Globalist Speaker Installed as Business as Usual Continues
Nothing will change until the people start rejecting the globalist plans
“Kevin McCarthy is arguably the most compromised man in Congress, having spent the last 16 years selling himself, his voting authority, and his leadership position in the House, in exchange for the accumulation of raw power. From the moment he finished college, McCarthy, the two-time Davos attendee, who has never held a real job, has committed himself to the Uniparty machine in Washington.”
“McCarthy is entirely compromised by both foreign actors and domestic lobbyists. He is a tool for the establishment, an instrument of the elites. A McCarthy-led House GOP will not conduct serious investigations of wrongdoing. It will not roll back the efforts of the Biden Administration and the unaccountable administrative state. It will not restore fiscal sanity. It will not oppose the slava slush fund to Ukraine.”—Jordan Schachtel
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-California) finally got enough votes to become the Speaker of the House of Representatives last Friday after 15 rounds of voting.
For a little background, McCarthy is promoted by the globalists at the World Economic Forum (WEF) where he has attended the annual globalist confab on multiple occasions.
In 2018, McCarthy spoke to the globalists during a panel discussion where he talked about his dinner with WEF founder Klaus Schwab.
Chris Menahan wrote for Information Liberation:
“The Republican Party will once again be led by a California libtard….”
“As speaker, we can expect McCarthy to prioritize Israel and Ukraine and continue working to purge the GOP of patriots and nationalists.”
“The Republicans worked together with the Democrats last month to make sure gay ‘marriage’ is enshrined into law to please GOP megadonors like transgender billionaire ‘Jennifer’ Pritzker and Paul Singer and they'll no doubt move to expand LGBT privileges in the months ahead.”
The vote for Speaker was the most contentious one since to the one that preceded the Civil War. However, McCarthy’s ascension to the Speakership took far less time and was never really in doubt.
But the political theater strong as about 20 members of the House Freedom Caucus delayed the coronation for a bit. And the mainstream media, including those on the left and those in Conservative, Inc., were enraged that anyone would dare to stand in McCarthy’s way.
Fox News shill Brian Kilmeade called those delaying the Speakership “insurrectionists” on Fox News. Conservative, Inc. puppet who never had a thought or opinion of his own Sean Hannity was visibly angry with Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) for voting against McCarthy.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Indiana) wanted to get in a fist fight with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) for voting against McCarthy.
When the dust settled and McCarthy got his way, the Freedom Caucus members patted themselves on the back for gaining concession. Of course, there is no reason to believe McCarthy will keep any of his promises.
One of those agreements from McCarthy was to set spending caps on aid to Ukraine. Of course, no taxpayer dollars should ever be spent on foreign aid, especially not for the Ukraine scam. But we are supposed to cheer about spending caps at 2022 levels. Keep in mind, we’ve had over $100 billion stolen from us in 2022 to send to the Ukrainian oligarch.
Slate Magazine, a leftwing and pro-Ukraine outlet, noted there’s nothing drastic about this agreement. Slate reported:
“First, it’s not a cut. Rather, it’s part of a wider budget freeze and, in that sense, an agreement not to go through with an enormous defense increase that Congress approved just last month.”
“Second, even a defense-budget freeze probably won’t happen, as too many lawmakers—Republicans and Democrats, in the House and the Senate—want, and will demand, a huge spending hike….”
“This is why, when asked about the deal that McCarthy struck with the Freedom Caucus on defense spending, Rep. Mike Rogers, the new Republican chair of the House Armed Services Committee, told Politico, ‘I didn’t make that deal. I can’t talk about it right now, but I’m not worried about it.’ As he and others well know, any motion to cut the defense bill struck in December is likely to be overturned by Rogers’ committee and by the House Appropriations Committee, whose members tend toward the hawkish. If the full House somehow reimposes the cut, the Senate will put up a fierce fight to restore it in the conference committee.”
McCarthy has no business being the Speaker. He has no business being in political office at all. In fact, where he probably belongs is behind bars for his career of political corruption.
Still, it only took a few meaningless concessions for the Freedom Caucus members to cave and coronate. Tim Brown wrote for Sons of Liberty:
“I want people to see that this is exactly what I reference when I talk about DC being nothing more than a WWE match. The alleged concessions from Kevin McCarthy to the Freedom Caucus only demonstrates that those in the ‘Freedom Caucus’ can be bought off, plain and simple. Remember, this is the same McCarthy supported by the ‘father of the vaccine’ Donald Trump and the same McCarthy that really likes World Economic Founder Klaus Schwab, aka Dr. Evil, so much that he enjoys dinner with him.”
The entire Congress is corrupted. Even if the Freedom Caucus members had good intentions, they showed that they’re corrupted by willing to play the immoral political games.
