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MOTHER’S DAY, SUNDAY, MAY 12, 2024
(2017) Olmstead: We’re Talking About Motherhood Wrong. It’s A Vocation, Not A Job
Nyquil recently released a television ad pointing out the most basic of facts: moms don’t get sick days. […] how else ought we to describe the difficulties and duties of motherhood? Earlier this month, Karen Rinaldi suggested that we call motherhood a “privilege,” not a job. That claim may cause immediate skepticism, but there’s also a great deal of truth to it. Parenting is hard, but it’s also glorious. And we do choose sex and procreation via our own choices and autonomy. We bring babies into this world fully knowing that they’ll be a screaming, poopy mess for the first couple years of their lives. We have children then name them our favorite names, teach them our favorite songs, look on with wonder as they walk, talk, learn to write, graduate, and get married. Parenting is a self-fulfilling act, even as it’s a self-emptying one. But what Rinaldi is pushing against is not motherhood-as-work language. She’s pushing against motherhood-as-sacrifice language, as she makes clear in this passage: […] Rinaldi, and many other women today, protest that motherhood (especially when it is not married to a career) is too humble. It requires too much, and takes too much. There’s not enough recognition and rapport, societal applause and financial independence, wrapped up in motherhood. Motherhood is problematic: it doesn’t fit today’s mantras surrounding happiness and fulfillment. Thus, Rinaldi tries to reframe motherhood without the sacrifice: making it about “fulfillment,” “empowerment,” and “privilege.”
But to do that, you’d have to destroy the very nature of what motherhood is. In a physical sense, before birth ever happens, motherhood is. . . .
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2017/08/11/motherhood-job-vocation/
RECOMMENDED READING: MOTHERHOOD: AN EXTRAORDINARY VOCATION BY KATHRYN ROMBS
Ours is not a culture that publicly appreciates motherhood, and it is time for that to change. Feminism, while winning certain victories for women, has wrongly left motherhood behind. Many women today, including faithful Catholics, are ambivalent about motherhood or see it as something that will compromise their careers, lives, and happiness.
In Motherhood: An Extraordinary Vocation, Dr. Kathryn Rombs invites women to enter this vocation or reengage with it, newly aware of its meaning, beauty, and power. Each chapter focuses on a theme that is essential to every woman’s interior development as she contemplates the role of motherhood in her life. Topics include:
NOTABLE QUOTES
Carrie Gress contributor to The Federalist: As Satan knew back in the Garden, if you get the women, you get everyone. Women’s behavior, Archbishop Fulton Sheen observed decades ago, is the means by which a culture can be measured.
Suzanne Vierling contributor to Human Events: In our rapidly evolving fourth, soon-to-be fifth industrial revolution, we somehow have to ask the question “What is a woman?” The answer to this question, you would think, would be incontrovertible, and yet all around us we see evidence that the very idea of womanhood as an identity, a legal status, a source of rights, or even as a full human being, is being dismantled.
Clare Rowan I contributor to The Federalist: Abortion affects everyone today, and there is a lot of healing that needs to happen. We cannot continue to kill our children. This Mother’s Day, let us be a solution to the problem. Let us turn our culture back to life. Let us repent of the sin of abortion and end the justification of it. Then we can begin the long overdue healing process so desperately needed in our society.
David Keltz contributor to American Greatness: The media censors Trump because they are afraid that if people who have common sense actually hear what he has to say without his words being parsed, they may actually agree with it. And they can’t let that happen.
Ed Morrissey contributor to HotAir.com: Could Hamas have better representation than Joe Biden?
Daniel Greenfield contributor to Frontpage Magazine: It’s time to end the worst and longest nation building experiment to date. The obsession with creating a ‘Palestinian state’ has cost billions of dollars and the lives of American civilians. Now Biden is risking the death of American soldiers, in or out of uniform, to keep the nation building dream alive. Biden withdrew from Afghanistan, but now he wants to get us into Gaza.
