Identity Politics

by: Matthew Continetti

The beginnings of identity politics can be traced to 1973, the year the first volume of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago–a book that demolished any pretense of communism’s moral authority–was published in the West. The ideological challenge of socialism was fading, its fighting spirit dwindling. This presented a challenge for the Left: how to carry on the fight against capitalism when its major ideological alternative was no longer viable?

The Left found its answer in an identity politics that grew out of anti–colonialism. Marx’s class struggle was reformulated into an ethno–racial struggle–a ceaseless competition between colonizer and colonized, victimizer and victim, oppressor and oppressed. Instead of presenting collectivism and central planning as the gateway to the realization of genuine freedom, the new multiculturalist Left turned to unmasking the supposed power relations that subordinated minorities and exploited third world nations.

Complete article here.

Global Warming

No matter how you come down on this issue, our politicians think they can fix it with vast sums of money they take from someone else.

Every ‘deal’ made with the UN to resolve the ‘greenhouse gas’ issue involved the US paying other countries to work on greenhouse gas, again, using stolen money from our yet to be born children to the tune of billions of dollars, including China!!

This is a fact

Almost immediately when President Trump said the US was going to pull out of the (Koyoto) treaty, other countries were saying they were going to also because they wouldn't be getting money from the US to do it. That was in the news, once, briefly, like the liberal media does.

‘They’ can borrow money forever. Your money, the National debt!

The wikipedia dot org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States National Debt according to Wiki has been deleted.

☩ATTENTION LIBERALS!!☩
✋ How long do you think you can borrow money $$ to pay for your schemes???✋

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Jim, Tim and Frank

2012 when I got it

Where are Jim, Tim, and Franklin now?

Just in case you might have wondered how their ineptitude affected their lives after they ruined so many dreams and lives....let me refresh your memory:

Where are Jim, Tim and Franklin now? Here's a quick look into the three former Fannie Mae executives who brought down Wall Street.

Franklin Raines – was a Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Fannie Mae. Raines was forced to retire from his position with Fannie Mae when auditing discovered severe irregularities in Fannie Mae's accounting activities. Raines left with a "golden parachute valued at $240 Million in benefits. The Government filed suit against Raines when the depth of the accounting scandal became clear.

Tim Howard – was the Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae. Howard "was a strong internal proponent of using accounting strategies that would ensure a "stable pattern of earnings" at Fannie. Investigations by federal regulators and the company's board of directors Since concluded that management did manipulate 1998 earnings to trigger bonuses. Raines and Howard resigned under pressure in late 2004. Howard's Golden Parachute was estimated at $20 Million!

John BoehnerJohn Boehner, political slug, a yes man for Obama. a "POLITICIAN". Sorry for the bad language

Jim Johnson – A former executive at Lehman Brothers and who was later forced from his position as Fannie Mae CEO. Investigators found that Fannie Mae had hidden a substantial amount of Johnson's 1998 compensation from the public, reporting that it was between $6 million and $7 million when in fact, it was $21 million. Johnson is currently under investigation for taking illegal loans from Countrywide while serving as CEO of Fannie Mae. Johnson's Golden Parachute was estimated at $28 Million.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

FRANKLIN RAINES?

Raines work(ed) for the Obama Campaign as his Chief Economic Advisor.

TIM HOWARD?

Howard was a Chief Economic Advisor to Obama under Franklin Raines.

JIM JOHNSON?

Johnson was hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advisor and was selected to run Obama's Vice Presidential Search Committee.

Our government is rotten to the core!

Are we stupid or what?

THE 45 COMMUNIST GOALS AS READ INTO THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, 1963

If you BUY a politician for $100,000.00 you could get back 10's of millions or even better, political favors, e.g. wars, sanctions, tax breaks, ‘AID’, etc.

