Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

To accuse Kamala Harris’ campaign of reflexively repeating the mistakes of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign — as Jacobin’s Branko Marcetic did recently — may sound like drive-by leftist snark, carrying an unfortunate (and presumably unintended) undertone of sexism. But it also reflects a deeper and broader anxiety felt across the liberal-progressive spectrum: Polls are dead even, 10 days before what has been billed (fairly or not) as a world-historical presidential election. After the sugar-high of the Biden-to-Harris switch and the exhilaration of the Democratic convention, this is a difficult future to face.

Among the media and political classes, the operating assumption at the moment is that Donald Trump — by any normative standard, a disastrously undisciplined and erratic candidate — is likely to win that election, even without resorting to skulduggery or mob violence. That “gut feeling” has zero predictive value, to be clear, and may be nothing more than lingering PTSD from 2016.

But liberal stress and bewilderment presumably isn’t improved by seeing Democrats doing exactly what they always do in the latter stages of a national campaign: skewing sharply rightward to emphasize a commitment to national security and corporate profits, in the supposed pursuit of “persuadable” independents and wavering Republicans. (Or perhaps just in pursuit of the donor class, which is not technically the same thing.)

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We have seen Harris out herself as a gun owner in a sit-down with Oprah, embracing Wall Street-friendly economic policies and campaign with former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, who supported literally every aspect of the Trump agenda before his overt attempt to subvert the 2020 election. All of this, of course, reflects conventional wisdom as imparted by highly-paid consultants, and it’s not inherently illogical: Chiseling away even a handful of conservative voters who don’t much like Trump, but are reluctant to vote for someone they’ve been told is a radical socialist Black lady who wants to turn everyone trans, could make a crucial difference in several of the most important states. 

If the Harris campaign’s last-ditch Liz Cheney triangulation doesn’t work, and the underlying political and ideological assumptions of the Beltway’s elite caste are once again revealed as fatally flawed, the consequences will be ugly.

The leftist response is also logical, on its own terms: Democrats have tried this before, hamster-wheel style, without conclusively defeating the increasingly fash-flavored right. So maybe it’s time to stop doing the same thing that doesn’t work over and over again — admittedly a radical notion — and try something else instead, such as leaning into broadly popular social-democratic policies on health care, taxation, student debt and green-energy transition, and hoping to win elections by driving high turnout among younger voters, people of color, LGBTQ voters and so on. (Let’s not get into canceling the blank check issued to Benjamin Netanyahu — but sure, maybe that too.)

I’m personally sympathetic to that road-not-taken argument, but to recycle another of the Democratic Party’s quadrennial hamster-wheel themes, none of that matters in the face of an existential emergency. In any case, nothing about the party’s exhausting, alarmist messaging or its murky self-image is going to change dramatically in the last week before a do-or-die national election. 

If the Harris campaign’s last-ditch Liz Cheney triangulation doesn’t work, and the underlying political and ideological assumptions of the Beltway’s elite caste are once again revealed as fatally flawed, the consequences will be ugly.

There are signs that the Harris campaign intends to go hard on abortion rights in the final days — a potentially decisive wedge issue — alongside the Cheney pivot and the strategic decision to directly label Trump with the F-word. But minor tactical adjustments in late October are hardly the point. The Democratic Party is what it is, a fundamentally unstable coalition of affluent metropolitan white folks and working-class people of color, whose interests are beginning to pull them in different directions. 

Right now the paramount question — for many people, understandably enough, it’s the only question — is whether the Democrats’ campaign strategy will work this time around, or at least work a little better than it did eight years ago. Lest we forget, Hillary Clinton got 2.8 million more votes than Donald Trump did in 2016, but the distribution of those votes turned out to be an insurmountable problem: If we subtract California, Illinois, Massachusetts and New York from the overall total, Trump won the rest of the country by 5 million votes.

Most of us in this business have been cured of making confident predictions based on “how things work,” because these days nothing works the way it used to, or works at all. Time runs in flat circles, scientific research has been subjugated to “doing your own research” and a presidential candidate can tell the nation, on live TV, that immigrants are eating their pets without suffering significant political damage. Neither you nor I nor anyone else has the slightest idea whether the Harris campaign’s scramble for the patriotic middle ground will reel in the potentially decisive electoral votes of Michigan or Arizona or North Carolina. (It’s safe to say that whichever candidate can win two of those three states is overwhelmingly likely to be the next president.)

But here’s one thing I do know: Don’t count on the confident pronouncements of supposedly hardheaded insiders whose Realpolitik bibles have been through the washing machine too many times. I read James Carville’s New York Times op-ed predicting a Harris victory this past week and felt a dim but distinct longing, somewhere inside, for a vanished world of reassuring wisdom. Then I felt a much deeper longing — a longing to spend the next two weeks drinking whiskey and watching old movies, because that guy hasn’t backed a winning Democrat in this century. If that wasn’t the kiss of death, it was an awfully good simulation.

And one more thing I know for sure is that if the Harris campaign’s last-ditch Liz Cheney triangulation doesn’t work, and the underlying political and ideological assumptions of the Beltway’s elite caste are once again revealed as fatally flawed, the consequences will be ugly — for the Democratic Party, for the future of our so-called democracy and for the trajectory of the entire world in this century.

Not just because Donald Trump will win the election and become president, although that’s bad enough. But because of how that happened and under what circumstances — and because the only American political party that pretends to stand for constitutional democracy, rational government and broader equality will once again blame its own voters, or the Russians, or the ignorance and bigotry of people it views with contempt, for the catastrophic consequences of its own incoherence and uncertainty, and for the fact that it could not prevent the entire system it claims to cherish from collapsing into clownish anarchy.

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Last winter, I checked in with a friend in Democratic politics. “Life is weird sometimes,” she wrote back, and told me she was staying at Alexander Soros’ Hamptons house. I made a joke about coming to visit her—growing up in a midwestern working-class family, I’d always enjoyed getting a glimpse into the lives of the rich and powerful. “Sorry, it’s for people of color leaders only,” she wrote back. “It would be odd if you were there.”

As a former Democratic fundraiser, you’d think I would be numb to this kind of discrimination, but the truth continues to pain me: The Democratic Party, once the champions of civil rights in response to real injustices, is now the primary driver of racial division in America today. Lee Atwater’s Southern strategy pales in comparison to the modern DNC‘s approach. No organization is more systematically racist.

How did we get here?

The Democrats‘ long-term strategy is to stoke racial resentment to build their coalition and energize non-white voters. The rhetoric is designed to convince minorities that America is irredeemably, structurally racist, and only Democrats will look out for them. Social justice ideology, DEI, and wokeness are used in businesses, institutions, and schools to enforce Democratic rule and used internally to enforce party discipline. Note how Democrats united an entire coalition around Kamala Harris. No one wanted to look racist for suggesting there might be a better option.

During the summer of 2020, I was a fundraiser for progressives and saw crazy things. Campaigns started replacing consultants and campaign staff with BIPOC staffers to appear more inclusive. A prominent Democratic group announced funding was reserved solely for organizations led by non-whites. Another campaign pitched a donor-backed plan to source poor white people from Craigslist, pay them to be interviewed, then bait them into racially insensitive remarks. The candidate could then expose their racism as a “white whisperer” who could change their minds. The idea was insane and shut down by consultants who knew better, but still came disturbingly close to happening.

At first, I went along with the Democratic crusade for racial division. I was scolded for using yellow emojis in Slack, which are complicit in white supremacy, so I switched them to white. When speaking to BIPOC consultants, I made sure to mention how white women are the worst, so they knew I wasn’t racist. While reviewing resumes for potential hires, I tracked their race to ensure all people of color received interviews, and ignored most resumes from white men.

The author at the DNC in Chicago.

But deep down, this all started feeling wrong to me.

It started to feel blatantly racist. Yet I was terrified to speak up.

My personal breaking point came when a BIPOC colleague accused me of being an entitled white woman who needed “DEI training” after I disagreed with her over fundraising strategy. This was bizarre to me, being born with a genetic disease that put massive financial stress on my family. My parents never finished college and were married 11 times between them. I attended a dozen different schools growing up, including an inner-city school where I was in the small minority as a white person. We lived in apartments, houses, and sometimes a mobile home park. I paid for college with Pell Grants and loans that are still outstanding. Contrary to DEI ideology, not all white Americans have privilege.

This person knew nothing about my background and tarnished my reputation based on snap judgements about my skin color. I tried to argue with other operatives that it hurts the progressive movement when people weaponize their identities and de-legitimizes instances of actual bigotry. They would agree privately but refuse to publicly support me.

Michelle Obama thesis was on racial divide – POLITICO

The author with Michelle Obama

Finally, my boss caved and demanded I take DEI training, eventually I was demoted from the campaign by consultants. People in Democratic politics would be terrified to publicly admit this bullying happens regularly, but they all know it’s true.

Unfortunately, many in the Democratic Party see nothing wrong with it. Oppression works as a currency that can reap lucrative rewards, like giving a candidate an edge in a crowded primary race, assisting someone rise to become the leader of a powerful organization, or helping a consultant land a campaign media contract. Ultra-wealthy elite donors like the Soros family perpetuate this ideology because it presents zero challenges to their wealth. Americans uniting along multi-racial class lines scares them more than anything.

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Democrats are suppressing their compulsion for division today as Harris downplays her identity, running on color-blind messaging similar to Obama’s. But people don’t forget. They are now losing the working class in droves, including union rank and file. Kamala couldn’t even earn a Teamsters endorsement.

Clearly, racial division is no longer working as an electoral strategy. Fighting racism with more racism is deeply unpopular.

The author with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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If Harris loses, prepare for a full-blown meltdown of epic proportions. They will seethe at the racist deplorables who again elected Trump, and they will refuse to acknowledge racial changes in support because it contradicts their ideology. They will blame misogyny for the Black and Latino men who switched sides. You will hear terms like “white adjacent” and “internalized oppression” trotted out to explain why people of color voted for Trump.

Democrats have done so much damage. They infantilize Black and brown people, treating them as victims with no agency. Instructing whites to never correct a minority is textbook racism, implying they can’t handle criticism.

Unfortunately, individuals steeped in DEI will not change their minds lightly, and those who use it for social power will never change. The only way Democrats will learn is by losing elections repeatedly while hemorrhaging minority votes. Racial dealignment between parties could turn the page and open a more hopeful chapter in American politics.

Evan Barker is a former Democratic campaign operative, campaign finance reform advocate, and podcaster. You can follow her on X @evanwch.

The views expressed in this article are the writer’s own.

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• Children In Crisis: The Story of Chip (#)During one of the nation’s worst economic collapses, citizens in Pittsburgh banded together and created America’s first health insurance program for the children of working poor families. It was appropriately named, “The Caring Program.” On August 5, 1997, a bill sponsored by Senators Orrin Hatch and Edward Kennedy, and largely modeled after The Caring Program, was signed into law by President Bill Clinton.
• It was exactly 13 years, 2 months and 23 days after a group of desperate protesters entered a church on the opposite side of town and asked for the chance to speak. They were heard and helped, and ultimately children’s healthcare was revolutionized. The journey of a grassroots community effort to a federal program is testament to the power of listening, caring and working together to achieve a transformative result. 
• The compelling SCETV documentary CHILDREN IN CRISIS: The Story of CHIP explores the journey behind the inception of one of the most vital children’s health programs ever enacted—the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

In the early 1980s, the collapse of the steel industry had devastating consequences for Western Pennsylvania, resulting in the loss of 150,000 jobs and one of the nation’s highest unemployment rates. Displaced steelworkers joined forces with church leaders in the hardest-hit areas of Pittsburgh. Their collective efforts led to protests at churches attended by bank and steel executives, including a nationally publicized event in 1984 when actor David Soul and others were arrested during a demonstration at Shadyside Presbyterian Church.

As tensions escalated, 40 demonstrators later gathered outside Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church, symbolically offering dead fish to parishioners as a protest. This act culminated in a pivotal moment when the group marched into the church, faced the congregation and pleaded for help. Among those in the pews was 16-year-old Scott Galloway, the future director of this documentary, whose father, the church’s senior pastor, played a central role in this turning point. The protesters conveyed the urgent need for assistance for their struggling families, and their actions sparked a dialogue within the community.

During the 1980s, health insurance options for children were severely limited. COBRA insurance did not exist, and Medicaid only applied to families at half the poverty level. This resulted in countless children being left without medical care, which had cascading effects on their health and well-being, including hearing loss and decreased school attendance.

Out of these challenges emerged the grassroots Caring Program, initially created to provide healthcare to 100 children of working poor families. The initiative gained momentum as Fred Rogers, better known as Mister Rogers of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, joined as a spokesperson.

What began as a modest effort soon expanded, with churches, schools, businesses and professional sports teams, such as the Pittsburgh Pirates and Steelers, rallying behind the cause. The Caring Program grew to encompass tens of thousands of children, spreading beyond Pennsylvania’s borders to 25 other states.

