Jul 6 2020

Florida & Texas Attracting Even More Migrants from High-Taxed States

Armstrong Economics Blog/Real Estate

Re-Posted Jul 6, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

The flight from the high-tax states continues to create a diversified real estate market throughout the United States. The Florida market is resilient. Despite the problems associated with COVID-19, the average price of sold listings through June 2020 is 6.3% higher year over year. The average price in 2019 was $390,447 while the average price in 2020 was $415,190 with respect to a select group of condos on the west coast. People are once again out viewing properties and some friends from New York have commented they cannot stay in New York even another month as it has become draconian and dangerous.

One fried from LA who just flew out here said the police did not even try to stop looting, for the politicians told them to stand down for fear they might shoot some minority so they just let stores be looted. Another friend from Pennsylvania also called and wanted to move. He said a major shopping mall, King of Prussia Mall, was looted and prompted a State of Emergency declaration in Upper Merion Township. In just the past few weeks, the number of friends who have called or flown here looking for a property is stunning. One said I should have followed you four years ago — “I’m not sure I can even sell my house now!”

Jul 6 2020

Act or Be Acted Upon…

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on July 6, 2020 by sundance

It is not my intent to be cryptic; but at a time of consequence, it is necessary. That said, there roots of CTH are deep, strong and enduring. Nothing here will change; this is your refuge and I tend to it as a happy steward. That is important to me.

Before going further, I know there are questions. Perhaps my sharing a recent communication is a familiar transparency you have come to expect; perhaps also it will answer some questions… or at the least, begin the conversation:

Good afternoon XXXXXX, and thank you for reaching out.

I am working right now on a project I started in December 2018. It is nearing a key inflection point, and over the next few weeks I should reach an anticipated crossroad.

My goal has never been to write or publish a book; nor gain influence or affluence. That objective remains. Digital pamphlets for the common man in the spirit of Thomas Paine is always my primary approach. The truth has no agenda; but so many people and institutions do.

With that in mind, it is the lack of action on a very specific, and demonstrably provable, example that now represents a very significant opportunity to highlight our national condition.

As the nation awaits the results of the probe being conducted by USAO John Durham, and with an expectation of outcome based on recent history, I have assembled a library of evidence that will either enhance the Durham result; and/or challenge it, depending on his finding.

In the spirit of Paine’s intent, information without action is antithetical to its purpose.

Volume III, a big ugly confrontation, is the key. How does the common man retain liberty within a system whose existence is contingent upon a foundation of pretense. While knowing the cornerstone of that system is dependent on ignoring the truth he/she carries?

It is very kind of you to reach out, and I thank you for it.

As Frost aptly noted “two roads diverge in a yellow wood”… I shall know within two weeks which path.

Warmest regards,

Sundance

As noted above; and based on a similar level of frustrated 2013/2014 interest that laid the groundwork for the 2015 splitter strategy outline and subsequent 2016 tripwire series; back in 2018 I began ‘gaming-out’ an unfortunate and likely 2020 scenario based on a series of events I suspected would surface within the body politic. The difference this time was the severity of consequence.

Recognizing in late summer 2018 that key DOJ, FBI, SSCI and media actions could ONLY be created by a very intentional design, for very intentional purposes, I started thinking about the ramifications for 2020.

As said often before, currently missing amid our national condition is action.

Information without action is antithetical to its purpose. This is why we miss Andrew Breitbart so much. Additionally, what a shallow example would I be to myself if cast against this site’s masthead. We all need to summon the courage to be Andrew Breitbart.

With that in mind; and entirely based on a carefully catalogued and irrefutably true set of records; on a very specific and consequential issue that cuts to the core of some of the most powerful interests in our nation; I set about planning an insurance policy of sorts. An “in case of emergency, break glass” kind of approach; perhaps even a ‘broken arrow’.

I have been working this since late summer 2018, specifically the evening after I said President Donald Trump was going to fire Jeff Sessions on the day after the 2018 election. (He did) By December ’18 it was seriously underway. I have gamed-out every possible outcome you can imagine; and now enter a phase where I shall be organizing the specific details, and hopefully allies, in order to get an unstoppable chain of events in motion.

