thewashingtonstandard--2020-09-20--CAIR Denounces Netflix’s Pedophilia-Fest ‘Cuties’ – Because It Portrays Islam Negatively

Netflix ’ s Cuties , which glamorizes pedophilia under the guise of providing what it calls “ a critical look on pressure society puts on young girls to act sexual , ” has been roundly denounced .
But now the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations ( CAIR ) has added a new twist .
Besides criticizing the series for its “ hyper-sexualization of children , ” the Islamic group is enraged over the series for something virtually no one else has noticed : It portrays Islam negatively .
According to Media Play News , CAIR ’ s objections to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s co-founder and longtime executive director Nihad Awad declared : “ We join other Americans in calling on Netflix to remove this disturbing film from its platform .
Although the filmmakers behind Cuties have argued that the film is meant to criticize the hyper-sexualization of children , a film can not criticize the abuse of children while abusing children.
” On that , CAIR and I agree at last : The film is a disgusting illustration of how degenerate popular culture has become .
It ’ s the kind of decadent display @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the past , and that is not a good sign .
But CAIR had more to say than just that .
The film “ demeans the Islamic religion , ” according to CAIR , because it portrays the father of one of the characters as a polygamist , and “ her mother as oppressed.
” It apparently also “ features a scene in which her family conducts an exorcism , leading the young girl to gyrate and ‘ twerk ’ while wearing revealing clothing , all as an Arabic recitation plays in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be acceptable in American society , especially the sexual objectification of children , ” Awad thundered .
“ Netflix should immediately remove the film and apologize to the public.
” Why , yes , Nihad , yes .
But wait a minute .
CAIR is upset because the film depicts the Muslim girl ’ s father as a polygamist ?
But Islam allows for polygamy .
The Qur ’ an says that a man can have up to four wives ( 4:24 ) .
Muhammad himself had multiple wives , and polygamy is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ day .
Last January in India , the All India Muslim Personal Law Board stated , in response to a legal challenge to polygamy , that the practice was justified in the Qur ’ an and Sunnah , and therefore non-Muslims had no right to challenge it .
There is no record of CAIR criticizing the All India Muslim Personal Law Board for misunderstanding Islam .
And in October 2019 in Malaysia , a survey revealed that seventy percent of Muslim women had no problem with the concept of polygamy , although only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with their husbands practicing it .
In Russia a year ago , Ildar Alyautdinov , the mufti of Moscow , asserted that “ legalizing polygamy would guarantee women ’ s rights.
” He called for a “ legislative-level protective mechanism for women to become full-fledged second wives ” and said that polygamy “ will help solve many social woes .
Additionally , there ’ d be much less sinfulness and fornication that ’ s spreading so rapidly.
” There is a great deal more of this .
Because polygamy is allowed in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to reject it in principle would be tantamount to heresy or even apostasy .
So Netflix portrayed a polygamous Muslim in Cuties , and that ’ s offensive ?
Perhaps Nihad Awad has forgotten that his CAIR colleague Ibrahim Hooper stated back in 2007 regarding polygamy that “ Islamic scholars would differ on whether one could do so while living in the United States.
” He was not reported as having said anything about working against this practice among American Muslims , despite its illegality .
The New York Times reported that same @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and other American cities has soared from places where polygamy is lawful and widespread , especially from West African countries like Mali , where demographic surveys show that 43 percent of women are in polygamous marriages.
” And CAIR is angry because the Muslim girl ’ s mother is oppressed ?
But the Qur ’ an says that a man can beat a woman from whom he fears disobedience ( 4:34 ) , and that a woman ’ s testimony is worth half that of a man ( 2:282 ) , and that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ brothers do ( 4:11 ) , and that a man can marry and divorce even a prepubescent girl ( 65:4 ) , and much more — and yet apparently Nihad Awad would have us believe that Cuties is out of line for showing a Muslim woman actually suffering under all this and more .
The fault , Mr. Awad , lies not in Netflix , but in the Qur ’ an – but of course , I don ’ t expect you to admit that .
There is a bright side : Given @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to avoid offending them , Netflix is far more likely to drop the film because Muslims are angry than because non-Muslim conservatives are .
But whether they do or not , the fact remains that CAIR is angry because people who watch Cuties will find out about aspects of Islam that they work hard to conceal .
Still , Nihad Awad and company needn ’ t worry : The audience for this film will be preoccupied with other matters .

Netflix’s Cuties, which glamorizes pedophilia under the guise of providing what it calls “a critical look on pressure society puts on young girls to act sexual,” has been roundly denounced. But now the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has added a new twist. Besides criticizing the series for its “hyper-sexualization of children,” the Islamic group is enraged over the series for something virtually no one else has noticed: It portrays Islam negatively.
According to Media Play News, CAIR’s objections to the film started out reasonably enough. CAIR’s co-founder and longtime executive director Nihad Awad declared: “We join other Americans in calling on Netflix to remove this disturbing film from its platform. Although the filmmakers behind Cuties have argued that the film is meant to criticize the hyper-sexualization of children, a film cannot criticize the abuse of children while abusing children.”
On that, CAIR and I agree at last: The film is a disgusting illustration of how degenerate popular culture has become. It’s the kind of decadent display we have seen in declining civilizations of the past, and that is not a good sign.
But CAIR had more to say than just that. The film “demeans the Islamic religion,” according to CAIR, because it portrays the father of one of the characters as a polygamist, and “her mother as oppressed.” It apparently also “features a scene in which her family conducts an exorcism, leading the young girl to gyrate and ‘twerk’ while wearing revealing clothing, all as an Arabic recitation plays in the background.”
“None of this should be acceptable in American society, especially the sexual objectification of children,” Awad thundered. “Netflix should immediately remove the film and apologize to the public.”
Why, yes, Nihad, yes. But wait a minute. CAIR is upset because the film depicts the Muslim girl’s father as a polygamist? But Islam allows for polygamy. The Qur’an says that a man can have up to four wives (4:24). Muhammad himself had multiple wives, and polygamy is still approved in Islamic law to this day.
Last January in India, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board stated, in response to a legal challenge to polygamy, that the practice was justified in the Qur’an and Sunnah, and therefore non-Muslims had no right to challenge it. There is no record of CAIR criticizing the All India Muslim Personal Law Board for misunderstanding Islam. And in October 2019 in Malaysia, a survey revealed that seventy percent of Muslim women had no problem with the concept of polygamy, although only thirty-two percent said they would be okay with their husbands practicing it.
In Russia a year ago, Ildar Alyautdinov, the mufti of Moscow, asserted that “legalizing polygamy would guarantee women’s rights.” He called for a “legislative-level protective mechanism for women to become full-fledged second wives” and said that polygamy “will help solve many social woes. Additionally, there’d be much less sinfulness and fornication that’s spreading so rapidly.”
There is a great deal more of this. Because polygamy is allowed in the Qur’an, for a Muslim to reject it in principle would be tantamount to heresy or even apostasy. So Netflix portrayed a polygamous Muslim in Cuties, and that’s offensive? Perhaps Nihad Awad has forgotten that his CAIR colleague Ibrahim Hooper stated back in 2007 regarding polygamy that “Islamic scholars would differ on whether one could do so while living in the United States.”
He was not reported as having said anything about working against this practice among American Muslims, despite its illegality. The New York Times reported that same year that “immigration to New York and other American cities has soared from places where polygamy is lawful and widespread, especially from West African countries like Mali, where demographic surveys show that 43 percent of women are in polygamous marriages.”
And CAIR is angry because the Muslim girl’s mother is oppressed? But the Qur’an says that a man can beat a woman from whom he fears disobedience (4:34), and that a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man (2:282), and that a woman should inherit less than her brothers do (4:11), and that a man can marry and divorce even a prepubescent girl (65:4), and much more — and yet apparently Nihad Awad would have us believe that Cuties is out of line for showing a Muslim woman actually suffering under all this and more. The fault, Mr. Awad, lies not in Netflix, but in the Qur’an – but of course, I don’t expect you to admit that.
There is a bright side: Given the general solicitude for Muslims and determination to avoid offending them, Netflix is far more likely to drop the film because Muslims are angry than because non-Muslim conservatives are. But whether they do or not, the fact remains that CAIR is angry because people who watch Cuties will find out about aspects of Islam that they work hard to conceal. Still, Nihad Awad and company needn’t worry: The audience for this film will be preoccupied with other matters.
Article posted with permission from Robert Spencer


thewashingtonstandard--2020-09-20--Colorado:  “I’m Shooting Him, I Need A Paid Vacation” – Taxpayers Held Liable After Cops Conspire To

Colorado:  “I’m Shooting Him, I Need A Paid Vacation” – Taxpayers Held Liable After Cops Conspire To Murder Man (Video)