I wrote about the Speaker battle last week, prior to the coronation. I’ll admit, I enjoyed watching McCarthy have to squirm a bit as a few of the political actors were just not following the script. But I knew he’d get it in the end. And the “contention” may have just all been a part of the script to begin with.
Ultimately, this just provides more evidence that Washington, D.C. is a lost cause. Even if McCarthy lost and someone else was installed as the Speaker, nothing would have been different.
The problems we face are not going to be fixed by politicians or bureaucrats. And the problems we face are not solely from the Biden regime. This is from decades of big government and social engineering from both Democrats and Republicans.
“Normally, the beginning of a calendar year is a time for optimism. As we look forward to a completely clean slate, it can be easy to forget the difficulties of the previous 12 months.”
“But this year things seem completely different.”
“On some level, just about everyone can feel that very challenging times are ahead of us.”
“Decades of very foolish decisions are starting to catch up with us in a major way.”
“Our leaders tried very hard to keep the party going for as long as possible, and to a certain extent they were quite successful in doing so.”
“Our politicians in Washington kept borrowing and spending trillions upon trillions of dollars that we did not have, and that definitely delayed our day of reckoning.”
“And the Federal Reserve kept the financial markets artificially propped up for years by endlessly pumping giant mountains of fresh cash into the system.”
“But such foolish measures only made our long-term problems even worse, and now our leaders are losing control.”
“All of the ‘mega-bubbles’ are starting to burst, and the system is beginning to fall apart all around us.”
“It is time to turn out the lights, because the party is over.”
“We all had a lot of fun while it lasted, but now the bill is due and an extraordinary amount of pain is ahead.”
The only way to turn the tide is for the people to wake up and resist. It is our responsibility as individuals to secure our own freedom, our own liberty. That requires knowing what is actually going on.
John and Nisha Whitehead wrote about what to expect this year from the government for the Rutherford Institute and for their Substack page.
Here’s their article, posted unedited with their permission.
What to Expect from the Government in 2023? More of the Same
by John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead
John W. Whitehead’s Newsletter
“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”—Montesquieu, Enlightenment philosopher
For those wondering what to expect from the government in 2023, it looks like we’re going to be in for more of the same in terms of the government’s brand of madness, mayhem, corruption and brutality.
Digital prisons. Unceasingly, the government and its corporate partners are pushing for a national digital ID system. Local police agencies have already been given access to facial recognition software and databases containing 20 billion images, the precursor to a digital ID. Eventually, a digital ID will be required to gain access to all aspects of life: government, work, travel, healthcare, financial services, shopping, etc. Before long, biometrics (iris scans, face print, voice, DNA, etc.), will become the de facto digital ID.
Precrime. Under the pretext of helping overwhelmed government agencies work more efficiently, AI predictive and surveillance technologies are being used to classify, segregate and flag the populace with little concern for privacy rights or due process. All of this sorting, sifting and calculating is being done swiftly, secretly and incessantly with the help of AI technology and a surveillance state that monitors your every move. AI predictive tools are being deployed in almost every area of life.
Mandatory quarantines. Building on precedents established during the COVID-19 pandemic, government agents may be empowered to indefinitely detain anyone they suspect of posing a medical risk to others without providing an explanation, subject them to medical tests without their consent, and carry out such detentions and quarantines without any kind of due process or judicial review.
Mental health assessments by non-medical personnel. As a result of a nationwide push to train a broad spectrum of so-called gatekeepers in mental health first-aid training, more Americans are going to run the risk of being reported by non-medical personnel and detained for having mental health issues.
Tracking chips for citizens. Momentum is building for corporations and the government alike to be able to track the populace, whether through the use of RFID chips embedded in a national ID card, microscopic chips embedded in one’s skin, or tags in retail products.
Military involvement domestically. The future, according to a Pentagon training video, will be militaristic, dystopian and far from friendly to freedom. Indeed, all signs point to the battlefield of the future being the American home front. Anticipating this, the government plans to have the military work in conjunction with local police to quell civil unrest domestically.
Government censorship of anything it classifies as disinformation. In the government’s ongoing assault on those who criticize the government—whether that criticism manifests itself in word, deed or thought—government and corporate censors claiming to protect us from dangerous, disinformation campaigns are, in fact, laying the groundwork now to preempt any “dangerous” ideas that might challenge the power elite’s stranglehold over our lives.
Threat assessments. The government has a growing list—shared with fusion centers and law enforcement agencies—of ideologies, behaviors, affiliations and other characteristics that could flag someone as suspicious and result in their being labeled potential enemies of the state. Before long, every household in America will be flagged as a threat and assigned a threat score. It’s just a matter of time before you find yourself wrongly accused, investigated and confronted by police based on a data-driven algorithm or risk assessment culled together by a computer program run by artificial intelligence.
