This afternoon in Washington, DC a few thousand anti-Trump blockheads congregated in Lincoln Park for the March for Racial Justice. They huffed and stormed their way to the Department of Justice Building where they screamed insults at the empty edifice (unaware apparently that federal employees don't work on weekends).
Maurice Cook, the ringleader of the mob, told the Corporate Media that "that all of us can come together in love, to fight against this racist regime and start the process of dismissing White Supremacy!"
If any of these 'activists' had bothered to read the Justice Department's Press Releases for the last 30 days, they would have seen:
9/29: 'DOJ launches $47 million program to fight human trafficking.'
9/29: 'DOJ wins $365,000 sexual harassment lawsuit against Kansas Housing Authority.'
9/29: 'Las Vegas Police official pleads guilty to excessive force violations.'
9/28: 'DOJ sues Guam Government for racial discrimination under the Fair Housing Act.'
9/28: 'DOJ sues Crop Production Service for hiring discrimination against US workers.'
9/27: 'DOJ wins $700,000 for veterans whose vehicles were illegally repossessed under the Active Servicemen's Relief Act.'
9/20: 'California relators sentenced in foreclosure/bid-rigging scheme.'
9/19: 'DOJ settles employment discrimination case on behalf of Army reservist.'
9/19: 'DOJ settles employment discrimination lawsuit against the State of Rhode Island.'
9/18: 'Third Texas man pleads guilty to hate crime for assault based on victim's sexual orientation.'
9/17: 'DOJ secures $907,000 from CitiGroup for illegal vehicle repossessions.'
9/15: 'Utah man charged with hate crime for using stun-gun in racially-motivated attack.'
9/15: 'Four men sentenced for running Child-Exploitation enterprise.'
9/14: 'DOJ obtains $70,000 judgement against Indiana Housing Authority for discrimination under the Fair Housing Act.'
9/13: 'Prison transport officer indicted for sexually assaulting female prisoners.'
9/8: 'Tennessee case protecting the rights of persons with developmental disabilities reaches successful conclusion.'
9/6: 'Louisiana prison official pleads guilty to beating shackled inmate.'
9/5: 'DOJ settles against Edmonds, Washington landlords for discrimination against families with children.'
9/5: 'DOJ settles with Bethlehem, Pennsylvania officials over violations of Religious Land Use Act over proposed mosque.'
So what exactly are these crackpots protesting against? Maybe that Trump is actually enforcing laws on behalf of minorities and the poor? Because when we look through the same list of DOJ press releases, the only legal action taken against minorities were related to narcotics, gang activity, smuggling, and illegal immigration.
The organizers of the march speak for themselves. At the top is the aforementioned Maurice Cook, owner of a minor consulting firm inside the Beltway. Co-organizer Dorcas Davis, one of the instigators of the pink-hat 'women's marches also, is a self-described 'educator and artist' at the diploma mill, CUNY. Andrea Ciannavei, MSM parasite, Occupy Movement leader, a organizer of the Million Hoodie March for Trayvon Martin also led today's gang. There were also a pair of cigar-store Indians, one Johnnie Jae, a.k.a. 'The Brown Ball of Fury' and Gabriel Black Elk, an anti-police activist living in Denver. No doubt the latter two were placed on the organizers' list as tokens; to counter President Trump's growing popularity among American Indians.
Thus, despite the MSM propaganda, the March for Racial Justice was a complete flop; it accomplished absolutely nothing except to create another publicity-stunt for the Left.
Tennessee Titans' end Delaine Walker---who is currently negotiating a $13.3 million contract with the team---has told fans that "if you feel we're disrespecting you don't come to the game." Walker went on to claim that he is not anti-police or military, but it's "about equality."
Equality, indeed. A $13.3 million, two-year contract for 34 weeks of work doesn't sound like the average American income.
Walker's statement was seized upon by the Corporate Media, which has already been caught colluding with the protestors. With all the new publicity, Walker started playing the Victim Card, alleging that he has received death threats over his remarks; which the gullible press took at face value.
Delaine Walker himself, though, is no stranger to violent outbursts. In 2013, he was named party to a lawsuit after a gunfight during a drunken brawl at the home of ex-teammate Aldon Smith. Smith himself has been a regular resident of California jails: once for making a false bomb threat at the Los Angeles Airport, as well as racking up a few DUIs.
The 2013 lawsuit was filed by one Ronndale Esporlas who sustained unspecified permanent injuries after being "caught in the crossfire". Esporlas' attorney alleged that Walker was firing a handgun in the house, when he came out into the driveway and exchanged shots with a local Bay Area gang. According to San Jose Police reports, Smith was stabbed and two people were shot during the melee.
In 2015, Walker was involved in another scandal when his then-pregnant girlfriend Racine Lewin hacked his Instagram account and exposed him for committing multiple infidelities while she was pregnant. The two later reconciled; but earlier this year Racine caught Walker with a prostitute.
A fine role model for young men, this guy.
For their part, the Tennessee Titans also have a history of betraying fans. They were formerly the Houston Oilers---one of the founding AFL teams---but moved to Tennessee in 1996 after a $210 million relocation deal from Nashville politicians. Houston was then suffering an economic recession and the owners felt the fans were of no further use.
This is another example of why we need a new league. The NFL is corrupted beyond any semblance to its former standards, and needs to fade into history.
First Lady Melania Trump was in New York City today attending a luncheon hosted by the Nicklaus Children's Healthcare Foundation, one of Mrs. Trump's favorite charities. In collaboration with Barbara Nicklaus, wife of the famous pro golfer Jack Nicklaus, Melania announced the opening of a children's park adjacent to the Miami Children's Hospital.
