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A Season of Light

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We are fast approaching Hanukkah (and Christmas) both of which center around light, though for much different reasons, both also have a theme of freedom, though also for far different reasons.

But what is common, is spreading light tends to reveal things that had been hiding in the darkness, in the shadows. It seems like so much has been happening lately to shine the light on cockroaches that have been hiding in many many places. So I thought it might be interesting to shine the light of a few of them myself. After all, even a little bit of light that is shining in a dark room makes a big difference.

While these things are not all related, some are part of a common theme.

To start with, a 560 page report by the Final Report of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Committee on Oversight and Accountability from the House of Representative has been released. It’s a pdf for your reading pleasure. Numbers 6 and 7 are pretty good.

6) The Constitution cannot be suspended in times of crisis and restrictions on freedoms sow

distrust in public health.

7) The prescription cannot be worse than the disease, such as strict and overly broad

lockdowns that led to predictable anguish and avoidable consequences.

Shines a light on our “public health” system doesn’t it? Also explains why “Trust the experts” has become a punch line in a joke, along with “doctors say”.

You wonder if the Biden crime family continues to be vengeful and evil towards those it despises even while pardoning the great connoisseur of art hookers, Hunter? You wonder why with the massive budgets our federal law enforcement agencies can’t find the missing children talked about in hearings? This is why. Grandmother of Five Arrested Last Week and Shackled In Leg Irons For Meandering Around Capitol on January 6th! SPITEFUL BIDEN REGIME IS STILL HELLBENT ON PUNISHING TRUMP SUPPORTERS!

A nearly blind grandmother of five from a small farm in Missouri was arrested by the FBI almost four years after January 6th for alleged “misdemeanors” as the fallen Biden Regime makes a mad dash to punish more Trump supporters before they lose power.

The FBI arrested Suzan McClain on Thursday, December 6, 2024, for misdemeanors committed almost 4 years ago on January 6, 2021. The FBI agent who arrested her is normally assigned to a sexual crimes task force. He is supposed to be pursuing child sex traffickers, but the children being held in captivity will have to wait on the backburner because SuZan McClain trespassed four years ago.

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She is not accused of committing any specific acts of violence or vandalism. She entered the building, meandered around, and exited peacefully.

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The FBI agent told her that he had been with the FBI for many years, but this was his first-ever misdemeanor arrest. Because she is undergoing treatment on her retinas, SuZan cannot drive long distances by herself, and the federal court is a four-hour drive from her home. So the FBI agent had to drive an hour each way to pick her up and then drive four hours to and from the court. They were in court for over five hours, so the FBI agent spent over 15 hours dealing with SuZan. This is in addition to the many hours he spent building the case against her and the hours he will spend assisting the DOJ in her prosecution.

The whole thing is a travesty, and if nothing else should convince anyone never to vote for anything with a D behind it’s name. The R behind the name needs to be on a case by case basis. Sure shines a light on the two tiered justice system and Merrick Garland and Chris Wray’s priorities doesn’t it?

Hypocrisy on full display, after many years of calling Donald Trump “Hitler” a pair of show hosts from the propaganda wing of the Demoncratic party called MSDNC decided they would go literally meet with Hitler. A man they’ve vilified for years they suddenly decide to go have tea with and sit down and chat. Then they were shocked when all the people (all 12 of their viewers) were outraged they’d have tea with a man they were now convinced is evil incarnate. They may not be the brightest crayons in the box. If nothing else this should shine a light on how they lie, and they know they’re lying.

You think our neighbor to the South is a hot mess? In a move to try to compete Justin Turdeau of Canada said “Eh? Hold my beer” and flew to Mar-A-Lago to explain to DJT that 25% tariffs if he doesn’t shut off the illegal invaders flooding into our country is unbearable. DJT generously offered to make Canada the 51st state and Turdeau could be the governor. Trump trolls PM Justin Trudeau as the ‘governor’ of the ‘Great State of Canada’ amid tariff talks

Justin Turdeau, Governor of the Great State of Canada

Apparently the Turdeau regime felt the need to show his power and flex his girly muscles and show everyone who his daddy (Fidel Castro) is.

Canada Literally Confiscating Citizens Guns, Sending to Ukraine to Kill Russians

Under the leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada has fallen into the abyss of tyranny.

Although the Trudeau governments faults are numerous and date back years, a new development — gun confiscation — can be added to the list.

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LeBlanc said, “324 unique makes and models of assault-style firearms” which are now on, “the list of prohibited firearms in Canada.”

“This means these firearms can no longer be legally used, sold, or imported in Canada and can only be transferred or transported under extremely limited circumstances,” he said.

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In a remark that is beyond parody, LeBlanc told Canadians their seized guns would be going to Ukraine.

“As part of that process, the Government of Canada has committed to the Ukrainian government to identify whether some of these guns could be donated to support the fight for democracy in Ukraine.”

This is what happens when you have bureaucrats that are so stupid they believe their own gun control lies. I’m wondering who in Ukraine is going to have the balls to tell the Turdeau clown show that just because they call them “weapons of war” semi-automatics on a battlefield are going to place the ones carrying them at a significant disadvantage. I would maintain with Turdeau heading the government that Canadians should hang on to their weapons as it looks like barring DJT annexing Canada they may have their very own fight for democracy looming. Tyrants never want to face an armed populace and seeing how they behaved during the trucker’s demonstration I don’t think they’re far from that. I guess this shines the light on Turdeau and Canadian decent into dark places.

A humorous side note, look like Politico may have believed DJT was serious about annexing Canada. Shining the light on #FakeNew idiots.

And now a look at one of the most bizarrely developing series of events I’ve seen. Israel was attacked on 7 October 2023. Honestly it seemed like the anti-Israel and Anti-Semitic attacks began within days. I mean as in less than a week. All these little Keffiyot clad, incredibly ignorant little activists began marching around colleges chanting the propaganda lines they’d been fed. Ask them what river and what sea? They haven’t a clue. The cute little boy with the hip hugger pants and crop top holding the “gays for falestine” placard also needs to go over there, he could help the poor falestinians by working in a refugee camp. I’m guessing he could get by with a one way ticket. They slandered Israel and attacked and intimidated Jewish students. Students became afraid to wear symbols of their faith even as keffiyehs marched proudly all over, worn by girls in miniskirts with the black & white draped over the heads. Yep, insert eye roll here. In the Syrian civil war the figure from a March 14th, 2024 article states the death toll Syria War Death Toll Over 507,000, 13 Years On. The Lebanese civil war (in which the falestinians played a big role in starting) Lebanese Civil War

Throughout the war’s duration, more than 100,000 people were killed, nearly 1,000,000 displaced, and several billion dollars’ worth of damage to property and infrastructure sustained.

How many colleges had little villages set up then to grieve for the poor poor brown people being genocided? Oh, none. The Jews had nothing to do with it, there for it was all “over there”. But why were the poor falestinians in such dire straights? Because this is how they treat the countries that take them in. Were there marches in the streets and takeovers of college buildings after Black September?

Following Jordan’s defeat in the Six-Day War and loss of control over the West Bank, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) began to launch attacks from Jordanian territory. These provoked Israeli counterattacks, threatening the peace King Hussein hoped to achieve with Israel.

PLO head Yasser Arafat ignored Hussein’s warnings and hoped to gain control over Jordan with the support of Egypt and Syria. Fighting between Jordan’s army and the PLO began in November 1969, but Hussein hoped to avoid an escalation.

The Palestinians gradually built up what amounted to a state within the kingdom. They controlled the refugee camps, smuggled in weapons that they openly brandished, ignored officials of the Jordanian government, and undermined Hussein’s authority. The king attempted to negotiate an understanding with the Palestinians, but they were unwilling to compromise and defied his authority.

The final straw for Hussein occurred when Palestinian terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) flew three hijacked planes to Jordan on September 6, 1970, and blew them up on the 12th after releasing the passengers. From that point on, Hussein’s forces increasingly clashed with the Palestinians, who were openly trying to depose him. He declared martial law on September 16 and deployed his troops to Palestinian-controlled areas.

Campus riots after that? What? None?

This is a great 4 minute summation of what happens to the countries that take in the poor poor falestinians.

These college students are so ignorant and uninformed, but they are all in by golly!

The Ivy League these days
Hamilton Hall

Shining the light on the ignorance achieved by “higher indoctrination”.

But there are some that have learned. And that knowledge cost them very dearly and very painfully, and I pray they can be made whole.

Rescued hostage Luis Har: My views have completely changed since I was kidnapped

Har detailed the brutal abduction from his home in Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak on October 7, 2023, moments of crisis, the rescue, and his new life after captivity.

