How Anti-Bill of Rights Race Bait Groups Are Leading Biden’s Race Agenda

Paul Collier November 1, 2021

As soon as President Biden took office, he moved immediately to remove protection from children against abuse at the hands of leftist-ideologicial ‘teachings’ such as Critical Race Theory that former President Donald J Trump had put in place using executive orders.

The agenda of CRT, whatever it might actually be, is driven by groups in the background with openly leftist, marxist, communist, and antifa ties. One group, Teaching for Change, is a leftist ‘think tank’ group that is the principle agent driving the Biden agenda on race in America.

When you see President Biden tell America with a straight face that White Supremacism is the most pressing threat against the American people today, you can bet this organization, Teaching for Change, is behind it.

What should concern you about this agenda, fundamentally, is that it teaches Amereicans to hate their own nation, their own families, with the hope that those in fear will willingly surrender our most sacred shared value, the value of the Bill of Rights, of the right of the individual to be discerned for what they do not what you think they are because of a class of people they belong to.

Apparently, this organization is the voice of the American government on race, so perhaps you should get to learn what they’re all about.

From infuencewatch.org

Teaching for Change

Teaching for Change is a left-of-center organization that focuses on supporting left-progressive social and economic policy through school education. Teaching for Change aims to provide resources that teach children a left-of-center view on subjects such as the 2020 Presidential Election, which it claims is filled with “hate speech” and is a “climate of presidential candidate fear-mongering and threats.” ^[1] It also provides resources on “The President’s Agenda,” “White Identity,” and “Resistance 101.” ^[2]

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NEA Lobbies to Make CRT a Public School Code

Paul Collier November 1, 2021

American teachers have chosen to mostly go all-in with the DNC-led agenda that has multiple terms it has variably been referred to over the past decade especially.

As of right now, that DNC label has come to mostly be known as CRT, or Critical Race Theory, and America’s teachers, and their biggest political expression, the National Education Association, are fully backing the DNC agenda becoming coercively taught and enforced standards in American Public Schools.

Here is a highlight of the nation’s most powerful public school education lobby-

From Infuencewatch.org

LABOR UNION

National Education Association (NEA)

The National Education Association (NEA) is America’s largest labor union representing nearly three million employees, principally teachers. With affiliates in every state across 14,000 communities ^[1], NEA represents teachers, education support professionals, retired teachers, education faculty and staff, substitute teachers, and administrators.^[2] It exercises enormous political clout in everything from contract negotiations to issue advocacy and lobbying.^[3]

The NEA is a major political player, with its associated political action committees contributing nearly $143.5 million to federal candidates and committees—97% of which supported Democrats and liberals—from 1990 through February 2019. ^[4] The NEA is also deeply entangled in state and local politics and is a major contributor to left-of-center nonprofit organizations.^[5]

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Terry McAuliffe Tells Parents Only Schools Can Teach Kids What to Think

Parker Davis October 28, 2021

The central issue in the Virginia Governors Race that will be settled in less than a week is emerging to become a fight over the DNC effort to force their CRT-type ideological value system on American children in public schools.

The symbolic moment of that issue might yet be defined as the choice by DNC candidate and Clinton operative and former DNC chair, as well as former Virginia Governor, Terry McAuliffe to openly declare that parents have no rights in determining how to educate their children. The chilling message fell upon Virginia parents with existential devastation, the DNC was making it nakedly clear that your kids were theres, and their values will be your kids’ values, and if you resist, the Department of Justice will arrest you for being terrorists.

The question is, will this chilling message, this epic political self-wound by the uncharismatic McAuliffe, make it to the cheap seats, so to speak, where life is seen almost purely through the DNC machine’s screens? If it does, we expect this race to end with a 52-48 victory for Glenn Youngkin, a victory that would most likely be reflected as 56-44 if the race were fully transparent and not loaded, most likely, with spam mail-in ballots, and whatever else the DNC can throw into their favor should the race be close enough to steal.

Under the CRT-type guidelines, what I wrote above will one day get me arrested, as race and gender rights override Bills of Rights, especially of those in the races and genders and values and beliefs that fall outside of the fine-line parameter of proper humaning as defined by the DNC. Rule of priest-king versus Rule of law is the real battle that is taking place, not just in Virginia, but across this country.

Here is a link to a video where McAuliffe reiterates the essential point that education should be left to the educators:

McAuliffe on Parents’ Choice in Education – NBC4 Washington

From www.nbcwashington.com
2021-10-28 16:01:15

Excerpt:

News4’s Northern Bureau Chief Julie Carey and political analyst Bob Holsworth discuss Terry McAuliffe’s position on parents’ involvement in what kids learn in the classroom.

