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Institute for Justice Supports Passage of Fresh Start Bill in Kentucky - Institute for Justice
Frankfort, Ky.—Last Friday, Governor Andy Beshear signed House Bill 185 into law. This “fresh start” bill establishes a process so Kentuckians with criminal convictions can […]
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Swalwell Drops Out, Dem Machine Discipline, Iran Strikes & Justice System Breakdown | VDH
If you take anything away from Rep. Eric Swalwell’s resignation, it should be the following:Whether a democratic politician actually abused, sexually harassed, sexually assaulted someone is not of importance to the Democratic hierarchy. What's important is the status of that person's political viability, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler discuss Rep. Eric Swalwell dropping out of California’s governor race amid multiple sexual misconduct allegations, arguing Democrat leaders act based on political viability and comparing reactions to Tara Reade’s allegation against Joe Biden versus E. Jean Carroll’s case against Donald Trump.
They analyze Trump’s criticism of Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones over opposition to strikes on Iran, with Hanson describing the campaign as a deterrent air effort aimed at the regime rather than Iran’s people.
The episode also covers reports about U.S. clearing the Strait of Hormuz, prospects for ending the Russia-Ukraine war, concerns over European allies’ dependence on U.S. defense, the Byron Noem controversy as a national-security vetting failure, and anger over criminal justice outcomes including an early release in Indiana and a New York case involving a police officer convicted of manslaughter.
Let's think about this. You've been bagged and tagged since the day you were born.
....and probably before that, as most mom's to be get prenatal care. So they even knew when you were in the pipeline, so to speak.
Same as with anyone born here. Records of who/what we all are is known by the gov.
Further, immigration and naturalization is a federal affair.
The gov knows exactly who was born here, who was naturalized, and who has been issued a green card.
To think they don't, is just plain ig'nant, as they say in the 'hood.
Also, banking is federally regulated. Has been for longer than anyone reading these words has been alive.
If the gov tells the banks to unbank the illegals, all they gotta do is share that data with the banks so as to confirm the status of their customers.
With the questionable account holders asked for more info on their status.
Ie: to give people a chance to correct the record if a mistake in the data has occurred that fails to show accurate info on someone.
....and probably before that, as most mom's to be get prenatal care. So they even knew when you were in the pipeline, so to speak.
Same as with anyone born here. Records of who/what we all are is known by the gov.
Further, immigration and naturalization is a federal affair.
The gov knows exactly who was born here, who was naturalized, and who has been issued a green card.
To think they don't, is just plain ig'nant, as they say in the 'hood.
Also, banking is federally regulated. Has been for longer than anyone reading these words has been alive.
If the gov tells the banks to unbank the illegals, all they gotta do is share that data with the banks so as to confirm the status of their customers.
With the questionable account holders asked for more info on their status.
Ie: to give people a chance to correct the record if a mistake in the data has occurred that fails to show accurate info on someone.
Let's put this in perspective.
Yes, records were kept. Decentralized. Private investigators and skip-tracers made a good living off the work and time it would take just going through those records.
ALL of them are now IMMEDIATELY available, if indexed. And moar are indexed every day.
Did I ever mention here, I'm not welcome in Canaduh? I was tossed out in 2006 - still living in the Buffalo area, and of the habit to spend time, time to time, in Toronto. This was three days off, and I was gonna go there, go shopping. Canadian stuff was a bargain back then, and the GST tax was refundable to Americans.
I had only been across the border maybe 300 times before. Never an incident.
Why, you ask, was I escorted back around the Immigration Canada checkpoint? Because they'd COMPUTERIZED their records - of plebes who were coming into their lovely collectivist Utopia, and who were not of the same habits as they like to see in the proletariat.
They had enacted laws that barred Americans who had EVER been convicted of an alcohol-related motor-vehicle offence (Canuk spelling) from entering. EVER. Without proof of "Rehabilitation" - which was, probably still is, an impossibly detailed and expensive record and application.
In 1977, I was ticketed and fined for "Driving with Ability Impaired" - a grey-area offense with a lower level BAC than was DWI in other states. This was Gnu Yark - I tested with a BAC of .07. Now, the drinking age was 18 in the Vampire State - I was legal there. Went to a local bar after work with a couple of co-workers and tossed down four weak Utica Clubs. That's a nasty regional beer, FWIW.
And drove home with a headlight out.
Went to Town Court, in front of Justus O'Pease. Who was not himself a lawyer - he was the head custodian of the local "Central School," the village, several townships, K-12. Big building; important job, but he was not an attorney.
