Have nothing to do with the [evil] things that people do, things that belong to the darkness. Instead, bring them out to the light... [For] when all things are brought out into the light, then their true nature is clearly revealed...

-Ephesians 5:11-13

U.S. Threats and Sanctions Forcing Venezuela’s Maduro to Negotiate

Wednesday, 22 May 2019 14:07
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, May 22, 2019: 

It’s clear that the sanctions being imposed by the White House on Nicolás Maduro’s tottering regime in Caracas are forcing him into negotiating with his opposite number. Last week the Associated Press reported that talks between Juan Guaidó’s people and Maduro’s were scheduled to take place in Norway.

Those sanctions, which have been applied to dozens of Maduro’s top officials, have extended to countries doing business with the Marxist regime. Consequently, Maduro’s primary source of revenue from his state-owned oil producer PdVSA has been cut drastically. In the past two years, oil exports have dropped from more than three million barrels of crude a day to 500,000 barrels a day. And most of that production is committed to Cuba in exchange for its military and technical support.

In April, the White House applied sanctions on the Central Bank of Venezuela, sharply limiting its access to American dollars. Those sanctions also

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The Resurrection of Ford’s Bronco Illustrates How Capitalism Works

Wednesday, 22 May 2019 14:02
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This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, May 22, 2019: 

Ford’s announcement of its resurrected Bronco for 2020 shows pictures of steep technical trails heading off into the woods while calling it a “no-compromise midsize 4×4 utility for the thrill seekers who want freedom and off-road functionality, with the space and versatility of an SUV. It’s capable of conquering everything from your daily commute to gravel roads and boulders.” (See Sources below)

This is how capitalism works.

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Angst Over Ford Cutting 7,000 Jobs Isn’t Warranted

Tuesday, 21 May 2019 15:59
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, May 21, 2019: 

Excessive angst over Ford’s announcement that it was cutting 10 percent of its workforce led CNBC to revise its initial coverage: “This article was updated [corrected] to reflect that Ford is cutting about 10% of its white-collar employees, not 10 percent of its total global workforce.”

CNBC didn’t complete its correction. Ford has 200,000 employees worldwide, with 70,000 of them being salaried, the rest hourly. The cuts apply only to the white-collar positions, and most of them are overseas. Only 2,300 of them apply to employees in the United States, and 1,500 of them accepted buyouts last year. That leaves just 800 to be laid off this year, each of them with severance packages. That’s four-tenths of one percent, CNBC, not 10 percent.

To put Ford’s announcement in perspective, let’s remember

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Many Millennials in Financial Trouble Being Drawn to Siren Song of Socialism

Monday, 20 May 2019 15:54
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, May 20, 2019: 

The millennial generation, also known as Generation Y (GenY), the “Me Me Me Generation” (Time magazine), and the “soccer trophy generation,” is suffering financially, and as a result many are listening to the siren song of socialism to solve their problems.

This is the generational cohort born between 1981 and 1996 (Pew Research’s definition) with more people in it (75 million) than the Baby Boomer generation. They also have less accumulated wealth, own less real property, are marrying later, and having fewer children than any other generational cohort (Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, GenXers, or Generation Z). As a result they are more frustrated and unhappy about their future economic prospects.

All of which have long-term political and economic implications stretching out decades into the future.

Millennials are helping drive down the number of births to their lowest levels in 32 years. Translation:

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Biden’s Baggage No Hindrance as Polls Show Him Way Ahead of Other Dems

Monday, 20 May 2019 11:26
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, May 20, 2019: 

With the latest polls showing Joe Biden increasing his lead over his rivals for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, even new evidence of his negative baggage is failing to shrink his advantage.

According to Real Clear Politics, which averaged the four latest opinion polls of Democrat voters, Biden’s lead is now nearly 20 points ahead of his nearest rival, socialist Bernie Sanders. Capturing support from more than 38 percent of those polled, Biden is leaving his competition in the dust. Sanders scored just 18 percent, while every other announced candidate remains way behind, in the single digits.

Revelations that Biden successfully pushed for a Ukrainian prosecutor to be relieved of his position because he was investigating corruption in a company whose board included his son, Hunter, seemed to have no effect on Biden’s widening lead over his rivals.

