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The Gospels are not Greco-Roman Biographies | Arguing Towards the Worst Example
I am not a PhD philosopher. I don't know if "arguing towards the worst example" is an official fallacy or what its name is. However, when Mike Licona says that the gospels are "greco-roman biographies" he argues towards the worst examples of Greco-Roman Biographies.
As Carrier points out, Suetonius is one of the worst historians of Classical Rome… and yet he names himself—the authors of the Gospels never do. Suetonius names his sources: the authors of the gospels never do. Suetonius critiques his sources: the authors of the gospels never do.
The best examples of History and Biography in the Greco-Roman world are dated, signed, sourced and critical. None of this is true of the gospels. To argue that the Gospels are "greco-roman biographies" requires arguing towards the worst examples of Biographies in the Ancient World, like some of the anonymous writings of Plutarch's.
We have examples of Biographies in the Ancient World written and published whilst the subject of the biography was still alive. The earliest "biography" that we have for Jesus is the Gospel of Mark written about forty years after Jesus's death.
Michael Jones of Inspiring Philosophy tends to parrot Heiser and Copan on the Old Testament, and Licona on the new.
What prompted this email was Inspiring Philosophy's arguing on Instagram that the New Testament does not have competing and contradictory plans of Salvation in it, which of course it does. What I intensely dislike about Jones is that he can argue that black is white. One is reminded of the Jesuitical maxim that we are to believe that what appears to us as black must be believed to be white, should Holy Church so declare. The Jesuits of the 16th Century just straight up want you to gaslight yourself. However, today's Jesuits are probably among the most enlightened and sensible Christians when it comes to the claims of the Bible. Modern Jesuits believe what appears black to be black regardless of what the magisterium of the Catholic Church says.
An example of a Greco-Roman Biography written whilst the subject of the biography was still alive is Flavius Josephus's Vita i.e. his autobiography. Would it not be grand if Jesus wrote an autobiography, signed it, dated it, and critiqued His sources?
Licona, instead of arguing towards the best and most typical examples of Greco-Roman Biography argues towards the worst and most atypical examples.
I tend to agree with Aron Ra that at some level Licona must know that he is lying. I am more of a cynic when it comes to the clergy, and when it comes to the apologist: both of whom make merchandise off of hawking supernatural Christianity. Those who vend invisible wares like "salvation" must, at some level, know that they are a conman. Those who sell mansions in the sky must, at some level, know that they are a con-artist.
This is deception. This is trying to pull the wool over the eyes of a lay audience who typically know nothing about the genres of Ancient literature. If an Oxford-published PhD says that the gospels are history; that the gospels are Greco-Roman Biographies, then it must be true.
If you don't have an IQ of at least 100, you won't see the flaw in this argument from authority. The Apologist con-man counts on this. There are plenty of shekels to rake in from Evangelical Christians with an IQ ranging from 70-90. You should look at Jim Bakker's audience. These are visibly stupid people. This, of course is not their fault. I am not criticising them per se. However, for Jim Bakker to cynically fleece these visibly stupid people with his end-times ravings is just awful.
Greg Rubini
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The graphic design of Truth Social looks like a platform for lesbians – all that Pink and Violet… and the name "Truth Social" is really stupid. "ReTruth" instead of "ReTweet"… blah… "write a Truth"… so stupid.
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@judgedread The exposure of 'spirit cooking' and Comet Ping Pong Pizza may end up being one of the greatest contributions Wikileaks ever made to humanity.
They're evil and they rape and murder children. That's it. That's the secret.
Death camps for everyone
:pepe_happy_dance:
Then, China's President Xi visit with Saudi and GCC leaders marked the birth of the petroyuan and a leap in China's growing encumbrance of OPEC+'s oil and gas reserves: that's because with the China-GCC Summit, "China can now claim to have built a 'special relationship' not only with the '+' sign in OPEC+ (Russia), but with Iran and all of OPEC+."
At the time, Zoltan urged the reader to think of the timing of this statement in a diplomatic sense:
"President Xi communicated his message on "renminbi invoicing" not during the first day of his visit – when he met only the Saudi leadership – but during the second day of his visit – when he met the leadership of all the GCC countries – to signal the following:
GCC oil flowing East + renminbi invoicing = the dawn of the petroyuan."
And now, according to Bloomberg, Saudi Arabia is open to discussions about trade in currencies other than the US dollar, according to the kingdom's finance minister.
"There are no issues with discussing how we settle our trade arrangements, whether it is in the US dollar, whether it is the euro, whether it is the Saudi riyal," Mohammed Al-Jadaan told Bloomberg TV on Tuesday in an interview in Davos.
"I don't think we are waving away or ruling out any discussion that will help improve the trade around the world," Al-Jadaan said.
With the World Economic Forum in Davos in full swing, and media muppets suggesting that things like the forum's "Great Reset', banning gas stoves, and eating bugs are nothing more than conspiracy theories cooked up by conservatives, it seems that the national media – both large and small, is now fixated on the event in order to take cues from the world's increasingly insane 'elite.'
Former New York Times editor Jill Abramson suggested that the event – which was previously given little coverage by the 'paper of record,' was – and is, "a corrupt circle-jerk."
"I noticed (after I was gone), much more 'news' coverage in the Times of Davos, quoting the attendees and speakers at those endless panels. Of course, the coverage was a sweetener to flatter the CEOs by seeing their names in the NYT so that they would then speak at high-dollar NYT conferences and – of course – get phony news stories from the conferences into the paper."
"It was — and is, a corrupt circle jerk," Abramson told Semafor EIC ("Buzzfeed") Ben Smith.
And while the WEF has tamped down prognostications involving bug-eating and banning gas stoves, it's still extremely creepy.
As Michael Snyder suggests in The Most Important News, Davos may have even reached "peak creepy."
Why do people think that it is creepy that a group of "select human beings" have gathered in Davos, Switzerland to shape the agenda of the entire planet? Could it be because many of the attendees are horny aging narcissists that truly believe that they are "saving the world"? During the day they listen to speeches about diversity, equality and inclusion, and then at night many of them pay young women to perform degrading sex acts. But since they have lots of money, they are able to pay the "sex workers" very well. Of course a lot of them flew into Davos on carbon-spewing private jets, but then they have the gall to lecture the rest of us about turning up our thermostats a little bit too much in the middle of the winter. Sadly, no matter what these elitists do, the mainstream media will continue to portray them as "saviors" that are justifiably telling the rest of us how to live our lives.
As he opened the 2023 annual meeting, WEF head Klaus Schwab urged the gathered elitists to "master the future"…
So if they are the ones that will be the "masters" of the future, who will be the ones that they are subjugating?
I think that we all know the answer to that question.
Over the years, Schwab has made so many controversial statements, but the mainstream media just keeps apologizing for him again and again.
Speaking of controversial statements, something that John Kerry just said during his speech at Davos is really raising a lot of eyebrows.
Kerry actually had the gall to say that those gathered in Davos are "select human beings" and that their mission to save the planet is "almost extraterrestrial"…
The billionaire politician, who married into the wealthy Heinz family, heaped praise on those who attended the meeting in the Swiss ski resort town, saying how "extraordinary that we select human beings… are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet."
"I mean it's so almost extraterrestrial to think about quote 'saving the planet'. If you said that to most people, they think you're just a crazy tree-hugging Lefty liberal do-good… but really that's where we are."
Has Kerry gone completely nuts?
It is frightening to think that this guy almost became the president of the United States…
Sadly, the truth is that the globalists that are gathered in Davos are not really "elite" at all.
In fact, many of them are just a bunch of gross old men that are paying beautiful young women to perform sex acts…
The global elite tackling the world's greatest problems – including gender inequality -at the Davos summit are fuelling a surge in prostitution in the Swiss resort town.
Demand for sex work skyrockets each year at the meeting of world leaders and business tycoons who jet in from all around the world to rub shoulders with each other.
Escorts are booked into the same hotels as high-powered bosses and their employees during the five-day summit, which started on January 16.
How does renting them for sex "empower" these young women?
It is being reported that "escort services are fully booked for the week" because there is such raging demand…
Switzerland media outlets are reporting that escort services are fully booked for the week.
"Erotic entertainment" provider Aargau told the daily newspaper 20 Minuten that diplomats and businesses have hired their escorts for "themselves and their employees" to party in Davos hotels.
"For example, our women have already been brought to Davos by diplomats and company bosses. Some also book escorts for themselves and their employees to party in the hotel suite," said the studio's managing director.
The same guys that are treating young women like disposable sex toys are also the ones that we are being told will "save the world"?
Those that are suggesting that all of this is perfectly fine are pointing to the fact that many of these women are very highly paid…
One sex worker named Liana said she dresses in business attire so she doesn't stand out among the executives, despite prostitution being legal in Switzerland.
She told Bild she regularly sees an American who visits Switzerland multiple times a year and is among the 2,700 conference attendees.
