Month: November 2020

Back in the bicentennial year of 1976, the Doobie Brothers sang:

I ain’t blind and I don’t like what I think I see
Takin’ it to the streets

In 2020, the American people ain’t blind, and they don’t like what they’re seeing from almost every one of their so-called leaders and ‘institutions’ regarding the presidential election of 2020.  

The next step:  the American people are going to take this to the streets.  Rallies like America has never seen, growing in size and intensity (and with patriotism, not violence, as their guiding force) in probably every state in the country, and in multiple cities in every state — are going to take place until President Trump is rightly declared the winner of the election.

The American people voted in the outsider Donald Trump in 2016.  And since then, they ain’t been blind.  They saw:

• A Russia collusion hoax, with a ruling class-organized star chamber prosecution called the Mueller investigation, engineered by America’s ruling class institutions through leaks and falsified documents and the framing of innocent people (Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos, and Roger Stone) and with the MSM in obvious cahoots — all for the purpose of taking down the unwelcome outsider.
• An impeachment hoax, with Obama holdovers at the Department of Defense and State Department fabricating charges against Donald Trump to accomplish the dual purpose of taking down Trump while covering up for Joe and Hunter Biden’s obvious, egregious corruption.
• A pandemic that’s moving more and more toward hoax territory.  With CDC-documented recovery rates at over 99+% for almost everyone besides the very aged and infirm, why is it being treated, especially by Democrat/leftist governors, as if it is the bubonic plague?

But if the pandemic is seen as vehicle to destroy a vibrant economy that would otherwise assure Trump’s re-election and a perfect tool to legitimize mail-in balloting as another tool of voting fraud to control the 2020 election, it starts to make sense, not as a public health crisis, but as the latest manufactured coup attempt.

• An election campaign where President Trump could draw capacity crowds of up to 60,000 or more people to an airport in any state on 48 hours’ notice, while Joe Biden couldn’t draw 25 people to any event anywhere.
• Election night behavior by the MSM and Dem-controlled swing states that simply does not pass the smell test.  President Trump was running away with another solid Electoral College victory, when ‘stop-the-counting’ suddenly popped up in all the critical states.  And lo and behold, in the days following November 3^rd, mail-in ballots erased Trump’s leads by just the right amount — sometimes with the great fortuity of receiving a batch of 100,000+ votes, all for Biden, and all voted onlyfor Biden (no down-ballot votes recorded). 
• Election results where (1) not one incumbent ‘R’ House member lost; (2) 16 out of 17 so-called ‘bellwether’ counties that have voted for the eventual presidential winner in every election for the past 36 years voted for Trump; and (3) 27 House races rated by the ‘experts’ as ‘toss ups’ went for the ‘R’ candidate — in all 27 races.  

Americans by the millions are not going to ‘unsee’ any of this.  And when they put it all together, they know for an absolute certainty that they, the American people, did not elect Joe Biden as President.  They know Biden did not get the most votes in the history of American presidential candidates.  They know President Trump won re-election.

And now they are hearing about Dominion Voting Systems (whose management is suddenly nowhere to be found?) and Smartmatic and Venezuela and Barcelona and Frankfurt, and they are hearing from Sidney Powell and Lin Wood and others, and what they sense is that the 2020 election fraud is a product of Swamp-directed or Swamp-accommodated malfeasance on a scale they can barely comprehend, with the express purpose of taking down their country and putting it under the control of leftists and globalists, aka, of rulers of men. 

The American people are over-the-top irate at what is being done to them and their country in election 2020.  They have been awakened, just as they were awakened after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.  They are the ‘sleeping giant’ the Japanese rightly feared. 

The Swamp should be afraid, too.  There is no force quite like a fully awakened and righteously indignant 80 million-member swath of irate, patriotic Americans.   Clever lawyers and legal arguments and political hack judges can’t put them down; the MSM and Big Tech cannot silence them or make them go away or convince them to move on.  And the whole world is about to see them take to the streets until their will is implemented.

Joe Biden might achieve a measure of redemption for his colossally corrupt political career by acknowledging what the American people now see… and conceding the election.  

That’s obviously not likely to happen.  Joe Biden was never more than a controllable puppet to implement the ‘fundamental transformation’ that the left had designed for America but that Donald Trump interrupted and then threatened to destroy.  But we can always hope — if Biden could awaken from his own puppet stupor and do the right thing, he might save the country a lot of heartache, or worse.

In the meantime, watch the streets of America in the coming weeks.  We the People are not done with protecting and preserving this country.

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I confess to having been utterly naïve.  I had wondered why on Earth the business community would prefer a frail and corrupt president Biden over a pro-business president Trump.  Trump has a track record of economic growth and stands for lower regulations and taxes, fairer international trade, and a stronger military.  Biden wants to increase taxes and regs and put in place a number of new initiatives like the Green New Deal that might bankrupt the economy.  But Wall Street, the tech industry, and many more backed Biden, while even many GOP congressmen seemed lukewarm to Trump.

The choice for Trump seemed so obvious, what was I missing?

The difference is the status quo.  A lot of people make lots of money the way things are now. They constitute a powerful force that seeks to get rid of inconvenient obstacles — especially a serial disruptor like President Trump.

Let’s take Amgen, for example.  A biopharmaceutical company, Amgen has annual revenues of $23 billion with profits of $7.8 billion.  Much of Amgen’s sales and profitability are dictated by rules and regulations set by the U.S. government.  Much of Amgen’s ability to access its consumers is through the U.S. government’s auspices, whether it be FDA drug approvals, Medicare drug pricing, or other controlling regulations.

So if you were Amgen, and you relied on the U.S. government for much of your revenue, how much would you be willing to spend each year on lobbying in Washington?  Certainly $1 million would be a drop in the bucket compared to that $7.8 billion in profits.  Would you spend $5 million, $10 million?  What if there was important legislation underway, like another health care overhaul?  Might you want to increase your lobbyist spending further into the hundreds of millions?

Amgen was picked at random.  It’s only the seventh largest health care company, and every such company in the top 20 has annual profits over $2 billion.  Each has its own budget for lobbyists, all likely in the many millions of dollars.  That’s a lot of money allocated to lobbyists!

And this is only for health care.  What about other industries, like defense contracting, that rely primarily on U.S. government purchases?  General Dynamics Corp. is the sixth largest such contractor with $19.5 billion in annual sales.  In 2019, it signed a $5.1-billion contract with the U.S. government to develop a prototype submarine.

What annual budget do you think General Dynamics Corp. has for lobbyists?  A 5% commission of that one contract alone would amount to $255 million.

