Sunday, July 17, 2016

Items Worth Thinking About

1)  This item includes a video in which a renowned scientist explains that the “music of strings resonating through 11 dimensional hyperspace … is the mind of God”.  And the scientist, Michio Kaku, who, among other roles, is a well-known commentator... has affirmed his theory with a new statement at the Geophilosophical Association of Anthropological and Cultural Studies.  Those with questions about faith have flocked to his original video, which asks, “Is God a mathematician?"  And, "All of a sudden we had super symmetric theories coming out of physics that then revolutionized mathematics, and so the goal of physics we believe is to find an equation perhaps no more than one inch long which will allow us to unify all the forces of nature and allow us to read the mind of God. And what is the key to that one inch equation? Super symmetry, a symmetry that comes out of physics, not mathematics, and has shocked the world of mathematics. But you see, all this is pure mathematics and so the final resolution could be that God is a mathematician. And when you read the mind of God, we actually have a candidate for the mind of God. The mind of God we believe is cosmic music, the music of strings resonating through 11 dimensional hyperspace. That is the mind of God.” http://www.wnd.com/2016/06/big-hit-renowned-scientists-video-shows-god-exists/

2)  This former Marxist professor traveled the world and found that Socialism and Marxism do not work.  Quote: "University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Professor Jack Stauder says his political and ideological conversion away from socialism and Marxism occurred when he actually witnessed these systems in action.  After traveling to more than 110 countries to pursue various forms of research, notably cultural anthropology, Stauder described his conversion from Marxism as a process of disillusionment.
“I gradually became disenchanted with Marxism by visiting many of the countries that had tried to shape their societies to conform to its doctrines. I was disillusioned by the realities I saw in … socialist countries – the USSR, Eastern Europe, China, Cuba, etc,” Stauder told The College Fix via email.   "When asked about the current bias in academia, Stauder pointed to the overwhelming amount of research confirming a leftist bias."  And, “Academia has developed its own culture, a subset of the wider elite culture of the ‘new upper class’ (see Charles Murray, Coming Apart). As in all cultures, pressures exist to conform one’s thoughts and actions, and those who do not conform tend to be marginalized or suppressed,” Stauder said.  Though it may be challenging, Stauder encourages professors simply to “be individuals. Seek the truth, and stand by it.”    http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/27861/

      The reality that is socialism.  Quote: "In his great classic, Socialism, Ludwig von Mises observed that socialists always employed the dual strategy of 1) nationalizing as much industry and property as possible; and 2) “destructionism,” defined as “destroying the social order which is based on private ownership.”  Destructionism can be achieved through the welfare state, progressive taxation, onerous taxation, and regulation and regimentation of private industry.  It is a form of economic sabotage.  There is also a third necessity in order for socialists to achieve their goal of a government “planned” society:  the centralization of power and the elimination of all possible exits. As Mises wrote in another of his classics, Omnipotent Government, “[T]he adversaries of the trend toward more government control describe their opposition as a fight against . . . centralization.  It is conceived as a contest of states’ rights versus the central power.”  This, of course, is what the “Brexit” vote in Great Britain was all about." https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/07/thomas-dilorenzo/secede-socialism/

     This professor raised in a communist country offers this cogent observation, "The difference between ideas and facts is lost on leftist scholars."  Quote:Today Professor Florin Curta is a professor in medieval history and archaeology at the University of Florida, but his road to the sunny vistas of north-central Florida came by way of communist-controlled Romania, where growing up he grappled with empty grocery stores, power outages, and an oppressive government that discouraged creativity and free enterprise.  Curta grew up under the iron-fisted regime of Romanian President Nicolae Ceaușescu, a dictatorship characterized by unrelenting state-control, extreme poverty and widespread dilapidation and deprivation. Ceaușescu was overthrown and executed by firing squad in 1989, leaving his country in shambles."   http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/26717/

     A lesson from history relevant to the modern political environment.   http://spectator.org/remembering-a-grimly-prophetic-july-4/