Liana charges around €700 ($760) for an hour and €2,300 ($2,500) for the whole night, plus travel expenses.
760 dollars is a lot of money.
But how does everyone involved feel about themselves afterwards?
Unfortunately, no matter how much we criticize the globalists their agenda just keeps moving forward.
In fact, the leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada just released a "Declaration of North America" that appears to be the biggest step toward North American integration that we have seen in years. The following is an excerpt from that document that comes from the official White House website…
Today, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President Joseph R. Biden, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met in Mexico City for the 10th North American Leaders' Summit (NALS). The leaders are determined to fortify our region's security, prosperity, sustainability and inclusiveness through commitments across six pillars: 1) diversity, equity, and inclusion; 2) climate change and the environment; 3) competitiveness; 4) migration and development; 5) health; and 6) regional security.
North America shares a unique history and culture that emphasizes innovation, equitable development, and mutually beneficial trade to create inclusive economic opportunities for the benefit of our people. We are not just neighbors and partners. Our people share bonds of family and friendship and value – above all else – freedom, justice, human rights, equality, and democracy. This is the North American DNA.
But did you hear about this on the news?
And that is because the globalists don't want you to focus on how their agenda is quietly moving forward.
Instead, they just want us to stay deeply divided and fighting with one another.
Our world is changing so rapidly now, and we are headed into such perilous times.
The elite would have us believe that they know what is best for all of us and that a much better world is just around the corner if we will just do what they say.
Do you believe them?
I don't know about you, but I don't intend to follow the advice of any "elitist" that thinks that it is a good idea to rent young women to satisfy their twisted sexual desires.
Twitter revenue is 'DOWN 40% from a year ago and more than 500 advertisers have paused spending on the platform' since Elon Musk's $44B takeover: Company auctions off office supplies including coffee machines
The social media giant's revenue has plummeted since Elon Musk took over, with advertisers spooked by the company's mass lay-offs and Musk's many gaffes.
Just wanna point out that Warner Bros is in $56 billion in debt, and Disney lost $1.5 billion in streaming alone over the summer
GrungeQueef resliced
E-girls. Not even once.
Imagine paying attention to politics. Imagine voting
REVEALED: Woke San Fran reparations panel behind $5m check idea is chaired by life coach who thinks white people STILL benefit from slavery, Rev. who says 'US is a racist country' and vet who says city has 'white supremacy problem'
Members of the committee have previously slammed America as a 'racist country' while others have called the city one that struggled with 'white supremacy'. The San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee released a draft report in December to 'address the public policies explicitly created to subjugate Black people in San Francisco by upholding and expanding the intent and legacy of chattel slavery.' Chair of the group Eric McDonnell top left) claims that the creation of the committee was 'politically easy' but believes their plans will have a 'different climate' reaction. Dr Amos Brown (top right) serves on two reparation committees, Gloria Berry (bottom left) believes there is a 'white supremacy' problem in the city and Nickole Cunningham (bottom right) has sued the city for workplace discrimination. DailyMail.com has a closer look at those making the decisions on the committee, which is chaired by a certified life coach with a degree in public administration.
White House fires back at Russia's 'offensive' and 'absurd' claim comparing the West's actions in Ukraine to Hitler's Final Solution
The White House hit back at Vladimir Putin's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday, saying his comparison of Western action in Ukraine with Hitler's Final Solution was 'absurd' and 'offensive.'
'The cartels are basically running this border': US authorities have lost control of the southern border to Mexican drug lords who smuggle humans and narcotics and endanger Americans, says border official
Valade's grandfather, Hamilton Carhartt, founded the clothing company in Dearborn, Michigan, in 1899.
Hamilton Carhartt founded the workwear company in Dearborn, Michigan, in 1899. It remains headquartered in Detroit, still family owned and run, and employs some 5,500 people
TheQuartering
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The narrative by the left right now about Truth Social being "dead" is LAUGHABLE. Donald Trump has 5 million followers alone. Mastodon the "twitter killer" as a platform LESS than 2 million active. He could very EASILY pull another 10 million users by promoting on here & FB.
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remember when christians were circlejerking how based poland was? Hell there are even christian podcasters who named themselves after the heckin based christian first poland!
Fruitska will kick ass…and fuck it too
Repent ye—sayeth Jesus—for the Kingdom of the Skies is at hand.
Matthew 4:17 in the KJV is:
'From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.'
In the Greek Textus, this is:
«????? ???? ?????? ? ???????? ??????????? ??? ??????, ?????????· ?????? ????? ? ???????? ??? ???????.»
Scrivener's 1894 Textus Receptus
'A?po? to?te e??rxa?to ho I?e?sou?s ke?ru??ssein kai? le?gein, Meta?noei?te; e??ggi?ke ga??r he? ba?si?lei?a? to??n oura?no??n.'
Scrivener's 1894 Textus Receptus (Transliterated)
I would translate this into:
'From then on, Jesus began to preach, and to say: "Repent ye, for the kingdom of the skies hath drawn nigh!"'
My translation of Scrivener's 1894 Textus Receptus into Biblical English.
'From then on, Jesus began to preach, and to say: "Repent, for the kingdom of the skies has drawn near!"'
My translation of Scrivener's 1894 Textus Receptus into Modern English.
Jesus lived in a pre-copernican flat-earth age. Jesus believed that there was a real visible God living in a real visible physical "firmament" or "solid sky" just above our heads. Hence, Jesus preaches that the kingdom of the skies has drawn near. Telescopes reveal to us that no such kingdom of the skies exist.
By translating "ouranos" as "heaven" instead of as "sky" we somewhat conceal Jesus's embarrassing flat-earth solid-sky cosmological beliefs. One would think that a hypostatic God would know what shape the planet is.
As Hector Avalos points out: it is only by mistranslating the Bible that we can render it somewhat acceptable to a modern post-enlightenment post-scientific-revolution society.
By our modern standards, Jesus Christ appears to be a lunatic talking about a kingdom in the skies drawing near.
@C_J_SNot only did they use that couple for fag propaganda, but they were on Australian Story complaining that the federal police had investigated them when they tried to adopt the kid. The negative publicity probably had the case shut down.
the graphic from yesterday, fag couple abused kids they adopted. pro-fag / pro-pedo / pro-child abuse – it's the same thing
It's a good thing the feds are so concerned about boomers posting antivax memes on Gab then.
Toronto Woman Stephanie Warriner Murdered by Hospital Security for Refusing to Wear Mask, Judge Dismisses Case, Crown Refuses to Appeal
dailyrake.ca/2023/01/18/toronto-woman-stephanie-warriner-murdered-by-hospital-security-for-refusing-to-wear-mask-judge-dismisses-case-crown-refuses-to-appeal/
#Canada #CBC #JudgeSeanDunphy #StephanieWarriner
A French analyst is one of the few quasi-mainstream thinkers who appears to understand the true scope of the current conflict.
Emmanuel Todd was not at Davos. But it was the French anthropologist, historian, demographer and geopolitical analyst who ended up ruffling all the appropriate feathers across the collective West these past few days with a fascinating anthropological object: a reality-based interview. So here's Todd's concise Greatest Hits.
A new World War is on: By "switching from a limited territorial war to a global economic clash, between the collective West on one side and Russia linked to China on the other side, this became a World War".
The Kremlin, says Todd, made a mistake, calculating that a decomposed Ukraine society would collapse right away. Of course he does not get into detail on how Ukraine had been weaponized to the hilt by the NATO military alliance.
Todd is spot on when he stresses how Germany and France had become minor partners at NATO and were not aware of what was being plotted in Ukraine militarily: "They did not know that the Americans, British and Poles could allow Ukraine to fight an extended war. NATO's fundamental axis now is Washington-London-Warsaw-Kiev."
Todd's major give away is a killer: "The resistance of Russia's economy is leading the imperial American system to the precipice. Nobody had foreseen that the Russian economy would hold facing NATO's 'economic power'".
Consequently, "monetary and financial American controls over the world may collapse, and with them the possibility for the US of financing for nothing their enormous trade deficit".
"The fundamental dilemma of the American economy: it cannot face Chinese competition without importing a qualified Chinese work force."
And that bring us, once again, to globalization, in a manner that Davos roundtables were incapable of understanding: "We have delocalized so much of our industrial activity that we don't know whether our war production may be sustained".
Of course he wasn't at Davos. Davos isn't listening to anyone who is capable of seeing the situation with clear eyes. Todd is not even remotely wrong. But if he's selling 100,000 books in Japan based on those entirely obvious conclusions, I should really consider finding myself a Japanese publisher.
Anyhow, if you're wondering why some of the more historically perspicacious intellectuals appear to be so wildly off-base with regards to their observations of the current situation, a recent conversation I had with one individual proved very illuminating. My impression is that it mostly comes down to the elder generation not being able yet to comprehend any sort of conflict between a) a regional war of the US and its allies against a single regional power, and, b) mutually assured nuclear destruction.
