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{ "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "type": "OrderedCollectionPage", "orderedItems": [ { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/entities/urn:activity:1786759900127301632", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540", "content": "This is a repost from Aug 2023:<br /><br />World’s First Anarcho-Capitalist President<br />By Doug Casey<br /><br />International Man<br /><br />August 31, 2023<br /><br />International Man: Anarcho-capitalist Javier Milei recently won Argentina’s presidential primary. He is now the undisputed front-runner in the upcoming elections.<br /><br />The outcome took many by surprise. Milei is an outsider who bested the country’s two entrenched establishment parties.<br /><br />How did this happen, and why should anyone outside of Argentina care?<br /><br />Doug Casey: It could be the most dramatic thing that’s happened politically since at least World War II. Anywhere. Why? Because he’s an AnCap libertarian who’d like to abolish the State—or come as close as possible. If he’s elected in October, he’ll make every move possible to eliminate—not just reduce—as many government departments as possible as quickly as possible. And most people seem oblivious to it.<br /><br />Milei was in first place in the primary. Historically, in Argentina, the person who wins the primary wins the general election. There’s only been one exception to that rule. Even more encouraging is his ratings have gone up from 30% to 40% since the primary. It appears his campaign is not just a flash in the pan but a trend that’s building momentum.<br /><br />Argentina was one of the most prosperous countries in the world a hundred years ago when it was about as free as any country economically. Before Peron, the Argentine GDP equaled the rest of the continent put together. But since the accession of Juan Peron in 1946, it’s consistently gone downhill every year.<br /><br />Why might that be?<br /><br />Peron was an overt fan of Mussolini and fascism. Fascism—a word coined by Mussolini—is defined as the complete subordination of corporations and business to the State. After WW2, the word “fascism” was a no-no, so the system was rechristened “Peronism” in Argentina. It’s not a consistent philosophy; it has many mutations. It’s all about businessmen and politicians using each other, through the State, to get rich. The lower classes are made dependent, and the middle class is impoverished. Fascism has little to do with militarism and jackboots; it’s an economic system. Almost every country in the world is fascist today—including the US, the EU, China, and Russia.<br /><br />Despite the triumph of Peronism, Argentina still has the most classically liberal traditions in all of Latin America. It’s always been the most outward-looking country in Latin America. I’ve always believed it was the most fertile ground for a pro-individual liberty revolution in Latin America. Now, that may be happening.<br /><br />If we divide Argentine society into a ruling, a lower, and a middle class, it’s clear that for the last 80 years, the ruling class has used welfare schemes and lies to get the lower classes to vote against their own interests. The middle class has paid for it with immense taxes and regulations. Inflation has basically destroyed the lower and middle classes; high inflation has made it impossible for them to save and build capital.<br /><br />Milei could totally overturn all of this. The average Argentine is fed up with being ripped off. Milei’s support is greatest among the young and what’s left of the middle class. Estimates are that half the country is hard-pressed to feed themselves. They desperately and enthusiastically want radical change, and only the most stupid can’t see what fascism, socialism, and other varieties of statism have done. The main supporters of the status quo are the unions and welfare mooches. Everyone else hates them.<br /><br />International Man: Milei has called central banking and fiat currency a historical fraud. He has vowed to “burn down the central bank” and replace the peso with the dollar and whatever commodity the free market would choose as money. He is favorable to precious metals and Bitcoin.<br /><br />He has called taxation theft and seeks to drastically reduce—and eventually eliminate—many taxes.<br /><br />Milei also wants to radically cut down the size of the government and eliminate numerous departments.<br /><br />He also rejects the climate change hoax and was critical of the Covid mass hysteria.<br /><br />Doug, you are a prominent anarcho-capitalist. What is your take on the soundness of Milei’s platform?<br /><br />Doug Casey: I am totally in favor of Milei. In fact, he’s more radical (using radical in the proper sense of getting to the root of the problem) than Ron Paul was in his US campaigns. He’s as radical and sincere as my old friend Harry Browne, who ran for the US presidency in 1996 and 2000.<br /><br />Milei is extremely outspoken and vibrant. He realizes that, since the average person doesn’t understand economics and has no interest in philosophy, politics is 90% entertainment. I urge everybody reading this to go to YouTube and tune into several videos of Milei (here, here, and here).<br /><br />Milei is totally sound from an economic, political, and a philosophical point of view. But—and this is critically important—he’s sound from a moral point of view.<br /><br />He deals in basic concepts of good and evil, right and wrong. That’s something that no politician anywhere discusses, certainly not in South America. It’s the equivalent of hitting a donkey between the eyes with a two-by-four to get his attention. Everyone intuitively understands that the political class is essentially criminal—but only Milei is brave enough to say it. The average guy wants to do the right thing, the moral thing. That’s what Milei is pointing out to people and why they like him. He doesn’t use doubletalk, brook compromise, or support half measures.<br /><br />That’s why, in the US, I actually respect the Democrats more than the Republicans.<br /><br />How can I say that?<br /><br />Every idea the Democrats have is wrong and rotten to its core, but at least they’re not hypocrites. They say what they want to do. They actually believe in something, even though it’s stupid and evil.<br /><br />The Republicans, on the other hand, don’t have any real core beliefs. They don’t disagree with the moral premises of the Democrats. They just say that the Democrats are going too far, too fast.<br /><br />Milei, on the other hand, wants to overturn the moral structure that politics is built on.<br /><br />International Man: The global mainstream media has synchronized their talking points on Milei.<br /><br />It’s almost impossible to find an article about Milei—in any language—that doesn’t preface him with some kind of meaningless pejorative, labeling him a “far-right populist,” an “ultra-rightist,” or something to that effect.<br /><br />Why is the Davos class so afraid of Milei? Can he overcome their opposition?<br /><br />Doug Casey: This is further proof of how worthless the mainstream media is. They call Milei a Donald Trump lookalike, or ultra-right wing, in an attempt to scare Boobus argentinus. These people don’t deal in issues and factual programs but fear-mongering. Everywhere in the world, the chattering classes are only malevolent mouthpieces of the ruling class.<br /><br />Milei is not “ultra-right.” He’s a libertarian who believes in free minds and free markets. In fact, he’s more than a libertarian; he’s an AnCap—an anarcho-capitalist. He doesn’t believe the State serves a useful purpose. He believes that society, certainly in an advanced industrial country, can live without a government. I’ve discussed this philosophy here and here.<br /><br />His plan is to reduce the size of the government by 50% this year, 50% the next year, and so on, until it’s as near zero as possible. The horrible people in Davos hate him because he’s attacking their very essence. He doesn’t intend just to make a few changes around the edges but to transform Argentina into the freest and most prosperous country on the planet.<br /><br />In some ways, he’s symptomatic of what’s going on in the world at large today. The United States itself, in my opinion, is on the ragged edge of a civil war. Freedom and personal liberty have been retreating at an accelerating rate for years. People in the US are just as fed up as the Argentines; we just don’t have a proper firebrand. Trump is as close as we get, but he’s just a traditionalist, not a libertarian.<br /><br />Milei is cause for optimism in the world at large.<br /><br />International Man: President Nayib Bukele dramatically transformed El Salvador at lightning speed—drastically reducing crime, making Bitcoin legal money, and initiating reforms to bring business and productive people to the country.<br /><br />Although Argentina is much bigger than El Salvador, does Bukele’s example suggest that enormous positive change is possible in Argentina?<br /><br />Doug Casey: Bukele is another symptom of a possible major turnaround in the world.<br /><br />The statists and collectivists may finally have overplayed their hand. They’re just clever criminals with large followings, like Hitler in Germany and Mao in China. Only the brain-dead buy their themes. “You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy.” The world is ending because of climate change. Vaccinate or die. 15-minute cities. Restricted travel. No eating meat. ESG. DEI. No fossil fuels. It’s a long litany. They can destroy civilization itself.<br /><br />People with a brain are looking for a lightning rod to catalyze change.<br /><br />In El Salvador that may be Bukele. He definitely has libertarian instincts, indicated by the fact his main economic advisor is Safedean Ammous, an AnCap. He’s one of the most important economists in the world today, along with Walter Block and Hans-Hermann Hoppe. I urge you to listen to the interview he did with me last month on AnCap principles (link).<br /><br />El Salvador is the last country in the hemisphere—with the exception of Haiti—I would have picked to turn around. It’s the most overpopulated country in the hemisphere. It’s crime-ridden, which is why he’s locked up 65,000 gang members. It had a nasty civil war from 1979-1982. It has no exports except for coffee, bananas, and poor people. Who could have guessed?<br /><br />Bukele already made Bitcoin legal tender. It’s possible that he’ll reform El Salvador in the same way as Milei will try to reform Argentina.<br /><br />International Man: What are the investment or speculative implications of Milei’s rise for Argentine assets?<br /><br />What are the lifestyle and other international diversification implications?<br /><br />Doug Casey: Right now, Argentina is the cheapest, nice country in the world. Certainly the cheapest country in the Western world.<br /><br />That’s especially amazing in view of the immense tax burden that the Argentine economy has to bear, paying huge numbers of useless mouths who detract from prosperity.<br /><br />If Milei is elected, he’ll radically reduce taxes, which means that costs of production will drop radically. As the country dollarizes, the currency will stabilize, and gold could come next. Real prices could drop further, but not because of a collapsing currency. The economy should boom economically as investment pours in. People will go back to work, start saving, and rebuild domestic capital. Argentina could quickly become, again, one of the world’s richest countries.<br /><br />What could go wrong with the scenario? The parasites now living off the State don’t want their rice bowls broken. Even though Milei has huge support from people across the social spectrum—including the lower classes who are fed up with being kept like pets by the people in the Deep State. The Deep State will undoubtedly fight Milei’s reforms viciously. I hope he has plenty of competent bodyguards around him because these people are genuinely evil, just like the Deep State in the US.<br /><br />If he’s elected, both the lifestyle and investment implications could be huge.<br /><br />Argentina has always been one of my favorite countries in the world, bar none. But if they go to sound banking, a sound currency, and disregard the rules laid down by the US, the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Economic Forum—it could really be one of the best places in the world to live.<br /><br />You ought to keep in mind that citizenship is available with only two years of residency. And even during those two years of residency, it’s only necessary to spend half of the year in the country. Culturally, Argentina is more European than some countries in Europe.