Sri Lanka Is Just the First to Topple in Globalists’ Green Energy House of Cards

BY: J.B. SHURK | JULY 18, 2022

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Riots, famines, societal collapse, and cultural invasion — the globalist agenda has created the perfect storm for national instability.

J.B. SHURK

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For a year, the Biden administration told Americans inflation wasn’t real. Then it was “transitory.” Then it was “sticky.” Then inflation was miraculously “real” but perfectly expected as a result of Covid-19 workplace lockdowns. Then it was an unfortunate but “necessary cost” for patriotic Americans to pay in defense of Ukraine against Russian aggression. Now inflation has risen to an annual rate of 9.1 percent, the highest in more than 40 years.

Tucker Carlson has been outlining how Joe Biden’s Green New Deal energy policies — not Russia’s war in Ukraine or Covid-19’s economic fallout — are directly responsible for our current economic crisis. In following the World Economic Forum’s Build Back Better socialist blueprint for transitioning the economy from one relying on the hydrocarbon energies of oil, coal, and natural gas to one based on insufficient supplies of wind and solar energies, manufacturing and transportation costs have skyrocketed.

Add to this destabilizing energy shift the WEF and Green New Deal’s concerted efforts to shift the global food supply from one based on high-yield, fertilizer-intensive crop farming and traditional cattle and poultry production to a new “sustainable” diet of insects and lab-grown synthetic meats, and it is clear that the Build Back Better agenda touches every part of an individual’s daily life. In one fell swoop, Davos devotees are attempting to overhaul both the energy sources undergirding the global economy and the energy sources that fuel every human being.

One of the principal effects of this forced paradigm shift in energy and food production is today’s runaway inflation. If the supplies of relatively inexpensive sources of hydrocarbon energy are reduced on the global market, then everything dependent on hydrocarbon energy increases in price. From the operational overhead required to keep commodity and manufacturing plants running to the international shipping and transcontinental transport costs required to move finished products across the world, everything becomes more expensive.

At each stage of the process of extracting raw materials, producing a product for market, and putting that product in a consumer’s home, rising “green” energy costs cascade to create skyrocketing inflation. Likewise, when agricultural and livestock farming are heavily regulated in accordance with Green New Deal “climate change” goals, then not only does food become more expensive, it also becomes more scarce. Inflation and food insecurity are the natural results.

The Great Reset, however, is not occurring in a vacuum. Unsuspecting citizens may be the guinea pigs forced to endure the World Economic Forum’s agenda, but they do not lack agency of their own. Hunger and loss of savings tend to fracture societies, and not surprisingly, chaos and carnage are now on the rise.

In Sri Lanka, the costs of food and fuel have gotten so high that the island country has nearly collapsed. The president has fled, the prime minister has promised to resign, the socialist nation is in a state of emergency, and fed-up citizens have taken over much of the capital. It is the starkest warning yet to the Build Back Better zealots how devastating for ordinary citizens their forced experiment in social engineering has become.

In the Netherlands, farmers protesting government plans to regulate their livelihoods out of existence and seize their farms have fought back by blocking main thoroughfares with their tractors and keeping supermarket shelves relatively bare. Already, similar protests have popped up in Italy, Poland, and Germany.

Castro-loving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may have succeeded in using the iron fists of government force and bank account seizures to dismantle Canadian truckers’ Freedom Convoy protests against experimental vaccine mandates earlier this year, but the current spate of public demonstrations against historic food and fuel costs show few signs of being similarly squashed.

While Germany prepares to restrict home heating at night and ration hot water, some industry leaders are already warning that “social peace is in great danger.” If tempers are running hot today, they are certain to go nuclear in the near future, as French and German leaders have warned their populations to “prepare for a total cut-off of Russian gas” that promises to exacerbate business bankruptcies and extend personal economic ruin. Only adding to the uncertainty of this approaching cataclysm, Europe’s border forces are reportedly “bracing” for “waves” of hungry illegal immigrants heading their way during what is inarguably transforming into a global food crisis.

Riots, famines, societal collapse, and cultural invasion — the globalists’ Great Reset agenda has created the perfect storm of economic insecurity and national instability.

All of this leads to an important question: If this Build Back Better project to demolish and reconstruct the West’s economic foundations ends up blowing up right in the globalists’ faces, what will they do next?

