RNC Chairwoman: ‘China Is Running This White House’

May 1, 2023

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Sunday that China is running the Biden administration.

Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” McDaniel talked about voters’ concerns heading into the 2024 election, saying they want the Republican Party to come together to oppose President Joe Biden’s agenda. Specifically, she pointed out that voters are worried that the Biden administration is indebted to the communist nation.

“The voters…feel that angst,” McDaniel said. “And they say that to me all the time. We need party unity. We need to bring everybody together because what they’re doing to our country is frightening. We’re not gonna have the America we know and love if this continues, if they stack the Supreme Court, if they get rid of the filibuster, if they abandon energy independence, if they’re so beholden to China.”

“China is running this White House in a lot of ways,” McDaniel continued. “China is the reason fentanyl is coming across our [southern] border. China is taking our kids’ data on TikTok. We sold our Strategic Petroleum Reserves to China. This is an administration that is more China First than America First, and the American people want a President who cares about them.”

Critics have recently accused the Biden administration of taking a soft approach to China. Last month, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm praised China’s energy and climate policies and said she hoped the U.S. could “learn” from them.

“China has done — has been very sensitive, and has actually invested a lot in their solutions, to achieve their goals,” she said. “We’re hopeful that, you know, we can all learn from what China is doing. The amount of money that they’re investing in clean energy is actually, you know, encouraging.”

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Price of 36-Pack of Bud Light at Costco Goes Viral - They Are Pretty Much Giving It Away at This Point

 May 1, 2023

One Costco location was seen over the weekend with slashed prices for Bud Light beer as Anheuser-Busch InBev continues to navigate the fallout of its decision to partner up with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

The partnership has cost the company many lifelong customers and a whole lot of revenue.

The brand’s reputation has been harmed so much that it might never fully rebound.

Bud Light is a punchline on social media, and cases of it are sitting on store shelves.

On Sunday, conservative commentator Ryan Fournier shared an image of cases of the brand being sold at a substantial discount at Costco.

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Why It’s So Hard to Get Kids Off Their Screens

 May 1, 2023

“How many of you have closed your email and then immediately reopened it because you might have just gotten an email?”

Laughter rippled through the audience — including me — as we listened to Emily Cherkin give a talk at The Brearley School in Manhattan about tech and kids and us: parents, kids, educators, email addicts.

Cherkin, aka The Screentime Consultant, was a seventh-grade teacher in Seattle from 2003 to 2013. In 2003 almost none of her students had phones. By 2013, 95% did. She’s spent the 10 years since leaving the classroom studying what happens to kids and families when tech changes everything.

“I still remember an analog childhood,” she told the audience. But today’s kids won’t — unless we make sure that some of that old-fashioned, engage-with-the-world time is deliberately preserved. But at the moment? Parents are overwhelmed, as are schools.

At home, parents are finding it extremely tough to pry their kids from screens. “There’s a myth that ‘My child should be able to get off-screen without a meltdown,'” said Cherkin. “But it’s not a fair fight.” Tech companies have studied what makes an activity sticky and applied those lessons with a vengeance.

The endless scroll? The fact that one video leads instantly to another? The pings and likes and emojis? All those are part of what is called “pervasive design,” or what Cherkin calls “manipulative tech” — a mashup of psychology and technology designed to keep you engaged.

And just as it’s hard to drag a gambler from the slot machines — next time could be a winner! — it’s hard to drag our kids from their screens. (And us from our emails.) There’s a reason drug dealers use the same term for their clients as tech companies do: “users.” Both are dedicated to creating addiction.

The upshot is a phenom dubbed “displacement” — activities online displacing activities in real life. That doesn’t mean all online time is meaningless or evil. But it does mean that other things are getting squeezed out. For kids, those things include playing in real life, exploring in real life and being with their families.

How can parents make sure tech doesn’t displace too much of those? Cherkin doesn’t say to pull the plug tomorrow and go live in a yurt. But she does have some suggestions that strike me as realistic.

