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Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts?
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt,

In their eyes there's something lacking
What they need's a damn good whacking

In Aesop's Fable The Ass and His Purchaser, a man looking to buy a donkey wanted to test the animal before completing the purchase. So he put the donkey in his field with the other donkeys to see what would happen.

The donkey immediately strayed from the majority of the herd and cozied up to the laziest donkey of all.

Seeing that, the man led the donkey back to his owner. When the owner asked how he could judge the donkey's character so quickly the man explained, "I didn't even need to see how he worked. I knew he would be just like the one he chose to be his friend."

Fables are popular because they tell the story of the way things in life really work. In business, when someone takes over a department or company, that person promotes those he or she likes to positions of authority. The new manager seeks out those who have a philosophy, work ethic and disposition similar to his.

One would expect a president to do the same thing. After all, a president is elected — supposedly — based on the vision, ideas and proposals he championed during the campaign. It would then make sense that he would put in place those who supported his vision and would therefore be enthusiastic in working to achieve it.

So who are President Biden's friends, and who has he put in charge of the effort to enact his policies? And what do the friends he has chosen and the people he has put in positions of authority in his administration say about him?

The Washington Free Beacon said it succinctly: "Not only is Biden filling his administration with the same people who made such a hash of things from 2009 to 2017. He has also selected, for some of the most important offices, progressive ideologues who believe it is the bureaucracy's job to pick new fights in the culture war."

Following is a list of some of Biden's friends, advisors and people charged with enacting his policies:

• Biden has chosen perhaps the worst, and the least popular governor in the U.S., to be Commerce Secretary.

The Justice Department launched an investigation into Rhode Island's Health and Human Services Department because Gina Raimondo's administration rubber-stamped a massive overhaul of the state's welfare-distribution program that left thousands without Medicare or food assistance for months. The U.S. Agriculture Department levied an $800,000 fine on the state, and the ACLU sued the health department. And she chose an unqualified woman to lead her state's children's-services department.

The Governess co-chaired the failed Bloomberg presidential campaign and was "unqualified," as Democrats love to shout, for the original position Biden wanted to give her — health and human services. She is no more qualified for this position than she was for that role.

• Biden will nominate New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland to lead the Interior Department. She'll be the first Native American to hold the post.

The problem is, she'll be leading the department that will be on the front lines of Biden's sure-to-be-harmful war on the nonsensical [read: fake] issue of "climate change." Biden will stop new oil and gas drilling on public lands and has said that he will rejoin the Paris Climate Accords — which lets polluters off scot-free and punishes American industry.

She said in a recent interview. "We don't want to go back to normal, right? We don't want to go back to where we were because that economy wasn't working for a lot of people."

• Biden will install California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to oversee the vast Department of Health and Human Services.

He's a proponent of socialized medicine for all. The Washington Examiner reports that, "As attorney general, Becerra has pressed Catholic hospitals inappropriately to perform abortions … he has used his power to persecute pro-life activists for exposing Planned Parenthood's trafficking in human body parts. His voting record in Congress was 100% pro-abortion." He's also an anti-gunner who wants to be able to tell you what guns you should and shouldn't be allowed to buy.

• Biden will choose a military officer for the civilian role of Secretary of Defense.

Retired general Lloyd Austin is the former CENTCOM commander, and Biden chose him because, reportedly, he had a good relationship with Joe's son Beau Biden.

• For his national security, Biden will choose former State Department official Jake Sullivan.

According to classified emails made public under lawsuits from the conservative watchdog Judicial Watch, Sullivan — soon to be a national security advisor, mind you — was deeply involved in the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal which saw her and her associates mishandle classified information about America on a private email server.

• Biden wants Antony Blinken to be his secretary of state.

He's not just your average warmonger. He wants to strike Syria, Iran, and anyone else who hasn't been bombed as of yet. Responsiblestatecraft.org describes him thusly: Blinken "agreed with some of the biggest foreign policy mistakes that Biden and Obama made, and he has tended to be more of an interventionist than both of them."

