Witch Hunt Continues. After Second Vaccination What To Do. Thought Conditioning Comes To Heartland. Obama Skirted The Constitution.

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Sent by great friend and fellow memo reader in reference to Biden's Inaugural Address:

It was said of Warren Harding's inaugural address  it was "an army of pompous phrases marching across the landscape in search of an idea."

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The witch hunt continues:

It should fail and if it does not then there will be a reckoning in 2022.

BREAKING Schumer Makes BIG Trump Impeachment Announcement

Wow.. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For its interest: By Robert Colton MD Covid-19 in the US has never been worse. We are in a surge upon a surge. 10% of all deaths in the US since the epidemic started have been due to COVID-19 (370,000). Experts estimate 20% of the US population has already contracted Covid-19. The vaccine rollout has been slow but is speeding up every day. The vaccine data from the Pfizer and Moderna studies are spectacular. Both vaccines offer 95% protection after the second vaccination. In the Moderna trial no infections within the vaccine group were severe. The Pfizer data were similar. The conclusion: the vaccines are about 95% effective in preventing Covid-19 infections AND can help keep you from getting seriously ill if you do contract Covid-19. More good news: patients with obesity and those over 70 years old did as well as normal weight and younger patients in the Pfizer study. Remember, you are not fully immune until 1 week after the second Pfizer shot or 2 weeks after the second Moderna shot. In fact, you have no protection for the first 10 days after the first What does it mean and what can you do Let’s look at my age group (65-74). Because vaccines reduce the incidence and severity of the disease, the annual risk of dying from Covid-19 should drop a minimum of 95%, from 0.2% to 0.01%. For comparison, the annual risk of dying from the seasonal flu in this age cohort is about 0.035%., and dying from a car accident in Florida, 0.014%. The numbers will only improve as the vaccination numbers rise. A 50% reduction in new cases reduces the annual mortality risk to 0.005% Does this mean you can throw away your mask, hug everyone, and go back to a pre-pandemic life? Unfortunately, no. Why? Let’s look at some scenarios: 1. Eating indoors at restaurants: I have not been and won’t start yet. Why? By eating indoors, a vaccinated individual with an asymptomatic infection could theoretically be putting unvaccinated diners at risk. My advice: to protect the unvaccinated, avoid indoor restaurants, and other crowded indoor mask-free venues until we have better data on the degree of asymptomatic infection in the vaccine groups. 2. Eating outdoors at restaurants: Unlike eating indoors, where the data shows the risk of getting infected is doubled, the risk of spreading Covid-19 through outdoor dining is theoretical. I will begin going to outdoor restaurants. 3. Flying on airplanes: I have not flown this year but will now fly once again. Since March, airlines have improved their air filtration systems, eliminating spread except from those sitting near you. Everyone is usually wearing masks. Delta keeps the middle seat open. 4. Guests at my home: Before our vaccination, never. Now, we will allow small groups of 2 -6 fully vaccinated guests to visit inside our home without masks. There is no risk of starting a super-spreader event, and a miniscule risk of getting it. 5. Family or other Guests from out of town: If they have not been vaccinated, we will only require a rapid test when they arrive. If they have been vaccinated, no requirements. Why? Based on the current national prevalence of the disease, if I don’t test someone, they have a 1 in 200 chance of walking around my house with Covid-19. If they have a negative rapid test, the risk drops to 1 in 2000. 6. Outdoor or indoor parties where some are vaccinated and some not: the risks are still too high. If we wait a few months, when more people are vaccinated and the new case numbers plummet, it will be much safer. Be patient. We will have our parties again. 7. The un-vaccinated should continue all their cautious behaviors until they are fully vaccinated. They are still at full risk and what a pity it would be to let their guard when we are finally truly “rounding the corner”. 8. Until we know whether or not the vaccine prevents asymptomatic carriage: If you live with others who are not able to get vaccinated like children or grandchildren, take the usual precautions so as not to “bring” the virus home. More comments: 1. If you are over 80 or have a serious illness that could suppress your immunity, the vaccine may not be as effective and should figure this into your decisions. Discuss with your physician. 2. Everyone has a different risk tolerance and each person’s situation is unique. My recommendations are a general guideline. Discuss with your primary care doctor and other 3. Viral mutations are constantly occurring. At this time, the vaccines appear to be effective against these new variants, but that could change. We do not know. 4. You need to continue to wear masks, social distance, etc. after vaccinations., more to protect others than to protect yourself. 5. Covid-19 vaccination supply is getting better every day. I have faith the bipartisan protean effort by our state and federal government to expand inventory will happen. 