3)  I don't like saying this but it proves a point I have made a number of times.  Democrats pat themselves on the back while proclaiming their support for blacks but when the rubber meets the road their claims are found wanting.  This black American makes the point better than I and offers proof of leftist bias against him and his fellow black conservatives.  Quote: "As I stated, the liberal mainstream media have done a great job keeping black conservative sightings almost as rare as Bigfoot sightings. Race exploitation profiteers Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are household names among blacks. Meanwhile, my dad and most blacks that I know never heard of black conservative national radio talk show host, entrepreneur and businessman extraordinaire Herman Cain until his brief presidential campaign.  Leftists claim to be advocates for blacks. Given the epidemic of black school dropouts, fatherless households, unemployment, and crime plaguing urban blacks, one would assume Leftists would celebrate Herman Cain as a role model of what can be achieved via hard work and right choices. Instead, Leftists (liberal media, NAACP, Congressional Black Caucus and so-called civil rights advocates) despise Herman Cain. Cain contradicts Leftist's storyline that America is racist and only voting for Democrats and total dependency on government can save blacks. For years, the only black conservatives I knew of and heard on national media were Walter Williams, Dr. Thomas Sowell, and Mychal Massie of Project 21. I first met Mychal about six years ago and was pretty starstruck. Today, Mychal is a dear conservative friend, still fighting the good fight. There's a new crop of black conservatives entering the political arena. It does my heart good hearing about young blacks who rejected drinking the Left's America-sucks-and-you're-entitled-to-other-peoples'-hard-earned-stuff Kool-Aid."   And, "Folks, we black conservatives still have much work to do, breaking down old stereotypes and Democrat/liberal media lies and deceptions."    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/06/leftist_nightmare_black_conservatives_running_for_office.html

4)  Multiculturalism neither measures up to what the left advertised it to be nor does it meet the common sense test.  This item addresses the matter.  Quote: "Leftist diversity advocates and multiculturalists are right to argue that people of all races, religions and fulfills what cultures should be equal in the eyes of the law. But their argument borders on idiocy when they argue that one set of cultural values cannot be judged superior to another and that to do so is Eurocentrism. That's unbridled nonsense. Ask a diversity/multiculturalism advocate: Is forcible female genital mutilation, as practiced in nearly 30 sub-Saharan African and Middle Eastern countries, a morally equivalent cultural value? Slavery is practiced in northern Sudan. In most of the Middle East, there are numerous limits placed on women, such as prohibitions on driving, employment and education. Under Islamic law, in some countries, female adulterers face death by stoning, and thieves are punished by having their hand severed. In some African and Middle Eastern countries, homosexuality is a crime, in some cases punishable by death. Are all these cultural values morally equivalent to those of the West?"   http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2016/06/29/multiculturalism-a-failed-concept-n2183873?

     This is one of hundreds of examples of Muslim behavior that could be listed.  But this one is incredible because it reveals the left/progressives defending a murderer by blaming the victim.  Quote: "The Palestinian Authority official news agency called the murderer a martyr. The mother of the terrorist said he was a “hero. He made me proud. My son died as a Martyr defending Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds, he has joined the Martyrs before him, and he is not better than them. Allah willing, all of them will follow this path, all the youth of Palestine. Allah be praised.”  Fortunately, certain leftists are around to remind us that 13-year-old girls deserve to be murdered in their beds because those beds happen to be located in historic Jewish territory that leftists believe should be made Judenrein. Both the headline and the lead sentence from The New York Times said that the attack happened in a “settlement” in the so-called West Bank, as though that were relevant – Arabs have attacked Jews in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv with similar alacrity. The Washington Post led with this headline: “Palestinian fatally stabs sleeping Israeli girl in West Bank settlement.” Leftist newspaper Ha’aretz headlined, “Israeli girl dies from her wounds after being stabbed at home in bed in West Bank settlement.”  And, "But that's not the extent of the left's evil. The left has a Jew-specific agenda, too: separating off the Jews from the West, then labeling them part of a different problem that requires negotiation with people who want to murder Jews. The left, for all its foibles, has never suggested negotiation with ISIS. But they’ll suggest that Jews negotiate with Arab terrorists, because Jews are different somehow. And that difference means that Jews must be forced never to live in certain areas lest they provoke the murder of their own children."    http://www.dailywire.com/news/7096/arab-slaughters-13-year-old-jewish-girl-her-ben-shapiro?

     Obama's illegal immigration scheme is getting really ugly.  Even blue states are now begging him to do something about the mess he created.  Quote: "Local officials in D.C. have seen a surge in gang-related homicides in the past two years, and they think they know why – illegal immigration. They’re pleading with the Obama Administration to do their jobs.  After murders in Montgomery County quadrupled from 2014, Police Chief Thomas Manger issued a report stating that the county has seen an unprecedented level  of gang-related violence in the last 8 months – with illegal immigrant youth being responsible for 85% of street robberies."  And, "Unfortunately, illegal immigration shows no signs of slowing down any time soon. The latest numbers from CBP show that by March 31, 2016, there had been a 78% jump in unaccompanied minors illegally crossing the border since 2015, and an increase of 131% of illegal immigrant families surging across the border."    http://opinion.ijr.com/2016/06/257326-illegal-immigration-harming-dc-area/?  