LaSalle , CO — Frequent readers of the Free Thought Project know and have seen many examples illustrating that cops will detain , harass , and violate the rights of innocent people simply because they can .
We ’ ve even seen innocent people sodomized on the roadside by cops looking for non-existent drugs .
A common theme throughout all these examples of bad cops is the paid vacations they receive after brutalizing , violating , and killing innocent citizens .
Never , however , have we heard a cop actually say they were going to kill someone just to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Anthony Mills filed a civil rights lawsuit earlier this year against the city of LaSalle as well as LaSalle Police Officer David Miller .
Officer Miller was recorded on his own body camera conspiring to murder Mills .
According to the lawsuit and the video , Miller had no idea his microphone was recording when he and another officer conspired to kill the biker .
Now , the taxpayers of Colorado are being held accountable for the officers actions .
According to Mercury News , five Colorado police agencies paid $ 25,000 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Angels member after an officer two years ago joked that he ’ d shoot the man to get “ paid vacation.
” The incident unfolded on April 8 , 2018 as Mills and another friend were riding their motorcycles .
Mills is a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club ( HAMC ) .
As part of the lawsuit , officer Miller ’ s body camera footage was released .
What it shows is nothing short of criminal conspiracy to commit murder to receive a paid vacation .
According to the lawsuit , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cause .
Indeed , the officer brags about holding the bikers without probable cause , simply because he can .
“ When police officers openly discuss with one another their disdain for one group of citizens that they are sworn to serve and protect , and make jokes about killing those citizens for ‘ paid vacation leave , ’ they normalize police misconduct and murder , ” Mills ’ attorney , Sarah Schielke , said in a news release announcing the settlement .
“ Cop jokes about some lives not mattering inevitably fosters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much more willing to pull the trigger on those same lives later.
” As the video shows , Miller pulls the bikers over and tells them they were “ going way too fast.
” After getting their information , Miller goes back to the car where he conspires to violate their 4th Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure .
“ I have no problem holding these motherf**kers until Greely gets down here , ” Miller says .
Greely is a police department in a neighboring county and Miller was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The officer then goes on to admit he profiled the bikers and admits their department has a policy of violating their rights .
“ So , they have on Hells Angels jackets .
Any time we deal with these guys , we call in code….so , ” the officer says .
Miller ’ s fellow officer also conspires to violate the rights of the bikers as well .
They alert nearby jurisdictions , telling them they also plan on violating the bikers ’ rights .
As they wait for officers from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ expresses his excitement in violating the rights of the bikers .
“ I ’ m good , I ’ m alright , I mean , we get to f**k with HAMC , ” the bad cops says before admitting that he almost tasered the bikers as they were riding down the road .
“ I almost tazed the guy off the motorcycle , ” Miller says , admitting to an act that could be classified as attempted murder .
“ He tried to go around me while slowing down , so I was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a passenger on the back of the bike , so.
” That is when one of the most telling admissions we ’ ve ever reported on was made by this tyrant cop .
An unidentified officer is heard in the background saying , “ If either one of them gets it , it ’ s the tall dude.
” Miller then says , “ I ’ m shootin ’ him .
I need some paid vacation.
” “ Hahaha , ” the other officer laughs before agreeing with Miller .
“ That ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any one of them gets it , it ’ s the tall dude.
” As Mills waited patiently on his motorcycle in front of the officers , he had no idea , they were plotting his murder 20 feet behind him .
But that is exactly what was going on .
After plotting to murder the innocent biker , the unidentified cop realizes that they may be recording themselves on their body cameras .
“ We have body cameras ?
” he asks .
“ We do , but they are off , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not off and these cops were caught red-handed .
After plotting murder , the cops then brag about stealing their motorcycle and searching it without probable cause .
Now , as we predicted , the taxpayers were held liable for the actions of these two tyrants and their policy to profile , violate , and plot murder .
Officer David Miller remained a cop with the LaSalle department for two years after making these statements .
The department chalked it up to a tasteless joke and Miller was allowed to stay on until @ @ @ @ @ @

LaSalle, CO — Frequent readers of the Free Thought Project know and have seen many examples illustrating that cops will detain, harass, and violate the rights of innocent people simply because they can. We’ve even seen innocent people sodomized on the roadside by cops looking for non-existent drugs. A common theme throughout all these examples of bad cops is the paid vacations they receive after brutalizing, violating, and killing innocent citizens. Never, however, have we heard a cop actually say they were going to kill someone just to get a paid vacation — until now.
Anthony Mills filed a civil rights lawsuit earlier this year against the city of LaSalle as well as LaSalle Police Officer David Miller. Officer Miller was recorded on his own body camera conspiring to murder Mills. According to the lawsuit and the video, Miller had no idea his microphone was recording when he and another officer conspired to kill the biker.
Now, the taxpayers of Colorado are being held accountable for the officers actions. According to Mercury News, five Colorado police agencies paid $25,000 and issued an apology to the Hells Angels member after an officer two years ago joked that he’d shoot the man to get “paid vacation.”
The incident unfolded on April 8, 2018 as Mills and another friend were riding their motorcycles. Mills is a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC). As part of the lawsuit, officer Miller’s body camera footage was released. What it shows is nothing short of criminal conspiracy to commit murder to receive a paid vacation.
According to the lawsuit, Mills was profiled and held without probable cause. Indeed, the officer brags about holding the bikers without probable cause, simply because he can.
“When police officers openly discuss with one another their disdain for one group of citizens that they are sworn to serve and protect, and make jokes about killing those citizens for ‘paid vacation leave,’ they normalize police misconduct and murder,” Mills’ attorney, Sarah Schielke, said in a news release announcing the settlement. “Cop jokes about some lives not mattering inevitably fosters a culture of police officers who are much more willing to pull the trigger on those same lives later.”
As the video shows, Miller pulls the bikers over and tells them they were “going way too fast.” After getting their information, Miller goes back to the car where he conspires to violate their 4th Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure.
“I have no problem holding these motherf**kers until Greely gets down here,” Miller says. Greely is a police department in a neighboring county and Miller was going to apparently show off his catch. The officer then goes on to admit he profiled the bikers and admits their department has a policy of violating their rights.
“So, they have on Hells Angels jackets. Any time we deal with these guys, we call in code….so,” the officer says. Miller’s fellow officer also conspires to violate the rights of the bikers as well. They alert nearby jurisdictions, telling them they also plan on violating the bikers’ rights.
As they wait for officers from the Greely police department to arrive, Miller expresses his excitement in violating the rights of the bikers.
“I’m good, I’m alright, I mean, we get to f**k with HAMC,” the bad cops says before admitting that he almost tasered the bikers as they were riding down the road.
“I almost tazed the guy off the motorcycle,” Miller says, admitting to an act that could be classified as attempted murder. “He tried to go around me while slowing down, so I was going to taze him but he had a passenger on the back of the bike, so.”
That is when one of the most telling admissions we’ve ever reported on was made by this tyrant cop.
An unidentified officer is heard in the background saying, “If either one of them gets it, it’s the tall dude.”
Miller then says, “I’m shootin’ him. I need some paid vacation.”
“Hahaha,” the other officer laughs before agreeing with Miller. “That’s what I am saying. If any one of them gets it, it’s the tall dude.”
As Mills waited patiently on his motorcycle in front of the officers, he had no idea, they were plotting his murder 20 feet behind him. But that is exactly what was going on.
After plotting to murder the innocent biker, the unidentified cop realizes that they may be recording themselves on their body cameras. “We have body cameras?” he asks.
“We do, but they are off,” Miller replies. But they were not off and these cops were caught red-handed. After plotting murder, the cops then brag about stealing their motorcycle and searching it without probable cause.
Now, as we predicted, the taxpayers were held liable for the actions of these two tyrants and their policy to profile, violate, and plot murder.
Officer David Miller remained a cop with the LaSalle department for two years after making these statements. The department chalked it up to a tasteless joke and Miller was allowed to stay on until he voluntarily resigned this year.
Article posted with permission from Matt Agorist


thewashingtonstandard--2020-09-20--Justice Ginsburg’s Death Raises the Election Stakes

Anyone who thought that the election stakes had gotten as high as they were ever going to has been surprised over and over again .
This year has been one long shock and awe campaign with wild cards being drawn from the deck .
Justice Ginsburg ’ s death wasn ’ t entirely surprising , she had a long series of medical issues at an advanced age , but her death raises the stakes of the election again .
There will be Senate Republicans who will be tempted to play by the rules .
Senator Murkowski has already announced that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her .
As did Senator Collins and Grassley .
The first two were expected .
The last one less so .
If enough Senate Republicans defect , then this election will come down to the Supreme Court seat for an even more explosive campaign .
But they might want to remember that while Ginsburg was radical for her time , she had lived long enough that , despite the Notorious RBG routine that her admirers were pulling , she had become the voice of common sense compared to the sorts of people whom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Ginsburg continued to rule well to the Left , but she repeatedly expressed skepticism of radical leftist proposals which is more than Obama nominees like Kagan or Sotomayor have ever done .
Anyone the Dems would nominate , ( not fake nominate like Merrick Garland ) , will be further to the Left than Kagan or Sotomayor .
And will pull America further to the Left .
President Trump recently released a list of potential court nominees .
It is a good list .
After the Gorsuch disaster , a Ginsburg replacement @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conservative with integrity and solid principles , rather than another insider who has spent their entire career building up to this moment .
Because while America can ’ t afford another Kagan or Sotomayor , it can ’ t afford another Roberts or Gorsuch either .