<br /><br />If Milei manages to wash away the socialist immorality and criminality that has corrupted Argentina for so many years, I won’t just live down there half of the year, but all of the year.", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1786759900127301632", "published": "2025-07-01T12:25:56+00:00", "source": { "content": "This is a repost from Aug 2023:\n\nWorld’s First Anarcho-Capitalist President\nBy Doug Casey\n\nInternational Man\n\nAugust 31, 2023\n\nInternational Man: Anarcho-capitalist Javier Milei recently won Argentina’s presidential primary. He is now the undisputed front-runner in the upcoming elections.\n\nThe outcome took many by surprise. Milei is an outsider who bested the country’s two entrenched establishment parties.\n\nHow did this happen, and why should anyone outside of Argentina care?\n\nDoug Casey: It could be the most dramatic thing that’s happened politically since at least World War II. Anywhere. Why? Because he’s an AnCap libertarian who’d like to abolish the State—or come as close as possible. If he’s elected in October, he’ll make every move possible to eliminate—not just reduce—as many government departments as possible as quickly as possible. And most people seem oblivious to it.\n\nMilei was in first place in the primary. Historically, in Argentina, the person who wins the primary wins the general election. There’s only been one exception to that rule. Even more encouraging is his ratings have gone up from 30% to 40% since the primary. It appears his campaign is not just a flash in the pan but a trend that’s building momentum.\n\nArgentina was one of the most prosperous countries in the world a hundred years ago when it was about as free as any country economically. Before Peron, the Argentine GDP equaled the rest of the continent put together. But since the accession of Juan Peron in 1946, it’s consistently gone downhill every year.\n\nWhy might that be?\n\nPeron was an overt fan of Mussolini and fascism. Fascism—a word coined by Mussolini—is defined as the complete subordination of corporations and business to the State. After WW2, the word “fascism” was a no-no, so the system was rechristened “Peronism” in Argentina. It’s not a consistent philosophy; it has many mutations. It’s all about businessmen and politicians using each other, through the State, to get rich. The lower classes are made dependent, and the middle class is impoverished. Fascism has little to do with militarism and jackboots; it’s an economic system. Almost every country in the world is fascist today—including the US, the EU, China, and Russia.\n\nDespite the triumph of Peronism, Argentina still has the most classically liberal traditions in all of Latin America. It’s always been the most outward-looking country in Latin America. I’ve always believed it was the most fertile ground for a pro-individual liberty revolution in Latin America. Now, that may be happening.\n\nIf we divide Argentine society into a ruling, a lower, and a middle class, it’s clear that for the last 80 years, the ruling class has used welfare schemes and lies to get the lower classes to vote against their own interests. The middle class has paid for it with immense taxes and regulations. Inflation has basically destroyed the lower and middle classes; high inflation has made it impossible for them to save and build capital.\n\nMilei could totally overturn all of this. The average Argentine is fed up with being ripped off. Milei’s support is greatest among the young and what’s left of the middle class. Estimates are that half the country is hard-pressed to feed themselves. They desperately and enthusiastically want radical change, and only the most stupid can’t see what fascism, socialism, and other varieties of statism have done. The main supporters of the status quo are the unions and welfare mooches. Everyone else hates them.\n\nInternational Man: Milei has called central banking and fiat currency a historical fraud. He has vowed to “burn down the central bank” and replace the peso with the dollar and whatever commodity the free market would choose as money. He is favorable to precious metals and Bitcoin.\n\nHe has called taxation theft and seeks to drastically reduce—and eventually eliminate—many taxes.\n\nMilei also wants to radically cut down the size of the government and eliminate numerous departments.\n\nHe also rejects the climate change hoax and was critical of the Covid mass hysteria.\n\nDoug, you are a prominent anarcho-capitalist. What is your take on the soundness of Milei’s platform?\n\nDoug Casey: I am totally in favor of Milei. In fact, he’s more radical (using radical in the proper sense of getting to the root of the problem) than Ron Paul was in his US campaigns. He’s as radical and sincere as my old friend Harry Browne, who ran for the US presidency in 1996 and 2000.\n\nMilei is extremely outspoken and vibrant. He realizes that, since the average person doesn’t understand economics and has no interest in philosophy, politics is 90% entertainment. I urge everybody reading this to go to YouTube and tune into several videos of Milei (here, here, and here).\n\nMilei is totally sound from an economic, political, and a philosophical point of view. But—and this is critically important—he’s sound from a moral point of view.\n\nHe deals in basic concepts of good and evil, right and wrong. That’s something that no politician anywhere discusses, certainly not in South America. It’s the equivalent of hitting a donkey between the eyes with a two-by-four to get his attention. Everyone intuitively understands that the political class is essentially criminal—but only Milei is brave enough to say it. The average guy wants to do the right thing, the moral thing. That’s what Milei is pointing out to people and why they like him. He doesn’t use doubletalk, brook compromise, or support half measures.\n\nThat’s why, in the US, I actually respect the Democrats more than the Republicans.\n\nHow can I say that?\n\nEvery idea the Democrats have is wrong and rotten to its core, but at least they’re not hypocrites. They say what they want to do. They actually believe in something, even though it’s stupid and evil.\n\nThe Republicans, on the other hand, don’t have any real core beliefs. They don’t disagree with the moral premises of the Democrats. They just say that the Democrats are going too far, too fast.\n\nMilei, on the other hand, wants to overturn the moral structure that politics is built on.\n\nInternational Man: The global mainstream media has synchronized their talking points on Milei.\n\nIt’s almost impossible to find an article about Milei—in any language—that doesn’t preface him with some kind of meaningless pejorative, labeling him a “far-right populist,” an “ultra-rightist,” or something to that effect.\n\nWhy is the Davos class so afraid of Milei? Can he overcome their opposition?\n\nDoug Casey: This is further proof of how worthless the mainstream media is. They call Milei a Donald Trump lookalike, or ultra-right wing, in an attempt to scare Boobus argentinus. These people don’t deal in issues and factual programs but fear-mongering. Everywhere in the world, the chattering classes are only malevolent mouthpieces of the ruling class.\n\nMilei is not “ultra-right.” He’s a libertarian who believes in free minds and free markets. In fact, he’s more than a libertarian; he’s an AnCap—an anarcho-capitalist. He doesn’t believe the State serves a useful purpose. He believes that society, certainly in an advanced industrial country, can live without a government. I’ve discussed this philosophy here and here.\n\nHis plan is to reduce the size of the government by 50% this year, 50% the next year, and so on, until it’s as near zero as possible. The horrible people in Davos hate him because he’s attacking their very essence. He doesn’t intend just to make a few changes around the edges but to transform Argentina into the freest and most prosperous country on the planet.\n\nIn some ways, he’s symptomatic of what’s going on in the world at large today. The United States itself, in my opinion, is on the ragged edge of a civil war. Freedom and personal liberty have been retreating at an accelerating rate for years. People in the US are just as fed up as the Argentines; we just don’t have a proper firebrand. Trump is as close as we get, but he’s just a traditionalist, not a libertarian.\n\nMilei is cause for optimism in the world at large.\n\nInternational Man: President Nayib Bukele dramatically transformed El Salvador at lightning speed—drastically reducing crime, making Bitcoin legal money, and initiating reforms to bring business and productive people to the country.\n\nAlthough Argentina is much bigger than El Salvador, does Bukele’s example suggest that enormous positive change is possible in Argentina?\n\nDoug Casey: Bukele is another symptom of a possible major turnaround in the world.\n\nThe statists and collectivists may finally have overplayed their hand. They’re just clever criminals with large followings, like Hitler in Germany and Mao in China. Only the brain-dead buy their themes. “You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy.” The world is ending because of climate change. Vaccinate or die. 15-minute cities. Restricted travel. No eating meat. ESG. DEI. No fossil fuels. It’s a long litany. They can destroy civilization itself.\n\nPeople with a brain are looking for a lightning rod to catalyze change.\n\nIn El Salvador that may be Bukele. He definitely has libertarian instincts, indicated by the fact his main economic advisor is Safedean Ammous, an AnCap. He’s one of the most important economists in the world today, along with Walter Block and Hans-Hermann Hoppe. I urge you to listen to the interview he did with me last month on AnCap principles (link).\n\nEl Salvador is the last country in the hemisphere—with the exception of Haiti—I would have picked to turn around. It’s the most overpopulated country in the hemisphere. It’s crime-ridden, which is why he’s locked up 65,000 gang members. It had a nasty civil war from 1979-1982. It has no exports except for coffee, bananas, and poor people. Who could have guessed?\n\nBukele already made Bitcoin legal tender. It’s possible that he’ll reform El Salvador in the same way as Milei will try to reform Argentina.\n\nInternational Man: What are the investment or speculative implications of Milei’s rise for Argentine assets?\n\nWhat are the lifestyle and other international diversification implications?\n\nDoug Casey: Right now, Argentina is the cheapest, nice country in the world. Certainly the cheapest country in the Western world.\n\nThat’s especially amazing in view of the immense tax burden that the Argentine economy has to bear, paying huge numbers of useless mouths who detract from prosperity.\n\nIf Milei is elected, he’ll radically reduce taxes, which means that costs of production will drop radically. As the country dollarizes, the currency will stabilize, and gold could come next. Real prices could drop further, but not because of a collapsing currency. The economy should boom economically as investment pours in. People will go back to work, start saving, and rebuild domestic capital. Argentina could quickly become, again, one of the world’s richest countries.\n\nWhat could go wrong with the scenario? The parasites now living off the State don’t want their rice bowls broken. Even though Milei has huge support from people across the social spectrum—including the lower classes who are fed up with being kept like pets by the people in the Deep State. The Deep State will undoubtedly fight Milei’s reforms viciously. I hope he has plenty of competent bodyguards around him because these people are genuinely evil, just like the Deep State in the US.\n\nIf he’s elected, both the lifestyle and investment implications could be huge.\n\nArgentina has always been one of my favorite countries in the world, bar none. But if they go to sound banking, a sound currency, and disregard the rules laid down by the US, the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Economic Forum—it could really be one of the best places in the world to live.\n\nYou ought to keep in mind that citizenship is available with only two years of residency. And even during those two years of residency, it’s only necessary to spend half of the year in the country. Culturally, Argentina is more European than some countries in Europe.\n\nIf Milei manages to wash away the socialist immorality and criminality that has corrupted Argentina for so many years, I won’t just live down there half of the year, but all of the year.", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/entities/urn:activity:1786759900127301632/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/entities/urn:activity:1786747633830731776", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540", "content": "I was adventurous when I was younger and celebrated the miracle of life everyday. The body grows older and weak, but my spirit remains vibrant and alive. <br /><br />The world has gone through tremendous changes in my lifetime. There are many trends in human behavior that trouble me. I fear for the happiness of future generations.