Antonius Aquinas: The purported head of the Catholic Church has now designated "tax cuts" as sinful behavior on a par, apparently, with stealing, lying, and adultery:

Today's structures of sin include repeated tax cuts for the richest people, often justified in the name of investment and development.

Ron: It is cosmically unlawful, ie contrary to divine law (because it is contrary to the Creator's energetic blueprint that establishes life, the universe and everything), for anyone to tax the income of a sovereign human being obtained from the individual's personal physical or intellectual efforts. However, it is lawful for the community to tax wealth obtained by other means, eg from investments or the exploitation of others. Accordingly, in cases in which wealth has been obtained through corporations or other exploitation of others and/or the planet, the community can and should tax such wealth. In this context tax cuts for 'the rich' may well be inappropriate since the community has a duty to tax unearned increments in the hands of 'the rich' in order to disincentivise criminal and/or anti-social behaviour in order to mitigate or prevent undue personal and social energetic imbalances developing within the community.

Antonius Aquinas: In Bergoglio's collectivist mind, those who try and keep their wealth from the ravenous demands of the State are somehow denying the poor their just due:

Every year hundreds of billions of dollars, which should be paid in taxes to fund health care and education, accumulate in tax haven accounts, thus impeding the possibility of the dignified and sustained development of all social agents.

What Bergoglio and his fellow socialists do not understand is that tax cuts lead to economic growth, whether they are for higher or lower income groups.

Ron: This assertion is not necessarily true. For instance most wealth today is accumulated using corporations, ie lifeless fictive constructs of the human imagination, largely used to conceal the identity of owners behind a corporate veil and to shield owners from full responsibility and liability for what is done using the corporate mechanism.

Corporations have no real existence and no rights other than what communities give them. See eg: Citizens United v. FEC: Corporate Personhood Must be Eliminated if Humanity is to Survive. - http://abundanthope.net/pages/Ron_71/Citizens-United-v-FEC-Corporate-Personhood-Must-GO-if-Humanity-is-to-Survive.shtml If a community allows its members to use corporations the activities of those corporations should be strenuously scrutinised, supervised and audited by the community and all profits made using them (apart from adequate compensation for those owning and managing their operations) should be fully taxed and redistributed for the benefit of the whole community.

in current circumstances tax cuts for 'the rich' largely take the form of tax cuts for the corporations they own. See eg: How Interlinked Corporations Rule The World. - http://abundanthope.net/pages/Political_Information_43/How-Interlinked-Corporations-Rule-The-World.shtml

Which Companies Have The Most Tax Havens? - http://abundanthope.net/pages/Political_Information_43/Which-Companies-Have-The-Most-Tax-Havens.shtml

How Did CEO Pay Get to 500 Times the Wages of Ordinary Workers? - http://abundanthope.net/pages/Human_Animal_Rights_104/How-did-CEO-Pay-Get-to-500-Times-the-Wages-of-Ordinary-Workers.shtml

Trillion-dollar-valued Amazon Pays $0 in Income Taxes for 2018, Gets Multi-million Refund - http://abundanthope.net/pages/Political_Information_43/Trillion-dollar-valued-Amazon-Pays-0-in-Income-Taxes-for-2018-Gets-Multi-million-Refund.shtml

The assertion that tax cuts lead to economic growth is not necesarily true. Morever, the implication that "economic growth" is necessarily beneficial is patently false. The intrinsic worth of "economic growth" depends entirely upon the nature and substance of that growth, how it is obtained, who benefits from it and how they benefit. Our world is currently run by banksters and their corporate mates who control most of the wealth on this planet and determine how that wealth is distributed and used.

BLIND FREDDY can tell you that the product of "economic growth" is being increasingly sucked up by an ever smaller cabal of 'rich people' who own or control the bulk of the mega corporations running this planet. Moreover, the wealth of that cabal is being radically misused to the detriment of most of the global population. THAT is not a positive outcome. Moreover, the assumption that indefinite "economic growth" is necessary and desirable on a finite planet is absurd, at least until humans here learn to obtain energy from the vacuum of space.

Antonius Aquinas: The less wealth that the State confiscates, the more is available to be used for saving and investment - two keys to economic growth.