Anyone who thought that the election stakes had gotten as high as they were ever going to has been surprised over and over again.
This year has been one long shock and awe campaign with wild cards being drawn from the deck.
Justice Ginsburg’s death wasn’t entirely surprising, she had a long series of medical issues at an advanced age, but her death raises the stakes of the election again. There will be Senate Republicans who will be tempted to play by the rules. Senator Murkowski has already announced that she won’t vote to replace her. As did Senator Collins and Grassley. The first two were expected. The last one less so.
If enough Senate Republicans defect, then this election will come down to the Supreme Court seat for an even more explosive campaign.
But they might want to remember that while Ginsburg was radical for her time, she had lived long enough that, despite the Notorious RBG routine that her admirers were pulling, she had become the voice of common sense compared to the sorts of people whom the Democrats would pick to replace her.
Ginsburg continued to rule well to the Left, but she repeatedly expressed skepticism of radical leftist proposals which is more than Obama nominees like Kagan or Sotomayor have ever done. Anyone the Dems would nominate, (not fake nominate like Merrick Garland), will be further to the Left than Kagan or Sotomayor.
And will pull America further to the Left.
President Trump recently released a list of potential court nominees. It is a good list. After the Gorsuch disaster, a Ginsburg replacement needs to be bulletproof. A constitutional conservative with integrity and solid principles, rather than another insider who has spent their entire career building up to this moment.
Because while America can’t afford another Kagan or Sotomayor, it can’t afford another Roberts or Gorsuch either.
Article posted with permission from Daniel Greenfield


thewashingtonstandard--2020-09-21--Military Confirms It Mulled Deploying Experimental “Heat Ray” To Protect White House

Of course , none of this would ever be deployed to protect peasants like you and me , but here we are with the Pentagon actually stating they were considering using an “ experimental heat ray ” to protect the White House .
In any case , Tyler Durden has the story .
An experimental Pentagon weapon which was intended for use in varying scenarios from deterring pirates on the high seas to riot control in city streets in cases of mass unrest is subject of fresh controversy after documents of its field trials surfaced .
Two decades ago the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Denial System ( or ADS ) , nicknamed the ‘ pain ray ’ or also ‘ heat ray ’ which was capable of inflicting an invisible zap of pain upon protesters failing to disperse , or alternately could deter hostile boats approaching a battleship .
It works by directing a blast of energy at a target , causing subjects brief but excruciating pain – as if the skin is on fire – which leaves no lasting or permanent injury .
It essentially hits a subject with a blast of intense , searing heat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Wired revealed , however , that an airman serving as test subject was severely burned by the device .
This despite Raytheon scientists who developed it attempting to assure that it is completely safe and only induces temporary discomfort .
“ The nonlethal device works by emitting a microwave beam at 95 gigahertz , a specific frequency that penetrates the outermost layer of skin , creating an intense burning sensation , but not powerful enough ( in theory ) to cause a burn , ” Yahoo News reports this week , after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pain ray to deter recent hostile rioters near the White House .
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After failing to be effective in either Iraq or Afghanistan , in part reportedly because it takes so long to power up , and it must be operated from a platform no smaller than a Humvee or other large military vehicle , Pentagon officials mulled the potential for it to be used to deter increasingly violent protests such as hit American cities this summer .
But it ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have on young children , the elderly , or on people with pre-existing health issues .
And this is why an NPR report this week is causing so much controversy : A spokesperson for Joint Forces Headquarters Command in Washington , D.C. , confirmed to NPR that hours before federal police officers cleared a crowded park near the White House with smoke and tear gas on June 1 , a military police staff officer asked if the D.C. National Guard had a kind of “ heat ray ” weapon that might be deployed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ capital .
Col. Robert Phillips , a spokesperson for the Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region , or JFHQ-NCR , said the inquiry was made “ as a matter of due diligence and prudent military planning.
” That was during the height of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests which inundated D.C. streets and especially areas around the White House .
A prior active demonstration of how the ADS works : By the way , I ’ m guessing the government would also have a problem with anyone in the civilian constitutional militia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disposal especially , seeing that they are so hellbent on restricting and regulating our right to keep and bear arms .
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media

Of course, none of this would ever be deployed to protect peasants like you and me, but here we are with the Pentagon actually stating they were considering using an “experimental heat ray” to protect the White House.
In any case, Tyler Durden has the story.
An experimental Pentagon weapon which was intended for use in varying scenarios from deterring pirates on the high seas to riot control in city streets in cases of mass unrest is subject of fresh controversy after documents of its field trials surfaced.
Two decades ago the DoD revealed a weapon called an Active Denial System (or ADS), nicknamed the ‘pain ray’ or also ‘heat ray’ which was capable of inflicting an invisible zap of pain upon protesters failing to disperse, or alternately could deter hostile boats approaching a battleship.
It works by directing a blast of energy at a target, causing subjects brief but excruciating pain – as if the skin is on fire – which leaves no lasting or permanent injury. It essentially hits a subject with a blast of intense, searing heat. A 2007 field test later leaked to Wired revealed, however, that an airman serving as test subject was severely burned by the device.
This despite Raytheon scientists who developed it attempting to assure that it is completely safe and only induces temporary discomfort.
“The nonlethal device works by emitting a microwave beam at 95 gigahertz, a specific frequency that penetrates the outermost layer of skin, creating an intense burning sensation, but not powerful enough (in theory) to cause a burn,” Yahoo News reports this week, after defense officials reportedly looked into using the pain ray to deter recent hostile rioters near the White House.
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After failing to be effective in either Iraq or Afghanistan, in part reportedly because it takes so long to power up, and it must be operated from a platform no smaller than a Humvee or other large military vehicle, Pentagon officials mulled the potential for it to be used to deter increasingly violent protests such as hit American cities this summer.
But it’s yet unknown what effects it might have on young children, the elderly, or on people with pre-existing health issues.
And this is why an NPR report this week is causing so much controversy:
A spokesperson for Joint Forces Headquarters Command in Washington, D.C., confirmed to NPR that hours before federal police officers cleared a crowded park near the White House with smoke and tear gas on June 1, a military police staff officer asked if the D.C. National Guard had a kind of “heat ray” weapon that might be deployed against demonstrators in the nation’s capital. Col. Robert Phillips, a spokesperson for the Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region, or JFHQ-NCR, said the inquiry was made “as a matter of due diligence and prudent military planning.”
That was during the height of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests which inundated D.C. streets and especially areas around the White House.
A prior active demonstration of how the ADS works:
By the way, I’m guessing the government would also have a problem with anyone in the civilian constitutional militia having one of these weapons at their disposal especially, seeing that they are so hellbent on restricting and regulating our right to keep and bear arms.
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media


thewashingtonstandard--2020-09-21--Public Health “Experts” Suggest Mask Wearing Is “Permanent”

Many public health officials have stated that the “ new normal ” of muzzling oneself in public could be permanent , meaning we ’ ll be wearing masks forever .
Even with a vaccine , the rulers want the faces of the public masked and dehumanized .
Even with a vaccine , certain political puppets want humans to be wearing masks for the foreseeable future .
Dr. Robert Redfield , director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , said Wednesday during testimony before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor , Health and Human Services , Education , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more protective than a vaccine .
“ We have clear scientific evidence they work , and they are our best defense , ” he said .
“ I might even go so far as to say that this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against COVID than when I take a COVID vaccine.
” –Yahoo Dr. Anthony Fauci has been out in force lately too propagating the public into wearing masks and attempting them to submit to the vaccine .
Fauci , who is the director of the National Institute of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Business Insider that “ a combination of an effective vaccine and adherence to certain public health principles will get us to the point where we want to be , by the end of 2021.
” However , Yahoo makes a point of stating that the dehumanizing mask-wearing is likely here forever .
Dr. William Schaffner , an infectious disease specialist and professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine , tells Yahoo Life that he ’ s thought about this “ a lot ” lately , and there are a few reasons why @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Most of us think that a COVID-19 vaccine will be a good — but not perfect — vaccine , ” he says .
If a COVID-19 vaccine is 70 percent effective , which is more effective than the flu vaccine has been in recent years , “ that means for every 10 people vaccinated , three will remain as susceptible as they were before they were vaccinated , ” Schaffner says .
“ That means the only way they can be protected and the only way we can protect them is to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
–Yahoo Dr. Amesh A. Adalja says that getting the population fully vaccinated once a vaccine is developed will also take some time and , with that , mask-wearing may become more ingrained in our culture .
As people get used to being muzzled , the dehumaniztion will become easier to enforce .

