veteranstoday--2020-08-24--How Corporations Support Political Radicalism

This is an excellent essay on what white people are facing from the far left created by the Frankfort School .
It is time the right the ship of this nation and get back on course .
The parasites who profit from this nonsense need to brought to heel and soon , of Civil War will be here before we know it .
In fact it may have already begun .
This was republished from www.AmericanPartisan.org and sponsored by Ammo.com Mike Harris It ’ s a rather strange claim of the American far left that their interests are opposed to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s virtually no evidence to support it .
Quite the contrary : During the wave of Black Lives Matter rioting that took place during the early summer of 2020 , American corporations marched in lockstep .
Not only did they use social media to swear fealty to this political movement , but they also made massive internal changes in conformity with BLM propaganda .
It ’ s called “ woke capitalism ” and while it ’ s not necessarily new , it ’ s certainly more prevalent than it ever has been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conservative editorial writer Ross Douthat in 2018 .
He succinctly summed up what woke capitalism is : superficial nods toward cultural leftism that allow the company to do what it really exists to do – make money .
You might be confused or think that there ’ s something ironic or askew about major corporations backing supposed “ rebel ” ideologies .
However , this stems from a very surface understanding of the topic .
When we delve deeper into it , the motivation for large corporations siding with ostensibly “ anti-capitalist ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ WHAT IS “ WOKENESS ?
” : UNDERSTANDING “ CRITICAL THEORY ” AND THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL Before going any further , we should spend some time defining what “ wokeness ” means .
Wokeness is a kind of shorthand for an area of the American political left that is obsessed with identity politics .
This is , as the name would imply , the politics of identity .
Thus , people are not rational actors , nor are they necessarily economic units .
Rather , they are little more than a collection ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ideology , the intersections ) of skin color and séxuality .
Socioeconomic class might enter into this , but if it does , it ’ s generally as an afterthought .
While Marxism might play some influential role , the wokeists are far more likely to locate the revolutionary subject in , for example , trans-identified black men than it is the working class .
One can understand the hostility of the “ woke ” to the Bernie Sanders campaign in this context : it is much more revolutionary under the guidelines established @ @ @ @ @ @ @ minorities with unusual séxual identities on the board of Lockheed-Martin and Goldman-Sachs than it is to provide for greater economic equality on behalf of their workers .
The bedrock of wokeness is not classical Marxist socialism , but something called “ critical theory ” and in particular its variant “ critical race theory.
” This has its roots in the Frankfurt School and an early 20th-century Italian philosopher and politician named Antonio Gramsci .
Gramsci ’ s big idea was that cultural power preceded political power .
Thus , to have a Marxist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Marxist cultural revolution .
This was to be accomplished by a “ long march through the institutions.
” What this means is that leftists were to infiltrate every institution of significance and gain power within them .
We can see the result of this idea today .
While American leftists bear little , if any , resemblance to Marxists of old , they have penetrated our institutions and dominate culturally – in academia , in entertainment and increasingly in the economic sphere as well .
If one were to read the Communist Manifesto @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the end , most of which have come to fruition such as universal public education , a progressive income tax , a national bank , and the industrialization of agriculture .
This isn ’ t to say that there is a massive Gramscian conspiracy with thousands of members .
Such a thing would be completely impossible to prove or disprove .
However , the kernel of the idea has taken root , in part thanks to bona fide promotion in academia , and in part because it simply seems to have largely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ critical theory ” is effectively a sociological philosophy and method that involves constant ideological attacks on Western civilization .
Its guiding principle is that Western civilization is based on subjugation , dominance and tyranny .
This takes many forms including “ racism , ” “ patriarchy , ” “ heteronormativity ” and “ cisséxism ” – all of which are predicated upon weaponized guilt .
Weaponized guilt is essentially taking those elements of Western and Anglo-Saxon culture , which prize even-handedness and “ fair play , ” and turning them against the culture @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the name “ Black Lives Matter ” is a masterstroke in weaponizing guilt : The only possible disagreement ( or so say the advocates and allies of the movement ) is that you don ’ t think black lives do actually matter .
But , of course , except for extremely isolated , marginalized and numerically insignificant pockets , virtually everyone agrees that all lives have the same value .
Indeed , it is a cornerstone of Western civilization and Christian teaching that this is true .
It is nearly axiomatic .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ equality of men is “ self-evident.
” No one would even know where to begin “ arguing ” this , simply because it is so accepted as a fact .
It ’ s worth noting that wokeness largely entered the American political vernacular after the fall of the Occupy Movement .
This is not an endorsement of either the Occupy Movement specifically , nor economic reductionism and confiscatory tax redistribution schemes more generally .
However , it is worth noting that the corporate affinity for a seemingly “ radical ” form of politics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ financial sacrifice began after the death of a political movement demanding corporate accountability and economic redistribution starting at the very top .
THE BUSINESS SIDE OF THINGS Woke Capitalism : How Huge Corporations Demonstrate Status by Endorsing Political RadicalismA “ conspiracy , ” or however we wish to define it , is not the only reason that Wall Street loves wokeness .
Beyond the misdirection , there is also a lot of money to be made catering to the woke .
This has nothing to do with what “ most people ” in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it has to do with catering to those on the coasts and within bigger cities in the interior of our nation .
Almost all of the income growth in America over the last ten years has been concentrated in cities in Southern California , Silicon Valley and the Pacific Northwest , hotbeds of leftism in general and wokeism in particular .
However , even places outside of these regions that have seen income growth tend to be far left-leaning .
Examples include Austin , TX , Denver , CO and Nashville , TN @ @ @ @ @ @ @ larger companies in America , including the big banks in New York , the tech companies in Silicon Valley , the entertainment industry in South California and the cable news companies that cover the goings on in Washington , D.C. , are all interested in chasing after the dollar of urban wokes .
Increased wealth concentration , including the massive transfer of wealth that happened under the COVID-19 panic and subsequent lockdown , have made big companies increasingly the only game in town , with smaller , more responsive Main Street America businesses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ continue to exist at all .
It ’ s not that big companies think they ’ re too good for your money – they just know that you don ’ t have anywhere else to go .
The Colin Kaaepernick sneaker incident is an excellent example of woke capitalism in action .
In times past , companies generally avoided wading into controversial social issues .
After all , in the words of Michael Jordan , “ Republicans buy shoes too.
” But in an attempt to appeal to Generation Z ( also known @ @ @ @ @ @ @ companies are deciding that it ’ s worth alienating rural and exurban flyover people in favor of courting the woke dollar .
For Nike and many other companies , this commitment to “ social justice ” doesn ’ t run much deeper than marketing .
Nike knows it has a disproportionately black customer base .
But only 8 percent of their vice presidents are black .
What ’ s more , the company is notorious for using sweatshop labor in the third world to produce its expensive sneakers .
Some other quick notes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ left : While there is certainly no direct overlap between a college education and being a radical wokeist , the woke are certainly clustered around America ’ s college campuses and the cities that they move to after graduation .
( The average college graduate is going to earn over $ 1 million more than their less educated counterpart over the course of their life . )
There is also the spectre of the unmarried and the childless : these people will also have significantly greater disposable income than married couples with children @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of this adds up to a very lucrative market , both for catering to the woke and pillorying the unwoke .
There is no shortage of examples of either on your television during commercials .
WOKEISM ’ S RADICAL EVANGELISM : DIVERSITY TRAINING SEMINARS One of the most disturbing elements of wokeism is its evangelistic quality .
As we saw during the riots of 2020 , it was not enough simply to not be racist .
One was now required to be an active “ anti-racist ” under the definition and terms established @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to comply were often attacked in a way that went far beyond simply being hassled online .
People ’ s jobs and livelihoods were attacked in a manner befitting a Communist dictatorship .
The very notion of dialogue and civil debate isn ’ t just missing .
There ’ s a deep hostility to the notion that there is any point of view other than the most woke possible .
There is a line in the sand : On one side , there are the people who believe that America is a profoundly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aspect of our history .
On the other side , there ’ s anyone who is even mildly skeptical of this – and the people on this side are “ white supremacists.
” By the logic of wokeism , these people deserve anything that happens to them ( including being “ cancelled ” ) .
What this means is that wokeism does not simply operate in the background of the rest of society .
You can not simply ignore the cringe-inducing woke commercials on your television and not click the frankly hateful and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Your compliance is a required aspect of wokeism .
Think back to the social media phenomenon of large companies denouncing alleged “ white supremacy ” with a black square .
Compliance with this was required , as if one were painting blood over their threshold to avoid the plague of the firstborn in ancient Egypt .
Corporations have begun echoing this rhetoric on social media , but there is a far more insidious element of wokeism ’ s radical evangelism : the “ diversity training seminars ” that are now de rigueur in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some kind of politically neutral gathering to increase workplace cohesion , these are in fact little more than Maoist struggle sessions – for all employees .
We categorically reject the assumption that these are any more comfortable for non-white employees than they are for the white ones .
So what goes on at these seminars ?
