Category: POLITICS

The Rubicon

Jim Watkins | May 30, 2024

Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts. He will find out in a few months what his sentence will be when Judge Merchan reconvenes. Perhaps the judge had a pre-planned vacation he get couldn’t get out of.

Predictably, those who oppose Trump see this as Democracy being saved. Surely, they say, “no one can vote for Trump now that he is a felon, can they?”

Those who see the trial for what it is, understand the gravity of the transgression.

And it was a transgression.

It is clear the current Biden administration found a way to get Trump convicted for attempting to change the outcome of the 2016 election (through hush payments), just as they are now influencing the 2024 elections by knee-capping the former president.

What remains to be seen is just how effective this strategy will be.

People who hate Joe Biden today are incensed because they see the shallowness of what has been done. Watching Biden (and the left-wing media) gloat about it will turn American rage intward, unlike what happens on the Left when things don’t go their way and they start burning things down.

Eventually the conviction will be overturned. It is obviously clear to any first-year law student that Trump was railroaded in this trial. Key evidence for the defense was withheld and suppressed, the jury clearly did not truly represent “his peers,” and the Judges’ own conduct could end up getting him kicked off the bench. His exhortation to the jury alone violated every judicial norm that undercuts due process.

But from the outside looking in, this is a sad day for the world. America is supposed to be better than this. Justice, law, due process, the right to a fair trial, these are the benchmarks to ensuring the power of government can never crush the rights of the citizen, the right to access to fair justice.

To the Left they declare a victory; to those who understand the end goal of the Deep State – which is govern every aspect of our lives, what happened today just shows how the State is operating against the people. If you are a threat to their power, they will take you down.

“They mean well, but they mean to govern,” said Daniel Webster, “they desire to become our Masters.”

To Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Ayatollah Khamenei and other global despots, they also share the victory with the American Left; they also know America will remain weak for the time being, especially if Biden manages to eek out a victory in November, provided his party doesn’t choose another path.

To our enemies, America sank to a new moral low. We became a weaker nation today.

But as an American I understand that the power of the Deep State will never cease to expand. I am sorry my brethren fail to understand the beginnings of tyranny are occurring now. Our grandchildren, who will live a much diminished future state run by the corporate deep state complex, will one day hate us for allowing it to happen.

When they someday observe backwards and ask when the fall of America really began, they will know it started on May 30th, 2024.

Jim Watkins is the host of America Today on the Talk Media Network and the host of Speaking Out with Jim Watkins on Spotify. Follow him on X @realjimatkins1

Gaianism – The New World Religion

Jim Watkins | May 13, 2024

Patrick Wood recently authored a substack paper that attempts to explain a new world religion emerging as part of the overall One Health Initiative, which posits “saving the planet,” by bringing about global “equity” through wealth redistribution under the guise of health and energy conservation.

Young people, having been indoctrinated into the green revolution are attracted to this new ideology and replacing traditional religion with “going green,” a more pagan-like universalism, where we simply hand power over to overlords who make sure everyone complies with saving Gaia, our planet.

This new ideology involves a lot of intersectionality, as it unites socialism with left-wing globalism, bringing calls for surveillance, censorship, transhumanism, the demise of the family unit (as a priority influence), environmentalism and population control. 

What this new world order does not include is Judeo-Christian values or philosophy, nor established Western-styled democracy as envisioned by thinkers like Socrates and Marcus Aurelius, or even the Founding Fathers, who strongly believed individual rights and an intelligent citizenry is the best approach achieving happiness for the greatest number of people, and especially to prevent the over-consolidation of power, the sole aim of globalism.

Young people today, having been stripped of any spiritual identity because secularism has been taught in public schools since the late 1940’s, have little difficulty in transferring their beliefs in Jesus, God or Allah, to the more placid and material Gaianism, a belief-system where its adherents derive comfort knowing they are “taking action,” because they have been “empowered” to“save the planet.” Not since the first army of Christians emerged from Jerusalem has there been this much enthusiasm for a global cause, instigated, of course, by anti-Western forces who hope to turn the entire planet into a socialist hellhole where worship is transferred from deity to the State.

Like any religion, believers must follow its tenets in order to receive grace. Chief among them is you must believe Western industrialism and ideas of liberty, free speech, private property and Christian orthodoxy is inherently evil. To the Gaiast, these are oppressive constructs created by White Europeans, and later, promoted by American Imperialism, itself cloaked in Christian theocracy.

Gaianism is rooted falsehood, that man-made carbon is making the planet hotter and allowing civilized nations to oppress and exploit third world countries through the causing of extreme weather events that destroy lands and force migration of the indigenous. 

An army of highly educated people today believe Western societies owe the people of Bangladesh billions in reperations because of annual floods they endure (from climate change) , that the West also owes many African countries for the devastation of drought – also caused by man-made climate change (i.e., the West).

For this the world must atone.

The answer? 

Form a coalition of chosen experts who will, through their vast wisdom and understanding of the sciences, govern the means of production and distribution of energy, food and land, and make it more equitable to all. This is what Bill Gates calls “following the science.”

Forgotten is the scientific fact that man only contributes 3-5% of the total carbon on the planet. Even if we were to completely stop producing energy today the environmental impact would be negligible. We would, however, accomplish another goal: disrupt progress and force everyone to live in impoverished conditions until enough of the population dies off from starvation so that there will simply be less mouths to feed (Gates said as much at a Ted Talks lecture in 2015).

