Showing posts with label Orwellian times. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Orwellian times. Show all posts

Monday, February 06, 2023

Transsexual ideology endangers civilization

Jason Hill makes some important points on why all the transsexual propaganda going about now is devastating civilization:
If you’re like me you’ve probably had it with being afraid of the sheer rise in power that the transgender movement has amassed in little over two years. It has many people scared, truly scared. Scared of saying (I’m going to say it): Biological men can never be real women; men cannot have babies; referring to oneself as “they” is beyond grammatically infelicitous, it renders one a nonsensical and a conceptual non-entity; the transgender affirmation of adolescents, which means agreeing to visiting a host of atrocities on a child’s body and plying it with irreversible drugs, is child abuse; trans women (biological men) have no business participating in (real) women’s sports. There I’ve said it all—at least as much as I care to for now. Why are people scared of offending trans people?

Misgendering another person, I am told, is the worst offense you can commit against another human being—as bad as rape and murder. No kidding. How did a small minority of people get to command the language, protocols, norms and framing methods of an entire culture in so short a space of time? Who handed all that power to them, and why?

The issue goes deeper if we look at the logical terminal point of radical transgenderism. It is a form of moral decadence. Why? Because ultimately it culminates in people signing up at the gender unemployment line. To unemploy yourself from your gender or, some would say, to recuse yourself from it, is to emancipate yourself from the moral dimensions that come with your sex identities. For the sake of rhetorical expediency, I shall say, yes: to unemploy oneself from one’s gender identity as well. I have heard it said often that young people are suffering from civilizational exhaustion, and that that is the reason they are relinquishing their binary sex identities. It’s my generation, however, and the ones preceding it that have a right to be exhausted. The millennials and Generation Z that have no business feeling civilizational exhaustion. It is Gen Z that has inherited a technologically advanced civilization built for them. You’d expect more adults to be coming out as trans if this were even a plausible explanation for the rise of transgenderism. This is not the case.
To describe this another way, it all emphasizes self-hatred for one's sex, and that's why it's only so self-destructive. Naturally, those who believe you're not allowed to "misgender" should be ashamed of themselves. Why, you can be absolutely sure many of those Orwellianists advocating this disaster now are some of the biggest antisemites/anti-Israelists around, and they'd desecrate everything about the Torah/Bible at the flick of a switch. Speaking of which, here's an example coming close:
But it is not just the case of individuals resigning from their ethical roles. We have a case of Jesus Christ himself being canceled as a cis-heteronormative patriarchal male and being queered and turned into a gender neutral, non-binary, total Woke trans star. In a new production of Jesus Christ Superstar, Jesus is played by a non-binary actor, someone who does not identify as male or female, and Judas is played by a woman. The twelve apostles are played by female or non-binary performers.

Jesus is the Son of God. He is Indubitably and immutably male. He performed distinctly male roles. He protected both the weak and the strong. He provided for the hungry and the soul-impoverished, and he left behind an enduring legacy on which others could pin their aspirational identities. When he acted, he did so decisively. He taught men the art of problem solving, and he taught them how to fix things. These are the responsibilities trans women (biological men) are renouncing and walking away from.
By contrast, you can be sure none of these wokeists would ever change the gender of Islam's Muhammed. Only a religion built on barbarism like the Religion of Peace is allowed to retain recognition of it's "prophet" as the man he was. Meanwhile, we have wokeists desecrating everything about differences between sexes, and displaying pure contempt for Judeo-Christian values, in some of the saddest examples ever seen in the modern age.

Monday, January 28, 2019

The Downfall Of Freedom In The UK

Worth a few moments of your time:


George Orwell was a prophet!

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Why Aren't We Hearing More About This?

Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil

Z's post today reminded me of this February 5, 2016 article, which I've cited numerous times in comments but possibly not in the body of a blog post: DHS ordered me to scrub records of Muslims with terror ties.