There was a taxpayer-funded seminar in Seattle that acts as an excellent exemplar of such .
It was called “ Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness.
” This has nothing to do with eliminating racism as is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being frank , we can probably agree that individual racism has largely been eradicated in America , especially among educated people .
This seminar and others like it are about pillorying whites and eroding workplace solidarity – and also about cushy little gigs for those giving the seminars , which aren ’ t cheap .
The seminar includes instruction in qualities that allegedly represent “ white supremacy.
” These include objectivity , perfectionism and comfort .
They also ascribe some rather insidious qualities to whites in toto : arrogance , violence and anti-blackness @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the seminar .
Employees are urged to engage in “ self-talk ” that “ affirms complicity in racism.
” As is often the case , there is not really a “ right ” answer for whites taking the seminar .
Talk too much at one of these events and you ’ re imposing yourself and dominating the conversation .
Talk too little and “ silence is violence.
” The Seattle seminar was only for white employees .
So to be clear , the City of Seattle used taxpayer dollars to propagandize at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forum .
While investigating the seminar using public records requests , City Journal editor Christopher F. Rufo was unable to find any information about who ran the seminar or how much it cost the taxpayers .
While the seminar might sound extreme , it ’ s not .
In fact , these are happening all across the country in America ’ s workplaces and on our college campuses – and many times even in elementary schools .
They are totalitarian in nature but are increasingly a requirement of continued employment .
Employees who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ measures up to and including termination of their employment .
There is also the specter of “ racism ” hanging above anyone with even the slightest opposition or skepticism : they must be secret racists or else they ’ d be as gung ho as everyone else .
Many have noted the religious aspects of wokeism that go beyond its evangelical zeal .
This includes a concept of “ original sin ” ( whiteness ) , holds blacks and ( to a lesser degree ) indigenous peoples as a sort of “ holy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for confession .
However , one aspect of religious thought is missing – there is no process for redemption in the world of the woke .
One may “ do the work ” as the saying goes , but there is no way to complete it and be redeemed .
The fallen are simply fallen and constantly repaying their debt in a sort of state of karmic bankruptcy .
WHITE FRAGILITY : THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO OF WOKE CAPITALISM Woke Capitalism : How Huge Corporations Demonstrate Status by Endorsing Political RadicalismEvery ideology and movement @ @ @ @ @ @ @ case of woke capitalism , this is White Fragility : Why It ’ s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo .
She earns a whopping $ 12,000 a day to lecture white people on their alleged racism .
That doesn ’ t include travel expenses , meals or accommodations .
Good work if you can get it and she does : DiAngelo has worked with companies such as Amazon , Netflix , Nike , Facebook , Under Armour , CVS , Goldman Sachs and American Express .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the right .
Socialist journalist and podcaster Matt Taibbi has described her writing as espousing a “ Hitlerian race theory.
” Others have criticized the book for robbing black people of agency or condescending to them in other ways .
The term “ white fragility ” itself works a kind of magic for DiAngelo and the proponents of this theory .
It is , for them , axiomatic that all white people are racist simply for existing .
Any words or actions whites take in their defense is de facto evidence of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ day might sound like a lot of money , we should compare the corporate cost of a DiAngelo seminar to increasing wages for workers , or offering additional benefits , or providing mentoring programs for new employees or literally anything that might benefit employees in the long term .
Such programs would be extremely costly in comparison to the piddling cost associated with a day of lost productivity spent on indoctrination , which also has the important side benefits of eroding worker solidarity and providing a cheap and easy PR win for woke @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hardly seems worth explaining how much power large corporations have over the United States .
However , we should take a moment to examine the power that woke capitalism wields over public policy .
Consider the proposition , totally uncontroversial within living memory , that biological séx is a real thing .
Note that this does not require some rigid enforcement of social expression of gender : one does not need to believe that “ boys wear blue and girls wear pink ” to accept the existence of biological séx .
But states @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the crime of codifying this belief , again , totally uncontroversial in recent times .
North Carolina was brought to heel by a coordinated corporate boycott of the state after it passed a law barring trans-identified men from women ’ s bathrooms .
All told , the boycotts cost the state nearly $ 4 billion .
The 2017 boycott of North Carolina is hardly the only example of woke corporations bringing state governments to heel .
For example , when Georgia passed a law defending the rights of the unborn , Hollywood leapt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ television shows and movies are filmed in Georgia – for the cheap labor and tax incentives – the entertainment industry quickly declared that it would boycott Georgia if it passed a law restricting abortion .
Even state flags aren ’ t safe from the attack of woke capitalism .
The SEC and the NCAA publicly discussed a boycott of the state of Mississippi , as did other companies .
This was during the moral panic about “ racism ” that followed the death of George Floyd in Minnesota .
One political entity that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ challenge ?
The People ’ s Republic of China .
Indeed , the NBA brought a general manager to heel over his support of Hong Kong democracy protesters .
The normally outspoken coach Steve Kerr was strangely silent on the topic .
And while the NBA has now approved political statements on jerseys , “ Free the Uighurs ” isn ’ t one of them .
THE WOKE CORPORATE STASI If the only problem were state governments being undermined , woke capitalism would still be a serious problem .
However , there are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by woke mobs with quick compliance from their corporate overlords .
Indeed , socialist podcaster Aimee Terese has likened the woke mob to a sort of HR department vigilantism .
The language of these totalitarian mobs is often remarkably similar to that which is used by HR departments , particularly when they roll out diversity training seminars .
A graphic designer at the Washington Post was fired after it was revealed that she attended a 2018 party in blackface .
She was confronted at the party , left in tears and apologized to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ None of this was enough for the woke mob .
The designer was fired after a large – and largely manufactured by the Post itself – outrage .
Many editors at the Post found themselves deeply uncomfortable with the decision to run an article outing the woman .
Around the same time , a 62-year-old communications chief at Boeing was fired for comments he made in 1987 at the age of 29 .
The man was very clear that these were not his opinions today .
For reference , Barack Obama opposed same-séx @ @ @ @ @ @ @ opposed it during both of his presidential campaigns .
In what is perhaps the most outrageous example of woke mobs getting a man fired , a truck driver was terminated after he flashed an “ OK ” hand sign , which is claimed by many to now be a symbol of white supremacy .
Even after an investigation into the matter by his employer , he was fired .
WHY WOKE CAPITALISM ?
Woke Capitalism : How Huge Corporations Demonstrate Status by Endorsing Political RadicalismIf all of this has you wondering “ why @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Many have pondered the question of why corporations want to take a stake in politics .
It goes without saying that there is a massive political advantage to corporations being able to throw their weight around in this way and that there is little reason for them to not attempt to claim power whenever and wherever the opportunity presents itself .
What ’ s more , diversity training seminars and woke mobs make it much easier to fire – and thus control – employees .
The best part is that this kind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cost to the company .
They don ’ t have to pay their younger workers in expensive cities higher wages , thus opening up the possibility of employment to those whose parents can not subsidize the first few years of their career .
They don ’ t have to offer onsite childcare or other tangible – and expensive – benefits that might actually address some of the issues that these corporations feign concern about .
Instead , they can pay the relatively inexpensive annual fee for a diversity training seminar , throw out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be done with the matter .
But don ’ t expect the Washington Post to demand that Amazon start paying taxes anytime soon .
There is a sort of cliche online about corporate wokeness : “ get woke , go broke.
” But the Quilette did some research into this and found it to not be true : In fact , all metrics point toward wokeness having absolutely no impact on the company ’ s bottom line either way .
So why do they do it ?
We ’ ve hinted at the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It is a form of misdirection whereby huge companies can avoid dealing with thorny labor relations issues by throwing a bone to leftist cultural interests .
Remember that the left and the Democratic Party are formerly fixated on issues of economics and class rather than social issues and race .
The former is a much more expensive position for large corporations than the latter .
But we should also mention that there are potentially toxic unintended consequences of woke capitalism .
It ’ s not our contention that whites in America are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s clear that anti-white racism is socially acceptable : You ’ re not going to get banned from Twitter for tweeting out “ I hate white people.
” What ’ s more , whites believe that they are increasingly the target of racism .
Whether or not this is true is entirely besides the point .
The perception is far more important than the reality when discussing this topic .
Inflaming racial animosity between whites and everyone else will have dire consequences for the nation as a whole , especially during a time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and eroding social solidarity .
The end result of goading the American public into viewing their problems as largely stemming from race , rather than economics , might well have profoundly dire consequences for both the social fabric and for the individuals that constitute it .
Finally , it ’ s worth noting that woke capitalism is very much the free market in action .
There is a benefit to the erosion of certain social values that have maintained Western civilization for hundreds of years .
Woke capitalism is an attack on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nothing in its place .
After all , who makes for better consumers than childless atoms whose only values are the prevailing cultural diktats of the day ?