First, if you haven’t given your child a smartphone yet, wait as long as you can. Your kids may fear they are missing out. But ironically, the FOMO that hits once kids do get a phone is even worse. Now they can see every event they weren’t at — as well as every other fun thing in the world that they’re not part of.

If your kids already do have phones, you can set limits, even if you haven’t to date. For instance, if you don’t want the phones at dinner anymore, you can simply say, “I forgot to teach you that…” and fill in the blank: “I forgot to teach you that phones have no place at the table.” Or: “Phones don’t belong in the bedroom at night.” Or whatever you now think makes sense.

Schools, too, can help keep kids focused and actually happier by not allowing phone use during the school day. Cherkin cited a study that found kids doing worse on a math test when phones were on their desks — or even in their backpacks. The distraction was too great. They have no place in the classroom.

Then, bring back what was displaced. Keep schools open for mixed-age, no-phones free play in the afternoon or even before school. (Here’s a free guide on how to do that.) What a simple way for kids to have fun — and arguments and everything else developmentally rich — in real life.

Displace some screentime and when our kids grow up, they’ll have some analog memories from back in the day.

Then they can worry about making sure their own kids have some, too.

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May 1, 2023

The Medlock Post Ep. 142: This is the U.S.A.

John F. Kennedy: January 19, 1961:

“Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. The cause of liberty, the cause of America, cannot succeed with any lesser effort.” 

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Media Attempt to Exonerate Anthony Fauci Foiled by His Own Hubris

 

May 1, 2023 

Those who helped spearhead the colossal overreach of the coronavirus pandemic social curb regime are now attempting to soft-pedal it as a mere stumble on a well-intentioned path. Yet even as this pivot campaign goes into effect, traces of the same hubris that made it all possible cannot help coming to the fore.

“It was, perhaps, an impossible job. Make one man the face of public health amid an unprecedented pandemic, in a country as fractious as the United States, and there were bound to be disappointments and frustrations, and they were bound to get personal.” That’s how The New York Times begins an extensive feature article based on a series of interviews with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former chief White House advisor and federal point man of the strongarmed effort to get Americans masked and vaxxed – on pain of loss of job and personal freedoms.

This would be the same New York Times that pompously labeled Fauci “America’s Doctor” as it granted him a platform in December to pen a self-congratulatory goodbye letter as he called it a career.

But “America’s Doctor” is coming under fire these days, as the heavy-handed establishment narrative on the pandemic continues to crumble. “At least 30 state legislatures have passed laws limiting public-health powers in pandemics,” The Times uncomfortably notes in its April 25 spin reboot. “This January, the month after Anthony Fauci retired as the four-decade head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, barely half of Americans said they trusted the country’s public-health institutions to manage a future pandemic.”

Did Fauci go too far? The paper earnestly attempts to inform readers that that was never the intent.

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When Interracial Shootings Matter

 May 1, 2023

All racism is bad, but some racism is more racist than others.

The shooting of Ralph Yarl captured the attention of a media addicted to a false narrative.

The black teen was shot by a white homeowner in Kansas City, Missouri after Yarl, who was looking for the house at which his younger brothers were waiting to be picked up, accidentally knocked on the wrong door. The elderly white homeowner, Andrew Lester, opened the door and immediately fired, claiming that he believed the teen was trying to enter his house.

This case and several others that happened within days of it—including one in which a 20-year-old woman drove into a driveway in rural upstate New York with a group of friends and was shot dead by the homeowner while exiting the property—are covered extensively in mainstream media in light of “stand your ground” laws. The debate over when an individual should be legally justified to use a firearm in self-defense on his own property Is charged and complicated, though one would be hard-pressed to realize that from mainstream media discussion of it with respect to the Yarl case. Here, media attention has skewed heavily in the direction of criticism of such laws.

The case has been put forward as evidence of the rampant racism in American society and the unfathomable harm it produces for blacks in this country.

It should go without saying that if the Yarl shooting story holds up in the details that are currently being reported then the shooter should be held criminally responsible. As is always the case, we will have to wait until an investigation happens before we can know with any clarity what should be done in the way of response from the criminal justice system.