In a national address on June 14, 2016, Barack Hussein Obama evinced more ire directed at Donald Trump than toward the murderous jihadists who slaughtered 49 people and wounded many others in Orlando's Pulse Nightclub on June 12, 2016.

Meanwhile: ISIS propaganda video exploits Orlando nightclub murders and calls for more attacks on US.

The scream from Poltergeist (1982):

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Criticism Of Islam Will Not Be Tolerated

Eagles of Death Metal Dropped From Music Festivals Over Lead Singer's Comments About Muslims

The band Eagles of Death Metal, whose concert was attacked by ISIS extremists during the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, has been dropped from two French music festivals after lead singer Jesse Hughes said that he saw Muslims celebrating following the massacre.

The band was scheduled to play at the Rock en Seine and Cabaret Vert festivals later this summer....
Read the rest HERE.

Those who push back against the narrative of "Islam means peace" will be punished.

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

The Iran Deal: Super Power Poker

The wry and terrible truth:


Since this video was created, the deal is done. And the United Nations Security Council has blessed it.

Friday, June 26, 2015

If Only!

Great idea! And require a $50,000/year deductible per family member. Redistribute the wealth!

House bill would force the Supreme Court to enroll in ObamaCare

And every federal employee and politician, too. Give 'em a taste of their own medicine. NOW!

I don't count on the GOP to do any such thing, of course.

Stick a fork in our republic. She's done.


Additional reading: The Roberts Doctrine and ObamaCare (at my blog Always On Watch).

Monday, June 22, 2015

The Pope Condemns Weapons Manufacturers

From this article:
TURIN, Italy (Reuters) - People who manufacture weapons or invest in weapons industries are hypocrites if they call themselves Christian, Pope Francis said on Sunday.

Francis issued his toughest condemnation to date of the weapons industry at a rally of thousands of young people at the end of the first day of his trip to the Italian city of Turin.
In the same speech, Pope Francis appears to call for acts of terrorism:
Francis also built on comments he has made in the past about events during the first and second world wars.

He spoke of the "tragedy of the Shoah," using the Hebrew term for the Holocaust.

"The great powers had the pictures of the railway lines that brought the trains to the concentration camps like Auschwitz to kill Jews, Christians, homosexuals, everybody. Why didn't they bomb (the railway lines)?"

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

White House Above The Law (FOIA)


With a hat tip to Constitutional Insurgent of Libertas and Latte from USA Today (March 16, 2015):
White House office to delete its FOIA regulations

The White House is removing a federal regulation that subjects its Office of Administration to the Freedom of Information Act, making official a policy under Presidents Bush and Obama to reject requests for records to that office.

The White House said the cleanup of FOIA regulations is consistent with court rulings that hold that the office is not subject to the transparency law. The office handles, among other things, White House record-keeping duties like the archiving of e-mails.

But the timing of the move raised eyebrows among transparency advocates, coming on National Freedom of Information Day and during a national debate over the preservation of Obama administration records. It's also Sunshine Week, an effort by news organizations and watchdog groups to highlight issues of government transparency.

"The irony of this being Sunshine Week is not lost on me," said Anne Weismann of the liberal Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW.

"It is completely out of step with the president's supposed commitment to transparency," she said. "That is a critical office, especially if you want to know, for example, how the White House is dealing with e-mail."

Unlike other offices within the White House, which were always exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, the Office of Administration responded to FOIA requests for 30 years....
On we go, marching on the road to serfdom.

WE THE PEOPLE have lost the power we once had.

Orwellian times.

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Islamphobia Defined

From the Daily Lobo (March 6, 2015):
In the wake of recent attacks targeting Muslims on American college campuses and around the world, ASUNM unanimously passed a cautionary resolution at Wednesday’s meeting urging UNM administration to state their opposition to Islamophobia.

Sen. Udell Calzadillas Chavez, who introduced Resolution 6S, said there is a widespread culture of fear and ignorance that perpetuates violence against Muslims. The purpose of the resolution is to provoke better understanding of Islam in the UNM community.