Multiply all of these numbers by the myriad other industries that seek to obtain or maintain advantages with the U.S. government, and you might come to a shocking conclusion.  The amount of potential money for lobbyists in Washington, D.C. is almost limitless.  And it will likely only get bigger.

It’s no wonder that the counties around Washington, D.C. have the highest per capita income in the nation!

Not all of this is necessarily nefarious; there is a reasonable and useful role for lobbyists.  One of the prime roles of our government is to create regulations that control various industries.  It’s only proper for those industries to seek input into the drafting of these regulations, as bureaucrats may not fully understand the industries they seek to regulate.  There should be input from business into the process.

But this advisory role for lobbyists has morphed into a situation where the lobbyists are actually in control of the lawmaking process.  No longer content with commenting on legislation, lobbyists are now the ones who actually write the laws passed by Congress.  Not only do they control the legislative process, but they provide the funds that enable the elected lawmakers to return to office.  It’s no surprise that, once elected, lawmakers keep getting elected, as, having invested in them, the status quo wants them back in.  Once a congressman is paid for, his backers make sure he gets re-elected.

Joe Biden has been riding this gravy train for 47 years.

But it’s not just the lobbyists and companies that want the status quo.  Perhaps the most pernicious influence is the revolving door connecting Congress, government, and industries.  A relatively low-paid government apparatchik can jump to a lucrative lobbying position at five times his salary.  An elected official turned lobbyist can easily command a seven-figure income.  Senior bureaucrats can get huge payouts for obtaining lucrative government contracts, like FBI director James Comey, who made six million dollars in his last year at Lockheed Martin.

Major corporations have billions tied up in lobbying efforts, which in turn affects trillions in income.  It’s reasonable to assume that they want some kind of return on their investment.  Congressmen also like the status quo as it provides the funds to keep them in office.  Washington bureaucrats like it, too, because that’s the pot of gold they seek to cash in on after years of government service.

What these powerful lobbyists, congressmen, and bureaucrats do not want is an outsider like Donald J. Trump parachuting in and disrupting the whole cozy relationship.  Why spend millions and billions of dollars on lobbying if some shoot-from-the-hip self-proclaimed populist thinks he has a better idea?

Trump looks at these interconnected relationships and asks inconvenient questions, like how all this affects the average American.  No one is supposed to be thinking that way.

Trump doesn’t play the game. Biden is the ultimate player.  Seen that way, the choice is obvious.

Given Biden’s commitment to the status quo, it becomes clear why these powerful forces are more than willing to overlook his obvious shortcomings.  One would think having Hunter Biden taking millions in apparent bribes from China, Ukraine, and Russia would immediately disqualify Biden for any higher elected office.  But rather than investigate these obviously sleazy dealings, the corporate media did their best to cover them up.

In fact, in this light, Biden’s weaknesses can be seen as strengths.  The more his mental health deteriorates, the easier it is to control him.  Ditto for his sleazy foreign entanglements, which simultaneously show that (1) he knows how to play the game and (2) he can be compromised.  Kamala Harris is an ideal nonentity as a V.P., utterly without executive or foreign policy experience, and so the perfect puppet for lobbyists and swamp-dwellers.

So let’s recap: these powerful companies don’t want a level playing field; they want the advantages they paid good money for.  They don’t want fewer regulations because they wrote the regulations themselves!  And the weaker the executive, the better they can control him.

When Trump says he want to drain the swamp, what he’s really saying is that he will take millions of hard-earned lobbying dollars out of the pockets of major corporations that are expecting billions of dollars of influence in return.  These companies have spent decades building up this influence, and voting for Trump will negate all that.

No wonder they will stop at nothing to take Trump down.

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By Sally Zelikovsky

To endure the Democrat-Media Complex’s blackout of any discussion of credible allegations of voter fraud or election rigging is tough enough. But watching the conservative media grapple with the Trump team’s claims of election fraud as presented by Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, and Rudi Giuliani is downright dizzying.  In stark contrast to the analysis provided daily by Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin, is the stultifying commentary by Tucker Carlson and, let’s say, a has-been who never was like Erick Erickson.  I’m no Pollyanna and I do not have any insider information about the current state of the election, but I would like to tamp down a bit on the hysteria with my own perspective.

On November 19th, Tucker Carlson went into a Diva-style tirade about Sidney Powell’s failure to produce any evidence substantiating her claims that the election was corrupted by the Dominion voting system and whined about her refusal to go on his show and PRODUCE! THE! EVIDENCE! Trust me when I say conservatives were flipping out when Carlson went down this road.  Expect his ratings to dip.

Then, Erick Erickson wrote “Nope” in which he lists Trump’s legal team failures in battleground courts — affiants walking back claims, Trump’s counsel admitting to a lack of substantiating evidence for fraud claims and walking back fraud allegations before the court, asking for recounts but not in counties that used Dominion, and failing to provide evidence in sufficient numbers to make a difference.  

Further proof of Erickson’s conclusion that we aren’t dealing in the realm of fact but uncredible conspiracy theory, is Sidney Powell’s failure to provide evidence of her fanciful claims regarding Dominion, Hugo Chavez, Smartmatic, Clinton, and Soros.   

At this point, I find this both deeply harmful and bordering on malicious. I would not be surprised if Dominion Voter Systems files a defamation claim against them. My suspicion is that this is payback for the Democrats’ treatment of Trump after 2016 and a whole lot of people want to be lied to and will believe it all despite zero evidence.

So, what’s really going on here?  Sidney Powell is a legal force to be reckoned with and a courageous one at that.  She is not only a fearless appellate expert but cut her litigation teeth in the late 70s when few women were in the field and those who were had to be light-years smarter than the brightest, most accomplished men.  It took courage to throw yourself into a practice dominated by men and still retain your femininity. 

Powell’s reputation is hard fought and she has a legacy of taking on unsavory characters and achieving justice for her clients.  That’s a true American heroine — not someone who is incompetent, let alone reckless.  Hers is not the profile of someone who would bluff her way through something that goes to the heart of our democracy and is bound to be in the history books.  Moreover, there are penalties for bringing frivolous suits under both federal and state laws.  She would never throw her career away on a whim with no purpose. 

Moreover, lawyers do not tip their hand to a preening press or public.  Revealing evidence prematurely gives the opposition opportunity to tamper with it and undermine the president’s case.  No one is owed that information just because they want it.  In due course, the evidence will be presented before a court so cool your jets, boys.

I, too, have been baffled by the state court misses and can understand why people might conclude that Rudy and Lin Wood may be past their prime.  But we should dig a little deeper into these state court cases and look at them from the point of view of strategy. 