Pennsylvania State Senator Allen Kukovich played a pivotal role in expanding the program statewide. After years of advocacy, he successfully secured funding by introducing a two-cent tax on a pack of cigarettes, resulting in the establishment of Pennsylvania Blue CHIP. In 1997, CHIP became a federal program, providing essential healthcare coverage to nearly 200 million children to date.

CHILDREN IN CRISIS: The Story of CHIP was produced by Susie Films and is a national presentation by SCETV with distribution through PBS. Production funding was provided by the ETV Endowment of South Carolina, Highmark Health, The Pittsburgh Foundation, United Steelworkers and the Jewish Healthcare Foundation.

Distributed by PBS to public television stations across the US, CHILDREN IN CRISIS: The Story of CHIP will also be available for streaming on the PBS app, PBS Amazon Prime and on PBS.org. For more information about CHILDREN IN CRISIS: The Story of CHIP, please visit scetv.org.

70 Years of Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church

The CHIP insurance plan in today’s news had its start in 1984 at Fox Chapel. When unemployed steelworkers appeared on Mother’s Day to protest their fate where corporate employers worshipped, they brought dead fish to greet parishioners before they entered the sanctuary. At other churches, they had been kept out, Fox Chapel’s pastor, John Galloway, welcomed them and asked them to tell us what they needed.  Tearfully, they explained they were unable to provide medical care for their children. Galloway graciously invited them to stay and worship and to meet him afterwards to see what could be worked out.

A committee was formed, including Fred Rogers of TV fame as honorary chairman. Charlie LaVallee, who was named director of The Caring Program for Children, worked out a plan with Blue Cross/Blue Shield whereby church members initially contributed $13/month coverage for each of 100 children. With BC/BS matching funds, 200 children were insured in 1985. 

It soon expanded with additional contributors: churches, Pittsburgh Presbytery, local sports teams, Rotary, Kiwanis and Colgate Toothpaste. Then the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, the United Jewish Foundation, Digital Equipment, Chanel 4 TV, Oscar Mayer Co. and Avis contributed while the state added a 2-cent tax to cigarettes, which brought in $10.5 million annually.  Finally in 1997 Congress took it over establishing CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which now insures 9 million children each year. All because Fox Chapel was welcoming, listened and used its connections to take a positive early step in the national health care conversation.

– Wilberta Pickett, elder

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“The documentary CHILDREN IN CRISIS: The Story of CHIP shines a light on a pivotal moment in our nation’s history when ordinary citizens came together to address an extraordinary challenge. It reminds us that real change is possible when individuals and communities unite with determination and compassion. We are proud to bring this important story to our viewers, showcasing the transformative impact of the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the enduring power of the human spirit.” –SCETV President and CEO Adrienne Fairwell

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“Creating CHILDREN IN CRISIS: The Story of CHIP has been a deeply moving experience. This documentary pays tribute to the unwavering commitment of countless individuals who fought for the health and well-being of our nation’s children. It is a testament to the resilience of communities facing adversity. Through this film, we hope to inspire and remind everyone that positive change is within our reach when we come together for a common purpose.” –CHILDREN IN CRISIS: The Story of CHIP Executive Producer Don Godish

“I sat in a church pew nearly 40 years ago on that seminal Sunday when my father welcomed protestors into a church service and we all learned the importance of listening. In the aftermath, I witnessed a community effort become a federal program as a cross-section of people overcame differences, created change and demonstrated the best of democracy’s promises. I am honored and grateful to have had the opportunity to tell this important and timely story.” –CHILDREN IN CRISIS: The Story of CHIP Director Scott Galloway

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FAST FACTS 

• CHILDREN IN CRISIS: The Story of CHIP explores the journey behind the inception of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
• The documentary premieres Jan. 18 at 8 p.m. on ETV-HD, and re-airs Jan. 20 at 10 p.m. on ETV World and Jan. 22 at 8 p.m. on South Carolina Channel.
• In the early 1980s, the collapse of the steel industry had devastating consequences for Western Pennsylvania, resulting in the loss of 150,000 jobs and one of the nation’s highest unemployment rates.
• CHILDREN IN CRISIS: The Story of CHIP was produced by Susie Films and is a national presentation by SCETV with distribution through PBS.
• Production funding for CHILDREN IN CRISIS: The Story of CHIP was provided by the ETV Endowment of South Carolina, The Pittsburgh Foundation, United Steelworkers, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and Highmark Health.
• For more information about CHILDREN IN CRISIS: The Story of CHIP, please visit scetv.org.

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James Rickards – 2024 Brings Financial Crisis, Election Chaos & The End For The Dollar – London Real | CIA Insider predicts Trump wins president – Search

Jim Rickards

“The 2024 election is poised to be one of the most tumultuous events in American history,” Rickards states. “We are facing the potential for a 50% market crash, the collapse of the US dollar, and widespread civil unrest. The time to prepare is now.”

Key points of Ex CIA Rickards’ urgent warning:

1. Election-Triggered Market Crash: Rickards foresees a massive stock market downturn, with potential losses exceeding 50%, and a significant devaluation of the US dollar.
2. Civil Unrest and Possible Martial Law: His forecast includes a high probability of violent riots and social disorder, possibly leading to the imposition of martial law and temporary suspension of civil rights.
3. Immediate Action Required: Rickards outlines five essential steps Americans should take immediately to protect their wealth and personal safety.
4. Proven Track Record: With a history of accurate predictions, Rickards’ insights and strategies are based on extensive experience and expertise.

The 2024 Presidential Election could be the ‘Tipping Point’

Rickards outlines several reasons as to why the stock market could fall at any moment following the election.

• Election Chaos and Legal Challenges: Rickards suggests that the 2024 Presidential Election could be similar to the 2000 election but on a much larger scale. This could lead to a prolonged period of uncertainty, causing investors to panic and sell off their stocks.
• Refusal to Transfer Power and Civil Unrest: If Trump wins the election, but is prevented from taking office by the current establishment, Rickards predicts widespread civil unrest to break out. Violent protests, clashes with law enforcement, and potential declarations of martial law could create tremendous fear and uncertainty, driving a massive sell-off in the stock market.
• Collapse of the US Dollar: Rickards foresees a scenario where the political instability resulting from election chaos and civil unrest leads to a loss of confidence in the US dollar. As investors seek safer assets, there could be a rapid devaluation of the dollar, causing a fight from dollar-denominated assets, including stocks.
• Increasing Inflation: We still have an inflation problem. The combination of government spending, policies, and political instability could lead to hyperinflation. Rickards warns that inflation could become “1000 times worse” than current levels, eroding the value of investments and causing a stock market crash as investors try to preserve their wealth.
• Policy and Governance Issues: Rickards notes that we can not continue to sustain the current administration’s policies on immigration and spending. If things remain, we could be headed towards economic instability. For instance, massive government spending could lead to a fiscal crisis, where the government is unable to service its debt, causing a loss of confidence in the financial system.
• Historical Comparison: Rickards being one who successfully predicted the 2008 financial crisis, implies that similar systemic risks are present today. He suggests that underlying economic weaknesses, combined with political instability, could lead to a sudden market downturn similar to the collapse experienced in 2008.

As the 2024 Presidential Election approaches, former Vice President Kamala Harris is gaining momentum in the polls. This development has prompted former CIA advisor and economist Jim Rickards to share his perspective on what a Harris presidency could signify for the nation.

Harris Presidency: Things Will Get Worse?

Rickards has highlighted several key indicators that suggest the U.S. economy could face significant challenges if Kamala Harris wins the presidency. Among these are:

• Market Volatility: The financial markets are currently experiencing heightened volatility, reflecting investor uncertainty about the future. A Harris presidency could amplify these concerns, especially if her policies are perceived as unpredictable or overly progressive, leading to further market instability.
• Rising National Debt: The U.S. national debt is already at unprecedented levels, and Harris’ potential policy initiatives, which may include expanded social programs and infrastructure spending, could exacerbate this burden. Without careful fiscal management, the increased debt could strain the economy and limit her administration’s ability to respond to economic downturns.
• Inflation Pressures: Inflation has been a growing concern, and Harris may face difficulties in curbing rising prices. Her administration’s potential focus on wage growth and social equity could inadvertently fuel inflation, making it harder to maintain price stability without stifling economic growth.
• Deepening Political Division: The country is more politically divided than ever, and Harris’ presidency might deepen these divisions, particularly if her policies are seen as favoring certain groups over others. This could lead to gridlock in Congress, making it challenging to pass legislation necessary to stabilize the economy and address pressing issues.

All of these indicators point towards the Harris administration facing a complex and turbulent economic landscape.

Staying Prepared for Uncertain Times

Given the potential economic and political challenges that could arise from a Harris presidency, Jim Rickards urges Americans to take proactive steps to safeguard their financial stability and personal security. Rickards stresses the importance of being well-prepared for any possible scenario.

“Preparation isn’t about fear—it’s about prudence,” Rickards emphasizes. “In times of potential change and uncertainty, those who are prepared are better positioned to weather the storm.”

Rickards has detailed these and other strategies in his latest brief, which is designed to help Americans navigate the potential challenges ahead. By taking these steps now, individuals can better position themselves for a potential Harris victory.

For more insights and updates from Jim Rickards, including his five steps to prepare for potential economic challenges, please visit Paradigm Press Group.

About Jim Rickards

Jim Rickards is not just a financial expert; he is a seasoned insider with a deep understanding of global economic and political dynamics. With decades of experience advising the CIA, Pentagon, and other high-level government agencies, Rickards has consistently demonstrated an uncanny ability to foresee major global events before they unfold.

His predictions of the 2008 financial crisis and the 2016 election of Donald Trump were met with skepticism at the time, but both proved to be remarkably accurate. His insights, drawn from his understanding of complex financial systems and global economic trends, have helped many avoid significant losses during multiple turbulent periods.

Now, as the 2024 election looms, Rickards’ insights offer a sobering perspective on what might lie ahead, drawing from the same analytical conclusion that has made him a trusted voice in uncertain times.

“The potential election of Kamala Harris could be the spark that ignites a national crisis,” Rickards stated.

Communism explained in 60 seconds: ideas that changed the world.

How a radical new ideology revolutionised both politics and wider society

 The Cloward–Piven strategy = is a political theory developed in the 1960s by sociologists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. It aims to create chaos in the welfare system to overwhelm it, forcing the government to take action to fundamentally transform society into stages to socialism – Search1 2 3.

Socialism can be divided into three stages 1 2:

• The honeymoon period: During this stage, the experiment has some initial success in some areas and its international standing is relatively high.
• The excuses-and-whataboutery period: The honeymoon period never lasts forever.
• The not-real-socialism stage: This is the final stage of socialism.

Communism is ‘one of the most influential economic theories of all times’

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Communism is a political and economic ideology that stands in contrast to capitalism’s “emphasis on profit and private ownership”, said National Geographic.

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In a perfect communist society, the benefits of labour are shared equally, all property and wealth are communally owned, and the class system disappears. “The state owns the major resources…including property, means of production, education, agriculture and transportation”, for the benefit of the people as a whole rather than the profit of private owners, said the University of North Carolina’s Center for European Studies. 

 Communism is “one of the most influential economic theories of all times”, the university’s website said.  

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How did it develop?  

Communism first took shape as a political ideology in 1848, when German academics Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published “The Communist Manifesto”.

The pamphlet theorised that the working class – the proletariat – would soon rise up all over the world and reject their capitalist overlords – the bourgeoisie – ultimately moving towards a communist society.

The manifesto ends with the famous aphorism: “The proletariat have nothing to lose but their chains. 

They have a world to win…Working men of all countries, unite!”

Communism is often confused or conflated with socialism. Although the two ideologies share the goal of a classless society, socialists are generally open to working within the system and “bringing the free market under control [rather than] eliminating it completely”, explained Encyclopaedia Britannica. Marxist philosophy views socialism as a transitional step on the path to pure communism.

In his three-volume tome “Capital”, Marx offered an in-depth economic and social critique of capitalism, rather than a blueprint for revolution. The practicalities of establishing and running a communist state would fall to the likes of Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong, all of whom lend their names to different schools of communist thought.

In 1917, Russia became the first country to put the communist experiment into practice, when Lenin’s Marxist Bolshevik movement overthrew the Tsarist regime and established the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR. It would become “one of the biggest and most powerful nations in the world, occupying nearly one-sixth of Earth’s land surface”, said History.com.

Initial idealism quickly turned into something darker, as Lenin unleashed the Red Terror, a campaign of mass repression designed to eliminate political opponents and crush dissent.

When Joseph Stalin came to power following Lenin’s death in 1924, he showed a similar ruthlessness in cementing his total control. Between 1936 and 1938, as many as 1.2 million Russians were executed in what became known as the Great Purge.

The development of a vast police state created a climate of oppression, paranoia and fear, with those suspected of opposing the regime at risk of execution or exile to slave labour camps known as gulags.

Why did it fail? 