“This is a proactive approach to events in the United States and around the world,” he said.

Citing domestic attacks against Islam such as the February killing of three Muslim students at the University of North Carolina and a Molotov cocktail being thrown at the Albuquerque Islamic Center last year, as well as the continuing fight against ISIS in the Middle East, the legislation states that UNM “should stand strong in opposition of Islamophobia and related hate crimes.”

The document defined Islamophobia as “dislike or prejudice against Islam or Muslims, especially as a political force.”

Ihsan Wadud-Rodriguez, a senior Psychology major and Muslim student, said prejudice is often driven by inaccurate and uninformed presumptions about Muslims and the religion they practice.

“Islam has been unfairly confounded with cultural practices,” Wadud-Rodriguez said. “Those very cultural practices which are not supported by Americans are also not supported by Islam. There’s no contradiction: I don’t experience any self-discrepancy between my American values and Islamic values.”...
Additional information at Pamela Geller's site, which as hacked again yesterday and was offline for at least five hours. Pamela reminds us that Nonie Darwish was made unwelcome at the University of New Mexico back in 2012.

The seats of higher learning have become hotbeds of indoctrination and brainwashing.

Thursday, February 12, 2015

The Coming FCC Regulations

As I understand the matter, these regulations will take effect on February 26, 2015. According to Hot Air, these regulations will result in new taxes, a slower Internet, and fewer choices.

From the above link:
First, President Obama’s plan marks a monumental shift toward government control of the Internet. It gives the FCC the power to micromanage virtually every aspect of how the Internet works. It’s an overreach that will let a Washington bureaucracy, and not the American people, decide the future of the online world. It’s no wonder that net neutrality proponents are already bragging that it will turn the FCC into the “Department of the Internet.” For that reason, if you like dealing with the IRS, you are going to love the President’s plan.

Second, President Obama’s plan to regulate the Internet will increase consumers’ monthly broadband bills. The plan explicitly opens the door to billions of dollars in new taxes on broadband. Indeed, states have already begun discussions on how they will spend the extra money. These new taxes will mean higher prices for consumers and more hidden fees that they have to pay.

Third, President Obama’s plan to regulate the Internet will mean slower broadband for American consumers. The plan contains a host of new regulations that will reduce investment in broadband networks. That means slower Internet speeds. It also means that many rural Americans will have to wait longer for access to quality broadband.

Fourth, President Obama’s plan to regulate the Internet will hurt competition and innovation and move us toward a broadband monopoly.
The plan saddles small, independent businesses and entrepreneurs with heavy-handed regulations that will push them out of the market. As a result, Americans will have fewer broadband choices. This is no accident. Title II was designed to regulate a monopoly. If we impose that model on a vibrant broadband marketplace, a highly regulated monopoly is what we’ll get. We shouldn’t bring Ma Bell back to life in this dynamic, digital age.

Fifth, President Obama’s plan to regulate the Internet is an unlawful power grab. Courts have twice thrown out the FCC’s attempts at Internet regulation. There’s no reason to think that the third time will be the charm. Even a cursory look at the plan reveals glaring legal flaws that are sure to mire the agency in the muck of litigation for a long, long time.

And sixth, the American people are being misled about what is in President Obama’s plan to regulate the Internet. The rollout earlier in the week was obviously intended to downplay the plan’s massive intrusion into the Internet economy. Beginning next week, I look forward to sharing with the public key aspects of what this plan will actually do.

[...]

...The commissioners can see the plan before they cast their votes. But the rest of us can’t. Lobbyists will likely be able to discover key details affecting their clients, and some details will leak out in the press. But the full text of the plan won’t be made public at all before the vote....
More information at Hot Air.

An Orwellian noose is tightening.

Is there any way to prevent this?

Friday, January 30, 2015

Did anyone REALLY expect that this wouldn't happen?

