[National Review - June 2022] Today, Illinois voters go to the polls in the state’s party primaries. Democrats are virtually certain to renominate J. B. Pritzker, the state’s incumbent governor, even though his policies have managed to drive longtime Illinois businesses such as Caterpillar out of the state.
But while the state’s coffers suffer, Pritzker will be doing just fine. He is a scion of a billionaire family, whose members include former secretary of commerce Penny Pritzker, who was an Obama campaign donor. Another Pritzker sibling, meanwhile, exemplifies how the family has used its vast wealth to promote liberal causes: specifically, the cultural normalization of transgenderism. Earlier this month, Jennifer Bilek explained this in great detail for Tablet. (Bilek prefers to use the term "synthetic sex identities," or SSI, because she thinks the word "transgenderism" lacks "clear boundaries" and is thus "useless for communication."): A sample:
Ever since, a motivating and driving force behind the Pritzkers’ familywide commitment to SSI has been J. B.’s cousin Jennifer (born James) Pritzker — a retired lieutenant colonel in the Illinois Army National Guard and the father of three children. In 2013, around the time gender ideology reached the level of mainstream American culture, Jennifer Pritzker announced a transition to womanhood. Since then, Pritzker has used the Tawani Foundation to help fund various institutions that support the concept of a spectrum of human sexes, including the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the Williams Institute UCLA School of Law, the National Center for Transgender Equality, the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Palm Military Center, the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH), and many others. Tawani Enterprises, the private investment counterpart to the philanthropic foundation, invests in and partners with Squadron Capital LLC, a Chicago-based private investment vehicle that acquires a number of medical device companies that manufacture instruments, implants, cutting tools, and injection molded plastic products for use in surgeries. As in the case of Jon Stryker, founder of the LGBT mega-NGO Arcus Foundation, it is hard to avoid the impression of complementarity between Jennifer Pritzker’s for-profit medical investments and philanthropic support for SSI.
Bilek provides further examples of the Pritzkers’ efforts (including some of Governor Pritzker’s policies) in the piece. It backs up what Helen Joyce wrote for National Review last summer, detailing the main forces aiding "Trans Activism’s Long March through Our Institutions":
One is an American transwoman billionaire, Jennifer (James) Pritzker, a retired soldier and one of the heirs to a vast family fortune. Pritzker’s personal foundation, Tawani, makes grants to universities, the ACLU, GLAAD, the HRC, and smaller activist groups. To cite a couple of examples, in 2016 it gave the University of Victoria $2 million to endow a chair of transgender studies, and throughout the "bathroom wars" it supported Equality Illinois Education Project, which is linked to a group campaigning for gender self-ID in the state.
It is an expensive endeavor to reject reality. One hopes that it is also, ultimately, a failed one.
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(Bilek prefers to use the term "synthetic sex identities," or SSI, because she thinks the word "transgenderism" lacks "clear boundaries" and is thus "useless for communication.")
Essentially admitting that it is NOT natural.
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Some people have an awful lot to answer for.
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It is worth asking candidates on the term Minor Attracted Person. That is the next wave of this. The Uni-Party folks won’t want any discussion of the term.
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[ZERO] Although these precrime programs are popping up all across the country, in small towns and big cities, they are not making us any safer but they are endangering individual freedoms.
Nationwide, there are upwards of 123 real-time crime centers (a.k.a. fusion centers), which allow local police agencies to upload and share massive amounts of surveillance data and intelligence with state and federal agencies culled from surveillance cameras, facial recognition technology, gunshot sensors, social media monitoring, drones and body cameras, and artificial intelligence-driven predictive policing algorithms.
These data fusion centers, which effectively create an electronic prison—a digital police state—from which there is no escape, are being built in partnership with big tech companies such as Microsoft, Google and Amazon, which helped to fuel the rise of police militarization and domestic surveillance.
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Meanwhile they allow addicts to run loose, rob and pillage their environments, and they're worried about pre-crime. How about enforcing existing crime.
[PJ] Prosecutorial overreach is not uncommon in high-profile cases. The prosecutors pile on the charges to frighten defendants with the prospect of long prison terms so they plead out. The state also hopes to throw enough charges against the wall to see what sticks.
