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Obama is the Power Behind the Biden Teleprompter

Sep 18, 2020 by

By Cliff Kincaid

President Trump was accused of going too slow on a coronavirus response. Now he’s accused of going too fast. “Danger of rushing vaccine” screams the headline over the political gossip publication Axios, designed for elites in the Big Tech industry who don’t read too much but want to know what to say and who to censor. Meanwhile, the liberals in the media are in ecstasy over Barack Hussein’ Obama’s new book, A Promised Land.

Mike Allen of Axios says former Obama aides “tell me it’s worth the wait” and that “Obama is a graceful, thoughtful writer who cares about the words — and has two previous bestsellers, Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope.”

You may remember that Dreams from My Father concealed the identity of Obama’s Marxist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, and was reportedly ghost-written by former communist terrorist and professor Bill Ayers. Jack Cashill tells this story in his new book, Unmasking Obama.

You may also remember a column I wrote about Mike Allen’s conservative father, the great Gary Allen, who wrote a series of books exposing communist personalities and plots. Mike turned his back on his father’s work and has pursued a journalistic career of pandering to the rich, famous, and powerful. Gary Allen exposed people like Henry Kissinger. Mike Allen idolizes Obama.

Cashill’s book Unmasking Obama explains how conservative media and public interest groups worked to uncover and expose a series of Obama scandals, especially his communist ties but also his use of government power against his political enemies.  Hence, the subtitle is, “The Fight to Tell the True Story of a Failed Presidency.”

The print edition for the new Obama book, including two 16-page photo inserts, is $45. You can get Cashill’s book for about half the price and it will fill in the gaps in public knowledge of America’s first Marxist president.

Obama is still important, not only because he’s hawking a new book, but because he’s the power behind the Joe Biden candidacy.

While conservatives note the references by Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris to a planned “Harris Administration,” a Joe Biden victory will in reality be another Obama Administration, a third term for our 44th president. Anybody who gets Democratic Party email messages about the election understands that Obama is the fundraising hook or ploy in most of them. Biden can’t motivate the left, but Obama can.

The latest such message, entitled, “President Obama believes. We do too,” comes from the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State. In effect, Obama is raising funds for a presidency that will feature Obama, rather than Biden, as the president, and Harris will continue to function in a subsidiary role. Obama is not going away and is the real power behind the Biden teleprompter.

In effect, the race is between Trump and Obama – not “Sleepy Joe.” Biden’s foreign policy advisers once worked for Obama and gave us the carnage in places like Syria. They are agitating for another Middle East war.

This is not to say that Kamala Harris doesn’t have a legislative agenda. In fact, she is the sponsor of a Senate marijuana legalization bill, the MORE Act, that has a House counterpart that will be voted on shortly. A coalition of thirty groups has just sent a letter in opposition to the MORE Act to House leadership.

Harris says dope brings joy to people. But studies and experts note its addictive qualities. The drug lowers I.Q. and can reduce young people to the level of Antifa thugs acting like cannon fodder for the revolution. Perhaps this is the plan.

In any case, expect the major media, including the outlets like Axios, to ignore all of this, and cheer for legalization of the drug. Many probably “enjoy” the drug themselves. Perhaps this addiction helps explain their fawning coverage of Obama.

Many Republicans ignore the damage caused by the pro-marijuana movement, largely funded by George Soros, because one of their own, Senator Cory Gardner, is running for reelection in Colorado. He is what drug expert David Evans calls a “pot whore” for the marijuana industry, which is exporting the drug nationwide. Marijuana smuggling from Colorado has become a national scandal but Gardner continues to promote the deadly business. He should have stepped aside for a more conservative candidate and is going down to defeat, possibly costing the Republicans their Senate majority.

CNBC’s Jim Cramer apologized for calling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “Crazy Nancy,” a nickname from Trump, but Cramer and Pelosi are both crazy because they promote dope as a legitimate business. Pelosi even claimed dope was a treatment for coronavirus. A study found 68 references in a Pelosi coronavirus relief bill to promoting marijuana.

Perhaps Obama’s “Promised Land” is one of free dope. His presidential pro-marijuana policies, carried out by his Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department, may have stemmed from his own history of heavy marijuana and cocaine use. His mentor Communist Frank Marshall Davis used drugs and produced pornography, among other nefarious activities.

Obama prefers Harris over Biden but will campaign for a Biden victory in November because he knows Biden is an empty suit and that Harris will be his puppet. It will be reminiscent of the dark days when Obama became a pawn of Communist Frank Marshall Davis but had to conceal the role of his puppet master, with the support of the media, as he took power.

After his second term was over, he rushed over to Beijing to confer behind closed doors with Chinese dictator Xi, in what the British Guardian called a meeting of “veteran cadres.”

Promised Land, huh?

*Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org

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Democrats’ Destroy-Trump Efforts Almost Comical

Sep 15, 2020 by

Joan Swirsky

For the past 50 or more years, the Democrat Party––always leftwing but today both viciously anti-American and virulently anti-Semitic––has worked tirelessly to inflict its worldview on everyone in America.

By stealthily infiltrating our media, our schools (from pre-school to universities), and since Obama our Intelligence Services and Military, it has sought to convince our electorate that high taxes, open borders, sanctuary cities, shipping manufacturing jobs to foreign countries, post-birth infanticide, and total government control from cradle to grave are good––and that the U.S. Constitution, capitalism, high employment, law and order, indeed patriotism are bad.

No one has spelled out the devolution of the Democrat Party and the key players responsible for its demise more comprehensively than writer Shari Goodman––read her entire article here!

WORSE THAN COVID-19

Since the election of 2016, when business mogul Donald J. Trump outsmarted 20 Republican opponents, all career politicians, and trounced Hillary in the Electoral College to win the presidency, Democrats seem to have contracted a mutating virus a thousand times worse than Covid-19.

The anti-Trump symptoms are identical in all of those “tolerant” Regressives:

  • Shout down opposing views.
  • Spew insults and epithets.
  • Create falsehoods and pretend they’re true.
  • Support the domestic anarchists and terrorists of Black Lives Matter and Antifa and the vast destruction they’ve sown for the last four months.
  • Vow to vote for a seriously cognitively compromised candidate and a running mate who accused him of both racism and sexism.

Almost comical!

GETTING SERIOUS

Of course the real reason for this systemic derangement is that President Trump convincingly exposed the deep criminality of Big Government and the cozy arrangements that cost the American taxpayer billions of dollars each year:

  • The Obama-Biden regime’s weaponizing of the FBI, CIA, and the FISA Court, et al, resulting in ongoing investigations which could and should land the principals of those organizations in Gitmo.
  • The crooked money “arrangements” enjoyed by higher-ups like former VP Joe Biden in securing multimillion-and-billion-dollar windfalls for himself, his son Hunter and his brother James. Ukraine, anyone? China, anyone? There is this damning piece about the Biden Crime Family Inc.
  • But worse is Debra Heine’s article about the explosive new documentary, “Red Dragon: Uncovering the Bidens’ Chinese Secrets” that “tells the hidden story of the secret financial relationship between Joe Biden’s family and the Chinese government, exposing how the Bidens’ business dealings even served the strategic interests of the Chinese military while Joe Biden was VP of the United States.”
  • The horrible treaties, including the Iran deal, NAFTA, NATO, et al, that benefitted foreign countries significantly more than the U.S.
  • The interest of the “anti-war” Democrats in keeping wars going endlessly (always follow the money).
  • The degree to which lobbyists and the members of Congress they hire determine legislation that is good for their pocketbooks but not for We the People who they purport to represent.
  • The utter impoverishment of Democrat philosophy and policy.

AND THE WINNERS ARE!

Candidates Biden and Kalamity are telling the American public that it is they––and not President Trump––who will bring America to its best days yet. Yet they admit they will:

  • Raise taxes to unprecedented levels.
  • Reinstall the strangulating regulations that President Trump did away with in order to allow Free Enterprise to flourish.

And, according to Sundance, Joe Biden opposes:

  • Energy independence.
  • Stable energy development for our economy, which is the backbone of manufacturing revitalization.
  • Earth-mineral exploration and development.
  • And he “promises to reattach our economy to the Paris Climate Treaty which will forever restrict the growth of American industry.”

Given all these economy-killing policies, the delusional Biden-Kalamity ticket continues to assure us every day that we should trust them to invigorate the economy and boost employment.

Almost comical!

Cui Bono––Who Benefits Under Biden-Kalamity?

Certainly not the Black community which has enjoyed the highest employment in American history under President Trump!