No other Russian leader ever approached comparable levels of brutality after Stalin’s death in 1953, but state surveillance, censorship and repression continued throughout the USSR.

By the 1980s, Soviet Russia’s economy was in tatters:

With “many people were considerably poorer than the poorest people in the capitalist West”, explained History Hit. “The population were tired of the widespread corruption and dissatisfied with the police state and censorship.”

When Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the USSR in 1985, he sought to reverse the economic decline and gave new freedoms to the people and the press. “The state lost media control and democratic reform movements grew throughout the Soviet bloc,” History Hit added.

In 1987, US President Ronald Reagan gave his famous speech in Berlin calling on Gorbachev to “tear down this wall”. Two years later the Berlin Wall fell, and one by one, Eastern European countries began rejecting communist rule.

“A wave of optimism swept across Europe,” said the Pew Research Center. “By 1990, the former communist leaders were out of power, free elections were held, and Germany was whole again,” the US Office of the Historian added.

How did it change the world?    

“What started in 1917 Russia became a global revolution, taking root in countries as far flung as China and Korea to Kenya and Sudan to Cuba and Nicaragua,” said History.com.

All were plagued by similar issues to those seen in Soviet Russia. In China, Chairman Mao Zedong’s attempt to force the agrarian Chinese economy into a “Great Leap Forward” resulted in tens of millions of deaths from starvation.

At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union turned its focus to expanding its influence over the rest of the world – setting the stage for the Cold War, an ideological battle between the capitalist US and the communist Soviet Union.

Although the much-feared nuclear Armageddon never occurred, the two powers squared up indirectly by backing opposing sides in conflicts around the world.

Rep. Elise Stefanik blasts: ‘You’re hearing a failing strategy from Kamala Harris’ | Watch The legacy of these so-called proxy wars – which include the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Algerian War of Independence – continues to shape geopolitics today. The Arab Iranian Israeli and Russia – Ukraine China < conflict… 20th-century international relations – New World Order, 1991-95 | Britannica

“A New World Order”

We heard first from President G.H. W. BUSH NEW WORLD ORDER – Videos in his 1991 State of the Union Address — 12 days after leading coalition forces int0 war against Iraq. 

Bush Sr. was followed by his successor — Bill Clinton’ with a 1995 speech on race relations.  An “opportunity” presented itself, he said, “and we dare not let it pass us by.” Was George W Bush wreck less about 9/11 – Search

To Obama: “Fundamentally Transforming the United States of America” and  Biden allowing 11 million illegal immigrants to walk across the border Now praying Kamala Harris never sees her first priority as President of the United States of America.

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Polarized, black-and-white thinking is a big problem. It distorts our understanding of realities involving shades of gray, which most human realities are. Binary thinking produces misleading maps of a complicated, nuanced world. When we face difficult situations, all-or-none thinking blinds us to the possibility of a middle ground, leaving us with only simple, extreme options that rarely work. 

This type of cognition results in maladaptive emotions and behaviors, an array of mental health diagnoses too numerous to mention, and in its milder and more common forms, all sorts of problems in living and relationships. Everyone engages in black and white thinking sometimes, because it is quicker and easier than careful consideration of a spectrum of possibilities. 

Problems arise when we rely on it too much, especially in dealing with emotionally important situations, issues and relationships. Persistent problems in a particular life area suggest that some kind of dichotomous thinking is going on below the surface, driving the ineffective functioning. This is especially true when extreme emotions and/or behaviors occur, because these are the hallmarks of polarized cognition.

The Value of Balance

When styles of psychological functioning are conceptualized on a continuum, effective styles are usually located in the mid-range—the Goldilocks Zone. For example, in responding to conflicts, passive behavior is usually ineffective, and so is its opposite, aggression, while the option in the middle, assertive behavior, is most likely to be effective. Lots of things work this way, as described by great psychologists from Aristotle to Marsha Linehan (2014) and summarized in the first post of this blog and my book, Finding Goldilocks (2020).

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For nearly a week, rumors of a major negative story against former President Donald Trump have been percolating online, egged on by anonymous sources at CNN and other mainstream media outlets claiming they were approached with the story. In the end, the final attempt to derail Trump’s bid for a second term may have fallen flat, after the alleged victim’s timeline was debunked.

Details of the story began to emerge late Wednesday when Stacey Williams, a former fashion model, came forward alleging Trump groped her breast 31 years ago during a private party allegedly involving notorious sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Guardian, which spoke with Williams, wrote the alleged encounter was part of a “twisted game” that Trump and Epstein were taking part in. Williams, 56, claimed the late Epstein introduced her to Trump during a 1992 Christmas party. “It became very clear then that he and Donald were really, really good friends and spent a lot of time together,” Williams said in her far-fetched recounting.

The alleged groping is said to have occurred several months later in Trump Tower after Epstein suggested she join him there for a visit. “Late winter/early spring of ’93, I was on a walk with Jeffrey from his brownstone on the Upper East Side down Fifth Avenue when Jeffrey looked at me and said: ‘You know, let’s go stop by and see Trump.’” Williams said, a key quote that has raised serious questions about her timeline. 

Moments after arriving, she claimed, Trump greeted her before pulling her close and putting his hands “all over my breasts” and backside. In a statement, Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt forcefully denied the story. “These accusations, made by a former activist for Barack Obama and announced on a Harris campaign call two weeks before the election, are unequivocally false. It’s obvious this fake story was contrived by the Harris campaign,” Leavitt told the Guardian.

Sleuths on X pieced together a timeline of Epstein’s residence in New York City, a period which some say doesn’t align with Williams’s description. Vanity Fair previously reported that Epstein did not move into his Upper East Side brownstone cited by Williams until 1996, three years after the incident is said to have occurred in his presence. His name did not appear on ownership paperwork until 2011 when the $77 million property was transferred to him for $0 by an associate, Business Insider reported.

As part of its story, the Guardian released a videotaped interview with Williams who said she looks back on that day in horror. “It takes me back to that feeling of confusion and being frozen and humiliated, and I, that is why I am here tonight. I figured it was time to share this, and I am ready to win this election. The thought of that monster being back in the White House is my absolute worst nightmare,” she said.

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Williams’s coming forward is reminiscent of the October 2016 release of the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape which Hillary Clinton allies thought Trump’s crude remarks about women would spell an end to his campaign. Instead, the Republican brushed the tape away as “locker room talk” between men and largely escaped the matter unscathed.

Whether he does so now, 11 days before Election Day, remains to be seen. A Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday morning confirmed that Trump carries a narrow national lead over Harris.Video – Climate the Movie: The Cold Truth! It Destroys the Climate Hoax It Exposes how Opposing Views are Suppressed Discusses how Globalist Elites GOAL!!!

Which is to END FREEDOM & Rule over us!

“Climate the Movie: the Cold Truth” – Search

Climate change is just another way to scare and control people. It’s all BS

(1)  Pericles the GREAT   “Do Unto Others” on X: “Video –

 There is NO Climate Emergency!  

See the Video attached below: 

“Climate the Movie: the Cold Truth” – Search 

It Provides all the facts YOU need to understand about Climate Facts & Reasons for the Hoax. This is terrific and great to have on hand when you run into climate panic. As I have been saying for years and years now, if you have a problem with climate, go talk to the sun. CO2 – blah. blah, blah! BullShit. Where’s that snarky 21-year-old Swede Greta Thunberg who is worth one million dollars?

Good grief this girl is revolting.

Even more so if you are aware that it’s all a big lie that has made many, very rich! I can’t stand that little moron. Perfect example of why children should be seen not heard. Shut up until your brain is developed enough to know how stupid you sound.

They are using it to unite the world for a global government.

I am Enjoying the The Collapsing Thwaites Glacier,depleted rain forest and Asian Brown Cloud. The United States can’t do anything about The World Wars & snow moderating in January in Ohio unlike past times, More Tornadoes, hurricanes, forest fires, droughts and floods.

The effects of Hurricane Ike in inland North America, 

In September 2008, were unusually intense and included widespread damage across all or parts of eleven states – Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana,  Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio,^[1] Pennsylvania, Tennessee and West Virginia, (not including Louisiana and Texas where the storm made landfall) and into parts of Ontario as Ike, which had rapidly become an extratropical cyclone.

Was enhanced by an adjacent frontal boundary and produced widespread winds with gusts to hurricane-force in several areas. In addition, significant flooding which was already underway due to heavy rain from the front to the north was worsened by rainfall brought on by Ike in parts of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana to the west of the center.^[2]

Blast from The Past! When the Ohio River DRIED UP!

Here’s a pic from the drought of October 15, 1908. View is from the W. Va. side looking across to Bridgeport, Ohio.

And the Climate change denial propaganda funded by oil companies and oil producers such as RUSSIA!Global warming is a scam! The climate will always change. It changes from spring to summer to fall and then winter and repeats again. 

Wonderful film. I strongly recommend this be required in every classroom in the country. Stop filling our children with fear!

Holocaust Survivor: Kamala Owes Us an Apology.

Holocaust survivor rips Kamala Harris for boosting Trump-Hitler comparisons.

A Holocaust survivor criticized Kamala Harris for comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, calling it “the worst thing I’ve ever heard in my 75 years living in the United States” He expressed deep disappointment, emphasizing that such comparisons trivialize the atrocities of the Holocaust and are inappropriate in political discourse.

Holocaust survivor has denounced Vice President Kamala Harris in a Trump campaign video for endorsing claims that former President Donald Trump is a “fascist” akin to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

“Adolf Hitler invaded Poland when I was 9 years old. He murdered my parents and most of my family,” 94-year-old Jerry Wartski says in the clip exclusively obtained by The Post and set to be released Friday.

“I know more about Hitler than Kamala will ever know in a thousand lifetimes,” adds Wartski, rolling up his shirtsleeves to reveal his Auschwitz prisoner number.

Auschwitz survivor Jerry Wartski shares his story for first time: ‘We have to talk’.

Holocaust survivor has denounced Vice President Kamala Harris in a Trump campaign video for endorsing claims that former President Donald Trump is a “fascist” akin to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler invaded Poland when I was 9 years old. He murdered my parents and most of my family,” 94-year-old Jerry Wartski says in the clip exclusively obtained by The Post and set to be released Friday.

“I know more about Hitler than Kamala will ever know in a thousand lifetimes,” adds Wartski, rolling up his shirtsleeves to reveal his Auschwitz prisoner number. “For her to accuse President Trump of being like Hitler is the worst thing I ever heard in my 75 years living in the United States,” he goes on, adding that Harris “owes my parents and everybody else who was murdered by Hitler an apology for repeating this lie.”

Asked by an off-camera questioner why the Jewish people should back Trump, Wartski responds: “Because he’s a mensch.” 

Mensch (Yiddish: מענטש, mentsh, from Middle High German Mensch, from Old High German mennisco; akin to Old English human being, man) means “a person of integrity and honor”.^[1]

According to Leo Rosten, a mensch is “someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character. The key to being ‘a real mensch’ is nothing less than character, rectitude, dignity, a sense of what is right, responsible, decorous.”^[2] The term is used as a high compliment, implying the rarity and value of that individual’s qualities.

“I believe that President Trump is definitely going to be good for Israel because everything that he’s done up until now was in [its] favor,” he continues, saying Trump “never double-crossed anyone and he never showed any weakness.”

Wartski, who serves as honorary president of the Israel Heritage Foundation, met Trump when the Republican nominee marked the anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack to offer prayers at the Ohel of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson for the release of the remaining hostages held in Gaza.

“Why should President Trump pray for the hostages at the Ohel and … spend time with so many?” Wartski asks in the video, before answering: “He has always stood with the Jewish people and the state of Israel.”

The video was taped one year after the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Let’s hear it for 94-year-old Auschwitz camp Holocaust survivor — and Trump voter — for calling out Kamala Harris for comparing Trump to Hitler.

This is powerful, Auschwitz survivor Jerry Warstki rips Kamala Harris for calling President Trump a fascist and calls for her to apologize: “She owes my parents and everybody else that was murdered by Hitler an apology for repeating this lie.” share it: Holocaust survivor rips Kamala Harris for boosting Trump-Hitler comparisons.

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Who says ex-prez is ‘a mensch’ 🙂

Documentary – VAXXED: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe (2016)

Documentary 2019 · 1 hr. 31 min. TV-PG

Director Andrew Wakefield
Writers Del Bigtree Andrew Wakefield

“The vaccine was not brought in for Covid. Covid was brought in for the vaccine.

Once you realize that, everything else makes sense.” – Dr. Reiner Fuellmich

Before losing his medical license, Wakefield directed this film based on his own falsified study alleging a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. 

A gut wrenching movie that should be shown to anyone that is expecting a baby or thinking about having children. Doctors will NOT tell you this information

A documentary alleging that the CDC, the government agency charged with protecting the health of American citizens, destroyed data on their 2004 study that allegedly showed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.

In 2013, biologist Dr. Brian Hooker received a call from a Senior Scientist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who led the agency’s 2004 study on the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine and its link to autism.

