The contrast below between the security on the southern border and military presence in Washington, D.C., tells you all you need to know about today’s Democratic Party in charge.
While a migrant crisis mounts on the southern border, aided by President Joe Biden’s day-one executive order bringing a halt to construction of the border wall, Washington politicians have surrounded themselves with miles of fencing to provide protection not afforded to the American people.
An estimated 25,000 troops descended on Washington in the immediate aftermath of the Capitol riots in early January, bringing more armed military forces to lock down the capital city than remain in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. As of this month, 6,000 troops remain an occupying force, supported by fencing around the Capitol that still stands at the order of Democratic politicians hellbent on exploiting the eruption of political violence at the start of the new year.
Meanwhile, no such security measures were offered to the business owners down the street when their livelihoods were blown up repeatedly in the name of social justice during the summer Black Lives Matter riots.
The Democrats and their allies in a complicit media either endorsed, downplayed, or ignored the repeated outbreaks of widespread political violence that gripped the nation’s cities all last year before then capitalizing on the January riot that targeted Congress this year, which was roundly condemned by Republicans and conservatives alike. Some are still whitewashing the wave of deadly left-wing extremism that terrorized cities for months, claiming there was no violence. The property damage in major cities left by just two weeks of the George Floyd riots, however, was 66 times more devastating than the estimated destruction in the Capitol.
When a small force of federal troops was sent in to protect monuments of actual social justice warriors that were being vandalized by fake ones amid the unrest, their presence was vilified by the same Democrats now gaslighting the public with thousands of military men and women held in D.C. to protect the politicians.
Most Americans likely underestimate the size of the barricade erected around the Capitol guarding politicians. The video below will provide some perspective:
Democrats show no signs of relieving the thousands of Guardsmen protecting the Capitol from their duty, however, as they raise hysteria time and again to justify the troops’ presence.
First, an explosion of unrest was supposed to occur in the days leading up to President Joe Biden’s inauguration in state capitals across the country. That didn’t happen.
Then, on Wednesday, a second attempt at “insurrection” was supposed to target the U.S. Capitol. That didn’t happen.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at a Wednesday press conference the House will now consider permanent security measures for the Capitol next week.
“We have to ensure we are safe enough to do our job, but not impeding,” Pelosi told reporters.
New York freshman Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman echoed the House speaker’s sentiment.
“We must do everything we can to protect ourselves,” Bowman said on MSNBC.
The business owners on Pennsylvania Avenue would have appreciated a fraction of the same concern as the politicians have afforded themselves, even in the aftermath of two false intelligence bulletins raising hysteria of renewed attacks on the Capitol since early January.
As long as Pelosi rules the Capitol, however, exploiting the crisis at the complex from a horde of Trump supporters, the people’s seat of government will remain in lockdown.
Gov. Abbott launches ‘Operation Lone Star’ to address security at the Texas border
Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas Department of Public Safety launched
Operation Lone Star on Saturday to focus on smuggling at the southern
border of Texas, according to a release from the governor’s office.
Operation Lone Star will send law enforcement personnel and resources
to “high threat areas” of the border “to deny Mexican Cartels and other
smugglers the ability to move drugs and people into Texas,” the release
says.
The decision comes after a February meeting with Director of the
Texas Department of Public Safety Colonel Steve McCraw about security at
the border and what a release said were COVID-19 health concerns.
According to the Feb. 9 release, Abbott and McCraw discussed “a recent
surge of immigrants at Texas’ southern border and noted that this influx
is related to the Biden Administration’s reinstatement of the ‘catch
and release’ policy.”
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials told McAllen’s mayor
last month that family units — undocumented migrants traveling with
children who cross into South Texas — were now being paroled into the
United States as they awaited their asylum proceedings. This is what
occurred during previous border security apprehensions known as “catch
and release,” when migrants were allowed to remain in the United States
during their immigration proceedings however many years that may take.