Video Link

Here is the writing of one of these education experts that wish to take moral authority over the minds of your children, who seems more concerned with professional respect for educators over the agency and sovereignty of parents:

Why ‘parental rights’ in schools is untenable

From www.washingtonpost.com
2021-10-28 18:55:57

Excerpt:

“It’s absurd for parents to tell teachers what to teach,” said Diane Ravitch, education historian and advocate for public schools. “ … The result would be chaos, and in most cases would be parents telling teachers to teach the way they were taught decades earlier.” What’s more, she said, “It thoroughly discredits the teacher’s professionalism and expertise,” adding: “I can’t think of a more effective way to demoralize teachers and drive them out of the classroom.”

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DOJ DNC operative Garland decided to double down on the McAuliffe gaffe and declared that the DOJ would target parents and call them terrorists if they defied the school boards pushing the CRT-like agenda on our children, using our taxpayer dollars to do it.

‘Ingraham Angle’ on Garland weaponizing the DOJ

From www.foxnews.com
2021-10-28 16:10:17

Excerpt:

Now, in 2009, when the Tea Party took off, the issue that had so many Americans energized was the opposition to Obamacare. In 2021, the issue is education. The one good thing about the awful, terrible pandemic is that parents had the time to burrow into their children’s schooling, and many were horrified about what they saw.

It turns out that a new so-called anti-racism and gender equity focus wasn’t so popular after all.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: –poison, this will tear this country apart if it becomes a part of our fabric.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: On critical race theory, which is pretty much going to be teaching kids how to hate each other, how to dislike each other.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Just because I do not want critical race theory tau

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A Republican representative drove home the chilling point of a DOJ threatening parents for standing up to anti-American agendas that defy our Rule of Law Bill of Rights contract.

Rep. Beth Van Duyne: Justice Department aims to threaten parents into submission

From www.foxnews.com
2021-10-28 17:54:25

Excerpt:

We live in bizarre and profoundly disturbing times where our nation is run by an administration who empowers drug cartels and human traffickers to commit horrific crimes against Americans.

This is the same administration currently mobilizing the FBI to investigate and intimidate concerned parents speaking out about education in taxpayer funded schools.

From my first days as a local elected official, I have stood with the men and women of law enforcement even as other elected officials cynically, sanctimoniously, and wrongly threw them under the bus. But now, as with all actions in the Biden administration, we are seeing yet another federal agency weaponized against its own citizenry. Such an exercise deserves to be opposed.

To be clear, any credible threats and acts of violence should be investigated and prosecuted. With more than 14 years serving as an elected…

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Virginia is a bellweather, not the end or the beginning, or the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. The results need not crystalize the final outcome as we fight to preserve the Bill of Rights in our American lands, nor would victory end our struggle or assure our victory.

Even just finding who the “we” is might not be settled by the Virginia election, as it must surely be broader than Conservatves and Republicans. It must reach the unpolitical and galvanize them to act. If it fails to do this, Mcauliffe will win. If he wins by less than four, you can bet that election is in doubt. If he wins by more than four, he won the election for real.

Youngkin will have to win by more than four points to win the election of record.

We are predicting a 60 percent chance of a Youngkin win, and are settling on a 53-47 final record of election, followed by an intense DNC barrage across the socio-cultural production that will declare the victory a mere blip, an anomoly, with some corporations declaring concerns that Virginia was about to become racist and dangerous for all disenfranchised peoples in the land.

The song’s not as effective as it once was, however, and socio-cultural authority is waning, even as the DNC only increases its near-monopolistic grip on the screens that reflect these worlds.

How DNC Hunger Artsts Are Seeking to Make Facebook Pay for January 6th

Paul Collier October 4, 2021

A Facebook whistelblower will claim the company failed to take multiple warnings seriously leading up the events surrounding the Capitol on January 6th, 2021. Facebook plans on getting in front of the story that seems to have legs and seems to be building negative momentum against the Silicon Valley leviathon. They will attack the credibility of the whistleblower and claim they knew full well the science and did all they could to minimize the damage.

The whole affair is also a symbol of the cycles of moral clout public scalping Facebook itself has enabled, and is now on the ‘being scalped’ end of the latest public moral clouting. Here’s how we got here and where we’re going next:

Facebook chose to advance a particular narrative after the January 6th Capital Hill Incident that is sometimes called a Riot, sometimes called a Protest Gone Bad, sometimes called an Insurrection, and sometimes called literally Apocolypse itself. Facebook chose to go with the Apoclypse Iself narrative and treated any information that might be shared that might offer a counter to the Apoclype narrative, one that would lead the non-poliitcally engaged to assume that a man dressed a buffalo almost single-handeldy brought down the American state.

