The Republican and Democratic National Conventions, always heavy on glamor and light on substance, are over. It’s time to move beyond sloganeering and address reality. In the United States, the price…

With the Democratic National Convention now in the rearview mirror, it's a mad two-and-a-half-week dash to the first presidential debate, and a two-and-a-half-month dash to the election. President Joe…

The short video captured it all: Well-dressed and coiffed Democratic National Convention delegates and attendees, covering their ears and making exaggerated faces as they ran the gantlet of Gaza demonstrators…

Politics America’s Reckoning With Reality The major parties’ national conventions paper over the facts of the Uniparty’s anti-American agenda. Credit: rarrarorro The Republican and Democratic National Conventions, always heavy on glamor and light on substance, are over. It’s time to move beyond sloganeering and address reality. In the United States, the price of food is up 21 percent in three years. Thirty-year mortgage rates were 3.7 percent; they are now 7 percent. Rents are skyrocketing, car loan delinquencies are rising and, last year, there were at least 150,000 reports of American children going missing in what is becoming a child-trafficking emergency. Millions of Americans think that our society is experiencing a moral collapse. Divorce is widespread, single parents struggle to raise children, drug abuse is rampant, suicide rates are high, and the rule of law is collapsing across the country. Is it really a surprise that Americans doubt their institutions, their courts, even the leadership of their own armed forces? Americans feel disconnected from their collective, national identity. Shamed into isolation and self-hatred under the oppressive weight of mass-media, pop-culture, and official deceit, Americans feel helpless to stop their freefall into nihilism—the belief in nothing, not justice or beauty, no divine influence, just nothing.   Americans feel like their homeland is being transformed into a wasteland. More and more Americans think that taxation without representation is the norm in all 50 states, not just in DC. Voting for one or another of the major parties, Democrats or Republicans, does little to arrest the nation’s descent into chaos. What does Washington’s ruling political class of so-called Democrats and Republicans, hereafter referred to as the Uniparty, think? Frankly, the Uniparty does not care. While American wages declined, and jobs dried up Washington’s ruling political class grew rich from insider deals and cronyism. Since January 2021, America’s 750 billionaires have increased their wealth by $1.5 trillion. Like the political figures the billionaires pick to run the government, including 5,000 political appointees, they have no “skin in the game.” The Uniparty celebrates trashy, degenerate events like the opening ceremony for the Olympics in Paris. Americans who object to the degradation of Christianity and Western values and beliefs are dismissed as bigots, extremists, or White Christian Nationalists. Americans want to know what is happening to their country. Americans want to know why they are living in a world where the ugly pretend to be beautiful and the beautiful are being brainwashed to think that they are ugly. Part of the answer is that the politics of identity are no longer just a campaign strategy. They are now a reality, a permanent feature of America’s political landscape. Why else would General C.Q. Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, complain that the U.S. Armed Forces have too many white pilots? Anyone who thinks that the federal programs for diversity, inclusion, and equity are sincere and mean anything other than hatred for our country and the generations of Americans that fought and died for it is extremely naive. It’s like suggesting the Ku Klux Klan was pro-civil rights in the 1960s. Thanks to open borders, a system of “one ballot, one vote” is replacing “one citizen, one vote.” Thanks to this system of institutionalized fraud, Americans can expect the Uniparty’s new crop of illegal foreign “voters,” a mix of future dependents, lawbreakers, low-skilled workers, to show up on November 5 and vote to decide America’s future. These are also the masses of foreigners, with no ties to our society, that the ruling class wants to staff our armed forces. Why would the Uniparty inflict this damage on the American People? The Uniparty knows that, without common identity or kinship, democracy is replaced with tribal anarchy, a societal condition that leads to nihilism, drug abuse, criminality, and worse.   The goal is painfully obvious. It is the denationalization of the United States, the fundamental destruction of national identity and the social cohesion that supports it. The process involves the conversion of Americans into an amorphous mass of sedated consumers. The transformation of the U. S. Armed Forces into mercenary military formations staffed by illegal migrants is an enormously important step in the direction of denationalization. After all, before Americans won their independence, their national identity rested on the shoulders of the Continental Army. If General Washington could hold the Continental Army together despite fearful odds, our country and its governing body—congress—existed.  