But is there the will?
Most Americans know something has gone terribly wrong—and very abruptly—with the United States. They are certain that our wounds are almost all self-inflicted. The current pathologies are not a result of a natural disaster, an exhaustion of natural resources, plagues, or an existential war.
I Recently came across a fascinating book, “Before It’s Too Late – A Love Letter to my daughters and America” by Eric Rozenberg, a Belgian Jew who moved to the United States with his wife and children largely due to increased antisemitism.
His heartfelt, deeply personal book tells the history – in very personal terms – of antisemitism in Europe, and events his family felt and witnessed in Belgium. He then describes his current day fears in the United States – from BDS and college campuses to antisemitism from all sides of the political spectrum.
This book seems ominious in its release date given the rise in antisemitism in the US of late.
The “big red wave” never did materialize, but this much did happen – Republicans did win the House, prompting alarm among Liberals.
What it means, then, is that they don’t control EVERYTHING. The Senate, the White House, the schools, the Arts, entertainment, the media, all that and more belong to them.
But not the House of Representatives – so no wonder it’s got them frantic. To them, life is so unfair if they don’t get EVERYTHING they WANT.
It’s bad enough that far-left extremist groups such as the ADL are anti-white racists but to observers this is Jewicidal Madness.
It’s not the first time supporters of Israel have watched in bewilderment as the Kumbaya Kool-Aid drinkers have drunkenly engaged in Interfaith lunacy.
Raise a voice against the despicable Omar and you’ll be called a racist Islamophobe.
Psst … This may in part explain the silence in the face of growing anti-Semitism you’ve noted. People have grown alienated and confused.
In 2016, the American Enterprise Institute labour economist Nicholas Eberstadt published an important book called “Men Without Work.” Eberstadt’s book was basically about the evolution of the labour force participation rate among working-age males in the United States. In the years after the big war, close to 90 per cent of all American men were, at any given time, working or looking for work. At the time “Men Without Work” was published, the figure was more like 72 per cent. This week, with that number thrashing to keep its nose above 70 per cent, I learned that Eberstadt has published a “post-pandemic edition” of his volume with a new discussion of the problem.
Knowing what we know now about how the U.S. intelligence community operates to control just about everything, I think our nation is more awake than ever before.
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— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) December 17, 2022
They face sub-zero cold and the menace of gangs, but in Texas migrants are gathering in anticipation of a law change
The first night of Jorge’s new life in the United States was also the coldest he had known in his 47 years.
As temperatures dropped below freezing, he was among the oldest of a group of 30 men and women preparing to bunk down in the open air in bundles of blankets handed out by wellwishers near the locked Greyhound bus station in the Texas border city of El Paso.
The FBI has refused to say how many social media companies it works with, defending their actions after it emerged that agents from the bureau regularly met with Twitter executives and handed over lists of accounts they found questionable.
Officials from the bureau even asked for Twitter to hand over the locations from where the Twitter accounts were being operated, in a disturbing move that many saw as an attack on the First Amendment.
One user targeted by the FBI, who goes by @Lexitollah, said: ‘Seems like prima facie 1A violation.’
I would not be surprised to find worse has gone on in Canada.
An Ontario man is one of the four people charged in the U.S. for allegedly raising funds to support the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group.
The White House has ordered the release of documents on the murder of US President John F Kennedy, but said some files will stay sealed.
Some 12,879 documents were posted online on Thursday after President Joe Biden issued an executive order authorising their disclosure.
A 1992 law required the government to release all documents on the 1963 assassination by October 2017.
The death of the US president spawned decades of conspiracy theories.
Three men convicted of playing supporting roles in a foiled plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan in 2020 were sentenced to multiple years in prison on Thursday, as two of the conspiracy’s ringleaders await sentencing before the end of the month.
The three men – Joseph Morrison, 28, his father-in-law Pete Musico, 44, and Paul Bellar, 23 – were sentenced in Jackson County Circuit Court, where they were convicted by a jury in October on charges of gang membership, firearm violations and providing material support for terrorism.
The threats to American power are both subtle and extraordinary.
Tensions between Beijing and Washington have been steadily increasing for years. Some of the competition has been plain to see: New Chinese aircraft carriers, fifth-generation fighter planes and airstrips in the South China Sea that are facing off against U.S. megabases in places like Guam and deepening military partnerships with Australia and Taiwan.
But other aspects of China’s quest for power are much more subtle. Beijing is also playing a quieter game, using non-military means to propel its push for influence and dominance across the Indo-Pacific and beyond.
Critics are sounding the alarm after Alejandro Mayorkas’ visit to El Paso didn’t include a survey of the inundated border crossing areas or parts of the city where migrants are sleeping on the streets due to massive overcrowding in shelters.
While the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary did visit with Border Patrol agents and officials in El Paso, he did not take a look at that dire situation for which Republicans claim he is responsible.
‘No, as far as I’m aware and what I’m hearing from the ground, he [Mayorkas] did not go to the border,’ National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd told DailyMail.com.
The US has charged five Russians and two Americans with conspiracy related to procurement and money laundering on behalf of the government in Moscow.
The justice department said they were suspected of trying to obtain military-grade and dual-use technologies from US firms for Russia’s defence sector.
They are also believed to have conspired to smuggle sniper ammunition in violation of US sanctions.
One of the Russians is thought to be a Federal Security Service (FSB) officer.
Earlier this fall, census data revealed that households in New Brunswick earned less than all other Canadian provinces in 2020. And now, findings from a recent study reveal some glaring disparities between New Brunswick and New England states including Maine.
New Brunswick and Maine share many similarities including geography, culture and demographics. The age of the population in both jurisdictions is quite similar, and prominent industries such as forestry, manufacturing and the government sector tend to represent similar shares of the economy (as measured by GDP).
EU leaders are reconsidering their approach to Russia
Warmer-than-average temperatures may have spared Europe from the worst effects of the energy crisis, but that is about to change: with temperatures predicted to plummet in the coming weeks, heightened demand for dwindling (and very expensive) supplies of natural gas will seriously test Europe’s fragile energy networks — potentially to breaking point.
In Germany, the Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance recently issued a near-apocalyptic advisory telling people what to expect in the event of a blackout: “The telephone is dead, the heating doesn’t come on, there is no warm water, the computer goes on strike, the coffee machine stays off, there is no light.” The agency urged households to stock up on battery-powered flashlights and candles, and even suggested camp stoves to prepare small meals. Elsewhere in Europe, governments are preparing food distribution networks that can function through a blackout.
