Kate Brown, the far-left Democratic governor of Oregon, quietly signed a bill into law last month that will allow high schoolers to graduate without proving they can read, write, or do math — and told no one about it.
And now, when pressed on it just days ago, she still won’t talk about the law….
….The Beaver State’s Democrat-dominated legislature passed a bill in mid-June, SB 744, dropping requirements that would-be graduates demonstrate they have achieved essential high school-level reading, writing, and math skills for the next five years, the paper said. The move was an extension of the suspension of skills requirements that had been enacted last year in response to the pandemic.
America’s current policy of “calculated ambiguity” is worth keeping because it contributes to deterring a growing range of strategic non-nuclear threats (chemical, biological, and conventional), provides U.S. leadership freedom of action in a crisis or conflict, and assures allies and partners. However, influential politicians such as House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, plus a host of non-government analysts, are proposing changes to U.S. nuclear declaratory policy now because the Biden administration is in the early stages of formulating U.S. nuclear policy. As nuclear modernization programs advance through Congress, the likelihood of restricting or outright eliminating them falls.
They hope that if the Biden administration adopts new declaratory policy, that may provide enough impetus to achieve their visions of a reduced U.S. nuclear arsenal. These alternative policies — including nuclear “no first use,” “sole purpose,” and an “existential threat policy” — miss the mark because they seek to restrict U.S. deterrence options through declarations that opponents are unlikely to believe, and allies and partners believe are to their detriment. Instead, U.S. officials should articulate a strong defense of the current nuclear declaratory policy of calculated ambiguity because its flexibility is its strength, and a true necessity in a dynamic security environment.
United States Senators putting forth differing amendments for provisions in the infrastructure deal that apply to crypto have reached a compromise after a legislative setback.
In a press conference on Monday, Senator Pat Toomey said there was now a bipartisan agreement on an amendment to infrastructure bill HR 3684, backed by Cynthia Lummis, Rob Portman, Mark Warner, Kyrsten Sinema and Ron Wyden. The Pennsylvania lawmaker said the new amendment would exempt software developers, transaction…
The “infrastructure bill” is part of a long line of intolerable acts aimed at voiding the Bill of Rights and transferring wealth from workers and producers to the ruling class who produce nothing of value for society at large.
Bill Collier- For lovers of liberty and American patriots who don’t absolutely hate their own country, like the ruling class do, the “infrastructure bill” is the latest in a string of intolerable acts which appear to evince a design of tyranny. From wasteful spending to requiring a breathalyzer or other “alcohol monitoring” and even cameras in new cars to a per mile user fee that turns all roads into toll roads, this intolerable act is yet another example of top-down control and wealth redistribution from the workers and producers to the uber rich ruling class and their core of voters.
Cryptocurrency miners and blockchain software developers dodged the bullet of being required to act as brokers with privacy-busting reporting requirements to our lecherous IRS, those “swarms of officers” whose locust-like parasitism on our wealth is notorious and getting sinister. But the number of devilish details meant to fund the ruling class, further transform average people into serfs, and buy off a zombie army of mindless drone voters, in this bill, supported by the GOP and the Democrats, may be too numerous for anyone to add up. At over 2700 pages, this bill is a mass compilation of bad ideas that make the ruling class richer and you less free. It is an affront to the Bill of Rights, common decency, and the free market all designed to create the groundwork for a one-party authoritarian regime.
Finding ways to get over and around its onerous provisions will be a virtual cottage industry and any alleged good it fulfills will be greatly outweighed by its baneful impact on your liberty and wealth, unless you are part of the ruling class or a target of their vote-buying largesse.
Back when being an American meant something more than just living in this country, back when it meant a passion for freedom and a strong and courageous determination to stand for liberty and vanquish freedom takers, bills like this would be responded to quite differently. The officials behind these bills would become pariahs and new elections would sweep them all out of power.
The tyranny is real and the intent to defraud the public and transform this country into a one-party authoritarian regime is also obvious. But the outrage is a murmur, a pale whisper, and nobody appears to back justice against the freedom-taking ruling class and their collaborators in Congress. Neither local governments nor states and certainly not the faux opposition party, the Republicans, stand with average Americans who just want to be left alone to live their lives in peace.
Those who desire freedom have a high mountain to climb and the odds are stacked against their efforts to push through and obtain freedom, prosperity, peace, and safety. But the battle to pursue freedom and defeat the freedom taking ruling class is incumbent upon us all, whether we desire it or not, because we, the average people, are the target. What is more, as these intolerable acts pile up, and given the totalitarian bent of the Party in power this is just the start of their war on freedom, you will have no way to avoid the baneful effects of their efforts.