As a general rule, they believe that the USA of 2022 is still, more or less, the USA of 1950, only with momentarily ascendant leftists and better ethnic food. They see the qualitative problems very well, but don't recognize the scale of the quantitative and issues, which is why their analyses, and their solutions, tend to rely upon some sort of 1980s Reagan-style renaissance that isn't even a possibility anymore.
From centenarian clowns like Kissinger to twenty-something Republicans who read Victor Davis Hanson, all of the proposed "solutions" to the global war between Clown World and the other 80 percent of the planet led by the Sino-Russian alliance are comically irrelevant. Failing to understand either the nature or the scope of the conflict, it is their reliance upon their familiar axioms and the continuation of the current global infrastructure that is leading them astray.
But very important structural things, have fundamentally changed, as I pointed out on Monday's Darkstream following a highly unusual statement by the Saudi Finance Minister.
Andy told me back in September 2022: "The dollar hegemony is right about ready to break when you realize that Saudi Arabia is about to join the BRIC nations. Do you think Biden is going to fly there to ask for more oil? He went there to beg them not to join BRIC."
"The dollar was made reserve currency only because of our protection of the Saudi kingdom," Andy continued. He then noted astutely that Saudi Arabia had signed new protection agreements with Russia. "All of the Eastern European countries that have repatriated their gold. They're all part of the EU but they all trade their own currency. They're all going to break away from the Western system," he added.
And now it looks like Andy was right: it appears Saudi Arabia has just issued a death knell to the exclusivity of the petrodollar as we once knew it – the first of several dominoes that needs to fall before the U.S. is exposed financially as an emperor with no clothes.
Saudi Arabia Just Killed The Petrodollar, 18 January 2023
It may be worth noting here that my original prediction of 2033 for the end of the political entity known as the USA was predicated on the expected lifespan of the post-Bretton Woods dollar. I don't recall anyone taking that timeframe very seriously at the time, but if it was an option, it would probably be considered in the money now.
moral courage – far rarer than physical. most people would rather be stabbed with a knife than stand out from the crowd.
You didn't listen
worth considering
Jeremy Clarkson publicly pleads guilty, hoping for absolution. Guess what happens next!
One of the strange things I've noticed in recent times is that whenever an MP or a well-known person is asked to apologise for something, no matter how heartfelt or profound that apology may be, it's never enough for the people who called for it in the first place. So I'm going to try and buck the trend this morning with an apology for the things I said in a Sun column recently about Meghan Markle. I really am sorry. All the way from the balls of my feet to the follicles on my head. This is me putting my hands up. It's a mea culpa with bells on.
Deep movie voiceover: he did not buck the trend.
The Sussexes' pointed put down to Jeremy Clarkson as they reject his emailed apology for column saying he hated Meghan – as it emerges Amazon Prime 'is set to drop the presenter'
Has ITV now axed Jeremy Clarkson? Channel says it has 'no further commitments' to Who Wants to be a Millionaire? and star after next series and postpones celebrity specials – as Amazon cancels press call for Clarkson's Farm amid Meghan column backlash
Is this the real reason Amazon 'axed' Jeremy Clarkson?
It's not as if someone hasn't written a book about this very situation, after all.
First published in 1994, a perennial best seller, The Creature From Jekyll Island has changed the course of history. At first, only relevant among a small cadre on the political right in the 1990s and early 2000s, the ideas and information of this book have rippled out to the mainstream. This is largely due to Ron Paul's 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. In these campaigns Dr. Paul broke a political taboo and spoke about monetary policy and the fraudulent system of The Federal Reserve. Most people never heard of the inflation tax before Paul's presidential campaigns. (Note: Paul advocated for sound money since the early 70s)
This resulted in a gradual political censorship of Dr. Paul's campaign and although he had a tremendous impact on thought in the Republican Party, his campaign was marginalized and cancelled to a great degree. This was done by an orchestrated media censorship, deliberate marginalization in allotted time in debates, and eventually exclusion from debates, and shadow banning on search engines. These tactics were used to cancel Patrick Buchanan's 2000 presidential campaign to an even greater degree, because he left the GOP and ran as the Reform Party candidate. The cancellation was so bad that by the time the election came about most people didn't know he was still in the campaign.
When Trump ran in 2016 it occurred to me early on that it would be extremely difficult for the Republican Party to cancel a billionaire in the primaries. Then when he won the nomination, it was evident that they would not be able to cancel one of the two major party candidates in a presidential election. When Trump became president, it was a hoot, because you can't cancel the president.
At least, that is what I thought. Then we were hit with the Covid biological weapon, the plandemic, the illegal shut downs, and the fake election. Then, when attempting to contest the fake election, the President of the United States was cancelled. This of course was followed by the deep state's false flag operation on Jan 6, 2021.
The cancellation of political and medical views started to ramp up in early 2020, as the media, big tech companies, and financial institutions, colluded with the United States government to censor political views and medical views that disputed the false government narrative. Mind control techniques were employed using terms like fact checkers to describe contrary opinions and justify censorship. Somewhere along the line it became okay for public companies to discriminate against people for their political views. This obvious violation of a fiduciary responsibility to stockholders seems to be ignored with no repercussions.
One thing President Trump did was expose to the masses that the Republican Party is controlled opposition. Consider how many laws have been passed that have been designed to stop political discrimination and censorship. If none came to mind, well, there you have it. Now, if you are thinking well the Democrats had congress and even now still have the senate and presidency, stop. Historian, Dr. Tom Woods, wrote a great little book called Nullification. In this book he articulates the historical and legal basis that states can nullify federal laws that are unconstitutional. States naturally can also pass laws that protect the rights of their citizens.
States need to begin passing laws that place huge fines and criminal penalties for each and every time a financial institution, this includes banks, credit card processors, and so on, discriminate based on political positions. A billion dollar fine for each and every instance of political discrimination and severe criminal penalties may send the correct signal.
Still, do businesses like banks and credit card processors have the freedom of association that individuals have?
This is a fair question. Although courts have decided otherwise, there is a legitimate private property position that any business owner should be able to discriminate on any basis. It is after all freedom of association. It may be hard for some people to understand, but there can in fact be opposing points of view, that are both legitimate viewpoints, and have a basis in fact, reason, and logic. Context matters.
This debate occurred back during segregation. And this debate to some degree is still going on in a nuanced manner. Does a Christian family orientated wedding cake business have the right to not make a wedding cake promoting homosexuality? Unlike public rest rooms, there is not an immediate necessity and there is no shortage of wedding cake bakers. While it is a similar issue as what was debated during segregation, it is quite a bit more nuanced. Add in the fact that it is dealing with behavior and not biology and such discussions are not so cut and dry. It is more than simply a question of public and private rights, because there are then questions of whether an individual needs to give up their basic rights to participate in the public sphere.
This discussion matters as there has been a false private property argument in favor of censorship. I say it is false, because in many cases businesses are shielded by the government and thus give up any right to discriminate and censor speech. This is true for social media companies. Once they got a liability shield, I'd argue they have no right to censor political speech. Once they are in bed with government, they lose the right to freedom of association entirely.
libertarians like this never publicly noticed any WN who was treated like Trump – 20+ years ago. freedom of speech is not a political principle for libertarians or conservatives, by it they mean their partisan interest in not being censored or suppressed. only WN can debate everything and fear no position, all other positions must censor. that's just an interesting observation of fact.
good fuck this bitch
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In life, just about everyone is trying to scam you in some way. Success goes to those who can:
Recognize the scam from 10 feet away and therefore not get taken advantage of. In this category we put the long-lost Nigerian Uncle leaving you money in his will Advance-Fee Scam.
Once you are in the scam, the ability to get yourself out of the scam is a must. For a man, we put the beautiful woman accosting you and wanting you to accompany her to her "family party" scam.
You have been scammed, now what. Admitting to yourself that you have been scammed is often very difficult because you do not want to accept the fact that you have been played. Cognitive dissonance takes over, and you will overlook all evidence and facts that do not support your decision. You want to believe and want everyone else to also believe. In this category we especially put scams by government officials and authority figures because we know how effective they can be.
An example of successfully pulling off a con, Cesar Ritz (1850-1918), the legendary Swiss hotelier whose name is the epitome of high-class, along with his French chef August Escoffier, conceptualized and brought into being 5-star hotels, such as the Savoy and Claridge's in London, and the Hotel Ritz in Paris.
When Ritz was a young, poor waiter just starting out, he was very persuasive and convinced a rich patron, regularly eating at his restaurant and sitting at the table Cesar served, that the heathy water was harmful and it would be much better if the patron drank only expensive French Bordeaux wine, on which Ritz—unbeknownst to the patron—would receive a handsome commission. Being a short-term con artist is a usual way for people to get ahead. It has the advantage of being easy to perform, the mark does not know they are being taken advantage of, the getaway is easy and it is very profitable.
