According to Associated Press, a U.S. Intelligence official revealed a village in Poland was struck by Russian missiles today, Tuesday, November 15, 2022. The incident left two dead, though the nationalities of the individuals have not been identified. The village hit might be Przeqodow, which is on the border with Ukraine.
What remains to be seen is how NATO will react to one of its member states being attacked by the Russians. If Article 5 is invoked by Poland, NATO allies must come to her aid.
It isn’t clear if the attack was intentional or simply an errant missile. It is also possible the missiles could be Ukrainian ones that missed the mark. The difference could determine if Article 5 is invoked. Russia’s nuclear armed capacity could discourage an Article 5 invocation.
Polish prime minister has called an urgent meeting of a committee for national security and defense affairs, the government spokesman said on twitter on Tuesday.
The committee, which consists of heads of defense, interior, justice and foreign affairs ministries as well as coordinator of intelligence services, is a body that prepares and coordinates decisions on national security and defense.
Cabinet spokesman Piotr Muller was not immediately available for a comment. His tweet did not mention what the committee was due to discuss.
He said a total of 15 energy targets were damaged and claimed that 70 missiles were shot down. A Ukrainian Air Force spokesman said Russia used X-101 and X-555 cruise missiles.
Politics U.S. official: Russian missiles crossed into Poland, killing 2 Polish media reported that two people died Tuesday afternoon after a projectile struck an area where grain was drying in …
A Russian missile killed two people in Przewodów, a Polish village near the border with Ukraine on Tuesday, according to reports. The strike was a part of Russia’s missile barrage on Tuesday that …
At least two dead after Russian missiles land in NATO state Poland on Ukraine border The Prime Minister of Poland has called an emergency meeting following the explosion.
The Red Wave has turned into a red ripple, for now, with key positive outliers in Florida, where Ron DeSantis and the Republican Party won big, effectively turning Florida red for the next election cycle. Outside of Florida, Republican Ron Johnson held on to his Senate Seat in Wisconsin, but so did New Hampshire Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan.
The House is still in doubt as we write this report, with Republicans likely to gain a slim majority, while the Senate comes down to three races, Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia. The Republicans need to win one to gain a razor-thin majority in the Senate. The Democrats have 48 seats, the Republicans have 50.
The Governorships currently show 22 Democratic versus 24 Republican seats, with 4 races remaining uncalled, including the Arizona Governor’s race where Republican challenger Kari Lake has pulled to within a few thousand votes of Democratic Challenger Katie Hobbs with only 75 percent of the vote reported. That race is already marred by bad voting machines and suspicious activity, all under the authority of the Democrat in the race, Katie Hobbs, the Secretary of State of Arizona.
Even as I write this, that red ripple might yet be a red wave after all, but certainly no tsunami or redpocolypse.
Control of the US Congress hung in the balance early Wednesday, with both Republicans and Democrats notching victories in some of the most competitive races in a midterm election that centered on voter frustration over high inflation and the sudden rollback of abortion rights, with elections for Congress, Senate and state governors up for grabs.
In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis, who is thought to be considering a possible run for the White House in 2024, won reelection after support from Donald Trump.
In Georgia, incumbent Governor Brian Kemp defeated the high profile Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams, who campaigned to sign up more minority voters during the last two years. And former Trump White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders was elected as Arkansa’s first female governor.
Republican J.D. Vance will win the Ohio Senate race, CNN projects, outlasting a stronger-than-expected challenge from Democrat Tim Ryan and keeping the seat under GOP control.
Vance’s win is a boon for Republicans and a victory for former President Donald Trump, whose endorsement in the Republican primary helped Vance emerge from the contentious intraparty fight.
Republican candidate for governor Kari Lake narrowed Democratic opponent Katie Hobbs’ lead as the results in one of the state’s most consequential races continued to roll in Wednesday.
Lake’s shrinking of Hobbs’ big early advantage was expected by many political observers, and it echoed the voting patterns seen in Arizona in the 2020 presidential election.
The former television news anchor carried 70% of votes cast statewide on Election Day, collapsing what once was a 14 percentage-point Hobbs lead among early voters to less than 1 percentage point as of Wednesday morning.
The morning after the midterm elections, Nimay Ndolo woke up thinking about Stacey Abrams.
“I just hope that she’s okay,” said Ndolo, an online-content creator in Smyrna, Ga. “I hope she’s sitting in bed with some Starbucks. I hope her feet are up. I hope she’s talking to her mom, talking to her family.”
ATLANTA — Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker will meet in a Dec. 6 runoff in Georgia after neither reached the general election majority required under state law.
New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul will win a first full term in office, CNN projects, defeating Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin and making history as the first elected female governor of New York.
Hochul’s victory keeps New York Democrats on track to maintain their now nearly two-decade-old winning streak in statewide elections. A Buffalo native, Hochul took over the top job in August 2021 following the resignation of Andrew Cuomo, the three-term governor who faced impeachment amid a sexual harassment scandal. Despite being his lieutenant governor, Hochul and Cuomo were never closely aligned and she moved quickly upon taking office to clear it of his allies.
Democratic Attorney General Josh Shapiro is thanking voters for giving him a win in Pennsylvania’s governor’s race.
But the Republican nominee, state Sen. Doug Mastriano (R-Franklin) had not conceded as of late Wednesday afternoon.