The scientist, Dr. William Thompson, confessed that the CDC had omitted crucial data in their final report that revealed a causal relationship between the MMR vaccine and autism. Over several months, Dr. Hooker records the phone calls made to him by Dr. Thompson who provides the confidential data destroyed by his colleagues at the CDC.

Dr. Hooker enlists the help of Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the British gastroenterologist falsely accused of starting the anti-vax movement when he first reported in 1998 that the MMR vaccine may cause autism. In his ongoing effort to advocate for children’s health, Wakefield directs this documentary examining the evidence behind an appalling cover-up committed by the government agency charged with protecting the health of American citizens.

Interviews with pharmaceutical insiders, doctors, politicians, and parents of vaccine-injured children reveal an alarming deception that has contributed to the skyrocketing increase of autism and potentially the most catastrophic epidemic of our lifetime.

VAXXED PART II – Documentary – VAXXED II: The People’s Truth (2019)

Documentary – 1 hr. 30 min.

An exploration into a possible link between various vaccinations and illness, injury, and death.

‘Vaxxed II: The People’s Truth’ is the follow-up to the award-winning documentary, ‘Vaxxed: From Cover-Up To Catastrophe.’

When we set out across America promoting Vaxxed, thousands of empowered parents traveled miles to share the stories of what happened to their children. These stories created a movement. A revolution that will change history forever. The parents have been lied to and will be silenced no longer.

This is your story, your truth, and now we need your help to tell it.

VAXXED: Part 1 https://rumble.com/v2ihcjw-documentary-vaxxed-from-cover-up-to-catastrophe-2016.html?mref=1bxo9j&mc=69gy3

https://rumble.com/v2ihcns-documentary-vaxxed-ii-the-peoples-truth-2019.html?mref=1bxo9j&mc=69gy3Starring:Del BigtreeDel Matthew BigtreeMark F. BlaxillMichaela BlaxillDirected by:Andrew Wakefield

VAXXED III AUTHORIZED TO KILL   https://www.bitchute.com/video/6C2DHwwhtLGW/

VAXXED3 premiered on September 18, 2024.  

Documentary – 1 hr. 57 min.

Children’s Health Defense embarked on a nine-month journey across America, gathering powerful testimonies from the people. Our interviews ranged from mothers and fathers to teenagers, families, medical professionals, whistleblowers, lawyers, and people from all walks of life.

What we discovered was nothing short of staggering. We listened to harrowing accounts of COVID hospital protocols that shook us to our very core. The consistency of these stories was alarming.

People also shared their experiences after taking the COVID-19 vaccine, revealing tragic outcomes of either death or serious injury. Now, fueled by these powerful first hand testimonies, we are creating a documentary by the people, for the people.

Learn what we uncovered on the road. You can’t afford to miss it.

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Real Anthony Fauci (2022)

Documentary – 1 hr. 51 min.

“The Real Anthony Fauci” is a full-length, two-part feature documentary based on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s runaway bestseller — “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health”

The film, produced by Jeff Hays, exposes Fauci’s influence on government policy, the pharmaceutical industry and medical research. It also examines the relationship between Big Pharma and the military, the outsized power of the news media and the concentration of technology companies.The documentary’s launch follows in the wake of Fauci’s Sept. 21 admission that he was aware the “draconian” COVID-19 policies he dictated would have negative consequences on the economy and schoolchildren.

New documentary THE REAL ANTHONY FAUCI – watch it, download it, share it

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‘Fauci,’ The Feature Documentary From National Geographic Documentary Films, 

Documentary – 2021 1 hr. 44 min.

“Fauci,” The Feature Documentary from National Geographic Documentary Films

After 50 years of quietly playing a key role in shaping the national response to health crises and infectious diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci became a household name in March 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic reached America and began exacting a death toll that continues to this day.

However, without the diligent work of Fauci, who faced several obstacles from the Trump administration, the COVID pandemic could’ve claimed more lives, and the veteran physician is finding a thankfully cooperative partner in the Biden administration as the country gets vaccine distribution running up to full speed.

Fauci has been a steady hand through the ongoing ordeal, and it’s because of his tireless work that he’s receiving the documentary treatment from National Geographic in upcoming film Fauci from Emmy winning directors Josh Hoffman and Janet Tobias. Via Deadline: “There is only one Dr. Fauci, and it is an incredible privilege to bring his inspiring, lifelong quest to cure disease and prevent outbreaks, to viewers around the world,” said Hoffman and Tobias in a release announcing the project.

“This film will be an unprecedented, intimate portrait of our nation’s greatest public servant, whose relentless pursuit of truth and devotion to science has never been more important.” Fauci’s efforts to guide America through the pandemic have not been easy. He recently revealed the number of concerning and almost successful death threats that he and his family received during his time with the Trump administration. 

Because of his devotion to telling the American public the truth about the coronavirus, Trump supporters felt that Fauci was trying to “sabotage” the former president’s re-election chances. Fauci also routinely shot down Trump’s endorsement of questionable COVID treatments from his “friends” in the business world.

“Fauci” delivers a rare glimpse into the long-standing professional career and personal life of the ultimate public servant, who after a lifetime of service faced his biggest test: a pandemic whose ferocity is unmatched in modern history. With his signature blend of scientific acumen, candor and integrity, Dr. Anthony Fauci became a cultural icon during the COVID-19 pandemic. But that has come at a cost as he has also faced attacks from adversaries in a nation increasingly divided by political party lines — with science increasingly caught in the crosshair. 

A world-renowned infectious disease specialist and the longest-serving public health leader in Washington, D.C., who has served under seven presidents, Dr. Fauci has overseen the U.S. response to 40 years’ worth of outbreaks, including HIV/AIDS, SARS and Ebola. Crafted around unprecedented access to Dr. Fauci, National Geographic Documentary Films’ “Fauci” is a revealing and intimate portrait of the man mostly known only from appearances on the news. 

Directed by Emmy winners John Hoffman (“The Weight of the Nation,” “Sleepless in America,” “Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman”) and Janet Tobias (“Unseen Enemy,” “No Place on Earth”), produced by Alexandra Moss (“Not Done: Women Remaking America”), Jon Bardin (“All In: The Fight for Democracy”), and executive produced by Academy Award® winner Dan Cogan (“Icarus”), and two-time Academy Award nominee Liz Garbus (“What Happened, Miss Simone?,” “The Farm: Angola, USA”), the film debuted in select theaters in the U.S. on Sept. 10, 2021. Opening cities included New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, D.C. and New Orleans. 

“There is only one Dr. Tony Fauci, and it’s an incredible privilege to be the first to tell the story of his life and career, including his never-ending quest to cure disease and prevent outbreaks,” said Hoffman and Tobias. 

The film features insights from former President George W. Bush, Bill Gates, Bono, former national security advisor Susan Rice, National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins, former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Tom Frieden, journalists Laurie Garrett and The New York Times’ Apoorva Mandavilli, and key AIDS activists, among others. Dr. Fauci’s family, friends and former patients also provide more personal commentary about the man, his personality, and what makes him who he is. 

“Janet and John did a remarkable job capturing the complex man I’ve come to know over the last three decades,” said Peter Staley, film subject and founding member of ACT UP. “As an activist, I think I’ll be tangling with Tony Fauci for the rest of my life, but I’ll never doubt his commitment to public health, nor his profound decency and humanity.” 

The film is directed by John Hoffman and Janet Tobias, who have spent their careers telling important and compelling stories in the documentary space about science and public health. Over the past 36 years, Hoffman has made a specialty of communicating to a concerned public about disease, starting with HIV prevention and then addiction, Alzheimer’s, obesity, sleep, and the role of the NIH in leading the way on medical breakthroughs. Tobias’ recent film, “Unseen Enemy,” sounded a warning call about the threat of pandemics, which should not have gone unheeded. 

“Fauci” is produced by Alexandra Moss (“Not Done: Women Remaking America”) and edited by Amy Foote (“Father, Soldier, Son”) and Brian Chamberlain (“Not Me, Murphy”). Director of photography is Claudia Raschke (“RBG”). For Story Syndicate, executive producers are Cogan, Garbus and Jon Bardin (“All In: The Fight for Democracy”). 

National Geographic Documentary Films previously released the Academy Award, BAFTA and seven-time Emmy Award-winning film “Free Solo” and the Academy Award-nominated film “The Cave.” Other critically acclaimed films under the banner include Ron Howard’s “Rebuilding Paradise”; Sundance Audience Award winners “Science Fair” and “Sea of Shadows”; Emmy winners “LA 92” and “Jane,” both of which were included in the top 15 documentaries considered for an Academy Award in 2017; and Dupont Award winner “Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS.”

 The First Wave | National Geographic Documentary Films

With exclusive access inside one of New York’s hardest hit hospital systems during the terrifying first four months of the pandemic, Oscar®-nominated and Emmy® Award-winning director Matthew Heineman’s THE FIRST WAVE spotlights the everyday heroes at the epicenter of COVID-19 as they come together to fight one of the greatest threats the world has ever encountered. Leaving a devastating trail of death and despair, this once-in-a-century pandemic changed the very fabric of our daily lives and exposed long-standing inequities in our society.

Employing his signature approach of character-driven cinema vérité, Heineman embeds with a group of doctors, nurses and patients on the frontlines as they all desperately try to navigate the crisis. With each distinct storyline serving as a microcosm through which we can view the emotional and societal impacts of the pandemic, THE FIRST WAVE is a testament to the strength of the human spirit.

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Smashed it! Naturally!

Celebrating 7 + years cancer free and what a better time to have done my first life-changing Ayahuasca ceremony at such a milestone, during Lions Gate too!

I say milestone as Triple Negative breast cancer is deemed to be the most aggressive type of breast cancer and statistics show a high chance of recurrence within the first 3 years.

Meet Dee Mani an inspiring individual whose health journey took an unexpected turn in March 2017. After discovering a sudden lump and undergoing a series of tests, including mammograms, ultrasounds, and biopsies, Dee received a diagnosis of grade 3 Triple Negative breast cancer, recognized as one of the most aggressive forms.

Initially advised to undergo a year of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, Dee opted to chart her own path based on thorough research. She chose to forgo conventional treatment, which had failed her sister previously, and instead embraced a natural healing approach. Following a lumpectomy, Dee pursued self-healing using an array of methods such as dietary changes, essential oils, supplements, detox salt baths, meditation, and full extract cannabis oil (FECO). Her journey of healing extended beyond her physical well-being, encompassing her mind and soul.

Despite her oncologist’s lack of support, Dee persevered. Just five months post-diagnosis and four months into her natural protocol, she achieved an all-clear status, free from evidence of disease (NED).

Motivated by her experience, Dee penned her story, sharing it in a self-published book that swiftly became an Amazon bestseller. When I wrote this book it was first and foremost a sense of cancer closure, the cancer that tried to destroy me (failed) putting my story on paper was a release and at the same time I thought if I could inspire one person to step away from chemotherapy and heal their body in a more natural holistic way then it was all worth it!

“When I was diagnosed, my oncologist recommended a year’s worth of chemotherapy, detailing that I had maybe one year left to live. I knew that chemotherapy was not going to make my suffering more comfortable but the complete opposite, so I thought – if I’m going to die anyway, what’s the point in poisoning my body for the short time I had left”, she said.

Dee started searching for natural ways to heal and found that many other people were healing with cannabis oil. So, she decided on this course of action. “I took the oil every night, treating it like a sleeping pill as the THC makes you sleepy, and while you sleep, you heal.”

Dee managed to heal within a short five months, using a range of supplements, diet change, and the illegal full extract cannabis oil.

“Almost four years on, I’m now healed and healthy. I continue to take the plant medicine as a preventive measure as cancer is likely to recur within the first two years.” However, “the oil protects me from all disease due to the protection of any radical change,” said Dee.

A few years before her diagnosis, Dee closely observed her sister’s suffering, who was also diagnosed with cancer and passed away two years later. Those moments contributed to her option of healing naturally.

“My sister had liver cancer. The opposite to me, she did everything that the doctors recommended, including chemotherapy. When told she only had two years to live, I questioned how they could put a timeline on a person’s life? But I soon began to understand that it is not the disease that kills, but the treatment”, she said.

Usually, after surviving cancer, patients prefer to close that chapter. However, Dee decided to share her experience to help inspire others to heal. That’s why she chose to write the book which shared her healing journey. The book’s success led Dee to create a private cancer support group to help other patients and their families. Dee now mentors patients worldwide and is also a columnist for two medical marijuana publications. She shares healing stories from various patients that she has helped heal from a range of diseases.

Dee then went on to launch her range of CBD oils – called My Way CBD. The reasoning was to help people access good quality affordable oils, unlike many others on the market.

“My job now is to educate people, teaching them how they can be healthy and prevent any disease, not just cancer,” she told The Portugal News. 

Dee Mani | Facebook

My Way Radio – Tomorrow Magazine

The pandemic revealed another problem to Dee. “There are too many performers that haven’t been able to perform due to the lockdown restrictions,” adding that she has already been contacted by various artists who tried to put an end to their lives.