This is an excellent essay on what white people are facing from the far left created by the Frankfort School. It is time the right the ship of this nation and get back on course. The parasites who profit from this nonsense need to brought to heel and soon, of Civil War will be here before we know it. In fact it may have already begun. This was republished from www.AmericanPartisan.org and sponsored by Ammo.com Mike Harris
HOW HUGE CORPORATIONS DEMONSTRATE STATUS BY ENDORSING POLITICAL RADICALISM
It’s a rather strange claim of the American far left that their interests are opposed to that of corporate America, because there’s virtually no evidence to support it. Quite the contrary: During the wave of Black Lives Matter rioting that took place during the early summer of 2020, American corporations marched in lockstep. Not only did they use social media to swear fealty to this political movement, but they also made massive internal changes in conformity with BLM propaganda.
It’s called “woke capitalism” and while it’s not necessarily new, it’s certainly more prevalent than it ever has been. The term itself was coined by conservative editorial writer Ross Douthat in 2018. He succinctly summed up what woke capitalism is: superficial nods toward cultural leftism that allow the company to do what it really exists to do – make money.
You might be confused or think that there’s something ironic or askew about major corporations backing supposed “rebel” ideologies. However, this stems from a very surface understanding of the topic. When we delve deeper into it, the motivation for large corporations siding with ostensibly “anti-capitalist” groups will come clearly into focus.
WHAT IS “WOKENESS?”: UNDERSTANDING “CRITICAL THEORY” AND THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL
Before going any further, we should spend some time defining what “wokeness” means.
Wokeness is a kind of shorthand for an area of the American political left that is obsessed with identity politics. This is, as the name would imply, the politics of identity. Thus, people are not rational actors, nor are they necessarily economic units. Rather, they are little more than a collection (or, in the parlance of this ideology, the intersections) of skin color and séxuality.
Socioeconomic class might enter into this, but if it does, it’s generally as an afterthought. While Marxism might play some influential role, the wokeists are far more likely to locate the revolutionary subject in, for example, trans-identified black men than it is the working class.
One can understand the hostility of the “woke” to the Bernie Sanders campaign in this context: it is much more revolutionary under the guidelines established by wokeism, to put more racial minorities with unusual séxual identities on the board of Lockheed-Martin and Goldman-Sachs than it is to provide for greater economic equality on behalf of their workers.
The bedrock of wokeness is not classical Marxist socialism, but something called “critical theory” and in particular its variant “critical race theory.” This has its roots in the Frankfurt School and an early 20th-century Italian philosopher and politician named Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci’s big idea was that cultural power preceded political power. Thus, to have a Marxist political revolution, one first needed a Marxist cultural revolution. This was to be accomplished by a “long march through the institutions.” What this means is that leftists were to infiltrate every institution of significance and gain power within them.
We can see the result of this idea today. While American leftists bear little, if any, resemblance to Marxists of old, they have penetrated our institutions and dominate culturally – in academia, in entertainment and increasingly in the economic sphere as well. If one were to read the Communist Manifesto, there are a series of demands at the end, most of which have come to fruition such as universal public education, a progressive income tax, a national bank, and the industrialization of agriculture.
This isn’t to say that there is a massive Gramscian conspiracy with thousands of members. Such a thing would be completely impossible to prove or disprove. However, the kernel of the idea has taken root, in part thanks to bona fide promotion in academia, and in part because it simply seems to have largely been a successful operation.
Thus “critical theory” is effectively a sociological philosophy and method that involves constant ideological attacks on Western civilization. Its guiding principle is that Western civilization is based on subjugation, dominance and tyranny. This takes many forms including “racism,” “patriarchy,” “heteronormativity” and “cisséxism” – all of which are predicated upon weaponized guilt.
Weaponized guilt is essentially taking those elements of Western and Anglo-Saxon culture, which prize even-handedness and “fair play,” and turning them against the culture itself. Indeed, the selection of the name “Black Lives Matter” is a masterstroke in weaponizing guilt: The only possible disagreement (or so say the advocates and allies of the movement) is that you don’t think black lives do actually matter. But, of course, except for extremely isolated, marginalized and numerically insignificant pockets, virtually everyone agrees that all lives have the same value. Indeed, it is a cornerstone of Western civilization and Christian teaching that this is true. It is nearly axiomatic. The Declaration of Independence declares that the basic equality of men is “self-evident.” No one would even know where to begin “arguing” this, simply because it is so accepted as a fact.
It’s worth noting that wokeness largely entered the American political vernacular after the fall of the Occupy Movement. This is not an endorsement of either the Occupy Movement specifically, nor economic reductionism and confiscatory tax redistribution schemes more generally. However, it is worth noting that the corporate affinity for a seemingly “radical” form of politics requiring nothing in the way of actual financial sacrifice began after the death of a political movement demanding corporate accountability and economic redistribution starting at the very top.
THE BUSINESS SIDE OF THINGS
Woke Capitalism: How Huge Corporations Demonstrate Status by Endorsing Political RadicalismA “conspiracy,” or however we wish to define it, is not the only reason that Wall Street loves wokeness. Beyond the misdirection, there is also a lot of money to be made catering to the woke. This has nothing to do with what “most people” in America want or need. Rather, it has to do with catering to those on the coasts and within bigger cities in the interior of our nation.
Almost all of the income growth in America over the last ten years has been concentrated in cities in Southern California, Silicon Valley and the Pacific Northwest, hotbeds of leftism in general and wokeism in particular. However, even places outside of these regions that have seen income growth tend to be far left-leaning. Examples include Austin, TX, Denver, CO and Nashville, TN.
What this means is that the larger companies in America, including the big banks in New York, the tech companies in Silicon Valley, the entertainment industry in South California and the cable news companies that cover the goings on in Washington, D.C., are all interested in chasing after the dollar of urban wokes. Increased wealth concentration, including the massive transfer of wealth that happened under the COVID-19 panic and subsequent lockdown, have made big companies increasingly the only game in town, with smaller, more responsive Main Street America businesses becoming more and more marginalized where they continue to exist at all.
It’s not that big companies think they’re too good for your money – they just know that you don’t have anywhere else to go.
The Colin Kaaepernick sneaker incident is an excellent example of woke capitalism in action. In times past, companies generally avoided wading into controversial social issues. After all, in the words of Michael Jordan, “Republicans buy shoes too.” But in an attempt to appeal to Generation Z (also known as “Zoomers”), many companies are deciding that it’s worth alienating rural and exurban flyover people in favor of courting the woke dollar.
For Nike and many other companies, this commitment to “social justice” doesn’t run much deeper than marketing. Nike knows it has a disproportionately black customer base. But only 8 percent of their vice presidents are black. What’s more, the company is notorious for using sweatshop labor in the third world to produce its expensive sneakers.
Some other quick notes on the purchasing power of the woke left: While there is certainly no direct overlap between a college education and being a radical wokeist, the woke are certainly clustered around America’s college campuses and the cities that they move to after graduation. (The average college graduate is going to earn over $1 million more than their less educated counterpart over the course of their life.)
There is also the spectre of the unmarried and the childless: these people will also have significantly greater disposable income than married couples with children living in smaller flyover cities.
All of this adds up to a very lucrative market, both for catering to the woke and pillorying the unwoke. There is no shortage of examples of either on your television during commercials.
WOKEISM’S RADICAL EVANGELISM: DIVERSITY TRAINING SEMINARS
One of the most disturbing elements of wokeism is its evangelistic quality. As we saw during the riots of 2020, it was not enough simply to not be racist. One was now required to be an active “anti-racist” under the definition and terms established by the woke. Those who failed to comply were often attacked in a way that went far beyond simply being hassled online. People’s jobs and livelihoods were attacked in a manner befitting a Communist dictatorship.
The very notion of dialogue and civil debate isn’t just missing. There’s a deep hostility to the notion that there is any point of view other than the most woke possible. There is a line in the sand: On one side, there are the people who believe that America is a profoundly racist country and that this colors every aspect of our history. On the other side, there’s anyone who is even mildly skeptical of this – and the people on this side are “white supremacists.” By the logic of wokeism, these people deserve anything that happens to them (including being “cancelled”).
What this means is that wokeism does not simply operate in the background of the rest of society. You cannot simply ignore the cringe-inducing woke commercials on your television and not click the frankly hateful and racist articles of the woke online. Your compliance is a required aspect of wokeism. Think back to the social media phenomenon of large companies denouncing alleged “white supremacy” with a black square. Compliance with this was required, as if one were painting blood over their threshold to avoid the plague of the firstborn in ancient Egypt.
Corporations have begun echoing this rhetoric on social media, but there is a far more insidious element of wokeism’s radical evangelism: the “diversity training seminars” that are now de rigueur in the workplace. While often positioned as some kind of politically neutral gathering to increase workplace cohesion, these are in fact little more than Maoist struggle sessions – for all employees. We categorically reject the assumption that these are any more comfortable for non-white employees than they are for the white ones.
So what goes on at these seminars? There was a taxpayer-funded seminar in Seattle that acts as an excellent exemplar of such.