But we perhaps do well to spend a little time on a question the media will not present to us. What is the context within which reporting on the Yarl case is taking place?

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On Biden’s “Decline By Design”

May 1, 2023

Is Joe Biden’s Poor Performance a Feature of His Presidency?

According to National Pulse editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam, Joe Biden’s poor personal performance is not a bug, but a feature of his presidency. In a conversation with MAGA-world TV host Kimberly Guilfoyle, Kassam explained that this is one of the critical reasons why the current U.S. government can justly be described as a “regime,” rather than an “administration.”

Decline by Design

Kassam offered his analysis during a discussion of Biden’s increasingly “embarrassing” behavior, such as losing his way on stage and requiring cheat sheets with advance notice of the questions the press plan to put to him. Guilfoyle, despite being a Republican with close ties to the Trump family, confessed she took no pleasure in Biden’s shambolic conduct and even wanted him “to do well.” However, Kassam interjected, “This is by design. Decline by design.”

Who’s Really in Charge?

Kassam stressed that Biden is not in charge, and it’s the people behind the scenes who are making the decisions. “That’s why it’s a regime and not an administration,” he explained. Biden himself, in one of his recent appearances, publicly lamented the fact that “the one thing I thought when I got to be President, I’d get to give orders, but I take more orders than I ever did.”

Bad for the American People

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Supreme Court to consider overruling Chevron Doctrine

May 1, 2023

The Supreme Court on Monday announced it will hear a case that could significantly scale back federal agencies’ authority, with major implications for the future of environmental and other regulations.

The justices next term will consider whether to overturn a decades-old precedent that grants agencies deference when Congress left ambiguity in a statute.

Named for the court’s decision in Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, the Chevron deference has become one of the most frequently cited precedents in administrative law since the decision was first handed down in 1984.

It involves a two-step test: first, judges decide if Congress has in the statute directly spoken to the precise question at issue. If it is ambiguous, courts defer to agencies as long as their actions are based on a “permissible construction.”

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 May 1, 2023

The Endgame With Ukraine And Russia

Foreign Affairs

The key to the situation is to ask what any reasonable Russian government, tsarist, democratic, communist, or authoritarian would want.

Many of the usual suspects who upheld America’s unwise wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan—and its ill-considered interventions in Yugoslavia, Syria, and Libya, with their destabilizing refugee flows—are predictably upholding Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s pre-Russian-invasion intransigence with regard to possible NATO membership for Ukraine. Blinken, as well as National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, are devoted Clintonistas who fully bought into the NATO expansion project opposed by George Kennan, William Perry, Jack Matlock and others.

This intransigence is set against what has long been apparent to me and many others: Post-Khrushchev Ukraine is an artificial construct. Its elections disclosed sharp fissures on regional, ethnic, and religious lines. Crimea, Russian until 1954, was a traditional seat of Russian culture and only 22 percent Ukrainian by 1959. The Donbas was Russia’s Rust Belt. Proceedings in the parliament of the united Ukraine resembled a rugby match more than normal parliamentary deliberations. The regime was at least as corrupt as Russia’s, and the country had a lower economic growth rate. The U.S. was wise not to make a serious issue of the Russian annexation of Crimea.

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From Oranges to Sugar, Global Food Inflation Persists

 May 1, 2023

Is there hope on aisle nine? Not really. The only thing in that part of the grocery store is persistent food inflation. The latest consumer price index (CPI) provided tepid relief for families who eat their dinners at home in front of the television instead of the neighborhood restaurant that plays loud and obnoxious music: Food at home rose 8.4%, and food away from home advanced 8.8%. Although this is the second consecutive month of US food prices touching single-digit territory, the pain at the checkout counter is still being felt by consumers nationwide. But the federal government anticipates that the growth rate in food prices will slow or even decline this year.

