EU Moves to Create Facial Recognition Database to Track Dissenters

EU Moves to Create Facial Recognition Database to Track Dissenters

Paul Collier April 12, 2022

Multiple member states of the EU have decided to pool their resources to better track dissent within their nations. They plan on sharing their growing facial recognition databases with one another so as to eventually form an EU-wide database of faces with attached identities to assure that any dissenters within their lands that are caught on the myriad of surveillance cameras that continue to propagate throughout the lands can be identified and tracked down by authorities who can remove the offending member from society, for the good of the whole.

In the name of safety, once again, Europe turns to the tried and true method of failure, police state control, where the worst of the worst humans will find opportunity to inflict their masochistic bloodlust on the people the police state system alleges to be protecting. The worst of the worst will step forward to be the enforcers of this insecurity, deriving their pleasure and power from having people arrested, locked up, sometimes killed, for challenging the state’s ability to control the masses through terror.

Initially, the police state action will be used, is being used, primarily to target the bad guys we all agree are bad. Who wants to stop a child predator from being caught? Who doesn’t want to stop a terrorist from blowing up a school? But then the tools will be used to target leaders of oppositional thought, like climate change deniers, or people who believe men are men and women are women.

The tactic of inflicting police state terror on a people for the purpose of control of the many by the most powerful few is as old as civilization itself. Watching it unfold in Europe is almost a regular occurrence in world history, and we’re about to watch Europe go full authoritarian police state once again, in the name of safety, for the good of the whole.

EU countries want to pool photos in massive facial recog database : Futurology

From www.reddit.com
2022-04-11 15:29:07
/u/Sorin61
Excerpt:

For the past 15 years, police forces searching for criminals in Europe have been able to share fingerprints, DNA data, and details of vehicle owners with each other. If officials in France suspect someone they are looking for is in Spain, they can ask Spanish authorities to check fingerprints against their database. Now European lawmakers are set to include millions of photos of people’s faces in this system—and allow facial recognition to be used on an unprecedented scale.

The expansion of facial recognition across Europe is included in wider plans to “modernize” policing across the continent, and it comes under the Prüm II data-sharing proposals. The details were first announced in December, but criticism from European data regulators has gotten louder in recent weeks, as the full impact of the plans have been understood.

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Washington Posts Wants Passports to Deny Gender Science

Freedomist Curator April 12, 2022

One of the major organs of agit prop for the DNC-CCP, the Washington Post, is telegraphing the continued doubling down by the party on efforts to destroy the male and the female of the human species in a not-so-subtle attempt to destroy the agentic powers of parents as the primary decision makers in what values, what social constructs, what cultural mores children learn.

The Washington Post is pushing for the state to issue U.S passports that deny humanity itself by denying the biological reality of man and woman, hoping to overnight convert everyone to the nonceness this disturbed writer, Abeni Jones, seems to be advocating for. Consider this a test balloon, as most of these fringe-take articles are that come from the DNC-CCP media.

The DNC-CCP is an ideological anti-Christ that views humans as sacrifical lambs for the elite to continue to sin without consequence. It is an ideology that cannot be the social force of the land so long as parents have agency in determining what their kids will learn. To undermine parental authority, they push for the glorification of transgenderism, demanding that all of social life reflects only the values of transgender, which is really no gender, which is really no parents. A genderless species is a blank slate to be filled by the experts to make children useful avatars of the adults that control them.

The rank and file DNC are opportunists, cowards, perverts, nihlists who either want to murder humanity itself or want to assure that there is no future that can change their present and there is no past at all, for the past is the fruit of pure evil, and it must be wiped out of existence altogether.

These are the Peter Pans of our society, adults who, mostly because the state school system and college education system has brutally conditioned humans to not face the consequences of their personal actions (only the consequences of the actions of people that might look like you), have come to view humanity as an evil that was made evil by whiteness and can only be made pure by murdering all things associated with whiteness, things like father, mother, family, all the things that undermine the will of the state so long as parents have greater agency in deciding what kids learn about value than the state does.

Transgenderism is a mental illness, a deviation from the overwhelming aggregate of human biology, and it’s a vehicle of power for individuals who wish to destroy parenting to control the future, to assure the future is destroyed before it can threaten their present, or forced to become exactly the same as the adults who are brutalizing them.

