Who remembers when Drudge was sane? How he leans so far to the left that it hurts.
Look at the headline he ran with on Monday from Politico (which he had up for days for maximum effect):
“Dems’ dreaded deja vu: Another 50-50 Senate”
“Although the party eked out wins from its current even-split slog, it badly wants to pick up more seats — and has a shrinking list of chances,” Politico reported, adding:
“Democrats face a real and uncomfortable possibility after the midterms: two more years of a Senate divided 50-50. After slogging through — and extracting some significant victories from — the longest evenly split Senate in history, Democrats are pushing hard to expand their majority by netting seats in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. But as their list of potential pickups shrinks, they’re staring down a 2023 that may start with another 50-50 chamber: At the moment average polling forecasts exactly that, and POLITICO currently rates control of the chamber a toss-up.”
IT’S A TOSS-UP!
Control of the chamber- is toss-up? That is interesting, meaning, whatever happens, they were right. Right? Media reports started showing that all of a sudden, Democrats were making massive gains as if all of the problems the Democrats had caused over the past four months had been solved.
Can anyone say the price of gas is too high? Are groceries too high? People are unhappy about politics right now- and Democrats are in charge.
four months ago- CNN acknowledged that things looked good for Republicans. Ask yourself what changed all of a sudden.
Listen as CNN talks about the importance of Biden’s approval rating – to gauge how many seats he will lose.
Compare and Contrast with this recent comment by Rassmuessen polls:
Notice how the Democrat-leaning media is talking about the polls closing up the wide margin that had been developing- and see that Rasmussen, an expert at reading polls, notes that they are polling adults- not voters.
When the Democrats say all votes count- they don’t mean all legal votes count.. do they?
The left was busy this past weekend creating political smears to try to destroy a political opponent, an American citizen, a free man of the United States of America- again. *yawn* we all have come to expect the little lapdog corporate media has nothing better to do, right?
Did you see this stupid thing go viral and then wonder why the left was so giddy – like they just heard a fart joke about President Donald J. Trump or something?
The question is: what exactly was Roger Stone’s involvement re January 6th, that not getting a pardon to protect him from the legal consequences, would make him melt-down? https://t.co/uo2f3Csmqb
Isn’t the problem with Roger Stone the fact that he is so loyal to President Donald Trump? Isn’t Donald Trump such a fragile ego that he bans people for life from him for saying the slightest mean thing to him? So then, how does the left explain why Trump hasn’t dumped Stone? This is the massive viral news – leftists say is Roger Stone attacking President Trump and Ivanka Trump- and yet Trump has left Stone on Truth Social. Did the media expose some of their smear tactics?
LOGIC IS A THING
That is why I say that Roger Stone broke the media.
The lapdog media are not even trying to hide the fact that they see Roger Stone, a political icon, as nothing more than fodder for their Soviet-style show trials. What does that mean to the average American?
Even if you believe that he said what he said- how does anyone know who he is talking to? The idea that anyone believes this hoax is ridiculous- but believed it enough to put it in evidence in their trial- in the People’s house. Disgusting.
Have you had enough of the children in DC doing nothing all day long but getting revenge on their political opponents?
Likely, the allied lunatics in DC and their media partners created this recent drama because, One- they need the clicks, and Stone is fascinating, and, Two- because they need to feed their Never Trumpers some bread and circuses.
Everyone in their right mind knows that Stone loves Trump- and Trump loves Stone. Everything else here is that Stone says is just simple logic. And here is proof that the left thinks you are stupid.
Here he is in his own words- saying it again:
Here is what he said:
Since the moment I was pardoned in the phony Russian collusion hoax, the hysterical Woke left has been out to kill me. They are bitter and angry. Now, they’re particularly upset because the January 6 committee has no evidence whatsoever that I knew in advance about participating in or condoning any illegal act on January 6.
Now, the exact same people who manipulated a video for their hearing in which I appear to call for violence while ignoring a real video shot in front of the supreme court on January 5th, in which I denounce violence.