First, let me just dismiss outright any claims that Rudy is incompetent.  He may not be the guy he was in his 40s, but he certainly isn’t daft like Joe Biden.  There was concern during the impeachment hearings when he did not appear to be at his best on late night news shows and rumors suggested it might have something to do with late-night appearances after dinner and a few drinks at his club.  I have no idea, but it would explain why he is fine during the daytime.  In fact, you can hear Rudy on 77 WABC talk radio in New York for an hour at 3 p.m. and I assure you he is quite cogent. 

Assuming Rudy is not a dunderhead, I suspect the state court strategy (including all the legal maneuverings withdrawing and initiating suits) is about buying time and deflection — using the system to launch suits that knowingly do not have a high degree of success but take time. 

This keeps everyone on their toes.  While attention is paid to the legal maneuverings around relatively insignificant cases, the real heavy lifting is going on with Sidney Powell’s leg of the investigation.  Her claims involve broad, systemic fraud that could affect tens and hundreds of thousands of votes, maybe even millions.  The state cases are penny-ante dalliances that might or might not have legs but, in any event, won’t change much in terms of the vote count.  They do provide Powell with the cover she needs for a deep dive into these systems and gives her time to uncover the evidence Tucker Carlson and Erick Erickson feel entitled to have yesterday. 

Watch this hand, while the other hand is doing its magic.  Trump is known for his three-dimensional chess tactics.  This could be just that. 

Assuming there is evidence, that doesn’t mean it is sufficient to turn the election or throw it to the Congress.  Trump still might lose.  At the very least, he will have outed the undeniable corruption in our election system and sown doubt as to the legitimacy of a Biden/Harris administration — all which helps with the Georgia run-offs, the mid-terms, and a Trump campaign in 2024.

As to the claims that this is all a bluff or a conspiracy, one must ask who gains what? Trump’s attorneys have everything to lose, including their licenses for a scam on the American public. Nor does the President have anything to gain.  If all for the sake of nothing, he would certainly look the fool — even to his supporters.  It would further fracture our trust in the system, destroy the GOP and our chances in the Georgia run-offs, the mid-terms, and 2024.  Trump would leave office like a wrecking ball, proving that the left and #NeverTrumpers were right about him all along. No one who plays three-dimensional chess would walk headfirst into such a colossal blunder.

Let’s hold onto what our reason tells us is happening and see where we are come December 14^th which, in political years, is an eternity.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/the_trump_teams_real_strategy.html

by Tyler DurdenThu, 11/19/2020 – 17:55TwitterFacebookRedditEmailPrint

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,

Top pathologist Dr. Roger Hodkinson told government officials in Alberta during a zoom conference call that the current coronavirus crisis is “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public.”

Hodkinson’s comments were made during a discussion involving the Community and Public Services Committee and the clip was subsequently uploaded to YouTube.

Noting that he was also an expert in virology, Hodkinson pointed out that his role as CEO of a biotech company that manufactures COVID tests means, “I might know a little bit about all this.”

“There is utterly unfounded public hysteria driven by the media and politicians, it’s outrageous, this is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public,” said Hodkinson.

The doctor said that nothing could be done to stop the spread of the virus besides protecting older more vulnerable people and that the whole situation represented “politics playing medicine, and that’s a very dangerous game.”

https://youtube.com/watch?v=uEo3rnU12jw

Hodkinson remarked that “social distancing is useless because COVID is spread by aerosols which travel 30 meters or so before landing,” as he called for society to be re-opened immediately to prevent the debilitating damage being caused by lockdowns.

Hodkinson also slammed mandatory mask mandates as completely pointless.

“Masks are utterly useless. There is no evidence base for their effectiveness whatsoever,” he said.

“Paper masks and fabric masks are simply virtue signalling. They’re not even worn effectively most of the time. It’s utterly ridiculous. Seeing these unfortunate, uneducated people – I’m not saying that in a pejorative sense – seeing these people walking around like lemmings obeying without any knowledge base to put the mask on their face.”

The doctor also slammed the unreliability of PCR tests, noting that “positive test results do not, underlined in neon, mean a clinical infection,” and that all testing should stop because the false numbers are “driving public hysteria.”

Hodkinson said that the risk of death in the province of Alberta for people under the age of 65 was “one in three hundred thousand,” and that it was simply “outrageous” to shut down society for what the doctor said “was just another bad flu.”

“I’m absolutely outraged that this has reached this level, it should all stop tomorrow,” concluded Dr. Hodkinson.

Hodkinson’s credentials are beyond question, with the MedMalDoctors website affirming his credibility.

“He received his general medical degrees from Cambridge University in the UK (M.A., M.B., B. Chir.) where he was a scholar at Corpus Christi College. Following a residency at the University of British Columbia he became a Royal College certified general pathologist (FRCPC) and also a Fellow of the College of American Pathologists (FCAP).”

“He is in good Standing with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta, and has been recognized by the Court of Queen’s Bench in Alberta as an expert in pathology.”

In case the above video gets deleted by YouTube, a backup via Bitchute is available here.

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/top-pathologist-claims-covid-19-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-unsuspecting-public

THE SCAMDEMIC IS BEST UNDERSTOOD IN TERMS OF A 
CONSPIRACY FOR WORLD GOVERNMENT TYRANNY BASED ON THE UNITED NATIONS’ AGENDA FOR THE 21 CENTURY. IT APPEARS THAT MANY OF OUR LEADERS HAVE SIGNED ON WITHOUT CONSULTING US. THIS EXPLAINS WHY THEY HAVE SOLD US OUT NOW.BELOW JOHN MCMANUS EXPLAINS THAT THE UN REALLY REPRESENTS COMMUNIST TYRANNY. “Top 10 Reasons to Get US Out! of the UN,” 
by John F. McManus(JBS Bulletin Aug 2019)