The Continental Army was, and today’s Armed Forces still are, the repository of American national Identity. The Uniparty rejects these charges. Instead, the Uniparty tells us how fortunate we are to welcome tens of millions of foreigners into our country where they will enhance our culture, society and way of life. Really, how many “Rs” are there in “fat chance?” Meanwhile, the Uniparty promotes the sexualization of children in our public school systems. Naturally, the Uniparty pretends to care for the workingman or woman, and it promises everything to everyone for nothing in perpetuity—tuition-free college, free health care, free housing, free everything. The Uniparty is giving non-paying, illegal immigrants access to our healthcare system. How the Uniparty will pay for these things is a question no one answers. Servicing the national debt on an annual basis already involves a sum larger than the defense budget. Are the presidential candidates aware? Do they care? For the Uniparty, none of these concerns matters. The daily life of the Uniparty is about self-enrichment, sensual pleasure, and social prestige. The Uniparty motto is “When in doubt, print more money.”  Equally troubling is the Uniparty’s enthusiasm for war. In fact, the Uniparty sees enormous benefit to war, even to the point of turning over control of the U.S. Armed Forces to the direction of a foreign power for use in a major war that will escalate to involve other nuclear-armed powers. But Americans are not stupid. Americans know that open borders are not a net benefit, and they know that modern war is not a game or an event that occurs only on foreign soil. The new, emerging constellation of potential adversaries in Eastern Europe and the Middle East is no longer a loose collection of hapless opponents without armies, air forces, navies, air defenses, or persistent surveillance from seabed to space.   President Abraham Lincoln was right: “If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” The time for Americans to halt the destruction is upon us. The question is whether Americans will remain bystanders or intervene to save the Republic. The post America’s Reckoning With Reality appeared first on The American Conservative.

Politics Is There A New Democratic Establishment? The DNC saw off an old guard and showcased a new. What do they believe? With the Democratic National Convention now in the rearview mirror, it’s a mad two-and-a-half-week dash to the first presidential debate, and a two-and-a-half-month dash to the election. President Joe Biden once told his intraparty enemies they’d have to pry the nomination from his cold, dead hands. They took him at his word, and Vice President Kamala Harris is now the Democratic nominee for president.  It was a humiliating moment for what remains of the incumbent president when he passed the torch to his number two the first night of the DNC.  Biden believed his presidency would end like this: “I view myself as a bridge, not as anything else,” Biden told a crowd in March 2020, “There’s an entire generation of leaders you saw [standing] behind me. They are the future of this country.” He just didn’t believe that time would come so soon.  But it wasn’t just Harris who received the baton. It was a broader cast of Democratic politicians inheriting the mantle from the old guard of the Democratic party. The convention was even structured as such—albeit with some exceptions.  The president and First Lady Jill Biden addressed the crowd in Chicago on Monday night. “I can honestly say I’m more optimistic about the future than I was when I was elected as a 29-year-old United States Senator,” President Biden said, followed by his trademark “I mean it.” “Kamala and Tim, you will win and you are inspiring a new generation,” the first lady similarly stated. “It’s going to take all of us and we can’t afford to lose. With faith in each other, hope for a brighter future and love for our country, we will fight and we will win together.” But it wasn’t just the Bidens’ swan song. Though eight years overdue, it was curtain call for the Clintons. While former President Bill Clinton addressed the crowd Wednesday night, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton preceded the Bidens on Monday in a speech littered with reprised bits from her losing 2016 campaign. Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song,” “it takes a village,” and the “glass ceiling” all made a comeback.  “Tonight, so close to breaking through once and for all, I want to tell you what I see through all those cracks and why it matters for each and every one of us. What do I see? I see freedom,” Clinton claimed. “On the other side of that glass ceiling is Kamala Harris raising her hand and taking the oath of office as our forty-seventh president of the United States.” While Bill wouldn’t address the crowd until night three, it was his delivery, rather than the convention’s structure, that suggested Bill is a bygone. As TAC’s Curt Mills wrote, “Clinton is now on similar enough footing as the kindred Southerner he never quite cared for. Like Jimmy Carter, the Democratic Party of 2024 could take or leave Bill Clinton.” Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), the man most responsible for Biden’s presidency, also spoke Monday night. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) spoke Tuesday. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed the convention Wednesday. She thanked Biden, but said, “I know Vice President Harris is ready to take us to new heights.” The Obamas, meanwhile, were right in the middle. All too fitting for the pair that forced the current changing of the guard. Barack Obama has graduated from president to kingmaker. And they, along with some other allies in the old guard like Pelosi, have coronated Harris. But who are the other inheritors of this not-so-peaceful transfer of power? In an interesting twist, the shift has the potential to decentralize power within the Democratic party away from Washington, DC because the Democratic bench is currently replete with gubernatorial talent—Gavin Newsom in California, Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan, Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania, J.B. Pritzker of Illinois. If Democrats win in November, maybe there will be more centralization behind Harris, whose favorability until roughly two minutes ago was 15 points underwater. If Harris loses, does the Democratic party devolve into warring fiefdoms until 2028? There are still inheritors on Capitol Hill, however. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is well positioned. But so is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), because of her detente with the Democratic establishment while maintaining her progressive “squad” bona fides. On the Senate side, the Georgia delegation of Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff seemed well positioned. Maybe it isn’t too late for Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ). But what does this new guard actually believe? If Harris is their leader, even they don’t seem to know. The best explanation Jon Favreau, the former Obama speechwriter turned podcast host, could offer was that Harris is a “mainstream Democrat.” That once meant being a card-carrying neoliberal like the Clintons and Bidens. Therein lies the problem for former President Donald Trump and his campaign. In 2020, the Trump campaign discovered it’s actually quite difficult to beat a dead horse. This time around, the challenge for Trump is branding a product that does not exist (Harris still does not have any policies listed on her website). Luckily, branding is kind of his thing. The post Is There A New Democratic Establishment? appeared first on The American Conservative.

Foreign Affairs What Ceasefire? The administration gave Bibi a wide berth to destroy Hamas, and he will flatten Gaza before any agreement is signed, say experts. Credit: image via Shutterstock The short video captured it all: Well-dressed and coiffed Democratic National Convention delegates and attendees, covering their ears and making exaggerated faces as they ran the gantlet of Gaza demonstrators outside. “The protesters, they’re not all that welcome at the DNC,” remarked Sagaar Enjeti in Wednesday’s Breaking Points coverage of the Chicago confab. “I noted whenever you see someone wearing a keffiyeh, there’s a lot of side-eye. Their presence is not welcome.” “Skunk at the garden party” is how The American Conservative’s contributing editor James Carden, also in attendance, described it to us. Given both parties’ experience and treatment of antiwar protesters outside their conventions (this writer covered them in 2004 and 2008 at the height of the post-9/11 wars), it should be no surprise that the demonstrators this week—mostly demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and a U.S. arms embargo to Israel—would be marginalized, if not mocked by the Democratic faithful and accompanying elite corps of donors, lobbyists, media, and courtiers inside. But that doesn’t mean that the Harris/Walz campaign doesn’t have a real problem on its hands, one that will persist long after the signs and confetti are swept up from the United Center hall in Chicago.  As Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday night, she and President Joe Biden are “working around the clock, because now is the time to get a hostage deal and a ceasefire deal done.” They would absolutely love to get that signed before the election, if only to kick the can and keep the attention off of the ongoing horrors in Gaza, which stand as a testament to their own failures over the last 10 months. “We’ve heard the Biden administration tell us over and over that they’ve been working very hard for a ceasefire, but the factual record—from the quashing of multiple [UN Security Council] ceasefire resolutions, to billions of endless weapons replenishments, and even deploying U.S. military muscle on Israel’s behalf—shows the Biden administration has done everything to enable Israel to continue its catastrophic assault on Gaza,” noted Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of DAWN. Therein lies the fly in the ointment: The two sides are no closer to an agreement than they were the week before, or the week before that. After a while, “working tirelessly” starts to lose meaning. When the Democratic platform insists “our commitment to Israel’s security, its qualitative military edge, its right to defend itself, and the 2016 Memorandum of Understanding is ironclad,” and that’s backed up by the candidate’s own remarks at