It was called “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness.” This has nothing to do with eliminating racism as is commonly understood. If we’re being frank, we can probably agree that individual racism has largely been eradicated in America, especially among educated people. This seminar and others like it are about pillorying whites and eroding workplace solidarity – and also about cushy little gigs for those giving the seminars, which aren’t cheap.
The seminar includes instruction in qualities that allegedly represent “white supremacy.” These include objectivity, perfectionism and comfort. They also ascribe some rather insidious qualities to whites in toto: arrogance, violence and anti-blackness. These are the exact words used by the seminar.
Employees are urged to engage in “self-talk” that “affirms complicity in racism.”
As is often the case, there is not really a “right” answer for whites taking the seminar. Talk too much at one of these events and you’re imposing yourself and dominating the conversation. Talk too little and “silence is violence.”
The Seattle seminar was only for white employees. So to be clear, the City of Seattle used taxpayer dollars to propagandize at and pillory white employees in a segregated forum. While investigating the seminar using public records requests, City Journal editor Christopher F. Rufo was unable to find any information about who ran the seminar or how much it cost the taxpayers.
While the seminar might sound extreme, it’s not. In fact, these are happening all across the country in America’s workplaces and on our college campuses – and many times even in elementary schools. They are totalitarian in nature but are increasingly a requirement of continued employment. Employees who push back against them can expect disciplinary measures up to and including termination of their employment. There is also the specter of “racism” hanging above anyone with even the slightest opposition or skepticism: they must be secret racists or else they’d be as gung ho as everyone else.
Many have noted the religious aspects of wokeism that go beyond its evangelical zeal. This includes a concept of “original sin” (whiteness), holds blacks and (to a lesser degree) indigenous peoples as a sort of “holy” race, and has a process for confession. However, one aspect of religious thought is missing – there is no process for redemption in the world of the woke. One may “do the work” as the saying goes, but there is no way to complete it and be redeemed. The fallen are simply fallen and constantly repaying their debt in a sort of state of karmic bankruptcy.
WHITE FRAGILITY: THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO OF WOKE CAPITALISM
Woke Capitalism: How Huge Corporations Demonstrate Status by Endorsing Political RadicalismEvery ideology and movement has its foundational text. In the case of woke capitalism, this is White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo. She earns a whopping $12,000 a day to lecture white people on their alleged racism. That doesn’t include travel expenses, meals or accommodations. Good work if you can get it and she does: DiAngelo has worked with companies such as Amazon, Netflix, Nike, Facebook, Under Armour, CVS, Goldman Sachs and American Express.
DiAngelo’s critics are not restricted to the right. Socialist journalist and podcaster Matt Taibbi has described her writing as espousing a “Hitlerian race theory.” Others have criticized the book for robbing black people of agency or condescending to them in other ways.
The term “white fragility” itself works a kind of magic for DiAngelo and the proponents of this theory. It is, for them, axiomatic that all white people are racist simply for existing. Any words or actions whites take in their defense is de facto evidence of white fragility.
While $12,000 a day might sound like a lot of money, we should compare the corporate cost of a DiAngelo seminar to increasing wages for workers, or offering additional benefits, or providing mentoring programs for new employees or literally anything that might benefit employees in the long term. Such programs would be extremely costly in comparison to the piddling cost associated with a day of lost productivity spent on indoctrination, which also has the important side benefits of eroding worker solidarity and providing a cheap and easy PR win for woke consumers.
WOKE CAPITALISM AND GOVERNANCE
It hardly seems worth explaining how much power large corporations have over the United States. However, we should take a moment to examine the power that woke capitalism wields over public policy.
Consider the proposition, totally uncontroversial within living memory, that biological séx is a real thing. Note that this does not require some rigid enforcement of social expression of gender: one does not need to believe that “boys wear blue and girls wear pink” to accept the existence of biological séx. But states have been targeted by large businesses for the crime of codifying this belief, again, totally uncontroversial in recent times. North Carolina was brought to heel by a coordinated corporate boycott of the state after it passed a law barring trans-identified men from women’s bathrooms. All told, the boycotts cost the state nearly $4 billion.
The 2017 boycott of North Carolina is hardly the only example of woke corporations bringing state governments to heel. For example, when Georgia passed a law defending the rights of the unborn, Hollywood leapt to action. Because a lot of television shows and movies are filmed in Georgia – for the cheap labor and tax incentives – the entertainment industry quickly declared that it would boycott Georgia if it passed a law restricting abortion.
Even state flags aren’t safe from the attack of woke capitalism. The SEC and the NCAA publicly discussed a boycott of the state of Mississippi, as did other companies. This was during the moral panic about “racism” that followed the death of George Floyd in Minnesota.
One political entity that woke capitalism does not see fit to challenge? The People’s Republic of China. Indeed, the NBA brought a general manager to heel over his support of Hong Kong democracy protesters. The normally outspoken coach Steve Kerr was strangely silent on the topic. And while the NBA has now approved political statements on jerseys, “Free the Uighurs” isn’t one of them.
THE WOKE CORPORATE STASI
If the only problem were state governments being undermined, woke capitalism would still be a serious problem. However, there are numerous examples of private individuals being targeted by woke mobs with quick compliance from their corporate overlords. Indeed, socialist podcaster Aimee Terese has likened the woke mob to a sort of HR department vigilantism. The language of these totalitarian mobs is often remarkably similar to that which is used by HR departments, particularly when they roll out diversity training seminars.
A graphic designer at the Washington Post was fired after it was revealed that she attended a 2018 party in blackface. She was confronted at the party, left in tears and apologized to her hosts the very next day. None of this was enough for the woke mob. The designer was fired after a large – and largely manufactured by the Post itself – outrage. Many editors at the Post found themselves deeply uncomfortable with the decision to run an article outing the woman. Around the same time, a 62-year-old communications chief at Boeing was fired for comments he made in 1987 at the age of 29. The man was very clear that these were not his opinions today. For reference, Barack Obama opposed same-séx marriage until 2015, which means he opposed it during both of his presidential campaigns.
In what is perhaps the most outrageous example of woke mobs getting a man fired, a truck driver was terminated after he flashed an “OK” hand sign, which is claimed by many to now be a symbol of white supremacy. Even after an investigation into the matter by his employer, he was fired.
WHY WOKE CAPITALISM?
Woke Capitalism: How Huge Corporations Demonstrate Status by Endorsing Political RadicalismIf all of this has you wondering “why,” you’re not alone. Many have pondered the question of why corporations want to take a stake in politics. It goes without saying that there is a massive political advantage to corporations being able to throw their weight around in this way and that there is little reason for them to not attempt to claim power whenever and wherever the opportunity presents itself. What’s more, diversity training seminars and woke mobs make it much easier to fire – and thus control – employees.
The best part is that this kind of progressive posturing comes at absolutely no cost to the company. They don’t have to pay their younger workers in expensive cities higher wages, thus opening up the possibility of employment to those whose parents cannot subsidize the first few years of their career. They don’t have to offer onsite childcare or other tangible – and expensive – benefits that might actually address some of the issues that these corporations feign concern about. Instead, they can pay the relatively inexpensive annual fee for a diversity training seminar, throw out some woke branding on social media and be done with the matter.
But don’t expect the Washington Post to demand that Amazon start paying taxes anytime soon.
There is a sort of cliche online about corporate wokeness: “get woke, go broke.” But the Quilette did some research into this and found it to not be true: In fact, all metrics point toward wokeness having absolutely no impact on the company’s bottom line either way. So why do they do it?
We’ve hinted at the reason for woke capitalism throughout this article. It is a form of misdirection whereby huge companies can avoid dealing with thorny labor relations issues by throwing a bone to leftist cultural interests. Remember that the left and the Democratic Party are formerly fixated on issues of economics and class rather than social issues and race. The former is a much more expensive position for large corporations than the latter.
But we should also mention that there are potentially toxic unintended consequences of woke capitalism. It’s not our contention that whites in America are an oppressed class, but it’s clear that anti-white racism is socially acceptable: You’re not going to get banned from Twitter for tweeting out “I hate white people.” What’s more, whites believe that they are increasingly the target of racism.
Whether or not this is true is entirely besides the point. The perception is far more important than the reality when discussing this topic. Inflaming racial animosity between whites and everyone else will have dire consequences for the nation as a whole, especially during a time of declining wages, increased political instability and eroding social solidarity. The end result of goading the American public into viewing their problems as largely stemming from race, rather than economics, might well have profoundly dire consequences for both the social fabric and for the individuals that constitute it.
Finally, it’s worth noting that woke capitalism is very much the free market in action. There is a benefit to the erosion of certain social values that have maintained Western civilization for hundreds of years. Woke capitalism is an attack on the nuclear family and Western civilization while providing nothing in its place. After all, who makes for better consumers than childless atoms whose only values are the prevailing cultural diktats of the day?
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veteranstoday--2020-08-24--Christchurch Mosques’ Killer planned Massacre since 2 years with Drones too. As a Mossad Military Mi

Christchurch Mosques’ Killer planned Massacre since 2 years with Drones too. As a Mossad Military Mission

The Brenton Tarrant massacre in Christchurch mosques was not the impromptu gesture of a white supremacist terrorist as he has been claimed .
