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The Battle For Higher Education
Authored by Bruce Abramson via RealClear Wire,
Higher education is making news these days. In Congressional testimony, the Presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Penn couldn’t tell whether calling for the genocide of the Jews constituted harassment without knowing the context. The effects of their testimony reverberate.
Days later, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) issued a lengthy report condemning “Political Interference and Academic Freedom in Florida’s Public Higher Education System.” Prominently featured was a detailed complaint about New College of Florida, where I serve as admissions director.
These seemingly unrelated events are but two parts of a single story. The Ivy League and the AAUP, as representatives of today’s academic leadership, are pleased and proud of the institutions they’ve built. Florida’s public education system has taken the lead in promoting institutional reform—with New College as the poster child.
Needless to say, incumbent leadership doesn’t welcome any reforms at their cozy institutions. They perceive our reforms as threats to American higher education as we know it. Their perception is correct. Their problem, however, is that academia as we know it bears little resemblance to academia as most Americans believe it to be.
The incumbents have spread a gloriously self-serving myth system. In their telling, their institutions are bastions of liberal values, civil discourse, and the free exchange of ideas. They’re open to the finest representatives of every community, perspective, and viewpoint. They’re engaged in educating a new generation in the fine art of critical thinking.
The truth, however, is almost the polar opposite of that myth. America’s universities are country clubs for insiders who have dispensed with independent thought as the price of belonging. Under the seemingly high-minded ideal of “faculty governance,” faculty make all important decisions: Hiring, firing, promotion, tenure, curriculum design, publication in prestigious journals, the appropriate paths for research, and the flow of research funding.
Does faculty governance work? The AAUP, which represents faculty members from across the country, is clear: America’s professors are highly impressed with the performance of America’s professors. Most of the complaints in the AAUP report hinge on the usurpation by outsiders of decisions that “belong” to the faculty.
In reality, faculty governance enshrines conventional wisdom into a governing ethos from which none may deviate. Over the past few decades, a deeply illiberal “Critical Theory,” rooted in the same utopian socialism that birthed Communism and Fascism, has assumed that dominant role.
Critical Theory casts history as a constant struggle between “oppressor” groups and “oppressed” groups. “Intersectionality” ties them all together, so that all struggles pitting any oppressor against any of the oppressed are manifestations of the same struggle. All actions of the oppressed are thus justifiable as blows for liberation and justice. Deterrence or retaliation against even the most seemingly barbaric acts merely perpetuates oppression.
It's enough to make your head spin. It’s also a fine line along which universities must dance. Academic leaders must be open and proud of their beliefs without ever allowing anyone to note their implications. On a critical theoretic campus (which is most of them), determining whether calling for a genocide of the Jews constitutes harassment does indeed require context—it’s just not a context to which the leadership can admit.
The relevant context has little to do with behavior or message; it rests entirely upon the identity of the speaker. A “white” student wearing a swastika T-shirt calling for genocide is harassing the Jews; a “student of color” wearing a Palestine T-shirt with an identical message is not.
Admitting as much, however, would give away the game. America’s finest campuses would be revealed to be anti-liberal, anti-freedom, anti-discourse, hotbeds of privilege and racial categorization.
Therein lies the true state of “academia as we know it” and the true goals of those of us committed to reform.
In one of the clearest articulations of these competing forces, longtime Harvard donor Bill Ackman enumerated the ways that Harvard had deviated from the school he had believed it to be. New College President Richard Corcoran showed that our goal in the reform movement is to rebuild American academia into the type of institution whose loss Ackman laments.
Corcoran then invited Harvard’s refugees to join us at New College. Anti-reform critics scoffed at the improbability. The message behind his invitation, however, is one that every participant in campus life needs to hear. In the current climate, they face an unenviable choice. They can sacrifice their minds, their souls, and their safety to the cause of earning a prestigious degree. They can incur deep personal and professional risks in fighting for their institutions from the inside. Or they can join us at institutions that have proudly embraced the cause of higher education reform—beginning with New College and the rest of the Florida State University System.
Those choices frame the battle for the future of higher education in America: Incumbents fighting to preserve a deeply illiberal, hateful, discriminatory status quo vs. reformers seeking a return to traditional liberal education. If you want to understand why we in the reform movement get so much hatred from the incumbents, look no further.