Melania was a driving force behind this park, which in Pediatric Medical parlance is called a 'healing garden'. Despite the rather New-Age term, healing gardens are based on a medical principle which physicians have known for centuries: that spending time in the outdoors is therapeutic.
For critically ill children in downtown Miami, however, excursions to the outdoors isn't realistically possible. The new park---which is open only to hospital patients---will help enormously. This is especially true since many new patients have arrived in the wake of the recent hurricanes.
"It's true that elements of nature help with healing, and I look forward to visiting Florida when the healing garden is ready, so that I can meet with some of the brave patients and their families who benefit from all that it will have to offer." Melania said.
Dr. Kristine Guliserian, a heart surgeon at the children's hospital, also gave a short presentation to the group explaining other new advances in pediatric care being developed there. The Miami facility is the leading pediatric care facility in the US.
This story was of course ignored by the Corporate Media which is focusing on Michelle Obama's latest outburst against pro-Trump MAWGA women. Melania's predecessor complained that such females are "a disgrace to their gender." A lot of children currently confined in the Miami Children's Hospital would probably disagree. They've been focusing on the DNC Hillary harlequins in Congress, kneeling in solidarity with the NFL thugs. But real women like Melania Trump and Barbara Nicklaus show solidarity with traditional feminine values. Which is why they're admired which Michelle and Hillary stew in envy.
The NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers---once an iconic American institution---was one of the instigating organizations behind last Sunday's fake anti-Anthem protests. Now it's fairly obvious that the motivation behind these publicity stunts was aimed against President Trump, who called out the NFL for its pusillanimity the day before.
So the political motivations behind the Steelers' actions are starting to become clearer. Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, it happens, is not only a Democrat but very active in the DNC. It was Tomlin who more-or-less tried to stop players from entering the stadium during the National Anthem, and denounced the one player with manhood enough to defy him.
Tomlin and his wife Kiya hosted a $10,000-a-plate fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in June 2016 in their posh suburban home.
It's not known whether any 'spirit cooking' actually happened, but quite a bit of cash was raised for Hillary's other sinister purposes. And that's not the limit of the Tomlins' activism, by any means. According to Open Secrets, Mike Tomlin gave a whopping $30,000 to the DNC in 2011 and $25,000 in 2016. He also gave the maximum individual donation of $2,700 to the Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Campaigns those same years.
Tomlin's wife Kiya, a fashion designer and media hanger-on, donated $20,000 to the DNC in 2008; $30,000 in 2011; and $25,000 in 2016. She donated the maximum to both Obama Campaigns and to Hillary's 2016 bid.
Steelers owner Art Rooney II has tried to deflect the growing anger at Tomlin and the players by saying that they have a right to their opinions. That may be so; but we're not talking here about an average Democrat voter. Tomlin directly instigated an overtly political statement---and his deep ties to Trump's opponents casts serious doubts as to his actual motivations. It's highly probable, given these facts, that last weekend's NFL protests were orchestrated and not spontaneous at all.
As for Rooney, his fingers are the same pies as Tomlin's. He is an executive in the firm Buchanan, Ingersoll, and Rooney PC, which Wikipedia succinctly describes as "one of the nation's largest legal and lobbying firms". This company is the government lobbying firm in Pennsylvania and among the top 20 Federal lobbying firms. In 2016, their five top political recipients were: the DNC; the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Hillary Clinton Campaign, and the activist group Women Vote!, in that order.
Aside from arch-RINO Arlen Specter, the overwhelming number of political donations that Rooney has made has been to Democrats. He supported Al Gore, John Kerry. Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton and was an attendee at Obama's Inaugural Ball in 2009.
I wonder how Steelers fans feel, knowing that the over-priced tickets that go to lining Tomlin's and Rooney's pockets, are also supporting the DNC? If we do get a new league, let's leave the Steelers out of it.
While the MSM hyenas, Hollywood jugheads, and Democrats are on their knees everywhere (the natural position for Liberals any place except Church); President Trump moved forward on a new policy to open new educational opportunities other than sports for mostly minority and rural communities. The Presidential Directive allocates $200 million to boost STEM in public schools.
Because of Academic incompetence, the US is falling far behind European and Asian countries in scientific fields. The President noted in his remarks just how bad the situation is. Note especially the portions of his speech that we've highlighted:
"Today, too many of our nation's K-12 students lack access to quality STEM programs; and thus are excluded from some of the most attractive job options in the growing US economy. Courses in Computer Science are especially scarce in too many communities despite the employment opportunities that these skills create. Nearly 40% of high schools do not offer Physics and 60% do not offer computer programming... Minorities and students in rural communities have even less access to Computer Science education. Nationwide, only 34% of African-Americans and 30% of rural students have access to Computer Science classes."
That does bring up the side issue of what the Academic Establishment has been doing all these years with their already-bloated budgets. It's a national disgrace that 2 out of every 5 high schools do not even offer Physics---a subject that we used to get as early as Middle School just a generation or so ago. Postmodern high schools do, however, teach a lot of political correctness and scapegoating. This despite the fact that that 2/3 of young Blacks and 3/4 of young women can't even get access to skills that would enable them to compete.
The President also noted that there is an extreme shortage of STEM teachers, especially in the Computer Science field. Part of this new fund will help rectify this problem as well. As part of this initiative, the President signed an Executive Order in June that would reduce student debt in STEM fields for graduates entering STEM-related apprenticeship programs. The MSM of course ignored that story too; just like they've ignored Obama's obvious failures in his Hope and Change agenda. While educational opportunities for Blacks declined under Obama, his Administration saw some of the worst race-riots in America since the 1960s.
But the billionaire Whacko Left-Wing sport-franchise owners would prefer that minorities are kept on the NCAA plantation and leave the high-tech profits for themselves.