How Many Politicians Can You Buy with $6.3 Billion Dollars?

e.g. Grant Smith, the author of Big Israel: “How Israel's Lobby Moves America”, reveals the revenue of the Israeli lobbies will reach $6.3 billion in 2020, with 17,000 employees and 414,000 volunteers! (Please re–read that statement.) The purpose of the lobby is to influence the US government to serve its foreign–policy objectives and fund its military.

Families of Politicians Receive Billions $$ in Private Deals and Gifts from Foreign Governments

From G.Edward Griffin, 3–23–18

Peter Schweizer, author of Secret Empires; How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends, reveals that politicians, including John Kerry, Joe Biden, and Mitch McConnell are linked to deals with the Chinese government that delivered BILLIONS of dollars to their children and parents. While the law requires a $1,500 political donation to be publicly disclosed, billions can flow to family members with no disclosure required – which is no accident. The stench is unbearable. More

(This is not counting the kickbacks) (future jobs maybe?) from American manufactures for ‘favorable’ legislation? (gb)

(me) Think about this. Antibiotics do not affect a virus. BI-OT-IC as in Bacteria. Absolutely no similarity. They didn't that is, until a number of prominent members of congress got big chunks of stocks from certain pharma and: ‘MAGIC’, suddenly there is/are antivirals on the market, oddly enough, <sic> made by the same pharma. The US government then buys 100s of millions of dollars of this new drug. No private confirmation, nobody dares.

Tamiflu Fraud Bilked $1.5 Billion from Government, Whistleblower

January 13, 2020, Yahoo! News

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tamiflu-fraud-bilked-1-5-163100939.html
Drug company Hoffmann‑La Roche ... bilked U.S. federal and state governments out of $1.5 billion by misrepresenting clinical studies and falsely claiming that its well-known influenza medicine Tamiflu was effective at containing potential pandemics, according to a recently unsealed whistleblower lawsuit. The lawsuit claims the drugmaker's scheme involved publishing misleading articles falsely stating that Tamiflu reduces complications, severity, hospitalizations, mortality and transmission of influenza. The company then used those articles to aggressively market the drug to the government for pandemic use. Relying on the supposed truthfulness of Roche's claims, federal and state governments spent about $1.5 billion to stockpile Tamiflu to combat influenza pandemics, according to the complaint.

Stockpiles of Roche Tamiflu Drug are Waste of Money, Report Finds

April 10, 2014, Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/10/us-roche...
Researchers who have fought for years to get full data on Roche's flu medicine Tamiflu said on Thursday that governments who stockpile it are wasting billions of dollars on a drug whose effectiveness is in doubt. In a review of trial data on Tamiflu, and on GlaxoSmithKline's flu drug Relenza, scientists from the respected research network the Cochrane Review said that the medicines had few if any beneficial effects, but did have adverse side effects. "Remember, the idea of a drug is that the benefits should exceed the harms," Heneghan said. "So if you can't find any benefits, that accentuates the harm." Tamiflu sales hit almost $3 billion in 2009 ‑ mostly due to its use in the H1N1 flu pandemic.

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What the politicians think of each other.

This is from an FIO document received by Judicial Watch:

“ email from Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal Romney, of course, is contemptible, but contemptible on a level not seen in past contemptible political figures. His menace comes from his emptiness. His menace is not limited simply to mere filthy the lucre. Mixture of greedy ambition and policies is combustible. He will do and say anything to get ahead, and while usually self immolating he is also destructive. Behind his blandness lies boundless ignorance, ignited by constantly wretched judgment. His recent statements are a piece with everything he has done from naming Ryan on his welfare ads, etc.”
Full article

Why was Puerto Rico Singled Out?

Puerto Rico is the only province of the US that cannot declare bankruptcy, a politician –Strom Thurmond, Sr. ( 48 years as a United States Senator from South Carolina, turned 100 years old on December 5, 2002, while still in office) Democrat specifically wrote that into law. Why? Companies know that if they sell too much stuff to a state or city they can always declare bankruptcy and the company would be left holding the bag. If they couldn't, then companies could sell anything and everything to greedy, self–serving politicians (I repeat myself) that they stay elected but the citizens will always be stuck with paying the bill while the politician will take their fat retirement with fat benefits and leave. There was a whole special about it on PBS, it pointed to a corrupt politician. ‘Politifact.com’ had the story but is now MIA. To many "facts" I suspect. Bloomberg said it was a goof, I guess that is why they still show the story, if you will pay to see it. “Congress Goofed. Puerto Rico Pays. Bankruptcy was an option until 1984. That's when a drafting error became law." ("drafting error" my ass. Political cover–up.)”

Puerto Rico Imports 85% of Its Food and Owes $123 Billion in Debt, Yet It Gives Monsanto/Bayer a 90% Tax Exemption.

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In the United States —

You can call corn syrup … maple syrup, –– unless it specifically says 100% Maple syrup on the label.

You can call something cheese –– as long as it is at least 51% “real” cheese. (49% is WHAT!) If the contents has to be labeled, what is the 49%?

You must label the nutrient value of your product –– but it only has to be ∓ 20%.

MSG has gotten a bad name, –– so industry just calls it something else so they don't have to list it as MSG.

Where ‘trans fats’ are a bad word but ‘partially hydrogenated oil’ isn't, –– yet they are the same thing.

A product can be labeled as ‘trans fat’ free –– as long as it contains less than .5 grams per serving. S0, ridiculously small serving sizes are suggested.

Where sugar has gotten a bad name, –– but pharma produced substitutes that can make you sick are OK. Besides, sick people buy more pharma.

Where ‘natural’ can only appear on food that contains no artificial ingredients or coloring –– but it can contain GMO's and artificial sweeteners.

A product can claim to be “gluten Free” –– yet still contain gluten from things other than wheat that are equally as bad to gluten sensitive people.

Nicotine is a class 1 narcotic, highly regulated by the FDA, –– unless it is smoked from a cigarette. The tobacco companies have lobbied hard, (bribed) and spent 100's of millions on political contributions to buy the political whores of congress. We call nicotine addiction a "habit".

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The FDA is run by Congress and Congress is run, by 30,000 lobbyists who work for industry etc.
So, you work for the FDA and you put in your 20 years with the government and retire with a fat government pension. Than if you have been “NICE” to big pharma you can get a job on some board doing ‘??’ for another fat paycheck. No conflict of interest there. <sic>

Yeah, write your congressmen, however, all a congressmen reads is the front of a check and unless it is a really big number, your wasting your time..

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Let there be no doubt!

In 1952, Armon M. Sweat, Jr., a member of the Texas House of Representatives, was asked about his position on WHISKEY. What follows is his exact answer (taken from the Political Archives of Texas):

"If you mean ‘WHISKEY’, the devil’s brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, de-thrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean that evil drink that topples Christian men and women from the pinnacles of righteous and gracious living into the bottomless pit of degradation, shame, despair, helplessness, and hopelessness, then, my friend, I am opposed to it with every fiber of my being.

“However, if by ‘WHISKEY’ you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine, the elixir of life, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together, that puts a song in their hearts and the warm glow of contentment in their eyes; if you mean Christmas cheer, the stimulating sip that puts a little spring in the step of an elderly gentleman on a frosty morning; if you mean that drink that enables man to magnify his joy, and to forget life’s great tragedies and heart breaks and sorrow; if you mean that drink the sale of which pours into Texas treasuries untold millions of dollars each year, that provides tender care for our little crippled children, our blind, our deaf, our dumb, our pitifully aged and infirm, to build the finest highways, hospitals, universities, and community colleges in this nation, then my friend, I am absolutely, unequivocally in favor of it.

“This is my position, and as always, I refuse to compromise on matters of principle."

This one short sentences will tell you a lot about our government and our culture:

1. We are advised to not judge all muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge all gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics.
Funny how that works.

and here is another one worth considering.