Nevermind those ARs, boys, mind the buffalo head men. They can just walk into the Capital and boom, all those military advantages just evaporate before the might of the buffalo-headed men.

Well, that decision to throw in with the Apocolypse version of “The Incident of Jaunary 6th on the Capitol Hill” might potentially backfire. You see, leading up to the event that almost lead to literally wholesale Mad Max Anarchy across the American lands themselves, Facebook allowed people to stream, stream, stream, and share, and group-up, and organize, and, and, and…..

I am assuming you are getting the picture here. The very sicophants of the cult of the DNC these Facebook execus were placating AFTER “the incident” are now using Facebook’s own characterization of the event through what it has censored after the event, action that demonstrates, in this writer’s opinion, not only an advocation of the Apocolyptic narrative, but a coercive enforcement of that assumption on its users. Any expression that challenged the DNC official narrative of “the incident” would be censored, and if the user repeated this offense, the user themselves woud be removed.

And now, that hardball approach to post-1-6 has left Facebook vulnerable to the same people they chose to enable, the rabid adherents of the DNC party line, which, at this point in the political discouse, represents that vast overwhelming majority of the ‘left,’ even the so-called anarchist left, who seem more inclined than ever to cheer on corporate censorship and massive state spending bills that are thousands of pages long and will produce tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of regulatory code through which the interests of the few will be protected from the liberty of the many.

But, it might give some people here and there some sugar to get them through the apocolypse, so, that’s good, and that’s about the best the ‘left’ will ever get from the international party they seem so willing to serve, the DNC.

Be careful the mosnters you create, though, DNC, and don’t be so trusting of the models your deep learning machines are showing you to follow. We humans will not be pinned down by machines and you’re soon to discover this truth. Here, Facebook’s machines did not protect the executives from the beasts they were creating, the people that thrive on public scalpings for their primary source of power, the acolytes of the DNC.

They will pick your bones apart in a second if it means moral clout as defined by the DNC.

This unquenchable hunger, the acolytes of the DNC as a spirt, seeks revenge to offer it but a moment of rest from the burden of such desires. The buffalo-headed men are rotting in jail, even as we speak, and culturally, they are mostly buffoons and mad, but inept, terrorists who sought to restore the KKK to world power once again. The vanquished buffalo-headed men are now just leftist menes floating freely on this same Facebook platform.

The hunger artists in reverse have a new delicious dish to eat, one which could afford them even more power to strip the bones off the latest opportunity for public moral clout scalping. their source of sustenance. That dish, of course, is Facebook, and a whistleblower is about to come forward and declare that Facebook was told it was enabling the January 6th Apocolype but did nothing about it.

Facebook is seeking to pre-empt the damage by going on the offenseive against the whisteblower before they ever speak. Facebook aims to discredit the whisteblower’s claims in advance by asserting they did all they could and followed the science that suggested what they should do next (what their deep learning think-tanks were ‘suggesting’).

Perhaps the machines predicted more placation after the election was declared for Biden than actually occored. Who knows? Either way, schadenfreude would not be inappropriate here for so many of us hemmed in by the new morality of the DNC as upheld by Silicon Valley, in this case. Watching the suits of Facebook having to face their own moral puritanicalism from people who have moral clout than them will surely be a glorious thing to behold, to a point, but when the kids make up (and they will) it will result in at least a short-term bad outcome for the rest of us, even more governance placed in the hands, directly, of the most active of moral clout activists, the hunger artists of the DNC.

Facebook goes on offense ahead of whistleblower revelations on Capitol riot role

From www.independent.co.uk
2021-10-03 21:49:04
Sheila Flynn
Excerpt:

Facebook was on the offense this weekend as the clock ticked down to a company whistleblower coming forward with revelations about the social network.

The whistleblower is due to reveal their identity on news programme 60 Minutes on Sunday. The former employee, who has turned over thousands of potentially damaging documents regarding company policy, is expected to allege that Facebook had dismantled security protections too soon after the 2020 election, contributing to the fallout and Capitol riots; disregarded or failed to disclose damaging research; and profited from users sharing divisive content.

The social media giant has been accused of failing to adequately address known harmful consequences of its platform and its tools. Key amongst the criticisms is that Facebook has contributed to the 6 January storming of the Capitol, political polarization across America and even negatively affected teens’ mental health.

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Liberty is Born from Your Physiological Reality of Power, Not Ideals or Votes

Paul Collier September 30, 2021

I wish I could smack this guy in the mouth and tell him to stop looking at the glittering prize. I am talking to the guy who made a meme 8 years ago attacking the DNC flagbearer of the time, the then-President Barack Hussein Obama. That guy was me.

