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6/26/22 - The Left is Big Into 501c3 Abuse
The Left is Big Into 501c3 Abuse
The Left is Big Into 501c3 Abuse
- The IRS and the Democrats enabled the rise of BLM, unleashing mayhem on the nation, by not enforcing tax-exempt rules (e.g., staying nonpolitical), welcoming leaders to the White House, bailing out BLM activists who got arrested, etc.
- More 501c3 abuse - radical Austin Justice Coalition worked to defund the police, influence legislation, and enrich themselves with tax-exempt donations
- Medi-Cal delivering ready meals to program recipients. This is part of the ‘Social Determinants of Health’ push (SDOH) which holds people cannot be healthy until they receive free food, free housing, and free everything. Redistribution is the hidden agenda, plain and simple.
- You probably have heard of unionization efforts among graduate students, but it’s now beginning at the undergraduate level. The Left never stops.
- California mayor transforming town into haven for bicycles. (Editor’s Note: When I moved to D.C. decades ago, it went through a period of being exceedingly unfriendly to cars, doing everything it could to punish car use. It finally gave up, but the bike lanes remain.)
6/5/22 - Climate Reparations: Let’s Give All Our Money to the Third World
Climate Reparations: Let’s Give All Our Money to the Third World
Climate Reparations: Let’s Give All Our Money to the Third World
- “a new report from the Climate and Community Project — a “coalition of academics and policy experts working to advance climate justice” — urges the United States and European countries to provide immediate relief through a program of “climate reparations” payments and debt relief. They want America and institutions that we bankroll, such as the World Bank and the IMF, to write off these nations’ $800 billion of international debt obligations.” Here’s why: “the least developed countries with almost half the world’s population have only contributed about 8 percent of the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1850.”
- ‘Climate justice’ - it’s that old saying: green on the outside, red on the inside.
- Here’s yet another well-funded, well-oiled machine of the Left: D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice. This is a project of Teaching for Change which is funded by the Communities for Just Schools Fund and the Taste of Salt Fund. Teachers can pledge to teach the ‘truth’ about systemic racism, LGBT issues, anti-Blackness, blah, blah, blah.
- From Andy Ngo: “Detention Watch Network received funding from Soros' Open Society Foundations. The far-left group calls for the defunding of US law & border enforcement. Newly appointed immigration judge Romy Lerner was one of the main contacts on its nonprofit filing.” https://bizapedia.com/wa/detention-w
- Actually, this has been going on for more than 20 years, but a fresh reference was made to the idea on ‘Your Rights at Work’ this month, a labor show on the far-left radio station WPFW in Washington D.C. (6/2/22)
5/15/22 - Disinformation Board Defenders Come Up Short
DHS, the White House, and others are defending the new Disinformation Governance Board, but here are some things to remember when evaluating their claims:
The say it won’t monitor U.S. citizens, but merely conduct academic research into national security threat occasioned by disinformation from foreign countries and others. It’s just an advisory working group, not an operational agency. But don’t forget this is a “Governance Board”. Exactly what it intends to ‘govern’ and how remains to be seen.
The Board’s executive director Nina Jankowicz professes the Board is committed to maintaining free speech and civil liberties, but she personally has antipathy toward free speech. She is against Elon Musk buying Twitter to broaden the viewpoints expressed there. She said, "I shudder to think about if free speech absolutists were taking over more platforms....”
Jankowicz is supposed to be an expert in Russian disinformation, but thinks Hunter Biden’s laptop is just a Trump campaign product despite the New York Times and the Washington Post admitting the laptop is genuine.
Remember this is the same DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas who claims “the border is closed” while instituting numerous policy changes to make sure it is open [compiled at The Daily Skirmish, 4/28/22]. If he is looking for the source of disinformation, he should look in the mirror.
Remember this is the same federal government that spent a billion dollars to pay media companies to publish stories about how the COVID vaccines were safe and effective - despite over 25,000 deaths associated with the vaccines - and has asked for the removal of factual information to the contrary.
This is the same government that went after ordinary parents for speaking their minds at school board meetings, then tried to cover it up. The government labeled parents ‘domestic terrorists’ and used counter-terrorism techniques against them, all the while denying it was doing so.