Shapiro is already claiming victory by the widest margin in a Pennsylvania gubernatorial race for a non-incumbent in nearly 80 years. The Associated Press has called the race for Shapiro.
Democratic incumbent Gretchen Whitmer faced off against Republican challenger Tudor Dixon in Tuesday’s Midterm Election. She was declared winner early Wednesday.
ALPHARETTA, Ga./PHOENIX, Ariz., Nov 9 (Reuters) – Control of the U.S. Senate hung in the balance on Wednesday as Republicans moved closer to securing a House majority, a day after Democrats outperformed expectations and history in U.S. midterm elections.
The Senate contests in Nevada and Arizona, where Democratic incumbents were seeking to hold off Republican challengers, were not yet called, with thousands of ballots still to be counted.
If the parties split those races, the Senate’s fate would come down to a Georgia runoff election for the second time in two years, after Edison Research projected neither Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock nor Republican Herschel Walker would reach the 50% necessary to avoid a Dec. 6 one-on-one rematch.
Republicans picked up at least 10 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, Edison Research projected. That would be three more than…
Democratic Rep. Cindy Axne lost her bid for reelection against Republican state Sen. Zach Nunn in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District.
Axne is a member of the Committees on Financial Services and Agriculture. Prior to her time in Congress, she worked for the Tribune Company, the State of Iowa, and as a small business owner with her husband.
New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, the head of House Democrats’ campaign arm responsible for protecting vulnerable incumbents in his party, lost his re-election race to Republican Mike Lawler, NBC News projects.
Maloney conceded the race in a phone call to Lawler earlier Wednesday, a spokesperson for Maloney’s campaign said.
More than anything, Maloney’s defeat represents a symbolic victory for the GOP, particularly given that Democrats appeared to limit significant losses and dodge a “red wave” that many Republicans had predicted.
Democratic Rep. Cindy Axne lost her bid for reelection against Republican state Sen. Zach Nunn in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District.
Axne is a member of the Committees on Financial Services and Agriculture. Prior to her time in Congress, she worked for the Tribune Company, the State of Iowa, and as a small business owner with her husband.
Axne was elected to the House in 2018, becoming one of the first two women from Iowa elected to the House in the nation’s history after she defeated incumbent Rep. David Young. In 2020, she…
Republicans on Tuesday tightened their supermajority hold in North Dakota’s Legislature, which will see a raft of newcomers take office and a clock begin to tick on term limits.
Unofficially, the GOP grew its Senate majority to 43-4 in the general election, with Democrats losing a net three seats from an already tiny minority of seven.
The four Senate Democrats all will be from Fargo-area districts. It’s unclear how they will handle committee assignments with so small a minority.
Republicans appeared to pick up a net of two seats in the House for an 82-12 majority.
Democrats held onto a string of competitive governors’ seats in the midterm elections after making the case to voters that Republican challengers posed a threat to abortion rights and democracy in their states.
The wins by Democrats in more than half a dozen states came despite Republican efforts to blame the party in power for problems like inflation and rising crime and national headwinds that were expected to favor the GOP.
Of the 36 governors’ races being decided in Tuesday’s elections, Democrats flipped Massachusetts and Maryland, and it was too early to say Wednesday whether they could win control of the Arizona governor’s office for the first time since 2006.
As Bob Stefanowksi watched the vote tallies come in on election night, he kept a close eye on two Republican bellwether towns where Gov. Ned Lamont was outperforming expectations – a sign that his second bid for governor was slipping away from him.
New Canaan, where Stefanowski won 60 percent of the vote during his 2018 run, instead went for Lamont with 52 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results. And Southington, which Stefanowski won with 58 percent of the vote to Lamont’s 36 percent four years ago, issued the Republican a much smaller victory this time around – just seven percentage points compared to 22.
Who will control Congress after yesterday’s midterm elections remains unclear, but two things are certain: Moderation can pay big electoral dividends, and Donald Trump has become a liability for the Republican Party.
Yes, plenty of extremist candidates just won office. According toThe New York Times, more than 200 Republican candidates who denied the results of the 2020 election or flirted with doing so secured victories on Tuesday. In many states, too few voters are queasy enough about the MAGA movement’s attacks on election integrity to keep the deniers out of office. Clearly, extremist candidates who question our democratic institutions retain some electoral viability.
But in practically every state where a more extreme Republican candidate ran alongside a more moderate one for different statewide offices, the more moderate candidate drew a higher share of the vote. For decades, “split-ticket voting” has been on the decline….
Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and ousted the CEO, chief financial officer and the company’s general counsel, two people familiar with the deal said Thursday night.
The people wouldn’t say if all the paperwork for the deal, originally valued at $44 billion, had been signed or if the deal has closed. But they said Musk is in charge of the social media platform and has fired CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal and General Counsel Vijaya Gadde. Neither person wanted to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the personnel moves.
Billionaire Elon Musk is now officially in charge of Twitter and has fired several top executives after closing his US$44-billion deal to buy the social media company on Thursday, according to multiple reports.
The Associated Press, Reuters and the Washington Post all reported the news of Musk’s takeover, citing anonymous sources who were familiar with the move.
CEO Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal and legal policy chief Vijaya Gadde were escorted out of Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco after the deal was completed, the reports said.
Elon Musk completed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, putting the world’s richest man in charge of the struggling social network after six months of public and legal wrangling over the deal.