If John Durham and Bill Barr deliver the brutal truth this summer, then a series of releases of information will hopefully enhance their sunlight. However, if they do not deliver the big ugly truth of it – then I will initiate events. Or I’ll go down trying.

There is a very specific and demonstrable story that is beyond refute and purposefully ignored by media. Within that back-story a whole lot of powerful people and systems are exposed. The specificity and irrefutable nature of the story is the key. Those institutions and the people in them will be confronted and shared in real time so all can watch.

A digital pamphlet simultaneously dropped while each participant is confronted… through a series of relentless confrontations. Yes, I know the risks. That’s why I’ve been planning, assembling, coordinating, and putting things into place for two years. I am not naive to the severity of the interests involved, nor their abilities; hell, I research them.

Do or do not, there is no try.

Act or be acted upon.

That is all I can share for now….

Jul 6 2020

Domestic Terrorism – Black Lives Matter “Protestors” Murder 8-Year-Old Black Child…

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on July 5, 2020 by sundance

Atlanta Georgia has erupted into a lawless society as a willfully complicit Atlanta Mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, attempts to avoid her role in the murder of an 8-year-old child as violent Black Lives Matter protestors run amok in the city.

On Saturday night about 9:30, Charmaine Turner and her daughter were driving with a friend when they attempted to turn into a store near a group of armed Black Lives Matter protestors. Two of the BLM activists opened fire on their vehicle for not complying with their unlawful roadblock, and 8-year-old Secoriea Turner was shot. She died in her mothers arms as they attempted to escape the area and get to a hospital.

Secoriya Williamson, father of 8-year-old Secoriea Turner, addressed the public.

“They say Black Lives Matter. You killed your own… You killed a child” Mr. Williamson noted:

A reward of up to $10,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest and indictment of the BLM activists. Tipsters may remain anonymous and should call the Crime Stoppers Atlanta tip line at 404-577-TIPS (8477). Atlanta Mayor Bottoms says she is sorry for their loss as she continues negotiations with the domestic terrorist group.

Jul 5 2020

The US Constitution, as originally written, was the best ever attempt at forming a utopia! Corrupt men and women in the Twenty century, who wanted to rule us, decided to change that. So they started a 100 year program in 1913 to turn us back into a “Single” party system. Right now BLM and Antifa are the DNC’s foot soldiers to do that. If they win we will be, at best, like China. They must be defeated at all costs!

We at GrrrGraphics wish everyone a happy 4th of July!

America remains the greatest Republic ever created. Yes, we face many problems, but racism is not one of them. There is no ‘systemic racism.’ That is a lie. There remains equal opportunity for all those willing to work hard to obtain success. The Bolsheviks will have none of this and are using race to divide and destroy our country. We must not let this happen. Black or white, we have nothing to be ashamed of. Slavery reparations were already paid long ago. It was called the Civil War. Over 600,000 Americans died and slavery was ended.

My heritage includes both the North and South. My mom was born in Massachusetts. I might be distantly related to the famous abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison of Massachusetts, but I doubt it. My dad was born in Texas. My parents’ ancestors were on opposite sides. I can appreciate both the North and South. Of course slavery was evil, but the vast majority of southerners were not. Very few had slaves.

Despite what Nancy Pelosi has been spewing, the people of the South were not ’traitors.’ They did not want to overthrow the government of the North. What the South did was called ’succession.’ They wanted to disassociate themselves from the unfair tariffs and corruption meted out to them by the North. In those days the states had far more power along with the understanding that they could divorce themselves from the union when tyranny and unfair taxation became unbearable. So they did. Lincoln would have none of it and forced the southern states to return to the union by means of war. It remains our country’s deadliest conflict.

In the process, Lincoln established a strong central government and the states were rendered more subordinate. This arrangement has grown worse over the years and now the leviathan federal government routinely bullies the states and its citizens. The word ‘federal’ is now used with finality. It’s an argument ender. We have no say!

To expedite a national restoration, all southerners received full pardons. They were once again part of the Union. The South was allowed to erect statues of their great generals. Paintings of great leaders from the South hung in the halls of Congress. Pelosi recently ordered their removal. She said they were traitors. WRONG! They were not traitors, they wanted succession—and then they were pardoned! Pelosi is the real traitor for trying to destroy our history!