Transgenderism as an individual expression should always be tolerated, but never accepted, by society, for as we force acceptance of a mental illness as a preferred way of life (and that’s what the DNC-CCP hopes to accomplish) mother and father, man and woman, will become words that can get you removed from society altogether. Children without agentic parents are ten plus times more likely to be abused and raped by adults, and the DNC-CCP knows this and wants this, for few people are more easy to control than the sexually traumatized.

In households in which children are abused sexually and physically by men, more than 80 percent of them are abused by men not related to them, as opposed to being violated by their biological fathers. This statistic alone is more than enough science to prove the true intentions of the pedo death cult that is the DNC-CCP. They want your children naked and exposed to their lustful desires, and the forced acceptance of transgenderism is the most powerful tool in their arsenal to accomplish this task.

I will leave you with this caveat. Transgenderism is a mental illness, which is not good or bad, it just is. The scientific understanding of what transgenderism really is and how to effectively treat it is not very deep. These people are fellow human beings, and, if citizens, fellow Americans, who deserve to live as they wish to live. They just don’t deserve to have their lifestyles, their values, their ways, forced on anyone else. They are human shields being used by bloodthirsty psychopaths to destroy human freedom for all, including the transgendered people that are being used by this perverse group of antihumans.

These types of psychopaths are fine using transgedered people as the scapegoats should their schemes fail. No transgendered person deserves being subhumanized or vilified for merely being transgendered. There are transgendered folks fighting side by side with we Americans, who, like us, want to live and let live, not force their ways on others, as surely as we wish not to force our ways on them, outside of the way of American liberty, where all humans are presumed equal regardless of their ways, beliefs, biology, etc.

it is your willingness to act American with other Americans, regardless of their differences, that makes you equal in these lands, nothing else. So, when you get angry, justifiably so, at the violence being perpetrated by the DNC-CCP, remember, this has nothing to do with transgenderism or transgenderd people. They are merely the useful vehicle of power of the anti-American, anti-human DNC-CCP.

Washington Post column calls for gender to be removed from U.S. passports

From www.foxnews.com
2022-04-11 20:32:17
Nikolas Lanum
Excerpt:

A Washington Post column called for gender, including male and female labels, to be removed from U.S. passports in an effort to advance inclusion for transgender travelers.

In the Sunday column, transgender artist and writer Abeni Jones said that transitioning from male to female has made travel “more difficult” and claimed that transgender individuals are frequently subjected to additional airport screenings.

The U.S. State Department, in conjunction with the Biden administration, announced in June 2021 that passport applicants would soon have the option of marking X as their gender, a third gender marker as an alternative to male (M) or female (F). The change went into effect on April 11 and the department announcement claimed the change was enacted in an effort to “advance inclusion.”

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12 U.S. Cops Fired for Refusing Covid-19 Vaccination

Ivo Fysic April 12, 2022

The state of Massachusetts has just fired 12 state police officers for refusing to get the Covid-19 vaccine. The State Police Association of Massachusetts has signalled it might be challenging the aauthority of anti-American governor Charlie Baker (a Republican, so remember, folks, seditionists in America aren’t just in the DNC) to make such demands on state employees.

The official response by the State Police Association failed to call a seditionist a seditionist, but that’s a trend that is widespread and indicative of the level of conditioning the DNC-CCP has successfully applied to the American people where such acts by American governors are not immediately recognized as being openly in violation of the basic principles, let alone the actual letters, of American Rule of Law, a government of the people, not the experts or the politicians.

12 Massachusetts State Police Fired For Not Getting COVID Vaccine

From live959.com
2022-04-11 13:58:53

Excerpt:

12 Massachusetts State Police have been fired from their jobs because they refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine. That news is not sitting well with State Police Association of Massachusetts President Patrick McNamara. The twelve that were fired included 11 troopers and one sergeant.

Last summer Republican Gov. Charlie Baker ordered most state employees to be vaccinated against a COVID-19 or else face possible termination – a mandate which McNamara, after the terminations, called “obsolete.”

