Daily News Roundup
NOTABLE QUOTES
President Joe Biden when asked about classified documents found in his possession: “Look, as we found — we found a handful of documents that were failed — were filed in the wrong place. We immediately turned them over to the Archives and the Justice Department. We’re fully cooperating and looking forward to getting this resolved quickly. I think you’re going to find there’s nothing there. I have no regrets. I’m following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do. It’s exactly what we’re doing. There is no there there. Thank you.”
Lloyd Austin is Biden’s Secretary of Defense: “Russia is re-grouping, recruiting and trying to re-equip. This is not a moment slow down. It’s a time to dig deeper.”
Kevin McCarthy Speaker of the House tweeted on 1/19/23: No more proxy voting. Effective immediately, Members of Congress have to show up to work if they want their vote to count.
Sundance contributor to The Last Refuge: Our entire legal system is structured around criminal accountability. An event takes place, and we hold the criminal accountable. Judges, lawyers, courts, systems, processes, protections, rights of the accused, fourth amendment, fifth amendment, etc. etc. Hundreds of years of rules and regulations within a criminal justice system. We do not have a “pre-crime” justice system. The current FBI mission is pre-crime enforcement. Think about the ramifications; it shouldn’t be hard, because we are living them.
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The Post Millennial Live: Trump vows to stop China from owning America
Watch the 2:46 minute policy video: https://rumble.com/v265q5u-trump-vows-to-stop-china-from-owning-america.html
GLOBALISM (GREAT RESET) & TRANSHUMANISM (HUMANS 2.0) ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED
Sundance: During Remarks at World Economic Forum FBI Director Chris Wray Talks About Success in Combatting Pre-Criminal Activity
Lots of people are talking about U.S. FBI Director Christopher Wray discussing the agencies “partnership with the private sector” as it relates to modern FBI activity. However, I’m just that random oddball in the crowd who just wants to point out something, well, kind of a big picture issue. […] The FBI is a criminal investigative agency. Meaning, a crime is committed, and the FBI mission is to investigate it, solve it, and bring the information to the justice department for pursuit. At least that was the customary role of the FBI as it was/is commonly discussed. However, please note that in Director Wray’s remarks, every element of the FBI mission is framed around “prevention” of criminal activity, or what we would call pre-crimes. Stop for a moment and rewatch it if needed, you’ll see what I am talking about. While it might seem like an unusual thing to notice, this is not a small issue.
Read more/Watch the 3:13 minute clip: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/01/19/during-remarks-at-world-economic-forum-fbi-director-chris-wray-talks-about-success-in-combatting-pre-criminal-activity/
Michael Knowles: If you thought the Twitter Files were as bad as it gets for the “Trust & Safety” of Big Tech merging with government, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
“Safety by Design” might be the biggest tech threat you’ve never heard of. The World Economic Forum, the Australian Government, and a radical bureaucrat named Julie Inman Grant are using it to impose their woke ideology onto the internet for everyone worldwide. Here’s how: You may remember Julie Grant, the Australian eSafety commissioner, from this viral World Economic Forum clip last year in which she proposed a ‘recalibration’ of free speech. […] The eSafety Commissioner operates programs everyone can all get behind, such as removing child pornography. But the programs don’t stop at the line of legality. The office also seeks to suppress whatever it deems “harmful.” Every so often, we hear what that means.
Read more/ Watch the 2:19 minute video: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1615757028017819648.html
Mangiaracina: World Economic Forum speaker touts technology that allows your boss to monitor your brain activity
Nita Farahany admits the discovery that we’re already tracking brain activity in the workplace made her shudder. But she is now hailing the benefits, insisting that they can be used without abuse. […] Wearable mind-reading devices are not a figment of the future — they’re already here, asserted Nita Farahany, legal ethicist and author of “The Battle for Your Brain,” during her talk “Ready for Brain Transparency?” during the WEF’s 2023 annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. […] Farahany is calling for a “more nuanced conversation” about the technology because she believes that “done well, neurotechnology has extraordinary promise.” She admitted, however, “Done poorly, it could become the most oppressive technology we’ve ever introduced in a large scale across society.” Even more disturbing to employees, she acknowledged, is the prospect of brain-reading devices that can sense “whether a person is paying attention or whether their mind is wandering,” and what, more precisely, they are paying attention to. Such technology can not only gauge whether someone is paying attention, and to what, but can intervene to get the mind back on track.