“The crisis at our southern border continues to escalate because of
Biden Administration policies that refuse to secure the border and
invite illegal immigration,” Abbott said in a statement. “Texas supports
legal immigration but will not be an accomplice to the open border
policies that cause, rather than prevent, a humanitarian crisis in our
state and endanger the lives of Texans.”
The newly launched operation will include Texas DPS with the Texas
National Guard and will deploy air, ground, marine and tactical border
security assets, the release says.
Gov. Abbott’s statement also comes days after a back-and-forth with
President Biden about coronavirus restrictions and the Texas border.
The day before, Biden called Abbott’s peel back of COVID-19 restrictions in the state “Neanderthal thinking.”
According to Border Report’s Sandra Sanchez, 108 migrants released in Brownsville
during the past month were carrying the coronavirus, U.S. Rep. Henry
Cuellar, D-Texas, said Wednesday. He said that is putting the South
Texas border community, the volunteers who help them and the border
agents, at risk.
French MP and billionaire Olivier Dassault has died in a helicopter crash in north-western France.
No details have been given of the accident which occurred in the region of Calvados.Normandy.
In his tribute, President Emanuel Macron said Dassault loved France and his death would be "a great loss".
Dassault
was the son of the founder of the aerospace and software conglomerate
Dassault Groupe. He headed the company's strategy and development.
The Dassault
Rafale , literally meaning "gust of
wind", and "burst of fire" in a more military sense) is a French
twin-engine, canard delta wing, multirole fighter aircraft designed and
built by Dassault Aviation.
Dozens of reporters, journalists, and news anchors enjoyed a close-knit relationship with Joe Biden and his family, dating back to his Vice Presidency and linked to his private parties – thrown at taxpayer expense at the Vice President’s residence – known as “Biden Beach Boardwalk Bashes,” the National Pulse can reveal.
The news may go some way to explaining why CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and many others ignored the Hunter Biden laptop story of 2020.
The Boardwalk Bash.
The Biden Beach Boardwalk Bash was a pool party held in June at the Vice President’s Residence (VPR) on the grounds of the United States Naval Observatory in northwest Washington, D.C. It was hosted by Joe and Jill Biden, with attendance by the entire Biden family, including Hunter.
According to White House visitor logs, dozens upon dozens of prominent Washington journalists were guests at this prestigious party three times—in 2011, 2014, and 2016. No reporters from right-leaning or conservative media outlets were invited.
An examination of the visitor logs suggests 2011 was the first year journalists were invited. And while invitations were extended for 2012 and 2013, none of the invitees were actually logged into the VPR. The event wasn’t held in 2015, as it fell soon after the funeral of Beau Biden.
Some reporters attended the pool party just once, while some attended all three times. Photos of the events appeared in the hallways of the West Wing.
REPORTERS BROUGHT THEIR KIDS TO HANG OUT WITH JOE AND HUNTER.
Kid Gloves.
Few outlets have reported on the parties, and that’s how D.C. reporters wanted it.
Biden would often say things like: “You do something for my kids, I’m in your debt forever.” Well, Joe Biden did something for these journalists and their kids in bringing them to the VPR, and what did he get in return? The most accommodating news coverage in the history of presidential elections. Remember Tara Reade? Most Americans don’t.
CBS anchor and 60 Minutes correspondent Norah O’Donnell, along with her husband and children, attended all three pool parties – perhaps once of the reasons she was so accommodating to President Biden in her pre-Super Bowl interview.
Far worse than a corporate media love fest, O’Donnell’s heavily edited interview (20 minutes of camera time cut to 12 minutes of air time to cover for Biden’s fumblings) traded on her family’s personal relationship with President Biden’s family to offer him softball questions, capped off with her countenancing his lie about his past engagements with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
“Why haven’t you called Xi Jinping?” O’Donnell asked reasonably enough.
Within three sentences, Joe Biden, the questionably elected President of the United States, told Norah O’Donnell, her Super Bowl-sized audience, and most importantly, the Chinese Communist Party that “I probably spent more time with Xi Jinping, I’m told, than any world leader has because I—I had 24-25 hours of private meetings with him when I was vice president.”