Or in which I allegedly attack President Donald Trump. Can you see my lips moving in either? This is the epitome of a deep fake. After all, if I was going to turn on Donald Trump, wouldn’t I have done it when I was facing a seven to nine years sentence> Muller and his thugs were pressuring me and offering me leniency in my sentencing if I would flip on the President.
These people are despicable, but anybody who knows me knows that I am loyal to Donald Trump and I’m ready to support him in 2024, over my own State Governor.
BREAKING: DOJ Recommending Steve Bannon Be Sentenced to Six Months in Prison
The Department of Justice is recommending that former Trump advisor and War Room host Steve Bannon be sentenced to six months in prison and a $200,000 fine for defying the January 6 Committee.
Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress in July for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the committee.
In the recommendation, the DOJ claimed that Bannon “has pursued a bad-faith strategy of defiance and contempt.”
The DOJ also stated that Bannon “flouted the Committee’s authority and ignored the subpoena’s demands.”
The recommendation continued, “to this day the Defendant has not produced a single document to the Committee or appeared for testimony. For his sustained, bad-faith contempt of Congress, the Defendant should be sentenced to six months’ imprisonment—the top end of the Sentencing Guidelines’ range—and fined $200,000—based on his insistence on paying the maximum fine rather than cooperate with the Probation Office’s routine pre-sentencing financial investigation.”
Part of the committee’s reason for subpoenaing Bannon was that he had predicted on his podcast that “All Hell is going to break loose tomorrow” — something almost everyone was saying at the time.
Anti-Trump neocon Liz Cheney and Democrat Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, chairs of the committee, had celebrated Bannon’s conviction in a joint statement after he was found guilty.
“The conviction of Steve Bannon is a victory for the rule of law and an important affirmation of the Select Committee’s work,” Thompson and Cheney said in a joint statement at the time. “Just as there must be accountability for all those responsible for the events of January 6th, anyone who obstructs our investigation into these matters should face consequences.”
Bannon is scheduled to be sentenced on October 21, 2022—one year to the day after he was held in contempt by the House.
You can read the full recommendation by the DOJ here.
“This is an act of war by the Chinese Communist Party,” Pete Santilli told his audiences on Sunday- and then he took the time to explain.
Unconventional times call for unconventional measures as Pete Santilli showed on Sunday in an emergency broadcast that is sure to ignite people into action after the bombshell he dropped on them about the proven intervention of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in American elections. We already have one arrest, of Eugene Yu, from Oct 4th and now the details about his background and his connections are being dug up.
The purpose of Santilli’s interview on Sunday (clip below) was to- educate, empower and equip them to help save our Republic.
Santilli explained to people what is happening so they could tell others, show them the proof of his claim, and point them to what to do about what he exposed.
From the information that Santilli gave his audience that night, listeners are directed to call their state representatives at their state legislatures and general assemblies- and alarm them to the dangerous breach of national security that author and investigative journalist Christopher Kortlander uncovered and his other guest Roy MacKenzie illustrated with a slide presentation of links and screenshots.
In his interview with Kortlander and MacKenzie, Santilli gave the timeline of what has occurred since early October based on the research of MacKenzie from MontanaMt.News that will elevate the suspicions about Yu and his company and what they were doing to American votes, which Pete Santilli calls an ‘act of war’, especially because, as Korlander pointed out, this was done to our military members.
These things are linked. Here is the foundation, Santilli explained:
Konnech Corporation’s ECO Eugene Yu, 51, was arrested in Meridian Township in Michigan on October 4, and held on suspicion of theft of personal identifying information, while computer hard drives and other “digital evidence” were seized by investigators from the county district attorney’s office, according to the office. He is suspected of holding information about American election participants on a server in China, which is under direct coordination with the Chinese Communist Party.
Santilli and MacKenzie had slides that showed the following connections with the researchers dug up:
Within days of Yu’s arrest, the New York Times reported on a Chinese subsidiary company, Jinhua Yulian Network Technology, founded in 2005, where programmers developed and tested software.