Are You Aware?
Many of our nation’s leaders have been working for decades to deliver the United States to the United Nations as the major step in building an UN-controlled New World Order.
Each year since the founding of the UN in 1945, the conspirators for global control have taken steps that threaten to destroy the independence of our nation and the freedoms of the American people.
Please read what follows and join in the campaign to Get US Out! of the United Nations.
1.Incompatibility of the U.S. and UN Systems of Government
U.S. System: Basic rights are given by God and cannot be overruled. Freedom prevails. (See U.S. Declaration of Independence, 1776.)
UN System: Basic rights are granted by the UN government and can be canceled “by law.” No recognition of God. The world body lists rights it recognizes and then claims power to abolish them “by law.” (See the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, and the UN’s International Covenant On Civil and Political Rights, 1966.)
2. UN Seeks to Disarm American Citizens and Cancel the Second Amendment of the U.S. ConstitutionThe UN has always sought to ban private ownership of weapons. For instance, the world body published Our Global Neighborhood in 1995, calling for “the disarming of civilians.”
The UN Arms Trade Treaty (adopted by the UN in 2013) would ultimately disarm Americans. It was signed by the U.S. in 2013, but has not been ratified by the U.S. Senate.
3. The UN Is a Lawless Body; It Violates Article 2 of Its Own Charter
Article 2 of the UN Charter states: “Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state [nation]….”
Examples of UN violation of its own Charter include: (a) forcing U.S. citizens to cancel plans to mine gold in Montana; (b) targeting U.S. law that permits capital punishment; (c) condemning the U.S. Border Patrol for efforts to bar entry of illegal immigrants; and (d) urging independence of Puerto Rico when even the people of that U.S. possession have repeatedly indicated they don’t want their relationship to the U.S. changed.
(Alger Hiss) 4. Every UN Secretary-General Has Been Either a Communist or a Socialist
1945-46: Alger Hiss, Communist (United States)1946-53: Trygve Lie, Socialist (Norway)1953-61: Dag Hammarskjold, Socialist (Sweden)1962-71: U Thant, Socialist (Burma, now Myanmar)1972-81: Kurt Waldheim, Nazi Socialist (Austria)1982-91: Javier Perez de Cuellar, Socialist (Peru)1992-96: Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Socialist (Egypt)1997-06: Kofi Annan, Socialist (Ghana)2007-16: Ban Ki-moon, Socialist (South Korea)2017- : Antonio Guterres, Communist (Portugal)
5. UN Charter’s Article 25 Overrides U.S. Constitution and American Sovereignty The complete text of Article 25 states: “The Members of the United Nations agree to accept and carry out the decisions of the [UN] Security Council in accordance with the present Charter.”
No President or member of Congress who has sworn a solemn oath to abide by the U.S. Constitution can permit Article 25 to dictate U.S. policy. However, most of America’s elected officials believe our nation is obliged to deliver forces and arms when the UN calls for them.
6. Articles 39-51 of the UN Charter authorized the UN to direct U.S. participation in the “undeclared,” “no-win” Korean War. Articles 52-54 of the UN Charter authorized creation of NATO and SEATO as UN “regional alliances,” which led to U.S. involvement in “undeclared,” “no-win” wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan.Established in 1945, the UN directed the Korean War (34,000 Americans killed and 92,000 wounded). This war has never been settled.
Formed in 1954, SEATO directed the Vietnam War (47,000 Americans killed and 153,000 wounded). The Vietnam War could have been won but for restrictions from on high. This war marked the first defeat in our nation’s history.
Congress declared neither the Korean War nor the Vietnam War as required by the U.S. Constitution. United States involvement in these two wars was due to our membership in the UN and SEATO.
Established in 1949, NATO conducted the “undeclared,” “no-win” war in Afghanistan from August 2003 to December 2014 as the leader of a UN-mandated coalition of 50 nations, which included the United States, and which at its height had 130,000 troops.
7. UN Leaders Oppose National Sovereignty, Favor a UN-Led World Government
U Thant (1970): “Lenin’s ideals of peace are in line with the aims of the UN Charter.”
Boutros-Ghali (1992): “The time of absolute and exclusive sovereignty has passed. It’s time to rethink the question of sovereignty.”
Kofi Annan (2000): “There must be new forms of global governance and global rules.”8. State Department Officials Bow to United Nations.
Secretary of State Dean Acheson, 1949: “NATO is designed to fit precisely into the framework of the United Nations.”
Left, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, 1957: “I have never seen any proposal made for … world government or for world federation which could not be carried out either by the United Nations or under the United Nations Charter.”
State Department Official Richard N. Gardner, 1974: “In short, the house of world order will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down [via] an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece….”
Secretary of State Colin Powell, 2001: “When it comes to our role as a member of the Security Council, we obviously are bound by UN resolutions and we’re not trying to modify that.”
9. Numerous Divisions of the United Nations Headquartered in Huge Buildings Throughout the World Continue to Build the UN’s Power Over All of Mankind.The UN’s Organizational Chart shows the presence and indicates control of the world body in the fields of education, population, children, women, environment, trade, finance, health, agriculture, labor, military, science, culture, atomic power, telecommunications, aviation, industrial development, narcotics, refugees, immigration, property rights, and more.
10. Disarmament for All — Except the United Nations.In 1961, the U.S. State Department issued a 19-page booklet entitled “Freedom From War: The U.S. Program For General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World.”
This document’s plan, never withdrawn, called for “progressive steps” leading to UN-dominated new world order. It summarizes elements of this frightening plan as follows:
(a) “States would retain only those forces and non-nuclear armaments … required for maintaining internal order.”
(b) “The UN Peace Force, equipped with agreed types and quantities of armaments, would be fully functioning.”
(c) “The manufacture of armaments would be prohibited except for those of agreed types and quantities to be used by the UN Peace Force…. All other armaments would be destroyed or converted to peaceful purposes.”
(d) The peace-keeping capabilities of the UN would be sufficiently strong … as to assure peace … in a disarmed world.”
Resistance to this hellish proposal generated by The John Birch Society over many years has led to its non-implementation. But appropriate government officials have frequently admitted that it is still the fixed and determined policy of several U.S. agencies and departments.
CONCLUSION
The United Nations is not taking over the United States. What is occurring is that the United States is being delivered to the United Nations. This delivery must be stopped. The course is clear. Withdrawal from the United Nations must be accomplished while there is still time to do so. Get US Out! of the United Nations.

“The lockdowns, mask orders, and vaccine plans are a stepping stone to something much worse. A rebellion against such measures would be very easy to win. All we have to do is refuse to follow their mandates. What are they going to do? Lock up millions of people? Shoot us? And, if it comes to violence, so be it. I have no problem fighting to defend my freedoms and the freedoms of future generations. “

Now Is The Time For Americans To Rebel Against Lockdowns, Mask Laws, And Forced Vaccination
by Brandon Smith
(abridged by henrymakow.com)
In April of this year, I published an article titled ‘Waves Of Mutilation: Medical Tyranny And The Cashless Society’, which outlined a social engineering model put forward by globalists at MIT and the Imperial College of London which I called “wave theory”. The model essentially works like this:
Governments must use the pandemic as a rationale for “waves” of restrictive lockdowns, followed by controlled re-openings of the economy and of normal human activity. Globalists claim that this will “slow” the spread of the coronavirus and save lives. However, they also openly admit that these cycles of closures and openings have other uses.
Over time, the citizenry becomes acclimated to governmental intrusion in their everyday lives, and they get used to the idea of bureaucracy telling them what they are not allowed to do when it comes to the simplest activities. The system thus bottlenecks all human interactions to the point that we are constantly asking for permission. We become slaves to the Covid response.
As globalist Gideon Lichfield from MIT stated in his article ‘We’re Not Going Back To Normal’:
“Ultimately, however, I predict that we’ll restore the ability to socialize safely by developing more sophisticated ways to identify who is a disease risk and who isn’t, and discriminating–legally–against those who are…”
Note that Lichfield suggested that in order to participate in the normal economy you might need to show verification that you have been “vaccinated against the latest virus strains”. In other words, the elites expect there to be many more viral events or mutations AFTER Covid 19 has run its course, and the restrictions and controls we see today are meant to continue, possibly FOREVER.
The reality is that the wave model is not a very practical plan for stopping viral spread, but it is a perfect method for conditioning people to submit to a high level of control over their personal lives that they never would have accepted otherwise. The Covid response has also been heralded by elites at the World Economic Forum as a perfect “opportunity” to initiate what they call the “Great Reset”. The reset is a plan to deconstruct what’s left of the free market capitalist system, introduce carbon controls in the name of the global warming fraud, institute a global cashless monetary system, and finally, move humanity into what they call a “shared economy” in which the average person is no longer allowed to own private property of any kind and is completely dependent on the system for their basic necessities.
THE CASE
1) The Coronavirus Kills Less Than 1% Of The People It Infects 
Medical studies in the US indicate that the coronavirus deaths rate for citizens NOT living in nursing homes has been holding well below 1% on average. The largest percentage of deaths by far in the US has been in nursing homes among elderly people with preexisting conditions. People in long term care facilities make up 8% of Covid infection cases but they are 45% of all covid deaths.
Pneumonia alone kills around 50,000 Americans each year according to the CDC, and that’s with vaccinations, yet, we are supposed to panic and hand over all our freedoms in the name of stopping a disease that affects a tiny percentage of the population? This is why the media and governments have decided to hyperfocus on infection numbers rather than deaths. The death numbers do not warrant the amount of panic the establishment is trying to foment.
2) Lockdowns Destroy The Economy
It’s basic math and finance; the small business sector of the US economy is dying. Small businesses make up around 50% of US employment. The Covid bailout money, handled by international banks like JP Morgan, did not get to the vast majority of small businesses that were supposed to receive it. Those businesses that did get bailouts are still on the verge of closure or bankruptcy. Any further lockdowns will be the final nail in the coffin for the US economy, except for major corporations that are enjoying the lion’s share of stimulus cash.
How many lives will be damaged or lost due to poverty and economic collapse if the current trend continues? I suspect far more than any lives lost because of Covid.
Why is no one in the mainstream talking about the most practical solution to the pandemic? The small percentage of people who are most at risk can STAY HOME and take precautions as necessary, while the rest of us get on with our lives. Why are we being ordered to do the exact opposite just to make less than 1% of the population feel safer? How is this logical, reasonable or scientific? The only answer that makes sense is that the lockdown response is about control, not saving lives.
3) State Governors Have No Authority To Take Away Your Civil Liberties, And Neither Does The President
Restrictions based on executive orders have no legal authority under the Constitution. They are color of law, not true law. Laws are debated and passed by state legislatures, not by state governors. Executive orders only apply to state employees and have no bearing on the citizenry.
Leftists and statists argue that during a national crisis the governor has emergency powers and states can do whatever they want. This is false. Under the constitution and the Bill of Rights, state governors do not get to proclaim a national emergency based on their personal opinion and then declare themselves dictators in response. Any “laws” exerted because of such a process are therefore null and void; they are meaningless…
The bottom line is this: State government powers do not supersede the Bill of Rights. Federal government powers do not supersede the Bill of Rights. NO ONE has the legal power to take away your inherent liberties. Those that claim otherwise have something to gain from your enslavement.

4) Mask Laws Are Unscientific
The majority of masks being used by the public today are cloth masks. Not even the CDC recommends the use of cloth masks for their own employees or medical workers. They only recommend N95 masks. They also admit that cloth masks are much less effective at preventing contact with the virus. Yet, the CDC supports the enforcement of cloth masks for the public.
On top of that, some states and countries with the most stringent mask laws continue to see huge spikes in coronavirus infections. For example, New York has been one of the most tyrannical enforcers of mask laws and lockdowns in the US, but in November the state has witnessed extensive infection increases. California, Michigan and Illinois have also seen dramatic infection spikes this month despite hard enforcement of masks. So, where is the science?…
5) Covid Vaccination Is Unnecessary And Potentially Dangerous
Why should people get vaccinated for a virus that over 99% of them will easily survive anyway? Why not simply attain “herd immunity” through natural infection spread and antibodies? The mainstream will continue to ignore these questions because they are inconvenient to the wider agenda.
Also, why should anyone trust a vaccine that was rushed out in less than a year’s time? China and the rest of the world spent over a decade trying to develop a vaccine for SARS unsuccessfully, but we are supposed to believe that they created a vaccine for SARS related Covid 19 within months?
The last time the government rushed out a vaccine for a viral epidemic was the 1976 swine flu scare, and that ended with numerous permanently damaged or dead individuals due to faulty vaccines.
As I noted in my article ‘Why The Public Should Rebel Against Forced Vaccinations’, published in May, there are numerous examples of vaccine tests and implementation going very wrong, from Bill Gates and the World Health Organization giving people polio in various countries through vaccines, to Novartis and their deadly testing of a Bird Flu vaccine on homeless people in Poland, to GlaxoSmithKline and the deaths of children due to their pneumonia vaccine.
Again, it’s simply not worth the risk over a virus that over 99% of people will survive. The idea of such risk being forced on the public is completely unacceptable, but many government officials have supported the idea over the past six months. It is important for the public to make it clear now that they will NOT be allowing state or federal governments to make vaccination mandatory.
CONCLUSION: Rebellion Is Needed To Put A Stop To The Fear Machine
In closing, there are endless reasons why we must end the pandemic lockdown agenda once and for all. Most importantly, the lockdowns, mask orders and vaccine plans are a stepping stone to something much worse – Medical tyranny and centralization on an unprecedented scale. I will not personally follow such rules because they are not scientifically or morally sound. They are nonsense designed to frighten the public into complacency and consent.
A rebellion against such measures would be very easy to win. All we have to do is refuse to follow their mandates. What are they going to do? Lock up millions of people? Shoot us? That would sort of defeat the supposed purpose of the very measures they demand we follow. And, if it comes to violence, so be it. I have no problem fighting to defend my freedoms and the freedoms of future generations. Perhaps it is time for conservatives and moderates that stand against the lockdowns to organize for this possible future.

By Stefan Stanford – All News Pipeline – Live Free Or Die

With Democrats/globalists all across America now declaring all-out war upon Christianity, Christmas, Thanksgiving and ‘the American way’ in the ‘name of their perceived safety’, story after story have come out over the last several days which prove, if we think 2020 was bad, we haven’t seen anything yet.

While Democrat Oregon Gov. Kate Brown threatens jail time & fines for anybody who violates COVID-19 Thanksgiving restrictions, in Germany they just passed the benign-sounding ‘infection protection law’ which have been compared to Adolf Hitler’s ‘Enabling Act of 1933’ which helped usher in his dictatorship.  

And with German politicians wasting no time at all to bring the law down in full force upon its citizens, with Doctor Andreas Noack in Germany giving a live Covid-19 report on Youtube when police broke into his house with guns pointing straight at him, it’s clear that those in Germany and across the planet who have ‘cried against fascism’ are helping to create the most criminal dictatorship in history.

You can see the German police busting into Dr. Noack’s home and pointing a gun at him for reporting on Covid-19 at this twitter link and in the final video at the bottom of this story. 

And while globalist-outlet DW reports that attempting to compare the ‘Infection Protection Law’ proposed by Angela Merkel to the law that paved the way for Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship in 1933 ‘are hardly comparable’, their story also reports: The infection protection law will now create a legal basis for the government to restrict some fundamental rights enshrined in the German constitution in its attempt to fight the pandemic. Oh what a ‘slippery slope’ is tyranny!  

As we see in the chart above, there are absolutely alarming similarities between documented “Communist Coercive Methods for Eliciting Individual Compliance” and the lockdowns being thrust upon America by governments all across the country and the planet due to Covid-19.  

With the chart above comparing the Communist brainwashing techniques used by Chinese and North Korean soldiers upon Americans captured to make them psychological as well as physical prisoners as documented in The Biderman Report of 1956, just compare the brainwashing methods used by Communists against Americans back then to the ‘brainwashing’ of Americans in 2020! Unreal, huh?! 

And with a vaccine now being pushed that allegedly has a 95% ‘success rate’ for a virus that has a survival rate of approximately 99% according to the CDC itself, what are Americans NOT being told? Why the huge rush to inoculate Americans across the country with a vaccine LESS effective than the 99% ‘survival rate’ of most healthy Americans catching the virus, anyway? Something is rotten to the core in America. From this Infowars story before we continue.:

Oregon’s Democrat Governor Kate Brown imposed severely restrictive COVID-19 measures on Wednesday, including jail time and steep fines for anybody who hosts large Thanksgiving gatherings.  

Brown announced the state’s “two week freeze” on virtually all businesses and recreational activities, essentially shuttering the state’s economy in response to rising COVID-19 cases (but extremely low death rate). 

“If COVID-19 overwhelms our hospitals, there won’t be enough doctors, nurses, health care workers, or beds if you or a loved one need care. We can’t let that happen. That’s why COVID-19 Freeze measures take effect today,” Brown declared on Twitter, including a list of all the types of businesses and services that would be affected.

According to Brown’s emergency order, violators could face 30 days in jail, a $1,250 fine, or both. 

“The Oregon State Police will be working with local law enforcement to enforce the Governor’s orders, in the same way local law enforcement officers respond to noise complaints for loud parties, for example, and issue citations,” Brown spokesman Charles Boyle said in an email Saturday. 

Incoming chairwoman of the Clackamas Board of County Commissioners Tootie Smith (R) stated on Facebook that she would defy Brown’s unconstitutional orders. 

“My family will celebrate Thanksgiving with as many family and friends as I can find,” Smith posted last week in the wake of Brown’s initial announcement. 

“I don’t know if there’s going to be a knock at the door,” Smith told The Oregonian. “But I’m going to, in my very private home with my family, continue to celebrate this holiday and Christmas as well.”

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As Susan Duclos had pointed out in this November 17th ANP story, Oregon is by far NOT the only Democrat-run state descending into mass covid-19 tyranny. With ‘Compliance Ambassadors’ now a very real thing in America as Orwell’s ‘1984’ becomes a reality, thank God for Sheriff’s such as Saratoga County Sheriff Michael Zurlo, who’ll refuse to enforce NY Governor Andrew Cuomo’s tyranny, and who summed up objections to ‘Covid-19’ Thanksgiving crackdowns nicely. 

“I can’t see how devoting our resources to counting cars in citizens’ driveways or investigating how much turkey and dressing they’ve purchased is for the public good,” Zurlo said in a press release. 

This has nothing to do with “virus fatigue,” it’s a common-sense rebellion against insanity. 

From the New York Post: 

In a scathing Facebook post on Saturday, Fulton County Sheriff Richard Giardino questioned the legality of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s newly instituted 10-person cap on parties and other gatherings in private residences. 

“Frankly, I am not sure it could sustain a Constitutional challenge in Court for several reasons including your house is your castle,” the sheriff wrote in the Saturday post. 

“And as a Sheriff with a law degree I couldn’t in good faith attempt to defend it Court, so I won’t,” he said. 

The time has passed when grasping politicians can use the public health crisis to impose unconstitutional restrictions on citizens. The Great Virus Scare of 2020 is over and if Joe Biden tries to bring it back, he won’t find meek and mild sheep doing everything the experts are telling them to do.  

This, from a Mississippi public health official is typical of the scaremongering that isn’t going to work anymore: “It’s going to happen. You’re going to say hi at Thanksgiving, it’s so nice to see you, and you’re either going to be visiting her by Facetime in the ICU or planning a small funeral by Christmas,” the MSMA president said. 

As for the sheriffs, they’re telling Cuomo that if he wants to keep people apart, he can do it himself. (Hopefully if Cuomo tries, the 2nd Amendment will be waiting for him!)

Giardino noted his office, with limited resources, has scant legal options to enter private homes other than search warrants, invitations or under an “emergency circumstance.” 

“We have limited resources and we have to set priorities, so obtaining a Search Warrant to enter your home to see how many Turkey or Tofu eaters are present is not a priority,” Giardino wrote. 

This is something Cuomo would know if he weren’t such an arrogant, elitist, snob. Apparently, he thinks that simply by snapping his fingers and issuing a decree, his will becomes law. 

Sic Semper Tyrannus, baby.

And as this previously mentioned story over at Infowars concluded, “this isn’t about public health. This about asserting control over the people, isolating them and crushing their spirit just in time for the holidays.”

Brown isn’t the only Democrat tyrant to impose such authoritarian measures as Thanksgiving approaches. 

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (Mich.) also announced in a press release extremely restrictive measures that would take effect Wednesday, such as only two households allowed to gather indoors at a time, while up to 25 people will be allowed to gather outdoors, suspension of eat-in dining at restaurants and bars, statewide closures of high schools and colleges. 

“I know people are tired of living like this, but we have to double down,” Whitmer said Sunday. “We potentially could be looking at the deadliest, most grim days of this virus ahead of us.” 

“As hard as it is not seeing [family members] this Thanksgiving, imagine how much harder it would be if you weren’t able to see them for a future holiday ever again,” she added. 

Last week, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued similar draconian decrees to take effect Monday against Thanksgiving gatherings in the name of curbing the China Virus, for which she received backlash after bull horning for Joe Biden in front of a crowd of supporters days before. 

With ‘Communism 101’ perfectly illustrated in California’s governor Gavin Newsom banning large dinner gatherings, while he himself went out to a ‘large dinner gathering’, proving that the left wants to be in power so that they can exempt themselves from their own totalitarian rules, America’s Founding Fathers fully understood that the 2nd Amendment was never drafted into our Bill of Rights for ‘deer hunting’. 

In the 1st video below, Paul Joseph Watson warns us that they’re preparing to make life hell for those who won’t take a Covid-19 vaccine, with people’s jobs being threatened and worse for those refusing to take the jab. And in the 2nd video, David Knight warns us that ‘door to door blood draws‘ are now taking place in Houston, Texas, just the latest sign of what’s ahead for America in 2021 as the globalists rush our country full speed ahead into ‘medical totalitarianism’.

And in the 3rd and final video below, we see what happens when ‘medical totalitarianism’ vanquishes a formerly free nation’s Constitution, this event happening in Germany. The eerily masked ‘intervention officer’, who looks like a character out of the movie ‘The Purge’, rushes in at just past the 43 minute mark before the video abruptly cuts off. Another sign of what is ahead for America if we stay along the same path towards medical tyranny that we’re now on.

(Natural News) For those who are reluctant to recognize the actions taking place to defend America against both foreign and domestic enemies, a massive change was just put in place at the Department of Defense that proves some additional clues about what’s going down.

Special Operations forces have now been restructured to report directly to Defense Secretary Chris Miller, who replaced swamp creature Mark Esper, recently fired by Trump. The term “special operations forces” usually includes special forces from the Army (Rangers, Delta, etc.) and Navy (SEALs), and likely encompasses many tens of thousands of highly-trained, elite troops. (The exact count is not public information.)

Chris Miller, who previously served as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, described the changes as “tectonic” and as being pursued to “combat transnational threats.”

But he also said something even more interesting:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FMSw44QvM_0%3Ffeature%3Doembed

At the 6:29 time mark, Miller says: (emphasis added)

At the same time, should any maligned actors underestimate our resolve or attempt to undermine our efforts, we will not hesitate to restore deterrents and defeat any and all threats.

As we implement the President’s orders, we also recognize that transitions and campaigns are fraught with risk and unexpected challenges and opportunities. That is why I am here today to announce that I have directed the special operations civilian leadership to report directly to me instead of through the current bureaucrat channels. This historic step finalizes what Congress has authorized and directed and will put Special Operations Command on par with the military services for the first time.

He specifically invoked “transitions and campaigns,” and although the word “campaign” typically refers to a military campaign, paired with the term “transitions,” this now seemingly refers to Presidential transitions and political campaigns.

This appears to be a dog whistle to other patriots throughout the DoD, broadcasting the fact that patriots are now in charge at the DoD, and they now directly command U.S. special forces assets. In other words, those assets have just been removed from the control of the deep state swamp bureaucrats that haunt the halls of the Pentagon, rubbing elbows with John Bolton and other swamp slugs in the hope of starting more wars.

Special Forces assets are now being deployed to take down America’s domestic enemies and traitors

Now, many dots are beginning to be connected here, with unconfirmed rumors circulating over the last few days that U.S. Special Forces teams have already arrested certain high-level Democrat and deep state traitors who are behind the recent foreign election interference in the U.S. elections via the Dominion and Scytl voting systems, both of which were rigged to produce a Joe Biden “victory.”

I cover more details about this in my Nov. 16th Daily News Update podcast.

According to recent rumors, U.S. forces raided a server farm in Frankfurt, Germany, taking possession of server data that proves the massive election fraud that was carried out. This means efforts are already under way to gather all the evidence needed to prove treason on the part of those who attempted to steal the election and overthrow the United States government.

Attorney Sidney Powell explains some of what went down on November 3rd during the left-wing election steal in America:

https://www.brighteon.com/embed/90efb598-e01b-44c6-bcbc-aa73d6e3ce6d

As we have documented in previous articles, the 2020 election took place under a Trump-declared National Emergency which was declared on September 12, 2018 in an Executive Order.

That order, available at Whitehouse.gov, is entitled, “Executive Order on Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election.”

As I explained previously:

In the EO, the President also states that people and organizations located, in part, outside the United States are known to be able to, “interfere in or undermine public confidence in United States elections, including through the unauthorized accessing of election and campaign infrastructure or the covert distribution of propaganda and disinformation.”

The EO further states that this foreign interference in U.S. elections, “constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”

The EO gives the U.S. government the authority to seize all assets of any corporation or organization engaged in rigging any national election. This means Trump can now seize Twitter, Facebook, CNN, the New York Times and all the assets of every Democrat involved in election rigging.

Election rigging is also a felony crime under current U.S. law.

But how will the thousands of Democrats, deep staters and treasonous actors who participated in all this election theft actually be arrested and questioned?

Answer: U.S. Special Forces, answering directly to Chris Miller.

Trump already has total authority to secretly arrest domestic enemies under the NDAA, signed into law by Obama

Trump will likely invoke the Insurrection Act, which authorizes military forces to be deployed in the United States to put down acts of open rebellion or insurrection against the United States government. Even without the Insurrection Act, Trump already has the NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act, which specifically allows the President to use U.S. military forces to arrest and detain enemy combatants even if they are U.S. citizens.

The coordinated election rigging that took place — using technology from Venezuela, servers from Germany and money from Communist China — is of course an act of international warfare against the United States government. All those engaged in these acts are, in fact, enemy combatantseven if they are U.S. citizens or lawmakers. They can be arrested by U.S. military personnel, relocated to black sites like GITMO, and interrogated or prosecuted under wartime military law.

Some observers say this process has already begun. This is what we think Sidney Powell meant when she said, “The Kraken was already released several days ago.”

In this emergency podcast update from 24 hours ago, I explain in great detail why it is credible that U.S. military forces have been activated to defend the United States of America against a foreign-instigated election rigging attempt that tried to illegally install Joe Biden as President.

Perhaps this is why Lin Wood says that Joe Biden “and people like him” are going to jail.

Video taped confessions are likely being recorded right this very minute.

Trump doesn’t need the entire DoD to pull this off, you see, and he doesn’t need the DOJ. He doesn’t need police or the National Guard, either. He has command over the many tens of thousands of special forces operators and patriots who have sworn an oath to defend the Unite States Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. President Trump is finally giving those patriot boys a chance to make good on that oath.

https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-11-19-replacing-mark-esper-now-acting-defense-secretary-chris-miller-activates-special-operations-forces-to-report-directly-to-him.html#

This election is the culmination of a four-year-long coup against the president. Evil, lying, malicious people at home, and abroad, are on the verge of officially pulling off the greatest heist in modern history.

Trump has been deprived of his rightful victory, and Republicans — from elected officials to writers for conservative websites — seem eager to get on board with the overthrow of our government.

The most egregious claim is that there was no election fraud, as if any of these professional do-nothings and disloyal opportunists have conducted investigations.

 
Source.

As usual, integrity, bravery, and a commitment to the truth are in short supply.

A rare exception to the clamoring voices that suggest we should just move-along-there’s-nothing-to-see-here is Sidney Powell, who stated during a Newsmax interview November 17 that it appears that Trump won 80 million votes and describes corruption on such a massive scale that it’s impossible to fully wrap your mind around it.

 
YouTube screen grab.

What Powell presents with increasing detail is a complex and coordinated criminal operation that is staggering in scope.  Not only does it appear to involve multiple foreign nations, but we cannot rule out the involvement of our own CIA, among other agencies.

Think about that for a moment.

And if you feel as though that’s too much to absorb, don’t run away from it.

Yes, it is shocking, astounding, and unthinkable.  And yet, here we are.

Now is the time to be courageous.

The left is working overtime to threaten anyone who stands for the truth.  Those who do are put in grave danger.  Many are left to choose between country and personal safety.  This is not the kind of choice anyone should face in a free society.

“By any means necessary” is being played out every minute of every day as the left silences our voices and threatens those who stand in its way.

We must do everything in our power to get this right.  And we must do it now.

We are trembling at the precipice with our toes right on the edge.  Pulling back before we go over is all that matters.

Let’s push the truth out into the public sphere as boldly and as persistently as we can.  That includes being unwilling to use the 72 million number, which, every time it’s stated, legitimizes the left’s narrative.  And it means using language that is truthful.

This is a coup.

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By Bruce Deitrick Price

Homeschooling parents unerringly find the most efficient textbooks.  This is only natural if you have to spend all day at a kitchen table teaching children.

A decade back, I was startled to find homeschoolers almost unanimous in praising the legendary John Saxon (1923–1996).  What was his secret?

Saxon, with three advanced degrees in mathematical subjects, flew jet planes in the Air Force, first as a bomber pilot and then as a test pilot.  Reaching retirement age, he wasn’t certain what to do next.  A counselor suggested he teach math at a community college.  He liked the idea but was dismayed to find that his students knew almost no math.  Now he had found his destiny.  He would fix this problem.  How could he possibly do that?  By creating better textbooks.  He ended up creating a publishing empire that was sold for roughly $100,000,000 in 2004.

Saxon had a big heart, an exceptional mind, and a precise vision of how children can most quickly learn arithmetic.  Perhaps the indispensable trait is that he was a fighter.  He challenged the Education Establishment, offering to pay all expenses for head-to-head competitions.  He had no takers.  People said he should perhaps be more polite to the education professors.  Saxon said they didn’t deserve it.  Their offerings were absurd.

Near the end of The Great Gatsby, the narrator shouts at Gatsby, “They’re a rotten crowd.  You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”  Many Americans would like to shout the same words to John Saxon.

Saxon Math, since its debut in 1981, has proven successful with all “subgroups” of both boys and girls.  John Saxon is the only author and publisher of math textbooks to prove the effectiveness of his teaching methods and materials before selling his books to schools.  He field-tested his first book, an algebra textbook, in 22 Oklahoma schools under the supervision of the Oklahoma chapter of the American Federation of Teachers.  They gave it a rousing thumbs up.  That’s when the establishment realized that it had a problem.  The big New York City publishers refused to publish his work.  The professors began a counter-attack.

American K–12 seems to be controlled by Progressive ideologues determined to dumb down the country.  This group bitterly demonized Saxon’s ideas even though they were demonstrably superior.  And what is the  mechanism of that superiority?  Saxon believed in step-by-step instruction, with constant practice and testing to make sure students have truly understood the lessons, and constant recycling of all the main ideas.  Repetition is assumed to be the mother of instruction.  You learn, and then you learn again in a different context.  Students master math, and mathematics becomes a part of their lives.

Here’s the clincher. It takes about two hours for teachers or parents to learn how to use Saxon Math effectively.  Teachers of progressive mathematics require a minimum of two weeks of costly training plus more “professional development” throughout the school year.  Two weeks of wading through gunk so you can teach gunk.

Nakonia (Niki) Hayes is the author of the only full biography of the  great man, John Saxon’s Story, a genius of common sense in math education.  For many years she was a schoolteacher and school principal. She is a battle-tested veteran of the Math Wars. Now 80, she’s still helping teachers and parents to survive these wars. (For a more complete story, visit her site.)

Niki Hayes cautions that revised versions of John Saxon’s books published after 2007 are not acceptable.  Older versions can be found on the internet.  Publishers bought the rights to John Saxon’s books apparently with the shameful goal of mangling them into conformity with Common Core approaches.

New Math (roughly 1962); Reform Math (many varieties, roughly 1985 and thereafter); and Common Core (more recently) share the same flawed theories and depressing results.  Children don’t learn to master math.  They learn to hate math.  Indeed, the most touching part of the John Saxon story is that students loved math and loved the author. 

The Saxon story is a window into everything wrong and indeed corrupt throughout American K–12.  Proven methods are disdained and discarded.  Grotesque complexities doom most children to become innumerate.  They don’t go on to advanced subjects.  And then, for years, we have to listen to disingenuous experts complain that America is neglecting STEM subjects.  More accurately, Common Core guarantees this outcome.

Protect your students.  Understand the evils that John Saxon set out to defeat.  Give your students textbooks designed to work. 

Bruce Deitrick Price’s new book is  Saving K–12: What happened to our public schools? How do we fix them?  A good gift.

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