War Room: Masako Ganaha Live From Davos: Globalists Plan To “Accelerate” Their Totalitarian COVID-19 Measures
Watch the 4:48 minute video: https://rumble.com/v26ag1e-masako-ganaha-live-from-davos-globalists-plan-to-accelerate-their-totalitar.html
CLIMATE EMERGENCY = POWER & CONTROL
Jones: VP Harris: New Transmission Lines Will Allow Americans to Buy Groceries, Repair the House, Pay for College
“To create our clean energy future, we must construct thousands of miles of new, high-voltage transmission lines all across our country,” Vice President Kamala Harris said on Thursday, at a groundbreaking for a new transmission line in Arizona. “The Ten West Link transmission line will stretch from Arizona to California,” Harris explained at the groundbreaking. “It will deliver electricity from wind and solar farms out here in the desert, to big cities like Phoenix and Los Angeles and San Diego, and to rural communities like Blythe and Quartzite — Quartzsite. […] But in whose back yard will the new lines be constructed? In the wide-open desert of the western United States, this is not as much of an issue as it would be in the densely populated East Coast. According to the Interior Department, the Ten West Link project spans 125 miles, connecting substations in Tonopah, Arizona and Blythe, California.
THE CORRUPT U.S. INTELLIGENCE/ADMINSTRATIVE STATE APPARATUS
Barkoukis: Why One Pro-Life Pregnancy Center Is ‘Suspicious’ of the FBI’s Latest Reward Offer
The FBI is offering rewards for information leading to the arrest of identification, arrest, and conviction of individual(s) responsible for the attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers across the country last year. “Today’s announcement reflects the FBI’s commitment to vigorously pursue investigations into crimes against pregnancy resource centers, faith-based organizations, and reproductive health clinics across the country,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray in a statement about the $25,000 rewards. “We will continue to work closely with our national, state, and local law enforcement partners to hold responsible anyone who uses extremist views to justify their criminal actions.” […] At least one of the pregnancy centers, CompassCare, said earlier this month it was hiring private investigators, accusing the FBI of “slow walking” its investigation and calling an earlier offer of $25,000 a “ruse designed to feign interest.”
The group said the latest announcement is “suspicious.”
Read more: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2023/01/20/fbi-reward-n2618535
GOP U.S. HOUSE MAJORITY
War Room: Vought: Republicans’ Balanced Budget Proposal Will Be On Standby
Watch the 10:16 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v26a91w-vought-republicans-balanced-budget-proposal-will-be-on-standby.html
Continetti: What To Do About the Debt Ceiling
Republicans enter the debt ceiling fight with no leader, no strategy, and no specific proposal. They face a president who refuses to negotiate, a Democratic Senate, and a hostile media. When the Treasury Department’s “extraordinary measures” to avoid default come to an end this spring, markets are sure to tremble, and business and investors will pressure Congress for a quick fix. If the crisis isn’t handled properly, outcomes include a government shutdown, economic contagion, downgraded U.S. debt, and renewed GOP infighting. Oh, yes—in the worst-case scenario, federal spending would remain uncontrolled.
The way out of this briar patch is tricky but navigable. It involves drawing correct lessons from history, settling on a realistic objective in advance, neutralizing inevitable attacks, and taking the long view. That’s a tall order, but not a reason to abandon the cause. The GOP’s renewed interest in limiting the size and scope of the federal government is both warranted and welcome: The $31 trillion national debt is an ugly 124 percent of Gross Domestic Product. Multitrillion-dollar deficits are expected for years to come.
Read more: https://freebeacon.com/columns/what-to-do-about-the-debt-ceiling/
DEMOCRAT U.S. HOUSE MINORITY
Hutchison: Swalwell says Dems will ‘go around’ House speaker
“The greatest asset that Russia has now would be a Republican Party that is unwilling to help Ukraine,” Swalwell told MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace. “So there is a lot on the line. And Democrats are united to deliver the votes.”