This is a lie. Nothing more than a cowardly Joe Biden falsehood to minimize the true extent of his ties to Xi Jinping and the CCP.
Beijing Biden.
How do I know it’s a lie? I went to China went with then-Vice President Biden twice (in 2011 and 2013) when he met specifically with Xi Jinping. I was also in when the two men met in 2012. There were, as well, several meetings between the two in Washington during then-Vice President Biden’s tenure. As the CCP knows, they spent a lot more time together than 24 hours.
Let’s address Joe’s lie of how he characterizes his relationship with Xi.
Here’s a sample of Joe Biden in 2012 bragging about his special time with his buddy then-Vice President Xi Jinping: “I would venture to say, if we added up the hours in the last six months, the Vice President [Xi] and I have probably spent 20 hours alone in conversation.”
Get that Biden addition? Twenty glorious one-on-one hours in only six months!
And that was before Joe’s second trip to China in 2013 (the one Hunter freeloaded on) or the numerous meetings they had in Washington during visits Xi made as president.
As Joe’s former stenographer, I can attest that, when he wanted to impress a crowd with his ties to Xi, he would brag repeatedly about the over “40 hours” he’d spent with him. He loved telling crowds he was the world leader who was on best terms with Xi Jinping.
Of course, Joe was also perfectly willing to reduce that number to suit his audience if they were from, say, Japan or Korea.
But then came President Trump’s tough trade measures with China, which most everyday Americans and many Asians appreciated. It was only the elitists and the Chinese who wanted them ended.
Propaganda.
So when Norah O’Donnell asked, Joe lied. And Norah obliged.
How is this not propaganda? Thanks to Norah O’Donnell’s compromised journalism, the CCP knows what her viewers and reasonable Americans don’t—that Joe Biden during his vice presidency spent way more than “24-25 hours” in private conversations with Xi Jinping.
This isn’t just sloppy journalism; this is isn’t just a compromised president inviting further CCP encroachment; this is intentional elitist deceit that occurred because this “journalist” has a secretive personal relationship with President Biden.
This is unacceptable, and if CBS News had any integrity, Norah O’Donnell would be fired.
So now we have Joe Biden, a president, who has to lie about his past association with Xi.
But was something as mundane as a pool party that special? D.C. reporters certainly thought so.
In an off-camera moment just before she was to interview Vice President Joe Biden, I heard her express in hushed tones what a wonderful time she and her family had had at the Biden’s pool parties, and the Vice President was glad to hear it.
From that moment on I knew that these Biden pool parties were a “point of personal privilege” for the handpicked journalists who received an invite. Who got invites and who didn’t? Well, that depended on how you covered Biden and his family.
Greyhound CEO tells Biden’s DHS chief that his "migrants" must be COVID-free before boarding buses
The bus line is also seeking ‘emergency
funding’ from the government to provide transport services, the
company’s leader writes in a letter
The president CEO of Greyhound
has written to the head of the Department of Homeland Security, calling
for the agency to provide proof that any undocumented asylum-seekers
boarding its buses after release from DHS be COVID-free.
“Our
top priority is the safety of our employees and passengers,”
Greyhound’s David Leach wrote in a letter sent Wednesday to Homeland
Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
A Greyhound spokesperson
confirmed the letter was sent to the agency and that the company
"requested its assistance with the potential surge of migrants at the
border."
The letter came during the same week that more than 100
migrants tested positive for the virus at a Brownsville, Texas, bus
station as they prepared to board buses to northern U.S. destinations, according to Border Report.
“We
need assurance that any detainees released by ICE have proof of a
negative COVID-19 test, similar to the proof required for international
airline passengers who arrive at US ports of entry,” Leach’s letter
continued. “Greyhound already asks our customers to stay home and NOT
travel if they are not feeling well or have been diagnosed with COVID.
However, migrants simply do not have that choice unless the government
or their sponsors house them while they quarantine. Therefore, it is
critical to public safety that ICE provide 100% assurance that no one
released that can be reasonably expected to ride a Greyhound bus be
infected with COVID-19 (or mixed with other potential passengers that
have tested negative).”