You may feel you are too smart to be scammed and want to believe in authority figures, i.e., government officials and medical doctors. It cannot be possible that these supposedly reputable people would intentionally start out to scam you. WRONG! American governments have been lying to its citizens for decades, e.g., JFK assassination, Gulf of Tonkin, WMD in Iraq, and 9/11, to name just a few.
Dr. Fauci, M.D., Chief Medical Advisor to Presidents Trump and Biden, and medical leaders of the World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Pfizer and Moderna have been lying about the "safety and effectiveness" of the experimental COVID-19 "vaccine"; the necessity for economic lockdowns; the efficacy of wearing masks and social distancing; and that Ivermectin is not effective in helping cure COVID-19 [20]. Hospital administrators now run hospitals, not doctors, and are easily bribed.
Once you are convinced to take the "mandated experimental COVID-19 mRNA spike protein, gene-editing technology poison death jab" [21]—cognitive dissonance takes over, there are no revelations and facts that will make you believe you made a bad decision. You are now committed, want all others to join you to validate your decision and cannot admit the truth to yourself that you have been played. "There can be no happiness without good health" [18]. – Voltaire.
Diabolical WEF Globalists, promoting the New World Order and AI Transhumanism want us all to be either dirt poor or dead—are pushing this "evil lethal vaccine" [21]—which is why having control of the media is so important, as they get to their victims first and then censure all truth [22]. Brain washing is real and effective—which is the basis for advertising. "The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor" [18]. – Voltaire.
Governments currently are pushing many other cons besides the "evil lethal vaccine," e.g., climate change caused by human's con; the elections are fair swindle; biological men can have baby's sham; the Great Reset of capitalism double-cross; the Sustainability Net Zero racket; the ESG investing rip-off; and Ukraine is winning the war against Russia deception. However, in reality, it is known that Ukraine is actually losing the war. Therefore, Jewish neocons are using blackmail to push President Biden into starting WWIII, using nuclear weapons. When Ukraine loses the war, Jewish neocons will be discredited, resulting in loss of their power, which is completely unacceptable to them—so they want to cover up their Jewish neocon incompetence and the eventual Ukraine loss by starting WWIII as a deception. Powerful Jewish neocons would rather die than lose their position of privilege. It is all about "Jewish Supremacy."
President Biden feels he needs help fending off the Jewish neocons, as he does not want to start WWIII. Nonetheless, Jews are very adept at manipulating those in power against their will. For example, Jews pushed the unwilling Pontius Pilate, Roman Governor of Judaea (26-37 AD)—who declares Jesus Christ is innocent after reviewing the Jewish case against him—into crucifying Jesus Christ, after Jews condemned Jesus to death in a Jewish court of law [17].
Volodymyr Zelensky became Ukrainian President in May 2019, running on a platform to unite his country for peace, and for closer ties with Russia. However, President Zelensky lied, because he is controlled by the US, and continued the warlike policies that had been in place in Ukraine since 2014. From 2014 to 2022, Ukraine bombarded and killed 14,000 Russians living in the Donbas region of Ukraine. Russian survivors of the Ukrainian attacks in the Donbas appealed to President Putin—who came to their aid on February 24, 2022.
The Russian-Ukrainian war, instigated by the west, economic sanctions against Russia and isolating Russia from Europe by blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline are all a geopolitical strategy, planned by Jewish neocons in the United States government—to drive President Putin from the presidency, weaken Russia, and divide Russia into many smaller countries, which would be easier for the US to control. The Russia-Ukrainian war has nothing to do with the Ukrainian people, who at this point are merely cannon fodder. However, as a side benefit, if Ukraine wins the war, which looks doubtful, President Zelensky, who is Jewish, said, "he wants to turn Ukraine into a big Israel."
Volodymyr Zelensky was previously a comedian and an actor, who performed a showstopper—he would drop his trousers and play the piano with his penis. President Zelensky, based on his performance as an actor and President of Ukraine, believes Jews are perhaps the master con artists, bringing the long-con to new heights. The most obvious are the Bernie Madoff Monster of Wall Street Ponzi scheme $50 billion-dollar con job and Sam Bankman-Fried FTX cryptocurrency exchange $8 billion-dollar scam.
The "piece de resistance" of the long con, which makes President Zelensky proud, is the Jewish Holocaust scam. Just the fact that the Holocaust word is capitalized is a huge accomplishment in the annals of con jobs. Six million Jews were supposedly killed by Nazis in slave labor concentration camp gas-chambers during the WWII Holocaust. In addition, Jewish prisoners' fat was allegedly rendered into soap and their human skin was sewn into lampshades. Six million Jews killed in Nazis gas chambers and rendered into soap and lampshades is pure Jewish fiction and a very effective fraud to tug at your heart strings. Jews, we are told, are the ultimate victims and you (i.e., non-jews) are the cause of all Jewish aguish and suffering. If you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you.
The Holocaust concentration camp gas-chamber hoax is not supported by research or by the facts [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [13] [14] [15]. In addition, nothing even close to six million Jews were killed in WWII concentration camps [1] [2] [9] [10] [11] [12]. The six million figure was just a long standing—going back to 1900—fundraising symbolic number Jews used as an argument in favor of the new Zionist project [1] [2]. In 2015, Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi said the six million Jews reportedly killed by Nazis in WWII is grossly exaggerated—rather 5 million of the six million were "total goyim" a Jewish word for a non-Jewish person, especially a Gentile, which normally means a Christian. Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi says, "The truth, I am telling you is that not even one million Jews were murdered" [16].
The fake Holocaust is to deceive the general population so Jews falsely appear like perpetual victims that you should always feel sorry for and go out of your way to help. The Jewish Holocaust con job is masterful and rigorously enforced by state laws. Sixteen European Countries along with Canada and Israel have laws where it is a criminal offense for "Denying the Holocaust."
The Anti-Defamation League, American Israel Public Affairs Committee and powerful Jews in government and business enforce belief in the Jewish Holocaust, calling it antisemitic if you are skeptical, which can be very detrimental to your wellbeing. Nineteen people have been prosecuted, found guilty, and imprisoned for Holocaust denial, along with more persons who have been fined [19]. In Germany, in April 2022, mercilessly, even a 93-year-old grandmother was given her second one-year prison sentence for being a Holocaust denier. This demonstrates the immense political power of the Jewish Tribe, all based on a Holocaust lie. Evidently the world is supposed to revolve around hurt Jewish feelings.
Recently, in the US, Ye (aka Kanye West) has been accused of being an antisemite. The overboard, shocking, and despicable treatment of Ye, resulted in his cancellation by Gap, Skechers, Adidas, JPMorgan, the fashion magazine Vogue, luxury fashion brand Balenciaga, talent agency CAA, and studio MRC—clearly demonstrates how much worldwide power the Jewish Tribe possesses. "If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize" [18]. – Voltaire.
Let's use a syllogism here:
Major Premise:
Good people hate it when you lie about them, whereas bad people hate it when you tell the truth about them.
Minor Premise:
"For a Jew, nothing is more insulting than the truth. The truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth." – "Two Hundred Years Together" (2002) by NOBEL PRIZE WINNER ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN.
Powerful Jews have a veneer of respectability, but underneath they are bad people who are insulted by the truth—and as Jesus Christ says, Jews are "despicable liars." Jewish lies are sanctioned and even encouraged by the Jewish Talmud, which makes for an immoral Jewish character. We might add, as a result, Jews are marvelous con artists. As President Zelensky believes, "To be able to pull off the Holocaust long con is a feat of genius."
The world is a competitive and unfriendly place—and as Blanche DuBois tragically says, "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers," as she is being led away to the state-run mental institution because of a true rape accusation against her sister's husband that her sister could not accept—and Blanche's sister believes is evidence that Balance has gone insane. Or as Cat Stevens says in his song "Wild World—It's a wild world, and hard to get by just upon a smile." If you cannot see these cons and protect yourself from them, you will not succeed in life and may even be killed.
In "Adventures of Huckleberry of Huckleberry Finn" (1884) by Mark Twain, the King and the Duke are two con men who travel from town to town pulling off shameful reprehensible treacheries. Huck and Jim rescue King and Duke after they are chased out of a river town. However, the King and Duke end up being caught, "tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail" by townspeople—to punish them for their deceitful betrayals. Perhaps we should bring back this form of justice, relying in public humiliation to help deal with present day cold-blooded diabolical narcissistic corruptors and deceivers.
This article is not really written by Presidents Joe Biden, Volodymyr Zelensky and Xi Jinping—these well-known public officials are just the biggest con men I could think of.
Nicholas Kollerstrom, "Breaking the Spell: The Holocaust, Myth & Reality," Castle Hill Publishers, (2014).
Anthony C. Black, Breaking the Spell: The Holocaust, Myth & Reality, Overview of the book by Nicholas Kollerstrom," The Unz Review, April 17, 2022.