“My views have changed drastically since October 6 and until today. I don’t trust any of them [in Gaza]. I know, in some way, they’re all involved. They’re born into hatred. Weapons are put in their hands already as babies. They don’t care about sacrificing their children if it means killing Jews. That’s their way of life,” Har told Webber.

“To achieve dialogue and coexistence, it would take generations of proper education where hatred isn’t taught. That doesn’t exist right now. There’s no one to talk to, even if we wanted to be righteous and good. Before I was abducted, I wanted to live here in peace and coexistence. We don’t hate. We genuinely try to move forward.”

As I’ve said before, the Kibbutzim that were attacked were leftist. Secular, they believed in living at peace with the Gazans and often gave them jobs and took them to Israeli hospitals for treatment. They know better now.

The media is complicit as well. Listening to Douglas MurrayThe first and most important job of a journalist is and should be to tell the truth. Today, that seems to have been forgotten

As the guest of the NGO-Monitor at a recent event, Douglas Murray, a highly respected public intellectual, related his encounters with journalists and the media who promote what he calls “fake news”. The first and most important job of a journalist is and should be to tell the truth. Unfortunately, as Murray explained, many so-called journalists are simply propagandists for left-wing and anti-Israel causes.

Welcome to the informational circus which media and newspapers around the world promote as “the free press,” an essential ingredient of every democracy. He cites, for example, the BBC, the NY Times, the Washington Post, and Haaretz, which portray terrorist organizations, such as Hamas, as “freedom fighters.”

Instead of clowns to amuse you, there are anti-Israel journalists. The goal, however, is the same: to create a different reality. The war against Hamas, they propose, is not about terrorist atrocities, but Palestinian Arabs who are victims of “Israeli genocide and war crimes.” It’s not about Islamic terrorism, but the denial of Palestinian Arab self-determination and statehood. It’s about “Israeli terrorism,” “the occupation,” and “ethnic cleansing.”

As Murray observes, this is a new form of Nazism in which the victims are Palestinian Arabs, not Israelis. Palestinianism has become a new civil rights movement that supports terrorism and seeks to destroy Israel. “Palestinian Arabs are starving,” they claim, while Hamas steals the supplies that are sent into Gaza and murders those who oppose them.

NY Slimes

So, about that genocide,

According to the CIA World fact book, the population in Gaza has increased by 2.02% since Oct 7, 2023. Facts vs opinion! There is no genocide in Gaza. No intent or actions by Israel to conduct a genocide. Actually the opposite, Israel has done more to protect civilians and care for civilians in Gaza while Hamas does everything to get civilians killed and to keep the aid Israel floods in from them. Amnesty International and others only weaken the rule of law and make it harder for the laws (redefining it) and courts to hold actual violators to account.

Genocide Fail

For a country that does most things really quite well, Israel is a spectacular failure in the genocide department. Either that, or they don’t know what the word actually means.

And so we shine the light on media malfeasance. They aren’t even news media, they’re an agenda driven broadcast system for the most part.

There are good things to shine the light on as well. Sadly Luis Har saw the evil for what it was only after it was too late, but there are members of the tribe that see it, and are taking positive steps.

A Jew’s Unexpected Journey Into the Gun Shop

I walked into AJ’s gun shop.

I turned to my wife, Sam, with a weird smile on my face. She looked back at me, like, “What the hell are we doing here?”

We’re New York Jews in a gun shop. What do we know about guns? We know about bagels, about Roth IRAs, about Hamantaschen … but guns?

“What kinda gun are you looking for?” asked Adam, the owner. No clue. “You want something for bears? For deer? Target practice?” We didn’t know how to answer.

“We’re Jewish,” Sam said.

Adam stared at us for a moment, sizing us up, an uneasy tension in the air. Then, spoken with clear confidence, he said, “You’re gonna want a nine-millimeter Beretta and pump-action shotgun.”

I never thought I’d be a gun owner, but I also never thought I’d be woken up by my wife on the morning of October 7th, with her saying: “Israel was attacked. It’s bad.”

Which brings me to my closing thoughts. I was recently so very fortunate to attend a lecture entitled “The Eternal Nation”. All of it was wonderful, from a wonderful Rabbi. But the point I want to hit here is when he talked about ability, capability. As our couple in the last mentioned story did not feel they were able, capable to be gun owners. Guns have nothing to do with Oznei Haman, or Hamantaschen. The Rabbi said we are all believers, we are descendants of believers. He said G-d has given us the means to save ourselves (I don’t think the Rabbi was talking about guns exactly) and that we shouldn’t just believe it will get better, we should do our part to make it better. The lecture was on the rise of antisemitism since October 7th . He said the question isn’t “What will be?” but rather “What will we do?” Because greater evil always attacks greater good. After October 7th the IDF had a percentage of their reservists they needed to show up, and many were out of the country. 150% showed up. On their own. These are people that know what they shall do. So we don’t let the terrorists into our minds, We don’t allow our light to recede. We increase our prayer and acts of good deeds. He pointed out it’s not about our abilities, He asked if we thought Avraham, Yitzhak, Yakov, Yosef and Moshe all thought they were capable? He said no, they didn’t. But they were willing. If we are willing, G-d can make us capable.

David ben Gurion said “In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.” And even secular people are beginning to see light. He told the story of a religious soldier in a totally secular unit. His commanding officer was totally secular. But one day the officer came to the religious soldier, very tense and upset. He pulled the religious soldier off duty and told him whatever those prayers you pray, pray them now. Pray all the prayers you’re suppose to pray, pray all the prayers and keep praying them until I come tell you to stop. That’s all you’re to do, pray!! The soldier prayed and prayed for 15 minutes with deep intensity, not even knowing what and why this request was made. Eventually his commanding officer came back. Calm, relaxed and happy, and he told him. There was a group of 3 APCs Armored personnel carriers and they had fallen into a rubble trap set by hamass. They lack the real armor of a tank, and were immobilized, basically, sitting ducks. If they came out of the units they would be picked off. Finally the lead APC figured something out and was able to move and told the others how to do it and so they all 3 escaped. Five men in each carrier, fifteen lives at stake. The secular officer said he couldn’t think of a single thing he could do to save his men. Nothing, he was beside himself. Then he thought of his religious soldier and the soldier prayed, and they were saved. Talk about spreading light! Boy Howdy! We’re like olives, sometimes life events seem to squeeze us till we feel there’s nothing left. But that’s when the olive gives it’s oil. The oil that spread light, and just a little light in a dark room makes a big difference.

There is much light shining on many things and areas right now. Some of the things being illuminated are not pleasant to see, but some we need to see before we get blindsided. So we are willing, and then we can see what G-d will make us capable of. May our lights shine bright and with joy!

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Memorial Day thoughts 2023

I was listening to one of my favorite radio shows today, The Tamar Yonah show, the episode is The US & Israel: Who is Dependent On Who?

As this is Memorial Day, I thought there were a few really interesting points. For Israelis the big ticket was probably the talk of Jerusalem day, but there were some points that really caught my attention.

Ok, at 6:13 in, while this isn’t one of the points for Memorial day, it amused me. Tamar mentioned that companies liked to hire Israelis. Sometimes over their local populations even. They speculated on why. Maybe because they had served in the IDF and had some real world experience, they’re more mature? Naw, I think that may be part of it, but it’s even simpler. They know what bathroom to use. I heard part of Matt Walsh today I believe it was. Now, I don’t know who did the man on the street questions. Maybe Charlie Kirk? Maybe Mark Dice, I dunno. But here’s how it went. These questions were to students at UCLA. I wrote down as much as I could remember. I was driving when I heard this.

Who was the first president?

Abraham Lincoln?

What ocean is on the east coast of the U. S.?

Didn’t know.

What country does the Queen of England rule over?

No idea I don’t get into politics.

What is the Capitol of the United States?

A) there isn’t one

B) California

Name the 3 Kardashian sisters:

Chloie Kourtney and Kim.

Bonus point if you can name the brother:

Robert.

And they will graduate, goodness only knows how many thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of dollars in debt which Demoncrats want U.S. to pay off. I want my money back.

At 22:52 in they are discussing the water and food crisis coming in Europe. Shocking considering the Dutch government has pretty much killed of many of the Dutch farmers. Who’d have thought taking farms away and limiting farming so you can create cities for invaders would cause a food shortage, but there ya go. Weird since they’ve got crop yield warnings.