Mark Tapson contributor to Frontpage Magazine: Despite the concerted media effort to camouflage their true aims, these radicals (students, faculty, and outside agitators) seizing college campuses are not calling for an end to war in Gaza. They are calling for a state of permanent revolution until every status quo is eradicated, and a new, collectivist utopia (either Muslim or Communist) is established on the ruins of today’s West. They are calling for an end to Israel and America.
Gerald McGlothlin contributor to American Thinker: In an unexpected twist in the current election cycle, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an independent presidential candidate, openly declared his support for late-term abortions. This stance, articulated during a recent interview with podcaster Sage Steele, posits that women should have the autonomy to decide on abortions, “even if it’s full-term.” This radical position could significantly impact the 2024 presidential race, potentially benefiting Donald Trump more than any other single political move.
BIDEN’S DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: PERSECUTE YOUR OPPOSITION, PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP & HIS FORMER TRUMP EMPLOYEES, SUPPORTERS & WH STAFF
Judicial Watch: Judicial Watch: Voicemail Recording Shows FBI and Secret Service Coordination on Raid of Trump’s Home
The recording was uncovered in an October 2022 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security for all communications of the U.S. Secret Service internally and with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding the raid on President Trump’s home and for any video or audio recordings made during the raid on August 8, 2022 (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:22-cv-03147)). “This recording is real-time evidence of the Biden administration’s whole government operation to abuse Trump by raiding his home. Judicial Watch will continue to piece together the details of the conspiracy to launch an unprecedented and malicious raid on the home of Biden’s chief political opponent,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said.
Read more: https://www.judicialwatch.org/raid-of-trumps-home/
Ingraham Angle: Judge Jeanine: Everything about this was a lie
Judge Jeannine recounts her day in the Trump trial courtroom.
Watch the 5:41 minute interview: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6352623583112
Sundance: Florida Senator Rick Scott Attends Trump Trial in New York, Gives Press Conference
In his media remarks the former Florida Governor and current Senator Rick Scott, outlined the background of the key participants who are targeting Trump via these ridiculous political Lawfare tactics. Strong and truthful remarks by Senator Scott.
Watch the 3;48 minute press conference: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/05/09/florida-senator-rick-scott-attends-trump-trial-in-new-york-gives-press-conference/
Trump’s raw honesty on how he deals with the Deep State’s judicial attacks is the most real thing you’ll read today…
During the RNC spring retreat luncheon in Florida, President Trump opened up about the relentless targeting, harassment, and indictments he’s facing from the Deep State. His response was as raw, honest, and real as it gets. Trump made it clear that he doesn’t sweat the fact that the entire crooked US government is hell-bent on taking him down. Giving into that pressure, he explained, would only make you “choke.” Instead, he says, life is life—and then Trump basically pointed out that you just have to roll with the punches. That’s exactly what you’d expect a truly strong leader to say and do. Here’s more on the comments President Trump made at the RNC luncheon. Business Insider: . . . .
Read more: https://revolver.news/2024/05/trump-raw-honesty-facing-deep-state-judicial-attacks-the-most-real-thing-you-will-read-today/
THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY OWNS THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Morrissey: Dr. Bhattacharya: Here’s Why the WHO Treaty Is Fauciism on Global Steroids
The popular definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” That perfectly characterizes a new effort by the UN, the Biden administration, and far-left foundations to expand the power of the World Health Organization (WHO). Negotiations for a treaty not only breathe life back into the discredited pandemic management policies pushed by Anthony Fauci and empire-building bureaucrats in the US but seek to make them unaccountable by having WHO dictate them to member nations without redress or debate. Dictate is the operative word, too, because the treaty would also give WHO jurisdiction over “misinformation.” This has echoes of the worst of the speech-suppressing policies pushed by Fauci, the State Department, and Big Tech. One of the biggest targets for that censorship, Great Barrington Declaration co-author Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, warned about this in a RealClearPolicy essay last week co-authored by Kevin Bardosh. The WHO’s funding ask is outrageous enough, but the power grab is much more dangerous and insidious: . . . .