5)  You may not believe it but here's proof that Google is supporting Hillary by directing searches away from her unethical, dishonest and sordid past.  Propaganda manipulating searches by Google must be stopped!!!.  Quote: "How much of an in-kind contribution is Google and Eric Schmidt giving Hillary Clinton? How much is search manipulation helping her? How does seamlessly manipulating what you can know form a person’s opinion?   Facebook helps liberals with their manipulated trending topics. Google helps liberals with manipulated searches.  Does anyone on the right have a chance in this environment?"    http://spectator.org/trying-to-find-information-about-criminal-hillary-clinton-on-google-good-luck/   The dishonest, unethical, illegal, disgusting and immoral behavior of the political left/progressives/elitists is destroying our nation.  You may think I am wrong.  If so, check this out.  http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/06/12/facebook-doubles-bans-pamela-geller-criticizing-islam/   If this piece is true Google does not permit searches for Hillary crimes.  Quote: "Anonymous has come out with a new and explosive video that claims Google is favoring Hillary Clinton. In the attached video, a live search demonstration is shown as search results for Clinton on Google versus search results for Hillary on Yahoo seem to prove that Hillary’s alleged crimes might be buried by Google."    http://www.inquisitr.com/3222038/hillary-clintons-crimes-and-indictments-google-removes-them-from-suggestions-say-anonymous-video/?   That is leftist propaganda by omission.  Google is turning into a propagandist organization.  Boycott their site.  Any organization that supports someone like Hillary is part of the cabal out to destroy truth, honesty, civility, decency and morality.

     Drop Facebook, too.  It has turned anti-American, pro-leftist socialistfacist by attempting to deny access to things that challenge socialist/leftist/facist nonsense.   Facebook has gone so far as to pay celebrities and news outlets to produce liberal propaganda for them.  Don't believe me???  Read this.    http://fortune.com/2016/06/21/facebook-paying-live-video/    Both Google and Facebook are now agents for our liberal/socialist/progressive/fascists federal government, corporate cronies, academics, and media .  If things are not bad enough now free enterprise is willingly entering into a fascistic relationship with our corrupt government.  They are now government propagandists more so than serving the public's interests.

6)  This Marine Corps University professor has a plan to defeat Islamic terror.  It is quite different from Obama's plan and makes a whole lot more sense. Quote: "A Marine Corps University professor has become famous practically overnight because he has something President Obama does not. A plan to defeat jihad."   http://www.wnd.com/2016/06/sebastian-gorkas-plan-to-defeat-isis-simple-but-devastating/

7)  By now everyone knows that the left is seeking to prosecute those who do not agree with them regarding climate change.  Their tactic, however, may have run into problems.  The game can be played by both sides of the argument.   Quote: "Oops! Rockefeller-funded “climate” alarmists caught conspiring with rogue officials to persecute their critics by abusing the legal system are almost certainly kicking themselves right now. Responding to what multiple legal experts have described as a potential “criminal conspiracy” among far-left prosecutors and global-warming theorists to target skeptics of their increasingly discredited theory, conservative-leaning state attorneys general have now fired back — big time. Basically, if the same legal logic used by the alarmist prosecutors were applied to climate alarmists, the warming theorists could find themselves in serious trouble.  In a letter sent to their Democrat counterparts who have targeted pro-carbon tax oil giant Exxon and various non-profit organizations, the coalition of more than a dozen Republican attorneys general issued a powerful warning. If climate realists can be prosecuted for the supposed “fraud” of “minimizing” or denying the alleged threat posed by alleged man-made global warming, then climate alarmists can be prosecuted for the fraud of exaggerating the supposed threat. “If it is possible to minimize the risks of climate change, then the same goes for exaggeration,” the officials explained in the letter to the Democrat and alarmist prosecutors styling themselves “AGs United for Clean Power.” “If minimization is fraud, exaggeration is fraud.”    http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/23495-prosecutors-exaggerating-climate-risks-might-be-fraud    

8)  I do not often agree with Louis Farrakhan but he speaks the absolute truth in this short video.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI8fpRw_FFA 