The fact that the South was defeated does not negate their heroism. l repeat, almost none of the soldiers fighting for the South owned slaves. They were fighting for freedom and liberty and they were just as honorable and heroic as soldiers from the north. All should be honored. Our history should be respected. The statues should remain—including and especially Andrew Jackson’s.

President Jackson was our first Democrat president. Jackson’s greatest accomplishment was throwing out the central bankers. A man of unparalleled courage, Jackson was vastly outnumbered during the War of 1812 and still handily defeated the British near New Orleans. By the way, many blacks heroically fought for Jackson during that battle.

African Americans fought in all our country’s wars from the very beginning and have been just as patriotic as other races. You don’t often hear from them because the lying mass media only promotes socialist voices. I do not want to see America totally destroyed and returned to Native Americans. I can’t return to Ireland, Britain, or Germany any more than an African American can return to, say, Ghana or the Upper Congo. Why would we? We are all fortunate to be where we are—the greatest Republic ever created on the face of the Earth. It would be a deadly shame to allow its destruction.

The Fourth of July is a holiday that all Americans should celebrate regardless of petty political differences. Unfortunately the violent globalist Bolsheviks don’t see it that way. They want to widen the division as they constantly chant ‘racist’ to justify their goal: The destruction of our great country. It starts with destroying our statues and history.

The violent BLM and Antifa are the real traitors—not the people from the old South.

—Ben Garrison

Jul 5 2020

Desperation In The Cry Of Revolutionaries Rioting For Socialism

President Trump landslide victory in November, The dismantling of the old Democratic Party–if the country doesn’t burn down in the meantime

Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By Douglas V. Gibbs —— Bio and Archives—July 3, 2020

Desperation In The Cry Of Revolutionaries Rioting For Socialism

Racism is the final accusation of a desperate political ideology, and the tool that former Russian communists said the Marxists would use as a part of their ideological subversion in the United States to achieve their “revolution.” Violence is the final desperate act of scoundrels bent on change, and realizing that the bourgeoisie is not quite as ready to leap into socialism as they thought. And if they don’t get what they think they want, they are ready to burn it all down, because their Marxist puppeteers told them to.

A commenter on a recent article wrote that I am not even aware of my [white] privilege. Does that apply to my Mexican wife? My mixed grandchildren who are a mixture of white, Mexican, and Filipino or Puerto Rican (depending on which ones)? Does that apply to my good friend Harry who is Puerto Rican and agrees with me on this stuff? How about my video-making counterpart Alfonzo Rachel, who is black?

Black Lives Matter is the Democrat Party’s KKK

Black Lives Matter is the Democrat Party’s KKK, but slightly different. The KKK terrorized blacks and white republicans, and now the BLM terrorizes whites and black republicans. Same thing, with a slight twist. Making the screaming children running around in the streets calling for change the true racists…and desperate ones, at that.

We are witnessing the desperate cry of a group of revolutionaries who don’t understand why there is a resistance to their cry for socialism. Every tyranny has in common the need for a common enemy. A perpetual enemy. A battle cry for the revolution, and a unifying factor for the foot soldiers to fight against.

From the annals of true history regarding communism, fascism, and other dictatorial systems, to George Orwell’s 1984, the same is true. Tyranny, to survive, needs two things. A perpetual enemy, and a free market system to become a parasite on. However, if America falls, the host is dead, and so will be the parasite. There will be no producers remaining to suck off of.

The supporters of Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and this latest round of radicalism that is reminiscent of the operations of the Black Panthers and Weather Underground from the late sixties and into 1970 is nothing new, and the connections to the old Weather Underground group are striking. They are following the same playbook, and they are saying the same things. Except, this time there is a President in office, Donald J. Trump, and a conservative electorate, who are aware of what these radicals are truly all about. Therefore, it’s not working as well as the radicals thought it would. So, they are becoming desperate. Desperate pawns, desperate tools, desperate children throwing a temper tantrum in the hopes of overturning and overthrowing the American System. They remind me of dogs chasing cars, not really knowing what they would do with it if ever they caught it, and they are definitely not intelligent enough to drive it if ever they got behind the wheel.

