Critical Race Theory Teaches White Children to Commit Suicide!! This one teacher stood up and got fired for being 'racist' and no one in the mainstream media knows him. UTL COMMENT:- I am White European and I have no guilt or shame, I have nothing but genuine pride in what my people have accomplished throughout history. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: "Cuban Exile Second Generation American" https://www.bitchute.com/video/yKvODxpfs65f

The new director of AARO is an interesting choice. Dr Jon T. Kosloski is the new Director of the AARO office. He's a former NSA scientist. The NSA has for decades been involved in tracking UFO/NHI activity according to a credible USAF whistleblower Dan Sherman. Also, the NSA runs an office managing interstellar trade out of Antarctica. Will we see more disclosure or more impediments to getting the truth?

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Kamala Harris’s path to the White House is a textbook example of how a carefully crafted false narrative can be weaponized to win hearts, votes, and ultimately, power. Let’s take a hard look behind her air-brushed “poor black kid from the Oakland hood” story. During the 2020 Democratic primaries, Harris didn’t just spar with Joe Biden — she went straight for the jugular with a well-rehearsed line about busing that was designed to resonate deeply with voters. She invoked an emotional image of a poor little black girl who was bused to school as part of a desegregation effort. “That little girl was me,” Kamala declared, the crowd went wild, and for at least one shining moment, Joe Biden was vanquished. (READ MORE: Despite the Harris Candidacy, I’m Actually Optimistic) Truth be told, however, Harris wasn’t some dirt poor kid from the hood who took a freedom ride to overcome impossible odds. She grew up in a privileged, middle-class Berkeley, California home — yes, that Berkeley — a city better known for the radical left-wing politics Harris has embraced than for being a hotbed of racial tension. Kamala Harris Cast Herself as a Victim of Systemic Racism. She’s Not. To advance her career, Kamala Harris developed a “daughter of Oakland” persona to distance herself from the People’s Republic of Berkeley and thereby develop a richer black narrative. Yes, Kamala was born in Oakland. But that’s it. The only thing she ever did related to Oakland other than be born there was to put young black men from Oakland behind bars for selling nickel bags of marijuana across the bay in San Francisco where she served as district attorney. And consider this further shading of the truth: While Harris bashed Biden for opposing federal busing, Berkeley’s busing program was a local government initiative that faced no resistance — quite unlike the firestorms unleashed by bussing in places like Boston or Detroit. (READ MORE: Mediaite Plays the Race Card Over Trump Rally) Harris was simply bussed from one integrated Berkely school to another that may have had a slightly better academic record and even that’s unclear. Yet Harris’ rendition of events was cynically designed to cast herself as a victim of systemic racism, even though her own experiences weren’t at all harrowing. This Is a Matter of Public Trust Why do Harris’ multiple deceptions matter? When politicians exaggerate or selectively highlight certain aspects of their life stories, it becomes a matter of public trust. Harris has built her career on a carefully crafted image that rings hollow with the reality of her middle-class and privileged upbringing. Indeed, the duality in Kamala Harris’ narrative — embracing one part of her background while distancing herself from another — raises serious questions about Harris’s authenticity Harris has even taken to talking “Black English” now when it’s politically convenient. It’s called “code-switching” in the parlance; and it involves altering one’s language, dialect, or speaking style to resonate with a particular audience. As Joe Biden might say, “C’mon man.” (READ MORE: Trump and the Kennedys for Tax Cuts, Kamala Not) In the end, Kamala Harris’s story is a masterclass in political image management, but it should make voters ask: “Who is the real Kamala Harris?” If she’s willing to stretch the truth about her own life, what else might she be willing to do? We already know at least two answers to that: Kamala Harris will hide from the press, and Harris will flipflop on every position that voters disagree with her on simply to get elected. Of course, if the past is prologue and Harris wins the White House, she will do exactly what she wants. Is anyone frightened by that? You damn well should be. Peter Navarro is a former White House advisor.  His latest book is The New MAGA Deal: The Unofficial Deplorables Guide to Donald Trump’s 2024 Platform. The post Kamala Chameleon’s Girl From the Hood Gambit appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