That Hunter was discharged from the Navy after testing positive for cocaine in 2014 and left further evidence of drug use in 2016 has either been forgotten or is being ignored by Biden’s rivals and the compliant/complacent media.

That the launch attending his official announcement for the presidency over the weekend was poorly attended doesn’t seem to matter either.

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If Woody Allen is Right, Trump will win in a walk

Monday, 20 May 2019 11:23
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This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, May 20, 2019: 

It was Woody Allen who said that showing up is 80 percent of life. If that’s true, then president Trump should be able to mail in his reelection win next November.

His opponent is nearly certain to be hapless Joe Biden, to the astonishment of his rivals, the frustration of the New York Times, and the delight of Republicans. With the latest polls showing Joe Biden increasing his lead over his rivals for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, even new evidence of his negative baggage is failing to narrow his lead.

According to Real Clear Politics,

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Democrats: No Trump Impeachment

Saturday, 18 May 2019 13:44
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, May 17, 2019: 

Following an hour-long, closed-door meeting with top Democrats on Wednesday, observers noted that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has once again demonstrated her control over the Democrat Party, especially those on the far Left who want to begin impeachment proceedings against the president immediately. Wrote the Washington Post:

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China’s Trade war Expresses Sun Tzu’s Strategy Perfectly

Saturday, 18 May 2019 13:36
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This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Friday, May 17, 2019:

Sun Tzu’s The Art of War isn’t about war in the traditional sense. It is about defeating a stronger enemy through other means, such as deceit and the making and then breaking of treaties after the enemy has been lulled into a sense of complacency.

In China’s case, the World Trade Organization, adopted and signed on to by 124 nations in 1994, is the current best example of both China’s deceit and the making and breaking of treaties. China never intended to keep its word. It only wanted the treaty’s special dispensations in order to build its economy into the most dominant one in the world at the expense of its enemies.

And they were well on their way, thanks to America’s traitorous leadership turning its eyes away from China’s machinations.

Enter Donald Trump.

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Rhetoric Escalates in Trade War as Trump Targets Huawei

Friday, 17 May 2019 05:43
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, May 16, 2019: 

Following Communist China’s reneging on a pending trade “deal,” President Donald Trump backed away, saying that any deal had to be in America’s best interests or there wouldn’t be any deal: “It must be a great deal for the United States or it just doesn’t make any sense,” he declared. He followed his rhetoric by raising tariffs further on some $200 billion worth of Chinese imports into the United States, and he threatened to place tariffs on the remaining $300 billion worth of imports from China.

Last Friday, Trump upped the ante further by signing an executive order banning the import of telecommunications gear from “foreign adversaries” [read: China]. This was followed by the Commerce Department declaring that it was adding Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, to its list of companies engaged in activities “that are contrary to American interests.” These moves were a belated recognition that, under Beijing’s command, every Chinese entity — individuals and companies — in the United States is tasked to conduct espionage for the homeland. These moves predictably elicited anger from the Chinese communists. One of its mouthpieces, Global Times, roared:

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Alabama Targets Roe v. Wade With Its Complete Abortion Ban Bill

Wednesday, 15 May 2019 20:58
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, May 15, 2019: 

The bill that just passed the Alabama State Senate banning almost all abortions in the Yellowhammer State was designed specifically to challenge the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. The bill — House Bill 314, the “Human Life Protection Act” — declares that a fetus is a human being with all inherent rights, and that a provider performing an abortion that ends that life could be sentenced to life in prison. There are no exceptions for rape or incest; the only one is when “an abortion is necessary in order to prevent a serious health risk” to the mother.

The bill’s sponsor, Representative Terri Collins, called the bill a “direct attack” on Roe v. Wade, adding, “The heart of this bill is to confront a decision that was made by the court in 1973 that said the baby in the womb is not a person. This bill addresses that one issue. Is that baby in the womb a person? I believe our law says it is.”

The ACLU of Alabama, along with the National ACLU and Planned Parenthood, is preparing a lawsuit to challenge the bill even though it has yet to be signed into law by Governor Kay Ivey. She is expected to sign it, but even if she doesn’t, the strong majorities in both houses that passed the bill would be more than sufficient to override her veto.

The legislation was drafted by Eric Johnston,

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