In Sri Lanka, the president hightailed it out of town and headed for paradise in the nearby Maldives. If Europe descends into conflict or outright rebellion, however, where will the World Economic Forum’s leaders hide? Is there someplace left in the world still unscathed from the predictable consequences of their disastrous actions?

J.B. Shurk is a freedom-minded, anti-establishment, sometimes unorthodox, committed generalist and a proud American from Daniel Boone country.

Here’s How the Post-Roe Right Can Reverse Anti-Family Government Policies

BY: JOE POPULARIS | JULY 18, 2022

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Republicans must launch a platform of pro-family, pro-children, and anti-abortion policies for post-Roe America.

JOE POPULARIS

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After the Roe v. Wade decision, the White House and Democratic politicians are trying to close pregnancy centers that care for mothers of lesser means and attempting to force states to make abortion legal via executive action. The left fights to win. So should we. Right now, the states — and later the federal government under a Republican White House — can fight back by launching a platform of pro-family, pro-children, and anti-abortion policies for post-Roe America.

The goal is threefold: Gain and consolidate nationalist right political power. Do this by appealing to broad groups of Americans, including working-class white, black, and Hispanic Americans, by actually making their lives better. Finally, make abortion so obsolete in corners of the country influenced by Republicans that a national ban is achievable via congressional action within the next decade.

Go After Abortionists, Not Women

Many women feel immense economic pressure to have an abortion. In addition, a large number of abortions are encouraged and paid for by the man involved, and a large portion of post-abortive mothers say they would have kept the child but for the man involved saying he did not want it. Indeed, poll after poll shows men are more supportive of abortion than women.

Yes, post-abortive women are not absolved morally, but many are hurting and damaged by the decision (studies showing this have been deep-sixed by the establishment, in place of crackpot studies attempting to show the opposite, but are nonetheless irrefutable). So go after abortionists vehemently and companies that supply the abortion industry, but not abortive mothers. This includes tort laws that allow asset seizures.

Lower the Cost of Birth

After Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (which ended Roe), huge corporations from Dick’s Sporting Goods to Disney have said they will pay for their workers to have out-of-state abortions if they live in states where abortion is illegal — they believe women without young children are more profitable. First, require companies with greater than 1,000 employees to make accommodations for pregnant or new mothers, including the ability to work from home if possible. Then, enhance the right of action for pregnant mothers and new mothers to sue employers for discrimination against their motherhood.

Next, create two new programs via a flat tariff and a minimum corporate tax targeting multinationals such as Nike and large tech companies that pay well below the statutory corporate tax rate and far below American small business rates, yet they have billions in sales each year. The first would allow lower-income mothers to stay at home with their baby for one year at half pay and come back to the same job they had previously if their employer has more than 10,000 employees. The second would pay for or dramatically reduce the cost of childbirth for every American mother.

Right now, insurance covers abortion, and abortion only costs $500-$1,000 because it takes a skilled abortionist only several minutes to complete the procedure. But if an American family doesn’t receive Medicaid, childbirth costs anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 with insurance (depending on the family deductible). Instead, ban insurance from covering abortion and reduce the cost of childbirth.

Stop Discouraging Family Formation

America is plagued by bad policy choices made by our outdated ruling class. Young people who go to college are impacted by student debt, which delays family formation. Meanwhile, working-class young people face marriage penalties just when they are at the prime age to start a serious romantic relationship and a family. Both of these drive abortion demand. The solution is restoring marriage, especially among America’s working class, where it has all but disappeared.

For those with student loan debt, married couples with children should receive a tax deduction for reducing their debt balance. But more attention must be paid to the working class, as abortion is much more likely at the lower end of America’s income ladder.

The median income of our entry-level working class, non-college jobs leaves young people at the bottom end of incomes exposed to marriage penalties. Marriage penalties exist because, unlike the federal tax code, government benefit programs don’t account for two adult earners in a household having more earning power than a single adult. A single mother qualifies for a program — even if she has a live-in boyfriend who is unrelated to her children, statistically placing children in danger — but two biological parents living with their children and reporting that honestly to authorities do not qualify.