Certainly not the Blacks who have been imprisoned with disproportionately harsh sentences, but thanks to President Trump’s “First Step” program have been freed to enjoy gainful employment and their cherished freedom. By the way, where was the Obama-Biden tag team for eight years in bringing such life-enhancing legislation about?

Certainly not the Hispanic community which has also enjoyed record employment under President Trump’s policies.

Certainly not women who have enjoyed record employment under President Trump’s policies.

Certainly not the youth of our country who have enjoyed record employment under President Trump’s policies.

PLAN X

Think about it. Since Donald Trump and his gorgeous wife Melania came down the escalator in Trump Tower in June of 2015, every leftist pundit, commentator, TV anchor, sophisticated scribe and Hollywood ditzoid predicted––with amazing confidence and self-important arrogance––that “Donald Trump will not be President of the United States.” Here is my favorite clip of those always-wrong know-nothings.

Today, about six weeks from the election, all those brilliant Democrats––you know, the ones with the fancy college degrees, the impressive credentials, the high IQs, the decades in government service at the highest levels––are the same leftists who:

  • Failed at the Russian hoax.
  • Failed at the Ukraine hoax.
  • Failed at the Impeachment hoax.

That’s a lot of failure. But it hasn’t stopped the Democrats from continuing to fail.

While President Trump is busy bringing about unprecedented breakthroughs in forging alliances between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Serbia and Kosovo, and now Israel and Bahrain––for which he has rightfully earned not one but two nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize––Democrats once again prove their idiocy by admitting that they loved when the arch-terrorist Yasir Arafat received the prize and when Barack Obama received it for….um…what???––but all of a sudden, they hate the Nobel Prize.

Almost comical!

PLAN Y

Now desperate, the Democrats trot out an article in the far-left Atlantic magazine that alleges that the president called American World War I veterans who died in France “suckers” and “losers.” This canard was an accusation not one person in America believes, given the president’s unequalled respect for and largesse to our military, including the massive build-up of the U.S. Military that the Obama-Biden regime eviscerated, emasculated, and tore down at every opportunity.

Where did this poison dart go? Another failure.

The next day, the same now-panicked leftists trotted out the “breaking,” “explosive,” and also go-nowhere revelation that Bob Woodward, the reporter for the fanatically anti-Trump Washington Post, revealed in his new book, Rage, that President Trump, gasp, didn’t want to panic the public and so played down the potentially dire information he was receiving about the China virus, Covid-19.

Imagine going to a doctor or bringing your child to a doctor, only to have that medical professional enter the room and tell you, “This is bad, very bad.” A sane person would call this doctor an alarmist and walk out of the room, outraged by his or her lack of empathy, lack of optimism, and failure to suggest a plan of action.

President Trump, on the other hand, demonstrated tremendous empathy for a scared public, the indomitable optimism that characterizes the American character, and an extensive plan of action that was implemented with seamless efficiency––all things that Doomsday Democrats hate!

Unfortunately for Woodward and his boss Jeff Bezos, this poison dart also failed because the American public that leftists hold in such contempt have eyes and ears and see for themselves what the president did to protect them, including immediately shutting down travel to the U.S. from China, and then from Europe, and then employing his vast executive experience in obtaining more personal-protective equipment and medically-outfitted ships and masks and respirators and testing than any country on earth––and in typically Trump record-breaking time.

PLAN Z

No doubt, these frantic, Democrats will keep up the anti-Trump drumbeat until Election Day on November 3rd––fabricating explosive headlines, leveling damning accusations, and working overtime to rig the election.

But this effort will earn them a Z for zero success. That is because I suspect that most Democrats are not that dumb, that when they get into the voting booth and draw the curtain, and even when they fill out the mail-in voter forms, they will pull the lever or check the box for the man who promises––and has already delivered––peace and prosperity.

© 2020 Joan Swirsky – All Rights Reserved

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Why You Should Cast a Vote Against the Media

Sep 14, 2020 by

By Cliff Kincaid

In comments reminiscent of Hillary’s “deplorables” remark about Trump voters in 2016, a major media figure has gone nuts over those who refuse to buy into the left-wing narratives about climate change, race war, forced vaccinations, and other items on the agenda of Biden for president.
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In a newsletter actually headlined, “A screaming, spreading wake-up call,” Jim VandeHei of Axios exhibited a bizarre display of ranting and raving in print against ordinary Americans who support Trump and refuse to believe left-wing drivel about current events. He went through the roof in anger and screamed that they are “refusing to believe scientists or experts about factual news, coronavirus prevention, global warming, vaccines and established truth.”

He added, “Think about the number of educated people in your own life who share fake stories or believe B.S.”

In apocalyptic terror, he proclaimed, “It’s as if God or the galaxy, or whatever you believe in, are screaming for politicians and the public to pop our bubbles and pay attention —  and believe our eyes.”

This temper tantrum was actually distributed by Axios to subscribers to its newsletter. It’s clear VandeHei believes only in himself, as a self-proclaimed arbiter of knowledge and truth. In short, he’s an arrogant elitist. This is typical of our media today.

My reaction to this meltdown, as an analyst and critic of the media for over 40 years, is that VandeHei is one of the prominent people who share those fake stories and the B.S. I’ve seen it all before. He is one of those who excuse the Deep State’s vendetta against Trump. Rather than reason and argue with people, he thinks the voters should just accept whatever the media elites are promoting at the time. Those days are over.

By way of background, you may have noticed that we are in the home stretch to November 3 and the media are increasingly concerned that everything they throw at President Donald J. Trump is not sticking. Even when Trump makes a mistake, such as the interview with Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, most people ignore the faux pas and move on. As a result, billionaire Mike Bloomberg has just committed at least $100 million to Joe Biden in Florida alone. Expect George Soros to also intervene monetarily.

They are worried that Trump voters are standing with the president and swing voters perceive that the mentally frail Joe Biden is not up to the job and that he will be a puppet of radical socialists who will undermine the economic recovery.

These voters understand that while Trump has flaws, he is vastly superior to a rapidly fading front man for the socialist left with obvious mental deficiencies who is inclined, based on advisers’ comments, to get the U.S. into another war.

In the middle of this massive medical cover-up for Joe Biden, Jim VandeHei of  Axios has decided to scream and yell at the American people. They have lost their minds in  a panic over the prospect that Trump will win.

A former reporter for the Washington Post who is now CEO of Axios, a corporate-funded publication, VandeHei writes in such a way as to appeal to America’s elites by treating the common man as an ignoramus.  The corporate-funded outlet went for federal bailout loans during coronavirus but then under fire decided to accept dark money from unseen entities.

One of his alarmist claims is that there is a “racial reckoning” in America “after literally decades of warnings about needed policing and economic reforms.” In other words, despite the trillions spent in a failed “war on poverty,” we need a central government that will spend more, including reparations, to settle down those rioting in the cities and threatening to take their violence into the suburbs.

VandeHei accepts the narrative that the protests and riots over the death of George Floyd, a heavy drug abuser who died after resisting arrest, are legitimate. He deliberately ignores the Marxist and occult roots of Black Lives Matter. Of course, he has to maintain this stance out of respect for the “diversity and inclusion” nonsense. Otherwise, he would, as a white man, be accused of “white privilege” and have to resign.

On so-called “global warming,” an article of faith for those with New Age beliefs, he says “It’s nearly impossible to find a scientist who doesn’t agree that a warming planet has contributed to the wildfires destroying big slices of California, Oregon and Washington.” Here, he ignores the arrests of arsonists and the documented evidence of forest mismanagement by state and local officials.  The “global warming” theory — that rising temperatures have somehow “contributed” to fires — is designed for the liberal politicians such as California Governor Gavin Newsom to excuse their own incompetence.

If we followed his advice, America’s energy independence – achieved under Trump – would be sacrificed on the altar of the Green New Deal. And the forests would continue to burn while homeowners go without power.

He has a throw-away line about believing in vaccines, when people are understandably wary of vaccines that have proven side-effects and benefit Big Pharma benefactors of Axios. He seems ignorant of the flu vaccine that was withdrawn after injuring people. He doesn’t remember the rotavirus vaccine that killed kids. Or the HIV/AIDS vaccine that wasted billions and never arrived.

Finally, VandeHei seizes on a legitimate issue, “a fast-rising China,” explaining that “China grows bigger and more powerful, most recently seizing control of Hong Kong and trying to buy allies at U.S. expense.” He then quotes from the New York Times to the effect that dictator Xi Jinping said that China’s progress in fighting the virus, including reopening schools, has “fully demonstrated the clear superiority of Communist Party leadership and our socialist system.”

Not a word about the origins of the virus in China and the mounting evidence that it was man-made.

