All Discussions Tagged 'Way' - 12160 Social Network2024-03-29T06:00:16Zhttps://12160.info/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=Way&feed=yes&xn_auth=noBiden Administration Prepares Way For Banks To Refuse Service To Democrats’ Enemiestag:12160.info,2021-02-19:2649739:Topic:21388842021-02-19T17:27:20.757ZParrhesiahttps://12160.info/profile/DianaLovell
<p><span>By abusing the powers of federal regulators, Operation Choke Point 2.0 would stifle the bipartisanship, unity, and healing President Biden claims to desire.</span></p>
<p>Amongst the<a href="https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/29/critics-who-called-trump-authoritarian-are-silent-on-bidens-executive-order-spree/"><span> </span>record-breaking</a><span> </span>number of executive actions taken by President Joe Biden was one related to a little-known, frightening Obama-era program called…</p>
<p><span>By abusing the powers of federal regulators, Operation Choke Point 2.0 would stifle the bipartisanship, unity, and healing President Biden claims to desire.</span></p>
<p>Amongst the<a href="https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/29/critics-who-called-trump-authoritarian-are-silent-on-bidens-executive-order-spree/"><span> </span>record-breaking</a><span> </span>number of executive actions taken by President Joe Biden was one related to a little-known, frightening Obama-era program called Operation Choke Point. The program, dubbed so under former Attorney General Eric Holder, uses the power of the federal government to target legal yet leftist-disfavored businesses. These include gun sellers, pawnshops, and short-term money lenders.</p>
<p>The Trump administration did its best to end this blatantly unconstitutional program that sought to discriminate against legal industries. In<a href="http://alliedprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/2017-8-16-Operation-Chokepoint-Goodlatte.pdf"><span> </span>2017</a>, the Justice Department declared the program “formally over.” At the end of Trump’s term, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency established the<a href="https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2021/nr-occ-2021-8.html"><span> </span>Fair Access rule</a><span> </span>to solidify its culmination.</p>
<p><span>But on Jan. 28, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency under President Biden</span><a href="https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2021/nr-occ-2021-14.html"><span> </span>announced</a><span>it would pause the Trump-era</span><a href="https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2021/nr-occ-2021-8.html"><span> </span>rule</a><span> intended to prevent another Operation Choke Point from happening again.</span></p>
<h2>The Backstory of Operation Choke Point</h2>
<p>The Trump administration<a href="https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2021/nr-occ-2021-8.html"><span> </span>rule</a><span> </span>appeared innocuous enough, instructing banks to “conduct risk assessments of individual customers, rather than make broad-based decisions affecting whole categories or classes of customers when providing access to services, capital, and credit.”</p>
<p>Under Operation Choke Point, federal regulators instructed banks to do the<span> </span><em>opposite</em><span> </span>— to openly discriminate against entire industries the Obama administration found objectionable. Weaponizing the power of banking regulators at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Office of Comptroller of the Currency, the Obama administration realized it could block entire industries from the banking system that it didn’t like. This made it difficult — if not impossible — for politically unfavored businesses such as gun sellers and short-term lenders to operate.</p>
<p>Essentially, by using the power of federal banking regulators to intimidate banks from providing their services to these industries, the administration choked off their access to the financial system, leaving them paying more for essential banking services, or unable to use a bank at all.</p>
<p>The Obama administration claimed the program was intended to root out fraud by cutting off “high risk” industries from the banking system. But the administration didn’t make any differentiation between legal and illegal “high risk” industries, intentionally grouping lawful industries such as firearms sellers with patently illegal activities like Ponzi and credit-card schemes.</p>
<p>Different agencies within the Obama administration denied wrongdoing in various ways.<a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2014/08/26/suntrust-bank-chokes-3-legal-enterprises-government-behest/?_ga=2.21744568.244635646.1613489879-601076076.1585167553"><span> </span>At least one bank</a>, however, admitted to choking off three legal enterprises at the government’s behest.<a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2014/08/12/meet-four-business-owners-squeezed-by-operation-choke-point/?_ga=2.103285123.244635646.1613489879-601076076.1585167553"><span> </span>Dozens of business owners</a><span> </span>— many of them gun sellers and short-term lenders — said their bank accounts and access to credit card processing platforms were suddenly stymied or shut down with no explanation and no opportunity for recourse.</p>
