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DeSantis Signs Bill Requiring High Schools to Observe ‘Victims of Communism Day’ – Epoch Times

9 May 2022 Michael A

“We want to make sure that every year folks in Florida, but particularly our students, will learn about the evils of communism, the dictators that have led communist regimes, and the hundreds of millions of individuals who suffered and continue to suffer under the weight of this discredited ideology,” DeSantis said Monday morning. The Victims of Communism organization has estimated that communist regimes have caused the deaths of at least 100 million people via political purges, religious persecutions, mass starvation, and other crimes against humanity during the 20th century. Chief among those regimes is the CCP, which is believed to have left around 80 million Chinese people dead.

Elon Musk’s Twitter Gambit and What It Means to the ‘Clique in Power’ – Epoch Times Commentary

4 May 2022 Michael A

The response to the Twitter takeover by the arbiters of acceptable expression has been as hysterical as it has been swift. The New York Times, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Media Matters for America, members of the establishment professoriate, and other “experts” have rushed to fortify the defensive forces against free speech…. Musk’s commitment to free speech has raised the hackles of the establishment gatekeepers, who ironically figure free speech as a “threat to democracy.” Alluding to Twitter’s state functions, California State East Bay professor of communication and history Nolan Higdon said that Musk’s acquisition makes “democracy less and less likely to work as it’s designed.” Democracy here does not mean equal representation in the public sphere but rather the preordained domination of a particular “democratic” ideology. This ideology is defined by the imperatives of “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” which are expressed in terms of acceptable and protected identities and politics.

Elon Musk Solves Twitter Problem the Old-Fashioned American Way – Epoch Times Commentary

3 May 2022 Michael A

On April 25, Elon Musk reached an agreement with Twitter’s board of directors to acquire and take the company private. He has pledged to pivot the platform toward respect for free speech principles, so that Twitter is “maximally trusted and broadly inclusive.” Less noticed, a few days earlier, on April 21, former community organizer-turned-president Barack Obama addressed an audience at Stanford University. In a slick presentation, he challenged the relevance—the very worth—of “free speech” by most people… The First Amendment is not the issue. Twitter’s carte blanche to act as “thought police,” even in its own realm, is the result of special exemptions from common-law legal liability granted by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, federal legislation that preempted a patch quilt of state tort laws…. But we live in an age of Orwellian dominant platforms, artificial intelligence, and mobile surveillance. The government has, in effect, licensed the private sector to censor political speech. Section 230 is the origin….

AGENDA Weekly Brief Week of April 17-23 – By Curtis Bowers

1 May 2022 Michael A

UNITED NATIONS ATTACKS HOMESCHOOLERS; THE LGBTQ AGENDA ACCELERATES IN LIBRARIES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETY; ISLAMIC STATE DECLARES NEW “GLOBAL OFFENSIVE;” FOOD CRISIS WORSENS; ITALY LAUNCHES “OPERATION THERMOSTAT,” BIDEN HAMPERS U.S. ENERGY… and many other stories you will not hear on your news channel.

How America Became La La Land – Victor Davis Hanson, Epoch Times Commentry

27 Apr 2022 Michael A

Nothing seems to be working. And no one in control seems to care…. The Biden administration unilaterally and simply destroyed existing immigration law…. Citizens who obeyed our laws had to mask up; foreign nationals who broke them didn’t need to take such precautions…. Biden then concocted the perfect recipe for bringing back the inflation of the 1970s. Print more money. Run up multitrillion-dollar annual deficits. Borrow trillions on top of a $30 trillion national debt. Send generous checks to workers for staying home. Shrug at historic disruptions of the supply chain…. Biden went fetal and ignored the warnings. Or he lashed out and blamed anyone and anything for his own suicidal agendas. First, we heard inflation was transitory. Then it was a mere concern of the elite. Then it was only a matter of exercise equipment being in short supply. Then it was solely because of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Then, somehow, it was also the result of former President Donald Trump. Then it was an organic phenomenon that presidents had little power to stop.