During recess, I was invited to speak to three congressional staffs in Washington, D.C.: one from a dark-red district, one from a light-blue district, and one from that rarest of all artifacts from our gerrymandered age, a deep-dyed purple district. The tactical advice was tailored to their different exigencies, but the core message, edited for this mature audience, was the same for all three tribes. Number One: At the Beginning of a Session, When the Congressman Is Sworn in, Take Your Own Oath: The Hippocratic Oath In the course of a Capitol day, you will hear from lobbyists. You will hear from the bureaucracy. You will hear from the media. You will even hear from a few folks back home: A constituent wants to get her granddad into a VA hospital; another wants you to track down his Social Security check; a third wants to get in on this loan-forgiveness thing. You will not hear much of anything from what I hope is still the silent majority — the productive people back home. They are the people who voted for your boss. The people who pay the nation’s bills. The people, you might recall, who pay your salary. (READ MORE: I Love the States People Are Leaving) Most of the people back home are not eager to hear from you. When they do, it’s usually bad news about the costs you impose on them: taxes, fees, and the only slightly disguised costs of inflation. Most productive people don’t complain. They cope. They work harder, they try to work smarter and, if all else fails, they cut their own compensation. What productive people can’t cope with is the inexorably rising cost of compliance with government regulation. Most of the productive people don’t work for organizations with large staffs of government relations people, which is of course another cost of compliance only partially disguised. So, please, when you research a new bill, when you review a draft, when you whip votes for it, and especially when you recommend to the congressman that he votes for it, ask yourself this question: Does this bill harm the people who sent your boss here to represent them? Does it make their life harder? Does it make it more expensive? Remember always the injunction given to the young doctor as he or she begins to treat patients: Primum non nocere. First, do no harm. Number Two: Bring Your Personal GPS With You You, Congressional staffers, are vastly outnumbered by lobbyists in the D.C. area. You see them around the office. You see them at receptions after work. As you head home at night, you may find that you have parked your VW in the space next to their BMW. And the next morning, while they are commuting from suburban McLean, you may be taking the scenic route from somewhere in the greater Leesburg metro area. (READ MORE: Despite the Harris Candidacy, I’m Actually Optimistic) Over time, you can’t help but notice that a) lobbyists make three, five, or seven times more than you do, and b) they don’t seem to be any brighter or work any harder than you do. You may come to think of yourself as underpaid. You are using the wrong GPS. This is the moment to check your personal GPS. It will help you to remember where you are in the scheme of things. You should know that many of the productive people back home look at you and your colleagues and ask, “What do all those overpaid people do all day?” Number Three: What Should You Do When the Boss Is Wrong? We will stipulate that your congressman is as smart as a whip, but we must also acknowledge that he is human and that, on those exceedingly rare occasions when he is about to make a mistake, you must decide: What should you do about it? I have pertinent experience with this question. All of it is bad. In 1971, when I caught wind of Richard Nixon’s plan to impose wage and price controls, I wrote him a memo setting out the history of controls and the damage, both political and economic, likely to result from their imposition. That was too little, too late. In 2002, determined not to repeat my earlier mistake, I took to the media to express my opposition to George W. Bush’s upcoming “discretionary war” in Iraq. That was too much, too soon. (READ MORE: The Sacred Duty of Skepticism) My suggestion is that you proceed as follows. First, consult your oath. Is the proposed legislation likely to wing, even inadvertently, the good folks back home? Or is the legislation likely to diminish the congressman’s prospects? Research the matter from every angle. Reach your conclusion firmly. Then ask for a few private minutes with the boss and present your case. If he agrees with you, the public credit is and of right ought to be his. If he disagrees with you, you should either fall in line quickly or, if the issue is of sufficient moment as to weaken your commitment to the job, you should resign. Number Four: Seize the Serendipitous Opportunity It has long been Democratic orthodoxy to regard a crisis as a terrible thing to waste. It has become Democratic orthodoxy in recent years to confront crises well before they materialize. Can anybody remember what crisis we were addressing when we passed the obscenely profligate American Rescue Plan? Or the Inflation Reduction Act? It is more terrible still, however, to waste an opportunity that arrives unbidden and unannounced. Consider the opportunity laid at your doorstep by the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Chevron doctrine. For decades, the administrative state has expanded in size, budget, and, most consequentially, in its role as the ultimate regulator of American life. Capitol Hill, home to the legislative branch, has inched outward over the years. The administrative state has taken over the rest of the city, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood, as its resources mount and its mission creeps ever onward. The alphabet agencies of the administrative state may have gone unmentioned in the Constitution but they have assumed a massive role in contemporary government. They now “interpret” the laws passed by our representatives, with the result that legislation now tends toward the merely aspirational and all parties understand that bureaucratized regulators will fill in the blanks. The bureaucrats, that is, now tell the legislators what they really meant to say. My advice is that you seize the opportunity given to you by the Chevron decision. It’s time to redress the imbalance between the legislative and administrative branches of government. It’s time for you, the elected legislators, to tell the regulators, the unelected bureaucrats, exactly what you mean to say. Fill in your own blanks. Number Five: Remind Yourself Why You Wanted to Work In Washington You came to Washington, at least in part, to advance your beliefs. You thought that public service was a vocation. You wanted, in some way, to serve your country. Those are laudable beliefs and laudable ambitions. Hold them close. They will serve you well as you make your way through the rhetorical fog of Washington. Godspeed to you all. You are doing the people’s business. The post Five Things I Wish I’d Known Earlier about Washington, DC appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Nicolás Maduro has moved Christmas forward to Oct. 1 by imperial decree. Now I am just waiting for him to publish his conversations with St. Joseph and the Virgin Mary. I imagine the Holy Family in Nazareth quietly preparing their suitcases to leave for Bethlehem in a few weeks when suddenly they receive a call from the dictator: “By order of the Bolivarian revolution, I inform you that you must be ready to give birth to the Child God on Oct. 1. And instead of Bethlehem, he will be born in Caracas.” The good Saint Joseph must be thinking what bad luck he must have that he should have to undertake a trip to Bethlehem because of Caesar’s taxes, that being the reason for which they have to register there — in addition to fulfilling the Old Testament promise. Now, even before overcoming the unforeseen, another socialist usurper has crossed his path and asked him to walk to Caracas in less than a month, where in addition to taxes there are expropriations and all kinds of outrages. (RELATED: The Spectacle Ep. 132: Venezuelan Fraud Is A Cautionary Tale For Americans) In a solemn announcement to the Venezuelan people, Maduro has confirmed the Christmas advance as if he were an AliExpress Santa Claus: “For everyone, Christmas has arrived, with peace, happiness and security.” Maduro’s idea of happiness is having to put up with a bastard who lost the elections and refuses to step down and abide by the results of the polls. Maduro’s idea of security is to have your children or any other relative kidnapped in your own house because someone has reported them for their presence in one of the demonstrations in support of the person who won the elections. Everything surrounding the Caracas mustachioed sperm whale would be funny if it were not so tragic. (RELATED: Maduro, Get Down From Your Tree and Scram) In a prime-time televised masterclass, to confirm before the world how brutish he is, Maduro explained his theory: “Jesus Christ was the first anti-imperialist in modern history. Jesus was a young Palestinian. When he was crucified by the Spanish empire and the oligarchies that dominated the area, he died as a Palestinian man, he was resurrected as a Palestinian spirit.” That is, in short, Jesus was a Palestinian boy crucified by the Spanish empire. Maduro is about as wise as one, as defined by P.G. Wodehouse, whose “IQ was somewhat lower than that of a backward clam — a clam, let us say, which had been dropped on its head as a baby.” That enlightened find, that historical Christmas epiphany soon fell apart: Jesus Christ could not have been Palestinian because he was born 2000 years ago and Palestine did not exist. He could hardly have been too anti-imperialist in the middle of the Roman Empire, and he could not have been of Modern History because his existence is framed in Ancient History. Nor could he have died as a Palestinian man and, in any case, he would have died as a Jewish man. But what is certain is that he could not be resurrected with a Palestinian spirit because spirits are not from any place. In any case, since God is one and triune, perhaps Maduro would like to refer to God as the Holy Spirit, who also does not come from Palestine since, as the creed points out, he “proceedeth from the Father and the Son.” And, as you may have suspected, Jesus could not have died at the hands of the Spanish Empire, because it was formed much later — in the 15th century. Maduro, in short, knows as much about Christmas and what Christians celebrate on those dates as I do about the sexual habits of the nematocera. The strange thing is not that he has brought Christmas forward to October but that he has not banned it outright, like China and North Korea, or imprisoned Santa Claus as in some Islamic countries where the old bearded man is forbidden to go out in the street. Maduro may make a fool of himself every time he tries to give a history lesson, or he may stumble with the grossest blasphemy when dealing with religious matters. But he must know something: His time is running out, and his only way out is to get out of there as soon as possible. Nobody wants him. But above all, Venezuela no longer wants him. The post Maduro Moves Christmas to October by Imperial Decree appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Pornography generated by artificial intelligence is a moral horror, and there is no clear solution in sight. There are more delicate ways of broaching that subject, but the conclusion seems unarguable. In mid-August, a