Globalist elites meet again this month in Davos, Switzerland

January 23, 2024

You may have heard a good bit lately about what’s going on in Davos, Switzerland. It is the annual winter conference of the World Economic Forum (WEF). For many, perhaps most people, the WEF is just a name without definition.

So here, from Britannica online, is some background: “World Economic Forum, international organization that convenes an annual winter conference, traditionally in Davos, Switz., for the discussion of global commerce, economic development, political concerns, and important social issues. Some of the world’s most prominent business leaders, politicians, policy makers, scholars, philanthropists, trade unionists, and representatives of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) attend the meetings. Headquarters are in Cologny, near Geneva.”

This annual get-together ran five days, from January 15 through 19, under the theme “Rebuilding Trust.” Topics for discussion fell under three headings: global, industry and economic.

Taking part in the WEF were more than 300 public figures, which included over 60 heads of state and government, plus there was representation from key regions of the world. 

Leading the conference was Klaus Schwab, who is the founder and executive chairman of the organization. Schwab founded a meeting of European corporate leaders interested in making their businesses competitive with American firms way back in 1971. In his day job, Schwab is “a German scholar of business policy and a professor at the University of Geneva.”

The name “World Economic Forum” became effective in 1987, reflecting “the importance of global economic and political issues, including poverty, environmental problems, and international conflict, which it immediately began working to resolve,” the Britannica article tells us.

However, like what happened with the United Nations, the actions of the WEF are not always in the best interest of everyone in the world that it hopes to rule one day.

On that topic, Britannica had this to say. Despite some successes, “the WEF was heavily criticized in the late 1990s by antiglobalization activists, who accused the organization of disenfranchising poorer countries through an excessive promotion of global capitalism. 

“The American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington labeled the group ‘a watering hole for the elite’ and coined the term ‘Davos Man,’ a pejorative reference to the WEF member, whom he believed possessed an erroneous sense of international identity. Protests over the group’s activities continued into the early 21st century, and the group responded by extending forum invitations to NGOs and developing countries and introduced the Open Forum Davos (2003), a free public forum held in parallel with the WEF.”

Sometimes American presidents attend, and sometimes not. President Joe Biden did not attend this year, and former President Donald Trump did not attend this year. Barack Obama, George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush all skipped Davos during their presidencies.

However, some administrative and Congressional personnel did attend. Democrats who attended this year include: Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, climate chief John Kerry, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, New Jersey Rep. Mikie Sherrill, and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.

Republicans that attended include: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, and Florida Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar. Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona also attended.

One other person from the U.S. to attend and speak to the group was 

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts. Talking about the next U.S. administration, he said: “I will be candid and say the agenda that every single member of the administration needs to have is to compile a list of everything that has ever been proposed at the World Economic Forum and object to all of them wholesale,” he said. “Anyone not prepared to do that and take away this power of the unelected bureaucrats and give it back to the American people is unprepared to be part of the next conservative administration.”

Dealing with specifics of what the WEF does that is so disagreeable, he said 

that it promotes illegal immigration as a positive for our country, and that it does not present a public safety threat in large American cities. He argued against the prevailing idea of the WEF that climate change is catastrophic. 

The WEF’s soft attitude toward China brought this comment from Roberts. “China, the No. 1 adversary not just to the United States, but to free people on planet Earth. Not only do we at Davos not say that, we give the Chinese Communist Party a platform.” 

To a group of global elitists who firmly believe they are capable of deciding for all of the rest of us what the entire world must do to sustain the Earth, these and the other wonderful ideas they conjure up may seem beneficial. But as Roberts pointed out, some of them are just plain dangerous for the United States.

And, we should take note that the WEF’s ideas closely match those of the Biden administration.

The United States has for nearly 250 years had a government design where the people of the country determine its course. That has worked very well. And despite the current efforts to undermine that unique design, it is still the best ever. We must not surrender to a global elite.

The younger generations have serious problems affecting the nation

January 16, 2024

Many of us who have been around for a while are somewhat befuddled by the attitude some in the younger generations have about their country. An article credited to a 26-yearold female college graduate student addresses this situation. The article is titled, “My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!”

The article was written within the last few years, and the author is listed as Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA.

Not far into the article she wrote that the infamous “Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, ‘An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity.’ Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.”

Her reaction was, “When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.”

She noted that people in the coffee shop where she was working at the time were talking among themselves, ordering food and being served rather quickly, working on their laptops, and watching cars go by. They can and probably have ordered something from an online retailer very easily, and had it at their door in a day or two. Her peers were enjoying what they had chosen to do at that time, but did not appreciate the things that made that enjoyable. They took them for granted.

That is when she realized that we are fortunate to live in the “most privileged time in the most prosperous nation.” But she noted that so many people are clueless about that.

Our freedoms, our many features in life, like the many modern objects at our disposal, are not considered as special among many of our young people. And she cited some headlines of presidential candidates who are campaigning on policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism.

“We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty-One Times!!!” She added that few Americans are truly poor by global standards.