As part of a statement that McNamara sent out to members of the Massachusetts State Police Association, he did not mince words:

A true leader would never treat the men and women who serve this Commonwealth in such a disgraceful manner! ~ State Police Association of Massachusetts President Patrick McNamara

McNamara shared a very strong-worded statement with the association’s membership on Friday evening and early Saturday morning.

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Divorcing the Left from America and the Public Square

America, It is Time to Divorce the Left

Freedomist Curator April 11, 2022

Leftist Language Game-

Assume hierarchy of sin that begins with being racist as the worst sin ever that is literally killing the children.

Do you hate the children, bruh?

Assume racism is the number one threat to our very existence and that, because of the nature of such a plague-like existential threat to human life itself, we must pursue ending racism by any means necessary. Violence is the only way to end the hate.

After this, assume homophobia, transphobia, non-binary-phobia, not wanting the rich to be killed, not wanting to sexualize children to break the patriarchy, not willing to call a man a woman, not willing to support abortion, not willing to say good things about our party’s platform, are the number one threats to our humanity, after all, ALL OF THIS STEMS FROM RACISM! And we must stop ALL OF THIS BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY to save the children and punish the evildoers who call women women and men men.

Now, you are at their mercy, in their pedo-death cult courts, all because you agreed that racism is the worst sin a human could ever commit and that just having that thought is a threat to your humanity that a bill of rights republic which offers such rights as free speech could never protect humans from, because free speech is racist too.

Don’t participate in their language games. Where violence against thought is justified, you have nothing more to say to these animals, other than cease and desist before the memes turn into something far, far more real, something the online Left has no appreciation for, for they think like children, for adults cultivated their sense of moral supremacist entitelment that can’t imagine any world but the one their masters injected into their uncritical, emotion-led minds.

When you’re talking to a leftist, you’re talkuing to a person who wants people who hate abortion to be removed from society altogether. There is no negotiating or understanding possible between we adult humans and the collection of perverts, nihlists, Peter Pans, and ruthless opportunists the Left is overwhelmingly now comprised of.

They have no moral high ground. Murdering babies is considered a virtue. Telling five year olds that women are anyone who says they’re women and everyone else is just either bleeding people or non-bleeding people is the only acceptable public belief humans can have.

There are no mothers, only persons that can reproduce. This is truly a debased, rebrobate mind, one that cannot be reached or understood save for by other perverts that view children as political weapons of war intended to allow these Leftists to go on sinning without suffering the consequences of their debased antihuman actions.

When a Leftist accuses you of being racist for merely supporting your country, tell them that the opinion of a pedo-death cultist has no merit whatsoever in decent, human society. And if they persist, deal with them as you do one intending to murder you, for surely they already feel entitled to do so to you before they ever saw you.

Read the comments from their perverts online. They preach murder and violence and death on any who would even question the least of their tenets, let alone any of their most sacred ones, like having the ‘right’ to murder babies, having the right to sacrifice the innocent against their will so that humans can keep on sinning. That right there is the relationship leftism always has with children, because of how violently antihuman the whole death cult really is.

Don’t be afraid anymore, fellow adult humans. Silence won’t save you from their murderous designs. You have nothing to lose anymore, and that, my friends, is where the left fucked up.