Food Inflation in America

The annual food inflation rate will be in the range of 4.9% and 8.2% this year, above the 20-year historical average of 2.8%, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). Supermarket prices are expected to rise between 4.4% and 8.8% in 2023, which is also higher than the two-decade historical average of 2.5%, the USDA stated in its Food Price Outlook. Here is a breakdown of some of the key components of the monthly USDA report:

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On April 30, 1789, George Washington inaugurated as first US president

 

April 30, 2023

Event was celebrated with fireworks and an inaugural ball held a week later

President George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States on this day in history, April 30, 1789. 

In his address, which he delivered at New York City's Federal Hall, Washington expressed his anxiety over the prospect of leading a new nation. 

At the time, New York City's Federal Hall served as the U.S. Capitol, according to the National Archives. 

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On this day in history, May 1, 1931, Empire State Building opens during Great Depression

 

May 1, 2023

Skyscraper of 102 stories completed in just 410 days, rising 'lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx'

The majestic Empire State Building, now the Grand Old Lady of the New York City skyline, opened amid great civic fanfare just 14 months after construction on it began on this day in history, May 1, 1931. 

The skyscraper "must long remain one of the outstanding glories of a great city," President Herbert Hoover said, flipping a ceremonial switch in Washington, D.C., as the 102-story tower in the heart of New York City was illuminated for the first time. 

She stood — and still stands — 1,250 feet tall, towering up to 1,454 feet as topped out by its gleaming antenna.

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Follow the Money by Michael E. Hartmann

 April 30, 2023

Conservative donors need to take a hard look at where their dollars go.

Conservative philanthropy in America has long been on the defensive, mostly against harsh critiques from liberals and progressives. For big grantmakers on the Right—like the libertarian Koch brothers, the Olin, Bradley, and Scaife foundations, and a relatively limited number of others—criticism has been considered a given. It is almost like a necessary “transaction cost.”

But America’s establishment philanthropy, which has become monoculturallyprogressive, is now increasingly on the defensive too—mostly against harsh critiques from other progressives of a more populist sort. This is not really all that curious. Intellectually honest grassroots activists on the Left view “Big Philanthropy” as basically an exercise of illegitimate, anti-democratic power.

There is some current criticism of establishment philanthropy from among the populists ascendant on the Right as well. Too much of conservative philanthropy, however, remains steadfastly protective of the various special policy prerogatives and legal and cultural status of all philanthropy. This is a mistake. None of these privileges is a given. It is at least an open question whether they are in America’s best interest.

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Libel and Cancel Culture by Carson Holloway

 April 30, 2023

The Supreme Court needs to revisit its flawed ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan.

Writing in First Things, Professor Scott Yenor of Boise State University details the recent attempt to “cancel” him. Yenor’s cancellable offense was that he gave a speech at the 2021 National Conservatism Conference in which he argued that restoration of the family requires a return to “sex-role realism,” that is, “an unapologetic celebration of the fact that men and women want and do different things.” As part of his argument, Yenor contended that it is counterproductive for society to expend so much energy trying to recruit women into male-dominated majors and professions. Yenor was subjected to a campaign of condemnation by left-wing activists who sought to get him fired from his university job for expressing these views which, while controversial, are hardly hateful or an inducement to violence. Happily, they failed in the end, though Yenor no doubt feels that the process itself (including a Title XI inquiry that might have led to his dismissal) was itself a considerable punishment for his heterodoxy.

Yenor’s account reminds us that “cancel culture” depends on a larger corruption of culture in our institutions and in our country. Most obviously, cancel culture can only get a foothold in higher education if universities step away from such principles as academic freedom and freedom of speech. The academy is meant to stand for rational inquiry. Such inquiry is impossible if expressions of unpopular opinions are turned into occasions of virulent denunciation aimed at destroying reputations and ending careers.

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Digital Dictatorships Robert C. Thornett

 April 30, 2023

Maintaining rule through the use of digital manipulation threatens a government’s legitimacy.

Modern regimes are investing heavily in artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor and control society. From China’s surveillance state and emerging social credit systems to Russia’s disinformation campaign in Ukraine to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launching domestic cyberattacks on political opponents, dictatorships are using armies of hackers, bots, and trolls to gather data on citizens in order to manipulate algorithms and mold public opinion.

