There’s a “call to action” post circulating on Facebook right now. It goes something like this:

Call National Park Service officials to “revoke the permits they allowed for the upcoming Nazi White Supremacist Rally entitled ‘Free Speech, Unity, and Peace San Francisco’ August 26th in Crissy Field. Nazi Violent Racist Hate Rallies do not fall under Free Speech.”

It was the first I had heard about this upcoming rally, but my initial reaction was, “unless the Supreme Court overturned the Skokie decision, Nazi rallies do fall under the First Amendment free speech protections.” So I did a quick online search to see what I was missing and to find out a little more about this upcoming and ironically titled “Nazi White Supremacist Rally.”

I discovered that the Skokie ruling still stands, so Nazi rallies are still protected under the First Amendment.

National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie - Wikipedia

However, I also discovered that this upcoming rally is not a Nazi rally, but a rally organized by an anti-corruption, seemingly Libertarian group called Patriot Prayer. I also discovered that Patriot Prayer’s brown skinned organizer Joey Gibson loudly condemns white supremacists and neo-Nazis and does not want them at his rally as it would upset his very diverse group of speakers, only one of whom apparently is white. Patriot Prayer’s Facebook page indicates that they are “about using the power of love and prayer to fight the corruption both in the government and citizen levels that seek to gain power through division and deception.”

Patriot Prayer

What? So why is this “call to action” Facebook post calling it a Nazi white supremacist rally?

I found out more.

I found out that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi referred to it as a “white supremacist rally” and has called on the National Parks Service to withdraw their permit.

The rest of the city’s officials followed suit. “No, you are not welcome in San Francisco,” said Board of Supervisors president London Breed. “You are not welcome here, don’t come to San Francisco, we are going to do everything we can to stop you.”

Mayor Ed Lee “demanded” the National Park Service re-evaluate the permit and indicated that San Francisco would not have granted the permit, despite the city’s “long and storied history of championing freedom of expression and First Amendment rights.”

Senator Dianne Feinstein, Police Chief Bill Scott, State Senator Scott Weiner and Assemblymen Phil Ting and David Chiu have all jumped on the bandwagon and expressed their concerns or outrage. And Head of SF Interfaith Council Michael Pappas is “very concerned that the billing of this event is dealing with prayer and freedom and peace” and said that “disguising hatred and division and violence with words that are sacred are really misguided.”

Perplexed by the city’s bizarre and extremely out of context reaction to their upcoming rally, Patriot Prayer posted to their Facebook page, “Apparently we are having a white nationalist rally in San Fran with a black, Hispanic, Asian, and a transsexual speaking.” And rally organizer Joey Gibson appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program to discuss the bizarre reaction and to emphasize his opposition to white supremacists.

If I were a progressive liberal watching this play out, I’d be doing everything I could to distance myself from San Francisco and sending them the coded message, “ix-Nay on the igotry-bay!” I am no longer surprised by the “progressive liberal” knee jerk reaction to silence any dissent by now, but I am surprised at the lack of any pretense on the part of SF politicians to at least appear to be in support of free speech and tolerance. Not only are they calling for the rally permit to be revoked, they are calling the organizers — who are clearly not white supremacists — white supremacists. But most importantly, as the ACLU has argued and the Supreme Court has determined, it wouldn’t matter if they were white supremacists or neo-Nazis. Their right to organize peacefully is protected by law!

ACLU History: Taking a Stand for Free Speech in Skokie

If there was any doubt left, San Francisco has just confirmed to the world that San Francisco is tolerant and accepting of all people and beliefs — just as long as those people and beliefs agree with San Franciscans. The ACLU invoked First Amendment protection for marches during the Civil Rights era when Southern cities tried to shut them down with the same claims the SF officials are making about the violence and disruption this rally will cause. The ACLU used the same argument in defense of the Nazis in Skokie.

Patriot Prayer describes its Crissy Field event as “a day of freedom, spirituality, unity, peace, and patriotism. San Francisco has long been a city that prides itself in acceptance of all, so together, let’s unite in this beautiful city to listen to some great speakers & live music!”