While there is an argument that can be made to address consumption excess and diverting our wealth to solve the world’s pollution and food problem, there is no substantive argument for making people who are producing pay for those who are not, and in doing so, alter the planetary heat index, not to mention completely dismantling the last two-hundred years of progress that has actually raised the global standard of living.

If Bill Gates really wanted help the planet, why not use his fortunes build school and hire teacher in every village on the continent in Africa and Asia, instead of pouring billions into seed-clouding with the hopes of lowering the global temperature?

If George Soros or Mark Zuckerberg really cared about humanity, why not throw their resources into supporting literacy programs with emphasis on the sciences, arts, literature and world history, instead of supporting divisive initiatives that promote violence, civil unrest and general unsettledness between peoples?

Supporting DA’s around the world who want to reform social justice by decriminalizing bad behavior isn’t helping the planet “heal.” Why not support faith-based initiatives (or private schools) that allow, for example, students to conduct prayer in school, instead of a secular “moment of silence.”

The Open Door Society should stop buying bricks and start buying books to make sure every kid can be literate by the time they are 14, not watering down public schools by turning academia into one giant activism factory. 

The Real Purpose of Religion in the Modern Age

At the root of Christianity is the family unit, which must be safeguarded and preserved, otherwise all hope is lost and the governments of the world will become like the Church of the 15th Century.

They, the unelected planners and wealthy land barons (Hedge fund managers and corporate board influencers) wish to govern us as our overlords. And they wish to force us into absolving our materialistic “sins” through confession, repentance, compliance and service to Gaia, and be forced to make sacrifices for new modern sins of carbon use, hate-thought-crimes and daring to challenge whatever narrative happens to keep people from the knowing the truth.

We will own nothing and be happy.

How We Save The Planet

By Jim Watkins, May 8, 2024

There is a march towards globalism, a nebulous idea that assumes centralized power in the hands of the few is a good thing. This is cause for great consternation for a singular reason. Most of those who are behind this push, notably the likes of Bill Gates (an avowed atheist who only “believes in science”), and George Soros, who stated publicly there is no moral ambiguity about making a profit (not unlike Mao Zedong, who believed the world was made “just for him”), are getting massive support from high-ranking members of the elite new world order who control the European Union, the World Economic Forum and The Trilateral Commission in the United States. There is growing support among the rank and file of British and American intelligentsia.media financial instituions and especially the healthcare industry who have no qualms being empowred with global authority and dominant market share.

Biden himself publicly stated he believes the new world order is coming, and he wants America to lead. A sentiment no one outside the U.S. shares.

The big picture is the bureaucracy of a New World Order , one in which \no one will really know who is in charge except in the apparatus of the technology that controls us through legalism, social credit scores and carbon monitoring.

The worldview of these NWO globalists is secular, exalted humanists who do not believe there is a God. I’ll get to why this is important in a moment.

These unelected bureaucrats, who believe man can be managed like cattle if people would only let the experts do their jobs, are in the process of making this happen whether we, the entirety of humanity, agree with their plans or not.

As illustrated by the insidious, but foollish belief man can control climate, it is a theory rooted in the hubris ideology that states centralized power is best for controlling and managing human affairs. In Road To Serfdom, Friedrich Hayek said the beast (centralized power) never stops feeding until the society it aims to “protect” collapses. Human nature guarantees a centralized power structure can never achieve its goal and power is best distributed among the people. This is also the premise of the American Republic, thirteen colonies with equal power and representation. It worked and it showed that people are happiest when left to live free and not be overly-taxed or regulated or controlled.

So for this reason I am staunchly against any effort to achieve globalism. If the globalist leaders were inclusive of a spiritual hierarchy, or they recognnized Man needs God because God is real and not the figment of the imagination of a stupid human, I might be midly tempted to accept a global power running the affairs of man. But God is real and the only way man can be controlled and improve his life is by living a deeply spiritual life. This idea might not sit well with our current trope of world leders, but it doesn’t make it any less true. If it were not true then Jesus Christ is a lie, and whoever it was who called himself the Son of Man was a fantasy.

The Stakes Are Drawn

This is the choice. If we believe man is endowed by our creator, then governments rule is subservient to the protection of the individual. If man is not endowed by a spiritual creator, then governments are the higher power.

Which do you believe is true?

The fact is most securlarist believe in the latter, and this is why they believe man can and should be controlled like cattle.

We all know man’s nature is both deceptive and cruel, there is just no way a centralized aggregate of powerful unelected and unaccountable people running the world could ever acheive success for the masses. These self-selected rulers would benefit enormously because they would hold the levers of power as they are trying to do today through media initiatives, online monitoring, regulation, control of “hate-speech” in their attempt to fight “misinformation” and “disinformation.”

No one asked the global elite for their guidance on this matter of global control; no one asked them tp plan it, nor did we request these people assume the role of being our overlords.

The globalists will never achieve their goals because they completely ignore the one singular and eternal truth. It is the Most Highs who rule in the affairs and kingdoms of men, not The WHO, not the EU, or the IMF.

At this very moment, we are being watched for and cared for by spiritual administrators who have been with us all along. The way to world unity can only come through the universal recognition of the brotherhood of man predicated on the fatherhood of God.