But when does focusing on data result in knowing less about a country? One answer is when it comes at the expense of what the military calls HUMINT, Human Intelligence, which is information gathered through direct interpersonal contact with human sources. Through spies and informants, HUMINT is said to be the only source of intelligence capable of revealing the group dynamics of insurgent and terrorist groups. And beyond HUMINT, person-to-person relationships connecting government and citizens are just as important for building a society as for shutting down terrorists.

Overreliance on statistical data at the expense of direct communication with citizens can lead to misperceptions and knowledge gaps. Rather than relying on feelings or hearsay, statistical data gives governments quantifiable—and therefore useful—information about society. But data is not enough; collecting statistics about citizens is not the same as knowing citizens.

The British East India Company (EIC) learned this lesson the hard way. It was the most powerful multinational corporation the world had ever seen. The EIC expanded from running a single factory in India in the early 17th century to ruling the entire Indian subcontinent, as well as much of Burma, under what was known as Company Raj or Company rule. By working closely with the Islamic Mughal Empire, the EIC gained access to the Mughals’ vast network of spies and informants, stretching all the way to Persia.

As Company rule expanded, the British colonists immersed themselves in Indian cultures, a movement later referred to as Orientalism. Founding the Royal Asia Society and Fort William College in Calcutta, British scholars like Sir William Jones studied Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh languages and discoursed with culture experts called munshis. The more the EIC engaged with and included the Indian people in its endeavors, the more it thrived.

But things changed. By the mid-1800s, inclusion had turned to exclusion, cooperation to division, and Orientalism to racism. As historian C.A. Bayly observes in Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870, now that British and Indian scholars were working together as equals, the British needed a new justification for colonial rule. And it came from Social Darwinist theories postulating racial hierarchies, which arrived in the minds of young EIC recruits from the British Isles. EIC administrators began to distance themselves from their Indian counterparts, creating new gaps in human intelligence.

These gaps were exacerbated as an indirect result of Britain’s statistical movement, which began in the 1830s. Soon the EIC began to favor data collection over communication with its longstanding local informants in streets and markets across India. The British created centralized bureaucracies for information gathering, pulling data from every available source: the army, political offices, the education and revenue departments, geographic surveys, district censuses, revenue surveys, and Orientalist societies. “Our government is a peculiar one, it gushes on the information front,” remarked Rudyard Kipling.

But governing India through statistics proved to be an illusion. “The statistical movement…told the British almost nothing about Indian sentiments, politics, and beliefs,” observes Bayly. This was especially true of the Sepoys, the 230,000 Indians enlisted in the EIC army. In 1857, the EIC was caught completely by surprise by the Sepoy Rebellion, the largest mutiny in history. Some 6,000 British and 800,000 Indians were killed, and it brought an end to Company rule the following year. The British crown took over direct rule of India, ushering in the era known as the British Raj.

The Sepoy Rebellion illustrates how relying on data at the expense of connecting with citizens can foster illusions of control while stoking feelings of exclusion and resentment. Such sentiments can be seen today in the backlash against Big Tech over collecting user data and also in the widespread mistrust of governments’ use of citizens’ personal data. As William Davies observed: “From one perspective, grounding politics in statistics is elitist, undemocratic and oblivious to people’s emotional investments in their community and nation. It is just one more way that privileged people in London, Washington DC or Brussels seek to impose their worldview on everybody else.”

An “undemocratic” elitist imposition describes the EIC’s statistical push, but it also describes Vladimir Putin’s disinformation push. Through social media, he hoped to mobilize ethnic Russians in the Donbas. But like the Sepoys, this provoked millions of Ukrainians to band together in resistance, waging a massive social media counter-offensive. This has created what Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, calls “World Cyber War I,” elsewhere called the “first TikTok war,” and the U.S. is now assisting Ukraine in its cyber defense.