If the use of the quotation from the Times is meant to suggest that Xi is right that the Chinese system is superior, then VandeHei is an apologist for tyranny and even more of a dangerous fool than the previous examples suggest. He has to know that, rather than being a top-down system, America has federal, state and local governments, all of which have played a role in containing the impact of the China virus. It may not be as “efficient” as a dictatorship but it is a system that incorporates the will of the people through their elected governments at all levels. Here, people can protest. In China, protesters are imprisoned or shot.

People are not buying the media line that “peaceful protests” involving black and white communists are acceptable and that Trump rallies violate the law and should be banned. 

For me, and most people, the American system, as imperfect as it is, is preferable to China’s.

On the issue of the China virus, the Axios newsletter began with a quote from Anthony Fauci on left-wing MSNBC about not returning to normal until 2021. This is presented as Gospel. At least we know what cable channel Axios editors are watching for their “news.” The public understands that Fauci has lost all of his credibility on the matter of coronavirus because of his flip-flops on such matters as human-to-human conduct and the usefulness of masks. They don’t take Fauci seriously anymore. The media use him to bash Trump.

The “screaming, spreading wake-up call” from VandeHei is instead a wake-up call for the American people, so they can once again get an appreciation of the true nature of the corrupt “news” media. The media are angry that more and more people choose not to pay any attention to them. They remain silent or even encourage efforts by Big Tech to censor Trump voters and Trump himself. But on the ground, at least in my area, I see many “Trump” signs and bumper stickers and none asking for a vote for Biden.

Meanwhile, Trump boat and auto parades with big “Trump” banners and American flags are taking place all over.

VandeHei says open your eyes. We have. He hasn’t. Perhaps his mask is hiding reality.

© 2020 Cliff Kincaid – All Rights Reserved

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Another Black Robed Tyrant Strikes – Again

Sep 14, 2020 by

By: Devvy

“You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps…. Their power [is] the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control.

“The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves.”  —Thomas Jefferson

We are now into months of the latest round rioting, looting and burning courtesy of the Bolshevik Lies Movement aka Black Lives Matter and fascist anarchists known as ANTIFA.

The lives of millions of Americas continue to be destroyed financially as well as their health both mental and physical, by the continuing mandatory restrictions placed on them by tyrant governors, mayors, school boards and teachers unions over this latest coronavirus strain.

In the movie, The Patriot with Mel Gibson, his character asks a question before a vote on whether or not to take on the British:  Would you rather have one tyrant 3,000 miles away or 3,000 tyrants one mile away?

And so, it is today.

For decades I’ve railed against rancid decisions by federal judges and the U.S. Supreme Court – along with about a million other Americans keeping a watchful eye.  Example:

PLYLER v. DOE, 457 U.S. 202 (1982) – 457 U.S. 202 – Argued December 1, 1981; Decided June 15, 1982. Held:

“A Texas statute which withholds from local school districts any state funds for the education of children who were not “legally admitted” into the United States, and which authorizes local school districts to deny enrollment to such children, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Pp. 210-230.

“(a) The illegal aliens who are plaintiffs in these cases challenging the statute may claim the benefit of the Equal Protection Clause, which provides that no State shall “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Whatever his status under the immigration laws, an alien is a “person” in any ordinary sense of that term. This Court’s prior cases recognizing that illegal aliens are “persons” protected by the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which Clauses do not include the phrase “within its jurisdiction,” cannot be distinguished on the asserted ground that persons who have entered the country illegally are not “within the jurisdiction” of a State even if they are present within its boundaries and subject to its laws.

“Nor do the logic and history of the Fourteenth Amendment support such a construction. Instead, use of the phrase “within its jurisdiction” confirms the understanding that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protection extends to anyone, citizen or stranger, who is subject to the laws of a State, and reaches into every corner of a State’s territory. Pp. 210-216……

“The court held that “the absolute deprivation of education should trigger strict judicial scrutiny, particularly when the absolute deprivation is the result of complete inability to pay for the desired benefit.” Id., at 582. The court determined that the State’s concern for fiscal integrity was not a compelling state interest, id., at 582-583; that exclusion of these children had not been shown to be necessary to improve education within the State, id., at 583; and that the educational needs of the children statutorily excluded were not different from the needs of children not excluded, ibid.” (Bold emphasis mine.)

In other words, too bad for the states of the Union and the taxpayers. Illegal aliens cannot be deprived of an education paid for by stealing from the taxpayers! Illegal alien students who have no legal right to be on U.S. soil. Here in Texas there are more than 400,000 ILLEGAL alien minors in grades K-12 costing we Texans nearly $4 BILLION dollars a year.

The court goes on to say that illegal alien students didn’t have any control over their parents smuggling them into this country, so they are entitled to special consideration under the 14th Amendment. What rot. Special consideration?  An amendment says what it says but those justices decided it’s okay to make “special considerations”.

In 1982, 4 justices on that court were appointed by Nixon, one by Eisenhower, one by LBJ, one by JFK and two by Reagan.

When that decision was made, Congress had already passed endless immigration laws. Anyone who enters this country without going through the proper channels is here illegally. They are not “persons” invited into the U.S., they smuggle themselves across the border.

Were any of those justices who voted against We the People and for illegals impeached?  Of course not.  I can remember quite well back in the 1990’s members of Congress like J.D. Hayworth who would appear on FOX belly aching about partisan judges but donate and get me reelected!

They were as gutless then as Republicans are today always worrying about what MSM pimps will say about them or how their vote on a specific bill might endanger their chances of reelection.

“At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that the invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. 

“In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all inability to account.”  —Thomas Jefferson in a Letter to Monsieur A. Coray, October 31, 1823

Jefferson was right about no man is made to be trusted for life in regards to federal judges and the U.S. Supreme Court.  Back in 2004, Dr. Edwin Vieira wrote another one of his brilliant books, How to Dethrone the Imperial Judiciary:

“The most important constitutional issues of this generation concern the meaning of the rule of law and the ability of the people to enforce true law by restraining runaway activist judges…For decades, such judges have been simply making up law.

“What is worse, liberal and conservative lawmakers have been reinforcing such behavior by treating such rulings as if they are legitimate…In this brilliant, accessible, and documented work, Dr. Edwin Vieira offers us the best researched and clearest overview to date of the power of the people to control a runaway judiciary.”

Notice it says “…the power of THE PEOPLE to control a runaway judiciary.”

For it must be We the People as Congress – regardless of which party is in power over OUR lives – they have refused to do their constitutional duty by impeaching judges who make egregious decisions.  Edwin’s book should be mandatory reading for all junior or senior high school students.  Mandatory as well as my personal favorite book:  Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution

People complain all the time about how Trump has “failed” regarding building the wall on our southern border yet how many of them know the many times federal judges have slapped him down making it damn near impossible to get anything done?

Complaining and doing something about it are two different things. In my column last week on DOJ refusing to indict and prosecute elected public officials, I included my letter to AG William Barr asking readers do as I did.  I received two emails from individuals who basically said it’s a waste of time because it hasn’t worked in the past.

Well, if only 15 or 27 people sent a letter one would be right.  But as I said in my column if Barr’s desk gets buried under one million letters it changes the ball game.  He who yells the loudest gets heard.  Edwin wrote a column about this back in 2013: Defeatism Insures Defeat.  I highly recommend everyone read it because Edwin is spot on:  “The question then arises: “For what are WE THE PEOPLE waiting? Until it is too late to do anything effective? Be forewarned. That day will dawn only too soon.”

Do you know only eight federal judges have been impeached and thrown off the bench in the entire history of this country?  Eight, yet look at the destruction reigned down upon We the People by federal judges and the U.S. Supreme Court, i.e., Roe v. Wade and “marriage” between sexual deviants.

“The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow,) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little to-day and a little to-morrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one.”  —Thomas Jefferson in a Letter to Charles Hammond, August 18, 1821

In July of this year President Trump signed an Executive Order to stop illegal aliens from being counted in the census.

Act surprised:  Federal Judges Block President Trump’s Effort to Exclude Illegal Aliens From Census Count For the Purpose of Congressional Representation

“Crooked New York Attorney General Letitia James lead a coalition of states, cities and counties and sued to challenge Trump’s executive memorandum.

“The unanimous three-judge panel for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said in its 86- page opinion that Trump’s memorandum violates the executive branch’s “constitutional responsibility to count the whole number of persons in each State and to apportion members of the House of Representatives among the States according to their respective numbers.”