The long-overdue backlash against the corrupt and degenerate National Football League is accelerating and showing no signs of abating. The decline of this organization appears now to be irreversible. Unless they institute some radical reforms they're heading down the tubes along with their confederates in the Corporate Media.
Here's a few resources that have come to light over the last few days, for those readers whose activism is inclined to go further than boycotting games or publically burning NFL regalia---which is also going on across the country.
1. The Wall Street Journal and Zero Hedge have been reporting today that subscribers to Direct TV's NFL Sunday Ticket service have been cancelling their contracts. There are reports that subscription refunds in various forms are now available. At any rate, fans who subscribe to Direct TV or similar services should cancel and try to get refunds. It may not always succeed, but where it does it means money that won't go to the NFL.
2. An online movement has started to boycott Wall Street/Corporate NFL sponsors.
Consumer boycotts usually have mixed results; but putting consumer pressure on these companies is certainly possible. What has a huge impact is when stockholders---including people with IRA-type funds---start divesting shares in these firms and encouraging stockbrokers not to trade them. Significant shareholders can pressure the company more directly. In any case, the monopoly-minded NFL likes giving exclusive 'sponsorship' rights to certain companies; so it is relatively easy for consumers to switch from one of these companies to another.
Just as a side note, USAA---one of the companies listed---is a financial services company for military veterans. Veterans can contact their local VFW or other veterans' groups to apply the appropriate pressure.
3. Several other bloggers have been exposing the fat tax subsidies and illegal tax breaks and monopoly privileges that the NFL gets from politicians at all levels. The NFL is also a tax-exempt non-profit organization (how that is legal we've no idea). Political activists can move GOP (and even sympathetic working-class Democrats) officials to take political action. Some suggestions:
a.) Revoke the NFL's non-profit standing since they violate it by taking political positions.
b.) Lobby to end any taxpayer subsidies to NFL.
c.) Pressure legislators and state Attorneys-General to bring anti-trust suits against the NFL.
And we're certain that legal minds can think up other creative ways to bring the NFL to some kind of accountability.
There's a growing movement to start a new professional football league on the ruins of the old. The last major competitor to the NFL was the USFL during the 1980s. As an interesting side-note, President Trump used to own a USFL team. So we can presume the White House would be sympathetic to the idea.
This denizen of the Deep State was a really bad one, too. Department of Homeland Security official and special agent Christopher Ciccione was jailed today after an internal investigation exposed him as an operative of the very narcotics cartel that he was hired to suppress.
Ciccione was in charge of Operation Cornerstone, an Obama-Era attempt to bring Cali Cartel mob-boss Jose Piedrahita to justice. In 2016, Piedrahita was indicted after an extensive investigation, but the case against him was dismissed by a Federal Grand Jury. Agents involved in the case were baffled at how Piedrahita's case collapsed; but their suspicions were ignored until the Trump Administration came in. Jeff Sessions authorized an internal investigation which discovered that Ciccione was in contact with Juan Carlos Velasco---a notorious Cali henchman.
The indictment issued today revealed that Velasco, a ruthless thug, acted as an intermediary between Ciccione and Piedrahita. In exchange for at least $20,000 in cash; free access to Cali-affiliated clubs; and a hearty supply of prostitutes, Ciccione sabotaged the case against Piedrahita. This sabotage included falsifying agent testimony and suppressing evidence. Legal opinions within the Justice Department concurred that Ciccione's actions damaged the Government's case against Piedrahita.
As a consequence of today's revelations, Piedrahita has been re-indicted and a warrant also issued for Velasco. Both however are apparently back in Colombia, where they still run their criminal activities---thanks to DHS Special Agent Christopher Ciccione.
It's instructive to reflect that the MSM jackals, the NFL protestors, the Antifa, and the rest of the anti-Trump 'Resistance' want the kind of government that Ciccione represented to come back. Whatever the motivations of the recent past administrations were; they are increasingly being uncovered as either unable---or unwilling---to make the government function cleanly, fairly, and efficiently.
We don't want them back. Seven months of Trump has done more for America than the last seven years of Obama combined.
The controversy between President Trump and the National Football League has really intensified. The President yesterday expressed what many---if not most---Americans actually think about the NFL. Most Americans love football, but thoroughly despise the NFL as an institution. A lot of us see it as another cultural swamp in need of draining.
The Corporate Media hyenas---who imagine all Trump supporters as beer-swilling, low-IQ couch-potatoes---pounced on the story and egged on their confederates in the NFL Players' Union to inflame matters worse by staging fake 'solidarity protests' throughout the NFL today. Both the Corporate Media and the NFL leadership hold their followers in complete contempt; and hope that publicity stunts like these will alienate voters---whom they presume will follow celebrity-athletes like sheep.
As for the millionaire perverts and drug addicts who pass for 'athletes' these days, we shouldn't be surprised at their behavior. Most of them are simply punks and thugs who find themselves at home in the gangland-like moral atmosphere of postmodern professional sports. They'll sell out their own teams for a higher contract, so selling out their country and disrespecting its institutions and traditions comes naturally to them.
It wasn't always this way, of course. We're only a few decades removed when public prayers were actually said at football games in addition to the National Anthem. And they were said by people like:
Who, as a young man in WW2 saw his family interned by the US government for being non-naturalized citizens of Italy. Instead of burning flags and running around in a black hood smashing windows, young Gino enlisted and came back from the Pacific Theatre a decorated war hero. Taking advantage of the GI Bill, he finished college, and was drafted by the Baltimore Colts in 1952. Now a Hall-of-Fame member, Marchetti founded a successful restaurant chain and retired a rich man.
One of the most valuable things that team sports used to teach young men like Gino Marchetti was how hard work can turn defeat into victory. Even when the inequalities and unfairness that often comes in life seem insurmountable. The longest field-goal in NFL history was made by a kicker who was born without a hand and partially missing a foot.