If I could go back in time even further, to, say, 16-year old self, I’d tell 16-year old self to read scriptures, over and over and over and over, read histories, prehistories, world histories, over and over and over, read major world religions and their major texts, over and over and over and over. Read major world philosophies, even if mostly surveyed collections, over and over and over and over.

Tell them it will take 10-15 years to get to the point where you can begin to get close to the palimpsest of where you are and the real circumstance of your potential for existential fulfilment within the reality of power you found yourself born and ‘raised’ into.

I would never have even bothered with politics at all if I had done all this from the ages of 16 to 30.

Instead, I am 53 and still far away from achieving what I wish I had achieved in those years (and certainly could have if I had attached significant need to accomplishing the task).

I am maybe 3 or almost 4 years into working to get a disciplined understanding of these sources of understanding, and have maybe 5-8 more years ahead, God willing, to get to the point where I can synthesize these various sources of understanding. But I am already fundamentally altered by this experiment.

My ‘political’ orthodoxy is outside the frames of the major orthodoxies of current year.

Pragmatically, within the reality of power that I find myself born into, I am an Americanist (my term), one who holds to the fundamental necessity of a coercive enterprise governance system to have standards of limitations on the ‘right’ of power advantaged agents to impede the rights of others.

We Americans, we who were born such or became such, already ostensibly have such a model in our Constitution, specifically grounded in the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence.

Within that parameter, a whole host of variable expressions of political governance can emerge, and a wide range of options on taxation, foreign policy, etc. can complete for consensually earned validation in an actual Democratic process intended to elect representatives in a Republican model of legislative, executive, and judicial governance.

The Bill of Rights Standards should be applied in the market, the state, and the social squares, with the totality of rights in conflict considered when coming to what should be rolling conclusions, not binding ones, in areas in which the issues are never going to be clear.

This position is pragmatic because it is not one that I ultimately believe is ‘necessary’ or ‘the only way’ for humans to experience something approaching an open opportunity for consensual exchange with their neighbors, the world that I presume would most afford me the best opportunity to approach living a life of my choosing.

Perhaps, for instance, we could create a more perfect Bill of Rights, with more perfect language that leaves less semantic loopholes for the powers that be to exploit. Perhaps.

But the Bill of Rights, I support, is a construct, an ideal, an assumed American privilege that is understood at deeply profound ‘unconscious’ levels of being for almost all Americans, regardless of born here or moved here, regardless of race or religion, regardless of economic status, regardless of sexual preference, that we have “RIGHTS” that the government cannot fundamentally violate, even if the majority of people want it to, even if it has all the power to do it with or without our consent.

Perhaps, if and when America re-stabilized, we can talk about tweaking our Constitution to more ‘perfectly’ assure the least of us is not coerced by the most of us to submit or be cut off from access to consensual value exchange with your neighbors (up to and including complete cessation of self altogether, death). Until then, what we have is what we have, as far as forming a resistance to the factions of today.

The broadest coalition in America today is sleeping, unaware of itself, I theorize, and that coalition is a Bill of Rights centered coalition, committed to settling ‘differences’ that exist between the grey space of competing rights in ways that allow for the continued consideration of such unsure issues. This coalition is Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, and more, and, I theorize, represents perhaps 70 percent of this country.

This coalition will never form around the DNC or the GOP, or even the Libertarians. It cannot form around a charismatic billionaire with money to burn. It has to emerge, I believe, from the grassroots up, as local parties with local names united only broadly with other Bill-of-Rights focused parties. At the local level, there is tremendous opportunity to change the circumstance of your neighbors just by enforcing the Bill of Rights standards in all aspects of living, within the parameters I described above.

This is, as I’ve said, a pragmatic position, but as close as I get to a political position. Ultimately, unless and until we experience the conditions that allow for the pragmatic necessity of consensual exchange, we will never be fundamentally consensual value exchange centered. Where the reality of power necessitates consensual exchange, that’s mostly where consensual exchange occurs.

I ultimately advocate for free associations to build their own communities, focused on creating opportunities for community sustainability and thriving that does not rely on exchanges with large-scale, coerce-governed structures, be it governments or corporations. There are a number of possible paths to get to the types of communities I am describing, but they all mostly involve

creating physical space where humans find self-serving thriving necessity to share with their neighbors while still occupying space that is secured in their holding,
developing and exploiting technologies that enable small scale production to produce large-scale quality and cost,
creating physical space that offers defensive advantage to the inhabitants,0
facilitating self-and-associative defensive training and tools access opportunities,
creating a unity standard of limitations of power (such as a bill of rights) that is consensually agreed to by all willing participants.

Within these parameters, there are a variety of community types that could experimentally be created, to rise and fall on the on-the-ground opportunities and impediments the standards lived out actually create.

I believe this is already happening, the building of communities to escape the new normal (or at least the threat of the new normal, which is still not yet a done deal).