They are not smart enough to know that they don’t know. This is outright stupidity. They are nothing more than foot soldiers for a larger leftist power, that, if it ever gains control of this country, will execute each and every one of them as a thank you, in the name of them knowing too much. The communists did it. The fascists did it. And these radical rulers will do it if the treason against the United States succeeds. So, little children calling for defunding and dismantling the police, like the person who commented on one of my articles, calling what I wrote “cute” and that their fight is against the “white power structure,” simply proves how ignorant the commenter is, and how much of a throw-away tool that person is. Be warned, be careful for what you wish for, because it will likely cost you your life, not while fighting in what you think will be a glorious revolution, but by execution by the very power structure you think you are in support of. And be aware, the power structure the protesters and rioters claim to hate, big corporate America, are the very ones helping them do what they are doing, because the power structure the rioters think they hate are largely the puppeteers pulling these ignorant people’s strings.

I wrote in 2016 before Trump was even elected that this was on its way, because they do the same thing every time.

Here are some of the highlights as I write to defend the republic, and explain the dangers of democracy, and leftist mob mentality:

Democracy is mob-rule, which becomes mob-violence, led by people who populate our current ineptocracy. The recipients in such a movement are the takers, the parasites who suck the life out of liberty and the free market. Eventually, the takers begin to demand a redistribution of wealth in the name of fairness. As the non-producers become fat and satisfied from the confiscation of wealth from the producers, eventually the takers outnumber the producers, and the fate of the system is set. Disaster can be the only result.
It has now become the idea that some people have a legitimate right to forcibly control others. From their point of view, theirs is the best idea, therefore all other concepts must be squashed. No concept that may challenge the superior ideas by the statists can be allowed. All citizens must have faith that the religion of big government is what must be worshiped, and must stand alone. Any dissent will be eliminated.
Are willing to resort to violence, if necessary, to defend those ideas. They ritualize the actions of the government, surrounding the leaders with children and supporters whenever they sign a piece of legislation. Then, the radicals who have performed an internal coup rabble-rouse, using the uniforms of authority they have acquired, be it police, federal enforcement agencies, or judges, to accomplish their strategy. Yet, as they don the uniform, they continue to argue they are the ones who stand against the uniform. They are battling against “The Man,” even though they have become “The Man.”

Deconstructing our History

The persons tasked with policing look too much like the enemy the liberal leftists are trying to dislodge. Even the denizens of law enforcement must be broken up, retrained, and made to be in full compliance with the new order that is rising like a blossoming religion. “If you want the world fixed,” the citizens are told, “you need to take to the streets, and stop those sinners who are standing in the way of a new dawn. You must be a citizen army of agitators and activists.” Democracy is mob-rule, and mob-rule is mob-violence. This is what they seek. The republic is being assassinated.
Designed to batter dissenters into submission. The same concept is being employed by the current authoritarians in government, masked with faces of good intentions. BlackLivesMatter and the Black Panthers say they exist to combat racism. How can one argue? We know that racism is bad, and so those combating it are noble, right? Except the Democrat Party method of combating racism is with their own brand of racism, using violence to target those who dare to disagree.
Law enforcement has also become a target. Chaos, after all, destroys, and then from the rubble the statists may remake society into the image they believe is the best. Cops who stand in the way will be attacked and removed. Cops who believe in the Democrat Party’s cause will survive the attacks being perpetrated by the new American brownshirts. Those rare cops are considered allies. All others must be exterminated.

Like the radical agitators of other revolutions before them, the tearing down of statues have nothing to do with what they say it is (in this case, racism), it is all about deconstructing our history. The shutdown orders or fake news of inflated numbers of COVID19 cases have nothing to do with a virus, it is all about locking you up at home so that you are out of the way of the revolution, and become accustomed to your new limitations on freedom.

The 1619 Project is a fraud

The 1619 Project is a fraud, and designed to deconstruct our founding as a country of liberty. The mandate to wear masks is simply an authoritarian order designed to get you accustomed to that kind of rule over you. Idiotic leaders like those in San Bernardino County have even gone so far as to declare that racism is a health crisis.

