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-Great Cultural Revolution
Everything Is Connected
[News With Views] David Rockefeller, formed Trilateral Commission with one goal

  • The Rockefellers’ goal was a transformation of the world’s economy, culture and governments into a new world order — with the Rockefellers’ and their select cronies at the helm.

  • Much of the new world order’s plans are based on crisis management, and the idea that a great crisis will occur that will lead to the great transition, where globalists will swoop in to save the day, transforming society into the promised paradise — which actually takes away sovereignty and private property.

  • This unfinished Rockefeller agenda became Agenda 21/2030 calling for A New World Order. First aim was depopulation using Climate Change.

    David Rockefeller’s Dream: Global Governance through Climate Change

    This article is a great explanation of the Agenda and the treachery and deceit these people have for the population. It is a must read. " Agenda 21 Chapter 5 almost lets the cat out of the bag, blaming the growth of world population for "placing increasingly severe stress on our planet." Chapter 7 calls for an end to private property, claiming that "social justice ... can only be achieved if land is used in the interests of society-as-a-whole."

    Maurice Strong who worked with Rockefeller mentored Klaus Schwab, Chairman of the World Economic Forum of "you will own nothing and be happy" fame. Schwab was a student of Globalists, David Rockefeller, and Henry Kissinger. To speed up depopulation, Kissinger wrote the secret 1974, U.S. National Security Study Memorandum 200, which called for abortion on demand, widespread birth control, and sterilization to stem global fertility rates and "overpopulation."

    They must cripple the west and any freedom the people have. They can not have America as an example for other countries to want. They must get all government agencies using the same lies. Computer models not facts are use to prove their lies. Globalists are always on the attack. They never stop. The attack now is the American economy. America must be forced into debt, fossil fuel America’s power must be demonized and shut down. Unreliable electricity that can be controlled by your smart meter is their answer. Corporations now run by nonsense regulations and incompetent Affirmative Action graduates focus on DIE and ESG not on making a quality product. Stakeholder capitalism forces the corporation to consider "public welfare before individual gain." Sustainability programs for "climate change" will do nothing except shift wealth to the wealthy putting others out of business as they can not comply. Schwab signed an agreement with the UN in 2019 to expedite the Agenda.

    The middle class will be decimated. They will be unable to meet the expensive demands. They will be watched, surveilled, monitored constantly. Wrong words, actions of them and their families will cause fines and lack of mobility or services. We will be issued social credits in order to make any purchase. We will not be able to leave our 15 minute city without permission. This is not a joke. globalists are serious. Once CBDC and disarmament are in place say goodbye to freedom and liberty.

    The true goals of Agenda 21/2030, in 1991, Maurice Strong wrote in a report for the UN’s Conference on Environment and Development: "Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class — high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, home and workplace air-conditioning and suburban housing — are not sustainable." He forgot to say, for you that is, I will still enjoy what I choose. Notice he said MiddleClass not UpperClass. Remember Obama told an African Town Hall that they can’t have Air Conditioning, car or big house, he meant it.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2023 10:48 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  A route to "You will own nothing and be happy." Aka depopulation and dictatorship.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2023 10:59 Comments || Top||

    #2  1) Be ungovernable

    2) Small footprint, move fast
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/22/2023 12:25 Comments || Top||


    Government Corruption
    This Is How We Need To Fight Back – Dan Bongino Clip
    [WhatAFinger]
    Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2023 06:13 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

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    Posted by: badanov || 12/22/2023 9:57 Comments || Top||

    #3  ^ "I thought she was making Mac-and-Cheese :-( "
    Posted by: Frank G || 12/22/2023 9:57 Comments || Top||

    #4 
    Posted by: badanov || 12/22/2023 9:58 Comments || Top||

    #5  Well this sounds nice. Once u remove Biden and Harris. The supremes rubber stamp it, who will we get. Newsome? Desantis? I suspect the ballot banning would increase as a tit for tat. In a time of great turmoil a non-political figure will step in, not as president, but as king. No better way to clean house and get who and what they want. Our first female black president. All legal and legit.
    Posted by: Jefe101 || 12/22/2023 12:53 Comments || Top||

    #6  Texas Lt. Gov. Considering Removing Biden from Ballot
    Posted by: Bobby || 12/22/2023 14:11 Comments || Top||


    Home Front: Politix
    Victor Davis Hanson: The Colorado Insurrection
    [ZERO] Donald Trump is being erased from the Colorado primary (and general?) ballot, by warping the 14th Amendment, and in a way never envisioned by its creators.
    Southern Democrats led the last ‎Succession. Northern Democrats will likely lead the next Succession.
    So now can one be guilty by fiat of Confederacy-like "insurrection," when he has never been charged with, much less convicted of, such a crime?

    How can a buffoonish January 6th riot become an "insurrection," when no one was armed, there was no plan to seize power, and protestors were advised by the purported insurrectionist leader "to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard"?