Read more/Watch the full interview with Dr. Bhattacharya: https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/05/08/bhattacharya-heres-why-the-who-treaty-is-fauciism-on-global-steroids-n3787993
A Rush Without Reason For more than eighteen months, negotiations have been underway at the WHO on two documents intended to change the way pandemics and threats of pandemics are managed, centralizing coordination and decision-making with the WHO. As of early May, the amendments to the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR) and a new Pandemic Agreement, are still being negotiated at the Working Group on Amendments to the International Health Regulations (WGIHR) and the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) respectively. Despite the WHO being shown to have grossly misrepresented their evidence on the frequency of natural outbreaks and pandemic risk, which have been declining over the past one to two decades, these are proceeding with unusual urgency.
Read more: https://brownstone.org/articles/who-is-wrong-to-rush-the-vote/
CHINA: AMERICA’S MORTAL ENEMY
Shaw: China Mandates Military Training for Young Students
Military and foreign policy analysts have been warning us for quite some time that China has been steadily preparing itself to be on a war footing. The massive investments they have made in their military were a powerful indicator, and that’s not a recent development. […] The Chinese have been indoctrinating their youth to be prepared for military service at earlier ages. They have already begun training college students to operate tanks and engage in live-fire exercises. But now the training is beginning even earlier. Elementary school students will be taught about the importance of national defense and military training will be required for high school students. The new proposal has been opened for public comment, but that’s only a formality in China. The CCP does as it wishes and anyone who publicly opposes these decisions will likely be receiving an unpleasant visit. (Nikkei Asia) [NOTE: As has been reported, thousands of Chinese military age men have crossed Biden’s open southern border. Why ? One can only speculate. Where are they? No one knows.]
Read more: https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/05/10/china-mandates-military-training-for-young-students-n3788137
BIDEN’S MANDATED MRNA CHINA VIRUS (COVID-19) VACCINATIONS
Stanford’s Censorship: An Interview with Dr. Scott Atlas
Stanford Review: Thank you so much for speaking with us today, Dr. Atlas. We’d like to discuss your experience with censorship at Stanford. Could you start by sharing your story and background leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic? Scott Atlas: I’ve been in medical science for twenty-five years, MD from University of Chicago, then trained at Northwestern and UPenn, and I’ve been a professor at some of the world’s best medical centers. I have a hundred-plus peer-reviewed papers as a clinician and as a medical scientist. I’ve given over six hundred invited lectures as a Visiting Professor, and received funding with more than thirty research grants. That was all pre-COVID. I have also been an editor of journals and member of several editorial boards, among other things. For the past dozen years, I’ve been working in full-time health policy. I quit working at Stanford’s medical school in 2012 and moved over to the Hoover Institution as an endowed Senior Fellow in health policy. This background is relevant because COVID-19—the pandemic and its management—was a health policy issue. Something like this is not to be run by someone with a limited scope of knowledge, like an epidemiologist or a virologist. It’s for a health policy person who has significant medical science knowledge. That includes economics, public health, and science, which includes the delivery of healthcare and getting the best medical care and the best solution possible to the most people possible. For instance, we know from decades of economics literature that severe economic downturns kill people—particularly poor people. Stanford Review: Tell us about what you did once the pandemic began. […] Stanford Review: What exactly happened to you at Stanford? [NOTE: One of a handful of physician pandemic and vaccine truth tellers Cuomo could have interviewed in 2020 and chose not to.]
Read more: https://stanfordreview.org/stanfords-censorship-an-interview-with-dr-scott-atlas/
BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF FOREIGN POLICY
Greenfield: Biden Risks American Lives to Protect Hamas
No Americans should die to protect Hamas supporters in Gaza. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin recently admitted at a congressional hearing that American soldiers operating Biden’s disastrous “aid pier” for Gaza could come under attack from Islamic terrorists. Biden has not sent a single soldier to recover American hostages being held by Hamas, but there are now soldiers in the line of fire in order to send aid to Gaza. In the event American forces on the pier come under attack, they would be allowed to fight back, Austin promised. But based on the rules of engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan, all the terrorists have to do is attack from a mosque or from behind civilians, and American soldiers would be banned from fighting back. And those are the ways that Hamas tends to attack. Late last month, Islamic terrorists did fire mortar shells at the pier, forcing . . .