Whether these communities will be built with my parameters in mind or not, well, I am pressing x to doubt, as the kids say, on that one. In magic bunny land, a place where I have all the resources I need to do whatever I want, I am already building a small town for about 2,000 people that live on an area of roughly 100 acres and inviting people to take part in my experiment, free of charge.

Outside of magic bunny land, if you’re not already thinking about the potential pragmatic usefulness of perhaps becoming a part of one of these groups (many of which already exist, and many more that are sure to emerge), you might already be behind the 8-ball, unless you truly are one of the few that will actually experience greater ‘freedom’ in the new normal, such as that would actually turn out to be.

History is littered with the rise and fall of Kings and Emperors, of Philosophies and Religions, all of which eventually serve the interest of the few over the many. Where Kings restrain their power is where they perceive the cost of exerting their power will be of little reward or too high a risk. Suddenly, Kings become Presidents and Constitutions are formed, where the reality of power is significantly enough diffused, at the physiological level, providing for self-defense and sustainability without need of reliance on the products and services offered by the few for the many.

America was born from her physiological reality, peopled remotely by necessarily self-sustaining people living in extended family structures that were connected profoundly, by necessity, to their neighbors. The Constitution is the realization by the few, the ones who created the moral cover that allowed them to not face the naked restriction on the power they actually held, of the limitations of their abilities to coercively press their will on the people throughout the counties of the 13 colonies.

Thank God for that.

Whatever the reason, we are the fortunate beneficiaries of the type of space this Constitution created, even still, and if we, as a people, across our divides, can claim our unearned but fortuitous heritage, our Bills of Rights as the ultimate authority in the land, then the tyrants of the left, the right, and the center will all be rendered impotent before the power of the true people of the land.

The true people of these lands are ALL Americans, black, white, red, yellow, gay, straight, transgendered, atheist, Muslim, Christian, Spaghetitarian, Dallas Cowboys fan, etc, etc, who hold the Bill of Rights standards as their rights and also the fundamental rights of others. We are legion and we cross all lines. We are America.

Even for those who are not legal citizens, if you come to appreciate and accept our Bill of Rights standards, you too can become an American, for America is ultimately an ideal that restrains power only so long as the people have the power to assume their authority when the state or the market seeks to violate these standards.

We are not a race or a gender, we are humans and humans alone, committed to the bills of rights of our neighbors as much as for ourselves, for if their rights fall, soon ours do as well.

It’s time for those who can to help those who will build these communities where the Bill of Rights makes good neighbors of Muslims and Christians, of Democrats and Republicans, and even people like me, who’d like to see the whole coercive governance model end altogether. This is the next step in our fight against tyranny, this and for those willing to engage in the political, to create local parties loosely affiliate with national Bill of Rights associations, aimed fundamentally at Bill of Rights auditing of the powers of the localities and creating remedies where violations are discovered.

The two would work well together in giving two very differently oriented types of folks to work against the tyranny we now find ourselves under, with further tyranny to come. Successful communities can help fund local parties and local parties can provide refugee pipelines to people who want to join in the community experiments already being built.

Ultimately, the solution is not, in my view, political, it is more physiological. Create the space that necessitates liberty, like America inadvertently was when the Bill of Rights was formed. Create the necessity for consensuality through the reality of physiological power rather than seeking political and ideological ‘solutions’ to ‘injustices’ that most everyone in current year is turning to for hope.

My current survey of human thought (philosophy, religion, etc) and interaction (history) has led me to the conclusion that liberty is not won with ideas, but rather ideas form to justify acceptance of a diminishment of power as a result of physiological reality.

All of everything we do within the structures fundamentally reliant on assets controlled by the few is intended to produce the capacity to be more lethal than our neighbors while providing a high standard of living for the few that control the many. The systems are designed to limit competition for the thrones.

The more we rely on their assets, the more controlling they will become. The less we rely on their assets, the more concepts like liberty will be allowed to gain mainstream access. Liberty as a public construct is a cope, and the copers are the ones with the most power who find it difficult to face the reality of their own limited power.

Where pop culture is pro liberty, the few recognize their limitations of power. Where pop culture rejects liberty, the few imagine they can now increase their power, limiting even more competition than before.

America is dependent on the very, very, very, very, few for assets that meet basic physiological needs. So long as that physiological reality exists, no amount of votes or protests will move the needle towards liberty and away from control.

Create opportunities for physiological self-and-associate sustainability and the powers that be will suddenly find liberty Jesus and regroup for their next attempt at consolidating power and eliminating competition once and for all. Fail to do so, and there is no stopping what tyrannies are sure to come that America has not seen since the Civil War.

