Posted originally on May 6, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
Staged actors have been embedded in US universities to promote the pro-Palestinian, anti-US sentiments. Professional agitators have been utilized countless times throughout periods of civil unrest, and while the media has repeatedly denied that Soros and other far-left funders are backing these protests, the evidence is in plain sight.
CNN reported that many of the “students”arrested at Columbia and City College of New York had no affiliation with either school. The New York Police Department arrested 282 people, and only 148 (a bit over half) were actually students.
Take a look at the tents popping up across all major universities – they are identical. The media claims that students are simply searching for the cheapest tent, which appears to be the two-person Ozark Trail option at Walmart, which retails for around $30. However, it seems suspicious that hundreds of students purchase the same tent coincidentally. A lot of these privileged college kids in Ivy League schools are not known for sorting by price. It is more probable that an organization purchased these tents in bulk and distributed them on college campuses.
Students are also receiving instructional booklets on how to protest. Why is everyone wearing COVID-era masks? They have been directed to conceal their identities to stay anonymous, as “it can help if the entire crowd is doing it.” They are told to bring two sets of clothes and conceal any logos or identifiable items.
Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard shows the chains used to secure Hamilton Hall at Columbia University.
"This is not what students bring to school. This is what professionals bring to campuses and universities." pic.twitter.com/fwFUPZlIj7
Officers are reporting uniformed supplies, and stating that they believe what is happening is not the result of mere student organizations. Again, everyone calls them conspiracy theorists and dismisses any claim that these events have been manufactured to create civil unrest and divide America. So we saw outside agitators used numerous times in recent years during Black Lives Matter riots and even on January 6. Organizations such as the Open Society Foundations openly donate to “grassroots” causes and specifically target the youth to carry out their messaging.
My wife Nahla in solidarity with the brave and very determined Columbia University students. pic.twitter.com/ximkHFbZeo
As reported by Fox, Sami Al-Arian, a known terrorist who was once deported, advised associates and his wife to camp out along with the college students. This man is admittedly associated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group. He has taken to social media to promote the civil unrest across American universities. This is a clear and REAL threat to national security. Again, these students are too naive to understand the root cause of these issues or the truly dangerous actors fueling the flames.
I cried today… What's happening across US university campuses is unprecedented. I lived four decades in the US, 28 years of which were in academic settings. During my time, it was a very challenging struggle to present an anti-Zionist narrative. But the passion, courage,…
The Dawn of a Global Students Movement to challenge the Zionist movement and Israeli occupation. Look at this impressive list of colleges and universities. pic.twitter.com/p0uYUtFJvc
Even Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams believes that these events are staged. “I know that there are those who are attempting to say, ‘Well, the majority of the people have been students.’ You don’t have to be the majority to influence and co-opt an operation. That’s what this is about,” said New York City Mayor Eric Adams. “We’re going to protect our city from those who are attempting to do what is happening globally. There is a movement to radicalize young people and I’m not going to wait until it’s done and all of a sudden acknowledge the existence of it.”
Adams went on to say that the goal of these protests is to create “discord and divisiveness,” and for once, I actually agree with the guy.
Where is the president amid this ongoing crisis? He mumbled a few words from a teleprompter but he should be meeting with university presidents and law enforcement agencies. These professional agitators are manipulating the vulnerable youth into making decisions that will prevent them from seeking employment and stain their records.
The Black Lives Matter riots heated up in May 2020 ahead of the election, and now we are seeing that same issue play out once again where the left is permitted to wreak havoc on the public in the name of social justice.
Biden said he would be willing to accept Palestinian refugees into the US, a move that no country in the Arab world has agreed to do. The worldwide media is covering these events, but the POTUS has failed to condemn the ongoing violence, and then you have his former handler, Obama, publicly sending letters urging Biden to agree to a ceasefire. The “students” are now requesting “humanitarian aid,” showing how utterly clueless and lost they have become. Tensions are rising, protests have turned into riots, and violence will escalate if something is not done to promote law and order.
