[HumanEvents] The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1910 with an explicit mission "to stop the defamation of the Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment for all," but in recent years they have completely gone off the rails.
In recent years though, it seems the ADL simply attacks anyone who doesn’t go along with the far-left agenda. The ADL targeted me, a young conservative Jewish woman, for speaking out against wokeness, far-left indoctrination of children, and the medical mutilation of minors under the guise of gender ideology.
On Monday, Elon Musk revealed that the ADL had "pushed hard for us to shut down accounts like Chaya’s, even though it has nothing to do with anti-Semitism, which is their supposed charter!"
I asked Musk to "consider releasing some of the communications between X and the ADL so we can all see their true intentions? I’m definitely interested in seeing their requests to ban my account!"
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Abe Foxman was head of ADL from 1987 to 2015. By 2010 or so he was displaying cognitive issues but it took a bit to get him out because of his rapport with big donors.
Jonathan Greenblatt took over in 2015. He came directly from the Obama Admin. He said he would be apolitical but, of course, nobody should have believed that. Since 30 Sept 2020 he has been on an NGO dedicated to monitoring Facebook.
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[Townhall] When life gives you lemons, make litigation. All these bogus criminal cases against not only Donald Trump but against anybody who knows Donald Trump, or has spoken the name of Donald Trump, or was ever on the same continent as Donald Trump, are a legal abortion that would make Planned Parenthood blush. Yet, despite these charges having nothing to do with actual law, they have everything to do with creating an opportunity. And it’s an opportunity to use our power as a suppository against our enemies ruthlessly.
No, I am not for any of this. I think this is a bad idea. I warned people against creating these New Rules where you use the law, or, instead, you twist the law like some sort of Tibetan yogi into unrecognizable forms and shapes in order to trap your political enemies. I am on record saying it’s a bad idea. I still think it’s a bad idea. But what I think doesn’t matter. The New Rules are now The Rules, and it’s time to use them like Eric Swalwell used Fang Fang.
Quickly and unpleasantly for the recipient.
Now, you have to understand that these charges have approximately zero legal merit. There are a variety of reasons why. Some are just factually ridiculous. Some fail to apply the facts to the elements of the statutes. In others, the statute is applied in a way it was never meant to be applied. Finally, some of them are simply selective prosecutions. I mean, if you were going to charge Trump for obstruction for moving some boxes around his resort, you’ve got to have a good explanation for why you let Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit skate after taking a hammer and tongs to a bunch of hard drives that were literally under subpoena. And there is no reasonable explanation except that Democrats walk while Republicans get locked up. Which is unacceptable.
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How demanding congress pass a simple fundamenta civil liberties law?
Any elected, appointed and employed government official found guilty of violating, promoting the violation of a person's, or a group's constitutional rights shall be sentenced to 25 years to life without parole.
[MOTORIOUS] While it’s certainly fine for people to buy and love electric cars, there’s a strange phenomenon whenever someone with a platform says anything less than positive about them. This time it’s British comedian and certified gearhead Rowan Atkinson (aka Mr. Bean) stirring the pot while committing blasphemy against the EV godhood.
In an essay he penned for The Guardian, Atkinson said recently he feels "a little duped" by EVs. Now that’s the type of sin worthy of cancellation, but the man really blasphemed by encouraging people to keep driving their older internal combustion engine cars as a means of conservation. Outrageous!
Explaining himself, Atkinson mirrored what many others have said: EVs could one day be great and everything the fanboys claim they are now, but the problem is battery designs need more time to advance to that point.
He also hits another sore point, calling EVs "a bit soulless." Hey now, we think a giant iPhone on wheels has a lot of soul (that’s sarcasm, for anyone who can’t tell). The man really must enjoy poking the bear or thinks the borderline hysterical, obsessive push to get everyone to buy an electric car has gone too far.
BLUF:
[Doug Casey's International Man] In 1933, Franklin Roosevelt came into office and immediately created the Emergency Banking Act, which demanded that all those who held gold (other than personal jewelry) turn it in to approved banks. Holders were given less than a month to do this. The government then paid them $20.67 per ounce – the going rate at the time. Following confiscation, the government declared that the new value of gold was $35.00. In essence, they arbitrarily increased the value of their newly purchased asset by 69%. (This alone is reason enough to confiscate.)