    As far as election insurrectionary interference, why did liberal journalist Molly Ball label the leftwing effort to defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 election a "cabal"

    (e.g., "That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream—a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information")?

    And why did Ball double-down and further call it a "conspiracy"

    ("There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans, of CEOs, Silicon Valley billionaires, street protestors...Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears.")?

    As far as efforts to nullify the popular vote, do we remember the pathetic 2016 ensemble of C-list Hollywood celebrities?

    (e.g., Martin Sheen, Debra Messing, James Cromwell, BD Wong, Noah Wyle, Freda Payne, Bob Odenkirk, J. Smith Cameron, Michael Urie, Moby, Mike Farrell, Loretta Swit, Christine Lahti, Steven Pasquale, Dominic Fumusa and Emily Tyra)

    They were drafted by leftwing groups to cut commercials urging the electors to reject their constitutional duties of reflecting their states’ popular votes, and instead, as faithless electors, to vote instead for Hillary Clinton, the loser in their respective states’ popular votes.
    A Trump win or a Trump loss, unless there is some drastic change, none of this is shaping up to end well.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2023 06:29 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Kamala Harris’s summer 2020 boasts about the protests that, she knew (contrary to “fact checkers”) had already a long history of violence:

    “But they're not gonna stop. They're not gonna stop, and this is a movement, I'm telling you. They're not gonna stop, and everyone beware, because they're not gonna stop.

    They're not gonna stop before Election Day in November, and they're not gonna stop after Election Day.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2023 6:33 Comments || Top||

    #2  Any succession will be more like city-states vs suburban/rural. In this case Denver-Bolder metro complex.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/22/2023 8:23 Comments || Top||

    #3  /\ Yes. Exactly how and where it will start.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2023 9:07 Comments || Top||

    #4  The WaPo this morning came out against the Colorado opinion.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/20/colorado-14th-amendment-trump-insurrection/
    Posted by: lord garth || 12/22/2023 9:22 Comments || Top||

    #5  Signs From the Far Left That the Colorado Supremes Stepped in It
    Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/22/2023 10:27 Comments || Top||

    #6  Just repeat after me: "We hate Trump. We hate Trump. We hate Trump." Keep repeating until your mind is so numb that all of this makes sense.
    Posted by: Tom || 12/22/2023 11:39 Comments || Top||

    #7  #6: I'm almost 80 years old. My life is already too short to put up with enough of that nonsense for any of it to ever make "sense". The Democrats of 2023 remind me far too much of the Democrats of 1860. The words change, but the behavior is the same.
    Posted by: Old Patriot || 12/22/2023 21:28 Comments || Top||


    Israel-Palestine-Jordan
    How to manufacture a case of ‘settler violence’
    [IsraelNationalNews] Ah! "Settler violence!" That dangerous phenomenon that must be quashed. Biden is holding back licences for selling 20,000 American-made rifles to Israel "on the charge that they would be distributed to 'violent extremist' settlers." The British Foreign Secretary David Cameron announced that the UK is not admitting "extremist Israeli settlers" to the country.

    Where did Biden and Cameron get the idea that settlers are violent?

    This is not to say that there are no violent settlers. That would be the same as saying that there are no violent Americans or Europeans, etc. Unfortunately, however, the term "settler violence" seems to imply that the half a million people living in Judea-Samaria and the Jordan Valley are violent and committing offences against the Palestinian Arabs.

    There is only one thing I want to accomplish in this article, and that is to show one simple instance in which a case against "settlers," i.e., in this case, a group of people living in the Jordan Valley, was manufactured out of thin air. My hope is that you will be as horrified as I am and will examine, in the future, the source of any rumour you hear and see if you can verify a report of so-called "settler violence" before sharing it on social media or in discussion in real life.

    I came across this case on the "X" account of Elhanan Gruner, a journalist with Hakol Hayehudi who I follow. He also wrote it up as an article. Hakol Hayehudi is associated with the settler movement and that may be (at least I hope this is the reason) why this item was not picked up by any other news site.

    I will first translate the text of his two-part "X" post, followed by adding supplemental details found in the article he wrote about it.

    Settler violence libel

    1: Saturday night at Omer's Farm in the [Jordan] Valley. They discover a large hole cut in the fence around a date plantation. IDF soldiers and a tracker follow the tracks to a house in the village of Uja, investigate, and leave the place. Not a moment passes and the police receive a call from an extreme left anarchist [claiming that] settlers entered a house in the village of Uja and abused the children... the army explains

    2. that it concerns soldiers and the report is false. The police closed the incident. But the anarchists are already reporting to the high command, the Americans, and the foreign media that the guys from Omer's Farm ([Omer is] an esteemed [IDF] officer) "abused the Palestinians". An event that never took place. On the contrary, the eventwas the cutting of the farm's date plantation fence ...[emphasis added]

    A note about language: Gruner refers to 'anarchists'. I call them 'activists.' He also does not tell us to which NGO these activists belong and it is certain they do belong to one of the NGO's operating in the area.