U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman was nominated by Hussein Obama – an ILLEGITIMATE candidate who usurped the office of president by fraud and deception. “Federal law allows rulings by a three-judge panel in such a case to skip a review by a circuit court and instantly be appealed to the Supreme Court.”

One can only hope Trump’s legal team does appeal it to the Supreme Court but with corrupt Chief Justice Roberts and wobbly “conservatives” on the court, don’t hold your breath.

The bottom line is illegal aliens are here illegally, period.

THEY SHOULD NOT BE COUNTED IN THE U.S. CENSUS BECAUSE THAT PERSON PHYSICALLY SHOULD NOT BE ON U.S. SOIL TO BEGIN WITH.Congress has the absolute right to set immigration laws. Our immigration law says if you, a person, enter this country without being invited, without the proper documentation you’re an illegal alien. So, how does that give that “person” – in this case illegal aliens – the right to be counted in the census?

Illegals are subject to deportation when caught by law enforcement and Border Patrol.  Those judges simply blew that off.

Giving more new seats in the U.S. House of Representatives based on counting individuals who should be deported is not only unfair it’s simply damn wrong.  I have long written and said on radio and in speeches one of the biggest failures of the U.S. Congress over the decades is not impeaching judges who make unconstitutional, and in some cases, outright partisan, decisions that affect all of us.

Going back to Plyler v. Doe mentioned above.  In the court’s decision, it states:

“Use of the phrase “within its jurisdiction” thus does not detract from, but rather confirms, the understanding that the protection of the Fourteenth Amendment extends to anyone, citizen or stranger, who is subject to the laws of a State, and reaches into every corner of a State’s territory. That a person’s initial entry into a State, or into the United States, was unlawful, and that he may for that reason be expelled, cannot negate the simple fact of his presence within the State’s territorial perimeter.

“Given such presence, he is subject to the full range of obligations imposed by the State’s civil and criminal laws. And until he leaves the jurisdiction – either voluntarily, or involuntarily in accordance with the Constitution and laws of the United States – he is entitled to the equal protection of the laws that a State may choose to establish.

“Our conclusion that the illegal aliens who are plaintiffs in these cases may claim the benefit of the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection only begins the inquiry.”

I want to vomit. A person not invited into the U.S., who is here illegally and not a citizen of these united States of America is subject to protection under an amendment to the U.S. Constitution?

States like Texas should challenge that decision now that the Supreme Court has a “conservative” majority and I cringe when I say that.  We must get Trump reelected because there are potentially two more seats that will be open.  Hopefully, Ruth Bader Ginsberg will finally decide she can’t sleep on the bench any longer (age 87) and because she spends more time in the hospital and recuperating than on the bench.  A wretched witch.

The other possibly Stephen Bryer, age 82, who might decide another four years with Trump in the White House is more than he can stand.  One can pray.

We must hold our noses and vote for Republican incumbents who will be on the ballot in November, House and Senate.

If the House somehow remains in the hands of the Democrat/Communist Party USA and Republicans hold the Senate, it will be the same nightmare we’ve lived the past four years only worse.

If, God forbid, through vote fraud the House and Senate were to be taken by the Democrat/Communist Party USA, don’t think for a NY second they won’t try to impeach Trump the first week after they’re sworn in.

Perhaps things will change in 2022, but unless and until the American people actually take the time to know what we know, it will be the same as I wrote back in 2004:

American Electorate Rewards Lying, Anti-American Congress

No doubt the champagne flowed freely election night for the Republican party faithful, although for the life of me, I can’t understand why. For a nation in turmoil and demanding change, the same Congress is being returned to Washington, DC! The same Congress that has been controlled by Republicans for the past ten years.

America is sending back the same Senate (plus a few new faces) that has refused to remove one single corrupt federal judge or member of the U.S. Supreme Court. The same Senate that passed unconstitutional treaties like NAFTA & GATT without reading them that has destroyed millions of jobs since passage of both treaties. The same Senate that allowed Mr. Bush to invade Iraq without a formal declaration of war.

With the exception of a few seats which opened up for various reasons, the same House of Representatives will be returned to wreak even more destruction upon this country. The same individuals who voted to pass the insidious “Patriot Act” without even reading it. The same incumbents who have out spent any other House before them like drunken sailors in a bar with promises of more spending yet to come on unconstitutional programs and give-a-ways. The same House that allowed Mr. Bush to invade Iraq without a formal declaration of war. America is returning the same Congress to power that has destroyed our manufacturing, industrial and agricultural sectors.

The same Congress that has refused to lock down America’s borders and will allow the wholesale invasion by illegals to continue. The same Congress that has refused to get rid of NAFTA and GATT which will continue destroying American jobs and reducing the middle class to poverty. The same Congress that continues to bald face lie to the American people about the voluntary nature of the income tax, withholding and social security.

The same Congress that refuses to abolish the unconstitutional Federal Department of Education – a key tool to dumb down America for a one world government. The same Congress that will continue to promise better, affordable health care when they are the very body that is primarily responsible for destroying the best health care system in the world.

The same Congress that kowtows to foreign interests, raping the Americans people for hundreds of billions of dollars in unconstitutional foreign “aid.” The same Congress that refuses to nullify America’s participation in the Communist controlled UN. Instead, the prophetic words of Congressman James Utt on January 15, 1962 have come to pass: “You can expect to see a one world government, Communist controlled, under the United Nations. You will see the United Nations run up astronomical debts which we, under the terms of the treaty, are bound to pay.”

The same Congress will return to Washington that refuses to abolish the privately owned Federal Reserve, thereby ensuring that we the people will continue to have the fruits of our labor stolen from us by the money cartel, further reducing us to poverty:

“This act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President signs this Act, the invisible government by the Money Powers, proven to exist by the Money Trust Investigation, will be legalized. The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.” Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., at the time of the passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913

“Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are U.S. government institutions. They are not government institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the U.S. for the benefit of themselves and their foreign and domestic swindlers, rich and predatory money lenders.” Congressman Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee

Don’t expect any remedy on illegal immigration, massive taxation, foreign aid, eliminating unconstitutional cabinets and out of control spending as a result of voting all the incumbents back in office. It hasn’t happened since the Republicans have controlled Congress for the past ten years and Mr. Bush has already demonstrated his readiness to back up Congress by signing unconstitutional legislation into law.

America is returning the same Congress that hasn’t held your best interests at heart for decades, yet they were once again rewarded for their lying and massive efforts to destroy your rights by passing thousands of new, unnecessary and unconstitutional laws cementing a police state and giving away our sovereignty.

The same Congress that will rob you to pay for programs for illegal aliens, and in fact, want to give illegals a free pass, further denigrating the meaning of citizenship and allowing criminals, rapists and terrorists to remain illegally in our country has been rewarded. The same members of Congress (both parties) are being returned to seats of power who promote the murder of unborn babies and promote the perverted culture of death known as “gay orientation.”  Rest at link.

Republicans held the majority in both chambers under Bush for seven years and under Trump from 2017 – 2019.  Did they get any of the above fixed?  No.  Both parties refuse to touch the privately owned, unconstitutional “Fed”.  They need the magical money machine to keep borrowing for the grotesque, undeclared wars abroad and unconstitutional spending.  I rest my case.

However much you want to puke, putting Republicans back in power of the House and Senate will at least buy us two more years.  Trust me when I say more and more Americans are waking up.

I have a feeling Trump has plans on many issues but cannot talk it about until he’s reelected because then he doesn’t have to worry about getting reelected.  I also believe Trump has learned a lot “on the job” about betrayal and realizes just how dirty and filthy are the politics in Washington, District of Criminals.

[I hope you can listen to my Devvy’s Commentary audio recordings; here on front page of NWVs.  I will be doing them on a regular basis so if you’re signed up for free email alerts from NWVs, you’ll get notification when one is published.]

Note: For a thorough, comprehensive education on the Fed, the income tax, education, Medicare, SS, the critical, fraudulent ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment and more, be sure to order my book by calling 800-955-0116 or click the link, “Taking Politics Out of Solutions“. 400 pages of facts and solutions.

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What To Expect When Trump Wins

Sep 13, 2020 by

—Roger Anghis

The last four years have shown America something that I do not think most Americans knew and that is just how much the Democrat Party hates America.  It began on the night of the 2016 general election.  I vividly remember seeing the liberal news agencies react in almost horror at the fact that Hillary could possibly lose the race.  One commentator was so infuriated he was cursing on the air.  He wanted to know what the **** was happening.  Rachel Madow was on the verge of tears and describing what she thought America was going to turn into.