Ron: This statement is palpable bullshit. First, because it denies the truth that the community itself, via its governing mechanism, creates ALL of the money that is supposedly created by the "savings"used for "investment". IF the community does not agree to create money, however described, to grease the wheels of societal activity and industry, there can be no "savings" and hence no "investment". See eg: Stephanie Kelton: The Public Purse - http://abundanthope.net/pages/Political_Information_43/Stephanie-Kelton-The-Public-Purse.shtml

Second, it assumes the validity and necessity of the money meme as the guiding principle of human social existence when it isn't. It also assumes that "savngs" are needed for "investment" and that they are crucial to "economic growth" which is assumed to be essential to human life. The obvious fallacy in this thinking is the idea that money is needed to stimulate human activity and productivity. THAT is bankster propaganda. There are only two requirements for productive human activity, namely the availability of human energy in the form of labour, intellect and intuition on the one hand, and physical planetary resources on the other.

Antonius Aquinas: The rich do not horde their money but expand and create businesses which leads to more and better paying jobs for lower income groups who supposedly Bergoglio wants to help.

Ron: This is Talmudic nonsense! It is rabbinical rhetoric that justifies and perpetuates continuance of a distorted view of community life rooted in the money meme which has alienated humans from themselves and each other and corrupted human spiritual life on this planet for millennia. This statement regurgitates an obvious lie, namely that money is needed to create employment and wealth. It isn't

It is glaringly obvious today that 'the rich' do not invest their money to expand and create businesses that lead to more and better paying jobs for lower income groups. The rich invest to make profits, that's why they are rich. No one becomes a billionaire as a result of personal sweat, hard work and altruism. Moreover, The reality is that Artifical Intelligence (AI), robots and other technological advances are rapidly eliminating the need to employ not only low skilled workers but also many high skiled workers. The result is ever growing unemployment and underemployment. See eg:The Permanent Unemployment & Underemployment Economy - http://abundanthope.net/pages/Political_Information_43/The-Permanent-Unemployment-Underemployment-Economy.shtml

Arguably Bergoglio knows this and his rhetoric is meant to deceive rather than educate.

Antonius Aquinas: The poor will only be uplifted by greater production where more goods and services are available at lower prices.

Ron: More bullshit!  As Einstein indicated in the mid 1930s, ie almost a century ago, human society on this planet had already achieved a level of industrial productivity sufficient to uplift the global population to a decent human living standard. However, the cabal of banksters and corporatists who controlled most nations did not want that situation to manifest and so they created WWII and have perpetuated wars and societal upheavels ever since in order to dissapate the abundance that would otherwise have manifested on this planet if humans here peacefully coexisted in a usury free world.

The endemic problem of poverty, scarcity and want on this planet is not due to inadequate productivity but to deliberate mismanagement, misallocation of resources and production, social disorder and violence, and geopolitical warfare organised, financed and promulgated by the Talmudic financial cabal that controls this planet.

In other words, the ultra rich deliberately misallocate, misuse and waste the resources and the  goods and services available on this planet in order to ensure that poverty, scarcity and want remain major methods of societal control in all nations including the Western world. Propaganda about corporations needed government subsidies, lower taxes and the ability to constantly lower wages and employment numbers to meet competition  from other corporatists is race to the bottom' rhetoric designed to conceal the fascist nature of global society in which governments are corporations owned by the owners of the banks and mega corporations that control this planet. See eg: Corporations Masquerading as Government in Australia & World Wide. - http://abundanthope.net/pages/Political_Information_43/Corporations-Masquerading-as-Government-in-Australia-World-Wide.shtml

As this commentator clearly epitomises, rhetoric about lowering prices is part of the propaganda essential to the capitalist ideology used as a social control mechanism.

Antonius Aquinas: Redistribution of income via taxation does not create new wealth, but simply transfers existing wealth from the productive class. Moreover, taxation has the deleterious effect of making individuals produce less since their efforts are siphoned off at the point of a gun.  More taxation means less production and, thus, less and more expensive goods for the poor.