A Spiritual Solution

No matter how many diplomas you have or languages you speak, or how much economic or political power you possess, mankind is not capable, nor spiritually or emotionally responsible, to be handed such an esteemed privilege of power as to assume the role of planetary caretakers, a role reserved for only the most enlightened beings in our universe. Christ is the Planetary Prince, so how could humans assume this role when they won’t even acknowledge the authority of Christ, the bestowal Son?

There is only one other individual who would be repugnant enough to try to usurp such power, and his name is well established, and it is his mission the global elites serve, it is for his glory that there is a real cabal of people assuming privileged positions of authority in this newly emerging world order, where they hope to enslave the masses for their own good to preserve their privilege as enforcers and gatekeepers in this global regime.

We can try to solve the problems of war, pestilence, famine, and poverty with big government and constant surveillience, by creating electronic fences when we don’t comply with the overlords, but this will lead to misery, class warfare and serfdom on a grand scale.

A spiritual approach on the part of each individual will provide the better answer than mere collectivism. The 20th century taught us this hard lesson. But we keep forgetting it: Man is endowed with the spirit of free will – he must remain free, and not be subjugated to the whims of political or totalitarian social policies.

World governments compromised by greed do not end wars, they start them. Secret agencies with self-serving agendas cause social unrest, not people. Tech can be used to educate our young and teach them true sciences and histories, instead the makers of these devices have polluted young minds and have kept them obsessed with commercialism and superficial distractions designed to entertain but not enlighten.

The Beast

For a glimpse of this new world order on a global scale, one only needs to look as far as Beijing, China to understand what the future looks like if these “rules-based” bureaucrats get their way.

In Communist China, 30% of the population lives well; these party member (basically government workers) serve the Party because they benefit from its protections from poverty, meanwhile 70% of the population never rise above poverty as long as they are monitored and “managed” to serve the few.

To the Communist party members, they view the greater population as inferior. Mao Zedong replaced spiritual hope with service to the People’s party. It succeeds today because of sheer military force and a culture of secrecy. It is a human pecking order on a national scale.

In the secularized West, the elites froth at such a system (Justin Trudeau, among them), idealizing such a paradigm that serves them well. And it is the technical advances of surveillance that makes such control possible today, especially if IHR is adopted, which appears likely.

The only remainiing hurdle to global tyranny is convincing people to join in, that it is best to give up sovereignty for “the greater good,” in fighting pandemics, climate change and global inequality; that only centralized power is capable of managing such issues.

In late May 2024 world leaders from 194 countries meet in Geneva, Switzerland to sign off on the new International Health Regulations (IHR) treaty.

Imagine a boot smashing against a human face pinned to the ground. This is the future of man.

It is the vision of Bill Gates, et. al., to achieve global countrol through Science, the science of controlling population, food production and energy distribution; his philanthropy provides more than half the funding for the WHO. Gates and others of his wealth level also supply funding for a handful of NGO’s run by globalists who agree with his agenda. Gates has no interest in sharing the planet with what he sees is a phantasm in the sky commonly referred to as God.

The Choice

Every single human being is being asked to make a choice. That choice will determine the immediate future of mankind.

But peace and goodwill among all peoples will not come from the boot of big government. The only path for mankind to worldwide peace and true progress is achievd through spiritual means.

Jesus taught service to moral principles and a faith in a spiritual father who will unite his children with a common cause, “to be perfect, even as I am perfect.” It is this saving philosophy that will ultimately liberate mankind from the fear of death, the fetters of materialism, and will further shield him from being abused by the unrighteousness of men who seek only power.

Not until the individual chooses divine principles of living will life improve for every person in the family of humankind.

Government can most certainly servve mankind, but man should never be forced to serve governments against his or her will, which is the plan of a new world globalist order.

Secularlism, spiritual pessimism and abject immorality has led to more than 160 million people being murdered in the last century. Millions more today die from disease, starvation, medical malpractice, and violence than ever before, even though we have the technology to solve most of the worlds’ major social problems.

The reason is nationalities have become too powerful and corrupted by greed. To overcome this trend, faith-based peoples must clammer and form a unified front demanding change. Parents showing up at school board meetings is a great start.

These next few decades will determine our path for the next five hundred years, and we will not be saved by people like Bill Gates or George Soros. Tecnhnology alone won’t save us, we must save ourselves by first, being and teaching principled behavior (the golden rule), and second, by reinstating our priority of family in modern life. It is the family unit – and not the tribe – that is the bedrock to the foundation of a great society, it is here where generations can survive and thrive over the long stretches of human history.

It is time for a religious revolution among fath-based citizens on planet Earth.

If the religious sects of the world would come together under the banner of God, great things can be accomplished.

Left Vs. Right

Jim Watkins. May 6, 2024

The following are common-ground points upon which most progressives agree:

1. Being Anti-Christian

2. Being a Globalist instead of a Nationalist

3. Supportive of all LGBTQ Agendas

4. Hatred of assumed Conservative principles

… And I will throw in this one as well, being pro-COVID (which is to say you do not question the science behind the vaccines nor the policies that our institutions adopted to enforce COVID-19 mandates (vaccines, mask-wearing, social distancing, lockdowns, etc).