Leach
noted that during previous surges of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border
in 2014 and 2019, Greyhound worked with regional partners and charities
to help transfer migrants “with dignity and humanity” but he added that
the coronavirus had helped create a “much more serious challenge” for
the company.
“We simply do not have buses and drivers ready to
meet surges in demand without emergency funding,” Leach said. “In order
to properly serve immigrants coming into the southern border and
traveling to their sponsor destination, Greyhound will be operating
one-way moves throughout the country and in order to get the resources
back (buses and drivers) to the border to continue operations, Greyhound
needs funding assistance to cover the costs of repositioning buses and
drivers from other parts of the country to wherever they may be needed.”
Whether Mayorkas or any other DHS or Biden administration official responded to Leach this week was not immediately known.
Earlier this week, Mayorkas urged would-be migrants to “wait” before
trying to enter the U.S. as the Biden administration worked to rebuild
an immigration system that he described as “gutted.”
He claimed the migrant situation posed a “challenge” for the Biden administration but not a crisis.
Meanwhile, hundreds of migrants have been gathering near the U.S.-Mexico border, with one group in Tijuana, Mexico, reaching about 1,000 people, according to FOX 5 of San Diego.
American
colleges and universities pose an existential threat to our nation that
hosts and so lavishly supports them. In fact, they are the single
biggest threat to Western civilization, now over 2,000 years old.
If
you are like most people, you probably think the previous two sentences
were overly bold, hyperbolic, preposterous. Maybe even crazy. And you
would be wrong. The rot emanating from institutions of higher learning
in the United States is more dangerous even than the coronavirus. The
virus of wokeism eats away its hosts’ mental capacity and renders
them ignorant, bitter, hostile, unstable, overly emotional and
intellectually impotent. COVID-19 will eventually disappear, but the
brain damage inflicted by today’s universities likely will not. Neither
mask mandates nor social distancing can protect us from the ravages
loosed on us by modern American academia. Lockdowns don’t work, either.
All of these may, in fact, be symptoms of the disease they have wrought.
This
is unspeakably sad, as these self-same institutions once existed in
large part to challenge and enlighten students and introduce them to the
great works of Western civilization and the foundational principles of
American society and Judeo-Christian ethics. They taught students how
best to think, not what to think. Like a free and impartial
press, these institutions were once beneficial-- indeed critical-- to
the health of a free democratic republic. We have neither now.
Today’s
colleges and universities serve only to further the goals of their
elitist benefactors by indoctrinating their charges into a ubiquitous
and homogenous Marxist mindset, one at loggerheads with the notion of a
free, democratic republic based on the rule of law and governed by, of,
and for the people.
Today’s
colleges and universities give lip service to “tolerance,” fawn over
“diversity,” and purport to be open and welcoming to all. Nothing could
be further from the truth. Conservatives are shunned, canceled,
threatened, fired, or assaulted as the case may be. Professors and
students openly rejoice in the physical misfortune -- or even death -- of those who do not share their radical political agenda. “Activists” demand the removal of statues
of historic figures… if they haven’t already defaced and toppled them.
Even as they savage the past, colleges are repeating it by increasingly
racially segregating their students and initiating separate, racially-based departments, dorms, and graduation ceremonies.
Colleges are degrading or eliminating their grading and behavioral standards in an effort to “help” minorities. How patrician and racist is that? They argue that absolutely everything is racist, unaware that by doing so they have refuted their own claim. Many are in favor of slavery reparations,
or the massive transfer of wealth from those who never owned slaves to
those who never were slaves. They are pushing to defund the police. And eliminate political opposition.
Big
Academia is also wildly infatuated with the proposition that there are
an infinite number of genders, that sexuality is a “construct” on a
“spectrum,” and that drag queens are sacrosanct, the backbone of our
civilization, so the avoidance of one or more is akin to a criminal act.
