Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 14, 2021 | Sundance | 202 Comments
ABC always pairs with The Washington Post for their media polling [DATA pdf HERE]. It has always made sense for the deep swamp (DC Inc) to work with the intelligence PR firm of the Washington Post, as they attempt to prop up their politics. Unfortunately, the results of the latest outlook look terribly horrible for their future.
Why does George Stephanopoulos have a case of the sads… “As things stand, if the midterm elections were today, 51 percent of registered voters say they’d support the Republican candidate in their congressional district, 41 percent the Democrat. That’s the biggest lead for the Republicans in 110 ABC/Post polls to ask this question since November 1981.” The economic outcomes from JoeBama policy are again crushing Americans, as only 29% of voters view the economy as good.
70 percent of Americans say f**k Joe Biden, things are not good. The key factor is the economy. With inflation soaring, 70 percent say it’s in bad shape, up from 58 percent last spring. Joe Biden’s approval for handling the economy overall is down to 39 percent. Fifty-five percent now disapprove of Biden’s economic performance. In terms of Biden’s job performance overall, a new low of 41 percent approve, while 53 percent disapprove; similar to his rating on the economy.
The Biden economic agenda is purposefully destroying America with massive inflation that is crushing the middle class. While the majority of Americans do not know the specifics of how the JoeBama policy is doing this, everyone can see and feel the outcomes…. and it is only getting worse.
In the states of Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin – Biden’s overall job approval rating is 33 percent, compared with 43 percent elsewhere. Registered voters in these states favor Republicans over Democrats for the House by a 23-point margin, 58-35 percent, vs 7 points, 49-42 percent, in the rest of the country. Independents, often swing voters in national elections, favor GOP candidates by 18 points (50-32 percent).
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Throughout history, to avoid material harm, or to gain social acceptance from an oppressor group, many people have suppressed a stigmatizing identity and “passed.” Jews have passed for gentile; mixed-race for white; indigenous for non-indigenous. Most of these fakers sought the greatest possible anonymity; the more they blended in, the less scrutiny they attracted. Their motivation—fear of the oppressor—was grounded in reality.
Today, it is quite the opposite: Identity fraud by official oppressors passing as the officially oppressed can whisk the perpetrator from anonymity to high status involving social and material reward. Their motivation? Not fear. Envy.
The contemporary faker’s habitat is most often a university, where he or, increasingly, she (as opportunities for women in high places soar) is paid large sums of money to promote the interests of the group the faker identifies with.
U.S. race fabulist Rachel Dolezal was outed in 2015 after passing for years as black. Not only was the former teacher of Africana studies able to dupe her university, Dolezal managed to insinuate herself into leadership of a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter before her house of cards collapsed.
Likewise, Canadian Carrie Bourassa, recently outed as a “pretendian” Métis, worked to advance the fortunes of indigenous people. Now on leave, both from her tenured position at the University of Saskatchewan and as scientific director of the indigenous health arm of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Bourassa had also successfully passed as indigenous for many years.
It was only when Bourassa began to gild the lily, upping her Métis genetic claims with alleged links to include the Anishinaabe and Tlingit First Nations, that a colleague of indigenous heritage looked into Bourassa’s genealogy. She alerted the CBC to her findings, prompting their own independent investigation, which resulted in exposure of Bourassa’s all-European DNA.
Bourassa’s grand deception elicited shock and criticism from indigenous and non-indigenous critics. A hail-Mary revisionist statement proffering a fig leaf for her claim (“custom adoption” rather than blood quantum) fell flat.
It is natural to assume, and most observers did, that rapid career advancement was the principal motivation behind Bourassa’s elaborate charade. But I find that explanation alone insufficient.
First, because it is a demanding job in itself for a public figure to remain “in character” all the livelong day for a projected lifetime. No ordinary person of Bourassa’s genuine intelligence and competence would consider accelerated career advancement alone a good enough reason for such an investment of time and effort, when the alternative wasn’t penury, but a perfectly satisfactory career in her field, even if achieved at a slower pace and without public acclaim.