6. Once there is an ample supply of vaccines, I think airlines and other crowded venues should begin requiring immunity passports and advertising this to the public. It will be great for business. The vaccine hesitant crowd will have no choice but to vaccinate, we will achieve herd immunity and the pandemic will end, for now. The bottom line Barring an unexpected mutation of the virus, the Covid-19 vaccines are transformative and game changing. After vaccination, the risk of dying or having serious complications from Covid-19 should be less than dying of the flu. The reason to still wear masks, wash hands, and practice social distancing is mostly to protect the unvaccinated. Those of you who have been vaccinated are the fortunate ones. Be a responsible citizen. Be a patriot. Protect our fellow Americans until we eradicate this terrible disease! And: Fellow American, I am pleased to announce that Hillsdale’s popular online course, “Winston Churchill and Statesmanship," is now available to own on DVD. Thousands of people have enjoyed this in-depth course online since its release, and now you can add it to your personal library or give it as a gift. In recent years Churchill has been portrayed in numerous films and televisions shows, proving without a doubt that Americans find the “British Bulldog” captivating. But even the best film can only convey a small fraction of Churchill’s fascinating story and enduring legacy. It is for precisely this reason that I am so excited to offer this powerful DVD set. As the professor for this course, I know that these videos will teach you more about Churchill than any Hollywood blockbuster ever could. Churchill’s words and deeds will teach you timeless life lessons that can be applied still today. Only a limited number of these DVD sets are available, so I hope you’ll take this opportunity to add it to your personal library or give it as a gift—before they’re gone. Here’s a secure link to reserve your copy of “Winston Churchill and Statesmanship” on DVD: https://secure.hillsdale.edu/winston-churchill-dvd-offer/ I hope you will enjoy it. Warm Regards, Larry P. Arnn President, Hillsdale College Pursuing Truth - Defending Liberty since 1844 And: This is what re-programming is all about and conditioning future generations about how and what to think: “Antiracism” Comes to the Heartland A Missouri middle school forces teachers to locate themselves on an “oppression matrix” and watch a video of “George Floyd’s last words.” By Christopher F. Rufo A middle school in Springfield, Missouri, recently held a diversity training program that forced teachers to locate themselves on an “oppression matrix” and watch a video of “George Floyd’s last words.” According to whistleblower documents and teachers who attended the program at Cherokee Middle School, the training began with a “land acknowledgement,” claiming that “Springfield Public Schools is built on ancestral territory of the Osage, Delaware and Kickapoo Nations and Peoples.” (At the time of publication, Springfield Public Schools had not responded to a request for comment.) The diversity trainers, Jeremy Sullivan and Myki Williamson, asked the teachers to “acknowledge the dark history and violence against Native and Indigenous People” before engaging in the day’s program of “social justice work.” The trainers then forced the teachers to watch a nine-minute video of “George Floyd’s last words.” The film is silent, showing only white text on a black screen, illustrating Floyd’s final utterances, including his cries for his mother. Such videos are a common technique in many diversity-training programs—and cult indoctrinations. The intention is to overload the senses of the participants and create an “emotional anchor” that serves to justify subsequent political arguments, even if they’re non sequiturs. Next, Sullivan announced the agenda: “We’re going to look at three large concepts and those concepts are oppression, white supremacy, and systemic racism.” He and Williamson provided the teachers a handout to locate themselves on an “oppression matrix,” which defines white heterosexual males as the “privileged social group” and women, minorities, transgender, and LGBT people as “oppressed social groups.” Presumably, those at the top of the oppression matrix, including many of the teachers in the room, are responsible for the “racism, sexism, transgender oppression, heterosexism, [and] classism” against disfavored groups. The diversity trainers then narrowed the focus to race, distributing another handout that outlines the concepts of “overt white supremacy” and “covert white supremacy.” The document claims that “lynching, hate crimes, KKK, neo-Nazis, [and] burning crosses” are “socially unacceptable” forms of white supremacy, while “education funding from property tax, colorblindness, calling the police on black people, BIPOC as Halloween costumes, not believing experiences of BIPOC, tone policing, [and] white silence” are “socially acceptable” forms of white supremacy. This is a dangerous conflation. The trainers are attempting to extend the stigma of true social evils—slavery, lynching, Nazism—to any deviation from progressive political preferences, from property taxes to criminal justice to Halloween costumes. According to one teacher who attended the training, the handout originally listed “MAGA” as a form of “covert white supremacy,” but it was removed after public outcry. The principle, however, has remained: diversity trainers use the emotional overload of historical evils to justify the imposition of current dogma. Even more cynically, diversity trainers such as those at Springfield Public Schools have begun to insist on a standard of “affirmative consent.” This means that teachers must not only accept the tenets of the training—in some cases even condemning themselves as white supremacists or oppressors—but also actively vocalize that acceptance. When one teacher said that he was “afraid to say anything,” Sullivan quickly shut him down, telling the teacher that he must think what an “underrepresented or under-resourced student [might] say of our fear of speaking up.” Remember: under the new ethics, disagreement is verboten; silence is transformed into an admission of guilt. “White silence” is a