David Irving, "Hitler's War," Hodder & Stoughton, (1977).
Raul Hilberg, "The Destruction of the European Jews," Holmes & Meier, (Revised 1985).
International Center on the Nazi Era – Bad Arolsen Archives.
"Death Books of Auschwitz," released by Soviet President Gorbachev in 1989.
International Tracing Service, located in Bad Arolsen, run by the International Red Cross, 1984.
British Intelligence Decrypts from Bletchley Park were released in the mid-1990s.
Peter Winter, "The Six Million: Fact or Fiction" Revisionist Press, (2014). cites a quote by Stephen F. Pinter, who served as a lawyer for the US State Department in the occupation forces in Germany for six years after the war, and who made this statement to the Catholic magazine 'Our Sunday Visitor, June 14th, 1959:
"I was in Dachau for 17 months after the war, as a US War Department Attorney, and can state that there was no gas chamber at Dachau. What was shown to visitors and sightseers there and erroneously described as a gas chamber was a crematory. Nor was there a gas chamber in any of the other concentration camps in Germany….From what I was able to determine during six postwar years in Germany and Austria, there were a number of Jews killed, but the figure of a million was certainly never reached. I interviewed thousands of Jews, former inmates of concentration camps in Germany and Austria, and consider myself as well qualified as any man on the subject."
Richard Harwood, (Richard Verrall), "Did Six Million Really Die?" Ernst Zundel, 1974.
Fred Leuchter, "The Leuchter Report," Castle Hill Publishers, 1988 & 2017
Germar Rudolf, "The Rudolf Report," Castle Hill Publishers,
Elie Wiesel, "Night," Hill and Wang, 1956 & 2006. In 2009, a fellow Hungarian Jew, Nickolaus Gruner, after twenty years of researching the topic, issued this press release:
"Elie Wiesel A-7713 has never existed, and the man claiming himself to be 'Elie Wiesel' with the concentration camp number A-7713, knowing full well that this number belonged to someone else, is an imposter of the worst kind. For this statement, I, Nikolaus Gruner A-11104, have certified and written knowledge of."
Philip Muller, "Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers," Dee, Ivan R. Publisher, (1979).
"The problem with this book, however, is that it wasn't written by Muller, but by ghost-writer Helmut Freitag who, in turn, had plagiarized it from an equally faked account by Miklos Nyiszli entitled, 'Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account' (1947). In that book Nyiszli blithely states that Auschwitz killed 20,000 people per day, every day, from 1940 to 1944 – which adds up to a cool 29 million dead! But, then, who's counting? Certainly not the dean of Holo-historians, Raul Hilberg, as his supposedly authoritative, 'The Destruction of the European Jews', repeatedly quotes from it." – Kollerstrom.
"The Diary of Anne Frank" first published as "The Annex: Diary Notes" by her father Otto Frank. The title, 'Diary of Anne Frank" was given to the book by its first English publishers. It is, finally, worth noting, and here I quote from Peter Winter" – Kollerstrom. Also, "The Diary od Anne Frank" was too sophisticated and advanced to be written by a 13-year-old girl.
"…that Anne Frank died of typhus and was not 'gassed'. It is one of the horrific ironies that Anne Frank died due to a lack of Zyklon-B at Bergen-Belsen – and this lack was caused directly by the Allied bombing campaign. The real story of Anne Frank is tragic enough, but the cruel exploitation, exaggeration and faking of her diary by the Holocaust storytellers is a scandal of epic proportions."
Raoul Wootliff, "NY rabbi: Not even 1 million' Jews killed in Holocaust" The Times of Israel, 31 December 2015. Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi says the six million Jews reportedly killed by Nazis is grossly exaggerated, rather 5 million of the six million were "total goyim" or non-jews. "The truth, I am telling you is that not even one million Jews were murdered."
Holy Bible: King James Version
18. 45 Voltaire Quotes On Freedom Of Speech, Religion, Government, Inspirational Quotes: 45 Voltaire Quotes On Freedom Of Speech, Religion, Government (overallmotivation.com)
"Legality of Holocaust Denial," Wikipedia: Legality of Holocaust denial – Wikipedia
Abir Ballan, "How Can We Trust Institutions That Lied," Brownstone Institute, January 11, 2023.
Zachary Stieber, "Doctor Calls for Withdrawal of Pfizer, Moderna COVID-10 Vaccines Following New Research," THE EPOCH TIMES, January 13, 2023.
Bill Pan, "COVID-Narrative Dissenters File Antitrust Action Against Legacy Media Over Coordinated Censorship," THE EPOCH TIMES, January 11, 2023
this appeared on lewrockwell.com, a libertarian website whose writers are mostly catholics. i've never seen LR allow anyone to question the holocaust hoax before.
The World Economic Forum (WEF)'s Davos Freak Show is back in business on Monday.
The mainstream media of the collective West, in unison, will be spinning non-stop, for a week, all the "news" that are fit to print to extol new declinations of The Great Reset, re-baptized The Great Narrative, but actually framed as a benign offer by "stakeholder capitalism". These are the main planks of the shady platform of a shady NGO registered in Cologny, a tony Geneva suburb.
The list of Davos attendees was duly leaked. Proverbially, it's an Anglo-American Exceptionalist fun fest, complete with intel honchos such as the US Director of National Intelligence, Avril "Madam Torture" Haines; the head of MI6 Richard Moore; and FBI director Christopher Wray.
Remixed Diderot and D'Alembert Encyclopedias could be written about the Davos pathology – where a hefty list of multibillionaires, heads of state and corporate darlings (owned by BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street and co.) "engage" in selling Demented Dystopia packages to the unsuspecting masses.
But let's cut to the chase and focus on a few panels next week – which could easily be mistaken for Straight to Hell sessions.
The Tuesday, January 17 list is particularly engaging. It features a "De-Globalization or Re-Globalization?" panel with speakers Ian Bremmer, Adam Tooze, Niall Ferguson, Péter Szijjártó and Ngaire Woods. Three Atlanticists/Exceptionalists stand out, especially the ultra-toxic Ferguson.
After "In Defense of Europe", featuring a bunch of nullities including Poland's Andrjez Duda, attendees will be greeted with a Special Season in Hell (sorry, Rimbaud) featuring none other than EC dominatrix Ursula von der Leyen, known by a vast majority of Germans as Ursula von der Leichen ("Ursula of Cadavers") in a tag team with WEF mastermind, Third Reich emulator Klaus "Nosferatu" Schwab.
Rumors are that Lucifer, in his privileged underground abode, is green with envy.
There's also "Ukraine: What Next?" with another bunch of nullities, and "War in Europe: Year 2" featuring Moldova woke chick Maia Sandu and Finnish party girl Sanna Marin.
In the War Criminal section, pride of place goes to "A Conversation with Henry Kissinger: Historical Perspectives on War", where Dr. K. will sell all his trademark Divide and Rule permutations. Added sulphur will be provided by Thucydides strangler Graham Allison.
In his Special Address, "Liver Sausage" Chancellor Olaf Scholz will be side by side with Nosferatu, hoping he won't be – literally – grilled.
Then, on Wednesday, January 18, comes the apotheosis: "Restoring Security and Peace" with speakers Fareed Zakaria – the US establishment's pet brown man; NATO's Jens "War is Peace" Stoltenberg; Andrzej Duda – again; and Canadian warmonger Chrystia Freeland – widely rumored to become the next NATO Secretary-General.
And it gets juicier: the coke comedian posing as warlord may join via zoom from Kiev.
The notion that this panel is entitled to emit judgments about "peace" deserves nothing less than its own Nobel Peace Prize.
How to monetize the whole world
Cynics of all persuasions may be excused for lamenting Mr. Zircon – currently on oceanic patrol encompassing the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean and of course "Mare Nostrum" Mediterranean – won't be presenting his business card at Davos.
Analyst Peter Koenig has developed a convincing thesis that the WEF, the WHO and NATO may be running some sort of sophisticated death cult. The Great Reset does mingle merrily with NATO's agenda as agent provocateur, financer and weaponizer of the proxy Empire vs. Russia war in black hole Ukraine. NAKO – an acronym for North Atlantic Killing Organization – would be more appropriate in this case.
As Koenig summarizes it, "NATO enters any territory where the 'conventional' media lie-machine, and social engineering are failing or not completing their people-ordaining goals fast enough."
In parallel, very few people are aware that on June 13, 2019 in New York, a secret deal was clinched between the UN, the WEF, an array of oligarch-weaponized NGOs – with the WHO in the front line – and last but not least, the world's top corporations, which are all owned by an interlinked maze with Vanguard and BlackRock at the center.
The practical result of the deal is the UN Agenda 2030.
Virtually every government in the NATOstan area and the "Western Hemisphere" (US establishment definition) has been hijacked by Agenda 2030 – which translates, essentially, as hoarding, privatizing and financializing all the earth's assets, under the pretext of "protecting" them.