It was a real military mission planned in every detail for two long years .
This is what emerged from the first hearing held today , Monday 24 August , before the District Court of the city of New Zealand where the massacre took place on March 15 , 2019 .
Not only has it prepared with sophisticated weapons and even the use of drones the successful attacks in the places of cult of the Muslims of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ premeditated the fire of a third mosque .
These new elements that emerged during the trial in which he risks life imprisonment without the possibility of release , further confirm the thesis that Tarrant was a special agent trained by an expert counterintelligence such as that of the Tel Aviv Mossad , as claimed by various sources and clues highlighted in previous reports also for a previous suspicious episode concerning the mysterious presence of Israeli spies in Christchurch .
Tarrant , a self-professed white supremacist 29yo who broadcast part of the massacre live @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this year to 51 counts of murder , 40 of attempted murder and a charge of terrorism .
His decision to abandon an earlier plea of not guilty averted a lengthy trial that was expected to take months .
On Monday , a prosecutor read the authorities ’ version of events , telling the court of the detail in which Tarrant had planned the attacks , buying multiple firearms , thousands of rounds of ammunition , ballistic armour and military-style vests .
He moved to New Zealand from Australia in 2017 and began @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Zealand mosques , viewing plans of the buildings he intended to attack and making a trip to Christchurch from the southern city of Dunedin , where he lived , two months before the massacre .
While there , he flew a drone over Al Noor mosque , scoping the building ’ s entrances and exits .
On the day of the attacks , the terrorist had petrol cans in his car that , the police said , he intended to use as incendiary devices .
Crown prosecutor Barnaby Hawes said Tarrant told police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ create fear among the Muslim population .
“ He intended to instil fear into those he described as invaders , including the Muslim population or more generally non-European immigrants , ” Hawes said .
High Court judge Cameron Mander said that he had received more than 200 victim impact statements , along with submissions from various organisations .
“ I have read them all , ” said Mander , who added that he would not sentence Tarrant before Thursday morning after survivors and family members of victims had an opportunity to address the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ events on Monday the first of dozens of victims due to speak during the four-day hearing read emotional statements in front of the gunman , in a subdued courtroom that was sparsely populated due to coronavirus restrictions .
Gamal Fouda , imam of Al Noor mosque , told Tarrant that he was “ misguided and misled ” and that his hatred was unnecessary .
“ I can say to the family of the terrorist that they have lost a son and we have lost many from our community too , I respect them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Fouda said .
Far more serious were the accusations made a few days after the tragedy , during a public commemoration in Auckland , by Ahmed Bhamji , president of the Mount Roskill E Umar mosque , the largest in New Zealand .
“ I am here and I say that I have a very strong suspicion that there is a group behind him and I am not afraid to say that I feel that the Mossad is behind this ” declared in a public conference reported on YouTube the former Fijian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most important mosque in Auckland referring to the killer and the Christchurch massacre .
The video ( here report about ) , with its suspicion , immediately rebounded on social media and within a few days it also exploded in the media with the immediate indignant reaction of the Israeli communities .
Above all because it was not just any Muslim who uttered that sentence but a leading figure in the international Muslim community according to whom there are unspecified “ Zionist affairs ” .
Those statements confirmed what was anticipated by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Duff , an international intelligence expert , in reference to the alleged double face of Tarrant , trained by Isis and Mossad in Syria for the then failed purpose of killing President Bashar Al Assad , an Alawite Shiite exponent who professes mutual religious tolerance unlike radical Sunnis .
In this intertwining of geopolitics and religion it emerged from the Gospa News investigations that even the Al Noor mosque , site of the main massacre , had a double face .
It had within it both moderate components of Islam but also extremists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ East such as the New Zealand Daryl Jones alias Bin John and the Australian Christopher Havard who became Abu Salman al Australi , both radicalized in Christchurch and then enlisted for Al Qaeda in Yemen where they were killed by a US drone in 2013 .
This is useful simply to understand the context in which a bloody and terrible tragedy took place but certainly not to mitigate the terrible sins of a ruthless killer like Tarrant .
Lucid and well trained just like a Mossad agent… Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio © COPYRIGHT @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reproduction without authorization – Versione originale in Italiano

by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy
Versione originale in Italiano
UUPDATE ON 27 AUGUST
A New Zealand court has sentenced mass shooter Brenton Tarrant, who killed 51 Muslim worshipers at a mosque last year, to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the first such ruling ever handed down in the country.
POSTED ON 24 AUGUST
The Brenton Tarrant massacre in Christchurch mosques was not the impromptu gesture of a white supremacist terrorist as he has been claimed. It was a real military mission planned in every detail for two long years. This is what emerged from the first hearing held today, Monday 24 August, before the District Court of the city of New Zealand where the massacre took place on March 15, 2019.
Not only has it prepared with sophisticated weapons and even the use of drones the successful attacks in the places of cult of the Muslims of Al Noor and Linkewood but had also premeditated the fire of a third mosque.
These new elements that emerged during the trial in which he risks life imprisonment without the possibility of release, further confirm the thesis that Tarrant was a special agent trained by an expert counterintelligence such as that of the Tel Aviv Mossad, as claimed by various sources and clues highlighted in previous reports also for a previous suspicious episode concerning the mysterious presence of Israeli spies in Christchurch.
Tarrant, a self-professed white supremacist 29yo who broadcast part of the massacre live on Facebook, pleaded guilty in March this year to 51 counts of murder, 40 of attempted murder and a charge of terrorism. His decision to abandon an earlier plea of not guilty averted a lengthy trial that was expected to take months.
On Monday, a prosecutor read the authorities’ version of events, telling the court of the detail in which Tarrant had planned the attacks, buying multiple firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition, ballistic armour and military-style vests.
He moved to New Zealand from Australia in 2017 and began planning the attacks, researching various New Zealand mosques, viewing plans of the buildings he intended to attack and making a trip to Christchurch from the southern city of Dunedin, where he lived, two months before the massacre.
While there, he flew a drone over Al Noor mosque, scoping the building’s entrances and exits. On the day of the attacks, the terrorist had petrol cans in his car that, the police said, he intended to use as incendiary devices.
Crown prosecutor Barnaby Hawes said Tarrant told police after his arrest that he wanted to create fear among the Muslim population. “He intended to instil fear into those he described as invaders, including the Muslim population or more generally non-European immigrants,” Hawes said.
HORRORS’ WHITE DEMONS FOR SPREADING TERROR
High Court judge Cameron Mander said that he had received more than 200 victim impact statements, along with submissions from various organisations. “I have read them all,” said Mander, who added that he would not sentence Tarrant before Thursday morning after survivors and family members of victims had an opportunity to address the court.
After the official account of events on Monday the first of dozens of victims due to speak during the four-day hearing read emotional statements in front of the gunman, in a subdued courtroom that was sparsely populated due to coronavirus restrictions.
Gamal Fouda, imam of Al Noor mosque, told Tarrant that he was “misguided and misled” and that his hatred was unnecessary.
“I can say to the family of the terrorist that they have lost a son and we have lost many from our community too, I respect them because they are suffering as we are. Fouda said.
Far more serious were the accusations made a few days after the tragedy, during a public commemoration in Auckland, by Ahmed Bhamji, president of the Mount Roskill E Umar mosque, the largest in New Zealand.
“I am here and I say that I have a very strong suspicion that there is a group behind him and I am not afraid to say that I feel that the Mossad is behind this” declared in a public conference reported on YouTube the former Fijian MP became the spiritual guide of the most important mosque in Auckland referring to the killer and the Christchurch massacre.
The video (here report about), with its suspicion, immediately rebounded on social media and within a few days it also exploded in the media with the immediate indignant reaction of the Israeli communities. Above all because it was not just any Muslim who uttered that sentence but a leading figure in the international Muslim community according to whom there are unspecified “Zionist affairs”.
Those statements confirmed what was anticipated by the Senior Editor of VT, Gordon Duff, an international intelligence expert, in reference to the alleged double face of Tarrant, trained by Isis and Mossad in Syria for the then failed purpose of killing President Bashar Al Assad, an Alawite Shiite exponent who professes mutual religious tolerance unlike radical Sunnis.
In this intertwining of geopolitics and religion it emerged from the Gospa News investigations that even the Al Noor mosque, site of the main massacre, had a double face. It had within it both moderate components of Islam but also extremists who became Foreing Fighters in the Middle East such as the New Zealand Daryl Jones alias Bin John and the Australian Christopher Havard who became Abu Salman al Australi, both radicalized in Christchurch and then enlisted for Al Qaeda in Yemen where they were killed by a US drone in 2013.
This is useful simply to understand the context in which a bloody and terrible tragedy took place but certainly not to mitigate the terrible sins of a ruthless killer like Tarrant. Lucid and well trained just like a Mossad agent…
Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
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no reproduction without authorization – Versione originale in Italiano
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veteranstoday--2020-08-24--US Failure of Governance, Duff on Press TV

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veteranstoday--2020-08-24--Yet more nonsense about Russia

Yet more nonsense about Russia

The MSM have fallen for it again !
