George Rebane
LIBERAL BILLIONAIRE APOLOGIZES FOR FUNDING RUSSIAN BOT ‘FALSE FLAG’ Those fun-loving Democrats just can’t leave well enough alone when the go to work getting out the vote. In the 2016 national election Crooked Hillary and her DNC had to do some numbers ginning up dirt on the opposition, and even putting down the hammer on one of their own kind who didn’t get the hint that it wasn’t his turn (ever). But most recently it was “billionaire Reid Hoffman (who) apologized Wednesday for funding an effort to dupe Alabama voters into believing Russian bots were fueling Republican Roy Moore’s failed senatorial bid.” Yep, you really don’t want to get yourself into the cross-hairs of that bunch.
Truthout.org, the ultra-left (well, actually communist) opinion shaper and progressives’ moral voice, is now calling for acts of sabotage to bring down the Trump administration. This week the summons went out to Democrat constituencies across the country (‘We Can’t Wait on a Savior to Remove Trump. We Must Resist En Masse’), followed by a specific call directed at government employees for “federal disobedience” and “noncooperation” (‘Federal Disobedience: Why We Must Support Federal Worker Noncooperation’). It is literally impossible to make this up. Today’s Left is no different from the Bosheviks of old; when the established (constitutional) order cannot be brought down by their ideas in the public forum, then it must be attacked by all other trans-rational means available.
Most longtime RR readers know that people of the Left get a very one-sided view of the world that is dispensed by their favorite ideological wordsmiths and talking heads. They stick to their own kind when it comes to forming their picture of the world. And because of this, our local leftwing contingent continually creates comic relief in these comment streams when they unknowingly show up with their blinders on and claim that RR has a solo hold on ideas that counter their carefully cultivated credos. When other readers provide links and point out contrary references in my commentaries, that information is simply ignored by our lefties as if it didn’t exist – they just continue their critiques cased in the comfort that not only do these ideas have local provenance, but that they also have limited purview. Hence, if they can be stamped out here in their cradle, the outside world will not be infected. BTW, here’s a laundry list of fake news that our progressives swallowed hook, line, and sinker during the past year from their faithful fountains of facts.
That old-time religion in America is on the skids. We have been pointing out for years how the media and our educational systems have been composing recessionals to Christianity as part of their assault on western culture and civilization. Every time new stats are collected and composed, the story becomes bleaker for our Judeo-Christian heritage. The evidence for that is most visible during the year-end holiday season when secular humanity makes its strongest assault on the faith of our fathers. I was directed to a current compendium on this cultural transformation by Joel Kotkin (‘As the Old Faiths Collapse, the Greens, Social Justice Warriors, and Techno-Futurists Aim to Fill the Void’) by a reader and correspondent. After giving us the dreary numbers of how our traditional religions are being forsaken by the young moderns, despite heroic efforts by churches and temples to inject socio-political ideology into their liturgies, Kotkin documents the parallel social phenomenon of the Left desperately cobbling together new faiths to serve new gods, so that they will not miss out on that ineffable something that they see gracing the lives of the remaining Christian and Jewish holdouts. (Here is Truthout's report this.) The real interesting news here is about the outliers of secular humanists’ fabricated faiths. These involve the new trans-humanist faith(s?), and those churches of god without god. Kotkin concludes his essay with –
The loss here would not only be for the faithful but the entire society. Religious institutions rooted in the past also serve as ideal transmitters of traditional culture and identity; the new ones see themselves largely as warriors of the future, based on perceived social and scientific truths. Trans-humanists, for their part, seek to reduce reality to data, rejecting much of what makes us different not only from other animals, but machines. … Ultimately, the new religions, seeking to fill the void left behind by traditional faiths, offer little to families in search of moral instruction or guidance for how different kinds of people can get along. They have no answers for addressing the reality that almost all of us alive today, despite the scheming of the trans-humanists, eventually will die. A world without the old faiths may still be spiritually engaged, even hysterically so, but we may lose the lessons of community, sacrifice, discipline and faith that the old religions taught to bind our societies together.
[28dec18 update] “Climate change has always been the cover story, not the real issue which (is) Agenda 21 Sustainability.” writes a reader and correspondent in this morning’s email. This year’s IPCC special report SR-15 details the real agenda that was pursued at this year’s international climate change conference in Katowice, Poland. (more here) The global warming bamboozle continues in full force, but the real objectives for arguably the greatest wholesale fraud ever attempted on the entire world’s population are now leaking out, and there to see for everyone who cares to pay attention. Unfortunately, humans in the aggregate are not that bright.
‘China Reins In Its Tech Giants’ reports the 28dec18 WSJ. “The closer scrutiny of tech companies comes as Mr. Xi seeks to restore the Communist Party's pre-eminence as a force in people’s lives and to establish that the Party—and not the private sector—is charting the course for China’s future.” Communism, like our progressive sector, has always claimed to be society’s most reliable moral compass. Therefore, kowtowing to the Party, China’s industries like ride-sharing Didi are now hiring thousands of “Communist Party members as role models for customer service.” For our global competitive position, this is the best news coming out of the Middle Kingdom in years. (Here our Dems will do their best to emulate China starting 3 January 2019.)
Nokidhungry.org maintains that childhood hunger is prevalent in over ten million American households. And this goes on under governments that have uncountable programs for helping and feeding even mildly or totally unneedy families and individuals. Congress just passed an $867B (dreadfully misnamed) ‘farm bill’, of which 85% or $737B goes for food stamps for the poor. For the hungry households, this computes to over $73K for each household’s annual food budget. Cut that in half and half again, and you’d still come up with over $18K per year for groceries. What do each of these messages convey about the extent of children going hungry – ‘In America 1 in 6 kids is starving’, ‘- does not have enough to eat’, ‘- faces hunger’.? (nokidhungry uses the last one in its ads). But the real question is, what’s wrong with this picture? (Extra credit: What’s the political persuasion of the overwhelming share of bureaucrats who have been running the food stamps program for years?)
[30dec18 update] I was graced by Union columnist George Boardman to appear in his tomorrow's (31dec18) offering. He quoted from the addendum to my 3jan18 KVMR commentary – "I believe the present state of affairs in the world order are the result of the spontaneously coordinated efforts of fundamental Islam and western socialism’s striving to meet Agenda21 objectives." I invite readers to reread the complete addendum.
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