theater employee in Florida was arrested for allegedly using generative AI (GenAI) to produce sexually explicit images of children. His arrest follows others in Wisconsin and North Carolina; in Spain, 15 teenage boys were convicted of generating pornographic images of their classmates. (READ MORE: Google’s Report on AI Abuse Isn’t Comforting) The technology behind the arrests is another evolution of so-called “deepfakes”: AI-generated images of specific actual individuals, intended to be indistinguishable from the real thing. The technology has uses that are legitimate, or at least benign; the 2016 film Rogue One used it to create a digital duplicate of deceased actor Peter Cushing. That duplication, however, required a plaster cast of Cushing’s face and the resources of a digital effects studio — and the effect was still more uncanny than convincing. Six years later, a YouTube artist with neither of those could outperform the original. Deep Fake Pornography Threatens Women, Children, and Families Today, GenAI deepfakes pose a broader challenge. In Ukraine, false images of President Zelensky were used to urge its military to surrender, while scammers used the technology to pass identity checks. At issue in many of the arrests above, however, is the ability of GenAI image generators to produce “nudified” images. Such systems take a normal, fully-clothed photo and create a naked or otherwise sexualized body, matched to the original subject’s face and features. The hazards here are multiple. The corrosive effect of pornography on the user is old news; studies correlate its use with unhappy marriages and extramarital affairs, with one widely-cited survey suggesting porn usage is a factor in 56 percent of divorces. (WATCH: The Weekend Spectator Ep. 2: AI Is Progressing Faster Than You Think) The particular horror of GenAI pornography, though, is for its targets. Where “revenge porn” cases used to involve the distribution of previously-intimate and private photos, deepfaked pornography does not require the victim’s participation or even knowledge. Indeed, it’s difficult to see how it can be guarded against; who, in 2024, can erase all of their photos from the web? In the most wicked cases — as in several of those above — the victims are children. The girls targeted in Spain were reportedly, “completely terrified and had tremendous anxiety attacks… [they] were afraid to tell and be blamed for it.” Another adult victim said that she felt that she “was probably better off dead because it was just absolutely, horrendous.” Potential Legal Solutions Appear Not Enough and Too Far Away Legal solutions remain unclear. Traditional approaches to obscene material focus on limiting access to providers, prosecuting creators, requiring user identification, or blocking financial transactions. Unfortunately, many sources of AI porn are overseas; other generative AIs can run on a local PC, meaning there is no “provider” to block. Further, since image generation itself requires no human participation, its marginal cost is almost zero. Like the digital piracy of the aughts, the resulting crimes are decentralized and largely immune to financial obstacles. Individuals might be prosecuted for the possession, creation, or distribution of images, but here too the matter is uncomfortably murky. A previous federal child pornography law — the Child Pornography Protection Act (CPPA) — was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2002. The law prohibited “any visual depiction…. [that] is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct;” the Court objected that “the CPPA prohibits speech that records no crime and creates no victims by its production… [in this case], there is no underlying crime at all.” In other words, manipulated images that merely appeared to be child pornography were not criminal, because no actual children were involved. While Congress rapidly passed a replacement to the CPPA, depictions of a digital simulacrum might face the same problem as before: there is no actual child. Deepfakes of adults, meanwhile, might only be pursued under harassment or defamation charges. (RELATED: The Dark Side of AI: Generating Child Porn) New legislation attempts to address these concerns. The DEFIANCE Act, which cleared the Senate in July, would allow the targets of deepfakes to sue the creators of those images, while multiple states have passed related legislation. For now, though, legal protections remain a patchwork, and a thin one; a comprehensive response to digital challenges is still hypothetical. In the meantime, individual organizations might pursue solutions closer to the ground. As evidence mounts that unfiltered web access is a mental health risk, schools have begun banning smartphones; parents, meanwhile, might refuse to purchase them. Private colleges and workplaces can update their policies to include clear and punitive policies for using such tools, particularly for colleagues. Yet such solutions seem badly outgunned. In 2023, deepfake pornographic videos were viewed more than three hundred million times. The early-2000s internet-enabled learning and communication in ways previously unimagined, but it also transformed the ease and ubiquity of access to pornographic materials. Whatever its eventual virtues, generative AI seems poised to provide another leap downward. So far, no clear fix is in view. The post The Internet Has a New Problem: Deepfaked Pornography appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.