Universities have come to believe sexuality is Black and white, too, insofar as it is somehow different
for each race, and therefore also requires separate classes, teachers
and venues. Their fervent embrace of transgender theory has led at least
one to teach that Jesus was “non-binary.”
Telling the truth about almost anything is now strictly verboten on campuses across the fruited plain. Universities have threatened to expel students for saying “a woman is a woman” and “a man is a man.”
Colleges
aid and abet students in their attempt to repeal truth and cancel
history. Which has led to some students’ avowed desire to repeal the Constitution. And professors to state that free speech is “racist.”
Universities
haven’t just been given a free ride, they have been lavishly, almost
obscenely, funded in recent years. Some have endowments making them wealthier than many nations.
Grants, loans and debt forgiveness have allowed them to rapidly raise
their tuition rates to obscene levels as well, even as they have the
gall to denounce capitalism, business, and the “greedy rich.”
It is time for these indoctrination centers to be defundedc--
and deprived of the free ride and unearned esteem they have been
granted for the past several decades — if we Americans are to once again
live up to the ideals that made us great.
But a threat to the nation? Really?
What
would you call an institution that rewrites history, denigrates and
attempts to destabilize the country it is supposed to serve, seeks to
resegregate society, and wishes to erase all distinctions between men
and women?
Article by Anthony J. Ciani in The American Thinker
Deprogramming the Trump Voters
SATIRE
How
does the Left look at conservatives? We often overlook this, even
though it's a critical factor in the "divisive" atmosphere grippingh the
county these days. It wouldn't hurt to put ouselves into the mindset of
your average professional left-leaing professional attempting to deal
with the "Deplorables" -- perhaps an academic psychologist, or a
domestic affairs bureaucrat...
Understanding
how people were programmed is crucial to deprogramming them, yet
amateur deprogrammers have assumed that censoring and discrediting Trump
will free his voters from his siren song. If the amateurs are wrong,
they could become entrenched in their programming, possibly ruining
decades of expert deprogramming. Although strange to provide tips
toward progressive objectives in a conservative journal, the amateur
deprogrammers are advocating for extreme solutions
as their efforts are met with failure. If everyone understands, from
the progressive perspective, how Trump supporters were programmed and
how they are being expertly deprogrammed, those extreme solutions might
be avoided.
Trump
voters were taught that we have a representative democracy based on
liberty and freedom; that we have an immutable Constitution that
establishes those principles as the law of the land; and that
representatives are elected by the will of the People as stewards of
government, not as stewards of the People. Trump supporters believe
that government should be of the minimum extent necessary to assist a
moral society, and believe in a moral system that respects property and
person and punishes those who don’t. Archival media (e.g., newspapers,
books and movies) reveals that this brainwashing has occurred for
centuries, perpetuated by education and common social belief. Trump
might not be the siren but a victim. So, who started and perpetuates
this brainwashing?
This
deception stems from morals, and Trump supporters believe that morals
are absolute and originate from God. One of the their most embraced documents
reads, “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator [God] with certain unalienable Rights.” That these morals have
existed for eons in the greatest societies of the World and were absent
from the worst lends credence to their belief that morals originate from
some omniscient and benevolent Deity, rather than from government or society. Due to their entrenched moral beliefs, Trump supporters reject the truth of social justice. When a poor person
appropriates a TV from a white person, Trump supporters see an immoral
act, not the righting of white privilege. When government seizes excess
wealth and then gifts it to poor people who are incapable of living to the standards of white society, Trump supporters only see an unconstitutional theft.
The
first mistake of the amateur is obvious: one of the programmers is God,
who has programmed Himself as the absolute moral authority, superior to
government or society. Trump supporters have resisted secularization
and moral correction and will continue to do so absent Trump.
Even
after secularization, Trump supporters adhere to “the written law.”
Laws only exist when enforced, yet even though prosecutors and judges,
the authorities of law, have repeatedly demonstrated that laws change
based on who you are,
Trump supporters continue to embrace an intransigent egality.