Tyler Durden Sun, 12/24/2023 - 12:50Israel Says Army Will Soon End Ground Operation In '3rd Phase Of War'
Israel’s Broadcasting Authority on Saturday reported that the Netanyahu government is planning to switch to a new phase of the war, but gave a vague timeline which indicated this change will only happen in the coming weeks, if at all. Infantry troops will be withdrawn, and Israeli forces will continue focusing on heavy aerial bombardment, according to the plan.
"The Israeli army is preparing to move to the third phase of the fighting in Gaza in the coming weeks," the Israeli broadcaster said. This is to involve "ending the ground operation in the Strip, reducing forces, and demobilizing reserve forces."
Anadolu via Getty Images"The third phase includes ending the ground operation in the Gaza Strip, reducing army forces and demobilizing reserves, resorting to air strikes, and establishing a buffer zone on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip," according to official sources.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have said they've killed thousands of Hamas militants, as well as wiped out the top ranks of the more "elite" Golani Brigade, which has reportedly been forced to withdraw in order to "reorganize its ranks."
The Israeli broadcaster further said the IDF "took control of most of the northern Gaza Strip area, while it faces great difficulties in moving forward in the southern Gaza Strip area."
But this hasn't been without a significant cost, as regional publication Middle East Monitor writes:
At least 472 Israeli soldiers have been killed since the start of the ground operation in the Palestinian enclave on Oct. 27, according to Israeli army figures.
The Walla news website and the Israeli Channel 12 broadcaster reported Thursday that one of the units in Gaza, known as the Golani Brigade, had lost 44 soldiers in 70 days of fighting. The brigade left Gaza to "reorganize their ranks and visit their families for a few days," it was reported.
Israeli sources have said this number means the Golani Brigade has lost a quarter of its troops.
Previously, Biden admin officials pressed Israeli counterparts to quickly wind down the intensity of the Gaza campaign. International pressure has mounted on both Israel and the White House, given the immense civilian death toll. Palestinian sources say that over 20,000 mostly civilians have been killed.
Israel has countered that many thousands of these were actually Hamas militants, and has further accused the Gaza Health Ministry of inflating the casualty figures. However, there's global consensus that civilian deaths have mounted at an unprecedented rate.
Meanwhile, Israel is unlikely to clear Gaza's vast tunnels anytime soon, also as the IDF proceeds with trying to flood them with seawater pumped from the Mediterranean...
Operational update from area of Issa within Gaza City:
High winds likely add to Christmas Eve travel disruption
Jim Ratcliffe: Who is the man buying Man Utd stake?
Rocky Mountain High: Why Trump Should Love The Colorado Ruling
Authored by Tim Donner via RealClear Wire,
The Colorado Supreme Court, acting as supplicants for the enemies of Donald Trump seeking the most extreme remedy for driving the former president into the ditch, may have just unwittingly gifted the former president a Rocky Mountain high – in the polls.
This time, four left-wing Colorado justices attempting to kneecap Trump were not even going to wait on due process – the very foundation of law – to effectively declare Trump guilty of insurrection, a crime for which he has not, repeat not, even been charged. After believing their attempts to wipe Trump off the ballot would be a knockout punch, it is the left that is about to get walloped to the canvas with a right hook.
But how, you say, is this good news for Trump? Let us count the ways. First, we know that every time he has been targeted and indicted based on novel legal theories never before applied, his popularity has only increased. Second, this decision provides him with yet more valuable and indisputable evidence – perhaps the best yet – supporting his claim of persecution by the establishment left. He can enjoy that benefit without the liability of actually being banned from the ballot once the U.S. Supreme Court likely shoots down the Colorado ruling, thus bringing similar efforts in other states to a halt.
But there’s more. Third on the list of how the left is hurting its own cause with its lawfare crusade against Trump is its whole argument that Trump threatens “democracy” as never before. That assertion hardly stands up when it boots Trump off the ballot: “This is hands-down the most anti-democratic opinion I have seen in my lifetime,” said famed constitutional attorney Jonathan Turley.
A subset of democracy is reason number four: election interference. Even after its constitutionally dubious changes to election law on the fly in key swing states in 2020 that undoubtedly handed the election to Joe Biden, the left has crowed from the rooftops that Trump is an election denier intent on interfering with the electoral process. Now that they are trying to remove him from the ballot, what are they going to say? This is textbook election interference, though of a kind rarely, if ever, witnessed before.