He fined me $100 and suspended my license for three months. Then he winks at me and says, "Don't get caught, kid." He knew what I'd be doing.
End of story.
Except it was NOT. The state of New York, UNLIKE most other border states, willingly, eagerly, turned its whole criminal database over to Immigration Canada for such use.
Again, unlike most other states, my long-ago minor-misdemeanor traffic offense did not slip off the records after seven years. Someone SPENT MONEY to FEED that data in, electronically.
And then, there, 30 years later, I'm an Unrehabilitated Felon, trying to cross.
Because there is no grey area in Canuk law, now. Although I'd have been legal on Canadian roads that night. DWAI = DUI = FELON.
NOW, twenty years after THAT exercise in State Humiliation, it's SO much worse. Cameras everywhere. Plate readers. Phone trackers. That giant center in Utah that Mad Maxine Waters was so proud about, and obviously was not supposed to talk about...sucking up, collating, indexing data. So that when they're shown the (conservative) man, they can show the crime.
There is also social security. They know who got numbers for their kids and what those kids status was/is.
The fed gov has all of this info.
They could determine the status of of every mofo in this place without any of us having to do anything other than to show who we are.
Ie: show standard id showing name and dob.
Without these data repositories, and massive computing centers, the data would be useless. Mostly, un-retrievable. So massive, and un-collated, unable to tie periods of earnings with locations, and various other individual activities.
And that was a good thing, for personal liberty.
Now that's gone. That's why people are concerned, including myself.
Draft dodgers fleeing to Canaduh...deserve what they will get.
It's not the Old Dominion of the 1960s. Canada, up into the mid-1980s, was clean, cheap, orderly, and filled with people about as "nice" as in Minnesota back then. Yeah, they'd get ugly when lit up in a bar. Some of them didn't like your Yank accent - as you move further North, the speech changes a bit, and they know you as well as border types know them.
But now, the cost of housing is off the scale. Homelessness is a real issue. Crime is up, real-far up. The GST leveled on all of Canada makes Cali sales tax seem modest.
AND...you get hostile intervention every step of the way. No one will want to take US money. At the border you'll get an ugly lecture about how all that wonderful Free Healf Kare, is not for you (partly because you can't stay the six months to wait for an oncology consult).
Work is disappearing, just as it is in Germany. Multinationals with options, close. Lido Iacocca bought American Motors partly for the then-new Brampton Assembly plant they'd just built. Globalist Multinational Stellantis just CLOSED that plant - along with Windsor, and two American plants, to move manufacturing to Italy and Spain.
Because it's moar "cost-effective."
Yeah...draft-dodgers will rush up there and be Jabbed into the same sort of vegetative state that Celine Dion now exists in.
You ass-u-me that Globalist Mark Carney isn't going to send up white male Canuks as cannon-fodder for Nuttin-Yahoo.
I make no such assumption. And who better to press-gang into a Canuk battalion For The Temple, than unwelcome, unwanted Yank invaders?
You might be right, Canada bans its citizens from serving in foreign armies, but doesn't enforce it on Israeli army so they might draft others.
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Gold Buyers Need to Hear This! Gold & Silver Stackers Will be Millionaires Soon – Martin Armstrong
Gold is not simply moving because of speculation. In this view, it is rising because the global system is becoming less stable, more geopolitical, and increasingly distrustful of sovereign debt. As tensions deepen and confidence in paper promises weakens, capital naturally looks for something that cannot default. That is where gold regains its role.Martin Armstrong, a veteran market analyst known for studying long-term economic cycles, explains that central banks are not buying gold because they expect a quick trade. They are buying it because gold stands outside the political system. In periods of war, debt stress, and financial uncertainty, neutrality matters. He also argues that history shows the same pattern repeatedly: confidence breaks, governments react, and gold reasserts itself as real financial insurance. His long-term model points to gold eventually reaching $5,000, though he warns that such a number should not be viewed in today’s purchasing-power terms.
A major part of this outlook is the growing disconnect between monetary policy and economic reality. The argument here is that central banks have relied on the same interest-rate playbook for years, yet the results have remained disappointing. Lower rates do not automatically create growth, and they do not guarantee stronger markets. In many cases, falling rates appear when confidence is already fading and recession risk is building.
That is why the bigger issue is not just policy, but expectations. When businesses and investors lose faith in the future, cheap money alone cannot force expansion. This is where the concern becomes more serious. If growth slows while debt pressure rises, capital becomes more defensive and more selective. In that kind of environment, gold benefits because it is viewed less as a trade and more as protection. The message is simple: the next phase may be shaped more by lost confidence than by any policy response.
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