<br /><br />Society has been cast adrift from their moral anchors and lured away from the principles that built this nation. Unless parents take responsibility for their children's education our heritage will be lost.<br /><br />Modern technology has opened the doors to many wonderful things, but evil still dwells among us. Everything made can be used for good or evil purposes and we need to take heed to how they're used.<br /><br />This country was founded on the principle of freedom and liberty for all. That made it uniquely different from any other nation in all of human history. Governments pose a threat to liberty.<br /><br />Unless the torch of liberty burns in the hearts of the people to constrain the government, it will burn out of control like a wildfire. Government controlled education isn't teaching the truth.<br /><br />Currently this government is owned and controlled by moneyed interests that don't serve the people. The love of money over the love of neighbor has caused nearly all the pain and suffering in the world.<br /><br />The Declaration of Independence is the founding document that every American needs to understand and live by before we become like all the other nations in the world. We The People are supreme.<br /><br />We The People are the rightful rulers of the this nation and unless we take personal responsibility for the outcomes and pull together as one, then America is nothing more than a lifeless empty word.<br /><br />The writing has been on the wall from before the first shot was fired. A citizen militia was called to stand against the empire of the day. That war is never over. The torch of liberty has to remain burning.<br /><br />In our day the modern media has people in a trance. They believe what they see and hear coming out of a scripted message that makes them think they are thinking so they pledge their support to a political party.<br /><br />This nation is so far removed from its founding principles it's unrecognizable. We are run by political actors who say things pleasing to our ears, but do the bidding of their corporate sponsors.<br /><br />We have to understand our heritage before we can preserve, protect and defend it. If you aren't aware of the threat, who will answer the call to arms? The founders pledged their sacred honor for the cause.<br /><br />The American Dream was the drawing card that attracted people from all over the world to come here to refresh their souls and share in the opportunity to build a future for their posterity.<br /><br />The government can only spend what it took by force from someone else. If all taxes were voluntary then public support would be obvious. Looking for government funding is a form of theft or plunder.<br /><br />Mandatory insurance is a form of legal plunder. The industry bought enough influence in Congress to demand everyone buy a policy or go to jail. The expense of administering these policies gets billed to the taxpayers.<br /><br />This government with bipartisan support has buried the people with 37 trillion dollars in debt and climbing. The banking system has siphoned off the wealth of this nation and most don't understand the peril.<br /><br />Every America needs to stop with these senseless political partisan arguments that divide us and start working on repairing the fabric of America with principles and unity of purpose.<br /><br />The government won't fix itself. We The People have to pull together and mend fences. When the government fails to serve its purpose, we the people have the right, we have the duty to replace it with one that will.<br /><br />Centralized power is inefficient and a threat to our liberty. Nobody in DC or abroad knows better than me what is right for me. Local government is the solution and it doesn't need to be controlled by a central power.<br /><br />The principles of liberty and self determination should be the unifying light that guides us and the people need to be properly educated and involved for this government to work for the interests of the people.<br /><br />", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1786747633830731776", "published": "2025-07-01T11:37:12+00:00", "source": { "content": "I was adventurous when I was younger and celebrated the miracle of life everyday. The body grows older and weak, but my spirit remains vibrant and alive. \n\nThe world has gone through tremendous changes in my lifetime. There are many trends in human behavior that trouble me. I fear for the happiness of future generations.\n\nSociety has been cast adrift from their moral anchors and lured away from the principles that built this nation. Unless parents take responsibility for their children's education our heritage will be lost.\n\nModern technology has opened the doors to many wonderful things, but evil still dwells among us. Everything made can be used for good or evil purposes and we need to take heed to how they're used.\n\nThis country was founded on the principle of freedom and liberty for all. That made it uniquely different from any other nation in all of human history. Governments pose a threat to liberty.\n\nUnless the torch of liberty burns in the hearts of the people to constrain the government, it will burn out of control like a wildfire. Government controlled education isn't teaching the truth.\n\nCurrently this government is owned and controlled by moneyed interests that don't serve the people. The love of money over the love of neighbor has caused nearly all the pain and suffering in the world.\n\nThe Declaration of Independence is the founding document that every American needs to understand and live by before we become like all the other nations in the world. We The People are supreme.\n\nWe The People are the rightful rulers of the this nation and unless we take personal responsibility for the outcomes and pull together as one, then America is nothing more than a lifeless empty word.\n\nThe writing has been on the wall from before the first shot was fired. A citizen militia was called to stand against the empire of the day. That war is never over. The torch of liberty has to remain burning.\n\nIn our day the modern media has people in a trance. They believe what they see and hear coming out of a scripted message that makes them think they are thinking so they pledge their support to a political party.\n\nThis nation is so far removed from its founding principles it's unrecognizable. We are run by political actors who say things pleasing to our ears, but do the bidding of their corporate sponsors.\n\nWe have to understand our heritage before we can preserve, protect and defend it. If you aren't aware of the threat, who will answer the call to arms? The founders pledged their sacred honor for the cause.\n\nThe American Dream was the drawing card that attracted people from all over the world to come here to refresh their souls and share in the opportunity to build a future for their posterity.\n\nThe government can only spend what it took by force from someone else. If all taxes were voluntary then public support would be obvious. Looking for government funding is a form of theft or plunder.\n\nMandatory insurance is a form of legal plunder. The industry bought enough influence in Congress to demand everyone buy a policy or go to jail. The expense of administering these policies gets billed to the taxpayers.\n\nThis government with bipartisan support has buried the people with 37 trillion dollars in debt and climbing. The banking system has siphoned off the wealth of this nation and most don't understand the peril.\n\nEvery America needs to stop with these senseless political partisan arguments that divide us and start working on repairing the fabric of America with principles and unity of purpose.\n\nThe government won't fix itself. We The People have to pull together and mend fences. When the government fails to serve its purpose, we the people have the right, we have the duty to replace it with one that will.\n\nCentralized power is inefficient and a threat to our liberty. Nobody in DC or abroad knows better than me what is right for me. Local government is the solution and it doesn't need to be controlled by a central power.\n\nThe principles of liberty and self determination should be the unifying light that guides us and the people need to be properly educated and involved for this government to work for the interests of the people.\n\n", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/entities/urn:activity:1786747633830731776/activity" }, { "type": "Announce", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/681645028396769290/entities/urn:activity:1784460714325319680", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/681645028396769290", "content": "<a href=\"https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1784460714325319680\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1784460714325319680</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/681645028396769290/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1784460714325319680", "published": "2025-06-25T04:09:47+00:00", "attachment": [ { "type": "Document", "url": "https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1784460706666516480/xlarge/", "mediaType": "image/jpeg", "height": 515, "width": 568 } ], "source": { "content": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1784460714325319680", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/entities/urn:activity:1786745766121955328/activity", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/681645028396769290", "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/followers" ] }, { "type": "Announce", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1679490642218061838/entities/urn:activity:1782053269159043072", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1679490642218061838", "content": "Former Rep James Traficant (D-OH) called out Israel, and then this happened…<br />Traficant was expelled from the House on July 24, 2002, after being convicted of 10 felony counts, including taking bribes, filing false tax returns, racketeering, and forcing his congressional staff to perform chores at his farm in Ohio and houseboat in Washington, D.C. <br /><br />He was sentenced to prison and released on September 2, 2009, after serving a 7-year sentence. Traficant died on September 27, 2014, following a tractor accident at his farm in Green Township, Ohio. <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1782053269159043072\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1782053269159043072</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1679490642218061838/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1782053269159043072", "published": "2025-06-18T12:43:28+00:00", "source": { "content": "Former Rep James Traficant (D-OH) called out Israel, and then this happened…\nTraficant was expelled from the House on July 24, 2002, after being convicted of 10 felony counts, including taking bribes, filing false tax returns, racketeering, and forcing his congressional staff to perform chores at his farm in Ohio and houseboat in Washington, D.C. \n\nHe was sentenced to prison and released on September 2, 2009, after serving a 7-year sentence. Traficant died on September 27, 2014, following a tractor accident at his farm in Green Township, Ohio. https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1782053269159043072", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/entities/urn:activity:1782101332530827264/activity", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1679490642218061838", "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/followers" ] }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/entities/urn:activity:1778955328046501888", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540", "content": "Despite all of the federal power grabbing, it does seem from the mood of many in our country we may have reached a tipping point as a result of the Biden administrations' excesses. Even though the Republican Party chewed up and spat out the Tea Party, so many voices were proposing — demanding even — that America return to its Constitutional roots that we are seeing the Trump administration reverse the spending curse, even if it just reducing the growth, and not actually cutting back on government excess.<br /><br />Still, because of a lack of knowledgeable voices, many in America don't understand what all the hubbub is about. So, to help them understand, here are nine talking points from the 10th Amendment Center that explain what the Constitution does, what it protects, and what principles we need to get back to as a nation:<br /><br />The People created the federal government to be their agent for certain enumerated purposes only. The Constitutional ratifying structure was created so it would be clear that it was the People, and not the States, that were doing the ratifying.