<p>Given its stained reputation, we shouldn’t expect the Biden administration to bring back Operation Choke Point under the same shameless name. But the return of the larger strategy behind Operation Choke Point appears here to stay.</p>
<p>Whereas seven years ago the idea of using the powers of the federal government to choke certain Americans from public life was controversial enough for the Obama administration to deny wrongdoing, in today’s era of social justice and cancel culture, it’s applauded.</p>
<h2>Build Your Own Banks</h2>
<p>Within corporate America, an employee was<span> </span><a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/03/boeing-executive-cancelled-over-decades-old-article-on-women-in-combat/">run out of Boeing</a><span> </span>over an article he published 33 years beforehand arguing women shouldn’t serve in combat (a position many Americans hold today). In the media, a Jewish, pro-Israel, pro-choice, bisexual writer was<span> </span><a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/14/bari-weiss-resigns-from-the-new-york-times-standing-up-for-principle-puts-a-target-on-your-back/">choked from The New York Times</a><span> </span>for not being leftist enough.</p>
<p>In Hollywood, a conservative actress was<span> </span><a href="https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/12/gina-carano-firing-proves-the-left-only-wants-submissive-women-not-strong-and-independent-women/">choked from Disney</a><span> </span>for expressing politically incorrect views on her private social media account. In the beauty blogging world, a conservative blogger was<span> </span><a href="https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/01/sephora-sacks-and-smears-beauty-youtuber-for-being-a-conservative-christian-trump-supporter/">ousted</a><span> </span>from her role as a Sephora representative.</p>
<p>For all intents and purposes, Operation Choke Point is happening every day on a massive scale. Yet instead of “just” choking off access to capital and banking services, we’re witnessing a stranglehold on information, speech, and the broader marketplace of ideas. Concerningly, the government is now playing an active role.</p>
<p>As exemplified by Parler and the recent Twitter purge, Big Tech is choking conservatives off their social media platforms while Democrats<span> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viSVmjhmSa8">cheer it on</a>. In an attempt to choke conservatives out of entire industries of employment, critical race theory training and pledges are being forced on schools, government workplaces, and the<a href="https://twitter.com/MTMehan/status/1360643595578052612"><span> </span>armed forces</a>.</p>
<h2>This Dynamic Is Now Worse</h2>
<p>Signs of Operation Choke Point’s formal resurrection are symbolic of the larger attempt by government actors to choke politically disfavored industries<span> </span><em>and</em><span> </span>individuals from the mainstream. While cancel culture has led to a politicized economy, the federal government’s arbitrarily targeting of individuals, groups, and entire companies will increase the politicization of the country, where the only acceptable views are from those in power.</p>
<p>Operating in the dark corners of the federal bureaucracy, Operation Choke Point bypasses public input and the legislative process, leaving politically unpopular individuals and businesses to fend for themselves. If the Biden administration’s rule reversal is any sign, the next four years won’t be about unifying the country to “Build Back Better.”</p>
<p>After being choked from essential services in the economy, conservatives and right-of-center businesses will have no choice but to Build Your Own — if that’s even still tolerated or allowed. Build your own banks, build your own credit card processing companies, build your own web hosting platforms, build your own social media platforms, build your own companies, build your own media, build your own schools, and build your own country — because you’re choked from “ours.”</p>
<p>Of course, all this will do nothing to further the causes of bipartisanship, unity, and healing President Biden claims to desire. Capitalizing on the trend of cancel culture, a return of Operation Choke Point would devastate an already damaged country. By abusing the powers of federal regulators, Operation Choke Point 2.0 would solidify what most right-of-center Americans already know: Instead of unity, Democrats want you choked from everyday life.</p>
<p>Three years ago, former President Obama infamously claimed his administration “didn’t have a scandal that embarrassed us.” While it’s tempting to point to Operation Choke Point to refute this, perhaps Obama was right. With Biden sitting by Obama’s side, the Obama administration wasn’t the least bit embarrassed about using its powers to choke legal businesses from existence. Indeed, it was the entire goal and they appear poised to do it again.</p>
<p><a href="https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/19/biden-administration-prepares-way-for-banks-to-refuse-service-to-democrats-enemies/">https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/19/biden-administration-prepares-way-for-banks-to-refuse-service-to-democrats-enemies/</a></p> French Green Party Founder Says Europeans Must Have Less Children to Make Way For Muslim Migrantstag:12160.info,2019-01-11:2649739:Topic:18684622019-01-11T18:13:17.103ZParrhesiahttps://12160.info/profile/DianaLovell