Ron: Yabba, yabba, Talmudic rhetoric yabba. This verbiage about 'redistribution of income' and 'transfer of wealth from the productive class' is self serving special pleading. It conceals the truth that owners, entreprenuers and managers stand on the shoulders of giants AND on the backs of employees and whole communities who enable their ideas and profits to manifest.

ANY taxation of income gained from personal exertion is unlawful. BUT the Talmudists and their lackeys and commentators do not tell you that. Why? Because they NEED people to believe and accept that taxation of the fruits of the labour of the general population is legitimate and necessary when it is neither. And the reason for that taxation is as old as civilisation, namely that rulers and their entourage MUST exploit, ie TAX the rest of the community in order to enjoy life and fund the continued exercise of their power and control of the community.

Income taxation today s akin to highway robbery. It takes the form of demanding money from individual community members using force and violence under the pretense that governments need money and must get it from the population instead of creating it, as necessary. THAT IS A LIE because it conceals the truth that governments are the sole creators of money (either directly or indirectly). Accordingly income taxation is actually about stealing from community members some of the wealth they have produced using their labour, intellect and ingenuity. Any government that is an honest and genuine servant of the community it serves will issue as much money as is needed to properly enable the community to utilise the labour and physical resources available to it.].

Antonius Aquinas: Of course, this is basic economic theory that any sane person can understand unless one has matriculated to a Western university or college or pays attention to economic ignoramuses like Jorge Bergoglio!

Ron: This is typical Talmudic rhetoric. A blatant assertion of a false fact followed by denigration and abuse of any alternative viewpoint or attempt at discussion.

Antonius Aquinas: Bergoglio's criticism of tax reduction is, no doubt, aimed at the Trump Administration's plan for an additional round of tax cuts.

Ron: I agree. After all "Godfather III" is a demonic Talmudist and hence bitterly opposed to President Trump and his work for Christ Michael Aton's Millennial Reign.

Antonius Aquinas: Tax reduction, however, without cuts in government spending will further explode budget deficits which are now even beyond sustainable.

Ron: This is disinformation. Soverign governments are monopolist issuers of money and hence referring to any government issuance of money as creating a budget deficit which is not sustainable is deliberate misinfornmation. This LIE is part of an age old Talmudic misinformation campaign relating to the fact that money issued by governments (whether directly or indirectly) is typically subject to usury and fraudulent fractional reserve banking mechanisms that syphon wealth from productive communities into the pockets of banksters who form the core of 'the rich' that this author defends.

IF governments efficiently and honestly performed their money issuing responsibilities rather than allowing banksters to intrude themselves into the process and to insert usury into it, there would be NO 'boom and bust' so-called business cycles and poverty could have been abolished with the global population already experiencing prosperity, abundance and peace.

Antonius Aquinas: Without corresponding spending reduction, tax cuts will mean that the Federal Reserve will have to make up for the short fall with further money printing.  One cannot have Big Government and tax cuts simultaneously. The inevitable monetary crisis will, unfortunately, be blamed on tax cuts and will play into the hands of Bergoglio and his fellow travelers.

Ron: There is absolutely no need to have Big Government if the government issues usury free money in appropriate amounts provided that it ensures that it is distributed and used beneficially and that the resultant production is distributed equitably. There is no need for ANY monetary crisis if the community properly issues appropriate amounts of usury free money and prevents private banking corporations from hijacking the money creation and distribution process.

Of course equitable distribution of the benefits of an abundance of productivity will also depend on the expertise, honesty and administrative efficiency of local, district and regional governance arrangements.

Antonius Aquinas: "Pope Francis" should be ignored not only for the falsehoods he spreads about Christianity, but also as a social theorist. His pronouncements on the latter will only lead to further impoverishment of the poor and the rest of society while inciting class conflict between those who seek to keep their wealth and those who want to confiscate more of it.

Ron:  Pope Francis is correct in saying that tax cuts in relation to the profits 'the rich' derive from their corporations should be taxed. Arguably corporate taxes should remove from corporate owners and managers all profits not earned by their personal efforts. Once communities begin issuing usury free money this should cease to be controversial.