People began to riot in the streets burning cars and stores.  The reaction was almost shocking.  We had seen some violence during the campaign specifically in Chicago when a bunch of Bernie Sanders supporters: When Ja’Mal Green, a prominent black activist and Bernie Sanders supporter in Chicago, saw that Donald Trump was coming to the University of Illinois Chicago, he knew what he had to do. “Everyone, get your tickets to this. We’re all going in!!!! ‪#‎SHUTITDOWN,” he posted on Facebook last week.

Little did he know they actually would shut it down.

Friday night, hundreds of protesters invaded Trump’s rally while thousands more marched outside, leading the candidate to abruptly cancel the event due to safety concerns. The night spun out from there, as angry Trump fans clashed with protesters, who saw the shutdown as a victory.

Protesters interrupt virtually every Trump speech. But what made Chicago different were its scale and the organization behind the effort. Hundreds of young, largely black and brown people poured in from across the city, taking over whole sections of the arena and bracing for trouble.

And as the repeated chants of “Ber-nie” demonstrated, it was largely organized by supporters of Bernie Sanders, the Democratic presidential candidate who has struggled to win over black voters, but whose revolutionary streak has excited radicals of all colors.[1]

What we were seeing was the beginning of the left exposing to the American people their outright demand to be in power.  We saw violent acts from the left for the next four years and almost every time they had the gumption to blame Trump or his supporters for the violence that they themselves committed.

In January of this year one of Bernie Sanders’ Iowa campaign organizers, Kyle Jurek, was caught on several occasions making statements referencing violence against conservatives:  On reaching people that he deems to be “fascists”: “The only thing that works, the only thing that fascists understand is violence. So, the only way you can confront them is with violence.”

  • On what happens if Trump is re-elected: “F***ing cities burn.”
  • On if Trump supporters should be “re-educated”: “I mean, we gotta try, so like, in Nazi Germany after the fall of the Nazi party there was a s**t ton of the populace that was f***ing Nazified. Germany had to spend billions of dollars re-educating their f***ing people to not be Nazis. Like, we’re probably going to have to do the same f***ing thing here. That’s kind of what Bernie’s whole f***ing like, ‘hey, free education for everybody!’ because we’re going to have to teach you to not be a f***ing Nazi.”
  • On Soviet gulags: “There’s a reason Joseph Stalin had gulags, right? And actually, gulags were a lot better than what the CIA has told us that they were. Like, people were actually paid a living wage in gulags, they had conjugal visits in gulags, gulags were actually meant for like re-education.” [2]

I can remember during the 2016 campaign Hillary was always accusing the right of violence even though it was always the left that was burning and looting.  She had taken a page out of Hitler’s playbook where Joseph Goebbels, Hitlers Minister of Propaganda stated: “Accuse others of the things that you are doing.”  All the riots that we have seen over the last three-plus months have occurred in Democrat-controlled cities and perpetrated by Democrats, paid by outside sources.  Many claim that George Soros is behind the riots and they are probably right.  Watch this video of an organizer of a lot of the so-called protests in California where he states he gets checks signed by Soros.[3]

George Soros also funds the Open Society Foundation which is a major supporter of blm and has been since 2015.  Soros uses the Open Society Foundation to do a lot of his dirty work.  He has transferred the bulk of his fortune, $18 billion, to that foundation.[4] I would think that this would be classified as treason by funding sedition but Trump my address this in his second term.

Right after Trump won the election in 2016 they immediately began the attack on him attempting to nullify/overturn an election.  Maxine Waters began calling for his impeachment before he was even sworn into office.  She has advocated confrontations against him and his staff and cabinet since the day after his election.  We’ve seen them try the Russian collusion, impeachment, the fake plandemic, and are demanding all mail-in ballots so they can commit voter fraud on a scale only seen in communist countries and we will continue to see the left do whatever they can to get him out of office.

Sanders didn’t get the nomination because he sold out again, but Biden has adopted Sanders’s extreme agenda.  They actually believe that he can beat trump. They believe as they did with Hillary, the polls which are so skewed towards Democrats it is ridiculous. One poll had Biden ahead of Trump by only five points. but they only polled 21% Republicans.  Trump pulled thousands of supports in Kenosha. but Biden only had a hand full of people show up when he went and the majority of them were media.

Do not fool yourself, the Democrats will do anything to regain power and if they can take the House, Senate, and the White House, they will never again relinquish that power, and the America we know will be nothing but a footnote in history. The Democratic Party platform ardently adopted by “Aphasic” Joe Biden would entail an abrogation of the Constitution; a gaming of the voting system and the addition of new states (D.C. & Puerto Rico) to guarantee the Democrats perennial electoral victory; and a complete revision of America’s capitalist economy, transforming it into one based on the tenets of socialism as the stout pillars of a society ruled by critical theory. [5]

They actually have a plan to stage a coup if Trump wins: As if 2020 were not insane enough already, we now have Democrats and their ruling class masters openly talking about staging a coup. You might have missed it, what with the riots, lockdowns, and other daily mayhem we’re forced to endure in this, the most wretched year of my lifetime. But it’s happening.  It started with the military brass quietly indicating that the troops should not follow a presidential order. They were bolstered by many former generals—including President Trump’s own first Secretary of Defense—who stated openly what the brass would only hint at. Then, as nationwide riots really got rolling in early June, the sitting Secretary of Defense himself all but publicly told the president not to invoke the Insurrection Act. His implicit message was: “Mr. President, don’t tell us to do that, because we won’t, and you know what happens after that.”[6]

This is not a game.  The threat to our freedoms is real.  Ronald Reagan stated: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

If Biden wins, Kamala Harris will be president before the end of the first year. AOC will control our energy which means we will not have any energy. Bernie Sanders will in control of the economy, which means we will be a third world nation.

Vote wisely.

© 2020 Roger Anghis – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail Roger Anghis: roger@buildingthetruth.org

Foot Notes

  1. How Bernie Sanders supporters shut down Donald Trump rally in Chicago
  2. Breaking: Bernie staffer – kill political opponents, burn people in streets, cops to be beaten if Bernie loses
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op1yqcIdhbE
  4. https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/278591/
  5. Democrat’s behavior today forecasts violent aftermath if Trump wins re-election
  6. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/coming-coup

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Insurrection Underway, Bloody Civil War to Follow

Sep 12, 2020 by

Andrew C Wallace –

THIS IS STARK REALITY RIGHT NOW. Democrat Communist shock troops known as Black Lives Matter, Antifa, et al, have started an insurrection by burning, looting, killing and destroying our cities. Their objective is clear, to make life miserable for Americans so they will accept a Chinese Communist Type Dictatorship rather than freedom under our Constitution. If Biden wins, it will be clear sailing for the Communists, but if President Trump wins we have  a chance to keep our Republic without a Bloody Civil War. If Biden wins or loses, the Communists will continue the insurrection for they have too much invested to quit.

YOU MUST KNOW YOUR ENEMY. You must know who is directing and paying for this Treason with impunity. It is the elites who consider themselves entitled and superior to you and me. The elites consist of most of the following: major corporations, banks, teachers unions, trust funds, media, professional sports organizations and athletes, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Hollywood  personalities, federal bureaucrats, universities, military flag officers, et al.

YOU MUST KNOW WHY YOU AND PRESIDENT TRUMP ARE HATED. It is because we stand in the way of their absolute power to profit and enslave the people. President Trump is the only president in modern times to try to return our government to the people. He has ended policy, after policy, that enrich the elite while impoverishing the people. Trump has infuriated the elites by ending the export of manufacturing, replacement of American workers with cheaper foreign labor, restrictions on illegal migration, new trade deals, ending profit from needless wars. et al. He did all of this while working within a nest of vipers, liars,  and traitors who are well paid by the elites to resist his programs.

EQUAL JUSTICE DOES NOT EXIST. The DOJ mostly fights to protect political criminals, and is slow, to never, indicting them. The FBI has been shown to be a criminal organization and mostly useless in their total failure to indict those financing and promoting the insurrections. The country would have a chance at equal justice if the FBI was totally disbanded. It is evident to anyone who can read, that many of our Judges are corrupt, ignore the Constitution, and think the law is what they say it is.