Read more: https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-risks-american-lives-to-protect-hamas/
Greenfield: Biden Admin Lied to Congress About Weapons Embargo on Israel
He was told “in writing and verbally” that there was “no delay in the delivery of weapons to Israel. […] The Biden administration had leveraged military aid to Israel to pass a much larger (and much less popular) military aid package to Ukraine. Biden had refused to pass the stand-alone package to Israel that Republicans had wanted. I predicted at the time that it was a bait and switch and that Israel might never see that aid. And currently, Biden is blocking aid that predates the package. In order to seal the deal, the Biden administration had conducted classified briefings for Speaker Johnson. And it turns out that they lied in those briefings. Johnson said […] So the Biden administration lied. It didn’t just lie to the voters, its personnel lied during classified briefings, they were instructed to lie directly to the House Speaker. And they did.
Read more: https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-admin-lied-to-congress-about-weapons-embargo-on-israel/
WAR IN ISRAEL
Haug: Defending Freedom: A Tribute to the Warriors of Israel
Read more: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20625/warriors-of-israel-defending-freedom
BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA
Londono: The FTC’s Plan To Revive A Zombie Bill Will Undermine America’s Supply Chain
n an effort to ramp up antitrust enforcement, the Federal Trade Commission appears willing to bring back a 1930s-era law, the Robinson-Patman Act, from its dormancy. The law largely prohibits vendors from offering products of similar “grade and quality” to different buyers at different prices. Most notably, this prohibition prevents vendors from offering discounts to large buyers that are willing to buy high quantities of a product. The law went unenforced for decades, as courts and policymakers saw its detrimental effects for consumers and the economy at large. By bringing it back, the FTC will make the American supply chain less resilient and more vulnerable to shocks, such as the ones experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The FTC’s ramp up of Robinson-Patman enforcement started earlier this year, according to a Politico report that claimed that the agency had launched inquiries against Coca-Cola and Pepsi for supposedly offering lower prices to large retailers. Additionally, a group of 14 lawmakers led by Democratic Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently submitted a letter to the FTC calling for increased Robinson-Patman scrutiny by the agency.
Read more: https://issuesinsights.com/2024/05/10/the-ftcs-plan-to-revive-a-zombie-bill-will-undermine-americas-supply-chain/
2024 ELECTION
Scarry: How Not To Be A Toxic And Terrible Trump Running Mate
The coming election is going to be turmoil that Trump’s potential VP picks aren’t ready for. Here’s how they can prepare and excel. 1. Don’t let your mouth write a check you can’t cash. As of this writing, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, once highly recommended as a V.P. contender, is on a tour of self-humiliation, answering questions about inexplicable claims she made in a book that are either demonstrably false or bizarre to the point of psychopathy. In her autobiography, which she almost certainly didn’t write, Noem said she blasted a 14-month-old family dog with a shotgun after allowing it to run wild. Even more egregious, she claimed to have “met with” North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, who “underestimated me.” Even starving North Koreans heard that tale and mustered the strength to say, “Girl, you sound really, really dumb!” Noem’s defense of both claims, embarrassing in themselves, has been excruciating to witness. She said working on a farm means she has to kill animals all the time – a perfectly healthy, though poorly trained house dog is just like a sick, old horse! — and then refused to admit that she never actually met Kim Jong Un. She would only allow that, “I don’t have conversations about my conversations with world leaders,” while also insisting that she has asked that the book’s content be amended to exclude the Kim anecdote about having been “underestimated” by Kim altogether. Republicans who want to sincerely help take back the White House— you won’t do it by mythologizing yourselves in ways that are unserious at best, and repulsive at worst. 2. Always and forever reject the national media’s faulty frame and premise […] 3. Embrace the fact that this is unlikely to be a fair election and say so out loud. . . .