Fifth, even Trump’s primary opponents – Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Ron DeSantis – have again had little choice but to jump to the defense of their rival despite his overwhelming lead, further strengthening Trump’s candidacy and all but ending the Republican presidential primary, if it wasn’t over already.
Leftists constantly indicting Trump have actually gotten the reaction they envisioned: forcing the GOP to support Trump. The idea was that Biden would then sail to another term against a convicted criminal sure to repel the American electorate in the end. The strategy has turned into the most classic backfire we have witnessed in some time.
The Persecution of Donald Trump
For starters, Democrats led by Hillary Clinton concocted a phony scandal to drive Trump out of the 2016 presidential race and then out of the Oval Office for treason. Then they impeached him. Then they impeached him again. Then, they raided his home. Then they indicted him. Then they indicted him again, and again, and again. Now, in a widespread effort to make sure no one will even have the opportunity to vote for him, Colorado is just one of more than a dozen states joining the effort to disqualify Trump. The first five states attempting to remove Trump were shot down in court. But cases in 13 more states remain to be litigated, and they will certainly be influenced by the Colorado ruling and any subsequent decision by the high court. But the Rocky Mountain State will stand in infamy as the first to pull the legal trigger on the most extreme measure available to generate a desired outcome, knowing if it succeeds, it will be open season on Trump throughout the country.
Democrats’ obsession with Trump has featured one overarching theme: They cannot leave well enough alone. Until they started throwing the book at Trump with one untested stretch of legal theory after another, their man Biden was running ahead of Trump. But with each successive indictment, Trump has risen further to the point of now holding a solid, if not commanding, three-point lead according to the RealClearPolitics Average. Who knows where polling would stand if the left had actually allowed the voters to process Jan. 6 for themselves? That infamous day takes on a fresh context with the removal of Trump from the ballot. Overkill?
At the same time, you must give the nihilistic Swampocracy in Washington credit for persistence and ingenuity, if nothing else. It has seemingly done everything that popped into its deranged mind to be sure, dead certain, guaranteed, that Trump will never again become president. How infuriating it must be to see every one of its attempts backfire. Rest assured, Colorado will be the latest. We can’t afford to take a chance on the voters’ judgment, screams the terrified left. Does this not sound like the plan cooked up in 2016 to make sure Trump would never be elected in the first place?
Rocky Mountain Low: Colorado Justice
The decision in this purple-turned-blue state begs many obvious questions for everyone from political junkies to disinterested voters. The Jan. 6 rally-turned-protest-turned-riot falls so far short of an act of insurrection as to make a mockery of the term. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, cited in the Colorado decision, was ratified for one purpose: to prevent Confederate soldiers from seeking national office following the Civil War. An insurrection requires an organized plan to overthrow the government – which did not exist on that dark January day in 2021. If there is not enough evidence to even indict Trump for insurrection, then how can he possibly be removed from a presidential ballot on that basis?
Like virtually every one of the 91 charges pinned on him in four venues, this is the first time a court has ever ruled on the basis of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. It is not dissimilar to the argument about another section of the 14th Amendment regarding so-called birthright citizenship: It was written and intended for the distinct purpose of making slaves citizens but is now employed successfully by immigration activists to confer upon anyone born even an inch inside our border permanent citizenship, even if they entered the country and remain here illegally.
Though it would appear highly unlikely, think what it would mean if the U.S. Supreme Court either refuses to act or affirms the Colorado ruling. Not only would many other states with similar lawfare suits trying to get Trump wiped off the ballot be emboldened, but it also opens wide the door for any reason – or no reason – to remove any candidate from a ballot going forward based on the personal opinions of judges. This from a party that has been screaming about democracy dying in the darkness of Trump.
Do we not base our republic first and foremost on the ability of voters – not courts – to cast their ballots for the person they choose? Despite no such constitutional provision, there could perhaps be a quasi-legitimate argument that a convicted felon should be removed from the presidential ballot, but to do so before justice has been served and due process granted tells you everything you need to know about those willing to go to the ends of the earth to stop the man now favored to become the next president. It is stuff not of a constitutional republic but a banana republic. The left’s failure to recognize all the flashing red lights they have set off with their single-minded persecution of Donald Trump will, one expects, come back to haunt them in the end.
