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“This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.”
“But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.”
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Michael Yon:
“…We are going through the Substitution, Reduction, and Disruption phase I see in all these books. There are no names for these phases. Nobody seems to have made a PhD study on famine. So I call it Substitutions, Reductions, Disruptions phase…”
https://michaelyon.com/dispatches/signs-and-symptoms/
Good Read, thanks for posting Izzyspy. :0)
The reason no amount of safety data changes the federal governments stance on vaccines is because the purpose of the new vaccines is to introduce biometric surveillance — not to stop the spread of COVID.
@EmeraldRobinson
AKA mark of the beast.
A Walt Whitman Poem for Christmas Day (substack.com)–Dr. Naomi Wolf:
“I learned painfully, but now I truly don’t care what “people” say about me.
2022 has been a year of terrible combat in my life, and in the lives of those I honor. There is blood all over the floor.
You know that I believe we are in the midst of an all-out war on humanity. The war is aimed at religion of course, and at love and family; it is also aimed squarely at art, poetry, theatre, dance, music, and all the things we humans do that reflect that we are made in the image of God; that raise us up from the serf-like status of “hackable animals,” the gutter-level, where the global evildoers, the Hamans of our time, wish to reposition us.
I mention my father’s training in not caring what the world says, because we are at the end of a year in which the people whom I most respect, and my husband and I too, have been called lunatics, murderers, spreaders of lethal “misinformation,” ignorant, “unhinged,” “anti-science”, terrorists, unworthy of medical care, hysterics, and threats to society.
The people whom I most respect have seen their livelihoods vanish, their institutional affiliations disappear, their former colleagues turn their backs.
These people stood strong to keep a little flame of civilization alive; to save a world in which we don’t murder our elderly with drugs and force them to die alone, in which we don’t encourage depressed teenagers to kill themselves, as they do now in Canada; in which we don’t deny people access to society based on their bodies or their medical choices. To save a world based on justice, mercy and compassion.
Most of these heroes, I would venture to say, stood firm because they believed in something greater than the always-mistaken clamor of the world.
When I was interviewing Dr Jay Bhattacharya, early in 2021, I asked him, late in the discussion, why he had the courage to put his reputation on the line, given the unpopularity at the time of his anti-lockdown views. He had just shared his conviction that millions of poor people would face starvation if “lockdowns” were not lifted; many of them would be children. I pressed, probably annoyingly; finally he responded, modestly and quietly, that he was a Christian.
I am not a Christian, though I really love Jesus and try to follow him as my Rabbi (a subject for another essay, when I can find the words; I don’t even know yet what I mean by that).
But to me, speaking very humbly and with no great knowledge at all of what “being a Christian” means, there can be no better definition of “being a Christian” than what Dr Bhattacharya was describing, in that context.
That stance of his — that selfless commitment to stand up for the wellbeing of others – is to me a perfect example of the grace of which humans are capable when they have a higher calling. Rabbi Hillel, Siddhartha Gautama the Lord Buddha, The Prophet Mohammad, all expressed versions of this immortal truth.
I am not Christian — I guess — but I tear up every single time I hear the child in The Little Drummer Boy say,
“I am a poor boy too.”
Why?
Because this is true for all of us.
We are all, but for the Grace of God, the starving children for whom Dr Bhattacharya, and only a few others, stood up, in the face of every kind of hostility and opposition, in 2020-2022.
“I am a poor boy too.”
Most forgot that obligation to the children, in the years 2020-2022, in order to fit in with the always-mistaken conventional wisdom, the current moment.
May we all remember, in 2023, that we are all supposed to speak up for the transcendent truth, which exists, no matter what the always-mistaken world has to say about us.
We are all supposed to save the lives of our brothers and sisters. Not just a few designated “heroes” — but all of us.
We don’t actually get to sit that out.”…….
Ruth 4:
13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. 14 Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed is the Lord who has not left you without a redeemer (grandson, as heir) today, and may his name become famous in Israel. 15 May he also be to you one who restores life and sustains your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”
The Line of David Began Here
16 Then Naomi took the child and placed him in her lap, and she became his nurse. 17 The neighbor women gave him a name, saying, “A son (grandson) has been born to Naomi.” They named him Obed (worshiper). He is the father of Jesse, the father of David [the ancestor of Jesus Christ].
Come home, Naomi. Jesus is calling.
Great post, as always.
Thank you and may you have a blessed New Year.
And you, lolli.
Did she change her political leanings?
Yes…like a butterfly.
Because of CV or something else?