Translation: the marketization and monetization of the entire natural world (see, for instance, here, here and here.)
Davos superstar shills such as insufferable bore Niall Ferguson are just well rewarded vassals: western intellectuals of the Harvard, Yale and Princeton mould that would never dare bite the hand that feeds them.
Ferguson just wrote a column on Bloomberg titled "All is Not Quiet on the Eastern Front" – basically to peddle the risk of WWIII, on behalf of his masters, blaming of course "China as the arsenal of autocracy".
Among serial high-handed inanities, this one stands out. Ferguson writes, "There are two obvious problems with US strategy (…) The first is that if algorithmic weapons systems are the equivalent of tactical nuclear weapons, Putin may eventually be driven to using the latter, as he clearly lacks the former."
Cluelessness here is a euphemism. Ferguson clearly has no idea "algorithmic weapons" mean; if he's referring to electronic warfare, the US may have been able to maintain superiority for a while in Ukraine, but that's over.
Well, that's typical Ferguson – who wrote a whole Rothschild hagiography just like his column, drinking from the Rothschild archives that appeared to have been sanitized as he knows next to nothing meaningful about their history.
Ferguson has "deduced" that Russia is weak and China is strong. Nonsense. Both are strong – and Russia is more advanced technologically than China in their advanced offensive and defensive missile development, and can beat the US in a nuclear war as Russian air space is sealed by layered defenses such as the S-400 all the way to the already tested S-500s and designed S-600s.
As far as semiconductor chips, the advantage that Taiwan has in chip manufacture is in mass production of the most advanced chips; but China and Russia can fabricate the chips necessary for military use, though not engage in mass commercial production. The US has an important advantage here commercially with Taiwan, but that's not a military advantage.
Ferguson gives away his game when he carps about the need to "deter a nascent Axis-like combination of Russia, Iran and China from risking simultaneous conflict in three theaters: Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the Far East."
Here we have trademark Atlanticist demonization of the top three vectors of Eurasia integration mixed with a toxic cocktail of ignorance and arrogance: it's NATO that is stoking "conflict" in Eastern Europe; and it's the Empire that is being expelled from the "Far East" (oh, that's so colonial) and soon from the Middle East (actually West Asia).
An AMGOT tale
Nobody with an IQ over room temperature will expect Davos next week to discuss any aspect of the NATO vs. Eurasia existential war seriously – not to mention propose diplomacy. So I'll leave you with yet another typical tawdry story about how the Empire – who rules over Davos – deals in practice with its vassals.
While in Sicily earlier this year I learned that an ultra high-value Pentagon asset had landed in Rome, in haste, as part of an unscheduled visit. A few days later the reason for the visit was printed in La Repubblica, one of the papers of the toxic Agnelli clan.
That was a Mafia scam: a face-to-face "suggestion" for the Meloni government to imperatively provide Kiev, as soon as possible, with the costly anti-Samp-T missile system, developed by an European consortium, Eurosam, uniting MBDA Italy, MBDA France and Thales.
Italy possesses only 5 batteries of this system, not exactly brilliant against ballistic missiles but efficient against cruise missiles.
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan had already called Palazzo Chigi to announce the "offer you can't refuse". Apparently that was not enough, thus the hasty envoy trip. Rome will have to toe the line. Or else. After all, never forget the terminology employed by US generals to designate Sicily, and Italy as a whole: AMGOT.
American government occupied territory.
Have fun with the Davos freak show.
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this is the (((System))) – it's been jewed in order to destroy White families by deliberately emasculing the men and empowering the women to do things they arent capable of – run/raise a family on their own. this is DELIBERATE. it is ONE part in a larger RACIAL WAR ON WHITES CONDUCTED BY JEWS. it must be understood and explained that way.
they werent slaves, they were Service Nogs
Another person who must answer right away is CDC Director Rochelle Walensky because her agency is still aggressively pushing mRNA shots strongly implicated in causing injury and death among the American people. There are no more obvious weapons against the people than these deadly products retailed by Pfizer and Moderna. The government's "vaccination" crusade has to stop ASAP. Not one more dose of the stuff should be given to anybody. An audit needs to be run on the CDC's data base to determine exactly how it was manipulated to hide the facts about "vaccine" injuries and deaths.
The public should also hear why Ms. Walensky's CDC promoted "incentive payments" to hospitals for each patient who died testing positive for Covid-19 (not necessarily from Covid-19). The payments per patient ranged wildly, state by state from $18,000 (NJ) to a whopping $471,000 (WVa). Why was that? The payments amounted to a bonanza for hospital administrators, who were incentivized not only to misattribute cause-of-death — the proverbial motorcycle crash victim who tests positive — but to let people die on ventilators.
The Weaponization of Government Committee might also subpoena FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf and his two predecessors during the Covid-19 event, Janet Woodcock and Stephen Hahn. The country needs to hear what they knew about the operation that produced the "vaccines" with such astonishing speed — as if these products were somehow in development before Covid-19 even appeared on the scene. They also need to answer about the shenanigans behind the following: the fudged and expedited "vaccine" trials; the demonization and virtual outlawing of existing safe and effective FDA-approved drugs for early treatment, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine and other meds; the promotion of toxic remdesivir as a primary therapy for C-19; and the initiation and extension (for three years) of an emergency use authorization that shielded the drug companies from liability while injuries and deaths mounted.
Obviously, there are many other channels of inquiry waiting to be explored in the government's war against the people, especially the lingering questions about election interference and the official censorship of news. The excellent writer who goes by Sundance at The Last Refuge website made some capital suggestions for going forward with these inquiries: one is to rely primarily on witness testimony rather than on documents that federal officials will surely do everything possible to hide. Don't turn this into a futile battle over the docs. Let's just hear what the people-in-charge have to say. Secondly — and this may be hard for many angry, injured people to swallow — immunize witnesses against prosecution, to give them no incentive to hide what they know, what actions they carried out, and who told them to do it. Give them this immunity, Sundance wrote, in the interest of maximum transparency — because punishment of these characters is less important than showing the people of this country how far off the rails we have gone, and how to get back on. It may not be optimally satisfying, but it's an argument worth pondering.
i guess this is new but not 100%
I can't recall ever seeing anything quite like this.
In addition to hordes of regular police, the Swiss military will be providing "up to 5,000 soldiers" to bolster security…
With one week to go until the who's who of the most radical globalists descend upon the picturesque ski resort town of Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting, up to 5,000 soldiers from the Swiss army will be deployed to offer military support to the civil authorities of the canton of Graubünden, who are responsible for securing the summit's premises and its participants.
In a statement released Friday, January 6th, the Swiss Defense Department (VBS) said that the Federal Assembly, the country's parliament, had approved the deployment of the Swiss army contingent to ensure the security of thousands of participants, the Swiss German-language newspaper Blick reports. This year's deployment is part of a three-year commitment, from 2022 to 2024, by Parliament to support these high profile civic activities.
Somehow, Klaus Schwab and his minions have turned this annual gathering in Davos into a "must attend" event for the global elite.
And if there is anything that the global elite do not like, it is mixing with the general population.
As Paul Joseph Watson has aptly observed, it is a big club and you and I are not part of it.
Leading up to the conference, the WEF issued a "global risks report", and in that report they actually created a brand new term to describe the extreme chaos that is gripping our world right now…
The collective vocabularies stored in the world's great dictionaries didn't appear to hold a single world to sum up all this strife. So here's a new one: Polycrisis.
The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2023 uses the term, to explain how, "present and future risks can also interact with each other to form a 'polycrisis' – a cluster of related global risks with compounding effects, such that the overall impact exceeds the sum of each part".
Normally, I disagree with everything that the World Economic Forum does, but I actually kind of like this new term that they have come up with.
We are definitely facing "a cluster of related global risks with compounding effects, such that the overall impact exceeds the sum of each part", and 2023 will almost certainly be another year when we are hit by one crisis after another.
I have often referred to what we are facing as "a perfect storm", but I think that "polycrisis" is a pretty good descriptor as well.
Unfortunately, virtually every "solution" that will be on the agenda at Davos will be bad for humanity.
The globalists don't seem to realize that the system that they have worked so hard to carefully construct is rapidly failing, and many in the general population are sick and tired of the self-destructive policies that they have been trying to push on all the rest of us.
Interestingly, as the global elite gather in Davos an extremely rare "green comet" will be making a run toward Earth…
A rare green comet, last seen in Earth's skies 50,000 years ago, is revisiting our solar system and may become visible to the naked eye within the next few weeks.
The comet – formally identified as C/2022 E3 (ZTF) but commonly called the "green comet" – won't be as bright as other famous comets such as Halley's or Hale-Bopp.
"The brightness of comets is notoriously unpredictable, but by (Feb. 1) C/2022 E3 (ZTF) could become only just visible to the eye in dark night skies," NASA said in its blog.