the convention, it starts to sound to people that one side has an awful wide berth to do whatever it wants in the meantime. “For the first months, Biden et al. did give Israel space to do as they wished. Their advice to Hamas for months was to simply ‘surrender,’” the writer and analyst Geoff Aronson tells TAC. “Since the spring or thereabouts, Biden has indeed preferred that Israel simply declare victory and stop shooting, but by that time Bibi (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu) had taken the measure of Biden’s inability to wield U.S. influence in that direction. Nothing has changed since then. The talks have long been stalemated notwithstanding rosy U.S. statements that continue to this very day.” Meanwhile, the mainstream media has not been able to report about the ceasefire process with any clarity because Washington officials insist on making premature declarations about the near-success of the talks that are later discredited by conflicting public statements by both Israel and Hamas.  Like this week, when the administration insisted it was aligned with Netanyahu on “bridging agreements” to push forward on the first phase (the release of hostages), but it was Hamas that was holding it up. That was Tuesday. Hamas then retorted by saying Israel was killing the agreement with unacceptable amendments. Meanwhile, Netanyahu appeared to contradict Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s hopeful statements by saying Israeli troops would not leave the Philadelphi Corridor, the border with Gaza and Egypt, supposedly a condition in the latest package. “Israel will insist on the achievement of all of its objectives for the war, as they have been defined by the Security Cabinet, including that Gaza never again constitutes a security threat to Israel. This requires securing the southern border,” Netanyahu told his cabinet on Wednesday. With Blinken and co. shuttling back and forth for talks this week and making declarations about the “closeness” of the deal with no real evidence to back it up, it has started to smell like spin-doctoring for domestic consumption—something one Israeli paper said smacked of desperation and warned was already backfiring. To gauge how bad the diplomatic situation is this week, one needs only to read David Ignatius, whose Washington Post columns serve as a reliable inside wire to administration strategy and thinking. He tries his best to assist his White House sources by writing that an agreement is “tantalizingly close” but then proceeds to detail what seem to be impenetrable differences and “stalled” talks.  Steve Simon, who served in the Clinton and Obama National Security Councils, tells TAC that when stripped down, the dynamics are pretty intractable. “There are only two protagonists, Netanyahu and [Hamas chief Yahya] Sinwar, and they’re both playing a zero-sum game,” says Simon. “Sinwar can’t kill Netanyahu, but his interests are still met if he’s still alive and he has forced the IDF to withdraw in the absence of Netanyahu’s ‘absolute victory.’ Netanyahu on the other hand can’t stop until Sinwar is dead, or he is forced to hand over hostages even as the IDF continues to chew through Gaza and the remaining Hamas battalions.”  “This was obvious from day one of the conflict and indicated that if a ceasefire were arranged, it wouldn’t be until very near to the end game.” But not everyone is convinced that Washington has no agency, particularly as it continues to fuel Israel’s ability to “chew through Gaza” with a dizzying array of armaments while the talks stumble on unsuccessfully. Since October 7, the United States has transferred at least 14,000 MK-84 2,000-pound bombs, 6,500 500-pound bombs, 3,000 Hellfire precision-guided air-to-ground missiles, 1,000 bunker-buster bombs, 2,600 air-dropped small-diameter bombs, and other munitions, according to U.S. officials in late June. At least $20 billion in new, future shipments were announced by the Biden administration this month. As a result of this steady stream of weaponry, nearly two-thirds of all the buildings on the two-mile Gaza Strip have been damaged or destroyed, most of the healthcare system inoperative, 80 percent of the population displaced and more than 40,000 dead. There is virtually no food or medicine getting inside, and the first case of polio was discovered this week.  But not even Bernie Sanders would use the words “arms embargo” at the convention this week, showing that as a political force, the Democratic party establishment is not going to put Gaza before the election in November. It simply can’t. Like the Republican Party it relies on pro-Israel donors and support. It cannot be seen as “weak” in regards to Hamas and its Iranian backers. It wants to distance itself from the campus protests and charges of antisemitism.  It wants, frankly, for the issue to just go away. But at what cost? “To the eyes of billions of people around the world who daily see the horrors of U.S. bombs falling on Palestinian men, women and children, the U.S. is as responsible for the slaughter as Israel,” charged Whitson. “Americans will spend an eternity paying the bills to U.S. standing and credibility, and the erosion of international law, on a thankless Israel’s behalf.” The post What Ceasefire? appeared first on The American Conservative.