Among Musk’s first moves: changing the leadership. Departures include Twitter Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal; Vijaya Gadde, the head of legal, policy and trust; Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, who joined Twitter in 2017; and Sean Edgett, who has been general counsel at Twitter since 2012, according to people familiar with the matter. Edgett was escorted out of the building, said two of the people, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public.
Elon Musk officially became Twitter’s owner late on Thursday as his $44 billion deal to take over the firm closed. Musk promptly fired top executives at the company, including CEO Parag Agrawal, CEO Ned Segal, and Vijaya Gadde, the “trust and safety” lead notorious for her fanatical left-wing censorship campaign.
The Washington Post reports that on Thursday, Elon Musk arrived at Twitter offices to officially confirm his company takeover after the $44 billion purchase deal closed. Musk had previously stated plans to cut Twitter’s staff of approximately 7,500 employees to just over 2,000.
Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter became final Friday, and the new boss has already implemented some major changes — and teased a few more.
Musk fired several Twitter executives, ousting both the recent CEO and the woman who was reportedly responsible for the permanent ban on President Donald Trump.
The new boss ousted chief executive officer Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal, top legal and policy executive Vijaya Gadde, and general counsel Sean Edgett, The Wall Street Journal reported.
He supposedly already ousted CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and Head of Legal Policy, Trust Safety Vijaya Gadde
Conservatives celebrated. Liberals ranted.
I’m not excited about Musk taking over because he’s not a friend to conservatives or liberals. Just remember that. Despite what he says, Musk is in it for himself. He loves to make money, like everyone else, so don’t be shocked if he sells in a few years.
On Thursday, Elon Musk finally closed his deal to buy Twitter after months of twists and turns. The deal seemed as if it was dead just a few months prior, but here we sit, with one of the world’s largest (and most politically active) social media platforms now in the hands of a free-speech absolutist.
Musk wasted no time before dropping the hammer. He walked into the company’s San Franciso-based headquarters and started firing all the partisan hacks who had done their best to quash speech over the last several years. Perhaps the most satisfying firing was of Vijaya Gadde, who made the decision to censor the Hunter Biden story just prior to the 2020 election.
Three of Twitter Inc.’s top executives who were said to be fired after Elon Musk completed his takeover are poised to collect more than $100 million in severance and payouts of previously granted equity awards.
Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal, who stepped into the role less than a year ago, is eligible to receive roughly $50 million, according to calculations by Bloomberg News. Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal and Vijaya Gadde, head of legal, policy and trust, are in line for about $37 million and $17 million each, respectively.
….Musk’s first order of business was to fire all the executives. Most notably, Twitter’s top lawyer, executive, and speech cop Vagina Goode. I don’t feel like looking up how to spell her real name, so I’m going with what Alex Jones calls her. You know who I’m talking about. Vagina was the one behind kicking people who had opposing viewpoints off of the platform. Now, she gone.
The question now is what leftists upset that the bird app will allow differing opinions are going to do now. Demoted tech jounalismer Taylor Lorenz, who will need to find other ways to deplatform people to help her stay young, set the stage.
Former President Donald Trump said Twitter is “in sane hands” now that Elon Musk has officially purchased the social media platform.
“I am very happy that Twitter is now in sane hands, and will no longer be run by Radical Left Lunatics and Maniacs that truly hate our country,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday morning. “Twitter must now work hard to rid itself of all of the bots and fake accounts that have hurt it so badly. It will be much smaller, but better.”
BIDEN KNEW ALL ALONG CLAIMS WHISTLEBLOWER, GOP REPORTS –More evidence is coming forward suggesting Joe Biden not only knew about Hunter’s CCP deals, but actively participated in them. Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, accuses the FBI Director and Attorney General of hiding “significant, impactful and voluminous evidence with respect to potential criminal conduct by Hunter Biden and James Biden.”
New whistleblower documents reveal that President Biden “was aware of Hunter Biden’s business arrangements and may have been involved in some of them,” Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley said Monday, suggesting that the FBI has “voluminous evidence” related to the potential criminality of those ventures.
Grassley, R-Iowa, sent a letter Monday morning to Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray and U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss detailing new whistleblower allegations that the bureau is in possession of “significant, impactful and voluminous evidence with respect to potential criminal conduct by Hunter Biden and James Biden.” Weiss has oversight of the Hunter Biden investigation.
CCP SIEZES MARKET TO KEEP NUMBERS UP AHEAD OF 20TH CONGRESS – The Chinese Communist Party is giving more specific commands to its corporations and financial institutions in a bid to keep the overall economic numbers looking good ahead of Xi’s ascension to Dictator for Life in the 20th People’s Party Congress. Moves include essentially buying and selling stocks among employees and easing.
As Chinese President Xi Jinping opened the landmark Communist Party Congress, the country’s vast financial bureaucracy has been busily tamping down ripples of turmoil across its currency and stock markets.
Chinese state banks are stepping up intervention to defend the weakening yuan, banking sources told Reuters on Monday. Scores of companies have announced share buybacks or executive share purchase plans since Friday, when regulators unveiled plans to ease share buyback rules.
State-owned banks vowed in unison that they would boost support for the economy while state-run asset managers pledged in identically worded statements their “confidence in the long term and healthy development of China’s capital markets”.
CHINA HIDES EXPECTED YEARLY ECONOMIC DATA AHEAD OF 20th CONGRESS – Just one day before the Chinese government was set to release yearly and quarterly economic reports, an indefinite delay was announced. There was no reason given for the announcement. Among the key numbers expected were the country’s annual GDP growth, quarterly retail sales, and the monthly unemployment rate.