Prosecutorial discretion and judges exist to correct the law against
societal injustices and to exonerate our superiors. What better example
than the 2020 election? If not for administrative discretion to alter
the rules of elections and for the courts to interpret the law, Trump
would be president again. Our superiors must act freely for our
betterment, but the ability to form an independent comprehension of “the
written law”, absent expert direction, has deceived the Trump tribe.
Trump
supporters believe that words are immutable. They think that dividing
people by color or ethnicity is the definition of racism but weighing
people against social injustices is actually anti-racism. They believe
that demanding obedience to our leaders and coercing those who resist is
fascism, but this is only fascism when Trump is the leader. They
believe that men are XY and women are XX, and some accept that sex can
change after physical alteration, but nearly all Trump supporters reject
that sexual identity is defined by ones feelings. They believe that
words have meaning and reject feelings as the source of meaning. They
reject a living constitution and adhere to “the written law” because
they have been deceived by the dictionary.
Only
the elites can understand language and law, yet Trump’s followers
reject the superiority of our leaders, failing to understand that being
elected places them above all. They ridicule our leaders who misunderstand positivity rates or believe that islands can capsize,
rather than accepting the new realities. Our leaders give advantage to
other countries to compensate for our largess, but Trump supporters
fault their generosity. Our leaders do what is best for all of us, and
so earn the privilege of enriching themselves from their offices, yet
Trump supporters cling to the idea that our leaders are but
representatives, again deceived by “the written law.”
Worse,
Trump supporters have been trained as skeptics, despite believing in an
invisible deity that dictates morals. “Trust but verify” once said by a
person who occupied the Oval Office, yet they refuse to obey
our new leaders, the new authorities of culture, science and law.
Rather than accepting the truth of climate change, as authoritatively
stated by a former Vice President, Trump voters demand evidence and
facts. They even reject the conclusions of boards and advisory
committees when their truths contradict the facts. This lack of trust runs deep and creates a significant trap to deprogramming.
If
deprogrammers attempt to force progressive reality on them, they will
question it, reference “the written law” or the dictionary, apply their
own logic and reason, reach the opposite conclusion and label the
deprogrammers as untrustworthy. As long as written laws, copies of the
Constitution, outdated dictionaries and other sources of information
exist, Trump supporters will never be deprogrammed.
Deprogrammers
need to first undermine the foundations of the programming: facts,
morals, language and reason. Change the definition of sex, publish
annotated versions of the Constitution and interpretive versions of the
Bible, and direct web searches
to those corrected versions. When Trump supporters search for facts
contradictory to truths, direct them to the truths instead. The
teaching of civics, philosophy and history must be corrected
to reveal the true motives of the “founding fathers,” to taint the
morality of freedom and liberty, and morality itself. These adjustments
must be mild and incremental over generations, and as many expert
deprogrammers know, are already well underway.
Trump
supporters should be pressured into abandoning their beliefs and
accepting the new truths, but this must also be done gently and
covertly. Many went through an anti-pressure training program called
DARE, between 1983 and 2009. The program has since been altered
to discourage morals and encourage mindless compliance with authority,
but Trump voters between the ages of 25 and 55 could reflexively
reject overt pressure. By surrounding Trump supporters with media that
covertly portrays the new reality, they will subconsciously adapt their world view. Expert deprogrammers already have this well underway.
Trump
was not a siren, but a victim of long-existing programming who
resonated with other victims, who see themselves just as attacked and
silenced as Trump. The banning, canceling, rioting and name calling
from amateur deprogrammers is putting Trump supporters on edge and
alerting them to the more covert and effective deprogramming of experts.
Decades of deprogramming are put into jeopardy as they flee the
nurture of Big Tech and reflexively reject ridicule and authority, and a
more ultimate solution may be required.
So
there you have it. The next time you hear a Democrat politician, or a
left-wing academic, or some poor befuddled blue-state voter. Keep in
mind how they think themselves into a logical cul-de-sac, trapping
themselves in a nightmarish, paranoid worldview from which there is no
escape. Needless to say, we have to assure that they don't trap us...