I’ll be honest, my spouse is as liberal as they come and would properly fit the definition of being a “Karen,” and most of my inlaws are also decidedly Left-wing as well, owing to the fact they lived in socialist countries and have been the benefit of generational wealth, so they haven’t experienced hardship, in fact the opposite, they are more like the typical “ugly American” ex-pat types who tend to lean Jacobian, confusing socialism with being compassionate and more European, snubbing Americans as trolls.

I’d like to break down each of these five principles of being Progressive and show you why their ideology is not only false but dangerous to the free world. 

It is this embrace of progressivism that poses the greatest existential threat to open democracies and fortified Republics that enjoy the benefits of free speech, open markets, economic prosperity and cultural nationalism.

Progressivism also denies social diseases such as evil behavior, immorality, and totalitarianism. To the Left morality is a fluid construct.

For example, most progressives endorse so-called hate speech laws because they believe it protects people’s emotions. Hence many would be willing to give up free speech in the public square if it spared someone from being verbally offended. 

In Scotland, calling someone a queer can get you in jail or fined, or both. In Ireland, calling someone the wrong pronoun can get you fired or removed from any position of power.

#1. Anti-Christianism

The very notion there is a God is bad enough for most progressives, but adding to it his Son Jesus coming to earth to save people is beyond atrocious. Such fables, according to the Left, are rooted in patriarchy and oppression. The idea of praying to a father in heaven has no place in a society ruled by science. Many corporate CEOs and billionaire influencers embrace Scientism, the notion that only that which can proven is real. Secularism, or what Bill Gates calls “the science” has no moral ambivalence. It either is, or it isn’t. This is why abortion, the actual cessation of a life form, is not seen as immoral. It satisfies a temporal need-to be free of responsibility.

To the progressive, the ability to have “reproductive rights” is more important than the unborn’s right to live.  Under the umbrella of the 1960s feminist movement, women wanted the right to walk away from parental responsibility as much as men were able to do. The lie was how women’s rights were framed as coming from men, not the mores that had long been established that women are the nurturers of the next generation, and therefore have a more vital role in the sustaining of a progressive society. This has been completely undermined by so-called “Women’s Rights.” 

And after 60 years of this, we see the results. Women are no happier than they were 100 years ago, except now the government benefits from having two taxpayers from every household instead of just one, and as a direct consequence, schools now have more influence on our children’s thinking than parents. The State has coopted our kids so that women can be free to enjoy industrial servitude.

The very right to abort is a symbol of the absolute autonomy of the female body. Religion is the antithesis of this liberty because religion teaches us to serve one another and to be more responsible as adults. The best way to learn this is to be parents, and what is more responsible than being a parent?

 It has been proven that children who come from two-parent families are happier and perform better in life. People who have children are also happier later in life than childless people. And yet, even today, marriage is being questioned as being just another form of “patriarchal oppression.”

Society is breaking down because the once-cherished idea of the family unit has been reclassified as “patriarchal oppression.” 

Progressive ideas such as “the community” becoming the family (tribes, sects, and groupings) only reinforces or State authority, and removing the religious component also posits the State as the final authority. In other words, real or not, without a supernal God, something else must fill the void. When the sacred is removed, the profane takes its place. Men become gods and the real oppression begins. 

Many communist rulers had no issue with people being killed, as illustrated by over 130 million deaths since World War II under communism; progressives and communists share in this duel joy of removing religion from society under the illusion of personal choice without any reverence or obligation to spiritual values. 

Imagine a world without religion?  Contray to John Lennon’s Magnum Opus, we will not “someday be as one” through secularism or exalted humanism; we will, Instead, find ourselves in a total surveillance system where no one is ever free from our human overlords.

The religion of Christ is an advanced religion for two reasons. First, it raises the dignity of the human being by declaring the soul as a thing of eternal value, something that makes it possible for us to survive mortal death, an idea people like Bill Gates and George Soros (and Mao Zedong and Josef Stalin) refuse to believe. 

And, second, the teachings of Jesus are open to everyone, not just the rich, the privileged or the educated. Jesus taught all people were children of God. 

In many ways Christianity was a beginning of a new way of looking at the parent-child relationship, only this time with a divine inheritance. This idea changed the entire direction of human civilization. Today, so-called modernists scoff at it as nothing more than an outdated tradition. 

#2 Globalism versus Nationalism

To the progressive, who now believes America is equal to every other nation; the idea of having pride in a country built on racism and sexism is revolting. Native Americans were slaughtered, Africans were enslaved while the white man raped their daughters and wives, and there was no reconciliation. Why, the progressive asks, should we want to “Make America great again”?

Globalism is much more respectable because in this worldview everyone is equal, all cultures are equal and no one should ever believe they are, for any reason, better than anyone else. The progressive view is that once we all agree to be equal, there will be universal peace, and no reason to fight.

It’s a wonderful idea except for the fact that not all nations are equal. Nor do most nations want to give in to global collectivism. 

The chance that any number of world leaders will give up their power is ludicrous and frankly, childish. But the “rules-based” State fosters these ideas as noble, and panders these childishly emotional ideas because only under centralized power can humanity be controlled by those few who dictate policy on food, energy, and movement. 

This is where exalted humanism rears its ugly head. A progressive taught to hate their country and completely ignore the last ten thousand years of human evolution is easy prey for the globalist elite. 