Biden Family Business Turns Out to be Selling American Power to China

Paul Collier April 11, 2022

The Hunter Biden laptop from heck that the DNC media worked so hard to conceal from voters before the illegal, unconstitutional mass mailer election of 2020 is revealing the connections the entire Biden family had (probably still have) with foreign powers that exchanged millions of dollars with the Biden family in exchange for having American policies altered to benefit foreign interests over American ones.
We in the human adult world would call this sedition, and under any normal circumstances where adults were running a republic such as we have on paper, this entire family would already be facing charges of sedition, fraud, bribery, etc, with Hunter and Joe possibly facing capitol punishment for their willingness to aggressively work in the interests of the Chinese Communist Party (the DNC’s frenemy that has supplied the bulk of the DNC’ foreign funding).
Communism is a spoiled brat child’s religion, so it should not be a surprise that our nation, now under Hyksos occupation by DNC Communists, with most of our major political, market, and social institutions being occupied by police state children in adult bodies, continues to allow openly seditious perverts, rapists, and murderers to serve in positions of American power, pervert seditionists like Weekend at Joe Biden’s and his crack-whore son Hunter. along with all the leadership of the DNC.
The feckless GOP, on their part, refuses to call pedophiles and rapists what they are, possibly because their highest ranks are still filled with the same class of people. They call out the corruption but not the sedition, and they very rarely touch on the pedophilic spirit the whole death cult of the DNC represents. Are they worried they might be misrepresented by the press? The DNC press has been calling anyone that doesn’t support the death cult of the DNC traitors, seditionists, insurrectionists, murders, rapists, bigots, etc, for years now, un inhibited by any press backlash because the “American” press is filled with these immoral agents of pedophilia and murder.
What do they have to lose if they’re innocent? Nothing. But the GOP is guilty of settling in to a comfortable role for the party, getting grift from being a politician in charge of doling out the spoils of war in a ‘safe’ district while assuring nothing is fundamentally done to end the power of the DNC death cult to continue to control Americans using decidedly anti-American actions to do so.
The mouths of the GOP, the leaders that are repeatedly put in YouTube clips for allegedly destroying a DNC death cultist with their vicious words, are just that, mouths, and mouths alone. They are all disembodied mouths with no hands or feet to convert words to action, and Jim Jordan might very well be one of the leading disembodied mouths of the GOP.
His appearance recently on Fox News, where he dared tie the whole Biden family to Hunter Biden’s seditious grift, but did so while refusing to call the family out plainly for what it represents, the seditious DNC death cult that this family has contributed so significantly remained well-funded by America’s enemies, the DNC’s friends, China, Russia, et al, more than willing to fund efforts to destroy an American Bill of Rights republic, ending the last escape route for the free in the world today.

Hunter Biden texts ‘tie in the entire family’

From nypost.com
2022-04-10 17:59:00

Excerpt:

Rep. Jim Jordan said The Post’s story revealing how Hunter Biden covered expenses for his president dad shows how “involved” Joe Biden was in his son’s shady business dealings.

Jordan, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, spoke out about the messages found on the first son’s abandoned laptop — first reported by The Post last July — on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”

“One, it sure looks like Joe Biden was involved. This was a family operation, including his uncle, as I said before,” the Ohio congressman said, referring to the president’s brother James.

Texts and emails on Hunter Biden’s computer showed that he had to foot the bill for some of his father’s expenses.

“I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years,” Hunter Biden griped to daughter Naomi in January 2019, referring to his father. “It’s really hard. But don’t worry, unlike pop, I won’t make you give me half your salary.”

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First Woman Charged with Murder after Texas Abortion Law Passed

Paul Collier April 11, 2022

Texas is going through with its experiment in challenging the socio-cultural norms of Leftist America, who would have you believe that the only right and proper view regarding abortion, the ending of human life pre-birth in an effort to avoid the burden of bringing that life to term and then being obligated to take care of that life afterwards.

Reading the DNC media spin on the arrest of a woman who was charged with murdering her unborn child by inducing her own abortion you’d never know any death took place whatsoever. As a matter of fact, the phrase they use to describe the people who support murdering unborn children to free humans from the burden of being responsible for life they created, is ‘reproductive rights advocates.’

This rather Orwellian phrase that uses an appeal to basic human decency that instinctively understands human reproduction is a positive outcome for the very perpetuation of our species papers over, sanitizes the real heart of the action, murder, and efforts by DNC media to continue to avoid the brutal reality of the murderous, selfish, anti-human, anti-child, anti-parenting act of abortion shows just how vulgar, how vile the heart of an abortionist is that they refuse to face the faces of the humans their ideology of human hate murders.

When the abortion law first passed, there were some brave human beings willing to articulate human decency in the face of orthodox vulgarity and genocide. Some business leaders came out in support of the Texas law to protect the most vulnerable in our society, the unborn. The angry anti-human left, using that Orwellian phrase “reproductive rights” as their bloodthirsty battle cry lie, whipped up the bots and the emotionally depraved to actually successfully cause some decent human beings to lose their jobs for daring to be against murdering unborn children.

For many, including myself, this was the death of any desire to understand the anti-human left and its vulgar ideology of murder and thought control. When it became clear that, for the Left, there is only one outcome in the abortion debate, total and free and on demand abortion up to birth, and maybe even beyond, and a violent state and corporate removal of all who dare believe abortion is evil and should be ended.