In our postmodern culture where victimhood is honored above all else, stories like these seem unbelievable. The whole American ideal, however, is based on overcoming incredibly difficult challenges. Football was, at least in the past, a game of strategy as much as skill. But intelligence, innovation, and excellence left the NFL a long time ago.
The fake-news is also naturally trying to spin the controversy as somehow 'racist' as if there is some natural inconsistency between being patriotic and being Black. The ignoramuses on the Whacko Left fail to understand that Blacks have been a part of the NFL from the beginning.
And back then Black athletes had a lot more discrimination and prejudices to overcome than the sad-sacks of today who won't stand for a patriotic ceremony but don't mind cashing their paychecks. Paychecks, incidentally, which are about 100,000 times higher than what their counterparts in the 1920s were paid.
The actions of the NFL players today are bound to backfire on them. They may imagine themselves too big to fail; but they are really a bunch of pygmies in the bigger scheme of sports history.
The Monocle-and-Martini Set who run the National Football League are outraged with President Trump's remarks in Alabama today. Trump called out NFL management for tolerating the gutter-trash behavior of some of its so-called stars. Recently, some of these punks have doing things like flashing gang signs and giving Black Power salutes on the field, as well as protesting the ceremonial National Anthem.
One might think that a country where semi-literate ghetto-trash can become overnight millionaires and celebrities in the NFL might be worthy of some more respect among this class of people, but not so. The NFL has really become a lot like Hollywood. Both rose to cultural icon status about the same time and both have degenerated long beyond their cultural shelf-lives through a combination of stupid greed, politically-correct pandering, and incompetent management.
But if Hollywood has become a shadow of its former self, the NFL has become a ghost of what it once was. The NFL and its chief corporate media mouthpiece, ESPN, are getting clobbered with declining ratings, revenues, and viewers. This is because the NFL has not only lost touch with its audience; it's lost touch with its very reason for existence.
The NFL was originally about excellence: strategy, teamwork, skill, and sportsmanship. A team represented a community; and thus players reflected the values of the community. This is how football grew to be so symbolic of American values. During the Golden Age of the NFL, teams, players, and coaches usually stayed in one locality and were identified with it.
Today, this attitude has changed completely: championships have become meaningless---because these 'community leaders' have no scruple about running to any other community that offers a higher price. The community gives these teams every dime they have---even building stadiums with tax dollars---and the league establishment thanks them by selling out to the highest bidders and disrespecting values that society believes in.
What has happened to the NFL is the very defect that usually spells the downfall of all monopolistic organizations. In the passing of a century, control of the organization passes from virile and energetic men to effete inbreds who are cynical and resentful. Here again, the comparison to Hollywood is apt.
And generally along with the declining quality of performance, monopolies tend to try and maximize profit by pandering to the lowest common denominator among audiences or consumers. Thus the NFL players today engage in the crudest, most unsportsmanlike behaviors: more like pro wrestling and roller-derbies in the past. The NFL management never tolerated such behaviors before; today they are common. There are numerous players who showed promise once who simply and suddenly dropped out of the league. Usually this was for drug use or some other behavior detrimental to the team or the community's image.
Regarding our postmodern protesting players, there was a famous example of a similar case during the 1970s. Joe Gilliam became the first Black starting quarterback in the NFL with the Pittsburgh Steelers. But Gilliam had political sympathies with militant Blacks, which he publically displayed and often criticized alleged racism within the Steelers and the NFL generally. His behavior led to coach Chuck Noll throwing him off the team and replacing him with Terry Bradshaw. No other team wanted Gilliam despite his skills.
Bradshaw went on to four Super Bowls, eight AFC Championships, and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Gilliam died of a cocaine overdose at the age of 49.
The NFL's political correctness is another huge problem. It's recent tendencies towards gender-bending alienates most of its fan base. It's also preventing quality players from looking at professional football as a desirable career option. It's much the same problem we've seen with military recruitment. A football team, like an Army platoon, needs tough men who respect one another.
The NFL isn't likely to change any more than Hollywood will; and ultimately is going to fall under the weight of its own hubris. What we really need now is a new league that upholds the old values.
When we last heard from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, he was forming a bipartisan political team in his native Montana to stop a Neo-Nazi march headed by the notorious Andrew Anglin. Zinke is back in the news again; speaking on occasion of the long-neglected National Hunting and Fishing Day (September 23rd). President Nixon established the day as a semi-official start of hunting/fishing/trapping season in 1972.
Among its other duties, the Interior Department oversees national lands, fish and wildlife management, and conservation. The decades of Deep State leftist policies discouraged outdoor sports. Zinke noted that the numbers of outdoorsmen has declined since 2011, by 2.2 million.
Zinke rightly observed that this is an unfortunate social trend. To help encourage a return to outdoor traditions, the Interior Department dedicated October to promote hunting, fishing and trapping again. But more importantly, Zinke issued a Federal Order aimed at restoring access to public lands and expanding educational programs.
Secretarial Order 3356 designates that:
1.) Within 120 days, submit a plan to expand hunting and fishing on BLM, USFWS, and National Park Service Land;
2.) Lift restrictions against firearms on National Monument Lands;
3.) Expand educational outreach programs to include minorities and youth in urban areas;
4.) Creation of a national database enabling sportsmen to research laws and codes on public lands;
5.) Establish wildlife management panels with conservation and sportsmen's groups;
6.) Establish a review process to access federal lands through private property in a way fair to property owners.
Point #6 is especially important because it reverses previous Administrations' abuses of Eminent Domain and water/mineral rights laws.