Tim Donner is senior political analyst at LibertyNation.com. He is a former candidate for the U.S. Senate, entrepreneur, and founder of the nonprofit One Generation Away.
Tyler Durden Sun, 12/24/2023 - 11:40Taunting Biden, Iran Now Threatens To Close Mediterranean Sea Over Gaza War
Pressure is mounting on the Biden administration to respond to Iran or its Middle East regional proxies in some way (the Houthis and Hezbollah). Not only has global shipping been forced to divert from the Red Sea amid what at this point has been dozens of drone and rocket attacks, but American bases in Syrian and Iraq have come under attack more than 100 times since mid-October, in relation to Israel's operation in Gaza.
But Tehran itself is now pressuring the White House, openly taunting Biden in relation to his support to Israel. In a Saturday statement the Iranian government threatened that the Mediterranean Sea could be "closed" due to ongoing Israeli and US "crimes" in Gaza. The threat is significant—whether they could actually ever accomplish such a thing is another question entirely.
Iranian Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naqdi, via Iran International"They shall soon await the closure of the Mediterranean Sea, (the Strait of) Gibraltar and other waterways," Iranian Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naqdi was quoted in state media and Reuters as saying.
"Yesterday, the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz became a nightmare for them, and today they are trapped... in the Red Sea," Naqdi said
In more normal times this would be ignored and taken as a delusional threat and claim. But the reality is that already some Mediterranean ports, especially Israeli ones, are seeing their imports plummet. Still, it's unclear how exactly Iran's military would hope to accomplish 'closing' off of the Mediterranean:
The White House on Friday said Iran was "deeply involved" in planning operations against commercial vessels in the Red Sea.
Iran has no direct access to the Mediterranean itself and it was not clear how the Guards could attempt to close it off, although Naqdi talked of "the birth of new powers of resistance and the closure of other waterways".
This also appears a response to the Friday White House charge that Iran was "deeply involved" in planning attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea, which US Navy warships on repeat occasions have responded to.
At various times the US has intercepted drones and missiles from Yemen, but has yet to attempt to hit back directly at Houthi positions.
Source: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP)A growing list of countries have meanwhile rejected the US plan for a large naval coalition to secure Red Sea shipping against Houthi attacks, as we reported earlier.
Reuters earlier indicated that about twenty countries have signed up for the Pentagon's new operation. However, several countries, including Australia, Spain, Italy, and France, have rejected the Pentagon's request to participate in the operation.
Tyler Durden Sun, 12/24/2023 - 11:05Everyone Loves A Generous Government Until They Have To Pay For It
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via Substack,
Not only does everyone love getting "free money" from the state, they also love hearing the fantasy repeated endlessly that debts are no problem...
Governments, like individuals, can spend liberally with great generosity, or they can be frugal. Everyone receiving government money loves the state's free-spending generosity, as it is "free money" to the recipients.
But there is no such thing as truly "free money," a reality discussed by Niccolo Machiavelli in his classic work on leadership and statecraft, The Prince, published in 1516. In Machiavelli's terminology, leaders could either pursue the positive reputation of being liberal in their spending (not "liberal" in a political sense) or suffer the negative reputation of being mean, i.e. miserly, tight-fisted and frugal.
Machiavelli pointed out that the spending demanded to maintain the reputation for free-spending liberality soon exhausted the funds of the state and required the leader to levy increasingly heavy taxes on the citizenry to pay for the state's largesse.
Once we examine this necessary consequence of liberal spending, it turns out the generous government is anything but generous, as it is eventually forced to impoverish its people to support its spending.
It is the miserly leader and state that is actually generous, for it is the miserly leader / state that places a light burden on the earnings and livelihoods of the citizenry.
As Machiavelli explained, taxes and the inflation that comes with free spending both rob everyone, while the state's generosity is a political process that necessarily distributes the largesse asymmetrically:
If he is wise he ought not to fear the reputation of being mean, for in time he will come to be more considered than if liberal, seeing that with his economy his revenues are enough, that he can defend himself against all attacks, and is able to engage in enterprises without burdening his people; thus it comes to pass that he exercises liberality towards all from whom he does not take, who are numberless, and meanness towards those to whom he does not give, who are few.
The profligate state and leader fail, for their resources are squandered.