And second, because anyone guided by an unoccluded capacity for weighing the risks against the benefits in her situation—her own family was living proof of her deception—would surely have anticipated and quailed before the strong possibility, indeed the probability, of eventual disclosure, with all the shame and humiliation such a revelation would, and has, entailed.
Only an individual driven by extreme psychological need to internalize her myth as truth would pursue such a reckless course of action. So I do not see cold calculation in Bourassa’s delusion; rather I see a highly ambitious but psychologically fragile human being whose mental vulnerability made her a vessel into which certain ideological strains in our culture were easily poured.
We find a supportive clue to this hypothesis in a reported statement Bourassa issued through an anonymous group in which she claimed that she has the right to “self-identify as an Indigenous Person, within the greater family of Indigenous Peoples in Canada.” She reportedly asserted that the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (UNDRIP) “confirms and legally supports her to Self-identify as an Indigenous Person.”
Of course, UNDRIP, which curiously does not actually define the word “indigenous,” does no such thing. The allusion likely refers to Article 33, which states: “Indigenous peoples have the right to determine their own identity or membership in accordance with their customs and traditions.” Peoples, not individuals.
It may well be that Bourassa truly believes she “is” indigenous because her mind fused the two dominant but contradictory belief systems guiding the present cultural moment: gender fluidity and critical race theory (CRT). CRT tells us that immutable, genetically embedded characteristics like race and indigenous blood quantum are the bedrock of one’s identity, while gender ideology tells us that immutable biological factors like chromosomes and gametes are meaningless beside subjective feelings of identity.
So on the one hand, Bourassa was educated to believe that as a white woman, she harboured an original sin she could never extirpate. On the other, she was educated to believe that her own feelings were the sole arbiter of her own identity.
What Bourassa did was wrong, but can we not sympathize with her? Our society’s most influential institutions—government, education, law, health services—have endorsed both these pernicious woke belief systems as worthy of entrenchment in our pedagogy and policies. Take any sensitive child with an unstable sense of self, for whatever reason. Indoctrinate that child to believe that nothing about his or her body may be taken as a clue to his or her “real” identity. At the same time, hammer home the message that skin colour and DNA—the only indications of one’s “real” identity in everything but gender—are infallible signs of either lifelong victimhood, or of ineradicable genocidal guilt.
The two messages conflict, but since one, if untethered from gender and applied to indigeneity, offers not only release from tormenting guilt but also material reward and reverence from cultural elites to boot—well, the wonder isn’t that Carrie Bourassa synthesized a personal myth from them; the wonder is there are so few copycats.
Bourassa’s flamboyancy was her downfall. At a 2019 TEDx talk, dramatically garbed in traditional aboriginal costume and with a feather in her hand, “Morning Star Bear” choked up with genetic pride. “I’m Bear Clan. I’m Anishinaabe Métis from Treaty Four Territory,” she announced to ecstatically woke applause.
Bourassa’s role immersion recalls Grey Owl (1888-1938), a.k.a. Archie Belaney, a British-born Canadian pretendian who, falsely claiming Ojibwe lineage, became known in the 1930s as “the most famous Canadian alive.” The native people Belaney lived amongst knew he was a charlatan, but his effective conservation activism earned their silence.
Today’s compulsively chatty digital panopticon has made protective silence a superannuated luxury for fraudsters. That’s a fact of life. Alas, Bourassa was indoctrinated to believe “feelings” can trump facts. Everyone now is similarly indoctrinated. But unlike “everyone,” Bourassa took her “felt” identity to an extreme but logical conclusion.
Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
There is a book about to be published that exposes that Soros has had his fingers in Ukraine to protect Hillary and Biden while undermining Trump. As everyone knows, I had direct contacts in Ukraine which were providing the backdrop to events. I was advising on how to win the revolution by convincing the police to switch sides to the people because the president was using Russian thugs to defend him not Ukrainian. Moreover, despite the people who just spin conspiracies from nothing, the revolution was by and for the people – not the CIA. When they actually won, that is when both the EU and the US interfered and warned if they overthrew the people they were installing, there would get no support from the West. Hence, the very corrupt politicians were retained.
Soros has been using his billions made from the trading club to alter the world and to force it into his insane idea that if there is only one government, then you will eliminate war. This was adopted by Europe and the former head of France explained was the purpose behind creating the Eurozone also allegedly funded secretly by Soros. There is nobody else who has been funding the overthrow of governments to devolve into a single world government than Soros. He has bought access to the world and has set up his son to carry the torch.
Soros has been controlled the media and is in league with both Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab. Soros is the dark lord behind the curtain and it has been his money that is funding even the attempt to overthrow the United States and shred our Constitution. This new book provides extensive documentation of his influence in usurping powers through Ukraine which has propelled Biden to the White House and protested both Hillary and Hunter Biden.
I have said before when I met with the former Prime Minister of Australia trying to buy land for the people of Hong Kong and he refused to allow them to migrate because he was Labour and they would vote Conservative. It is always about power. Now Biden made a choice. He is raising the cost of medicare for seniors while proposing to have $450,000 in cash per illegal family because they were separated from the children. The Democrats only see the potential of illegal aliens voting for them while seniors mostly vote Republican fearing inflation and low-interest rates. They made their choice – illegals v Americans. I have never witnessed such insane policies by any other president regardless of their party affiliation.
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 13, 2021 | Sundance | 244 Comments
One thing CTH does is to look at proposed leftist advancements through the prism of previously blocked moves. The Joe Biden nomination of avowed communist Saule Omarova to the Treasury Department Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) should be considered in a similar perspective.
There’s a couple of different issues surfacing in the Omarova nomination. Obviously, she is aligned with the view that controlling money is another way to control the behavior of businesses and people; Omarova’s previous statements {Go Deep} about intentionally bankrupting oil and gas companies is indicative of the former – and the most recent statements are aligned with the latter. WATCH:
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Obviously, Saule Omarova is interested in the concept of an all controlling central bank that would eliminate the need for private banking interests. As she states, “There will be no more private bank deposit accounts, and all of the deposit accounts will be held directly at the fed.” The basic premise is that all employers would funnel their payrolls into a centralized federal depository, where they would be then be taxed and re-distributed, electronically, to the workers.
One central bank, owned and operated by the federal government, would replace all the purposes within the private banking system. Given her upbringing in the former Soviet Union, and considering her education at the University of Moscow, perhaps this outlook shouldn’t be surprising. However, her nomination alone should be viewed as astonishing.
♦ Big Picture – The COVID Passport concept, now currently deployed in Europe and Australia, then becomes the vector for entry into a digital identification process. At the end of that digital ID process is a centralized database, which, not coincidentally, directly aligns with the capability of the U.S. federal government to trigger what Omarova is advocating in that video – a centralized system to control all financial deposits and transactions through the digital ID previously created.
It doesn’t take a deep thinker to see how the federal government would eventually respond to having that much power over the financial accounts of Americans. Cue the visual reference:
Now, pause for a minute before you call me crazy… [although in my defense, CTH has been outlining the goals and aspirations of the specific Chicago headquartered communist ideologues for almost 15 years, while most allies on Team Freedom said we were crazy]… and consider: ‘through the prism of previously blocked moves’; because there’s a reference here most are likely to miss.
Years ago, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was constructed by Elizabeth Warren, and her progressive/communist ideologues as an extra-constitutional government agency. The CFPB originated as a reaction to the financial crisis in 2007/2008. It was an outcome of the Dodd-Frank bill that was part of the progressive “never let a crisis go to waste.” This was entirely by design. At the time of creation,the CFPB held two primary, albeit unspoken, functions.