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/07/how-not-to-be-a-toxic-and-terrible-trump-running-mate/
Masters: Biden National Security Adviser’s Wife Launches House Bid
The wife of President Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and former Department of Justice official announced a run for New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District on Thursday. Maggie Goodlander previously served as a foreign policy adviser to the late Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, and is a former intelligence officer in the Navy Reserve, according to the campaign announcement video posted on X. The Democrat also touted serving as counsel during former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in 2019 during her 2024 launch. “The fact is, the bullies have too much power in America right now — right-wing judges, extreme politicians, big corporations all have too much power,” Goodlander said in the video. “I’m ready to take these bullies on. That’s why I’m running for Congress.”
Read more: https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/09/maggie-goodlander-joe-biden-national-security-advisers-jake-sullivan-wife-launches-house-bid/
21ST CENTURY LEFTIST (DEMOCRAT PARTY) INDOCTRINATION CENTERS
Issues & Insights Editorial Board: Hey Kids, Have You Heard? It’s No Longer Cool To Be A Democrat
The signs are everywhere. The nation’s youth are waking up to the fact that the Democratic left – with its preening, humorless self-righteousness, its relentless judgmentalism, its mask-wearing Hamas-cheering campus-trashing college crybabies, its hypocritical pampered elites, and its octogenarian president who thinks he can buy young people off with abortions, dope, and bailouts – is totally uncool. It’s about time. Now we just need a national anti-smoking-like campaign to sustain it.There are so many recent moments showing this shift in attitude that it’s hard to narrow down the list. But here’s a sampling: […] Young people also have watched as the left turned on beloved liberal authors such as J.K. Rowling and popular liberal black comedians like Dave Chappelle because they won’t bend the knee to the radical transgender movement. They’re hearing from comedians such as Jerry Seinfeld, who was himself recently harassed by Hamas-supporting leftists for being Jewish. He blames the death of comedy on “the extreme left, PC crap, & people worrying so much about offending other people.” They’re noticing that once liberal favorites. . . .
Read more: https://issuesinsights.com/2024/05/09/hey-kids-have-you-heard-its-no-longer-cool-to-be-a-democrat/
Zeisloft: Theology prof: ‘Dear God, please help me to hate White people’
A seminary professor wrote a prayer in which she asks God to help her “hate White people.” Chanequa Walker-Barnes is an associate professor of practical theology at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, which claims a Baptist identity. Her oration was published in A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal. “Dear God, Please help me to hate White people,” opens the prayer. “Or at least to want to hate them. At least, I want to stop caring about them, individually and collectively.”
Read more: https://www.campusreform.org/article/theology-prof-dear-god-please-help-hate-white-people/17185
Goodman: Biden Civil Rights Chief Plans To Give Columbia Law Commencement Speech As University Cancels Main Ceremony
The news comes one day after House Republicans said Clarke’s “history of association with known anti-Semites” makes her unfit to prosecute anti-Semitism at Columbia and other universities. It also comes as Columbia Law School is facing heightened scrutiny this week, as over a dozen federal judges said they would not hire its graduates due to the “virulent spread of antisemitism” at the school. […] She is also facing questions from a group of five Republicans, led by Rep. Claudia Tenney (R., N.Y.), who wrote to Clarke on Tuesday that they were “deeply concerned that your history of association with known anti-Semites hinders your ability to impartially support an investigation into violations of Title VI at Columbia University,” according to the New York Post. The letter noted that Clarke, while attending Harvard University in the 1990s, invited an anti-Semitic speaker who wrote a book claiming there was a Jewish conspiracy to subjugate black people. Clarke also defended former Women’s March leader Tamika Mallory against criticism of Mallory’s relationship with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
Read more: https://freebeacon.com/campus/biden-civil-rights-chief-plans-to-give-columbia-law-commencement-speech-as-university-cancels-main-ceremony/
THE DEMOCRAT LED WAR ON WOMEN
Greene: Trans Activists Sabotage Hotline For Girls To Report Creepy Men In Their Bathrooms
In an environment of endless protest from the left, trans activists have moved from public disruption to simply disabling systems they do not like. On May 1, 2024, Utah launched a reporting form to enforce H.B. 257, a law signed by Gov. Spencer Cox in January that protects sex-designated spaces such as restrooms or locker rooms from intrusions by members of the opposite sex. The state auditor is required to investigate these reports, but within a week, the office received around 10,000 false complaints from trans activists attempting to overwhelm the system to make reporting and enforcement impossible. Prominent trans activist Erin Reed argued, “If there are 4,000, 5,000, 6,000 form responses that are entered in, it’s going to be much harder for the auditor’s office to sift through every one of them and find the one legitimate trans person who was caught using a bathroom.” The enforcement, which only addresses the failure of government entities enforcing the new law, includes reporting the failure of government entities to contact law enforcement when a criminal complaint is filed (for instance, a complaint of men caught spying on women or girls in restrooms).