Ryan Dawson 2011 Documentary: War by Deception! 911 and the Cover Up! [2011] - (This is not just another 9-11 Documentary, but covers extremely rare footage and little known reports that were immediately hidden and swept from history) - War by Deception: 911 and the Cover Up Video 2013 Writer Ryan Dawson Stars Barbara Bodine Mike Boettcher George W. Bush https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10691990/ - ***Please see my comments about Ryan Dawson in our current day at bottom*** - "All warfare is based on deception!" - Sun Tzu (544 BC - 496 BC) - But it is Not Just in War Between Nations that Deception is Used. - FALSE FLAG ATTACKS ARE NOT ONLY USED TO GAIN A FALSE PRETENSE FOR WAR IN TRUCKING THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY - - BUT TO TRICK THEIR OWN CITIZENS INTO FIGHTING AN UNJUST WAR THEY WOULD NOT OTHERWISE SUPPORT LIKE FIGHTING WARS TO BENEFIT THE JEWISH BANKSTERS OR THE GLOBALIST NEW WORLD ORDER - 9-11 NO STANDS AS A PRIMARY EXAMPLE - Israel Attacked the Twin Towers with the Help of the U.S. Government to Trick American Citizens into Fighting Israel's Expansion War for the Greater Israel Project. - Donald Trump's Best Buddy Rudy Juliani Played a Primary Role in Pulling Off the Attack, and then Covering it up. - Now Donald Trump is Openly Proclaiming his Support for the Greater Israel Expansion Project. He was Just Given 100 Million Dollars by Jewish Zionist Billionaire Miriam Adelson to ALLOW ISRAEL TO STEEL PALESTINIAN LAND. Trump is OK with all of this. Even though Israel Attacked and Murdered Thousands of Americans on 9-11. Are You??? - Now do you understand Why Trump Never Exposed Who was Really Responsible for the 9-11 Attack? - Trump is Not Your Hero. He is the Chosen One of the Chosen. - Not America First But Israel First *** Ordo Ab Chao = Order out of Chaos! - "By Way of Deception Thou Shalt Do War!" - Motto of Israeli intelligence service MOSSAD! - This film is a product of an incredible amount of research and work by filmmaker Ryan Dawson, looking at the shadow government and shadow economy, collecting the facts and all the supporting footage. - It begins by showing the correspondences between the Iran-Contra affair and the events leading up to the Pre-emptive war in Iraq. - Many of the same members of the US Government were involved in the execution and whitewashing of 9/11. *** ( Here is the video I am basing these comments on. Unfortunately Dawson is a Coward who disabled any comments.. - Listen to this video and I think you will understand why I am being so critical of Ryan Dawson. - Trump shooting Lone wolf or Deep State: Attwood Unleashed https://www.bitchute.com/video/RQFGU2NjPNFb/ - Though this and his other earlier Documentaries are great, I question the judgement of Ryan Dawson in our current day for his support of Shills and Limited Hangouts like Scott Ridder and Colonel McGregor, this video is right on the mark. - According to Dawson, Trump is sincere, just a Foul able human, and Completely White Washes Trump's Ultra-Zionism -

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