Poor old President Putin , a nice man with respect , is being blamed for the poisoning of Alexei Navalny in Omsk .
Navalny , who has a couple of bees in his bonnet about corruption and Vladimir Putin being some sort of autocrat , posed no threat at all to the President , who is enormously popular and has just had a resounding referendum victory .
Unlike say Boris Johnson he is also hugely competent .
The idea that he ordered the poisoning of a nonentity like Navalny is absurd , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are implying .
For the benefit of Cold War warriors like Sky News the Cold War ended thirty years ago .
Modern Russia is a democracy and Vladimir Putin is her elected President .
Moreover Russia is a potential friend and ally .
She is particularly well-disposed towards Britain .
The elephant in the room is Germany .
The MSM are subject to the insidious influence of the powerful propaganda section of the DVD in Dachau , which goes all the way back to the wartime Propaganda Ministry run by our community partner @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rupert ‘ von ’ Murdoch understand this and know better than to upset Germany .
President Putin is a patriot and bitterly opposed by Germany .
Political assassination of opponents , with a view to the President being blamed , is a standard German tactic .
The DVD know that the tame Western media will swallow whatever rubbish is put in front of them .
The propaganda section also understands that the Western media have low ethical values , no offense intended , and are quite happy to sacrifice Russian lives .
Each @ @ @ @ @ @ @ did it ’ false flag they encourage the DVD to murder someone else .
Poor Anna Politkovskaya was probably the first victim , whacked by Russian organised crime at the DVD ’ s behest .
She had a bee in her bonnet about alleged Russian war crimes in Chechnya , where the Russian security forces have in fact performed superbly , in difficult conditions .
The Russian counter-insurgency effort there has in effect been her main contribution to the Global War on Terror .
Of course the odd Russian squaddie has got tanked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and done something silly , but nothing that you wouldn ’ t see in Nottingham on a bad Saturday night .
Some of what Navalno has been saying about corruption makes sense .
However the biggest corruption issue in Russia involves oligarchs allowed by Germany to participate in her offshore high-yield trading programs .
They are not illegal , but the vast profits generated offshore are concealed from the Russian taxman and distortion of the money supply inflates the inflation rate .
I couldn ’ t name a recent British Prime Minister more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s wildly popular because he ’ s hard-working , knows what he ’ s doing , hasn ’ t raided the Russian treasury and is hugely patriotic .
The fact that the EU haven ’ t got a leader to match him is their fault , not his .
I don ’ t have a problem with Navalny having been poisoned .
I have a huge problem with the idea that President Putin ordered it .
He simply had no motive .
He was bound to be blamed in the West and had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a nutter like Alexi Navalny .
The Navalny poisoning has allowed anti-Russian elements in the media ( basically everybody except Russia Today , who are nice people even if they won ’ t have me on ) to dredge up every hysterical allegation against Russia going back to 2006 .
That was the year that former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko managed to top himself with the antidote to polonium , Prussian Blue .
The whole scheme was dreamt up by a bent clown called Boris Berezovsky , Litvinenko ’ s employer , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Litvinenko was persuaded to swallow both polonium and the antidote .
Prussian Blue can be the deadlier of the two substances – basically you only take it if you ’ ve already ingested some polonium .
The whole ludicrous scheme came to grief and Litvinenko snuffed it , triggering a massive cover-up in Britain .
I ’ m sorry to say that a judge was roped in to join the cover-up , Britain ’ s judiciary having less integrity these days than Russia ’ s , sadly .
( Basically the modern @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decency and fairness , whilst the modern Russian judiciary operates to old-fashioned British standards . )
Berezovsky never got over the loss of his friend and very properly topped himself in 2013 , triggering another silly round of conspiracy theories .
Litvinenko ’ s cause of death was peritonitis , triggered by a breach of his lower intestine , with secondary radiation poisoning .
Period , as you chaps say !
The MSM are dredging this up as well .
As I have previously reported in these pages Germany ’ s UK operation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bright idea of administering some BX nerve agent to Colonel Skripal and his daughter in the beautiful city of Salisbury in Wiltshire and pretending it was novichok , a deadly Soviet-era nerve agent .
They weren ’ t the first to come up with the idea .
The scriptwriters of the entertaining 2002 Cold War drama , The Sum Of All Fears , based on the late Tom Clancy ’ s novel of the same name , got there first .
The movie features a mad Austrian megalomaniac , who for the avoidance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kissinger , who organises a novichok attack in Chechnya with a view to the Kremlin being blamed .
The megalomaniac then blows up Baltimore and everybody notices because the president , superbly played by James Cromwell , was watching a ball-game in Baltimore at the time .
I ’ m not suggesting that dear old Henry Kissinger isn ’ t a megalomaniac of course , but he ’ s certainly not mad , indeed he ’ s the nicest megalomaniac I ’ ve ever had dealings with , if he will permit me @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not nearly as nice , no offense intended .
Staying with The Sum Of All Fears , the scriptwriters got several things right , by the way – the nuke to fear is the one smuggled into a city , the scenario Major-General Sergun of the GRU and I were faced with in 2012 .
They also understood that weapons-grade plutonium gives off a unique signature .
Since the signature of the stolen Russian warheads infiltrated by the DVD into East London in 2012 would by definition have been Russian the danger was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to persuade the wartime allies to wipe each other out in a nuclear exchange .
The scriptwriters got several things wrong however , including the idea that Chechnya is a separate country from Russia .
Chechnya was and remains a province of the Russian Federation and is sovereign Russian soil .
The Sum Of All Fears was the first Tom Clancy novel that I read , incidentally .
I well recall buying it in a bookstore at Chicago ’ s Union Station in 1991 shortly before boarding AMTRAK ’ s California Zephyr .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , CA , and even flying first class my luggage allowance hadn ‘ t allowed me to bring a bunch of books over from England .
It was a very pleasant journey , although the nice African-American sleeping car attendant , if that is not a tautology , seemed a bit taken aback when I asked if I needed to dress for dinner !
( I discovered that very few diners wear a tuxedo in AMTRAK dining cars . )
I ’ d never heard of Tom Clancy , but I found his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he became one of my favorite authors .
I was appalled by his murder in 2013 and would hate to think that it was because the Correa/COREA Group were worried that we were scheduled to meet .
( He was murdered the night I flew into Baltimore for a US Naval Institute conference at Annapolis , MD . )
Tom was a member of USNI , so far as I know , ( they published his first book , The Hunt For Red October ) , but he wasn ’ t expected to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ due to my colleagues at VT for exposing the lie that the agent used at Salisbury was novichok .
Novichok was used in a later attack , the murder of Dawn Sturgess , in July 2018 , but that was a small amount supplied by DSTL Porton Down .
Possibly rattled by VT ’ s exposures , GO2 seem to have thought that they needed to kill someone – anyone – with some actual novichok .
The idea that two professional Russian military intelligence officers would solemnly board a South West Railways train @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enough nerve agent to wipe out a small town , travel down to Salisbury and murder a Russian defector who had been released in an agreed spy-swap , is ridiculous .
Tom wouldn ’ t have dared put it in one of his novels , for fear at being laughed at .
There doesn ’ t seem to be any limit to the gullibility of the media when it comes to Russia .
The accusation that President Putin ordered the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 over the Ukraine was equally hysterical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pages at the time the plane was actually shot down in a combined operation by the Ukrainian Air Force and the Chinese PLA Air Force . )
There is no excuse for any intelligence professional falling for the idea that President Putin ordered the poisoning of Alexei Navalny .
The good news is that they can do wonderful things with paranoia these days and there is hope that the journalists pedalling this nonsense will be able to make complete recoveries .
There is similar hysteria over the election result in Belarus , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ won a convincing win because he was the best candidate .
He is pro-Russian , but what ’ s wrong with that ?
Belarus used to be called White Russia , after all .
The MSM have persuaded themselves that opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has been ‘ exiled ’ to Lithuania , which is nonsense .
She chose to go there , possibly fearing arrest by Belarus ’ s efficient KDB , who will doubtless be investigating the possibility of links between the opposition and the DVD .
Tikhanovskaya ’ s husband was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There is no reason to suppose that his arrest was politically motivated – neither the Crown Prosecution Service nor the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York ( SDNY ) was involved .
German ambitions to dominate Belarus go back a long way , long before their 1941 invasion .
Eastern European politics can be very nasty .
A lot of those whingeing about Presidents Putin and Lukashenko haven ’ t forgiven Russia for hammering Germany in World War II .
Unlike Minsk they don ’ t do human rights in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the office of the US Attorney for SDNY .
Steve Bannon ’ s arrest on a yacht off the coast of Connecticut on Thursday on politically motivated fraud charges was a real shocker .
It would serve the US Attorney right if he applied for asylum in Britain .