The infrastructure bill is another intolerable act that is, as all such acts, aimed at the heart of freedom and designed to further plunder your wealth.
PGC – A Fairfax County Virginia School chose to feature children’s literature created by an organization called “Woke Kindergarten” called “Safe. By Ki.”
The video outlined all the things that made Ki safe, one of them was not having cops around. The video also implied everyone should work on making everyone else feel safe in pretty much every part of their lives.
The focus of most articles, such as the redstate article we reference to and link below, is on the book presentation characterizing a world without cops around as being unsafe. What disturbs me more is that the presentation has such a heavy emphasis on safety, and such an emphasis on stressing the moral imperative that everyone do their part to ensure everyone is always safe.
It’s difficult on its face to criticize a program teaching kids they should expect to feel safe when, to the majority of degrees, we kind of want our kids to have some level of feeling they are and should always feel safe. I would not, however, wish to teach my child is my moral imperative to assure everyone else is doing a good job making sure everyone else is safe. As you get older, safety goes far beyond what a chid could even imagine, and affects almost every potential type of human exchange on can imagine.
In the name of safety, we can keep certain books banned. In the name of safety, we can declare certain types of thinking a reflection on a reprobate cancer that must be destroyed.
In the name of safety, we can form committees that can declare in secret whose fit for the party and who might be a traito.
In the name of safety we Americans bombed the Middle East to Hell and back again and back to Hell again a few times over.
Any group promising safety whille demanding the safety monitors work to turn in those who don’t work for the safety of everyone (those classified as being human, a classification that will continue to get smaller and smaller as power concentrates) is headed to an authoritarian end. Never let them into the public schools for they hope to destroy the very republic these schools were allegedly created to preserve by transmitting the unity values of a diverse republic bounded by the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution.
Democrats control the Capitol in California and the GOP leadership have played the role of controlled opposition in what has become an authoritarian one-party regime. With the recall election against Governor Newsom, a rabid leftist Democrat, Republicans are once again poised to perpetuate the one-party rule while pretending to be opposition thereto.
According to an ABC10 News Poll, the recall effort against Governor Newsom, a rabid Democrat, some 51% of voters support recall, 40% are against recall, and 9% are undecided. But this is not good news for Republicans, who, while led by Larry Elder, present a divided front which is ensuring the top Democrat would take the race.
The breakdown is as follows:
27 percent — Kevin Paffrath (D) 23 percent — Larry Elder (R) 20 percent — Undecided 10 percent — John Cox (R) 5 percent — Kevin Faulconer (R) 4 percent — Caitlyn Jenner (R) 3 percent — Kevin Kiley (R)
Paffrath is a YouTube personality who stated in his campaign he would deploy the national guard to remove homeless camps which have been allowed to flourish around California. Not a typical Democrat, Paffrath is a real estate investor and landlord, known at one point as a “landlord influencer”, with a social media following of 1.68 million subscribers. If Paffrath, a native of Germany whose parents brought him to California when he was 18, and who lives in Ventura, CA, wins he would be the youngest governor ever. He would also run afoul of the hard left wing of the Democratic Party.
On the other hand, he is a fresh face and would allow the Democrats to replace an unpopular governor whose continued tenure has the potential of strengthening the GOP, especially in those few swing US House Districts where the GOP could, if it knew how to fight, get some pick-ups.
The recall election is scheduled for September 14, 2021 while the press in California remain firmly in the tank for Governor Newsom. The pretend act that they are journalists and not merely political hacks working in lockstep to keep Camifornia under a one-party authoritarian regime isn’t wearing well as all their preachments against the recall have failed to sway public opinion their way. Even in the absence of any fair and equitable coverage of news, balanced by representing all Californians other than the hard left, the public appears, at least in this case, to be diverging from the rabidly partisan “press” establishment.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party, which has demonstrated an amazing fecklessness in the face of many assaults on political freedom by the Democratic Party, has refused to endorse a single candidate and create a united front giving them a fighting chance to take the governorship.
As the GOP field is led by Larry Elder who garners overall 23% support by all voters, it is not surprising the mostly all white GOP establishment opted not to endorse a candidate. The issue isn’t Larry Elder’s race, he is a Black man, the issue is the moral weakness of the Party establishment which is unfit to fight any battle against Democrats or against the onslaught against freedom.
Between them, Republicans have over 55% of the vote, a stunning number, with 20% of voters undecided, but thanks to a lack of unity, it would appear the GOP have once again snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. The closest GOP comeptitor to Elder, however, has 10% of the vote, far behind “undecided” at 20%, but the GOP leadership has abdicated the field, on a blatant display of just how much of a “controlled opposition” the Party is.