This is why Dee and her husband Ryan (the station manager and a music artist, aka Remmy Ruso) decided to launch a new digital global radio station adopting the same name as the brand: “My Way Radio.”

“My Way Radio” https://www.mywayradio.gr/  broadcast a diverse range of music 24/7 airing classic tunes and up-and-coming artists. While hosting a range of motivational podcasts discussing health and wellness, cooking, sports, and current affairs”.

The radio can be listened to by downloading the free apps on iOS and Android and is also Alexa compatible to be accessed anywhere there’s an internet connection.

“We’re giving performers a platform to get on board and be a part of the radio, to promote their music and feel the passion they’ve lost since Covid-19.” In her words: “there are many musicians who went into depression because of not being able to work due to the pandemic, many even considered committing suicide, so the radio has emerged as a light at the end of the tunnel to give artists and speakers a place to share their music and their voice.”

Since obtaining the license several weeks ago, the radio has continuously aired 24/7 music while the team tests the airways behind the scenes. My Way Radio hasn’t officially launched but will be within the coming weeks, keep an eye on their social media channels to be kept in the loop.

To download the app, just search for My way Radio in the App Store or Google Play.

Dee’s range of CBD can be found at https://mywaycbd.com/ and for cancer support go to https://deemani.com/     https://www.facebook.com/deemanimitchell    Facebook

The pandemic revealed another problem to Dee. “There are too many performers that haven’t been able to perform due to the lockdown restrictions,” adding that she has already been contacted by various artists who tried to put an end to their lives.

This is why Dee and her husband Ryan (the station manager and a music artist, aka Remmy Ruso) decided to launch a new digital global radio station adopting the same name as the brand: “My Way Radio.”

“My Way Radio” will be broadcasting a diverse range of music 24/7. We will air classic tunes and up-and-coming artists. We will also be hosting a range of motivational podcasts discussing health and wellness, cooking, sports, and current affairs”.

The radio can be listened to by downloading the free apps on iOS and Android and is also Alexa compatible to be accessed anywhere there’s an internet connection.

“We’re giving performers a platform to get on board and be a part of the radio, to promote their music and feel the passion they’ve lost since Covid-19.” In her words: “there are many musicians who went into depression because of not being able to work due to the pandemic, many even considered committing suicide, so the radio has emerged as a light at the end of the tunnel to give artists and speakers a place to share their music and their voice.”

Since obtaining the license several weeks ago, the radio has continuously aired 24/7 music while the team tests the airways behind the scenes. My Way Radio hasn’t officially launched but will be within the coming weeks, keep an eye on their social media channels to be kept in the loop.

To download the app, just search for My Way Radio in the App Store or Google Play.

Dee’s range of CBD can be found at https://mywaycbd.com/ and for cancer support go to https://deemani.com/     https://www.facebook.com/deemanimitchell    Facebook

This venture propelled her into an advocacy role, particularly in the realms of cannabis and holistic health. She contributes articles to top-tier Medical Marijuana publications, engages in interviews with health advocates, and delivers educational health talks at various forums.

Deeply convinced of the potential of cannabis, Dee has developed a range of CBD oils, wellness products, and skincare items. She has also initiated a cannabis education hub, where she seeks to counter prevailing stigmas surrounding this remarkable plant.

Dee’s contributions to health literature extend beyond her personal narrative. She has co-authored two other Amazon best-selling health books and holds columns in esteemed medical marijuana publications. Additionally, Dee serves as a mentor in a private support group for individuals grappling with cancer.

With her expansive role as an author, motivator, inspirer, and advocate, Dee’s journey reflects a quest for understanding health, our world, and our place within it. As she aptly quotes Henry David Thoreau, “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”

The author is a Medical Warrior we can all learn from!

In (June 2022) Dee Mani published a book about how she had healed from a diagnosis of CLL stage 4 cancer back around 2001 when I came across Dee Mani’s book, titled: My Way: Following the Cancer Brick Road, from Diagnosis to All Clear Naturally in 5 Months. Being the curious inveterate researcher that I am, I decided it was worth a read because I wanted to know if there were any parallels between her method of healing and mine.

The main parallels between the two books were that after consultation with our doctors, we both decided to ditch our doctor’s protocol to undergo chemotherapy and radiation treatments in favor of utilizing safer, non-toxic natural approaches such as upgrading to a better diet, adding certain supplements, meditation, etc.

In my situation back in 1999, I did not know about or have access to cannabis so my approach relied more on the use of coral calcium, which is an inexpensive alkalizing agent, the removal of a bad root canal, and spiritual prayer-work, as I had studied to become a minister and a healing practitioner of Science of Mind (Religious Science founded by Ernest Holmes).

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In Dee Mani’s book I became really absorbed as I followed along with her on her healing journey and found it interesting to observe her thought processes along the way. As I read, I discovered a sort of kinship with her even though we both had very different types of cancer; hers Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) and mine, CLL (Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia).

So now, if I come across a woman who has breast cancer I immediately recommend her book because it is tailored more specifically to their condition. Otherwise, I point people to my book: My Road to Healing: How I Ditched My Doctor’s Advice and Healed Myself of CLL 4th Stage Cancer.

In an age when Big Pharma rules the roost, we need more people like Dee who can think outside the box! So I salute Dee Mani for her courage to fight the System and bravely chart her own way to healing. In that sense I feel that we both are modern day Medical Warriors! Highly recommended!

PS: Since publication of her book, Dee became inundated by messages from people all over the world asking for healing advice; her book does detail how she healed naturally using a combination of cannabis oil, supplements, essential oils, and diet. She states, “However, since I wrote the (My Way) book, I’ve discovered more supplements than what I originally mentioned, which is why I decided to put this short E-book together, listing the main cancer-fighting supplements to refer to easily. These supplements can either be used to prevent cancer from developing in the first place or be a part of your protocol if healing from already developed cancer. They all aim to boost the immune system”.

The ebook title: Cancer Fighting Supplements: A quick guide on powerful immune boosters. by Dee Mani | Goodreads
When told she would die within a year without conventional treatment for her deadly triple negative breast cancer, Dee Mani-Mitchell of Belfast, Northern Ireland considered the repercussions of chemotherapy, having watched her sister take it and die of cancer. Instead, she took some time and found cannabis oil which she started taking. Four months later she went back to her doctor who gave her the all clear.

This is a must listen interview.
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Following on from the Amazon best-selling cancer book called “My Way,” which details the journey of healing an aggressive type of cancer with full extract cannabis oil, author Dee Mani-Mitchell decided to launch a branch of CBD oils and wellness products with a difference.

The success of her book led Dee to set up “My Way CBD” to specialize in all-natural CBD healing solutions to add value to the world of natural healing by revolutionizing the attitude towards hemp-derived products and the wellness cannabinoids bring to peoples lives.

Dee is a columnist for two medical marijuana publications and writes with the aim to create a better understanding of our health, our world, and our place in it. A mission that has cast her in many different roles: writer, motivator, supporter, inspirer, advocate, and awareness raiser.

A successful businesswoman that has personally;y relied on cannabis for many years dealing with her own health issues., she is constantly breaking down barriers with her beliefs that healing should be built into how we live more naturally.

Dee’s on a mission – to improve the quality of lives through natural and effective healing solutions. The exciting part is that Dee has developed a completely unique range of CBD infusions. As part of her day-to-day life, she runs a cancer support group, where she recommends that patients add essential oils to their healing protocol as they assist in the apoptosis (cancer cell death) process. Pure, organic, food-grade (ingestible) essential oils often have a high price tag. So Dee decided to incorporate some highly powerful essential oils with her range of broad-spectrum CBD, to be more affordable for people that want to take both CBD and good quality essential oils.

My Way CBD stock infusions of Frankincense, Myrrh, Ashwagandha, Ginger, and Oregano oil. All essential oils are organic and safe for internal use, with 10% of the essential oil in each 30ml bottle of goodness. These infusions are flying out the shop store, and there’s a plan to infuse the full-spectrum range with some different powerful combinations.

My Way ensures an entire product range with a “complete transparency” and strict “no nasties” policy, which is always free from harmful chemicals, pesticides, solvent residues, toxins, chlorophyll, fats and lipids, preservatives, sulfates, mineral oils, parabens, animal testing, artificial colours, and perfumes. All products are also vegan, non-GMO, and Kosher.

All products are formulated with the most refined lab-tested CBD oils,

Certified in both UK and US laboratories.

To check out the range, go to www.mywaycbd.com
For cancer support, go to www.deemani.com

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They will steal the election again, while everyone is too concentrated on the victory and lacks focus on stealing the election. Don’t let your guard down; that’s what I want to warn you about. They still print and count the ballots in Atlanta Detroit Philadelphia Milwaukee Las Vegas and Phoenix.

A New York Times story in April chronicled the chaos within the Trump White House as it initially responded to the coronavirus pandemic. One of the throwaway revelations in that piece was that the president’s delayed reaction to the crisis was partially due to his fears about the “deep state.”

“Mr. Trump’s response,” the authors write, “was colored by his suspicion of and disdain for what he viewed as the ‘deep state,’ the very people in his government whose expertise and long experience might have guided him more quickly toward steps that would slow the virus, and likely save lives.”

Under normal circumstances, this would be bad; in a pandemic, it’s terrifying. Now, more than ever, expertise is needed, and Trump isn’t especially interested. That a lot of his supporters think the virus itself is a deep state coup isn’t helping matters.

And Trump’s deep state obsession isn’t a new thing. He’s been pumping up this theory since special counsel Robert Mueller launched the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. It has always been a diversion, whether it was coming from Trump or Fox News.

But here’s the thing: The deep state isn’t exactly a phantasm. There are parts of the US government that wield real power outside the conventional checks and balances of the system. It’s not a conspiracy against Trump, but the term does refer to something that exists.

The “deep state” is real.

But it’s not what Trump thinks it is.

Author David Rohde on what the “deep state” is and why Trump is obsessed with it | Vox

The “Deep State” Theory, Explained:

The seed for many tantalizing conspiracy theories, the term “deep state” in the United States implies the existence of a premeditated effort by certain federal government employees or other persons to secretly manipulate or control the government without regard for the policies of Congress or the President of the United States.

Origin and History of the Deep State

The concept of a deep state — also called a “state within a state” or a “shadow government” – was first used in reference to political conditions in countries like Turkey and post-Soviet Russia.

During the 1950s, an influential anti-democratic coalition within the Turkish political system called the “derin devlet” – literally the “deep state” — allegedly dedicated itself to ousting communists from the new Turkish Republic founded by Mustafa Ataturk after World War I.

Made up of elements within the Turkish military, security, and judiciary branches, the derin devlet worked to turn the Turkish people against its enemies by staging “false flag” attacks and planned riots. Ultimately, the derin devlet was blamed for the deaths of thousands of people.

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In the 1970s, former high-ranking officials of the Soviet Union, after defecting to the West, publically stated that the Soviet political police – the KGB – had operated as a deep state secretly attempting to control the Communist Party and ultimately, the Soviet government.

In a 2006 symposium, Ion Mihai Pacepa, a former general in the Communist Romania secret police who defected to the United States in 1978, stated, “In the Soviet Union, the KGB was a state within a state.”

Pacepa went on to claim, “Now former KGB officers are running the state. They have custody of the country’s 6,000 nuclear weapons, entrusted to the KGB in the 1950s, and they now also manage the strategic oil industry renationalized by Putin.”

The Deep State Theory in the United States

In 2014, former congressional aide Mike Lofgren alleged the existence of a different type of deep state operating within the United States government in his essay titled “Anatomy of the Deep State.”

Instead of a group comprised exclusively of government entities, Lofgren calls the deep state in the United States “a hybrid association of elements of government and parts of top-level finance and industry that is effectively able to govern the United States without reference to the consent of the governed as expressed through the formal political process.”

The Deep State, wrote Lofgren, is not “a secret, conspiratorial cabal; the state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight, and its operators mainly act in the light of day. It is not a tight-knit group and has no clear objective. Rather, it is a sprawling network, stretching across the government and into the private sector.”

In some ways, Lofgren’s description of a deep state in the United States echoes parts of President Dwight Eisenhower’s 1961 farewell address, in which he warned future presidents to “guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.”

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President Trump Alleges a Deep State Opposes Him

Following the tumultuous 2016 presidential election, President Donald Trump and his supporters suggested that certain unnamed executive branch officials and intelligence officers were secretly operating as a deep state to block his policies and legislative agenda by leaking information considered critical of him.

President Trump, White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, along with ultra-conservative news outlets like Breitbart News claimed that Former President Obama was orchestrating a deep state attack against the Trump administration. The allegation apparently grew out of Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that Obama had ordered the wiretapping of his telephone during the 2016 election campaign.

Current and former intelligence officials remain divided on the question of the existence of a deep state secretly working to derail the Trump administration. 