San Francisco officials have responded by condemning the event and demanding their permit be revoked. Patriot Prayer seems self-aware enough to know it baited San Francisco when it organized this rally. And San Francisco swallowed it — hook, line and sinker.

Thanks for the heads up about this rally I had previously known nothing about, San Francisco. And thanks for revealing yourselves as the transparent hypocrites you are. It’s nice to realize we don’t need to put any efforts into discrediting your bogus claims of tolerance and open-minded acceptance. You’re doing it all by yourselves.

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The thought started forming 25+ years ago while taking women’s studies classes at Northwestern, and it’s become clearer and clearer to me as I’ve gotten older and become a mother, that feminism got it wrong. Even as a young liberal, I recognized the strategic error in demanding “equality” by supplanting men in the workforce. The very premise implied that accomplishments in the traditionally male professions merited more respect than those in the traditionally female realm. I saw the women’s lib movement and their desire to compete in a man’s world a curiously disempowering admission that women valued male accomplishments over their own.

My sense is that the women’s movement got hijacked and has been used as a tool/method of destabilizing the family and growing the automaton class. Obviously, I am grateful for the right to vote, that my daughter’s sovereignty of self is legally protected, and that women have the same rights as men when it comes to starting a business and owning a home. (And protecting these Western world freedoms might be a more prudent goal than staging massive Trump protests in “Pussy hats” and waving “Abortion on Demand” signs, but that’s just me.)

For generations however, feminism has worked to erode the fabric of the family and devalue its critical foundation for a free and independent society. I suspect the forces behind the ERA are the same forces which hijacked feminism and planted a seed which turned women on themselves and their most precious family unit. Perhaps I’m naive, and women were already foolishly diminishing their venerated role as mothers and stewards of humanity, but I don’t think so.

I am not an advocate for farming one’s children out to caregivers, schools and the state — most critically when children are young — in order that a woman go “fulfill her potential” or “pursue her career.” And I say this as a woman who had quite an enjoyable and fulfilling career pre-children, and then upon having children, decided to leave that career (at least while my children grow up) and help grow and manage my husband’s business from home in order that I can raise and homeschool our children.

I have tremendous respect for and support all mothers who need to work in order to support their families. I’m one of them, and my husband and I have twisted ourselves into contortions for nearly a decade in order that I remain our children’s primary caregiver and teacher, and so that he can take over when I work during the “off hours.” However, I live in one of the wealthiest counties in the US, and I am surrounded by mothers who choose to work instead of stay home with their children. These mothers are encouraged by husbands who, themselves a product of a liberal intellectual upbringing, attach women’s value to professional standing.

I am largely disappointed and disheartened that parents have lost their way and purpose, as they’ve forgotten that mothers have the most important and critical responsibility to humanity — which is to devote themselves to raising the human beings they were privileged to bring into the world. And I think the hijacked or otherwise feminist movement has contributed a great deal to this tragic departure and its ramifications on the integrity of our society.

I say this as a product of a liberal intellectual upbringing myself, so it took me years to look beyond the feminist demonization of Phyllis Schlafly to understand more clearly what motivated her to almost single-handedly mount a campaign which successfully blocked the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. She perceived that such an amendment to the Constitution would actually be used to strip women and families of protections and privileges which would undermine us all. And her insistence of women’s equality argued that women were not victims who needed the government to create opportunities already afforded them and within their grasp.

How ERA Would Change Federal Laws - Eagle Forum

“The feminist movement is not about success for women,” she said in a 2009 interview. “It is about treating women as victims and about telling women that you can’t succeed because society is unfair to you, and I think that’s a very unfortunate idea to put in the minds of young women because I believe women can do whatever they want.”

Breaking News, Analysis, Politics, Blogs, News Photos, Video, Tech Reviews - TIME.com

The fabric of our society has transformed such that the cultural norm 50 years ago of the mother at home raising her children has become the exception, regardless of income status. In the wealthy county I live in, many women choose to go back to work because, as one mother explained to me, “I like that sense of completion and satisfaction I get when I finish a report I’ve worked on and get feedback and praise from my colleagues. I never get that from my kids!” Other wealthy women hire nannies or put their children in daycare almost from birth, even if they don’t intend to go back to work, in order that they can pursue their hobbies and personal interests. The importance of “Me time” is emphasized in conversations between mothers everywhere I go.

