Carl Sagan had a saying Extraordinary Claims require Extraordinary Proofs and guess what where climate change being the work of God is concerned it is all available. Click on the different category headings to find out more. Robert Bauer: Co-Chair of the Pres. This development has become especially pronounced in the last 12 months, but has been creeping toward this arrangement since the Second World War when government, industry, the intelligence sector and finance pushed toward an effective creation of a unified trust. Bunch of NOTHING. For that one has to guess what open a bible because within its pages is a huge amount of information on the subject which gets substantiated by not only the archaeological record but Church history as well. That the complaint got this far was unusual. It doesn't care about galas or podcasts either. Not in England. Shortly after taking office, Trump nominated Gorsuch for the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016. The last time I created a thread criticising Garland for being weak and ineffective, Yeah, sometimes public opinion turns on a dime. Demand for freshmen admission at UC San Diego drops for first time in roughly 20 years, To help solve the child care crisis, new legislation would cap families costs and pay providers more, FBI arrests man after security finds explosive in checked luggage for Florida-bound flight from Pennsylvania airport, El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells announces bid for Congress, setting up fight with incumbent Sara Jacobs, 3 thoughts: Boise State 66, No. The scheme's Federalist Society gatekeeper operation had delivered to its big donors a complete overhaul of the Court in less than 4 years. Even before the Republican majority expanded to 6, that run of wins reached 80--80 partisan 5-to-4 decisions--a judicial rout favoring very happy rightwing donors. Groups in this apparatus have gorged on dark money, their coffers swelling by orders of magnitude as Leo's influence grew. Weve always understood the importance of calling out corruption, regardless of political affiliation. Years ago a crewman aboard my ship-he was a Yemeni, very polite, diligent, and civil-told me about a case in his country, whereby a male kidnapped a young girl, raped and killed her. For days there was a feeling in the air that something momentous was coming. DOJ needs a 'Winston Churchill'. However, to pull this off one needs to control in ones hand all of the worlds wealth and if what Allen or rather CAF describes isnt it ultimately! 18 San Diego State 60 the collapse, the boards and NCAA bracketology, Opinion: How I plan to honor the legacy of James Abourezk, the first Arab American U.S. senator, Carlsbads Viasat gets the green light for $7B Inmarsat deal as competition heats up in space. with a strong banking fence getting the currency of the Federal Reserve Banks-exchanging that currency for gold and transmitting the gold to the foreign confederates.. We need your support in this difficult time. Dark money whispers. As another observer of the conservative legal movement Professor Amanda Hollis-Brusky said, ``The funders all got the idea right away-- that you can win elections, you can have mass mobilizations, but unless you can change . I think there are problems here without resorting to the Book of Revelation as a credible and literal prophecy. A central police is paid and commended by a bureaucracy with no ties whatsoever to the people locally affected and is equivalent in every way to the standing army concept so feared by even the Federalist as the instrument of tyranny. Almost at the point of fuck it all. Gen. right, as if that is precisely what is meant. Benjamin M. Flowers, They also declared the Russians needed 550,000 tons of industrial alcohol for the purposes mentioned. Please! When it was organized in1945- there were only 50 nations of the world represented in the UN. Galileo was no adherent of the Ptolemaic system, as you might have learned at one time or another, yet he was as addicted to epicycles as any orthodox Ptolemaist. On November 12, 1972 I was in Eugene, Oregon. Big rightwing donors recognized the opportunity that Leo's Federalist Society operation presented: a trusted broker to sift through eager legal talent and pluck out adherents to donor-friendly, rightwing legal doctrines and then push the most promising adherents toward judgeships, where they could advance the scheme's ultimate goal of courts that will reliably rule in the donors' favor. Jared Bernstein: Member of the Council of Economic Advisers We still dont know who this Judge Garland was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals in April 1997, and served as Chief Judge from February 12, 2013 through February 11, 2020. The main argument for a strong central government is, it is strong enough to overcome foreign enemies. Ashley Baker, Leo's official fed soc bio, still online today, boasts that he ``organized the outside coalition efforts in support of the Roberts and Alito U.S. Supreme Court confirmations.'' It is pretty standard law school stuff. We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. David Corn, Noah Lanard, and Dan Friedman. Updates? With amazing courage some of Russias finest writers have dared to express the true feelings of their hearts. 745000 PSCHIK E Nt, Trump incited the rally goers to break the law period, if he wasn't rich, white, male, hetero and, Disagree! With internet, conjugal visits, free medical care, etc.. Just would you would expect at a stay of a moderately priced motel or inn. They could not eat their gold for food. The Difference Between the Fascists. 2001 - 2023 Democratic Underground, LLC. Meantime, a Happy New Year (Tishri 1-2 5782) to all your closest readers, monitors and scrutineers. Hopefully it wont be as grisly this time as before in history. (202) 216-7460. Before 2010, the Federalist Society received an occasional anonymous gift of $1,000 or more, at most one per year. Just like ice on an airfoil and barnacle and slime growth on the bottom of a marine vessel. Roger D. Klein. At least 2 years. Each member rose to the top of the group's donor-approved slates Their outward ideological posture is that of liberty, freedom, and a fight against terror: it is, in fact, the use of terror to suppress liberty, and centralize authority. Headquarters are in Washington, D.C. Make a one-time contribution to Alternet All Access, Philip D. Williamson. Is there an Energy Crisis? They carried with them a record free from blot or blemish. The change is one of kind, not of degree at this point. join us with a tax-deductible donation today. It seemed like only yesterday when I spoke on monetary matters when America had $26 billion in gold in her treasuries. Now it just seems like rational self-preservation. In their methods and assumptions, it is Justice, the judiciary and the Supreme Court that are the objects of their designs for power and control. Civil trial or not, my point is it takes time! Several years previously, I recalled reading an article by Sterling Slappey. We and our partners use cookies to Store and/or access information on a device. Well, nothing could focus the scheme's donors on the stakes of that election more clearly than that vacancy. I believe she is on her mothers side. There is nothing unusual about peoples inventing myths or legends about their origins or early heroes, and TOO readers will hardly need to be told that Jews too have written up aspects of their history to bolster their reputation; see Professor Norman Cantors Sacred Chain: A History of the Jews (1995) chh.1 & 2. Greece, 1946-1949 Schweitzer seemed especially dedicated to the task or policy of taking from the rich to give to the poor. The service requires full cookie support in order to view this website. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. The house of Koch decided on a grand Trump gesture for their scheme donors--let their operative, Leonard Leo, handpick a list of Supreme Court nominees for Trump to announce early in the general campaign. Ken Daines, The episode dates back to 2014, when Garland was in charge of ruling on an ethics complaint against Texas Judge Edith Jones of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. @ P de C. The Federalist Societys convention highlighted its capture of the federal justice system. Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation. Mitch McConnell broke with all Senate norms and denied President Obama any hearing or vote for President Obama's pick to replace Scalia, Judge Merrick Garland. But the panel refused to disclose a transcript of Jones testimony or the documents she filed in her defense, Levin says. national Monetary Fund?. Bullrushes? But the Jones complaint attracted considerable media attention, in part because some liberal judicial watchdog groups publicly pushed Garland to conduct a serious inquiry. The author, Solovyev, had the insight, generally rare, that defund the police meant defund the local police, not do away with all tyrannical authority. our National Lawyers Convention. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. The Charter provides for force to bring peace but such use of force is itself war. The attitude of the average man on the street was one of absolute helplessness. Counterfeit Messiah? In the last several months $1,300,000,000 in gold has been sent to Europe every dollar of that gold once belonged to the people of United States and was unlawfully taken from them. The names of the heads of the branches. It receives millions in anonymous donations. In January 2023, the FTC announced a proposed rule that would ban noncompete agreements across How are we to understand scientific consensus? The Federalist Society typically allows reporters to cover its meetings. @2022 - AlterNet Media Inc. All Rights Reserved. A similar claim to superior ability to direct your life comes from the Jewish Chosen Case Sunstein in his book, Nudge. Then $100, and inflation continued unchecked. Virtually all major Trump nominees would be scheme-chosen, donor-approved FedSoc members. It cares about one thing: the allegiance of Republican-appointed Justices to rightwing donors' interests. By 1957, it would cost $72. Observations that do not fit into neat and tidy categories are disqualified because of lack of Enlightenment methods of validity. Donors were not kidding around, not with that kind of money--$400 million. Much of our hubris, self image and opinion of ourselves in the West, is delusion and illusion, based on stale palaver, baseless abstractions, phony references (especially relijewish in nature, and conceit. The Religious Right is dominated by far-right white evangelical Protestant fundamentalists, who are vehemently critical of Catholic practices (the confessional, physical images of Jesus). How many Christians, especially bishops and scholars, still take them seriously? She even used the word "stench" to express her disdain. However, the evidence against him was ironclad, and as the details emerged, it was seen as a particularly vicious and barbaric act. Interesting point. Andy Slavitt: Senior Advisor to the C-19 Response Coordinator (Kopf is best known for having written a 474-page decision striking down Nebraskas partial-birth abortion ban in 2004. When there is no more pillage and extraction to be stolen from the working makers, the takers will go on a rampage. Paul Hellyer is worth reading on fractional reserve, &c. No offence taken or given. Go to the 10 minute mark of the video Liberation here https://paulhellyerweb.com/ and listen to some very strange political business. However, with law enforcement now sovietized, corporate America sovietized, the MIC sovietized, the MSM sovietized, its basically check mate. What they saw in him was a savvy networker and fundraiser Johns Hopkins professor Steven Teles, who has written extensively on Leo and the Federalist Society, says the idea was to build what he called ``a network . Andrew Pardue, Erik Baptist, Professor William Dever is no amateur slouch in the fields of relevant archaeology and scriptural study, and his skepticism about Moses is shared by other credentialed specialists. David Cervantes: Policy Advisor at US Department of the Treasury According to the investigative report issued by Garlands panel, Jones denied the worst of the charges but admitted making a few of the controversial comments, including that she had been skeptical of claims of intellectual disability among death penalty defendants. Two cheers for CS Lewis though , if only because he moved Joad only from wavering Agnosticism to Belief. Federalist Society, in full Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, American organization of strongly conservative and libertarian lawyers, judges, politicians, government officials, legal scholars, and law students, founded as a student association in 1982 and originally including members from the law schools of the University of Chicago, Yale University, and Harvard University. In spite of the fact that the U.S. government had in_ creased its money supply 47% in a five_year period, and other nations were doing the same thing, still there were those who cried it was not enough. They clamored for a single system of standardized value large enough in volume to allow world trade to move forward in an orderly fashion. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Today, reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget, allows us to dig deep on stories that matter, and lets us keep our reporting free for everyone. The same could be said about the highest office that of the or Secretary-General