The desperation is there, though, because the problem is that not only are the conservatives and constitutionalists standing up for their country, but Democrats, realizing that the socialists now have full control of the Democrat Party, are leaving the leftist movement. Radical Black Lives Matter people are turning on blacks, no matter who they are, if they dare to voice dissent. News is getting out that Black Lives Matter is less about black lives, and more about terrorism and connections to radical people, groups, and ideologies. The reality is that in the end, Black Lives Matter is all about forcing America through violent revolution into becoming a communist country. Black Lives Matter, and the Democrat Party, are all about killing the nuclear family and steering Americans away from believing in God. Their revolution is failing, and zones like the one in Seattle are being dismantled. Even Barack Obama has admitted that this whole thing is not about racism, but about political power for the Democrats and their socialist allies. So, while the liberal left works to defund, dismantle, or pass laws that will harm police and encourage violence against them, the people are watching this lawlessness, and I believe most Americans have come to the conclusion that this is not what they want, and the voters are deciding their Democrat Party has left them. As General Michael Flynn wrote in The Western Journal, 2% are trying to gain control, and we better not be complacent if we wish to stop these people. They may be desperate, they may realize their revolution is not working as they’d hoped, but as they sink into desperation, they will become like the cornered animal, and possibly go for broke … with a bombing, an assassination, or worse.

But, in the end, I believe this will all backfire on them, giving President Trump a landslide victory in November and launching a new era that may end in the dismantling of the old Democratic Party…that is if the country doesn’t burn down in the meantime.

Jul 5 2020

A Harvard graduate? Really?

Claira Janover

Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By Klaus Rohrich —— Bio and Archives—July 2, 2020

A Harvard graduate? Really?, Claira Janover

It doesn’t appear to be too long ago when graduates of Harvard University had the ability to reason and spoke in complete sentences. But the case of Harvard alumna Claira Janover is causing me to wonder if maybe Harvard has turned into a daycare center.

Claira Janover, you will recall, is the snowflake Harvard Graduate that lost her position at Deloitte, a prominent international accounting firm, as a result of a viral video meltdown on Tik Tok Video MS Janover had over “the caucasity” of anyone saying that all lives matter.

In the video Janover said, “I’ma stab you, and while you’re struggling and bleeding out, I’ma show you my paper cut and say, ‘My cut matters, too.’” And this from a Harvard Grad? Really?

Snowflakes now entering the workforce

First of all, the irrational claim that only black lives matter vs. all lives. Someone please explain how this can be factually correct and exactly why black lives are more valuable than all others, when pretty much every weekend Chicago turns into a war zone and a whole bunch of black lives wind up getting snuffed. Aren’t these black lives important? Or is it only the black lives ending in police custody?

Secondly, the sheer trash-talk from someone purporting to have graduated from one of the Ivy League’s most prestigious schools says a lot about the quality of education in America’s schools. “I’ma stab you.” She says? For God’s sake the girl’s a native of Connecticut and not Harlem. This appears to be a trait that so-called progressives learn early on, attempting to make themselves sound like they have street smarts, as in whenever Hillary Clinton talks to a group of black people her speech and syntax changes. If this isn’t the case, then that $200,000 education, whether paid by mom and dad, or racked up as student debt, was a terrible waste of money.

Third, Janover’s absolute refusal to take any personal responsibility for her words and actions are reflective of society’s failings to our young. If all your life you’ve been told that you’re special and that you can change the world and the mere presence of you makes everyone else’s life so much better. Let’s take a look at Deloitte’s perspective; are they really expected to retain an employee that doesn’t have a filter, or is unaware that there is such a thing? After all, the job for which she had been selected, public business service analyst, sounds like a smidgeon of discretion might be an important requisite.

Her blaming Trump supporters for her life’s woes likely isn’t so much a reflection of reality, but an advancement of the narrative against normalcy. I’m certain Trump supporters could care less about her or her job, as she is barely a blip on the radar and wouldn’t have shown up at all, had she not lost her job at Deloitte.

But then the old adage that words and deeds have consequences seem to be lost on a lot of the snowflakes now entering the workforce and a Harvard degree certainly doesn’t make them any more rational or responsible.