Many public health officials have stated that the “new normal” of muzzling oneself in public could be permanent, meaning we’ll be wearing masks forever. Even with a vaccine, the rulers want the faces of the public masked and dehumanized.
Even with a vaccine, certain political puppets want humans to be wearing masks for the foreseeable future.
Are Face Masks & COVID Rituals Occultist Symbols For Submission?
Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Wednesday during testimony before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies that face masks may be more protective than a vaccine. “We have clear scientific evidence they work, and they are our best defense,” he said. “I might even go so far as to say that this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against COVID than when I take a COVID vaccine.” –Yahoo
Dr. Anthony Fauci has been out in force lately too propagating the public into wearing masks and attempting them to submit to the vaccine. Fauci, who is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently told Business Insider that “a combination of an effective vaccine and adherence to certain public health principles will get us to the point where we want to be, by the end of 2021.”
However, Yahoo makes a point of stating that the dehumanizing mask-wearing is likely here forever.
Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist and professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, tells Yahoo Life that he’s thought about this “a lot” lately, and there are a few reasons why he thinks masks have staying power. “Most of us think that a COVID-19 vaccine will be a good — but not perfect — vaccine,” he says. If a COVID-19 vaccine is 70 percent effective, which is more effective than the flu vaccine has been in recent years, “that means for every 10 people vaccinated, three will remain as susceptible as they were before they were vaccinated,” Schaffner says. “That means the only way they can be protected and the only way we can protect them is to keep wearing masks,” he adds. –Yahoo
Dr. Amesh A. Adalja says that getting the population fully vaccinated once a vaccine is developed will also take some time and, with that, mask-wearing may become more ingrained in our culture. As people get used to being muzzled, the dehumaniztion will become easier to enforce.
Article posted with permission from Mac Slavo


thewashingtonstandard--2020-09-21--Political Violence Likely Before The Election

With the death of Supreme Court justice and liberal hero , Ruth Bader Ginsburg comes the possibility of election violence beginning early .
Brace for a reaction , as President Donald Trump has insisted on filling Ginsburg ’ s seat while the left threatens to “ burn it down ” if he does .
The division is too immense to break through at this point .
Far too many are firmly rooted in the left vs. right paradigm lie and it ’ s going to manifest unless we open our eyes .
Unless a lot of people realize what ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we ’ ve allowed ourselves to become , this political violence could escalate to devastating explosive events .
Almost immediately after the news of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’ s death , some verified Twitter users threatened arson and apparent violence in order to block Senate Republicans from replacing her before the elections .
“ If they even TRY to replace RBG we burn the entire f—–g thing down , ” author Reza Aslan tweeted , according to Fox News .
He later responded to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ President Trump ’ s nominee .
“ Over our dead bodies , literally , ” he tweeted .
Author Aaron Gouveia similarly blasted McConnell ’ s statement , saying : “ F–k no .
Burn it all down.
” Ginsburg ’ s death seems to have only ramped up the rhetoric and forced the divide between the left and the right further apart .
Please be prepared , because neither side will be backing down .
We could very well experience massive violence even before the already promised election violence .
This is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a warning .
If you take this as fear-mongering , I suggest you harness that fear and brace yourself while continuing to prepare .
Be able to protect yourself and your family especially if you live in or near a big city .
The mainstream media is telegraphing that this violence is coming .
It seems to be pushed forward in time , though , because of the death of Ginsburg .

With the death of Supreme Court justice and liberal hero, Ruth Bader Ginsburg comes the possibility of election violence beginning early. Brace for a reaction, as President Donald Trump has insisted on filling Ginsburg’s seat while the left threatens to “burn it down” if he does.
The division is too immense to break through at this point. Far too many are firmly rooted in the left vs. right paradigm lie and it’s going to manifest unless we open our eyes. Unless a lot of people realize what’s going on and realize how divided we’ve allowed ourselves to become, this political violence could escalate to devastating explosive events.
Almost immediately after the news of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, some verified Twitter users threatened arson and apparent violence in order to block Senate Republicans from replacing her before the elections.
“If they even TRY to replace RBG we burn the entire f—–g thing down,” author Reza Aslan tweeted, according to Fox News.
If they even TRY to replace RBG we burn the entire fucking thing down. — Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) September 19, 2020
He later responded to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s vow to hold a vote on President Trump’s nominee. “Over our dead bodies, literally,” he tweeted. Author Aaron Gouveia similarly blasted McConnell’s statement, saying: “F–k no. Burn it all down.”
Ginsburg’s death seems to have only ramped up the rhetoric and forced the divide between the left and the right further apart.
Fuck no. Burn it all down. https://t.co/hsjqeVLgBn — Aaron's Book Is Now Available! (@DaddyFiles) September 19, 2020
Please be prepared, because neither side will be backing down. We could very well experience massive violence even before the already promised election violence. This is not meant to be anything other than a warning. If you take this as fear-mongering, I suggest you harness that fear and brace yourself while continuing to prepare. Be able to protect yourself and your family especially if you live in or near a big city.
The mainstream media is telegraphing that this violence is coming. It seems to be pushed forward in time, though, because of the death of Ginsburg.
Article posted with permission from Mac Slavo


thewashingtonstandard--2020-09-21--The Prelude to World War II: The Spanish Civil War & Today’s America

