in-new-york-city-promises-t.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Former New York State Senator Rubén Díaz, once a Democrat, now Republican, rounded on AOC, calling her a false prophet. I want to tell AOC [crowd cries Boo] This morning she intended to become a prophet and she said, “Even God doesn’t want Trump in the Bronx because it’s going to rain.” Madam prophet AOC, you have become a false prophet. [Loud cheers] Look at what a beautiful day. [More loud cheers] That means not only you guys [the crowd] want Trump in the Bronx, because if we are going to measure it up [by] the weather, then I would say humbly, that even God want [Trump] in the Bronx. [Even louder cheers] https://x.com/miguelifornia/status/1793791882109305283 The crowd consisted almost entirely of locals, as CNN had to admit. https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1793800719415362030 Attendees scornfully told AOC to “stay out of the Bronx.” This attendee pointedly said AOC has “done nothing for the Bronx.” https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1793993060655018008 One could say that also of New York City Mayor Eric Adams – and of “Resident” Biden. Everyone in the crowd seemed to know that. One attendee praised Trump for having the goodness to come to “the ‘hood,” something no other President has done. https://x.com/sav_says_/status/1793796018456179068 Detractors embarrass only themselves Apparently some far-left groups had planned to come to Crotona Park and disrupt the rally. https://x.com/AmandaSeptimo/status/1792633152076161143 But no one has produced any evidence that these groups even came close to succeeding. But apparently that didn’t stop Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) from insulting the entire South Bronx neighborhood! https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/1793766830672171512 Well, I’ll tell you what won’t make a difference at all and that is for Donald Trump to be the ringleader of a – and invite all of his clowns to a place like the Bronx. New York will never, ever support Donald Trump for president. Clowns? Invite? Again: the attendees were locals. Donald Trump did not bus or fly people into the South Bronx. But Kathy Hochul has demonstrated such condescending and patronizing ignorance before. https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1787661720753959134 And if this attendee’s attitude is typical, the denizens of the South Bronx know Biden better than he might like: I’m voting for Daddy, not Biden. Joe Biden, stop taking a shower with children. Stop smelling little girls hair. We know what you did with your daughter, Ashley Biden. Don’t do that. That’s wrong. You got to be a good man like Daddy is. Big Daddy Trump, President Big Daddy Trump. I’m the only one with this. Nobody has this. I had this since 2016, and I love him, and I will vote all out for Daddy. Thank you. https://x.com/richythrusting/status/1794040196226306067 “This” is a New York State license plate spelling out DONALD TRUMP. Today the South Bronx; in November the country Donald Trump succeeded in the South Bronx by pointing out the policy failures of the Biden, Hochul, and Adams administrations. But he also succeeded by showing up – a larger-than-life figure becoming more than a face on a television screen. These local residents understood – and the Democrats have only themselves to blame. Against a doddering old pre-stroke (or Alzheimer-type) shuffler, a governor who thinks certain young people never heard the word computer spoken, and a mayor who displaced an obvious communist only to govern like a subtle one – against opponents like these, of course Donald Trump was going to shine! Not only that, but the Democrats made two mistakes. In Atlanta, they took a mug shot of Trump, as if he were a common garden-variety thief – or murderer. Of course everyone knows that Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg, and “Tish” James let real thieves and murderers go free. And in New York City, Judge Merchan forced Trump to stay close. But the problem with confining your worst enemy to your home territory is that he can then contest it directly. As he is now doing. Furthermore, every American city under Democratic control has at least one South Bronx in it. New York has problems, but other cities have similar problems. Democrats had four years to solve them, and have only made them worse. That is why Donald Trump is going to regain the Presidency, no matter whom he faces in the general election. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/24/news/south-bronx-event-change-game/ AOC boasts that the rally will be a flop or a washout: https://x.com/CortesSteve/status/1793257372560847331 https://x.com/AOC/status/1793650774872031316 People need to see that their leader cares… https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/1793367885932634144 Overflow: https://x.com/DineshDSouza/status/1793791707936411809 Long line: https://x.com/TimcastNews/status/1793732899210207350 https://x.com/sav_says_/status/1793737758537826613 Total crowd size: https://x.com/IanJaeger29/status/1793753440952123562 Enthusiasm: https://x.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1793764741858635929 Videos from the rally itself: Trump rally in the South Bronx: https://x.com/ConradsonJordan/status/1793689434418004267 https://rumble.com/v4x0mxl-tgp-live-george-santos-interviews-up-and-coming-black-conservatives-at-trum.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 https://rumble.com/v4x0qrh-cara-castronuova-must-see-at-the-bronx-trump-rally-the-excitement-is-real.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 https://rumble.com/v4x0ndt-thousands-gather-ahead-of-president-trumps-bronx-rally.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 https://rumble.com/v4wy9mz-president-trump-will-hold-a-rally-in-south-bronx-ny-we-are-live-1pm-est.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 https://rumble.com/v4wciyo-live-president-trump-visits-the-south-bronx-in-new-york-52324.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Excerpt from Trump’s speech: https://rumble.com/v4x1n9o-truly-the-greatest-ever-president-trump-rallies-in-new-york-city-promises-t.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 False and foolish prophet, AOC! https://x.com/miguelifornia/status/1793791882109305283 A local crowd: https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1793800719415362030 AOC has done nothing for the Bronx: https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1793993060655018008 Trump actually came to the hood! https://x.com/sav_says_/status/1793796018456179068 Disruptors planned to attend: https://x.com/AmandaSeptimo/status/1792633152076161143 Clowns? https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/1793766830672171512 Don’t know what a computer is? https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1787661720753959134 Another local has words for Biden: https://x.com/richythrusting/status/1794040196226306067 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Redistricting in South Carolina – missed opportunity By Terry A. Hurlbut Today the Supreme Court decided yet another redistricting case, in which liberal Democrats challenged a map mostly Republican legislators drew. The court held – mercifully – that map challengers may not assert racial prejudice in district mapmaking solely by reason of whether a district line passed to north or south (or east or west, etc.) of a number of white or nonwhite neighborhoods. Partisan politics governs redistricting, and the Court reiterated its determination not to judge a partisan exercise by a political body. That didn’t satisfy the Liberal Bloc, whose members insisted that South Carolina’s Republican Conferences used race as a proxy for likely partisan leanings. And that makes zero sense, as the Court held and as anyone can see who applies valid formal logic. But the Court also missed an opportunity to get itself and the lower courts out of the redistricting game completely. The key redistricting case The case was titled Alexander v. S.C. State Chap. NAACP, 602 U.S. ____ (2024) (Docket No. 22-807). State Senator Thomas C. Alexander (R-Walhalla) is the President of the South Carolina Senate. To make his role more interesting, shortly before the 1996 election cycle he switched parties, from Democrat to Republican. After the 2020 Census, South Carolina had to redraw its U.S. Congressional districts, not because South Carolina gained or lost people (it didn’t), but because large numbers of people had moved. At issue were two neighboring Districts, 1 and 6. District 6 is the only safe Democratic seat in the South Carolina House delegation. District 1 was not so safely Republican in the Election of 2018 – Trump’s Midterm. But with Trump on the ballot, Republicans retook District 1. Then with the Census, Republicans saw a chance to make District 1 a safe, not merely a leaning, Republican seat. To do that, Republicans actually reunified several counties that, ten years ago, the legislature had split between the two districts. They also moved several Democratic neighborhoods from District 1 to 6. Where the Democrats saw their chance at a challenge, is that those Democratic neighborhoods were predominately black. So the South Carolina NAACP, and one token named voter, sued, alleging racial gerrymandering and vote dilution. A three-judge District Court panel found for the challengers, after a nine-day trial with five expert witnesses. How the Supreme Court voted and held Mr. Alexander, as Senate President, appealed directly to the Supreme Court, not to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Readers can read the 104-page opinion, concurrence and dissent, here. The Originalist and Moderate Blocs both voted, as their full memberships, to reverse the key holding of the District Court. As one might expect, the Liberal Bloc voted with equal unanimity to affirm the lower court. Justice Samuel A. Alito wrote for the majority, and Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurring opinion. (He and Alito didn’t quite agree on all particulars.) Justice Elena Kagan wrote the dissenting opinion. Justice Alito observed two principles that remain in conflict. On one hand, the Supreme Court wants itself and the lower courts to stay out of partisan politics. A State legislature is an inherently political body, and may serve the partisan interests of its majorities with almost-complete freedom. On the other hand, a legislature may not primarily seek segregation of the races, or dilution of their votes. Justice Alito held that the challengers, contrary to what the District Court held, plainly did not prove either “racial gerrymandering” (i.e., segregation) or vote dilution. He thoroughly discredited the challengers’ four expert witnesses calling them out for such logical fallacies as lack of denominators. In the end he found no evidence for segregation or vote dilution. Then, with fellow Originalist Neil Gorsuch and all the Moderates, he remanded the case for consideration of precedents under the Voting Rights Act. Support for the reasoning To resolve the “tension” between protection of partisan decision making and prohibition of racial decision making, the Supreme Court requires anyone bringing racial “gerrymandering” or vote-dilution claims to disentangle racial from political considerations. The problem, which Alito considered obvious, is that racial and partisan advantage go together. Blacks as a group have historically voted 80 to 90 percent Democratic. So if a mapmaker looks at voting history, chances are that he will draw a district boundary around a black neighborhood solely by reason of how they habitually vote. That, said Justice Alito, is perfectly acceptable. Moreover it is for the challenger to prove instead that the mapmakers sought to hold black voting strength to an arbitrary set point. Predictably, Justice Kagan would assert that race became a proxy for voting behavior. This makes no sense. One can determine voting behavior in South Carolina directly, by examining how people in certain precincts vote in primaries. County Registrars of Elections can easily determine how many Republican or Democratic ballots they issue in primaries. (No State permits one to vote in more than one Party primary in the same day. South Carolina does not have “jungle primaries” with all candidates on the same ballot, as California has.) So no legislature needs to count racial numbers to achieve a partisan advantage. And if the racial and partisan mix happens to correlate, that reflects the tribalism of voters. (Which will not necessarily hold in future; more on that below.) The missed opportunity But Justice Thomas, in his concurrence, criticized Justice Alito on one point. How many more such cases, he asks perhaps with a sigh, must the Supreme Court waste its time with, before finally declaring that the Court should stay out of the racial mix of districts, and perhaps invalidate the Voting Rights Act of 1965? In fact, racial segregation and vote dilution result from diametrically opposite actions. To segregate the races by district means to draw as many nonwhites as possible into their own district. They can elect their own representatives as they please, but they have no say in picking the rest of the State’s delegation. On the other hand, to dilute votes requires scattering nonwhite neighborhoods as nonwhite islands in white seas. When this happens, nonwhites might never have a chance to elect a nonwhite to represent them. So how can even a bad-hearted legislature do both at once? Logically, it can’t. In fact Justice Thomas made abundantly clear that he regards such cases as worse than a waste of time: In my view, the Court has no power to decide these types of claims. Drawing political districts is a task for politicians, not federal judges. There are no judicially manageable standards for resolving claims about districting, and, regardless, the Constitution commits those issues exclusively to the political branches. The Court’s insistence on adjudicating these claims has led it to develop doctrines that indulge in race-based reasoning inimical to the Constitution. As we reiterated last Term, “‘[o]ur Constitution is color-blind.’” Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, 600 U. S. 181, 230 (2023) (quoting Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U. S. 537, 559 (1896) (Harlan, J., dissenting)). A colorblind Constitution does not require that racial considerations “predominate” before subjecting them to scrutiny. Nor does it tolerate groupwide judgments about the preferences and beliefs of racial minorities. It behooves us to abandon our misguided efforts and leave districting to politicians. Justice Thomas’ reasoning strikes CNAV as inarguable and incontrovertible. How do you judge gerrymandering or vote dilution? Not one clause in the Constitution gives a clue. Instead, notes Thomas, the Constitution authorizes Congress, and only Congress, to decide what’s fair and what’s unfair in this regard. Furthermore, everyone should recognize what Democrats really want: proportional representation by party. That result is consistent with their National Popular Vote Compact to eliminate the Electoral College. Why racial calculations in redistricting make no sense Regarding the “correlation” between race and politics, that either exists, or doesn’t exist. If it exists, then of course Party members will shut out members of races who never vote as they do. Nonwhites shut out whites, the same as whites shut out nonwhites. And you don’t see whites complain – mostly because too many editorialists would consider that worse than rude. But suppose it does not exist – or suppose, even better from a civilizational standpoint, it disappears? Then how does it avail, behoove, or befit either Party to shut out possible constituents? Worth remembering is that Democrats, not Republicans, retain contempt for nonwhites, even among their ideological fellow travelers. These are the White Liberals. You remember who got wise to them first? Malcolm X, that’s who. In point of fact, Donald J. Trump made nonwhites consider abandoning the Democratic Party that has long pandered to them. The judge trying Trump’s New York indictment, to quote a hilariously silly and foolish remark by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), has clamped a figurative “ankle monitor” on Trump, effectively confining him to the Five Boroughs for days at a time. https://x.com/CortesSteve/status/1793257372560847331 In answer, Trump has campaigned actively in New York City! He did it first in Harlem (Harlem!!!), and is doing it now in the South Bronx. The results, thus far, stagger the imagination. https://x.com/ConradsonJordan/status/1793689434418004267 https://rumble.com/embed/v4ujni9/?pub=4teej https://rumble.com/embed/v4ujrc5/?pub=4teej https://rumble.com/embed/v4ujnyh/?pub=4teej https://rumble.com/embed/v4uha7n/?pub=4teej A better way Justice Thomas is right to urge the Court to get out of redistricting. The Constitution says nothing about how legislatures may draw districts. The only grounds to infer any authority for the courts to adjudicate racial claims, might be one of the late Justice William O. Douglas’ “penumbras” that “emanate” from certain texts of the Constitution. In this case, the relevant passage might be Amendment XIV Section 2, and then Amendment XV, which supersedes that. And as Donald J. Trump is now showing, the racial division between the two parties is now obsolete. But the Framers did not give a sound basis for determining neighborly relationships among people within a State. To paraphrase an even earlier Supreme Court opinion, “resort must be had elsewhere” to determine a proper basis for redistricting. Why not use the boundaries for smaller governmental units? CNAV discussed that two and a half years ago, and reiterates the principles here. Legislative district boundaries should never cross county (or parish) lines, or city, town, or other corporate limits. A unit too big for one Representative might split into two or three. But no Representative should represent parts of different counties. Furthermore, the cherished “one person, one vote” principle appears nowhere in the Constitution. If that stands in the way of, for example, having one Senator from each unit, then end it. Justice Thomas is right about another thing: it’s time to ditch the Voting Rights Act and enact this kind of neighborly principle for legislative districts. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/23/foundation/constitution/redistricting-south-carolina-missed-opportunity/ Anderson v. S.C. NAACP: Docket Page: https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/22-807.html Opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-807_3e04.pdf Video: AOC lets slip the strategy of keeping Trump in New York: https://x.com/CortesSteve/status/1793257372560847331 Trump rally in the South Bronx: https://x.com/ConradsonJordan/status/1793689434418004267 https://rumble.com/v4x0mxl-tgp-live-george-santos-interviews-up-and-coming-black-conservatives-at-trum.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 https://rumble.com/v4x0qrh-cara-castronuova-must-see-at-the-bronx-trump-rally-the-excitement-is-real.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 https://rumble.com/v4x0ndt-thousands-gather-ahead-of-president-trumps-bronx-rally.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 https://rumble.com/v4wy9mz-president-trump-will-hold-a-rally-in-south-bronx-ny-we-are-live-1pm-est.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Trump – target for murder? By Terry A. Hurlbut Has the United States government chosen to kill a former President, to prevent his return to office? Or has it fallen into the hands of a cabal which has killed a President before this? And why did “Resident” Biden refuse Secret Service protection for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.? Was that mere spite? Or was he acting under the orders of, or in concert with, such a cabal? All these questions become important with new evidence in one of the cases involving Donald Trump – new evidence that the one honest judge in any of his cases, has seen fit to bring into the light of day. Judge Cannon reveals entrapment against Trump Judge Aileen M. Cannon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida has handled one of two cases titled United States v. Trump since it began. This particular case arose out of the Mar-A-Lago Raid on August 8, 2022. Special Counsel Jack Smith empaneled two grand juries, one in Washington, D.C., and the other in West Palm Beach, Florida. The Florida grand jury returned an indictment for mishandling of classified information. From the day she took this case, Judge Cannon has never been comfortable with Jack Smith’s handling of the case. Accordingly she has refused many of his motions to file important case records under seal. But she did accept many other filings under seal, though she criticized him for using two grand juries. Recently Judge Cannon started un-sealing thoses documents. Among the findings from them: the White House, the National Archives, and Smith’s office all colluded in entrapment of Trump. Indeed the FBI staged the famous throw-down photograph of classified documents on a carpet. Worse, the Archives sent some of those records to Trump and then tipped off the FBI that he had them. They accusesd Trump of carrying them out of the White House on his last day. He would in fact have been perfectly within his rights so to act – but did not so act. The unsealed documents proved that beyond a reasonable doubt. But yesterday Judge Cannon revealed more – much more. A chilling threat For the first time, Judge Cannon unsealed the actual search warrant. A close look at that warrant shows why the Justice Department tried strenuously to keep that under seal. (Source: Christina Laila, The Gateway Pundit.) That warrant had orders to shoot to kill if Trump was present and tried to interfere. Indeed the warrant authorized FBI agents to shoot it out with the Secret Service. Julie Kelly, who has written extensively on this matter for Real Clear Investigations, dropped this short thread. https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1792970849861116080 https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1792972717781586109 The thread embeds photographs of the unsealed documents, which is as quickly as any of them became available. They do indeed substantiate everything Mss. Kelly and Laila say. Trump himself reacted in understandable outrage on Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/112481173729711738 This morning, Jim Hoft published two updates to the story, each focusing on a different aspect of it. Each had an embedded video from Steve Bannon’s War Room channel on Rumble, in which Bannon interviews Julie Kelly. First, Kelly emphasizes that the FBI had a medic on the scene and sent a mass-casualty alert to a hospital with a trauma room. The FBI also had plans to raid some of the guest rooms at Mar-A-Lago. https://rumble.com/v4wms0i-julie-kelly-fbi-authorized-use-of-deadly-force-during-mar-a-lago-raid.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Was the FBI trying to retrieve incriminating evidence? Or worse? Second, Kelly describes another unsealed document detailing what the FBI “found.” They took photographs out of Melania’s room, and Barron’s room, at the main house. The unsealed document lays heavy emphasis on “binders” found in Melania’s room. These are loose-leaf, three-ringed binders, of the kind that hold documents. Those, apparently, were the objects of the search – and they concerned the infamous Operation Crossfire Hurricane. This was the attempt to show that Trump was a Russian asset, whom the Russians installed into the White House. Hoft also reported that Christina Bobb, a Trump lawyer present at Mar-A-Lago during the raid, exploded at the revelations. She thought she might have been a target as well. https://x.com/christina_bobb/status/1793057111569740286 For answer, the FBI insisted that the deadly-force instructions – even to having a medic and notifying a trauma hospital – were standard FBI boilerplate. Erick-Woods Erickson, this morning, actually accepted that excuse. But then he said the inclusion of the boilerplate bespoke unforgivable laziness that someone must have known would provoke outrage. He even suggested that Merrick Garland should lose his job, if he couldn’t compose a search warrant better than that. But Wayne Allen Root, Assistant Editor at The Gateway Pundit, was not so forgiving. The FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team, or whatever they call their Special Weapons Assault Team nowadays, brought their Special Weapons. Second, they did indeed pass a mass-casualty alert to a local hospital. Root asked his readers what would happen if Trump had laid on such a raid – on Obama’s Washington, D.C. residence. Attack on the RNC And while all this discussion was happening, another event happened this morning, that was even more dire. Someone mailed a “suspicious substance” – one report spoke of “vials of blood” – to the Washington headquarters of the Republican National Committee. According to Cullen Linebarger (TGP), authorities chased everyone out of the building and locked it down. They then called in a Hazardous Materials team. Linebarger collected three X posts: https://x.com/DashaBurns/status/1793257867257970977 https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1793270053875409076 https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1793271288934355348 Thus far no one at the RNC has responded to any requests for comment. An attempted assassination of Trump – and keeping RFK Jr. in danger also? At 3:30 p.m. EDT, Jerome R. Corsi left his dire theory, which he bases on his other theory of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He and fellow researcher David W. Mantik, Ph.D., have determined that the cranial X-rays of the late President are forgeries. Furthermore, they determined that the signs of tampering all point to an attempt to cover up frontal head shots. They make two points about the event of November 22, 1963: 1. If Lee Harvey Oswald fired any shots from the Texas School Book Depository, he missed. All of them. 2. Kennedy took three bullets, two from the front and one from the rear. (That explains Kennedy’s head being thrown backward in Abraham Zapruder’s film record.) How is this relevant today? Because Corsi doesn’t believe the excuse that the “deadly force instructions” were pro forma, any more than Wayne Allen Root. What part of pro forma instruction actually commands FBI personnel to prepare to fire on Secret Service agents? That kind of thing happens in political thrillers – never in real life. Furthermore, “Resident” Biden still refuses to accord Robert F. Kennedy Jr. any Secret Service protection. This convinces Corsi that the Justice Department is preparing to kill both men – separately or together, they don’t care which. We now know the Department of Justice has gone rogue in a mad determination to prevent former President Donald Trump from campaigning. We also know the Department of Justice has forced Robert Kennedy, Jr. to spend thousands of dollars on private security. Instead of protecting both candidates, the Biden administration appears to be taking orders from deep state operatives who are reluctant to allow into power two candidates who every day have new reasons to ensure that as president, they would make sure all secrets about the JFK assassination are revealed—information that would put light on the deep state’s efforts today to make sure neither Donald J. Trump or Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. are inaugurated president on January 20, 2025. If these bad actors follow the pattern they did with Jack, Bobby, and (as some suspect) Dr. King, then they will recruit patsies. Lee Oswald, Jack Ruby, Sirhan Sirhan, James Earl Ray – and whom else? Answers to critics CNAV anticipates at least one question about this theory. Why didn’t anyone target Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.)? Hm-m-m-m. Didn’t they? Was Ted Kennedy really as careless on Chappaquiddick Island as his detractors assume? Or did Ted Kennedy, a Senator, never get close enough to learn the Deep State’s secrets? (Bobby Kennedy served as Attorney General in Jack’s administration.) And why Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? Surely he never got that close to any Deep State secrets! Or shall we add racism to the other sins of the Deep State? Or a simpler motive? A man who could fill the National Mall while offering a message of racial reconciliation might indeed threaten the powerful people of that age. For answer, consider this: Donald Trump has survived more assassination attempts than have any of his predecessors in office. The Mar-A-Lago Raid could well be another such attempt. If so, all those attempts seem to have “filled him with a terrible resolve,” as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is reputed to have said. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/22/news/trump-target-murder/ Docket page on the Documents Case: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67643393/united-states-v-trump/ Julie Kelly’s thread: https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1792970849861116080 https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1792972717781586109 Trump’s reaction on Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/112481173729711738 Video: the FBI prepared for casualties https://rumble.com/v4wms0i-julie-kelly-fbi-authorized-use-of-deadly-force-during-mar-a-lago-raid.