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The Republican agenda from the ‘MODERATES’
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017f-1cf5-d281-a7ff-3ffd5f4a0000
Our kids will say the pledge of allegiance, salute the Flag, learn that America is a great country, and choose the school that best fits them. We will inspire patriotism and stop teaching the revisionist history of the radical left; our kids will learn about the wisdom of the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the founding fathers. Public schools will focus on the 3 R’s, not indoctrinate children with critical race theory or any other political ideology.
Government will never again ask American citizens to disclose their race, ethnicity, or skin color on any government forms. We are going to eliminate racial politics in America. No government policy will be based on race. People “will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” We are all made in the image of God; to judge a person on the color of their epidermis is immoral.
The soft-on-crime days of coddling criminal behavior will end. We will re-fund and respect the police because they, not the criminals, are the good guys. We will enforce our laws, all of them, and increase penalties for theft and violent crime. We will clean up our cities and stop pretending that crime is OK. We have zero-tolerance for “mostly peaceful protests” that attack police officers, loot businesses, and burn down our cities.
We will secure our border, finish building the wall, and name it after President Donald Trump. Nations have borders. We should give that a try. President Trump’s plan to build a wall was right. We welcome those who want to join us in building the American dream, immigrants who want to be Americans, not change America. We are a stronger nation because we are a nation of immigrants; but immigration without assimilation makes us weaker. Politicians from both parties talk big about border security and do nothing. We are done with that.
We will grow America’s economy, starve Washington’s economy, and stop Socialism. Socialism is un-American and always leads to poverty and oppression. We will stop it. We will shrink the federal government, reduce the government work force by 25% in 5 years, sell government buildings and assets, and get rid of the old, slow, closed, top-down, government-run-everything system we have today
We will eliminate all federal programs that can be done locally, and enact term limits for federal bureaucrats and Congress. Many government agencies should be either moved out of Washington or shuttered entirely. Yesterday’s old government is fundamentally incompatible with the digital era. The permanent ruling class in Washington is bankrupting us with inflation and debt, so they must be removed. For you to have more, Washington must have less.
We will protect the integrity of American Democracy and stop left-wing efforts to rig elections. Today’s Democrat Party is trying to rig elections and pack the courts because they have given up on Democracy. They don’t believe they can win based on their ideas, so they want to game the system and legalize voter fraud to stay in power. In true Orwellian fashion, Democrats refer to their election rigging plans as “voting rights”. We won’t allow the radical left to destroy our democracy by institutionalizing dishonesty and fraud.We will protect, defend, and promote the American Family at all costs. The nuclear family is crucial to civilization, it is God’s design for humanity, and it must be protected and celebrated. To say otherwise is to deny science. The fanatical left seeks to devalue and redefine the traditional family, as they undermine parents and attempt to replace them with government programs. We will not allow Socialism to place the needs of the state ahead of the family.
Men are men, women are women, and unborn babies are babies. We believe in science: Men and women are biologically different, ‘male and female He created them.’ Modern technology has confirmed that abortion takes a human life. Facts are facts, the earth is round, the sun is hot, there are two genders, and abortion stops a beating heart. To say otherwise is to deny science.
Americans will be free to welcome God into all aspects of our lives, and we will stop all government efforts to deny our religious freedom and freedom of speech. The Democrat Party and their Big Tech allies are not merely secular; they have virtually created a new religion of wokeness that is increasingly hostile toward people of faith, particularly Christians and Jews. They are determined to drive all mention of God out of public view. We will not be silenced, canceled, or told what words to use by the politically correct crowd.
We are Americans, not globalists. America will be dependent on NO other country. We will conduct no trade that takes away jobs or displaces American workers. Countries who oppose us at the UN will get zero financial help from us. We will be energy independent and build supply chains that never rely on our adversaries. We will only help countries that are willing to defend themselves, like Israel.
Online Zoom anti-war rally
February 27, 2022 at 12:00am – 1:00am (New York time )
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Although we recognise that RT is an unreliable source of information, it is an alternative to the equally biased other media outlets.
The Labour Party has chosen to demand the silencing of RT.
Starmer, the Labour leader, told MPs that the Russian president’s “campaign of misinformation should be tackled”, starting with moves to prevent RT from “broadcasting its propaganda around the world”.
There are numerous unrecognised states from Turkish- controlled Northern Cyprus to Somaliland (Puntland and Galmudug are other states formed out of Somalia) and then there is Sahrawi (Western Sahara). And of course the ongoing disputes of the diplomatic status of Taiwan
But these are the ones from the former USSR in addition to the Ukrainian breakaways
Transnistria
Artsakh (formerly Nagorno-Karabakh)
Abkhazia
South OssetiaNord Stream 2 impact
‘Other producing nations say they will not be able to provide substantial amounts of replacement gas if sanctions against Russia do affect Western Europe.’
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/22/what-was-said-at-gas-exporting-countries-forum
By Autonomous Action, a group I previously did not know.”Autonomous Action” says it has local groups in nearly 15 cities of Russia and Ukraine.
https://avtonom.org/en/news/against-annexations-and-imperial-aggression
https://avtonom.org/en/author_columns/why-should-we-support-ukraine
‘We are anarchists and we are against any borders between nations. But we are against this annexation, because it only establishes new borders, and the decision on this is made solely by the authoritarian leader—Vladimir Putin. This is an act of imperialist aggression by Russia. We have no illusions about the Ukrainian state, but it is clear to us that it is not the main aggressor in this story—this is not a confrontation between two equal evils.’
What I have also noticed is that the media and politicians are now describing the mental state of Putin. They called his speech ‘rambling’, they called him ‘paranoid’.
The next level will probably be to depict him as a mad leader.
Right-wing media figure Candace Owens advocated for a US invasion of Canada to support the anti-vaccine “Freedom Convoy” in response to a restrictive crackdown initiated by Justin Trudeau.
“STOP talking about Russia. Send American troops to Canada to deal with the tyrannical reign of Justin Trudeau Castro,” she wrote.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/candace-owens-calls-us-invade-202204421.html
Anti-Trump Republican radio host Joe Walsh warned against treating her as a completely fringe voice on the right.
“Candace Owens isn’t fringe. She’s ignorant & dishonest. But she’s not fringe. If there’s one takeaway from everything I say, it would be this: Candace Owens is not fringe, she’s very much mainstream GOP base these days. And that’s scary,” he wrote on Twitter.
Further to Janet Surman’s link to Craig Murray’s article on the OSCE,
Once more we have the hypocrisy of diplomacy as some leaders bleat on about national sovereignty.
We have witnessed before the dismemberment of nation-states.
Have they forgotten how Yugoslavia was splintered and breakaway states swiftly recognised with NATO military interventions?
But the occupations of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics by Russian troops are not an invasion of Ukraine proper but also under the pretext of ‘peacekeeping’.
In this game of poker bluffing, will the USA fold or call or up the ante and raise the stakes further?
Putin still holds an ace – full annexation of those republics as happened with Crimea.
Or he could go all-in with a very costly bloody invasion, that seems unlikely and unnecessary.
He will now see the extent of the sanctions that the US-UK-EU are willing to use against Russia.
All the media outlets are now suggesting that Putin is contemplating the formal recognition of the independence of the two breakaway provinces or even their annexation as in the case of Crimea.
At the 11th hour, Biden and Putin agree to face-to-face talks
And as I previously said, the history of Munich remembered