China has abruptly delayed the publication of key economic data, one day before its scheduled release, as the ruling Communist Party gathers at a major political meeting against the backdrop of a faltering economy.
The country’s National Bureau of Statistics updated its schedule on Monday, with the dates for a series of economic indicators – including the closely-watched GDP growth – marked as “delayed.” The indicators, which had been scheduled for release on Tuesday, also include quarterly retail sales, industrial production and monthly unemployment rates.
The bureau did not give a reason for the delay or set a new publication date.
XI APPOINTD TO 3RD TERM – The 20th People’s Congress has affirmed Chairman Xi as the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party for a third five-year term, ending rumors the congress was set to remove him. The congress also ended two-term limits on the Presidency, which Xi is expected to be confirmed for in March.
The move all but assures that Xi will hold on to the two key positions of power in the Communist Party, the General Secretary and the Presidency. It comes on the heels of growing unrest in the country as more Chinese protest the zero Covid policy of Chairman Xi, which might aid Xi in targeting political opponents for persecution (ahead of the 20th congress), but it undermines his credibility and authority with rank and file Chinese who find it increasingly untenable to provide for their most basic needs in the face of total shutdowns.
Xi’s power at the top will only grow, even as his power at the bottom continues to fade, leading to an overthrow or a purge on the level of Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution that leds to tens of millions being killed and hundreds of millions being displaced.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS DEVOLVED INTO AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT AGAINST THE BILL OF RIGHTS IF NOT THE ENTIRE COUNTRY ITSELF
For Freedomists, a fundamental principle of freedom is liberty. There are three core freedom principles: virtue, liberty, and independence. Democrats defy and betray all three principles but their war against freedom has a strong emphasis on a war on liberty.
In terms of virtue, they push an alt-gendered hedonistic anticulture and seem hell-bent for leather to eliminate the Christian witness from public life and even to make the private practice of the historic Christian faith difficult. It is clear, they don’t merely desire to ALLOW for alternative sociocultural norms among willing participants, they demand to impose their alternative as a new normal and to persecute those who refuse to bow and submit to their anticulture.
Civic and moral virtue predicated upon the Judeo-Christian historic traditions and orthodoxy are essential to the very nature of this country and drove America over the past almost 250 years along an arc of history tending toward maximum freedom and equal justice for every single human being in this land.
The Democrats push the alt-gendered rainbow fascist anticulture as their wicked and perverse alternative to the Judeo-Christian sociocultural norms and pretend their depravity is virtue and progress when in truth it is a moral failing that would lead to the collapse of our birthrate and the literal collapse of our country within one or two generations.
To be clear, it is one thing to say people can choose a culture and way of life that wouldn’t be defined as Judeo-Christian or even heteronormative and should not be shunned or punished for doing so. But Democrats want to make this the new normal and shun and shame, cancel and even outlaw, those who remain true to what may be called the Judeo-Christian historic orthodoxies or the heteronormative family tradition. Democrats use corporations, the press, and platforms but also government and government-run entities, like schools and the three letter agencies, to harass and otherwise make life difficult for those who refuse to bend to their “new normal.”
In terms of independence, their top-down global corpostate semi-planned economy and their penchant for using climate change to make people slaves to “one big system” sbows their hatred for the material independency of the People in their homes and communities from all corporate and government control. For instance, electric cars are not really your property: they can be remotely shut off, they cannot be repaired by you, and unless you plug into a centrally controlled power grid you cannot even power them. This is One Big System (OBS) and leads to the demise of personal material independency.
None of the Democrats’ proposals to “combat climate change” in any way promote or provide for sustainability and alternative renewable energy at the level of individual homes and local communities wherein the material structures are owned by individuals and small groups at the community level. Mega globalist corporations will exclusively profit and the systems creates are all OBS top-down systems that deny the individual a path toward material independency.
Many Freedomists do not disparage the idea of promoting sustainability, alternative energy, renewables (especially locally sourced), or the need to care for our environment and address potential human impact on the climate. What we insist on is a house portable and house affordable solutions wherein most of the new infrastructure is privately owned by individuals and small and independent cooperatives at the community level, even if states or the Federal government provide tax incentives of subsidies and even if the Federal government provides research with the resulting patents being free to use by all Americans but only by Americans.
The near-monopoly corporations, the platforms that censor everyone outside the corpostate narrative, and the gross top-down economics that strip individuals, families, and communities of material independency are also treasonous against the nature of this country. The fact that mostly due to Democrats the average person, family, and community are not almost wholly governed through freewill participation among people who are themselves largely materially self-sustaining is evidence of a long-term conspiracy against freedom by this authoritarian Party.
It is true Democrats defy and hate virtue and independence founded as they are upon the Judeo-Christian moral and cultural tradition, against which they declare themselves enemies. But their wanton assualt on liberty is most pernicious becuase with liberty the average person could defy and avoid the consequences of their war on virtue and independence.
With liberty, we can all get along regardless of our individual stances on things like virtue and independence, and people creating their own new normal doesn’t mean others in any way are forced into choosing between submitting to that new nornal or being discriminated against or outright being persecuted. One may not necessarily agree with or want to follow the Judeo-Christian sociocultural and moral tradition or embrace virtue and independence as we do to be an American.