Today, the US government is in much worse shape than it was in 1933, and it has much more to lose. The US dollar is the default currency of the world, but it’s on the ropes, which means the US economic power over the rest of the world is on the ropes.
I think that readers will agree that they will do anything to keep from losing this all-important power.
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The GIVERnment would possibly make more if they force Gold and Silver to be marked to market (it has been suppressed by major banks for years which is why inflation has raised prices on nearly everything but precious metals).
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If you buy the story that Ft. Knox was emptied years ago, privately held gold now won't help. The truth is, nothing will help, but that $3 trillion hole they dug will be an ongoing excuse for all sorts of depredations on the private sector.
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09/06/2023 7:12 Comments ||
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'33 Emergency Bank Act. Among its major measures, the Act created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which began insuring bank accounts at no cost for up to $2,500. The president was given executive power to operate independently of the Federal Reserve during times of financial crisis.
Prediction: Financial Crisis Upcoming.
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...I think you're going to see them start messing with retirement accounts first, possibly as soon as after the next election if the Democrats win, certainly no later than '28 otherwise.
That will take one or both of two forms:
1) A tax assessment. "If you withdrew everything you had today, how much would you pay in taxes? Well, that's what we're taking." Those who were smart enough to set up accounts where you paid your taxes first? You'll get tapped too, bet on it.
2) Flat-out confiscation, "in the interest of fairness."
The good news here is that we'd almost certainly have enough warning in both a gold confiscation or retirement account scenarios to do something about it, but here's the bad news: That much gold going into the market will at least temporarily depress gold prices, which won't do anything for the economy. And in a worst case scenario, everybody pulling their retirement accounts would dump 35 trillion dollars into the economy. You think inflation's bad now?
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I think a wealth tax will hit first before taxing retirement funds or confiscation of savings (bail in?). The last two create too many pissed off voters that even the "margin of fraud" can't cover.
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Mike, if I knew my 401K was going to be confiscated, I would immediately withdraw the balance, and just take the tax hit. However, if millions of other people did the same thing, it would crash the stock market, among other things. It would make the Great Depression look like a minor blip.
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Charlie Rangel first floated the "IOU for funds in your 401K" proposal with a "guaranteed return" which would, of course, be another ponzi scheme
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I think you're going to see them start messing with retirement accounts first,
My buddy John drained his 401(k) accounts ten years ago for this very reason (potential confiscation).
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Like ordering all passengers to report their cabins' mattresses to the quartermaster to assist in stopping Titanic's hull puncture, only to see the crew under armed protection lash the mattresses into a life raft.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Malek Dudakov
[REGNUM] The term gerontocracy, which had set on edge in Soviet times, is returning to the political lexicon. But now it is used not at all in relation to Russia. After all, the real gerontocracy was formed precisely in Washington against the backdrop of the rapid aging of the US political elite. But they are very afraid to hand over the reins of power to the younger generation, and therefore they hope to be in power until their death.
Thomas Friedman's soul screams
[Jpost] Washington and Riyadh must not help Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government drive Israel over a cliff by gifting it a normalization deal with Saudi Arabia, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman urged in a piece he published on Tuesday.
"Do not let Netanyahu make you his useful idiots," Friedman wrote in an appeal to US President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
"You cannot have normalization with an Israeli government that is not normal. It will never be a stable US ally or Saudi partner. And right now, Israel’s government is not normal." Bibi the second most hated man in Liberal World?
I understand why they hate Putin - he crushed their Globalist Dream. But all Bibi does is to keep Israel alive. (Incidentally, most of the people protesting [ostensibly against High Court reform, but actually against Netanyahu's government] would be a lot poorer without his 90es liberalization of the Economy)
He spoke amid heightened diplomatic activity to reach a security agreement between Riyadh and Washington that would include a normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel in exchange for gestures to the Palestinians.
Netanyahu, Friedman wrote, is trying to "sweet talk" the United States into a deal by which he can both curtail Israel’s Supreme Court while becoming a "domestic hero" through a deal with Saudi Arabia that would only make cosmetic gestures to the Palestinians and allow Israel to continue to annex the West Bank. Saudi royal clan never does anything that's not good for Saudi royal clan. And to survive in multipolar world, they need strong allies. And they, just like everybody else, don't give a f@ck about Palestinians (except for keeping them out of the Kingdom) - these were just an anti-Israeli tool for the times when Iran wasn't a serious threat.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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