This 1 hr 26' 42" video was published by UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose on Jun 18, 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IBEoWSiTHc

Ron: This video is well worth watching. Stephanie Kelton rightly says that Governments have the monopoly power as regards issuing money into circulation in society. Although she doesn't say it, that is true whether or not a government exercises that monopoly directly or sub contracts it in some way to private banksters. The subterfuge of using so-called "independant banks" to create and issue money merely conceals the truth that governments have, and exercise, this power, even if they do it corruptly or negligently. Think about what that means Pilgrims!

It means that governments are responsible for issuing ALL of the sovereign money in circulation in any sovereign nation. It follows that governments CANNOT tax their constituent populations to avoid DEFECIT SPENDING because the deficit has, and must, have already occurred. Why? Because  Governments HAVE to spend money into the economy before they can TAX any of it back out. Moreover, if a government was to tax back ALL of the money it has issued in order to avoid incurring ANY deficit, (the so-called national debt) there would be NO economy and the governed population would starve and/or cease to be governed. 

Moreover, IF governments expect their constituents to use the money issued as the means for facilitating the exchange of goods and services within its jurisdiction, the government MUST spend (issue) much more money into the economy than it extracts via taxes. In fact the primary reason for taxation should be to ensure that government has not issued an excess of money into circulation resulting in too much money chasing too few goods and services. Why? because that creates price inflation (ie money devaluation) and an unbalanced economy. Taxation can also be used to prevent excessive wealth imbalances causing gross inequality between the rich and poor elements in society.

As is the case in so many areas of global society today, the dominant Talmudic conventional wisdom and rhetoric about government spending and taxation is BACKWARDS. Populations cannot sustain themselves let alone fund government operations and government spending via taxation, UNLESS the government first ISSUES enough money to enable the population to survive and have a surplus to return to the government. This means that the constant refrain by governments and commentators to the effect that governments cannot fund necessary infrastructure development and services provision because they lack the money to fund those activities, IS NONSENSE. All that is required are electronic book entries performed by key strokes on computers.

In this talk Stephanie Kelton does not discuss the criminal activities and mechanisms involved in unsupervised and unaudited  private corporations having a free licence to issue money at their sole discretion. Nor does she address the issues surrounding the provision of money via loans at interest (usury) by those private corporations; or their having discretion to vary interest rates and to decide who gets money and who doesn't. She only addresses the threshold question of why sovereign governments MUST issue money and incur so-called budgetary deficits and 'national debt' as a consequence.

The general trend of newly confirmed or suspected cases has been going down since February 5. The number of remaining confirmed cases has started to sink as there are now less new patients per day than recovered ones.    China's rigorous handling of the outbreak, after a too slow start, is a great success. There will be at times new clusters suddenly emerging like the two prisons today. But a greater catastrophe has been avoided.

The economic ripple effect of this epidemic and of the enormous quarantine in China will be huge. It will be felt everywhere but especially in highly developed industries:

The impacts on China both intrinsic and psychological are still vastly under estimated. This is the largest containment/effective imprisonment via quarantine of human being in world history. People are assuming no ripples from that.

The biggest factor that's not understood is the non linearity of supply chains. A two week total shut down *does not* mean a two week delay in products to consumer. This is very different from the tariff impacts, where pricing was adjusted.

A single component missing in a 500+ part product means all levels of production are moot. Autos and consumer electronics are obvious examples. We have heard from multiple auto players and Jaguar has publicly stated they have sub 2 weeks of operating inventory.

Just In Time (JIT) production is a form of operational leverage. And like all forms of leverage, there is a non linear downside effect. People are not putting it together that this is a very big deal. It's not a 1 month hit. It's not a 1 quarter hit. It's an annual hit *right now*.

Some large factories which depend on parts from China will soon have to shut down. Then their other suppliers will also have to cease production. The loss of income will be felt throughout the local economies.