The slideshow shows Yu, whose name is the Registrant Contact, also praised the group 2013 to the CCP, bragging about success with Election Management Solutions, Detroit, and with overseas voters. Michigan has since terminated its contract with Yu’s company.
Another company that is tied to Yu is Hongzheng Technology Co, LTD
Another screenshot shows on-site comments in Chinese characters below the official seals of Washington, D.C., Detroit, Michigan, St. Louis, Missouri, and other US counties and is the number one voting technology provider for China’s national people’s Congress.
The company partners with Huawei China Telecom and China Unicom, two of which are now sanctioned by the United States.
The series of connections, exposed by Santilli’s guests in the video below, between the companies is very suspicious, raising the question of whether Eugene Yu is secretly running the CCP’s number one voting software company or whether Yu is running Konnech an American voting technology company for the CCP.
And there are even more details and shocking revelations in the video. Here is a partial transcript.
SANTILLI SAID: “We want you to look up your state legislators, your state representatives and tell them about this story,” Santilli told his audience.
“Tell them about malware installed on our troop’s phones and tell them the Chinese Communist Party- the CCP is behind it. This is an act of War. Sure. This Way Beyond, you know, that left overthrowing the right, right?
KORTLANDER SAID: “Correct. They are actually inside the electronics of the military. That’s not an exaggeration. That is not speculation, Pete and I had a phone call last night with an informant at the highest levels of the government that told us that this is malware, which is the voting system that they use to implement voting for our armed services outside of our boundaries when they’re deployed.
Is more or less a front and excuse a reason for us to look to the left when it we should be looking, right? So to speak that the malware is installed inside of the electronic devices that they’re using. So what does that mean?
That means that all of that person can be tracked in real-time anywhere all the time. “
SANTILLI SAID,(Introducing a new guest): The purpose of this broadcast. In the reason why it’s an emergency is that the information that has come about, especially as a result of the Deep research that Roy MacKenzie’s done, the graphical presentation of the facts that will be presented in the urgency, by which this information is being passed on to the state legislators of Montana, as well as the Attorney General of Montana requires it being an SOS because we’re a matter of a few days from an election. And we need to take action with the help of our legislators and our Attorneys General.
What the clip for the shocking details and to arm yourself with information, tips and direction on how to right back in the best way. Remember to hit the link at the top of the page to research your state reps and the Attorney Generals in your state and tell them what you have discovered here.
This story will be developing for a long time.
WATCH:
Pete Santilli’s bombshell interview of Roy McKenzie And Christopher Kortlander. Recorded Sunday October 16, 2022.
Pod Save America trotted former Democrat president Barack H. Obama out to do a podcast on ‘Pod Save America,’ and after reading over the transcript, the radical Marxist Community Organizer shows that he never intended on talking his fingers off of the control button- which he has connected to his boy- Democrat Joe Biden.
Obama, known for his militant spying and usurpations, has led much of the Marxist revolution in the United States since his easy entry into US politics. He even bragged about it in his interview this past weekend.
OBAMA THE SAVIOR
Obama: When I was running. I give one keynote address and suddenly I’m pretty well known nationally.
Obama: One of the things that I’m hoping to do over the next several years is in between elections maybe bring together some of this talent and see how I can lift them up and support them. And you know, cause turns out I still have, like, a lot of Twitter followers, and that’s more than some people, although I don’t really talk about it all the time.
IRAN
Obama, who is largely responsible for funding the Mullahs and the uprising in Iran is here talking about the problems in Iran, as if he is distant from the consequences of giving them power and money:
The question was asked: I saw that you and Michelle, put out a statement in support of the Iranian protestors earlier this week. I was just wondering why you thought it was important to weigh in, and if you think there’s lessons we can learn from the Green Movement in 2009 or the Arab Spring, about which of these democratic movements succeed and fail and why?
Obama: I think there’s no way to predict how this plays out. And one thing we all learned through the Arab Spring, the Green Movement in Iran and a lot of other places is that you can’t underestimate the power of just sheer force and violence, sadly, and the repressive mechanisms that a government like Iran has in place. But there are a couple of conclusions we can draw from. Number one, is that there is deep dissatisfaction with the Iranian regime.