We should never, ever define being an American along the lines of race, ethnicity, ancestry, or creed but, rather, as a strict adherence to a strong devotional commitment toward upholding and defending liberty for every single human beung in this land and against all hazards, foreign or domestic, official or unofficial.
Without a strict and literalist attachment to the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights it is impossible, in our view, for one to truthfully call themselves as an American. People of all religions or no religion and all creeds and persuasions or identifies of any kind can all come together within the context of a free and pluralistic society of equals if at the least they embrace and fiercely defend liberty for every single human being without exception.
We define liberty in terms of the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights. This is where Democrats clearly show how anti-freedom, and therefore anti-American they truly are. The original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights is blurred by false and childish associations with the hypocrisy of those founders who owned slaves, but the value of the Bill of Rights is that by adopting them the founders made the ending of slavery as an institution inevitable.
The original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights is defined by the founders in many quotes and writings, including both the Federalist snd anti-Federalist papers and in any understanding of the very words as commonly used in the 18th century. For instance, the word “regulated” meant “supplied”, not regulated as we use the term today, hence the Democrats false interpretation of the meaning of “well regulated militia” is itself treasonous against the Bill of Rights and should be treated as a ghastly perversion bordering on a criminal act against this country.
Democrats wage war on religious freedom, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and of the press, the right to keep and bear arms, and every other right enumeratedm They attempt to propose false rights, like a right to not be offended or social justice, to decrease or eliminate other rights. They are behaving like a mafia organization, not a legitimate political party. This is not just a political disagreement! We see this assault on the Bill of Rights and this denial of their original spirit and intent as treasonous by its nature.
The effect is to overthrow our government of the People and turn it into a corpostate authoritarian and one-party regime that no longer had the essential character of being an American Union of sovereign People and member republics.
We would like to see investigations into the ongoing insurrection and rebellion against these United States of America and our Constitution, especially a conspiracy to essentially terminate the Bill of Rights, being waged by the Democratic Party.
Foreign capture of that Party by a globalist corpostate establishment and kowotowing to China’s communist Party and Iran’s Mullahs also remain questionable and worthy of investigation. The Democrats perhaps want to be like these tyrants and their rabid hatred of Putin feels more like jealousy of the kind of power he has and his unwillingness to make deals with them like China and Iran do.
(Note: Putin, China, and Iran should ALL be treated as rogue states and all ties with all three ought to be severed as much as is practical and all efforts to foment regime change short of starting a war ought to be considered.)
The apparent amount of treason in the Democratic Party against our Bill of Rights especially is rife and starts from Biden down to every County level Democratic Party entity.
Democrats are, as a whole, earnest and decent exceptions aside, a party of authoritarianism, anticulture, and treason against the Bill of Rights, which they hate almost as much as they hate the Bible. They are, no doubt, more loyal to the likes of the Rockefellers and the Klause Schwabs of this world than their own country.
Just because one is a Democrat doesn’t mean they are bad people, but most of the worse kind of people, like felons, the Chinese Communists, and child groomers, would prefer Democrats win and most of the topmost leaders of the Party are corrupt, immoral, perverts who graft from the taxpayers and violate their oath of office with an ethically “criminal” intent.
Whoever denies the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights and tries to re-read them in a way that increases government power and decreases the sovereignty of the People is an enemy of America and should not even be called an American, regardless of their citizenship.
Note also: we Freedomists consider the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights to both be the litmus test for who we consider being an American and is also the primary standard of liberty which should be used in every single country on this planet, without exception, because these are basic God-given human rights. Laws against these rights, such as Germany’s anti self-preservation gunphobe laws, are illegal themselves.
On the other hand, even an illegal alien who agrees to honor and uphold liberty according to the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights ought to be considered more of an American than almost every Democrat who, as a collective whole, despise the Bill of Rights.
The Bill of Rights is the litmus test for treason. Everyone who in an official capacity seeks to undermine liberty according to the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights is a traitor and should be removed from office and have their citizenship stripped for at least 7 years. And everyone who argues against and denies the clear original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights should at least be considered a collaborator with traitors.
Republicans should, if they gain power, use that power relentlessly and without giving quarter, to thoroughly expose, confront, and demand the prosecution of Democrats, or Republicans, who violate their oath of office ESPECIALLY in reference to the Bill of Rights. Republicans should propose a law that states the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights and that provides for removing anyone from office who is found to have violated the Bill of Rights in their official capacity.
If you as an elected official or bureaucrat propose a law, policy, or regulation that would violate the rights of the People according to the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights you should, if found guilty, lose your office and/or job and have your rights to vote or run for office removed for seven years. Just as we prosecute people who violate people’s civil rights, we should prosecute anyone, including politicians, bureaucrats, and corporations, that violate the liberty of the People. Under such terms, there would be no Democratic Party as we know it because almost all of them violate the liberty of the People every day by their venal acts and proposals.
As any sane person in the world nervously watches the continuous back-and-forth between Russia and the West over Ukraine, wondering if they are going to see mushroom clouds start sprouting over their cities, Emperor Joe and his deranged courtiers are doing their absolute best attempt at impersonating Emperor Nero (or, perhaps, Elagabalus). With the potential of World War 3 looming (not that the dissolute Imperial Swamp Court believes that it could really happen, so why not play with nuclear toys?), the Imperial Court (I could call them the “Legion of Doom,” but they’re not cool enough) have decided that they need to continue the geopolitical game – the one they should have been paying more attention to, that is – by plotting to be invited to invade, of ALL places…Haiti.
