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It’s Not a Race War. It’s Something Much Bigger

Via American Greatness

The Left wants a race war in America because they cannot otherwise win the ideological war they are waging.

The former is a cover for the latter.

Outside of Ivy League faculty lounges, Marxism cannot be sold on its merits. Whether in Central America or Eastern Europe, Marxists consistently have laid waste to the proletariat they promised to elevate. Rather than shift the means of production and power to the masses to achieve a truly just and equitable society, Marxism in its various forms has killed upwards of 100 million people since its ideological debut in the late 19th century.

Today’s Marxism, therefore, lacks a compelling or substantive historical case and thus necessitates a righteous façade. So today’s Marxists downplay their true interest in destroying the nuclear family by marketing themselves as Black Lives Matter, merely pretending their primary interest is ameliorating racial wrongs past and present, because that is the best way to capture the attention of Americans.

Like the gelatinous creatures in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” today’s Marxists infiltrate K-12 school systems, college campuses, the arts, media, and government regulatory agencies, and replace sapient beings with their Marxist duplicates. “Gosh, Sally looks the same but I don’t remember her wearing a P-hat and scrawling out ‘Whiteness is the Real Pandemic’ placards in the staff break room.”

Today’s Marxist tactics are purely about political expediency. Since both political parties support bribing people with their own money, one more $1400 “relief” check doesn’t generate the unbridled, unthinking, and institutionally destabilizing reactions today’s Marxists seek. Thus it is far more effective to zero in on an important aspect of how people identify themselves—that is, their race—and reduce them to nothing more than that race, followed by assigning “oppressor” and “victim” name tags accordingly.

Then it’s off to the races, so to speak, where every problem is sourced to America’s allegedly racist DNA and every solution is found through atonement by the oppressor racial groups, though absolution will never be granted.

Today’s Marxists are not to be confused with yesterday’s Black Nationalists. In fact, they are happy to include other factions on the intersectional spectrum. For example, demanding that men be able to play women’s sports, promoting hysteria around crimes against Asian Americans, or decriminalizing consensual incest are goals welcomed alongside racial reparations, for they provide the potential for acquiring political power, which is the Marxists’ only principle.

Read the entire article HERE.

How Biden’s climate plan could limit you to eat just one burger a MONTH

Via The Daily Mail

President Joe Biden’s ambitious plan to slash greenhouse emissions by 50 to 52 percent over the next decade could prompt sweeping changes that could affect how Americans eat, drive and heat their homes.

Biden announced the goal to cut emissions by 2030, compared with 2005 levels, at the start of a two-day climate summit on Thursday.

He vowed the plan, which would set the US on a path of a zero emissions economy by no later than 2050, would create jobs and boost economies.

But he is yet to release any firm details on exactly how such a plan will affect the daily lives of ordinary Americans.

He also hasn’t set out the price for reducing emissions.

The plan immediately sparked criticism from Republicans and industry experts who argue it isn’t sustainable in the long run, will put jobs at risk and cause tax hikes for Americans.

While Biden hasn’t released details on what life could look like for Americans, experts and recent studies have laid out what would need to change by 2030 to reach the goal.

Americans may have to cut their red meat consumption by a whopping 90 percent and cut their consumption of other animal based foods in half.

Gradually making those changes by 2030 could see diet-related greenhouse gas emissions reduced by 50 percent, according to a study by Michigan University’s Center for Sustainable Systems.

To do that, it would require Americans to only consume about four pounds of red meat per year, or 0.18 ounces per day.

It equates to consuming roughly one average sized burger per month.

Read the entire article HERE.

NAMED & SHAMED: The “Journalists” Who Went on Chinese Communist Party Junkets, Then Delivered “Favorable Coverage”

Via The National Pulse

Unearthed documents from one of the leading Chinese Communist Party propaganda groups reveal the names of “mainstream” U.S. journalists taking junkets from the group in exchange for favorable coverage, The National Pulse can exclusively reveal.
The trips often came just before opinion editorials and news reports excusing Chinese Communist Party crimes, or opposing trade showdowns with the nation.

The China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) was founded by the Vice-Chairman of the “highest-ranking entity overseeing” Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Department, an effort which aims to “co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority” of the Chinese government. “The United Front strategy uses a range of methods to influence overseas Chinese communities, foreign governments, and other actors to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies,” the U.S. government report continues.

CUSEF uses United Front Department tactics of influence on Western journalists from virtually every Western media outlet: CNN, New York Times, MSNBC, The Washington Post, and many more. According to Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) filings with the Department of Justice, CUSEF retained Western lobbyists to aid in their quest to “effectively disseminate positive messages to the media, key influencers and opinion leaders, and the general public” regarding China.

The National Pulse can now exclusively reveal Western journalists – including those praised by President Biden and married to potential members of his White House – who are listed as having accepted trips from the Chinese Communist Party influence group.

Red Handed.

CUSEF newsletter from 2009 and 2010 reveal the following journalists:

• Vox Co-founder and New York Times columnist Ezra Klein;
• Vox Co-founder Matthew Yglesias;
• CNN Senior Political Analyst and The Atlantic Senior Editor Ronald Brownstein;
• New York Times Reporter Bradford Plumer;
• Associated Press Vice President and Editor Marjorie Miller;
• The Hill Editor-at-Large Steve Clemons;
• Former NPR Senior Editor Marilyn Geewax;
• Former Newsweek and Wall Street Journal Marketplace Editor Kathleen Deveny;
• Former U.S. News and World Report Correspondent Tom Omestad;
• Chicago Tribune Columnist and Editorial Writer Steve Chapman;
• Former National Journal Correspondent Bruce Stokes (And the husband of President Biden’s Deputy Secretary of State nominee who has also taken CUSEF trips);
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Washington Bureau Chief Craig Gilbert;
• The Week columnist Shikha Dalmia.

Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell also identified herself as accepting CUSEF trips, burying a disclaimer on the bottom of two articles “The U.S. and China fight for second place” and “The Olympics gives China a second chance at human rights reforms”:

(Disclosure: My trip is being paid for by the China-United States Exchange Foundation, a Hong Kong-based nonprofit that aims to improve Americans’ understanding of China.)

Pay for Play?

While those named above represent a fraction of the journalists taking CUSEF trips, the influence of the program on participants’ subsequent reporting is easily discerned.

Read the entire article HERE.

Students and alumni want statue of Colin Kaepernick on campus

Via Campus Reform

Students and alumni want a statue of former NFL quarterback Colin Kapernick installed at the University of Nevada-Reno.

Kaepernick — who graduated in 2011 and led the school’s football team to record victories — gained national notoriety after kneeling during the national anthem at a San Francisco 49ers football game.

Today, Kaepernick focuses much of his efforts on racial activism work. As Campus Reform recently reported, Kaepernick’s organization sponsored a series of essays about police reform and racism. One of the writings alleged that to “reform the police” is to “reward the police” while they “brutalize and kill.”

A Facebook group called UNR Alumni Campaign for Statue of Kaepernick Kneeling in Mackay Stadium — which launched following the death of George Floyd and which boasted 1,500 members as of the time of publication — said that creating the statue “would make a very powerful statement to future students, especially Black ones.”

“The university states that it supports inclusion and diversity. Let’s see. Does UNR want to be on the correct side of history, or not?” reads the group’s description.

Corresponding with alumni, the Associated Students of the University of Nevada proposed a resolution to install a statue of Kaepernick.

Read the entire article HERE.

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