“I think you’re going to see speaker discharge. The country is going to learn that word because a discharge petition, the worst named political term you could think of, means that if you get a majority of the Congress to come forward to support legislation, you can go around the speaker, I think we’ll have to go around the speaker to do all of that,” Swalwell added. A discharge petition forces . . .
Read more/Watch the 3:42 minute interview: https://www.wnd.com/2023/01/swalwell-says-dems-will-go-around-house-speaker/
2022 ARIZONA MIDTERM ELECTION UPDATE
McFall: Arizona court rejects GOP push to end early voting
The Arizona Court of Appeals this week rejected an attempt by the Republican Party to end early voting by arguing mail-in voting violated state’s constitution. A three-judge panel issued an 11-page ruling Tuesday that said mail-in voting did not violate the state’s secrecy clause after Republicans looked to end a practice that has become the state’s number one way to vote. “Arizona’s mail-in voting statutes ensure that voters fill out their ballot in a manner that does not disclose their vote and that voters’ choices are not later revealed,” the court ruled. “The superior court did not err in finding that these protections are sufficient to preserve secrecy in voting.”
Read more: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/arizona-court-rejects-gop-push-end-early-voting
BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: TRANSFORMING FOREIGN POLICY
McFall: US diverts weapons from South Korea to Ukraine
The Pentagon has asked its forces stationed in South Korea to send equipment to Ukraine to aid it in the war against Russia Fox News confirmed Thursday.Two defense officials said that the Pentagon had requested U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) to send 155mm howitzer artillery ammunition rounds that would likely be sent to Ukraine after first transferring through Germany. The U.S. is “looking under every rock” for munitions, an official told Fox News.
Read more: https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-diverts-weapons-south-korea-ukraine
BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: TRANSFORMING AMERICA
(1/19/2023) Moseley: America has officially hit the $31 TRILLION debt ceiling: Treasury implements ‘extraordinary measures’ to avoid economic meltdown – and here’s what it means for your 401Ks
The Treasury Department is starting ‘extraordinary measures’ to avoid a U.S. default after the federal debt limit was reached on Thursday. This measure will allow the government to keep paying bills while Congress negotiates to try and avoid an economic meltdown. American debt is now at an eye-watering $31.38 trillion – that’s 120 percent of GDP, up from 39.2 percent in 2008 and 77.6 percent in 2018. The staggering figure is the highest since the Second World War, equals $246,876 in federal debt per taxpayer and is more than the economies of China, Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom combined.
Purnell: A Disaster For Every Month: The Worst Scandals, Abuses, And Embarrassments Of Joe Biden’s Second Year In Office
The first year of Joe Biden’s presidency prolifically delivered examples of corruption and incompetence, and his second year in office — which drew to a close on Thursday — has been no different. Last year, The Federalist collected “A Scandal For Every Month: The Biggest Botches, Failures, And Mess-Ups Of Joe Biden’s First 12 Months In Office.” At the end of that piece, I expressed hope that 2022 would see fewer disasters flow from the White House. Unfortunately for the country, the roundup from year No. 2 is just as grim. January: Biden Compared Filibuster Defenders to Historical RacistsIn a Jan. 11 speech urging the U.S. Senate to ditch filibuster rules in order to pass his radical and unconstitutional federalization of election laws, Biden asked, “Do you want to be the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Do you want to be the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?”
BIDEN’S COVID VACCINATION JAB MANDATES
Piper: Federal agencies withholding data behind pilot heart condition change, COVID vax stroke reversal
Federal agencies are withholding the data behind recent decisions that relate or may relate to COVID-19 vaccines and severe adverse events, fueling speculation that they are putting both vaccinated and unvaccinated lives at risk. The Federal Aviation Administration told Just the News it widened the acceptable range of heart rhythms for commercial pilots, who were initially subject to industry-wide vaccine mandates, in light of “[n]ew scientific evidence” that it has yet to specify.The Oct. 26 update to the heart arrhythmias section of the FAA Guide for Aviation Medical Examiners made two key changes.