Jul 5 2020

Understand What is at Foot

Armstrong Economics Blog/Conspiracy

Re-Posted Jul 5, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Martin: I have been an avid follower for many years. My first expose to your writings must have been when you were ‘detained’ as the reports were hand-typed. Anyway, I just read your expose on the Great Reset and you have nailed it once again. I totally agree with your conclusions. Where there is smoke there is fire and in this case there is a smoking gun. Thank you for this priceless information.

Here is a link regarding the coronavirus you may not yet have seen: A very creditable scientist from Norway asserts the virus is from a lab and explains why. He is also not shy in stating why this is getting little or no exposure in the MSM.

Many have suspected this virus was man-made and part of some bigger, more sinister plan; there are simply too many so-called coincidences. Here you have explained the how and why.When you put it all together it seems doubtful there was even an ‘accidental’ leak in the first place, or that the recent ‘delayed’ increases of cases in red states such as Florida, Texas and Arizona were not manipulated by some agent provocateur…as one might say, right out of a Bond movie. After all, we wouldn’t want any contradictory statistics from States who are taking rational actions to contradict the Gates/Fauci/MSM narrative, would we ?

It is also curious with the timing of all this in terms of the economic crisis that has been ‘created’ justifying the Fed to employ MMT to buy commercial/corporate bonds and soon even corporate equities with money essentially created out of thin air. I actually wrote you a few months ago asking if this could in fact be a surreptitious way of nationalizing industry? Another coincidence?
Regarding climate change activists and CO2, there are so many distortions and lies in their propaganda; it is criminal. Zero CO2, whatever that means, is scary. At 150ppm CO2 all plant life would essentially die! It got to around 170ppm during the last ice age – not so long ago. At 400ppm we are not that far from the 150ppm.

Hopefully, these morons don’t ‘tinker’ with the atmosphere in some manner we’ll all regret. In that sense, I am very comfortable with much higher CO2 levels.
Another great reference is: “Evidence-Based Climate Science:…” by Dr Don Easterbrook. This link to his testimony at a legislature hearing says it all:
Once again, thanks for your insights to the unfolding concatenation.

REPLY: I have tried my best to put it all together since I had inside sources that were reporting things that are not being published. I have stated that there were people who sold all their positions in advance expressly saying a virus was coming. This is a well-funded and well-organized scheme and everyone should understand what they are really trying to accomplish for this is necessary for your future survival.

Jul 5 2020

How to Download Your Updates to the Great Reset

Armstrong Economics Blog/Reports and DVDs

Re-Posted Jul 5, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

How to Download Your Updates to the Great Reset

You go to your Store Account and click on Downloads – there you will see all the reports you have previously purchased and you can re-download the latest version at anytime for your purchases do not expire.

Jul 5 2020

President Trump Executive Order to Build Monuments To American Heroes – A National Garden…

Posted originally on The Conservative tree House on July 4, 2020 by sundance

How do you confront the lunacy of the anti-American leftists intent on removing American monuments? Well, if you are President Donald John Trump, you build more of them. Hence, an executive order establishing A National Garden of American Heroes:

[Executive Order] – By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Purpose. America owes its present greatness to its past sacrifices. Because the past is always at risk of being forgotten, monuments will always be needed to honor those who came before. Since the time of our founding, Americans have raised monuments to our greatest citizens. In 1784, the legislature of Virginia commissioned the earliest statue of George Washington, a “monument of affection and gratitude” to a man who “unit[ed] to the endowment[s] of the Hero the virtues of the Patriot” and gave to the world “an Immortal Example of true Glory.” I Res. H. Del. (June 24, 1784). In our public parks and plazas, we have erected statues of great Americans who, through acts of wisdom and daring, built and preserved for us a republic of ordered liberty.

These statues are silent teachers in solid form of stone and metal. They preserve the memory of our American story and stir in us a spirit of responsibility for the chapters yet unwritten. These works of art call forth gratitude for the accomplishments and sacrifices of our exceptional fellow citizens who, despite their flaws, placed their virtues, their talents, and their lives in the service of our Nation. These monuments express our noblest ideals: respect for our ancestors, love of freedom, and striving for a more perfect union. They are works of beauty, created as enduring tributes. In preserving them, we show reverence for our past, we dignify our present, and we inspire those who are to come. To build a monument is to ratify our shared national project.