The five Taliban commanders that Obama traded for Bowe Bergdahl

From CNN:
Detainee swapped for Bergdahl suspected of militant activities

The U.S. military and intelligence community now suspect that one of the five Taliban detainees released from Guantanamo Bay in return for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in May of last year has attempted to return to militant activity from his current location in Qatar by making contact with suspected Taliban associates in Afghanistan...
But, remember, according to the White House, the Taliban is not a terrorist group.  Pffffft.

Friday, October 31, 2014

CDC Revokes Sneeze Poster

From the New York Post:
The ​U.S. ​​Centers for Disease Control on Thursday yanked a poster off its Web site explaining how Ebola can be spread by contaminated droplets — from a sneeze for example — a day after The Post reported on the frightening revelation.

The fact sheet was taken off line, and a link that led to it a day before now sends viewers to a different page with a different message....
Orwell's Ministry of Truth is alive and well.

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Photographic Proof...

...of Insurance Notice I Received Today (NOT Health Insurance):







We are receiving a $58 rebate on the 2014-2015 premium we paid about 10 days ago.

Has anybody else reading this blog post received any similar information about changes in policy coverage?

Insurance Notice I Received Today (NOT Health Insurance)


Rather, I'm referring to the insurance policy covering our automobiles and our home.

The change in policy coverages reads as follows:
Coverage is provided for direct physical loss except for losses caused by any of the following:

[...]

3.  War, including the following and an consequence of any of the following:

a. Undeclared war, civil war, insurrection, rebellion or revolution:


b. Warlike act by a military force or military personnel; or

c. Destruction, seizure or use for a military purpose.

Discharge of a nuclear weapon will be deemed a warlike act even if accidental.
Never before have I seen anything like the above from my insurance company!

We now get a $58 refund.

Sunday, March 09, 2014

Recent Court Ruling: "anonymity does not mean immunity under defamation law"


Read the article "Philadelphia Judge Issues Ruling That Could Give Anonymous Online Commenters Second Thoughts" HERE. Note this paragraph:
“I think the court is sending a strong message to those who abuse the internet by defaming others and think they can get away with it by acting anonymously,” he told KYWnewsradio.

“The court is strongly saying that anonymity does not mean immunity under defamation law.”

Podraza says the ruling should provide protection from defamation for all citizens.
Think of the range of possibilities.

The word citizens could be interpreted in a global fashion and could include the idea that insulting someone is defamation per se.

After all, we live in an Orwellian World.

Thursday, February 13, 2014

American Freedom Of The Press In Decline

According to Breitbart's Big Journalism:
According to Reporters Without Borders, America dropped 13 spots on the World Press Freedom Index 2014, designed to rank 180 countries in terms of the freedoms journalists enjoy and the regulations placed on them by government authorities.

The Index, published Feb. 11, shows that America now ranks number 46, below countries like South Africa and France. The Index has been published annually since 2002, but the 2014 ranking for America marks one of the most significant declines ever reported....
At Jihad Watch, Robert Spencer makes the following observation:
Mr. Spencer then refers to Allen Drury's 1973 novel Come Nineveh, Come Tyre.  Mr. Spencer pointed out:
[In Come Nineveh, Come Tyre] The media adores President Jason, cheerleads for him energetically, defames and denigrates his foes relentlessly, and does everything it can to make him look good, right up until the point when a few of them realize that the freedom of speech is gone...
President Jason of Come Nineveh, Come Tyre is given to fantasy-based policymaking.

If you have read that book — or even if you haven't — please read the entire post at Jihad Watch.

Yes, some of us are pushing back. Especially here in the blogosphere. But the mainstream media clang on, and it seems to me that most voters do get most of their "news" from the mainstream media.

How much effect is our pushing back really having?

Are we living in America anymore?  Or are we living in a caricature of America?

Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Demagogue In Action


A tone of desperation in his voice?

An expression of insanity in his eyes?

You decide as you watch and listen to this brief excerpt from Obama's November 3, 2013 speech in Northern Virginia:


Today is the gubernatorial election in Virginia (Cuccinelli, Republican, vs. McAuliffe, Democrat).