9)  Regarding the race between Hillary and Trump, "So where are we? Let’s look at the leaderboard.  On one side, we have Hillary Clinton. She’s in the pocket of Big Pharma, she’s dedicated to the advance of Globalism on every possible front (“it takes a village”), she can’t sleep at night unless US planes are bombing some helpless population.  On the other side, we have Donald Trump, who’s saying all the right things about Globalism’s attack on America, but he just happened on this rhetoric by accident, he doesn’t mean any of it, he’s lying all day and all night, he wants to change the name of the White House to Trump Tower II. We know he’s lying because Bill Maher and John Oliver say so."  And, "The Presidency is a character issue. Hillary pretends she has character. Trump doesn’t. That’s all we need to know or ever will need to know."      https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/trump-vs-the-globalists-gunfight-at-ok-corral/

     Speaking of Hillary.  FBI Director Comey announced on 5 July 2016 that Hillary violated laws but the violations did not rise to a prosecutorial level.  Five things.  First, violations not as serious as Hillary's have put "lesser" people in jail.  She skates.  Second, reckless/careless handling of classified information is just as much a violation as purposeful mishandling.  This does not pass the smell test. Third, she is now a documented compulsive liar.  Comey's testimony before Congress yesterday proved that in response to direct questions. Congress is now determining if she lied durning congressional testimony, a federal crime.   Fourth, it proves that if you are a member of the leftist's elite class you can live by different rules than the rest of us.  Fifth, this was a political decision, not a legal one, which makes it a miscarriage of justice.  Read the link to see Comey's findings.  Be sure to read the assessment of what Comey comments.  It is below the word "Nonsense".  http://www.dailywire.com/news/7177/fbi-yes-queen-hillary-broke-law-no-she-wont-be-ben-shapiro?   To make matters worse this new revelation came to light days before the FBI filing became public.  It is another violation of federal law.  Yet Comey did not address it.   http://www.dailywire.com/news/7175/huma-abedin-admits-clinton-destroyed-federal-james-barrett?    Something smells in Denmark.  Me thinks it is the odor of elite leftist collusion and corruption.

     The FBI rewrote federal law in order to give Hillary a pass.  Just another Obama administration playing the unconstitutional role of legislator.  A habit the Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected.  We will have to wait and see what the fall-out is this time. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/437479/fbi-rewrites-federal-law-let-hillary-hook?

     Now, consider this.    http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2016/07/05/like-clinton-others-were-extremely-careless-regarding-handling-classified-informationbut-they-got-pinched-n2188462?     A succinct but apt discussion of the Hillary miscarriage of justice sponsored by the equally unjust Obama Administration.   http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2016/07/06/iovi-et-bovi-the-teflon-hillary-standard-n2188540?   You will not believe this. Lying Hillary calls FBI Director Comey a liar.  She is looking smaller and smaller with each new lie.   http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/07/06/hillary-clinton-calls-fbi-director-james-comey-lying-liar/

     Now, consider this 2.   Since Hillary has demonstrated her inability to handle classified information responsibly (as FBI Director Comey unambiguously pointed out) this former White House counsel's concern is legitimate.   http://freebeacon.com/issues/former-white-house-counsel-hillary-clinton-not-get-intelligence-briefings/?   Not only is she unfit for a number of other reasons but her vastly irresponsible history with classified information should rule out any chance of serving as president.  No amount of liberal/progressive/Democrat whitewashing of her ineptitude can erase the fact that she should never get close to the White House ever again.

     Now, consider this 3.   This item suggests that Hillary may not be out of the woods just yet.  Quote: "Just when Hillary thought she was going to skate on her obvious criminal violations of national security laws, the nation’s second highest court has issued a ruling that could cause big trouble for her.  The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ranks just below the Supreme Court, since its jurisdiction extends to the federal government agencies in the nation’s capital." http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/07/uhoh_dc_circuit_court_of_appeals_issues_ruling_that_could_force_more_hillary_email_disclosures.html

10)  Democrats/political leftists are increasingly seeking to dismantle the protections provided by the 1st, 2nd and 5th Amendments to the constitution.  They think the Constitution should not apply to those with whom they disagree.  They think they have the right to shut up those opposing their views, take guns from innocent law abiding citizens and deny citizens they don't like the right of due process.  Their behavior is increasingly intolerant of the rights of all free citizens protected by the Constitution.  Given recent behavior it appears they believe the Constitution does not apply to them.  Quote: "Democrats have long expressed frustration, if not outright contempt, for the Constitution whenever it hinders their ability to enact some new government program. President Obama has repeatedly complained about the "messy" process the Constitution's co-equal branches created, and has several times acted as though the Constitution's limits on the president's authority simply don't apply to him. But the fact that a major U.S. political party -- which still considers itself mainstream -- is now willing to specifically target amendments designed to protect Americans from tyrannical government control is alarming, to say the least."    http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/democrats-now-attack-3-of-the-10-bill-of-rights/   