While the GOP establishment claim their focus is on the recall “question 1” which is to say yes to recall the governor, their tactical response only serves the Democrats, who themselves may wish to recall the unpopular governor and get a second chance with a fresh face. It is almost as if the GOP made a deal with Democrats to replace the unpopular governor with another Democrat as the leadership prevent a unified front from coming together to ensure a win for Republicans.
Regardless of what rank and file Republicans want, with the majority clearly behind Elder, the GOP leadership are playing a different game which has nothing to do with defeating Democrats and everything to do with keeping the status quo.
Only 24% of California voters are registered Republicans, a number that exposes the incompetence of the Party which hasn’t even made a serious effort to close the gap by reaching out to other communities of people, and their concerns and issues, outside their white base. Inviting people into the fold from diverse backgrounds and ethnicities as equals, and dignifying their needs and aspirations, has never occured to the leaders of this moribund Party.
The Party bigwigs voted 90% to not endorse any candidate and then pat themselves on the back claiming that if they endorsed any one candidate “some voters might stay home.” This is misdirection meant to put a happy face on the cowardice of the Party or, worse, their instinctive recoil at seeing a non-white head their effort, even if he has the best chance to win and even if most rank and file Republicans are behind him.
If the poll holds, Democrats will have used Republican money and efforts to remove an unpopular governor and give them a chance to replace him with a young and more palatable face which ensures they hold on to power.
PGC – A move by YouTube to drop a local county government city council meeting being held on the platform further illustrates the real power advantage the digital service has over even our own sovereign governments, from local to national.
The move was made because they allegedly shared misinformation regaumrding the Covid-19 vaccine and treatment of the virus. The term misinformation should come to mean “outside the orthodoxy of the cabal of government, social, market, and media leaders have agreed to universally enforce.”
Despite unblocking and attempting to walk back the block, YouTube just gave more governments, not just American ones, more incentive to create laws to combat the power the platform seems to want to take over the governments of the world.
Big U.S. tech companies have been bombarded by criticism for failing to curtail the spread of misinformation. In response, the firms have taken a harder line during the pandemic.
The issue started here last Tuesday, when council members heard from a large and angry crowd before voting to…
PGC – Senator Marsha Blackburn is sounding an alarm to anyone who might want to listen to her that Chinese Digital Currency on government phones is an extreme security risk to the American state. She wants to pass a bill to make sure US government officials cannot have Chinese Digital Currency on their phones.
This is a thing that requires a bill to be passed to prevent members of our government from putting Chinese digital currency on your government phone.
I believe, your honor, the record speaks to itself as to the nature of the state of things in these here halls of government in current year.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) took steps on Thursday to ban a new Chinese digital currency from government devices, arguing that China could use the currency to surveil people around the world.
Blackburn told the Washington Free Beacon that the ban, introduced as an amendment to the Senate’s omnibus infrastructure bill, is needed to prevent China from stealing information.
“The People’s Bank of China is trying to use this as a way to hack into networks,” Blackburn said. “Once you’ve got them in your wallet, you’ll have them in your wallet from now on.”
China is rolling out the digital currency in an attempt to better surveil its users and to create an alternative to traditional financial systems backed by the U.S. dollar.
Lawmakers are sounding the alarm about the digital yuan ahead of the 2022 Olympics, where Chinese officials plan to test the currency more broadly. Blackburn, Sen. Roger Wicker (R., Miss.), and Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.) last month asked the U.S. Olympic Committee to ban American Olympians from using the currency at the Beijing games.
Blackburn told the Free Beacon the digital yuan is part of a larger push by China to displace the United States as a world leader. “We know that China is seeking to push the yuan as the currency that countries will peg to,” she said. “We’re attentive to the aggressiveness they are exercising when they push this as the standard.”
The alleged poion pill part of the infrastructure bill that cryptocurrency experts are saying will gut the crpytocurrency industry has been explicitely approved by the Biden White House, even enthusiastically supported.
This fact might do more harm in garnering the votes in the Sentate necessary for this Bill to pass than help.
U.S. President Joe Biden returns to the White House on August 02, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden is returning from a weekend trip to Camp David.
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The White House weighed in – somewhat out of the blue – on a contentious battle over competing crypto amendments to the $1 trillion infrastructure bill. It’s chosen to back the side that isn’t as friendly to the world of bitcoin and ethereum.
The fight is over a provision in the bipartisan bill, which raises…
Results of a new poll out Thursday show California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom deep underwater with little more than a month to go until voters cast their ballots in a statewide referendum.
According to a survey of 1,100 Californians conducted Aug. 2-4, more than half were in favor of Newsom’s…
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