The effects of the epidemic may well lead to an end of the globalization of production processes. Companies will go back to buy locally to be as unaffected as possible from similar future incidents. This might well be the most positive long term outcome of this epidemic. - M O A

“In vast laboratories in the Ministry of Peace, and in experimental stations, teams of experts are indefatigably at work searching for new and deadlier gases; or for soluble poisons capable of being produced in such quantities as to destroy the vegetation of whole continents; or for breeds of disease germs immunised against all possible antibodies.” ~ George Orwell – 1984

Politics is becoming just Big Brother or Love Island only with better suits and bigger budgets. No thought, no rational argument, just pick a team, tweet a hashtag, cheer your side. Last night was as real as a WWE bout, and couldn't have been more obviously stage-managed if Mike Bloomberg had entered to the sound of breaking glass and Lester Holt declaring "By gawd, that's Bloomberg's music!" Kit Knightly

In December 2019, The Highwire reported the findings of a study published in the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, which found the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's childhood vaccine schedule - when adjusted for bodyweight - exposes children to a level of aluminum that is 15.9 times higher than the recommended "safe"level....... .....................

As noted in the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology study, the "safety" limit for aluminum is not weight dependent. The maximum safe limit is based on an adult, and the same limit is transposed to infants weighing a fraction of that.     Importantly, this study found that when multiple aluminum-containing vaccines are given together, as per the CDC schedule, the total aluminum dose ends up exceeding even the assumed safety limit for an adult.  Dr J Mercola

"Julian is the Trojan horse. If he knocks a crack in that wall, we can get government to do all the other things they need to be doing, which they are doing the opposite of [right now]," British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood told RT. Thousands took to the streets near the British Parliament to protest the imprisonment of the WikiLeaks founder ahead of a hearing next week to determine whether the imprisoned journalist will be extradited to the US.   R.T.

Paul Murano: Benedict also highlighted the atheism underlying the denial of created reality: "When the freedom to be creative becomes the freedom to create oneself, then necessarily the Maker himself is denied and ultimately man too is stripped of his dignity as a creature of God, as the image of God at the core of his being."...

The Catholic Church, however, teaches unequivocally that body and soul are a single composite of one substance, the soul being the very form of the body, as formulated in the paragraphs 362-365 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Ron: I disagree. As I understand it, the soul is the consciousness of each individual. New human souls start life with only the experienc garnered from life in lower life forms and gradually accumulate knowledge and the ability to think and love through experience and decision making in their human incarnations. That process constitutes growth in consciousness. Arguably the soul records the growth in consciousness of the individual and is the repository of the memory of the individual's experiences and decisions. Although that knowledge and growing ability to love is stored on electrons and photons it is seperate from the physical body and continues to exist after the dissolution of the physical body.

In effect, ensouled human beings ordinarily survive the dissipation of the material body and the soul continues to exist after the expiration of each incarnation. Why? Because souls experience incarnations to experience life in the physical and to learn from that experience to eventually become like the Creator (aka God) and to become one with God. That learning journey usually takes myriad incarnations. The soul and spirit gradually grow through those incarnations.

Initially the human soul is seperate from the spark of Creator consciousness that creates the human being. However, when an individual human being chooses to act morally the individual's indwelling fragment of Creator consciousness fuses with the individual's soul and that combination becomes the individual's spirit. That spirit then accompanies the individual through every incarnation, accumulating experiences and recording the decisions, actions and failures to act when action was morally required. Arguably, although the soul is formed by Creator energies it is not the same substance as the physical body.  And once it fuses with its indwelling Creator fragment the individual's spirit becomes immortal.

The Dark Man: ...there are those who argue it is inhumane, the state has no right to commit murder (except abortion), and what if we execute the wrong person? There are though cases in which an accused is convicted of truly abominable crimes on absolutely overwhelming evidence for which execution is surely warranted.

Ron: Every community has a duty as well as a right to protect its members. That responsibility extends to executing murderers in appropriate circumstances. Where the community properly tries and convicts a murderer and concludes s/he poses a risk to community members if ever released into society it has a duty to incarcerate that person for life. If that option is too difficult for any reason the community may execute a murderer rather than undertaking the expense and risks associated with imprisonment if that option is properly determined to be appropriate. The pseudo humanitarian argument that the community has no right to execute murderers appears to be an outgrowth of a secular materialist view based on the false premise that human beings only have one life. That view is false Talmudic propaganda. Ensouled humans have myriad incarnational lifetimes in which to learn about life the universe and everything and to evolve as a moral being.The fact that an individual forfeits that right to life in one of those incarnations by murdering another human being needs to be considered in that context.