Two years ago, support for the Texas law and the fruit of that law, a real woman being arrested, held under a half million dollar bail (that will surely be paid by some anti-human sexual deviant org funded by one or more of the many leftist billionaires that support this bilious practice) would be hard to find, even among many so-called Pro-life activists (a phrase we should reject altogether as we should EMBRACE being anti-abortionist, as in, we are anti-murder, anti-rape, anti-pedophilia and most assuredly anti-abortion, which encompasses murder, rape, and pedophilia as well)/

But after we who oppose murdering unborn children saw plainly, not in theory, but in real brutal action, the society the DNC has in store us, a police state society that protects murderers and destroys the lives of anti-murderers for daring to be anti-murderer, well, the gloves are off. It is an all-or-nothing war at this point, with no compromise being possible with an enemy that has long ago decided they have a Satanic justification to choose to murder you and your way of making a living for merely disagreeing with their cult of pedophilia and elitist worship.

Now, it’s all or nothing, and not one person opposed the DNC death cult should feel they have in any way shape or form anything left to lose in a land so thoroughly controlled by adult children perverts in adult bodies with billions of Chinese capital in their back pockets to help fuel their anti-American, anti-human, anti-parenting, anti-child, anti-love death cult. It’s you or our children at this point, and none of us will offer you a scrap of sympathy, mercy, or understanding until such time as we have vanquished the pervert death cultists from every major institution in America today.

We don’t seek to offer mercy while you yet seek to murder us all. That comes only after we have vanquished your power and restored human decency to a land where it once flourished more than anywhere else in the world, before it or since.

Let this woman be the division we need to see, we who are not followers of the DNC death cult, so we can separate ourselves from the death spirals these supporters of the DNC and abortion are heading down, with no assistance from us even being necessary. It is enough to step out of their way, out of their businesses, their homes, their lives, so as to not be dragged down to Hell with them.

Abortion is absolutely the litmus test of human decency. Those who support it, no matter their stated reasons, have revealed to you that they have no sense of sacredness of the individual. Humans are expendable when they inconvenience those with power. They will always be a security risk to anyone who loves human individuals for their sacredness alone, for human sacredness is not a belief that allows them to make man in their perverse anti-Christ image, sacrificing the innocent against their will so that they can keep on sinning.

Woman faces murder charge over ‘self-induced abortion’: Texas official

From rssfeeds.usatoday.com
2022-04-10 14:42:34
USA TODAY
Excerpt:

Reproductive rights advocates are voicing their outrage after a woman in Texas was arrested and charged with murder for what law enforcement called “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion.”

The Starr County Sheriff’s Office in southern Texas arrested Lizelle Herrera, 26, on Thursday. It is unclear whether Herrera is accused of having a self-induced abortion or whether she helped someone else get an abortion.

“Herrera was arrested and served with an indictment on the charge of Murder after Herrera did then and there intentionally and knowingly cause the death of an individual by self-induced abortion,” sheriff’s Maj. Carlos Delgado said in a statement to the Associated Press.

Delgado did not say under which law Herrera has been charged. Herrera remains at a Starr County jail on a $500,000 bond, according to the jail’s roster.

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Macron Finishes First, but Must Face Le Pen Again in Runoff

Parker Davis April 11, 2022

French President Macron managed to beat all comers in the recent Presidential election, but failed to win more than 50 percent of the vote, hitting just 28 percent in voter support, with his next-closest rival, Marine Le Pen finishing at 23 percent. The two will now face off in a winner-take-all runoff election.

French presidential election: Macron projected to finish ahead of Le Pen in first round

From www.washingtonpost.com
2022-04-10 19:23:39
Rick Noack
Excerpt:

PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron was projected to finish in the top spot in the French presidential election on Sunday, for the moment holding off a far-right challenge that would shake global politics. But far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s gains and second-place finish set up a competitive runoff election on April 24.

As polls closed and votes were being counted on Sunday, a projection by Ipsos-Sopra Steria for France’s public broadcaster showed Macron ahead with 29 percent of the vote share and Le Pen at 24 percent. Far-left contender Jean-Luc Mélenchon was projected to come in at 20 percent — higher than expected, but not enough to make the runoff.