Sportsmen's groups, conservation organizations, American Indian tribes, and property-rights advocates are applauding the new policy; as are hiking, camping, boating, cycling, and snowmobiling enthusiasts. With the exception of Breitbart News, the Corporate Media has passed over the new policy with discreet silence---no doubt after discovering how unpopular previous policies really were. The policy of restricting access to public lands and waterways began during the 1990s under President Clinton and his VP, Albert Gore. Gore was an environmentalist fanatic whose extremism discredited Conservationism among many Conservatives. Yet, as we mentioned in the last article, it has historically been Conservatives who have led the way in protecting the environment.
Zinke is not adopting a new approach, therefore. He is restoring rights and promoting culture that corrupt Deep State policies sought to undermine. So in honor of the day, enjoy a buffalo steak, venison hamburger, roast pheasant, or some fresh-caught fish for dinner.
The Trump Administration is not only cleaning up Obama-Era scandals, it's cleaning up the environment too. Last month, crooked software engineers were jailed and Volkswagen ordered to pay millions in fines for cheating on the Clean Air Act. That scandal had dragged on for two years under Obama was wrapped up by Trump in six months.
The Justice Department and the EPA announced recently that Starkist---one of the world's largest fisheries---had agreed to pay over $6 million in fines and invest in corrective anti-pollution measures stemming from 2014. EPA authorities found that Starkist's fish processing facility in American Samoa. Starkist is the world's largest supplier of canned tuna and once a great American company. Today, it is a subsidiary of a South Korean transnational agribusiness cartel, Dongwon Industries.
In 2014, a wastewater pipeline break led to an investigation which revealed that Starkist was dumping pollutants into Pago Pago Harbor at high levels; and that they had actually also dumped unreported contaminants into the sea. There were large quantities of hazardous chemicals also illegally stored at the plant. The company thumbed its nose at Obama, and went on with business as usual.
But now, in addition to fines, Starkist agreed to purchase $88,000 in equipment for Samoan hazardous-waste removal teams and upgrade wastewater treatment systems. The proposed new system will reduce pollution by 85%.
Interesting that the Corporate Media tells us that Trump is anti-environment. The Volkswagen and Starkist cases are the largest environmental settlements, but not the only ones by far. In addition, the Trump Administration has also cracked down on illegal importation of endangered-species products; just yesterday an international ivory-smuggler was sentenced to 5 years in prison.
But a better question is how these big companies got away with these activities during the green rule of the Deep State. The mystery is cleared up when we note that Starkist is listed as a top donor to the Democrat Samoan Congressional representative. Last year, Starkist spent $400,000 on lobbyists and $190,000 this year alone. The lobbying firm Manatt, Phelps, and Phillips is retained by Starkist and two of Starkist's lobbyists are Revolving-Door former federal bureaucrats. Both are Democrats.
Volkswagen, for its part, donated to the Tennessee DNC in 2012, where its corporate headquarters in America are located. Democrat Congressman Joseph Kennedy III, of Massachusetts, is one of Congress' leading shareholders of Volkswagen stock. Not coincidentally, Volkswagen is Kennedy's largest corporate contributor.
Volkswagen spent over $1.5 million on lobbyists last year, with lobbying firm Akin Gump. Five of their six lobbyists are also former Federal bureaucrats.
It's always been Conservatives who take meaningful measures to protect the environment. Liberals do things like banning woodstoves and toilets with large water-tanks. But they look the other way when their chums on Wall Street pollute harbors and create smog.
The Whacko Left-Wing has shown its spiritual bankruptcy on numerous occasions. CNN's former Religious Affairs correspondent partook of a cannibalistic ritual for example; and we recently read that Beltway society maven Sally Quinn promotes Satanic Black Magic.
Then we have a contingent of these same kinds of degenerates who pose as Christians. Just as with cults, it's typically for agenda-driven radicals to win converts by pretending to have the authority of long-recognized religions behind them. Invariably that it's the mainstream religion that's in a state of apostasy while they alone have discovered long-hidden 'truths'.
Thus a fake bishop in the United Methodist Church, one Karen Oliveto, has published an article on Facebook warning Christians not to 'idolize' (i.e. worship) Christ. Oliveto, a butch lesbian who is 'married' to a deaconess, says of Christ:
"{He} was as human as you and me. Like you and me, He didn't have His life figured out. He was still growing, maturing, putting the pieces together about Who He was and what He was supposed to do. We might think of Christ as the Rock of Ages, but He was really more like a hunk of clay, forming and reforming Himself in relation to God."
One of the biggest flaws in Leftist spiritual thinking is that they invariably reverse the natural order of things and assume that man makes God in his own image instead of the other way around. With their purely carnal instincts---not to mention their hyper-inflated egos---they can't imagine things like the Incarnation in any other than the literal, physical sense. The passage quoted above shows that, so far from modernism, that Oliveto's conception of God is primitive anthropomorphism. St. John makes it clear though that Christ was more than a man; His Incarnation was an emanation of Divine Will. In John's story of the Feeding of the Five Thousand, for example, he notes that Christ tested His disciples by asking for advice when He knew already what He would do. Christ never had any need to figure anything out.
Beginning with her flawed premises, Oliveto goes on to preach a homily which grossly misinterprets an encounter between Jesus and a Canaanite woman, as related in the 15th Chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel. In that story, Christ is again testing the faith of those around him; but Oliveto makes it appear as though Jesus had some politically-correct insight into the nature of bigotry and thus changed His mind:
"This is the heart of the story. This is what offers us hope. If Jesus can change, if He can give up His bigotries and prejudices, if He can realize that He made His own life too small, and if in this realization, He grew closer to others and to God, then so can we."
Aside from the metaphysical absurdities in this passage, there are some facts which need to be made clear: Christianity does not, and never has, taught bigotry and prejudice as a doctrine.