Eight years ago, I pinned my hope on the GOP. Since then, I’ve learned the reality of power, and it lies in real physiological opportunities, not parties. It lies in local and individual sustainability and thriving, not dependence on the assets of the most powerful few, and it’s what we would do well to focus more and more of our own assets on developing, physiological realities of power for liberty to be necessary, even for the most powerful in the land.

Nano-Inks Could Write Your Next Smart Phone, Let’s Hope It’s Open-Sourced

Paul Collier September 28, 2021

A Tech Researcher named Parisa Pour Shahid Saeed Abadi has set the 3D Printing world on fire with a research paper that shows early development of 3D printing using polymer nanocomposites which can also serve as electric currents, opening up the door to potential near-future printing of whole electric devices which might someday include a smart phone.

We’re a long way from getting to that point, but this discovery could potentially be a significant step towards that reality. Whatever methodologies these reseachers utilized, whatever resources they required, open source researchers are most likely, or should be, doing the same to assure the discoveries of today don’t become the shackles of tomorrow in the hands of the monopolistic few corporations that have the capacity, at this moment, to develop such tech that might be one day used in homes, most likely as a subscription service on machines that the resident user doesn’t actually own.

Imagine a world where a small nation can fend off the mightiest nation’s missiles and planes with wave upon wave of drones delivered through 3D Nano-Ink Printing. Holding or taking land will require an army of 3D printers, so if you wish to remain free, you best hope 3D printers become an open source part of our life in the very near future.

3D Nano-Inks Push Industry Boundaries – Eurasia Review – Eurasia Review

From www.eurasiareview.com
2021-09-27 00:09:25

Excerpt:

….3D printing using plastic, metal or something else entirely isn’t new. What Tech researchers have done differently is use polymer nanocomposites (made of epoxy, carbon nanotubes and nano-clay) and a printing process that doesn’t sacrifice functionality. The junction of material type and morphology — size, shape, structure — in polymer nanocomposite inks is the ultimate in form meeting function.

The exploration of process, morphology and properties of polymeric inks is the subject of an article recently published in the journal Additive Manufacturing by Parisa Pour Shahid Saeed Abadi, an engineer who explores the interface of materials, mechanics and medicine, and graduate student Masoud Kasraie.

Abadi and Kasraie point out that before researchers can sprint off to the races using polymeric inks, they must first learn to walk. The first step is digging into the intersection of the macro scale (how our eyes see a material performing) and the nano scale (what we can’t see, but know is occurring).

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The conductivity of Abadi and Kasraie’s nanomaterial ink is an exceptionally handy trait that gives the printed epoxy the potential to double as electrical wiring — whether in a circuit board, an airplane’s wing or in 3D-printed actuators for guiding catheters in blood vessels. Another useful trait of the nanocomposite polymer ink is its strength.

“In comparison with steel and aluminum, we see 80% weight reduction with epoxy composite with same strength,” Kasraie said.

Finally, in the medical field and aerospace and electronics industries, where defects and damage can spell big trouble, the nanocomposites serve a safety function.

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Farmers Are Dying Out as Our Dependence on Corporate Microwavables Grows

Freedomist Editor September 28, 2021

There is a price to be paid for time, and sometimes that price is paid in what we sacrifice for expediency when it comes to food. The ramifications of our preferential actions may not be readily appreciated until you consider what is happening to the people that grow and raise the building blocks of all these reductions of food prepping time that our processed foods offer us in current year (which happens to be 2021 as of the writing of this article).

As we get further and further away from the farmer and our mouth, the farmer’s value receeived for the work done has been steadily going down, with various farming markets seeing decreases in value between 16 and 38 percent. Across the world, wherever people settle into suburbs, wherever suburbs emerge, soon processed food follows, and the farmer’s value is reduced, and the steps between the grown and raised food and reaching your mouth multiply so that the food you eat today after heating it up in the microwave will have parts from perhaps multiple parts of the world shipping their raw food materials to be processed in one placed, packaged in another, and shippped in many others, until it reaches your door.

I’m of course being a bit tongue in cheek when I use suburbs as the proverbial canary in the coalmine of farming, it’s far more of a comple story than that, but there is some measure of truth to what I say.

The truth is, the time we give to convenience is rarely without cost. Is the loss of the local farmer, of being your own local farmer, a cost worth paying for the convenience of existing more and more on microwabable food way past our college days?

The reliance on large-scale, highly centralized structures to deliver us our daily bread has been exposed in this age of Covid, with numerous shortages having been reported, and still being reported, in various places at various times throughout the world. Our ability to grow through hydroponics, aquaponics, converting lawns to gardens, urban gardening, has never been more fecund with possibility to meet the unique circumstances of most humans in most places, from the inner city to the frozen tundras of Wisconsin, there is a way to create local, even household, sustainability in our neccessary food resources that will cost us less economically, but will ask of us our time, time we can make events, not work, that whole families and communities can participate in.