First, it was structured as a financial holding center for fines and assessments against any private-sector financial organizations opposed by democrats, progressives and communists.
Second, it was constructed as a distribution hub for the received funds to be transferred to political allies and groups supportive of democrat, progressive and communist causes.
The CFPB monitors almost all financial products, determines if they are racist, and then issues fines to correct the problems with financial justice. To pull off this scheme, Elizabeth Warren et al ensured it was structured to allow no congressional oversight; however, it was also structured to have no executive branch oversight – and the funding mechanism for the CFPB budget was directly through the federal reserve. The lack of any legislative or executive branch oversight made the entire scheme unconstitutional according to a court decision.
In late September, the Senate voted 50 to 48 to confirm Rohit Chopra to be the next director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, after months of uncertainty for the Biden administration (link). Three weeks later this happened:
WASHINGTON DC – The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ordered Thursday that several tech giants, including Amazon, Facebook, and Google to turn over information on payments-related systems and products.
CFPB ordered six technology platforms to turn over information. These six platforms are Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Square, and Paypal. CFPB Director Rohit Chopra stated that the bureau would also study Chinese tech giants such as WeChatPay and Alipay.
Chopra stated that little was publicly known “about how Big Tech companies will exploit their payments platforms.” He wrote: “The CFPB’s inquiry will help to inform regulators and policymakers about the future of our payments system. Importantly, it will also yield insights that may help the CFPB to implement other statutory responsibilities, including any potential rulemaking under Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.” (read more)
That ongoing background in the world of banking and finance is the context to look at the recent statements by Joe Biden’s nominee, Saule Omarova, for Treasury Department Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), {VIDEO LINK}. “There will be no more private bank deposit accounts and all of the deposit accounts will be held directly at the fed.”
Essentially, the CFPB is looking at ways the private sector is legally circumventing a need for the traditional U.S. banking system. While they are doing this, the COVID Passport becomes the entry vector for entry into a digital identification process.
There appears to be a likelihood these two lines of inquiry could merge in a centralized database with the capability of the U.S. federal government to trigger control over financial deposits and transactions through the digital ID previously created.
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 13, 2021 | Sundance | 158 Comments
Many people have asked: how is the best way to stop the insanity behind the incessant vaccine narrative? The likely best approach is to start demanding the pharmaceutical companies have their liability waivers removed.
If the vaccine is safe and effective, why would the U.S. government still need to provide liability waivers from adverse vaccine outcomes?
Start pressuring legislators and elected officials to force the elimination of the waivers. Alinsky them… Make them live up to their own narrative; their own words, their own rules. If the vaccines are safe/effective, why do we need the waivers? If you want to get more people vaccinated, drop the waiver moving forward.
Eliminate those liability waivers and watch how fast every vaccine mandate is dropped, while every voice demanding vaccination goes quiet.
This was the second year our World Economic Conference was unable to bring in our staff from China, SE Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Our staff had to appear by video while the Biden Administration allows unlimited UNVACCINATED people from south of the Border free access, gives them money, and secretly flies them into Republican states. One such person murdered a local Floridian which brought his scheme to the surface. Not only are these people not vaccinated against this fake pandemic, but the most serious diseases from Polio to Smallpox also devastated South America.
Smallpox is by far among the most devastating illnesses ever suffered by humans. It dramatically altered the course of human history, and as our model has revealed, it even contributed to the decline of civilizations. Indeed, Smallpox is believed to have first originated in India or Egypt at least 3,000 years ago based upon recorded events. The earliest evidence for the disease comes from the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses V, who died in 1157BC. Interestingly, after examining his mummified body, the classic pockmarks on his skin were discovered. As world trade began with the Minoans and the Phoenicians, this is how the disease later spread along trade routes. Thus, it was carried to Asia, Africa, and Europe eventually it made its way to the Americas during the 1500s. We were all taught in school that Europeans brought many diseases to the indigenous peoples and in return, they gave Europeans syphilis. The native Americans had no natural immunity to many diseases and smallpox was one of them.