To destroy a monument is to desecrate our common inheritance. In recent weeks, in the midst of protests across America, many monuments have been vandalized or destroyed. Some local governments have responded by taking their monuments down. Among others, monuments to Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Francis Scott Key, Ulysses S. Grant, leaders of the abolitionist movement, the first all-volunteer African-American regiment of the Union Army in the Civil War, and American soldiers killed in the First and Second World Wars have been vandalized, destroyed, or removed.

These statues are not ours alone, to be discarded at the whim of those inflamed by fashionable political passions; they belong to generations that have come before us and to generations yet unborn. My Administration will not abide an assault on our collective national memory. In the face of such acts of destruction, it is our responsibility as Americans to stand strong against this violence, and to peacefully transmit our great national story to future generations through newly commissioned monuments to American heroes.

Sec. 2. Task Force for Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes. (a) There is hereby established the Interagency Task Force for Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes (Task Force). The Task Force shall be chaired by the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary), and shall include the following additional members:

(i) the Administrator of General Services (Administrator);

(ii) the Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA);

(iii) the Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH);

(iv) the Chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP); and

(v) any officers or employees of any executive department or agency (agency) designated by the President or the Secretary.

(b) The Department of the Interior shall provide funding and administrative support as may be necessary for the performance and functions of the Task Force. The Secretary shall designate an official of the Department of the Interior to serve as the Executive Director of the Task Force, responsible for coordinating its day-to-day activities.

(c) The Chairpersons of the NEA and NEH and the Chairman of the ACHP shall establish cross-department initiatives within the NEA, NEH, and ACHP, respectively, to advance the purposes of the Task Force and this order and to coordinate relevant agency operations with the Task Force.

Sec. 3. National Garden of American Heroes. (a) It shall be the policy of the United States to establish a statuary park named the National Garden of American Heroes (National Garden).

(b) Within 60 days of the date of this order, the Task Force shall submit a report to the President through the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy that proposes options for the creation of the National Garden, including potential locations for the site. In identifying options, the Task Force shall:

(i) strive to open the National Garden expeditiously;

(ii) evaluate the feasibility of creating the National Garden through a variety of potential avenues, including existing agency authorities and appropriations; and

(iii) consider the availability of authority to encourage and accept the donation or loan of statues by States, localities, civic organizations, businesses, religious organizations, and individuals, for display at the National Garden.

(c) In addition to the requirements of subsection 3(b) of this order, the proposed options for the National Garden should adhere to the criteria described in subsections (c)(i) through (c)(vi) of this section.

(i) The National Garden should be composed of statues, including statues of John Adams, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Daniel Boone, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Henry Clay, Davy Crockett, Frederick Douglass, Amelia Earhart, Benjamin Franklin, Billy Graham, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Douglas MacArthur, Dolley Madison, James Madison, Christa McAuliffe, Audie Murphy, George S. Patton, Jr., Ronald Reagan, Jackie Robinson, Betsy Ross, Antonin Scalia, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, George Washington, and Orville and Wilbur Wright.

(ii) The National Garden should be opened for public access prior to the 250th anniversary of the proclamation of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2026.

(iii) Statues should depict historically significant Americans, as that term is defined in section 7 of this order, who have contributed positively to America throughout our history. Examples include: the Founding Fathers, those who fought for the abolition of slavery or participated in the underground railroad, heroes of the United States Armed Forces, recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor or Presidential Medal of Freedom, scientists and inventors, entrepreneurs, civil rights leaders, missionaries and religious leaders, pioneers and explorers, police officers and firefighters killed or injured in the line of duty, labor leaders, advocates for the poor and disadvantaged, opponents of national socialism or international socialism, former Presidents of the United States and other elected officials, judges and justices, astronauts, authors, intellectuals, artists, and teachers. None will have lived perfect lives, but all will be worth honoring, remembering, and studying.