But imperialism is not dead, and globalism is modern imperialism disguised as democracy. North Korea has a democracy. So is Venezuela, and these are but just two examples of extreme centralized power. Technology only enhances State power. China is veritable prison housing 1.4 billion people.

And yet despite the evidence, hundreds of millions of people believe mankind is capable of creating a benevolent global government in the name of “the greater good.”

If the world adopted the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the world might be a better place, but the U.S. is becoming more like a socialist enterprise, such as the one EU leaders have embraced. And such a progressive shift would only reduce our country to nothing more than an outpost ruled by the very kinds of tyrants our ancestors had tried to escape from. Only this time the tyrants are atheists. 

Any progressive who fails to understand this as a problem has never lived in a totalitarian society. 

There is a reason people are trying to get into America. 

3. Supportive of all LGBTQ Agendas

In step with the previous points, creating special interest groups is one effective way for the government to gain power. Since the rise of equal protection for members of the homosexual community, the feds have figured out a way to control the 90% of the population who are not gay. It began with anti-bullying legislation and continues with federally-sanctioned transgender surgeries for adolescents and adults. 

In the U.S. military, the government will pay for your transition surgery upon demand. In exchange, other members will be forced to acquiesce to your view. 

With one simple stroke, the feds have codified 2 + 2 = 5.

The newly revised Title IX ordinance, intended to ensure women had the same academic and scholastic opportunities as men, has been rewritten to include protections based on gender identity. The ramifications will impact other students, faculty, and parents who refuse to believe one can simply change their natural gender to something other than how they were born. In other words, science does not apply, only feelings and perceptions.

Again, the government has broadened its protections to include transgendered people as new laws exclude the remaining 99.7% of the population.

2+2 = 5. 

If I hold up two fingers on each hand and I tell you there are five fingers, you are punished if you see otherwise. If I am a boy and I tell you I am a girl, you will, under the new Title IX, be forced to agree with me and acknowledge it in the public square. 

All of this was created to protect the feelings of people who, a generation before, were considered mentally ill. 

Pedophilia will be normalized in the coming decades, if not sooner. Sexualization of culture has become the business of government. That is why drag shows are protected; It is why men are allowed to be in women’s prisons if they claim to be woman; it is why children are being told in school that it’s okay for older people to be attracted to them. 

I’ll stop here. You get the point. 

4. Being Against Republicans and Conservative

Progressives tend to stereotype conservatives as being insensitive to the little guy, the bully, the banker, the landlord, people in power, etc. And yet, the biggest bullies today are groups who push progressive policy and influence public policy like ESG and DEI through threats of (legal) intimidation. I was taught that Democrats are ‘for the people’ and Republicans are for the bankers, and who (in Jacobian and Marxist fashion) oppress the poor. 

Ironically, it is through wealth creation that the poor have better opportunities, whereas governments who re-distribute wealth through socialist policies end up creating more poverty. 

The issue, therefore, is education. As long as the right is portrayed as being evil overlords, there is little we can do to wake up the woke.

Since the 1960’s, education has erringly taught that the oppressor is the capitalist. Until this image changes people on the Left will continue to demonize the free market principles that have raised the global standard of living. 

For now, progressives only see poverty caused by society (not individual choices), and falsely believe only the State can eliminate it. This is what Karl Marx believed, indeed a man who was perpetually unemployed and forced his family to live in poverty, except by the good graces of a few people who gave him money.

Progressivism is at the root of Malthusianism, that only governments can eliminate poverty, not the individual.

A true conservative understands it is better to have opportunity with risk of failure than to eliminate all risk of failure at the expense of opportunity. One road leads to true freedom of the individual to pursue one’s dreams, while the latter leads to the endless dependency of the individual on government as the price of protection and illusionary safety.

At the root of true freedom is the idea that man has free will, and is endowed by a creator who gave man the moral ability to choose between good and evil, right and wrong, altruism over selfishness, and individual growth over paternal dependency.

False liberty is dependency on the State, which decides what is good and what is right, who should succeed, and who should be prevented from doing so. 

In closing, I hope I have shone some light on the differences between the two competing ideologies, so that the reader can better decide which path will serve to enhance humanity quality of life for the greatest number of people. 

The stakes are very high and it is time to ante up.

The Problem Is Hamas

by jJm Watkins

Let’s be clear. Not every culture is equal in terms of progress. Proof of this is shown in the example of Haiti vs. Dominican Republic, two countries that share an island. They also share a lot of history, albeit most of it brutal. Haiti also gained freedom about the same time as the United States, and there is a stark difference between how we live here, how DR lives and their quality of life, and the way things are in Haiti. Clearly not all countries are equal.

Israel, next to Gaza is also prooof that not all countries are equal. Much of it has to do with leadership and principles of freedom, open markets, pluralism, religious culture and corruption.

WHY CAN’T GAZA BE LIKE ISRAEL?

Were it not for the Iranian influence and their continued sponsoring of terrorism, there might be a morsel of a chance Palestinians in Gaza would be living better lives. But their leaders are corrupted, and the Gazans do not change from within. No one wants Gaza to succeed more than the Israelis, such prosperity might alleviate tension between the two peoples. Israel allows Gazans to work, go to schools and enjoy the better quality of life in Israel than they do in Gaza, run by terrorist.

