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July 18, 2021
Good morning
Gratitude is what I feel and would like to express to all my readers, donors, and supporters of my work. Together, we have surpassed the fundraising goal, with a bunch of you kicking in at the end of the campaign, to put us over the $8,000 mark! My sincere thank you to all. I am so inspired to continue fighting the fight by providing the RIGHT news to you all. Let's do everything we can to keep the republic that are so blessed to have. Because, as one Soviet
defector said, if America is destroyed, there's "nowhere else to go."
One more thing: Happy Birthday, Keith, my husband, best friend, father of my children, and just an awesome man all around!
Also, happy birthday to my amazing mentor, Ken deG.! And many happy returns to my former senior partner in the intel world (can't use his initials, as he is still fighting the fight on the front lines)! All these three honorable men have their birthdays on the same day. Go figure. :-)
With gratitude and love,
Rebekah
Now, here are a few think pieces to enjoy and to ponder:
Save America from Communism . . . In the 1980s I traveled to the Soviet Union as part of a junior high school soccer program. Decades have passed since the trip, but the memories remain. Shelves were barren. Citizens drank from communal water fountains. The items in most demand, American blue jeans and bubble gum, were contraband behind the Iron Curtain. For decades, news, literature, and art not broadcast or approved by
the state was scarce and available only via bootleg. This was a society where ideas and dialogue existed only underground, free thinkers were locked in labor camps, information protected the state instead of empowering individuals, and history was constantly purged and revised, rewritten anew each time it became politically necessary.
A totalitarian regime’s greatest ally is darkness and silence. Keeping a people blind is the surest way to guarantee they never demand that their God-given rights be respected. Free people become and stay free because of open dialogue, because of the exchange of information and ideas, even ones we disagree with.That is why it was painful to read recently that 62% of Americans are now hesitant to admit their beliefs or air their opinions for fear of offending others and the
associated consequences. But this is the logical reaction when Americans are regularly canceled for things said or written decades ago with no chance of grace or allowance for growth. It’s not just people who are being canceled. It’s words and music too. Classrooms and libraries are banning Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird rather than encouraging students to examine their authors’ intent. And whole parts of our history are being wiped away. By Sen. Todd
Young. American Mind
The Ruling Class Poses the Very Authoritarian Dangers It Claimed Trump Did . . . President Donald Trump’s greatest sin was threatening the power and privilege of the Ruling Class. For that, it will never stop seeking to bludgeon him, those seeking to carry his mantle, or their tens of millions of supporters—those icky, intransigent, irredeemables, judged as such because they refuse to submit. In so doing, it has shown that it
presents the very authoritarian threat it claimed he did. The Ruling Class raved that Trump was a tyrant, madman, and traitor in part because it believed it needed to delegitimize him to neutralize a threat to the racket it has had going at the expense of the American people for too long, but also in part because he really broke them.
The Woke, unhinged insubordinates, who evidently sat atop the ranks of every aspect of the federal bureaucracy, including in the armed forces, posed an infinitely greater threat to our values, principles, and institutions by flouting the consent of the governed. Stated differently, the Ruling Class, led by a determined cadre of vitriolic and vindictive zealots in the national security, intelligence, and law enforcement apparatuses who weaponized their powers against domestic political
foes and violated their fundamental rights, presented a far graver danger to America than the commander in chief they undermined. By Ben Weingarten. Epoch Times
Why liberals target Chick-fil-A . . . Chick-fil-A is back in the spotlight after Sen. Lindsey Graham vowed to “go to war” for the fast-food company. But how exactly did a chicken sandwich restaurant become such a lightning rod of political division? Chick-fil-A prides itself on its signature chicken sandwich, featuring freshly battered boneless breasts served with dill pickles and toasted buns. But its food is not what gets liberal
critics going. Rather, it is the past corporate donations and the political and religious views of its founder and current CEO. The first Chick-fil-A was opened by S. Truett Cathy decades ago in Georgia, and the chain saw rapid growth across the South. It has since spread across the country with more than 2,600 locations.Cathy was a deeply religious man and kept his stores closed on Sunday to adhere to biblical principles, which he believed translated well to good business
principles. “To glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us. To have a positive influence on all who come in contact with Chick-fil-A,” the company’s corporate purpose states on its website. Some of Mr. Cathy's public comments, which were consistent with his faith, sparked calls for Chick-fil-A boycotts and further enmity toward the fast-food company by some on the Left. Chick-fil-A pushed back on the claims and emphasized it was an apolitical
business. “We want to be clear that Chick-fil-A does not have a political or social agenda, and we welcome everyone in our restaurants.” Nevertheless, the Left continues to wage war on this food chain, which resulted in Chick-fil-A's closing down some of its stores. By Zachary Halaschak. Washington
Examiner
Weaponizing Mental Health . . . Leaders and teachers are encouraging us to feel offended over a long list of grievances. We humans are easily offended, so fanning grievances is an effective way for a leader to recruit followers. Your stock of resentments is your ticket into the “army of discontent,” as Karl Marx called it. Leaders have weaponized public emotions throughout human history, of course. Here’s a look at some historical
examples, to help clarify the way mental health is being weaponized today.
The Soviet Union was known for putting political dissidents in mental asylums. Most dissidents went to Siberian labor camps, of course, but high-profile critics were not easily dispensed with because they could morph into heroes. Soviet leaders looked for a way to tarnish dissidents, so they put them into psychiatric wards. You must be crazy if you don’t love the socialist utopia, right?
Today, you get painted as a tin-hat lunatic if you don’t love the new wokitopia. Today, when your feelings get hurt, you can report it to authorities. And you can count on them to honor your accusation. If your neighbor has two cows and you only have one, their witchcraft is probably the source of your problem, right?A new way to weaponize mental health was introduced by Karl Marx. He insisted that your unhappiness is caused by “the system,” so you will be happy if you tear down
“the system.” Such tearing-down usually hurts people in the long run, but in the short run, it tends to help the person who incites it. In the past, you had limited time for revolution because you had to pay the rent and feed any children you brought into the world. Today’s leaders want to pay your rent and feed you kids for you, so you have more time to spend tearing down the system. Epoch Times
Nina Simone on Time . . . A meditation on the one dimension of human existence that “goes past all racial conflict and all kinds of conflicts.” “If our heart were large enough to love life in all its detail, we would see that every instant is at once a giver and a plunderer,” wrote the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard as he contemplated our paradoxical experience of time in the early 1930s just as Einstein, Gödel, and the rise of
relativity had begun revolutionizing our understanding of time. “Time is the substance I am made of,” Borges proclaimed a generation later in his exquisite 1944 refutation of time. “Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”
If Borges’s words sound like a song lyric, it is because there is something singularly musical about our perception of time — we speak of our daily rhythms, abide by the metronomic ticking of the clock, and feel the flow of time like one feels the flow of a melody. It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that the elusive and indomitable nature of time preoccupied not only the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers, scientists, and writers, but also one of its greatest musicians: Eunice
Kathleen Waymon, better known as Nina Simone (February 21, 1933–April 21, 2003). By Maria Popova. Brainpickings
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