America is definitely not Europe , but we can find a number of parallels between European history and contemporary America .
For example , we ’ ve previously written about the Italian Years of Lead as a possible template for urban unrest and low-level inter-tribal warfare in the United States .
Another example of how things might play out in the United States is the Spanish Civil War .
The Spanish Civil War is known to historians , amateur and professional alike , as the “ dress rehearsal for the Second World War.
” It is so termed because it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , armed and funded by Europe ’ s fascist regimes ( Germany and Italy ) – against a government largely funded and propped up by the Soviet Union .
However , it is worth noting that General Francisco Franco ’ s nationalist forces were not themselves fascist ( though there were fascists within their ranks ) and that Spain remained neutral during the Second World War , later becoming a close ally of the United States in the fight against Communism internationally .
While there are few perfect analogs to be found anywhere @ @ @ @ @ @ @ between the contemporary domestic political situation in the United States and the period immediately before and during the Spanish Civil War .
And while the situation in the United States might play out in a much similar way to the Spanish Civil War , it is worth noting that our previous Civil War was the bloodiest in human history .
There is little doubt that a Second American Civil War would not be significantly more destructive .
Prologue : The Situation in Spain Prior to the Civil War As we talk about the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the situation will begin very much unlike modern-day America , however , it will become more like the contemporary domestic situation as time goes on .
The main difference , of course , is that Spain was a monarchy for almost all of its existence until 1931 .
A republic was briefly declared during the years 1873 and 1874 , but it didn ’ t have much staying power and ultimately was not a transformative government in Spain .
Following the First World War , the corrupt central government of Spain became increasingly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja , 2nd Marquess of Estella , 22nd Count of Sobremonte , arose .
This fell in 1930 , along with the abdication of the deeply unpopular King Alfonso XIII .
This led to the creation of the Second Spanish Republic and a new constitution in 1931 .
It was a radically leftist constitution in a largely conservative and Catholic country .
Women ’ s suffrage , civil marriage , compulsory universal education , the nationalization of Catholic Church properties , the prohibition of Catholic religious orders @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jesuit order entirely ) , as well as a provision allowing for the nationalization of any property that was for the “ public good ” were all components of the new Spanish constitution .
In many ways it resembled the constitution of Weimar Germany , in that it was an attempt by the left to radically remake a country through constitutional means .
The first election saw leftist elements firmly in the saddle , but the second , in 1933 , was a major victory for forces of the right .
However , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ plurality in the parliament , and not a majority , the left-wing president of Spain invited the centrist party to form a government .
Meanwhile the socialist government alleged electoral fraud , which caused them to become further radicalized .
On the ground , a radical working-class movement became hostile toward the ostensibly left-wing government after the movement was suppressed violently by the military .
Monarchist forces , with the explicit backing of Benito Mussolini and the implicit backing of King Alfonso XIII , as well as ideologically fascist forces led by José @ @ @ @ @ @ @ drills , preparing for war .
The streets of Spain became battlegrounds , with 330 assassinations , 213 failed assassination attempts and 160 religious buildings destroyed , with arson being the primary means of their destruction .
The Spanish Socialist Workers ’ Party , formerly a fairly standard European social democratic party , began to cleave between forces who favored moderation and those who sought a more explicitly Bolshevik party .
Much as the War Between the States began with the attack on Fort Sumter , so did the Spanish Civil War begin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ July 1936 .
This was effectively an uprising by all forces of the Spanish right , which included two different factions of monarchists , nationalists , fascists ( known in Spain as Falangists ) and conservatives .
The igniting event was the election of 1936 .
This saw a very , very slim ( less than 1 percent of the vote ) victory of the Spanish left ( socialists , Communists and anarchists ) over the Spanish right .
The right wing in Spain stopped planning to take over the Spanish Republic and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overthrow it .
The central republican government of Spain was very weak and had been making attempts to purge suspect right-wing generals from its ranks .
To that end , General Francisco Franco , who ended up becoming dictator of Spain until 1976 , was removed from his office as chief of staff and put out to pasture in the Canary Islands .
When the uprising began , the nationalist rebels had the unanimous support of the Army of Africa , a 30,000-strong force that boasted some of the hardest core soldiers Spain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ troops were Muslims from Morocco , who had been told that the republic planned to outlaw worship of Allah .
Indeed , Spanish Morocco was the base of operations for the rebels , with Generals Franco and Goded taking control of the Canary and the Balearic Islands , respectively .
Any opposition in the Spanish colonial empire was quickly crushed with leading trade unionists and leftists simply executed by the rebel forces .
The two trade union federations in Spain offered to help crush the uprising , but were told that there was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was confined to Morocco and other overseas possessions .
The coup was less than a rousing success for the nationalist rebels , who invaded from their overseas bases .
They failed to capture any major cities , which remained significant bases of support for the republican government .
The republican government remained in possession of the lion ’ s share of Spanish territory .
However , the republican government was at a disadvantage for two reasons : First , the nationalists had split the territory of peninsular Spain in half , dividing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ south while they controlled the middle .
Second , the republican government responded to the crisis by effectively mobilizing the far left in Spain as shock troops to terrorize the population into submission .
Communists in particular were unleashed to execute and torture anyone even suspected of being a nationalist sympathizer .
It didn ’ t help that the clergy bore the brunt of this , with nuns gang raped before being summarily executed .
The republicans went so far as to exhume the bodies of dead religious figures and desecrate their corpses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have a sort of romantic quality among the left , many of whom see the Civil War-era republican government as an example of “ real ” socialism in action or , at the very least , something close to it .
However , the Spanish republican left were less bloody than their more famous Communist counterparts in Russia , China and the Eastern Bloc only due to a lack of scale and a limited time frame on which they operated .
The Red Terror in Spain predates the nationalist rebellion and was , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the uprising .
It is generally agreed that the Spanish Red Terror began during an Asturian miners ’ strike in 1934 .
Priests and the religious were targeted in what was not simply a strike , but a rebellion against the government .
Supporters of the rebellion targeted clergy and religious figures , resulting in the destruction of 58 churches and convents during a period of a little more than two weeks .
Ironically , the rebellion was put down by Goded and Franco at the behest of the republican government .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Church – its clergy , its religious orders and its lay faithful – were largely seen as fair game by supporters of the republic .
The comparison between the Church in Spain 1936 and white Americans in 2020 isn ’ t much of a stretch .
Much of the violence directed against the Church was predicated on the basis that they “ deserved ” this as payback for historical crimes .
All told , 3,400 priests , monks and nuns were murdered during the first two months of the Spanish Civil War .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the early months of the Civil War were not because of deaths on the battlefield , but rather because of targeted executions against enemies of the Spanish Republic .
In addition to the atrocity against nuns , there were a number of horrific incidents mostly involving clergy .
The parish priest of Navalmoral was forced to undergo a parody of the Passion of Christ , ending with a vigorous debate about whether or not to actually crucify the priest at the end .
They “ mercifully ” decided to just shoot the man @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to fighting bulls and had his ear cut off at the end of the spectacle .
In Ciudad Real , a priest was castrated and had his penis and testicles put in his mouth .
People were forced at gunpoint to swallow their own rosaries .
Others were thrown down mine shafts or forced to dig their own graves prior to summary execution .
A Madrid nun was executed for the crime of refusing a marriage proposal from a militiaman who had participated in the sacking of her convent .
All told , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other religious sites during the war .
Unsurprisingly , Spanish Catholics overwhelmingly supported the nationalist effort during the Civil War .
Even among conservative allies of the republic ( for example , conservative Catalan nationalists ) , support for the republican cause was lukewarm at best , thanks to the Spanish Red Terror .
The Red Terror ’ s victims are not limited to Catholics or nationalists .
As the war progressed and the Communists came to have greater power in the republic ( for example , when they were given the Interior @ @ @ @ @ @ @ under centralized control ) , they also turned their fire on anarchists , socialists and Trotskyists .
This move against the non-Communist elements of the Spanish left is detailed in later chapters of George Orwell ’ s memoir , An Homage to Catalonia .
Some attempts have been made to create an equivalence between the Red Terror in Spain and the Francoist repression at the end of the war .
There certainly were atrocities committed by the Francoist forces during the course of the war .
Indeed , it would be a bit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as such atrocities are a hallmark of modern warfare .
Specifically , the Francoist forces engaged in war rape and frequently confiscated babies from republican women prior to their execution .
These babies were then placed with Francoist families .
However , there are also some important differences between the terror engaged in by the Francoist forces and their republican adversaries .
The Francoist repression wasn ’ t indiscriminately targeted at the friends , family and acquaintances of anyone who fought on the republican side .
It was directed squarely at people who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the republican regime .
The large numbers run up by the Francoist forces aren ’ t a function of the bloodthirsty nature of the victorious nationalist forces – on the contrary , they were quite conciliatory and looking to get the country moving again after a highly destructive war .
Rather , it ’ s because the atrocities committed by the republican forces during the Civil War were so widespread .
Those executed generally received trials unlike those summarily executed by the republicans .
Forced labor was employed for projects such as draining @ @ @ @ @ @ @ railway systems .
But again , it is worth noting that the people who were being conscripted for labor were considered criminals by the new regime .
Indeed , any participation in the Popular Front government of the republic was criminalized by the Law of Political Responsibility , enacted two months after the end of the war .
What ’ s more , this forced labor is not comparable to gulag labor where the intent was to work the victims to death .
As with any fight against Communist forces , it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would Spain have looked like if the Communists had won ?
We have ample examples of what Communist regimes look like – in Eastern Europe , in Asia and in Latin America .
There is little reason to believe that a Communist regime in Spain would not have been as bloodthirsty and ruthless as other Communist regimes .
Indeed , the experience of the Civil War shows that a Spanish Communist regime would have been quite destructive and , it is fair to say , vindictive in its victory .
The Course of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into the details of the war , the Civil War is largely the story of the nationalist forces winning victory after victory until the end of the war .
This is largely because the republican military wasn ’ t centralized .
Instead , most of the military decisions were delegated to individual autonomous militias who elected their own officers and operated on a democratic basis .
Nationalist forces were unified under Franco very quickly , with everyone from conservatives to monarchists to fascists all forced to play nice in service of the nationalist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the republicans until the very end of the war , and by then it was too little , too late – and also largely a power play by Moscow ’ s forces in the Communist Party .
The only major republican victory during the war was the Battle of Guadalajara .
This was not a successful republican offensive , however – it was a successful repulsion of a nationalist attack .
What ’ s more , the republicans didn ’ t even defeat a Spanish military force .
They were fighting instead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ main impact of this loss was that the nationalists stopped trying to end the war with one big battle and instead focused on chipping away at vulnerable parts of republican Spain .
In 1939 , Catalonia , the strongest base of republican support , fell to the nationalists and it was mostly all over but for the shouting .
While there were major cities still under the control of the republicans ( such as the capital , Madrid ) , everything from here on out was largely a mop-up operation for the nationalists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disarray and attempted to negotiate a peace settlement with Franco , but the Generalissimo would only accept an unconditional surrender from the republicans .
Franco declared victory in a radio address on April 1 , 1939 .
Over 500,000 republicans fled to France , where they were largely held in squalid internment camps .
Some stragglers continued to fight guerilla warfare against the Francoist government even into the 1950s , but there was no significant impact .
In 1944 , some republican veterans who had been fighting with the French Resistance attempted to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attack was repelled within 10 days .
The Relevance of the Spanish Civil War Today So what does a European civil war that ended 70 years ago have to do with anything going on in America today ?
A lot , actually .
First , there is the intense political polarization of the United States .
A significant portion of the country champions changing the United States into a radical liberal nation with greater centralized control and a firm Constitutional commitment to leftist social justice causes .
Another significant portion of the country @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the United States Constitution and is openly hostile toward leftist egalitarian principles .
What ’ s more , we are already beginning to see street battles not dissimilar to those that happened in Spain in the lead up to the Civil War .
It is also worth noting that the anarcho-communist ideology , which held great sway among the partisans of the Second Spanish Republic , likewise informs the insurrectionary elements of the American left that began rioting and burning down American cities in the summer of 2020 .
As we prepare for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clear that whoever loses will not only be unhappy with the results , but will probably consider them to be illegitimate .
On the left , there is the Russiagate hoax , the leftist conspiracy theory that alleges that the Russian intelligence services “ stole ” the election for President Donald Trump in 2016 .
On the right , there is the very reasonable fear that there will be a variety of electoral chicanery , including mass mail-in balloting , voting by dead people , voting by pets , voting by dead pets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Democratic-controlled urban areas in swing states .
Indeed , a Bloomberg article seems to be preparing the American public for a stolen election , stating that while it might “ appear ” that Donald Trump will win reelection in a landslide the night of the election , that further months and weeks will reveal that he did not , in fact , win as the aforementioned mail-in ballots come in .
An article from the Washington Post states that any outcome but a Biden landslide will result in massive violence and civil unrest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ certainly has their reasons for promoting this notion , it ’ s not entirely without merit .
If the president is reelected , no matter how big the margin , there will likely be another wave of urban unrest that will dwarf the events of the summer of 2020 .
If Biden wins by a slim margin , there will be accusations of fraud and likely more confrontations in the streets , albeit more two-sided .
It seems that the only result that would be accepted as “ legitimate , ” particularly by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is one where Biden wins dramatically .
It is worth briefly considering the other side of the equation .
The American Conservative ran a column in July 2020 discussing the very real phenomenon of the American right ’ s increasing impatience not with democracy , but with liberalism .
This is a phenomenon known as “ illiberal democracy , ” where the forms of democracy persist , but are used for anti-liberal means .
Put in simple terms : How many on the American right – even the mainstream American right – would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ extreme action against an insurrectionary left ?
No one has a crystal ball to see the future .
However , it is not a wild assertion to suggest that the real violence in America is coming after the election .