Never Trumpers Are Whistling Past the Graveyard – Conrad Black, Epoch Times

26 Apr 2022 Michael A

Peggy Noonan, though it’s the last honor that she would seek, has become the human barometer of the most civilized and amiable Biden media apologists…. …But gradually and perceptibly to her readers, Trump revolted her. It was hard not to identify to some degree with those Republicans and moderate Democrats who acknowledged some agreement with many of Trump’s policies but couldn’t abide what they considered the often rampant egotism, reckless over-simplicity, and boorishness of Trump’s public personality. …In their irrational hatred of Trump, Noonan and her kindred spirits are complicit in covering up a rigged election that inflicted the most incompetent administration in American history on the country and the world. There’s no early way back into the Republicans for the Trump-haters, and the Democratic strategists who produced this sequence of disasters will be feeling the pain for a long time.

CA Bill Allowing Killing of 1-Month-Old Newborn Babies Passes State Senate: AB 2223

21 Apr 2022 Michael A

California bill AB 2223 passed the Assembly Health Committee in an 11-3 vote late Tuesday night, The Mercury News reports.
The bill removes criminal liability from mothers in relation to “all pregnancy outcomes” including the death of a newborn for any reason during the period following birth, according to the official Senate analysis of the legislation prepared by State Senate Legislative Director Alison Merrilees. The bill “could be interpreted to immunize a pregnant person from all criminal penalties for all pregnancy outcomes,” the analysis reads, “including the death of a newborn for any reason during the ‘perinatal’ period after birth.” …The Right to Life League contends that one section of AB 2223, which exempts mothers from civil and criminal liability if an infant dies during the perinatal period “due to a pregnancy-related cause,” essentially legalizes the killing of newborn babies. The bill “is intentional, strategic legislation designed to extend abortion rights past birth, to create a protected “fourth trimester” right to infanticide,” The Right to Life website reads.

AGENDA Weekly Brief Week of April 10-16 By Curtis Bowers

17 Apr 2022 Michael A

This Agenda Weekly brief includes the following topics: DISNEY MAKES IT GAYEST MOVIE YET; REAL INFLATION IS VASTLY UNDERREPORTED; UNITED NATIONS WARNS OF FOOD CRISIS; BIDEN BANS “GHOST GUNS,” ACCELERATES WAR ON SECOND AMENDMENT; FAUCI PRAISES CHINA’S BRUTAL LOCKDOWNS; COMMUNIST CHILE ENACTS CLIMATE LOCKDOWNS, WATER RATIONING; CANADA CENSORS ALTERNATIVE MEDIA, EXPLORES DIGITAL CURRENCY; SOUTHERN BAPTIST ERLC CALLS JUDGE JACKSON’S NOMINATION “HISTORIC;” BLACKROCK EXPLAINS ITS 2030 AGENDA; LEFTISTS CALL FREE SPEECH PROPONENTS RACIST AND DANGEROUS; BIDEN WAGES WAR ON AMERICA’S NUCLEAR ARSENAL; and 10 accomplishments of the Freedom Agenda. Several videos copied with this post, watch them before they are removed. [In case you didn’t try the links in the summary statements by Curtis Bowers, articles he discusses are usually linked so you can explore his sources.]

Florida’s Stance Against Crime As Seen In Arrests Against The ‘Sex Money Murder’ Gang 4-13-22

14 Apr 2022 Michael A

This post is meant to be contrasted with the one that preceded it; therein, videos were used to picture the stance against crime in CA and NY. Florida is run by a strong republican governor, whereas CA and NY are run by democrats. The safety of citizens used to be the most fundamental concern of state lawmakers and enforcers; that is no longer the case, unless you make it the case when you vote.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BUSINESS OWNERS’ VIEWS ON THE CRIME WAVE OF SMASH AND GRABS

14 Apr 2022 Michael A

Below are three very brief videos that show the impact of democratic policies such as Prop 47; 57; and Bail Reform on communities in California and New York. Video 1: two minutes long, shows clips of crimes against business owners and in interview with one who has armed himself; video 2; one minute, gives the outcome of 14 criminals who were arrested for smash and grab crimes; video 3, three minutes, shows what New York lawmakers are doing to tweak their terrible and hated (by citizens) bail reform policy (no doubt a mad scramble that they might be re-elected).

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