<br /><br />The Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being that which has been delegated by the people to the federal government, and also that which is absolutely necessary to advancing those powers specifically enumerated in the Constitution of the United States. The rest is to be handled by the state governments, or locally, by the people themselves.<br /><br />The Constitution does not include a congressional power to override state laws. It does not give the judicial branch unlimited jurisdiction over all matters. It does not provide Congress with the power to legislate over everything. This is verified by the simple fact that attempts to make these principles part of the Constitution were soundly rejected by its signers.<br /><br />If the Congress had been intended to carry out anything they claim would promote the \"general welfare\" — i.e., \"save lives\" with public health decrees and so forth — what would be the point of listing its specific powers in Article I, Section 8, since these would've already been covered?<br /><br />James Madison, during the Constitutional ratification process, drafted the \"Virginia Plan\" to give Congress general legislative authority and to empower the national judiciary to hear any case that might cause friction among the states, to give the congress a veto over state laws, to empower the national government to use the military against the states and to eliminate the states' accustomed role in selecting members of Congress. Each one of these proposals was soundly defeated. In fact, Madison made many more attempts to authorize a national veto over state laws, and these were repeatedly defeated as well.<br /><br />The Tenth Amendment was adopted after the Constitutional ratification process to emphasize the fact that the states remained individual and unique sovereignties; that they were empowered in areas that the Constitution did not delegate to the federal government. With this in mind, any federal attempt to legislate beyond the Constitutional limits of Congress' authority is a(n) usurpation of state sovereignty — and unconstitutional.<br /><br />Governments and political leaders are best held accountable to the will of the people when the government is local. Second, the people of a state know what is best for them; they do not need bureaucrats, potentially thousands of miles away, governing their lives. Think about it. If Hitler had ruled just Berlin and Stalin had ruled just Moscow, the whole world might be a different place today.<br />A constitution that does not provide strict limits is just the thing any government would be thrilled to have, for, as Lord Acton once said, \"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.\"<br /><br />We agree with historian Kevin Gutzman, who has said that those who would give us a \"living\" Constitution are actually giving us a dead one since such a thing is completely unable to protect us against the encroachments of government power.<br /><br />If you want to first halt then reverse the tide of government overreach, pass these points around to your friends and send them to your state and U.S. representatives.<br /><br />Tragically, the Tenth Amendment has become almost a nullity at this point in our history, but there are a great many reasons to bring it to the forefront. Most importantly, though, we must keep in mind that the Founders envisioned a loose confederation of states — not a one-size-fits-all government to do everything and for everything that could arise. Why? <br /><br />The simple answer lies in the fact that they had just escaped the tyranny of a king who thought he knew best how to govern everything — including local colonies from across an ocean. Those in Washington are not \"leaders.\" They are not there to rule us and tell us what to do. They are there to carry out our wishes — to be led by us, the people.<br />", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1778955328046501888", "published": "2025-06-09T23:33:21+00:00", "source": { "content": "Despite all of the federal power grabbing, it does seem from the mood of many in our country we may have reached a tipping point as a result of the Biden administrations' excesses. Even though the Republican Party chewed up and spat out the Tea Party, so many voices were proposing — demanding even — that America return to its Constitutional roots that we are seeing the Trump administration reverse the spending curse, even if it just reducing the growth, and not actually cutting back on government excess.\n\nStill, because of a lack of knowledgeable voices, many in America don't understand what all the hubbub is about. So, to help them understand, here are nine talking points from the 10th Amendment Center that explain what the Constitution does, what it protects, and what principles we need to get back to as a nation:\n\nThe People created the federal government to be their agent for certain enumerated purposes only. The Constitutional ratifying structure was created so it would be clear that it was the People, and not the States, that were doing the ratifying.\n\nThe Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being that which has been delegated by the people to the federal government, and also that which is absolutely necessary to advancing those powers specifically enumerated in the Constitution of the United States. The rest is to be handled by the state governments, or locally, by the people themselves.\n\nThe Constitution does not include a congressional power to override state laws. It does not give the judicial branch unlimited jurisdiction over all matters. It does not provide Congress with the power to legislate over everything. This is verified by the simple fact that attempts to make these principles part of the Constitution were soundly rejected by its signers.\n\nIf the Congress had been intended to carry out anything they claim would promote the \"general welfare\" — i.e., \"save lives\" with public health decrees and so forth — what would be the point of listing its specific powers in Article I, Section 8, since these would've already been covered?\n\nJames Madison, during the Constitutional ratification process, drafted the \"Virginia Plan\" to give Congress general legislative authority and to empower the national judiciary to hear any case that might cause friction among the states, to give the congress a veto over state laws, to empower the national government to use the military against the states and to eliminate the states' accustomed role in selecting members of Congress. Each one of these proposals was soundly defeated. In fact, Madison made many more attempts to authorize a national veto over state laws, and these were repeatedly defeated as well.\n\nThe Tenth Amendment was adopted after the Constitutional ratification process to emphasize the fact that the states remained individual and unique sovereignties; that they were empowered in areas that the Constitution did not delegate to the federal government. With this in mind, any federal attempt to legislate beyond the Constitutional limits of Congress' authority is a(n) usurpation of state sovereignty — and unconstitutional.\n\nGovernments and political leaders are best held accountable to the will of the people when the government is local. Second, the people of a state know what is best for them; they do not need bureaucrats, potentially thousands of miles away, governing their lives. Think about it. If Hitler had ruled just Berlin and Stalin had ruled just Moscow, the whole world might be a different place today.\nA constitution that does not provide strict limits is just the thing any government would be thrilled to have, for, as Lord Acton once said, \"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.\"\n\nWe agree with historian Kevin Gutzman, who has said that those who would give us a \"living\" Constitution are actually giving us a dead one since such a thing is completely unable to protect us against the encroachments of government power.\n\nIf you want to first halt then reverse the tide of government overreach, pass these points around to your friends and send them to your state and U.S. representatives.\n\nTragically, the Tenth Amendment has become almost a nullity at this point in our history, but there are a great many reasons to bring it to the forefront. Most importantly, though, we must keep in mind that the Founders envisioned a loose confederation of states — not a one-size-fits-all government to do everything and for everything that could arise. Why? \n\nThe simple answer lies in the fact that they had just escaped the tyranny of a king who thought he knew best how to govern everything — including local colonies from across an ocean. Those in Washington are not \"leaders.\" They are not there to rule us and tell us what to do. They are there to carry out our wishes — to be led by us, the people.\n", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/entities/urn:activity:1778955328046501888/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/entities/urn:activity:1737543877952278528", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540", "content": "Everyone should take the time to read this. Slowly, and patiently, because it’s very important.<br /><br />From 2001 to 2005 there was an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation. A Grand Jury had been impaneled. Governments from around the world had donated to the “Charity”. Yet, from 2001 to 2003 none of those “Donations” to the Clinton Foundation were declared. Now you would think that an honest investigator would be able to figure this out.<br /><br />Look who took over this investigation in 2005, none other than James Comey. Coincidence? Guess who was transferred into the Internal Revenue Service to run the Tax Exemption Branch of the IRS? None other than, Lois Lerner. Isn’t that interesting?<br /><br />But this is all just a series of strange coincidences, right? Guess who ran the Tax Division inside the Department of Justice from 2001 to 2005? None other than the Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Rod Rosenstein.<br /><br />Guess who was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation during this time frame? Another coincidence (just an anomaly in statistics and chances), but it was Robert Mueller.<br /><br />What do all four casting characters have in common? They all were briefed and/or were front-line investigators into the Clinton Foundation Investigation. Another coincidence, right?<br /><br />Fast forward to 2009. James Comey leaves the Justice Department to go and cash-in at Lockheed Martin. Hillary Clinton is running the State Department, official government business, on her own personal email server. The Uranium One “issue” comes to the attention of Hillary. Like all good public servants do, supposedly looking out for America’s best interest, she decides to support the decision and approve the sale of 20% of US Uranium to... the Russians. Now, you would think that this is a fairly straight up deal, except it wasn’t. America got absolutely nothing out of it.<br /><br />However, prior to the sales approval, BILL CLINTON goes to Moscow, gets paid $500,000 for a one hour speech; then meets with Vladimir Putin at his home for a few hours. Ok, no big deal right? Well, not so fast, the FBI had a mole inside the money laundering and bribery scheme.<br /><br />Robert Mueller was the FBI Director during this time frame. He even delivered a Uranium Sample to Moscow in 2009. Who was handling that case within the Justice Department out of the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland? None other than, Rod Rosenstein.<br /><br />And what happened to the informant? The Department of Justice placed a gag order on him and threatened to lock him up if he spoke out about it.<br /><br />How does 20% of the most strategic asset of the United States of America end up in Russian hands when the FBI has an informant, a mole providing inside information to the FBI on the criminal enterprise?<br /><br />Very soon after; the sale was approved. $145 million dollars in “donations” made their way into the Clinton Foundation from entities directly connected to the Uranium One deal. Guess who was still at the Internal Revenue Service working the Charitable Division? None other than, Lois Lerner.<br /><br />Ok, that’s all just another series of coincidences, nothing to see here, right? Let’s fast forward to 2015. Due to a series of tragic events in Benghazi and after the 9 “investigations” the House, Senate and at State Department, Trey Gowdy who was running the 10th investigation as Chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi discovers that Hillary ran the State Department on an unclassified, unauthorized, outlaw personal email server. He also discovered that none of those emails had been turned over when she departed her “Public Service” as Secretary of State which was required by law. He also discovered that there was Top Secret information contained within her personally archived email.