Dr. Mordechai points out in the past when there were food and water shortage, countries went to war. But Europe really doesn’t have armies any more. Not really, and they don’t have young people to man them anyway. Then he gets into what does also affect U.S. Even if they did have young people and armies, they don’t have ammunition. They’ve sent it all to Ukraine. Ukraine uses more ammunition in a month than than America and Europeans manufacture together….in a year.

At 37 minutes in, Dr. Mordechai points out the U.S. has a crumbling military, with over priced and under preforming equipment. That the Russians are moping the floor in Ukraine, that they exploded 10s of ammunition depots and the Ukrainians were already short of ammo. He said Russia has excellent intelligence networks in Ukraine. That’s why the U.S. sent 300,000 rounds of 155 mm artillery ammunition that was marked for Israel and gave it to Ukraine, and most of that has been blown up, not used. Russian intelligence…they know where it is. At 39:04 in, he gives a quote to demonstrate the poor leadership of the military. “There is absolutely, when we get right down to deck plates, there is a moral challenge. Because there’s a lot of folks that have quite frankly joined the organization with a vision of what their days work would look like, and that’s rapidly morphing and changing.” Then they asked if someone could translate that. I’ll take a shot at it, pick me, pick me! I think it means men and women who love this country thought they were joining an organization devoted to defending America and her citizens, and now they are learning CRT or DIE and having transgender drag shows on military bases for their kids. Yeah, that would present a moral challenge for me as well.

Then they tried to figure out why and identical rocket, or mortar shell or artillery shell manufactured in Israel costs less than half of what it costs if it’s manufactured in the United States. Pick me! Pick me! I’ll take is Lloyd Austin still on the board of Raytheon for $100 Alex! I may have my game shows mixed up here. A missile for the Iron Dome defense system costs $50,000 if manufactured in Israel, if it’s manufactured by U.S. it costs $125,000.

So what’s the answer? Shimshon and I have been watching Band of Brothers, again. How do we make the sacrifice paid by so many valid? Well, from Today’s Tanya (The one size fits all manual) reading:

From the foregoing, the answer to the heretics [may be deduced],

and there is exposed the root of the error of those who are deemed heretics not because they deny that G-d created the world, but because they deny individual Divine Providence and the signs and miracles recorded in the Torah.

Why do they deny this when they readily admit that G-d created the world? It is because:

They err in their false analogy,

in comparing the work of G-d, the Creator of heaven and earth, to the work of man and his schemes.

When a silversmith has completed a vessel, that vessel is no longer dependent upon the hands of the smith,

and even when his hands are removed from it and he goes his way, the vessel remains in exactly the same image and form as when it left the hands of the smith.

In the same way do these fools conceive the creation of heaven and earth.

They imagine that heaven and earth, once created, no longer need their Creator. They therefore deny individual Divine Providence and the signs and miracles recorded in the Torah, inasmuch as these indicate that G-d continues to be involved with creation and from time to time chooses to change the course of nature through miraculous means.

However, their eyes are covered so that they do not see the great difference between the work of man and his machinations, which consists of [making] one existent thing out of [another, already] existent thing,

merely changing the form and appearance, e.g., from an ingot of silver to a vessel,

G-d did not simply create the world and walk away leaving it’s growth to teachers or activists who are trying to convince tiny children they aren’t they way G-d made them. That G-d made a mistake, and they, the counselors and activists and social media can help them remedy. And if they will only do as they are told all their teenage angst will be gone and SHAZAM! They will be happy forever and ever.

This last weekend was Shavuot, the giving on the Torah on Mount Sinai. We were created, we were nurtured and when we had devolved while in slavery in Egypt we were taken out of slavery with his mighty hand. Then we were given Torah (The Bible) which told us how we are to live, rules and guidelines for living a decent life. Including laws for self defense I might add.

We remember this, we know that G-d thinks our lives are valuable, he creates us, we face challenges that grow us stronger and he is there with us. Somehow he created people with an extra dose or desire to protect others, and today we honor those that have paid that price. I honor them with a grateful heart, and I thank their family who I’m sure will always miss them.

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Truth Be Told

With Elon Musk breaking open the treasure trove of information that has been censored by the big tech companies at the behest of law enforcement and the FIB. Naw, I don’t really consider the FIB law enforcement anymore, do you? I mean seriously. Yes, I understand if you’re meeting your niece’s new boyfriend and she says “he’s in law enforcement” and you ask what he does and he says proudly “I’m a special agent with the FIB, I go through the garbage can at James Woods’ house!” that you can’t laugh out loud. But he’s not really law enforcement. Not like a decent Sheriff.

But let’s take a look at how different life might be if people had been told the truth about a few issues.

First up, the big kerfluffle going on now is #TwitterFiles.

It seems the children at the old Twitter, as opposed to the new and definitely improved Twitter, decided to make in kind campaign donations to the Biden crime family by censoring any story the DNC wanted censored. The FIB interfered in yet another federal election by “pre-bunking” the laptop from hell story as well. So the New York Post, the oldest newspaper in the U.S. and doing actual journalism, as opposed to the NY Slimes which is mostly notable now for a crossword puzzle and being a fine birdcage liner or puppy pads, had done a spectacular piece of journalism on Hunter Biden’s laptop. Not about the hookers, drugs or child sex issues but about the ways our country was going to be left vulnerable to foreign influence due to the activities of the whole Biden junta.

Apparently the government telling big tech what and who to censor since they can’t do it themselves, due to that pesky First Amendment, is a no no. Huh, who knew?

Elon Musk Goes Nuclear: ‘If This Isn’t a Violation of the Constitution’s First Amendment, What Is?’

As documents released on Twitter appear to indicate that Twitter became a tool of President Joe Biden’s 2020 election campaign, Elon Musk summed up his disgust with what was revealed.

On Friday, journalist Matt Taibbi shared a communication illustrating how complaints were received.

“One executive would write to another: ‘More to review from the Biden team.’ The reply would come back: ‘Handled,’” he posted on Twitter, leading Musk to reply.

“If this isn’t a violation of the Constitution’s First Amendment, what is?” Musk wrote.

8. By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: “More to review from the Biden team.” The reply would come back: “Handled.” pic.twitter.com/mnv0YZI4af

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022

If this isn’t a violation of the Constitution’s First Amendment, what is?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 3, 2022

And yet, the #TwitterFiles that have been release so far, have seemed to lack a certain amount of information. There seemed to be something missing some have said.

Oh, think the problem has been located and resolved.

Ousted Twitter counsel Jim Baker vetted ‘Twitter Files’ without Elon Musk’s knowledge, Matt Taibbi reveals

Matt Taibbi, the journalist who first broke the news of Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” revealed that the company’s top lawyer had “vetted” what information was shared without the knowledge of the new boss.

Musk announced on Tuesday that he had terminated Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker “in light of concerns about Baker’s possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue.”

And when asked by a Twitter user if Baker was able to explain himself, Musk replied “His explanation was …unconvincing.”

Happily Musk canned his sorry butt and had him escorted from the building.

Twitter files reveal familiar name in Hunter Biden laptop scandal: James Baker

As thousands of Twitter documents are released on the company’s infamous censorship program, much has been confirmed about the use of back channels by Biden and Democratic officials to silence critics on the social media platform. However, one familiar name immediately popped out in the first batch of documents released through journalist Matt Taibbi: James Baker. For many, James Baker is fast becoming the Kevin Bacon of the Russian collusion scandals.

Baker has been featured repeatedly in the Russian investigations launched by the Justice Department, including the hoax involving the Russian Alfa Bank. When Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann wanted to plant the bizarre false claim of a secret communications channel between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, Baker was his go-to, speed-dial contact. (Baker would later testify at Sussmann’s trial). Baker’s name also appeared prominently in controversies related to the other Russian-related FBI allegations against Trump. He was effectively forced out due to his role and reportedly found himself under criminal investigation. He became a defender of the Russian investigations despite findings of biased and even criminal conduct. He was also a frequent target of Donald Trump on social media, including Twitter. Baker responded with public criticism of Trump for his “false narratives.”

So, the corrupt James Baker, vetted/censored what Matt Taibbi was to receive in the information he was going to release to try to clean Twitter up from it’s history of partisan censorship. Rich isn’t it? The #TwitterFiles are being released to both Matt Taibbi and Barry Weiss to release to the public. Neither Taibbi or Weiss are exactly conservative or Donald Trump fans, but they are actual journalists. As opposed to say Chris Cuomo, or Don Lemon, or Rachel Maddow, or Brandy Zadrozny whom one of my favorite radio show hosts calls “The blonde bimbo fascist” for her political positions.