Imagine if South Carolina was run by Klansman and they were always trying to take over North Carolina because they felt they had a natural right to it? How would we respond? A two-State solution. Well, we have a fifty-State solution and that is why America and its way of life should inspire Palestinians, but instead they view the West (and Israel) as the Great Satan.

Why is that?

Because they are still stuck playing out a war that began in the 9th Century, and possibly going all the way back to the Sumerians, the Hebrews and the Canaanites in 2000 BC.

Middle Eastern people who live under the rule of Islam will never assimilate to Western Culture, they will twist our laws against ‘the infidels,’ until we break, and intifada will never end until Islam is the religion of the earth. This is their perennial pledge. Nothing we do will change their worldview. Why we try or hope for success is beyond my level of understanding.

With this kind of worldview, can you see things getting better?

If Christians or Mormons or Buddhists behaved the way followrs of extreme Islam do, there would be outrage, but the West views Middle Eastern followers of Islam in reverence, even though Islam is riddled with all kinds of intolerables that should have ended 300 years ago while the West still had slavery. I suppose I am arguing for Islam to shed its violent rhetoric, it only weakens their position as a supposed “religion of peace.” (far more Muslims kill Christians than any other faith; more Muslims are also killed by other Muslims more than by other religious groups).

Until Hamas surrenders, and until the people governed by them wake up and smell the coffee that they are surrounded by a modern world, they will languish in suffering as the world moves on. You can’t stay a pygmy forever, sooner or later you have to advance your moral vision. Living with religious ideas rooted in antiquity and warfare can only bring continued suffering.

In a world of oppressors, none are more insidious than those so-called religious leaders who use God to invoke iron-fisted rule and quash the very spirit God gives to his earthly children.

But What If You Are Wrong?

by Jim Watkins, host of Speaking Out

When I hear the frequent sounds of supposed experts telling the world certain things are imminent, things such as catastrophic climate change, transgenderism is good, even people who are damn sure aliens are about to strike earth, the one question I feel like asking is “what if you’re wrong?”

When a sitting president tells us unlawful immigration is not an issue and food prices are not going up, I say, “but Mr. President, what if you’re wrong, are you prepared to accept the responsibility for your decision if you did err in your judgment, and millions of people are now made to suffer for it?”

When Dr. Fauci started tinkering with novel coronaviruses, experimenting with cleavage production and gain of function, did any of his peers ask him “what if you are wrong?”

When the Bush Adninistration ignored a memo in August 2001 about a possible terrorist attack by airplane, and Fmr. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice decided to downplay the memo, did any of her subordinates have the courage to ask her “what if you are wrong?”

THE GREAT VACCINE PUSH

When President Biden told the American people in 2021 to “get the jab” and pressure everyone to do it in order to “end the Covid pandemic” (which it did not), did any of the Press (or healthcare professionals) ask the newly-elected president “what if you are wrong?”

No they did not.

In asking the question one is forced to imagine what would happen if one was wrong about a major decision; it is when they don’t ask, or consider the ramifications of their decisions, that things can and do go horribly wrong.

THE LESSONS OF THE PAST

For example, did then-President Johnson realize his decision to prolong the Veitnam war would end in the deaths and permanent injury of over 250,000 U.S soldiers? 

When Colin Powell asserted he was right about Saddam Hussein possessing weapons of mass destruction and he probably had a role in 9-11 and that we should go to war, Powell little realized that his decision – which was the wrong decision – would create instability in the Middle East for decades to come, and has led not only to to the rise of ISIS and a current crop of more terrorists, but it also led to the largest migration of people in human history, and continues to reshape politics and culture throughout the entirety of Europe.

Way to go Colin!

Just to drill in the point, Joe Biden probably has no idea that millions of people are today suffreing because they took his advice to “get the jab.” It is likely he, nor Dr. Anthony Fauci, will ever be held accountable for the decisions they made regarding the mRNA vaccine, which is riddled with problems, and did so without considering the consequences of the people today who suffer from it.

Today, we have a whole enterprise of corporations, scientist and politicians who believe – without question – that our entire civilization needs to be restructured in order fight the problem of climate change, a problem that may or may not be influenced by man, based on theories about carbon.

Of even greater offense are the millions of educators, activists, and supposed health-care proffessionals who believe changing a childs gender is appropriate and shoudl be affirmed without question.

But what if you’re wrong?

To be continued….

A Message To Our Friends in Gaza

There Are No Costcos in Gaza

I openly admit the genesis of my observation comes from Dr. Michael Savage, of canceled radio host fame. 

In one of his typically stirring monologues a short time after 9-11, Dr. Savage rightly stated those societies that build, create, and provide for a better quality of life are naturally superior to those societies that destroy, prohibit, and disavow progress. The West builds and creates; the Middle East destroys and takes. Corruption is a great barometer for measuring progress in human society. 

The earmark of a good society is shown in its infrastructure; its roads, food distribution, health care access, education, low infant death rate, longer mortality rates, low crime, religious freedom, and an ethical standard of conduct among the people. These things reflect a truly progressive society. You and I take these for granted because it’s normal to have roads, cars, and access to other things. In much of the world, this is not the case. This is why refugees migrate to better societies.