<br /><br />Sparing you the State Departments cover up, the nostrums they floated, the delay tactics that were employed and the outright lies that were spewed forth from the necks of the Kerry State Department, we shall leave it with this, they did everything humanly possible to cover for Hillary. <br /><br />Now this is amazing, guess who became FBI Director in 2013? James Comey, who secured 17 no bid contracts for his employer (Lockheed Martin) with the State Department and was rewarded with a $6 million dollar thank you present when he departed his employer? Amazing how all those no-bids just went right through at the State Department. Now he is the FBI Director in charge of the “Clinton Email Investigation” after of course his FBI Investigates the Lois Lerner “Matter” at the Internal Revenue Service and he exonerates her. Nope, couldn’t find any crimes there.<br /><br />In April 2016, James Comey drafts an exoneration letter of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Meanwhile the DOJ is handing out immunity deals like candy. They didn’t even convene a Grand Jury! Like a lightning bolt of statistical impossibility, like a miracle from God himself, like the true “Gangsta” Comey is, James steps out into the cameras of an awaiting press conference on July 5th of 2016, and exonerates Hillary from any wrongdoing.<br /><br />Do you see the pattern?<br /><br />It goes on and on, Rosenstein becomes Assistant Attorney General, Comey gets fired based upon a letter by Rosenstein, Comey leaks government information to the press, Mueller is assigned to the Russian Investigation sham by Rosenstein to provide cover for decades of malfeasance within the FBI and DOJ and the story continues.<br /><br />FISA abuse, political espionage pick a crime, any crime, chances are this group and a few others did it:<br />All the same players.<br />All compromised and conflicted.<br />All working fervently to NOT go to jail themselves.<br />All connected in one way or another to the Clinton's.<br />They are like battery acid; they corrode and corrupt everything they touch. How many lives have these two destroyed?<br /><br />As of this writing, the Clinton Foundation, in its 20+ years of operation of being the largest International Charity Fraud in the history of mankind, has never been audited by the Internal Revenue Service. Let us not forget that Comey's brother works for DLA Piper, the law firm that does the Clinton Foundation's taxes.<br /><br />The person that is the common denominator to all the crimes above and still doing her evil escape legal maneuvers at the top of the 3 Letter USA Agencies? Yes, that would be Hillary Rodham Clinton.<br /><br />Let’s learn a little about Mrs. Lisa H. Barsoomian’s background. Lisa H. Barsoomian, an Attorney that graduated from Georgetown Law, is a protégé of James Comey and Robert Mueller. Barsoomian, with her boss R. Craig Lawrence, represented Bill Clinton in 1998. Lawrence also represented:<br />Robert Mueller 3 times,<br />James Comey 5 times,<br />Barack Obama 45 times,<br />Kathleen Sebelius 56 times,<br />Bill Clinton 40 times, <br />and Hillary Clinton 17 times.<br />Between 1998 and 2017, Barsoomian herself represented the FBI at least five times.<br /><br />You may be saying to yourself, who cares about the work history of this Barsoomian woman? Apparently, someone does, because someone out there cares so much that they’ve “purged” all Barsoomian court documents for her Clinton representation in Hamburg vs. Clinton in 1998 and its appeal in 1999 from the DC District and Appeals Court dockets. Someone out there cares so much that even the internet has been “purged” of all information pertaining to Barsoomian.<br /><br />Historically, this indicates that the individual is a protected CIA operative. Additionally, Lisa Barsoomian has specialized in opposing Freedom of Information Act requests on behalf of the intelligence community. Although, Barsoomian has been involved in hundreds of cases representing the DC Office of the US Attorney, her email address is LisaBarsoomian@NIH.gov. The NIH stands for National Institutes of Health. This is a tactic routinely used by the CIA to protect an operative by using another government organization to shield their activities. It’s a cover, so big deal right? What does one more attorney with ties to the US intelligence community really matter?<br /><br />It deals with Trump and his recent tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum imports, the border wall, DACA, everything coming out of California, the Uni-party unrelenting opposition to President Trump, the Clapper leaks, the Comey leaks, Attorney General Jeff Sessions recusal and subsequent 14 month nap with occasional forays into the marijuana legalization mix and last but not least Mueller’s never-ending investigation into collusion between the Trump team and the Russians.<br /><br />Why does Barsoomian, CIA operative, merit any mention? Because she is Assistant Attorney General Rod<br />Rosenstein’s wife. <br /><br />- Tom Tancredo/Team America", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1737543877952278528", "published": "2025-02-15T16:59:02+00:00", "source": { "content": "Everyone should take the time to read this. Slowly, and patiently, because it’s very important.\n\nFrom 2001 to 2005 there was an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation. A Grand Jury had been impaneled. Governments from around the world had donated to the “Charity”. Yet, from 2001 to 2003 none of those “Donations” to the Clinton Foundation were declared. Now you would think that an honest investigator would be able to figure this out.\n\nLook who took over this investigation in 2005, none other than James Comey. Coincidence? Guess who was transferred into the Internal Revenue Service to run the Tax Exemption Branch of the IRS? None other than, Lois Lerner. Isn’t that interesting?\n\nBut this is all just a series of strange coincidences, right? Guess who ran the Tax Division inside the Department of Justice from 2001 to 2005? None other than the Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Rod Rosenstein.\n\nGuess who was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation during this time frame? Another coincidence (just an anomaly in statistics and chances), but it was Robert Mueller.\n\nWhat do all four casting characters have in common? They all were briefed and/or were front-line investigators into the Clinton Foundation Investigation. Another coincidence, right?\n\nFast forward to 2009. James Comey leaves the Justice Department to go and cash-in at Lockheed Martin. Hillary Clinton is running the State Department, official government business, on her own personal email server. The Uranium One “issue” comes to the attention of Hillary. Like all good public servants do, supposedly looking out for America’s best interest, she decides to support the decision and approve the sale of 20% of US Uranium to... the Russians. Now, you would think that this is a fairly straight up deal, except it wasn’t. America got absolutely nothing out of it.\n\nHowever, prior to the sales approval, BILL CLINTON goes to Moscow, gets paid $500,000 for a one hour speech; then meets with Vladimir Putin at his home for a few hours. Ok, no big deal right? Well, not so fast, the FBI had a mole inside the money laundering and bribery scheme.\n\nRobert Mueller was the FBI Director during this time frame. He even delivered a Uranium Sample to Moscow in 2009. Who was handling that case within the Justice Department out of the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland? None other than, Rod Rosenstein.\n\nAnd what happened to the informant? The Department of Justice placed a gag order on him and threatened to lock him up if he spoke out about it.\n\nHow does 20% of the most strategic asset of the United States of America end up in Russian hands when the FBI has an informant, a mole providing inside information to the FBI on the criminal enterprise?\n\nVery soon after; the sale was approved. $145 million dollars in “donations” made their way into the Clinton Foundation from entities directly connected to the Uranium One deal. Guess who was still at the Internal Revenue Service working the Charitable Division? None other than, Lois Lerner.\n\nOk, that’s all just another series of coincidences, nothing to see here, right? Let’s fast forward to 2015. Due to a series of tragic events in Benghazi and after the 9 “investigations” the House, Senate and at State Department, Trey Gowdy who was running the 10th investigation as Chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi discovers that Hillary ran the State Department on an unclassified, unauthorized, outlaw personal email server. He also discovered that none of those emails had been turned over when she departed her “Public Service” as Secretary of State which was required by law. He also discovered that there was Top Secret information contained within her personally archived email.\n\nSparing you the State Departments cover up, the nostrums they floated, the delay tactics that were employed and the outright lies that were spewed forth from the necks of the Kerry State Department, we shall leave it with this, they did everything humanly possible to cover for Hillary. \n\nNow this is amazing, guess who became FBI Director in 2013? James Comey, who secured 17 no bid contracts for his employer (Lockheed Martin) with the State Department and was rewarded with a $6 million dollar thank you present when he departed his employer? Amazing how all those no-bids just went right through at the State Department. Now he is the FBI Director in charge of the “Clinton Email Investigation” after of course his FBI Investigates the Lois Lerner “Matter” at the Internal Revenue Service and he exonerates her. Nope, couldn’t find any crimes there.\n\nIn April 2016, James Comey drafts an exoneration letter of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Meanwhile the DOJ is handing out immunity deals like candy. They didn’t even convene a Grand Jury! Like a lightning bolt of statistical impossibility, like a miracle from God himself, like the true “Gangsta” Comey is, James steps out into the cameras of an awaiting press conference on July 5th of 2016, and exonerates Hillary from any wrongdoing.\n\nDo you see the pattern?\n\nIt goes on and on, Rosenstein becomes Assistant Attorney General, Comey gets fired based upon a letter by Rosenstein, Comey leaks government information to the press, Mueller is assigned to the Russian Investigation sham by Rosenstein to provide cover for decades of malfeasance within the FBI and DOJ and the story continues.\n\nFISA abuse, political espionage pick a crime, any crime, chances are this group and a few others did it:\nAll the same players.\nAll compromised and conflicted.\nAll working fervently to NOT go to jail themselves.\nAll connected in one way or another to the Clinton's.\nThey are like battery acid; they corrode and corrupt everything they touch. How many lives have these two destroyed?\n\nAs of this writing, the Clinton Foundation, in its 20+ years of operation of being the largest International Charity Fraud in the history of mankind, has never been audited by the Internal Revenue Service. Let us not forget that Comey's brother works for DLA Piper, the law firm that does the Clinton Foundation's taxes.\n\nThe person that is the common denominator to all the crimes above and still doing her evil escape legal maneuvers at the top of the 3 Letter USA Agencies? Yes, that would be Hillary Rodham Clinton.\n\nLet’s learn a little about Mrs. Lisa H. Barsoomian’s background. Lisa H. Barsoomian, an Attorney that graduated from Georgetown Law, is a protégé of James Comey and Robert Mueller. Barsoomian, with her boss R. Craig Lawrence, represented Bill Clinton in 1998. Lawrence also represented:\nRobert Mueller 3 times,\nJames Comey 5 times,\nBarack Obama 45 times,\nKathleen Sebelius 56 times,\nBill Clinton 40 times, \nand Hillary Clinton 17 times.\nBetween 1998 and 2017, Barsoomian herself represented the FBI at least five times.\n\nYou may be saying to yourself, who cares about the work history of this Barsoomian woman? Apparently, someone does, because someone out there cares so much that they’ve “purged” all Barsoomian court documents for her Clinton representation in Hamburg vs. Clinton in 1998 and its appeal in 1999 from the DC District and Appeals Court dockets. Someone out there cares so much that even the internet has been “purged” of all information pertaining to Barsoomian.\n\nHistorically, this indicates that the individual is a protected CIA operative. Additionally, Lisa Barsoomian has specialized in opposing Freedom of Information Act requests on behalf of the intelligence community. Although, Barsoomian has been involved in hundreds of cases representing the DC Office of the US Attorney, her email address is LisaBarsoomian@NIH.gov. The NIH stands for National Institutes of Health. This is a tactic routinely used by the CIA to protect an operative by using another government organization to shield their activities. It’s a cover, so big deal right? What does one more attorney with ties to the US intelligence community really matter?