But the danger of overreach is that a judge may want to smack a prosecutor down for bringing unnecessary charges. Such is the case in the January 6 prosecutions.
One of the rioters, Edward Lang, is facing 11 charges and pleaded not guilty to all of them. But a district court judge threw out the charges relating to "obstruction of an official proceeding" concerning Lang and two others accused of violence at the Capitol.
The law in question sentences a guilty party to up to 20 years in prison for anyone who "corruptly alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document," or "otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so." Lang is questioning whether the Sarbanes-Oxley statute fits the behavior of hundreds of rioters.
Sarbanes-Oxley was passed in response to financial malfeasance in the 2002 bankruptcies of telecom giant Worldcom and Enron, an energy company based in Houston. Lang argues that the obstruction defined in Sarbanes-Oxley bears no relationship to the violence that occurred on January 6, 2021.
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The more that is discovered about the government infiltration of the rally, the more likely a dropping of all charges becomes.
The dropping of charges for technical reasons, would likely end any further examination of FBI/government malfeasance. All is forgiven, everyone can go home now. Queuing the memory hole.
Nothing to be seen here any longer. Next crisis please.
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When Germany declared war on the United States in December of 1941, this country became an ally of Britain. Throughout early 1942 as a result, the British Army command in North Africa shared information with the American attache about its plans, and did so in great detail.
That attache communicated all this information every day to America, using a code that the Italians had broken.
Thus in the Libyan campaign of 1942 Rommel was informed of all British plans in detail.
This perhaps accounts for his remarkable success in that period.
Earlier British officers had paid little attention to keeping military information from the many spies in Egypt, but Rommell never had the bonanza of information that he had in the Spring and Summer of 1942.
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Before America was an active participant, we were supplying the British like we are now the Ukrainians. Tanks originally destined for the defense of the American Philippines were shipped off to Egypt before Dec '41.
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I studied Rommel, read nearly all his books, including hos informal letters to his wife and family. Studied his decision making, his mistakes, victories, and ideals. How he fought on the move using capture supplies, because Hitler had cut off his supply chain. He laid the foundation for modern war, Rommel, not Clausewitz. I did study Clausewitz' theory as well. The author left out lots and made inferences that might not be correct. Rommel grew to detest Hitler, and he was not recalled just before D Day for a surprise birthday party. He believed he was going to be fired, jailed, and possibly executed for moving forces to Normandy against Hitlers orders. He went home before going to see Hitler, for his birthday, and to say goodby.
Studying American and allied tactics and policies is kind of the American military school way. It creates an echo chamber. Rommel was probably the best general/war fighter of all the WWII generals. If Hitler would have let him defend Normandy like he wanted, instead of Calai (sp), We would have certainly lost on D Day.
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Itcreates an echo chamber. Rommel was probably the best general/war fighter of all the WWII generals.
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I knew you would chime in! Thanks! Rommel was not the favorite, but he was spared the fodder of the Russian front, nor sure why. I learned from him, and Patton that leading from the front, leaders recons, and audacity are defining in battle. I learned from conversations with COL Moore, different war, that attacking, even in the wrong direction is better than defense and sometimes ya just get lucky. I did not study any of the generals from Russia, probably to me detriment.
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I learned from conversations with COL Moore, different war, that attacking, even in the wrong direction is better than defense and sometimes ya just get lucky.
In a static defense, no one is better at it than the Russians.
Text taken from the dzen.ru post by Aleksandr Stepanov
In June 1944, during the Vyborg-Petrozavodsk operation ("Stalin's Fourth Strike"), Soviet troops carried out the Tulok landing operation. Two brigades of marines were landed on the shore of Ladoga, between the mouths of the Tuloks and Vidlitsa rivers, and cut the highway and railway passing near the shore. Thus, it made it difficult for the Finnish troops to organize an organized retreat. The operation was successful and is still considered one of the most exemplary in our military history. Even Marshal Mannerheim recognized her as such in his memoirs. But we'll talk about it later. Continued on Page 49
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[ZERO] Although these precrime programs are popping up all across the country, in small towns and big cities, they are not making us any safer but they are endangering individual freedoms.