    I hope that Gruner's use of the word 'anarchist' does not distract readers from the main point, which is the way in which this fake and baseless report against residents in the Jordan Valley was manufactured and used to blacken the names of settlers.

    Related: 1st 2 months of war saw 54% jump in settler attacks, but cases declining more recently —21 of 201 settler-initiated

    Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/22/2023 01:24 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Settler Mohammedanism

    "From nondescript sand to the Strand,
    We expand into every known land,
    And you'd better convert
    Or be treated like dirt,
    Your indigenous cultures, all banned
    If you don't pay the Danegeld, unmanned!"
    Posted by: Fleamble Stalin8598 || 12/22/2023 2:09 Comments || Top||

    #2 
    Posted by: badanov || 12/22/2023 2:32 Comments || Top||

    #3  IDF demands northern rapid response teams return weapons
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/22/2023 3:30 Comments || Top||

    #4 
    Posted by: badanov || 12/22/2023 23:09 Comments || Top||


    Science & Technology
    Top secret Chinese spaceplane is releasing strong signals over North America - months after US shot down China's spy balloon that collected intelligence from military sites
    [DM] A top secret Chinese spaceplane that launched into orbit last week is sending strong signals over North America.

    The craft - dubbed Shenlong after a spirit dragon from Chinese mythology - has released six mysterious objects after reaching the Earth's orbit for the third time in three years.

    The objects are being tracked by the US Space Force but no details have been released publicly as to what they are or what purpose they serve.

    Amateur astronomer Scott Tilley has been tracking the plane and examining the signals they have been emitting.

    He told DailyMail.com they appear to be sending the strongest signals while passing over North America.

    It comes just 10 months after the US shot down a Chinese spy that could have collected intelligence as it passed over several military sites.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/22/2023 10:55 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under: Commies

    #1  "'When the spaceplane passes over me, it only emits on a certain trajectory of pass that appears to favor a location south to southwest of me."

    Why...that would be the California coast.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/22/2023 11:07 Comments || Top||

    #2  Obviously mapping areas most susceptible to communist rule. To be spared in first strike situation.
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/22/2023 11:15 Comments || Top||

    #3  "'When the spaceplane passes over me..."

    Imagine, if you will, a space-borne RFID reader that can query RFID tags implanted in politicians bought and paid for by the CCP.
    Posted by: SteveS || 12/22/2023 11:19 Comments || Top||

    #4  Imagine EMP devices...
    Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/22/2023 14:08 Comments || Top||

    #5  Imagine EMP devices...

    Those would be the six mystery objects the space plane deployed a few days ago.
    Posted by: SteveS || 12/22/2023 14:28 Comments || Top||

    #6  The conflict with Taiwan appears to be coming soon. Sometime before Biden leaves office I suspect.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2023 16:29 Comments || Top||

    #7  ^ That's what NBC reported a couple of days ago. So, even the MSM is taking steps to to appear ahead of the curve on this.
    Posted by: Rex Mundi || 12/22/2023 18:21 Comments || Top||

    #8  Somebody needs to make sure the scuttling charges are ready at TSMC in Taipei on the micro fabs.
    Posted by: ed in texas || 12/22/2023 21:28 Comments || Top||


    Get ready for new way to self-checkout when you're out shopping
    [FoxNews]
    What's the deal?
    People just walk out now!

    Electronic 'Means Testing.' Your item pricing may vary.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/22/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under:

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    #5  Fines are a tax for doing wrong. Taxes are a fine for doing well.
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/22/2023 6:23 Comments || Top||

    #6  As regards to the whole RFID tag autopay thing.
    NO!
    Posted by: ed in texas || 12/22/2023 8:48 Comments || Top||

    #7  Gee, if it was so great why do they offer shields for your credit card? Maybe because our criminal elements have figured out how to tap them? Just watch who's lingering around the checkout counters. Oh, me? I'm just checking the magazines here.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/22/2023 10:31 Comments || Top||

    #8  So, fake RFIDs that put out twice the energy. Shazam!
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/22/2023 11:29 Comments || Top||

    #9  One of the benefits is that a side effect will be a disassociation between item and price, so shoppers will be more likely to walk out with a $50 burger and shake combo and not know a thing about it. Or care.

    Oh, a benefit for you? Why would you think this is a benefit for you?
    Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/22/2023 13:30 Comments || Top||

    #10  In a related benefit:

    They include the seven largest ph@^macy chains in the country: CVS Health, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Cigna, Optum Rx, Walmart Stores, Inc., The Kroger Company, and Rite Aid Corporation. The lawmakers also spoke with Amazon Ph@^macy.

    All eight of the ph@^macies said they do not require law enforcement to have a warrant prior to sharing private and sensitive medical records, which can include the prescription drugs a person used or uses and their medical conditions. Instead, all the ph@^macies hand over such information with nothing more than a subpoena, which can be issued by government agencies and does not require review or approval by a judge.
    Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/22/2023 15:18 Comments || Top||



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      60 anti-Israel protesters arrested inside the Capitol Rotunda
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