But as the sludge of the swamp is being released you can’t help but wonder since the election was decided by about 90,000 votes to have given the pubs a unified government. Would more people than voted for Barry Sotero still have flocked to the polls to vote for a man who had sold the country out to China and Ukraine have still done so? I mean, it does sort of explain why we’re sending millions of taxpayer dollars to a corrupt CIA installed puppet named Zelensky, right? It does explain why almost every decision made by Biden’s teleprompter and the junta benefits China. Would people have voted for that knowingly? We’ll never know because of people like James Baker.

Would people have felt differently if they’d know crusty Joe was lying when he said he had nothing to do with Hunter’s business dealings? Joe Biden’s Involvement in Hunter Biden Dealings Exposed – Joe Met with Hunter Biden’s Business Associate AT LEAST 16 TIMES

A big part of what James Baker censored was the FIB’s role in the big tech censorship that may/did affect the elections.

FBI Coordination With Big Tech Censorship Ahead of 2020 Election Revealed in Agent Deposition, Missouri AG Says since it’s behind a paywall I’ll give you a snippet.

Officials from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security frequently met with major social media companies ahead of the 2020 election and pointed out users and pieces of content for removal, according to information from a deposition of a senior FBI agent revealed by a state attorney general.

“We found that the FBI plays a big role in working with social media companies to censor speech—from weekly meetings with social media companies ahead of the 2020 election to asks for account takedowns,” Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt said in a series of tweets on Dec. 2, three days after deposing Special Agent Elvis Chan, who’s in charge of cyber affairs at the FBI San Francisco Field Office.

Chan has given major social media companies warnings that have led them to censor information about a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, shortly before the election that put Biden in office, according to a lawsuit against the Biden administration led by Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.

Not content to merely influence American elections, Twitter expanded it’s horizons.

Elon Musk: It Is Likely Twitter Interfered in 2022 Brazilian Election

Elon Musk continues to drop bomb after bomb on the leftist company’s interference in Democratic elections.

On Saturday Elon Musk admitted Twitter likely interfered in the Brazilian presidential elections in favor of convicted felon and Socialist Lula de Silva.

This is BIG, BIG News!

I’ve seen a lot of concerning tweets about the recent Brazil election. If those tweets are accurate, it’s possible that Twitter personnel gave preference to left wing candidates.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 3, 2022

The difference is, in Brazil they know the machines rigged the elections and are still out in the streets and I believe the military is going to override the corrupt, left-wing supreme court that let a man out of jail and cleared his crime so he could run for office. In the Brazilian constitution there is a part that allows the military to do that. The people are probably watching America circle the drain in less than two years of a corrupt stolen election and saying “Oh HELL NO” to that option. Thus, they are still protesting by the millions. Not that the corrupt mainstream media aka #FakeNews is covering it.

What other elections did Twitter interfere in? How’s about Arizona? Yep, Katie Hobbs who campaigned with all the vigor of the ancient Joe Biden from her basement had access to special Twitter friends to take down tweets at her request. Almost like she knew she didn’t need to campaign isn’t it? Eh wot?

PROOF: Crooked Secretary of State Katie Hobbs Had Twitter Silence Her Critics in Arizona – Prior to Gubernatorial Run – Data From MO vs. Biden

Now we know why crooked Katie Hobbs didn’t want to debate Kari Lake?

Why would she when she ran the election, oversaw 30% of election day precinct machines breaking down, had the media in her pocket, and was working with social media platforms to silence her critics!

This is likely criminal activity – especially if she silenced her critics during her gubernatorial run which is likely!

And soon we will hear about how over 70,000 fraudulent ballots were sent out before election day!

What else did Twitter censor? How about documented cases of armed self-defense? The Zelman Partisans and Bear and I both got locked out of Twitter when things supportive of Kyle Rittenhouse were posted on Twitter. Ah, effin’ Twitter and Amnesty? Eff You, Musk.

Apparently young Kyle is curious about such things. Kyle Rittenhouse goes viral after asking if Twitter files will reveal ‘hidden censoring’ against him I believe I’ll enlighten him to the extent I know.

Anything else “life and death” that Twitter suppressed? OH YEA! How many poor souls are on their way to a life of pain, or a shorter life, or a lost life, or a destroyed life because they were denied information about the “safe and effective vaccine” that is neither safe, effective or a vaccine?

Found Dead at Home After COVID-19 Vaccination

The public is becoming increasingly disturbed with reports of death among the vaccinated. It is natural to ask “was the death caused by vaccination?” The most definitive way of answering that question is with autopsy.

Schwab et al reported on deaths after vaccination with detailed autopsies in Heidelberg, Germany.[i] Of 35 fatalities within 20 days of injection, 10 were ruled out as clearly not due to the vaccine (eg drug overdose). The remaining 25 (71%) had final diagnoses consistent with a vaccine injury syndrome including myocardial infarction, worsening heart failure, vascular aneurysm, pulmonary embolism, fatal stroke, and vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia. Interestingly, 5 cases had acute myocarditis as the cause of death with the histopathology in the heart muscle showing patchy inflammation very similar to what was seen in the deltoid muscle were the mRNA vaccine was injected.

Suppressing Repurposed Drugs ‘Cost Millions of Lives’: Founder of COVID Treatment Fund

The executive director of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, Steve Kirsch, has been working to make early COVID drug treatments available to the public, despite being assailed by the medical establishment for speaking out about the dangers of the COVID vaccines.

During the pandemic, he founded the COVID-19 Treatment Fund to raise money to test repurposed drugs for use in treating COVID, while health agencies were dismissing their effectiveness and urging the public to get vaccinated as the only way to prevent severe illness and hospitalization.

Not allowing the testing and use of repurposed drugs has cost too many lives said, Kirsch.

“This has cost millions of lives,” and the problem was compounded by a hospital COVID treatment protocol “that was almost certain to kill you,” Kirsch said during a recent interview on EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program.

He said the COVID protocols hospitals have followed, although sanctioned by the federal health agencies, added to the death toll.

Twitter’s First Transparency Reports Are Here and They’re Eye-Opening

Twitter has published its first set of transparency reports about how the site had operated prior to multi-billionaire Elon Musk taking over the company. Among the reports, the social media giant states they are no longer enforcing its COVID-19 “misleading information policy.”

Musk had promised the release of the transparency reports, saying it is necessary to regain the trust of the public.

The Twitter Files on free speech suppression soon to be published on Twitter itself. The public deserves to know what really happened …

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2022

Since January 2020, over 11 million accounts were challenged for violating the COVID-19 information policy, 11,230 accounts were suspended, and 97,674 pieces of content were removed

Twitter Stops Enforcing COVID-19 ‘Misleading Information’ Policy

Twitter has stopped enforcing its COVID-19 “misleading information” policy that had resulted in nearly 100,000 pieces of content being cut from the platform and led to more than 11,000 account suspensions.

The social media giant, which was taken over by industrialist Elon Musk at the end of October, said in a report that, effective Nov. 23, Twitter is “no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy.”

The report included information about Twitter’s enforcement actions related to its COVID-19 content policies. Between January 2020 and September 2022, there were 11.72 million accounts challenged, 11,230 accounts were suspended, and 97,674 pieces of content removed.

The policy, which was introduced to curb the spread of “harmful misinformation” related to COVID-19, was praised by some, including U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, who in an advisory (pdf) on “building a healthy information environment” cited Twitter’s rules as a model for companies to fight misinformation.

But heavy-handed enforcement of the policy garnered criticism, such as when earlier this year Twitter flagged numerous tweets with factual information about COVID-19 as misinformation and suspended accounts of scientists and doctors.

Probably good that people took lots of screen shots, perhaps they knew the time would come when the government lies would need to be documented. Even as some of the tyrants are calling for amnesty, those who also committed wrong doing are trying to re-write their shameful history.

FDA Trying to Rewrite COVID History on Prohibiting Ivermectin, Dr. Atlas Says

Boyden Gray & Associates filed a lawsuit in June on behalf of three doctors who allege that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) illegally interfered with their doctor–patient relationships, resulting in harm. They also claim that the FDA broke the law when the agency issued statements prohibiting the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19.

In response to the lawsuit, lawyers for the FDA claimed that its guidance for people to “stop” taking ivermectin for COVID-19 was informal and just a recommendation; as such, they weren’t mandating against it.

However, in an interview that aired on NTD’s “Newsmakers” on Nov. 23, Dr. Scott Atlas, a senior fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, confirmed that the FDA did, indeed, take an “unprecedented” approach against ivermectin and said that their defense amounts to the FDA trying to rewrite COVID-19 history.