Surely the Hippocratic Oath trumps the playbook of 21st Century sexual and racial etiquette? The injunction to ‘do no harm' surely hasn't been caveated to ‘unless the Guardian standards are offended'. Even the Guardian has had to suspend its recent editorial guidance that ‘Cis-woman' is the style to be employed in describing "women who identify with the gender assigned to them at birth" after all. Would a failure to add the ‘Cis' be adjudged to be taking the p*ss and cause a medical picket-line to be mustered ?  George Galloway

There's no question coronavirus, so far, has been a Heaven-sent politically useful tool, reaching, with minimum investment, the desired targets of maximized U.S. global power - even if fleetingly, enhanced by a non-stop propaganda offensive - and China relatively isolated with its economy semi paralyzed.

Yet perspective is in order. The CDC estimated that up to 42.9 million people got sick during the 2018-2019 flu season in the U.S. No less than 647,000 people were hospitalized. And 61,200 died.

This report details the Chinese "people's war" against coronavirus.

It's up to Chinese virologists to decode its arguably synthetic origin. How China reacts, depending on the findings, will have earth-shattering consequences - literally. - Pepe Escobar

In what surely must be a coincidence, the DNC had changed its debate rules to accommodate Bloomberg, even as it bent itself into pretzels to exclude Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. In an even more remarkable coincidence, Gabbard was accused last fall of being a "Russian favorite" by none other than Hillary Clinton, the very source of the original ‘Russiagate' conspiracy.  There's no way these things are related, though, and anyone who thinks so simply must be a Russian agent! Expect armed FBI agents to show up at your door, accompanied by CNN cameras, and a federal judge to declare you a danger to Our Democracy any moment now.  Nebojsa Malic

In the 1980s, the Soviet Union feared that the AIDS virus was created in a US military bio-weapons lab in Fort Detrick, Maryland. While the story was dismissed by the US as geo-political propaganda, many black Africans and African-Americans continue to believe that the CIA had a hand in either creating or weaponising the AIDS virus. To this day, AIDS continues to disproportionately effect black men across the globe...

President Vladimir Putin has responded to the latest attempts by the US military to collect Russian DNA samples in the following way,

"Do you know that biological material is being collected all over the country, from different ethnic groups and people living in different geographical regions of the Russian Federation? The question is - why is it being done? It's being done purposefully and professionally. We are a kind of object of great interest.

Let them do what they want, and we must do what we must".

The latter part of Putin's statement derives from the Melian Dialogue of the Athenian historian Thucydides. In his History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides recounts Athenian envoys trying to convince the small island of Melos to surrender its sovereignty or be destroyed. The dialogue includes a famous line which is usually translated as "The strong do as they will and the weak submit as they must".

Putin therefore is suggesting that no matter what the US has in store for Russia, the leadership of the Russian Federation is able and willing to take defensive matters in any scenario. The seemingly cautious statement from Putin, is actually incredibly forceful when read carefully.  - Adam

Based on its poor track record, one wonders if government even wants to solve the poverty problem. Seattle, for instance, spends roughly $100,000 per homeless resident of the city on homeless relief programs. The major beneficiaries of this public largess are charity organizations that claim to assist the poor but use that money to pay themselves salaries in excess of $200,000 for a single executive. Major agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services, employ tens of thousands of people.

What would happen should poverty and homelessness be eradicated? No more $200,000 salary. No more job for tens of thousands of people. No more $8 million temporary tents.

Poverty and homeless assistance has turned into a big business. We now have a Homeless Industrial Complex, and poverty assistance has become big business. The public sector appears to be fully invested in ensuring that poverty and homelessness persist. Without the homeless, what do we need with a Low-Income Housing Institute? Without the poor, how could the Department of Agriculture justify $100 billion a year in the farm bill? There is little evidence that the state cares to solve the issue, only caring to make homelessness and poverty a viable lifestyle choice. - Justin Murray

Ron: Arguably the Homeless Industrial Complex is just another aspect of the Talmudic blueprint for destroying the US and seguing the remnant into the cultural Marxist generated New World Order, One World Government. The vested interests of the government executives responsible for creating and operating the Homeless Industrial Complex typify the difficulties faced by the Trump Administration in its attempt to remove the tentacles of the US Deep State from virtually all organs of demonically corrupted US governance at Federal, state and local levels.