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/10/trans-activists-sabotage-hotline-for-girls-to-report-creepy-men-in-their-bathrooms/
DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: CHILDREN ARE THE TARGET OF THE DARKNESS AFFECTING OUR NATION
Exulansic: Bonsai Children
With the publication of the Cass Report, a comprehensive review of the bases of evidence for transgender medical services in the UK, and the WPATH Files, leaked internal documents from the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, we now have confirmation of what I have been shouting from the Tiktoks for the past three years: Puberty blockers are no fountain of youth. Indeed, the doctors who cut healthy organs anyway revealed themselves to be fools chasing an impossible dragon down a road paved with the ruined bodies of thousands of girls and boys—mostly girls, in fact, as teen girls make up the majority of patients referred to such services in the UK and elsewhere. “Puberty blockers” are a category of different drugs aimed at suppressing the function of a multi-organ system in the body, called the hypothalamic, pituitary, and gonadal axis (HPG-Axis). The hypothalamus and pituitary glands are located within, and are a component of, the brain, and the gonads refer to the ovaries and testicles. These substances may include gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor analogues or agonists (GNRH-A) or other drugs, such as medroxyprogesterone acetate, otherwise known as the widely-used contraceptive Depo Provera. These substances disrupt the normal, healthy functioning of the hypothalamus, resulting in cessation of the complex, layered, rhythmic production of a pulsatile dose of gonadotropin-releasing hormone. […] Now that the cat is out of the bag regarding the lack of evidence for believing these interventions were more beneficial than harmful, and now that the harms have been laid bare for all to see, the concern must redirect to explaining how this mythology ever twisted the reins of secular policy.
Read more: https://americanmind.org/salvo/bonsai-children/
Sielicki: Dallas church with link to Planned Parenthood launches pro-abortion ‘pregnancy center’
A church in Dallas, Texas, with a history of supporting the abortion industry is in the news again after opening a pregnancy resource center that aims to promote abortion. In a story by KERA News, the First Unitarian Church of Dallas says it is opening its PRC to “counter anti-abortion mis-information.” Called the “Truth Pregnancy Resource Center,” the facility will purportedly offer women items expected at a traditional PRC, such as maternity and baby items, STD testing, pregnancy tests, and more. But, unlike most PRCs, it will also provide women with information and help to end their preborn children’s lives.
Read more at LifeSite News.