We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed. A prince, therefore, provided that he has not to rob his subjects, that he can defend himself, that he does not become poor and abject, that he is not forced to become rapacious, ought to hold of little account a reputation for being mean, for it is one of those vices which will enable him to govern.
Machiavelli understood that the positive reputation generated by profligacy decays as quickly as solvency. Everyone loves getting "free money" from the state until the bill comes due: the decay of purchasing power (i.e. inflation), higher taxes and fees, and the ever-increasing burdens of interest to be paid on soaring state debts that squeezes out all other spending.
And there is nothing wastes so rapidly as liberality, for even whilst you exercise it you lose the power to do so, and so become either poor or despised, or else, in avoiding poverty, rapacious and hated. And a prince should guard himself, above all things, against being despised and hated; and liberality leads you to both. Therefore it is wiser to have a reputation for meanness which brings reproach without hatred, than to be compelled through seeking a reputation for liberality to incur a name for rapacity which begets reproach with hatred.
Not only does everyone love getting "free money" from the state, they also love hearing the fantasy repeated endlessly that debts are no problem because we will continue to "grow our way out of debt:" in other words, debt will forever remain painless, and so state profligacy can continue forever.
To the degree that "growth" is a function of skyrocketing debt, this fantasy feeds on itself: borrowing and spending soar and so does growth. But as the chart above shows, debt is expanding faster than the real economy. This is known as diminishing returns: to keep the illusion of "growth" alive, the debt dragon must eat its own tail.
Everyone loves a generous government until they have to pay for it--and we all eventually pay for it one way or another.
Tyler Durden Sun, 12/24/2023 - 10:3012 Days Of Christmas Conspiracies
Authored by Nicole James via The Epoch Times,
The 12 days of Christmas are sometimes also known as Twelvetide. Those are the days of drummers drumming and maids a milking (with cows, not almonds).
There’s a pretty heated debate around the first day of Twelvetide, with some saying it’s Christmas Day (Dec. 25), and others throwing their bets for Dec. 26.
If you roll with the 26th you hit Jan. 6 on the final day; the traditional Christian feast day of Epiphany. This is D-day for taking down Christmas celebrations, unless you want a year-long ticket on the bad luck train.
Back in 567 AD, someone decided to make this 12-day season official.
While we don’t know when the song first originated it was published around 1780 but could be centuries older.
Partridges in pear trees might have been the norm back then but in 2023, the government is not handing those out.
Here’s a look at what we might score this year depending on whether we’ve been naughty or nice (sung to the tune of the 12 days of Christmas if you are feeling particularly jolly).
Day 1On the first day of Christmas my government sent to me another conspiracy theory.
The government's been playing truth or dare with our minds again. They've been waving around conspiracy theories like it's a bingo card, but guess what they dropped on us? Alien life.
Now, we've always had that itch in the back of our brains going, "What if E.T. is out there sipping space tea?"
But now that the suits have confirmed it, we're a bit miffed. Like, seriously? We were happier not knowing, and now you're telling us it's legit?
So here we are, grappling with the reality that aliens might be cruising around in their cosmic convertibles, and it's not just a late-night sci-fi binge-induced delusion. Government, you've officially blown our minds
Day 2On the second day of Christmas my government sent to me two new wars.
Spin the war roulette wheel and see where we end up? Iran? Azerbaijan?
Or could the next war be against those reptilian creatures from Kepler 186f?
Day 3On the third day of Christmas my government sent to me three cyber attacks.
I guess it only takes one big one. And according to the Nostradamus’s of the world (those who may not be named), we are cruising straight into cyber attack central.
Hold on to your mice (or mouses!) It’s about to get wild in the digital neighbourhood.
People gather to watch a fireworks display during the lighting of a Christmas tree at Martin Palace in Sydney, on Nov. 30, 2023. (Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images)
Day 4On the fourth day of Christmas my government sent to me four Trump indictments
Who has lost count of the number of times Donald Trump’s been indicted. As Tucker Carlson says, each time his supporters get stronger.
Over the course of five months, ex-President Trump found himself in the legal hot seat not once, not twice, but four times.
In Washington, D.C., he's dealing with four felony counts for trying to shake up the 2020 election.
Skip over to Georgia, and he's got 13 felony counts for messing with their election scene. Now, in New York, things heat up with a whopping 34 felony counts tied to hush money payments involving a certain adult film star.