Posted originally on the CTH on May 1, 2024 | Sundance
There was a meme we often shared 15-years-ago as the era of Obama’s political rise started to manifest in full glory. The Chicago Marxists, who used the power of political correctness, guilt and progressivism to manipulate public opinion, were successful.
The radicals took control of the executive branch institutions, George Soros began funding networks connected at various state levels to the judicial branch institutions and the manifesting results were predictable.
All of the current violent and extreme pro-Hamas college activity flows from the same system of NGO’s and political activist groups connected to the Obama network. They hate Israel, and they hate the USA.
CALIFORNIA – In UCLA last night protesters and counter-protesters were seen clashing with sticks, and tearing down metal barricades, TV footage showed. Others were seen launching fireworks or hurling objects at each other in the dark – lit up with laser pointers and bright flashlights.
The Los Angeles police department said that ‘officers have been deployed, and are currently on the UCLA campus, to assist in restoring order.’
The nationwide protests have posed a challenge to university administrators trying to balance free speech rights with complaints that the rallies have veered into anti-Semitism and hate.
The unrest has swept through US higher education institutions like wildfire, with many student protesters erecting tent encampments on campuses from coast to coast.
In another of the newest clashes, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, police moved in Tuesday to clear one encampment, detaining some protesters in a tense showdown.
A week-long occupation was brought also brought to an end at northern California’s Cal Poly Humboldt while Portland State University’s campus, in Oregon, was closed Tuesday ‘due to an ongoing incident’ in the library.
Local media reported around 50 protesters had broken into the building a day earlier.
And Brown University reached an agreement in which student protesters will remove their encampment in exchange for the institution holding a vote on divesting from Israel – a major concession from an elite American university.
Shocking footage from the scene at UCLA showed both sides openly clashing as college security abandoned the scene and local police were nowhere to be seen.
Just before 11pm local time in Los Angeles, the violence escalated when the pro-Israeli side surrounded the pro-Palestine group. During this standoff, a firework was thrown at the camp.
The video showed both sides using pieces of wood as makeshift weapons. The walls of the encampment were smashed, at least one person could be seen being dragged on the ground by another group.
‘Horrific acts of violence occurred at the encampment tonight, and we immediately called law enforcement for mutual aid support,’ UCLA’s vice-chancellor Mary Osako said in a tweet.
The LAPD said in a message that their presence was requested on campus at UCLA due to ‘multiple acts of violence.’
These clashes lasted for around 90 minutes before Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced that law enforcement was about to be deployed at the college. At 1:30am local time police officers and the California Highway Patrol arrived. (READ MORE)
Posted originally on Apr 30, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
What brought thousands of people together to create something as simple as a pencil? Some may be familiar with the late economist Milton Friedman’s popular analogy of how a mere pencil represents the effectiveness of a free market.
No single human could create something as simple as a pencil. The phone or computer you are using to read this article took the collaboration of hundreds if not thousands of individuals to achieve from sourcing the materials, innovating the creation through design and trials, manufacturing the product, negotiating trade, shipping the final product, and selling it to you the consumer. People across the world came together, putting in countless hours of work, to provide you with commonly used products that one may not pay much attention to in their day-to-day lives.
What brought these people together? “The magic of the price system!” Friedman explains. They “cooperate so that you could have it for a trifling sum. That is why the operation of the free market is so essential–not only to promote productive efficiency, but even more, to foster harmony and peace among the people of the world.”
Friedman was criticized for promoting the idea that business operates for business purposes, and the “greed is good” doctrine. We now have those who want to implement environmental and social credit scores into business and large banks and institutions have adopted this ideology. . The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) pushes the CEI (Corporate Equality Index), a company’s social woke credit score. The Open Society Foundation, operated by the Soros family, funds the HRC. The ESG promotes a company’s green social credit score, promoted by BlackRock and the World Economic Forum. Companies are shying away from these arbitrary credit scores in droves.