As the Sepoy rebellion illustrates, citizens who feel excluded when governments value data over their input may unite in opposition in ways undetected by the information bureaucracy. Such was the case last year inside China as its citizens protested against the country’s brutal zero-COVID lockdowns. As a vertically-integrated authoritarian regime, China’s government already lacks many of the internal feedback loops necessary to stay in touch with the needs and concerns of everyday people. The CCP’s increasing focus on data over dialogue with citizens only exacerbates this disconnect. It pushed far too hard in persisting with lockdowns into December, three years after the outset of COVID. Like the Sepoys, protesters rebelled, bypassing CCP online censorship. They sent photos and videos to people outside China who then posted them on uncensored social media apps from which they could be viewed in China and reshared by altering them to bypass CCP filters. The CCP’s neglect of human input also contributed to the original spread of COVID, as it stifled whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang. As with the Sepoy mutiny, China’s prioritization of data over direct communication with citizens has backfired.

The CCP employs over two million people to censor the internet. It uses facial recognition, biometrics, smart phone tracking, and other data and imagery surveillance, all organized by “one person, one file” software, to wage a genocide against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. And it also spies on Belt and Road Initiative partners, including bugging the African Union headquarters, installing surveillance systems in its Central Asian neighbors, and hacking the 2018 Cambodian elections. Feelings of exclusion and mistrust resulting from the CCP’s use of data to monitor and control its own citizens and foreign partners could well provoke a backlash along the New Silk Road.

When governments prioritize data over relationships with citizens, they risk losing the public trust, which is the foundation of legitimacy. If the world’s digital dictatorships continue down their current paths of attempting to rule through data at the expense of relationships with citizens, they may share the fate of the British East India Company, finding that a loss of legitimacy is the biggest return on their immense investment in data.

Robert C. Thornett is an educator and writer who has taught in seven countries, and his articles have appeared in American Affairs, Quillette, Front Porch Republic, Yale Environment 360, Solutions Journal, and Earth Island Journal.

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Dollar dominance could give way to a 'tripolar' currency system as China's yuan and the euro rise on the world stage

April 30, 2023

• The dollar's status isn't under threat anytime soon, but the yuan and euro look most likely to cut into its lead.
• A "tripolar" reserve currency system is plausible, economist Stephen Jen told Insider.
• The greenback saw a dramatic erosion as a global reserve currency in 2022, but it's still dominant in international trade. 

• The dollar has been king for decades but its slippage as a reserve currency has raised concerns as to whether a rival currency will dethrone it. 

  But to economist Stephen Jen, the CEO of Eurizon SLJ, a more plausible outcome would be multiple currencies cutting into the dollar's dominance. 

  He recently pointed out that the greenback's nominal share in global reserves eroded at 10 times the pace seen in the last two decades. 

  "Our best guess is that this trend will likely continue, but probably not to a point where a non-dollar currency commands a bigger market share than the dollar," Jen wrote in emailed comments to Insider. "More likely, we will evolve from a unipolar reserve currency world to a multi-polar world."   Full Article

 

Richard Dreyfuss: Americans’ ignorance of Constitution, disrespect for opposition has damaged our country

 April 30, 2023

Richard Dreyfuss believes that America is on the wrong track if nasty political partisanship and Americans' ignorance of history and civics continues.

The actor known for his starring roles in films like "Jaws," "American Graffiti" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" is passionate about educating others on U.S. civics. 

He also rejects the idea that any one party is morally superior to the others. "They're all equally nuts," he told Dave Rubin on "The Rubin Report" this week.

Dreyfuss believes that political partisanship divides the country to make us "bitter and ignorant."

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Sen. Ron Johnson: New Emails Show Tony Blinken Lied to US Senate

April 30, 2023

Senator Ron Johnson joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this morning.

Johnson dropped a political bomb to open the segment. Senator Johnson opened up by explaining the US Senate was investigating Hunter Biden back in 2019 and 2020 but he did not have “the full support of my committee or the Republican Conference to subpoena the Bidens.” Senate Republicans REFUSED to subpoena the Bidens. They truly are on the other side.