Spanish Civil War
America is definitely not Europe, but we can find a number of parallels between European history and contemporary America. For example, we’ve previously written about the Italian Years of Lead as a possible template for urban unrest and low-level inter-tribal warfare in the United States. Another example of how things might play out in the United States is the Spanish Civil War.
The Spanish Civil War is known to historians, amateur and professional alike, as the “dress rehearsal for the Second World War.” It is so termed because it pitted one side – which was equipped, armed and funded by Europe’s fascist regimes (Germany and Italy) – against a government largely funded and propped up by the Soviet Union. However, it is worth noting that General Francisco Franco’s nationalist forces were not themselves fascist (though there were fascists within their ranks) and that Spain remained neutral during the Second World War, later becoming a close ally of the United States in the fight against Communism internationally.
While there are few perfect analogs to be found anywhere in world history, there are parallels between the contemporary domestic political situation in the United States and the period immediately before and during the Spanish Civil War. And while the situation in the United States might play out in a much similar way to the Spanish Civil War, it is worth noting that our previous Civil War was the bloodiest in human history. There is little doubt that a Second American Civil War would not be significantly more destructive.
Prologue: The Situation in Spain Prior to the Civil War
As we talk about the leadup to the Spanish Civil War, the situation will begin very much unlike modern-day America, however, it will become more like the contemporary domestic situation as time goes on.
The main difference, of course, is that Spain was a monarchy for almost all of its existence until 1931. A republic was briefly declared during the years 1873 and 1874, but it didn’t have much staying power and ultimately was not a transformative government in Spain. Following the First World War, the corrupt central government of Spain became increasingly unpopular and a military dictatorship, that of Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2nd Marquess of Estella, 22nd Count of Sobremonte, arose. This fell in 1930, along with the abdication of the deeply unpopular King Alfonso XIII.
This led to the creation of the Second Spanish Republic and a new constitution in 1931. It was a radically leftist constitution in a largely conservative and Catholic country. Women’s suffrage, civil marriage, compulsory universal education, the nationalization of Catholic Church properties, the prohibition of Catholic religious orders from teaching in schools (and the Jesuit order entirely), as well as a provision allowing for the nationalization of any property that was for the “public good” were all components of the new Spanish constitution. In many ways it resembled the constitution of Weimar Germany, in that it was an attempt by the left to radically remake a country through constitutional means.
The first election saw leftist elements firmly in the saddle, but the second, in 1933, was a major victory for forces of the right. However, because the conservative party had won a plurality in the parliament, and not a majority, the left-wing president of Spain invited the centrist party to form a government. Meanwhile the socialist government alleged electoral fraud, which caused them to become further radicalized. On the ground, a radical working-class movement became hostile toward the ostensibly left-wing government after the movement was suppressed violently by the military.
Monarchist forces, with the explicit backing of Benito Mussolini and the implicit backing of King Alfonso XIII, as well as ideologically fascist forces led by José Antonio Primo de Rivera, began military drills, preparing for war. The streets of Spain became battlegrounds, with 330 assassinations, 213 failed assassination attempts and 160 religious buildings destroyed, with arson being the primary means of their destruction. The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, formerly a fairly standard European social democratic party, began to cleave between forces who favored moderation and those who sought a more explicitly Bolshevik party.
The Coup d’Etat of July 1936
Much as the War Between the States began with the attack on Fort Sumter, so did the Spanish Civil War begin with the Coup d’Etat of July 1936. This was effectively an uprising by all forces of the Spanish right, which included two different factions of monarchists, nationalists, fascists (known in Spain as Falangists) and conservatives.
The igniting event was the election of 1936. This saw a very, very slim (less than 1 percent of the vote) victory of the Spanish left (socialists, Communists and anarchists) over the Spanish right. The right wing in Spain stopped planning to take over the Spanish Republic and instead decided that they were going to overthrow it.
The central republican government of Spain was very weak and had been making attempts to purge suspect right-wing generals from its ranks. To that end, General Francisco Franco, who ended up becoming dictator of Spain until 1976, was removed from his office as chief of staff and put out to pasture in the Canary Islands. When the uprising began, the nationalist rebels had the unanimous support of the Army of Africa, a 30,000-strong force that boasted some of the hardest core soldiers Spain had to offer. Many of these troops were Muslims from Morocco, who had been told that the republic planned to outlaw worship of Allah.
Indeed, Spanish Morocco was the base of operations for the rebels, with Generals Franco and Goded taking control of the Canary and the Balearic Islands, respectively. Any opposition in the Spanish colonial empire was quickly crushed with leading trade unionists and leftists simply executed by the rebel forces. The two trade union federations in Spain offered to help crush the uprising, but were told that there was nothing to worry about as the uprising was confined to Morocco and other overseas possessions.
The coup was less than a rousing success for the nationalist rebels, who invaded from their overseas bases. They failed to capture any major cities, which remained significant bases of support for the republican government. The republican government remained in possession of the lion’s share of Spanish territory. However, the republican government was at a disadvantage for two reasons: First, the nationalists had split the territory of peninsular Spain in half, dividing the country between republicans in the north and south while they controlled the middle.
Second, the republican government responded to the crisis by effectively mobilizing the far left in Spain as shock troops to terrorize the population into submission. Communists in particular were unleashed to execute and torture anyone even suspected of being a nationalist sympathizer. It didn’t help that the clergy bore the brunt of this, with nuns gang raped before being summarily executed. The republicans went so far as to exhume the bodies of dead religious figures and desecrate their corpses.
The Spanish Red Terror
The Spanish Civil War continues to have a sort of romantic quality among the left, many of whom see the Civil War-era republican government as an example of “real” socialism in action or, at the very least, something close to it. However, the Spanish republican left were less bloody than their more famous Communist counterparts in Russia, China and the Eastern Bloc only due to a lack of scale and a limited time frame on which they operated.
The Red Terror in Spain predates the nationalist rebellion and was, indeed, one of the primary motivations for the uprising. It is generally agreed that the Spanish Red Terror began during an Asturian miners’ strike in 1934. Priests and the religious were targeted in what was not simply a strike, but a rebellion against the government. Supporters of the rebellion targeted clergy and religious figures, resulting in the destruction of 58 churches and convents during a period of a little more than two weeks. Ironically, the rebellion was put down by Goded and Franco at the behest of the republican government.
Once the rebellion began, the Catholic Church – its clergy, its religious orders and its lay faithful – were largely seen as fair game by supporters of the republic. The comparison between the Church in Spain 1936 and white Americans in 2020 isn’t much of a stretch. Much of the violence directed against the Church was predicated on the basis that they “deserved” this as payback for historical crimes. All told, 3,400 priests, monks and nuns were murdered during the first two months of the Spanish Civil War. Indeed, most of the deaths during the early months of the Civil War were not because of deaths on the battlefield, but rather because of targeted executions against enemies of the Spanish Republic.
In addition to the atrocity against nuns, there were a number of horrific incidents mostly involving clergy. The parish priest of Navalmoral was forced to undergo a parody of the Passion of Christ, ending with a vigorous debate about whether or not to actually crucify the priest at the end. They “mercifully” decided to just shoot the man. The priest of Ciempozuelos was thrown to fighting bulls and had his ear cut off at the end of the spectacle. In Ciudad Real, a priest was castrated and had his penis and testicles put in his mouth. People were forced at gunpoint to swallow their own rosaries. Others were thrown down mine shafts or forced to dig their own graves prior to summary execution. A Madrid nun was executed for the crime of refusing a marriage proposal from a militiaman who had participated in the sacking of her convent.
All told, the republicans destroyed over 20,000 churches and other religious sites during the war. Unsurprisingly, Spanish Catholics overwhelmingly supported the nationalist effort during the Civil War. Even among conservative allies of the republic (for example, conservative Catalan nationalists), support for the republican cause was lukewarm at best, thanks to the Spanish Red Terror.
The Red Terror’s victims are not limited to Catholics or nationalists. As the war progressed and the Communists came to have greater power in the republic (for example, when they were given the Interior Ministry and when the militias were put under centralized control), they also turned their fire on anarchists, socialists and Trotskyists. This move against the non-Communist elements of the Spanish left is detailed in later chapters of George Orwell’s memoir, An Homage to Catalonia.
A Spanish White Terror?
Some attempts have been made to create an equivalence between the Red Terror in Spain and the Francoist repression at the end of the war. There certainly were atrocities committed by the Francoist forces during the course of the war. Indeed, it would be a bit strange if there weren’t, as such atrocities are a hallmark of modern warfare. Specifically, the Francoist forces engaged in war rape and frequently confiscated babies from republican women prior to their execution. These babies were then placed with Francoist families.
However, there are also some important differences between the terror engaged in by the Francoist forces and their republican adversaries. The Francoist repression wasn’t indiscriminately targeted at the friends, family and acquaintances of anyone who fought on the republican side. It was directed squarely at people who had committed atrocities in the name of the republican regime. The large numbers run up by the Francoist forces aren’t a function of the bloodthirsty nature of the victorious nationalist forces – on the contrary, they were quite conciliatory and looking to get the country moving again after a highly destructive war. Rather, it’s because the atrocities committed by the republican forces during the Civil War were so widespread. Those executed generally received trials unlike those summarily executed by the republicans.
Forced labor was employed for projects such as draining swamps, digging canals and building national railway systems. But again, it is worth noting that the people who were being conscripted for labor were considered criminals by the new regime. Indeed, any participation in the Popular Front government of the republic was criminalized by the Law of Political Responsibility, enacted two months after the end of the war. What’s more, this forced labor is not comparable to gulag labor where the intent was to work the victims to death.
As with any fight against Communist forces, it is worth asking a simple question: What would Spain have looked like if the Communists had won? We have ample examples of what Communist regimes look like – in Eastern Europe, in Asia and in Latin America. There is little reason to believe that a Communist regime in Spain would not have been as bloodthirsty and ruthless as other Communist regimes. Indeed, the experience of the Civil War shows that a Spanish Communist regime would have been quite destructive and, it is fair to say, vindictive in its victory.
The Course of the War
Without getting too bogged down into the details of the war, the Civil War is largely the story of the nationalist forces winning victory after victory until the end of the war. This is largely because the republican military wasn’t centralized. Instead, most of the military decisions were delegated to individual autonomous militias who elected their own officers and operated on a democratic basis. Nationalist forces were unified under Franco very quickly, with everyone from conservatives to monarchists to fascists all forced to play nice in service of the nationalist cause. Such centralization did not come for the republicans until the very end of the war, and by then it was too little, too late – and also largely a power play by Moscow’s forces in the Communist Party.
The only major republican victory during the war was the Battle of Guadalajara. This was not a successful republican offensive, however – it was a successful repulsion of a nationalist attack. What’s more, the republicans didn’t even defeat a Spanish military force. They were fighting instead primarily volunteers from fascist Italy. The main impact of this loss was that the nationalists stopped trying to end the war with one big battle and instead focused on chipping away at vulnerable parts of republican Spain.
In 1939, Catalonia, the strongest base of republican support, fell to the nationalists and it was mostly all over but for the shouting. While there were major cities still under the control of the republicans (such as the capital, Madrid), everything from here on out was largely a mop-up operation for the nationalists. The republican government was in total disarray and attempted to negotiate a peace settlement with Franco, but the Generalissimo would only accept an unconditional surrender from the republicans.
Franco declared victory in a radio address on April 1, 1939. Over 500,000 republicans fled to France, where they were largely held in squalid internment camps. Some stragglers continued to fight guerilla warfare against the Francoist government even into the 1950s, but there was no significant impact. In 1944, some republican veterans who had been fighting with the French Resistance attempted to invade Catalonia from France, but the attack was repelled within 10 days.
The Relevance of the Spanish Civil War Today
So what does a European civil war that ended 70 years ago have to do with anything going on in America today? A lot, actually.
First, there is the intense political polarization of the United States. A significant portion of the country champions changing the United States into a radical liberal nation with greater centralized control and a firm Constitutional commitment to leftist social justice causes. Another significant portion of the country is opposed to any further changes to the United States Constitution and is openly hostile toward leftist egalitarian principles.
What’s more, we are already beginning to see street battles not dissimilar to those that happened in Spain in the lead up to the Civil War. It is also worth noting that the anarcho-communist ideology, which held great sway among the partisans of the Second Spanish Republic, likewise informs the insurrectionary elements of the American left that began rioting and burning down American cities in the summer of 2020.
As we prepare for the 2020 Presidential election, it is clear that whoever loses will not only be unhappy with the results, but will probably consider them to be illegitimate. On the left, there is the Russiagate hoax, the leftist conspiracy theory that alleges that the Russian intelligence services “stole” the election for President Donald Trump in 2016. On the right, there is the very reasonable fear that there will be a variety of electoral chicanery, including mass mail-in balloting, voting by dead people, voting by pets, voting by dead pets and outright fabrication of ballots from largely Democratic-controlled urban areas in swing states. Indeed, a Bloomberg article seems to be preparing the American public for a stolen election, stating that while it might “appear” that Donald Trump will win reelection in a landslide the night of the election, that further months and weeks will reveal that he did not, in fact, win as the aforementioned mail-in ballots come in.
An article from the Washington Post states that any outcome but a Biden landslide will result in massive violence and civil unrest. While Jeff Bezos’ vanity blog certainly has their reasons for promoting this notion, it’s not entirely without merit. If the president is reelected, no matter how big the margin, there will likely be another wave of urban unrest that will dwarf the events of the summer of 2020. If Biden wins by a slim margin, there will be accusations of fraud and likely more confrontations in the streets, albeit more two-sided. It seems that the only result that would be accepted as “legitimate,” particularly by the press and the American left, is one where Biden wins dramatically.
It is worth briefly considering the other side of the equation. The American Conservative ran a column in July 2020 discussing the very real phenomenon of the American right’s increasing impatience not with democracy, but with liberalism. This is a phenomenon known as “illiberal democracy,” where the forms of democracy persist, but are used for anti-liberal means. Put in simple terms: How many on the American right – even the mainstream American right – would be terribly bothered by the president taking extreme action against an insurrectionary left?
No one has a crystal ball to see the future. However, it is not a wild assertion to suggest that the real violence in America is coming after the election.
Written by Sam Jacobs Article posted with permission from Ammo.com