BOOK REVIEW: WAR AGAINST THE WEAK: EUGENICS AND AMERICA’S CAMPAIGN TO CREATE A MASTER RACE BY EDWIN BLACK
Levy: War Against the Weak: The Chilling Story of America’s Dark Dalliance with Eugenics
Nazi Germany wasn’t the first nation to be enamored with racial purity and a master race. It was America. Proponents of eugenics gained immense influence here in the early 20th century. They hoped to incarcerate millions of “unfit” Americans in colonies, forbid them from marrying, or forcibly sterilize them so that, within several generations, only white Nordics would remain. For them, this was ultimately a global enterprise. Historian and prolific author Edwin Black chronicles this dark phase of American history in his extensively researched book War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race. He charts how dubious scientific studies gained support and led to forced sterilizations, segregation, marriage prohibitions, and immigration restrictions for targeted populations. The book was published in 2003; an expanded version emerged in 2012. Black writes that the material he gathered could have resulted in a standalone book for each chapter. Indeed, his detailing of the American programs alone – the first chapter describes a sheriff sweeping up Appalachian hillbillies for sterilization – makes one shudder at the casual cruelty. And his presentation of the eugenicists behind the programs and the billionaires who supported them makes one wonder if they were any different from the Nazis. […] Once the world realized what the Nazis had unleashed, the American public recoiled from eugenics in horror. American eugenicists retreated from their positions, relabeling themselves geneticists, and their ideas died away. But, as Black explains in the final section of his book, devoted to ‘Newgenics,’ the modern miracle of DNA testing once again raises the specter of a new genetic caste system of inequalities. Are we on our way to another war against the weak?
Read more at American Thinker.
Book cover: War Against the Weak is the gripping chronicle documenting how American corporate philanthropies launched a national campaign of ethnic cleansing in the United States, helped found and fund the Nazi eugenics of Hitler and Mengele — and then created the modern movement of “human genetics.” Some 60,000 Americans were sterilized under laws in 27 states.
DISCOVER THE NETWORKS
Anderson Cooper
* Longtime television newsman with CNN
* Consistently promotes leftwing narratives in his broadcasts
* Smeared conservative Tea Party activists as people engaged in “tea-bagging”
* Repeatedly voiced his deep contempt for President Donald Trump
Anderson Hays Cooper was born on June 3, 1967 in New York City. He is the son of the late author/actor/screenwriter Wyatt Emory Cooper and the heiress/cultural icon Gloria Vanderbilt. Through his mother’s lineage, Cooper is a descendent of the famous industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Read more: https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/anderson-cooper/
Mark Zuckerberg
* Creator of the social media giant, Facebook
* Favors mass immigration to the U.S. and a path to citizenship for illegal aliens
* Strong supporter of Democratic political candidates and causes
* Supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement
* Colluded with the FBI to suppress stories about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal during the 2020 presidential election season
* Donated $419.5 million to nonprofit groups that helped change election laws to shift the 2020 presidential race in Joe Biden’s favor
* Banned President Donald Trump from Facebook on January 7, 2021
Read more: https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/mark-zuckerberg/
OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION
(Unconstitutional) Hoft: $2.3 Billion Tax-Funded Grant to Renovate JFK International Airport Awarded Exclusively to Minority and Women-Owned Enterprises
Governor Kathy Hochul announced that a $2.3 billion tax-funded grant in redevelopment contracts for JFK International Airport has been awarded exclusively to minority and women-owned business enterprises (MWBE). MWBE stands for Minority/Women-Owned Business Enterprise. It’s a certification issued by the state that gives developmental benefits to businesses that are primarily owned and operated by a woman or a person who is at least 25% African American, Asian, Hispanic, or Native American. If the business is publicly traded, the stock must also be at least 51% minority-owned. The move, which marks the largest participation of MWBE firms in any public-private partnership in New York’s history, has been praised by many for its focus on inclusivity.
Read more: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/2-3-billion-tax-funded-grant-renovate-jfk/
Jackson: Renaming ‘Public Housing’ Doesn’t Alter Its Sordid History
. . . in California, where Democratic Assemblyman Alex Lee of Milpitas has introduced a bill with the title, “The Social Housing Act.” He wouldn’t dare call it “The Public Housing Act.” Too much baggage associated with that terminology. So the concept was renamed. Lee’s Social Housing Act, Assembly Bill 2881, part of a seven-bill legislative package, would “establish the California Housing Authority to produce mixed-income housing that is affordable and financially self-sustaining.” It also creates a Department of Housing and Community Development. The goal, says Lee’s office, is to follow “international best practices of developing mixed-income, self-sustaining housing like Singapore and Vienna.
Read more: https://issuesinsights.com/2024/05/06/renaming-public-housing-doesnt-alter-its-sordid-history/