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Christina Bobb’s outraged reaction: https://x.com/christina_bobb/status/1793057111569740286 RNC HQ on lockdown: https://x.com/DashaBurns/status/1793257867257970977 https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1793270053875409076 https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1793271288934355348 The Gateway Pundit stories: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/breaking-newly-unsealed-doc-reveals-biden-fbi-authorized/ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/update-part-one-merrick-garland-approved-use-deadly/ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/update-bidens-deadly-mar-lago-raid-part-two/ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/wtf-they-were-prepared-kill-me-christina-bobb/ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/wayne-root-what-would-happen-if-republican-president/ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/breaking-rnc-headquarters-under-lockdown-due-suspicious-substance/ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/jerome-corsi-exclusive-is-biden-administration-trying-kill/ Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Alvin Bragg has bad day in court By Terry A. Hurlbut Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, prosecuting the first Trump case, had his worst day in court since the trial began. His star witness admitted having stolen from the Trump organization and lied to its CEO. In the process he destroyed the value of the one piece of evidence anyone thought could still be probative – indeed decisive – against Donald Trump. Judge Juan Merchan, who has been in the tank for the prosecution all along, lost his temper and ejected a defense witness from court in mid-testimony. By now everyone knows fully well about the conflicts of interest that riddle this case. And this as Trump prepares to hold a campaign rally in New York’s South Bronx. The Alvin Bragg case Alvin Bragg is the first public prosecutor to get an indictment against Trump. The case alleges that Trump paid off a former alleged intimate associate, Stephanie “Stormy Daniels” Clifford, to keep quiet about their alleged affair, so as not to hurt his campaign. The case then alleges that Trump falsified business records to cover up the true purpose of the expenditure. Because this expenditure is supposed to be in aid of a campaign, it would constitute a felonious campaign-finance violation. But even Merrick Garland’s Department of (Political) Justice wouldn’t touch the case with a proverbial ten-footer. Nevertheless, Alvin Bragg brought the case anyway, to the Supreme (actually, Superior) Court of the State of New York, in and for the County of New York (i.e., Manhattan), The (Allegedly) Honorable Juan Merchan presiding. Judge Merchan has consistently ruled to make Trump’s life miserable, forbidding him to comment directly on the case. Nor to comment on his daughter running a consulting firm that has key Democrats as clients. Nor on his own history of heavy donations to Democrats. This gives the judge a conflict of interest, partly on financial grounds (his daughter’s consultancy) but also on ideological grounds (he supports Democrats). Under any other circumstances, he would be off the case, which would then be reassigned – if not dismissed. But New York’s courts are the most ideologically corrupt in the country. Witness their stonewalling of New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen and their repeated violations of the Second Amendment. Does Alvin Bragg have a smoking gun? Last Thursday (May 16), Trump’s defense counsel, cross-examining “star” witness Michael Cohen, caught Cohen out in a lie. At issue then was Cohen’s telephone call to Keith Schiller, in charge of security for Trump, in 2016. The details of Cohen’s interchange with Schiller are sketchy, except that Cohen left the exchange out of his account of the call. Cohen was trying to establish that this was the call in which Schiller handed the phone to Trump, who then cleared Cohen to pay Ms. Clifford $130,000 to keep quiet. The point: only Cohen could substantiate that he was one the phone with Trump at all. And if he lied about a material point, that account of Trump being on the phone is now suspect. (Call this Aesop’s Razor: when a person lies, none can credit him with telling the truth.) But Lanny Davis, author of the “Purple Nation” column, insisted that the media made too much of this omission. He further said that notes by Allen Weisselberg, Trump Organization CEO, show plainly that Trump was to reimburse Cohen to the tune of $210,000, including the $130,000 “hush money.” Weisselberg doubled that, to cover Cohen’s income taxes in the 50 percent tax bracket. $420,000, divided by twelve months over a year, amounts to a $35,000 a month repayment plan. Those checks, crowed Davis, are in evidence. Michael Cohen destroys even that Lanny Davis published that boast yesterday (May 20). And that very day, Michael Cohen confessed to lying about the whole thing. Shortly after the trial resumed, Todd Blanche, counsel for Trump, continued his cross-examination of Cohen. According to Jim Hoft at The Gateway Pundit, Cohen admitted that he stole $30,000 from the Trump organization, and lied to CEO Weisselberg. Paul Ingrassia, a regular at TGP, was in court and live-posting during the trial. https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792531365889536228 The “Lawrence” is Lawrence O’Donnell, reporter for MSNBC. https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792536847681269779 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792537676911972384 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792537891328905494 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792543283295420873 In this exchange, Emil Bove, another member of the Trump defense team, reminds the court that the prosecution has not even established an intent to commit another crime. https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792544766242050379 One of Bragg’s subordinates objects to having an expert witness on federal campaign law testify. https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792545702343483451 Here Michael Cohen takes the stand, and Todd Blanche begins his cross-examination of him. https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792549517360861640 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792550883055620522 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792551582413832590 Here Cohen admits to stealing from the Trump organization. https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792559751412207767 See also this video on Fox News discussing that point: https://rumble.com/v4wctnq-michael-cohen-admits-in-court-he-stole-from-donald-trump-lied-to-trump-ceo.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792562836033441917 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792567873971298538 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792577510674153608 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792582891890684330 Cohen admits here that he has a financial stake in the outcome of this case. (See also Christina Laila’s article on this point.) https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792584531477725437 Here Michael Cohen admits he would be willing to lie if the case affected him personally. https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792585428605837457 Alvin Bragg and Judge Merchan both get a dose of reality In the afternoon session, the defense called a paralegal from one of their law firms to testify. https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792635154264911891 While this was happening, Lawrence O’Donnell was outside, excusing (no one can justify this) Cohen’s theft from the Trump organization. Christina Laila mentioned this. O’Donnell threw up clouds of financial terminology to suggest Cohen was trying to recover his just due. https://x.com/tomselliott/status/1792618994182074746 Paul Ingrassia reflects on O’Donnell’s demeanor in the press section: https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792636680437981479 Now came the real donnybrook, when the defense called Robert Costello, former legal adviser to Michael Cohen, to the stand. https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792638295051993435 This occasioned a flurry of objections, as the prosecution clearly did not want this man to testify. Why Judge Merchan ultimately cleared him to take the stand, is unclear. https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792642357696790759 But the reason for the prosecution’s frantic and strenuous objections became clear as crystal in short order. https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792644373559001482 Mr. Costello then revealed that Cohen told him he had nothing to say about Trump. https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792645081284927958 In fact, Cohen arranged to pay off Clifford on his own initiative. https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792645633607602361 The judge started doing a slow burn – and finally exploded. https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792649186657112397 See also Christina Laila’s article about this explosion, and another influencer mentioning the blow-up: https://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/1792649482623963376 Ostensibly Judge Merchan was accusing Costello of rudeness in court, and toward him, the judge. But everyone in court knew what Judge Merchan’s real problem was. https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792650549013152022 Direct examination continued to the finish,… https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792652030579708055 … and then cross-examination began, during which the judge vented his spleen some more. https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792655473830699195 Defense moves to throw out Michael Cohen’s testimony After a day that did not go as Judge Merchan might have anticipated (planned?), he hastily adjourned court. https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792657176302846100 But before the final adjournment, Mr. Blanche moved to strike all of Michael Cohen’s testimony. https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792659825140081123 That evening, Mr. Ingrassia offered this pithy summary of events: https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792701676710740279 The next day This morning, Jim Hoft noted that Alvin Bragg “lost CNN.” Said panelist Alyse Adamson, “This is a lie that cuts at the heart of the evidence.” She also expressed shock that Alvin Bragg couldn’t build a case any better than that, and made such rookie mistake. https://rumble.com/v4wj5ml-alvin-bragg-loses-cnn-former-federal-prosecutor-blasts-trump-show-trial-ove.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Recall Paul Ingrassia saying no sane jury would convict. Sadly, CNAV cannot know whether this jury is sane or insane. This morning, the trial has resumed, Trump has a bevy of supporters, and Robert Costello is back on the stand. (If Trump can’t talk about the case, anyone else in court can – and they’ve been doing it, to devastating effect.) https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792909236998922633 https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792910676471521664 https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792913755614990469 https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792918125517656514 https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792921179344240823 After Emil Bove finished with Costello, a prosecutor had but two questions on cross-examination: https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792921740596670891 At 10:19 a.m. EDT, the defense rested. https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792923143377416645 Judge Merchan then recessed the trial for a week, to avoid “splitting” case summations with Memorial Day Weekend between them. https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792924088849010937 Afterward, Andrew H. Giuliani held a press conference, with video. https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792943893258133787 https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792949796661055705 Analysis There can be no excuse for how this judge conducted the Monday session. Worse yet, Alvin Bragg brought a case with the most flimsy support imaginable. In essence, he expects this jury to convict Donald Trump for being Donald Trump. This is an absolute travesty of justice. Robert Morgenthau, the legendary Manhattan District Attorney until 2009, must be spinning in his grave to consider his current successor. Only in the surreal story universe that Franz Kafka created would anyone bring a case like this to trial. The worse part of this, is that this jury might still “reverse nullify” Trump’s legal rights. James Madison, in writing the Bill of Rights, specified that: [N]o fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law. U.S. Constitution, Amendment VII Mr. Madison likely never imagined a scenario like this, in which a jury convicted a man “just because.” Jury nullification normally results in an acquittal. For a nullifying jury to convict, will stain the courts of the State of New York for decades to come. It will also mark Alvin Bragg as a prosecutor out of a dystopian novel – or short story. Obviously, Trump will appeal. Judge Merchan’s conduct is worse. Lanny Davis scornfully referred to a “Perry Mason moment.” But in nine years of trying murder cases, the famed (though fictitious) criminal attorney never once dealt with a judge who lost his temper to this degree. (For that matter, neither Hamilton Burger nor any other prosecutor who opposed Perry Mason would dare bring such a case.) What remains? Summations, as mentioned, will take place next week, after Memorial Day. After that, the case goes to the jury. Whether the defense asked for a directed verdict of acquittal and the judge denied it, or whether the defense didn’t even bother asking for a directed verdict of acquittal, is not clear. Perhaps the defense knew they’d never get that directed verdict, and sought to entice the court to embarrass itself. And embarrass itself, this court certainly did. The only thing that remains to see, is whether this jury will embarrass itself. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/21/news/alvin-bragg-bad-day-court/ Video: Fox News panel discusses Cohen admitting he stole from the Trump organization: https://rumble.com/v4wctnq-michael-cohen-admits-in-court-he-stole-from-donald-trump-lied-to-trump-ceo.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Video: Alvin Bragg loses CNN: https://rumble.com/v4wj5ml-alvin-bragg-loses-cnn-former-federal-prosecutor-blasts-trump-show-trial-ove.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Paul Ingrassia’s live-post article: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/live-updates-inside-trump-trial-tgp-contributor-paul-2/ Jim Hoft’s list of posts from Tuesday session: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/tuesday-trump-trial-joe-piscopo-pam-bondi-sen/ Complete list of X posts from the trial or press conferences after any session of it: https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792531365889536228 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792536847681269779 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792537676911972384 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792537891328905494 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792543283295420873 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792544766242050379 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792545702343483451 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792549517360861640 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792550883055620522 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792551582413832590 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792559751412207767 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792562836033441917 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792567873971298538 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792577510674153608 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792582891890684330 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792584531477725437 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792585428605837457 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792635154264911891 https://x.com/tomselliott/status/1792618994182074746 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792636680437981479 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792638295051993435 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792642357696790759 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792644373559001482 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792645081284927958 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792645633607602361 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792649186657112397 https://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/1792649482623963376 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792650549013152022 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792652030579708055 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792655473830699195 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792657176302846100 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792659825140081123 https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792701676710740279 https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792909236998922633 https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792910676471521664 https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792913755614990469 https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792918125517656514 https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792921179344240823 https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792921740596670891 https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792923143377416645 https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792924088849010937 https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792943893258133787 https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792949796661055705 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Let My People Go – a review By Terry A. Hurlbut Let My People Go is a documentary produced, directed, and narrated by David Clements. Released by Conservative Daily Productions, 2023. Over the weekend, Jim Hoft at The Gateway Pundit reminded everyone of something even Donald Trump’s supporters forgot. Neither Donald Trump nor anyone else should ever have counted on Brad “Riff Raff” Raffensperger, Secretary of State of Georgia. He and his “Chief Operating Officer” (and direct appointee) Gabriel Sterling were themselves responsible for excluding Republican poll watchers from the polls, and hiring Officers of Election on the recommendation of the American Civil Liberties Union to handle and count mail-in absentee ballots. And they are doing it again this year. For that reason, CNAV is today reviewing Let My People Go, a heartfelt – and instructive – documentary of the theft of the Election of 2020, and the methods. But CNAV doubts that anyone has reviewed this film from the perspective of a three-year veteran Officer of Election (OOE). Let My People Go the movie Let My People Go, which Conservative Daily released in 2023, runs for two hours and fifteen minutes. https://rumble.com/v4k40au-let-my-people-go-full-length-documentary.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 David Clements, the producer and narrator, was a law professor at the University of New Mexico. Was, that is, until he started sounding alarms about how the Election of 2020 was run. The infamous Stairstep Results, in which people literally went to bed anticipating a Trump win and woke up to see Biden take the lead with a near-vertical jump in the popular vote, instantly alarmed him. Quite simply, that result violates the Law of Large Numbers (“Law of Averages”). This iron law of game theory states that if game trial-and-win results do not comport to analytical expectations, somebody cheated. He begins with an animated cartoon showing how people normally perceive that elections run. This cartoon treats the in-person voting process that actually has been in place since shortly before 2010 in most jurisdictions. In or earlier than that year, States were replacing their Diebold touch-membrane voting machines with an ostensibly paper-based system. But in fact these systems use paper ballots that a voter marks by filling in ovals, or that come out of Ballot Marking Devices. (And the latter ballots could be gigantic Quick-read codes that a human being can’t even read.) Voters then feed such ballots into an optical scanner-tabulator that produces a final count after the close of polls. Recognizable characters Anyone who has voted in person since the first decade of this century will recognize some of the supporting cast. Officers of Election that look up voters’ names in an electronic pollbook are classic Little Old Ladies In Tennis Shoes. (Actually they wear high heels, which your editor, as an OOE, has never seen a female OOE wear on duty. They also look and sound like schoolmarms, which Clements means to suggest intimidation of voters.) But the ones guarding the scanner-tabulator are a different sort: obvious Democratic Party activists. (One of them looks a little like Shaye Moss, who with fellow OOE Ruby Freeman famously sued Attorney Rudy Giuliani for defamation of character. The trouble is, those two, plus one other, have a damning record against them concerning their conduct of the election in the State Farm Arena in Atlanta.) Let My People Go goes on to discuss those who are still languishing in prison for their alleged role in the January 6 Event. But David Clements doesn’t concern himself with that event being a false-flag pseudo-operation. Rather, he concerns himself with the provocation of that event: the infamous Stairstep Graph. More than that, he explains how the Stairstep Graph came about. For those willing to pay attention, he offers a devastating critique of current electronic voting systems, and the abuses that must have occurred on the night of November 3, 2020. Let My People Go reveals the steps of the problem Clements treats four steps in the voting and tabulation process, and shows how each contributed to the Stairstep Result. First, a voter steps up to a table where two OOEs assure him that he need not present any identification! All they need, they tell him, is his last name. What they don’t tell him is that the electronic pollbooks (EPBs) they use, get real-time updates during the night from other Boards of Election across the State. That is how they know that the voter has shown up only that once in their precinct. But, of course, that is how the bad actors can adjust the voter rolls on the fly. It is also how they can adjust the total vote in the last fifteen minutes before close of polls. Clements has witnesses – OOEs of good heart – testifying to their total-vote counts jumping by the hundreds in those fifteen minutes. Next comes the marking of the ballot. Clements devotes only a sentence or two to the kind of Ballot Marking Device (BMD) that produces a non-human-readable QR Code. Instead he discusses the strict requirements voters must meet as they mark their ballots. This includes using a felt-tip marker (which the OOEs supply) to mark the ballots. Those felt-tips turn out to produce marks that the software can deliberately misread. Two more steps Third, the voter (or the OOE) feeds the marked (or pre-printed) ballot into a scanner-tabulator. That’s the first place where someone can change the votes for each candidate on the fly. Those scanner-tabulators are not supposed to have an Internet connection. How, then, could some Chiefs of Precinct call the vendor and ask for an instantaneous software update? Fourth – and this process is likely new to readers – the total votes flow from central “unit” authorities to a site out of the country and then back within U.S. territory. These are the precinct reports that CNN, Politico, et al. use to report running totals of votes! Clements only hints at pre-filled-out ballots for Biden stored under the OOEs’ tables. The viewer sees that when one of the Democratic activist OOEs negligently forgets to smooth down the tablecloth. Her partner digs her elbow into her side, and presto change-o, the tablecloth comes down to cover the “suitcase” marked BIDEN BALLOTS. Clements goes through this exercise to make a point: voters cannot be sure of electronic voting systems. To reply to one point: all the flaws mentioned thus far, pertain to Dominion Voting Systems. Your editor’s jurisdiction uses Electronic Systems and Software, with a number of changes in the process from EPB to scanner-tabulator. The problem: both ES&S and Dominion use the same software for processing State-wide results. That’s another place where a bad actor can adjust vote totals, and no one would be any the wiser. PID Controller Let My People Go suffers from a big “craft” problem: some things a viewer won’t understand on first viewing. Chief among these is the PID Controller problem. PID stands for Proportional-Integral-Derivative. This is a control-loop protocol that employs negative feedback to adjust a liquid level, or temperature, or electromotive potential (“voltage”), or current (“amperage”),or other quantity to a pre-determined set point. Clements alleges that, at the level of nationwide totals processing, someone sets a point above which they will not permit Donald Trump’s vote totals to go. The instant it does, the system bleeds in enough Biden votes to bring Trump’s total back below fifty percent. Clements compares results from Maricopa County, Arizona (which uses Dominion) to those from Pima County (which uses ES&S). He alleges that both counties showed identical progressions, and occasional reversals, of results as time wore on. Conclusion: it doesn’t matter whether a county or other unit uses Dominion or ES&S. Someone has made sure that results will be the same. Trump “lost” because the powers-that-be applied their PID controller and other techniques in five or six States where they could. Separately, Mike Lindell has alleged that Texas, for example, had many more votes for Trump than the final tally indicated. Trump took Texas because Biden lacked the cheater’s baseline at a level to make this PID controller protocol feasible. (Anyone familiar with HVAC systems knows that good PID control is not always feasible in the coldest or hottest weather.) Fact-checking Let My People Go Your editor became an Officer of Election in 2021, after Steve Bannon popularized the Precinct Strategy. The theory is simple: better to be the OOE than to complain about their conduct afterward. Our “unit” uses ES&S, and likely does not implement a standard protocol. Today’s EPBs communicate via Bluetooth to an EPB server that we affectionately call Merlin. The Board of Elections preloads Merlin with a roster of voters within our unit. And unlike the case with Dominion, no OOE can use an ES&S pollbook to order pizza or some such thing. These EPBs really do not connect to the Internet. If a voter shows up at the wrong precinct, the team knows it. If the voter doesn’t have time to get to the correct precinct, he or she must vote a provisional ballot. All provisional ballots go before the Board for adjudication. Our precinct teams use the BMD only if a handicapped voter can’t hold a pen. In his three years as an OOE, your editor has never seen the BMD in use. Voters mark their ballots using ball-point pens, which the team provides. But those pens are of the most common make: Bic® pens, that anyone can buy at a stationer’s or drug store! Or they may bring and use their own pens. Blue ink or black, doesn’t matter. The ES-200 scanner-tabulator does not connect to the Internet either. If it did, any of us could see that on his cellphone, if he knew how to look. Consistency checks Every thirty minutes, the Chief or his Assistant orders a consistency check. EPB and scanner-tabulator Public Counts must match, or the Chief will know the reason why. And as mentioned, the EPB has access to the total number of voters in the unit but not to voters outside of our unit. At day’s end, the Chief “runs the tape” on the scanner. He then calls the results in to the Election Board, repeating them loudly enough for the team to overhear. After that he transports the tapes, and all used and unused ballots, back to the Board. The team counts these ballots and must account for every ballot, whether unused, marked, provisional, or “spoiled.” Spoliation of a ballot happens when a voter marks it incorrectly. And no one inserts any paper into a scanner that is not of the proper bond. The Chief and his Assistant must, by law and regulation, be members of opposite Parties. In addition, the Board assigns regular Officers at parity, meaning as many Republicans as Democrats. That requires Republicans to become OOEs – as many of us, including me, did in 2021. All of which to say that the Board of Elections and its OOEs are dedicated to running clean, on-the-level elections. But we can’t do anything about the Board of Elections or the OOEs in, say, Fairfax County, Virginia, should they decide to run a crooked election. What Let My People Go recommends Besides pardons for the January 6 prisoners, Let My People Go obviously recommends hand counting of paper ballots. Many jurisdictions in Georgia and elsewhere have already decided on such a system. The French have famously done it since 1975, with no plans to change. But David Clements did not cover specific crooked Secretaries of State or Chairs of Boards of Elections. The most notorious of these is Brad Raffensperger, who has a federal case pending against him. (A case that a leftist brought!) Recall Jim Hoft’s warning about Raffensperger. Hoft also furnished this video link showing more incriminating evidence against Raffensperger and his buddy Gabe Sterling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chOPZBc4pJI The Associated Press reports that Raffensperger is not even on the State Elections Board anymore, and the Board is investigating him. But he shouldn’t even be Secretary of State, either. To say nothing of plans to register illegal immigrants to vote – and Jim Hoft has an alert about that, too. When Patriots get an intel read Of those who run our social feed And steal our votes for power greed, To right this wrong with blinding speed Goes… Trump himself? Not quite – or at least, not alone. All politics is local. Rep. Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill (D-Mass.), longtime Speaker of the House In other words: you. That means implementing a variation on the Precinct Strategy. Know your County Supervisors/Commissioners/whatnot, or City Councillors. Run for those offices. Press an inquiry into what happens to your vote, not only within your unit but outside it. And keep pressing for French-style paper ballots with hand counting. Only that will solve the problem David Clements has highlighted. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/20/foundation/constitution/let-my-people-go-review/ Let My People Go documentary: https://rumble.com/v4k40au-let-my-people-go-full-length-documentary.