While last Saturday, October 12, was Columbus Day, America celebrated it as a holiday on Monday (10/14).
For an enlightening perspective, please read TTP’s Columbus Day Is a Celebration of Western Civilization (October 2017).
Meanwhile, enjoy:
World events do not just happen. In many cases, in fact, in most cases, an agenda resides behind events. The multi-billion-dollar Public Relations industry lives behind those agendas. These guys are not marketers, nor are they salespeople as sales, marketing, and advertising all live downstream from the PR house.
Public Relations has several names. Propaganda is one of them. Whatever it takes to crystallize public opinion to shape events for the benefit of the powerful can be fair game.
Scoop up natural gas profits in Ukraine? No problem.
Bombard the Kurds to drive Turkish election demographics? Easy peasy and done by midweek!
What about everybody’s favorite opinion crystallizer? PG&E turning off the power?
Generation Z is the mobile phone generation, and they are as woefully ignorant of the techniques used to manipulate their minds as they are addicted to their screens.
One person, one vote? Who are we kidding? One PR master equals millions of votes.
If we want a better world, we need to understand the industry pulling the levers. We need to teach our children and grandchildren how to play the game.
Come on in, let’s look at the week through the PR man’s eyes:
Let’s start here: in TTP from October 2015, The Islamist Fox in Europe’s Henhouse.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the Islamofascist dictator of Turkey, Islamizing Turkey while obliterating basic freedoms of speech and the press, the sponsor and protector of ISIS, whose highest goal is Islamizing Europe via an organized invasion of Moslem “refugees.” He hates Europe, he hates Christianity, he hates Western Civilization, and most of all, he hates the United States of America.
And President Trump, for some unfathomably baffling reason, has a teenage crush on him – rendering him oblivious to all the above. Plus the dictator’s intentions to commit genocide upon a heroic people who love America and whom the President has now betrayed, and to recreate the terror of ISIS worse than ever before.
This is a disaster.
President Trump has defended his shameful abandonment of our Kurdish allies in Syria, declaring that "I was elected on getting out of these ridiculous endless wars" that have left America "bogged down, watching over a quagmire."
Listening to the president, Americans might think that we still have large numbers of U.S. troops fighting on fronts across the Middle East. We do not. In fact, we now have three times more troops deployed in Spain (3,200) than we do in Syria (1,000).
Trump likes to say he "defeated" the Islamic State. Actually, the bulk of the fighting was done by our Kurdish allies, trained and supported by U.S. Special Operations forces.
We are depending on the Kurds to keep the Islamic State down. But if we allow Turkey to wipe out our Kurdish allies, who will be left on the ground in Syria to fight the Islamic State? Answer: No one.
Strangest among all the many melodramas of the last two weeks were the blaring headlines that President Trump had dared to talk with the Australian Prime Minister—and referenced the role of foreign governments and in particular Australia in U.S. electoral politics in 2016.
Given the hue and cry of Democrats in the last three years, they should have been delighted that the president was peremptorily warning foreign nations to cease to currying favor with presidential candidates and asking them to hand over what information, if any, they had of past “collusion.”
In fact, they were outraged and once again returned to “collusion” charges, as if Trump were subverting the 2020 election.
I Accuse You of Doing What I Did! Unfortunately, projection is now an encompassing explanation for almost everything the Left alleges.
The important news of the day--far beyond the inevitable tedious impeachment jousting--is that John Durham's investigation of the provenance of the FBI's counterintelligence investigation of possible Trump-Russia collusion has expanded, according to several administration officials.
Fox News previously reported that Durham would be reviewing the days leading up to the 2016 election and through the inauguration.
However, based on what he has been finding, Durham has expanded his investigation adding agents and resources, the senior administration officials said. The timeline has grown from the beginning of the probe through the election and now has included a post-election timeline through the spring of 2017, up to when Robert Mueller was named special counsel.
[Note by JW: Word is that Rosenstein, Mueller, Brennan, Clapper, and former President Obama are all in Durham’s gunsights – and that he would not have requested additional staff and resources unless he had found wrongdoing and criminal activity.]
A blueprint for the deindustrialization of the U.S. is being revealed even now in (you guessed it) California.
Beginning early yesterday morning (10/09), a series of total power shutoffs by Pacific Gas & Electric began in every county of the Bay Area, along with a number of others to the north (the number of counties involved total 34). The sole exception — as you might have guessed — is San Francisco.
The power cutoffs are complete, with no exceptions for hospitals, emergency services, phone networks, etc., the purpose being to eliminate all power flowing through overhead power lines in the affected areas in a clumsy, ill considered effort to prevent wildfires.
Vast areas of central California will be returned by fiat to the conditions of the 19th century. Here’s why.
Is the world going into a recession? And if so, can the United States avoid being dragged in? Even though there are many who speak with great certainty as if they did know, the short and correct answer to both questions is no one knows.