…What?
Oh, yes. Haiti.
Haiti has long been ranked as one of the poorest nations in the world. With a low-end economy based on minuscule agricultural and mining sectors, the country’s only real manufacturing sector involves pennies-on-the dollar clothing manufacture; in fact, the country’s only real claim to economic fame, is that it supplies around half of the world’s supply of “vetier oil” (an essential oil used in high-end perfumes). Otherwise, the country is, almost literally, a “banana republic.” As a result, Haiti can’t even capitalize on a tourism industry, although it is well-suited to one, since most vacationers dislike chilling on the beach while the country literally disintegrates around them.
Royal Decameron Indigo Beach Resort & Spa, Cote des Arcadins, Haiti, 2015.
The main reason for this disintegration, is the political instability that followed the demise of the Duvalier dynasty in 1986. After “Baby Doc” was forced to flee the country, Haiti tried to recover from the depredations of that regime, but it suffered from continual economic decline, political instability, repeated coups d’état, and a wave of major earthquakes.
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, 2019. US Dept. of State photo.
Elected to the Presidency of Haiti in early 2017, Moïse had started out as a local businessman. His ideas earned him the attention of a center-right political policy, that would catapult him into the Presidency of the island nation. Despite accusations of a corrupted election, Moïse did make notable progress in developing both infrastructure projects, as well as launching new initiatives to expand Haiti’s agricultural sector, by improving rice production.
However, continued controversy over when Moïse’s actual term of office was supposed to end continued to simmer. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, a group of what can only be described as “hitmen” stormed Moïse’s residence in the early morning hours of 7 July 2021. Like many rulers in the world, Moïse’s residence had little real security; in fact, only six police officers were present that night – two were active informants to the attackers and the other four did their best to do nothing at all.
What followed could be favorably described as a “Keystone Kops” caper, had no one actually died. The survivors of the 26 actual attackers would later claim that they had been hired – via WhatsApp, of all things – to be security for Moïse…who were then informed that the mission was actually to kidnap the president, although several of them apparently knew well in advance that the real plan was to assassinate him. Video and audio evidence showed the attackers shouting via a bullhorn that the operation was a US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) operation, which at least help to momentarily confuse Haitian authorities.
Port Au Prince, Haiti, 2012
There followed a wild chase through the capital of Port-au-Prince, as police and civilians tried to hunt down the suspects who were now fleeing in panic, as it seems that no one had thought through what might happen afterwards. Eleven of the suspects broke into the Embassy of Taiwan, apparently seeking sanctuary, but were promptly arrested after Taiwan waived the embassy’s extraterritoriality status to allow the attacker’s arrest.
Bookmark that last – we’ll come back to it.
The subsequent investigation revealed a tangled web of conspirators, spanning Haitians, Americans, Colombians, among others, who seemingly accreted out of thin air, on a jumble of ideas about what kind of operation they were running: Were they seizing power in a coup? Were they launching a revolution? Were they arresting the president? Were they simply hitmen? The answer to all of these questions, at one point or another, was “Yes”. In this regard, the planning and execution of this operation make 2020’s “Operation Gideon” look like D-Day.
Venezuelan authorities detaining Operación Gedeón militants, 2020. Venezuelan Government photo.
As a result, Haiti began to spiral out of control. That descent continues a year later, as certain parties are now calling for international – and specifically American – intervention…Which is odd, given Haiti’s history of intervention with the United States…Doubly so, when the United States is currently “eyeball to eyeball” with Russia, in an international confrontation that is more serious than anything since the early 1980’s.
So — why Haiti? Why the push for intervention? Haiti’s politics aside, who would be behind such an attack? There are only three real possibilities:
Christian Emmanuel Sanon, an over-60 year old Haitian-American doctor from South Florida, who was identified as a possible front-man for the operation.
The US government of Joe Biden.
The government of Communist China.
The first case, of the 60-something doctor, is more than a little bizarre. An operation like this requires a lotof money, and the rewards need to balance out the risks. While it has never been illegal (mostly) for Americans to travel to a foreign country to fight in a war, it has always been illegal to plan and conduct such operations from within US borders. As in, serious and very real jail time to those involved. In this regard, it is not really credible to assume that this came solely out of a Florida office complex.
The second case is more interesting, but verges into “4-D Chess“. It is barely – just barely – possible that Joe Biden’s administration may have set up a deliberately bungled operation to send Haiti over the edge. Why? Because that would please the Communist Party of China, who were very upset about the strengthening ties between its claimed ‘province’ of Taiwan and Haiti, while giving the US an excuse to play the White Knight, riding to Haiti’s rescue, yet again.
On Communist China’s part, they could have easily concocted the same plot, for mostly the same reasons, and ran such an operation with the help of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s intelligence services, who were actually embedded into the aforementioned “Operation Gideon” from basically the start. For Communist China, implying tacit Taiwanese support to the operation (recall some of the plotters fleeing to the Taiwan embassy compound) could give Taiwan a black eye, locally inside Haiti. On Maduro’s part, getting the United States to launch another intervention into a Caribbean nation would be a spectacular win, that he can make hay from for the next decade or so, while burnishing his image with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, of general purposes.