[…] The FAA declined to provide the “data and science” when Tucker Carlson asked for it in response to Kirsch’s essay, the Fox News host said. Military flight surgeon Theresa Long, who blew the whistle on a spike in possibly vaccine-related adverse events in a military medical database in 2021, told Carlson the expanded interval “does not improve safety” and called on Northrup to release the data.
DEMOCRAT PARTY’S MARXIST ARMY: BLACK LIVES MATTER
The Post Millennial: Black activists hold armed rally to demand reparations in Virginia
Multiple BLM-affiliated groups held an armed rally in Richmond, Virginia demanding reparations for descendants of former slaves. Video showed BLM757, BLMRVA, and the Fred Hampton Gun Club participating in the rally on Monday, armed with rifles in the gun-free zone of the State Capitol.
Police did not enforce the gun-free zone. However, the group complied when police told the armed activists to move back toward a sidewalk because they did not have a protest permit.
Read more/Watch the video clips: https://thepostmillennial.com/black-activists-hold-armed-rally-to-demand-reparations-in-virginia?utm_campaign=64483
DEMOCRAT PARTY’S CORRUPT & DANGEROUS MEDIA INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
War Room: As Migrant Crossings Across Border Skyrocket, Media And Democrats Have Fallen Silent On The Crisis
Watch the 5:17 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v26acic-as-migrant-crossings-across-border-skyrocket-media-and-democrats-have-falle.html
Daily Mail article mentioned in the interview: Watching the migrants risk EVERYTHING… thanks to Joe’s open borders: TODD BENSMAN’s graphic dispatch from the Mexican ‘Beast’ trains ferrying thousands to America that should shame our blasé President
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: LEFTIST INDOCTRINATION, CHILD MUTILATION, CHILD SACRIFICE, CHILD SEXUALIZATION
Cathell: Part 4: What’s Jail Like for Two Accused Child Rapists?
Part 1 laid out the horrifying facts of the child-prostitution case, Part 2 explored the LGBTQ pedophile ring’s reach, and Part 3 shined a spotlight on the state’s failure to protect the two little boys from suffering through serial sexual abuse allegedly committed by their gay activist fathers, who became their adoptive parents thanks to Georgia’s courts and child-welfare system. Today’s fourth and final piece details what life is like in jail for these two alleged child rapists each facing over nine life sentences. Life Behind Bars: Since they’re being prosecuted as co-defendants, the adoptive fathers are housed separately while in pre-trial detainment.
Read more: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2023/01/20/zulock-case-pt-4-n2618324
The Right Scoop: What does trans ‘expert’ say to do about family members “skeptical” about your 4-year-old “trans kiddo”?
Rachel Pepper, author of “The Transgender Child,” was asked what to do about “extended family members” who are “skeptical” about your 4-year-old “trans kiddo.” Pepper says to cut them out of your life because they’re “not safe people for those children to be around.”
Read more/Watch the 1:38 minute video: https://therightscoop.com/what-does-trans-expert-say-to-do-about-family-members-skeptical-about-your-4-year-old-trans-kiddo/
Hanford: Virginia Teen Sex-Trafficked Twice After School Hides Gender Identity From Her Parents
After the 14-year-old was found being sexually assaulted in another state, a judge kept her from loving parents because they questioned her transgender identity. Then she was trafficked again. n August 2021, by concealing a teen’s newly asserted transgender identity from her parents, Virginia’s Appomattox County High School participated in a chain of events that led to that girl falling into the hands of sexual predators not once, but twice. When the FBI found Sage (last name of the family withheld for privacy) in Maryland, where she was victimized by a sexual predator, a judge refused to return her to her parents on the grounds they were abusing her in not affirming her as male. Housed in the boys’ quarters of a children’s home away from her parents, she told her mother, she was assaulted again. The girl soon fled, then was brutally sex-trafficked again until her rescue in Texas by law enforcement.