• Biden has picked Gina McCarthy, head of the EPA under Obama and president of the leftist environmental group National Resources Defense Council, to become his "climate czar."

She's another climate propagandist.

• Biden announced Miguel Cardona would be his pick for education secretary.

The Washington Times reported that Cardona spent most of his short tenure in charge of Connecticut public schools dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. He "took an aggressive stance in favor of keeping schools open, a position that put him at odds with the powerful teachers unions."

Excellent, except that he's still a lifelong proponent of our non-education system, and wants kids in the indoctrination centers no matter what. "There is no substitute for in-classroom learning," he said in an interview.

Also, Susan Rice will reappear to ply her duplicitousness to domestic policy. Denis McDonough, Obama's chief of staff during the time Obama was trying to have the Syrian government overthrown, will be the secretary for Veterans' Affairs.

These are just a few of the folks who have occupied or currently occupy Biden's inner circle. He was passed off by the mainstream media as being a centrist and moderate, but many of his friends are anything but that, and some are quite radical. And when you parse some of his words or find video or audio from several years ago you know that Biden himself has some radical views.

But the media ignored Biden's love for Obama's radical friends and his own ties to communists. That, and Biden's misleading rhetoric led many otherwise thoughtful and good people down the primrose path, and they voted him without realizing what they were getting.

But as the truth gets out about his associates, the cover is coming off. He's becoming known by the company he keeps, as well as his own deeds.

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston
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From The Washington Post, May 1: “A new Democratic-aligned political action committee advised by retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, is planning to deploy technology originally developed to counter Islamic State propaganda in service of a domestic political goal — to combat online efforts to promote President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.”

The outfit was called Defeat Disinfo. It deployed an artificial intelligence tool first spun up by the Pentagon. The purpose — combating Trump’s social media posts, creating “counter-narratives” via a network of “paid influencers.”

 

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We Need a New Media System

The moment a group of people stormed the Capitol building last Wednesday, news companies began the process of sorting and commoditizing information that long ago became standard in American media.

Media firms work backward. They first ask, “How does our target demographic want to understand what’s just unfolded?” Then they pick both the words and the facts they want to emphasize.

It’s why Fox News uses the term, “Pro-Trump protesters,” while New York and The Atlantic use “Insurrectionists.” It’s why conservative media today is stressing how Apple, Google, and Amazon shut down the “Free Speech” platform Parler over the weekend, while mainstream outlets are emphasizing a new round of potentially armed protests reportedly planned for January 19th or 20th.

What happened last Wednesday was the apotheosis of the Hate Inc. era, when this audience-first model became the primary means of communicating facts to the population. For a hundred reasons dating back to the mid-eighties, from the advent of the Internet to the development of the 24-hour news cycle to the end of the Fairness Doctrine and the Fox-led discovery that news can be sold as character-driven, episodic TV in the manner of soap operas, the concept of a “Just the facts” newscast designed to be consumed by everyone died out.

News companies now clean world events like whalers, using every part of the animal, funneling different facts to different consumers based upon calculations about what will bring back the biggest engagement kick. The Migrant Caravan? Fox slices off comments from a Homeland Security official describing most of the border-crossers as single adults coming for “economic reasons.” The New York Times counters by running a story about how the caravan was deployed as a political issue by a Trump White House staring at poor results in midterm elections.

Repeat this info-sifting process a few billion times and this is how we became, as none other than Mitch McConnell put it last week, a country:

Drifting apart into two separate tribes, with a separate set of facts and separate realities, with nothing in common except our hostility towards each other and mistrust for the few national institutions that we all still share.

The flaw in the system is that even the biggest news companies now operate under the assumption that at least half their potential audience isn’t listening. This leads to all sorts of problems, and the fact that the easiest way to keep your own demographic is to feed it negative stories about others is only the most obvious. On all sides, we now lean into inflammatory caricatures, because the financial incentives encourage it.