     This is an examination of the political left, its policies and tactics used to seize control over the masses.  Quote: "The leftist obsession with “equality” and leveling means the state must insinuate itself into employment, finance, education, private clubs — pretty much every nook and cranny of civil society. In the name of diversity, every institution is forced to look exactly like every other one. The left can’t ever be satisfied because its creed is a permanent revolution in the service of unattainable ends like “equality.” People of different skills and endowments will reap different rewards, which means constant intervention into civil society. Moreover, equality vanishes the moment people begin freely exchanging money for the goods they desire, so again: the state must be involved in everything, at all times.  Moreover, each generation of liberals undermines and scoffs at what the previous one took for granted. The revolution marches on.  Leftism is, in short, a recipe for permanent revolution, and of a distinctly anti-libertarian kind. Not just anti-libertarian. Anti-human.  And yet all the hatred these days is directed at the right."   https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/07/lew-rockwell/unique-evil-left/
  
     This illustrates the arrogance of Democrats and their disdain for those with legitimately held differences of opinion. Quote: "Democratic operatives responsible for creating their party’s platform this year have unanimously adopted a provision calling for the Department of Justice to investigate companies who disagree with Democrats on global warming science.  A panel of Democrats voted Friday to approve a final draft of the party’s platform to promote “Progressive Democratic Values,” which apparently includes investigating energy companies who “misled” shareholders about global warming."  Their assumption is that only they and their obedient scientists hold scientific truth.  And, that gives them the right to punish those who disagree.   To put that position in the Democratic Party political platform confirms it is really a political position they hold rather and a scientific one.  That they may in fact be guilty of misleading the public with their propaganda never crosses their oh so righteous minds.  They should be ashamed of their obvious arrogance.   http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/27/dem-party-platform-calls-for-prosecuting-global-warming-skeptics/
  
      The amount of corruption that now grips the political class and government bureaucracies is astounding.  Consider this obvious corrupt political move by the State Department to protect Hillary's chances to get elected president.  http://www.conservativefreepress.com/presidential-campaign/state-department-wants-a-2-year-delay-for-clinton-aide-emails-suit/

      Consider this discussion regarding the joyous reaction of the left to the Supreme Court's latest "a woman's right to an abortion" decision.  Quote: "Yes, there's a lot of deviltry in the details, but the basic truth is undeniable: Those on the left -- in all three branches of the federal government, along with their cheerleaders in the media -- believe that the rights they like are sacred and the rights they dislike are negligible inconveniences at best and outrageous cancers on the body politic at worst. As Justice Clarence Thomas put it in his Hellerstedt dissent: "The Court employs a different approach to rights that it favors."  In this, the court is not alone."   http://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2016/07/01/the-lefts-different-approach-to-rights-that-it-opposes-n2185993?


    
     One of the historic planks of progressivism/liberalism/leftist policy is the destruction of the traditional family unit.  All socialist/fascist regimes have undertaken that task to one degree or another.  The American version has made single mom homes a heroic victory for women's rights.  After all, women's rights/liberation movement icons have over and over again claimed that men are superfluous, not necessary in modern day society.  This item examines the single mom phenomenon.  Quote: "Indeed, over the past four decades, ideologues promoting liberal ideas and values have often prevailed in the competition with those who adhere to traditional values and ideas. The disastrous consequences of policies based on liberal ideology rather than Judeo-Christian values are apparent everywhere, from the local school to the movie screens, from the marketplace to the welfare system."  And, "To anyone willing to look objectively at the facts, it is becoming increasingly apparent that neither state nor federal programs can ever be enough to compensate for the costs of moral relativism and the breakdown of the family. The decline of marriage and the traditional mom-and-dad family are a tragic loss to both children and women. This fact has been sugar-coated and glossed over to accommodate the radical utopian ideological of the Left which is hostile to all aspects of the moral authority of religion with its constraining boundaries. It is obvious to those who study social trends that no-fault-divorce, the legalization of abortion, runaway entitlements, disastrous declines in the percentage of men who are working and increases in dysfunctional lifestyles (promiscuous sex, alcohol and drug abuse, gambling, etc.) are increasing right along with the breakdown of marriage and family."    http://spectator.org/the-consequences-of-single-mother-households/

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