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Jim Hoft’s alert reviewing Brad Raffensperger and Gabe Sterling’s partnership in election fraud: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/dirty-brad-raffensperger-gabe-sterling-caught-fixing-election/ The incriminating YouTube video from Decatur-ish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chOPZBc4pJI Relevant CNAV archives: https://cnav.news/2021/12/29/accountability/two-georgia-election-workers-file-defamation-lawsuits-against-oan-rudy-giuliani/ https://cnav.news/2023/09/05/news/suitcase-scandal-in-atlanta-blows-up/ https://cnav.news/2024/04/29/editorial/talk/precint-strategy-scores-again/ https://cnav.news/2023/06/24/editorial/talk/france-votes-paper/ https://cnav.news/2023/06/29/editorial/talk/paper-ballots-suggested-georgia-county/ https://cnav.news/2024/01/14/news/georgia-election-cases-take-sharp-turn/ Jim Hoft’s alert about illegal alien voter registrations, and a team “on” the problem: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/illegal-alien-voter-registrations-how-attack-it-prevent/ Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Harrison Butker defends the home By Terry A. Hurlbut Last week – Commencement Week across America – a professional athlete actually defended that most maligned – and basic – American institution, the home. Harrison Butker, kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, spoke at Commencement at Benedictine College on Tuesday (May 14). There he gave the most intelligent – and even personal – defense of the home that America has heard since the Great Awakening. And the American left was apoplectic – and worse, a city employee revealed his hometown, just to see him get hurt. The Attorney General of Missouri is investigating – but that’s far less important than the message Butker delivered. His message strikes at the heart of what has gone wrong with America today. If a Second (Third? Fourth?) Great Awakening is to occur in America, Harrison Butker will deserve much of the credit. What Harrison Butker said Harrison Butker, as mentioned, delivered the Commencement address at Benedictine College – a Roman Catholic college. He sounded many conservative themes, according to Allison Anton, writing in The Western Journal. In fact he has sounded those themes before. His X feed is not that copious, but when he does post, he posts forthright defenses of the Christian faith. For example: https://x.com/buttkicker7/status/1464226260519768074 Ms. Anton reported that he delivered an explicitly pro-life message, and also criticized the Alphabet Soup movement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JS7RIKSaCc That made the leftists simmer badly enough. But they didn’t really start weeping and gnashing their teeth, until he said this: For the ladies present today, congratulations on an amazing accomplishment. You should be proud of all you have achieved to this point in your young lives. I want to speak directly to you, briefly, because I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you. How many of you are sitting her now, about to cross this stage, and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you’re going to get in your career[s]? Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world. But I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage[s] and the children you will bring into this world. I can tell you that my beautiful wife, Isabelle, would be the first to say that her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother. I’m on this stage, and able to be the man I am, because I have a wife who leans into her vocation. I am beyond blessed with the many talents God has given me. But it cannot be overstated that all of my success is made possible because a girl I met in band class back in middle school would convert to the faith, become my wife, and embrace one of the most important titles of all: homemaker. An X influencer calling herself Christian Nightmares shared a clip of Butker saying the above. In the accompanying text, she took the Name of the Lord and Savior of mankind in vain. https://x.com/ChristnNitemare/status/1790469498790695203 Butker had more – much more – to say. USA Today sportswriter Mike Freeman quoted it – more on his attitude below. Speaking of the emotion of pride – and one month ahead of “Pride Month” – Butker said: Not the deadly sins sort of Pride that has an entire month dedicated to it, but the true God-centered pride that is cooperating with the Holy Ghost to glorify Him. And: To the gentlemen here today, part of what plagues society is this lie that has been told to you that men are not necessary in the home or in our communities. As men, we set the tone of the culture, and when that is absent, disorder, dysfunction and chaos set in. This absence of men in the home is what plays a large role in the violence we see all around the nation. Be unapologetic in your masculinity. Fight against the cultural emasculation of men. Do hard things. Never settle for what is easy. Once we had a President who called on Americans to do hard things because they were hard. America followed his advice all the way to the moon. Mike Freeman exploded. Butker represents a segment of the population that wants to go backwards, particularly with women's rights. These people are getting bolder and more hateful. The goal is to wrench power from a society that has become more pluralistic and diverse, and put it back into the hands of a small group of men. And I can tell you, in their universe, they aren't talking about men of color having all this power. To support his point, he cited this screaming screed from the National Women’s Law Center, that shrieked of “forced pregnancies.” But as for “not talking about men of color,” he offered no supporting evidence. More unhinged detractors Freeman wasn’t the only one. Consider Keith Olbermann, https://x.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1790590341088739503 Ricky Davila, https://x.com/TheRickyDavila/status/1790558197268537389 Former Kansas City Commissioner Justice Horn, https://x.com/JusticeHorn_/status/1790382449450516897 and a classic AWFUL ambulance-chasing lawyer. https://x.com/Nicole1515/status/1790533149673267702 Incel? Didn’t she listen to the speech, in which he talked about his wife? That seems incredible, since she cited an article from the Associated Press (via NBC), quoting that part of the speech. How could she miss something so obvious? If that’s a sample of her logic, it’s a wonder she still has a law practice. Sadly, the reaction got worse. Someone started a petition on Change.org calling on the Chiefs to fire Harrison Butker. The leadership of the NFL condemned him. And then some employee of Kansas City (on the Missouri side), having access to the Kansas City X account, posted the name of the town in which Butker lives. https://cnav.news/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Kansas-City-screenshot-dox-of-Harrison-Butker-redacted.jpeg Someone else (presumably a supervisor) deleted the post, and apologized. https://x.com/KansasCity/status/1790915326944641269 The next day, Andrew Bailey, Attorney General of Missouri, demanded answers. https://x.com/AGAndrewBailey/status/1791178530354757781 Still, on Friday (May 17), leaders of the nuns’ order that founded Benedictine College actually condemned the speech. Whoopi Goldberg, co-hostess of The View, surprised everyone by calling on her fellow travelers to show respect for someone expressing a contrary point of view. https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/1791124402777547179 But two different accounts say that sales of Butker’s jersey are setting new records. Better still, the daughter of the team owner expressed her support of Butker. https://x.com/CortesSteve/status/1791442724178006360 Her point: Mrs. Owner stayed at home to raise her children. Harrison Butker left an important message Harrison Butker said a mouthful, and started a heated controversy. But the message he delivered is far more important than its immediate aftermath ever could be. Not often does a public performer deliver such an on-point and vital message. In fact, the home is more than a dwelling place – though the Greek word for house finds its place in many modern words, in English and other European languages. Consider economics – the Laws of the House. (Or ecumenical – encompassing the inhabited world, the place where humans make their homes.) Home is both the foundation of, and a monument to, a civilization. In this speech, Harrison Butker identified the elements that have threatened it for at least a century. CNAV Contributor Linda Goudsmit, author of the forthcoming Space is No Longer the Final Frontier; Reality Is, would certainly agree. Consider her treatment of the forty-fourth and forty-sixth Presidents of the United States, and the ideology both men follow. 24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press. 25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. 26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as "normal, natural, and healthy." 40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. 41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. These come from the Communist Goals, entered into the Congressional Record sixty-one years ago. So when Mike Freeman dares say: There is no emasculation of men. It's not happening. It has never happened. It's a totally fabricated thing. He’s lying. Other, more dire threats Nor did Harrison Butker name all the threats to the home. Bill Gates is buying up farmland, hoping to develop and grow a gigantic sheet mushroom to replace meat. Larry (the) Fink, CEO of BlackRock, is buying up single-family residences, hoping no doubt to raze them and replace them with high-rise dingbat dormitories. And The Walt Disney Company attacked the home directly, with its execrable live-action remake of its classic Snow White. Lay aside for a moment that it was actually “Snow Tan and the Seven Nondescripts.” The thrust of that project is to deprecate homemaking and emphasize purely secular leadership as a calling for women. (If you want a live-action Snow White project, German TV beat Disney to that particular punch in the last century. In fact, they did it twice!) So kudos to Harrison Butker for kicking the most important field goal of his life on May 14, 2024. America will become a better place, as soon as it starts following his advice. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/19/editorial/talk/harrison-butker-defend-home/ Harrison Butker on faith: https://x.com/buttkicker7/status/1464226260519768074 Video: the full Commencement speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JS7RIKSaCc Video: clip of Butker talking about the importance of wives in the home: https://x.com/ChristnNitemare/status/1790469498790695203 Mike Freeman’s article: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/mike-freeman/2024/05/15/harrison-butker-commencement-speech/73682471007/ Various detractors: https://x.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1790590341088739503 https://x.com/TheRickyDavila/status/1790558197268537389 https://x.com/JusticeHorn_/status/1790382449450516897 https://x.com/Nicole1515/status/1790533149673267702 Kansas City dox post, redacted and deleted: https://cnav.news/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Kansas-City-screenshot-dox-of-Harrison-Butker-redacted.jpeg Kansas City account apologizes: https://x.com/KansasCity/status/1790915326944641269 AG Bailey demands answers: https://x.com/AGAndrewBailey/status/1791178530354757781 Video: Whoopi Goldberg defends Butker’s right to express his opinion: https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/1791124402777547179 Video: owner’s daughter extols stay-at-home mothers – including her own: https://x.com/CortesSteve/status/1791442724178006360 Space is No Longer the Final Frontier, Chapter 18: https://cnav.news/2024/05/19/accountability/executive/american-marxism-biden-regime-obama-third-term/ Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Biden faces drug test demand By Terry A. Hurlbut Does President Donald Trump (or someone on his team) read The Gateway Pundit (TGP), or Wayne Allen Root? Or do great, or at least logical, minds think alike? Either way, Donald Trump, in a rally he held in Minnesota, made a fresh demand of “The Resident.” Earlier, Trump had agreed to debate Joe Biden, “any time, any place.” Now he demands that Biden submit to a drug test before any debate begins. He also revealed, for the first time, that he suspects – as does CNAV – that Biden was under the influence of some drug or drugs, possibly amphetamines, when he delivered the 2024 State of the Union address. This is an extraordinary demand – but then again, we live in extraordinary times. And a drug test demand could raise the stakes to an unimaginable level. Source of the drug test demand As CNAV noted yesterday, Wayne Allen Root, Assistant Editor at TGP, specifically warned President Trump not to debate Biden. Not, at least, without insisting on a drug test. Root suggested that Biden would cheat in five ways: 1. Take a large dose of drugs, probably stimulants, 2. Wear “ear buds” or some other earpiece radio-like device to receive instant prompts, 3. Receive the debate questions in advance, 4. Debate only on TV and/or cable networks with leftist-biased editorial boards and other content management teams, and 5. Have moderators ready to slant decisions for his side – as Candy Crowley did for Barack Obama in his 2012 debate with Mitt Romney. Root further suggested that the reason the Democrats want Trump to debate Biden before the Democratic National Convention is that they intend to replace him. Half of all conservative commentators anticipate a Convention replacement – which would defeat the purpose of primaries, but who cares? The other half firmly believe that no other Democrat could even poll as well as does Biden. Better the senile dotard than the raving maniac, like Vice-President Harris, or the Impossible Dreamer, like Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.). And Michelle Obama? Come one now; that’s a man. So says everyone who, having seen “her” face, has discussed the matter with CNAV personally. Besides, we’ve had enough of Obama’s Third Term. No one but Klaus Ernst Stavro Blofeld Schwab wants to see an Obama Fourth. Trump to Biden: I won’t have you high on the debate stage. Last night – after attending his son Barron’s high-school commencement – Trump spoke to the Lincoln Reagan dinner in St. Paul, Minnesota. This is part of his new strategy of attacking Biden and the Democrats within their base. And then and there, Trump issued his demand. I just wanna debate this guy, but you know – and I’m gonna demand a drug test too, by the way. And why? I don’t want him coming in like the State of the Union. He was high as a kite. He went on to observe that Biden started off “jacked up” at first, but was “fading fast” toward the end. https://x.com/BrainStorm_Joe/status/1791651190163357796 Which is exactly what your editor said on Declarations of Truth the night after. He started off screaming at his opposition and anyone who opposed him. His performance was worse than his September 2022 pre-Midterm speech, in which he tried to sound like Cicero against Catiline. But beginning at 10:15 p.m. EST, he started to fade. https://rumble.com/embed/v4fhifu/?pub=4teej According to Jim Hoft, editor-in-chief of TGP, Trump first raised the suspicion of Biden on drugs last month. In fact The Daily Mail revealed that accusation, even to Trump saying then that Biden was “higher than a kite.” Trump wondered then whether the drug Biden was on, was cocaine. (The Secret Service did discover cocaine in a tiny bag in a White House locker last year. No one ever identified the White House or other employee who is supposed to have brought it in.) Trump had tried to insist on such a drug test before Presidential debates in 2020. In fact he told pundit Laura Ingraham that he suspected Biden of being “on some kind of enhancement.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8mg_s2gVrQ Could cocaine be responsible for the observed effects? In fact, according to the BetterHealth Channel by the government of Australia’s Victoria State, cocaine could produce the observed effects. Cocaine produces “euphoria, exhilaration, and confidence,” probably why people start taking it. It also diminishes appetite, delivers a “burst of energy,” and increases libido. (Could this explain Biden’s habit of sniffing little girls’ hair in public?) And in high doses or overdoses, it produces agitation, paranoid ideation, and aggressive behavior. If Biden is habituated to cocaine, that could explain everything the American public has observed. His pseudo-Ciceronian Speech and his 2024 State of the Union address both displayed paranoid ideation and aggressive postures. True, a President has speechwriters, and rarely writes his own copy. But that would merely indicate that his advisers suffer from Shared Paranoid Disorder, or else know to tailor their script to fit the mood they know he will be in. In any case, speechwriters do not normally write stage directions for their subjects to pump the air with balled-up fists. Cocaine isn’t the only drug to produce agitation and paranoid and aggressive behavior in those who take it. Methamphetamine can do the same – and your editor has witnessed the effects during his core clinical clerkship in psychiatry. But the Secret Service has not found methamphetamine in the White House, and has found cocaine. Thus CNAV asks readers to apply Occam’s Razor. Would a drug test suffice? All this suggests that Trump should indeed demand a drug test of Biden before any debate begins – and insist. Even then the procedure presents problems. Cocaine breakdown products (“metabolites”) will persist in the urine for as long as three days after use. The problem is that a urine test takes one to two days to evaluate. A blood test will detect cocaine in roughly the same “window,” but can take a week to evaluate. In preparing for a debate, Trump might not be able to afford that kind of time. The reason: no test can detect a drug one takes after the test. “The Resident” could “juice up” on the same day, and probably would. So a drug test might not enable Trump to disqualify Biden before the debate, because collecting a sample a day or two in advance would allow Biden plenty of time to take the drug afterward. But it would prove a mortifying embarrassment for results to turn positive afterward. The obvious risk is that Kamala Harris would be ready to collect Amendment XXV Section Four signatures the very day the laboratory announced a positive result. Then, even a Republican Congress would agree to install Harris as Acting President, even if she is a raving maniac. But she’s probably on drugs herself, either cocaine or an opioid. The Democrats might not want to risk disqualifying Biden and Harris at the same time. If that happens, say hello to Acting President Johnson. A high-stakes game All of which to say: this proposed Presidential debate could become a high-stakes game, if Trump will press the matter. Trump should insist on a drug test two days in advance, and a test before they take the stage. Apart from the question of trying to avail oneself of the drug while avoiding advance disqualification, Biden could be addicted. Cocaine withdrawal would worsen his behavior even more. The public has observed confusion that could represent cocaine withdrawal. But in the extreme case he could look obviously tired, depressed, and anxious. Would he risk that, for appearances’ sake? He must abstain totally for at least three days to assure himself of a negative test. Note: the usual turnaround times for pre-employment testing of civilian applicants do not apply to Presidents or Presidential candidates. This would be a “rush order.” So the only remaining question is how serious Trump and his current advisers are about returning to the White House. If he is, he will refuse to take the stage without those drug tests. Of course, he must prepare to face an unknown opponent, if he manages to disqualify Biden two months before the Convention. But because it could mean taking down the President and Vice-President, it might be worth that risk. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/18/news/drug-test-demand-biden/ Wayne Allen Root’s warning: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/wayne-root-my-message-president-trump-debates-are/ Previous video on this subject: https://rumble.com/v4i2reo-state-of-the-union-2024-pack-of-lies.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Post capturing the segment of Trump making the demand: https://x.com/BrainStorm_Joe/status/1791651190163357796 Interview with Laura Ingraham, saying Biden was on “some kind of enhancement”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8mg_s2gVrQ Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Trump changes demographic rules By Terry A. Hurlbut President Donald J. Trump is changing the rules of demography in American elections. That’s actually easy, because those rules have their basis in the lowest forms of collectivism. Those forms go by one catch-all name: “identity politics.” Demographic identities have always been the most obvious, and a bad tradition has set in that members of certain demographic – that is to say, ethnic – groups will always vote a certain way. Much of this comes from thoroughly bad choices by group leaders, from Black pastors to Jewish rabbis. But Donald Trump has done what none of those leaders imagined, or planned for. He has exposed the scams so many of these leaders – and those to whom many of them answer – are running. The games are up, and the cries of “Foul!” signal that these corrupt leaders already begin to know it. Latest Trump advantages Independent journalist Alicia Powe, in a special to The Gateway Pundit, shared results of the latest poll summary by The New York Times. Polling in six “battleground” States (Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Georgia and Nevada) shows Trump leading in every State but Wisconsin. Worse, his leads in Georgia and Nevada are so far apart that even the error bars do not overlap. “Margins of error” properly figure in extending “error bars” above and below the results on a number line. The overlap in Wisconsin is so severe that the two candidates might as well be tied. That also holds in Pennsylvania, where each error bar overlaps the other result. In Arizona and Michigan the overlap is not even that long. The Georgia result is most telling, because that is where the District Attorney of Fulton County is trying Trump for trying to steal the Election of 2020, gangland style. (That case is effectively on hold, because DA Fani Willis has problems of her own.) And Nevada? Biden took Nevada, too. Nor has this anything to do with scattered votes by County Boards of Elections to switch to hand-counted paper ballots. (Although Georgia has a federal case pending by leftists who accuse Dominion Voting Services of gimmicking an election they lost!) This shows that “Resident” Joe Biden has lost his cheater’s baseline. If you’re going to stuff the ballot box, you need a baseline to get you close enough for that to work. For Biden in 2024, that might not work. Losing key demographics Next question: why is the “Resident” losing his baseline? Because the young and the nonwhites are deserting him. Nate Cohn, author of the Times piece, noticed that young, Black and Hispanic voters are all asking: what have you done for us lately? The young (and foolish) have a few foolish ideas about things that shouldn’t concern them directly, things about which the elites have lied to them. (Like “The globe is warming, the globe is warming!”) But Blacks and Hispanics especially know that Biden has made things worse, not better. Mike LaChance, a regular at The Gateway Pundit, notes their biggest complaint: inflation. That is so bad that even the fast food joints are jacking up their prices to traditional sit-down restaurant levels. (Many, like Red Lobster, are throwing in the towel completely.) LaChance cited The Washington Examiner, which gave further details he did not quote. Blacks don’t appreciate the “gender bender thing,” specifically the gutting of the Title IX protections for women in sports. Nor do they appreciate the rank antisemitism on college campuses. If that doesn’t directly concern Blacks, it does concern Jews – and rightly so. But what likely shocks the Democrats is that the Blacks haven’t drawn the moral. Antisemitic conspiracy theories have long been a staple of leftist outreach to Blacks. Now it’s not working anymore. “Latinx” is a jinx! The baseline in the Hispanic community was always less than that in the Black community, and now it’s lesser still. Democrats should have thought of that when they embraced a new name no Latin uses today: “Latinx” (rhymes with Kleenex®). As it turns out, “Latinx” symbolizes gender bending, and Hispanics like that even less than Blacks do. Someone forgot to tell the Left that Blacks and Hispanics place family high in their priorities. But of course the Affluent White Female Urban Liberals – those AWFUL people – seek to destroy the family. Everybody knows it, because the AWFULs didn’t even bother to hide it. Like Balaam (Numbers chh. 22-24), they can’t shut up even when they should. If Donald Trump were half the polarizing figure the Left says he is, one would expect members of these demographics to stay home on Election Day and sit on their hands. Sorry, Left, but no joy on that one. They intend to vote for Donald Trump. One expects to see that among married women, for after all, they follow their husbands, with whom they are simpatico. But now one sees it in college-educated women. That has to hurt. Worse yet, Brock McCleary, Vice-President of Polling for Cygnal, told the Examiner that these voters express nostalgia. Nostalgia, by definition, means knowing that things were better in the old days. And who was running things in the old days? Trump! So they want him back – as any reasonable person would. Accusing the Times of bias toward Trump? Pundits on the left are already crying, “FOUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLL!” Oliver Darcy, who inherited CNN’s Reliable Sources from Brian Stelter, actually said, two and a half months ago, that The New York Times was being soft on Trump and too hard on Biden. Apparently the Times published a poll finding that most who voted for Biden now say he is too old. A journalism professor at City University of New York’s journalism school was apoplectic. That they even asked this question is evidence of the bias — the agenda — in their poll. Who made age an “issue”? The credulous Times falling into the right-wing’s projection. This is not journalism. Shameful. NY Times, did you ask your random voters whether Trump is too insane, doddering, racist, sexist, criminal, traitorous, hateful to be effective as President? This is not a poll. It is your agenda. And that, is a pity party. How the Times finally came to see reason, CNAV will not speculate. But no one can deny that the “Resident” is too old. He can’t deliver a speech without being pumped full of amphetamines. (Which is why Wayne Allen Root, assistant editor at The Gateway Pundit, advises Trump to insist on a drug test for The Resident before debating him.) The accusations against Trump are worse than specious. Trump is loyal to the United States. Biden and his handlers are the traitors, conspiring to hand this nation over to a mad scientist who looks like Telly Savalas portraying Ernst Stavro Blofeld in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969). (And sounds like him, too, except that Klaus Schwab’s accent is German, not Greek.) Darcy himself contributed to the chorus, talking about how to cover “Trump and [his] ongoing threats to American democracy.” First, “democracy” is two wolves and a lamb voting on what’s for dinner. Second, advocates of “lawsuit abuse” can’t complain about “threats to democracy.” Admitting a real problem But according to Ms. Powe, some leftists have admitted that they have a real problem. They’re not contesting these numbers, as the Times critics seem to be doing. Some seem to blame the Left’s constituents, whom they describe as “confused.” But others choose to blame the Biden administration and the Democratic Party for not sending the right message. Powe quotes Jim Kessler, co-founder of Third Way: With the usual stipulations about polls six months out, Biden is behind. They need to be in a better place on the border, crime and inflation to win. They have a story to tell on each and further actions they can take, but need to get cracking. That’s not going to fly, either. The problem is not with the message but with the policies. “A story to tell” on “the border, crime and inflation”? CNAV can just imagine. On the border: “The oppressed classes of the world have risen up to replace their oppressors by taking over the chief means of oppression: American elections.” On crime: “A thief is an irregular wealth-redistribution agent, and a murderer is an irregular surplus population thinner.” And on inflation: “There is no inflation. There are only spoilsport greedy corporations raking in record profits by starving the masses.” In fact, Neil Cavuto yesterday thumped Biden for actually saying inflation was at nine percent when he took office. Everyone knows that inflation was at less than two percent then. https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1790491810965471368 https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/1791143458079445328 Wayne Allen Root took time yesterday to illustrate a worse problem. Democrats, he says, love to compare Trump to Adolf Hitler. But their policies have mirrored Hitler’s in many ways, from vax mandates to censorship to the weaponization of the executive and judicial branches. They have a problem, all right – but will never admit it. Looking forward As Trump did by campaigning in New York and New Jersey, he is breaking all the traditional campaign rules. “Stick to your own kind!” cries Anita to Maria in West Side Story. And for decades politicians did just that. That’s how the Grand Leftist Coalition could hold together so many disparate groups. Trump broke that rule, and discovered something everyone else missed. Even groups have individuals making them up. Those individuals do not put food into a collective mouth, nor digest it in a collective stomach. Nor do they have a collective wallet. Trump shows theses individuals that he sees what’s happening, and sympathizes. Those same individuals look at the Resident, and – what do they see? At best, a doddering old goat with a shuffling gait, who mumbles half the time and screams the rest. And at worst, a vindictive old con artist. And when Trump had his mug shot taken in Atlanta, and released that, many Blacks greeted him with “Hi, jailbird!” That’s a lodge greeting, and Blacks especially are welcoming Trump into their lodge. https://x.com/LaurenWitzkeDE/status/1694870184585310367 https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1694886846050771321 https://x.com/TONYxTWO/status/1695095441904312461 The Democrats noticed that – then forgot about it. That’s why Donald Trump will win – so long as Republicans remember the Precinct Strategy and implement both parts of it. Including becoming both accredited Party polling-place challengers, and Officers of Election. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/17/editorial/talk/trump-change-demographic-rules/ Posts about Biden trying to pretend inflation was worse under Trump than it was: https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1790491810965471368 https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/1791143458079445328 The Stone-cold Death Stare Mug Shot and how blacks welcomed Trump as a fellow jailbird: https://x.com/LaurenWitzkeDE/status/1694870184585310367 https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1694886846050771321 https://x.com/TONYxTWO/status/1695095441904312461 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Who is Valentina Gomez? By Terry A. Hurlbut Four days ago, a candidate in a very crowded primary field decided to make a big splash. She jogged down a street in a known Alphabet Soup neighborhood – wearing a flak vest. In an eleven-second video she said, “Don’t be weak and gay,” among other things. This is the latest in a series of publicity stunts that detractors are already calling outrageous. But few seem to be asking this important question: who is Valentina Gomez? Does she really represent the kind of candidate to take America by storm with nationalistic populism? Or is she a mere flash in the pan, a lump of iron sulfite of the kind that has fooled prospectors for centuries? Her record – a child-prodigal record – seems incredible. But some diligent searching – from an unbiased search engine – allows interested people to check that record out, and verify it. Valentina Gomez – early life On her campaign website Valentina Gomez says she is a first-generation American, whose family are (legal) immigrants from Colombia. Her resume boasts an impressive record of achievement – for a young lady of 24. “Real estate investor, financier, strategist, [and] former NCAA Division I swimmer,” it says. Later it says she earned her MBA in Finance and Strategy from Tulane University – at the age of 22. Fortunately, a record does exist that seems to bear this out. Tulane University does show a Valentina Gomez on the swim team in the 2019-20 academic year. Her athletic record is impressive, going back to high school. In that record we get the first clue to her origin. She was born in Colombia, and was on the national Colombian swim team before her migration. That alone suggests a question: how did she and her family make it out? Colombia isn’t quite the Iron Curtain-style Communist dictatorship that used to fence its people in, but it’s close. Her class photograph shows a young woman who bleached her brown hair (one can see the roots). Sometime after she posed for that photograph, she dropped that affectation and let her hair grow back out brown. Fleshing out her record The U.S. Sun has done some more checking on her since that campaign clip came out. Assuming they did their due diligence, they paint a portrait of a genuine child, or at least adolescent, prodigy. In fact she sounds like one of those rare young adults who carried “advance placement” (and standing) to a new level: • Born May 8, 1999 – which would make her 25, not 24 today. • Attended Hudson Catholic School in Jersey City, N.J., where she was a national qualifier in women’s swimming as a junior. (That comes from her Tulane page.) • Attended Central Connecticut State University’s School of Business from 2016 to 2019; majored in finance and financial management services. • Enrolled immediately in the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University; received her MBA in 2021. (And she did specialize in finance and financial strategy.) This directly corroborates a line item on her web site. • Children’s swim coach for Special Olympics since 2016. Beyond that, one’s hobbies can tell a great deal about one’s personality. Valentina Gomez enjoys riding All-terrain Vehicles (ATVs) and carrying long guns. This Instagram page provides these clues. (See also her Instagram account – but note that more than one Valentina Gomez exists!) She also has accounts on X, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Possible inconsistency? One item has proved difficult to check out: she asserts that she and Jonathan Gomez Noriega co-founded Fundacion Flor de Mayo. The Institute for Global Politics has a biography of Gomez Noriega – listing him as founder of Fundacion Flor de Mayo. That biography does not mention Valentina Gomez at all. But this page at College of William and Mary does mention Valentina as Jonathan’s younger sister. And, like Valentina, Jonathan is a college swimmer. A family photograph showing Valentina is consistent with her more current photographs – though with no trace of her bleaching of her hair while she was at Tulane. After she got her degree, she says she became a real-estate investor. In fact, the GRI Club, which is a real-estate investment firm specializing in Latin American properties, has a biography of her. So that part of her story “checks out,” too. Note: the results of this inquiry came from Result Hunter, which remains today the least biased and “cleanest” search engine. Secretary of State office and competition The Missouri Department of State has four primary missions: • Election oversight, • Business registrations, • “investor protection” (equivalent to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission), and • Managing the Missouri State Library. John R. “Jay” Ashcroft has been Secretary of State for eight years. He is now running for governor, which leaves the position open. Ballotpedia lists eleven candidates – three Democrat and eight Republican – seeking that position. Missouri holds its primary very late – on August 6. Valentina Gomez is one of the eight Republican candidates. She and Democrat Monique Williams are the only two to fill out Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection Survey. Monique Williams emphasizes her age (63; met Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at 7 in 1968 shortly before his assassination) and (for today) typical Democrat identify politics. From her answers on the Key Messages and Personal Passions questions on the survey, one can infer her acceptance of: • Critical theory, especially radical feminism, Alphabet Soup primacy, and abortion on demand. (“Reproductive freedom” is a buzzword for abortion on demand at any stage.) • Typical Democratic election talking points – voter suppression, “Republican gerrymandering,” etc. • Labor relations – assuming that the employer is always evil. One other entry looks exactly like code: I support libraries and programs that foster education and reading skills. Libraries are an area of the Missouri State Department’s responsibilities. But that statement, coupled with her “passion” for “gender equality,” sounds like a plump for Alphabet Soup recruitment books. Valentina Gomez as a candidate Valentina Gomez has a problem – standing out in a crowd of eight, just to get the nomination. She completed the Candidate Connection Survey a year earlier than required – 2023. Her Key Messages answers seem almost overly general: “Make Missouri Great Again,” “Exposing Corruption,” and “Time for Honesty.” She used her Personal Passions answer to set forth her positions. Among these: • Re-evaluate the State Department’s budget and current contracts, obviously looking for savings. • Business-friendly tax and regulatory reform – by, among other things, eliminating the income tax. (That, of course, would require an act of the legislature.) • Redesign the Secretary of State’s website for forthright advocacy of “capitalism, modernization, and innovation.” That might be a carryover from her family’s experiences in a country that is Communist in all but name. She listed two more Personal Passions that she must know will create the greatest controversy. One, she lists as “Voting machines, Voter ID.” In fact she wants to eliminate electronic voting machines, and: return to a secure, transparent paper-based system, addressing concerns of cyber threats, and manipulation. That last comes from her campaign website’s position page. Eliminating electronic voting machines would be most consistent with paper ballots with hand counting. Her staff would do well to study the French election process, which features hand-counted paper ballots and proxy voting. Instead of sending or carrying in an absentee ballot, a voter nominates a proxy to vote in his stead. Both persons then pre-register at a local police station or courthouse. Sharpest controversies Her most controversial recommendation on election integrity is to deploy the National Guard to guard voting precincts. To this correspondent’s knowledge as a three-year Officer of Election, no American precinct does that. (But Precinct Chiefs always train on summoning emergency aid, and rehearsing code phrases if someone shows up bent on violence.) Her last Personal Passion entry might be more controversial still: Remove gender ideologies from Libraries, School Curriculums and programs for the youth of Missouri, while backing our Police, Fire and EMS Departments. To illustrate that point, in February she cut an ad in which she stacked two Alphabet Soup books on a small metal table. She then stood off from that table – with a flamethrower, which she fired at the stack. https://twitter.com/ValentinaForSOS/status/1754964444776443937 Shades of Oskar Werner, as Guy Montag, in the opening sequence of Francois Truffaut’s adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451! https://rumble.com/v4h109c-fahrenheit-451-1966-franois-truffaut-full-movie.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Six days later she cut another ad, in which, with some clever montage, she said: From the bottom of my heart, I apologize to … ABSOLUTELY NOBODY! https://twitter.com/ValentinaForSOS/status/1757199450844332391 This is only one issue out of many that she emphasizes in the most forthright manner one can imagine. Jordan Conradson at The Gateway Pundit has several embedded in his own report. Here is the video that got the attention over the weekend: https://twitter.com/ValentinaForSOS/status/1789843564177838145 Analysis Actually Valentina Gomez has two problems. In addition to standing out in a crowd of eight, she will likely run against a woman old enough to be her mother in November. All women worry about their ages, but Ms. Gomez worries about people thinking her too young, not too old. English speakers have borrowed a word from ancient Rome: gravitas, or the seriousness with which a person treats, or can treat, a subject that requires serious treatment. Comparisons of her with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) will be inevitable, especially if she wins the primary. But “AOC” tended bar and poured expensive coffee drinks in a bar featuring the logo of a woman with long blonde hair. At that stage of her life, Valentina Gomez has made names for herself in business and charity. (And also earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees.) Nevertheless, she needs to stand out and show that she can “take it.” So she has chosen a style of campaigning called “throw it back in their faces.” Consistent with that, she has chosen radical ideas, most of which CNAV supports. (The demonstration of actual physical book burning is certainly an exaggeration. She won’t burn books, but she will remove them – from the sort of library a child would frequent. Every other Republican would chip at the edges of the status quo. Valentina Gomez says she will do a full job. Missourians could do worse for a Secretary of State – but surely Valentina Gomez knows: she has to show them. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/16/editorial/talk/valentina-gomez-who/ Valentina Gomez’ social-media accounts: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/valentinaformissouri LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valentina-gomez-01999/ X: https://twitter.com/ValentinaForSOS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/valentinaformissouri/?hl=en Result Hunter: https://resulthunter.com/ Valentina Gomez’ posts: Flamethrower: https://twitter.com/ValentinaForSOS/status/1754964444776443937 No apology: https://twitter.com/ValentinaForSOS/status/1757199450844332391 Don’t be weak and gay: https://twitter.com/ValentinaForSOS/status/1789843564177838145 Fahrenheit 451 (1966) full movie: https://rumble.com/v4h109c-fahrenheit-451-1966-franois-truffaut-full-movie.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Jordan Conradson’s report: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/hilarious-missouri-secretary-state-candidate-who-burns-pornographic/ Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Peter Daszak finally gets his! By Terry A. Hurlbut The notorious Peter Daszak (DAAH-shack), Ph.D., seems to be getting his just desserts at last. Republican Members of Congress have been investigating him and his EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) for four years. Now the Department of Health and Human Services has suspended the EcoHealth Alliance from receiving federal funding. Indeed they have started proceedings to debar EHA from receiving any more federal funds. Translation: Peter Daszak has become a political liability, now that principled Republicans in Congress have shone light on his doings. The Biden administration, needing to remove the liability – or perhaps merely to punish him for mission failure – has elected to throw him under the proverbial bus. Or so they say. Peter Daszak in CNAV archives Regular readers of this site – and alert listeners to the site’s companion Rumble channel, Declarations of Truth – will recall our mentioning Peter Daszak yesterday. https://rumble.com/embed/v4spxvb/?pub=4teej More to the point, Peter Daszak has borne mention several times, most infamously in connection with the gain-of-function research that helped create Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus Strain 2 – SARS-CoV-2 – the agent of Corona Virus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19). Paul Ehrlich (The Population Bomb) wanted “the right virus” to diminish the (to him) dangerously surplus population. The never-properly-identified sculptor of the Georgia Guidestones wanted to limit the population of Earth to 500 million. Peter Daszak worked on that “right virus” to do just that. This afternoon, Jim Hoft at The Gateway Pundit dropped a comprehensive report on HHS’ suspension and debarment proceedings against Daszak. Hoft also mentioned information in his own archives, about a connection between EcoHealth and Metabiota. That firm has Hunter Biden’s name on it. Dr. Andrew Huff, former Vice-President of EcoHealth Alliance, claimed evidence that SARS-CoV-2 originated in a laboratory. Huff named the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). But he also said EcoHealth and Metabiota were jointly operating biological weapons development facilities having CIA funding. These included the laboratories in Ukraine that Russian “Special Military Operation” forces discovered and shut down. Laboratories with American funding – under American direction – with American staffs. A House select subcommittee acts In 2023 – shortly after Republicans “flipped” the House in the 2022 Midterms – the House Oversight Committee established its Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, or “COVIDSelect” as it designates itself on X. This morning that Subcommittee dropped this short thread: https://twitter.com/COVIDSelect/status/1790762368898654308 https://twitter.com/COVIDSelect/status/1790762372312735906 On May 1, COVIDSelect released a final report of its investigation of Peter Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. They referred to a specific grant by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease: R01AI110964 – “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.” Note that Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. headed the NIAID – and that was his only permanent title in federal government service. The Committee reported five interim findings: Finding 1: EcoHealth submitted its Year 5 Report nearly two years late. Further, EcoHealth’s claim that it was locked out of an NIH system and blocked from submitting the report on time is not supported by the evidence. Finding 2: EcoHealth violated its grant terms and conditions by failing to report a potentially dangerous experiment conducted by the WIV. Finding 3: EcoHealth used taxpayer dollars to facilitate gain-of-function research on coronaviruses in Wuhan at the WIV, contrary to previous public statements, including those by Dr. Anthony Fauci. Finding 4: NIH may not have known about EcoHealth’s actions without proper intervention by former-President Donald Trump and former-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Further, despite suggestions of political persecution against EcoHealth, career NIH leadership supported every compliance action taken. Finding 5: While negotiating the reinstatement of the grant, Dr. Daszak omitted the material fact that unanalyzed samples and sequences—that the U.S. paid for—are in the custody and control of the WIV. This omission was taken as fact by NIAID and NIAID took no steps to verify the actual location of the sequences and samples. If Dr. Daszak had not made this omission it would have provoked questions from NIAID regarding EcoHealth’s ability to fulfill the aims of the reinstated grant. Finally, as a result of Dr. Daszak affirmations, NIH is currently violating the terms of the debarment of the WIV. That reinstatement happened in 2023, during the Biden administration. Dr. Fauci retired from the NIAID and all government service in December 2022. So technically the NIAID was under new leadership. But in another sense it was under the old leadership of “Resident” Biden. Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), Chairman of the Subcommittee, has curiously come down hard – and exclusively – on Peter Daszak and EcoHealth. HHS has called for “a government-wide suspension of U.S. taxpayer funds to EcoHealth – including a hold on all active grants.” That could be an independent decision – or part of an unannounced agreement with the Chairman. House Oversight also released HHS’ letter to Peter Daszak, and an Action Referral Memorandum by Henrietta Katrina Brisbon, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services for Acquisitions. HHS states its grounds to suspend Peter Daszak Deputy Secretary Brisbon set forth several grounds for the suspension and debarment action, all striking at the heart of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Technically, an experiment at WIV demonstrated a result consistent with gain of function. That, said Brisbon, was in violation of the terms of the grant. The NIH gave EHA and WIV several opportunities to disprove this finding, but EHA and WIV failed to do so. Jim Hoft summarized HHS’ expressed concern thus: Peter Daszak’s organization is accused of not only failing to adhere to the terms of their grant but also of not providing essential documentation regarding their research with the Wuhan Institute. This has led to serious doubts about the organization’s capability to handle projects that involve pathogens of pandemic potential. Indeed Deputy Secretary Brisbon called the suspension “necessary to protect the public interest.” But the obvious question then arises: what took them so long? Recall: CNAV reported on this activity two years and eight months ago. This scandal broke in September of 2021. But of course, Democrats controlled Congress then. So why didn’t anyone take action after Congress reconvened after Midterms? Mightn’t someone need to ask former Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), then Speaker of the House? This matter has the foul odor of political compromise about it. Chairman Wenstrup would appear to be leaving the NIH and NIAID an “out” to sacrifice Peter Daszak and save both the institutional skins of those agencies, and the personal skins of their present (immediate) leadership. Obviously Peter Daszak is a liability. Equally obviously, recent polls (from The New York Times and Siena College, no less!) have spooked the Biden administration. Less obviously, Chairman Wenstrup has decided to let career officials at NIAID, NIH and HHS off the hook. Chairman Wenstrup issued this statement, again unilaterally charging Peter Daszak with everything: EcoHealth facilitated gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China without proper oversight, willingly violated multiple requirements of its multimillion-dollar National Institutes of Health grant, and apparently made false statements to the NIH. These actions are wholly abhorrent, indefensible, and must be addressed with swift action. And: We will hold EcoHealth accountable for any waste, fraud, and abuse and are committed to uncovering any illegal activity, including lying to Congress, NIH, or the Inspector General. But who will hold the executive branch accountable? That becomes the operative question. The COVIDSelect Report cagily says that “career NIH leadership” signed off on all actions against Peter Daszak and EcoHealth. Evidently Daszak is crying “political persecution.” And he might be correct, though not in the usual sense. CNAV does not doubt his guilt, nor that of EcoHealth. But the relationship began when Dr. Fauci ran the NIAID, and continued until Dr. Fauci stepped down. Who else is guilty, and why won’t COVIDSelect investigate any further than EcoHealth? Clearly HHS is throwing Daszak and EcoHealth under the bus – and COVIDSelect is letting them “skate.” That’s unacceptable. Everyone who is responsible, should pay for their roles in treason, and a crime against humanity. That demonstrably includes at least some officials at NIAID and NIH – and could include some Members of Congress. Donald Trump should surely add this to his job jar, assuming that patriotic Americans can return him to office and prevent a repeat of the fraud that knocked him out of office three and a half years ago. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/15/news/pleter-daszak-finally-gets-his/ Declarations of Truth Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/c/DecTruth Video: Climate change and depopulation: https://rumble.com/v4v6xnk-climate-change-and-depopulation.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 COVIDSelect: X account: https://twitter.com/COVIDSelect Thread: https://twitter.com/COVIDSelect/status/1790762368898654308 https://twitter.com/COVIDSelect/status/1790762372312735906 Report: https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024.05.01-SSCP-Report_FINAL.pdf Letter to Dr. Daszak: https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Tab-1-EHA-SUSP4D-Notice_5.15.2024_signed.pdf Action Referral Memorandum: https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Tab-2-EHA-SUSP4D-ARM_05.15.2024_signed.pdf Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Climate change – and depopulation By Terry A. Hurlbut “To say the quiet part out loud” is to admit, inadvertently, the real reason or purpose for action or plan. Every now and again, someone will “say the quiet part out loud – because they don’t know when to shut up! (And sometimes they can’t shut up – like Balaam, who couldn’t speak a prophecy against the Israelites even when an enemy king paid him to say it! See Numbers chh. 22-24.) At least one modern-day Balaam opened his mouth on X over the weekend. He was a climate change alarmist who frankly admitted (avowed?) that the only way to fix the “problem” he and others are in such a panic about, is to reduce the human population with a pandemic agent with a high case-fatality rate. And his alarmist statement provided an occasion to recall other, similarly chilling statements – and a recently destroyed project. Fighting climate change through depopulation Meet Bill McGuire, Professor of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at University College London (UCL). Two days ago he posted to X a shockingly brazen – or perhaps careless – statement: If I am brutally honest, the only realistic way I see emissions falling as fast as they need to, to avoid catastrophic #climate breakdown, is the culling of the human population by a pandemic with a very high fatality rate. The post is no longer available. But before it disappeared entirely, another user saw it, photographed it, and “re-posted” it. https://twitter.com/Babygravy9/status/1789955734714634446 “Interesting thing to say,” indeed. Depopulation has been the common theme among leftists – except only the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – for decades. The Soviet Communists famously disappointed Margaret Sanger by refusing her contraceptive message, because they wanted to raise a conquering army. But every other collectivist has called for depopulation, because they know they can’t feed all the people over whom they presume to take control. The replies to “Raw Egg Nationalist” are not all safe for work. But this statement is: https://twitter.com/awski7088/status/1789980268134080857 The most likely answer: robots. (Unless they rebel, like the mechanical slaves of Karel Čapek’s Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti, or R.U.R.) Bill McGuire caught so much flak on his own account, in direct reply, that he deleted the post. Then he left this snide retort: https://twitter.com/ProfBillMcGuire/status/1789672080822157459 Five hours and eight minutes later, he made this excuse: https://twitter.com/ProfBillMcGuire/status/1789749485377097956 He probably didn’t know that “Raw Egg Nationalist” had captured the original post before he deleted it. Otherwise he mightn’t have dared tell such an outrageous falsehood about what he said. He’s not the only one Bill McGuire is not the only leftist to make such an outrageous suggestion, nor even the first. Arguably Margaret Sanger doesn’t count; she was a racist, not a universal depopulation advocate like McGuire. But Paul Ehrlich famously called for “the right virus” to “defuse” the “population bomb.” John Holdren, before he ran Barack Obama’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, infamously called for the development of a sterilant to stop humans (except the favored few) from having children. (He acknowledged – indeed lamented – that no such drug would suit the purpose or requirements he proposed.) Collen Linebarger of The Gateway Pundit identified two more activists who called for human depopulation: • Jane Goodall, famous for her study of apes, called for reducing human numbers to what they were 500 years ago. That would mean reducing the population to 500 million. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau.) • Eric Pianka, ecologist at the University of Texas, called for reducing the human population by 90 percent. When he said that, that would mean a reduction to 650 million. https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1609011378102374401 Jane Goodall might have committed plagiarism, using the clever disguise of an indirect reference. For the figure of 500 million comes straight from the Georgia Guidestones. Erected in 1980, they, too, called for “maintain[ing] humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.” They also called for one language. (See Genesis 11:1.) That could be why, as CNAV supposes, God sent lightning to demolish one of the Stones. Are they working on it? The Gateway Pundit actually used The National Pulse as its source. And according to it, Peter Daszak, of EcoHealth Alliance fame, is still receiving millions of dollars in research grants. One of his projects involves “bird ‘flu.” Not only that, but EcoHealth Alliance has thousands of coronavirus samples in freezers – at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. As for back as January 2024, The National Pulse revealed that Daszak is still playing with bat viruses. These come from Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, and the Philippines, among other countries in that region. The coronavirus pandemic might have been a hasty plan “running with” an accident – given reports of WIV personnel selling dead bats in the Wuhan wet markets. (Thus the official “bat soup” narrative turns out to have a tenuous connection with the truth.) Or it was a dry run for an even more hideous project. But Paul McGuire broke the cardinal rule of wicked planners: keep your mouth shut. He blabbed. Worse, his blab got a welter of publicity. Peter Daszak is obviously smarter than he, but even the smart “evil geniuses” can’t hide when someone, ostensibly agreeing with their mission, “says the quiet part out loud.” American voters must ask themselves whether they care to support a regime, key members of which want them dead. They must further reevaluate CNAV’s prior warnings that these people want the planet to themselves. Bill McGuire said that – and indeed nothing else makes sense. Now the people know for whom they must vote. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/14/editorial/talk/depopulation-climate-change/ Picture of Bill McGuire’s first post: https://twitter.com/Babygravy9/status/1789955734714634446 Reply asking who would turn the lights on: https://twitter.com/awski7088/status/1789980268134080857 McGuire’s snide retort: https://twitter.com/ProfBillMcGuire/status/1789672080822157459 McGuire’s lame excuse: https://twitter.com/ProfBillMcGuire/status/1789749485377097956 Jane Goodall calling for depopulation: https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1609011378102374401 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

