News and Views: December 11, 2024

In a War Against China, the US Runs Out of Missiles in a Matter of Weeks, House Committee Finds   America’s cache of long-range antiship missiles, critical to defending Taiwan in a sea battle in the case of a Chinese invasion, will run dry within three to seven days, according to the committee’s findings. Within a month, meanwhile, the United States would run out of long-range cruise missiles. Taiwan’s own supply of mid-range antiship missiles would also be expended within a week of battle.

   The findings are raising alarm bells among lawmakers, who worry America’s defense industrial base is woefully unprepared to deliver the arms needed once China makes good on its repeated threats to invade Taiwan. With China’s military rapidly growing, U.S. supply lines remain strained amid conflicts in the Middle East and other geopolitical hotspots.

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Why is Britain locking up dissidents and treating criminals with kid gloves?  Why are people who dare utter hurty words about asylum seekers being “tramps” handed out real prison sentences, but actual paedophile toddler-abusers only get fake ones?

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The Clock Strikes Thirteen...And the Establishment gets washed away by a preference cascade. But it was a damn close-run thing   And now something else is happening. Since the election, I see pushback against woke ideology in all sorts of places. But what’s really interesting is that the pushback started not with the allegedly freethinking educated classes, but with the working class that made up the core of Trump’s movement. Now, with the election won, you see people who would have been afraid to embrace Trump, or at least to treat him normally, doing so. The election gave them permission.

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Trump Assassination Attempt Task Force Releases Final Report, Says Biden-Harris DOJ and FBI Offered 'Limited Cooperation'  The task force accessed more than 18,000 pages of documents and 46 transcribed witness interviews over the course of its investigation. Ultimately, it concluded the attempt on Trump’s life at his Butler, Pa. rally was “preventable and should not have happened.”

   “There was not, however, a singular moment or decision that allowed Thomas Matthew Crooks to nearly assassinate the former President,” the report said. “The various failures in planning, execution, and leadership on and before July 13, 2024, and the preexisting conditions that undermined the effectiveness of the human and material assets deployed that day, coalesced to create an environment in which the former President—and everyone at the campaign event—were exposed to grave danger.”

The ‘Tolerant’ Left Sure Does Like Assassinations 

The truth is that leftists are far more prone to want to murder their opponents because they’ve been infected by the Marxist-power-struggle virus, which leads them to think that the murder of a political opponent is always justifiable homicide.

  In the case of health care, the left will never be satisfied until the government controls the entire system, soup to nuts, with Sen. Bernie Sanders making decisions about which patients live or die. If that means sacrificing a few health insurance CEOs on the road to this socialist Nirvana, so be it.

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Judiciary Committee: FBI Using Banks to Surveil Bank Accounts Without Warrants   “…as a condition of participating in the modern economy, Americans are forced to disclose details of their private lives to a financial industry that has been too eager to pass this information along to federal law enforcement.”

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The Real Issues in the Transgender Debate 

Transgender procedures are the deliberate infliction of disability and mutilation in order to treat a psychiatric condition, for which psychiatric care, and only psychiatric care, is medically justified.

    Irrespective of the ideological and scientific debate about transgenderism, the ethical transgressions of transgender procedures are appalling.  These vulnerable children and adults need high-quality psychiatric care and compassionate social support, not castration with puberty-blockers, cross-sex hormones, and mutilating surgery.  I am ashamed of the medical profession’s embrace of these ghastly treatments, and I call on ethical doctors everywhere to protect vulnerable children and adults from grievous harm caused by the medical profession.   Excellent-read it all!

The DOJ and a Texas judge are muzzling a doctor who blew the whistle on alleged child mutilation Eithan Haim is a Texas physician who bravely exposed a Texas hospital that was allegedly abusing children through mutilating procedures, even though those procedures are illegal under Texas law. The Biden administration promptly indicted Haim for violating the rules against exposing people’s private health information...although he did nothing of the kind. Now, the federal judge trying the case has silenced Haim from speaking out while the case is pending. Fortunately, his wife isn’t silenced, and she’s exposing the judge’s corruption.

Texas legislator exposes UT Austin-promoted project that encourages trans individuals to 'play God' 

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So it turns out that Social Distancing did make sense-for the unvaccinated seeking to protect themselves from the stupidity of the vaccinated  Plastic bubbles, absurd tyrannies and Social Distancing were never, ever going to stop an airborne virus from circulating or enact the kind of separation that makes viral transfer impossible. The effort was ridiculous and doomed to failure (which is why previous pandemic preparation documents had never contemplated any of these measures or had specifically stated that they would not work).

     But what if shedding exists and is, say, skin contact based rather than expelled in droplets by breath into the air? Then suddenly social distancing would make SOME sense but purely for vulnerable non-vaccinated groups protecting themselves from the PRIOR gullibility and stupidity of those vaccinated persons who took mRNA gene therapies as vaccines.

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Survey: Homeschool And Christian School Graduates Far More Likely To Keep Their Faith  Public education is erasing America’s future by killing the Christian beliefs that inspire parenthood.

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New Test Scores Show 4th and 8th Graders Falling Further Behind in Math   "The results are sobering," NCES Commissioner Carr told ABC News. "We started this assessment in 1995, so we have, essentially … erased the gains that we were seeing for decades."  
   It's not just the pandemic. Carr points out that scores have been falling since 2015.
   "This decline that we're seeing was there in 2015, so all of this cannot be blamed on COVID," Carr said. "We have been struggling with declining scores, particularly in math, for a while."

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Green Energy Failure: UK Spends Over £1 Billion This Year to Turn Off Wind Farms and Start up Gas Plants This situation should serve as a cautionary tale for other countries considering similar energy transitions. Wind power, like electric vehicles, is often portrayed as a panacea for our environmental woes. However, the reality is far more complex. Wind energy is expensive, environmentally harmful, and, as the UK is discovering, often inefficient. Consumers are not only paying for the construction of these wind farms but also for their failings. The question remains: who will bear the cost of deconstructing these wind farms when the climate change crisis, much like the COVID-19 pandemic, loses its urgency?

Destroying the Climate Change Myth 

If China, India, and the Third World are making global warming unpreventable, then we need to focus on mitigation of its effects, rather than prevention efforts that will ultimately prove futile.

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