Ron: The misery and suffering on this planet is off the scale. I trust that somehow it is worth it for all concerned.

This 48' 2" video was published by The Sunon Feb 20, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzKIfoqJ9lg

Ron: The second half of this video is probably the most relevant.

This 3' 41" video was published by The Scoop on Feb 20,2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Br7F1ExLE&feature=emb_logo

"The increase that has been observed over the past ten years is mainly attributable to children and young adults, and especially to those registered as girls at birth," the agency said. "The number of new cases of diagnosed gender dysphoria among registered sex girls aged 13-17 has increased by almost 1,500 percent since 2008."

Overpaid government functionaries claimed not to know what was causing this mass delusion. "Yes, that the increase is clear, there is no doubt, however, we do not know what the increase is due to," claimed Peter Salmi, an investigator at the National Board of Health and Welfare who is either a moron or a liar.

In the real world, anybody with two brain cells to rub together knows exactly what the surge is being caused by: Never-ending propaganda and indoctrination of captive inmates in the Swedish government's radicalized schools, which begin pushing gender confusion even before toddlers can talk and continue ramping it up until they graduate. - Alex Newman

God is your only true friend and any other true friend you believe yourself to have, is simply God in another persona. It is only God awakened in the mutual exchange of Love. It is our power to invoke God or Devil in everyone we meet. Sometimes either happens for reasons otherwise and once again, for The Purpose of Demonstration. God creates not only our friends but our enemies as well, for The Purpose of Demonstration. We need not fret or agonize over it or anything. Whatever we, ourselves, choose to assume responsibility for, we will be responsible for. Whatever we leave in God's Hands, God will 'hand'le for us.  Les Visible

Zuckerberg is not stupid. But he thinks the public are. Closer scrutiny of the Oversight Board reveals how self-serving Facebook's road to Damascus regulatory conversion actually is.

First, the Oversight Board is being funded by Facebook as a separate company. So much for independence. It has selected its first director, Thomas Hughes, who will set up a separate company to recruit the 40-strong board, with Facebook's oversight. Hughes is a long-time advocate for freedom of information and expression, the former director of the equally unaccountable NGO Article 19.

Second, what criteria will be used to recruit 40 wise men and women who are impartial and worldly enough to represent 2.5 billion human beings from across every culture on the planet to decide what speech should be allowed in the world's digital town square? Call me cynical, but unless the members of this virtual supreme court are to be angels summoned from above, everybody sitting on it will have earthly interests, prejudices and agendas of their own.

Third, and most important, will the Oversight Board have power to force Facebook to act upon its arbitration? Facebook users will only be able to seek recourse to the Oversight Board once they have gone through Facebook's direct appeals process. Facebook still retains the ability to decide if Oversight Board decisions are operationally feasible or would cost too much. They can choose instead to take into account arbitration decisions as guidance for future policymaking.

In short, Facebook still controls the wide-reaching changes to policy which means the Oversight Board is a paper tiger. It has no real oversight at all. And nor does the public have any oversight of it. Zuckerberg's 58 percent voting control over the Facebook board means he, not Facebook users, remains king of the castle.

And this is the point. The Oversight Board will provide Facebook with a great advantage: it will shield Zuckerberg and Facebook from scrutiny and state regulation. It could remove total culpability for policy blunders around censorship or political bias from Facebook's executives. And it will most definitely be used as a counter to future regulatory investigations for potential antitrust violations and other malpractice, as the company could hide behind the Oversight Board arguing Facebook is no longer free to pursue profit over what's fair for society. - Norman Lewis

There are so many sentences from Viktor #Orban's state of the union speech I could quote here. So let's just stay at my favorite: "There is no such thing as a liberal. Liberals are nothing else but communists with a university degree.  Viktoria Serdult

The simple overpowering truth is that money is the music of foreign policy, not the well being of Americans. Official Washington is K street, not the White House or the Congress. That's why, when you look at the proceedings of foreign policy hearings, it is all so weird and distorted. All the words contained in them are cover stories and virtue signaling, not intentions or real objectives.  Jeezal.org