Switzerland is deciding on whether to ban Muslim face veils in a
national referendum - a move that was instigated before the coronavirus
pandemic.
Voters will decide on a far-right proposal to ban
anything that covers the face, like burkas and niqabs, making it a poll
that is seen as a test of attitudes toward Muslims.
Masks to protect against COVID-19 will still be allowed as they are
covered by the potential exemptions, which say coverings are allowed at
religious sites, for health reasons or during particular weather
conditions.
Often referred to as "the burka ban", the initiative
by right-wing groups also includes outlawing the wearing of ski masks
and bandanas often used for protesting.
Currently, masks to protect against COVID are mandatory in busy public places in Switzerland due to the pandemic.
The proposal would ban the wearing of other face coverings in public,
notably in the streets, on public transport and in offices,
restaurants, shops and football stadiums. Exceptions are not allowed for
tourists.
It has been reported that only a handful of Swiss residents wear face coverings like burkas and niqabs.
The proposal under the Swiss system of direct democracy does not mention
Islam directly but local politicians, media and campaigners have said
it is an attack on the religion.
Opinion polls have indicated the measure could pass narrowly and the proposal will become law.
Walter
Wobmann, chairman of the referendum committee and a member of
parliament for the Swiss People's Party, has said: "In Switzerland, our
tradition is that you show your face. That is a sign of our basic
freedoms."
He described facial coverings like the burka and the
niqab as "a symbol for this extreme, political Islam which has become
increasingly prominent in Europe and which has no place in Switzerland".
Five other European countries have already introduced such a ban, including France and Austria. Two Swiss cantons already have local bans on face coverings.
If the move fails, there is a possibility visitors may still be obliged to show their faces at borders.
It
is one of three referenda taking place on Sunday. Voters will also be
polled on a government-backed electronic identity scheme and a free
trade accord with Indonesia.
In 2009, Swiss people voted to ban building any new minarets.
Article by Thomas Robinson in The American Thinker
How to get away with stealing an election
Please
Note: The following message is intended for mature audiences.
Especially adults who voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential
election that may (...now or in the near future...) be embarrassed for
choosing him.[i]
I
was not, by any definition of the words, a "Trump supporter" in the
months leading up to the election. I had read (..."been fed"?) the most
critical opinions from news reports of his personality and behavior for
the previous 5 years.... Plus, I had a few negative opinions of my own
from his performances on "The Apprentice" tv show. In other words,
Trump was the last person I ever imagined the American people would elect as president in my absence (I live in Norway).
But something changed drastically in the weeks leading up to November 3, 2020... and the days following.
To explain further, I think the following discussions on "compartmentalization" and "diffusion of responsibility" are necessary:
"Compartmentalization" (...I know. What ever happened to using simple English terms everyone could understand?)
1.
Based on my experiences with Navy life and concepts,
"compartmentalization" applies to the way ships are constructed;
providing multiple sections of water-tight spaces. When properly sealed
by the crew, if only a limited number of those spaces get flooded, the
ship will still have a chance to stay afloat.
2.
In spy/terrorist situations, the concept of "compartmentalization" can
also be utilized, although in a much different environment. Instead of
holding out water in multiple sections, "informational
compartmentalization" is designed to prevent critical information from
spreading to too many members in the organization. With that particular
feature, if a limited number of "cohorts" get discovered or infiltrated
by the enemy, the remaining groups could theoretically continue towards
accomplishing the organization's goals without "sinking".
3.
When I was in the Navy, I had a "Secret" security clearance. As a new
junior officer, I excitedly, naively assumed that I would have clearance
to see all classified information below the level of "Top Secret". But
it didn't take long for me to learn that that wasn't the case. You
see, the Navy's security clearance efforts to "compartmentalize" its
sensitive information also came with the qualifier: "...and the need to
know." Even if the file was classified "Secret" or "Confidential," if I
didn't have "the need to know" (...meaning it was "none of my
business"!) I was not allowed access.