This comet will be the closest to our planet on February 1st and 2nd, and that will be the best opportunity to potentially see it with the naked eye.
Before I end this article, I wanted to acknowledge the passing of Lisa Marie Presley.
It is such a tragedy to lose her at such a young age.
If Elvis was alive today, how do you think he would have responded to the sudden death of his little girl?
2023 is just a little over two weeks old, and already there has been so much sadness.
Unfortunately, I believe that much more sadness is coming, because the "polycrisis" that we are facing will only intensify even more as global events continue to accelerate.
Peter said he agrees that there is a good chance the Fed will cut rates this year. And he thinks there is an even better chance the central bank returns to quantitative easing, whether it cuts rates or not. But this pivot won't be because of a victory in the war against inflation.
No. They're going to surrender. Inflation is going to win that war. The Fed is going to run to fight another battle — at least it's going to try to fight because it's going to lose that battle too. That battle is going to be recession, maybe financial crisis, maybe a battle to try to prop up the US government whose insolvency is becoming a bigger problem with rising interest rates."
@sovereignshill
DeSantis coming out ANTI-VAX simultaneously while Trump coming out PRO-VAX… Vote Transfer from "Old GOP" to "New GOP" What do they have in common? McCarthy first speech at AIPAC. Who REALLY rules you? Who owns the banks and Media? All roads lead to Israel. #TheNoticing
The US government continues to run massive budget deficits even as its interest costs rise. Interest payments on the debt rose 41% in 2022. According to the Peterson Foundation, the jump in interest expense was larger than the biggest increase in interest costs in any single fiscal year, dating back to 1962.
If interest rates remain elevated or continue rising, interest expenses could climb rapidly into the top three federal expenses. (You can read a more in-depth analysis of the national debt HERE.)
Because servicing this debt is going to become so problematic in 2023, that's another reason that the Federal Reserve is going to back off of its rate hikes, and, in fact, may have to go back to quantitative easing because they will need to buy Treasuries that private buyers don't want at interest rates that the US government can't afford."
Along with the massive federal debt, there is also a growing level of consumer debt that will create problems for the Fed's inflation fight for the same reason. The average credit card interest rate has ballooned to 19.6%. Meanwhile, credit card debt alone grew by 15% in 2022. It was the biggest year-over-year gain in 20 years.
The fact that credit card debt is skyrocketing as savings rates are plunging — this is very problematic for the economy. It shows that Americans are struggling to make ends meet."
Rising consumer debt also indicates overall credit is expanding. That is, by definition, inflation. Keep in mind, inflation isn't just rising prices. Properly defined, it is an expansion of the money supply and credit. People can use credit to buy things and bid up prices.
Consumers are dealing with rising prices not so much by cutting back and buying less, although in some circumstances they are. But they're also taking advantage of credit so that they can just keep buying the same amount and just making up the difference by borrowing money. So, the Federal Reserve is still keeping interest rates too low and allowing credit to grow too plentifully so that additional credit is available to consumers to continue to bid up higher prices. And so they're not being priced out of the markets because they're staying in the market because of their access to credit. So, in other words, the inflation is continuing in the credit markets."
The bottom line is that the increasing level of debt is not a sign of a strong economy. It's a sign of economic weakness. And it is exacerbating the inflationary pressure. It's indicative of the fact that the Fed is losing the inflation battle.
The Fed needs to discourage spending and encourage saving. But that's not happening.
The Fed is raising interest rates but consumers don't care. They're just borrowing more money and spending more money. So, the credit supply is expanding and that is going to continue to put upward pressure on prices. The Fed is making no real headway in its battle against inflation."
The United States will soon follow Europe in implementing laws against so-called hate speech, a top Eurocrat claimed at the World Economic Forum's meeting in Davos.
The vice president for Values and Transparency for the European Commission, V?ra Jourová predicted on Tuesday that hate speech laws will be imposed upon the American public, despite longstanding case law at the Supreme Court protecting such speech under the First Amendment.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/01/1
wagner controls the southerrn highlands and are now shelling central bakhmut
Now excuse me while im fleeing to russia.
Terry @[email protected]
I gotta say the way Ukraine drafts every Tom, Dick and Harry off the street (or rather Igor, Vlad and Piotr), that would never work in the United States, people would riot.
Fucking schizo sovereign citizens get into shootouts with cops over parking tickets, what do you think would happen if the traffic stop was to hand you a draft notice?
and niggers? forget about it. They would burn that bitch down as soon as you started doing that.
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Herr Wolf says:
"We should turn Her [Russia] into a desert populated with white N_ggers. We will impose upon them such a tyranny that was never dreamt by the most hideous despots of the East. The peculiar trait of that tyranny is that it will be enacted from the left rather than the right and it will be red in the literal sense of that word, for we shall shed such streams of blood that all the losses of human lives in Capitalist wars will shrink and pale before them. The biggest bankers on the other side of the Atlantic will work in very close collaboration with us. If we win the Revolution, crush Russia, we shall consolidate the power of Zionism on her funereal remains and become such a force that the whole world will go down on its knees before it. We will show what real power is."
— Leon Trotsky in Petrograd, Russia, December 1917.
Ghost Who Walks says:
About that meme of the young black-hatted sidelocks — asking what the Jews would be without their holy holocaust, besides a moth-eaten gang of swindling murders and perverted freaks.
That really caused me to stop in my tracks and read it again and think about it.
This is one of the most powerful memes ever.
It should be spread far and wide.
The only improvement I can think of is to add a white area above it, "What Is The World's Greatest Bible Truth?"
Lavorov is completely right about Victoria Nuland and her tribe of neo-cons performing the Jewish ritual slaughter of all the hated Ukrainian Cossacks in The Final Solution. Any sane person would be appalled at feeding an entire nation into the meat-grinder, but not the Jews, as they love a good ritual slaughter.
It's the bible that makes )))idiots((( think jews are special. As much as the holocaust. the (((bible))) has been around nearly 2000 years.
The great thing is even tho lenin et al. did all that the jews have now lost SOME power in russia. Putin is bad on many things: CBDCs, vaxx shots, anti-speech laws, and a few more. But he is against homos, which is the basis of the jew internal war on Whites in every country – promotion of miscegenation, homosexuality, etc. I dont know what stance Russia takes on mixing but since Putin is xtian, probably not against it. But Putin is bent on retaining western culture (or Russian culture), not indoctrinating little kids with bizarre perversions. That's best we can get at present. And he's going to win the war on Ukraine. We'll see if the neocon kikes operating the usa want to start a nuclear war. as ritter say, russia will not START a nuclear but if it receives notice USA has fired, it will fire before usa missiles land. usa, meanwhile, has changed its doctrine to "we will do whatever we want at any time" — ie, not renouncing first use of nukes. these aging criminal neocon kikes who have never been defeated inside the usa may well go out in a blaze of glory. unlike the 'cold war' there is a real risk of nuclear war today. that's my view.
who forced the Ukrainian white men fight? if they refused, nothing could have been done. lot of people take your line, to me it's just another dirty, weak excuse. NO ONE can force you to fight in a jew'swar. they can jail or kill you, but they cant force you. at some point white alleged men have to OWN THEIR OWN BEHAVIOR. all i see is white men havent learned a damn thing since world war ii. willing to give their lives for the loxist jew and all the nasty baggage that comes with it.


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Emily Barr Appointed to NAB TV Board
By Deborah D McAdams
WASHINGTON – NAB Television Board Chair Marci Burdick has appointed Post-Newsweek Stations President and CEO Emily Barr to the ABC Affiliate Board seat of the NAB TV board of directors, effective immediately. Alan Frank previously held the ABC Affiliate Board seat.
Barr assumed her position with Post-Newsweek Stations, the TV broadcasting arm of The Washington Post Co, in July 2012 after serving as president and general manager of ABC-owned WLS–TV in Chicago from 1997. While in that position, she helped create the Live Well Network, a digital multicast channel focusing on home, health and lifestyle programming. Previously in her career, Barr served as president and general manager of ABC-owned WTVD–TV in Raleigh-Durham, NC and held various positions at broadcast TV stations in Baltimore, Houston, Washington, D.C., and St. Paul, Minn.
Actively involved in civic engagement in Chicago, Barr was honored by The American Red Cross of Greater Chicago with the 2010 Westbury Leadership Award for her involvement with a citywide media effort to support the Haitian earthquake relief effort. Among other recognitions, she has received the 2007 National Museum of Mexican Art's Corporate Service Award and the 2007 Business Professional of the Year by the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce.
Barr is a graduate of Carleton College with a B.A. in Film Studies and earned an M.B.A from George Washington University.
Deborah D McAdams
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Point you to next step resources for setting up and getting the most out of your UserVoice account.
We enable Product Managers and teams to hear from their customers or prospects either directly or through internal teams so they can build features that impact acquiring new customers or keeping existing customers happy.
Collect feedback across your customer base from end users directly, and through your sales, support and internal teams who talk with customers every day.