COVID was a huge part I think.
Opening Boxes from 2019 | Frontpage Mag–Naomi Wolf:
“When, in Fall of 2019, I moved out of what had been my home in the West Village, I thought I was simply moving from one place to another. I was excited to build a home again, this time in the South Bronx.
Brian and I ultimately lived in the South Bronx for only four months — until March 11 2020, when we looked at one another and realized we had to get into his SUV and keep driving North. As I described in my book The Bodies of Others, when then-Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that Broadway was closing — just like that, a CCP-style state fiat, not an American-style individuals-dealing-with-an-emergency announcement — we both realized that bad things were coming, though whether natural or political we could not yet tell.
So twenty years of my possessions had stayed for the past two and a half years in a storage unit. …
I was opening boxes now that were not just from another place — as is usual when you move; not just from another time; but I was opening boxes that were from literally another world. I don’t know that such a thing has happened in quite this way in history before.
Some items memorialized normal losses and change. Others, though, revealed that long-revered institutions had lost all morality and authority.
Where was that society now? Artists, filmmakers, journalists — all of the people who are supposed to say No to discrimination, No to tyranny — they had scattered, had cowered, had complied. They had groveled.
The same people who had been the avant garde of a great city, had, as I have written elsewhere, gone right along with a society in which a person such as I am, cannot enter a building.
And I had fed those people. I topped up their drinks with my affordable red wines.
I had welcomed them into my home.
I had supported their careers. I had fostered connections on their behalf. I had blurbed their books, had promoted their gallery openings, because — because we were allies, right? We were intellectuals. We were artists. We were even activists.
And yet these people — these same people — had complied — eagerly! With zero resistance! Immediately! With a regime that is appearing day by day to be about as bad in some ways as that of Marshal Philippe Petain’s in Vichy France.
Unthinkable now that I had treated them once as colleagues, as friends.
I had been made into a nonperson, overnight. …
The old world I left behind, and that left me behind, is not a post-COVID world.
It is a post-truth world, a post-institutional world.
The institutions that supported the world that existed when these 2019 boxes were packed, have all collapsed; in a welter of corruption, in an abandonment of public mission and public trust. I look at them now the way Persephone looked backward without regret at Hades.
I work and party now with people who love their country and tell the truth. The people with whom I spend time now are this era’s versions of Tom Paine, Betsy Ross, Phyllis Wheatley and Ben Franklin. I don’t know how these folks vote. I don’t know that they know how I vote. I don’t care. I know that they are sterling human beings, because they are willing to protect the cherished ideals of this beautiful experiment, our native land.
Life experiences don’t unite these people with whom I hang out now; social status does not unite them — they come from all walks of life, from every “class”, and they pay little or no attention to status or class markers. Politics don’t unite these people. What unites them in my view is the excellence of their characters, and their fierce commitment to liberty; to the ideals of this nation.
Oddly, living now in the purple-to-red rural America that my former “people,” the blue-state elites, are conditioned to view with suspicion and distrust, I also have more personal freedom than I did as a member of the most privileged class. The most privileged class does not have the greatest privilege of all, that of personal liberty: it is a class that is continually anxious and status-insecure, its members often scanning the room for a more important conversation, its collective mind continually exerting subtle control, both socially and professionally, over other members of the “tribe.”
My former elite network paid lip service to “diversity”; but there was a deadening sameness and conformity in our demographics, and that conformity also policed our world views, our voting patterns, even our kids’ schools and our travel destinations.
In contrast, people here in deep purple-red country, the ones whom we know anyway, give each other the assumed permission to differ, to have uncensored opinions, to be free. …
I spend time with people who love their communities, speak out for their actual brothers and sisters, meaning humanity; risk themselves to save the lives of strangers; and care about actual fact-based journalism, actual science-based medicine, actual science-based science.
These days I chat online with people who tell me, unfashionably but beautifully, they are praying for me. In spite of fighting an apocalypse every day, how can I help but be so much happier now?” …….
Read it all.
Thank, I actually read it all on the link.
Though it took her being cancelled and rejected to likewise reject her past life, it’ll be interesting to see how and if that view expands.
Wolf blew onto the “COVID scene” in force was when she was popping off on Twitter about the vaccines in early 2021, and started making appearances on Bannon’s War Room to warn about the impending doom of a fast-developing Health Emergency Totalitarianism. She was particularly alarmed by parallels to what she herself outlined in a 2007 book titled “The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot”… parallels to Nazi Germany, Fascist states, etc. Early in the vaccine rollout and propaganda cycle she was jumping up and down, warning about forced vaccinations, vaccine passports, othering of unvaccinated, Government Mandates, perpetual States Of Emergency, etc. etc. etc. She sounded kinda whacked out at the time, but it turned out she was just 6 months ahead of the curve.