Macron, a centrist running for a second five-year term, faces far tougher race than when he trounced Le Pen by more than 30 percentage points in the 2017 presidential runoff. The latest polls of voter intention suggest he would now win by only four to six percentage points in a second round against her — reflecting…

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India’s US Relations Tested by How They Respond to Russia-Ukraine War

Parker Davis April 11, 2022

The Biiden administration will be sending ‘strong overtures’ to India’s PM Modi that any effort to aid the Russians against the Ukrainians, any effort to not follow the sanction plan targeting Russia will be viewed most unfavorably by Washington. President Biden is expected to share these warnings directly with Modi in his next meeting scheduled for today, Monday, April 11th, 2022.

Biden set to speak with Modi as U.S. warns India on importing Russian energy – National

From globalnews.ca
2022-04-10 16:00:17

Excerpt:

President Joe Biden will meet virtually with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, the White House said, at a time when the United States has made clear it does not want to see an uptick in Russian energy imports by India.

“President Biden will continue our close consultations on the consequences of Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine and mitigating its destabilizing impact on global food supply and commodity markets,” Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement on Sunday.

Daleep Singh, U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser for International Economics, who visited India recently, said the United States will not set any “red line” for India on its energy imports from Russia but does not want to see a “rapid acceleration” in purchases.

Lured by steep discounts following Western sanctions on Russian entities, India has bought at least 13 million barrels of Russian crude oil since the country invaded Ukraine in late February. That compared with some 16 million barrels for the whole of last year, data compiled by Reuters shows.

This meeting will precede the “U.S.-India 2+2 Ministerial” meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, India External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and India Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, the White House said.

Biden, who last spoke to Modi in March, recently said that only India among the Quad group of countries was “somewhat shaky” in acting against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

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The Cost of Gold Standardlessness – Weak Dollar as Damaging as War

Ralph Benko April 8, 2022

Arthur Laffer: “From now on it isn’t going to be as much fun being an American.”

By Ralph Benko, adapted from Newsmax and republished by permission of the author

In 1971, President Nixon held an infamous Camp David meeting where his economic policy advisors engineered the “Nixon Shock.” On August 15^th, Nixon then announced that he, among other measures, was “temporarily” closing the “gold window.”

The other measures are gone. The gold window remains closed.

Nixon promised that this wouldn’t affect prices. Then the dollar lost 85% of its purchasing power.

Arthur Laffer, then the OMB economist, on the steps of the Old Executive Office Building, thereafter said to journalist Jude Wanniski, as recounted by Wanniski to Robert Merry, who later told me: “From now on it isn’t going to be as much fun being an American.”

Meaning? America’s prestige, prosperity, and attendant privileges would, along with the value of the dollar, soon erode. Prophetic words.

Inflation soon became virulent. Gas at the pump went from around 36 cents to over a dollar.

Now it’s over $4. Despite appearances (“the energy crisis.” “OPEC.” “Sticker shock.” ) the culprit really wasn’t “rising prices.”

Rising prices are the symptom. The cause was, and is, the decline in the value of the dollar.

Lyndon Johnson set that in motion by closing the London gold pool. And left office in disgrace.

Nixon formalized it by “closing the gold window.” And left office in disgrace.

Now?

Recall the coda of The Who’s Won’t Get Fooled Again.

Right now, the Kremlin’s cruelty toward Ukraine, an acute geopolitical and humanitarian crisis, commands our attention away from the chronic destructiveness of bad money.

That said, make no mistake. Bad money is as destructive as war. Only, more insidious.

Nicholas Copernicus, one of the smartest people who ever lived, wrote in his 1526 Essay on Money (of which I had the privilege of serving as lead co-editor of its definitive modern translation) that “debasement of coinage,” is one of the chief causes of national destruction:

“ALTHOUGH THERE ARE COUNTLESS MALADIES that are forever causing the decline of kingdoms, princedoms, and republics, the following four (in my judgment) are the most serious: civil discord, a high death rate, sterility of the soil, and the debasement of coinage. The first three are so obvious that everybody recognizes the damage they cause; but the fourth one, which has to do with money, is noticed by only a few very thoughtful people, since it does not operate all at once and at a single blow, but gradually overthrows governments, and in a hidden, insidious way.”