In a June 5, 2017 article published in The Hill Magazine, retired veteran CIA field operations agent Gene Coyle stated that while he doubted the existence of “hordes of government officials” operating as an anti-Trump deep state, he did believe the Trump administration was justified in complaining about the number of leaks being reported by news organizations.

“If you are that appalled at the actions of an administration, you should quit, hold a press conference and publicly state your objections,” said Coyle. “You can’t run an executive branch if more and more people think, ‘I don’t like the policies of this president, therefore I will leak information to make him look bad.’”

Other intelligence experts argued that individuals or small groups of individuals leaking information critical of a presidential administration lack the organizational coordination and depth of deep states such as those that existed in Turkey or the former Soviet Union.

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On June 3, 2017, a third-party contractor working for the National Security Agency (NSA) was arrested on charges of violating the Espionage Act by leaking a top-secret document related to the possible involvement of the Russian government in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to an unnamed news organization.

When questioned by the FBI on June 10, 2017, the woman, 25-year-old Reality Leigh Winner, “admitted intentionally identifying and printing the classified intelligence reporting at issue despite not having a ‘need to know,’ and with the knowledge that the intelligence report was classified,” according to the FBI affidavit.

According to the Justice Department, Winner “further acknowledged that she was aware of the contents of the intelligence reporting and that she knew the contents of the reporting could be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of a foreign nation.”

The arrest of Winner represented the first confirmed case of an attempt by a current government employee to discredit the Trump administration. As a result, many conservatives have been quick to use the case to bolster their arguments of a so-called “deep state” within the United States government. While it’s true that Winner had publicly expressed anti-Trump sentiments both to co-workers and on social media, her actions in no way prove the existence of an organized deep state effort to discredit the Trump administration.

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In the U.S., the idea of a deep state cabal of unelected officials secretly pulling the strings of the American government, is widely believed. One 2018 poll even claimed a majority of American voter’s place credence in the theory. This is no fringe phenomenon. 

America’s democratic political institutions and public opinion are driven by anxieties that have been given voice in the pronouncements of Donald Trump:

 “Either the deep state destroys America or we destroy the deep state,” he told a rally in Waco, Texas, in March 2023. This was nothing new. As president he frequently deployed the term, often to denounce whistleblowers and leakers from the U.S. intelligence community.

I Don’t Believe This for a Second that many of the January 6 Capitol rioters were inspired by QAnon conspiracy theories that claimed a deep state was also working to undermine President Trump and betray the electorate. If he wins this November, Trump has promised to “dismantle the deep state” by stripping thousands of federal employees of their civil service protections, allowing them to be fired at will.

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The intricate apophenia of today’s QAnon-laced cynicism toward the federal government as deep state finds its origins in legitimate public concern about cold war CIA covert operations. Knowing this history offers some answers for today’s conspiracy culture questions.

Before the CIA’s disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961, the American media consciously avoided discussing U.S. covert action: “[W]e left out a great deal of what we knew about U.S. intervention in Guatemala and in a variety of other cases,” noted the New York Times’ Washington bureau chief, James Reston, in 1954. As a result, many of the CIA’s most significant operations escaped popular accountability.

In learning about these covert interventions in the 1960s and 1970s, the public became acutely aware of the gap between the official narrative of a purely defensive foreign policy and the reality of these previously secret offensive operations. That awareness caused many to ask who oversaw American foreign policy. Was it their elected public representatives or secretive intelligence officer?

One of the most influential books of this era to raise this question was The Invisible Government, written in 1964 by journalists David Wise and Thomas Ross. They opened their account with a stark declaration: “There are two governments in the United States today. One is visible. The other is invisible.”

They then set out their thesis that the CIA had occasionally acted outside the authority of elected officials, and that such covert operations were not merely an instrument of U.S. foreign policy, but had actively shaped it. Though their thesis was more nuanced and narrowly focused than that of many contemporary purveyors of deep state conspiracy theories, their book provided the language and narrative apparatus that would eventually metastasize into the widespread skepticism in American society toward officialdom, and in particular toward the U.S. intelligence community.

The very use of the term conspiracy theory, however, risks both unfairly mischaracterizing Wise and Ross’s original argument, and trivializing the powerful hold that the “deep state” has upon the American political imagination today. Early attempts to understand what historian Richard Hofstadter famously described as the “paranoid style” in American political life deployed the term pejoratively. They pathologized political paranoia as an irrational and dangerous aberration from the usual politics of compromise and consensus that they believed characterized America’s democratic institutions.  

But today the paranoid style has gone mainstream, and it has infiltrated the very organs of democratic politics that Hofstadter sought to defend. So how did public concern about CIA covert operations mutate into the all-encompassing cynicism toward government officials that characterizes belief in a deep state today? 

The Invisible Government was published at the beginning of an era of revelations about secret state activity and government deception. In 1967 Ramparts magazine revealed that the CIA had covertly sponsored the National Student Association to try to influence the emerging international student movement in a liberal and anticommunist direction. 

In 1971 Daniel Ellsberg provided the press with a secret Pentagon history of the Vietnam War, which revealed that four successive administrations had deceived the American people about the U.S. role in that conflict and the likelihood of victory.

In December 1974, just a few months after President Nixon resigned over Watergate, itself a scandal about government secrecy and duplicity, New York Times journalist Seymour Hersh published the first of a series of articles about some of the most controversial CIA operations, leading to three separate official inquiries into the activities of the CIA and FBI.

Filtered through this steady drumbeat of revelations,

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 The Invisible Government took on new meaning, with many coming to believe that the secret state was eroding the very foundations of American democracy.

A 1967 Herblock cartoon about the scandal revealed by Ramparts magazine features Alice in Wonderland’s White Rabbit with “CIA” tattooed on its thigh, burrowing in a hole beneath the twin pillars of “U.S. Credibility” and “Integrity of Schools and Foundations,” with Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole of “undercover activities.”

These revelations of state secrecy and deception coupled with the narrative of an “invisible government” also lent credence to conspiracy theories about President Kennedy’s death, in particular the popular idea that the CIA played a role. The Invisible Government was here directly influential.

In the late 1960s New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison prosecuted Clay Shaw for Kennedy’s murder, alleging CIA involvement. Garrison drew at length from The Invisible Government when researching his prosecution. His case was flimsy, and the jury took less than an hour to deliver a “not guilty” verdict. But the trial was later popularized by Hollywood director Oliver Stone in his 1991 blockbuster JFK. 

In the film’s denouement a teary-eyed Garrison, played by Kevin Costner, delivers his closing argument to the jury: “What ‘national security,’” he asks them, “permits the removal of fundamental power from the hands of the American people and validates the ascendancy of the invisible government in the United States?” (Emphasis added.) The film was incredibly damaging for the CIA and helped persuade the agency to become much more proactive in its public relations.

Today the deployment of the “deep state” by populist politicians like Trump taps into a rich vein of popular suspicion in American society that partly resulted from excessive state secrecy and official deception. Since Hofstadter, we have tended to understand belief in conspiracy theories as a kind of psychosis. In doing so we have focused our gaze pejoratively on the “basket of deplorables” who tend to believe such theories, and ignored the official sources and government policies that first produced these widespread anxieties.

This is an opinion and analysis article, and the views expressed by the author or authors are not necessarily those of Scientific American.

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Stocks usually see double-digit gains under U.S. presidents — with two exceptions since 1933. Deutsche Bank Research recently analyzed the S&P 500’s annualized total returns under each U.S. president since Theodore Roosevelt in 1901.

 They found that the S&P 500 has generally experienced double-digit annualized returns under most presidents, with a few notable exceptions1.

For instance, the S&P 500 saw declines during the presidencies of Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, and George W. Bush. These periods were marked by significant economic challenges, such as the Great Depression, the 1973 oil shock, and the early stages of the global financial crisis1.

On the other hand, some presidents, like Calvin Coolidge, oversaw periods of exceptionally high returns1. The overall trend suggests that while presidential policies can influence market performance, broader economic events often play a more significant role.

Is there a specific president or period you’re particularly interested in?

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With the U.S. presidential election just two weeks away:

Deutsche Bank Research found the S&P 500 has seen a long stretch of annualized double-digit returns under different White House administrations — with two exceptions since 1933.

“As we approach the big day, markets are bracing themselves for a vote that will likely lead to very different policies, depending who wins and with what congressional configuration,” said Jim Reid, global head of macro and thematic research at Deutsche Bank Research, in a note emailed Tuesday. 

Yet it may be “better to be lucky than good,” said Reid, explaining that events might be more likely “to dictate big-picture market performance under the next president, with policy probably playing a smaller role.”

How the Stock Market Performed Under Each President

Deutsche Bank Research broke out the S&P 500’s annualized total return under each U.S. president dating back to Theodore Roosevelt in 1901. The link above shows the S&P 500 fell on an annualized basis under Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon — declines that stood out against an otherwise long period of double-digit total returns no matter who was in the White House. The S&P 500 also fell on an annualized basis under President George W. Bush’s administration, the chart shows.

“From 1933 onwards, most presidents have benefited from a long period of U.S. exceptionalism and double-digit annual equity returns with just two very unlucky exceptions,” said Reid.

“The problem is these exceptions have tended to be pretty savage relative to the norm.”

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But in Reid’s view, “the big outliers were driven by events that were arguably mostly outside of the control of the sitting president.” 

Those events include “the [Great] Depression, the 1973 oil shock, and the double whammy of the post-2000 bubble unwind,” as well as the early global financial crisis seen under President George W. Bush, according to the note.

“Academics have argued that Hoover’s policies exacerbated the Depression,” said Reid, referring to the president who served from 1929 to 1933. “But you only have to look at the returns under” the preceding Calvin Coolidge “to see that he likely presided over a bubble that contributed to the subsequent 1929 crash, even if he had left office earlier that year.” 

The S&P 500 had its highest annualized returns under President Coolidge and its worst performance during Hoover’s administration, the Deutsche Bank chart shows. “Hoover had a challenging legacy to deal with,” said Reid.

Thirteen of the last 15 U.S. presidents have presided over annualized total returns of between 10% and 17% for the S&P 500, he added. The S&P 500 performed in an “even tighter” range of 14% to 17% returns under seven of the last nine presidents, according to his note.

Deutsche Bank Research found that under President Joe Biden, the S&P 500 has so far seen an annualized total return of 14%. That compares with an annualized 16% total return under former President Donald Trump, whose administration spanned 2017 to 2021.

Election Day will be held Nov. 5, when Americans will vote on whether to send Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, or Trump, her Republican rival, to the Oval Office as the next president.

U.S. stocks are in a bull market that earlier this month marked its two-year anniversary. 

The S&P 500 has jumped more than 22% so far this year based on its Tuesday afternoon level of around 5,854 That’s slightly below its record closing high of 5,864.67 notched Oct. 18. 

The U.S. stock market was trading mostly higher Tuesday afternoon, with the S&P 500 about flat, the Nasdaq Composite rising 0.2% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average adding 0.1%, according to FactSet data, at last check. 

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The stock market is a constellation of marketplaces where securities like stocks and bonds are bought and sold. Stock markets provide you with easy, transparent access to investment assets, and they help professional investors determine fair prices for public companies.

What Is the Stock Market?

Think of the stock market as the main financial venue where investing happens. It’s a collection of all the places where matches are made between buyers and sellers trading shares of public companies.

“The stock market” and “Wall Street” can refer to the entire world of securities trading—including stock exchanges where the shares of public companies are listed for sale and markets where other securities are traded. The New York Stock Exchange is the biggest stock market on earth.

Market indexes like the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average aggregate the prices of groups of stocks, which indicate the day-to-day performance of the stock market as a whole.

How Does the Stock Market Work?

The stock market helps companies raise money to fund operations by selling shares of stock, and it creates and sustains wealth for individual investors.

Companies raise money on the stock market by selling ownership stakes to investors. These equity stakes are known as shares of stock. By listing shares for sale on the stock exchanges that make up the stock market, companies get access to the capital they need to operate and expand their businesses without having to take on debt. In exchange for the privilege of selling stock to the public, companies are required to disclose information and give shareholders a say in how their businesses are run.

Investors benefit by exchanging their money for shares on the stock market. As companies put that money to work growing and expanding their businesses, investors reap the benefits as their shares of stock become more valuable over time, leading to capital gains. In addition, companies pay dividends to their shareholders as their profits grow.

The performances of individual stocks vary widely over time, but taken as a whole the stock market has historically rewarded investors with average annual returns of around 10%, making it one of the most reliable ways of growing your money.

Who Regulates the Stock Market?

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulates the stock market in the U.S. The SEC was created after the passing of the Securities Act of 1933, following the stock market crash of October 1929. SEC regulations cover four main areas:

• Stock exchanges
• Brokers and dealers
• Financial advisors
• Mutual funds

The SEC’s mission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation. Thanks to SEC rules, companies that publicly trade on the stock market must tell the truth about their business, and those who sell and trade securities must treat investors fairly and with honesty.

