Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Antisemitism Infects America

Hitler is laughing in hell. Our country and our allies
routed his Nazi Germany in WWII nearly eighty years
ago, destroying the Jewish people's biggest and most
dangerous enemy in the world with the ultra-tyrannical,
antisemitic dictator taking his own life before the allies
could nab him. And today there are antisemites running
around in many of our cities and college campuses 
screaming out for the destruction of Israel and for 
running Jews out of both our cities and colleges. 

Furthermore, these hatemongers chant their support for
Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and anyone else who
has declared their hatred for Israel and the Jewish people
there and everywhere else in the world. They protest for 
their elimination from what they consider the Palestinian 
state, territory in the hands of Israel, and on college
campuses they have protested violently against the very
presence of Jewish students and faculty at these schools.
Some colleges and universities, such as Columbia 
University in New York have informed Jewish students 
and others that they could not guarantee their safety
and that they should, for their own safety, leave campus
and not attend any classes for the time being. 

Even places of worship aren't safe from these hordes;
recently three men barged in and interrupted the Easter
vigil at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, unfurling
a banner while shouting "Free Palestine". Other religious
as well as political and sports events have been targeted 
by these horrible elements whose organizers are know-
ledgeable in maximizing public exposure.

They have even protested against President Biden's 
handling of Israel's war with the Palestinians and their allies,
and Biden is no fan of Israel and her people. On March 28
these haters disrupted a re-election fundraiser for the president
in New York featuring two past Democrat presidents, 
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. That garnered headlines, 
but oddly enough the protesters' chants of "Down with the USA",
and "Al-Quassam are on their way (this is Hamas' military wing),
got zero coverage (!). Their physical threats to attendees outside 
of the building were completely ignored (!!). Posters and flags 
of terrorist organizations, including these aforementioned ones,
were present at protests in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada; 
they, too, were ignored (!!!). 

One can surmise that many of these college and university 
campuses, along with many major American cities and the so-called
Mainstream media, are adding to the fact that  the current presidential 
administration are in the hands of very left-of-center people whom
--- with much of the Left --- are adamantly opposed to Israel
and their defending themselves against their radical Arab enemies 
that had attacked their homeland, and have no concern whatsoever 
for the safety and protection of the Jewish people here in the U.S.
as well as other countries where Jews find themselves targeted for 
various acts of physical harm. And from what your studious Peasant
has gathered, one would certainly be right. In Congress, there are 
some members who are of Arab heritage and make antisemitic remarks
and rants, all quite public, there in the House chamber quite regularly.
They don't fear censure, either; there seems to be no shutting them up.

Every senior Hamas leader has acknowledged the importance of the
protests and that they are an integral part of influencing U.S. as well 
as Western policy regarding the Palestinians and Israel. On October 7
of last year, coinciding with the attack on Israel, Hamas leader and 
ex-Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh mentioned this on 
Al-Jazeera TV, cheering on the "resistance abroad", "strategic allies",
and Muslims all over the world, to "join this battle any way they can."
At present, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and others are grooming
and working with activists, truly useful idiots, in the U.S. and the West.

On March 25, the Columbia University Apartheid Divest student group
hosted an event called "Resistance 101" on campus. Featuring leaders 
of the PFLP-affiliated Samidoun, Within Our Lifetime and other such
organizations, former PFLP official Khaled Barakat made reference to 
his "friends and brothers in Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the PFLP in 
Gaza," acknowledging that right after October 7, his "friends and
brothers" feel strongly that "they are being backed as a resistance 
and are being supported." 

On January 21 a New York event hosted by the Communist World 
Workers World Party, an official Hamas statement was read and there
were the screening of videos from PFLP, Palestinian Islamic Jihad,
Hezbollah, and the Houthis. The gathering of radical and racist thugs 
proclaimed that they stand "together, one front" against Israel, 
the U.S., and their "tyranny", as well as "Western hegemony 
and imperialism." All in all a very cozy gathering, indeed. 
Some of the officials in attendance thanked and praised the protesters 
in western countries including the U.S. for "taking a stand and partici-
pating in marches and going out into the streets." 

All of these things have very real, and very dangerous consequences.
These groups themselves don't march around chanting hateful slogans, 
they make terrorist attacks and kill as many people as they can. 
Yet another reason to replace our current president with one who will 
see and recognize this looming threat to the safety and stability of our
country and that of the world, and will take appropriate action to 
thwart it before it is too late.