In Syria, for example. Its ruling party does not create, build, dream, or offer real opportunities to its people. Rather than change the power structure from within, citizens simply run from it and to a place where the quality of life is better. Unfortunately, people who live in Gaza have no such recourse. No other country wants them, and the reason is simple. The rulers of the Palestinian people are worthless sacks of shit who could care less about building a progressive society. Instead, they continue to fight a 9th-century battle believing ultimately their society would remain a theocracy based on century-old ideas of governing, through force and religious intimidation, and expecting the world to believe God wants to ordain it as such. 

It is as if an entire cabal of despotic world leaders have no idea the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment ever happened. They are stuck in the mindset of the Middle Ages. 

Africa is riddled with the same kind of useless and belligerent leadership, further exacerbated by foreign governments who breed corruption to exploit nations for various resources. The opportunities for these poor and underdeveloped nations are enormous, but lie dormant because their people refuse to demand change. 

Specific to Gaza and the Palestinian territory, it is the culture that must change IF the Palestinians want a better life.

Instead of creating terrorists, they should instead produce doctors, scientists, engineers, and inventors. Instead, they breed suspicion through intimidation, turning neighbor against neighbor, and instill corruption as a normal way of doing business. What beacon of progress could emerge in such a society confounded by the baser instincts that drip downstream from its distorted and arcane leadership?  

Hamas could have, all of these years, invested its resources and labor creating roads, schools, and businesses and trade, instead of buying weapons, digging underground tunnels, and boosting military operations in order to overthrow their more prosperous neighbor.

Most Palestinians who worked in Israel would admit (if they could) prefer to live in such a society. All people want to live in orderly societies that have good infrastructure and offer true opportunity. All parents what this for their children.

It is leadership that stands in the way in every case.

This outdated preoccupation with religious dominance “as the will of Allah,” has only brought death and destruction to its people. Shame to those misguided leaders who dare drag their citizens into the past and there keep them.

When one looks at the streets, the crumbled buildings, and the small doll-clutching children hunting for food scraps in Gaza, one must remember it is self-inflicted because the people have failed to hold their leaders to account. Any revolution for change must come from the people; change must come from within.

And this is true for any country that languishes in perpetual poverty. 

The army of NGOs sponsored by the West will not save you; they wish to merely to catalogue you, ala Bill Gates, with ID’s iris scans, and name tags.

To the Woke Left (who now control most Western NGOs), you are nothing more than a carbon footprint who must be tagged like cattle; and if you are not careful, your “reproductive rights,” will soon be under their control as well.

The Belt and Road initiative will not save you; the Chinese Communist Party sees all people (and nations) as nothing more than slaves and batteries, nothing more. 

It is not the responsibility of the West to provide endless shelter and comfort to those refugees who abandon their own countries, instead of staying and clamoring for change.

The Palestinian people are hostage to their leaders, not the Jews or the “oppressive” Americans. This is also true in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Nigeria, and elsewhere, where despots exploit rather than build.

The West has had its fare share Caesars, Popes and Kings who ruled much as your leaders do today.

History shows us, time and time again, that good countries and good societies only emerge when change is made by desirous people willing to die to make their societies a better place.

Costco, the superstore that litters the fruited plains of American societies is a symbol of infrastructure. It takes planning and the intelligent use of resources to grow, package, ship, sell, and ensure quality to the millions of customers who enjoy the benefits of a well-governed society.

After all, has not the human struggle been for comfort and a better quality of life? Who among us would not prefer to live in such a society?

But it must be earned!

Costco (or any sign of progress) doe not exist in Gaza because Hamas has little interest in progress, only in death and destruction.

The leaders of Libya, The Muslim Brotherhood, and Houthi leadership in Yemen are no different from the Ayatollahs of Iran who support Hamas, or who support the Marxist leaders of Congo, Somalia or Burkina Faso. These leaders only want to destroy and usurp for personal gain, nothing else. 

Change in these places can only come from within, from citizens who say “enough is enough!”

The only difference between the modern West and most of the pre-modern nations of this earth are the hard lesson learned 250 years previous, when Europeans and American settlers had endured enough pain and misery at the hands of caustic and tyrannical kings and an overly intrusive church. 

We finally said “enough is enough!”

But life, liberty and the pursuit to happiness did not come without bloodshed. You can spill blood trying to destroy other cultures, or you can spill blood to push back against despots such as the ones who rule over you today and say ‘enough is enough.”

Only then will true progress begin.

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Jim Watkins is the host of the nationally syndicated Speaking Out with Jim Watkins on CRNTalk.com

Is This Our Last Weekend As A Civilization?

by Jim Watkins, host of Speaking Out

Sometimes people answer to prophecy simply because it is their desire to fulfill such prophecy. Such is the stage next week as the U.S. is witness to the second of two very unusually-timed solar eclipses, something many religionist believe is a warning sign of dire times ahead. Of all eight solar eclipses that have occurred over the last 250 years in North America, each was preceded by catastrophe and war.

Pause to consider the events as they unfold; Israel is likely to face retribution by the U.S.-funded Iranians, who would be none the happier to step into history as the protagonists in their age-long biblical battle between the Jews and the Islamists. Remember, it was the Father of both religions, Abraham, who started this mess three-thousand years ago upon the founding of monotheism. As told in prophecy, and in particular, in Revelations, the ‘end of days would’ come in the final battle at Armageddon, with the Sons of darkness defeated by the Sons of light.