2. Seems we constantly hear about how social security is going to run out of money. How come we never hear about welfare running out of money? What's interesting is the first group "worked for" their money, but the second didn't.
Profound isn't it... Think about it...

Most damaging WIKILEAKS.

The original "Most damaging" URL went away as does many things damaging to the left.

[link no longer works?? wikileaks dot org/clinton-emails">Clinton emails that you would never see otherwise.

wikipedia dot org/wiki/2016_Democratic_National_Committee_email_leak 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak. Wiki is heavily edited by liberals, I have read China has a group that do nothing but update and edit wikipedia. Hence, this article is now gone.

The most revealing Clinton campaign emails in WikiLeaks release.

What 20,000 pages of hacked WikiLeaks emails teach us about Hillary Clinton.

Profound isn't it... think about it...

Congress has decided that your ISP is allowed to sell your browsing history.

Former Gov. (of N.Y.) Eliot Spitzer (Democrat) liked to smuggle his $5,000 a night Russian prostitute into the Upper East Side home he shared with his wife – by cramming the call girl into a piece of luggage, she admitted to the New York Post.
Larry Celona reports:
“He used to sneak me into his Fifth Avenue apartment in a black suitcase . . . when his wife was away,” Svetlana Travis Zakharova told The Post in an exclusive interview.
“My knees would be up by my face. When the doorman would ask if he could help, Eliot would say, ’No, thanks.‘“
Zakharova revealed Eliot's ungentlemanly tactic, which she endured roughly 15 times, as her lawyer prepares a new case to put the ex–governor behind bars.
The Russian sexpot first hit the headlines in early 2016 when she accused Spitzer of choking her during a sex–session–gone–awry at The Plaza hotel in Midtown.
Now, Zakharova's Queens lawyer, Joseph Murray, is asking Manhattan US attorney Geoffrey Berman to investigate Spitzer for alleged “improprieties“ in his efforts to evade prosecution.
Zakharova recorded a call from Spitzer during which he threatened to kill her after he beat and choked her.
“You f–king bitch! You piece of s–t! And then you f–king destroyed my life!” the disgraced governor reportedly bellowed. “You know what's going to happen to you? You're going to be f–king dead.”

ALABAMA AG OPENS INVESTIGATION Into Dem Corruption During Roy Moore Election. 12–30–18

12–2018 Congress passes spending bill and managed to add 12 million to their own pockets.

un‑confirmed as of yet

wikipedia dot org/wiki/Immigration_ and_Nationality_Act _of_1952 McCarran‑Walter Act

Another damning best_of_dirty_dick_durbin.html/article from the heavily liberal edited wiki has been deleted.

“On November 18, 1990 the 101st Congress ‘QUIETLY’ repealed the McCarran Warner Act of 1952 forbidding “muslims” from holding office; members of that congress were Dick Cheney, John McCain, Joe Biden, Al Gore, John Kerry, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer & Nancy Pelosi......see the agenda?”

The law was modified in 1990, Immigration Act of 1990 removed many of the immigrant references but I have not been able to find just who did what. That is public information but I haven't been able to find out anything from the source. It is like our laws are now secret.

https://youtu.be/1h5iv6sECGU

This is good.

Ruppert, “People talk to me about the problem of republican verses democrat but they don't get it. I said look, here is the way to look at it, It is organized crime. All you do is call the Republicans the Genovese and the Democrats the Gambinos... The people at the top treat it like a crap game. It is their crap game and they are making lots of money. Occasionally at the table somebody shoots each other but the moment anything threatens their crap game they all unite to protect it....They are both controlled by the same financial and corporate interest.” From Aaron Russo film.

Democrat Congressman Wants ‘Taxpayer‑Funded Dorms’

Legislation would subsidize living expenses for House members

Elizabeth Harrington ‑ June 21, 2018

Democratic members of Congress want taxpayers to subsidize their housing, signing onto legislation that would allow them to deduct living expenses for members of the House of Representatives. Can you imagine just how fast that would be exploited.