The charges are a crock , and I ’ m not just saying that because Steve gets a copy of my column ( hi Steve ! )
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SDNY are clearly backing Joe Biden in November and the charges were very obviously designed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they will be dropped after the election .
I assume SDNY ’ s strategy is to carry on making offensive media comments , on the basis that they ’ re more likely to win a trial by media than a trial by jury .
Had the charges been brought earlier there was a risk that the case might have been thrown out before the election .
Steve Bannon ’ s arrest raises serious counter-intelligence concerns .
Aside from the Democrats those with most to gain are the Mexican drug cartels and the DVD @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have long followed a policy of flooding America with dangerous narcotics .
( Our community partner the Hun tried the same thing with the British Expeditionary Force in World War I and again with US forces in Vietnam . )
The Wall poses a serious threat to that strategy .
It is legitimate to ask whether any cartel cash has found its way into SDNY or the federal judiciary .
We know that the DoJ are corrupt , no offense intended , and that the federal judiciary are highly politicised .
President Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ acting US Attorney for SDNY , who needs a real smack .
There ’ s no point asking the FBI to investigate SDNY .
That would be like asking the Gestapo ’ s inspector-general to investigate allegations of anti-semitism , or for that matter , the Labour Party .
The Intelligence Community needs to step up to the plate .
Strauss was implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal , the DVD ’ s operation to embarrass the great President Reagan .
( She was then a junior prosecutor in SDNY , who were tasked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ investigation . )
It ’ s not enough for Steve Bannon to be cleared .
All those involved in this scandal should be arrested themselves .
Time for SDNY , who were happy to take no action over the brutal murder of German operative Jeffrey Epstein last August and have run a smear campaign against a Prince of the Blood Royal , to feel the heat .
Of course by that I don ’ t mean that their office should be torched – I mean that they should be held to account for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ don ’ t share the MSM ’ s enthusiasm for Joe Biden ’ s gloomy acceptance speech .
Like the MSM themselves he has been exaggerating the crisis triggered by China ’ s accidental release of its Covid-19 bio-weapon .
As I and others have reported there ’ s been a cure for Covid-19 all along and a vaccine is just around the corner .
Indeed Russia already seems to have developed one , which may explain the timing of the apparent German decision to poison Alexei Navalny .
You don ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coming across as a depressive , no offense intended .
Joe Biden has any number of reasons to feel depressed , indeed if I were a Democrat I ’ d be depressed .
At least his speechwriter didn ’ t copy this speech from Neil Kinnock !
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The MSM have fallen for it again! Poor old President Putin, a nice man with respect, is being blamed for the poisoning of Alexei Navalny in Omsk. Navalny, who has a couple of bees in his bonnet about corruption and Vladimir Putin being some sort of autocrat, posed no threat at all to the President, who is enormously popular and has just had a resounding referendum victory.
Unlike say Boris Johnson he is also hugely competent. The idea that he ordered the poisoning of a nonentity like Navalny is absurd, but that’s what the MSM are implying.
For the benefit of Cold War warriors like Sky News the Cold War ended thirty years ago. Modern Russia is a democracy and Vladimir Putin is her elected President. Moreover Russia is a potential friend and ally. She is particularly well-disposed towards Britain.
The elephant in the room is Germany. The MSM are subject to the insidious influence of the powerful propaganda section of the DVD in Dachau, which goes all the way back to the wartime Propaganda Ministry run by our community partner Dr Goebbels. Major media players like Rupert ‘von’ Murdoch understand this and know better than to upset Germany.
President Putin is a patriot and bitterly opposed by Germany. Political assassination of opponents, with a view to the President being blamed, is a standard German tactic. The DVD know that the tame Western media will swallow whatever rubbish is put in front of them.
The propaganda section also understands that the Western media have low ethical values, no offense intended, and are quite happy to sacrifice Russian lives. Each time they fall for the ‘Putin did it’ false flag they encourage the DVD to murder someone else.
Anna Politkovskaya
Poor Anna Politkovskaya was probably the first victim, whacked by Russian organised crime at the DVD’s behest. She had a bee in her bonnet about alleged Russian war crimes in Chechnya, where the Russian security forces have in fact performed superbly, in difficult conditions.
The Russian counter-insurgency effort there has in effect been her main contribution to the Global War on Terror. Of course the odd Russian squaddie has got tanked up on the odd bottle of vodka and done something silly, but nothing that you wouldn’t see in Nottingham on a bad Saturday night.
Some of what Navalno has been saying about corruption makes sense. However the biggest corruption issue in Russia involves oligarchs allowed by Germany to participate in her offshore high-yield trading programs. They are not illegal, but the vast profits generated offshore are concealed from the Russian taxman and distortion of the money supply inflates the inflation rate.
I couldn’t name a recent British Prime Minister more honest than Vladimir Putin. He’s wildly popular because he’s hard-working, knows what he’s doing, hasn’t raided the Russian treasury and is hugely patriotic. The fact that the EU haven’t got a leader to match him is their fault, not his.
I don’t have a problem with Navalny having been poisoned. I have a huge problem with the idea that President Putin ordered it. He simply had no motive. He was bound to be blamed in the West and had nothing whatsoever to gain from knocking off a nutter like Alexi Navalny.
Lt-Col Litvinenko
The Navalny poisoning has allowed anti-Russian elements in the media (basically everybody except Russia Today, who are nice people even if they won’t have me on) to dredge up every hysterical allegation against Russia going back to 2006. That was the year that former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko managed to top himself with the antidote to polonium, Prussian Blue.
The whole scheme was dreamt up by a bent clown called Boris Berezovsky, Litvinenko’s employer, who wanted to embarrass poor old Pooters. Litvinenko was persuaded to swallow both polonium and the antidote. Prussian Blue can be the deadlier of the two substances – basically you only take it if you’ve already ingested some polonium.
The whole ludicrous scheme came to grief and Litvinenko snuffed it, triggering a massive cover-up in Britain. I’m sorry to say that a judge was roped in to join the cover-up, Britain’s judiciary having less integrity these days than Russia’s, sadly. (Basically the modern British judiciary operates to Soviet standards of decency and fairness, whilst the modern Russian judiciary operates to old-fashioned British standards.)
Berezovsky never got over the loss of his friend and very properly topped himself in 2013, triggering another silly round of conspiracy theories. Litvinenko’s cause of death was peritonitis, triggered by a breach of his lower intestine, with secondary radiation poisoning. Period, as you chaps say!
Salisbury
The MSM are dredging this up as well. As I have previously reported in these pages Germany’s UK operation, GO2, came up with the bright idea of administering some BX nerve agent to Colonel Skripal and his daughter in the beautiful city of Salisbury in Wiltshire and pretending it was novichok, a deadly Soviet-era nerve agent.
They weren’t the first to come up with the idea. The scriptwriters of the entertaining 2002 Cold War drama, The Sum Of All Fears, based on the late Tom Clancy’s novel of the same name, got there first. The movie features a mad Austrian megalomaniac, who for the avoidance of doubt was not modelled on Henry Kissinger, who organises a novichok attack in Chechnya with a view to the Kremlin being blamed. The megalomaniac then blows up Baltimore and everybody notices because the president, superbly played by James Cromwell, was watching a ball-game in Baltimore at the time.
I’m not suggesting that dear old Henry Kissinger isn’t a megalomaniac of course, but he’s certainly not mad, indeed he’s the nicest megalomaniac I’ve ever had dealings with, if he will permit me to say so. Tony Blair is not nearly as nice, no offense intended.
Staying with The Sum Of All Fears, the scriptwriters got several things right, by the way – the nuke to fear is the one smuggled into a city, the scenario Major-General Sergun of the GRU and I were faced with in 2012. They also understood that weapons-grade plutonium gives off a unique signature. Since the signature of the stolen Russian warheads infiltrated by the DVD into East London in 2012 would by definition have been Russian the danger was doubled. The Germans have long tried to persuade the wartime allies to wipe each other out in a nuclear exchange.
The scriptwriters got several things wrong however, including the idea that Chechnya is a separate country from Russia. Chechnya was and remains a province of the Russian Federation and is sovereign Russian soil.
Tom Clancy – one of the greatest thriller writers of all time.
The Sum Of All Fears was the first Tom Clancy novel that I read, incidentally. I well recall buying it in a bookstore at Chicago’s Union Station in 1991 shortly before boarding AMTRAK’s California Zephyr. It was a long haul to Oakland, CA, and even flying first class my luggage allowance hadn‘t allowed me to bring a bunch of books over from England.
It was a very pleasant journey, although the nice African-American sleeping car attendant, if that is not a tautology, seemed a bit taken aback when I asked if I needed to dress for dinner! (I discovered that very few diners wear a tuxedo in AMTRAK dining cars.)
I’d never heard of Tom Clancy, but I found his book to be an absorbing read and he became one of my favorite authors. I was appalled by his murder in 2013 and would hate to think that it was because the Correa/COREA Group were worried that we were scheduled to meet. (He was murdered the night I flew into Baltimore for a US Naval Institute conference at Annapolis, MD.) Tom was a member of USNI, so far as I know, (they published his first book, The Hunt For Red October), but he wasn’t expected to attend the conference.
