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The apparatchiks at the World Economic Forum (WEF) — which is an unelected group of globalists who want to control us — released this video in 2018. They are calling their eight plans for world domination by 2030 mere “predictions.” But if there’s one thing I know for certain, communists are lying genocidal maniacs, and we can’t risk it. Let’s cut the fecal matter of greenhouse gas-producing bovines and call it what it really is: a plan. The First “prediction” the WEF has for us is, “you will own nothing and you will be happy.” I count two commands —...

Denmark’s new Synthetic Party has produced a conversational AI to serve as nominal leader of the party and run for Parliament in the election scheduled for next June. The Synthetic Party was founded by the artistic tach collective Computer Lars, and the campaign is more of a stunt than a serious candidate. The AI’s personality and policy platform are built on the proposals by Denmark’s hundreds of small parties going back 50 years. Synthetic Party Computer Lars announced the formation of the Synthetic party in May as a way of leveraging a political campaign and AI party leader to draw...

Among the chief characteristics of the people running America’s institutions are arrogance and a dogged unwillingness to be held accountable. Both have lately been on prominent display at Yale University. Yale is a nonprofit corporation and a very wealthy one ... The disgrace was that, even before the election result was announced, the Yale board met in secret and abolished the petition process. Apparently, even the possibility that an outsider might challenge the insiders’ choices was intolerable... a small group now controls a multibillion-dollar corporation, with no real accountability. ... the governing body of Yale University is a law unto...

That's how Neofeudal systems collapse: the tax donkeys and debt-serfs finally rebel and start demanding the $50 trillion river of capital take a new course. The Great American Middle Class has stood meekly by while the New Nobility stripmined $50 trillion from the middle and working classes. As this RAND report documents, $50 trillion has been siphoned from labor and the lower 90% of the workforce to the New Nobility and their technocrat lackeys who own the vast majority of the capital: Trends in Income From 1975 to 2018. Why has the Great American Middle Class meekly accepted their new...

BEIJING — China on Monday lashed out at Washington over its withdrawal from the “Open Skies Treaty” with Russia, saying the move undermined military trust and transparency and imperiled future attempts at arms control. The treaty, to which China is not a signatory, had allowed each country overflight rights to inspect military facilities. That leaves only one arms-control pact still in force between the former Cold War foes, the New START treaty, which limits the number of nuclear warheads each may have. That treaty will expire in February and the Trump administration had said it wasn’t interested in extending it...

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors on Friday penned an OpEd in Teen Vogue calling for the next president to back the BREATHE Act, something she calls "modern-day civil rights legislation." Of course, the major backers behind the legislation are Squad members Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI). Specifically, Cullors says there needs to be "holistic treatment" for things like drug dependency and mental health issues and an end to the cash bail system "that punishes people for being poor." The BLM leader takes issue with mandatory minimums and "over-policing." "The BREATHE Act is a legislative love letter...

China will strike back against any moves that undermine its core interests, its foreign ministry said on Friday, after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Taiwan “has not been a part of China”. China calls Taiwan the most sensitive and important issue in its ties with the United States, and has been angered by the Trump administration’s stepped up support for the Chinese-claimed yet democratically ruled island, such as arms sales. Speaking in a U.S. radio interview on Thursday, Pompeo said: “Taiwan has not been a part of China”.

I know. "Agenda 21" sounds like one of those conspiratorial rabbit holes like, say, Area 51 or the Bermuda Triangle. It is not. It is as real as is the havoc it has helped wreak. As to whether that havoc was intended, I think not, but I could be wrong. After the last month or two, I would not be surprised to learn that Lucifer himself conceived Agenda 21. At its core Agenda 21 asked all countries to "integrate land-use and transportation planning to encourage development patterns that reduce transport demand." This meant specifically adopting "urban-transport programmes favouring high-occupancy public...

THE vice president of the United States was unhappy. In 1983, a "Conservative Digest" poll of conservatives found that 64 percent of right-leaning party leaders wanted George H.W. Bush replaced on the 1984 Reagan ticket. "Light reading," Bush scribbled across a cover sheet as he sent a copy to his friend James Baker - adding a frowning face. Reagan would have none of it - he liked and appreciated Bush. But the gulf between establishment and insurgent Republicans has only grown in the ensuing decades. The elder Bush's struggles through the years with a restive right shed light on the...

The saga of which I sing today is a tale most remarkable: My song comes from Valhalla, the Hall of the Slain, where war-heroes go to their rest. All those who have fallen in the fight, and borne wounds yet toiled unto death, from the beginning of the world, are come to the company of the great god Odin. Indeed, at a time of troublesome tumult on the earth, there is even greater news from Valhalla: Men should know that Odin has decided that it is now time to win the War of the Fourteen Centuries. That is, the War...