THOSE WHO SUPPORT DEMOCRAT COMMUNISTS ARE USEFUL IDIOTS, so said Lenin, a founder of Marxism. Lenin was referring to those thugs in  the streets, or anywhere else. Anyone, who supports an impossible ideology, that always fails, while killing millions, is also ignorant. If these Useful Idiots read history they would know that if their revolution prevails, the Communists must, and will kill them. There are no exceptions to this fact. But, their probable fate is to die in a civil war at the hands of patriots, who hate them with a passion, for trying to destroy the greatest nation on earth, and everything that is dear to them

WHAT YOU LOSE IF COMMUNIST BIDEN WINS. You got a taste with Obama’s Death Panels, a pill rather than treatment for the elderly, who they called Useless Eaters. You saw the stark, horrible truth of communist  policy toward Useless Eaters, when six Democrat governors sentenced tens of thousands to death from the virus in homes for the elderly. It is impossible to maintain our present level of health care, retirement, or living standards under the Communists. The simple truth is that anyone who has earned, and is receiving health care in order to live, will die. There will be no money for anything, Social Security will be gone, and we will drop into a terrible economic depression because of the impossible communist programs.

WHAT YOU MUST DO NOW TO SURVIVE. You must vote without fail, and encourage others to vote, or this could be your last Democratic Election, if the Communists don’t steal it. The next most important thing you must do quickly, is to buy firearms, like the AR15, with a lot of ammunition. You can expect retail stores  to be depleted, so you must have a supply of emergency food. You must be capable of defending your home and family, the thugs will go to the suburbs when there is nothing left to loot and burn in the cities. If the thugs come for you, call 911, but be prepared to defend yourself, because in many cases, police will not come for various reasons. The alternative is to die, and see your house burned to the ground. This is no game, the Communists are ruthless, and they don’t give a damn about you.

PRESIDENT TRUMP DOES NOT NEED TROOPS TO STOP THE INSURRECTIONS, HE ONLY NEEDS THE COURAGE TO ARREST THE RESPONSIBLE DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS AND FINANCIAL BACKERS. These Communists have violated several parts of Chapter 115 of 18 USC, These are simple laws to understand. For your convince I have copied them below.

GOD BLESS AMERICA

  • 2381. Treason

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(2)(J), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, §§1, 2, 35 Stat. 1088“.

  • 2382. Misprision of treason

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.) Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, §3, 35 Stat. 1088.

  • 2383. Rebellion or insurrection

Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

  • 2384. Seditious conspiracy

If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808July 24, 1956, ch. 678, §1, 70 Stat. 623Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)

  • 2385. Advocating overthrow of Government

Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or

Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or

Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.

If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.

As used in this section, the terms “organizes” and “organize”, with respect to any society, group, or assembly of persons, include the recruiting of new members, the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes, and other units of such society, group, or assembly of person.

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Who is Marc Elias and Why is He Pushing Vote By Mail?

Who is Marc Elias and Why is He Pushing Vote By Mail?

Sep 10, 2020 by

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By Kim Crockett –

The coming election promises to have both sides chewing their fingernails down to the knuckles. Because of this close race, you need to know the name of Marc Elias.

The New York Times calls Elias “One of the most formidable election lawyers in the country, and arguably one of the most influential of unelected Democrats in Washington.”

Marc Elias has been at the center of too-close-to-call elections and hard-ball politics for decades. Elias is the guy Al Franken called when he was behind in the count on Election Day 2008. After eight months of chaotic recounts, Franken became a U.S. Senator by 312 votes. Elias is the guy Hillary Clinton’s campaign called for “opposition research”; Elias hired Fusion GPS, which put the Steele dossier together.

Elias runs a law firm/messaging platform called Democracy Docket. A big fan of absentee and vote by mail ballots, Democracy Docket has filed lawsuits in 18 battleground states pursuing what Elias calls the “Four Pillars”. According to the website, sponsors and partners of “Democracy Docket” include Democratic election committees and other activist groups.

What are these Four Pillars?

1. Postage must be free or prepaid by the government.

Elias argues that a ballot mailed without return postage is too great a burden for voters, especially for minorities and young people. As it turns out, the postal service deliver your ballot even it it lacks adequate postage. Since Elias presumably knows this, doesn’t it seem like a slam on voter intelligence to raise such an issue?

2. Ballots postmarked on or before Election Day must count.

Elias promotes vote by mail and then complains about a glaring defect: if you mail your ballot, you cannot control when it is postmarked or delivered.

Many states reject all ballots received after Election Day, even if postmarked on or before Election Day. This is simply wrong and unfair to voters who have done everything right but have their ballots thrown out because of delays with the postal service…. we know from experience that these laws have a greater impact on minority voters.

Americans have, until now, accepted that the counting of votes officially ends on Election Day, whether your ballot is there or not. That is not “wrong,” it is simply a requirement if we want to know who won on Election Day. If it is too close to call, an Election Day deadline is still more than reasonable unless you like chaos and uncertainty. Perhaps Elias just likes the latter?

3. Signature matching laws need to be reformed to protect voters.

Absentee ballots with questionable signatures should be reviewed by three election officials. Only if all three find beyond a reasonable doubt that a signature does not match should it be set aside. Then, the voter should be notified by a combination of mail, phone, email, and text and be given 10 days to confirm that it is their lawful ballot.…

Favoring “questionable signatures” and contacting voters for a re-do are interesting ideas that sound a lot like they require a legislative remedy, rather than a judicial one. Given that Elias litigates against laws that require a witness for absentee ballots, such an idea is right up his alley.

4. Community organizations should be permitted to help collect and deliver voted, sealed ballots.

In many states, community organizations play a vital role in collecting and delivering voted, sealed mail ballot[s] for counting. Voters without easy access to secure and reliable outgoing mail, or who need extra help to get their ballots delivered, rely on this practice.

Sorry to contradict you, Marc, but full-fledged ballot harvesting is a new and ugly thing in America.

“Community organizations” unfortunately engage in voter intimidation and the production of fraudulent ballots, both of which are crimes. Voting is a sacred duty; ballots should only be given to trusted officials or family and friends when voters need help, not to political operatives.

When Elias & Co. are successful, duly enacted laws are amended by decree, often just before an election, circumventing elected leaders in state legislatures.

For example, Elias has been victorious in Minnesota where a friendly secretary of state has lobbied for elements of the Four Pillars. Though expected to defend, not amend, current election law, the secretary signed a consent decree waiving the requirement that absentee voters get a witness to certify their eligibility. He also agreed to count ballots postmarked by Election Day that arrive up to seven days later.

Elias also sued to overturn voter “assistance” laws, one of which limited the number of disabled or non-English-proficient people someone can assist, while the other prohibited ballot harvesting. The Minnesota Supreme Court just upheld the law against ballot harvesting but agreed that someone can “assist” an unlimited number of voters in 2020.

With a million absentee ballots expected, there is a good chance Minnesota, which specializes in close calls, will not know who won on Election Day, and could be facing recounts for weeks or months.

But hey, if that happens, perhaps Secretary of State Steve Simon can call a good lawyer like Marc Elias.

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Kim Crockett is the Vice President and General Counsel of the Charlemagne Institute. She is on a leave of absence to focus on election integrity.

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Rutgers University declares proper grammar racist; standards to be adjusted

Rutgers University declares proper grammar racist; standards to be adjusted

Jul 26, 2020 by

Rutgers University–Newark | Rutgers University

Rutgers University’s English department has declared that correct grammar puts some students at a disadvantage and changes will now be made to address “social justice” and “critical grammar.”

Standards in English instruction will be adjusted now that proper grammar has been deemed racist by the public university, according to an email from Rebecca Walkowitz, a professor of English and chairwoman of the English Department at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.


(Source: Fox News)

Former Vanderbilt University professor Carol Swain slammed the move in a recent Fox News appearance, explaining how Black Lives Matter supporters and activists are essentially pushing for “lowered standards” for black students who should be given “special treatment.”

In order to “stand with and respond” to the Black Lives Matter movement, changes will be made to the Graduate Writing Program, as the Rutgers English department will introduce “workshops on social justice and writing,” according to an email titled “Department actions in solidarity with Black Lives Matter.”

Walkowitz explained that the department would be “increasing focus on graduate student life,” and “incorporating ‘critical grammar’ into our pedagogy,” essentially de-emphasizing traditional grammar rules.

The change was announced as a “way to contribute to the eradication of systemic inequities facing black, indigenous, and people of color” and the emphasis is to be on providing a more inclusive writing experience, with a “critical grammar” approach focusing more on the “variety” of the English language rather than the structure.

“This approach challenges the familiar dogma that writing instruction should limit emphasis on grammar/sentence-level issues so as to not put students from multilingual, non-standard ‘academic’ English backgrounds at a disadvantage,” Walkowitz said.

“Instead, it encourages students to develop a critical awareness of the variety of choices available to them [with] regard to micro-level issues in order to empower them and equip them to push against biases based on ‘written’ accents,” she added.

“The idea that expecting a student to write in grammatically correct sentences is indicative of racial bias is asinine,” speech pathologist Leonydus Johnson told the Washington Free Beacon, slamming the announced change as  “insulting, patronizing, and in itself, extremely racist.”