Analyze your feedback by pulling in end-user data like MRR or lost opportunities, gathering aggregate data by allowing users to vote on one another's ideas and seeing feedback that is trending over time.
Act on feedback through JIRA and VSO integrations so you can communicate the customer context to your engineering teams, and they can in turn communicate statuses effortlessly back to your product team.
Communicate throughout, so you can keep end-users and internal teams up to date as you work on initiatives or receive their feedback. This ensures they feel heard, and know when you implement functionality they want.
In UserVoice, there are three different types of feedback, and we are going to walk through each, and how they work together to help you collect, analyze and act on your feedback.
This is a single piece of feedback from a user about your product that is only visible to admins on your account.
Source: Come directly from the end user or is captured by an internal team like Support, Sales or Success.
Data Enrichment: Pass user and account data on your users to UserVoice, so you have context on who is giving you the feedback.
Ideas can be created by admins or end users and are a votable piece of feedback on a forum that other users can support, comment on and subscribe to. Often, multiple pieces of raw feedback are connected to a single idea.
Source: This might be created by an internal team on behalf of users, but are often created by end users directly on forums.
Users voting on each other's ideas allows you see which rise to the top with your customer base.
Comments on ideas give you additional context on the suggestion and how users are thinking about it.
User and account fields are also invaluable here for understanding who is supporting the idea.
This is where your PM's outline initiatives they are considering for your Product Roadmap. They will be connecting multiple ideas and raw feedback to a single Feature.
Source: These are internal and only created by admins within UserVoice.
Data Enrichment: Scoring features, and segmenting users who have feedback connected to the idea gives PM's additional context and helps them discern signal from noise.
So we've walked through UserVoice from a high level, and now you are probably ready to dive in and figure out how you want each part to work for you and your company. Great news! We've got resources to help you with this.
Account Setup: Walks you through the basics of configuring your UserVoice account. A good place to start if you have a new account.
Collecting Feedback: How do you want to collect feedback, what are your options and the best fit for your use case? Check out this article for our recommendations and resources to get you started.


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Retailers: Cashing in on the Shorter Queue
By Mary Catherine O'Connor
Waiting in line—during rush hour on the highway, in grocery store queues or at the DMV—ranks right up there with death and taxes. It's inevitable. But retailers are using the IoT to shorten shoppers' wait times while also gaining insights into their interests and needs.
Oct 13, 2015A few weeks ago at Cisco's San Jose headquarters, I visited the networking giant's Internet of Everything Showcase, a laboratory that develops and tests a range of Internet of Things technologies for clients. One of the projects that Shaun Kirby, Cisco Consulting Services' chief technologist, and Ben Varghese, an emerging technology consultant at the company, showed me is aimed specifically at reducing wait times for shoppers at a big-box retailer, the name of which they said they could not disclose.
The approach that the retailer is testing involves mounting location beacons (the tests involve Wi-Fi tags made by Ekahau) under shopping carts and then using Cisco Wi-Fi access points mounted throughout the store to track their movements. This type of application has been used to improve store layout for many years (it's easy to find examples in the RFID Journal archives).
On its own, this technology could help the retailer improve the planogram to ensure that best-selling products are easy to find, or to place promotional items at locations where shoppers are likely to congregate. But the Wi-Fi tag mounted on the carts also has a sensor with "the ability to listen for infrared-based beacons that have been placed at checkout lanes," Varghese says. "When the cart sensor 'sees' a beacon located at a specific checkout lane, we are able to correlate the position of the shopper with the transaction log currently being opened." This allows the retailer to link the shopper's path through the store to the items he or she buys. "This shows the conversion rate for different departments versus the time spent browsing those departments," Kirby explains. "We can ascertain the effectiveness of merchandising and promotions and improve conversion."
Cisco and the retailer did not stop there, however. They took this experiment even further, by correlating customers' Internet searches—assuming that those individuals are using smartphones logged onto the store's Wi-Fi network—with their location within the store (based on the cart) and the section in which they are shopping.
Kirby says that if such a shopper is browsing for competitive prices, the retailer sees the item in question and what the competition is charging. By examining these searches in aggregate, the retailer can detect the items for which its customers are doing the most active price comparisons, and then set prices that match or beat those of online competitors. Retailers are also increasingly analyzing sentiments about the stores that shoppers express on social media, he says, and are then using that information to guide merchandising decisions. In addition, the company looks for topics that shoppers search frequently, as guideposts for opportunities for improving in-store information displays to "provide assistance with product decision-making."
While peeking into shoppers' searches is an intriguing way to try to boost sales, it is the wait-reduction techniques that could have a quicker payback. Aside from using Wi-Fi tags and infrared beacons to track shopping cart locations within the store, Cisco is working with retailers to leverage traffic sensors in parking lots and inventory trackers in refrigerated cases—because cold or frozen goods are usually the last items shoppers select before heading to the checkout counter.
Not only can all this data help retailers to better anticipate demand at the checkout aisles and thereby reduce shoppers' wait times, it can also help them better allocate labor. That big-box store Cisco is working with? Kirby says it expects to reduce annual labor costs through the use of these technologies, to the tune of $500,000.
Mary Catherine O'Connor is the editor of Internet of Things Journal and a former staff reporter for RFID Journal. She also writes about technology, as it relates to business and the environment, for a range of consumer magazines and newspapers.


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Being a mom that is in the kitchen a lot, not only at home but at work too, it is not a surprise that my kids are pretty comfortable in the kitchen. Growing up my mom always had us participate in some way at dinnertime. It started out with something as simple as putting the placemats out, to setting the table, pouring drinks, cleaning up and eventually assisting in the meal making process. She did 95% of the work but we were often asked to stir the sauce, sprinkle the cheese, flip the pancakes, and many other tasks that made us very comfortable in the kitchen. It wasn't until I had my own kids in my own kitchen that I realized how much patience that requires. It would be a heck of a lot easier to stir the sauce myself instead of cleaning up all the extra sauce that managed to get cooked on the stove top from some little hands getting carried away. Remembering how much it influenced me, I had my kids doing things at a very young age. My kids will often ask "Can I do that?" and part of me cringes because I know how important it is that I say "Sure you can!" when really I want to say "Not now - let me just finish this." So many times my kids ask if they can try making something and I have to willingly let them go at it, no matter how much they destroy the kitchen or use up ingredients that I had big plans for. And don't forget the taste testing - wow, my favorite part!
After many years of making many interesting and lets say creative recipes, my recently turned 13 year old completely shocked me on Mother's Day. My husband was traveling for work this past Mother's Day and he put my daughter in charge of taking care of mom on this special holiday. Being the over achiever that she is, she started making big plans many days in advance. She arranged for her dad to take her shopping before he went out of town for all of the ingredients she would need to make breakfast as well as some special gifts. The day before Mother's Day she was busy in her room making cards and planning things out. She asked that I sleep in which I gladly agreed to and not come downstairs until she told me to. She set her alarm for 5:30 AM with plans to eat at 8:30 AM (that amazed me in itself). At 6:15 AM I woke up to the smoke alarm going off - that was quite the adrenaline rush! I leaped out of bed and went running past her down the stairs as she was coming up to ask for help. She had never made bacon before which I have to say is not only a total pain to cook, it is not that easy. After we cleared the air from the smoking pan, wiped the tears away and I assured her with several hugs it was no big deal at all, she was back to cooking and I was sent back to bed. I love that she attempted to do it with no help but knew when she needed to ask for help. It was scary for her but I'm glad it didn't discourage her.
An hour later, she came up to my room with the most beautiful omelet with spinach, cheese, bacon, tomato and adorned with fresh avocado on the side. It was delicious! And don't forget my coffee accompanied it fixed just the way I like it. I was seriously blown away and that was only the beginning. I was then invited by my boys to come downstairs. The table was set up with beautiful cards from everyone, including my hard working hubby and a beautiful box with thoughtful gifts. There were several delicacies that included mini pancakes on toothpicks with fresh strawberries and cinnamon sugar toasted tortillas rolled up with Nutella and fresh banana. The best part was a plate that read "I Love You Mom" made out of pancakes with a sprinkle of powdered sugar. Seriously people, this was mind blowing! I felt so touched in a way I had never felt before. I don't tell you all this to brag about how awesome my kids are (even though really, they are beyond awesome) but I tell you this to encourage you to let your kids (or grandkids) hang out in the kitchen no matter how annoying it is - it really does pay off. Mother's Day was extra special for me this year. Thanks for letting me brag a little and share with you something I hold so dear to my heart. If the task of cooking with your kids seems too daunting, make sure to bring your kids 8 years and older to one of our Kids in the Kitchen sessions. That is a fabulous way to introduce them to making dinner, trying new dishes you might not normally have at home and learn to be comfortable in the kitchen. Visit our website calendar to see the next available session usually held the first or second Saturday of each month.