My own assessment? The sordid affair is most likely a combination of #2 and #3, because of the confused nature of planning, and the byzantine levels of actors involved. The US has to maintain the image of being in control of its own back yard, and with fires burning all around it, Imperial Joe’s Court of Jesters needs to distract its populace from evermore ridiculous gaffe’s and disasters…
…Until, of course, scary noises and bright lights commence.
Which, naturally, does nothing for the long-suffering people of Haiti.
Most Electric Vehicles Are Non-Sustainable Fake Solutions
By Bill Collier- While I like EV’s and want to have one to plug in to me house, I am dedicated both to increasing human freedom and sustainability as well as a clean and sustainable economy powered/owned by and for local people. Most EV’s today do not fit the need described and perpetuate a dependency upon top-down centralized systems and are too easily abused by authoritarian nutjobs in high office.
Let me explain, starting with what I truly desire.
I want to custom build an electric car but with a multi-fuel backup charging engine that is powered from alternative sustainable energy and/or biodiesel locally produced.
My aim is not purely to “save the planet” but to unplug from the supply chain and the centralized power grid, all of which commit the sin of being part of “One Big System” (OBS).
I want to custom build an EV, based on the planet scout matchbox car. Unlike all the ev’s out there that are connected to some form of OBS and have no regard for right to repair, I want the opposite of these negatives.
You don’t effectively own an EV and that can be remotely shut off by the company, and therefore by hackers and/or rogue governments that disregard human rights. You don’t own something you aren’t even allowed to repair or choose someone to repair outside the manufacturer giving you “permission.”
I reject this and find it morally offensive and that it violates human dignity and human rights.
If we could create a microfactory and use advanced 3d printing and nanotechnology, we could, I suspect, build a fleet of around 20,000 ev’s per year within a factory around 100′ by 200′ in size and using mostly either recycled or renewable materials. We could, again I theorize, do so for around $10k per modernized ev planet scout vehicle.
Of course, whoever owns Matchbox may not let us use the planet scout as our model, so maybe we have to do our own design and call it the Planet Guardian or something that conveys that buying this car is good both for people’s freedom and sustainability on one hand and the local and global environment on the other hand.
Sustainability, renewables, and recyclables along with nanotechnology and 3d printing may all be “good for the planet”, but my main draw to them has always been that they empower average people and can free us from OBS if the point of manufacture is locally-owned.
EV’s like Tesla are a mess because they are no less OBS than what we have now. In fact, due to lack of owner repair rights and remote shutting off by the manufacturer (which can be grossly abused), they are more like the stuff of a dystopian totalitarian nightmare.
Simply buying an EV does not make you a good planetary citizen, and it may actually both reduce local sustainability and bind you even more to an OBS that can too easily control you and stamp out your rights.
A locally-produced EV by a locally-owned factory, primarily using local renewables and recycled materials, with a strong right to repair by owners, and with no ability to remotely shut off or control the vehicle, is the only truly “sustainable solution” that serves both people and the planet admirably.
Despite the title, this article is not about politics, per se. Nor is it any kind of product endorsement. This is an advisory, drawn on current events. As well, these are strictly my own opinions, based on my own training and experience, and are not necessarily the position of FreedomistMIA.
I have frequently stated that fifteen or twenty years ago, I would never have imagined that this aspect of CBRN(Chemical/Biological/Radiological/Nuclear) would be what I would find myself advising people about. The first three, certainly: chemical spills happen all the time, as do pandemics (COVID is only the latest, and the one that hit me, personally), and as someone who both watched the real Chernobyl on the news when it happened, and received briefings on it later, accidents at nuclear power plants and storage areas are nothing to sneeze at.
But full-scale nuclear war, between Russia and the United States? In the early 21st Century? I’d have told you that Hollywood was no longer accepting derivative scripts like that.
Now, however, that very term is being tossed around blithely by many “leaders” in the world, and very seriously by one in particular. This has generated the usual, shockingly uninformed response from the shrill and the trolls, to scare people for the “lulz.”
So — I am going to talk to you about nuclear war, in order to inform you, rather than scare you.
The picture below is a “before and after” image of the city of Nagasaki, Japan, following it’s destruction by an atomic bomb on August 9, 1945. This was the “other” atomic bomb that week. I have been to the memorial site in Hiroshima (familial connection…on the Japanese side); should you, the Reader, ever get to Japan, you need to put it on your must-see list.
Just try to avoid going in the first week of August.
Nagasaki, Japan, before and after the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945.
This is the image most people have about nuclear war. That it is mostly wrong, is not something the wider news media is going to waste time talking to you about. The general consensus about nuclear war, as presented in such movies as The Day After, On The Beach, and Threads and reinforced by scientists of a certain political persuasion, is that after the bombs drop, those who live through that, will soon join the rest.
The reality is going to be closer to a downmarket, Road Warrior rip-off. No zombies; sorry.
While the notion of being turned into a shadow on a street by a nuclear blast is very real, the simple truth is that you have to be almost directly underneath the blast. For most Americans, that is simply not going to happen. To find out why, take a stroll through the Nuke Map website, and find the closest major city to you. This is one of the most educational sites of its kind on the internet, and a great companion to Alternate Wars’ World War 3 section.
Most people who live near a major urban area don’t actually live “in” said city, but in the surrounding suburbs. For example, I tell people that I live in “Dallas, Texas” – the reality is that I live well outside the city, itself; in fact, I don’t even live in the same county. That is a conscious choice on my part, because – in my heart of hearts – I never trusted the political leadership of the USA to not do something monumentally stupid, so I try to live outside target zones.