1. The Bible teaches that all humans are descended from a single pair of divinely-created humans:
2. Israel was established as a nation of priests to convert all other peoples;
3. The fact that Old Testament prophets spoke to non-Jews indicates that there were Gentile believers even then;
4. The New Testament makes it clear that Christ's Advent was to fulfill the Old Covenant (point 2).
What Christian Doctrine teaches is sin is to oppose the Will of God; thus racism excludes conversion to certain groups; therefore it is sin. It's also opposing the Will of God to teach false doctrines and to subvert His Will in marriage and gender relations, as Bishop Oliveto is doing. Thus they reinterpret Scripture to make their sins virtues of necessity.
Not being a follower of Methodism, we're not familiar with the current state of that denomination as a whole; but it certainly is past time their congregations did some serious soul-searching.
Alaska became the third state today to be snared in a Food Stamp fraud investigation and agreed to pay back to the Federal Government $2.5 million in ill-gotten funds. Earlier this Summer, Wisconsin and Virginia bureaucrats had to fork over $7 million each for the same violations.
The Food Stamp Program---now known as SNAP---is jointly funded by State governments and the US Department of Agriculture. The USDA funds administrative expenses for the states, including quality and eligibility controls. States are rated by the USDA and paid bonuses to states who report the lowest error rates.
Since the States do the reporting themselves, there is ample opportunity for cheating; as apparently the Deep State never bothered performing any audits. All three states were found to have been in violation variously every year during the entire Obama Administration, for example.
The three States outsourced quality-control to Osnes Consulting, a shady enterprise run by Revolving-Door, former welfare bureaucrat, Julie Osnes. Federal investigators found that Osnes used a test that was purposely skewed to show quality and eligibility improvements falsely. Thus states received performance bonuses to which they were not entitled.
The State bureaucrats are blaming all this on Osnes, but the Federal complaints show that they were well aware of what was happening. In the Virginia settlement last April, Virginia Department of Social Services admitted in Court:
"Some VDSS quality control workers objected to the methods used by Osnes Consulting because they believed that their methods lacked integrity, injected bias into the quality control process, and violated USDA requirements. They communicated these concerns to their supervisors. VDSS admits that the former VDSS Quality Control Manager pressured and intimidated these employees to force them to adopt these methods including threatening termination, providing negative performance reviews, taking away teleworking and flexible scheduling privileges, and engaging in other forms of retaliation and harassment."
Just remember when we see the Corporate Media and the so-called 'Resistance' out squawking against Trump: that this is the kind of government they want to see in America again.
US Attorney Joseph Harrington's remarks after the Alaska settlement summarize the new Administration's attitude: "While I am deeply troubled that these actions happened within a state agency entrusted with assisting vulnerable and needy residents, I am heartened that Alaska has resolved its liability and cooperated with our investigation. Together with our partners in the Civil Division and the USDA, we will continue to hold accountable all entities---including government entities---that misuse and wrongfully obtain SNAP funding."
For those who haven't been following the meltdown of the Red Pill Cult, it's still going on and getting even more ridiculous by the day. The Manosphereans are fighting among themselves again, with Vox Day---who famously said that "your skin color is your uniform"---suddenly denying that he had anything to do with instigating the kinds of behaviors at Charlottesville last month. Andrew Anglin, of the disgraced The Daily Stormer, considers Vox a traitor to the Alt-RINO movement. Anglin, for once, probably has a legitimate point.
But both of these two manly Alpha leaders have been sneering at Conservatives as Cuckservatives and using (((anti-Semitic))) echo quotes on mainstream Jewish Conservatives. They especially dislike the Buckleyite and Reaganite Conservatives who insist on holding political discourse to high standards. And, in full accordance with that principle, Anglin's trolls have changed Vox' name to Vox Gay while Vox' Alpha Minions have taken to calling Anglin's disciples Stormpoopers.
Keep it up, guys. No Conservative with a mental age over 10 is impressed by any of this.
Really the only issue of any importance that's come out of any of this are some of the debates on the limits of Free Speech. Both these guys have been learning the hard way the realities of this issue.
Vox, for example, is almost a cyber-world legend for his ability to violate even the most lenient corporate Terms of Use policies and then call 'censorship' when he's banned (typically after repeated warnings). Vox managed to get kicked out of the Science Fiction Writers Association for using their internet account to harass other members. He started Infogalactic after being blacklisted on Wikipedia as a troublemaker. And the list goes on. Vox was supportive of Gab, an alternative to Twitter, which suspended Vox' accounts on several occasions.
Vox promoted Gab because of its loose protections on speech---now he's complaining because Anglin's trolls have been spreading allegations of Vox' sexual perversions. Vox claims these are all libelous lies; but Gab has refused his demands to remove them on the grounds that they don't violate any company policies.
Free Speech Lesson #1: Terms of Use Policies are geared to protecting the majority of an internet company's consumers from the very thing that Vox is complaining about. Most people don't use Twitter, Facebook, or other social networking sites to be spammed, doxxed, and harassed. The term social networking ought to be one's first clue that the purpose of such businesses is to connect people of like-minded interests.
As for Andrew Anglin: since The Daily Stormer was booted off the mainstream internet, he's been busy trying to find a webhost willing to put the publication back into circulation again. Contrary to common talk, Anglin wasn't dropped for what he said about the Charlottesville murder. He's said things like that before. Anglin was dropped because his online activities had reached a point where civil lawsuits were being filed against him. When things reach that level, companies that host sites like his start seeing the shadows of trial lawyers and negative publicity looming on their doorsteps. And usually their decision is to cut their losses before matters get worse.
While The Daily Stormer was in existence, Anglin was continually complaining about the 'Jew Media' enforcing political correctness against him and his followers; though as we've pointed out, he wasn't stopped from publishing anything. And certainly not by the Government, even under Obama's rather elastic free-speech policies.