thewashingtonstandard--2020-09-21--The War on Assange is a War on Truth

The War on Assange is a War on Truth

It is dangerous to reveal the truth about the illegal and immoral things our government does with our money and in our name , and the war on journalists who dare reveal such truths is very much a bipartisan affair .
Just ask Wikileaks founder Julian Assange , who was relentlessly pursued first by the Obama Administration and now by the Trump Administration for the “ crime ” of reporting on the crimes perpetrated by the United States government .
Assange is now literally fighting for his life , as he tries to avoid being extradited to the United States @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for violating the “ Espionage Act.
” While it makes no sense to be prosecuted as a traitor to a country of which you are not a citizen , the idea that journalists who do their job and expose criminality in high places are treated like traitors is deeply dangerous in a free society .
To get around the First Amendment ’ s guarantee of freedom of the press , Assange ’ s tormentors simply claim that he is not a journalist .
Then-CIA director Mike Pompeo declared that Wikileaks was a “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Ironically , that ’ s pretty much what the Democrats say about Assange .
Earlier this month , a US Federal appeals court judge ruled that the NSA ’ s bulk collection of Americans ’ telephone records was illegal .
That bulk collection program , born out of the anti-American PATRIOT Act , was first revealed to us by whistleblower Edward Snowden just over seven years ago .
That is why whistleblowers and those who publish their information are so important .
Were it not for Snowden and Assange , we would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And if we never know about government malfeasance it can never be found to be criminal in the first place .
That is convenient for governments , but it is also a recipe for tyranny .
While we might expect the US media to aggressively come to the aid of a fellow journalist being persecuted by the government for doing his job , the opposite is happening .
As journalist Glen Greenwald wrote last week , the US mainstream media is completely ignoring the Assange extradition trial .
Why would they do such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – with a few important exceptions like Greenwald himself – are no longer interested in digging and reporting the truth .
These days they believe they have a “ higher calling.
” As Greenwald puts it , “ If you start from the premise that Trump is a fascist dictator who has brought Nazi tyranny to the US , then it isn ’ t that irrational to believe that anyone who helped empower Trump ( which is how they see Assange ) deserves to be imprisoned , hence the lack of concern about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ good idea to these journalists in the short term , but for journalism itself to become an extension of government power rather than a check on that power would be deeply harmful .
We can not have a self-governing society as was intended for our Republic if the government , with the complicity of the mainstream media , decides that there are things we are not allowed to know about it .
President Trump should end the US government ’ s war on Assange…and on all whistleblowers and their publishers .
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It is dangerous to reveal the truth about the illegal and immoral things our government does with our money and in our name, and the war on journalists who dare reveal such truths is very much a bipartisan affair. Just ask Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who was relentlessly pursued first by the Obama Administration and now by the Trump Administration for the “crime” of reporting on the crimes perpetrated by the United States government.
Assange is now literally fighting for his life, as he tries to avoid being extradited to the United States where he faces 175 years in prison for violating the “Espionage Act.” While it makes no sense to be prosecuted as a traitor to a country of which you are not a citizen, the idea that journalists who do their job and expose criminality in high places are treated like traitors is deeply dangerous in a free society.
To get around the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of the press, Assange’s tormentors simply claim that he is not a journalist. Then-CIA director Mike Pompeo declared that Wikileaks was a “hostile intelligence service” aided by Russia. Ironically, that’s pretty much what the Democrats say about Assange.
Earlier this month, a US Federal appeals court judge ruled that the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ telephone records was illegal. That bulk collection program, born out of the anti-American PATRIOT Act, was first revealed to us by whistleblower Edward Snowden just over seven years ago.
That is why whistleblowers and those who publish their information are so important. Were it not for Snowden and Assange, we would never know about this government criminality. And if we never know about government malfeasance it can never be found to be criminal in the first place. That is convenient for governments, but it is also a recipe for tyranny.
While we might expect the US media to aggressively come to the aid of a fellow journalist being persecuted by the government for doing his job, the opposite is happening. As journalist Glen Greenwald wrote last week, the US mainstream media is completely ignoring the Assange extradition trial.
Why would they do such a thing? Partisan politics. Journalists – with a few important exceptions like Greenwald himself – are no longer interested in digging and reporting the truth. These days they believe they have a “higher calling.”
As Greenwald puts it, “If you start from the premise that Trump is a fascist dictator who has brought Nazi tyranny to the US, then it isn’t that irrational to believe that anyone who helped empower Trump (which is how they see Assange) deserves to be imprisoned, hence the lack of concern about it.”
That may seem like a good idea to these journalists in the short term, but for journalism itself to become an extension of government power rather than a check on that power would be deeply harmful.
We cannot have a self-governing society as was intended for our Republic if the government, with the complicity of the mainstream media, decides that there are things we are not allowed to know about it. President Trump should end the US government’s war on Assange…and on all whistleblowers and their publishers.
Article posted with permission from Ron Paul


thewashingtonstandard--2020-09-21--I Had Aggressive Cancer, But Was Healed Naturally Within 5 Months. Here’s What I Did.