The women’s lib and feminist movement have encouraged women to indulge in a shallow and base self-centeredness, emphasizing the importance of “self” and “self fulfillment” as if this were the worthy and rewarding pursuit, even attaching lofty notions of nobility to it — “Pave the way for our daughters!” Anyone who has had the privilege of personally raising and schooling their children knows how deceitful such advice is. It is the giving of self on behalf of one’s children which is the most fulfilling and rewarding of pursuits. It is a joy, it is growth, it is the ultimate purpose and therefore the ultimate form of satisfaction. It fills one’s heart, one’s soul, one’s life.

Generations of women and parents and children have been robbed of this experience and truth. And depression and skyrocketing rates of anxiety are on the rise, with most adults we encounter in our lives on one prescription drug or another. And our nation’s children spend most of their lives in the care of strangers, in front of screens, on prescription drugs themselves, with parents generally looking to “experts” and “authorities” to tell them how to parent and what’s best for their children.

Finally, there exists such a nuanced complexity of dynamic and balance — and intangible mystery — between men and women which feminism’s reductive and base competitive approach has nearly obliterated. If there is anything I’ve learned in my 46 years on earth and in the professional world, as well as in male/female relationships, it’s that I alone am capable of commanding the respect I feel I deserve. No one else, no movement, no edict, and no societal acknowledgement that I’ve been treated with callous disregard is going to provide that. I want laws which protect my bodily integrity in place, and I don’t want to be legally owned by anyone. Once that’s established, the rest is mainly up to the individual to teach others how to treat them, regard them, respect them, pay them. I don’t identify with any “feminist” movement, because I am more powerful than any common denominator.

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Frauke Petry Appears with Her Beautiful Baby

When the globalist and media howl, you know someone’s doing something right. The head of the AfD just appeared in a campaign poster with her newborn son emphasizing the Alternative for Germany’s family friendly policies. And drawing a line under the differences between her and the many childless leaders of Europe, particularly Merkel.

And the differences couldn’t be clearer. Merkel is another career politician with no children, Petry is entrepreneur who just had her fifth child.

The campaign poster asks people, why are they willing to fight for Germany? And while people may have their individual reasons, the question is fair on every level. With the decline in births among native Europeans, and the reckless immigration policies of the current crop of childless leaders in Europe, we need change for both our survival and prosperity.

And in Germany, no one besides the AfD is willing to talk about it.

Among others, Spiegel didn’t like the new campaign poster, and went to lengths to say that others didn’t like it either. The reality is that it’s brilliant and gutsy because it focuses on one of the most important and under-discussed issues in the Western world today: the population decline of native Europeans.

As we wrote after the election of Macron in France, Get Used to Saying it Loud and Often — No Children, No Stake in Our Future, No Place in Political Leadership.

Because it really isn’t just Merkel. A grossly disproportionate number of the people making serious decisions about Europe’s future have no direct child’s interests at stake in that future. With the recent election of the childless Leo Varadkar in Ireland and Macron in France, the number of childless leaders in Europe has soared:

British prime minister Theresa May has no children; Italian prime minister Paolo Gentiloni has no children; Holland’s prime minister Mark Rutte, Sweden’s Stefan Löfven, Luxembourg’s Xavier Bettel, and Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon — all have no children.

The list goes on … Latvia’s childless president is Raimonds Vējonis, Lithuania’s childless president is Dalia Grybauskaitė, and Romania’s childless president is Klaus Werner Iohannis. And, Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission too, has no children.

For anyone in politics there is a sacrifice involved with being in politics — all the more so with a party like the AfD that is willing to break the PC taboos of the German left and talk about family and immigration. You can talk much more openly about these issues in the United States or Denmark or Austria. Unfortunately, in this respect Germany is very much behind the curve.

There’s a lot to like about the AfD. That Spiegel and the rest of the MSM continue to criticize Petry and the AfD for putting German families at the forefront only shows how out of touch they are.

The current German birth rate is less than 1.45 per woman. Definitely time for some policy changes.

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A California pediatrician, jumping on the measles hysteria bandwagon during the 2015 outbreaks, posted a Facebook rant declaring his policy that all patients be fully vaccinated — or kicked out of his practice. Charmingly and compassionately, he wrote, “If you will not vaccinate then you will leave my practice. I will file a CPS (Child Protective Services) report (not that they will do anything) for medical neglect, too…I will not have measles-shedding children sitting in my waiting room…In short, I have patients who have true special needs and true health issues who could suffer severe injury or death because of your magical belief that your kid is somehow more special than other children and that what’s good for other children is not good for yours.”

http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/news/a43825/pediatrician-vaccines-viral/

Timed to coincide with Big Pharma’s push to mandate all vaccines from cradle to grave for the entire Western world, this rant has resurfaced and is making the rounds again. This time around, an army of remarkably educated parents are armed with studies and data to refute this doctor’s asinine premise, but it’s worth noting just how startlingly ignorant he reveals himself to be. And it requires no data or studies to illustrate this. It is patently obvious that he’s actually the one who subscribes to some “magical belief” that a vaccine somehow encloses a child within some sort of forcefield in order that any “scary” bacteria or virus like pertussis or measles just bounces off and runs away. I’d run screaming in horror if this guy was my doctor, and any parent is better off being “fired” from his clinic. It’s like he’s gotten his lessons in immunity from some 1950’s propaganda kid cartoon on vaccines.

First off, being vaccinated does not put a forcefield around anyone. If vaccine theory was sound, what the vaccine would do is cause your body to produce antibodies to the antigen when injected, in hopes that when you then are exposed to the wild virus or bacteria, your body would already know how to mount a defense. But the virus or bacteria could still infect you, and you could still be a carrier, and you could still infect others around you.

In the case of absurdly ineffective vaccines like the DTaP, the vaccinated not only get infected by the pertussis bacteria, but they are the ones contracting the illness over and over again — and spreading it through the population. Almost 90% of the pediatric Whooping Cough cases in California’s recent outbreaks were vaccinated. The CDC even predicts larger and larger outbreaks due to the vaccinated — not the unvaccinated — since the vaccine can’t program the immune system to properly respond to the adenylate cyclase toxin secreted by the pertussis bacteria.

The problem is that vaccine theory is based on a very partial and outdated understanding of the immune system, and it ONLY measures level of antibodies produced in someone’s blood. It never accounted for and still hasn’t incorporated our understanding of complex cellular immunity, nor does it even touch on our ever growing understanding of the human microbiome and the relationship between the gut flora balance and a healthy immune system. Vaccine science is based on an antiquated and absurdly half-baked theory — which is why vaccinated children with a far greater level of antibodies supposedly required to achieve “immunity” get the disease, and why some folks with even no antibodies specific to the disease are immune. It’s admittedly junk science, but this doctor is so ignorant, he doesn’t even understand the junk science.

Finally, his quote, “I will not have measles shedding children sitting in my waiting room” is just too good to be true. The recently vaccinated actually SHED the virus:

The Vaccinated Spreading Measles: WHO, Merck, CDC Documents Confirm

I’m not a doctor, and none of my information is intended to substitute for medical advice, but I sure wouldn’t take any medical advice from the ignorant doctors “firing” their patients who don’t comply with the CDC’s recommended vaccine schedule. They’re the ones basing their policies on magical thinking, not science.

And speaking of the CDC’s recommended schedule, it’s become quite a doozy:

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In no particular order…

1. The AfD is patriotic. In another country that would be par for the course. In Germany, three generations of Maoist indoctrination have left many Germans without a healthy sense of national pride.
2. They still make a point of standing up to Germany’s stifling political correctness. As the poster says, they bring Schnauze to the conversation. (Schnauze is a little like spunk or determination.) And, considering the pile-on, they do well. OK sure, they may not be as good at tweeting as (god emperor) Trump, but really, who is? Even Boris said he’d like to tweet like Trump.
3. They’ve got Björn Höcke in their ranks, who speaks well without constantly mincing words, which is the same as saying, he puts Germany first and foremost. This drives libtards crazy. He pulled out a German flag on TV. The libtards went so crazy you would have thought it was Trump talking about grabbing p**** on a hot mic during a private conversation 10 years ago.
4. They stand up to Merkel’s insane migrant policies. And they mean it. Their party platform and statements have continually called into question the open border policies of Merkel, and they have consistently spoken against the Islamization of Germany. They have clearly stated that Islam is not an intrinsic part of German culture. (Der Islam gehört nicht zu Deutschland.) This goes back to Merkel making a grand statement that yes it is, which pissed off average Germans to no end.
5. The AfD is family friendly. In a land that is faced with plummeting birth rates among the native population and a childless woman in leadership, the AfD consistently scores points for their concern with Germany’s demographic future. And they are the only mainstream party that is addressing the issue in any serious way.
6. They’ve got Beatrix von Storch. She’s the one who suggested that Merkel might head to Chile after leaving office, following in Erich Honecker’s footsteps. Very wise woman. Beatrix von Storch that is.
7. They stick with it. After all the shit, all the name calling, even occasionally getting assaulted for their views and for sticking up for Germany, they stick with it. They’re still there, fighting a good fight. Courageous, really.
8. They’ve earned Merkel’s ire, which is a badge of honor these days. It is no secret that the German Chancellor Merkel has a huge share of the blame for the migrant crises. Even the President Trump has said that all of Europe is turning into “a total disaster” because of unwise immigration policies, and has even gone so far as to say, “You know, what Merkel has done is incredible, it’s actually mind boggling. Everyone thought she was a really great leader and now she’s turned out to be this catastrophic leader.”
9. They’ve done an alright job with the media. People want to upbraid them for throwing the odd rhetorical bomb, but the reality is that it isn’t just about getting attention. (Though any media savvy party knows they need press coverage.) Things are going really badly in Germany and the AfD seems like it is the only mainstream party willing to talk about it. And it is fantastic that they are. Other people might rightly say that some things could be done better, but it is easy to criticize from the sidelines.
10. They put Germany first, and by doing so, they put Western Civilization first as well.

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So what’s all the Hullaballoo?

In Germany, Trump gets about 95% negative press coverage. The German state-controlled media, ergo all German mainstream media, has been consistently and pathologically against Trump. While Americans have large news organizations like Breitbart and Fox provide some counterbalance to the MSM, in Germany the MSM is like having only CNN fake news, 24/7.

So even if the AfD is only some form of Trump light, it isn’t that surprising that they get bashed by the German press. Let’s just stop pretending the news reports you hear about the AfD represent anything akin to journalism. While there are some alternatives to the German MSM (especially in Austria and Switzerland), in Germany it is generally fake news, fake moral outrage, and fake polling, all of the time.

The German MSM, like crazy Clinton or fake news CNN, seems to think that not only is Trump deplorable, but that the vast majority of white voters in America who elected Trump are kind of deplorable too. This is in spite of the fact that about 70% of European Americans voted for Trump. In some places quite a lot more. Trump won by a landslide in the Electoral College. He won by a virtual tsunami among whites.

Not sure if the landslide/tsunami analogy works, but you get it.

Point being, if you’re just some German who reads Spiegel or the FAZ, you probably would think Trump made it in as part of some right wing coup as opposed to an election. Or else maybe something to do with the Russians….

Now that Trump has been in office for some seven scary months, unemployment has dropped to its lowest point in half a century, the stock market has gained 17%, energy prices are down, illegal immigration is down, the TPP and Paris Accords have been nixed and he’s told the globalists to generally go f*** themselves.

He’s also been clear to state that we need to defend Western civilization and combat radical Islam as if our lives depended on it. He’s said this clearly and often. In Riyadh and in Warsaw.

Which brings me to the German, very scary, Trump light.

The AfD doesn’t tweet like Trump, they don’t push the bounds of political correctness like Trump, they don’t talk quite as much about limiting immigration as Trump. They’re pretty even-keeled, though I would suggest they up their tweet game. Really, if you went back 30 years, their platform would seem liberal compared to the CDU of the time.

Nevertheless the press in Germany and the globalist press abroad continues to bitch about Trump. And moan about the AfD.

Nigel Farage put the situation in Germany nicely in perspective. The former Ukip leader and Brexit architect declared the German Chancellor had made the “worst policy decision” in the last 70 years when she openly welcomed almost a million asylum seekers into the country in 2015. The worst.

Without quibbling about whether it was the worst or the second worst or third worst, let’s just agree that it was terrible, terrible mistake. One that has caused, and will cause, untold suffering. She put Germans not first, but last.

This is the woman whose party continues to get voted in. The woman who only days ago doubled down and said she will not accept limits on third world immigration into Germany. She’s in power. She’s expected by hook or by crook to stay in power through the next election cycle. Germany has real problems and nobody in leadership is willing to discuss them in public.

The quality of life in Germany is disintegrating. Rapes, murder and crime rates are skyrocketing (totally underreported by the German MSM). Left wing extremists have free reign and are completely out of control. The average citizen is becoming disenfranchised from the system. Germans have to look to Britain, Poland and Hungary for any sense of sanity.

And you want to tell me the average German cares whether the AfD gets 9 or 14% of the vote? Or whether Trump thumbs his nose at Soros, Merkel and the BBC?

After all the public hand wringing is done, and the politically correct b.s. has been uttered, most Germans would love to be rid of Merkel and see Germany become more than just the doormat for the world. Of course. Germany has a rich and beautiful culture that should be fostered as much as the other great European nations.

And they couldn’t give a shit about the endless Trump/AfD bashing on the part of left wing journalists.

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When it comes to protecting our children, political affiliations fall by the wayside

We live in very polarized times. Maybe that’s the result of 24 hour news cycles or the internet, or maybe in times of great upheaval it’s hard to stay on the sidelines. What’s interesting, though, is to see the variety of political backgrounds among the anti-vaxxers and vaccine skeptic crowd.

Depending on whom you talk to, or the nature of the hit-piece engineered to discredit them, they get painted as left wing extremists, out of control libertarians, or some form of Christian fundamentalist clinging to their guns and Bibles.

The left wing extremist mantra runs that they are some silly nuts who only eat organic food (not a terrible idea, I might mention), won’t touch a cell phone because they are worried about electromagnetic smog, and are generally just very hippy-dippy and outside the mainstream. It’s a cute image.

And the Libertarians, you know them. Like the perennial presidential candidate Ron Paul and his son, that Senator, what’s his name? oh yeah, that Rand Paul fellow. Sure they’ve got some good ideas, limited government and such, but you know they’re, well, fringe. But are Ron and Rand Paul (both MD’s) vaccine skeptics? Probably, you say. Libertarian fruitcakes!

The Christian fundamentalist one is in some ways the best, because it is meant to work as broad smear against all right wingers. You know, they’re all Christian fundamentalists, right? They think the evolution thing didn’t happen and Earth is flat, etc. Of course they don’t believe in science. I mean right wingers don’t believe in global warming, right. Do they? Well, do they?

The truth is, as I’ve explored this subculture I’ve been amazed at the variety of backgrounds people have. One day I’m trying fermented foods with Weston Price folks, another day I’m shooting targets with some other anti-vaxxers at the range. In California, there are, especially now, a lot of homeschoolers in the mix. Parents in general are focused on the issue.

One thing that is terribly obvious is how overwhelmingly white, middle to upper class, and educated they all are. So much so that the 4th big smear is that they are elitists! Which kind of flies right in the face of the other smears that seem to imply a lack of education. In fact, not only is the average vaccine skeptic that I’ve met well educated, they’ve spent an enormous amount of time with the material. Far more than most doctors.

Maybe you could say they tend to be free thinkers. But stupid rubes and hippies, not by a long shot!

So truth be told, if they want to expand the ranks of the pro-vaxxers, educating the public seems to be a bad way to go. It would seem the more educated they are on the subject the less likely they’ll be willing to submit to the suggestions of the CDC and big pharma.

Another thing that seems to unite many in the vaccine skeptic crowd is that they know someone who was vaccine-injured. Their child, a cousin, a neighbor’s kid. Even when Trump spoke to this in the presidential debates, he mentioned this.

Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn’t feel good and changes — AUTISM. Many such cases!

By some accounts over a million people, mostly children, now have autism in the US. There was almost no autism before 1970. And thousands and thousands of parents say it all started with a wellness visit. The constant refrain: “I took my kid in for a vaccination, and he never quite recovered.”

A lot of folks know these kids and parents and have heard the stories first hand. Something like that just cuts across political lines.

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Review: In Defence of Life

If Julian Rose hasn’t pushed you outside your comfort zone, or made at least one proposition that you might not agree with, then I don’t think he achieved his object. Because this is more than the admonishments of someone who made his mark in Europe promoting organic foods and protecting small scale agriculture.

Starting with questioning the military nature of the industrial complex and the emergent surveillance state, In Defence of Life digs and pokes. Kind of like a localist manifesto in a globalist world run amok.

And more importantly, these aren’t just the armchair musings of some cloistered academic. Julian Rose converted his English estate in the ’70s to organic farming; last week he presented a declaration of Real Farming and Real Food at the Polish Presidential Palace. In the 40 odd years in between he has engaged in successful fights to ban GMOs in Europe, promote raw milk in England, save family farms in Poland.

So when he encourages and admonishes you to question, resist or completely change how you eat, and even your life, he’s done it himself. And it is amazing what individuals and small groups of focused individuals can achieve. In Defence of Life offers some signposts.

And they are also not the musings of someone entrenched in the PC thinking of whatever the environmental cause du jour is. Screw your endless well-intentioned foreign wars, and your organic foods flown in from the other side of the world. Distributed decision-making is far superior to entrenched bureaucracy in Brussels. The national level is better, and local community is even better than that. Whoever thought we should turn all of Europe into a giant wind farm just to feed the insatiable industrial needs of modern consumerism, was simply not thinking it through.

Julian Rose could by many people be considered an environmentalist or an organic farming activist, but he’s offering more, and he’s not owned by the left or the right. Refreshing in these very polarized times.

You can find In Defence of Life on Amazon, or better, order it directly from the source at www.julianrose.info.

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Has the MSM got you down? These sites will cheer you up!

Just the other day a friend said that besides Drudge, Connor Post and a couple other sites, the coverage on Trump is just so negative. I admitted there was some truth in his words. And lately it seems like Drudge has gone off the reservation!

With that in mind, I ask, “Is the lame stream media and Deep State making you blue?” There are a few good sites out there to offer a more balanced perspective on our dear God Emperor Trump. Besides the Connor Post, here are ten other great sites to warm your hearts.

They also happen to offer some of the best reporting and most balanced coverage out there. Which means they are generally favorable of his administration, but will take him to task when he goes astray.

In no particular order:

GAB | Ad-free social media for all

Gab is the Twitter alternative, and if you like Trump, you’ll feel at home here. Sign up and just look for #MAGA tags.

Zero Hedge | On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Zero Hedge isn’t exactly pro-Trump. They’re more pro-Trumpism, and naturally understand that limiting mass migration, taxes and regulations all seem like pretty good ideas. They do some great reporting.

Breitbart News Network

Breitbart is legendary. They’re a fantastic news outlet. On every level. And of course Bannon and Gorka are all in the ring for Trump.

Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

People will say that Infowars is sometimes out there. We say they are a great news outlet that is willing to hit a lot of topics that other news outlets won’t, but should be. They have stuck by Trump (and Ron Paul) through thick and thin.

NaturalNews.com

Not a site I would have first thought of as pro-Trump, or even political. Great coverage of political news with emphasis on health freedom, vaccine industry, big pharma, deep state shenanigans, freedom and Trumpism.

Taki's Magazine - Home Page

Taki’s offers the best writing on the right. Kind of like The New Yorker for conservatives. Steve Sailer, Jim Goad, Taki, Massie, and a bunch of others that really are just a pleasure to read.

Home - The Gateway Pundit

The GWP is Jim Hoft’s blog and news outlet. Great when you need some positive vibes and cutting edge reporting.