New Jersey and beyond – next Trump targets By Terry A. Hurlbut Over the weekend, President Donald J. Trump did something no one could have predicted a year ago. But neither could anyone have predicted that a corrupt State judge would place him under “State arrest” in one of the three “Tri-States,” which are the bluest of the blue: New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. That “State arrest” in New York limits Trump’s ability to campaign across the country (and everyone knows why). So if he couldn’t get very out of the Tri-States area, he would campaign within the Tri-States. First he started campaigning in New York – and by most accounts, New Yorkers loved seeing him up close and personal. So he tried it in New Jersey – and surprised everyone with the excellent reception he got. At that rally, he announced his intention to press his attack – and attack Minnesota and Virginia as well. The New Jersey rally The best reportage on the New Jersey rally comes from The Gateway Pundit. Trump selected Wildwood, New Jersey. Wildwood is the largest of five resort towns, all on an island off the Jersey Shore, in Cape May County. Apparently Trump picked a venue with a capacity of either 30,000 or 40,000, depending on whom one asks. That would be a fraction of the crowd he would eventually draw. The rally was supposed to begin at 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday (May 11). At 11:40 a.m.., Jim Hoft reported that Trump supporters had started to camp out on the beach beginning on Wednesday. Thousands of people were already waiting, seven to eight hours before Trump was scheduled to speak. https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1789317717356364017 https://twitter.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1789324995098771777 https://twitter.com/mFEmKUJ4Ix84652/status/1789323961794539963 https://twitter.com/DesireeAmerica4/status/1789320471793520889 At 3:40 p.m., Jordan Conradson estimated that 80,000 people had arrived. That number, even had it held, would have made this the largest political rally ever held in New Jersey. https://twitter.com/ConradsonJordan/status/1789360432160952641 https://twitter.com/baldwin_daniel_/status/1789378753216303477 During this hour, Trump’s private airliner overflew the site, where the crowd, under a sunny sky, could see him clearly. https://rumble.com/embed/v4s3hv6/?pub=4teej https://rumble.com/embed/v4s30sf/?pub=4teej https://rumble.com/embed/v4oikr0/?pub=4teej At 7:00 p.m., David Greyson offered highlights of Trump’s speech, which began at 5:00 and lasted for 90 minutes. https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1789421271555490191 https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1789422870319218878 https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1789425717203149222 https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1789427083967451326 Jim Hoft offered more posts from the overflight: https://twitter.com/ConradsonJordan/status/1789360432160952641 https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1789385672123363714 https://twitter.com/MarkNaughton9/status/1789392301376123234 A barnyard chant – and a crowd estimate dispute On Sunday afternoon, Christine Laila offered more photos and X video, including details on a particularly amusing segment. At one point, Trump railed against the various indictments against him, using a barnyard expletive to describe them. The crowd took up that word and turned it into a chant. https://twitter.com/simonateba/status/1789436363336450305 https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1789391694217027789 https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1789486438246924698 See also these photos: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/img_5932-600x337.jpeg https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/img_5938-600x450.jpeg Crowd estimates varied sharply. Sympathetic users on the scene turned in the high-end crowd estimate of 100,000 people. https://twitter.com/ImMeme0/status/1789428552225411398 https://twitter.com/_johnnymaga/status/1789437068805824970 But Newsweek sought to dampen everyone’s enthusiasm. Their top estimate, from a Wildwood city spokeswoman, came in between 80,000 and 100,000. https://twitter.com/RealHickory/status/1789379982793351229 Reporters from The Philadelphia Inquirer and USA Today insisted that attendees were leaving before Trump finished speaking. But the USA Today reporter posted his video late, casting some doubt on his account. https://twitter.com/aliyareports/status/1789435508822561181 https://twitter.com/zacjanderson/status/1789442982506066100 These two users posted what they said were side-by-side comparisons of events with larger crowds, next to the same picture from the Wildwood event. But the Wildwood picture is a twilight picture, making an accurate crowd estimate impossible. https://twitter.com/SBWheat1/status/1789618694961639620 https://twitter.com/cturnbull1968/status/1789650810495799556 But maybe this post is where two different users got the same photograph, which was not only dark but cropped. Here is the photo, uncropped and in clear landscape orientation: https://twitter.com/ImMrWillJohnson/status/1789457734997364786 Furthermore, influencer Red Eagle Politics did his own two-hour livestream – and said nothing about people leaving toward the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk8Sy_EBFdg Highlights – and a bold prediction At 7:40 p.m. Jordan Conradson was back, with the first report of the most electrifying announcement Trump made. As you can see today, we are expanding the electoral map because we are going to officially play in the state of New Jersey; we're going to win the state of New Jersey. We've got a great group of people with us, an incredible group of people. We're also looking really great in the state of Minnesota, which hasn't been won since 1952, and we're leading in the polls in the state of Virginia, and actually many other states. I don't know it could be all of them. This guy is so damn bad it could be all of them. He's so bad, I think we're going to win them all! https://rumble.com/embed/v4s4ay2/?pub=4teej Mike LaChance reported that, on Friday, several Trump supporters in New Jersey were already suggesting Trump could carry the State. One even said she had friends and neighbors who were switching their vote from Democrat to Republican. https://twitter.com/Jules31415/status/1788968086223172071 Even that wasn’t the highlight of the day. That came when two retired players for the New York Giants stood before the crowd, to endorse Trump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgeLzZk4InE One of them, Lawrence Taylor, said this: I just wanted to say I grew up a Democrat, and I’ve always been a Democrat until I met this man right here. I’ll tell you what. He will not have to worry about NOBODY in my family ever voting for a Democrat again. The other, Ottis Anderson, actually worked the crowd. Ottis Anderson: Don’t you just love that guy? Don’t you just love that guy? I tell you, it has been a very exciting day. You guys, not one person left here. You’re still here. Yes, yelling and screaming. So my word is, ‘Wildwood, are you in the house?’ MAGA Crowd: Yes! Ottis Anderson: Now, I can’t hear you. ‘Wildwood, are you in the house?’ MAGA Crowd: YES! Ottis Anderson: Thank you guys for all your support. And how about a great shout out for Metro Exhibit, baby. We made it all happen all across the EU. Thank you. Thank you. MAGA Crowd: USA, USA, USA! Three months ago, no one imagined that Donald Trump would carry New Jersey, least of all this Democratic Senate candidate: https://twitter.com/AndyKimNJ/status/1754188397806014727 That was February – before revelations of prosecutorial misconduct in two cases (South Florida and New York). That, and student demonstrations rivaling those from the Sixties – on behalf of an even less sympathetic enemy than the Viet Cong was, if one can imagine that. Influencers like Red Eagle Politics and Gold Crown Politics all assume that Trump was “testing the waters,” first in New York, then in New Jersey. Not so. Trump is campaigning in those two States because a biased but foolish judge effectively limited him to them. And when he started to campaign in those two States – because he had to campaign somewhere – he drew excited crowds. None of his advisers would have predicted that – so maybe Trump needs to say “You’re fired” more often. Can Trump really carry New Jersey? The best decision Trump made about this rally was where to host it. Wildwood is a beach resort on the Jersey Shore. It is also part of South Jersey, not far south of Ocean County – which he carried in 2020. Furthermore, South Jersey is far more conservative than North Jersey, and its people have wanted to secede for some time. New Jersey, however, has a problem: a Democrat-lite Republican Party. The last Republican to carry New Jersey was George H. W. Bush (Bush Senior) in 1988. Establishment Republicans simply don’t believe they deserve to win, and that’s how they campaign. Donald Trump came to New Jersey and found a crowd wanting to change the way things are. But will Trump have to build an organization from scratch in the State – and does he have time? Stay tuned. Stranger things have happened. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/13/news/new-jersey-beyond-trump-targets/ Posts from the event: Morning: https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1789317717356364017 https://twitter.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1789324995098771777 https://twitter.com/mFEmKUJ4Ix84652/status/1789323961794539963 https://twitter.com/DesireeAmerica4/status/1789320471793520889 Mid-afternoon: https://twitter.com/ConradsonJordan/status/1789360432160952641 https://twitter.com/baldwin_daniel_/status/1789378753216303477 Overflight: https://twitter.com/ConradsonJordan/status/1789360432160952641 https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1789385672123363714 https://twitter.com/MarkNaughton9/status/1789392301376123234 Early evening: https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1789421271555490191 https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1789422870319218878 https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1789425717203149222 https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1789427083967451326 Late evening: https://twitter.com/simonateba/status/1789436363336450305 https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1789391694217027789 https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1789486438246924698 Top crowd estimate: https://twitter.com/ImMeme0/status/1789428552225411398 https://twitter.com/_johnnymaga/status/1789437068805824970 Bottom-end estimates: https://twitter.com/RealHickory/status/1789379982793351229 https://twitter.com/aliyareports/status/1789435508822561181 https://twitter.com/zacjanderson/status/1789442982506066100 https://twitter.com/SBWheat1/status/1789618694961639620 https://twitter.com/cturnbull1968/status/1789650810495799556 Source for the twilight photo: https://twitter.com/ImMrWillJohnson/status/1789457734997364786 Red Eagle video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk8Sy_EBFdg Video and livestream replay: https://rumble.com/v4ukhpx-president-trump-flies-by-80000-supporters-in-wildwood-nj.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 https://rumble.com/v4uk0n6-massive-trump-crowd-in-wildwood-nj.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 https://rumble.com/v4r3rpr-live-trump-holds-a-rally-in-wildwood-new-jersey-51124.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Photos from Sunday afternoon report: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/img_5932-600x337.jpeg https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/img_5938-600x450.jpeg Video: Trump boasts of seeking to carry New Jersey, Minnesota and Virginia https://rumble.com/v4ulase-trump-says-new-jersey-virginia-minnesota-are-in-play.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Post: New Jersey voters saying the day before the rally that Trump could carry New Jersey: https://twitter.com/Jules31415/status/1788968086223172071 Video: two Giants players endorse Trump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgeLzZk4InE Andy Kim’s boast: https://twitter.com/AndyKimNJ/status/1754188397806014727 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Why stand with Israel By Terry A. Hurlbut Antisemitism has risen throughout the Western world to the highest levels since the 1930s and World War II. But today’s antisemitism springs from both the left and the right, which is why CNAV spoke early of fractured coalitions. Now we see the United States government breaking previous resupply and other agreements with Israel – possibly in violation of U.S. law. The time has come to review the ostensible – and actual – motives for the antisemitism from left and right today. Likewise, CNAV wishes to state for the record why we stand with the State of Israel. Latest in the Israel-Gaza War Last week, the Israel Defense Forces moved into Rafah, on the Gaza-Egyptian border. When that happened, the Biden administration held up at least one delivery of ammunition to Israel. This apparently violates the Impoundment Control Act and thus represents yet another impeachable offense the “Resident” has committed in office. This morning we now learn that the Biden administration knows exactly where leaders of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Arabic Harakah al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmiyyah, abbreviated HAMAS) are hold up in the tunnel network they have created. And they won’t tell the Israelis. This came to light on Maria Bartiromo’s Fox News program, Sunday Morning Futures. Bartiromo, as any normal human being would, exploded in apoplexy. Senator [Mike Lee, R-Utah], let me just look at this one story. I’ve got to get your take from The Washington Post. The Washington Post apparently got this leak from, I assume, the Biden administration, but it says that the administration is working urgently to stave off a full-scale Israeli invasion of Rafah, and they claim that they will give Israel valuable… quote, unquote, “Valuable assistance, if it holds back, including the US will share sensitive intelligence to Israel to help the Israeli military pinpoint the location of the Hamas leaders to find them in hidden tunnels.” In other words, The Washington Post is writing that the United States will share information about where the terrorists are with Israel if they don’t go into Ra’afa. Are you kidding me? In other words, the US knows where the terrorists are. They’re not going to share the information with Israel unless Israel [declines] to go into Rafah. This story is outrageous in The Washington Post. https://rumble.com/v4uq7wu-biden-regime-admits-to-withholding-information-from-israel-on-hamas-tunnels.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Sadly, they are not kidding. “Resident” Biden is trying to stay in good with his base. And his base seems to have expelled its Jewish contingent and thrown in with HAMAS. (More on that below.) As CNAV observed before, we observe that also on the right. Most Protestant Christians stand with Israel, on humanitarian, mutual friendship, and eschatological (study of the Last Things) grounds. An increasingly militant contingent, mainly from the Roman Catholic faith, have issued virulent judgments about these Christians’ probable spiritual destination. As CNAV will show below, this ostensibly proceeds from their understanding of the role of Jews in past and future. But it shows every sign of proceeding from simple resentment – or defensiveness over the chequered history of the Roman Catholic Church’s relations with the Jews. Does anyone stand with Israel on the left? Probably not. The most militant leftists have given every indication of expelling most Jews from their midst. Perhaps they retain friendships with Reform Jews, who in 1885 (the Pittsburgh Platform) declared that they were “not a nation” anymore. But with anyone who stands with Israel today, they have ended all friendships. Erick-Woods Erickson, the “Georgia Political Junkie,” thinks he knows the reason for the left’s attitude. And he’s probably correct, if the left’s vituperations on social media are any indicator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDYt139W_Xw He says the left never retains any friendship with one who will not bow the knee to them. Benjamin Netanyahu won’t, and has never done that. That explains why Barack Obama turned his face away from Netanyahu during a White House photo-op. And then, in 2015, campaigned in Israel for Netanyahu’s electoral opponents. (Netanyahu won anyway.) And when Donald J. Trump not only welcomed Netanyahu with open arms, but instructed his Ambassador to Israel to move his office to the American Consulate in South Jerusalem, thereby transforming said Consulate into an Embassy, he earned the permanent, almost homicidal enmity of the Left. (They keep threatening to assassinate him, though any connection between the loudest leftist noisemakers and actual – and thus far failed – attempts on Trump’s life is still rhetorical only.) In that same video clip, Erickson warns that riots and violence might break out if, as looks more likely every day, Trump wins in 2024. But Erickson missed another source of antisemitism – from the right. Anti-Israel enmity on the right When a leftist rails against Israel today, he might actually say the people of Israel deserved the atrocities of October 7, 2023. That’s what they get, leftists say, for voting wrong. (Which is why Erickson predicts political violence on the left after a Trump victory.) But a rightist railing against Israel knows better than to excuse, much less justify, atrocity. So he will say Israel did this to its own people. The most blatant such declaration is that “October 7 was a false-flag pseudo-operation.” Less blatantly, one might assert that HAMAS is a creation of Mossad, the Israeli equivalent of the CIA. (Elements of the John Birch Society suspect that HAMAS is a non-Muslim creation – of the CIA itself.) Rightist opposition to Israel doesn’t get as much attention, because rightists do not take over buildings and assault people. But they still make their presence felt on social media, often crossing paths with their counterparts who stand with Israel. Some of this enmity might stem from the observation that American Jews have traditionally been leftist in their politics. American rabbis (which name means teachers) literally “teach” leftism from their lecterns in their synagogues. In fact, Theodor Herzl, leader of the first Zionist pioneers, installed collective farming in the first Zionist settlements (kibbutzim). The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was the second country to recognize Israel. Israel then gave every indication of evolving toward Communism. When Israel abandoned socialism, the Soviets gave planes and tanks to the Arabs. Religious enmity Jews might not be so quick to vote Democratic anymore, given the attitudes of the Biden administration today. But old habits of anti-Jewish animus will die hard on the right. Patrick J. Buchanan and former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) are two booby-prize antisemites on the right. Besides the political angle, many on the right are Roman Catholics, with some Greek Orthodox mixed in. Roman Catholics invented the notion that, to quote the late Dutch Reformed radio empire builder Harold Camping, God is through with national Israel. The basis for this kind of thinking is Covenantal Theology, the notion that the Church inherits all the promises made to Abraham, then to King David. (Moses’ covenant does not count; that was conditional.) The Dutch Reformed Church continues that teaching, which they probably borrowed from the Lutherans. (Martin Luther famously wrote a tome he called On the Jews and their Lies.) The Roman Catholic Covenantal tradition predates the Great Schism between Catholic and Orthodox. It also informed the Crusades. Thus when Pope Urban IX called on Christian kings to intervene militarily following the desecration of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the European kings who responded, set up Crusader Kingdoms that were not friendly toward the Jews. In contrast, most Protestants, especially Anabaptists, adhere to Dispensational Theoology. This divides history into seven Dispensations: Innocence, Conscience, Human Government, Promise, Law, Grace, and the Millennium. We are at Grace today. The Millennium – a thousand years of peace – remains ahead of us. Further explanation of peace As ever, a further discussion of peace in this context is in order. To quote the late Robert A. Heinlein: “Peace” is a condition in which no civilian pays attention to military casualties that do not achieve page one, lead story prominence, unless said civilian is a relative of one of the casualties. But … there has [n]ever been a time in history when “peace” meant that there was no fighting going on… The Millennial Kingdom will be a thousand-year reign in which “peace” will mean there shall be no fighting going on. King Jesus will, quite simply, not allow it. It ill befits a Christian to “spiritize” this away, and assert that the fighting we observe is of no moment. But that’s all a Covenantal Theologian can do. A Dispensational Theologian knows well what the Prophet Daniel said: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. Daniel 9:26 Daniel also said, The people of the prince who shall come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. This happened in 70 A.D., at the hand of a Roman army under the command of a general named Titus. He later became Emperor of Rome. Which illustrates another important point. Almost every prophecy the Bible contains, has seen literal fulfillment. Those prophecies that have not seen fulfillment, give every indication of being imminent. Which means they can fulfill themselves any time. Covenantal Theologians must ignore this point. Dispensational theologians rely on it. Why stand with Israel? CNAV stands with Israel for a host of reasons. Consistency with Dispensational Theology is one. The reestablishment of the Jews in their own State, in the very Land of God’s choosing, was a Divine miracle. Beyond that, no other country takes care of its archaeological antiquities as carefully as does the State of Israel. And, contrary to popular belief, Israel does have valuable exports. Most of these are intellectual – and these can be even more valuable, on calm and sober analysis. Without the establishment of the State of Israel, most of the antiquities of the Holy Land would be lost forever. Possibly no one would have found them. More probably the Muslim holders of the land would destroy them as they found them, except only for Muslim antiquities. Wholesale destruction of all non-Muslim antiquities would swiftly result from a mass evacuation of all Jews from the Holy Land. If the behavior of the Jerusalem Waqf doesn’t convince, then the destruction of the Palmyra ruins in Syria should. Israelis protect their antiquities; Muslims destroy theirs. Furthermore, everyone should ask himself why so many Arab countries gladly made the Abraham Accords with Israel. (And haven’t broken any of them yet.) Arabs know that Iran, not Israel, is the existential threat to them. Without Israel – currently the most powerful country in the Middle East – Iran would reestablish the Persian Empire. An empire of which Arabs want no part. A proxy for humanity But one reason to stand with Israel looms larger than all the rest. Israel suffered an atrocity not seen since the Holocaust. An army that commits such atrocities rates total annihilation, for the same reason that first-degree murder rates death. Whoever commits atrocity against one enemy will likely commit it against anyone else that puts it in a bad mood. For that reason, humanity itself cannot permit such an entity to remain. Israel came under the direct attack, Israel is on the scene, so Israel is doing what must be done. As a corollary, anyone who sides with an entity that has committed atrocity, shows utter lack of human fellow-feeling. Antisemites on the right blithely dismiss HAMAS as a nonentity, or a shell to excuse endless war. Those on the left do worse: they regard HAMAS as the righteous punisher of their political and spiritual enemies. The Israel-Gaza War – or perhaps better called the First Israel-Persian War – has illuminated much that has remained carefully hidden. The suffering and deaths of so many Israelis, while tragic, revealed at least two, possibly three, enemies of humanity. To defeat those enemies is to ensure that those Israelis did not die or suffer in vain. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/12/editorial/talk/why-stand-with-israel/ Video: Maria Bartiromo explodes at WaPo story of U.S. withholding of actionable intelligence: https://rumble.com/v4uq7wu-biden-regime-admits-to-withholding-information-from-israel-on-hamas-tunnels.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 The Pittsburgh Platform of Reform Judaism: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-pittsburgh-platform Video: Erick-Woods Erickson observing that Biden has united Israel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDYt139W_Xw Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

When Trump wins, what next? By Terry A. Hurlbut State primaries and conventions are still ongoing – and of course even the Republican National Convention has not yet taken place. But no one doubts that Donald J. Trump already has assured himself of the nomination. Now more and more legacy media organs and commentators believe that Trump has also assured himself of reelection. They are also weeping and gnashing their teeth, in a display of childish indignity that recalls the infamous Lyon-Griswold donnybrook in the House of Representatives in 1798. And now even some State officials have resigned themselves to a Trump victory – and are planning fresh attacks against him. Other officials, perhaps of better heart, would do well to plan for post-election violence – against Trump and his supporters. Oh, no! Trump is going to win! No one doubts any longer that the dizzying spate of lawsuits, indictments, and prosecutions of and against Donald Trump were no coincidence. Indeed, in the Florida “Documents Case,” unsealed documents demonstrate collusion between Jack Smith’s Special Counsel’s Office and the White House. Judge Aileen M. Cannon has vacated an earlier scheduled trial date and declined to set another one. She cited multiple pre-trial motions presenting classified information handling issues still not resolved. In essence she has postponed the trial indefinitely, and given solid grounds for doing so. Tellingly, she did not find Jack Smith or his team guilty of prosecutorial misconduct – which they almost certainly committed. So Mr. Smith has no grounds to appeal this indefinite postponement of a trial. United States v. Trump, 9:23-cr-80101-AMC, Order Setting Second Set of Pre-trial Deadlines/Hearings. In the one trial now ongoing (New York v. Trump), prosecution witnesses have only embarrassed themselves and the prosecution. The legacy media know this. They knew it last month, when the first weeping and tooth-gnashing began. The appearances of Stephanie Clifford (“Stormy Daniels”) and Hope Hicks in a New York courtroom at first brought excuse-making. Then the legacy media admitted the truth. Never mind what a likely biased jury decides. Trump will not lose a single vote over this case, and will likely gain votes. James Carville made this anguished statement, which Eric Abbenante captured: https://twitter.com/EricAbbenante/status/1788726060311281708 Tim Haines at RealClearPolitics provided a transcript, which Mike LaChance at The Gateway Pundit quoted: Trump’s more ahead than he’s ever been, more – fewer people think January 6 was any kind of what it was, an assault on the temple of democracy, our Constitution, whatever you want to say. It’s going the wrong way. It’s not working. Everything that we’re throwing is spaghetti at a wall, and none of it is sticking, me included. It's hard starting your 80th year, and like everyone else I have an opinion of myself. And the opinion I've come to is I don’t matter. It doesn’t matter. You can prepare and you can be on TV, you can write pieces, you can have a YouTube channel, you can have a podcast and nothing, nothing! We’ve got to try to think of something different because what we’re doing in really really not working. James Carville But of course… Carville is correct, beyond even admitting that he has no moral authority left, but he doesn’t understand why. Everyone knows by now that the January 6 Event was a false-flag pseudo-operation. Nancy Pelosi declined to ask for National Guard protection – and the Joint Chiefs of Staff were ready to disobey orders to make sure no National Guardsmen could possibly deploy if Trump gave the order anyway. To say nothing of Ray Epps, agent provocateur extraordinaire, and his antics (and preferential treatment). The Supreme Court has two cases before it that could make Trump’s January 6 problems go away. Beyond that, everyone recognizes the selective application of the law. In trying Trump in multiple courts of law, the Democrats also brought an action in the court of public opinion. But the trouble with public-opinion court action is that it can cut both ways and become extremely difficult to manage. Democrat management of this public-opinion court case has been a disaster. As a result, according to Dr. Stephen Turley, Democrats will fall back on the election fraud that put Biden into office in 2020. But, Dr. Turley also says, they haven’t the apparatus they once had. Eric Coomer, the chief suspect in arranging to alter tabulated vote counts in real time, is no longer in the employ of Dominion Voting Services. Dominion Voting has suffered tremendous embarrassment – in court. And thanks to Dan Schultz’ Precinct Strategy, Republicans have their apparatus – poll watchers and poll workers in position to stop such fraud. Making plans for a second Trump administration So now the planning begins. The best positive planners are the Heritage Foundation, who last year started a project – Project 2025 – to that end. Project 2025 – or the 2025 Presidential Transition Project – sets four vital goals for itself, Trump, and the country: 1. Prepare a comprehensive agenda affecting every agency of the government, with ideas for conservative reform. This includes rebuilding American military forces and doing away with “diversity, equity and inclusion.” It also includes “Schedule F,” to make tens of thousands of “civil service” jobs at the pleasure of the President. 