I Had Aggressive Cancer , But Was Healed Naturally Within 5 Months .
Here ’ s What I Did .
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thewashingtonstandard--2020-09-21--Supranationalism:  The Reason America Is Blurring The Lines For Alignment To The United Nations’ Age

Supranationalism:  The Reason America Is Blurring The Lines For Alignment To The United Nations’ Agenda

Supranationalism : The Reason America Is Blurring The Lines For Alignment To The United Nations ’ Agenda Anti Fed Ed Warriors , you know how many articles I ’ ve devoted to showing you the direct ties between the UN ( United Nations ) and STEM ( Science , Technology , Engineering , and , Math ) .
I ’ ve included the link to all my archives on this union and its ‘ change agent ’ plot for you .
The New Call for “ Informal STEM ” In Your Community : This new round of grants will use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ environments ( think libraries , museums , etc ) .
The goal ?
To engage the entire public in ALL aspects of STEM .
How will these grants use ‘ evidence-based ’ understandings ?
It ’ s a fancy way to say research , especially using people to conduct that research in formal and informal settings .
If you ’ re curious as to HOW this all plays out in the general public , the IS ( Informal Science ) website has plenty for you to glean from .
Warriors , remember the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a NGO ( Non-government organization ) , much of its funding comes from OUR tax dollars .
The NSF is also a willing partner of the UN .
What are some past ‘ informal STEM ’ projects ?
KQED received $ 1.9 million in 2018 for PBS ( Public Broadcasting System ) STEM indoctrination to influence millennials .
In 2019 , the OR Museum of Science and Industry received just over $ 200,000.00 for promoting family level interest in engineering .
In PA , the Univ .
of Pittsburg ’ s Learning Network @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rural Communities received just over $ 400,000.00 in funding .
Go back to 2016 , the Twin Cities ( MN ) Public TV station received $ 2.3 million for gender-equitable STEM teaching .
Look for your State ( Note : when you click on your State , you can see where the money goes .
For example , NC ’ s over $ 12 million landed at the major universities like Duke , NC State , etc . )
Warriors , the NSF is also calling out for nonprofits , for-profit groups , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ museums , observatories , research labs , and , US commercial industries ( especially small businesses ) to submit plans for regional sustainability for STEM .
The following areas are of particular ‘ need ’ .
However , the documents supporting this January 21st , 2021 call reveal all aspects of our communities will be impacted .
Engineering , behavior sciences , economic sciences , biological sciences , computer and information sciences/engineering , education and human resources , geosciences , math and physical sciences , integrative activities , and , international science/engineering .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ awards ’ ?
It ’ s $ 31 million dollars and will be divided anywhere between 15 and 23 individual ‘ awards ’ .
Since so much of the sustainability is rooted in the United Nations , I thought you might like to see how each State is slotted for complete alignment to the SDGs : If you wish to see ALL the States stacked up against each other for the SDGs ( NC is an example ) : So , why is America blurring so many lines for alignment via STEM ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sustainability using STEM is rooted out of this publication for urban sustainability .
Education ’ s mentioned a total of 21 times .
Page 10 shows higher education ’ s educational programs/curriculum .
On pages 28 and 29 you ’ ll see educators ’ names for the alignment .
Pages 30 and 31 tell you what this regional sustainability committee actually do to increase alignment .
Page 13 ’ s footnotes reveal a SEES ( Science , Engineering , and Education for Sustainability ) entity .
Back in June 2020 , I shared @ @ @ @ @ @ @ article is where the featured image came from .
If you didn ’ t see that image , here it is again : Warriors , I ’ m not sure about you , but in my eyes , there ’ s NO better government than our U.S. constitutionally bound one .
Sadly , though , many administrations , including our present one , have discarded the sovereignty of it and replaced it with the UN ’ s global garbage .
No where does this show up more than in education .
The blurring @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ greater global good ’ are stronger than ever .
Will you stand with me to stem this tide , or be engulfed by the lies that STEM is the way to go ?
If you have ever doubted my research on the importance of that 2010 PCAST Report handed to Pres .
Obama about a STEM education for a STEM economy for a STEM nation with STEM people for STEM jobs for a greater global good , I hope you ’ ll take into consideration , America ’ s in perilous territory @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for all things STEM .
Lastly , my Warriors , this isn ’ t about education , it ’ s about a total usurping of America as we know it .
Education ’ s simply the change agent being blurred by the global Draconian moves .
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Anti Fed Ed Warriors, you know how many articles I’ve devoted to showing you the direct ties between the UN (United Nations) and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and, Math). I’ve included the link to all my archives on this union and its ‘change agent’ plot for you.
The New Call for “Informal STEM” In Your Community:
(image source/more information)
This new round of grants will use ‘evidence-based’ understandings for public informal environments (think libraries, museums, etc). The goal? To engage the entire public in ALL aspects of STEM. How will these grants use ‘evidence-based’ understandings? It’s a fancy way to say research, especially using people to conduct that research in formal and informal settings. If you’re curious as to HOW this all plays out in the general public, the IS (Informal Science) website has plenty for you to glean from.
Warriors, remember the NSF (National Science Foundation) is a NGO (Non-government organization), much of its funding comes from OUR tax dollars. The NSF is also a willing partner of the UN.
What are some past ‘informal STEM’ projects?
KQED received $1.9 million in 2018 for PBS (Public Broadcasting System) STEM indoctrination to influence millennials.
In 2019, the OR Museum of Science and Industry received just over $200,000.00 for promoting family level interest in engineering. In PA, the Univ. of Pittsburg’s Learning Network for Museums, Scientists, and, Rural Communities received just over $400,000.00 in funding.
Go back to 2016, the Twin Cities (MN) Public TV station received $2.3 million for gender-equitable STEM teaching.
Look for your State
(Note: when you click on your State, you can see where the money goes. For example, NC’s over $12 million landed at the major universities like Duke, NC State, etc.)
Tying Informal STEM to Regionalism:
Warriors, the NSF is also calling out for nonprofits, for-profit groups, higher education institutions, nonacademic groups, museums, observatories, research labs, and, US commercial industries (especially small businesses) to submit plans for regional sustainability for STEM. The following areas are of particular ‘need’. However, the documents supporting this January 21st, 2021 call reveal all aspects of our communities will be impacted.
Engineering, behavior sciences, economic sciences, biological sciences, computer and information sciences/engineering, education and human resources, geosciences, math and physical sciences, integrative activities, and, international science/engineering.
The price tag for the grant ‘awards’? It’s $31 million dollars and will be divided anywhere between 15 and 23 individual ‘awards’.
Since so much of the sustainability is rooted in the United Nations, I thought you might like to see how each State is slotted for complete alignment to the SDGs:
If you wish to see ALL the States stacked up against each other for the SDGs (NC is an example):
Map resource
So, why is America blurring so many lines for alignment via STEM? Supranationalism!
The 2021 call for Regional Sustainability using STEM is rooted out of this publication for urban sustainability. Education’s mentioned a total of 21 times. Page 10 shows higher education’s educational programs/curriculum. On pages 28 and 29 you’ll see educators’ names for the alignment. Pages 30 and 31 tell you what this regional sustainability committee actually do to increase alignment. Page 13’s footnotes reveal a SEES (Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability) entity. Back in June 2020, I shared more about SEES with you. That article is where the featured image came from. If you didn’t see that image, here it is again:
Closing:
Warriors, I’m not sure about you, but in my eyes, there’s NO better government than our U.S. constitutionally bound one. Sadly, though, many administrations, including our present one, have discarded the sovereignty of it and replaced it with the UN’s global garbage. No where does this show up more than in education. The blurring of lines between American values and the ‘greater global good’ are stronger than ever. Will you stand with me to stem this tide, or be engulfed by the lies that STEM is the way to go?
If you have ever doubted my research on the importance of that 2010 PCAST Report handed to Pres. Obama about a STEM education for a STEM economy for a STEM nation with STEM people for STEM jobs for a greater global good, I hope you’ll take into consideration, America’s in perilous territory under our current Administration’s support for all things STEM.
Lastly, my Warriors, this isn’t about education, it’s about a total usurping of America as we know it. Education’s simply the change agent being blurred by the global Draconian moves.
Article posted with permission from Lynne Taylor