form of “white supremacy.” Finally, after more than an hour of training, one white teacher, who was raised by a black stepfather began pushing back, asking: “Is the district saying that we should be Marxists?” He continued: While I don’t think there’s a person in the room who doesn’t agree that this is an important topic that should be dealt with, the way that it’s being framed comes from Herbert Marcuse who took and stripped all of the economic policies of Marxist theory and turned it into [cultural Marxism]. . . . I grew up the son of a black man, he raised me to believe in Dr. King’s teachings. Dr. King did not teach the kind of vitriol that we see out of Marxism, [which] has a long replete history of countries being bigoted and prejudiced against others and then murdering millions as a result. The diversity trainers, both white, were stunned. At first, Sullivan acknowledged the Marxist orientation of the diversity training program. “I know that that’s the roots, I’m aware of all that information,” he said. Then, perhaps realizing that teaching Frankfurt School Marxism in a Missouri public school could be controversial, he distanced himself: “The goal here is to take a stand against racism, it’s not to be totalitarian. . . . There’s not some big political agenda. It’s certainly not Marxism. It’s just let’s make sure that all of our kids are truly valued and celebrated.” This is the tell. Many diversity training programs—and the political movement known as Black Lives Matter—operate on the principle of bait and switch. Following Marcuse, they predicate their rhetoric on the “emotional anchor” of racial suffering, then use euphemisms to make their political arguments. In the Missouri training program, the school district proposes “empowerment” as the solution, which sounds anodyne, even appealing. However, in the documentation, the district defines “empowerment” as training students to “refuse to accept the dominant ideology and their subordinate status and take actions to redistribute social power more equitably.” The district defines a euphemism with more euphemisms, but the deeper meaning is clear: that American society is white supremacist and must be replaced with a regime of race-based redistribution. For years, Americans have watched as educators have pushed deeply divisive “antiracism” programs in coastal cities such as Berkeley, Portland, and Seattle. Now “antiracism” has come to the heartland. Christopher F. Rufo is a contributing editor of City Journal and director of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty. Sign up for his weekly newsletter and watch his new documentary, America Lost, which tells the story of three “forgotten American cities.” This article is part of an ongoing series on critical race theory in American schools. ++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++ Obama was a fraud but knew enough about The Constitution to circumvent it as he did regarding  The Paris Accord and The Iran Agreement.  He made sure it was not deemed a treaty or it would have needed to be approved by The Senate. Will America stay the strong horse when it comes to Iran? The new administration's words fit awkwardly with its roll-call of Obama retreads   The Iran accord—whose limitations were a farce and allowed Tehran to lie and cheat as it always does—was rotten to its core. Opinion. By Melanie Phillips  Can leopards change their spots? Or to be more pertinent, can those who put Israel, the West and the world in such danger through the Obama administration’s 2015 nuclear deal with the Iranian regime now accept that what they did was catastrophically wrong? Can such people, who at best never understood what Israel needed to ensure its security or, at worst, actually supported those bent on its annihilation, stop speaking simultaneously out of both sides of their mouths, accept the need to treat Israel as a valuable ally, and finally do what is actually needed to keep it safe? Great concern has been expressed over the likely attitude of the new U.S. president, Joe Biden, towards the Middle East. Biden has said he wants America to rejoin the 2015 nuclear accord, from which President Donald Trump withdrew in May 2018, provided Tehran resumes compliance. But that accord—whose limitations turned any checks on compliance into a farce, and therefore allowed Tehran to lie and cheat as it always does—was rotten to its core. It was supposed to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and transform it from the world’s most dangerous terrorist state into a regular country. In fact, at best the deal would only have delayed the Iranian nuclear weapons program by a few years. Meanwhile, by lifting sanctions, it funneled billions of dollars into the regime. This enabled it to increase its dominance of the region, repress its own people still further, and continue its sponsorship of international terrorism and promote attacks upon Israel in pursuit of its genocidal aim of wiping it off the map. Even before this week’s presidential inauguration, the Biden administration had reportedly opened talks with Tehran about restoring the deal. This prospect has been described by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) as “the greatest national security threat to Israel that will be posed by the Biden-Harris administration.” Such concern has been greatly exacerbated by Biden’s appointment of so many Obama administration retreads who were involved in the 2015 deal. Among them are William Burns, the new director of the CIA, and Jake Sullivan, the new national security advisor, who were instrumental in paving the way for that deal through the secret talks they held with Iran. The Secretary of State nominee, Tony Blinken, who was also closely involved in creating it, has wrong-headedly claimed that America’s withdrawal from it has placed Israel in more peril from Iran rather than less (which is emphatically not the view of Israel’s own government). More alarmingly still are reports that Biden may appoint Robert Malley as a special envoy on Iran. Malley was brought into the Obama administration in 2014 as a Middle East adviser. Viscerally hostile to Israel, he has been described as a propagandist for the Palestinian cause, writing revisionist accounts of Middle East history, demonizing Israel and excusing Palestinian terrorism. He has often co-authored articles with Hussein Agha, a former adviser to Yasser Arafat, and called for international engagement with Hamas. Yet despite this ominous roll call, several administration nominees have emphasized that Iran is nowhere near compliance with the 2015 deal. Blinken told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week that the United States was “a long way” from re-entering the nuclear accord, and that Biden would consult with Israel and Gulf allies before doing so. The United States, he said, should not lift sanctions or unfreeze Iran’s assets to get it to come to the negotiating table. He also talked about building on the Abraham Accords—the agreements that Israel has made with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco. This may go some way towards explaining the caution on Iran. It would indeed be reckless and destructive in the extreme to halt or reverse the Abraham Accords, which offer an unprecedented opportunity to end the Arab world’s war against Israel. But what led to this breakthrough was the policy of President Donald Trump. By pulling the United States out of the Iran deal and re-imposing punitive sanctions to force the regime to end its belligerency, he suddenly showed the Gulf Arab states that their Iranian foe’s march to regional hegemony could be halted. In the Middle East, you hug close to you the force with the greatest strength, even if it is your mortal enemy. During the Obama administration, Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Arab states watched with horror as former President Barack Obama actually empowered their Iranian Shia foe, enabling it to extend its baleful influence into Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, Yemen and Sudan. Iran thus became the strong horse in the region. So the Arabs cozied up to it, with disastrous implications for both Israel and the West. It was only because Trump turned the United States instead into the regional strong horse, putting American muscle behind the attempt to crush the regime, that the Arabs pivoted towards America and Israel, whose own strength in daringly picking off Iranian assets was repeatedly on display. As the authoritative Israeli commentator Ehud Ya’ari has observed, if there is now a significant reduction in tensions between the United States and Iran, countries such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia may rush to make their own arrangements with the Tehran regime. In those circumstances, he writes, anyone who dreams of a common Arab-Israeli front that will block the return to the nuclear agreement may be deceived. Since Arab recognition of Israel and the moves towards regional peace and stability therefore hinge on America’s toughness towards Iran, the Biden administration’s caution is understandable. But what if Iran now tests Biden by the type of deniable provocations of which it is such a past master? What, indeed, will the administration do about Iran’s nuclear program which is now, in direct contravention of the 2015 deal, hurtling towards production of the bomb? The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed earlier this month that Iran had started enriching uranium up to 20 percent. Enrichment at this level is only a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90 percent. Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, has said that Iranian nuclear scientists are now producing half a kilo of uranium enriched to 20 percent every day. And what price America’s alliance with Saudi Arabia if, as Blinken told the Senate hearing, the United States should stop supporting it in Yemen, which would help Iran win its proxy war against Saudi Arabia through backing Yemen’s Houthi rebels? There are also concerns that the Biden administration will re-energize the Palestinians’ war of annihilation against Israel. Blinken said the United States was still committed to a “two-state solution,” which the Palestinians regard as waging its war of annihilation in stages. But he also said it would continue to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and that the U.S. embassy would remain there. So what does all this mean? Could the new administration be floundering in policy incoherence and arguments between opposing factions? Could they want to keep everything in play—encouraging further Arab recognition of Israel while simultaneously empowering the Palestinians, the left’s cause of causes, while still scratching their heads about Iran? Or could it be that they have tacitly accepted that the despised and reviled Trump, whose moves against Iran and in support of Israel were opposed by the Democrats tooth and nail, has actually brought about the greatest movement towards peace in the Middle East for a hundred years—and for which the Democrats will now aim to steal the credit? After all that’s happened, do you think that could really be so? Melanie Phillips, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for “The Times of London,” her personal and political memoir, “Guardian Angel,” has been published by Bombardier, which also published her first novel, “The Legacy.” Go to melaniephillips.substack.com to access her work.one too far? Biden Just Went Way Too Far - Joe Ditches Military Flags And Adds Something Very Concerning To Oval Office Did Joe think patriotic Americans wouldn't notice? ++++ Joe Biden to reporter asking about COVID policy: ‘C’mon, Gimme a Break, Man’ +++