Pieper: House passes bill to enshrine abortion rights in state law
The DFL’s top priority hit the House Floor Thursday. And after a little less than four hours of debate, HF1, was passed 69-65 and is headed to the Senate. Referred to as the “Protect Reproductive Options Act,” the bill would further establish in state law the fundamental right for an individual to make decisions on their own reproductive health. “I know that not every positive pregnancy test is a celebration and not every ultrasound appointment ends with good news. And I, as a politician, have no business making that decision for someone else,” said Rep. Carlie Kotyza-Witthuhn (DFL-Eden Prairie), the bill sponsor.
Read more: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/sessiondaily/Story/17543
THE DEMOCRAT LED WAR ON MEN
Justice: Masculinity Isn’t Toxic, Our Erasure Of It Is
Last week, conservative journalist Andy Ngo published screenshots of the singer’s Instagram page. On the left, Smith is seen handsomely seated with his prestigious Oscar. The ensuing photos highlight his attempt to transition into someone who is “non-binary,” or a person who believes he was born a third sex or above the sexes altogether. The logic defies everything we know about human biology down to the binary nature of our chromosomes. No one seems to know what a woman is these days, but does anyone even remember what a man is? Smith’s progression in Ngo’s photos underscores the erasure of cultural masculinity declared “toxic” by millennials. When you lose sight of what it means to be a man — what it means to look like a man, act like a man, and live like a man — you de facto lose the values that form the foundation of healthy masculinity. But our culture doesn’t even know what a man is. […] But it isn’t just Smith. There’s a deeper mentally disturbed current pulsing beneath the decline of healthy masculinity and femininity. Consider that nearly 60 percent of people who call themselves “non-binary” report having a mental health issue. And that’s despite both difficulties in diagnosing mental illnesses and the fact that gender dysphoria itself is a mental sickness included in the latest psychiatric manual of mental disorders, meaning the real percentage is far higher. See for yourself. How is this not a mental illness? Why are we not allowed to call it that? And why on Earth is it unacceptable to ask questions about the twisted state of the sexes?
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/17/masculinity-isnt-toxic-our-erasure-of-it-is/
EDUCATION
Yenor: higher ed reform in red states
Proposals to reform higher education have been bubbling around since William F. Buckley’s God and Man at Yale (1951). As conservatives have founded organizations like ACTA and National Association of Scholars to reform our increasingly ideological, incompetent universities, things have only gotten worse.
The Left now holds these institutions with an iron grip. Administrators and faculty on the Left control budgets, policies, supervisory powers, professional standards, hiring, promotion, curriculum, and student life. They credential those who can serve in universities. Administrators are products of the system. Faculty self-select those within the system. Pay is great. Security is good. Accountability is affirming. Leftist control comes in the form of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policies. As I show elsewhere, diversity policies involve racial preferences for faculty positions and student admissions so that more minorities and fewer “oppressors” are on campus. Inclusion policies concern favoring some forms of speech (anti-white and anti-Western, for instance) and associations (LGBTQ graduations) while disfavoring other forms of speech (any speech that challenges the DEI hegemony on campus). Opponents of DEI have, reasonably enough, responded to it by . . . […] Only governmental and private efforts to stigmatize and destroy our current educational establishment and replace them with a competitive, patriotic moral model suitable for a great country can work. As Richard Lowery of the University of Texas at Austin said at the Stanford Conference, “we need to tarnish the brand [of modern universities] to where we replace it with something else.” Most of America’s most prestigious private universities and academic disciplines are past the point of no return. They cannot be reformed with their current personnel. Legislatures must make serious efforts to wrest universities away from the academic Left. Put yourself in the place of the Texas legislature charged with making laws and regulations for University of Texas at Austin, one of the most DEI-infused, fanatical universities in the country, for instance. What could be done?
Read more: https://americanreformer.org/2023/01/higher-ed-reform/
PEACEFULLY & PATRIOTICALLY HAVE YOUR VOICES HEARD
Shurk: Has COVID Backlash Sparked a Movement?