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D., Miss.) introduced a bill that would ban members of Congress from sleeping in their offices and would change the tax code to allow House members to deduct their spending on housing in D.C. up to $3,000. The deduction would not apply to senators.

Thompson has also proposed turning a vacant building near Capitol Hill into apartments for House members at the expensive of taxpayers, which critics have dubbed a "Congressional Animal House." full article

I saw a thing on Conyersthe other night on TV talking about the patriot act. He said it was essentially written and printed up overnight than presented to congress the very next day. Nobody read it but it was voted on and passed... NOBODY read it!!! Conyers said congressmen rarely read bills in congress. Too busy politicking I suppose, that or fact finding missions in the Bahamas.

He is gone, but I have a feeling his replacement won't be any better.

Supreme Court Judge

Politicians can't help it, they want control. In Florida it is against the law to live "off the grid" and if you find a treasure in coastal waters it belongs to the state. In Colorado the rain that falls on your property does not belong to you. e.g. you can't catch it in a rain barrel without a permit. It is against the law to 'spit' in a park in Arizona. Chico CA has a law against detonating a nuclear device within the city limits. You can't use a catapult in Colorado. You can't sell a pickle in Connecticut unless it bounces. You can't eat chicken with utensils in Georgia. Black cats must wear bells inIndiana. It is illegal to throw snowballs in Topeka KA. It is illegal to play fofl anywhere in Montana except sanctioned "fofl course". It is against the law in New Jersey to murder someone with a bullet proof vest on. If you buy a bagel in New York that is altered in anyway, there is an 8¢ sales tax on it. It is considered a speed racing offense in Oregon if you participate in any “test of physical endurance” while on the highway.

Supplement

Oregon Governor BUSTED In Web Of Corruption & Possible Election Law Violations #SecretsAndLies

part of a link that may not come up: Employees of Romney family’s secret bank tied to fraud, money laundering, drug cartels and the CIA

Did Oregon’s Governor Kate Brown violate multiple campaign laws by using her official government staff and resources as part of her re-election campaign?

Project Veritas Action Fund has released an undercover video which exposes widespread mismanagement and possible campaign law violations associated with Governor Kate Brown.

The undercover report features a former campaign manager for Brown, Michael Kolenc, candidly revealing the governor’s misdeeds both in running her last campaign and in governing the state of Oregon. According to Project Veritas.

Sneak Vote On Patriot Act Renewal Today 11/19/2019. They did it again, while you were watching the riots (demonstrations).

Gerry Bello 11 years ago

As previously reported in by the Columbus Free Press, the Romney family, namely Mitt, Ann, G Scott and Tagg Romney, along with Mitt’s “6th son” and campaign finance chair have a secretive private equity firm called Solamere Capital Partners. This firms ties to Romney’s campaign and bundlers is already well documented, along with its connection to the manufacture and distribution of voting machines. What is not as well documented is a subsidiary of that private equity firm hiring employees of a failed firm tied to a Ponzi scheme that has a long history of money laundering for Latin American drug cartels and to the Iran-Contra scandal.

As reported by ThinkProgress, Solamere Capital Partner’s subsidiary Solamere Advisors is a investment advisory group, providing advice to Solamere clients and boosting sales. Would-be corporate pugilist Tagg Romney is a director. According to the New York Times, all but one of its 11 employees came from the Charlotte office of the Stanford Financial Group, the US investment arm of convicted felon R. Allen Stanford’s offshore banking and fraud network that comprised a host of companies including the Stanford International Bank, Stanford Capital Management, The Bank of Antigua, Stanford Trust and Stanford Gold and Bullion. Three of these employees, Tim Bambauer, Deems May, and Brandon Phillips, received incentive compensation related to their direct sales of securities linked to a fraud that brought down this banking network.