“It’s like these people believe that being non-white is an inherent handicap or learning disability…. That’s racism. It has become very clear to me that those who claim to be ‘anti-racist’ are often the most racist people in this country,” the libertarian activist added.

Swain told Fox News host Laura Ingraham this week that students used to have to “do the work” once admitted to universities but now want an excuse.

“So to me, it is so demeaning that these black young people today who are more privileged, that have not really had to go through any real systemic racism, they are complaining the loudest. And they are getting cheated out of a quality education,” Swain said.

“I can tell you that starting with the election of President Obama, we saw the racism on campus increase, but the racism was taking a new form…when they talk about antiracism, what they are really doing is promoting racism.,” she said, adding that students not required to learn standard English “are not going to be prepared to function the way they should in our society.”

“No wonder they are angry. No wonder they are trying to burn down everything,” she added.

The Rutgers email from Walkowitz noted that more reading on the subjects of “systemic discrimination” as well as racism, sexism and homophobia will be provided by the department to upper-level writing classes.

An internship titled “Decolonizing the Writing Center” to “make the writing centers more linguistically diverse” is currently being offered by the Rutgers English department, which in 2012 launched a Committee on Bias Awareness and Prevention.

That committee met in June amid protests across the nation following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and members “agreed that the committee needs to move from a role emphasizing ‘awareness and prevention’ towards a role emphasizing ‘culture change,’” Walkowitz explained in the email which was sent to faculty, staff and students.

Initiatives that came from that meeting included a recommendation that all fall 2020 English instructors attend at least one workshop on “how to have an anti-racist classroom,” according to the email. The committee will also reportedly be “organizing two teach-ins focused on Black Lives Matter, ‘anti-racism,’ police brutality, and prison reform” while also “launching a web page to provide access to events, resources, and affiliated groups,”

A summer session on “responsive teaching” is being sponsored by the Diversity and Equity Steering Committee at Rutgers which was formed in January 2020. The workshops aim at equipping teachers on discussing the  “disproportionate impacts of covid-19; state power; racism; violence; white supremacy; protest and resistance; and justice.”

Another workshop will address “the ways in which educational institutions reproduce the racism and inequality of American society,” according to the email.

Other programs noted by Walkowitz included programming about “art and protest” and a required “how to have an anti-racist classroom” workshop for all teachers. Reading for Rutgers Day 2021 will “address issues of anti-black racism and social justice” and in graduate studies, “we will develop plans for and prioritize course proposals that seek to foster greater understanding of the longer historical arc of racial injustice.”

Many other race-themed, pro-BLM and cultural diversity initiatives were listed by Walkowitz in her lengthy email which comes at a time when the global coronavirus pandemic has created unprecedented education processes and as many universities have become a hotbed of anti-American activism.

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Paul Krugman admits being wrong on globalization

Paul Krugman admits being wrong on globalization

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Paul Krugman and other mainstream trade experts are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization: It hurt American workers far more than they thought it would.

Foreign PolicyMichael Hirsh

Paul Krugman has never suffered fools gladly. The Nobel Prize-winning economist rose to international fame—and a coveted space on the New York Times op-ed page—by lacerating his intellectual opponents in the most withering way. In a series of books and articles beginning in the 1990s, Krugman branded just about everybody who questioned the rapid pace of globalization a fool who didn’t understand economics very well. “Silly” was a word Krugman used a lot to describe pundits who raised fears of economic competition from other nations, especially China. Don’t worry about it, he said: Free trade will have only minor impact on your prosperity.

Now Krugman has come out and admitted, offhandedly, that his own understanding of economics has been seriously deficient as well. In a recent essay titled “What Economists (Including Me) Got Wrong About Globalization,” adapted from a forthcoming book on inequality, Krugman writes that he and other mainstream economists “missed a crucial part of the story” in failing to realize that globalization would lead to “hyperglobalization” and huge economic and social upheaval, particularly of the industrial middle class in America. And many of these working-class communities have been hit hard by Chinese competition, which economists made a “major mistake” in underestimating, Krugman says.

It was quite a “whoops” moment, considering all the ruined American communities and displaced millions of workers we’ve seen in the interim. And a newly humbled Krugman must consider an even more disturbing idea: Did he and other mainstream economists help put a protectionist populist, Donald Trump, in the White House with a lot of bad advice about free markets?

To be fair, Krugman has been forthright in recent years in second-guessing his earlier assertions about the effects of open trade. He has also become a leading and sometimes harsh critic of his own profession, especially in the aftermath of the financial crisis and Great Recession, when he declared that much of the past 30 years of macroeconomics was “spectacularly useless at best, and positively harmful at worst.” He admirably held the Obama administration to account for its timid financial and economic reforms. He even had some kind things to say about proto-progressives such as Robert Reich, the former Clinton administration labor secretary who worried about global competition and sought better protections and retraining for American workers, and whom Krugman had once dismissed to me—back in his lacerating days in the ’90s—as an “offensive figure, a brilliant coiner of one-liners but not a serious thinker.”

“I’m glad he’s finally seen the light on trade,” Reich told me in an email. Krugman, in another email, wrote: “I regret having said that about Reich, but if he foresaw hyperglobalization or the localized effects of the China shock, that’s news to me.”

Yet it has taken an awful long time for economists to admit that their profession has been far too sure of itself—or, as a penitent Krugman put it himself in a 2009 article in the New York Times Magazine, that “economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.” As the journalist Binyamin Appelbaum writes in his book, The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society, economists came to dominate policymaking in Washington in a way they never had before and, starting in the late 1960s, seriously misled the nation, helping to disrupt and divide it socially with a false sense of scientific certainty about the wonders of free markets. The economists pushed efficiency at all costs at the expense of social welfare and “subsumed the interests of Americans as producers to the interests of Americans as consumers, trading well-paid jobs for low-cost electronics.”

David Autor, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) whose documentation of the surprising effects of China’s rapid rise on the U.S. labor market is cited by Krugman in his essay, gives the Times columnist a lot of credit for admitting error. “How rare is that?!” Autor wrote via email. He said he doesn’t blame Krugman or other defenders of “the prior consensus” for making faulty predictions about trade. “I honestly think that getting this one right ex ante would have been akin to accurately forecasting the date, time and location of an earthquake.” The bigger problem was the pro-free trade zeitgeist, Autor said. “I think that the received wisdom inhibited economists from closely evaluating the evidence of what was underway. … One could say that there was something of a guild orthodoxy: The key dictum was that policymakers should be told that trade was good for everyone in all places and times.”

Dani Rodrik, a Harvard University economist who in 1997 published a then-heretical book called Has Globalization Gone Too Far?, said last week that he wrote it precisely because he believed that “the profession was so blasé about globalization.” Now his views are mainstream, and Rodrik is president-elect of the International Economic Association. But the economists have barely begun to clean up the mess they left behind, as a recent conference on inequality at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, organized by Rodrik and former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief economist Olivier Blanchard, made clear. And now in some ways it’s too late because, as Rodrik says, it’s not even possible to have a reasonable discussion under Trump. The U.S. president has effectively discarded modern economics, reembraced crude protectionism, and, like the mercantilists of the pre-Adam Smith era, appears to see trade as a zero-sum game in which surpluses are in effect profits and deficits are losses. His ignorance of basic economics “is without parallel among modern American presidents,” Appelbaum writes in The Economists’ Hour.

Yet Trump has been able to launch an unprecedented trade war, exploiting the public’s mistrust and fear of China, thanks in part to the economists’ early misreadings—specifically of how swiftly China’s economic surge would displace so many U.S. industrial jobs. As Krugman now acknowledges, “manufacturing employment fell off a cliff after 2000, and this decline corresponded to a sharp increase” in the U.S. trade deficit, especially with China. Those numbers, in turn, have tended to lend credence to Trump’s mercantilist notions, no matter how spurious.

“One of the most perverse effects of Trump was that it completely erased any reasonable discussion” about how to address trade, inequality, and the right degree of protection for workers, Rodrik said. And this, too, is a downstream effect of the bad advice economists delivered about free trade going back to the ’90s.

Or as MIT’s Autor put it: “Ultimately this policy boosterism blinded policymakers to the potentially grave consequences of trade shocks and likely lulled us into underpreparing for these shocks (e.g., we had a paltry safety net and retraining policies on hand). It led us somewhat blithely into a non-negligible policy disaster (AKA the China Shock) and provoked a public backlash that has rendered free trade toxic in the U.S. policy debate. There’s an irony for you: trade boosterism has ultimately hurt the cause of free trade.”