Know what that reminds me of?

The clip is a tad longer than what I started it at. About 3 ½ minutes total, I’m starting it part way in.

No forgetting, we see you for what you are and aren’t.

There is a whole host of damaging and fatal side effects, and the information has been censored on Twitter, FakeBook and YouTube. The following are short videos from Rumble.

Shedding Concerns: “It Looks Like the mRNA is Transferring from the Vaccinated to the Unvaccinated”

UK Govt. Data Shows C19-Boosted Kids Are up to 137x MORE Likely to Die from C19 Than Unvaxed Kids Yeah, some governments are a tiny bit more honest.

Japanese Professor Upends Ministry of Health: Disband Vax Committee, Investigate All Injuries

Alarming Cancer Signals Post-Vaccine Rollout: They’re Coming in from ‘Left and Right’

Genetic Modification: Some May Be More Vulnerable Than Others

Placentas Are Arriving at Dr. Ryan Cole’s Office — And They Have Spike Protein in Them

Fauci Lacks Basic Understanding of Evidence-Based Medicine, Trust the Science = Trust the Psychopath

And I would guess all this information, and all these people have been censored from Twitter, YouTube and FakeBook.

But you know who is very curious about all this censorship? Missouri and Louisiana’s Attorney Generals. They’ve had the demented troll aka Fauxci on the stand for over seven hours. Well over 174 times the greedy, power hungry demented troll stated “He couldn’t remember”. Lots of things he couldn’t remember.

When asked to provide a mask study that justifies the chronic hypercarbia he has inflicted on U.S. he can’t. There are many stating the risk and harm, but the demon that inflicted this on U.S. can’t name a one that says they work or are indicated. We also found out the lockdowns came from one man, Clifford Lane. A deputy Fauxci sent to China to see how his buddies were handling WuFlu. Lane came back with a report given to him by China saying the lock downs work. In awe of the power and control over the people, Fauxci couldn’t wait to implement them here. No studies, no nothing. Just taking the word of a Chinese dictator. If you want to read the whole transcript. Here ya go. https://ago.mo.gov/docs/default-source/press-releases/135885afauci112322_full_redacted.pdf?sfvrsn=35f4a425_2

Guess some of that information censored on the Hunter Biden laptop from hell would explain why the U.S. squashed the peace agreement Russia and Ukraine had worked out, huh? Ukraine is too good a money laundering operation for the demoncrats and corrupt republicans. Not to mention, they’ve paid the Biden crime family a LOT of money to look after their interests. Lloyd Austin (is he still on the board of Raytheon?) said the quiet part out loud, they want to use Ukraine to weaken Russia. The country who isn’t attacking churches like Zelensky is. Because you know, democracy always involves attacking religious institutions, right?

We Are Using Ukraine To Do WHAT?!

But if you think the government is only using private business to attack the First Amendment, you would be wrong.

FedEx and UPS Help Feds Track Gun Sales, State Attorneys General Say

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, together with 17 other state attorneys general, are asking shipping companies UPS and FedEx to explain their newly implemented policies to track and record Americans’ firearms purchases and disclose whether these policies have been coordinated with the Biden administration.

In letters sent on Nov. 29 to FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam and UPS CEO Carol B. Tomé, Knudsen and his co-signers wrote that the shipping companies’ policies “allow your company to track firearm sales with unprecedented specificity and bypass warrant requirements to share that information with federal agencies.”

“What both of these companies are saying is that they’re doing this so they can better cooperate with law enforcement,” Knudsen told The Epoch Times. “That’s all fine and well, until you find out that that’s a violation of federal law.”

I am convinced one of the most important positions in government has become these state Attorney Generals.

Is Elon Musk a good guy or a bad guy? I dunno. But he understand freedom of information and speech are essential to the survival of his adopted homeland. Something I wish more people understood. I’m pretty sure I can think of more than a few people that still think the jab is a great idea and are looking forward to their every other month booster jab. Never mind each one weakens the natural immune system. If Rachel Maddow, Joy Behar or, well, who’s left on CNN? Anderson Cooper? If one of them didn’t tell them, then it’s not true. They’d bet their life on it.

I think Elon is on the right track here. The White House spokes-clown just called the #TwitterFiles a distraction, the televised DNC propaganda crew called news casters are all ignoring it like it’s not happening and the DNC propaganda crew called talk show hosts are all busy trying to explain why it’s a bad thing people are getting honest information and corruption is being exposed. Yep, to the left, that’s a bad thing. So, if all those people have their panties in a twist, this is a very good thing indeed. Prayers for Elon’s safety.

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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

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I’ve heard it said a picture is worth a thousand words, so this is going to be a really really long column! There have been all kinds of pity memes going around lately, many of them dealing with citizen control and on Fakebook and other social media sites people are sharing and swapping them around like baseball trading cards. Back when there was baseball…and trading cards worth trading.

So here we go, I have a few, very few for me links I am putting in to relevant stories that in my mind apply to the meme.

We shall start with what set off the latest round of calls for citizen control. The Uvalde killer who has been labeled in the corporate (biased) media as “bullied”. As per usual, they have it bass akwards.

Teen Who Knew Uvalde Shooter Drops Bomb About Him

HE was the bully, and pro-tip? Anyone, and I mean anyone, who walks around with a bag of dead cats he’s beaten to death is not normal. This is why we have animal cruelty laws.

Texas School Shooter’s Grandfather Says He Barely Spoke to His Grandson Who Lived w/ Him https://rumble.com/v16883j-texas-school-shooters-grandfather-says-he-barely-spoke-to-his-grandson-who-.html

Now does this sound normal to you? And that was a really nice truck his grandma had as well. Looked very expensive. I feel very sorry for her, she tried to help the kid and he shot her then stole her really nice truck.

I have other questions.

How DID the shooter get all that gear? He had a minimum wage job.

So now the hue and cry to get rid of “assault weapons”.

You say potato, I say potato, it’s the same rifle.

But it seems that our (in their minds) rulers have inconsistent ideas about who lawful gun owners should be. For instance, take Ukraine.

Ukraine gets rocket launchers
Biden Will arm our enemies however.

U.S. Senate approves aid to Ukraine, blocks aid to small businesses on same day

Another 40 billion gone

Oh, well, good to see where the priorities of American politicians are, right? Because they aren’t with U.S.!

Then you have exceedingly stupid politicians and even dumber talking heads on the corporate (Pfizer sponsored) media yammering on about how The Second Amendment was never meant to include modern weapons. And that might be a fun column to do in the near future. But for now, WWGWS

What would George Washington say?

Ah George, we need you now!

Fine

We can do it your way.

So then there is the talk about mandatory buy backs and confiscation. Doesn’t it seem odd a burgler is pushing to have law-abiding citizens disarmed? It’s almost like he wants to make it a “safer work environment”…for criminals.

Beta male hypocrisy

And about trusting the government to keep us safe? HAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHHAHAHAHA and more.

Universal background check
Waco Tx

But if it’s really really about preventing death…

Gun death vs Vax death

But since I want to end this column on a happy note:

First they came

And this is around 12,464 words! In two pages.

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Purim 2022-The Hidden

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Things that you may not be hearing on the corporate media, that might be worth hearing.

First note, that Epoch Times which is a pretty accurate source of news, is using data from the U.K. Why you ask? Because it more honest than what our taxpayer funded agencies dish out. Going way back to the start of the Covid-19 scam. They counted it as a Covid death if they died with Covid, not necessarily from Covid. But other countries followed ferret faced Fauxci’s lead.

9 in 10 COVID Deaths Are in Vaccinated People: Report

A report released by the UK government has confirmed that 9 out of every 10 deaths related to COVID-19 are found in those who are fully vaccinated. Although the virus variant is the same and the UK approved only one different vaccine (AstraZeneca) from the United States, the data in the U.S. are different. This may be due in large part to the CDC definition used to identify who is “vaccinated.”

U.S. data are also likely to become even more sparse in the coming weeks and months. In addition to the CDC hiding data, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) quietly decided in early February to stop recording deaths attributed to COVID-19.

Data Is Essential

Yet, data is the foundation of scientific analysis. Without it, researchers are unable to analyze statistics and draw conclusions, which leaves public health experts unable to make accurate recommendations. Knowledge gives you the power to make informed decisions based on evidence.

Data is essential, yes, yes it is. Knowing honest facts enable one to come to a correct opinion. Otherwise you are someone driving around in a car by yourself wearing a face diaper and re-breathing your own CO2.

