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October 3rd, 2021
Good morning
Thank you, everyone, for your kind emails, prayers, and good wishes for my son before he went in for his medical procedure. Everything went very well. Blessings back to you. Rebekah
Next meeting of the
Independent Thinkers' Book Club will be on October 22 @ 10:30 - 11:15 am Eastern. Please read the Preface and Chapters 1-2 of
We Want Equality:
How the fight for equality gave way to preference by
Charles Love. I will send a Zoom link a day prior. The in-person meeting will take place at the same location in Northern VA. Please bring a friend or a couple. Send me an email if you are new and would like to participate.
If you've read my new book
Putin's Playbook, please post a rating and brief review on Amazon. It does help me with book sales. If you don't have a copy yet, please consider supporting my work by spreading the word and purchasing
Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America. It would help me secure a contract for my second book, "
Soviet Playbook: How Socialism in America is giving me flashbacks to the Russia I fled." (working title still.)
Here are a few pieces to ponder:
National School Boards Association declares conservative parents to be domestic terrorists . . . By Everett Piper
ANALYSIS/OPINION. On September 29, 2021, the National School Boards Association (NSBA), which claims to represent “90,000 school board members who govern our country’s 14,000 local public-school districts educating more than 50 million schoolchildren” across America, sent Joe Biden a letter. Their purpose was to warn our addled President that our nation’s schools are under the imminent threat of “domestic terrorism.”
While the Amerika intelligentsia persists in butchering your children’s souls in their grisly game of social engineering, they have the temerity to deny they’re doing it and then to turn around and call you a “domestic terrorist” if you object.
Washington Times
Gender Ideology Run Amok . . .
By Abigail Shrier, Author, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. In 2007, America had one pediatric gender clinic; today there are hundreds. Testosterone is readily available to adolescents from places like Planned Parenthood and Kaiser, often on a first visit—without even a therapist’s note. How did we get to this point? How is it that we are all supposed to
pretend that the only way you can know I’m a woman is if I tell you my pronouns? How did we get to an America in which a 13-year-old in the State of Washington can begin “gender affirming” therapy without her parents’ consent? How did we get to an America in which a 15-year-old in Oregon can undergo “top surgery”—elective double mastectomy—without her parents’ permission? And what can we do about it?
Imprimis
John Durham Dissects a Smear Campaign . . . George Parry
This is the third in a series of articles analyzing the 27-page federal grand jury indictment charging lawyer Michael Sussmann with making a false statement to the FBI. The second article analyzed the indictment’s detailed factual averments that spelled out how Sussmann and others conspired to concoct a false but “plausible” narrative purportedly demonstrating the existence of a secret channel of internet communications between the Trump Organization, owned by Donald Trump, and the Russian
Alfa Bank.
The article ended at the point where Sussmann was about to meet with James Baker, the general counsel of the FBI.
At the meeting, Sussmann allegedly delivered to Baker deceptive “white papers,” documents and computer data that were calculated to trigger an FBI investigation of the purported Trump-Alfa Bank connection. According to the indictment, once the FBI began its investigation,
Sussmann, the top echelon of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign (“Clinton Campaign”) and others publicized the fact that the FBI was investigating possible ties between Trump and Russia. |
The American Spectator
Russell Brand Pilloried by Left, Praised by Conservatives for Claiming ‘Trump was Right’ About Clinton-Russia Conspiracy . . . Russell Brand has put in his two cents on Russiagate. The left-leaning comedian posted a YouTube video last week titled
“So…Trump was RIGHT About Clinton & Russia Collusion,” in
which he cited Glenn Greenwald’s reporting on the indictment of former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann. Brand shared passages that claimed that there is “serious evidence” that Clinton worked with Russia to create this “conspiracy” in order to hurt Donald Trump’s campaign. Brand recalled how prevalent the Russia collusion story was in the media, noting that it was mentioned on “Every late-night talk show, all over the news, it was just — you were bombarded with it.”
Meadiaite
Hunter Biden’s Emails Were Suppressed for a Reason . . . “
Vindication Over Hunter’s Emails” (Review & Outlook, Sept. 25) rightly criticizes the press and prominent former officials for labeling Hunter Biden’s emails as Russian
disinformation. But the victim—President Trump—is again disregarded. The Hunter story was neutralized to prevent Mr. Trump from winning re-election. Fair reporting of the graft and low behavior on full display in Hunter’s laptop could have kept Mr. Trump in office.
Wall Street
Journal
Inequality -- the Engine of Prosperity . . . Throughout the history of civilization, people have been dreaming of a perfect world -- full employment, full satisfaction of material and intellectual needs, and equal distribution of wealth -- only to discover, to their disappointment, that this utopian system does not exist on this side of the grave. Nevertheless, the illusory ideas of economic equality transcend time and appeal to people of all
colors and races. If the supporters of economic equality, including Marxist graduates of American universities, absorb human history, they may realize that the only historical datum that points to economic equality goes back to the era of primitive communism.
Ten thousand years ago, before farming, people were forced to obtain food collectively. Everything that was produced was immediately consumed. This primitive society produced no surplus and created no wealth. Under such arrangement, the private property was limited to personal articles of clothing, hunting tools, etc. resulting in total economic equality -- in absolute poverty. Ironically, this is the only way economic equality can be achieved --
economic equality and wealth are mutually
exclusive.
American Thinker