We simply do not appreciate how good we have it and are ungrateful for all that we have. She attributes much of this to the rising popularity of socialistic thinking among her generation. 

“My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity,” she said. “I know this first hand, I went to college.” She sees things a bit differently than her peers, as she grew up with a much different understanding of her country.

She believes that her generation has truly seen prosperity, but they have only experienced prosperity. They have no direct memories, or even second-hand stories of the great depression or the two world wars, or the wars in Korea or Vietnam. They have not experienced the tragedies of communism and socialism.

And somehow, many of the young Americans were not taught — or did not learn — the true history of America.

While America has many blessings and freedoms, that does not mean that everything is perfect. Far from it. We are a very politically divided nation. We are currently fighting high inflation, ridiculous numbers of illegal aliens coming into the country at will, and we have a political party that leans far to the left that wants to fundamentally transform our government structure from its current one-of-a-kind design that has put the U.S. at the top among the world’s nations to another system that has never achieved anything near to what America has.

Having always had the internet, their own cars, smartphones, laptop computers and so many other wonderful things that they take for granted, they are entitled, but have no idea that they are. They do not understand the comparatively good life that exists today. 

Many of them expect to be paid a good wage just because they have a job, without regard to their particular background, the value of the job they have, and their level of performance. Merit is not a factor to many of them; diversity, equity and inclusion rule.

Our military is suffering from failure to attract enough young people into the services. Many of these young people are unable to pass the requirements to join the military, while others are not inclined to join.

This is a very serious problem, as we are in a time where our adversaries are testing our resolve, such as the Iranian proxy Hezbollah pushing the limits of our patience with attacks on our bases in the mid-east. We must have a military that can address such things and conquer them. And we must have an administration that is not afraid to use it.

Many of the younger generations are poorly prepared to succeed in their country, and do not understand its design, its nearly 250 years of great success, and the degree of personal freedom designed into it.

This is serious problem.

The U.S. suffers under a soft-on-crime wave among prosecutors

January 9, 2024

Many people today apparently do not understand the concept of law and order. Our country has a body of laws that were enacted to prohibit conduct that is harmful to the people and to our country.

When those laws are broken, our justice system provides for penalties to be imposed on the guilty. They teach the wrongdoer a lesson and serve to discourage people from indulging in the unlawful activities.

However, these penalties and deterrents only work when they are implemented as the law requires. 

Police and other law enforcement personnel have the duty to find those who have broken laws, and charge them with criminal offenses. Certain positions that are filled by election and by appointment exist to enforce these laws and to apply charges and penalties as appropriate, such as prosecuting attorneys and judges. 

These persons have the sworn duty to apply the laws without fear or favor. Today, and not for the first time, we find public officials who do not apply all of the laws that exist, and when they do, they are sometimes not done fairly.

An article in U.S. News last month explained that there was a tidal wave of progressive prosecutor victories several years ago that campaigned on policies that seek different types of penalties than now exist. These largely consist of counseling and treatment regimens, monetary fines, parole or community service, rather than jail time. 

“A Republican state attorney general is asking members of Congress to probe a Justice Department grant that he says benefits a ‘radically progressive’ group responsible for training prosecutors in ways to implement a soft-on-crime approach to their work,” a Fox News online report begins.

Letters to Congress were sent by Missouri’s Attorney General Andrew Bailey asking members "to further investigate and eliminate funding for programs that are counter-productive to public safety" and that "aid or encourage prosecutors to abuse discretion by refusing to bring criminals to justice."

In the letters Bailey described a situation where St. Louis circuit attorney Kim Gardner, who he described as "a progressive soft-on-crime prosecutor," released a repeat criminal on bail. The man then hit a young girl with his vehicle at a high speed, resulting in her having her legs amputated.

After much criticism and evidence of dereliction of duty, Gardner resigned from the office.

A case in Austin, Texas, features District Attorney Joseph Garza. Roberto Rangel was arrested for his 7th DUI, that resulted in the deaths of two people in their early 20s. But Garza reduced the charges and bond amount, allowing Rangel back on the streets. 

One of the most notorious of these soft-on-crime prosecutors is Los Angeles County, California District Attorney George Gascon, who was elected in 2020 and is up for reelection this year.

After just one year in office, criticism of Gascon was so intense that a recall campaign was begun. While it failed, more than a half-million signatures have been collected for another recall.

Gascon now faces a challenge at the polls from an attorney that works in his office. John McKinney said Gascon “values the rights of offenders more than victims.”

He added that a lot of crime in Los Angeles County is “not committed out of desperation,” but because “people see an opportunity” due to the soft-on-crime atmosphere created by Gascon.

“We’re down 250 attorneys from what we’re budgeted for,” he said. “We have been handcuffed, gagged … and told to do things that are counterproductive and counter to justice. We’ve had enough. We want change.”

We have seen a dramatic and dangerous move away from holding people to account for their criminal behavior.

These idiotic ideas have produced a significant rise in crime in some cities and states. Victims are not being given the satisfaction of seeing those who have robbed them, assaulted them, damaged their property, or perhaps injured or killed a family member get the satisfaction of the guilty parties being punished.