It’s only a matter of time that the frozen franks company requires you to scan your id to assure you’re not on any naughty lists that would prevent them from sellling to you, so grow your food now, and help others to do the same, and buy from local farms like so many of us are already doing, My family as well is shifting our purchases and preparing our land to grow having gone through two experimental seasons with, well, not great results, but great leasons learned. We are buying more meats and greens from local markets and farms, cooking more foods from scratch, attempting to eliminate the steps between the grown and raised and our mouths.

This isn’t a purist approach, we also still eat plenty of processed foods, though, hopefully, as we learn to grow more efficiently we can prepare our own ‘processed foods’ for convenient consumption, which is possible thanks to canning and freeze drying.

Save a farmer, eat a salad from a farmer’s market.

Farmers get smaller share of what we pay for food

From www.futurity.org
2021-09-27 14:11:51
Ida Eriksen-U. Copenhagen
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Farmers are getting less of what we pay for food, research from 61 countries around the world finds.

The new study in Nature Food examines how much of what consumers pay for food goes to farmers around the world, compared to the rest of the food value chain (FVC), which includes processing, packaging, transportation, and supermarket or restaurant sales beyond the farm gate.

The researchers estimate that up to 85% of the value of a food is created after a product leaves the farm.

“We can see that the farmer’s share of the food value chain in high- and middle-income countries on average has shrunk between 16 and 38% in the years between 2005 and 2015 as countries become wealthier,” explains Eva-Marie Meemken, an assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen’s department of food and resource economics and a coauthor of the study…..

Today, farmers receive on average 27% of the total consumer price for a food product, which means that the largest part of the share goes to processes after the farmer has let go of the product.

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DC Effort to Make Coronavirus Tests Free Fails Spectactularly, Here’s How

Parker Davis September 28, 2021

Congress passed a law to cover the cost of coronavirus testing for Americans by saddling insurance companies with the responsibility of paying for the tests themselves. The cost of the test would be determined by the cash value of whatever the onlie cost of the tests were by the provider they were contracting to administer the tests. The result has been a 25 percent increase in the cost of coronavirus tests from last year to this year, 2021.

The next shoe to drop will be the rise in insurance premiums as insurance companies pass on the cost of government’s promise to the very people the government was allegedly serving. To be fair, there will be a significant segment of society that will get access to this, as of right now, essential service for whom free access could be argued to be necessary, but we need not profoundly affect an essential market so signfiicantly with these simplistic solutions to short term problems to meet the needs of those who truly need it.

I won’t offer a solution in this moment, but there are many that don’t involve solutions that turn out to be no solution for the vast majority of people the government promised would get free testing, only to pay for it in the long run after all. That’s not actually a solution at all, is it? I can easily compete with ‘not a solution,’ and I bet many of our readers can as well.

Covid Rapid Test Prices: How a Law Allows Labs to Charge Any Price

From www.nytimes.com
2021-09-26 09:00:14

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At the drugstore, a rapid Covid test usually costs less than $20.

Across the country, over a dozen testing sites owned by the start-up company GS Labs regularly bill $380.

There’s a reason they can. When Congress tried to ensure that Americans wouldn’t have to pay for coronavirus testing, it required insurers to pay certain laboratories whatever “cash price” they listed online for the tests, with no limit on what that might be.

GS Labs’s high prices and growing presence — it has performed a half-million rapid tests since the pandemic’s start, and still runs thousands daily — show how the government’s longstanding reluctance to play a role in health prices has hampered its attempt to protect consumers. As a result, Americans could ultimately pay some of the cost of expensive coronavirus tests in the form of higher insurance premiums.

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US Air Force Secretary Warns China Could Gain Nuke Advantage over U.S.

Paul Collier September 27, 2021

While America consumes itself from within on the assumption that evil was inventeed by America and America was invented by white males (or something to that effect), her opponents are continuing to work on ways to reduce America’s power abroad and at home. China is the most powerful of these opponents, and is the one that US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendell was focusing on when speaking to reporters about China’s continued accelerated expansion of their nuclear aresenall.

Kendall said, “If they continue down the path that they seem to be on—to substantially increase their ICBM force—they will have a de facto first-strike capability.

For the people in the back that might not understand, he’s saying China might soon have a nuclear advantage over America that could allow it to strike before we we could respond. For the people leading the suicidal charge from within America, the DNC and its ‘allies,’ that means our lives are all at risk of significant reduction of the quality of life if China ever gets to a position of power dominance over the United States. If you think we white Americans invented evil, as many of you do, especially in the DNC coalition of American self-haters, wait til you get a load of the super boss that could replace America, China.