Huge credit is due to my colleagues at VT for exposing the lie that the agent used at Salisbury was novichok. Novichok was used in a later attack, the murder of Dawn Sturgess, in July 2018, but that was a small amount supplied by DSTL Porton Down. Possibly rattled by VT’s exposures, GO2 seem to have thought that they needed to kill someone – anyone – with some actual novichok.
The idea that two professional Russian military intelligence officers would solemnly board a South West Railways train at Waterloo Station in London. carrying enough nerve agent to wipe out a small town, travel down to Salisbury and murder a Russian defector who had been released in an agreed spy-swap, is ridiculous. Tom wouldn’t have dared put it in one of his novels, for fear at being laughed at.
There doesn’t seem to be any limit to the gullibility of the media when it comes to Russia. The accusation that President Putin ordered the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 over the Ukraine was equally hysterical. (As I demonstrated on these pages at the time the plane was actually shot down in a combined operation by the Ukrainian Air Force and the Chinese PLA Air Force.)
There is no excuse for any intelligence professional falling for the idea that President Putin ordered the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. The good news is that they can do wonderful things with paranoia these days and there is hope that the journalists pedalling this nonsense will be able to make complete recoveries.
Belarus
There is similar hysteria over the election result in Belarus, which the Germans lost. President Alexander Lukashenko won a convincing win because he was the best candidate. He is pro-Russian, but what’s wrong with that? Belarus used to be called White Russia, after all.
The MSM have persuaded themselves that opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has been ‘exiled’ to Lithuania, which is nonsense. She chose to go there, possibly fearing arrest by Belarus’s efficient KDB, who will doubtless be investigating the possibility of links between the opposition and the DVD. Tikhanovskaya’s husband was very properly arrested on May 29th. There is no reason to suppose that his arrest was politically motivated – neither the Crown Prosecution Service nor the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) was involved.
German ambitions to dominate Belarus go back a long way, long before their 1941 invasion. Eastern European politics can be very nasty. A lot of those whingeing about Presidents Putin and Lukashenko haven’t forgiven Russia for hammering Germany in World War II.
Steve Bannon, smartly dressed as usual.
Steve Bannon
Unlike Minsk they don’t do human rights in New York, at any rate not in the office of the US Attorney for SDNY. Steve Bannon’s arrest on a yacht off the coast of Connecticut on Thursday on politically motivated fraud charges was a real shocker. It would serve the US Attorney right if he applied for asylum in Britain.
The charges are a crock, and I’m not just saying that because Steve gets a copy of my column (hi Steve!). SDNY are clearly backing Joe Biden in November and the charges were very obviously designed to embarrass the President. I imagine they will be dropped after the election. I assume SDNY’s strategy is to carry on making offensive media comments, on the basis that they’re more likely to win a trial by media than a trial by jury. Had the charges been brought earlier there was a risk that the case might have been thrown out before the election.
Steve Bannon’s arrest raises serious counter-intelligence concerns. Aside from the Democrats those with most to gain are the Mexican drug cartels and the DVD, who sit behind the cartels and have long followed a policy of flooding America with dangerous narcotics. (Our community partner the Hun tried the same thing with the British Expeditionary Force in World War I and again with US forces in Vietnam.) The Wall poses a serious threat to that strategy.
It is legitimate to ask whether any cartel cash has found its way into SDNY or the federal judiciary. We know that the DoJ are corrupt, no offense intended, and that the federal judiciary are highly politicised.
President Trump should now fire Audrey Strauss, the acting US Attorney for SDNY, who needs a real smack. There’s no point asking the FBI to investigate SDNY. That would be like asking the Gestapo’s inspector-general to investigate allegations of anti-semitism, or for that matter, the Labour Party.
The Intelligence Community needs to step up to the plate. Strauss was implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal, the DVD’s operation to embarrass the great President Reagan. (She was then a junior prosecutor in SDNY, who were tasked by the Germans with conducting a fake investigation.)
It’s not enough for Steve Bannon to be cleared. All those involved in this scandal should be arrested themselves. Time for SDNY, who were happy to take no action over the brutal murder of German operative Jeffrey Epstein last August and have run a smear campaign against a Prince of the Blood Royal, to feel the heat. Of course by that I don’t mean that their office should be torched – I mean that they should be held to account for their crimes against public justice.
Presidential Race
I don’t share the MSM’s enthusiasm for Joe Biden’s gloomy acceptance speech. Like the MSM themselves he has been exaggerating the crisis triggered by China’s accidental release of its Covid-19 bio-weapon. As I and others have reported there’s been a cure for Covid-19 all along and a vaccine is just around the corner. Indeed Russia already seems to have developed one, which may explain the timing of the apparent German decision to poison Alexei Navalny.
You don’t win elections by being gloomy, or coming across as a depressive, no offense intended. Joe Biden has any number of reasons to feel depressed, indeed if I were a Democrat I’d be depressed. At least his speechwriter didn’t copy this speech from Neil Kinnock!
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veteranstoday--2020-08-24--No FDA Approved Uses for Kratom

No FDA Approved Uses for Kratom

Health Editor ’ s Note : Kratom is not safe for consumption in any form .
Read below for important information…..Carol No FDA Approved Uses for Kratom The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use Mitragyna speciosa , commonly known as kratom , a plant which grows naturally in Thailand , Malaysia , Indonesia , and Papua New Guinea .
FDA is concerned that kratom , which affects the same opioid brain receptors as morphine , appears to have properties that expose users to the risks of addiction , abuse , and dependence .
There are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the agency has received concerning reports about the safety of kratom .
FDA is actively evaluating all available scientific information on this issue and continues to warn consumers not to use any products labeled as containing the botanical substance kratom or its psychoactive compounds , mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine .
FDA encourages more research to better understand kratom ’ s safety profile , including the use of kratom combined with other drugs .
Since identifying kratom on an import alert for unapproved drugs in 2012 and on a second import alert in February 2014 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ingredients , FDA has taken a number of additional actions , including : • In September 2014 , U.S .
Marshals , at the FDA ’ s request , seized more than 25,000 pounds of raw kratom material worth more than $ 5 million from Rosefield Management , Inc. in Van Nuys , California .
• In January 2016 , U.S .
Marshals , at the FDA ’ s request , seized nearly 90,000 bottles of dietary supplements labeled as containing kratom and worth more than $ 400,000 .
The product , manufactured @ @ @ @ @ @ @ LLC , located in South Beloit , Illinois , is marketed under the brand name RelaKzpro .
• In August 2016 , U.S .
Marshals , at the FDA ’ s request , seized more than 100 cases of products labeled as containing kratom and worth more than $ 150,000 .
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No FDA Approved Uses for Kratom
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use Mitragyna speciosa, commonly known as kratom, a plant which grows naturally in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. FDA is concerned that kratom, which affects the same opioid brain receptors as morphine, appears to have properties that expose users to the risks of addiction, abuse, and dependence.
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veteranstoday--2020-08-25--Pure Fun: Will Falwell Speak at the Convention?  Will we meet the pool boy (Trump did as the photo s

Pure Fun: Will Falwell Speak at the Convention?  Will we meet the pool boy (Trump did as the photo shows)

Cohen , it seems blackmailed Falwell for a Trump endorsement while the pool boy was passed around like a party favor , not just Falwell but he went elsewhere as well .
Doesn ’ t Trump Tower have a swimming pool ?
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Cohen, it seems blackmailed Falwell for a Trump endorsement while the pool boy was passed around like a party favor, not just Falwell but he went elsewhere as well. Doesn’t Trump Tower have a swimming pool?
Taking a break between sessions of exhibitionist cuckold sex with the pool boy, Becki Falwell interviews with Lara Trump for "Women for Trump." Yes, there once was a "Trump TV". pic.twitter.com/Dzl3CVd7dr — Puesto Loco™ (@PuestoLoco) August 25, 2020
The story isn't that Jerry Falwell Jr's wife had sex with someone other than him, it's that the guy she was having sex with had photos of her and then Michael Cohen somehow got the photos and then Falwell suddenly and unexpectedly endorsed Donald Trump. https://t.co/oOeHNjM5mD — Hank Green: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor is Out! (@hankgreen) August 24, 2020
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This may make some people angry, but Jerry Falwell, Jr.'s sex life is really none of our business. That's between him, his wife, their former pool boy, an undisclosed number of younger women, all their lawyers, any videographers, and the Board of Trustees of Liberty University. — Charlotte Clymer 🏳🌈 (@cmclymer) August 24, 2020 Women for Trump board member Becki Falwell & her hubby @JerryFalwellJr (who blocked me for posting about this stuff) hid their relationship with Giancarlo Granda, a former pool boy because it went against their Liberty University code. Big secret: exposed.https://t.co/QDTRUA0zSH — Grant Stern (@grantstern) August 24, 2020 *