Stock Market vs Stock Exchange

Although the terms are used interchangeably, the stock market is not the same as a stock exchange. Think of a stock exchange as a part of a whole—the stock market comprises many stock exchanges, such as the Nasdaq or New York Stock Exchange in the U.S.

When people talk about how the stock market is performing, they mean the thousands of public companies listed on multiple stock exchanges. And more generally, the stock market can be thought of as encompassing a very broad universe of bonds, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and other securities beyond just stocks.

What Is a Stock Market Index?

A stock market index tracks the performance of a group of stocks that represents a particular industry or segment of the stock market, like the technology, energy and transportation sectors.

Often, one of three large indexes is used as shorthand to describe the performance of the U.S. stock market as a whole:

• Dow Jones Industrial Average. The DJIA is made up of 30 blue-chip stocks of U.S. industrial companies.
• S&P 500. The S&P 500 represents 500 of the largest companies in the U.S. economy.
• The Nasdaq Composite. The Nasdaq Composite tracks the performance of more than 3,000 stocks listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

Other Types of Markets

The stock market generally refers to markets and exchanges where equity shares and related securities are traded. Other types of financial assets have their own markets.

• Over-the-Counter Markets. OTC markets provide a venue for trading that takes place outside of major exchanges. OTC trades are primarily made directly between sellers and buyers, and prices may or may not be publicly available. Most bonds are traded OTC, and many stocks—including penny stocks—are also traded over-the-counter.
• Commodities Markets. Raw materials like steel, coal and oil are traded on commodities markets. There are around 50 major commodity markets worldwide that facilitate trade in a wide range of commodities.
• Derivatives. Derivatives are financial contracts like options whose value is tied to an underlying asset. These are essentially contractual bets about whether individual securities’ values will rise or fall. For experienced investors, derivatives can be extremely lucrative ways to hedge their bets when investing, and they can be incredibly risky for beginners.
• Foreign Exchange Markets. Forex trading is a borderless, international market for exchanging currencies. Forex traders take advantage of the constantly fluctuating value of different currencies to make profits, and help provide liquidity for international trade.
• Cryptocurrency. Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies are traded on specialized crypto exchanges.

How to Invest in the Stock Market

If you want to invest in the stock market, the process to get started is easier than you think:

1. Decide what kind of account you want to open. From retirement savings to college savings, from short-term goals to long, there really is an investment account for everything.
2. Open a brokerage account. Once you’ve decided what kind of account you want, you’re ready to open an account at a provider called a brokerage. When choosing a company, consider their fees and available investment options.
3. Deposit money. To get started, you need to make an initial deposit. You can also set up recurring deposits to automate your investments going forward.
4. Choose your investments. Once your account is open, you can buy and sell securities. You can opt for individual stocks and bonds or mutual funds, index funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that contain hundreds of individual securities. Many experts recommend a diversified, fund-based approach to minimize the risk any one bad investment loses you money.
5. Purchase your investments. Once you’ve settled on what you want to buy, simply enter the ticker symbol in the buy field and indicate how many shares you want to buy.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is the primary regulator of the stock market in the U.S. 1 2 3 4. 

The stock exchanges are governed by their own organizations, under the direction of the SEC 1 4. 

Stock brokers and brokerage firms are regulated by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) 1 5.

 FINRA is an independent organization that creates and enforces rules that apply to brokers, broker-dealer firms, and funding portals 5.

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Personally … Any real Native American should be pissed about  @Lizwarren lying about being Native to get jobs and scholarships. Because my culture was stolen by someone so undeserving, I’m pissed for every black person out there because @KamalaHarris is also stealing the valor of their heritage for votes and a job she doesn’t deserve.

Laura Powell on X: “Kamala Harris was admitted to law school under a program for students “who have experienced major life hurdles, such as educational disadvantage, economic hardship, or disability.” Kamala Harris’s mother came from the highest caste in India, but by moving to the U.S. and Canada, https://t.co/tqnx8OPnx4” / X

Kamala Harris was admitted to law school under a program for students “who have experienced major life hurdles, such as educational disadvantage, economic hardship, or disability.” She struggled with having to learn two different languages…French Canadian and English. 

Kamala Harris’s mother came from the highest caste in India, but by moving to the U.S. and Canada, obtaining a prestigious degree, marrying a future Stanford professor, having a successful career as a cancer researcher, and sending her daughter to private schools, her daughter became unusually disadvantaged?

In 1992, three years after Kamala graduated from Hastings Law School (a public university), there was a controversy after the dean of the law school realized the extent of student group involvement in admissions to the program for disadvantaged students (called LEOP). 

That’s pretty bad: 

Kamala took a spot that could’ve opened doors for someone truly disadvantaged. Students who claimed to be eligible for the LEOP because of some special hardship they suffered would have their claims of being disadvantaged verified via a phone call by members of the student organization associated with the applicant’s race. The phone interviews were used by some students to screen out conservative candidates—to avoid future “Clarence Thomases,” as one student explained. 

This would have been the process in place when Kamala Harris applied to law school in 1986. According to her resume, she also served as President of the “Black Law Students [sic] Association,” so she likely participated in the process of selecting admittees to the LEOP program while she was a law student as well.

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Several people have mentioned: 

Kamala Harris failed the bar exam the first time she took it. I couldn’t find statistics for 1989, the year she graduated, but a letter to the law school paper in early 1992 says while the overall passage rate for Hastings graduates was 80.2%, only 55% of LEOP students passed. This was a big improvement over the earlier years—in 1977, only 16% of diversity admittees passed on the first try.

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My wife graduated law school pregnant and passed the bar with a 3 month old.

To find out that Kamala got all of this undeserved help and still failed the bar is beyond infuriating. Everyone knew that she was LEOP at Hastings but that was mostly because her grades at Howard were not good. Harris has taken advantage of every single DEI program and she’s white. I knew they pulled strings. Any question Willie Brown made sure she finally “ passed” the Bar exam?

Kamala’s family owes reparations, not mine!

So, one less student who would be legitimately qualified was left out?

Kamala grew up in a Quebec mansion in affluent Westmount, Quebec, Canada. – Search

Did Kamala Harris work at McDonald’s? Here are the facts | US News | Metro News

Yes, we all know the hardship of having two parents who each hold a PhD, and having to grow up in one of the more affluent parts of [checks notes] Westmount, Quebec, Canada. 

They think being brown is a disadvantage because they’re racists. 

This explains so much.

Nobody has no idea how this woman was capable of getting into law school.
If Kamala gets “more all of a sudden” electoral votes on Nov. 5 … with all the great Pro-Trump noise out there now… it’s time to get our OWN Justice Department ! – Search

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Judge Brown talks with @RealCandaceO about: ⁃Kamala’s Hindu/Irish Marxi$t father (he’s not black & Kamala is lying about her ethnic background), ⁃with the FBI being responsible for the assass^nation of MLK, Jr., ⁃the Black caucus real motive in DC, 

⁃ How George HW Bush and Barack’s grandfather are first cousins, – Search

George H.W. Bush and Barack Obama’s grandfather, Stanley Armour Dunham, are not first cousins. However, they are distantly related. Both George H.W. Bush and Barack Obama share common ancestors, making them distant cousins. Specifically, they are related through Samuel Hinckley and Sarah Soole, who were early settlers in Massachusetts in the 17th century12.

Stanley Armour Dunham, Obama’s maternal grandfather, is also distantly related to several U.S. presidents, including George H.W. Bush34. This makes Obama and Bush distant cousins, but not first cousins.

⁃ George H Bush, Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin & Barack Obama are all cousins, and ⁃other issues of interest in history, such as people who grew up on and around weird sexual fetishes have become leaders. Please watch, it is very educational.

It’s fascinating how interconnected some public figures are! While they aren’t all closely related, there are some distant connections. For example, Barack Obama and George W. Bush are 11th cousins1. Obama is also distantly related to Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney2.

George H Bush, and Mike Pence are cousins – Search

There doesn’t seem to be any verified information indicating that George H. W. Bush and Mike Pence are cousins. While many U.S. political figures have distant familial connections, there is no evidence to support a direct familial relationship between these two12.

Misty Dawn @MiztDawnCO

Please, God, let @realDonaldTrump become POTUS again. I owe the IRS $11k for this year and $14k for last year, due to helping my young adult kids out. #EndtheFed, too!
 OMG Please let this happen 

Trump is asked if we can find a way to ELIMINATE Federal Taxes once America is back on its Feet

Trump says there is a Way to Eliminate Federal Income Taxes 

“There is a way….  In the old days when we were smart, in the 1890’s, this is when the country was relatively the richest it ever was.

   Merica, we’re taking it back. 

We had tariffs; we didn’t have income tax….”

WHAT has Trump been talking a lot about lately?

——— TARIFFS! 

The original intent was for any Federal government to be entirely funded by tariff revenue.

Exactly! With tariffs… Congress will need to do their job of running the country on a budget, not a money printer machine that crushes the citizens more & more & more. They would be forced to bring America back to self-reliance of manufacturing our own products and creating more jobs.

The US received so much money in tariffs during the 19th century, there were no taxes. There was no need for taxes. But after WW1, America stopped the tariffs. But the Federal government needed money, so taxation on Americans began, replacing the tariff revenue. We need to return to the 19th century scenario.

Yaroslav the Wise @callsign_ratrod

The middle class would get killed it’s the same thing as a VAT tax on everything you buy i have lived in Europe it would end up costing you more, you people are clueless the price of everything goes up esp gas and the economy would collapse, gas would be mine 8 dollars a gallon, If a person making 30k a year and a person making 300k a year both need to buy at item that costs $5 but tariff adds $2 it’s worse for the person making 30K

As Gov. Waltz around his tax increases, Minnesota’s economy struggled. 

Did Tim Walz ‘let Minneapolis burn’ in 2020? Here’s what happened. – Search

The claim that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz “let Minneapolis burn” during the 2020 protests following George Floyd’s death is a bit of an oversimplification.

Here’s a breakdown of what happened:

1. Protests and Riots: After George Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020, protests erupted in Minneapolis. Some of these protests turned violent, leading to significant property damage, including the burning of the 3rd Precinct police station1.
2. National Guard Activation: Critics argue that Walz was slow to respond, particularly in activating the National Guard. He activated the Guard about three days after the initial unrest began2. This delay has been a focal point of criticism, with some saying it contributed to the extent of the damage2.
3. Response and Criticism: Walz has defended his actions, stating that the initial request from Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey lacked the necessary details for a swift deployment. He emphasized the need for a clear plan before deploying the National Guard2.
4. Tim Walz: Anatomy of a Fudd: Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz likes to talk about his bona fides when it comes to firearms, using that to push his liberal gun control agenda. This sort of behavior and focus on hunting specifically has led many in the gun community to refer to him as a “Fudd.” But what does it mean to be a Fudd – and does Governor Walz fit the bill?

In summary, while there was significant damage during the protests, the narrative that Walz “let Minneapolis burn” simplifies a complex situation involving coordination and response challenges during a rapidly evolving crisis.

Since the COVID-19 economic recovery began in the second quarter of 2020, Minnesota’s growth has lagged the national average by 5.5 percentage points. Taxes have been imposed for many Centuries, even before the US was even a country. You want to be responsible for the road in front of you? No military…because no one can work for free and feed a family? 

You think there are homeless and starving people now? 

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@SuzieQ_2023 on X: “@MJTruthUltra Uninstalling for all…in process https://t.co/uhZI1O5MUr” / X

Taxes are nothing more but a control mechanism.

This is why he will be fought and this has been fought for a long time. Still though, this must happen. Now is the time.

He didn’t pause either! Do you hear the enthusiasm in Trump’s voice when he says “There is a way, there is a way”. Almost like he’s been dying for someone to ask that particular question! Read his tone, body language, eyes.

Trump also said that he would pay off the debt in 8 years. he had 4 years and what happened? 

Every year his deficit was higher than the last, and literally a quarter of the entire US debt happened on his watch.

A tariff is a type of tax levied by a country on an imported good at the border.

Tariffs have historically been a tool for governments to collect revenues, but they are also a way for governments to try to protect domestic producers. Can you imagine how our economy would EXPLODE if this happened !?

if by “economy,” you mean “the current system where the bankers constantly steal from us,” then yes

It would infuse the economy with a ton of money, and demand would go through the roof.

Exactly. Just like the 1929 Great Depression.

I don’t think people realize what it was like for most workers before FDR addressed everything. Now to undo it all. Reagan allowed the rich to get richer while ignoring the workers once again. Clinton allowed Banks broader rein, etc. Chipping away. Personally, I don’t want 1890

You should have watched Fareeds’s CNN documentary Sunday night. It put America into a deep recession!It sounds like Fareed Zakaria’s documentary made quite an impact! Fareed Zakaria often tackles significant and complex issues in his specials. However, it’s important to note that a single documentary wouldn’t directly cause a recession. Economic downturns are typically the result of a combination of factors, including policy decisions, market conditions, and global events.