\n\nIt deals with Trump and his recent tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum imports, the border wall, DACA, everything coming out of California, the Uni-party unrelenting opposition to President Trump, the Clapper leaks, the Comey leaks, Attorney General Jeff Sessions recusal and subsequent 14 month nap with occasional forays into the marijuana legalization mix and last but not least Mueller’s never-ending investigation into collusion between the Trump team and the Russians.\n\nWhy does Barsoomian, CIA operative, merit any mention? Because she is Assistant Attorney General Rod\nRosenstein’s wife. \n\n- Tom Tancredo/Team America", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/entities/urn:activity:1737543877952278528/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/entities/urn:activity:1737543579393331200", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540", "content": "Trump’s White House Faith Office Head Paula White: The High Priestess of False Prophets<br />By Chuck Baldwin<br />February 15, 2025<br />Not to be outdone by his predecessor, G.W. Bush, in his enthusiasm to mollify Christian Zionist supporters, Donald Trump has created the first-ever White House Faith Office. To lead this new government bureaucracy, designed specifically to target religion in America, Trump appointed his spiritual advisor Paula White.<br />As you may recall, the younger Bush created the Faith-Based Initiative, in which he doled out hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars that created a mechanism of using money from the federal government to fund various and sundry church programs—thus directly buying support for the politicians providing this support (as if government tax exemption is not enough) and providing a vehicle by which government can control religion to its liking. Thousands of churches have reached out their unholy hands to receive these funds from the American taxpayers. Tyranny of Merit Sandel, Michael J <br />I am reminded of a quote from Founding Father Thomas Jefferson on this subject:<br />That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.<br />Amen!<br />Any mixture of church and state by the state is anathema to God’s Holy Word, the U.S. Constitution and every Natural principle of Liberty upon which our country was founded<br />Sadly, most evangelicals have lost all appreciation and respect for the Biblical teaching of a free and independent pulpit, constitutional government and the principles of Liberty. In this regard, they are as bad as the radical Left. Both groups want the federal and State governments to finance and legislate their agendas irrespective of the Natural rights and constitutional protections of those rights for all people.<br />Now, Trump has upped the ante on Bush’s government intrusion into the sanctuary by creating a White House Faith Office. No doubt, the churches that play ball with the Faith Office will be rewarded with all kinds of benefits from Uncle Sam. But what will happen to the churches that refuse to surrender their sanctuaries to the authority of the king?<br />I’m afraid those religious institutions not willing to parrot the narrative coming out of the Faith Office will face all kinds of threats, intimidation and, perhaps, even possible legal retaliation—especially regarding Trump’s narrative on Israel.<br />Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem are uber Christian Zionists who are on record as supporting the censorship of protests or speech of anyone who criticizes Israel—even to the point of assessing penalties of deportation and/or criminal charges by the FBI.<br />As with every other key administrative appointment by Donald Trump, Paula White is a radical “Christian” Zionist.<br />I quote from an article that appeared in an Israeli media outlet called y net news, which is giddy about Trump’s appointment of White to this key position in the U.S. government.<br />U.S. President Donald Trump has placed the role of religion in American governance and most likely in the shaping of foreign policy – especially when it comes to Israel – with the creation of the first-ever White House Faith Office.<br />Oh, wow! So, now we can expect John Hagee, Kenneth Copeland and Robert Jeffress to be running America’s foreign policy?<br />Rev. Paula White, a longtime spiritual adviser to Trump and one of the most influential religious figures in his previous administration, is leading the initiative.<br />White played a key role in strengthening ties between the president and Israel and was instrumental in pushing for the U.S. embassy’s relocation from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, among other faith-driven policies.<br />Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signaled that now, more than ever, Israel will welcome Christian political, biblical, and diplomatic support. While he did not meet with Jewish leaders—apart from a group of Jewish student leaders—Netanyahu held a 90-minute meeting with over a dozen American Evangelical leaders the Monday before his meeting with Trump, according to All Israel News.<br />In a recent conversation in Washington, White described Trump as a spiritual person.<br />That’s why Trump blasphemously uses God’s name in vain so often.<br />White was instrumental in crafting Trump’s policies on Israel and the Middle East, working closely with the president’s former Orthodox Jewish advisers, including Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.<br />For several consecutive years, the Israel Allies Foundation has recognized White as one of the Top 50 Christian Allies, highlighting her deep commitment to strengthening ties between Christians and Israel.<br />During a visit to Israel in June 2023, White made a bold statement in an interview with this reporter, emphasizing that Christians should seek to learn from Jews rather than convert them.<br />She referenced the teachings of the apostle Paul, saying, “Paul made very clear that God extended his love to the Gentiles, but he did not take something from the Jews and tell us to go back and course correct or convert them. I do not want to convert Jews or send them to [live in] Israel for the rapture. The plan for salvation for the Jews is God’s.”<br />In addition to her humanitarian efforts, White serves as a senior leader in Israel365 Action’s Keep God’s Land program, which advocates for Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria [the West Bank].<br />The creation of this office is yet another indication that Trump is prioritizing the interests of his Evangelical supporters—a key voting bloc that has consistently backed him.<br />It also marks a significant victory for Israel’s right-wing factions, who advocate for a stronger alignment between Israeli policy and conservative, faith-driven and biblical values.<br />It could also signal that these values will form the foundation of a policy reinforcing the deep, historical connection between the Jewish people and the land of Israel—including Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem, and even Gaza.<br />If you are a Christian who knows your Bible, you immediately picked up on White’s heresy:<br />White made a bold statement in an interview with this reporter, emphasizing that Christians should seek to learn from Jews rather than convert them.<br />She referenced the teachings of the apostle Paul, saying, “Paul made very clear that God extended his love to the Gentiles, but he did not take something from the Jews and tell us to go back and . . . convert them. I do not want to convert Jews. The plan for salvation for the Jews is God’s.”<br />This is quintessential Prosperity Theology/Christian Zionist blasphemy touted by the likes of John Hagee that Jews have a special plan of salvation with God that does not include salvation through Christ.<br />Hagee and White ignore what Jesus said in John 14:6:<br />I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.<br />Again, the Israeli media publication took pride in the fact that Paula White is a close ally of the Kabbalist/Chabadist/Zionist Jew (and Trump’s son-in-law) Jared Kushner, who is one of the largest financiers of Israeli “resettlement” programs in the West Bank, aka “land theft and occupation.” Also noteworthy is that Israel considers White to be one of the top 50 Christian allies in America.<br />But White’s blasphemy goes well beyond her Israel heresy. Listen to any of her sermons; they are filled with blasphemy. These quotes are taken from one such sermon which was posted on the Rank Heresy X page.<br />Paula White:<br />Wherever I go, God rules.<br />When I walk on White House grounds, God walks on White House grounds. I had every right and authority to declare the White House as holy ground, because I was standing there, and where I stand is holy.<br />White conveniently ignores Exodus 3:4, 5: “And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.”<br />The ground was not holy because Moses was there; the ground was holy because God was there. And Moses was not God.<br />News flash to Paula White: There is a God; and you are not Him.<br />Paula White is the high priestess of false prophets.<br />Listen to what White says about Donald Trump:<br />To say no to President Trump would be saying no to God.<br />News flash to Paula White: There is a God and Donald Trump is not Him.<br />White on Trump again:<br />Let every demonic network that has aligned itself against the calling of President Trump, let it be broken, let it be torn down in the name of Jesus.<br />Such blasphemy!<br />So, anyone who opposes Donald Trump—no matter how unconstitutional or evil his actions and policies might be—must be demonic and broken and torn down—in the name of Jesus, of course.<br />Trump has surrounded himself with Zionist cultists, including Paula White, who want to destroy the freedom of speech to criticize Zionism or Israel.<br />As I was writing this column, a report was released with President Trump announcing that Hamas has until noon Saturday to release all of the Israeli prisoners of war or “let hell break out.”<br />This is clearly Trump’s greenlighting Israel’s breaking the ceasefire and allowing it to use those 1,800 2,000-pound bombs that he just sent to Israel on the Palestinians in Gaza. This is obvious, as shortly after making his announcement, Benjamin Netanyahu echoed Trump’s threat almost verbatim.<br />And please remember that the release of the Israeli prisoners of war by Hamas was specifically defined in the three-phase ceasefire agreement negotiated by Steve Witkoff, Trump’s Middle East envoy and signed by the U.S. and Israel. In other words, when Trump announced that Hamas must release all of its prisoners of war by Saturday noon, he was breaking his own peace plan—the peace plan that he was so braggadocious about creating when he first took office. <br />In committing this treachery, Trump has proven to the world (friends and enemies) that his word means absolutely NOTHING. The ramifications of Trump’s sycophantic endorsement of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people will haunt him (and America) in the attitudes and actions of the international community for the rest of his presidency.<br />Colonel Douglas Macgregor predicts that Trump’s greenlighting the continuation of Israel’s genocide of Gaza will result in the unification of the Arab states against the U.S. and Israel and lead to an all-out regional or even global war. He’s probably right.<br /><br />", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1737543579393331200", "published": "2025-02-15T16:57:51+00:00", "source": { "content": "Trump’s White House Faith Office Head Paula White: The High Priestess of False Prophets\nBy Chuck Baldwin\nFebruary 15, 2025\nNot to be outdone by his predecessor, G.W. Bush, in his enthusiasm to mollify Christian Zionist supporters, Donald Trump has created the first-ever White House Faith Office. To lead this new government bureaucracy, designed specifically to target religion in America, Trump appointed his spiritual advisor Paula White.\nAs you may recall, the younger Bush created the Faith-Based Initiative, in which he doled out hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars that created a mechanism of using money from the federal government to fund various and sundry church programs—thus directly buying support for the politicians providing this support (as if government tax exemption is not enough) and providing a vehicle by which government can control religion to its liking. Thousands of churches have reached out their unholy hands to receive these funds from the American taxpayers. Tyranny of Merit Sandel, Michael J \nI am reminded of a quote from Founding Father Thomas Jefferson on this subject:\nThat to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.\nAmen!