Everyone monetized Trump. The Fox wing surrendered to the Trump phenomenon from the start, abandoning its supposed fealty to “family values” from the Megyn Kelly incident on. Without a thought, Rupert Murdoch sacrificed the paper-thin veneer of pseudo-respectability Fox had always maintained up to a point (that point being the moment advertisers started to bail in horror, as they did with Glenn Beck). He reinvented Fox as a platform for Trump’s conspiratorial brand of cartoon populism, rather than let some more-Fox-than-Fox imitator like OAN sell the ads to Trump’s voters for four years.

In between its titillating quasi-porn headlines (“Lesbian Prison Gangs Waiting To Get Hands on Lindsay Lohan, Inmate Says” is one from years ago that stuck in my mind), Fox’s business model has long been based on scaring the crap out of aging Silent Majority viewers with a parade of anything-but-the-truth explanations for America’s decline. It villainized immigrants, Muslims, the new Black Panthers, environmentalists — anyone but ADM, Wal-Mart, Countrywide, JP Morgan Chase, and other sponsors of Fortress America. Donald Trump was one of the people who got hooked on Fox’s narrative.

The rival media ecosystem chose cash over truth also. It could have responded to the last election by looking harder at the tensions they didn’t see coming in Trump’s America, which might have meant a more intense examination of the problems that gave Trump his opening: the jobs that never came back after bankers and retailers decided to move them to unfree labor zones in places like China, the severe debt and addiction crises, the ridiculous contradiction of an expanding international military garrison manned by a population fast losing belief in the mission, etc., etc.

Instead, outlets like CNN and MSNBC took a Fox-like approach, downplaying issues in favor of shoving Trump’s agitating personality in the faces of audiences over and over, to the point where many people could no longer think about anything else. To juice ratings, the Trump story — which didn’t need the slightest exaggeration to be fantastic — was more or less constantly distorted.

Trump began to be described as a cause of America’s problems, rather than a symptom, and his followers, every last one, were demonized right along with him, in caricatures that tickled the urbane audiences of channels like CNN but made conservatives want to reach for something sharp. This technique was borrowed from Fox, which learned in the Bush years that you could boost ratings by selling audiences on the idea that their liberal neighbors were terrorist traitors. Such messaging worked better by far than bashing al-Qaeda, because this enemy was closer, making the hate more real.

I came into the news business convinced that the traditional “objective” style of reporting was boring, deceptive, and deserving of mockery. I used to laugh at the parade of “above the fray” columnists and stone-dull house editorials that took no position on anything and always ended, “Only one thing’s for sure: time will tell.” As a teenager I was struck by a passage in Tim Crouse’s book about the 1972 presidential campaign, The Boys in the Bus, describing the work of Hunter Thompson:

Thompson had the freedom to describe the campaign as he actually experienced it: the crummy hotels, the tedium of the press bus, the calculated lies of the press secretaries, the agony of writing about the campaign when it seemed dull and meaningless, the hopeless fatigue. When other reporters went home, their wives asked them, “What was it really like?” Thompson’s wife knew from reading his pieces.

What Rolling Stone did in giving a political reporter the freedom to write about the banalities of the system was revolutionary at the time. They also allowed their writer to be a sides-taker and a rooter, which seemed natural and appropriate because biases end up in media anyway. They were just hidden in the traditional dull “objective” format.

The problem is that the pendulum has swung so far in the opposite direction of politicized hot-taking that reporters now lack freedom in the opposite direction, i.e. the freedom to mitigate.

If you work in conservative media, you probably felt tremendous pressure all November to stay away from information suggesting Trump lost the election. If you work in the other ecosystem, you probably feel right now that even suggesting what happened last Wednesday was not a coup in the literal sense of the word (e.g. an attempt at seizing power with an actual chance of success) not only wouldn’t clear an editor, but might make you suspect in the eyes of co-workers, a potentially job-imperiling problem in this environment.