Johnson then told Maria Bartiromo that Anthony Blinken lied to his committee under oath about contacting Hunter Biden. Blinken told Johnson’s committee he did not email Hunter Biden and now Johnson has those emails.

Senator Ron Johnson: What is interesting, Marie, and here’s a little news for you. Anthony Blinken finally did come in and sit down for a voluntary transcribed interview in December of 2020 because he wanted to be secretary of state. And now, because of more information that’s come out, we know that he lied bold face to Congress about never emailing Hunter Biden. My guess is he told a bunch of other lies that hopefully we’ll be able to bring him and his wife back in, tell them to preserve their records. You cannot trust Joe Biden. You cannot trust Hunter Biden. You can’t trust the Biden family. You can’t trust so many of the people that they have surrounded themselves with these made men. I basically agree with that statement…

…What do you do when you have, in effect, coconspirators of the Biden family inside the agencies, inside our intelligence agencies, the Department of Justice, the FBI. And you have the political party, the Democrats, who couldn’t care less, have no interest whatsoever in the corruption that is being uncovered bit by bit as we pull back the layers of the onion here… He must preserve his emails. We must get to the bottom of this. We need to show how corrupt these individuals are.

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Native Spirit

April 30, 2023

The Seven Sacred Teachings, also known as the Seven Grandfather Teachings, are a set of teachings that have been passed down from generation to generation by First Nations people of North America. These teachings are the guiding principles for living a meaningful and fulfilling life, and they are essential to maintaining a harmonious relationship between human beings, nature, and the divine.

The Seven Sacred Teachings include:

1. Wisdom involves making wise choices that lead us on a path of positive growth and development. To attain wisdom, one must learn from experiences, seek knowledge from elders, and listen and learn from one's mistakes.

2. Love emphasizes the importance of unconditional love, compassion, and kindness towards ourselves and others. It teaches us to give love freely and unconditionally, without any expectation of receiving love in return.

3. Respect emphasizes the importance of treating oneself, others, and nature with respect. Respect involves acknowledging the value and worth of all living things, and treating each other with kindness, honor, and dignity.

4. Bravery involves courage, fortitude and strength of character. Bravery inspires us to face our fears and overcome obstacles, to push ourselves to our limits and to fight for what is right.

5. Honesty emphasizes the importance of being truthful, trustworthy, and sincere in all our interactions with others. Honesty promotes trust, loyalty, and integrity, and it allows us to build meaningful and enduring relationships.

6. Humility involves having a modest and unpretentious attitude towards life, recognizing that we are all equal and interconnected. Humility inspires us to serve others, to be compassionate towards those who are less fortunate, and to strive to make a positive impact in the world.

7. Truth involves understanding and acknowledging the reality of our existence and our place in the world. It encourages us to seek knowledge, to be open-minded, and to question our assumptions and beliefs.

Each of these teachings are an inseparable whole and work together to create a holistic approach to mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual life, that is centered around humility, respect, and love.

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Fed Asks Americans for Feedback on a Central Bank Digital Currency—Here Are Some Responses

 

April 30, 2023

 Americans are worried that a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) could end up compromising essential freedoms, further centralizing monetary policy, and making the country’s currency vulnerable to hacking, according to a recently published Fed survey.

In January last year, the Fed published a white paper on what a CBDC could look like. It asked for public comments on issues like potential risks and benefits a CBDC can have on the country. On April 20, the Fed released the responses in nine documents. Here are some of the various answers and concerns expressed by respondents, some of whom were named, others who were unnamed, as well as those whose names were redacted.

A student from Texas pointed to the breach of privacy, government overreach, and hacking as risks posed by CBDC. “With this digital currency, the government would be able to usurp freedoms without the knowledge/consent of the public.

“The best e-hackers and cybersecurity personnel don’t work for the government. They work in the private sector. It is naive to think, given the government’s track record, that it could ever be trusted to secure such an asset.” A CBDC might also trigger a “run on financial institutions,” the individual warned.

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