Nuclear weapons are expensive and complicated, so anyone deciding to fire one at an enemy long ago realized that they needed to think very carefully about targeting. Targeting enemy commands and military facilities are almost always not the first option, because – under the doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) – it was assumed that as soon as you launched your missiles, the other side would launch theirs. As a result, there was no point in targeting empty air bases and missile silo’s. Likewise, targeting command elements (i.e., the President, et al) was not a good idea, because if you succeeded, there was no one left to negotiate with. So, the target planners settled on “economic and communications nodes.”
In short – cities.
If you look at a map of almost any major city, there are almost always a confluence of major highways in or near the city centers, conveniently close to major office towers housing the headquarters of companies that control “war production industries“…meaning, essentially anything that can be useful in warfare…which is virtually everything.
But, what if you don’t live in one of these “target-rich environments“? If you live “out in the ‘burbs,” like me, at most, you will get a certain amount of damage to your home (unless you are staring directly at the blast when it goes off; that will make your life…problematic). If you live in an actual rural area, you might not notice that a nuclear event has happened, until your local emergency services suddenly turn out in force.
For those thinking that the recent “advisory” posters and videos from various governments around the country, warning you to head indoors and wait for instructions in the event of a nuclear attack, means that the government will actually tell you how they are going to save you in the aftermath…they won’t. Those poster’s job is to keep you off the roads, to lessen traffic jams caused by fleeing people.
In short, the government wants you done. Well done, that is.
So…The foregoing naturally begs the question: If you’re outside a target area, a nuclear exchange does happen, and you’re alive afterwards — what do you do?
First, you need to plan ahead. If you think that I mean that you should become a “prepper” – you would be correct. But – should you stay in place, or go somewhere else? You know your area and your neighbors better than I do. If you live in an apartment complex, I strongly recommend that you have a plan to go somewhere else.
I am in a position where I have options in several directions. Again, I did this deliberately. That said, if you think that you are in a good position to stay where you are, that’s what you need to do. Hitting the road after a nuclear attack is, obviously, a pretty dangerous undertaking, no matter how well-prepared you think you are.
In addition to the requisite stocks of food – which is cheap to start, if you start now, by simply buying a few extra cans of beans and vegetables, and bags of beans and rice with every grocery run – you need to think seriously about water. Getting a couple of 55-ish gallon drums, along with several hand-pumped water purifiers for hiking, is a good step.
Next, I have to insert a disclaimer: the following is NOT medical advice. Do NOT “experiment” with the following. Short of a nuclear attack, do NOT take these products without consulting your doctor. Neither myself, nor FreedomistMIA are responsible if you violate this warning.
You have been warned.
The only specifically anti-radiation drug available to the general public in a pre-attack environment is Potassium Iodide. This is used as a protective for the thyroid glads from certain forms of radiation. The link above is to the Mayo Clinic’s advisory page on the drug – read that THOROUGHLY before taking. Potassium Iodide can be bought either as a product called “IOSAT“, which is sold in packets of fourteen 130mg pills. These are perfectly fine to use, but I do not recommend them, because in my opinion they are too expensive, and not as useful as the alternative. The better option are sold as tablets, by the bottle, usually coming as c.140 tablets of 130mg each (the standard dosage for an adult) to each bottle. The reason for this is simple: the IOSAT box is only good for protection after a single detonation — what do you do on Day 12, post-Attack, when their is another explosion? It’s a distinct possibility. Buy the bottle.
As well – calcium supplements. These are the only reasonable measure to counter the effects of Strontium-90 exposure. While there is no cure for Strontium exposure, calcium supplements can help you maintain bone health, since Strontium competes with calcium in the body. Again, talk to your doctor.
Last – multivitamins. Should an attack happen, your stress levels and changes in diet will throw your body out of whack for some time, until you can settle into a new normal. Multivitamins can help regulate the nutrients your body needs in the short term. Again, talk to your doctor.
Next, you need to consider, right now, what your gardening potential is. Start looking up your gardening zone, to see what kinds of food crops you can put in. As well, learn sprouting, because it really will keep you alive. Likewise, check out THIS video, as well.
That last thing we’ll talk about here, is personal defense and protection.
While I am fairly certain that many of those reading this article probably possess firearms of some sort, you need to think carefully about how to organize you personal and family protection strategies. Even if you live in a hyper gun-controlled state, you still have viable firearms options, such as pump shotguns, lever- and bolt-action rifles, and revolvers. Don’t do anything to run afoul of your local governments, but arm yourself, if you haven’t already.
Lastly, don’t neglect first aid. There are several products readily available, at very low cost that will significantly increase your chances of survival. Your options in this regard are vastly better than what was available 20-odd years ago. Also, there are plenty of training videos out there, on YouTube; “Dr. Bones & Nurse Amy” is one of the best.
Finally — I am not writing this to scare you. Even though I do not know you, I want you to live, should a nuclear attack happen…because the chances are very good that you willsurvive the attack, itself, and likely in relatively good physical condition. I find the idea of a person who survives a nearby nuclear explosion dying because they were not prepared beforehand, out of depression and ennui induced by sources that they should be able to trust, to be offensive in the extreme. You don’t have to know every single thing that I know, but what you need to know is that, if the worst comes, you and your family can survive, if you just exert the effort now.
I hope this helps. Good luck, check your six and keep your powder dry.
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