So, you may be forgiven for not trusting your government, a government that rules by phony narrative, spreads its own disinformation, and attempts to shut down contrary voices. The government is not supposed to be in the business of deciding what is true, or stifling the free speech of political opponents who won’t toe the party line. What this “Governance Board” ends up being remains to be seen, but there is already plenty of reason to believe it’s up to no good.
DHS, the White House, and others are defending the new Disinformation Governance Board, but here are some things to remember when evaluating their claims:
The say it won’t monitor U.S. citizens, but merely conduct academic research into national security threat occasioned by disinformation from foreign countries and others. It’s just an advisory working group, not an operational agency. But don’t forget this is a “Governance Board”. Exactly what it intends to ‘govern’ and how remains to be seen.
The Board’s executive director Nina Jankowicz professes the Board is committed to maintaining free speech and civil liberties, but she personally has antipathy toward free speech. She is against Elon Musk buying Twitter to broaden the viewpoints expressed there. She said, "I shudder to think about if free speech absolutists were taking over more platforms....”
Jankowicz is supposed to be an expert in Russian disinformation, but thinks Hunter Biden’s laptop is just a Trump campaign product despite the New York Times and the Washington Post admitting the laptop is genuine.
Remember this is the same DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas who claims “the border is closed” while instituting numerous policy changes to make sure it is open [compiled at The Daily Skirmish, 4/28/22]. If he is looking for the source of disinformation, he should look in the mirror.
Remember this is the same federal government that spent a billion dollars to pay media companies to publish stories about how the COVID vaccines were safe and effective - despite over 25,000 deaths associated with the vaccines - and has asked for the removal of factual information to the contrary.
This is the same government that went after ordinary parents for speaking their minds at school board meetings, then tried to cover it up. The government labeled parents ‘domestic terrorists’ and used counter-terrorism techniques against them, all the while denying it was doing so.
So, you may be forgiven for not trusting your government, a government that rules by phony narrative, spreads its own disinformation, and attempts to shut down contrary voices. The government is not supposed to be in the business of deciding what is true, or stifling the free speech of political opponents who won’t toe the party line. What this “Governance Board” ends up being remains to be seen, but there is already plenty of reason to believe it’s up to no good.
5/8/22 - 90 Federal Agencies Unveil ‘Equity Action Plans’
90 Federal Agencies Unveil ‘Equity Action Plans’
Reparations Updates
90 Federal Agencies Unveil ‘Equity Action Plans’
- The Biden administration is pushing "an ambitious equity and racial justice agenda" across the whole of government. Examples include:
- DHS pushing grants to fight white supremacists and other domestic terrorists
- “reduce discrimination against LGBTQI+ people”
- “Veterans Affairs said it will work to improve the social and economic determinants of health for LGBTQI+ veterans” (N.B. - ‘Social Determinants of Health’ [SDOH] is code for redistribution, e.g., giving apartments to the homeless supposedly so they will stay in better health)
Reparations Updates
- “Local cities and towns, college and even states are increasingly taking up reparations as efforts at the federal level have gone nowhere....” Momentum is building in Providence, Chicago, and elsewhere. “We know its [sic] a losing conversation to talk about slavery in the 1600s.... But we also know we don’t have to go that far back. We know what happened with urban renewal and we can see what’s happening with gentrification.”
- The work of the California reparations task force is ongoing. The task force voted by a narrow margin to limit reparations to descendants of slaves, instead of opening reparations up to all claims of ‘systemic racism’. In June, a public report will assert “how the institution of slavery continues to reverberate throughout California, including in the form of disparities in household income, health, employment and incarceration.” A reparations plan will be presented to the state legislature next year.
- Plans include “coalition-building, sharing a more optimistic message with voters and less preaching. Democrats should also reclaim issues of patriotism, stay out of the political correctness business and improve their dialogue on racial divisions....” They will remind “voters that despite slim margins in the House and Senate, they did pass into law the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan and $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan for pandemic relief.” The planners say the ‘socialist’ label is hurting Democrats, so they want to message how they are ‘conservative’, i.e., how they “want to conserve the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the land, the air, the water, the climate system, the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act, the National Labor Relations Act, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid...." If all that fails, they can always fall back on calling Republicans ‘authoritarian’ and claim the GOP wants to ‘destroy democracy’. Sure, just keep telling yourself that. It makes you easier to deal with.
- Student loan forgiveness has popped into the mainstream and the Biden administration is exploring options to cancel some student loan debt. LeftWatch first brought the subject to your attention in January.