Friends of freedom generally agree about four points: (1) Protections for expansive individual liberty and respect for limited government are essential for the promotion of human rights, self-determination, and prosperity. (2) Over the course of American history, the U.S. government has strayed far beyond the original limitations of its enumerated powers as set forth in the Constitution. (3) Globalism, international government, plutocracy, rule by “elite” experts, unchecked bureaucracy, and the steady erosion of inalienable rights all work to maximize the power of centralized authority while minimizing the power of individual citizens. (4) The most important conflict raging today is between individual liberty and coercive State control. Where defenders of liberty disagree is in their assessment of the future. Some believe that so much ground has now been lost in humanity’s centuries-long struggle for freedom that centralized government control over each individual is all but certain. Technology’s rapid intrusion into the private sphere, the exponential expansion of the national security surveillance State, the rise of government-directed mass censorship, the successful efforts of multinational corporations and banks to influence national government directives, and the Intelligence Community’s vast programs for manipulating public opinion on a global scale all lend support to this admittedly pessimistic point of view. On the other hand, . . . […] What Sundance revealed with his question to readers is that an energetic movement of Americans is rising. In watching how the American Deep State (Uniparty politicians, social media censors, Department of [in]Justice, and Intelligence Community) had worked to take down President Trump, many Americans were well aware of the government’s capacity for treachery. Still, in enduring that treachery up close and personal under the fear-inducing tyranny of COVID-1984 — in which their lives and livelihoods, as well as those of their children and grandchildren, have all been affected in painfully intimate ways — Americans have gained a rebellious self-awareness forged in the fires of experience.
Read more at American Thinker.
THE PLAN -THE CITIZENS COMMISSION TO RESTORE AMERICA
The Citizen’s Commission for Restoring America – Founding Members – LTG Thomas McInerney USAF (Ret), MG Paul E. Vallely US Army (ret), and Mr. Edward L. Haugland, US Govt Senior Executive (ret). Mission – To safeguard the American Dream, Constitution, and Freedoms for future generations of Americans by ensuring the resilience and security of our Republic. Strategy – A good strategy ties the ways and means together to achieve the desired end. The Ways are to advance communication with the American people to raise their awareness, enable their participation and support, and facilitate actions to restore America. The Means are leveraging the American people’s involvement, experience, expertise, community leaders, governors, and elected/non-elected public servants. The desired End is a Resilient and Secure Republic. Strategic Objectives The following are an initial set of strategic objectives. We seek to fulfill these objectives via a proactive posture of peaceful, persuasive, and effective engagement and support from you, the American people, community leaders, governors, and elected/non-elected public servants. We will work to accomplish these objectives, define new objectives, and sustain efforts to achieve our mission and restore America. We are sharing this strategy, and objectives and communicating them to governors, community leaders, public servants, and you the American people so as to inform you of our efforts, make you aware of the issues and how to engage, and empower you and others to act in a focused and sustained manner. Objective 1: Ensure the resilience of our Republic, Constitution, and Freedoms . . .
Read more: https://canadafreepress.com/RestoreAmerica/the-citizens-commission-to-restore-america
OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION
Mauk: Virtual Communication Could Impair Childhood Brain Development, Study Suggests
A recent study that compared children’s brain activity between face-to-face interaction and virtual interaction found that electrical activity in the brain is significantly reduced during virtual social interaction, suggesting impairments to childhood cognitive and social development. Neuroscience News reported a study that analyzed the interactions between 62 mother-child pairs, both face-to-face and virtually. The children in the study were ages 10 to 14. Utilizing a process that can simultaneously scan brain activity in multiple subjects, known as hyperscanning, researchers found that brain activity was reduced during virtual interaction via videoconferencing, specifically brain synchrony between the mothers and their children. […] Conclusions from the study call into question the effectiveness of online learning for children and teens.
LifeSiteNews: FULL LIST: All the events taking place during the 2023 US March for Life
The first March for Life since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade will take place on January 20, 2023. For the first time since the annual human rights gathering began, states are free to pass their own pro-life laws. And Washington, D.C.’s draconian mask and abortion-tainted vaccine mandates are in the rear view mirror (for now). Below is a list of events surrounding the 2023 March for Life. Please note some require advance registration.