Bioweapons labs in Ukraine

The truth is: Yes, there are indeed biological research facilities in Ukraine that have been funded by our government. We don’t have any way to know whether these facilities were conducting research that was intended to produce weapons or not, but we do know that if the pathogens housed in these facilities escaped, they would be just as deadly as as an intentionally produced bioweapon.

Something that should be frontline on every corporate media station but probably will never be. <This message is brought to you by Murderna and Lie-zer. So I have no clue why it isn’t. /sarcasm.

Chilling Pandemic Data from the Insurance Industry This article isn’t that long, worth reading. Why, it’s the very age of working people, people that could be forced to take a jab.

An Indiana-based life insurance company is expressing concern over a substantial rise in deaths in adults eighteen to sixty-four years old in 2021 that cannot be explained simply by covid infections themselves.

What else is hidden? This twitter thread covers many things. Digital currency, programmable digital currency. You thought you were going on a trip? The government says no, and your currency will not pay for that ticket. Quite simple, but it’s all to keep you “safe”, just like that 4th jab Lie-zer CEO is earnestly assuring U.S. is necessary. There are other things in the thread as well, like the WHO global pandemic treaty. Oh that should work out well. The World Homicide Organization, I don’t claim credit for the clever word play, that goes to Dr. Zev.

5 STORIES IGNORED BY MAINSTREAM MEDIA WHILE THEY FOCUS SOLELY ON UKRAINE

Hat tip to my buddy in Nicaragua on this one. And what are those 5 things?

FOIA Request Reveals Biden Admin Paid $1 Billion to Corporate Media Outlets to Push Covid Vaccines

Pfizer Data was Quietly Released Listing Well Over 1,200 Adverse Side Effects from the Covid Jab And that just in the first 55,000 pages release, much more to come. Despite their desire to keep the data hidden for 75 years.

State Agents Raid Preschools, Question Toddlers Without Parental Consent for Not Wearing Masks

As Gov’t Sends Billions to Ukraine, Millions of US Children are Being Pushed into Horrible Poverty

Biden Pushing Executive Orders to Make US Gun Owners Felons There will be no vote in Congress and you will have no say in the matter. Instead, Biden is ruling by executive decree.

In a bitter twist of irony, Ukrainians who are fighting so hard for freedom are about to be entrapped by the very government that went before congress to plead for more money and weapons to fight for freedom. With programmable digital currency, no less. Today the project ePidtrymka in the Diia application has officially launched – how to get UAH 1,000

I think you can pretty much figure everything the world’s governments are pushing their citizens to do is going to be bad for them.

For example those electric cars Ginger Goebbels and “Mayor” Pete Butterhead keep pimping. I won’t even get into the cost of those, monetary and evironmental. But since it has nothing to do with saving the planet, why might they be doing that?

Turned off

Oh, that’s why.

ABOUT ISRAEL BRINGING IN UKRAINIAN REFUGEES…

Well, seems to be a done deal. I don’t mean that our gov’t is composed of spineless weasels – that ship has sailed. But now we can expect an unlimited influx of non-Jewish Ukrainians, who have all of Europe to resettle in, and who don’t even pass the required Jewish grandfather clause to move to the one and only Jewish state of Israel. As long as they have some kind of relative living in Israel, the doors are opened to them. And no, having a relative in Israel does not make one Jewish. Plus, don’t think for one moment that if they want to come to Israel that it means they are not Jew-haters. Seriously? That’s almost funny.

One tiny Jewish nation in all of the world, and that’s one too many for some. One tiny country where no one is shocked there is no mass transit and stores aren’t open on Shabbat. One tiny nation where we can live according to G-d’s plan, and that’s one too many. One way or another the nations are determined to kill it, if they can’t in battle they will try from within. Just like the U.S. Our “leaders” and I use that term loosely have betrayed us. They are trying to destroy us from within.

And trying here would be the operative word. As I’ve been watching the dumpster fire known as the Xiden crime family’s administration I’m reminded of something I heard back before the elections. It was something I read, or something I heard. So if it was something I heard, it may have been from Rabbi Alon Anava’s interview with Tamar Yonah, but since this was in 2016 I don’t think this was it, but it’s still very good. https://israelnewstalkradio.com/tamar-yonah-show-nibiru-will-this-dwarf-star-wreak-havoc-on-earth-audio-🎧/

I think it may have come from this column ISRAELI MYSTIC ON ELECTION DAY: “TODAY FORMALLY ENDS THE AGE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE”

I’ll tell you right up front it was a battle not to quote the whole column it was so good. It was written the day after the “election” but the interviews and comments took place before it. Let the quoting begin. It mentions a video, that has been removed by YouTube. Of course.

Very early in the lecture, Anava declared that, “This election is going to change the entire face of the planet.” …. After his introduction, he spent a considerable amount of time sharing multiple Torah codes related to the presidency of Donald J. Trump and the coronavirus. Most significantly, he explained a fundamental difference between the way Jews and Christians understand Biblical texts. “The whole Torah is coded,” he taught, referring to the Hebrew text. “Many messages are not written in the verses. The text is just the revealed part. Hidden in it are many other messages.” …. Anava referred to both President Trump and contender Joe Biden as “puppets” who will be fulfilling the will of God, whatever happens at the polls. “Regardless of who wins, the outcome will be the same because HaKadosh Baruch Hu (the Holy One, Blessed is He) is driving the train,” Anava asserted. “The whole system is set up to bring the country to civil war, martial law and the end of the US. Either way you look at it, it’s going to bring the country down.

“America is done. America is going to go down and with it, the entire world. Why? Because Hashem is preparing the entire world to bring His messiah – Moshaich ben David (Messiah, son of David) – to come and redeem the entire world, not only the Jews. “There cannot be a redemption if there are governments. There cannot be a redemption if there are world leaders. Moshiach is going to come and remove the world leaders, so it’s really irrelevant who is going to win. …. For Jews and non-Jews, Anava said that, “idolatry is not bowing down to idols. It’s putting your faith in anything but Hashem (such as governments or vaccines). We have to believe only in the Master of the Universe.” Using the coronavirus as an example of how important it is to rely only on God, Anava said, “He’s the One who brought the disease and He’s the One who is going to remove it.”

Then in the same article, they quote another Rabbi also from Tzfat, Chaim David Targan.

The day before the election, Targan wrote that, “Today formally ends the age of the American Empire. If Biden wins, like Rome, America will crash and burn. If Trump prevails, its age will end gracefully, transferring its power, authority and sovereignty fully to the leaders of the geula (redemption) and successfully and joyfully completing the Tikkun of Eisav (Esau’s rectification). This would be great joy to Washington, Jefferson and Adams, who created America through Torah Wisdom as a tikkun for Eisav.” Like Anava, Targan is saying that America’s days are numbered. He adds the nuance that, depending on who ultimately wins yesterday’s election, the end of America will come harshly (under Biden) or gently (under Trump).

Honest, I didn’t quote the whole thing, there’s more there to read! But when I first heard that before the elections it stuck with me. Maybe because Rabbi Anava was involved, and ever since Y.B. Ben Avram, another TZP writer sent me his YouTube story, and like Rabbi Lazer Brody I wanted to learn what they had to teach. But maybe because I knew it was true. I didn’t see how it could be quite the dumpster fire it has become, but apparently I just didn’t realize how much the Xiden crime family regime hated U.S. They tried to hide it.

And that brings me to hidden. Do you know what’s remarkable about the story of Purim? G-d’s name is not mentioned once in the Megillah. His face is hidden. All the events that saved us were not miracles in the classic Red Sea splitting sense. They were miracles of right place, right time, right clout. Such as the king, while he couldn’t change the decree to kill all the Jews, he made another decree the Jews should fight back and defend themselves. Which they did, quite well. But we don’t believe in coincidence, we know who runs this show. We know who created this world and who runs it. This is a fabulous, inspiring article Why Isn’t G‑d’s Name Mentioned in the Megillah? Give yourself a treat and read it.

And with that thought in mind, that it is G-d that runs this show, whether we see his hand in things or not, we do not fear. I admit, I struggle with this from time to time, and one of the things I hold on to is something else I learned from Y.B., Ayin Od Milvado. אין עוד מלבדו There are none beside him.

It is all G-d, all the time, even when we don’t see him and he chooses to remain hidden he is there and like a child calling for their father in the dark of night, he hears us.

A Prescription for No Fear

Our Torah tells you that you must not fear. Even if an army is charging towards you, you must not fear. For there is no danger worse than fear. But you are only human. Do you truly have control over the dread and panic pounding in your heart? Yes. Not directly, but through the power of your mind. If you will choose not to dwell on those things that instill panic and dread, those emotions will wither and fade. And the choice is yours. What do you want to speak about? What do you want to think about? For the thoughts of your mind are the conduit of life for the emotions of your heart.