And down in Florida? Well, he's got a solid 40 felony counts for holding onto some classified docs post-presidency and throwing a wrench in the government's attempts to get them back.
It's a legal rollercoaster folks, but one that we all hope will come to a positive end for the ex-pres.
Day 5On the fifth day of Christmas my government sent me 5G towers.
The 5G network has a whole playground of possibilities. There’s the nefarious plot to control our minds. But more grounded theories include it being linked to various health and environmental risks.
Some say 5G networks emit harmful levels of radiation, which can lead to cancer and other illnesses.
Now, I'm not throwing shade or anything, just laying out the theories on the table.
Day 6On the sixth day of Christmas my government sent to me 6,000 new genders.
According to Medical News Today, there are no fixed numbers of genders. They occur on a spectrum, which really means that the possibilities are infinite.
Sexualdiversity.org says that the most commonly known genders in 2023 number 107.
Day 7On the seventh day of Christmas my government sent to me seven continents a-boiling.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres just dropped a new phrase in global boiling—the era that has arrived and brought with it so much snow that the private jets were snowed in on the runway instead of arriving at Cop28.
That’s where the UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber said there was “no science” behind demands for the phase-out of fossil fuels and that phasing out coal, oil, and gas would take the world “back into caves.”
Talk about a hot take!
A Christmas decoration seen amid smoke from a bushfire at West Wallsend in Newcastle, Australia, on Dec. 14, 2023. (Roni Bintang/Getty Images)
Day 8On the eighth day of Christmas my government sent to me eight visits by Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Ding Dong. President Zelenskyy calling.
Is it time to close that door on him? This guy's clocking in his third visit to Washington, and wouldn’t mind having his frequent flyer points racked up after trips to 36 countries worldwide.
Day 9On the ninth day of Christmas my government sent to me, nine nurses dancing.
During COVID, some doctors and nurses decided to throw “influencer” onto their resumes.
Now, don't get me wrong, lots of nurses are absolute heroes, but it seems like a few are dreaming of trading their stethoscopes for TikTok dance-offs.
The world has plenty of aspiring dancers, but the shortage of top-notch nurses is a real deal.
So, let's keep it real and practical. None of us really need or want to see more nurses busting moves on TikTok. Like ever.
Day 10On the tenth day of Christmas my government sent to me ten COVID variants
We’ve had the whole Greek alphabet of variants and then when we arrive at Omicron unleashing more than 650 sub-lineages each rocking its combo of letters and numbers.
A man receives a dose of Comirnaty Omicron XBB 1.5 Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 at a pharmacy in Ajaccio, on Oct. 5, 2023. (Pascal Pochard-Casabianca/AFP via Getty Images)
But they’re ditching the boring stuff and giving these new variants names like Kraken, basilisk, and gryphon? How cool is that?
I'm thinking; why not take it up a notch? Let's have the next wave of sub-variants sponsored by some big-shot organisations. Talk about prime marketing opportunities right there!
Day 11On the 11th day of Christmas my government sent to me 11 lizard overlords.
Conspiracy buffs just can't get enough of the lizard people hype.
Imagine chilling out watching X when a world leader casually peels off their face like it's a beauty mask, only to unveil the reptilian features of an otherworldly overlord. Talk about a wild gift, right?
The deal is, this belief rolls with the idea that sneaky reptilian aliens are pulling the strings from behind the cosmic curtain, low-key controlling Earth and playing puppeteer with human affairs.
According to this tale, these shape-shifting lizard-like creatures smoothly blend into human society, snagging power gigs in governments, corporations, and all the big shots. Fans of the Lizard Overlords plot often cite bits from ancient texts and myths.
Day 12On the 12th day of Christmas my government sent to me 12 chemtrails spraying.
Are those chemtrails, not just composed of water vapour, but are deliberate releases of chemicals by the government or other evil beings (i.e. lizard people)?
According to some, chemtrails can modify weather, enact mind control, or even play puppeteer with the population.
People throw around terms like barium, aluminium, and strontium finding them in soil and water samples saying it backs up the chemtrail story.
Yet studies attribute these substances to natural sources or unrelated human activities.
Who knows whether fact or fiction but Epoch Times readers are keeping their minds open on this one.
Merry Christmas to all.
Tyler Durden Sun, 12/24/2023 - 09:20