Zeisloft: ‘Will Not Be Tolerated Here In Florida’: DeSantis Purges ESG From State Retirement System
Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis approved measures on Tuesday to prevent the Florida Retirement System Pension Plan from investing in accordance with the environmental, social, and corporate governance movement, also known as ESG. According to DeSantis’ office, the approval of the resolution will ensure that public fiduciaries “invest state funds in a manner that prioritizes the highest return on investment for Florida’s taxpayers and retirees without considering the ideological agenda” of the ESG movement. Critics say the philosophy confuses profit maximization with political and social agendas such as reducing carbon emissions or promoting purported racial equity.
Freiburger: Wisconsin Republicans block ‘conversion therapy’ ban that overstepped legal authority
The rule banned the practice commonly known as conversion or reparative therapy. Unlike some bans that only prohibit minors from receiving such treatment, the Wisconsin rule also prevented consenting adults from accessing counseling they chose to seek out. In 2021, the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative voted to suspend the rule, and it did so again last week on a party-line, 6-4 vote. By pursuing the matter as a temporary rule suspension rather than seeking a law to permanently block the ban, Republicans have been able to stop it without the influence of Democrat Gov. Tony Evers, who would have vetoed the latter.
INTERNATIONAL
War Room: Ed Dowd: New Zealand’s PM Is Resigning To Avoid Accountability For Her COVID-19 Response
Watch the 3:15 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v26aeso-ed-dowd-new-zealands-pm-is-resigning-to-avoid-accountability-for-her-covid-.html
Larson: Hungary on the Cutting Edge
For its over 1,100 years of existence, Hungary has been surrounded by stronger powers. It has endured Mongol incursions, Ottoman rule, and Austrian domination and was a battleground of both the Nazis and the Soviets in World War II. Today, it borders a nation at war and is a member of a European Union that increasingly treats it as an outcast. Balázs Orbán, top advisor to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (no relation), writes in The Hungarian Way of Strategy that the history of Hungary can largely be summed up as “an epic struggle to maintain and regain sovereignty.” Because of its fierce desire for independence and its difficult position at the crossroads of Europe, it has always been—and will continue to be—forced to confront global trends. The United States, powerful and far removed from competitors, has the luxury to ignore trends. Hungary does not. It must win its independence through fierce struggle with the forces of the day. If historical precedent is any guide, the state of affairs in Hungary today offers intriguing insights into emerging political currents. The rise of Hungary’s Fidesz party in 2010, under the leadership of Viktor Orbán, prefigured the wave of conservative populism in the West that appeared later in the 2010s. The rise of Fidesz as a populist party came years before Trump and Brexit put the spotlight on the conservative populist phenomenon in the West. It came years before voters in Poland—a strong ally of Hungary in the European Union—delivered a majority to the conservative Law and Justice party.
Read more: https://americanmind.org/salvo/hungary-on-the-cutting-edge/
TV SERIES REVIEW: TULSA KING
Meyrat: ‘Tulsa King’ Is An Allegory For America’s Blue State-To-Red State Migration
Taylor Sheridan and Sylvester Stallone take on the issue of the great American migration and the culture clash that ensues.[…] While many commentators speculate on the political shifts that result from this migration, there’s relatively little attention paid to the cultural shift that happens. The fact that red states are becoming more diverse and cosmopolitan while blue states become less vibrant makes for a great opportunity to explore these themes, yet most storytellers, filmmakers, and screenwriters seem rather oblivious to it. […] Finally, this status quo is being challenged by “Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan in his newest TV series “Tulsa King,” which takes on the issue of the great American migration and the culture clash that ensues. While there’s certainly some conflict, the message of the show is refreshingly optimistic and profound. The story centers on the elderly mafioso Dwight Manfredi (played by Sylvester Stallone) who leaves prison after serving a 25-year sentence. Immediately after his release, his crime family sends him off to Tulsa both as a form of exile and to exploit an opportunity. Despite his misgivings from the outset, Dwight makes the most of this move and eventually establishes himself as a veritable crime lord in his new city.