BlackRock even came out and said that the concept of stakeholder capitalism, introduced in 1932 but currently promoted by the World Economic Forum and its partners, was bad for business. BlackRock has $700 billion tied up in ESG policies, and this pivot marked a change in business trends. The first bill that President Joe Biden vetoed was a bill intended to dissolve the ESG climate social credit score, which was only foreshadowing the policies that later came about, most notably the Inflation Reduction Act that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admitted was intended to combat climate change. Yet this push to an essentially socialistic society has been undeniably ineffective.
In one of his many writings, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits,” Friedman explains why capitalism produces results. “The whole justification for permitting the corporate executive to be selected by the stockholders is that the executive is an agent serving the interests of his principal,” the late economist stated. Friedman was beyond his time. He used the example of what could happen if a company were required to adjust its prices and policies “to contribute to the social objective of improving the environment,” hire less qualified individuals in the name of equality, or change prices to adjust for overall inflation.
The answer is simple – the corporate executive making these decisions would be “spending someone else’s money for a general social interest,” and thus, socialism. “Insofar as his actions in accord with his “social responsibility” reduce returns to stock holders, he is spending their money. Insofar as his actions raise the price to customers, he is spending the customers’ money. Insofar as his actions lower the wages of some employes, he is spending their money”
Friedman argued that individuals could spend their personal money as they saw fit, but businesses have no such social obligation. Adjusting prices for social causes is essential imposing taxes and decided how the tax proceeds should be spent. Taxation without representation. The corporate executive and business leaders are the chosen representatives of the shareholders. “Here the businessman—self‐selected or appointed directly or indirectly by stockholders—is to be simultaneously legislator, executive and jurist. He is to decide whom to tax by how much and for what purpose, and he is to spend the proceeds—all this guided only by general exhortations from on high to restrain inflation, improve the environment, fight poverty and so on and on.” Forcing businesses to operate based on social policies degrades the elected representative to a “public employee, a civil servant, even though he remains in name an employee of private enterprise.”
Joe Biden continually states he is cracking down on corporate greed. How are we to expect business to combat such a complex topic?
As Milton Friedman explains:
“He is told that he must contribute to fighting inflation. How is he to know what action of his will contribute to that end? He is presumably an expert in running his company—in producing a product or selling it or financing it. But nothing about his selection makes him an expert on inflation. Will his holding down the price of his product reduce inflationary pressure? Or, by leaving more spending power in the hands of his customers, simply divert it elsewhere? Or, by forcing him to produce less because of the lower price, will it simply contribute to shortages? Even if he could answer these questions, how much cost is he justified in imposing on his stockholders, customers and employes for this social purpose? What is his appropriate share and what is the appropriate share of others?”
Separating the public and private sectors is necessary in a free market. “In an ideal free market resting on private property, no individual can coerce any other, all cooperation is voluntary, all parties to such cooperation benefit or they need not participate. There are no “social” values, no “social” responsibilities in any sense other than the shared values and responsibilities of individuals.” This is precisely in opposition to what we have seen with CEI and ESG policies, where businesses have been barred from operating freely due to social pressures from Washington and global organizations. The climate change zealots expect the entire energy sector to reform instantaneously without the realization that is utterly impossible to achieve any of their zero CO2 targets.
Milton Friedman speaks extensively on this topic in the book, “Capitalism and Freedom,” as well as countless articles published during his lifetime. The fact of the matter is that the private sector produces for the good of all based on “greed” or profits as that is the motivating factor. Everyone acts according to the invisible hand theory, which Adam Smith put forth years ago. Thousands of people would not have felt compelled to create a mere pencil if it were not for their own self-interest that ensured they would receive something in return for their time and work.
Socialism, climate change initiatives, DEI initiatives, CEI, and ESG scores all suppress the free market and deter business. Taxing businesses into oblivion to support big government suppresses the free market. Absolutely everyone reaps the benefits of a free market where goods flow, jobs are abundant, and talent is rewarded. We must separate the private and public sectors as we do with church and state. History has taught us time and time again that operating under the premise of “social responsibility” leads to utter failure, feminine, and deteriorating economic conditions for all.
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