MEM








Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Philippe de Gaulle, R.I.P.

The son of General and President Charles de Gaulle
was an admiral in the French Navy. After WWII he 
became a senator in France's legislature. Being the son
of Charles de Gaulle was no walk in the park, but he 
had this to say in an interview on his 100th birthday:
"I would have preferred to give some of my longevity
to my father." Admiral de Gaulle went to join his father 
for all time, aged 102. Rest well, Admiral.


MEM 

Thursday, May 2, 2024

World Wide Socialism

With so many countries, including (sadly) the United States,
having increasingly ravenous appetites for money, and the
more the merrier (not for the countries' taxpayers), it was 
bound to happen. 

Here's the latest lowdown on the lefties' down 'n' dirty. 
There is the bright idea of four countries in the G-20 
group of nations to impose a 2% wealth tax of the very
wealthiest citizens in those lands. The economic ministers
of Germany, South Africa, Spain, and Brazil have said that
the tax would  raise about $250 billion per year from 
approximately 3,000 billionaires. They also claimed that 
this would "boost social justice and increase trust in the 
effect of fiscal redistribution (!)". These four countries are 
planning to present this hare-brained idea at the upcoming 
G-20 meeting in June. 

As the United States has the highest number of billionaires
this horror, labelled the Global Wealth Tax, it would be a tax
similar to and in addition to a similar idea being bandied 
about in Washington; remember what I shared with you two 
weeks ago regarding the wealth tax scheme dreamt up by 
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA),  the female version of 
colleague and political soulmate of Sen. Bernie Sanders
(Ind.-VT)? But this would be taxation without representation,
as it would be imposed by a cabal of global elites 
attempting to do so without it having been passed 
by Congress.

The game plan is to get President Biden and Treasury Secretary
Janet Yellen, along with a majority of the G-20 bunch endorse 
the tax, then negotiate a global tax scheme and keep it off to the 
side until the Democrats control both chambers of Congress 
--- and not by such skinny margins as they currently do in the 
Senate --- as well as the presidency (which they now do).
This may take quite some years, but this money-hungry bunch
would be willing to wait, I'm sure. The wealth tax "is a necessary
third pillar that complements the negotiations on the taxation
of the digital economy and on a minimum corporate tax of 15%
for multinationals," these ministers swear by. This thing would
team with any minimum corporate tax to double-team the 
multinationals and remember, these corporations will simply pass 
along these taxes to their customers via increased prices for their 
goods and services. And once such taxes are implemented, good 
luck getting rid of them!

Besides all this, do you really think that the super-wealthy earners
(that is, those who call for such taxation on a wide scale) currently
pay their so-called fair share of income taxes, and would they 
bend to the will and wishes of the G-20 crowd and pay these new 
taxes, especially any wealth tax? If any of you, my wonderful 
readers do happen to think this, then your enterprising Peasant 
has some real estate way down south to sell you; it's the
Okefenokee Swamp!

Folks, the takeaway here a multipoint one: 

1) In the U.S., and in other countries where there are billionaires 
and near-billionaires, there won't be enough of them to provide
all of the tax revenue that the G-20 club is projecting that they 
think they will raise. That means they will have to go downstairs
to the millionaires, then maybe the near-wealthy, the upper middle-
class, the middle class, then your guess as to where and how it
will end is as good as your favorite Peasant's.

2) This nightmarish tax idea is increasingly at loggerheads with 
U.S. interests. The G-20 over the years of its 25-year existence 
has become a tool for left-wing governments the world over to
to make financial trouble for the U.S. And our country has been
in their crosshairs for much of that time.

3) The Biden regime is, politically speaking, kindred spirits with 
these governments and would love nothing more than to aid their
plans by giving power, and lots of it --- hang our sovereignty --- 
to these far-left governments. This would result in, among other 
things, U.S. taxpayers both individual and business having yet 
one more layer of financially oppressive government to fight 
in order to keep from getting cleaned out, and it would be a 
layer unaccountable to them. Taxation without representation 
and loss of sovereignty; a gruesome twosome.

4) Finally, this would be a tool, really an "in", for socialists in 
many countries, including here in the United States, to give their 
noxious ideology roots to anchor themselves in their governments
and economies to displace any semblance of the free market.

Something to ponder, and not just every April 15.


MEM