Number two, that women in particular are chafing under a series of not just systematic discrimination against women and subjugation of women, but also an arbitrariness and a cruelty beneath that’s exercised by the state against women, which has made them essentially say, we’re fed up, we’re tired of this. And that’s extraordinarily powerful. Whether it ends up bringing about fundamental change in that regime, I think is hard to predict. But the one thing that, you know, when I think back to 2009, 2010, you guys will recall there was a big debate inside the White House about whether I should publicly affirm what was going on with the Green Movement, because a lot of the activists were being accused of being tools of the West and there was some thought that we were somehow gonna be undermining their street cred in Iran if I supported what they were doing. And in retrospect, I think that was a mistake.
Every time we see a flash, a glimmer of hope, of people longing for freedom, I think we have to point it out. We have to shine a spotlight on it. We have to express some solidarity about it. That doesn’t mean by the way that the administration is– that a US administration shouldn’t be taking a bunch of other equities into account.
Obama: They have to, a president has to, right? So I continue to believe that the Iran Nuclear Deal was a really important thing for us to do to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. Had we not had that in place, I think Iran would’ve had a nuclear weapon by now.
UKRAINE
Here is what explains much of our national presence on the world stage in Ukraine:
Obama: I think what the Ukrainian people have accomplished is extraordinary and it’s a testimony to not just the courage of a few soldiers, but this is a entire nation mobilizing in the face of extraordinary odds, and making tremendous sacrifices. And Zelensky himself has risen to the moment in a way that his biography would not have necessarily anticipated, right? So, at the end of the day, it is not our job to tell the Ukrainians, when is it enough, how far should they go, what concession should they make, etc. That’s up to them. As their allies, it is important for us to support them financially, militarily, through our intelligence.
We do however, have to be clear and honest with them about what we can and cannot do. And there are lines that we have to determine internally, the US, NATO, and others that take into account the risk of this tipping into a Russia/ US/NATO conflict as opposed to a Russia/Ukraine conflict. I’m not privy to enough of the intelligence at this stage and it’s not my job as a private citizen to weigh in on where that line should be drawn, but as we’re thinking about, for example, what weapons we’re sending in or how we’re approaching our support for Ukraine, I think thinking about where defense stops and offense begins and how we manage that, is something that we have to pay attention to.
And I do think, you know, probably the thing that I’m most concerned about is that lines of communication between the White House and the Kremlin are probably as weak as they have been in a very long time. Even in some of the lowest points of the Cold War, there was still a sense of the ability to pick up a phone and work through diplomatic channels to send clear signals. And a lot of that is broken down and I don’t think it’s the fault of our administration.
Obama: I think that we’re now dealing with a type of Russian regime that is actually even more centralized, even more isolated and closed off. I think Putin has consolidated decision making to a degree that we haven’t seen even during the Soviet era and I think creates some dangerous…and us finding ways in which some of that communication can be reestablished, I think would be important.
MOBILIZATION
Dan: Do you think there’s a way to sort of weave those things into one narrative about the stakes in this election?
Obama: Well, look, I think the first and most important issue is: Are we going to preserve and hopefully strengthen our democracy? That’s sort of a baseline question. And I believe that given how at least Republican officials have behaved, they increasingly are willing to subvert basic democratic procedures, right?
Like, let’s count votes. Let’s make sure that people are allowed to vote. Let’s make sure that whoever gets the most votes has the most seats. And that if they get the most votes in Congress that you can pass laws, right? Basic stuff like that they don’t increasingly seem to believe in. And, and so that’s the sense of urgency that I have.
Now, I think for the average voter out there, we can talk about specific issues that are important to them. And this has been a long term battle that we’ve been having between Democrats and Republicans. And that is, do we create the kind of economy that gives everybody a fair shot? And that grows the economy in a way that is good for not just a few, but the many.