It has been estimated that 90% of indigenous casualties during European colonization were caused by disease rather than military conquest. It was actually smallpox that wiped out the Aztec Empire, in 1519. This was how the Spanish conquered the Americas more by disease than battles and some three million Aztec succumbed to the disease. The most fearsome opponent, the Aztecs, was easily defeated when they were first wiped out with smallpox. Indeed, smallpox even took the life of an Inca emperor and wiped out much of the Inca population as well located in the western region of South America.
There were three waves of disease. The first was known as the great Mexico smallpox epidemic that killed up to 8 million or 23% to 37% of the population between 1519 to 1520. This was followed by the Cocoliztli epidemic of 1545–1548, which killed up to 15 million between 27% and 80% of the Mexican population at that time. Cocoliztli is an Aztec name given to a mysterious illness marked by high fevers and bleeding. It is believed to be perhaps a bacterial genomic that have suggested a form of Salmonella. A third wave hit Mexico once more with this Cocoliztli epidemic in 1576 which lasted into 1580. It is believed to have killed about 50% of the Mexican population at that time.
In Europe, smallpox is estimated to have claimed 60 million lives in the 18th century alone. In the 20th century, it killed some 300 million people globally. As much as smallpox wiped out unsuspecting communities, this was really the first vaccine that truly exterminated the disease BECAUSE it only existed in humans. It was actually Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) who came up with the most impressive weapon against smallpox – a vaccine inoculation after he lost his son in 1736. Indeed, smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the American Revolution began. It too contributed to the outcome of the American Revolution.
There were mass vaccinations around the world starting in the 1950s and thereafter infection rates plummeted. The last natural case occurred in 1977, with smallpox declared completely eradicated from the globe by 1979. While vaccines defeated smallpox. Antibiotics conquered scarlet fever. Officially the deadly smallpox virus was claimed to no longer exist. The final outbreak in the United States took place in 1949. This was one of the greatest triumphs of modern medicine only because it existed exclusively in humans. Yet nature is resilient. If we defeat a virus, it will mutate. Monkeypox, which is very similar to smallpox, is a disease found in central and western Africa. Its reservoir is believed to be primarily in rodents from which, like the Black Plague, has made that jump to mammals including monkeys and humans. This is what viruses will do – it’s a cycle some call evolution.
Despite these successes, some diseases appear to be making a comeback. Outbreaks of measles and mumps have made more than a few headlines of late. Elizabeth Fenn, whose book “Pox Americana” documented that Americans are as susceptible today to smallpox as Native Americans were when European settlers arrived. “Today, we’re all Indians,” she said. “Smallpox is a disease with long legs.” Her research into the spread of smallpox during the American Revolution put a whole new twist upon how the war unfolded and how it was won. During the terrible winter at Valley Forge, General Washington had to decide if and when to attempt the risky vaccination of his troops and create a vaccine.
The mass migration from Soth American that the Biden Administration is encouraging may result in the real pandemic with mutation of viruses that have been local. As Fenn explained in her book, it was the Revolution that moved people around and this led to the epidemic of smallpox spreading throughout the colonies. The risk of allowing all of these immigrants into the United States without any medical checks could end up being the most debating act of the Biden Administration.
The three judge panel upheld its previous decision to put a stay on the order by Joe Biden against companies with 100 workers or more. The Biden administration had instructed the Department of Labor to require COVID-19 vaccines. The Biden administration’s effort to use an Emergency Temporary Standard OHSA rule was rejected by the court citing numerous flaws in their review and ruling:
“The mandate is a one-size-fits-all sledgehammer that makes hardly any attempt to account for differences in workplaces (and workers),” Circuit Court Judge Kurt Engelhardt wrote for the panel.
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