Even when we can’t see him or his strong right arm in the events or people, אין עוד מלבדו

Something else I learned from Y.B.

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Freedom and the Role of the Militia Part II

What I find most galling are not Republican allegations former Democrat Vice President Joe “Boss Tweed” Biden leveraged his position to benefit his son Hunter in Ukraine.1 Nor do I find Democrat accusations President Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine pressuring President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate potential Biden influence peddling most galling. Democrats want Americans to believe Trump withheld aid while Ukraine was at war with Russia. However, Putin invaded Ukrainian Crimea on 20 February 2014 and later sent military units across Russia’s western border into Ukraine to assist “separatists” in May of the same year. Trump did not place his party line call to Zelensky until July of 2019, five years later.2 Can we be frank? Notions Ukraine would survive let alone prevail in a war with Russia are preposterous. Therefore, American military and economic aid would be pointless. Why then do Democrat and Republican administrations send it? Are Americans willing to offer their sons to die for Ukrainians fighting Russia? Is the U.S. willing to risk nuclear war with Russia over Ukraine? We must address yet another reality.

Since Tsar Nicholas I, Russia has pursued a policy of “Russification” in conquered nations and territories. Imperial Russia took control of the education system, mass media, and popular culture in subjugated countries. They replaced native tongues, customs, history, literature, art, music, and holidays with those of Mother Russia. Whether the Baltics (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania for those who attended public schools) the Caucasus, Poland, or Ukraine, conquered people were forced to grow up as Russians.3

Soviets added a new dynamic to Russification by transplanting hundreds of thousands of Russians to the Baltics and especially Ukraine. The Communist’s goal was to displace natives and breed them into a minority population or, at least have a forward base of Russian immigrants embedded in targeted nations. Under Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviets uprooted entire Russian villages and moved them to Ukraine. In 1926, only 8.2% of Ukrainians were ethnic Russian. That figure rose to 16.9% in 1959 and 22.1% in 1989. In addition, by 1985, the Soviets had relocated by force, over 185,000 Ukrainians to faraway places in Russia and to the Baltics. So successful was Russification (America’s open-borders crowd pay attention), that native Ukrainians living along their eastern border with Russia dropped from 33.4% in 1926 to 2.3% by 1970. In a conflict with Russia, where will their loyalties lie? With whom will ethnic-Russian “Ukrainians” side?4 The idea that America can simply show up with her military and straighten this all out is ludicrous but still, this is not what is most galling. Instead, it is the profound degree of self-inflicted constitutional ignorance afflicting so many Americans. Who asks; what part of the Constitution authorizes Congress to seize the wages and property of American citizens and hand it over to foreigners in other countries? Go ahead and look. I’ll wait. You will be the subject of an archeological dig before you find it because no such authority exists. What the Constitution does not authorize it forbids.

The Constitution’s Framers and State Ratifying Conventions were clear in 1787-1788; powers they delegated to the new federal government were finite and few. The Framers enumerated (listed) them in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. These powers are explicit. They rejected notions that, through novel interpretations later on, anyone could create implied from explicit powers. Scottish immigrant James Wilson became a prominent Philadelphia attorney and patriot. He signed the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and was a “Federalist” delegate to the Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention. Wilson described the new form of government that would replace the Articles of Confederation as a “confederate republic”. It was not a “single centralized state” because that would lead to “despotism” and tyranny. The federal government had only those powers delegated to it by the States. It could not exercise powers it did not have nor could the government imply powers into existence.5 No one is asking why the U.S. government, under Democrats and Republicans, is stealing the money and property of its citizens in order to buy and reward “friends” around the world.

I suspect to some degree America’s ruling class elite have always hamstrung the cause of liberty. They do not quite trust Americans, even their political followers, with liberty. A condemnation of liberals and Democrats? On the contrary. Republican Presidents, including Richard Nixon, George H W and George W Bush, and candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney ran as conservatives who would defend the Constitution. Once in office, as Presidents, Governors, or Senators, they shed conservative principles like snakes squirming from old skin. It is as if they believe the job of supporters is to get them elected and then shut up and go away until the next election. They talk a good game and then make one compromise after another always moving in the direction of opponents. One can find unease and mistrust of social “inferiors” even in the writing of some conservatives.

Writing for conservative The American Spectator, Daniel McCarthy notes liberals believe the mere existence of firearms, in conjunction with the election of Donald Trump, whose words have radicalized the young, is the cause of public mass shootings (PMS). For liberals the only remedy is to remove Trump from office, ban and seize all firearms in private hands, and double down on suppression of “hate speech”. This in spite of the fact police investigations reveal those guilty of PMS are typically creatures of the Left, not Trump supporters. McCarthy notes the Second Amendment’s intent was to protect the firearms liberals want to seize. He adds that a “well-regulated militia” means a citizenry well practiced with arms as opposed to a standing army. To be effective, the militia must have the same firearms as a federal standing army. So far so good. Then McCarthy runs off the rails. He asserts notions the Second Amendment supports citizen rebellion, like Shays’ Rebellion, is “right-wing folklore”. McCarthy offers as proof the Virginia Declaration of Rights, authored by George Mason that “inspired” the Second Amendment. Its stated reason for arms is to maintain a well-regulated militia “under strict subordination to, and governed by the civil power”.6 Where to start? Part one covered the meaning of “militia”. Here we turn to a story of mistrust by the people’s “betters”.

Typical high school government textbooks allege the Articles of Confederation had failed. This led to unpaid State and private debt, violence, and economic chaos verging on tearing the union apart. “Shays’ Rebellion in Western Massachusetts (31 August 1786-June 1787) was only the most spectacular of several incidents”.7 They assert “By 1786, people in many states were on the verge of rebellion…Led by Daniel Shays, a veteran of the Revolution, hundreds of angry farmers and laborers banded together, marched on court houses, and freed imprisoned debtors from jail”. Richard Hardy, like other government textbook authors, uses Shays’ Rebellion (a name invented by enemies of the farmer’s protest) as an argument for abolishing the Articles and replacing it with a strong national government of centralized powers.8 This interpretation was strongly echoed by liberal teachers (is there a distinction?) with whom I taught and the jock-coaches principals assign to teach government. Ill-versed in the subject, the latter deviated not from the script. Little, if any, of what they teach, including the book’s representation, of Shays’ Rebellion is accurate. The same holds true at the University. For example, a typical college text explains “hard times, tight money, and heavy taxes” sent Massachusetts farmers to debtors’ prison while others “lost their land”. The farmers’ rebellion was “put down” by “state troops”.9 Liberal John Garraty’s text asserts Shays’ Rebellion was the result of Massachusetts attempting to pay off its war debt with the tax bite “falling most heavily on those of moderate income”. He describes mobs shutting down courts to prevent foreclosures and Daniel Shays leading an army to seize the federal arsenal in Springfield, a battle they lost.10 Liberal historian Samuel Eliot Morison, despised by Communist Howard Zinn, author of the most popular fictionalized history passing as truth in public schools and universities,11 writes that Shay’s Rebellion consisted of poor farmers facing harsh economic conditions who demanded relief from their State government. They seized control of courts in Western Massachusetts preventing them from opening until the legislature amended the Constitution. Their demands included ending requirements debts be paid in specie and ending legal favoritism of coastal commercial interests at the expense of farmers. Morison labels Massachusetts’ Governor James Bowdoin a “staunch conservative” who called out the militia to put down these illegal protests.12 Postwar economic conditions were indeed harsh in several colonies but were not the cause of the so-called Shays’ Rebellion. Liberal teachers wield the story in classrooms as a “cautionary tale” to convince students the United States must have a strong national government of consolidated powers. Moreover, at the expense of State and individual rights.

Scare stories are part and parcel of the weapons used by those pushing an agenda to effect a desired outcome. Their creators spin and spoon-feed them to gullible Americans all too willing to embrace lies over truth. It works because Americans are too intellectually lazy to think beyond the accepted wisdom of the herd. Manipulators fuel preexistent worry and fear already planted by mass media and government schools (global warming, Putin under every bed) to create panic and alarm. Their goal is to cause rash imprudent reaction. The nation’s “Father” was the target of such an effort.