And the great thing that I think we have going for us is, is that even with really slim majorities, what we’ve shown is, is that we can deliver. You know, the Biden Administration has accomplished a lot. You’ve got a historic infrastructure bill that’s gonna help rebuild America and create jobs all across the country.
You’ve got the Inflation Control Act that has lowered prescription drug prices, has made sure that healthcare is even more affordable through the ACA, that is looking at lowering energy costs. You’ve got a gun bill that is the first major piece of gun safety legislation that we’ve seen in 30 years.
You know, across the board, what we’ve seen is that when Democrats have a working majority, or even really slim majority in Congress, they can make people’s lives better. And so, you know, if you combine the deep concerns about our democracy with the concrete accomplishments that this administration had been able to deliver, because we had a narrow majority in both the House and the Senate, that should be enough to inspire people to get out.
Now, there’s one last piece of business that I think has been on a lot of people’s minds, and that’s Dobbs, right? The overturning of Roe versus Wade. Because what that also indicates is that a lot of rights that we’ve taken for granted— one through enormous struggle and mobilization over the last 40, 50 years– those aren’t rights that we can take for granted.
The CCP is now causing extreme isolation for people who do not obey them, and this is a warning for Americans who have romanticized the economic system called Communism- or who have believed naively that the Chinese Communist Party are just some friendly competition for Americans and we should allow them into our Tech.
They are not. They are virtual dominant and they treat their own people horribly. When they can control the digital needs of humans, they use the digital to harm people. We covered the story of the CCP controlling digital currency through PAY PAL.
Here is more proof. Now they control the social life of people. How romantic is this? The following report is from two years ago- so assume WeChat is even more essential now.
This is how essential WeChat is to the Chinese people. “It is an essential ap in China, like water and electricty.”
Banning a Chinese person from the Ap, ‘We Chat’ is the Equivalent of cutting someone’s hand off, according to dissidents under the brutal CCP regime, meant to cause self-censorship among the people.
A lifetime ban for WeChat users who shared picture of Beijing protest. With the ubiquity of WeChat in daily life in China, this punishment is the digital equivalent of cutting an offender’s hand off. Hard to imagine a more effective tool to enforce self-censorship. https://t.co/oZwBocgooj
Liza Lin, China correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, reported on the situation with her own investigation, she posted the following:
The @WSJ ran checks on China’s most popular social media platforms in the weeks before the Party Congress, searching for the names of Chinese leader Xi, the standing committee members and its 31 provincial and region Party chiefs. Here’s what we found:
We analysed Douyin (China’s TikTok), Weibo, Baidu’s online forum Tieba, the Quora-like Zhihu (知乎）and searched for WeChat blogs using the Sogou search tool.
In his 10 years in power, Xi presided over a boom in censorship that has muzzled online debate in entirely new ways. Influencers with dissenting views silenced, new laws limit online speech, and companies are fined for not policing web content. Still, the results were a shock.
Weibo (1): Weibo doesn’t allow users without a Chinese cellphone number (no overseas users) to even search for Xi Jinping’s name in the app. You need to register and log-in with a Chinese number (linked to your ID) to do so.
Results are almost all articles or videos in some way linked to state media or government agencies. No surprise.. EXCEPT, the comments are also hidden from view… this post has 366 comments but only 3 are viewable.
eibo (3): Other posts on state media mentioning Xi Jinping or Li Keqiang don’t even bother. They’ve shut off the comment function or hide them.
When you try and search on Baidu’s online forum Tieba for Chinese President Xi Jinping, its a blank slate. Up pops a message: 抱歉，根据相关法律法规和政策，相关结果不予展现。”Sorry, according to related laws and policies, the results cannot be shown.”
Baidu Tieba: Chinese netizens get the same reply when they search for anyone else on the Standing Committee: Li Keqiang, Han Zheng, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji. Other politicians with similar levels of censorship include Xinjiang Party chief 马兴瑞.