So now, Anglin has been bouncing from one European country to another, finding out:
Free Speech Lesson #2: In America, free speech is a right; in nearly every other country, it is a privilege. For all his squawking about American media control, Anglin is learning that many European countries actually have laws against writing the kinds of things he does. We don't have laws like that. And if thinks that Europe is bad, wait until he gets frustrated enough to try the laws in Asia.
It's always been amazing listening to conspiratorial types like Anglin on radio and internet telling us "what they don't want you to know". It should be obvious that anything they really didn't want us to know wouldn't be publically broadcast in the first place.
So in spite of the fact that our system isn't perfect, it's still better than most.
The Alt-RINOs are at it again. A month after Charlottesville, they're still playing the Victim Cards. It's been amusing to watch two of the manly Alpha leaders of the Red Pill Cult---namely Vox Day and Andrew Anglin---screeching over which is the biggest victim and accusing each other of messing things up. Really, they look more like two monkeys chattering in the treetops, throwing coconuts at each other and then beating their chests and proclaiming victory.
Eric Striker, a writer for the semi-defunct The Daily Stormer, has launched a new podcast called Fascism Now!. He kicked off things with angry denunciation against President Trump for signing the recent Senate Resolution condemning Right-Wing extremist groups. His next step was to interview Emily Youcis, a self-described Red Pill Girl, to talk about Charlottesville.
Emily Youcis is from Philadelphia, and used to be known quite charmingly as The Pistachio Girl, because she was a snack vendor in the stands during Philadelphia Phillies baseball games. She lost this job late last year after the stadium concessions contractor found out that she'd attended the infamous Richard Spencer NPI forum that led to an earlier Trump denunciation. Subsequent investigations found that she'd been involved in some violent protests as well as trolling on Twitter (she's since been banned there as well).
Regarding Charlottesville, Ms. Emily advanced the novel theory that Heather Heyer wasn't murdered at the rally at all; but instead died of a heart attack because she was fat. This is sort of a variation of Anglin's opinion that Heyer was responsible for her own death because she was too fat to get out of the way of the speeding car.
"Yes, it is confirmed that she died of a heart attack from being fat." Emily pontificated " And her fat-ass mom rallying around for sympathy points is the real murderer. Heather's mother stuffed her daughter from a year old with soda, chips, poison; overfed that little girl---she could have been a beautiful White girl if that hadn't happened---and she murdered her."
A rather paradoxical conclusion from a former baseball-park snack-food vendor. At any rate, Heather Heyer was 32 years old when she died; so if she was fat that can hardly be blamed on her mother. As for being a Feminist, that typically stems from hatred of men; again an attitude that usually isn't developed in girlhood.
An interesting question is what social dynamics produce women like Emily Youcis. There is a growing number of females attracted to the Red Pill Cult which isn't exactly known for being female-friendly. Now, InsanityBytes, a blogger who occasionally comments here, wrote recently that Red Pill Women tend to have two predominant characteristics: self-loathing and vengefulness.
I think there are some grounds for this, generally speaking. When we examine the backgrounds of many of these Alt-RINO women, we find that they were remarkable for their ill-treatment of men before they were 'red-pilled'. Some of them have been married more than once; and many admit to having being red-hot viragoes in their youths. But instead of repentance in the Christian sense, they convert to hateful Red Pill doctrines and seek to retaliate against all women as atonement for their own sins.
Just as Red Pill men invert and appropriate radical Feminist doctrines, their female counterparts invert and appropriate Feminist attitudes. Feminists hate all men and want to punish them; Red Pill women hate their own gender and want to punish other women.
Another noteworthy characteristic that Feminists and Red Pill women share is their overt unladylike behaviors. Emily Youcis not only acts up at violent political rallies; she's a graphic artist who produces some very vulgar material. Reading her writings and listening to her speeches shows that she's also quite the little potty-mouth; not exactly a quality most men find appealing.
Women like Emily Youcis are poles apart from really traditional/MAWGA women---as far away as radical Feminists are. They aren't role models for young women any more than Red Pill Alphas are for young men.
While Anarchist jugheads are busy burning down St. Louis this weekend, the Trump Administration is concluding a successful week of boosting the US economy. Trump scored three significant trade deals this week---all in East Asia. The Corporate Media meanwhile is squawking about such far more pressing matters like a few Alt-RINOs burning Trump hats on the Internet.
Earlier this week, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak visited the White House on the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Razak is a leader not dissimilar in character to Trump. Under his Administration, Razak has been strengthening Malaysian culture---famously standing up to Disney over their anti-family, pro-homosexual agenda. Though a predominantly Moslem country, Razak has extended liberty to Christian and other religious minorities while being an ardent foe of Jihadist groups. To the latter end, Malaysia has brought in and resettled thousands of Syrian refugees while donating millions to reconstructing Iraqi towns destroyed by ISIS.
During the meeting, President Trump lifted some Obama-era obstructions, enabling Malaysia to purchase eight new Boeing jetliners with a purchase option on eight more. This is about a $4 billion interjection into the US Aviation industry. The two leaders also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (an agreement contingent upon Legislative approval) to sell Malaysia about $60 million in military equipment.
A very significant development was Razak's approval of employing American contractors in the proposed Kuala Lampur-Singapore Railway project. All international business pundits had expected the contract to go to China; this is the first foreign high-speed rail project awarded to America in years. While not a significant economic boon to the US as a whole; it is symbolically important that foreign countries are welcoming American technology again.
Other agreements reached were mutual cooperation in fighting the Jihad, criminal activities in cybercrime, and smuggling. The two countries agreed to further economic meetings to address the US-Malaysian trade imbalance. The US has been running trade deficits with Malaysia for over 30 straight years.