The acreage the federal Bureau of Land Management currently owns in the state of Nevada is more than all the land in all of the states of New England combined, according to data published by the Congressional Research Service. By contrast, the BLM does not own a single acre of land in any New England state.

Detroit — General Motors Co. CEO Dan Akerson wants the federal gas tax boosted as much as $1 a gallon to nudge consumers toward more fuel-efficient cars, and he's confident the government will soon shed its remaining 26 percent stake in the once-bankrupt automaker. "I actually think the government will be out this year — within the next 12 months, hopefully within the next six months," Akerson said in a two-hour interview with The Detroit News last week. He is grateful for the government's rescue of GM — "I have nothing but good things to say about them" — but...

If pension reform were running for mayor this year, it would be the only candidate in a crowded field that could gain more than 50 percent of the vote. That’s why all eyes will be focused on it next week when the Board of Supervisors receives a long-awaited version of a negotiated retirement plan for The City’s public employees. And when it’s served up Tuesday, the politics around pension reform will slide front and center, instead of merely serving as a backdrop for the November election. The charge for pension reform has been led by Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, who joined...

IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, aged 62, was indicted for sexual aggression and attempted rape...The institution requires employees to comply with a Code of Conduct which requires compliance with laws, and “following the highest standards of ethical conduct consistent with the values ;of integrity, impartiality and discretion,” according to AFP. The Code of Conduct provides for termination of employment for "serious" violations. According to Strauss-Kahn's employment contract, published in November 2007 when he assumed the post of IMF Director-General for a term lasting until 2012, even if he is removed by the board he will receive compensation from 60 percent of...

A Sacramento-based appellate court on Tuesday invalidated a regulation that is one of the state's main tools in guarding the California coast. The State Lands Commission regulation bars development on publicly owned tidelands, which are on the water side of an ever-shifting line established by a commission formula. But a three-justice panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal ruled that the regulation is not valid because it has never been vetted under the terms of the Administrative Procedure Act. It is what is referred to as "an underground regulation," the justices said in a 14-page opinion. Among other things,...

Faced with a growing uproar, D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown announced Tuesday that he will relinquish a taxpayer-funded luxury SUV - one of two the city ordered on his behalf in recent months. But it is unclear whether the gesture will save District taxpayers any money. "I regret that I appeared insensitive to the financial challenges our city and residents face," Brown (D) said in a statement. He called the two, $2,000-a-month leases "an unacceptable use of city funds." The Washington Post reported Sunday that city officials ordered Brown two Lincoln Navigator L SUVs with moonroofs, GPS navigational systems...

As Gabriel Nelson of Greenwire reports, the EPA has taken one step closer to stripping the state of Texas of the right to determine how it wants to control air pollution. The EPA has given TX final warning that if they do not implement new requirements for the regulation of greenhouse gases (which several states have challenged in court), the EPA will take over the authority to grant operating permits to industry in Texas itself. Texas Governor Perry is fighting the takeover, of course, but EPA has rarely been faced down in court. The action, which is nearly unprecedented in...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California regulators on Thursday approved the first system in the nation to give polluting companies such as utilities and refineries financial incentives to emit fewer greenhouse gases. The Air Resources Board voted 9-1 to pass the key piece of California's 2006 climate law — called AB32 — with the hope that other states will follow the lead of the world's eighth largest economy. State officials also are discussing plans to link the new system with similar ones under way or being planned in Canada, Europe and Asia. California is launching into a "historic adventure," said Mary Nichols,...

New federal regulations issued by the Obama administration a few weeks ago threaten not only recruitment for Catholic colleges, but more importantly, their very identity. The new regulations increase oversight for colleges through either state chartering or licensing, which are necessary for colleges to obtain federal aid. While states have always had to approve colleges that receive aid, the new law mandates that states approve colleges by name. States will also have greater power to act on complaints pertaining to colleges. So why is this a problem? New regulations represent a federal encroachment on the independence of private institutions and...

There’s something about usually-safe incumbents that makes cutting corners and ethical shortcuts that much more tempting; I suppose it’s more alluring when you know the voters are ever going to hold you accountable. Junkets are one of those temptations. Is there a legitimate use for members of Congress visiting foreign countries and meeting foreign leaders? Of course. But as usual, with little oversight or consequence for abusing the privilege, the trips become more frequent, the destinations less relevant to American geopolitical concerns, the connection to U.S foreign policy ever more tenuous. Ask any U.S. embassy employee and they’ll probably have...