Baidu Tieba: The true irony is that Chinese internet users can discuss U.S. politicians such as President Biden much more freely. Compare the zero results of Chinese leader Xi to 184,000 comments on Biden, with opinions ranging from respect to disgust.
ame scenario when it came to Sogou’s WeChat search portal (a common way to browse WeChat blog posts). Searching ‘Yang Jiechi,’ China’s pointman on foreign affairs, returned the result: 呀!没有找到相关的微信公众号文章 (Ya! No related official WeChat posts found).
Looking for Yang Jiechi’s U.S. counterpart Antony Blinken deliver 1,000 WeChat posts. Yang = 0 posts. Blinken = 1,000. #censorship
ouyin takes 1st prize for censorship, boot-licking. For Xi, you only find videos from state/Party media. Lots of CCTV discussing Xi’s trips to the hinterland. I found this gem of an account: “Foreign Affairs Thinktank” with “golden thoughts from Xi.” 1 mln followers… hmmm.
eep in mind Douyin’s global counterpart TikTok, run by the same parent company Bytedance, is filled with user-generated memes and spoofs of leaders such as Biden and Putin. No such thing in China.
Even searches for public sentiment about Mr. Xi’s wife, Peng Liyuan, a famous folk singer in her own right, yield nothing on most platforms. A close analogy would be Google censoring results for Melania Trump or Michelle Obama.
Wechat is the worst censorship offender: and the #sitongbridge incident is the most recent example. Large numbers of Chinese lost access to the ubitquitous chat messaging app after sharing a photo of a rare protest act in Beijing ahead of the Congress.
I spoke to WeChat users who were banned forever from their account as they had shared this picture. In the past, Wechat would suspend you for a day or a week over politically sensitive topics, but not this time. With this incident, it was a complete ban for all who shared.
I turned to Telegram to chat with one user to avoid being surveilled. But after a few mins, the state interference made it almost impossible to chat. They didn’t cut my call directly but made the line so broken you heard bits and bobs, and you constantly heard yourself echo.
In China, where independent opinion polls are almost nonexistent, social media has been a way to gauge people’s opinions, even under censorship. But the online scrubbing highlights how difficult it is to figure out how popular is China’s most forceful leader since Mao.
It’s also tough to assess support for his policies. A Zhihu post on a speech by Mr. Xi to the People’s Liberation Army in which he called for “the motherland to be unified”—a reference to taking control of Taiwan, appeared to have attracted 219 comments. None could be viewed.
Because China has blocked out a lot of foreign news websites and information sources, there is little to balance the steady stream of state-television anchors or Foreign Ministry spokespeople waxing lyrical about Mr. Xi, or footage of him being cheered by crowds on visits.
RINO Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has revealed his true colors with a recent letter to the IRS and the corrupt FBI, which calls on them to investigate True The Vote, the election integrity group featured in the groundbreaking 2000 Mules documentary.
Chief Special Agent Reginald Grigsby from Mark Brnovich’s Special Investigations Section sent the letter Friday alleging that True The Vote has raised considerable sums of money with nothing to show for it and claiming they did not give the Attorney General’s office any information that led to investigations in Arizona.
However, as The Gateway Pundit reported yesterday, an Arizona ballot trafficker was just sentenced to 30 days in jail after True The Vote investigated her trafficking ballots in San Luis, Arizona.
It is also rumored that investigators from the Attorney General’s office were in San Luis again this past week, investigating and possibly indicting others for voter fraud and ballot trafficking in the 2020 election.
A representative from the Yuma County Sheriff’s office told TGP that the Attorney General’s office has partially taken over the County Sheriff’s investigation of voter fraud in the County. They also said, “We currently have 26 cases that we are investigating.”
“Investigators confirmed that the AG’s office was in town talking to people, but it is unknown if anybody was arrested at this time,” said the Yuma County Sherriff’s office.
The Attorney General’s office did not respond to our request for more information.
The Gateway Pundit reported in May that the Yuma County Sherriff released a report stating that the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office and the Yuma County Recorder’s office are working together to examine 2020 election fraud and patterns of fraud leading up to the 2022 Primary Election after the release of the 2000 Mules documentary.