With no desire to leave Mount Vernon again, George Washington was enjoying retirement from public life. In 1786, he received visitors and letters from friends and veterans reporting on a “rebellion” in Massachusetts. Their shared goal was abolition of the Articles of Confederation and replacing it with a strong national government of consolidated powers. They wanted to reduce or eliminate State sovereignty. They weaved scare stories ranging from exaggeration to outright lies. Washington was already discomfited by hysterical scare stories he read in newspapers written by editors who also shared a strong desire to scrap the Articles. Political leaders, former army officers, bankers, merchants, and large landowners added their voices to claims the nation was falling apart and about to disintegrate into revolution or civil war.13

General Henry Knox, Washington’s former artillery commander, along with others, knew Washington was a large landowner constantly dealing with squatters. Therefore, they painted Massachusetts’ rebels in the most lurid and false terms. They told him rebels wanted to close courts to stop foreclosure on land for unpaid debt, seize land belonging to the rich, and that Massachusetts’ militias were too weak to oppose them. Knox claimed a “licentious spirit” was widespread among the rebels and they were “malcontents” and “levellers” who, through violence, would abolish all social, economic, and class distinctions. In addition, they would erase all private debt and redistribute amongst themselves the land they seized.14 Knox used the term “levellers” to spark alarm in Washington and others. It sprang from the English Civil War of 1642 between Charles I and Parliament. Near the end of that war, common soldiers discussed what improvements they desired for postwar England. Levellers wanted to abolish the tax-supported state church, establish basic natural rights belonging to all men, declared sovereignty was in the people not kings, and that government was a social-compact with the people.15

Through malice or ignorance, Knox was conflating Levellers with English “Diggers”. The latter were essentially proto-communists. Basing their doctrine on the New Testament, Diggers wanted all unenclosed land seized and made communal, farmed, and its produce distributed by the commune to the poor. England would abolish private property along with “unequal wealth”.16 Knox’s misrepresentation of Shay’s Rebellion, and use of the term “Levellers”, had the desired effect. He conjured images of rogue uneducated, poor, and debt- ridden rabble rising up to burn the homes and farms of the rich, looting businesses and banks, and overthrowing the government in Boston. None of this was true.

The men in Western Massachusetts who marched on and closed courts in several towns were comprised of farmers, large landowners, merchants, Revolutionary War heroes and veterans, and political leaders. They were typically middle class, from leading long established families, and were neither poor nor debtors. They rebelled because land and note speculators, led by Governor James Bowdoin, had taken over the government in Boston. Like other states during the war, Massachusetts issued paper notes to pay its soldiers, farmers, and merchants from whom it requisitioned supplies. Not backed by specie, inflation ensued and soon, like the famous Continentals, they were worthless. People had to eat and pay bills so, when speculators offered to buy these notes for a fraction of their face value, their holders sold them. After the war, Bowdoin and his cronies bought up as many notes as they could. Once in power, they passed a law requiring the State redeem them at full face value, with interest, and much of it paid in specie. To finance redemption, Bowdoin’s government passed a head tax on families for every male 16 and older and farm families tended to be large. In addition, the state would tax their land. Those unable to pay faced losing family farms and going to prison. The State had forced soldiers, farmers, and small merchants to accept worthless notes during the war. From them speculators bought these notes for next to nothing. Now the state was taxing those who lost an enormous sum selling the notes to speculators to pay an even greater amount to redeem them on their behalf.17 Public school texts seem to leave out this part of the story.

Is it any wonder farmers in Western Massachusetts reacted in anger and protest? They demanded a change in the law. Specie was scarce and farmers knew the government in Boston was robbing them to benefit Bowdoin and his wealthy cronies. Boston was deaf to farmers’ complaints. Their protests became larger and eventually they closed local courts to force change. They were not attempting to overthrow the government. Bowdoin reacted with force. The State Legislature granted him authority to arrest, torture, and even hang rebels. He could also seize their land and sell it. To his benefactors, naturally. He suspended habeas corpus meaning he could arrest and keep rebels, even political enemies, in jail until they rotted. This he did. Massachusetts’ militia was more than large enough to suppress the rebellion but, when Bowdoin called it out, they refused. They would not march against men they knew to be honorable, patriots, and war veterans. Bowdoin and his rich speculator friends passed the hat amongst themselves and raised enough money to hire a mercenary army of 4,400 led by war veteran General Benjamin Lincoln to suppress the “rebellion”. Following several skirmishes, the rebellion ended when Lincoln’s State army seized the federal arsenal at Springfield before the farmers did.18 Proponents of a new “national” government did not tell George Washington this side of the story.

Although a war hero, Daniel Shays was a newcomer to Western Massachusetts. He was leader of one of many groups who protested what Boston was doing. Those comprising “rebel” groups never called themselves “rebels, insurgents”, or “Shayites”. The press and allies of Bowdoin invented these labels. The same way the left uses “right-wing” for conservatives implying the latter are Nazis. Shame on you Daniel McCarthy. Instead, they referred to themselves as “Regulators” a term originating in England during the 1680s. Britons who took this name opposed corruption, cronyism, and tyranny in government. Americans knew this history. The term Regulator gained usage In Britain’s North American colonies in the 1760s, first in North and then in South Carolina. Lawyers and land speculators gained control of Carolina County Courts and used their position to levy heavy taxes, fees, and fines on farmers. They jailed delinquent taxpayers, seized, and sold their land. When the governments in each colony refused to reply to the farmer’s pleas for relief, they took matters into their own hands forming organizations of Regulators who drove corrupt lawyers, judges, and officials from office. Like Massachusetts, the aristocracy consolidated political power into its hands rewarding themselves and cronies at the expense of farmers, exactly what Britain’s appointed Royal Governors had done in the colonies. Each state in turn suppressed rebellion. Following in the footsteps of those who came before, Massachusetts’ Regulators vowed to end tyrannical government in Boston based on cronyism and corruption. Their goal was to rewrite the hated State Constitution of 1780.19

Men who favored creating a European style strong national government with centralized powers used Shay’s Rebellion to argue the government under the Articles was too weak to survive. They stoked fear and panic. “Nationalizers” created and disseminated false narratives through the media they controlled. They pressured Madison and Washington to support abandoning the Articles in favor of a yet, unwritten new form of government.20 It is remarkable that American patriots did not realize that, in beholding the rebels of 1786, they were seeing themselves in the mirror of 1776. There can be but one explanation. These men evinced a trait shared from time immemorial among those who would rule. They do not trust “lesser” citizens to rule themselves sharing the same amount of freedom as their “betters”. It is why they target the Second Amendment, freedom of speech, and challenge the outcomes of elections. Even some Republicans, conservative pundits, opinion makers, and movers and shakers believe in government for, not of the people. They want their base to vote and then shut up. Do not accommodate them. Read and learn the truth.

11 Peter Schweizer, Secret Empires (New York, N.Y., HarperCollins Publishers, 2018), 55-73. Spoiler alert, Republicans have their hands in the till as well.

22 Natalyia Vasilyeva, The Associated Press, “Russia’s Conflict With Ukraine: An Explainer,” 26 November 2018, The Military Times at https://www.military-times.com/news/yar-military/2018/11/26/russias-conflict-with-ukraine-an-explainer/

33 Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, A History of Russia, Sixth Edition (Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 2000), 332, 333, 380, 394, 397, 575-576.

55 Pauline Maier, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 (New York, N.Y. Simon & Schuster, 2010), 104, 108.

66 Daniel McCarthy, “Liberalism Cannot Stop The Shootings”, American Spectator at https://spectatorus/liberalism-cannot-stop-shootings/

77 William A. McClenaghan, Magruders’ American Government, 2000 Edition (Needham, Massachusetts, Prentice Hall, 2000), 37.

88 Richard J. Hardy, Government In America (Boston, Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992), 45.

99 Rebecca Brooks Gruever, An American History, Second Edition, Volume 1 to 1877 (Reading, Massachusetts, Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1976), 175.

1010 John A. Garraty and Robert A. McCaughey, The American Nation: A History Of The United States, Sixth Edition (New York, N.Y., Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987), 151.

1111 Mary Grabar, Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America (Washington, D.C., Regnery Publishing, 2019), 6, 12, 14, 23-28, 251, 257.

1212 Samuel Eliot Morison, The Oxford History Of The American People, Prehistory to 1789 (New York, N.Y., A Mentor Book from New American Library, 1972), 390-394, 395.

1313 Leonard L. Richards, Shays’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), 1-3.

1414 IBID. 3-4.

1515 Goldwin Smith, A History of England (New York, N.Y., Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1974), 305-334.

1616 IBID. 334.

1717 Richards, 1-10, 15-16.

1818 IBID. 23-61.

1919 IBID. 64-74, 61-63.

2020 IBID. 89-116, 129-138.

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