In 2009, Obama endorsed the Democratic Party candidate for governor here in Virginia. The result: a GOP sweep.

Today we'll find out if history repeats itself in the Commonwealth.

Meanwhile: Democratic Robo-Calls Claim Cuccinelli Supports Obamacare, Abortion.

Sunday, November 03, 2013

FCC Monitoring


From the Daily Caller (hat tip to Bunkerville):
FCC to police news media, question reporters in wide-ranging content survey

The Federal Communications Commission is planning a broad probe of political speech across media platforms, an unprecedented move that raises serious First Amendment concerns.

The FCC’s proposed “Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs,” which is set to begin a field test in a single market with an eye toward a comprehensive study in 2014, would collect a remarkably wide range of information on demographics, point of view, news topic selection, management style and other factors in news organizations both in and out of the FCC’s traditional purview.

The airwaves regulator would also subject news producers in all media to invasive questioning about their work and content.

[...]

Among the questions federal contractors will be asking of private media companies:

For media owners:

“What is the news philosophy of the station?”

For editors, producers and managers:

“Have you ever suggested coverage of what you consider a story with critical information for your customers (viewers, listeners, readers) that was rejected by management?” (Followup questions ask the reporter to speculate on why a particular story was spiked.)

[...]

“In this study, the FCC will delve into the editorial discretion of newspapers, web sites and radio and TV stations,” Hudson Institute Fellow Robert McDowell, who served as an FCC commissioner from 2009 to 2013, told The Daily Caller. “This starts sticking the government’s nose into what has traditionally been privileged and protected ground. Regardless of one’s political stripes, one should be concerned.”
Can scrutiny of the blogosphere be far behind?

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Out Of Jail And Talking

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the filmmaker blamed for the September 11, 2012 attack on the United States consulate in Benghazi, that is. Nakoula is a Coptic Christian.

The 14-minute film Innocence of Muslims (Sorry about the brief commercial at the beginning):


Excerpt from the article, published this week:
...[Nakoula] was the only person to end up in jail after the attack by Islamists that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

[...]

“I like to warn this country about terror. My movie is a political movie, not a religion movie,” [Nakoula] said. “The U.S. gives me a lot. I live in this country. We’re living in this country.”

He said he didn’t intend for his work to hurt anyone.

“I want to apologize for any inconvenience or misunderstanding about my movie,” he told WND.

And he said he appreciates Muslims and has Muslim friends, and not all Muslims are for terror.

“It made be very upset when I heard about Nidal Hasan [an Army officer radicalized into Islam who shot and killed 13 at Fort Hood]. He came from his country, and the U.S. gave him education, gave him life, a position in the Army, everything.

“It hurts my feelings that he says ‘allahu akbar’ and kills these people.”

But Nakoula said that’s the “culture” of terror, where jihadists want to “go to heaven right away.”...

[...]

“‘Innocence of Muslims’ is about how much the world will suffer if we don’t stop the culture of death and terrorism as soon as we can,” he said.
Read the rest HERE.

Friday, July 26, 2013

Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords


From CNET:

The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users' stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed. 
If the government is able to determine a person's password, which is typically stored in encrypted form, the credential could be used to log in to an account to peruse confidential correspondence or even impersonate the user. Obtaining it also would aid in deciphering encrypted devices in situations where passwords are reused. 
"I've certainly seen them ask for passwords," said one Internet industry source who spoke on condition of anonymity. "We push back." 
A second person who has worked at a large Silicon Valley company confirmed that it received legal requests from the federal government for stored passwords. Companies "really heavily scrutinize" these requests, the person said. "There's a lot of 'over my dead body.'" 
Some of the government orders demand not only a user's password but also the encryption algorithm and the so-called salt, according to a person familiar with the requests. A salt is a random string of letters or numbers used to make it more difficult to reverse the encryption process and determine the original password. Other orders demand the secret question codes often associated with user accounts.