The letter from the Attorney General’s office alleges that True The Vote’s claims of providing information to the Attorney General’s office are “patently false.”
“This is inaccurate. TTV has not provided us any information/evidence of election fraud in Arizona that has led to us initiating an investigation,” stated the letter.
The letter concludes, “Given TTV’s status as a nonprofit organization, it would appear that further review of their financials may be warranted.”
The Attorney General’s office still has not acted on the 2020 Election law violations and hundreds of thousands of illegal, fraudulent, and questionable ballots that were discovered by the Maricopa County full forensic audit, or the footage of individuals illegally deleting 2020 election files from the Elections Management Server in April 2021.
Nor have they acted on the Primary Election Day incompetence in Arizona’s three largest counties, where Republican voters were turned away from the polls after being told they’ve already voted and faced printer malfunctions which led to ballots not being available. The Gateway Pundit reported that in Pinal County, Republican voters were turned away from the polls early on election day because the County ran out of ONLY Republican ballots.
Now, Brnovich wants the FBI to investigate more good Americans who want election integrity.
Trump-Endorsed Nominee for Arizona Secretary of State Mark Finchem tweeted that True The Vote turned this information over to the Attorney General over a year ago and that Brnovich’s office is lying.
Red Pope Francis Calls for “New Economic System” that Guarantees “Food, Health, Economic and Social Rights”
Pope Francis says that the world and its institutions require material changes to create a new economic system that creates food, health, and economic and social rights for all.
Socialism hasn’t destroyed enough and so Pope Francis is calling for what seems to be socialism around the world.
Newsmax reported this morning on Pope Francis’s recent comments.
Pope Francis said the need to reform the United Nations was “more than obvious” after the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war exposed its limits, in an extract of his new book published Sunday.
The Argentine pontiff said Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine highlighted the need to ensure the current multilateral structure — especially the UN Security Council — finds “more agile and effective ways of resolving conflicts”.
“In wartime, it is essential to affirm that we need more multilateralism and a better multilateralism,” but the UN is no longer fit for “new realities”, he added in an extract published by La Stampa daily.
The organisation was founded to prevent the horrors of two World Wars from happening again, but although the threat represented by those conflicts was still alive, “today’s world is no longer the same”, said Francis.
“The necessity of these reforms became more than obvious after the pandemic” when the current multilateral system “showed all its limits”, he added.
Francis denounced the unequal distribution of vaccines as a “glaring example” of the law of the strongest prevailing over solidarity.
An individual by the name of Hans Despain reported this morning at Yahoo on the Pope’s recent actions. Despain praises the Pope’s latest actions.
Pope Francis has become the eminent voice of the economically destitute and the environment. Since being elected to the papacy Pope Francis insists that we need a new economic system that better provides basic needs for the global poor, along with guaranteed work and land.
Regarding the environment, Pope Francis contends we “must not be indifferent or resigned to the loss of biodiversity and the destruction of ecosystems, often caused by our irresponsible and selfish behavior.”
He warns: “Because of us, thousands of species will no longer give glory to God by their very existence. … We have no such right.”
For Pope Francis, economic destitution and environmental destruction are symbiotically linked. “Climate change is,” according to Pope Francis, displacing people, increasing poverty and “contributing to the heart-rending refugee crisis. The world’s poor, though least responsible for climate change, are most vulnerable and already suffering its impact.”
Pope Francis emphasizes globally there are a series of “profoundly interconnected crises” in “the areas of health care, the environment, food supplies and the economy,” not to mention regional wars, “social, humanitarian and ethical crises,” all calling for a “new vision,” to “rethink the future of the world,” and establish “a renewed sense of shared responsibility for our world.”
The Pope attacks economist Milton Friedman:
Pope Francis contends that supply-side economics is mistaken and Friedman and Hayek are false prophets. The pope worries that too many “people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.”
The pope insists “the marketplace, by itself, cannot resolve every problem.”
For the record, Rush Limbaugh pegged this guy way back in 2013.