Learn more: 1cnn.com 2edition.cnn.com 3cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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If Canada decided to put tariffs on US fruits and vegetables, what would happen? Most Canadians would stop buying American fruits and vegetables and would consume whatever is grown in Canada. You’d have a surplus and would need to FIRE workers … Trump’s favorite pastime …Quick History Lesson = Our government’s best revenue source, prior to Income Taxes, was sales taxes on liquor. 

When the Suffragettes wanted to abolish liquor & gain voting rights for women, the government told them, “You help us get the Income Tax Amendment passed & we will pass a law making liquor illegal.” So Prohibition brought Income Taxes along with the prohibition of alcohol. Then, in 1933, when they repealed Prohibition, the government continued collecting income taxes & started collecting sales taxes on alcohol again getting two huge revenue streams.

I think cutting taxes won’t be the sole factor to the attainable future, as it might just drive more demands and raise prices up even further. Getting rid of unnecessary regulations and wasteful spending are two key steps to lower costs of living, as it opens up more supplies of housing and other goods, along with the reduction of Gov debts caused by parasitic agencies and fail “projects”, the market will readjust itself as things become abundant and attainable.

Porter Stansberry’s Biggest Prediction Ever This shocking development in the energy sector could unleash trillions in new wealth for America… and make one little-known U.S. energy firm the next Exxon. 

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Even if everything you say were true, the alternative is far worse: A second Trump presidency could be transformative for the U.S. His focus on economic growth, job creation, and reducing bureaucratic red tape helped boost the economy during his first term.
Trump’s commitment to securing the nation’s borders and strengthening international alliances based on mutual respect—while holding adversaries accountable—reinforced America’s position on the global stage.
His emphasis on law and order, alongside a pro-business agenda, could reignite the economic momentum and security that many Americans are yearning for, making him a potential catalyst for renewed national strength.

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A Harris presidency would likely be a disaster due to her inconsistent track record and lack of clear leadership.She has frequently shifted positions on key issues throughout her political career, creating confusion and mistrust. Her tendency to prioritize political correctness over pragmatic solutions risks weakening America’s standing on the global stage and hindering domestic progress.
Harris has shown little capacity to handle complex crises, and her divisive rhetoric could further polarize the country. In times that demand strong, decisive leadership, her inexperience and indecisiveness could lead to chaos both at home and abroad.

Where, exactly, is our border open, and is there a welcome mat?

Who opened it and how? I ask because I’ll bet you don’t know.

Our border is no more open NOW than it has EVER been, False

So with crime up. And the future is green energy.
People are heavily vetted and must have a legally responsible American sponsor. They pay for their own flights and are granted temporary parole status for either 1 or 2 yrs. They are given working papers. The program is constantly monitored, and changes occur as needed.

When people refer to the U.S. border being “open,” they are often describing the perception of lax enforcement or policies that make it easier for people to cross illegally.

Here are some key points about how the border might be seen as “open”:

Surge in Illegal Crossings: In recent years, particularly since 2021, there has been a sharp increase in the number of migrants crossing the southern border illegally. This is seen as a sign that current policies are not as effective at deterring crossings as they once were.

Policy Changes: Several policies that were designed to control the border, like the “Remain in Mexico” policy (which required asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims were processed), were reversed. Critics argue that this has encouraged more people to attempt to cross the border.

Catch and Release: In some cases, migrants who cross illegally are apprehended but then released into the U.S. while they wait for their asylum hearings. This is often criticized as creating a de facto “open” border since many people do not show up for their hearings.

Overwhelmed Border Patrol: Due to the sheer volume of migrants, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is often overwhelmed, which makes it difficult to enforce immigration laws effectively. When resources are stretched thin, some migrants manage to cross without being apprehended. While the border isn’t literally “open” (there are border agents, barriers, and checkpoints), these factors contribute to the perception that it’s not secure or effectively controlled.

It also sends a message the administration will be focused on appeasing the radical left.

Expect: Open Borders: Giving free medical, jobs, and other resources to illegal immigrants at the expense of Americans.

Green Energy: Enforcing extreme green energy policies leads to higher energy costs. Imposing excessive regulations, driving up prices, and Stifling economic growth. While enforcing extreme green energy policies, leading to higher energy costs.

Soft on Crime: Advocating lenient criminal justice reforms that undermine law enforcement and public safety.

Wealth Redistribution: Excessively redistributing wealth, discouraging innovation and hard work.

Tax Hikes: Raising taxes on individuals and businesses, reducing disposable income and competitiveness.

Healthcare Overhaul: Pushing for government-controlled healthcare, risking reduced quality and longer wait times.

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Nachamu  on X: “@EllCee14 @GOPIsrael When people refer to the U.S. border being “open,” they are often describing the perception of lax enforcement or policies that make it easier for people to cross illegally. Here are some key points about how the border might be seen as “open”: Surge in Illegal Crossings: In” / X

I believe that God has a purpose for all of us in life, and sometimes we may not even know what it is, but I’m certain that Donald J. Trump is destined by God to save our country from a total takeover by the Communist Democratic party. Donald Trump now has a 66 percent chance of victory  #TrumpVance2024

Let’s talk about what tRump did in his time as POTUS shall we? 

Let’s talk about Trump’s LONG string of broken promises. He promised to build a wall. He did 52 miles out of 2,000. Much of it was replacement, not new. He promised to make Mexico pay. They didn’t. He promised to cut the deficit. He added $8T to it. He promised to unveil a new health care plan. It didn’t exist. 

He promised a middle-class tax cut. He cut taxes for the rich. The middle class is paying for it. He said COVID would just go away like magic. Hocus Pocus: it didn’t. He said he wouldn’t play golf as President. He made 250 visits to his own golf clubs. It cost taxpayers $136 million. He said he’d increase economic growth by 4%. He didn’t. President Biden did. And Trump is the first President to LOSE millions of jobs since Herbert Hoover. 

He promised an infrastructure plan. He had none. President Biden signed a massive one. He promised to hire “the best people.” He fired half of them, and then said they were the worst ever. He promised to bring down the price of prescription drugs. He didn’t: President Biden did. He promised to drain the swamp. He didn’t: He WAS the swamp. 

He promised to make America Great Again. He didn’t. 

If he did, it’d still be great. But he’s been campaigning on the same thing since 2015. This was only a partial list of broken promises. The American voters are smarter than to elect him again. At least I hope they are. No way in Hell this lying traitor gets my vote,,,,, Trump was fired in 2020 as a result of being able to get nothing done. Thank Trump for saving Obamacare, Anyone believe that?? Trump meltdown, or the ravings of dementia Trump.   ~USA TODAY (A Rag sheet full of Communist Propaganda).

So, I fact checked ….USA TODAY AND THEY ARE WRONG:

The Historic Results of President Donald J. Trump’s First Two Years in Office | The American Presidency Project Trump Administration Accomplishments – The White House | Trump’s Final Numbers – FactCheck.org | PolitiFact | How Donald Trump performed on 11 key promises.

Trump’s Biggest Accomplishments, Failures From His One-Term Presidency.

Side Note: In Trump’s first 3 years he added 3.1 Trillion Dollars to the U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time through World Peace and not giving our tax dollar out through foreign adversaries and Americans came first. Then the Democrat Virus enters into the United States, and they tack on $5 trillion in 2020 in stimulus waste. AND THE U.S. ECONOMY WENT TO HELL IN A HAND BASKET!

2020 stimulus payment amounts – Search

The 2020 PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) Stimulus Checks, part of the broader Economic Impact Payments under the CARES Act, were designed to provide financial relief to individuals and businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic1. However, there were concerns about “corporate freeloaders”—companies that took advantage of these relief measures without necessarily needing them.

Some large corporations received significant funds through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was intended to help small businesses keep their workforce employed during the pandemic2. Critics argued that some of these corporations had sufficient resources to weather the crisis without government aid, thus diverting funds from smaller businesses that were in dire need2.

The controversy highlighted the challenges in ensuring that relief efforts effectively targeted those most in need, and it sparked discussions about the oversight and distribution of such funds2.

Corporate freeloaders and the 2020 PPE Stimulus Checks – Search

Tracking PPP: Search Every Company Approved for Federal Loans – ProPublica

Learn more: 1home.treasury.gov 2jsri.msu.edu 3irs.gov

Good news for the GOP doesn’t come from the pages of USA Today.  

This election is not about choosing the most likeable person. We are voting between two vastly different ideologies. 

This is why I am voting for Trump. I’m voting for the First Amendment and freedom of speech. I’m voting for secure borders and LEGAL immigration. I am voting for election integrity to include mandatory voter ID. (Why would anyone vote against this?) I’m voting for the Second Amendment and my right to defend my life and my family.

I‘m voting for the police to be respected once again.

I am voting for law & order and an end to allowing protesters to trespass and burn our cities, destroying innocent small businesses. (hear that Tim Walz)

I am voting for personal responsibility and the end of the revolving door where criminals are being put back on the street. (hear that Kamala Harris). 

I’m voting for the continued appointment of Federal Judges who respect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I’m voting for the next Supreme Court Justice(s) to protect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

I’m voting for the Electoral College and for the Republic in which we live. . I’m voting for keeping our jobs to remain in America and not be outsourced all over the world – to China, Mexico and other foreign countries.

I’m voting for doing away with all of the freebies given to all of the illegals and not looking after the needs of the American citizens and homeless veterans. I’m voting for the military & the veterans who fought for this country. 

I’m voting for peace progress in the Middle East.

I am voting for the return of teaching math, history, and science instead of the indoctrination of our children into Communism.

I’m voting for 1A & 2A and Freedom of Religion.

I’m voting to keep men out of women’s sports. I’m voting to fight against human/child trafficking. I’m voting for America. I’m voting for Trump.

And most will be voting out the Democrats as Americans, especially in NC are tired of the America Last policies that left them with less money than there should have been and a horrible response from the clowns at FEMA.

Ragena WhiteThen answers one thing why so many people from NC are on TV and social media saying otherwise. It’s been reported by CNN that more than 60% of locals say FEMA response has not been good.

James WadeI don’t know where you got your information on TV, but I can only tell you what I have seen.  We have had over 500 landslides and over 100 bridges washed out (from local news).

We had no water, no electricity, and most had no cell service.

Getting to people for rescue and sending people supplies was extremely difficult especially in the first week. I have seen the local, state and federal governments pitching in along with churches, individuals and volunteers from out of state..  

All working together we have seen a tremendous response. Disinformation from social media and other sources, mistrust of the government, political spins and patience have been a problem.

FEMA had to suspend going door to door for 48 hrs. because of an armed threat. Some of the disinformation about FEMA was that they were stealing things, taking gas, their property and there was no FEMA money.

VIDEO: Capito Highlights Three Years of Failure from President Biden and his Administration

Biden was the de facto front-runner to secure the Democratic presidential nomination after launching his re-election campaign Tuesday. 

Some Americans touted the president’s successes, but others told Fox News they couldn’t think of a single accomplishment.

“Absolutely nothing,” Suzanne said.

Nancy said she’s “not very positive” toward Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris.

“I wish I could say something positive,” she said. “I’m sorry.”

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But Kent said Biden’s greatest accomplishment was passing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which, according to the White House, will create 2 million jobs per year over the course of a decade and will “rebuild our roads and bridges with a focus on climate change mitigation, resilience, equity, and safety for all users.” 

“That’ll help the country,” Kent said. 

Americans pointed to the Afghanistan withdrawal, record-high inflation and the border crisis as some of President Biden’s biggest failures while in office. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Aikee said she liked how the president has worked to protect abortion rights and eliminate some student loan debt. 

“The student loan debt, even though it’s in the Supreme Court right now, that really helps me and my daughter because we both have student loans,” she said. 

Biden’s approval rating hit an all-time low, 37%, this month, while 59% of U.S. adults disapproved of the president, a Gallop poll found. The president’s popularity is worse among younger voters, with 36% of 18- to 29-year-olds approving of his performance, according to an Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School poll released Monday.

People that Fox News spoke with pointed to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, decades-high inflation and the border crisis as some of the president’s biggest failures while in office.

On President Biden’s failures, Suzanne said she couldn’t “name them all.

There’s just one thing after another.”  (Fox News)

“Closing down our energy production,” Peter said. “That’s what I think is the biggest failure, because that raised the cost of every single thing we do.” At the start of his presidency, Biden halted oil and natural gas leases on public lands in an effort to curb carbon emissions and revoked a permit for the Keystone Pipeline. 

One woman, Suzanne, said, “the border, inflation — I can’t name them all, there’s just one thing after another.” Kent, an Army veteran, said the Biden administration’s greatest failure was “when they brought the troops back from overseas.”

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“They handled that wrong,” he said.

In 2021, Biden ordered the U.S. remove its military from Afghanistan after a 20-year-long war. A suicide bomber killed 13 American service members during the withdrawal’s chaos.

To watch the full video, click here.

Megan Myers reported from Baltimore; Isabelle McDonnell and Teny Sahakian reported from Nashville.

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