\nAny mixture of church and state by the state is anathema to God’s Holy Word, the U.S. Constitution and every Natural principle of Liberty upon which our country was founded\nSadly, most evangelicals have lost all appreciation and respect for the Biblical teaching of a free and independent pulpit, constitutional government and the principles of Liberty. In this regard, they are as bad as the radical Left. Both groups want the federal and State governments to finance and legislate their agendas irrespective of the Natural rights and constitutional protections of those rights for all people.\nNow, Trump has upped the ante on Bush’s government intrusion into the sanctuary by creating a White House Faith Office. No doubt, the churches that play ball with the Faith Office will be rewarded with all kinds of benefits from Uncle Sam. But what will happen to the churches that refuse to surrender their sanctuaries to the authority of the king?\nI’m afraid those religious institutions not willing to parrot the narrative coming out of the Faith Office will face all kinds of threats, intimidation and, perhaps, even possible legal retaliation—especially regarding Trump’s narrative on Israel.\nTrump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem are uber Christian Zionists who are on record as supporting the censorship of protests or speech of anyone who criticizes Israel—even to the point of assessing penalties of deportation and/or criminal charges by the FBI.\nAs with every other key administrative appointment by Donald Trump, Paula White is a radical “Christian” Zionist.\nI quote from an article that appeared in an Israeli media outlet called y net news, which is giddy about Trump’s appointment of White to this key position in the U.S. government.\nU.S. President Donald Trump has placed the role of religion in American governance and most likely in the shaping of foreign policy – especially when it comes to Israel – with the creation of the first-ever White House Faith Office.\nOh, wow! So, now we can expect John Hagee, Kenneth Copeland and Robert Jeffress to be running America’s foreign policy?\nRev. Paula White, a longtime spiritual adviser to Trump and one of the most influential religious figures in his previous administration, is leading the initiative.\nWhite played a key role in strengthening ties between the president and Israel and was instrumental in pushing for the U.S. embassy’s relocation from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, among other faith-driven policies.\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signaled that now, more than ever, Israel will welcome Christian political, biblical, and diplomatic support. While he did not meet with Jewish leaders—apart from a group of Jewish student leaders—Netanyahu held a 90-minute meeting with over a dozen American Evangelical leaders the Monday before his meeting with Trump, according to All Israel News.\nIn a recent conversation in Washington, White described Trump as a spiritual person.\nThat’s why Trump blasphemously uses God’s name in vain so often.\nWhite was instrumental in crafting Trump’s policies on Israel and the Middle East, working closely with the president’s former Orthodox Jewish advisers, including Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.\nFor several consecutive years, the Israel Allies Foundation has recognized White as one of the Top 50 Christian Allies, highlighting her deep commitment to strengthening ties between Christians and Israel.\nDuring a visit to Israel in June 2023, White made a bold statement in an interview with this reporter, emphasizing that Christians should seek to learn from Jews rather than convert them.\nShe referenced the teachings of the apostle Paul, saying, “Paul made very clear that God extended his love to the Gentiles, but he did not take something from the Jews and tell us to go back and course correct or convert them. I do not want to convert Jews or send them to [live in] Israel for the rapture. The plan for salvation for the Jews is God’s.”\nIn addition to her humanitarian efforts, White serves as a senior leader in Israel365 Action’s Keep God’s Land program, which advocates for Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria [the West Bank].\nThe creation of this office is yet another indication that Trump is prioritizing the interests of his Evangelical supporters—a key voting bloc that has consistently backed him.\nIt also marks a significant victory for Israel’s right-wing factions, who advocate for a stronger alignment between Israeli policy and conservative, faith-driven and biblical values.\nIt could also signal that these values will form the foundation of a policy reinforcing the deep, historical connection between the Jewish people and the land of Israel—including Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem, and even Gaza.\nIf you are a Christian who knows your Bible, you immediately picked up on White’s heresy:\nWhite made a bold statement in an interview with this reporter, emphasizing that Christians should seek to learn from Jews rather than convert them.\nShe referenced the teachings of the apostle Paul, saying, “Paul made very clear that God extended his love to the Gentiles, but he did not take something from the Jews and tell us to go back and . . . convert them. I do not want to convert Jews. The plan for salvation for the Jews is God’s.”\nThis is quintessential Prosperity Theology/Christian Zionist blasphemy touted by the likes of John Hagee that Jews have a special plan of salvation with God that does not include salvation through Christ.\nHagee and White ignore what Jesus said in John 14:6:\nI am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.\nAgain, the Israeli media publication took pride in the fact that Paula White is a close ally of the Kabbalist/Chabadist/Zionist Jew (and Trump’s son-in-law) Jared Kushner, who is one of the largest financiers of Israeli “resettlement” programs in the West Bank, aka “land theft and occupation.” Also noteworthy is that Israel considers White to be one of the top 50 Christian allies in America.\nBut White’s blasphemy goes well beyond her Israel heresy. Listen to any of her sermons; they are filled with blasphemy. These quotes are taken from one such sermon which was posted on the Rank Heresy X page.\nPaula White:\nWherever I go, God rules.\nWhen I walk on White House grounds, God walks on White House grounds. I had every right and authority to declare the White House as holy ground, because I was standing there, and where I stand is holy.\nWhite conveniently ignores Exodus 3:4, 5: “And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.”\nThe ground was not holy because Moses was there; the ground was holy because God was there. And Moses was not God.\nNews flash to Paula White: There is a God; and you are not Him.\nPaula White is the high priestess of false prophets.\nListen to what White says about Donald Trump:\nTo say no to President Trump would be saying no to God.\nNews flash to Paula White: There is a God and Donald Trump is not Him.\nWhite on Trump again:\nLet every demonic network that has aligned itself against the calling of President Trump, let it be broken, let it be torn down in the name of Jesus.\nSuch blasphemy!\nSo, anyone who opposes Donald Trump—no matter how unconstitutional or evil his actions and policies might be—must be demonic and broken and torn down—in the name of Jesus, of course.\nTrump has surrounded himself with Zionist cultists, including Paula White, who want to destroy the freedom of speech to criticize Zionism or Israel.\nAs I was writing this column, a report was released with President Trump announcing that Hamas has until noon Saturday to release all of the Israeli prisoners of war or “let hell break out.”\nThis is clearly Trump’s greenlighting Israel’s breaking the ceasefire and allowing it to use those 1,800 2,000-pound bombs that he just sent to Israel on the Palestinians in Gaza. This is obvious, as shortly after making his announcement, Benjamin Netanyahu echoed Trump’s threat almost verbatim.\nAnd please remember that the release of the Israeli prisoners of war by Hamas was specifically defined in the three-phase ceasefire agreement negotiated by Steve Witkoff, Trump’s Middle East envoy and signed by the U.S. and Israel. In other words, when Trump announced that Hamas must release all of its prisoners of war by Saturday noon, he was breaking his own peace plan—the peace plan that he was so braggadocious about creating when he first took office. \nIn committing this treachery, Trump has proven to the world (friends and enemies) that his word means absolutely NOTHING. The ramifications of Trump’s sycophantic endorsement of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people will haunt him (and America) in the attitudes and actions of the international community for the rest of his presidency.\nColonel Douglas Macgregor predicts that Trump’s greenlighting the continuation of Israel’s genocide of Gaza will result in the unification of the Arab states against the U.S. and Israel and lead to an all-out regional or even global war. He’s probably right.\n\n", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/entities/urn:activity:1737543579393331200/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/entities/urn:activity:1638537021922218000", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540", "content": "Herein is to be found one of the fundamental errors of Christendom, in not perceiving the true meaning of the first and second covenants; that is, in not perceiving the true sphere of the Mosaic and Christian governments. Each are of divine appointment in their respective spheres; and neither have respect to time or place of administration, but to condition. The Mosaic, which is a figure representing the governments of force addressed to man as a selfish being, will never be at an end so long as society is in a condition to require that kind of administration. It will not be at an end in the individual until his moral nature is in the ascendant, until he keeps that new commandment of “Love one another.” And the Mosaic dispensation will not be at an end in society until the kingdom of heaven is established in the hearts of the members thereof.<br />The theologian has committed a great error in making the kingdom of heaven a historic affair, supposing that the death of Jesus terminated the first, and introduced the second dispensation, not seeming to understand that the character of the government determined to which dispensation it belonged irrespective of time or place. That government which is instituted with respect to, and is administered upon the principles of selfishness and force, is Mosaic, no matter in what age or by whom administered. All civil and ecclesiastical governments which are external and forceful belong to the Mosaic, no matter by what names they may be called. A moment’s reflection will demonstrate to a mind of ordinary intelligence and information, that all external human governments are of[Pg 216] this character. We have no Christian governments exercising power and compelling external obedience to law. The very supposition is an absurdity. The very moment a government is organized, and clothes itself with external force, its Christian character is destroyed.<br />Christianity, in its true spiritual and saving character, acts only from within the individual. It is not a government over men or among men. It is a government in man. It cleanses the inside of the cup and the platter, and thence makes clean the outside. Christians have no need of governments to keep them in the right way. Understand me—real Christians, not professing ones. They have no uses for institutions, for each obeys the right, and takes upon himself the labor of all needful charities.<br />Thus it will be found to be a truth of universal applicability, that wherever institutions, and especially legal institutions, are found necessary, the people are not Christians, no matter what creed they profess. Christianity pertains to character, not creed. External institutions are incompatible with true Christianity. Both can not live and act together in the same individual. Men have been conscious of this, and hence have been involved in doubt and difficulty as to their duties. But there need be no difficulty on this point. Let it be understood, that the man who feels the needs of outward restraint belongs to the Mosaic government, and by it he must be governed; that all men who are under the dominion of their selfish natures have not put on Christ, and hence are under Moses. Such[Pg 217] are under the law, and must be continued under “tutors and governors.”