Asked whether the mistakes made by him and other economists helped lead to the rise of Trump, Krugman responded: “We’re still debating this, but as far as I can tell Trump’s trade policy isn’t resonating with many people, even his blue-collar base. So it’s kind of hard to blame trade analysts for the phenomenon.”


Others would disagree. Part of the problem is that, back in the ’90s, when the post-Cold War consensus was just emerging, economists tended to take a simplistic either-or view of trade—either you were a free trader or a protectionist—and forced people to choose sides. Krugman was one of them, adopting by and large the free trade position, which was ironic considering that his Nobel-winning work in economics was far more nuanced than his books and columns (and actually helped lay the intellectual foundations for smart strategic trade policy).

Yet there were others in the policy debates—such as Rodrik, Reich, and Laura D’Andrea Tyson, who led former President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers—who were far more worried about rapid globalization. They dared to question the pro-free trade consensus or at least, in Tyson’s case, to push for government-led industrial policy that would sharpen American competitiveness at a time when, after the Cold War, many newly liberalized nations were piling into the global economy at a great rate. This idea also was anathema to Krugman.

“Dani was way ahead of his time,” Autor said. “He was worried not about sudden shocks per se but about the way that globalization hemmed in the policy options of open economies (options for financing social insurance, taxing increasingly mobile capital, etc). That was and is a deep point. … Meanwhile, Laura Tyson was advocating forward-looking industrial policy at a time when industrial policy was the Voldemort of policy tools.” Those who have studied Krugman’s work closely, like Autor, say that of course he understood that just the right kind of industrial policy could help build competitive sectors. But Autor added: “I suspect that economists feared that stating these points aloud to policymakers would be like handing a loaded weapon to a impetuous child.”

Krugman maintains that his new mea culpa “was a fairly narrow one” about how trade would affect lower-wage workers and exacerbate inequality. That is true. But after the Cold War ended, the debate over trade (Krugman’s Nobel-winning specialty) became a proxy for a larger intellectual struggle over free markets versus government intervention. And Krugman played a major part in attacking what he saw as economic ignorance by “strategic traders” who argued that U.S. jobs and wages might be seriously affected by competition from cheap labor in the developing world. When William Greider, the former Washington Post journalist, warned in a deeply reported book called One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism that developing nations were gearing up for major industrial competition that would mean “[s]ome sectors of Americans are triumphant and other sectors are devastated,” Krugman called it a “thoroughly silly book.” When Michael Lind, another prominent public intellectual, suggested (accurately) that U.S. productivity growth might not be enough to offset “the global sweatshop economy,” Krugman declared Lind to be ignorant of economic “facts” and said that “one should not expect someone who does not work in the field to be able to get it right without some guidance.” Krugman was no less kind to fellow economists who dared to question the free trade consensus. When Tyson was chosen to head Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers in 1993, Krugman said she lacked the “necessary analytical skills.”

It was all just bad economics, Krugman said. Don’t worry so much about what all the other countries are up to; things will even out thanks to neoclassical concepts such as comparative advantage, which allows all nations to benefit from open trade. Indeed, those who advocated anything resembling government interference in markets and “fair trade” (more tariffs, unemployment insurance, and worker protections) over “free trade” were usually branded protectionists and excluded from the debate. Clinton, reveling in his reputation as the “globalization” president, barely held a meeting on the fate of the industrially displaced. When his old Rhodes Scholar pal from the University of Oxford, Labor Secretary Reich, openly advocated reinvestment in education, training, and infrastructure at a time when Clinton was keen on deficit-cutting, Reich was also edged out of the conversation and, eventually, the administration.

Some ex-Clintonites such as Gene Sperling, the former head of the National Economic Council, argue that the debate was never so stark. “Clinton cared about the middle class,” he told me. And had the Democrats continued in power, they would have worked much harder to bring China into compliance with trade norms, for example by enforcing “anti-surge” protections—required of China as part of its World Trade Organization membership negotiated by Clinton in 1999—against the dumping of huge amounts of cheap product that undercut U.S. jobs, Sperling said. “People think that the only difference with Al Gore [in the 2000 presidential election] was the Iraq War, but another huge difference would have been that Gore would have gone way beyond anything [George W.] Bush did to protect manufacturing,” Sperling said. (A new book by the former Washington Post economics reporter Paul Blustein, Schism: China, America, and the Fracturing of the Global Trading System, also concludes that the Bush administration let China get away with far too much, including artificially devaluing its currency to boost exports—which led ultimately to Trump’s claim that China had committed “rape” of the U.S. economy.)

Other former Krugman victims still blame him for his misjudgments and are not so assuaged by his penitence. “This is not bad as mea culpas go, but if you read through to the end, Krugman persists with the oversimplified dichotomy of free trade versus protectionism, ignoring such successful hybrids as East Asian neo-mercantilism,” said Robert Kuttner, the co-editor of the American Prospect and a much-cited progressive thinker. “This is all the more bizarre because the young Krugman came to prominence demonstrating that [national] competitive advantage could be created, something that any non-economist student of economic history could have told him.”

Krugman, in his defense, has always believed in protections for the middle class, including better health care and education (his old Times blog was titled “The Conscience of a Liberal”), and he says now that just because he has admitted errors on trade doesn’t mean he ever endorsed the so-called Washington Consensus—the neoliberal (that is, pro-free trade) view that regularly came down on the side of fiscal discipline, rapid privatization, and deregulation. “I guess the point is that conceding that we got some things wrong doesn’t mean that every critic was right; it depends on what they said, and as far as I know almost nobody foresaw the massive rise in trade or focused at all on localized regional impacts,” Krugman told me.

But there were deeper conceptual problems with the pro-globalization consensus as well. Another Nobel-winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz, who like Rodrik warned back in the ’90s of the disruptive effects of too rapid lowering of trade and capital barriers, told me that the problem with “standard neoclassical analysis” was that it “never paid any attention to adjustment. Labor market adjustment miraculously happened costlessly.” Like Tyson and Reich, Stiglitz, who served as a chair of Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers, was an outlier at the time, seeking (but failing) to slow the pace of international capital flows. He also argued that “typically jobs were destroyed far faster than new jobs were created.”

Krugman, in his essay, admits that the economists like him in favor of the ’90s consensus behind free trade—who thought that the effects on labor would be minimal—“didn’t turn much to analytic methods that focus on workers in particular industries and communities, which would have given a better picture of short-run trends. This was, I now believe, a major mistake—one in which I shared a hand.”

But there were plenty who did pay attention to how the old verities about open trade and comparative advantage were no longer as telling, displaced by new trends such as global supply chains, which shifted huge numbers of jobs overseas and took out whole communities. Krugman himself eventually concluded in a 2008 academic paper that because of these supercomplex supply chains, “the changing nature of world trade has outpaced economists’ ability to engage in secure quantitative analysis.”

As Stiglitz put it to Foreign Policy: “Obviously, the costs [of globalization] would be borne by particular communities, particular places—and manufacturing had located [to] places where wages were low, suggesting that these were places where adjustment costs were likely large.” And it’s increasingly clear the detrimental effects may not be merely short-term trends. The swift opening up of trade with developing countries, combined with investment agreements, has “dramatically changed workers’ bargaining power (an effect reinforced by weakening unions and other changes in labor legislation and regulation).”

That in turn has forced the rethinking of another major dimension of traditional economics. Economists once believed that low unemployment led to inflation, but today that relationship, called the standard Phillips curve, has broken down, the Economist wrote in a recent cover story. The main loser, again, is the American worker. Whereas economists used to believe that workers, during boom times, could drive up their compensation (thus leading to inflation), the emerging economic wisdom now suggests something different: After a quarter century in which multinationals have turned the whole globe into their economic turf (while workers usually have to stay in their home countries), globalized capital—manifesting itself as multinational supply chains—has the upper hand over domestic labor.

Hence, economists themselves are surprised at how quickly the mainstream of their profession has moved leftward—as many of them found at 2019’s conference on inequality. And when it comes to 2020 U.S. election politics, the profession is much more with progressives like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, some of the participants said, than the centrist Joe Biden—open to radical solutions that give back bargaining power to labor (for example, Warren’s proposal to give workers a large place on corporate boards). “I came here as a French socialist, and now I find I’m in the center,” joked former IMF chief economist Blanchard.

And this may be the ultimate downstream effect of all those misreadings dating back to the ’90s. “People,” Tyson remarked, “missed how fast things could change.”

Michael Hirsh is a senior correspondent and deputy news editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @michaelphirsh.

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