In other trade-related news USDA Secretary Perdue announced that South Korea had agreed on a conditional basis to lift restrictions on US poultry and egg imports, imposed in 2014 over Avian Flu concerns. The major agricultural victory this week was Japan's agreement to lift an 11-year long embargo of American potatoes (produced in the Pacific Northwest). Idaho, Washington, and Oregon had an infestation of a type of parasite but Deep State phony environmentalism crippled attempts to eradicate the pest. These restrictions were lifted by Trump---the infestation has been suppressed, and Japan is buying again. This is an enormous boost to the nation's largest potato-producing region, which has been struggling lately. Trump has definitely proven himself the friend of farmers.
So next week, American railroad engineers, aircraft machinists, and potato farmers can head back to work with a renewed confidence in the future. Meanwhile, the chumps in St. Louis will likely be heading to work on a rockpile, attired in striped suits.
Sally Quinn, one of the deepest of Deep-State denizens still haunting the Beltway Swamp, has published a new book in which she admits to practicing Satanic Black Magic and "feeling nauseated" in the presence of Sacraments. The book is titled Finding Magic: a Spiritual Memoir. In portions of it, she describes killing three people through use of Satanist maledictions and jokingly told sympathetic media fools that she's considered killing President Trump in this fashion.
"You can't imagine the number of people who have asked me to put a hex on Donald Trump." she boasted, "I mean, I have friends lined up."
Oh, really? Well, that statement certainly implies that a number of people in Quinn's circle of friends must share her Satanic beliefs. And more troubling is that Quinn is considered the queen of DC social life. In other words, the Deep State elites are, by Quinn's own admission, a veritable coven of warlocks and witches.
Quinn incidentally is also the Spiritual Affairs Editor at the fake-news factory, The Washington Post. Once again, we see kinds of people whom the Corporate Media chooses as its spiritual and moral leaders.
Few people are aware of the extent to which dangerous cults have infiltrated so-called 'Elite Society'. This isn't conjecture: it's often---as in Quinn's case---by their own admission. The Scientology Cult boasts about prominent public figures within its ranks. Any search engine quest for 'Famous Scientologists' will turn up a surprising list of well-known names. The Moonie Cult and its various affiliates and fronts own several media outlets outright and have sat on policy-making boards in the UN and both the American and South Korean governments. The Satanists are little more shady and more difficult to define; but we've seen similar allusions to Quinn's released by WikiLeaks in the Podesta Files. False neo-Christian cultists turn up in publications like The Huffington Post preaching the 'Queer Christ' and other blasphemies. It was also well known that several officials connected to the Obama Administration were at least in sympathy with the Wahhabi and Salafist Cults which have deviated from mainstream Islam.
Liberals who have read this far are probably rolling their eyes, but we challenge you to stop and think: How do you, as part of an atheistic and 'progressive' movement really feel about your own leaders running around bowing to Satan and working Black Magic? You might answer: "Well, those things don't exist, in my opinion." Fair enough: but doesn't it bother you that your so-called Freedom from Religion is being orchestrated by people who pray to the Prince of Darkness?
It seems to our minds that any honest Liberal would have to admit that he gets a fairer deal with Conservative Christians. At least we claim Saints and Angels; the other side thinks it's doing the bidding of demons.
During the era of the Deep State, government officials often passed exclusive contracts for public services onto shady contractors---typically someone politically connected to them. State and Federal correctional facilities were especially vulnerable to this predatory practice.
The FBI announced today that Eric Kindley, head of a prison-transport company operating in California and Arizona, was indicted today for raping three female prisoners at gunpoint on three separate occasions. The FBI is investigating whether other assaults may have taken place.
According to the indictment, Kindley would restrain his victims, drive to a secluded location and rape them. Not only did he threaten them with a firearm; he threatened them with consequences if they exposed what he had done. If convicted, Kindley faces a life sentence.
Kindley and his business practices have had a longstanding and dubious reputation. This naturally didn't prevent equally dubious bureaucrats from 'outsourcing' to him. In 2010, an employee of Kindley's was also arrested by the FBI for raping a female prisoner. In 2008, Kindley was indicted for illegally ordering an employee to take a firearm on an airplane, but was acquitted.
During the Obama Administration, former DOJ head Loretta Lynch was summoned before Congress and questioned about abuses in the prison-transport industry. Under Lynch's term alone, five inmates died during transport in private company services. In 2000, Congress passed a law regulating these companies; but the Deep State recorded only one enforcement action until this year.
The Trump Administration, however, has taken a different approach. Kindley was initially arrested as part of probe initiated by Jeff Sessions on the conditions of private transportation services.
Although our government has always done business with private contractors, the outsourcing of essential government services is a recent innovation and not even a Conservative policy at all. It was promoted heavily by the Clinton Administration as a 'Government-Business Partnership' in which for-profit companies carried out government policies. This is actually a species of economic Fascism and not market-based competitive contracting---as our government has traditionally done. The Neocons and the Swamp-RINOs in the Bush Administration expanded the policy exponentially. Obama even brought non-profits and NGOs into the equation.
President Trump hasn't expressed a position on outsourcing correctional programs, but his tendency seems to be to restore these positions to the public sector---where they actually belong. So far his financial allocations to state and local law enforcement have been almost exclusively geared to enhancing the public sector. This is how it should be. The reason that this is the Conservative position is because law enforcement and corrections need to be held accountable to the public and be transparent. For-profit companies and NGOs cannot provide this kind of public oversight. Not to mention that accountability to shareholders and to taxpayers are two entirely different things.
Government contracting to profit-driven companies has its place in a Free Market; but convicts are legally speaking wards of the State. Thus the State has a fiduciary and legal responsibility for them. Those of the Kindley stripe, obviously care little for that.