People in important positions in the justice system don’t punish many instances of wrong-doing, but try to punish some people when they haven’t been convicted or even charged. These people also want to make things more difficult for law enforcement personnel and agencies, and even sometimes support closing down prisons.

And then there are those who use criminal prosecutions for ill. While former President Donald Trump may indeed be guilty of the crimes he allegedly committed years ago, why have those charges only been brought now as Trump seeks the presidency in 2024?

And why did the Maine Secretary of State — Shenna Bellows, a Democrat — decide that she is capable of determining guilt, and that she has the authority to determine that Trump is guilty of “insurrection,” even though he has not been found guilty of it in a court, or even officially charged with the crime?

If you don’t like some laws, you may work to change them, but you must not be allowed to ignore them. You must be required act properly when you are in an official capacity.

If the people are expected to honor the actions of public officials, then those officials must act honorably, legally, fairly and sensibly.

Christmas message of hate spoils the annual celebration

January 2, 2024

On Christmas Eve, a unique description of the event which is celebrated on Christmas Day was posted on Instagram.

"In the story of Christmas, Christ was born in modern-day Palestine under the threat of a government engaged in a massacre of innocents," the post begins. 

"He was part of a targeted population being indiscriminately killed to protect an unjust leader's power. Mary and Joseph, displaced by violence and forced to flee, became refugees in Egypt with a newborn waiting to one day return home. 

"Thousands of years later, right-wing forces are violently occupying Bethlehem as similar stories unfold for today's Palestinians, so much so that the Christian community in Bethlehem has canceled this year's Christmas Eve celebrations out of both safety and respect.

"And yet, also today, holy children are still being born in a place of unspeakable violence - for every child born, of any identity and from any place, is sacred. Especially the children of Gaza.

"The entire story of Christmas and Christ himself is about standing with the poor and powerless, the marginalized and maligned, the refugees and immigrants, the outcast and misunderstood without exception.

"This high Christian holiday is about honoring the precious sanctity of a family that, if the story were to unfold today, would be Jewish Palestinians. Merry Christmas. May there be peace on Earth, amen," the post concluded.

This version of the Christmas story has little to do with truth and history, but has much to say about the anti-Semitic mania that is now sweeping our country.

This particular work of fiction is representative of the illusions possessed by those who hate Jews and blame Israel for the bloody savagery unleashed upon it by the Hamas terrorist organization on October 7.

It was created by one Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat Representative from the state of New York. She is casually known as “AOC.”

Her diatribe created quite a stir, both from supporters and opponents of Israel and the Jewish people. One of her critics is Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, former presidential candidate, and someone who knows the real story.

Huckabee noted correctly that “Jesus was Jewish.” And he also provided some accuracy about Palestine and other relevant factors.

“’Palestinian’ meant Jewish people until 1962 when Yasser Arafat co-opted the term and created a nation and made up a people, and called them the ‘Palestinians,’ who previously were Jordanian,” he noted.

“This is a person that is utterly ignorant about what she is talking about, and she may ought to stick to something she knows, like bartending,” he said. “She has no clue about the history of the Middle East, Jesus, the Jewish people, the State of Israel, or virtually anything else that she talked about in her post,” Huckabee said.

Speaking about the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel, he said that it’s the most “uncivilized act of atrocity that we have probably seen in our lifetime.” “And for anybody to defend this and scream ‘from the river to the sea,’ it’s not just anti-Semitism, it’s anti-humanity. This is evil.”

Since the slaughter and barbarism committed by Hamas last October, the United States has seen many pro-Palestinian/Hamas, anti-Israel protests. Many of them have been and are on college campuses.

There, Jewish students have been threatened and unable to move about freely, even to the point of having to miss classes. College administrations seemed unconcerned with this situation.

Recently, holiday travelers were heavily inconvenienced by protests blocking roads to airports, resulting in many travelers missing their flights.

In desperation, many of these people left their blocked vehicles and walked through the protesters trying to get to the gate before their flight took off.

Earlier in the year, a group of pro-Palestinian/Hamas protesters disrupted the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and vandalized the New York Public Library, sparking a wave of outrage.

Hundreds of demonstrators disrupted the Macy's Parade by gluing their hands to the pavement in the center of Sixth Avenue. Dressed in white jumpsuits, they were covered in fake blood. Some of them went to the library, and sprayed the words “free Palestine” in spray paint on the building, and damaged the buildings columns.

Exactly how this criminal behavior helps the Palestinians, or Hamas, is left to the imagination.

America still prides itself as a nation with freedom of speech protected in the U.S. Constitution. Yes, speech is still a protected right, despite the fact that some media are allowed to censor some speech. 

But the question is: why do these anti-Semites insist on blocking traffic and indulging in other criminal activities while exercising that right?

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As we begin a new year, let us hope that 2024 returns the nation to the good old days of 2020, when prices were better, the southern border was more secure, we were not so illogically focused on the false hope of electric vehicles and green energy “saving the world,” and we were more focused on preserving the great country our founders had given us than on fundamentally transforming the United States of America into just one more socialist failure.