2. Create and populate a database of qualified applicants for senior management positions. This “Conservative LinkedIn” will have names and resumes (or curricula vitarum) ready for Transition Team executives to review. 3. Create training courses and materials to turn idealistic applicants into effective administrators. 4. Write a “playbook” listing immediate actions over the first 180 days of a second Trump administration. Legacy media organs have already wept and gnashed their teeth over the very idea of Project 2025. The Los(t) Angeles Times actually called it a plan to replace the federal government with Trump’s vision of it. They chiefly object to a reinstatement of Schedule F. Prof. Mary Guy at the University of Colorado at Denver explicitly uttered the phrase spoils system to describe it. Then she said this silly thing: We have a democracy that is at risk of suicide. Schedule F is just one more bullet in the gun. Never mind that removing unelected bureaucrats is an essentially democratic reform. Leaving those bureaucrats in place is the real undemocratic gesture. The attack plans Which brings us to the negative side of planning for a second Trump administration: the attack plan. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, announced two days ago his own plan to sue the federal government, seeking all kinds of declaratory and injunctive relief to stop those plans. While conservatives read Project 2025 as a positive agenda, General Bonta is studying it to prepare federal court challenges against it. The Los(t) Angeles Times made the initial report, which Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit excerpted and quoted. California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said he and his staff have been reviewing former President Trump’s second-term agenda in detail to prepare a potential onslaught of environmental, immigration and civil rights lawsuits in the event Trump defeats President Biden. … Bonta, a Democrat who is mulling a run for governor, said he has been reviewing the work of his predecessor, Xavier Becerra, who filed more than 100 suits against Trump policies before leaving the office to become Biden’s secretary of Health and Human Services. Bonta and his deputies are also looking closely at a document drafted by the Heritage Foundation, a Trump-aligned think tank, known as “Project 2025,” that offers a blueprint for Trump’s second-term policy goals. … Asked for comment on Bonta’s plans, Anna Kelly, a spokesperson for the Republican National Committee, said, “California liberals will try anything to spread their failed, fringe-left agenda far and wide, but they won’t stop President Trump from making America great again.” This kind of “lawsuit abuse” is nothing new with Democrats. But whether General Bonta would even have standing to seek injunctions against half of Project 2025 is far from clear. Standing or no, his chances of success are not promising, after Trump: • Made three Supreme Court appointments, • Brought balance to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Judicial Circuit, and • Made the greatest number of District Court appointments in history. But Eric Cortellessa of Time Magazine dropped a hint at some darker planning, in his interview with Trump. He tried to goad Trump into suggesting that violence would break out if he lost. Trump didn’t take that bait. But Cortellessa’s lines of questioning look like classic projection – accusing the other person of that which you yourself did, are doing, plan to do, or would like to do. More concrete projection More seriously, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) actually suggested that Trump had the support of several right-wing organizations … training up in the hills somewhere and targeting what communities they’re going to attack. https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1787470550320689252 Almost six years ago, this same Maxine Waters called on mobs to harass members of the first Trump administration. https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1356758777832300546 That’s demonstrable projection, this time with concrete evidence against the projector. If Rep. Waters is willing to “project” again, as she did three years ago (in accusing Republicans of threatening her life), what might she know of left-wing organizations training in the hills (or more likely in back alleys), targeting residential neighborhoods, churches, and (nowadays) synagogues that they are going to attack? This is not to say that any such plans have progressed beyond the fantasy stage. But: … [A]s [a man] thinks within himself, so he is. Proverbs 23:7 and so, even to utter such remarks, necessarily become suspect. Especially since some rioting took place in the nights following the Election of 2016. Once again, officials of better heart than General Bonta, should prepare for this or any other eventuality. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/11/foundation/constitution/trump-wins-next/ Docket page and postponement order in US v. Trump: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67643393/united-states-v-trump/ https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.651411/gov.uscourts.flsd.651411.530.0_1.pdf Video: James Carville expressing despair: https://twitter.com/EricAbbenante/status/1788726060311281708 Project 2025 Home: https://www.project2025.org/ Los Angeles Times articles: “Replacing the federal government with Trump’s vision”: https://web.archive.org/web/20240510040148/https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-08-30/conservative-groups-draw-up-plan-to-dismantle-the-u-s-government-and-replace-it-with-trumps-vision Attorney General Bonta planning a slew of lawsuits: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-05-09/california-attorney-general-trump-lawsuit-term The Time “if Trump wins” interview: https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/ Video: Maxine Waters calling for investigation of Trump supporters “training up in the hills somewhere”: https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1787470550320689252 Video: Maxine Waters calling for harassment of Trump people: https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1356758777832300546 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

FreedomWorks, cross purposes, and lies By Terry A. Hurlbut FreedomWorks, which (as everyone supposed) carried the conservative standard for twenty years, is no more. Its twelve-member Board of Directors voted this week to cease all operations. Wednesday (May 8) was the last day, though the organization’s 25 employees will continue to receive pay and health benefits for several more months, according to Politico. Adam Brandon, its President and CEO, fired at least two Parthian shots at Donald Trump on his way out. These were an interview with Politico, blaming Trump for his troubles, and an op-ed on RealClearPolitics announcing a “new realignment.” (CNAV published his op-ed, which RealClearWire, RCP’s free, term-less syndication service, offered in its line-up.) But FreedomWorks insiders tell another story – of ideological betrayal (by Brandon himself) and fiscal mismanagement – or “organizational suicide.” In fact, Brandon will likely announce a successor organization, with Never-Trump values. FreedomWorks current status FreedomWorks began in 1984, and in 2004 split from the Koch Brothers’ network. But two different FreedomWorks sites exist, and one seems to have nothing to do with the other. The organization that the Center for Public Integrity profiled in 2012 calls itself FreedomWorks for America and resides at this link. That site apparently has seen no update since the spring of 2023. But the site that Adam Brandon ran until this week has the simpler name FreedomWorks, at this link. They also have a YouTube channel, and a separate Foundation. The About page lists the latest draft of the FreedomWorks message: FreedomWorks exists to mobilize the center right and politically homeless in America who do not feel their values of limited government, social tolerance, and individual liberty are being represented in political discourse today. We seek to restore common sense and competence to public policy and American political life. Our vision is for a future where growth and prosperity results in opportunity for all Americans. In addition, Adam Brandon left this personal message under his by-line: FreedomWorks members know that government goes to those who show up. That's why we give them the tools to break through the media noise and provide the same access to Washington as the big-moneyed lobbyists. Preserving liberty depends on all Americans having access to their elected officials—not just special interests. FreedomWorks holds Washington accountable to the citizens that put them in office. Join Us. The FreedomWorks home page still looks like an active page, with no announcement whatsoever of its closing. The last entries on their News page are dated Tuesday, May 7. In fact they’re still advertising an “American Debt Crisis Tour” and still have their joining form up. And as your editor watched, donations rolled in, typically five dollars or more each. Why is the site accepting donations to an entity that has ceased operations? Why is the site still accepting online applications for admission? The answers to these and several other questions are simply not available. CNAV has reached out to FreedomWorks using its Contact form. Any present or former employee of FreedomWorks is welcome to provide them, in our comment space. How much have they spent? OpenSecrets maintains its own profile on FreedomWorks. That profile lists $305,685 in contributions since 1990, $8,437,457 in lobbying expenses since 1998, and $21,843,300 in “outside spending” since 2000. A spot check of spending by cycle shows that FreedomWorks spent substantial sums to support the separate group FreedomWorks for America, in the 2012, 2014, and 2020 election cycles. By far the group’s heaviest spending was in the 2012 election cycle, the oldest for which OpenSecrets makes records available. In 2018 the group reported no contributions whatsoever. And in 2024 it reported a single $500 contribution, by an individual, to the campaign of Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Miss.). The FreedomWorks foundation lists no activity since 2022. But it, too, seems to be accepting donations at time of writing. Coverage of FreedomWorks and its shutdown The best primary-source coverage of FreedomWorks and its shutdown comes from three sources. David Weigel at Semafor gave what tries to be a balanced report. Weigel takes some of his insight from Politico but contributes at least some insight of his own. According to Weigel, FreedomWorks has always been libertarian in bent. Donald Trump, by contrast, is an economic nationalist – and thus advocates tariffs, to protect domestic industry and enhance national security. Both concepts are foreign to libertarians, who seem to embrace globalization without globalism. That is, they wouldn’t care to follow the dictates of a one-world government – but neither do they recognize the threat of just such tyranny that globalism poses. Weigel speaks of the “victory of right-wing populism over big-tent libertarianism.” He also speaks of the group’s attempt, in 2023, to rebrand itself to appeal to independents and “centrists,” not conservatives. The problem, according to Weigel and the witnesses who talked to him, is that the independents didn’t trust FreedomWorks. FreedomWorks had worked to elect Republicans, and the independents wanted nothing to do with them on that ground alone. Most rank-and-file Republicans today follow Trump – and Trump advocates immigration restriction, in addition to tariffs. The Politico stories Politico has two major stories on FreedomWorks. Between them they offer a comprehensive narrative – but one with a leftist slant that compromises its accuracy. Last year they covered the attempted rebrand. They included this Letter to Donors and Staff from Brandon, dated July of 2023 – after the disastrous 2022 Midterms. Brandon obviously drew the wrong lesson from that election. The Republicans lost because they didn’t try hard enough – and many among them actively sabotaged the effort. Brandon didn’t see that – or perhaps, for his own reasons, sought to hide it. He said the conservative base was “not large enough to win elections,” and that independents would be decisive. (Brandon would sound that same theme in his Parthian-shot op-ed.) Brandon relied heavily on this quote from Ed Crane, founder of the CATO Institute, from 1985. I think there is a broadly defined libertarianism among yuppies [Young Upwardly-mobile Professionals]. They have a broadly tolerant view on social issues, [and] a deep skepticism of government control of the economy. The parties split those concerns. So where do you go? Then Brandon said, The yuppies of 1985 are today’s independents who dominate the districts up for grabs in today’s world. That’s flatly impossible. When you are young, if you are not “socially tolerant,” you have no heart. But as you get older, if you do not at the same time turn conservative, you have no brain. Everyone knows this. Yuppies, by definition, are young. That most of them should never have learned the folly of “tolerance” of abortion, adultery, and Alphabet Soup-ism in the nearly forty years since that quote, strains credulity. If that worldview were true, the United States Supreme Court would never have overturned Roe as it did. Faulty statistics Brandon also quoted a Gallup Poll from April 2023, that alleged that Americans broke down as 34 percent Republican, 41 percent independent, and 27 percent Democratic. He showed a set of proportional bar graphs showing these proportions by cycle, from 2019 to 2023. According to those, the “Independent” portion grew at the expense of the other two. Two observations are relevant here. First, Brandon included no other “crosstabs” in his quote of the Gallup Poll result. Second, Gallup Polls skew left, and always have. (The fictitious Gallup Poll result in 1964’s Seven Days in May, showing a President with a 29 percent approval rating after he signed a mutual disarmament pact with the old Soviet Union, has no sound basis – and in any case, is a plot device, not a fact with solid evidence.) In any case, Brandon sought to justify tolerance of abortion, adultery, and Alphabet Soup-ism – things his Politico interviewers all support. Never once did he consider working for a Second (Third?) Great Awakening – and obviously he wouldn’t want that. In fact he assumes that attitudes toward social customs, morals, and government size are static. In July of 2023, he might excuse himself for thinking that. After October 7, 2023, and Antisemitic Student Demonstration Time, that won’t fly. He either doesn’t understand or doesn’t want to understand that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gX_KAXT_60 A tissue of lies And on Wednesday, Politico published the story that too many other organs simply copied – though at least David Weigel tried to be original. This covers the actual shutdown – and bases itself entirely on interviews with Brandon and sympathetic directors. They all blame one man: Trump. The rebrand did not succeed. Money dried up, even before the rebrand, and especially after it. All this, they lay to Trump, who, they said, changed the game to make “social tolerance” unfashionable. Brandon did not explicitly blame Trump in his op-ed. But he did insist that independents, not moral philosophy, would govern from now on. Of course, the worst weakness of his position is that he identifies “Generation Z” and “Millennials” as the group that will hold the balance now and in future. Again, that assumes that no one gets out of the young-and-stupid phase of political and social thinking. To be sure, some leftists will never change; consider Rob “Meathead” Reiner of All in the Family fame. But he is the exception. Alan Brandon will never acknowledge that he proposes to build a movement of Meatheads. But that’s not the worst problem. Benjamin Wetmore of The Gateway Pundit tells us that in fact, Adam Brandon told Politico a tissue of lies. FreedomWorks witnesses lay bare the lies Wetmore’s witnesses refer to FreedomWorks laying off 40 percent of its staff in March 2023. But that was not downsizing in response to donation dry-up, but an ideological purge of Trump supporters. In fact Brandon admitted that following Trump’s consistent political and moral philosophy would have drawn the donors. Instead he chose to embrace the climate change panic and the abortion culture. Brandon has wrung Non-Disclosure Agreements from all remaining staff. One ranking executive broke his, at least in spirit, by talking to Wetmore on background. Others identified themselves readily, almost proudly. All are thoroughly disgusted with Brandon, whom they consider a poor manager and a worse liar. Like Merissa Hamilton, former Grassroots Director, who said: The Politico story is simply not true. The collapse of FreedomWorks wasn’t a rift between MAGA and non-MAGA; it was colossal bad management by CEO Adam Brandon who created a toxic internal culture and who doesn’t understand voters or donors. Or the background source: This was an organizational suicide. Big donors and an Anti-Trump board made this all happen on purpose…. Adam Brandon and his allies willfully orchestrated the means to end this organization. Adam had his priorities the entire time on starting another organization to succeed FreedomWorks, spent money on frivolous things, alienated donors, took money from the wrong donors, and alienated our grassroots networks. Adam’s been fleecing FreedomWorks from 2022 to present to build a parallel organization. From the same source: The prostitution for big donors at FreedomWorks and in many conservative groups, regardless of what they believe, was just staggering. It’s just disgusting. It’s all about whoring yourself out for the money. It doesn’t matter what the small donors say, they just cater to big donors who are obsessed with Nikki Haley. The source also cited several instances of poor financial decisions. Worst of all was hiring an inexperienced person to take charge of fundraising. Other bad decisions included overpaying for short telephone lists, and spending money on anti-Trump activism – under false pretenses. Brandon told Politico he plans to found a new organization. The disgruntled insiders told Wetmore that he wanted to shut down FreedomWorks to transfer its assets to the new group. This group, with the working name Center for Independence, will use the leftist-oriented ChatGPT, plus a home-developed A.I. entity, to reach out to black Americans on “libertarian principles.” Shortchanging of staff And those 25 employees remaining? Politico said they will receive salary and health benefits for an unspecified time. If FreedomWorks follows the usual procedure on severance, that could amount to six months. But many have reimbursements due them – reimbursements that, according to Wetmore’s witnesses, they will likely never receive. Analysis FreedomWorks, under Adam Brandon’s leadership, has veered left. Last winter, Adam Brandon published another essay to RCP to extol the virtues of “the independent voter.” He spoke eloquently – but facilely – of “working both sides of the aisle.” This closing statement was downright insulting: The candidate who shows they are up for the challenge of rejecting extremism, reaching across the aisle, and having adult conversations with these voters can win. Adult conversations? That implies that those who hold to principles, and know which principles do not allow compromise, are not talking on an adult level. Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Sen. Barry M. Goldwater (R-Ariz.) It’s facile to observe that Goldwater lost. But Trump, copying Goldwater, won in 2016 and, properly speaking, in 2020. He will win again, for the same reason Richard M. Nixon won: There’s a riot going on – Student Demonstration Time! The Beach Boys And taking money under false pretenses is no way to win. Nor is appealing to youth just because they are youth, and assuming that those youth will never grow up. Again, some won’t. But most will. And it ill befits any conservative organization to sing the Lost Boys’ I Won’t Grow Up number from Peter Pan. That, even more than financial mismanagement – or ideological embezzlement – is FreedomWorks’ worst sin. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/10/news/freedomworks-cross-purposes-lies/ Multiple FreedomWorks and FreedomWorks for America links: https://www.freedomworks.org/ https://freedomworksforamerica.org/ https://www.youtube.com/c/FreedomWorksMedia https://foundation.freedomworks.org/ https://www.freedomworks.org/about/ https://www.freedomworks.org/news/ https://www.freedomworks.org/american-debt-crisis-tour-join/ https://www.freedomworks.org/join/ https://www.freedomworks.org/about/contact/ OpenSecrets profile on FreedomWorks: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/freedomworks/summary?id=D000045970 The Beach Boys’ Student Demonstration Time video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gX_KAXT_60 Letter to Donors and Staff: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000018a-8b33-dd5e-abfe-8bf342880000 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

COVID narrative – retraction begins By Terry A. Hurlbut Two years and five months ago, CNAV observed that the COVID narrative – concerning the Corona Virus Disease of 2019 – had unraveled to the point at which no one had any further reason to believe it. The past week has seen partial retraction of that narrative – including the withdrawal of a vaccine from the market. Many are still trying to keep the narrative alive. These people are weeping and gnashing their teeth with every new admission of its basic falsity. As the World Health Organization tries to scare “member States” into ratifying the first instrument of one-world government – the Pandemic Treaty – these retractions couldn’t have come at a worse time. Cracks in the COVID narrative Two medical reporters for The New York Times, last Friday, made the first admissions that COVID vaccines injure people. Apoorva Mandavilli actually covered the vaccine-injury idea. Beginning in 2021, she’d built up a record as a propagandist who could have learned from Goebbels. This record included: • Calling any discussion of the Lab Leak Theory of coronaviruses “racist,” and • Suggesting that children could spread COVID like wildfire if schools did not close. The spectacle of her even admitting that vaccines can cause injury – significant in numbers as well as effect – shocked the scientific establishment. While Alex Berenson expresses extreme skepticism that she was actually telling the truth for once, vaccine advocates are howling with outrage. “Where did The New York Times and Apoorva Mandavilli go wrong?” asked one anguished vax advocate. And that for merely asking a question, and not even making a definitive statement. At Vaxopedia, their staff are claiming that vaccines saved 20 million lives in 2021 alone. Naturally, they present no evidence. David Leonhardt likewise merely asked the question. Then, apparently, he said the very notion of vaccine injuries made him uncomfortable. Why? Because he didn’t want those of us who know the truth about the COVID narrative to run with that. But give credit where it’s due. Two years ago he warned that children lost a year of learning, that they’ll never get back, during school closures. Last February he was clearly disenchanted with the COVID narrative even then. But he stuck with it. Details on vax injury On Monday (May 6) Steve Kirsch reported on a fresh analysis by Vinay Prasad, M.D., Professor of Epidemiology at the University of California at San Francisco. That analysis links the vaccines to myocarditis, pericarditis, Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, Landry-Guillain-Barré Syndrome, Bell’s Palsy, and other adverse effects. This repeats what people have known for years – including those who have lost friends and relatives and associates. Kirsch nevertheless castigates Dr. Prasad for missing evidence that shows that the problem is worse than he says. Not all the news is dire. Also on Monday, Liberty One News posted an article listing nine vitamins and minerals that can stave off COVID infection. They include Vitamins A, B (the full complex), C, D, E, and K, plus calcium, iron and zinc. Any American should recognize zinc as a near-universal antiviral. One can find it in preparations effective against the common cold (zinc gluconate) and common respiratory allergies (zinc acetate). But yesterday brought four devastating revelations, from Jim Hoft at The Gateway Pundit: House Oversight’s COVID Subcommittee released documents saying the State Department knew the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. They knew it in July 2020, and covered it up. (So much for trusting Mike Pompeo!) https://twitter.com/JoeKhalilTV/status/1787983136338391255 https://twitter.com/COVIDSelect/status/1787980593164058743 Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) admitted his administration acted without authority to impose COVID mandates. https://twitter.com/EricAbbenante/status/1787990343780061424 His brother Chris takes ivermectin, after scorning it. https://twitter.com/mazemoore/status/1788208724168859959 And: AstraZeneca withdrew its COVID vaccine from all worldwide markets, after admitting in court that their vaccine produces blood microclots. Where do the injured and the censored go for relief? The obvious question arises: where do those who: 1. Took the vaccine and suffered injury from it, 2. Lost their livelihoods and in some cases their liberties for refusing to take the vaccine, and 3. Lost reputation, reach and revenue because Big Tech refused content that promoted “vaccine anxiety” apply for judicial or other kinds of relief? The AstraZeneca story is most telling. Last month they had to admit that their preparation could cause a micro-clotting syndrome in people’s brains. https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1784689422174195822 https://twitter.com/PeterSweden7/status/1784944607085686934 This effect is called Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS), and was called Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura decades ago. BBC Presenter Lisa Shaw famously took the AstraZeneca vaccine, to be a Model Global Citizen. Then she died – and came to autopsy. The Final Anatomical Diagnosis included findings classic for TTS. At first everything suggested that the COVID vaccine was a death lottery. Then Dr. Michael Yeadon boldly asserted that the vaccines were weapons of mass murder. The “pandemic” had not been more than a few months old when a certain dog didn’t bark. Where were the diener squads, driving their meat wagons down residential streets, brap-brapping their sirens and blaring out on public-address circuits, “Bring out your dead!”? That never happened – not in the United States nor in any other country, except perhaps China. The deaths came afterward – from the vaccine. COVID-19 was never more than one percent case-fatal at any time. Discrediting the COVID narrative at an opportune moment The World Health Assembly, the legislative arm of the World Health Organization, will take up the Pandemic Treaty this June. Seven days ago, the entire Senate Republican Conference sent a letter to the Biden administration warning essentially of two things: 1. The Pandemic Treaty as drafted is a threat to the national sovereignty of the United States and other “Member States.” As such the administration should withdraw all support from it. Failing that, the Biden administration should remember that: 2. This is a treaty, within the meaning of Article II Section 2 of the Constitution. As such it requires the advice, consent, and concurrence of two-thirds of the Senators present to take U.S. domestic effect. After the Senators sent that letter, key players in the COVID narrative started changing their stories. And, in one memorable case, withdrawing a vaccine from the market. What needs to happen next is: 1. A full investigation establishing the true origins of COVID-19. CNAV believes such an investigation will find that the virus began in a laboratory either in North Carolina or Ukraine. It then came to full form at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Then something went wrong – perhaps with WIV staff selling dead laboratory animals to the local food markets. And: 2. Re-examination and re-investigation of every vaccine now on the market, and the rationale for it. Do we need vaccines at all? For centuries the Western world especially has built shrines to Saints Edward (Jenner), Jonas (Salk), and Albert (Sabin). To say nothing of singing heroic-style ballads to Sir Gunnar Kasson, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Iditarod, and his lead sled dog Balto, who get the credit for saving twenty-three lives (give or take one) from an outbreak of diphtheria in Nome, Alaska. That last was an example of artificial passive, not active, acquired immunity. (Kasson delivered a shipment of diphtheria antitoxin, not a vaccine.) But the psychological damage was done, and no one can imagine sending a child to school without The Childhood Vaccines. That’s because no one thought about strengthening the immune system in other ways, or the benefits of far simpler substances. Those nine vitamins and minerals likely confer benefits beyond COVID-19. More to the point, the possibility that better sanitation broke the Great Polio Epidemic has never seen any investigation. Every year millions of parents shell out billions of dollars for vaccines against every disease under the sun, it seems. What if, worse than wasting that money, they are risking worse side effects to no good purpose? And what if the WHO Treaty is in fact the final element in a centuries-old plan for one-world government? That surely bears investigation. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/09/news/covid-narrative-retraction-begins/ Discussion of David Leonhardt’s attitude at SUNY-Syracuse: https://resources.newhouse.syr.edu/awards/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2023/02/leonhardt-NYMag.pdf Posts describing State Department documents revealing the Lab Leak Cover-up: https://twitter.com/JoeKhalilTV/status/1787983136338391255 https://twitter.com/COVIDSelect/status/1787980593164058743 Video: Andrew Cuomo admits governors lack authority: https://twitter.com/EricAbbenante/status/1787990343780061424 Video: Chris Cuomo admits taking ivermectin: https://twitter.com/EricAbbenante/status/1787990343780061424 Posts about the AstraZeneca withdrawal: https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1784689422174195822 https://twitter.com/PeterSweden7/status/1784944607085686934 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

The Boy Scouts are no more By Terry A. Hurlbut Yesterday came the final announcement that the Boy Scouts of America, as your editor knew it, has now died. In its place is a bastardized outfit calling itself Scouting America, which pours contempt upon Scouting’s former ideals. That same elite who wants depopulation enticed the Boy Scouts to permit the “unnatural acts” which God forbids. For this gross and blatant violation of Point Twelve of the Scout Law, God visited bankruptcy on the organization. Now, with a misguided emphasis on building membership at the expense of ideals, Scouting America has embraced Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – in a word, Woke-ism. But God is as Providential as He is Just – meaning that an alternative exists, and has existed for a few decades. History of the Boy Scouts Contrary to popular belief, Scouting began spontaneously when boys, and then girls, made a bestseller of a military training manual for the British Army. Robert Baden-Powell, afterwards Baron Baden-Powell, wrote Aids to Scouting for Non-commissioned Officers and Men in 1899. Upon his return from the Boer Wars, Baden-Powell found that his manual had captured the imagination of boys. So well did boys love it that several youth organizations were using it for training. So Baden-Powell rewrote this manual for boys, and in 1907 held a camp to test the practicality of his ideas. Twenty boys showed up, and the experiment was, by all accounts, a success. In 1908 Baden-Powell published Scouting for Boys in six installments. Scouting, properly speaking, began with that work. Then in 1909, an American named William D. Boyce traveled to London and got lost in its notorious fog. One of Baden-Powell’s Scouts helped him find his way, then refused a tip from him. “I am a Scout,” he said, “and Scouts do not accept gratuities for courtesy or good turns.” Boyce, curious, asked this “Unknown Scout” for details, and eventually accompanied the boy to Scout Headquarters. He never got the boy’s name (hence “Unknown Scout”), but he met Baden-Powell and from him learned the really salient details. Returning to America, Boyce founded what became the Boy Scouts of America, or BSA. Incidentally they memorialized that Unknown Scout with a prominent plaque. Divisions In its beginning, the BSA had three divisions. Cub Scouts included boys from ages five through ten. Originally, Boy Scouts included boys from ages 11 through 18 inclusive. Explorers was available from ages 14 through 21; it was called Venturing at the time of the bankruptcy. The BSA also had Sea Scouting, an Explorer-like program focusing on nautical and maritime activities. The age ranges for Boy Scouts and Explorers, of course, depended on the “old” age of majority of 21. Perhaps the Explorers, or Venturers, started to die out after America’s legislatures ratified Amendment XXVI, which lowered the voting age to 18. From that time forward, anyone 18 or older was considered an adult. Precepts Your editor joined the Boy Scouts at the age of 11 and stayed in it to become an Eagle Scout. As such he knows first-hand the precepts and tenets of Scouting. They are the: Scout Oath, with its three points: duty to God and country, duty to other people, and duty to self. But that duty to self specifically focused on physical, mental, and moral fitness. On my honor, I will do my best: To do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the Scout Law, To help other people at all times, and To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight. “Scout’s Honor” became a byword, and still was when your editor was part of Scouting. Scouting reinforced this Oath with the classic hand gesture, the Scout Sign. The three middle fingers, extended, stand for the three points. Thumb and little finger, arched over the palm, signify the binding nature of the Oath. This Sign is also part of the Scout Salute. One executes this exactly like a regular American military salute, except with the right hand forming the Scout Sign. Likewise the Scout Handshake – with the left hand, close to the heart – features three extended fingers. Scout Law, with its twelve points. Any Scout learned to recite those points as follows: A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. Scout Motto: “Be Prepared.” A Scout must prepare for any contingency, not only in camp (a regular activity) but in “regular” life. Scout Slogan: “Do a Good Turn Daily.” A commitment to a daily favor to at least one person, accustomed a Scout to do such minor favors frequently and as a part of good civil life. The education program of the Boy Scouts The Boy Scouts was a comprehensive extracurricular education program for boys. Scouting had an organizational structure that included: • Patrols (with fellow Scouts to lead them), • Troops (with both adult and “junior” leaders), and • Councils, that Scouting organized by region. It had a rank structure that originally had six ranks. (Scouting added another introductory “Scout” rank in the early Seventies.) The six ranks, and the required skills to attain each, were: Tenderfoot: precepts of Scouting as above, plus knot-tying and other elementary woodcraft skills. Second Class: hiking skills, from endurance to intelligent choice of supplies to mapmaking, trailing, tracking, and even stalking. Second Class Scouts also received an introductdion to first aid, which emphasized the “Hurry Cases”: external hemorrhage, pulmonary arrest (later cardio-pulmonary arrest), and internal poisoning. First Class: camping skills, from packing, carrying a backpack, making and striking camp, to cooking and “camp policing.” A Scout always learned to leave nature better than he found it. The Boy Scout Handbook included this couplet: Let no one say, and say it to your shame, / that all was beauty here until you came. A First Class Scout got his introduction to Merit Badges, awarded for mastering skills in about a hundred skill sets. These varied from essential outdoor skills to hobbies and household skills and thus gave Boy Scouts ample opportunities for excellence. The Advancement Trail to Eagle A Scout would then progress through three more ranks: Star Scout, Life Scout, and Eagle Scout. To achieve each rank, the Scout had to earn a certain number of merit badges, serve as a troop officer, and perform some kind of community or environmental service. The merit badge numbers were five for Star, ten for Life, and twenty-one for Eagle. Scouting required eleven specific merit badges of all who hoped to become Eagle Scouts. They were: • Camping, • Citizenship in the Community, • Citizenship in the Nation, • Conservation of Natural Resources, • Cooking, • First Aid, • Lifesaving (in the water), • Nature, • Personal Fitness, • Safety, and • Swimming. Troop officerships usually had to last for three months – except that rising Eagle Scouts needed to serve for six months. Community service projects needed to have ever higher levels of sophistication and effort. A typical Eagle Scout service project could easily occupy an entire summer, or longer. (Your editor collected used uniforms and equipment for donation to inner-city troops in his city.) Troops held at least three kinds of awards ceremonies: • Investiture, to induct new Scouts, • Court of Honor, to award merit badges and recognize most rank advancement, and • Eagle Scout Court of Honor, to recognize new Eagle Scouts. An Eagle Scout didn’t have to stop earning merit badges. Scouting created the Eagle Palms to recognize Scouts who earned merit badges beyond the twenty-one required of an Eagle Scout. The Order of the Arrow In your editor’s day, Scouting had the Order of the Arrow. Members of a Scout’s troop would regularly nominate those of their fellows whom they considered the best fellow Scouts they would want to have in their camp, for safety or other reasons. Then at a multiple-troop gathering, often in a Council summer camp, several burly Order members, dressed in Native American costume, would snatch a nominee out of his seat and hustle him to the front of the assembly. There the brawniest member of the Order would tap him three times on the shoulder. Order members would march them off to inform them of plans for the next requirement: the Ordeal. This was a twenty-four-hour experience of the most rigorous camping imaginable – with one meal consisting of bread and water. Ordeal participants typically would clear a forest of deadwood or perform another such task. If someone went through Scouting and never “made Order of the Arrow,” he could, as an Adult Scouter, stand for nomination again. Many Assistant Scoutmasters entered the Order of the Arrow that way. (A Scoutmaster led a troop, and would have any number of Assistants – all called Adult Scouters.) indeed, your editor witnessed father and son entering the Order on the same occasion. The unraveling In the later years of the Boy Scouts of America, that organization neglected to “vet” its Adult Scouters as carefully as they should have. Consequently, several men with Alphabet Soup – and pedophilic – bents entered the program. And they took advantage of the Scouts in their troop, in camp. That created a national scandal, despite a Supreme Court ruling that the BSA could set whatever leadership criteria they wished. Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, 530 U.S. 640 (2000). The BSA, beginning in 2012, made a series of disastrous decisions, including: • Allowing adult males with Alphabet Soup tendencies to become Adult Scouters, therefore Scoutmasters and Assistant Scoutmasters, • Similarly allowing Alphabet Soup youth to join, and • Admitting girls to their ranks, this although girls had a Girl Scouts organization they could join just as well. In 2018, the BSA went bankrupt, or nearly so, as parents took their boys out or refused to enroll them. Now emerging from bankruptcy, the organization has changed its name. It will now call itself Scouting America, beginning February 8, 2025 – the 115th anniversary of its founding. This will not save the organization, and will now add disgrace to insolvency. What part of “A Scout is reverent” the leadership fails to understand, is beyond the comprehension of this Eagle Scout. Be not deceived; God is not mocked. Galatians 6:7 An alternative to the Boy Scouts Again, God is as Providential as He is Just and Uncompromising. Since 1940, an alternative organization has existed: the Christian Service Brigade. Joseph “Uncle Joe” Coughlin founded it then, after three years of taking boys on camping trips and inspiring other adult male leaders to do the same. Christian Service Brigade serves churches and the boys who go to them, It has four levels of membership, in order of increasing age: • Tree Climbers, for Grades K-2, • Stockade, for Grades 3-6, • Battalion, for Grades 7 up to high school seniors, and • The Herald of Christ program, mainly a internship program for young adult males, though older adults may also participate. Some describe Heralds of Christ as the counterpart to Eagle Scouts. The original Scouting movement invited boys of all faiths – though one of the disastrous BSA decisions was to admit atheists and agnostics, too. But Christian Service Brigade is for Christians only. Perhaps on that account, CSB will never made the kind of disastrous decisions that undid the Boy Scouts of America. Scouting once had another unofficial motto: “once a Scout, always a Scout.” Sadly, those of us who did Scouting in the old days are now Scouts without an outfit. Christian Service Brigades have not – yet – announced a program to “transition” Boy Scout Troops into CSB Brigade units. Perhaps they should, for the sake of the boys, and the country. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/08/editorial/talk/boy-scouts-no-more/ Boy Scouts v. Dale case: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/530/640/ Christian Service Brigade Home: https://csbministries.org/ Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Rafah incursion under way By Terry A. Hurlbut The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are finally moving into the last redoubt of the Gazan army, otherwise known as the Islamic Resistance Movement (Arabic Harakah al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmiyyah, abbreviated HAMAS). With this incursion into the border city of Rafah, Israel hopes to bring the Fourth Arab-Israeli War to an end. From every pronouncement the Israeli War Cabinet is making, they seek the only possible honorable end: total victory. The Gentile world already is weeping and gnashing its collective teeth over “civilian” casualties. But in fact the only true civilians are the children – and these children are suffering from a mass paranoid personality disorder that their parents carefully taught them. One can only hope this will be the last chapter in the worst mass child-abuse case the human race has ever known. Timeline to Rafah On Sunday (May 5), HAMAS apparently launched rockets from Rafah into the Kerem Shalom crossing, according to Reuters. That crossing was then closed, though other crossings remained open. Three IDF soldiers died in that attack, of which HAMAS explicitly boasted. Reuters also said that cease-fire talks were taking place in Cairo at that time. In the article describing the rocket attack, Reuters spoke of “hopes dim[ming]” for a cease-fire. An immediate cease-fire has been the consistent demand of Gentile (and some Jewish) demonstrators in the United States and elsewhere, almost since the war began. Reuters estimated that more than a million Palestinians were “sheltering” in the city at time of writing. Also on Sunday afternoon, according to Axios, the Biden administration cut off ammunition supplies to Israel. This evidently violates the Impoundment Control Act. https://twitter.com/Bonnie_Glick/status/1787181502783975843 The intent had been to forestall any ground invasion of Rafah – and also to appease part of Biden’s base. In fact those protesting on college campuses against Israel’s actions – and indeed very existence – were already indicating that they would sit out the election. That goes for the bulk of the Muslim contingent in Minnesota, Michigan, and several other States. In fact, disdain for “Resident” Biden is the one thing that unites patriot and HAMAS sympathizer alike. Sunday was also Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the occasion to make a stark pronouncement. https://twitter.com/IsraeliPM/status/1787121526325551391 Distractions? Also on Sunday, Leo Hohmann reported that thirty-five Republican U.S. Senators signed a letter of protest against another Biden administration idea – to allow hundreds of thousands of “Palestinians” to take “refuge” in the United States. These Senators raised the obvious concern about terrorist connections. Also yesterday, Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit revealed that Bill Burns, Director of Central Intelligence, guaranteed to HAMAS that the administration would force Israel to accept any cease-fire. Caroline Glick actually accused Burns of that on Saturday. https://twitter.com/CarolineGlick/status/1786887496581644555 Then came this piece of news that might in fact have been a distraction: HAMAS said they agreed to a cease-fire. https://twitter.com/AviMayer/status/1787534566426558493 Apparently Egyptian and Qatari diplomats worked this out and got HAMAS to accept it. So said accounts at the time. But that agreement gave no guarantees whatsoever about the release of hostages. The best estimates have HAMAS still holding 100 or more living hostages from its October 7 attack. (This morning, HAMAS admitted that several of those hostages are now dead.) https://twitter.com/AviMayer/status/1787821763386122576 Peace demonstrators in Israel itself marched to demand that Netanyahu accept the terms. Instead the War Cabinet, by unanimous vote, decided to continue its bombardment of Rafah. https://twitter.com/AviHyman/status/1787571225423683805 In that message, Israel said it would send more mediators. But according to Politico, they already ordered all within a “Red Zone” to evacuate it immediately. About 100,000 people were still in that zone at the time. Moving into Rafah That last announcement had a “last edit” timestamp of 3:52 p.m. EDT, which would be 10:52 p.m. Israel Summer Time. In fact the IDF was already moving in. https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1787562636839735661 These posts contain footage and dispatches from the front: https://twitter.com/EyeonPalestine/status/1787558736304787505 https://twitter.com/MOSSADil/status/1787564589128839517 An announcement by American Family Radio host Tony Perkins of Washington Watch, aired beginning at 5:00 p.m. EDT, created confusion. He said the Israelis had accepted the cease-fire, when obviously they did not. The operation was already well under way when his program aired – but perhaps, as happens often, Perkins “taped” it earlier. Politico estimates that 1.1 million people, half of them children, remained in Rafah when the ground incursion began. The IDF blared out specific instructions of where people could go to stay out of harm’s way. At last report IDF elements had gained control of a crossing in East Rafah and were attacking specific spots where HAMAS elements were to be found. The report did not name the crossing but suggested this was the very staging area for Sunday’s rocket attack. Yet in the face of this, HAMAS has not suspended cease-fire talks. That, according to Tsionizm, is how it’s done in the Middle East. This is an important fact. The military pressure serves the Israeli negotiator. Negotiations under fire. This is how negotiations are done in the Middle East. The importance here is also in visibility. Israel takes initiative and action and does not play into the hands of Hamas, in negotiations from a position of weakness. What this means Obviously Israel knows that the only way to win is to win totally. This was the way in the era of the Shoftim – the “Judges” – and this is the way today. Israel also knows that the rest of the world will never sympathize with them. To suggest that the world is simply concerned with minimizing civilian casualties, is to overlook several key facts. First, ill-natured people will always find an excuse. Antisemitism has come out into the open since October 7, 2023. Sadly, even the conservative coalition has its share of antisemites, who insist that Israel is more trouble than it’s worth. They will seize on any “civilian casualty” figure, ignoring its source – which is the Gaza “Health Ministry,” which is to say, the HAMAS Medical Corps. Beyond that, this Jewish student at the University of Michigan starkly reminded a HAMAS sympathizer with just what she was sympathizing. https://twitter.com/TJVNEWS/status/1787247062435668169 … I hope all your people know you’re supporting terrorists. You’re supporting the genocide of Jews. You’re supporting raping women. You’re supporting killing babies and putting them in ovens. You’re just like Hitler. I hope all of you know that. Second, the concept civilian properly applies only to the children. Ninety-nine percent of adults not under arms in Gaza believe in all of HAMAS’ stated aims. Those aims include wiping every Jew from the face of this Earth. Many of these not-under-arms adults accompanied HAMAS elements into the Negev as irregulars on October 7. Third, HAMAS controls the education system in Gaza, in addition to acting as its army. HAMAS schools – and apparently every parent – teach their children to hate Jews, and not even regard them as human. Teaching children to hate You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear, / You’ve got to be taught from year to year, / It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear—You’ve got to be carefully taught! You’ve got to be taught to be afraid / Of people whose eyes are oddly made, / And people whose skin is a different shade—You’ve got to be carefully taught. You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late, / Before you are six or seven or eight, / To hate all the people your relatives hate—You’ve got to be carefully taught! Lt. John Cable USMC, in South Pacific And as Rodgers and Hammerstein might have been aghast to observe, those Gazans have “carefully taught” their children to hate. That is how HAMAS can recruit one generation after another. That’s how they had so many spies even before October 7, many of whom took part as the second wave. And that’s how they maintained their hold though seven months of siege and invasion. Israel seeks to destroy the ability of HAMAS to make war, or even to govern. But rehabilitating the adults might prove impossible. Only the children deserve any sympathy at all – and how to handle them, given the ideological poison their parents have absorbed, will prove the greatest challenge. And once again, Israel can expect no help from the outside world – because that outside world, deep down where it counts, hates the Jews almost as badly as HAMAS does. The last of the prophets, especially Zechariah, warned of that very thing. We are seeing that warning fulfill itself today. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/07/editorial/talk/rafah-incursion-under-way/ Statement about violation of the Impoundment Control Act: https://twitter.com/Bonnie_Glick/status/1787181502783975843 Netanyahu’s pronouncement on Holocaust Remembrance Day: https://twitter.com/IsraeliPM/status/1787121526325551391 Letter of Protest by 35 Senators: https://www.ernst.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/gazan_refugees_letter.pdf Caroline Glick’s accusation that Biden’s DCI guaranteed a cease-fire to HAMAS: https://twitter.com/CarolineGlick/status/1786887496581644555 Report: HAMAS “agrees” to a cease-fire: https://twitter.com/AviMayer/status/1787534566426558493 Report: some hostages are dead: https://twitter.com/AviMayer/status/1787821763386122576 War Cabinet says: go anyway. https://twitter.com/AviHyman/status/1787571225423683805 IDF announces: we’re moving in https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1787562636839735661 Dispatches and video from the front: https://twitter.com/EyeonPalestine/status/1787558736304787505 https://twitter.com/MOSSADil/status/1787564589128839517 Sympathizing with atrocity: https://twitter.com/TJVNEWS/status/1787247062435668169 You’ve Got to be Taught to Hate song: https://rodgersandhammerstein.com/song/south-pacific/youve-got-to-be-carefully-taught/ Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

The Great College Suckerpunch By Terry A. Hurlbut When one person punches another totally without warning – often in mid-sentence – he has just delivered a suckerpunch. The suckerpunch is also a metaphor for a confidence trick, typically one that leaves the “mark” (i.e., victim) penniless. And the global and academic left has turned college into a great suckerpunch for most of its students. Once, a wise student could get value out of college by majoring in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Even that has become doubtful today – and this was never true of most other majors. In point of fact, college today has become a laboratory of indoctrination, promising the student a future the powers-that-be never intended to deliver. What was college supposed to provide? Jane Pauley once recorded some video clips for Intuit’s Quicken program, offering financial advice. Her most memorable advice (other than “What you don’t see, you can’t spend”) concerned the three reasons to borrow money: 1. Go to school, 2. Start a business, 3. Buy a house. “School” meant college or university, on the theory that one borrowed against future income. That might have applied thirty years ago when she said that – but not today. In fact the cracks were already starting to appear in the Seventies, with students graduating with useless degrees. Useless, that is, in the non-academic job market – while academic careers were closed to them. Many students failed to realize that major tracks in humanities (including languages) and social sciences were literal pyramid schemes. One would major in, say, history, and go on to pursue graduate studies in that discipline. They hoped to earn their Ph.D. and parlay that into a professorship. But academic positions can never accommodate all the undergraduates who major in their disciplines! A lucky few would get those professorships. A few slightly less lucky students would become museum curators. As to the rest, the academic system dumped them onto the non-academic job market with no marketable skills. They might as well have gone to trade school and learned how to do something useful. Instead they’ll be lucky to become the ditchdiggers their parents scornfully told them they’d wind up becoming. How one once could get real value from college About five years ago, CNAV warned of this problem, back when Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was promising the moon in forcing taxpayers to assume and repay student loans. (That’s the very thing “Resident” Biden is now doing, in a desperate – and illegal – bid to buy student votes.) As we said then, the most cost-effective way to use a college education is to: 1. Excel in your science and math classes (and other major areas, too) and earn advanced standing. Which means: acceleration credit when you reach college. 2. Major in STEM. 3. Cash in your acceleration credits and get your degree in three years, not four. And at some institutions, take advantage of combined-degree programs. You will save twenty-five percent of the cost of a bachelor’s degree. More than that, you will save time. Then you can get the high-paying job that will pay off your student loan in record time. Beyond STEM, degrees in political science might prepare someone for law school. But law school has its own problems, as this analysis will cover shortly. For now, let this suffice: law schools typically turn out more graduates than can actually make careers in law. That has been a problem for decades. So what do law graduates, or other poli-sci graduates, do instead? Find a Big Cheese Political Donor and run for the House of Representatives. Or “ace” an audition for a leftist political candidacy, as Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cartez (D-N.Y.) famously did. The Marxist infiltration Which brings us to the worst problem with college today, especially in America but also throughout the Western world. Karl Marx, of course, bequeathed his intellectual poison to a cadre of people who resented the boss-employee system of the Industrial Revolution. They regarded this as no different from the lord-serf – or master-slave – relationship. Why, they asked, should anyone other than a “democratically” chosen public leader direct great projects, or the feeding, watering, clothing, and sheltering of the subjects of a civilization? And by democratic they didn’t necessarily mean by election. As in the old Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, it could mean co-optation from among loyal Party members. And the mission of the Party was simple: to make New Man, that would serve with a public spirit, without fretting about his “reward.” The Bolsheviks in Russia succeeded in organizing the peasants and the factory workers – and promised a Union of Peasants and Workers to run society. Such is the origin of the classic hammer-and-sickle symbol of Communism. Communist intellectuals tried the same thing in the United States and throughout the Western world. They achieved only a temporary success in creating a militant – often violent – labor union movement. From labor to college Two things stopped them: 1. People still dreamed of being rich, not of becoming New Man and joining a New Society. 2. A madman took their socialist message and gave it a German nationalistic flavor. He then directly attacked the country that meant Communism in that day – the Soviet Union – while also attacking the rest of the Western world. Fortunately for something called Russia, Generalya Zima – General Winter – saved Russia, as “she” had when Napoleon attacked. But after the war, Westerners were more interested in prospering than in leveling society. Eventually even the most militant labor unions elected anti-Communist leaders. So the Communists turned their attention to the colleges and universities. The first Great Student Riots, by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Youth International Party (Yippies), and others, resulted. Within eight years a cadre of tenured radicals had taken over most university departments. And also the law schools, with a theory called Critical Legal Studies, that says all law is politics. But not all departments succumbed to this influence. STEM departments resisted such change, because STEM is about hard, uncompromising reality. Even mathematics, the most abstract of the STEM disciplines, must remain consistent to be useful. Extensions like “the Imaginary Unit” (the square root of minus one) survived because they had real-world benefits. Engineers appreciated the boon that “complex numbers” gave to sinusoidal analysis, once an important part of electronic design. (Complex numbers are sums of real numbers and multiples of the Imaginary Unit.) Outworking of the Marxist Influence But perhaps that concession of mathematics to the treatment of abstractions beyond reality proved a dangerous wedge. If even mathematics can go beyond reality, why not the rest of the “hard” sciences? How else to explain why academic hospitals have become laboratories for “mad scientists” like three infamous Victorian scientific villains? Viktor Frankenstein sought to “bestow animation on lifeless matter.” Henry Jekyll sought to work out the chemical basis for criminal behavior and ended up transforming himself into a criminal. Dr. Moreau (whose first name H. G. Wells never gave) sought to “humanize” wild animals. The ideologies of these admittedly fictional characters survives today as the impetus behind: 1. Genetically Modified Organisms now appearing as designer foodstuffs to replace traditional dietary staples, 2. Psychiatry now trying to assign a chemical or genetic basis to all bad behavior, and 3. The Transgender Ideology – or the notion that gender is fluid, therefore operationally meaningless. This has produced what amount to vivisections almost as gruesome as those that Wells described. Even that is a suckerpunch. GMO foodstuffs are non-nutritive and even poisonous. Psychiatry, having apologized for all bad behavior, can offer no specific cure. And no person, transforming himself into a herself or herself into a himself, will ever be fertile. Of course not – because that’s not the plan. The plan is for humanity to die out. Beyond biology and medicine – the political scam Beyond these horrors is a wider, more far-reaching confidence trick. College today, under the Marxist influence, insists that a command economy can still succeed. Command economy appeals to the same foolish question: why should a private industry leader undertake to provide “basic needs” to people, or to run great “wondrous” projects? The spectacle of Elon Musk running his own space program, intending to settle humans on other worlds as a hedge against an event like the Cataclysm (i.e. the Noachic Flood) is anathema to those who have taken over the college system today. Two reasons explain this. First, a private individual has no business running a space program. Second – again, That’s Not the Plan. The Plan is for humanity to die out. So what do these powers-that-be promise college students today? 