Progressive Govt. / Socialism / Communism – Page 60

How the Left Has Used COVID-19 to Bankrupt the United States – Epoch Times

29 Jul 2021 Michael A

…Without COVID-19, President Joe Biden would never have been elected, of course. So, for the left, the virus defeated former President Donald Trump. COVID-19 is now the gateway to the left’s utopian agenda of multitrillion-dollar climate policies, hyperregulation of the economy, the rebirth of the welfare state, and a radical redistribution of income. Under Trump policies, we had one of the most robust financial and economic expansions on record, especially regarding minority advancement and historic reductions in poverty. The entitlement state was in retreat as income growth and record job openings pushed millions of people out of the welfare state into work. If the left truly cared about the plight of the poor, they would have celebrated. Instead, the results showing tax cuts, deregulation, and laissez-faire policies work made liberals miserable….

First Federal Agency Mandates COVID-19 Vaccine – Epoch Times

27 Jul 2021 Michael A

The Department of Veterans Affairs will require its health care employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, becoming the first major federal agency to implement such a mandate. “We’re mandating vaccines for Title 38 employees because it’s the best way to keep Veterans safe, especially as the Delta variant spreads across the country,” Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough said in a statement. Title 38 personnel, who include doctors, dentists, and registered nurses, will have eight weeks to get fully vaccinated. Fully vaccinated means getting both Pfizer or Moderna shots, or the single-shot Johnson & Johnson jab. If employees refuse, they could be fired.

Protestors Against COVID Restrictions Labelled ‘Anarchists’ by NSW Police Chief – Epoch Times

27 Jul 2021 Michael A

New South Wales (NSW) Police Commissioner Mick Fuller has labelled protestors who attended the massive July 24 Sydney rally against COVID restrictions “anarchists.” Fuller revealed that police had received over 10,000 tip-offs regarding individuals involved in the protests and that 57 people had been charged, while 250 were fined. Officials and police in NSW and Victoria have taken a hard line against the event. The commissioner addressed reports of a potential follow-up rally online and issued a blunt warning, “Can I just put this warning out now to everyone? We will be heavily policing that event.”

Protests Rage Across Europe as Lockdown, Vaccination Mandates Start – Epoch Times

25 Jul 2021 Michael A

Anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine-passport protests erupted across Europe on July 24, according to media photos and videos. Thousands upon thousands of demonstrators came out in London, Dublin, Paris, Rome, Athens, and other cities across Europe, according to footage and news reports. The demonstrations in France appeared to be the most tense, with riot police firing tear gas as clashes erupted in central Paris. …France’s Interior Ministry said that about 160,000 people partook in the protests on July 24—sharply up from 114,000 the previous week, Reuters reported.

California Is Experiencing a Crime ‘Tsunami’: Sacramento DA – Epoch Times

25 Jul 2021 Michael A

According to a Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) released in 2021, four major cities in the state have encountered an increase in homicide and car thefts. Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, and San Francisco are experiencing such heightened crime, following a drop in violent crime in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic began. Data provided by PPIC shows that in 2020, Los Angeles reported a 40 percent homicide increase from 2019; Oakland reported a 36 percent increase. San Francisco and San Diego both reported increases from 41 to 48 percent and 50 percent to 55 percent, respectively.
…“Michael’s killer is on death row because he’s a horrific, not just serial, killer [but] his history was atrocious,” Schubert said. “Now, we have a legislature that even though the jury has recommended a certain sentence wants to pass a bill that he can petition to get out.”

Cuba: A Longing for Something Beyond the Material – Epoch Times Commentary

24 Jul 2021 Michael A

It’s one of the most arresting of the videos leaked out of Cuba on July 11, the day that tens of thousands of people all over the island took to the streets and spread the word on social media in a massive anti-government protest—the first since Fidel Castro seized power and set up a communist dictatorship in Cuba more than 60 years ago. The video, which can be seen on Instagram, comes from Bejucal, a town of 25,000 nine miles southwest of Havana. The protesters, mostly young people, chant “libertad!” (“liberty!”) over and over in rhythm and raise their fists. Leading them is a young Catholic priest in a black cassock.

Van Morrison and Eric Clapton Take Back the Culture for Freedom – Epoch Times Commentary

24 Jul 2021 Michael A

When art is created by conformists—and at this moment the left are the biggest conformists possibly imaginable—it is sure to be worthless.
Speaking of which, as a member of the Motion Picture Academy, for the first time ever I didn’t even bother to vote this year, let alone watch the movies. Who needs Hollywood’s solemn lectures? But, there’s hope, big hope actually, from the music world, and at the highest levels. The Brits Van Morrison and Eric Clapton—two of the greatest stars of the last fifty years—have broken from the oh-so-tired, conventional “progressive” mold of popular music with not one, but two songs that push the content envelope. [Lyrics to songs, and mp4s provided]

Cuban Protestors Are BAD for Democrats | Senator Marsha Blackburn | Huckabee

24 Jul 2021 Michael A

Senator Marsha Blackburn stated that the Cuban protests are not in the streets because of covid, but over the Cuban communist party’s harsh dealings with them. …They are starving, unemployed, and seeking freedom from the oppression of the communist party in Cuba. …The Biden administration is discouraging Cubans from coming to America, yet they are letting anybody in the southern border. Furthermore, those who come in at our southern border are secretly dispersed to all the states of our country in the dead of night. That is, the Biden administration is shipping illegals to all the states of the continental US, and putting on those states the burden of health care, housing, education…. Therefore, every state is a border state; every town in America is a border town.

To Stage the Counter-Counter-Revolution, GOP Must Learn From Lenin – Epoch Times

21 Jul 2021 Michael A

This is also no time for a “big tent” party. As the Lenin Democrats have illustrated so vividly since the planned and scripted rise of Barack Obama in 2008, a narrowly configured tent will do the job. Their party is a cozy little snuggery of woke tech oligarch billionaires with a chokehold on their media lackeys and access to more money than ever before in human history; and a seething, resentful, and violent underclass that functions as their “conscience” but more importantly as their street thugs and enforcers while posing as perpetual victims of their ideological opponents as they seek redress for their “legitimate grievances” (shopworn but still potent communist terminology).

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