<br />External institutions, then, belong to the first dispensation, and will continue to be necessary so long as man continues to live under the dominion of his selfishness and lusts. When he shall be redeemed from such nature in himself, he will be redeemed from bondage to external institutions, and he can not properly be before. The evil, then, is not in the institution, but in that condition of the individual and society which makes the institution necessary; and the remedy is not in destroying the institution, but in elevating man, and thereby dispensing with its need; and until that is done, the law and the prophets must continue. -- Joel Tiffany, \"The Astral World\".", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1638537021922218000", "published": "2024-05-18T12:01:08+00:00", "source": { "content": "Herein is to be found one of the fundamental errors of Christendom, in not perceiving the true meaning of the first and second covenants; that is, in not perceiving the true sphere of the Mosaic and Christian governments. Each are of divine appointment in their respective spheres; and neither have respect to time or place of administration, but to condition. The Mosaic, which is a figure representing the governments of force addressed to man as a selfish being, will never be at an end so long as society is in a condition to require that kind of administration. It will not be at an end in the individual until his moral nature is in the ascendant, until he keeps that new commandment of “Love one another.” And the Mosaic dispensation will not be at an end in society until the kingdom of heaven is established in the hearts of the members thereof.\nThe theologian has committed a great error in making the kingdom of heaven a historic affair, supposing that the death of Jesus terminated the first, and introduced the second dispensation, not seeming to understand that the character of the government determined to which dispensation it belonged irrespective of time or place. That government which is instituted with respect to, and is administered upon the principles of selfishness and force, is Mosaic, no matter in what age or by whom administered. All civil and ecclesiastical governments which are external and forceful belong to the Mosaic, no matter by what names they may be called. A moment’s reflection will demonstrate to a mind of ordinary intelligence and information, that all external human governments are of[Pg 216] this character. We have no Christian governments exercising power and compelling external obedience to law. The very supposition is an absurdity. The very moment a government is organized, and clothes itself with external force, its Christian character is destroyed.\nChristianity, in its true spiritual and saving character, acts only from within the individual. It is not a government over men or among men. It is a government in man. It cleanses the inside of the cup and the platter, and thence makes clean the outside. Christians have no need of governments to keep them in the right way. Understand me—real Christians, not professing ones. They have no uses for institutions, for each obeys the right, and takes upon himself the labor of all needful charities.\nThus it will be found to be a truth of universal applicability, that wherever institutions, and especially legal institutions, are found necessary, the people are not Christians, no matter what creed they profess. Christianity pertains to character, not creed. External institutions are incompatible with true Christianity. Both can not live and act together in the same individual. Men have been conscious of this, and hence have been involved in doubt and difficulty as to their duties. But there need be no difficulty on this point. Let it be understood, that the man who feels the needs of outward restraint belongs to the Mosaic government, and by it he must be governed; that all men who are under the dominion of their selfish natures have not put on Christ, and hence are under Moses. Such[Pg 217] are under the law, and must be continued under “tutors and governors.”\nExternal institutions, then, belong to the first dispensation, and will continue to be necessary so long as man continues to live under the dominion of his selfishness and lusts. When he shall be redeemed from such nature in himself, he will be redeemed from bondage to external institutions, and he can not properly be before. The evil, then, is not in the institution, but in that condition of the individual and society which makes the institution necessary; and the remedy is not in destroying the institution, but in elevating man, and thereby dispensing with its need; and until that is done, the law and the prophets must continue. -- Joel Tiffany, \"The Astral World\".", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/entities/urn:activity:1638537021922218000/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/entities/urn:activity:1620162308913238022", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540", "content": "Power & Market offers a contrarian take on world events. We favor individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Connect to Power & Market via Twitter and RSS.<br /><br /><br /><a href=\"https://mises.org/power-market/mileis-first-one-hundred-days-assessment?utm_source=MI+Subscriptions&amp;utm_campaign=61c6485b9e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_02_29_06_22_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-0aec14e5f3-[LIST_EMAIL_ID\" target=\"_blank\">https://mises.org/power-market/mileis-first-one-hundred-days-assessment?utm_source=MI+Subscriptions&amp;utm_campaign=61c6485b9e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_02_29_06_22_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-0aec14e5f3-[LIST_EMAIL_ID</a>]", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1620162308913238022", "published": "2024-03-28T19:06:35+00:00", "source": { "content": "Power & Market offers a contrarian take on world events. We favor individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Connect to Power & Market via Twitter and RSS.\n\n\nhttps://mises.org/power-market/mileis-first-one-hundred-days-assessment?utm_source=MI+Subscriptions&utm_campaign=61c6485b9e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_02_29_06_22_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-0aec14e5f3-[LIST_EMAIL_ID]", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/entities/urn:activity:1620162308913238022/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/entities/urn:activity:1578797794414563330", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540", "content": "I think the greatest negative influence on the mental health of America is public education and the entire multi-media complex. Combined they have reduced the average person's thinking ability to nearly null and void. Everyone has an opinion about everything and they're promoting it for profit. When pure profit is your motive, then money rules the day. Who has the money? <br /><br />Congress is spending trillions of dollars they don't have i.e. living on the good faith and credit of the people they claim to represent. That makes us debit slaves to a system that's out of our control. Who's the wiser? When you watch tv or seek any form of entertainment or news, your brain goes into emotional overdrive while your ability to think and reason fades. <br /><br />That's what sells and that's what we get fed, a steady diet of emotionally charged issues that have nothing to do with reality. This has been a slow steady decay, like the shrinking value of our dollars in the marketplace. It's a controlled demolition of our culture and the American way of life. Words have lost all meaning and intelligent conversations about things that really matter are gone.<br /><br />People have been taught that ignorance is bliss as if that is something to be desired. What we need to do is turn the conversation around to how to talk about difficult topics and hard to discuss issues. Do nothing and things are sure to get worse. Going with the flow is like circling the drain. People say, what can I do, I'm only one person. That's a defeatist attitude and it can spread like cancer. <br /><br />Likewise, a single ray of light is what makes the darkness evade as the dawn of day enlightens. There's hope, but it requires an individual to take the initiative to steer a new course. One that develops a lasting passion for learning the truth about a life with meaning. This world is a gift of creation given to mankind. We can subdue it and cutivate it into a garden paradise. - Yipeehippy...", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1578797794414563330", "published": "2023-12-05T15:38:46+00:00", "source": { "content": "I think the greatest negative influence on the mental health of America is public education and the entire multi-media complex. Combined they have reduced the average person's thinking ability to nearly null and void. Everyone has an opinion about everything and they're promoting it for profit. When pure profit is your motive, then money rules the day. Who has the money? \n\nCongress is spending trillions of dollars they don't have i.e. living on the good faith and credit of the people they claim to represent. That makes us debit slaves to a system that's out of our control. Who's the wiser? When you watch tv or seek any form of entertainment or news, your brain goes into emotional overdrive while your ability to think and reason fades. \n\nThat's what sells and that's what we get fed, a steady diet of emotionally charged issues that have nothing to do with reality. This has been a slow steady decay, like the shrinking value of our dollars in the marketplace. It's a controlled demolition of our culture and the American way of life. Words have lost all meaning and intelligent conversations about things that really matter are gone.\n\nPeople have been taught that ignorance is bliss as if that is something to be desired. What we need to do is turn the conversation around to how to talk about difficult topics and hard to discuss issues. Do nothing and things are sure to get worse. Going with the flow is like circling the drain. People say, what can I do, I'm only one person. That's a defeatist attitude and it can spread like cancer. \n\nLikewise, a single ray of light is what makes the darkness evade as the dawn of day enlightens. There's hope, but it requires an individual to take the initiative to steer a new course. One that develops a lasting passion for learning the truth about a life with meaning. This world is a gift of creation given to mankind. We can subdue it and cutivate it into a garden paradise. - Yipeehippy...", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/entities/urn:activity:1578797794414563330/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/entities/urn:activity:1578045726988963856", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540", "content": "“I strongly recommend that every American acquire some basic knowledge of economics, monetary policy, and the intersection of politics with the economy. No formal classroom is required; a desire to read and learn will suffice. There are countless important books to consider, but the following are an excellent starting point: The Law by Frédéric Bastiat; Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt; What has Government Done to our Money? by Murray Rothbard; The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek; and Economics for Real People by Gene Callahan. ... If you simply read and comprehend these relatively short texts, you will know far more than most educated people about economics and government. You certainly will develop a far greater understanding of how supposedly benevolent government policies destroy prosperity. If you care about the future of this country, arm yourself with knowledge and fight back against economic ignorance. We disregard economics and history at our own peril.”<br /><br />- Ron Paul", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1578045726988963856", "published": "2023-12-03T13:50:19+00:00", "source": { "content": "“I strongly recommend that every American acquire some basic knowledge of economics, monetary policy, and the intersection of politics with the economy. No formal classroom is required; a desire to read and learn will suffice. There are countless important books to consider, but the following are an excellent starting point: The Law by Frédéric Bastiat; Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt; What has Government Done to our Money? by Murray Rothbard; The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek; and Economics for Real People by Gene Callahan. ... If you simply read and comprehend these relatively short texts, you will know far more than most educated people about economics and government. You certainly will develop a far greater understanding of how supposedly benevolent government policies destroy prosperity. If you care about the future of this country, arm yourself with knowledge and fight back against economic ignorance. We disregard economics and history at our own peril.”\n\n- Ron Paul", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/entities/urn:activity:1578045726988963856/activity" } ], "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/outbox", "partOf": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1538532520692289540/outboxoutbox" }