...If
I had fallen (or been thrown!) off of my ship and captured by the
"enemy", the only military things that I knew -- that could be "tortured
out of me" -- were the memorized details of a 1960's-era destroyer, how
to write subordinates' performance reviews, and, get this, what
prescription medicines we kept in the first aid kit!
Tactically-speaking, I was pretty much a "nobody". I didn't have,
therefore couldn't give up, any significant, valuable secrets.
Conversely and thus, in this kind of a system, (the higher the
clearance you have) + (the more you need to know), the more valuable
info that can be lost to "the bad guys."
"Diffusion of Responsibility"
(I
found the info quoted below on the internet which I sincerely doubt
would be worth lying about.... But you just never know., do you?)
On the topic of firing squad protocols:
"...Sometimes,
one or more members of the firing squad may be issued a weapon
containing a blank cartridge. In such cases, members of the firing squad
are not told beforehand whether or not they are using live ammunition.
This is believed to reinforce the sense of diffusion of responsibility among the firing squad members." And "...In
more recent times, such as in the execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner in
the American state of Utah in 2010, one rifleman may be given a "dummy"
cartridge containing a wax bullet instead of a lead bullet, which
provides a more realistic recoil."
Based
on my previous understanding and these confirming details, my
interpretation of "diffusion of responsibility" is that efforts can be
intentionally coordinated to alter the perception of what an individual
in a team does (...or fears he does) by making it somewhat possible that
it wasn't actually HIM that did it. (E.g. Firing squad member) +
(possibly fake bullet) + (shot aimed at victim's heart) = (possibly NOT
actually responsible for victim's death).
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So,
combining "information compartmentalization" and firing squad
"diffusion of responsibility", it's not so hard to imagine how a
national election could be stolen; given enough motivation, money and
time... While simultaneously doing it all so that no one person or
group (...other than, perhaps, "top leadership", that is...) has to feel
totally guilty for doing it!
If
no one in Detroit, Michigan needed to know, and thus didn't know, what
was happening in Philadelphia, PA, they wouldn't have to feel
particularly guilty afterwards. If those responsible for feeding fake,
duplicate and/or otherwise invalid ballots into an election machine in
Fulton County Georgia after the polls were closed didn't know about
internet connections and software "improprieties" in ANY of the targeted
"swing states", they really couldn't be blamed for "that much fraud".
Catching one, or even several, election-center volunteers cheating
would be the equivalent of the enemy capturing a low-ranking sailor
floating helplessly in the long-gone wake of his more threatening
"mother ship".
No
one individual or small team caught at any of the lower levels would
represent a "leak" big enough to change the election's outcome.
Breaking up the total cheating efforts into many smaller pieces, using
various types of manipulation, with a well-trained damage control team
on stand-by to fix any "accidental leaks and/or slip-ups" (such as
placing cardboard sheets over observation windows) the "Ocean's 2020"
star-studded thieves could have effectively turned an unimaginable
operation into an almost "sure thing".
And, once pulled off, the payoffs would be far greater than their massive, initial investments required.
Oh
yeah... Even though a "Doubting Thomas" before, now I see at least one
LIKELY way how "The Fix" could have been pulled off. (By the way,
didn't "they" brag about doing "it" in that Time magazine article in
January 2021?)
...As if that wasn't bad enough, I see no reason why -- with much less effort -- that it couldn't be done again!
...And again.
...And again.
...Until it never needed to be done at all.
So, if you're like I used to be where "winning means everything"... and your candidate won this time... No big deal, right?
...Not so fast.
What if your candidate, disappointing as he already is, doesn't even make it in office past the Spring of 2021" and his "replacements" (...who you weren't really voting for in the first place) show themselves to be much worse? What if you want -- or absolutely need -- to vote for the other side next time?
But then, after voting for the other side next time, what if things turn out to be even worse than
in Nov. 2020? As a voter, you'll certainly have the “clearance" to find
out what's going on; our Constitution guarantees that.
But what if the government tells you... "Sorry, citizen, but you don't have the need to know"?
For middle class Americans who voted for Biden in 2020, I suspect winning will never seem so bad... so soon...