We need a new media channel, the press version of a third party, where those financial pressures to maintain audience are absent. Ideally, it would:

·         not be aligned with either Democrats or Republicans;

·         employ a Fairness Doctrine-inspired approach that discourages groupthink and requires at least occasional explorations of alternative points of view;

·         embrace a utilitarian mission stressing credibility over ratings, including by;

·         operating on a distribution model that as much as possible doesn’t depend upon the indulgence of Apple, Google, and Amazon.

Innovations like Substack are great for opinionated individual voices like me, but what’s desperately needed is an institutional reporting mechanism that has credibility with the whole population. That means a channel that sees its mission as something separate from politics, or at least as separate from politics as possible.

The media used to derive its institutional power from this perception of separateness. Politicians feared investigation by the news media precisely because they knew audiences perceived them as neutral arbiters.

Now there are no major commercial outlets not firmly associated with one or the other political party. Criticism of Republicans is as baked into New York Times coverage as the lambasting of Democrats is at Fox, and politicians don’t fear them as much because they know their constituents do not consider rival media sources credible. Probably, they don’t even read them. Echo chambers have limited utility in changing minds.

Media companies need to get out of the audience-stroking business, and by extension the politics business. They’d then be more likely to be believed when making pronouncements about elections or masks or anything else, for that matter. Creating that kind of outlet also has a much better shot of restoring sanity to the country than the current strategy, which seems based on stamping out access to “wrong” information.

What we’ve been watching for four years, and what we saw explode last week, is a paradox: a political and informational system that profits from division and conflict, and uses a factory-style process to stimulate it, but professes shock and horror when real conflict happens. It’s time to admit this is a failed system. You can’t sell hatred and seriously expect it to end.

TK News by Matt Taibbi.

 

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If the rollercoaster year of 2020 taught us anything, it’s that people who prep aren’t as crazy as they’re made out to be. The idea of prepping can be easily misinterpreted, and introducing it to your family and friends can be difficult. Talking to them about prepping needs to be done with care. Here’s how:

Click to watch video…

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https://youtu.be/dwxKkitDvFY

 

The first element to remember when introducing your family and friends to the world of prepping is to do so gradually. If you overwhelm them with ideas and facts about prepping, they’re less likely to take to the idea.

In the beginning, it’s probably best to avoid talking about national or global disasters such as nuclear warfare or an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack. Keep it at a local level; discuss what possible disasters you face and how you can get ready for them.

Explain to your family and friends why you prepare and why they should as well. 2020 gave plenty of examples as to why everyone should become a prepper: civil unrest, a global pandemic and even borderline martial law.

Children should be involved as well. After all, you have to teach them young. Check out how you can teach your kids important survival skills.

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We can only describe the events under way right now as the "final looting" of America, where every bureaucrat, every Pentagon official, every lawmaker and every gatekeeper is demanding a payoff, hoping to skim as much as possible as the American empire is taken down by enemies from within.

We believe Trump has attempted to invoke the Insurrection Act, but that no one in the military is willing to act on it unless Trump initiates a war with China. The Pentagon wants global war because it directs a significant portion of the GDP into their own pockets. (And China is a legitimate threat to the future of our world.)

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Every prepper dreams of one day owning their own piece of property where they can build the ultimate bug out destination. Unfortunately for many, this is a lofty goal. For those of us who can’t afford to buy a survivalist paradise, where can we go when forced to leave home?

City Prepping has created a video tackling this very issue, providing some helpful tips on where to go when forced to evacuate:

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They hold information and special functions that are essential for survival.

Essential information like important contacts, incoming public alerts, and they give us online access to survival strategies and life-saving techniques.

Your phone also has special functions like digital compasses, levels, and even the tiny flashlight that can be the difference between life or death in a crisis.

Your phone is that important, and should not be overlooked as an essential survival device.

THE MAJOR PROBLEM: Your phone’s power fails quicker than any survival tool you own.

THE SOLUTION: Fortunately, when you grab this "forever charger," your phone will always be charged…available at our storefront!

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