American-led sanctions on Russia now have put renewed attention on the US dollar. Good. Much—like it being fun to be an American—depends on getting our money right.

Steve Forbes likes to say that the quickest way to repel a couple of bores flanking you on a transatlantic flight is to offer to explain monetary policy. However, money’s interesting.

And, as Copernicus pointed out, consequential. How consequential?

I’ve been hearing apocalyptic predictions by gold bugs about the demise of the dollar, and ensuing hyperinflation, for over forty years, ever since I came to their attention as one of the only two pro-gold of the 23 official witnesses before the Reagan Gold Commission. Hasn’t happened.

No sign of it happening now. Sebastian Mallaby, writing for the Washington Post, recently showed why, despite much prattle to the contrary, the there’s no sign that the dollar is about to lose its status as the world economy’s basic money.

Mallaby writes:

“This dollar defeatism is vastly overblown. … Since 2008, the dollar’s share in the foreign-exchange reserves held by central banks has declined only marginally, from around 65 percent to 60 percent. … Central banks like to use dollars for the same reasons that companies and individuals do. They hold dollars knowing that others will gladly accept them, just as many learn English because others speak it. … Of course, the dollar’s reserve-currency status is not a divine right, and the Fed should step up its determination to fight inflation.”

But Houston? We have a problem.

France’s then-finance minister Valery Giscard d’Estaing, once called the reserve currency status of the dollar an “exorbitant privilege.” It’s also a curse.

History shows that only the classical gold standard, in which the world’s currencies are defined by and legally convertible into gold (not dollars), reliably fosters sustained equitable prosperity.

Forty some years ago, we supply-siders, defying conventional wisdom, prescribed stabilizing the dollar (and, secondarily, cutting marginal tax rates) to cure stagflation. We then proposed using gold.

In practice the stabilization occurred through the hawkish monetary policy of Fed Chairman Paul Volcker with the support of President Reagan. They quelled inflation and fomented sizzling equitable prosperity by tightening the money supply.

Inflation’s now back. Washington presents as clueless to inflation’s cause, and cure, as in the days of Jimmy Carter.

How to fix it? One Congressperson, à la Jack Kemp, to go for the gold.

Harvard Moves to Protect Students from Unorthodox Belief

Harvard Attacks Orthodoxy

Paul Collier April 8, 2022

The once-great American institution of excellence in education founded by and for Christians, Harvard, has now assembled a coalition of victims to assure that no orthodox views will ever touch the delicate ears of its students it hopes to turn into anti-American Marxists dedicated to destroying the republic and replacing it with a techno-priest-king cult that awards conformity to authority and punishes dissent.

In the name of protecting children from bad thoughts, the new ‘anti-bullying, anti-discrimination policies will reinforce the DNC-CCP definition of a good human, one who is sexually and genderly fluid and embraces Marxist thought, by defining all belief outside of it as intolerance, as bullying, while using intolerance and bullying of the authoritarian few to do so.

The move is sure to rapidly accelerate the disintegration of the Harvard product being offered so that soon it will be considered a liability by American-led companies (as opposed to DNC-CCP led companies) to have gone to Harvard if you hope to get a job that doesn’t involve kowtowing to seditious-minded Marxists.

Harvard Releases Drafts of First University-Wide Non-Discrimination, Anti-Bullying Policies | News

From www.thecrimson.com
2022-04-08 05:33:44

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Harvard released a sweeping set of proposed changes to its bullying, discrimination, and sexual harassment policies on Thursday — including drafts of the first school-wide non-discrimination and anti-bullying policies.

The proposed policy changes, sent to Harvard affiliates on Thursday by University Provost Alan M. Garber ’76, come 14 months after the school convened a set of working groups tasked with reviewing the school’s policies governing discrimination and harassment complaints.

The working groups proposed new University-wide policies defining non-discrimination and anti-bullying and laid out resolution procedures for the first time. They also recommended that Harvard update its definition of consent to require “active, mutual agreement” in its Title IX and sexual misconduct policies.

The working groups were comprised of Harvard faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduates as part of a “community-driven effort to examine how we address discrimination and harassment at Harvard,” Garber wrote last January.

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