(iv) All statues in the National Garden should be lifelike or realistic representations of the persons they depict, not abstract or modernist representations.

(v) The National Garden should be located on a site of natural beauty that enables visitors to enjoy nature, walk among the statues, and be inspired to learn about great figures of America’s history. The site should be proximate to at least one major population center, and the site should not cause significant disruption to the local community.

(vi) As part of its civic education mission, the National Garden should also separately maintain a collection of statues for temporary display at appropriate sites around the United States that are accessible to the general public.

Sec. 4. Commissioning of New Statues and Works of Art. (a) The Task Force shall examine the appropriations authority of the agencies represented on it in light of the purpose and policy of this order. Based on its examination of relevant authorities, the Task Force shall make recommendations for the use of these agencies’ appropriations.

(b) To the extent appropriate and consistent with applicable law and the other provisions of this order, Task Force agencies that are authorized to provide for the commissioning of statues or monuments shall, in expending funds, give priority to projects involving the commissioning of publicly accessible statues of persons meeting the criteria described in section 3(b)(iii) of this order, with particular preference for statues of the Founding Fathers, former Presidents of the United States, leading abolitionists, and individuals involved in the discovery of America.

(c) To the extent appropriate and consistent with applicable law, these agencies shall prioritize projects that will result in the installation of a statue as described in subsection (b) of this section in a community where a statue depicting a historically significant American was removed or destroyed in conjunction with the events described in section 1 of this order.

(d) After consulting with the Task Force, the Administrator of General Services shall promptly revise and thereafter operate the General Service Administration’s (GSA’s) Art in Architecture (AIA) Policies and Procedures, GSA Acquisition Letter V-10-01, and Part 102-77 of title 41, Code of Federal Regulations, to prioritize the commission of works of art that portray historically significant Americans or events of American historical significance or illustrate the ideals upon which our Nation was founded. Priority should be given to public-facing monuments to former Presidents of the United States and to individuals and events relating to the discovery of America, the founding of the United States, and the abolition of slavery. Such works of art should be designed to be appreciated by the general public and by those who use and interact with Federal buildings. Priority should be given to this policy above other policies contained in part 102-77 of title 41, Code of Federal Regulations, and revisions made pursuant to this subsection shall be made to supersede any regulatory provisions of AIA that may conflict with or otherwise impede advancing the purposes of this subsection.

(e) When a statue or work of art commissioned pursuant to this section is meant to depict a historically significant American, the statue or work of art shall be a lifelike or realistic representation of that person, not an abstract or modernist representation.

Sec. 5. Educational Programming. The Chairperson of the NEH shall prioritize the allocation of funding to programs and projects that educate Americans about the founding documents and founding ideals of the United States, as appropriate and to the extent consistent with applicable law, including section 956 of title 20, United States Code. The founding documents include the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Federalist Papers. The founding ideals include equality under the law, respect for inalienable individual rights, and representative self-government. Within 90 days of the conclusion of each Fiscal Year from 2021 through 2026, the Chairperson shall submit a report to the President through the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy that identifies funding allocated to programs and projects pursuant to this section.

Sec. 6. Protection of National Garden and Statues Commissioned Pursuant to this Order. The Attorney General shall apply section 3 of Executive Order 13933 of June 26, 2020 (Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues and Combating Recent Criminal Violence), with respect to violations of Federal law regarding the National Garden and all statues commissioned pursuant to this order.

Sec. 7. Definition. The term “historically significant American” means an individual who was, or became, an American citizen and was a public figure who made substantive contributions to America’s public life or otherwise had a substantive effect on America’s history. The phrase also includes public figures such as Christopher Columbus, Junipero Serra, and the Marquis de La Fayette, who lived prior to or during the American Revolution and were not American citizens, but who made substantive historical contributions to the discovery, development, or independence of the future United States.

Sec. 8. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

DONALD J. TRUMP

THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 3, 2020.

Jul 5 2020

Mount Rushmore Independence Day Fireworks and Celebration – Video and Pictures….

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree house on July 4, 2020 by sundance

Here’s a video of the full event, and of the spectacular fireworks at Mount Rushmore; with some excellent pictures of the day’s events. Happy Birthday America.ENJOY: