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Deaths You May Have Missed.

I read an important article on "The Deep State behind The Deep State" yesterday...

...there were a few key people that it mentioned had died.

David Rockefeller
- wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rockefeller
- New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/busi ... anker.html

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Zbigniew Brzezinski
- New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/us/z ... arter.html


I kid you not. They both died this year and if you weren't watching the Drudge Report for only 1 day, you wouldn't have known it.

If I missed this, then probably several other people had as well.

Notice the age of David Rockefeller of 101. He lived a pretty long time. He was the direct son of John D. Rockefeller of the Standard Oil fortune as talked about in the book "The President Makers"

See My Review on The President Makers Here: http://www.lastdaystimeline.com/president-makers

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From comments re NFL:
" They have tried to point out it was the player's right to protest but the NFL owners, comissioner and the NFL Players Association know better. Reason? They are complicit with George Soros who is funding them in their protests; the same guy who supports Black Lives Matter to the tune of four million dollars and other radical who were paid to create havoc in Baltimore and St. Louis. Look at the players who are protesting and match them with Black Lives Matter who chants "What is a good cop - a dead one" and you see the claim of "oppression" is the false narrative they come up with. The facts are the NFL, owners and the NFL Players Association have made their own bed and personally, I hope all of their fans boycott them into obscurity. When you fly a false flag, you eventually lose."

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"On Nov. 3, 1896, Martha Hughes Cannon was elected to represent Utah's 6th Senate District, defeating a group of candidates that included her own husband and earning the title of the United States' first woman state senator.


In addition to a two-term senator, Cannon was many things: a Welsh-born immigrant, a Mormon pioneer, a highly educated and successful doctor, a polygamous wife, a mother of three and a vocal champion for women's suffrage.


Here's a look back at her eventful life and the experiences that shaped her
political career."


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Minnesota High School Requires English Course Aimed at Destroying 'White Privilege' - Breitbart

“Edina High School in Edina, Minnesota, has come under fire this week over a new mandatory english course that aims to eradicate “white privilege.”

Center of the American Experiment, which has been investigating the high school since 2016 states ““Edina citizens should hold district leaders accountable for substituting political indoctrination for a real education.

“Male students who have taken the mandatory course say they were constantly humiliated.” And one male student wrote the class should be renamed, “Why White Males Are Bad, and How Oppressive They Are.”

The Center of the American Experiment added “The Edina schools’ new race-based ideology undermines all students’ ability to think freely,” “Students are learning to parrot orthodoxy back to teachers and to look nervously over their shoulders in case the authorities catch them in a forbidden thought …….. They are learning that, at school, a top priority must be to please those in power. ……”

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There are some really frightening scenarios playing out in schools these days and it has to be noted that young minds are very, very susceptible to this drastically left-slanted programming being treated as facts by devious and furtive faculties.

There is an insidious effort to breed shame in these young minds, shame for being white, and a coincident effort to buid up to absurd proportions the image of the negro and other nonwhites.

With the tearing down of American monuments, rewriting of American history and the elimination of legendary white authors from college curriculums, schools have become more like institutes of indoctrination and palaces of propaganda."

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9fCBmLheoM

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During Game 7 of the World Series, Major League Baseball showed the kind of class and respect that kneeling football players seem to have forgotten.

In a moving show of appreciation for both the American flag and law enforcement officers, the baseball league invited the Los Angeles Police Department quartet to sing the national anthem.

As uniformed members of the United States military marched into the stadium carrying the stars and stripes, four police officers delivered the Star Spangled Banner

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Michael Flynn's RNC Speech Didn't Age Well

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SHOCKING: Farmer fined $2.8 MILLION for plowing own land! - YouTube

Farmer fined 2.8 million dollars for plowing his own land

Modern-day tyrants trying to micro-manage farmers...

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The 'new normal' continues to "crash the gate," 'make history' and to normalize the abnormal in The long march through the institutions. - Wikipedia

Should Virginia have a law that requires people to use the bathroom corresponding with the gender on their birth certificate? Are there any policies related to this issue that you have an opinion on?
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“As a transgender woman, I know that bills like HB 1612 from 2017 are discriminatory and harmful. I oppose discriminating against LGBTQ people and know that transgender people need to have access to public accommodations based on our gender identity based on our lived gender, not on the sex we were assigned at birth.

Equality
Improving our quality of life starts with equality. I support the DREAM Act, civil rights, voting rights, women's rights, LGBTQ rights, raising the minimum wage and making health insurance more accessible and affordable for everyone. ” —Danica Roem,

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Danica Roem's historic win leads Democratic sweep of Prince William delegate races
Danica Roem made history Tuesday night by defeating 13-term Republican Delegate Bob Marshall to become the first transgender woman to serve in state office.

Roem called the victory “humbling,” but said she feels “a sense of mission and purpose” to serve the people Prince William County and Manassas Park. She further said her win was “for Robbie,” a local transgender teen, “and every other kid like him who has ever been questioned or denied their rights because of who they are.”

“The results tonight say that discrimination is a disqualifier and inclusiveness is a winning necessity,” she said.

UPDATED: Danica Roem's historic win leads Democratic sweep of Prince William delegate races | News | princewilliamtimes.com

Further reading: Danica Roem: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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Danica, the transgender metalhead running for political office - YouTube
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Further to the above post:

First Openly Transgender Black Woman Elected to Public Office in the U.S.

Nov 8, 2017

A candidate for Minneapolis City Council became the first openly transgender black woman elected to public office in the U.S. on Tuesday evening.
Andrea Jenkins, a biological male who lives as a female, won 73 percent of the vote in Minneapolis’s Eighth Ward, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

The Advocate magazine reports that Jenkins ran in the nonpartisan race with a Democratic Party affiliation and ran on a platform of raising the minimum wage and increasing access to affordable housing.

Jenkins, a former policy aide to Minneapolis council Vice President Elizabeth Glidden, defeated three other candidates in the race.

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The former policy aide was not the first openly transgender candidate to win an election Tuesday night.

Virginia House of Delegates candidate Danica Roem, a biological male who changed his legal sex from male to female and dresses as a woman, defeated the GOP incumbent Rep. Robert Marshall to become the first openly-transgender elected to public office.

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"Part of a group called Gays Against Guns, the protesters lay on the ground of the Senate building like corpses while yelling outlandish statements such as, “You’re killing us with money from the NRA!”
The protest continued for roughly 10 minutes until the Capitol Police arrived and ordered the protesters to cease and desist, according to The Advocate.

When they refused, inevitable arrests followed. "

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"The Texas church shooting proves the need for constitutional carry. It proves the need because criminals and psychopaths do not obey the law. You're handcuffing good people who want to be armed and stop this kind of thing."
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Alabama Republican Defends Roy Moore: ‘Mary Was a Teenager and Joseph Was an Adult’

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Alabama Republican Defends Roy Moore: ‘Mary Was a Teenager and Joseph Was an Adult’

Today, an elected member of the GOP defended Alabama Senate Republican candidate Roy Moore by saying Joseph married Mary (yes, Jesus’ parents) when Mary was a teen, and he an adult.

Moore was accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl earlier today. Three other women later came forward with similar stories of sexual predation allegedly committed while they were teenagers and Moore was a high-powered attorney in his thirties.

Later this afternoon, Alabama State Auditor Jim Zeigler rose to Moore’s defense. A fellow Republican and Christian, Zeigler invoked various bible stories in an attempt to run theologically-based interference for his friend and colleague. He said [emphasis added]:

Take the Bible. Zachariah and Elizabeth for instance. Zachariah was extremely old to marry Elizabeth and they became the parents of John the Baptist. Also take Joseph and Mary. Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter. They became parents of Jesus.
Zeigler also said Moore’s behavior ranked as “nothing to see here” because “Even the Washington Post report says that he never had sexual intercourse with any of the girls and never attempted sexual intercourse.” He also defended Moore by saying the former judge ultimately fell in love with and wed a much younger woman. Moore’s wife of 35 years, Kayla Moore, is 14 years his junior. This relationship began around the time Moore’s alleged improprieties with teenage women are said to have occurred.

Moore’s main accuser, Leigh Corfman, said he kissed her on two separate occasions and that during the second instance, he removed her clothing and then groped her over the bra and panties before directing her hand toward his underwear. She was 14 at the time, she said. He was 32. Alabama’s age of consent was and is 16.

Corfman was initially allegedly approached by Moore outside of a courtroom while Corfman’s mother attended a custody hearing.

Zeigler ended his defense of Moore by asserting, “There’s just nothing immoral or illegal here. Maybe just a little bit unusual.”

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Why Religion Influences Politics More Now Than 50 Years Ago

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Religion influences politics more now than it did 50 years ago. To help explain how we moved seemingly backward from global secularism to increased religious involvement in public policy, Professor of International Politics Monica Duffy Toft explains the threefold story of failed modernization, democratization, and globalization, and how they propelled religious figures and ideas into the political arena once again.

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Roy Moore Cast The Sole Vote In Favor Of A Man Who Raped A Four-Year-Old

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Roy Moore Cast The Sole Vote In Favor Of A Man Who Raped A Four-Year-Old

Embattled Alabama Senate Republican candidate Roy Moore once cast the lone vote in favor of a man accused of raping a four-year-old boy.

In 2015, Roy Moore was performing his second stint as a justice sitting on the Alabama Supreme Court–Moore was previously removed from office for ignoring a federal court order mandating the removal of a Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building.

The Alabama Supreme Court had the opportunity to hear the case of one Eric Lemont Higdon, a man accused and convicted of two sodomy charges due to sexual assault against a four-year-old at Mama’s Place Christian Academy in Clay, Alabama.

One of those convictions was first-degree sodomy of a child less than 12 years old. The other conviction was first-degree sodomy by forcible compulsion. Essentially, the first conviction was for statutory rape; the second for forcible rape.

Higdon’s conviction on the forcible rape charge was eventually overturned on appeal. The state, by way of prosecutor Luther Strange, appealed that decision and the Alabama Supreme Court took the case up for review.

Eight of the nine justices on the panel found that the appeals court had erred. Their legal logic was such that a 17-year-old’s sexual assault of a four-year-old was enough to produce in the mind of the four-year-old, an “implied threat of serious physical injury.” The decision was reversed and remanded and Higdon’s conviction was reinstated.

Roy Moore dissented from that opinion. He wrote:
Because there was no evidence in this case of an implied threat of serious physical injury…or of an implied threat of death, Higdon cannot be convicted of sodomy in the first degree “by forcible compulsion.”

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Millennials would rather live in socialist or communist nation than under capitalism: Poll

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Millennials would rather live in socialist or communist nation than under capitalism: Poll


The majority of millennials would prefer to live in a socialist, communist or fascist nation rather than a capitalistic one, according to a new poll.

In the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s “Annual Report on U.S. Attitudes Toward Socialism,” 58 percent of the up-and-coming generation opted for one of the three systems, compared to 42 percent who said they were in favor of capitalism.

The most popular socioeconomic order was socialism, with 44 percent support. Communism and fascism received 7 percent support each.

Marion Smith, executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, said the report shows millennials are “increasingly turning away from capitalism and toward socialism and even communism as a viable alternative.”

“This troubling turn highlights widespread historical illiteracy in American society regarding socialism and the systemic failure of our education system to teach students about the genocide, destruction, and misery caused by communism since the Bolshevik Revolution one hundred years ago,” Mr. Smith said in a statement.

Millennials are more likely to prefer socialism and communism than the rest of the country. Fifty-nine percent of all respondents chose capitalism as their preferred arrangement, compared to 34 percent who said socialism, 4 percent fascism and 3 percent communism.

Some of communism’s luminaries are admired by millennials. Thirty-one percent said they have a favorable view of Che Guevara, 32 percent Karl Marx, 23 percent Vladimir Lenin and 19 percent Mao Zedong. Joseph Stalin is viewed favorably by just 6 percent.

In the poll, only 33 percent of millennials were able to identify the correct definition of socialism. They fared about as well as the rest of the country, which only successfully identified socialism at a 34 percent clip. Gen Z, the generation after millennials, ―was the most informed group, with 43 percent correctly identifying socialism.

Where millennials struggled compared to other generations was in the identification of capitalism. Just 51 percent correctly said capitalism is the “economic system based on free markets and the rule of law with legal protections for private ownership.” That was by far the lowest of any age cohort. Americans as a whole correctly identified capitalism 67 percent of the time.

Millennials are also less likely to have a negative view of communism. Just 36 percent said they had a “very unfavorable” impression of the system, and only 44 percent said they would be insulted if described as a communist.

As a whole, 56 percent of Americans view communism very unfavorably, and 63 percent would be insulted to be associated with the ideology.

One possible explanation for the millennial infatuation with socialism is that 53 percent of the cohort reports feeling burdened by the economy.

Millennials were the only age group more likely to say America’s economic system “works against me” rather than “works for me.” Gen Z had the most positive impression of the economy, with 66 percent saying it “works for me,” although many of them have yet to enter the workforce.

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation survey was conducted online from Sept. 28 to Oct. 5 by YouGov. It polled 2,300 members of the general public age 16 and above.

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Half of Americans Favor Mandatory National Service

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Half of Americans Favor Mandatory National Service

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Almost half (49%) of Americans favor requiring young men and women to give a year of service to the nation. But a majority (57%) of the group most likely to be affected -- those under the age of 30 -- oppose the idea.

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The idea of mandatory national service has been floated numerous times by think tanks and opinion writers over the past decade and a half, but it has never become a major issue in national politics. U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel unsuccessfully pushed a version of the idea in every legislative session from 2003 to 2015; at one point, it even reached the House floor, where it was defeated by a vote of 402-2.

Though the idea has never garnered much attention as a national policy proposal, there is support for the concept among segments of the public. A majority of Republicans, including independents who lean Republican, favor it (57%), as do men (57%) and those 65 or older (66%).

Americans Supported Mandatory Service in Earlier Times

Many of those being honored in this year's Veterans Day celebrations joined the military as a result of being drafted -- a form of mandatory national service for young men that has been invoked several times in the nation's history. The use of a draft became highly controversial during the Vietnam War in the late 1960s and early 1970s; the United States ended the draft and transitioned to an all-volunteer military force in 1973.

A majority of Americans (54%) in 1977 favored sticking to a volunteer force, but two 1980 surveys showed a majority wanting to return to a military draft. Eventually, most Americans endorsed the all-volunteer concept, with five polls conducted between 1998 and 2007 showing majorities from 69% to 85% rejecting a return to the draft.

Meanwhile, as the nation shifted away from the concept of required military service for young men, Gallup in 1981 asked Americans about requiring a year of mandatory national service "either in the military forces or in nonmilitary work" for young men and, in a separate question, young women.

Majorities in 1981 favored the idea for both sexes, with more widespread support for requiring service from men (71%) than requiring it from women (54%). This contrasts with today's 49% support for mandatory service for all men and women, asked as a single question.

In terms of the demographic patterns, as is the case now, in 1981 those under the age of 30 were less likely to support the idea -- 60% for men and 48% for women. Unlike now, however, there was no significant gap on the issue between men and women or between Republicans and Democrats.

Implications

The idea that young adults should be required to serve the nation for a period of time has percolated on the national stage for many years. While Americans today are not overwhelmingly in favor of it, neither are they overwhelmingly opposed. Even among young adults -- the group most likely to be required to serve -- almost four in 10 say they favor it.

Until the proposal rises to the level of a major political issue, however, it is unclear just how firm the public's views are, or how much arguments for and against national service will be able to sway Americans' opinions.

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"A Latino student who was criticized by his liberal creative writing teacher for supporting President Donald Trump posted a 10-minute video of him absolutely schooling the teacher in a debate about police brutality, white supremacy and terrorism. This video has to be seen to be believed.
According to TheBlaze, the 12th-grade student — who wishes to remain anonymous — attends a high school in the Hudson Valley area of New York. He was challenged on his views by his teacher, and the resulting video should tell you all you need to know about bias in America’s public schools."


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"An active duty U.S. military service member underwent “gender transition” surgery November 14, a procedure that was approved and paid for by the Pentagon, the Defense Department has announced.

The Pentagon said the individual getting the surgery is an infantry soldier who identifies as a woman, and who received his Combat Infantry Badge in Afghanistan in 2003.

Defense Department spokeswoman Dana White told reporters that the surgery was performed in a private hospital in Pennsylvania and was paid for through the soldier's militarys health coverage. She explained that the procedure was done on the advice of doctors who deemed it medically necessary.

“Military hospitals do not have the surgical expertise to perform this type of surgery, therefore it was conducted in a private hospital,” said White, adding that since the soldier “had already begun a sex-reassignment course of treatment, and the treating doctor deemed this surgery medically necessary, a waiver was approved by the director of the Defense Health Agency.”
In July President Trump overturned President Obama's decision to allow transgender individuals full access to military service, announcing that “the United States government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.”

In October a federal court put a hold on that ban as lawsuits filed by transgender service members make their way through the courts. However, the ban on federal funding of “gender reassignment” surgeries was left in place, with the caveat that service members who had already begun the “transition” process would be exempted. This exemption allowed the present soldier to have his “gender reassignment” surgery paid for by the government."

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