The Last Refuge

I never know whether they are The Last Refuge or The Conservative Treehouse. People seem to call them both. Either way, they’ve got fantastic writing and perspectives. In-depth analysis that you won’t find anywhere else, as well as a good community.

Dilbert Blog - Dilbert Blog

I wouldn’t really say that Scott Adam’s blog is a pro-Trump news outlet per se, but he appreciates Trump’s power of persuasion and came out early to say that Trump had a good chance to win. Most importantly, he understands Trump’s skill stack, and offers some great analysis of what Trump is doing and why and how he is doing it.

VDARE - premier news outlet for patriotic immigration reform

VDARE is interested in controlling immigration and putting America first. They’ve had an immensely positive influence on everyone from Ann Coulter to Pat Buchanan and moved early to the Trump camp. As long as Trump sticks to his campaign promises on immigration, they’ll likely stick with Trump.

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(and another disaster for Europe)

After the European news was awash with stories about France electing Macron, something like the ninth childless leader in Europe, Ireland’s new gay Indian Prime Minister has barely raised an eyebrow beyond some praiseworthy words from The Guardian and a few of the other left-wing rags.

Leo Varadkar, gay son of Indian immigrant, to be next Irish PM

Was the lack of attention merely exhaustion or distraction?

I admit, with terror attacks on European soil almost every day, and endless attempts by the MSM and Deep State to impede and take down Trump, there’s a lot going on!

While Ireland isn’t as big a player as France or Great Britain, it was quite a coup for the globalists and New World Order types. Right now the biggest issue facing Europe besides mass migration is the demographic time bomb caused by Europeans not having large enough families. The two problems are related––and any sentient individual could probably think of several reasons Leo Varadkar might not be the right man to deal with them.

It is kind of hard to picture good old gay Leo saying something on par with the Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán at the Budapest World Congress of Families,

“The family is at the centre of the Hungarian government’s vision of the future.”

or maybe,

In Europe today we can still see people being branded as extremist for failing to fall into line with European dictates on the opinions — described as mainstream — which one should hold, for daring to point out the connection between immigration and terrorism, or the continuing cultural conflicts between immigrants and the continent’s indigenous inhabitants.

Yes, Orbán does go on sometimes, but he generally gets it right and has at least a few kids. Leo might be a nice guy, and maybe a better speaker than Orbán––but in the end he is just one more childless leader. And for the globalists, that might have been the best aspect of it all.

Leo will be in good company:

- Macron, the newly elected French president, has no children.
- German chancellor Angel Merkel has no children.
- British prime minister Theresa May has no children.
- Italian prime minister Paolo Gentiloni has no children.
- Holland’s Mark Rutte has no children.
- Sweden’s Stefan Löfven has no children.
- Luxembourg’s Xavier Bettel has no children.
- Scotland’s Nicola Sturgeon has no children.
- Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, has no children.

None of these folks have shown any leadership in addressing the problems of mass migration, or any real concern about raising the birth rate of Europeans. Really, it’s not a coincidence.

Even May, in spite of being now the Brexit PM, voted to remain, voted for globalism. She also has shown scant resolve on the question of mass migration. That she ended up being the Brexit PM makes one wonder what kind of globalist string-pulling may have gone on in the background.

It probably should have been Brexiteer Andrea Leadsom. Though she was at the centre of a spat over claims she said she would make a better Prime Minister than Theresa May because she is a mother, saying among other things, “I feel that being a mum means you have a very real stake in the future of our country, a tangible stake.” The attacks were savage.

Leadsom's remarks on motherhood spark ugly Tory leadership row

But should they have been?

The short answer is, of course not. We still say: Get Used to Saying it Loud and Often — No Children, No Stake in Our Future, No Place in Political Leadership.

Forget the exceptions (the rare family man and woman who just happens not to have children, but is equally concerned about the demographic future of Europe), let’s talk about the rule. Wanting to have had children isn’t enough. People who don’t have children can’t picture what’s involved beyond the theoretical. How could they? They understand a little of the biology. They get that a lot of time is involved. (Definitely harder juggling that family/work balance!) They might even somehow vaguely have a sense that a society is a direct reflection of its people.

Though none of these things were really likely to be a priority for any of them.

Or they would probably have children.

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