The marriage penalties easily reach $10,000 or more per year for a family of two adults and their baby, if each adult earns around $60,000 or less (depending on the state). The penalties trap people in multi-generational poverty and family instability, driving abortion demand. At the same time, the earning power of working-class men has been lackluster since the 1970s, increasing the disincentive toward working-class marriage — making working-class men less marriageable.

First, policymakers at the state level can change the eligibility threshold for married couples in individual programs. At the federal level, Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney’s Family Security Act (FSA) is worth considering. The FSA replaces the child tax credit with a monthly child allowance — $350 per month to families for a child under 6, and $250 per month for a child 6 and over, with the maximum monthly payment to a family capped at $1,250 per month. Conservatives reading this might be getting very uncomfortable, but just wait — the benefit phases out at high-income levels which account for marriage, at $200,000 for single filers and $400,000 for married filers. In a measure pro-life Americans should praise, payments would start within four months of a child’s due date.

To pay for the FSA plan, Romney would get rid of two welfare programs with very large marriage penalties: the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF), or income-based cash welfare, and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for single parents. The FSA would also remove the “head of household” tax filing status, which is anti-marriage because it allows a single person to receive the tax treatment of a married couple. To cover the rest of the difference, the plan ends the daycare deduction, a giveaway to high-earners, and the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction, which is a tax giveaway to the blue-state rich.

Put simply, the Romney plan ends a bunch of bad programs with marriage penalties and steep bureaucracies to instead give marriage-neutral money directly based on tax returns (sidestepping the welfare bureaucracies) to American families with kids, allowing married mothers to stay at home with their children. Still, the plan should go further.

Instead of phasing out just the above-mentioned programs, expand the phase-out to most or all federal welfare programs — in particular food stamps, Section 8 housing, and the Childcare Assistance Program, all with large marriage penalties. In return, make Romney’s FSA slightly more generous, especially for disabled children (also, abortion exceptions for disabilities such as Down syndrome are a travesty in red states like Texas and must be done away with). Don’t index the program for inflation, and over time it will go away on its own without the mass dependency of our current welfare. Finally, reshoring manufacturing jobs is important to make working-class men more marriageable.

Push Affordable Homes

Gladden Pappin has a wonderful article where he outlines Hungary’s success in sparking marriage and childbirth by making it easier for new families to afford a home. While policy should never seek to incentivize greater use of debt (for homes or college), a few things are in order.

First, a voucher to use for assistance with a down payment, predicated on a family being married with children. Second, Washington must act immediately to ban the mass ownership of homes by investment firms like BlackRock. The most lenient approach would be to tax the corporate purchase of homes and use this to fund the family voucher program.

Help Mothers, and Make America Safe for Kids

Increase resources for mothers and aid organizations providing assistance, such as diapers and car seats. Adoption needs reform too. It costs up to tens of thousands per child. Instead, domestic adoption must be made easier financially.

Foster care also needs reform. America is in the midst of a foster crisis, because of the huge numbers of adults falling prey to fentanyl from China and super-meth coming from Mexico. If it takes closing the borders with these two countries to stop the problem, so be it. For foster children, more incentives must be provided for families to provide long-term care — too often, even very young children bounce from house to house, often in unsafe environments. With these better incentives must come greater scrutiny — a mandatory search of household electronics at a minimum.

In so many ways, from child drag queens to the indifference with which many states treat child predators, America has become an ugly and dangerous place for young children. We must also make the country safe for children after birth.

School choice must be enacted nationwide. Often, schools in areas with high abortion rates are dangerous and completely devoid of learning. Next, America must expand its penalties on child traffickers, those who abuse children, and those who download and traffic in child sex abuse imagery. The latter crime is largely decriminalized in some states. States must take action but so must the federal government, including creating much harsher penalties and a specific anti-trafficking agency and increasing funding to go after pedophiles online.

In history, nations became hostile to children before total collapse. In doing so we sow the seeds for a national death. But it’s not too late to turn back.

Roe V. Wade Did Not Empower Women, It Lied to Them

REPORTED BY: KRISTEN WAGGONER AND ERIN HAWLEY | JULY 12, 2022

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Roe was premised on the lies that bodily autonomy always wins, children are the enemy, and abortions are necessary for equality.

KRISTEN WAGGONER AND ERIN HAWLEY

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s brave decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization righted a 50-year wrong that resulted in the death of over 60 million unborn children. Roe v. Wade was premised on egregious legal errors, and its reversal is a tremendous victory for life and for the Constitution. Just as importantly — and contrary to what some have argued in these last few weeks — the Dobbs decision gives America the opportunity to reconceptualize motherhood and, in doing so, empower women.

To begin, Roe was terrible constitutional law. It invented a right to abortion from thin air, and even pro-abortion scholars believed it was wrongly decided. Roe took from the democratic branches one of the most consequential issues of our time. In so doing, it profoundly damaged the ability of states to protect unborn life, usurping the people’s role in “an exercise of raw judicial power.” But the Supreme Court’s job is to interpret the Constitution, which, as the Dobbs majority explained, nowhere contains a right to an abortion.

Roe was as wrong about motherhood as it was about the Constitution. Its seven male authors believed that motherhood “may force upon the woman a distressful life and future.” The Supreme Court’s Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision in 1992 did nothing to improve upon this view of womanhood, explaining that abortion was necessary for women to achieve social and economic equality. That view is still heard today. U.S. Rep. Sean Casten recently claimed that overturning Roe would “condemn women to [a] lesser status.”

But the reality is that abortions are not necessary for women to flourish. While abortions have steadily declined, women continue to succeed professionally and financially. Additionally, motherhood and a fulfilling life are not mutually exclusive. Many mothers believe that children make life more fulfilling. And there is evidence that Roe has made it more difficult for mothers to achieve their career goals by requiring women to be more like men and promoting a “male childless norm in educational and employment settings.”

Further, there are indications that the vast majority of women seeking abortions say they would have chosen life if circumstances were different. And in one study, a majority of women were unsure of their decision to obtain an abortion. These unwanted abortions take an enormous toll on the physical, spiritual, and emotional health of women.

In another lie to American women, Roe told them that their baby is merely “potential life.” Scientific evidence establishes that life begins at conception and that a baby is both fully human and fully alive, no matter how small. At 15 weeks, when Mississippi’s law applies, a baby can move and stretch, hiccup, open and close her fingers, and quite likely feel pain. She has fully taken on the human physiological form.

Yet, without a hint of irony, pro-abortion activists posit that the reversal of Roe “treats women as objects, as less than full human beings.” But it is abortion that treats babies, including female babies, as mere objects and less than full human beings, even while science establishes that babies are both fully alive and fully human.

Roe was not the pro-woman opinion that some imagine. In a patriarchal passage the pro-abortion left would rather forget, Roe gave to a woman’s doctor the authority to choose abortion. It stated that “the attending physician, in consultation with his patient, is free to determine, without regulation by the State, that, in his medical judgment, the patient’s pregnancy should be terminated.” This was the money line from Roe.

As the late-Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg noted, Roe was “physician-centered,” focusing on “a doctor’s freedom to practice his profession as he thinks best.” “The picture that I got from [Roe],” Justice Ginsburg said, “was tall doctor and little woman needing . . . his advice and care.”

Roe was premised on the lie that bodily autonomy always wins. Yet the law has always recognized that one’s right to autonomy does not exist in isolation. One’s right to swing his arm “ends just where the other man’s nose begins.” Thus, none of us has the right to injure another person in the exercise of our own bodily autonomy. That’s why murder is a crime in every state. Yet Roe placed bodily autonomy over everything else, allowing for the purposeful destruction of a second life.

Roe also lied to women by telling them their children were the enemy. As Ryan Anderson explains, “A mother’s womb should be the safest place in the world, a sanctuary where the unborn child can grow and develop for nine months before emerging into the community of his or her family.”

Abortion distorts that relationship. It tells a pregnant woman that she must destroy an innocent life — her child — to live a fulfilling life. And it deemphasizes the fact that contraception is widely available with a median failure and cost approaching zero, and that thousands of families in America are waiting to adopt a child. In so doing, abortion terribly corrupts culture.

The Dobbs decision allows women to have a say in what abortion policy should be. It returns the profoundly moral question to the states, giving them the authority to protect life through the democratic process and the ability to empower pregnant women by providing them with the resources they need to flourish. It presents an opportunity for America to return to a culture that values families, women, and motherhood.

Kristen Waggoner is general counsel and Erin Hawley is senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom (@ADFLegal). They served on the Mississippi legal team defending the state’s Gestational Age Act at the U.S. Supreme Court.