If you’re really against fascism, DNC coalition, then stop destroying America from within at the benefit of the biggest fascistic threat in the world today, China. So long as you continue to destroy American power while ignoring Chinese power, no American should consider you an American at all, or, even, a safe neighbor to live next to, for if the Chinese ever did land on our shores (something they hardly need do given how many Americans work for them already), your neighbor would consider you more of a threat to them than any Chinese soldier that would ever find themselves stationed here.

Whatever America is, whatever sins we have committed, what the state of Xi represents, has representeed, in the 20th and 21st centuries is considerably more human dignity and diversity denying than anything America has ever committed on any scale throughout any part of her history, and the DNC wants you to believe that no one has ever been evil before white men invented America or will be after we rid the world of this white supremecist demon. If you believe them, you’re not fighting fascists, you’re enabling them.

Air Force Secretary Warns of China’s Burgeoning Nuclear Arsenal, Reveals B-21 Detail

From www.defenseone.com
2021-09-21 01:20:00

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China could be heading for a first-strike nuclear capability, the U.S. Air Force secretary said Monday, urging the United States to accelerate its own weapons development to keep pace with Beijing.

“If they continue down the path that they seem to be on—to substantially increase their ICBM force—they will have a de facto first-strike capability,” Frank Kendall told reporters at the Air Force Association’s annual conference outside Washington, D.C.

But independent nuclear-policy experts noted that even China’s decades-old ICBMs could be “a first-strike weapon,” and challenged Air Force officials to produce evidence that Beijing actually intends to change its “no first use” policy.

In his second major speech since becoming Air Force secretary two months ago, Kendall called out various Chinese weapons developments as reason for concern.

“You’re gonna get tired of hearing me talk about China and the pacing threat that we face,” he said at a press conference a few…

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Another Attempt to Cancel Chic-Fil-A Over Marriage Stance

Paul Collier September 22, 2021

Is it enough to treat your neighbor as an assumed equal regardless of what you might assume or believe about who and what they are and what they believe?

Should we create a list of beliefs that should be affirmed, not merely tolerated, if you wish to remain in the open, allegedly public square?

Alleged “advocates” of LGBTQ rights are claiming that the position that marriage should only be recognied by the state as being between a man and a woman should be enough in and of itself to get you removed from the public square where value is exchanged between diverse groups of people with diverse sets of beliefs and values.

These groups are calling on Chic-Fil-A to once again be banned from entering a public market space because the family does not support the legalization of gay marriage.

The debate at the core of this issue has little to do with the debate about what the state should or should not do regarding defining and legislating the institute of marriage and more to do with what values should we expect to be universal in our public space for we who live in this land to expect to be able to exchange value in that shared space?

Where is the line between our acceptable diversity and unacceptable unorthodoxy? What are the standards that enable diverse peoples to exchange value with one another in shared public spaces?

Who are you to dictate to the rest us what these lines are, and what these unity standards might be?

To continue to attempt to use monpolistic market pressures to economically destroy your political, religious, moral, ethical opposition who are not in violation of any law that does itself not violate our Bill of Rights, is to invite the destruction of rule of law itself in our land, wherein lies our existing unity that makes our diversity possible.

At the heart of that unity is the lack of a demand by others that ANYONE accept you for who you are, what you believe, or anything else for that matter. But, in public spaces, we respect our unity, our Bill of Rights, and, regardless of whether we worship your God or not, we treat you fairly, transparently, as if your life mattered as much as our own.

The very principle that enables diverse peoples to coexist in public shared spaces, of respecting the rights of others to be wrong, but treating them as if they we your own nonetheless, is destroyed by this constant weaponization of mobs to affect economic assassination of whoever rejects the values you assume all humans should share if they’re humans at all.

LGBTQ Advocates Demand Kansas City Cut Chick-Fil-A From Proposed List Of Airport Restaurants | KCUR 89.3

From www.kcur.org
2021-09-21 17:15:00

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A plan unveiled last week to include Chick-fil-A alongside a mix of local and national restaurants inside the new Kansas City International (KCI) airport terminal is causing concern among LGBTQ advocates, who say it betrays the terminal’s inclusive ideals.

On Thursday, Kansas City officials named Vantage Airport Group of Vancouver, Canada, as the recommended concessions operator for KCI’s $1.5 billion new terminal. Vantage’s preliminary plan made public at a City Council business session included Chick-fil-A.

Previously, the new terminal had been lauded by local advocates for its steps toward greater inclusivity, including gender-inclusive restrooms.

But now those advocates say those steps feel hollow. The LGBTQ Commission of Kansas City, Missouri, released a letter to the city Monday calling on elected officials to remove Chick-fil-A from consideration.

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