War on cash. The government and its corporate partners are engaged in a concerted campaign to shift consumers towards a digital mode of commerce that can easily be monitored, tracked, tabulated, mined for data, hacked, hijacked and confiscated when convenient. This push for a digital currency dovetails with the government’s war on cash, which it has been subtly waging for some time now. In recent years, just the mere possession of significant amounts of cash could implicate you in suspicious activity and label you a criminal.
Expansive surveillance. AI surveillance harnesses the power of artificial intelligence and widespread surveillance technology to do what the police state lacks the manpower and resources to do efficiently or effectively: be everywhere, watch everyone and everything, monitor, identify, catalogue, cross-check, cross-reference, and collude. Everything that was once private is now up for grabs to the right buyer. With every new AI surveillance technology that is adopted and deployed without any regard for privacy, Fourth Amendment rights and due process, the rights of the citizenry are being marginalized, undermined and eviscerated.
Militarized police. Having transformed local law enforcement into extensions of the military, the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department and the FBI are moving into the next phase of the transformation, turning the nation’s police officers into techno-warriors, complete with iris scanners, body scanners, thermal imaging Doppler radar devices, facial recognition programs, license plate readers, cell phone extraction software, Stingray devices and so much more.
Police shootings of unarmed citizens. Owing in large part to the militarization of local law enforcement agencies, not a week goes by without more reports of hair-raising incidents by police imbued with a take-no-prisoners attitude and a battlefield approach to the communities in which they serve. Police brutality and the use of excessive force continues unabated.
False flags and terrorist attacks. Almost every tyranny being perpetrated by the U.S. government against the citizenry—purportedly to keep us safe and the nation secure—has come about as a result of some threat manufactured in one way or another by our own government. This has become the shadow government’s modus operandi regardless of which party is in power: the government creates a menace—knowing full well the ramifications such a danger might pose to the public—then without ever owning up to the part it played in unleashing that particular menace on an unsuspecting populace, it demands additional powers in order to protect “we the people” from the threat.
Endless wars to keep America’s military’s empire employed. The military and security industrial complexes that have advocated that the U.S. remain at war, year after year, are the very entities that will continue to profit the most from America’s expanding military empire abroad and here at home.
Erosions of private property. Private property means little at a time when SWAT teams and other government agents can invade your home, break down your doors, kill your dog, wound or kill you, damage your furnishings and terrorize your family. Likewise, if government officials can fine and arrest you for growing vegetables in your front yard, praying with friends in your living room, installing solar panels on your roof, and raising chickens in your backyard, you’re no longer the owner of your property.
Overcriminalization. The government has increasingly adopted the authoritarian notion that it knows best and therefore must control, regulate and dictate almost everything about the citizenry’s public, private and professional lives. Overregulation and overcriminalization have been pushed to such outrageous limits that federal and state governments now require on penalty of a fine that individuals apply for permission before they can grow exotic orchids, host elaborate dinner parties, gather friends in one’s home for Bible studies, give coffee to the homeless, let their kids manage a lemonade stand, keep chickens as pets, or braid someone’s hair.
Strip searches and the denigration of bodily integrity. Court rulings undermining the Fourth Amendment and justifying invasive strip searches have left us powerless against police empowered to forcefully draw our blood, forcibly take our DNA, strip search us, and probe us intimately. Individuals—men and women alike—continue to be subjected to what is essentially government-sanctioned rape by police in the course of “routine” traffic stops.
Censorship. First Amendment activities are being pummeled, punched, kicked, choked, chained and generally gagged all across the country. Free speech zones, bubble zones, trespass zones, anti-bullying legislation, zero tolerance policies, hate crime laws and a host of other legalistic maladies dreamed up by politicians and prosecutors have conspired to corrode our core freedoms. The reasons for such censorship vary widely from political correctness, safety concerns and bullying to national security and hate crimes but the end result remains the same: the complete eradication of what Benjamin Franklin referred to as the “principal pillar of a free government.”
Taxation Without Any Real Representation. As a Princeton University survey indicates, our elected officials, especially those in the nation’s capital, represent the interests of the rich and powerful rather than the average citizen. We are no longer a representative republic. With Big Business and Big Government having fused into a corporate state, the president and his state counterparts—the governors—have become little more than CEOs of the Corporate State, which day by day is assuming more government control over our lives. Never before have average Americans had so little say in the workings of their government and even less access to their so-called representatives.
Year after year, the government remains the greatest threat to our freedoms, and yet year after year, “we the people” allow ourselves to be suckered into believing that politics will fix what’s wrong with the country.
Indeed, as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, this is the very definition of insanity.
ABOUT JOHN W. WHITEHEAD
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His most recent books are the best-selling Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the award-winning A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, and a debut dystopian fiction novel, The Erik Blair Diaries. Whitehead can be contacted at staff@rutherford.org. Nisha Whitehead is the Executive Director of The Rutherford Institute. Information about The Rutherford Institute is available at www.rutherford.org.
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