“In 1852, America imported more than just an education system from Prussia – it imported a blueprint for societal conditioning. The Prussian model, designed to produce subservient citizens and docile workers, remains our foundation. Its structure was explicitly created to foster obedience to state authority – standardized testing, age-based classes, rigid schedules governed by bells, and most crucially, the systematic shaping of minds to accept information from authorized sources without question. … This model spread globally not because it was the best way to educate, but because it was the most efficient way to mold mass consciousness.” (11/12/24)
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“The Justice Department is accusing three New York men with conspiring to assassinate Donald Trump. The criminal complaint charges that the government of Iran is directing the assassination effort. U.S. officials are making it clear that a foreign state-sponsored assassinations will not be permitted in the United States. After all, a state-sponsored assassination is nothing more than murder, and the Justice Department is making it clear that murder will not be countenanced in the United States, even when the murder is being directed by a foreign regime. It is worth pointing out, however, that Trump himself got a pass for having assassinated an Iranian general named Qasem Soleimani in 2020 when Trump was serving as president. Given that assassination is murder, why wasn’t Trump criminally charged with murdering Soleimani?” (11/12/24)
“Three years ago, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and nearly 100 of her House colleagues signed a letter urging top Democrats in the Senate to take radical action. ‘This is an existential moment for our country,’ Jayapal and the other House Democrats wrote. ‘We cannot let a procedural tool that can be abolished stand in the way of justice, prosperity, and equity.’ That procedural tool? The filibuster, which requires 60 voters for the Senate to pass most legislation — except for judicial nominations and some budget bills. The filibuster rule, those House Democrats argued in 2021, was preventing Congress from preventing the Senate from ‘advancing critical legislation that can meet the needs of the people we represent.’ It’s a good thing the Senate Democrats didn’t listen.” (11/12/24)
“The only relevant constitutional mandate Donald Trump enjoys is the mandate to be sworn in as president. Think about this way: Trump’s coalition together contains factions that disagree with one another on many things. Assume that self-described Republicans are Trump voters. According to the exit polls, about a third (29%) of voters who support legal abortion voted for Trump, while 91% of those who think it should be illegal voted for him. There are similar divides over support for Israel, mass deportation of immigrants and other issues. … whatever Trump believes his mandate is, at least some of the people who voted for him will have different ideas. Save for dealing with inflation and righting the economy, there’s very little that he can do that won’t result in some people saying, ‘This isn’t what I voted for.'” (11/12/24)
“Donald Trump won the election by getting, and because he got, 312 electoral votes, which is more than the 270 required to win a presidential election. Kamala Harris lost the election by getting, and because she got, 226 electoral votes, which is less than the 270 required to win a presidential election. Yes, it really is that simple. Yes, it really is that concise. And aside from one factor — the ability of the two candidates to enthuse their voters and get them to the polls — the reasons for the vote differentials are a dog’s breakfast of confusing details, each of which could have gone in other directions and changed the outcome.” (11/12/24)
“Donald Trump’s commanding victory over Kamala Harris seems to have surprised a lot of people both in the U.S. and around the world. Yet, it’s not surprising that Trump pulled off this victory, especially since polls predicted a tight race. What is surprising though is the scale of his victory. In a deeply divided society with a two-party system, one would have expected that either candidate would have won by a narrow margin. Trump’s victory, which will have a wide-ranging impact on all aspects of U.S. society and will reverberate through the global political economy, represents a genuine political earthquake.” (11/12/24)
“In February, Denmark’s farmers were worried ‘that plans to levy a carbon emission tax on farming’ in the name of global weather control ‘would force them to reduce production and close farms.’ In the same month, farmers across Europe protested against assaults on their livelihood. Meanwhile, a report by a government commission concluded that the carbon tax could cause Denmark’s agricultural production to decline by as much as a fifth. The central planners made clear that this was a price they were willing to pay in order to indulge their ideological-meteorological fantasy. And also, not incidentally, in order to collect more tax dollars.” (11/12/24)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Donald Trump has named Republican congressman Mike Waltz as his next national security advisor, a position that was held by ultrahawk John Bolton in the last Trump administration. Like Bolton, Waltz is a warmongering freak. … The mainstream press are calling Waltz a ‘China hawk,’ but from the look of things he’s a war-horny hawk toward all the official enemies of the United States.” [editor’s note: We had hoped a diplomat would have been the SecState choice, but the warhawks prevail again – SAT] [additional editor’s note: Who’s this “we?” Personally, I had zero hope that the leopard would turn out to have changed his spots – TLK] (11/12/24)
“Several factors play a critical role in ensuring family economic security. Competitive labor markets create opportunities for families to increase their earning power, while income supplements provide a safety net during times of economic or personal hardship. Evidence also highlights the importance of family structure, showing that children tend to thrive when living in stable, two parent households. However, many parents still face marriage penalties in the tax code, which can work against maintaining this stability.” (11/12/24)
“Honestly, what would George Orwell have written about this planet of ours, four decades after that ominous year 1984 passed from his fiction into history? And yes, in case you think that, as in his novel 1984, published in 1949, a year before his death and just as the Cold War (a term he was the first to use in an essay in October 1945) was getting underway, our world, too, seems to be heading for a nightmarish future, I suspect that — were he capable of returning to this planet of ours — he wouldn’t disagree with you for a moment. Phew! Sorry for such a long, complicated sentence, but little wonder given the way our world is now tying itself in knots.” (11/12/24)