Remember, this book is from 2007… we’re talking early days of Patriot Act, Surveillance State, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_America:_Letter_of_Warning_to_a_Young_Patriot
Wolf argues that events of the early 2000s paralleled steps taken in the early years of the twentieth century’s worst dictatorships and called Americans to take action to restore their constitutional values before they suffer the same fate. Wolf describes the ten steps she sees as the process of transition from open societies into closed regimes.
Naomi Wolf outlines ten steps that “closing societies” – such as Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, Stalin’s Russia and Buhari’s Nigeria (Foolani Republic) – have historically followed. These steps, Wolf claimed, are being observed in America now.
The steps are:
1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy.
2. Create secret prisons where torture takes place.
3. Develop a thug caste or paramilitary force not answerable to citizens.
4. Set up an internal surveillance system.
5. Infiltrate and harass citizens’ groups.
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release.
7. Target key individuals.
8. Control the press.
9. Cast criticism as espionage and dissent as treason.
10. Subvert the rule of law.
Sound familiar?
Why, thank you Mr. Piddles!
I listened to a podcast of a speech she gave at Yale recently where she basically went nuts on vaxx and women’s reproductive health. And from what you wrote I think she’s earned her awakening then.
We need to have a big club of our own so the more the merrier. She is no doubt reaching a different audience. I know I read something from her because I thought – Naomi Wolf, wtf?
Oklahoma applying to become a sovereign state 👀
State Sen. Nathan Dahm filed Senate Joint Resolution 2, which would amend the state constitution to clarify Oklahoma as a sovereign state. The measure also says federal laws that violate the U.S. Constitution are null, void and of no effect in Oklahoma.
If Passed Would Be Put To a Vote By the People In the Next Election
“For far too long, the federal government has trampled on state sovereignty. This proposal is an attempt to restore balance between the state and the feds,” Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, said in a news release. “This new language reiterates that the states are not subservient to the federal government. The states created the federal government, gave it the power that it does have, and reserved the remainder to themselves.”
https://t.me/RealSKeshel/6953
….” The measure also says federal laws that violate the U.S. Constitution are null, void and of no effect in Oklahoma.”…..
Smart
👍#TEXIT
Then State Sen. Nathan Dahm is an imbecile. Oklahoma already is a sovereign state, and that never changed. What DID change is that the business arm of the state incorporated itself, becoming a junior franchise of the federal municipality of Washington, DC. in order to soak up a slice of the federal revenue sharing pie. The counties followed suit – all are incorporated – and by doing so they unwittingly forfeited their sovereignty to the feds. Please read:
Download – MEGA
union.pdf (annavonreitz.com)
gettherefromhere.pdf (annavonreitz.com)
George Santoes article on substack mentions Tucker Carlson’s son as a congressional aide. https://contra.substack.com/p/an-empty-suit-and-a-rainbow-flag
Shock! A Republican candidate succeeded in what Democrats have always been doing, lie to win an election. And the Democrats and Democrat-run press think the people should be outraged because someone else played their game, and won? Why really should anyone care except the people in the congressman-elect’s District?
Nothing new here but a very good concise summary:
Jim Quinn: It’s Not A Lie If You Believe It
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/jim-quinn-its-not-lie-if-you-believe-it
Ronna’s expiration date has long since passed. I’m hoping for Mike Lindell – a true patriot and successful businessman.
Emerald Robinson would make an outstanding chairwoman.
What’s gonna happen between McCarthy vs Gaetz et al?
The side opposing McCarthy has gotten no consideration to this point so they have nothing to lose.
Gen. Flynn Exclusive: Don’t Fear, Embrace What’s Coming in 2023 and Beyond
https://www.westernjournal.com/gen-flynn-exclusive-dont-fear-embrace-coming-2023-beyond/
2023 – bring it on!
Kari Lake appeal, filed last night
Encouraging filing.
I believe 2023 is the turning point to this build of insanity over the past 40 + years, now the pendulum begins to swing hard right. This will be a year we will not forget.
🙏
RSBN did a Live from Mar-A-Lago, New Year’s Eve with President Donald Trump; 43 minutes in length, starts around the 4:30 mark:
https://rumble.com/v231ljo-live-from-mar-a-lago-new-years-eve-with-president-donald-j.-trump-123122.html