The United States is still growing at more than 2 percent, which is not bad, but a reduction from its earlier growth rate after the Trump economic policies were first implemented.
Despite Chinese claims that the world’s second-largest economy is still growing at approximately 6 percent, many outside experts believe it is hardly growing at all. Japan is nearly stagnant at 1 percent growth, and Britain and the Euro-zone economies are not growing much more.
However, there are several reasons why the United States should be able to avoid being dragged down. Let’s take a look.
What do you do with a drunken sailor? This is everyone’s favorite sea shanty, a work song used to keep all hands working together when hoisting sails on the wooden ships of old.
But what do you do with a drunken speaker? The theatrics surrounding impeachment intend to show America that Nancy is running the show and not that fruitcake with the Green New Deal.
Impeachment is meant to give the social media generation some solid clickbait. The kind of clickbait that the new media companies guarantee will win elections, For a modest fee per click, of course.
Move over Nancy; you don’t seem to understand that you can’t win a media war with President Trump. You are no fun, and you are ugly.
President Trump is about to eat your lunch.
The classic Western film High Noon, released in 1952, offers a compelling analogy to the Trump presidency.
Set in New Mexico territory sometime in the late 1800s, it starred Gary Cooper as Marshal Will Kane and Grace Kelly as Amy. Her character is a Quaker. She had seen her brothers and father die by gunfire, so she is a pacifist. The two of them marry in the first moments of the film but then learn that a man the marshal had sentenced to hang, but was released by an early version of an Obama-appointed judge, is coming to their town with three henchmen to kill Kane.
But not one of the townsmen will agree to help. They are all cowards (Republicans) in fear of their lives, or they are friends and admirers of the outlaw Frank Miller and want to welcome him back to the town (Democrats). Bottom line?
Buried somewhere in recent impeachment reporting was the real news that federal prosecutors are conducting an international dragnet to find the perpetrators of the Russia hoax. Last week, the Justice Department issued a statement:
A team led by U.S. Attorney John Durham is separately exploring the extent to which a number of countries, including Ukraine, played a role in the counterintelligence investigation directed at the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.
It was later learned that Attorney General Barr was absent from Washington and could not answer questions because he was in Italy, where Josef Mifsud—the Western asset who plays a Russian collaborator in the Mueller Report—lives. Officials in the UK and Australia also have been contacted.
Obviously, the CIA is trying to get out ahead of its impending embarrassment by fabricating a scandal packaged as a whistleblower complaint suggesting, incredibly, that the president of the United States is not permitted to solicit foreign assistance in a criminal investigation.
Aside from the emotional issue that Democrats, NeverTrumpers, and celebrities loathe Donald Trump, recently Representative Al Green (D-Texas) reminded us why the Democrats are trying to impeach the president rather than just defeat him in the 2020 general election.
“To defeat him at the polls would do history a disservice, would do our nation a disservice,” Green said. “I’m concerned that if we don’t impeach the president, he will get re-elected.”
Translated, that means Green accepts either that Trump’s record is too formidable or that the agendas of his own party’s presidential candidates are too frightening for the American people to elect one of them. And that possibility is simply not permissible.
Thus, impeachment is the only mechanism left to abort an eight-year Trump presidency—on a purely partisan vote to preclude an election, and thus contrary to the outlines of impeachment as set out by the Constitution.
Consider it another way...
The Reliant, an action film coming to select theaters on October 24, is not a typical faith-based film and the secular community is taking notice.
It was made apparent when the Motion Picture Association of America gave it an R rating. Although it had no foul language or sex scenes, and less violence than Disney movies given a PG-13 rating, the screenwriter and producer of the film, Dr. J. P. Johnston, had to appeal to the MPAA to get it changed.
The hate mail the producers have received and the trash articles written by those opposed to the film’s nod to the right-to-keep-and-bear-arms is a hint of the size of the stronghold The Reliant is trying to tackle. The entertainment site, AV Club, wrote a review with the title, Watch Kevin Sorbo Fight Antifa in This Bat@#$% Trailer.
When the mainstream “powers that be” come out in full force against a faith-based film, that’s when you know this movie is going to have real impact.
Hong Kong. Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China from a podium overlooking Tiananmen Square 70 years ago today, October 1, 1949. This year’s celebrations, including in Hong Kong, were meant to pay tribute to Mao’s successor Xi Jinping.
But the people of Hong Kong have stood up. Millions have marched in protest of Beijing’s undemocratic control. China is not as strong as it pretends. What the Communist Party calls its “socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics” has run its course.
On this 70th anniversary of communism’s ascendance in China, the irony is that the only legitimacy the Party has left comes from a growing economy. If China’s economy implodes, so does the regime’s legitimacy.
The China-U.S. trade war is an epochal event that can push China to the brink of collapse, especially if the U.S. links its values and human rights to its dealings with China.