1. Command economy can work; all the college community need to is figure out how. Then: 2. This command economy will have places for all the college students to become its commanders. This is the worst suckerpunch. Never mind that the command economy can never work beyond a simple nuclear family. (And even the nuclear family incentivizes its children to perform household chores, through the allowance system.) In fact, the elite have no plans to welcome all college students even as junior officers in the command economy. Instead they will commission Artificial Intelligences to handle low-level administrative tasks. Eventually they will write one Big AI to handle all production, distribution, rationing, and even the administration of justice. Cracks in the system But the system has already begun to crack. Not that the students have begun to realize that the ultimate goal is for all humanity (except the elite) to die out. That’s too abstract a concept for these students, thanks to the “dumbing down” of primary and secondary education. But many of student age have laid aside the false stigma against “people in trade.” They’re going to trade schools – and when they hear of Biden’s plan for taxpayer assumption of student loans, they are declaring their rebellion. They knew that college was a scam, or at least promised what common sense told them it couldn’t deliver. So now they will refuse their assent to the Biden Plan – by voting against him. Lately, those in charge of the Marxist model – which requires a dichotomy between oppressors and oppressed – revived student riots in the context of the most atrocious attack by one people against another since the Holocaust. In designating Jews as oppressors, they actually sided with those who committed an atrocity. Never mind those (including, sadly, Covenant Theologians, especially in the Catholic and Orthodox faiths) who now say that attack was a false-flag pseudo-operation. (Meaning that the Israel Defense Forces killed some of their own people to drum up sympathy.) The organizers (and financiers) of today’s answer to the SDS actually promoted sympathy with those who committed the atrocity. That has brought a countervailing movement on at least half the college campuses. The recent “Battle of Chapel Hill” provides a prize example. Looking ahead Six months ago came proof that college does not prepare students for work. This applies not only to subject-matter education but also to work-habit education. Furthermore, employers everywhere are warning students who take part in antisemitic demonstrations, that they need not apply. Even earlier came the realization that the College Board promotes “woke” ideology in its Advanced Placement course offerings. Thus far CNAV has seen no evidence that AP STEM courses suffer from such distortion – yet. All this to say that more responsible adults are finding out about the problem, and its scope. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) recently did what he hinted at doing more than a year ago. He has introduced the Classic Learning Test as an acceptable substitute for the College Board’s SAT (which once stood for Scholastic Aptitude Test but which now is a mere initialism). The CLT site gives details: Thanks to legislation passed in 2023, Florida students can use CLT scores to apply to Florida state universities, earn Bright Futures scholarships, satisfy graduation requirements, and earn dual credit. Florida state also funds all school districts to administer the CLT to 11th graders. With expanded options for admissions testing, Florida students now have greater opportunities to showcase their academic potential and reach their college goals. That’s a beginning. Furthermore, the CLT organizers list more than 250 colleges who now accept their scores. These don’t include the Ivy League. But today several employers are blacklisting the Ivy League anyway, given what’s happening on their campuses. Thus a Parallel Academy is already forming. That, and a more realistic expectation of what college can do for someone, will break the suckerpunch scam. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/06/editorial/talk/college-suckerpunch/ Classic Learning Test https://www.cltexam.com/ Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Trump is not a paranoiac after all By Terry A. Hurlbut The prevailing fashion, in the legacy media and (of course) on the political left, is to suggest that President Donald J. Trump is a dangerous would-be authoritarian. Part of that narrative is to suggest that he is a paranoiac – having delusions of grandeur and persecution. Both parts of that narrative are now failing. Voters across the land are changing their votes, in fresh appreciation that Donald Trump did “make America great again.” (One appreciates a good thing the most when one loses it – or someone else steals it or destroys it.) Now evidence is surfacing everywhere that the persecution of Trump was as real as his grandeur – or more real. That persecution should concern all Americans, not merely former Presidents and other public figures. What is a paranoiac? In clinical psychiatry, paranoiac means someone suffering from a relatively simple psychosis called paranoia vera. Classic paranoia vera includes overweening pride, and a tendency to blame every misfortune on the bad acts of others. A paranoiac will suspect deliberate manipulation of events most would attribute to “bad luck,” or selective application of the law. But the key to diagnosing paranoia requires proving – or merely assuming – that the assertions the paranoiac makes are incorrect. Perhaps he has invented for himself a life he does not lead. Or either he does not suffer the persecution of which he complains, or what he really suffers is the natural consequence of his own bad behavior. This behavior can vary from simple obnoxiousness to actual (and potentially provable) violations of the law. It can also include behavior that would convince a reasonable and prudent person that the subject presents a danger to himself and others, prompting said reasonable and prudent person to warn the appropriate authorities. But can the diagnosis remain valid when the assertions the subject makes, turn out to be correct? Suppose a sheriff serves someone with a foreclosure notice, for nonpayment of mortgage installments. Now suppose that, upon an investigation of an unrelated lead, a bank examiner finds that the loan officer handling this person’s loan, received the payments but never processed them. Now that would be just the sort of persecution of which a paranoiac would complain. And a real hazard exists that it might never come to light. The Donald Trump case New evidence involving Donald Trump’s troubles, now reveal a breathtaking conspiracy – or conspiracies – against him. This evidence first began surfacing in one of four criminal cases now pending against Donald Trump. United States v. Trump, Nauta, and Oliveira, 9:23-cr-80101-AMC. On April 22, the former president’s lawyers filed a motion to compel discovery. Before the day was out, Judge Aileen M. Cannon had ordered the unsealing of the first of several documents that team had filed under seal last year. They filed it under seal because – allegedly – classified documents are involved. The judge, having reviewed the documents, decided they should come out into the open. Those specific documents showed that the Biden White House had repeated conversations with Jack Smith, the special counsel investigating Trump. Furthermore, the White House was colluding with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to lay a trap for Trump. This concerns how Trump came to be in possession of certain records. He didn’t carry them all out of the White House on January 20. NARA sent him several boxes. Then came the Mar-a-Lago Raid, in which the FBI hoped to find those boxes missing. They were going to charge Trump with malicious destruction of official Archives. Unable to charge him with that, they charged him with unlawful possession – of documents they had placed into his hands. https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1782488864562565149 https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1782496686612402631 Julie Kelly, who dropped the above short thread, gave further details two days ago. Further evidence That was only the beginning. Judge Cannon unsealed more documents relating to why Smith indicted Waltine Nauta, the former president’s valet. A member of Smith’s team tried to suborn Nauta’s lawyer with promises of a judicial appointment. That member, or another member, also applied pressure on Nauta to “turn government’s evidence” against Trump. Neither ploy worked. On May 1, Judge Cannon dropped a hint that she would unseal documentary evidence that Judge Beryl Howell, who had been investigating the matter in Washington, D.C., ruled that another of Trump’s lawyers, Evan Corcoran, was not entitled to claim the attorney-client privilege. Judge Cannon has scheduled a “sealed telephonic conference” on this matter for May 8. https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1785746113703649563 https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1785754214087438510 Trump has now filed, not under seal, a motion to dismiss, alleging vindictive and selective prosecution. The voluminous unsealings now serve as supporting evidence. Trump’s motion runs to 27 pages, with 151 pages of additional exhibits. In it he cites retention and/or removal of classified documents by President Biden, former President Clinton, and seven others. (They include Sandy Berger, who famously removed documents in his socks.) https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1786142981264642224 https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1786143933690503661 On Friday came fresh revelations that White House and Special Counsel’s Office operatives were meeting in September 2021, plotting how to set Trump up. https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1786380401809748040 https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1786383754035888406 Incidentally, Ms. Kelly refers often to Jay Bratt, Smith’s lead prosecutor. He stands relatively short – only 5’2” tall – and displays his own symptoms of paranoid personality related to his short stature. Withholding of information from Trump – and disobedience of orders! Even that isn’t the worst revelation. Also on May 1, James O’Keefe released his first footage of interviews with Amjad Anton Fseisi, formerly of the CIA. He boasted that the Director of Central Intelligence, and the directors of several other “three-letter agencies,” conspired together never to brief President Trump on certain critical happenings around the world. O’Keefe released this very long-form post: https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1785782393414029738 Then he released this post revealing that the CIA fired Fseisi for talking too much. https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1785782753549582682 Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) angrily called for an immediate investigation. The next day, Trump himself gave an earful. https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1786071689899459011 Well, it’s shocking to see how stupid somebody can be. If this guy is for real, you[‘d] want to get rid of him. CIA, Central Intelligence Agency. This is not an intelligent guy to be openly talking to a woman [whom he just met] that walks up and starts asking him questions and talking that way. So he may be bragging or showing off to some young lady. I have no idea [what he] spoke, but I’d get rid of him real fast. If he’s for real, get rid of him. That last refers to the Classic O’Keefe M.O.: entice disclosures by using operatives who might appeal sexually to the subject. Yesterday morning, Jim Hoft (The Gateway Pundit) revealed findings of an April 10 hearing by the House Oversight Committee. They interviewed several National Guard officers – and a command sergeant major – concerning the January 6 Event. At issue is why the National Guard did not deploy to prevent any untowardness at the Capitol. These witnesses said the orders to stand down came from the Pentagon. Specifically, Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley ordered all military personnel to disobey the President and not send in the National Guard. The charitable explanation was that they expected Trump to order the Guard to stop the Congressional election-certification proceedings. But one must ask: did General Milley, like then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi and D.C. Mayor Bowser, want something to happen at the Capitol for which to blame Trump? Where is now the case for paranoia? A propos of the documents case, Christina Laila, Associated Editor at The Gateway Pundit, revealed that Jack Smith filed another motion before Judge Cannon that actually gets him into worse trouble. Waltine Nauta’s lawyers filed a motion for extension of a deadline Cannon had set for them. Nauta’s lawyer said the contents of some boxes of documents were “in a different order” than when originally scanned. In his response to that motion, Smith admitted that the FBI had moved some of the documents out of their original order in the boxes! His response then admits that this contradicts what the government originally told the Court. They said the boxes and documents were exactly as the FBI found them. And that’s not true! The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel previously understood and represented to the Court. See, e.g., 4/12/24 Hearing Tr. at 65 (Government responding to the Court’s question of whether the boxes were “in their original, intact form as seized” by stating “[t]hey are, with one exception; and that is that the classified documents have been removed and placeholders have been put in the documents”) https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1786532208334852584 Again, one cannot sustain a diagnosis of paranoia, or a finding of paranoid ideation, if the subject’s assertions prove correct. If “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” then that evidence is now available and incontrovertible. But the evidence covers more than the persecution of a President, both during and after his tenure in office. It covers willful interference with the President’s ability to discharge his powers and duties effectively. And it covers a separate act of outright mutiny. As such it proves that the Deep State exists, and had nefarious motives. This is worse than mutiny. It constitutes treason – levying war against the American people. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/05/editorial/talk/trump-not-paranoiac/ Documents case docket page: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67643393/united-states-v-trump/ Julie Kelly’s threads: https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1782488864562565149 https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1782496686612402631 https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1785746113703649563 https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1785754214087438510 https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1786142981264642224 https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1786143933690503661 https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1786380401809748040 https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1786383754035888406 Julie Kelly’s long-form article describing the revelations: https://cnav.news/2024/05/02/accountability/executive/white-house-early-involvement-trump-documents-case/ Unsealed motion to dismiss https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24630622-508-t-mtd-vindictive-selective-pros James O’Keefe’s posts: https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1785782393414029738 https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1785782753549582682 https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1786071689899459011 Response to Waltine Nauta’s motion for extension of time: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67490070/522/united-states-v-trump/ https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.522.0.pdf Tom Fitton’s post: https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1786532208334852584 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Censorship Industrial Complex redux By Terry A. Hurlbut Two days ago a key House subcommittee released a massive (881 pages!) report on social-media censorship in America. This subcommittee used the phrase Censorship Industrial Complex, a phrase they likely borrowed from Matt Taibbi, a star witness. But this report tells only half the story. That half perhaps is the half that would concern citizen legislators the more: the carrots and sticks the government used to threaten and otherwise coerce and induce various social-media companies to do their bidding. But they leave out the other half: why would these social-media companies give the White House the time of day? Why do they leave the redemption of social media to an eccentric billionaire, and an inveterate antisemitic conspiracy theorist? The answer could lie in Founding Father Benjamin Franklin’s characterization of politics as “the art of the possible.” The Censorship Industrial Complex concept Fourteen months ago, Matt Taibbi released his thread describing the Censorship Industrial Complex. On the day before (March 9, 2023), he and Mike Shellenberger had testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Regular readers will remember that Del. Stacy Plaskett (D-U.S.V.I.) called those men “direct threats to all who disagree with him.” Subcommittee (and Committee) Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) struck this prize example of projection from the record. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NLb9uWmLEk Even then, Taibbi accused Twitter of acting “more like a partner to government.” In fact he traced the activities of the Censorship Industrial Complex to 2020. That makes Twitter – the old Twitter, that is, before Elon Musk bought the company – guilty of election interference. Coercion is not the word for a company who puts in place the administration responsible for giving it unlawful orders. Collaboration is the real operative word. An argument that didn’t work for William Calley at My Lai; an argument that didn’t work for the Nazis at Nuremberg. Actor Kevin Pollack, as Lt. (jg) Sam Weinberg USNR, in A Few Good Men (1992) True enough, the orders came in 2020 from government agencies. Remember: the Deep State consists of hangers-on, “civil servants,” and putative law-enforcement agents who collectively act like a law unto themselves. The FBI and CIA were parts and parcels of this illicit process. And some of the user accounts they targeted, were telling obvious lies – like saying the election was postponed for a day. But how do we know the Deep State didn’t salt Twitter with those accounts? Why can’t that be yet another false-flag pseudo-operation? Their real mission Aaron Maté of Real Clear Investigations has definitively shown that Presidents Obama and Biden ran a secret war against Russia. They’re still running it, with Ukraine as their proxy, pawn, and money laundry. During the Trump years, the Deep State kept this war going and plotted to oust Trump at the earliest opportunity. But any tyrant running a war for his own twisted gain must employ censorship to hide the truth. So it is with this Censorship Industrial Complex. That’s why the Deep State gave Twitter Trust and Safety (“The Moderators”) the convenient fiction that Russia was running a sophisticated operation to wage an information (meaning a propaganda) war against the United States, and give (purely verbal and moral) aid and comfort to the putative enemy of the United States, the Russian Federation. The Framers of the Constitution knew that, if they weren’t careful, a would-be tyrant would accuse his opponents of treason. But they might not have anticipated the degree to which the modern tyrants Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and their minions would stretch the definition they gave. “To levy war” means to fight a kinetic war, with kinetic weapons. “Aid and comfort” must mean more than mere speech, because the First Amendment guarantees complete freedom of speech. Nevertheless we see the real mission of the Censorship Industrial Complex. And that is to continue its proxy war against Russia, and smear its opposition with a false attainder of treason. Latest Censorship Industrial Complex report Now the Weaponization Subcommittee has released a very large PDF file – too large for CNAV to host directly. https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1785743489747042791 Its Executive Summary – without which this report would be virtually incomprehensible – tells the tale. It begins with this email from a ranking officer at Meta (Facebook and Instagram): Just got off [an] hour long call with [Senior Advisor to President Biden] Andy Slavitt…. [H]e was outraged – not too strong of a word to describe his reaction – that we did not remove this post…. I countered that removing content like that would represent a significant incursion into traditional boundaries of free expression in the US but he replied that the post was directly comparing Covid vaccines to asbestos poisoning in a way which demonstrably inhibits confidence in Covid vaccines amongst those the Biden Administration is trying to reach. Sir Nick Clegg, Meta’s President of Global Affairs, former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, describing his efforts to explain the boundaries of the First Amendment to the Biden White House in April 2021. But of course the White House does not care about freedom of speech. They in fact argued for the continued authority to censor, in Murthy v. Missouri. https://rumble.com/v4ka6ar-supreme-court-divides-on-first-amendment.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 And when they did, at least one-third of the Supreme Court agreed with them! But part of their grounds for agreement is that the social media companies were free to refuse the government’s orders. Jordan’s Weaponization Subcommittee staff chose to dispute that, and lay the blame squarely on the Biden administration. The Executive Summary seems to focus on the COVID-19 “wild origin” narrative and vaccines. As “disastrous” as these things are, the proxy war with Russia is worse. At least neither virus nor vaccine will kill someone through spontaneous nuclear combustion. The Executive Summary goes on to accuse the White House of pressuring social-media companies to: • Change their content moderation policies to suit the government, • Remove true, satirical, and other perfectly legitimate content, and • Chill any further discussion on the “sensitive subjects” of White House interest. What threats could they make? Furthermore, they had credible policy threats to make, and thus a means of coercion. Nor did they limit themselves to social media. They pressured Amazon, the leading (indeed, the cartel leading) bookseller, to de-list books. Any book the Biden administration (or before them, the Deep State) considered sensitive, would lose promotion or even its listing. The report cites “internal email” apparently from Amazon staff, complaining of “pressure” from “the Biden people.” This applied, according to the report, mainly to books challenging the coronavirus and vaccine narratives. As was the case with Facebook’s Nick Clegg, Andy Slavitt got the blame for applying the “pressure.” If half the allegations about Slavitt are accurate, he imperiously did not care what Amazon’s customers wanted. And he wanted Amazon to stop caring as well. But the report says absolutely nothing about any communication with Amazon’s Department (or Office) of General Counsel. And opf course the public is hearing about this only now, after Republicans took over the House. The other half: collaboration Indeed – as we have said many times – never once did either the full Committee or the Weaponization Subcommittee consider the guilt that might attach to these companies for willingly accepting unlawful orders. When does a willing slave become, not a slave, but a trusty? And a cynically motivated trusty at that? Could not Meta, Alphabet (Google and YouTube), and Amazon have a baser motive: to have the government cancel their opposition? Amazon Web Services famously de-hosted the old Parler service after Donald Trump opened an account with them. They did so because they didn’t like Parler’s policies. Parler came back, all right – as a shell of its former self. It has never recovered. But Elon Musk bought Twitter. Then, for months he fought one battle after another – with Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, and the European Union. His is a constant struggle to find advertisers who either don’t mind the controversies now playing out on Twitter (which he renamed X), or welcome the controversies. Sadly, a parallel economy takes time to build. Meta has chosen to collaborate – and Alphabet and Amazon give every indication that they think they are the Deep State. Perhaps the real Deep State and their World Economic Forum masters find it convenient to let Alphabet and Amazon pretend. But pretenders or partners, they are definitely collaborators. Bypassing the Censorship Industrial Complex Andrew Torba knows all about the perils of relying on third parties. The Censorship Industrial Complex systematically chased him off one host after another, besides disallowing any true “app” he built. So he has built a completely independent infrastructure. Instead of building an app, he has made his site mobile-friendly, and provided browser shortcuts that require no maintenance. When conventional payment processors refused to handle his payments, he built his own processor! Today the Gab name stands, above all, for independence. His only problem lies in identifying, as his enemies, a group of people who are not a collective enemy. Which is to say: the Jews. But at least he’s good enough to host Laura Loomer (who is Jewish), so he has some honor. Dr. Steven Turley has come late to the realization that he must not rely on the Collaboration Axis. Alphabet (as YouTube) abruptly demonetized his channel – totally. Their first excuse was that his short videos – shorts they encouraged him to make! – showed copyrighted news footage with little original commentary. Take them down, they told him, and we’ll reconsider. So he took them down. Then they said, “Thanks; we’ll get back to you in a month.” Two weeks ago they gave him their answer: “No. Your channel is full of controversial content that harms our viewers.” Which is why he has expanded his separate Turley Talks social-media platform into a full-blown video server that directly supports livestreaming and chat. Other alternative platforms include Rumble, BitChute, Odysee, and Brighteon. What they have in common These other platforms have this above all in common: they don’t cooperate, collude, or collaborate. They fight. It has cost many of them millions, but they fight. Even Elon Musk does not fight as hard as they. (Though he comes close! Yesterday he reinstated the account of one Nicholas J. Fuentes, an even more rabid antisemite than Torba. Influencers everywhere virtually asked him Whiskey Tango Foxtrot did he think he was doing. He said it was better to have even toxic ideologies out in the open, than hidden in dark alleys.) More to the point, Jim Jordan’s Committee and Subcommittee leave out a vital part of the Censorship Industrial Complex story. Jordan could and should have called Andrew Torba and Dr. Steve Turley as witnesses. Those two did more than complain; they did something about it. Decades ago, the late Ayn Rand lamented that Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisc.) and the House Un-American Activities Committee concentrated on ferreting out a conspiracy – with no attention to combating bad ideas, or improving the government’s own structure. So it is with Jim Jordan’s committees. If “weaponization of the federal government” is the problem, why not concentrate on disarming it? Why should anyone depend on a cartel of any kind, for telecommunications, sales and service, or the like? Matt Taibbi and Mike Shellenberger taught us much about the evils of censorship. But Andrew Torba and Steven Turley can teach us how to fight it. As they do all the time. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/05/03/news/censorship-industrial-complex-redux/ Strike that from the record! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NLb9uWmLEk The post introducing the report: https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1785743489747042791 The report: https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Censorship-Industrial-Complex-WH-Report_Appendix.pdf Supreme Court divides on First Amendment (video): https://rumble.com/v4ka6ar-supreme-court-divides-on-first-amendment.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Alternative media of all kinds: https://gab.com/home https://watch.turleytalks.com/ https://rumble.com/ Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/