Who is who depends on who you ask.

The world is turning against the Jews, even the Christian West has declared this week the Jews are committing “Human Rights violations and committing ‘war crimes” against their attackers, Hamas, backed by the theocracy that rules Iran.

Such declarations provide political cover for retributions.

Should the Persian empire strike Israel, what happens next?

Is the West committed to joining in the fight?

In such an unfolding of events, would not Russia (and China) support Iran if the Mullahs find an ICBM missile heading its way, courtesy of the taxpayer-funded Biden Defense Department, hell bent on provoking yet another war in order to sway an election?

And what of the overthrow in Europe by millions of Islamist disgruntled who have nothing to lose?

Migrants in Brussels, Belgium, France, London and Munich are, by sheer force, in solidarity with their Palestinian brothers and sisters in Gaza, who suffer mercilessly at the hands of the Imperialist West. Could there be a better pretext for a global jihad?

The snake is now in the home, said once by a former president who is mocked by the blind Left as an Islamophobe for uttering such nonsense.

Turn the page.

Americans are being asked to make a decision on whether to remain a moral nation, as predicted by one St. John; the waves of change can be dealt with head-on, or our entire society can be swept away by its overwhelming currents.

The secular war is upon us, and between several competing ideologies, among them pseudo-marxists, Christian nationalists, and Deep-corporate oligarchs-the elite and powerful who want to hold on to that power at any cost through the fomenting of chaos in the street.

Add to this a millions new strangers in our land who have come from the four corners of the globe, thanks to our border czar who likes to chuckle, and who has allowed an army to breach our Southern border, and who even now await “in the shadows,” for instructions from their overseas superiors as to when to strike.

To the Russian citizen who confessed how his country became a hellhole when the Communists came to power overnight in 1918, to the Jewish shopowner in Berlin in 1938, who said “everything was fine – until it wasn’t,” let us heed their warnings.

When we awake from our slumber, let us hope martial law will not have come to America to protect us; let us pray we stood against the tide of secular humanism, the rot that has infiltrated America’s very soul in this time of countenance.

You Are Going To Lose Joe – And Why We Will Savor Every Moment

Original Commentary by Jim Watkins

Let me speak for about 100 million Americans when I say to you, Joe Robinette Biden, that not only will you lose the election in 2024, you will fall from grace faster than Paul Baumgarten falling to earth after jumping out of a high-altitude orbit cruiser.

Your term will come crashing to an end, and our only chief concern as a nation on November 7th will be to determine if it’s too late to steer the good ship America away from the iceberg of wreckage you left behind when stole the 2020 elections through mail-in ballot fraud, the largest in U.S. history.

It will be colossal, and it will go a long way to satisfying my immediate need for retribution because when you do lose, it may and suddenly dawn on you that your political life has come to a resounding Hindenburg end; a big, fat extra impact bold FAIL etched across your forehead for all to see.

My second hope is that squatters will have infiltrated your home before you drag your sorry and defeated ass back to Delaware, and yes, take the fucking train because the beast no longer belongs to you.

The only regret is knowing you will still receive the benefits of being a Senator, Vice-president, and President, even though you did absolutely nothing to improve our country during your time “serving the American people” in the 50 years you took up space and oxygen in Washington DC.

I will take enormous pleasure in knowing no other generation will ever have to suffer under a more inept and incompetent presidency such as yours.

I will take some morsel of relief knowing no more people will (hopefully) needlessly suffer or die because of your decisions and policies, but I will also continue to hold you personally responsible for every overdose, rape and murder committed at the hands of any illegal migrant you encouraged to come into our country under your watch.

The lasting impact of your negligence and hubris as commander-in-chief will cast a lasting and dark shadow across the fruited plains for decades to come, and when future leaders aspire to the presidency, they will have a handbook on what NOT to do when elected. Yours will be the template for failure, a benchmark of ineptitude no one dare approach for fear of drawing comparison to your legacy. The terms “pulling a Biden,” and “don’t do a Biden,” I predict, will become common nomenclature. The very word BIDEN will run synonymous with ABJECT FAILURE.

It is said The Egyptian King Ikhnaton was so hated by his countrymen, that even his son, Tutankhamun, changed his name so as to distance himself from his father-king out of shame for what he did to almost destroy the great Egyptian empire over 5,000 years ago. It appears you now hold the title of “most-despised world leader in human history.”

History remembers great success and great failure, and the name Biden will most assuredly hold the symbolic reigns representing the latter. I only hope you are made to suffer this remorse for as long as possible while you wither away, begging for your last breath. And be prepared dear Joe, because when Lucifer welcomes you as a just and faithful steward, rest assured hell will greet you with the sounds of heartbeats of a million little children you had a hand in destroying.

Never has such a dark force invaded the White House more than during your 12 years of occupancy. Your legacy will stand for a millenia, and no other previous politician can ever hope to gain the immortal status you have achieved by compromising your beliefs while simultaneously selling out your country for a quick buck.

And when the day comes when you do take your last breath, in a twist of irony I hope it will come when your oxygen machine fails due to a power-grid failure brought on by lack of energy from a wind turbine trying to power a fleet of electric trucks.

Have a nice day.

Jim Watkins is host of Speaking Out with Jim Watkins on CRNTalk.com

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