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<h3 class="entry-subtitle">Left continues to push for demographic suicide</h3>
<p>According to the co-founder of the French Green Party, benefits for native European families should be removed in order to encourage them to have less children so that more room can be made for Muslim migrants.</p>
<p>Yves Cochet co-founded the French Green Party in 1984 and is currently an elected member of the European Parliament.</p>
<p>During an interview with left-wing French newspaper Le Nouvel…</p>
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<h3 class="entry-subtitle">Left continues to push for demographic suicide</h3>
<p>According to the co-founder of the French Green Party, benefits for native European families should be removed in order to encourage them to have less children so that more room can be made for Muslim migrants.</p>
<p>Yves Cochet co-founded the French Green Party in 1984 and is currently an elected member of the European Parliament.</p>
<p>During an interview with left-wing French newspaper Le Nouvel Observateur, Cochet brazenly advocated proposals that would lead to the demographic suicide of the native French population.</p>
<p>“I suggest reversing our policy that encourages births, by inverting the logic of benefits payments for families. The more children you have, the fewer benefits you receive to the point of disappearing entirely after the third birth!” he stated.</p>
<p>“When we accept being ‘Neo-Malthusians,’ we are quickly accused of racism and elitism. For that reason therefore, I make it clear that I am not targeting the poorest countries, which produce more children than others,” explained Cochet.</p>
<p>“On the contrary. The rich countries, like France, are the first that need to decrease demographically. They are the ones with the most polluting lifestyles. Most of all, limiting our births would allow us to better receive the Muslim migrants who are knocking at our doors,” he concluded.</p>
<p>The MEP is basically advocating the opposite policy to that of Italian populist leader Matteo Salvini and other eastern European countries, who have increased welfare payments to prospective parents in order to encourage their population to have more children.</p>
<p>France’s Muslim population already stands at almost 9%, with the country continually experiencing riots and civil unrest as a result of a failure to integrate newcomers.</p>
<p>According to France’s former Interior Minister Gérard Collomb, problems caused by mass immigration will lead to huge social dislocation and potential partition or secession of the country.</p>
<p>“Communities in France are engaging in conflict with one another more and more and it’s becoming very violent,” said Collomb, adding, “Within five years the situation could become irreversible. Yes, we have five, six years to avoid the worst.”</p>
<p>Yves Cochet’s rhetoric mirrors that of his Green Party ally over in Germany, Stefanie von Berg, who during a speech in front of the German parliament celebrated the fact that Germans would be an ethnic minority within major cities in 30 years, commenting that this was “a good thing” because it would upset right-wingers.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.newswars.com/french-green-party-founder-says-europeans-must-have-less-children-to-make-way-for-muslim-migrants/">www.newswars.com/french-green-party-founder-says-europeans-must-have-less-children-to-make-way-for-muslim-migrants/</a></p>
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</p> Seattle’s “Safe Injection” Spaces Give Way to Drug-Addled Seafoodtag:12160.info,2018-05-25:2649739:Topic:17816662018-05-25T23:19:03.731ZParrhesiahttps://12160.info/profile/DianaLovell
<p>While the big pharmaceutical industry continues to hide and deny their wrongdoing being a wall of corrpution and governmental collusion, our nation is suffering immensely.<br></br> This may be the largest issue to face our nation in a great long time, maybe since the Civil War, but we aren’t talking enough about this in the United States thanks to the overreaching power of greedy pharmaceutical corporations who put profits over people.</p>
<p>Now, don’t get me wrong, making money is fine and…</p>
<p>While the big pharmaceutical industry continues to hide and deny their wrongdoing being a wall of corrpution and governmental collusion, our nation is suffering immensely.<br/> This may be the largest issue to face our nation in a great long time, maybe since the Civil War, but we aren’t talking enough about this in the United States thanks to the overreaching power of greedy pharmaceutical corporations who put profits over people.</p>
<p>Now, don’t get me wrong, making money is fine and great, and we all enjoy a good capitalism success story, but we have always drawn the line at harming others. While we may consider hardened, “thug” drug dealers as a menace to society, even their criminal activity is mundane compared to the death toll of opiates and the pharmaceutical pharaohs who push them.</p>
<p>To fully understand the issue, it is imperative that we all understand one basic facet of the issue: Opioids are heroin. There is no difference to our brain’s processing of these two drugs, and we have only ever found comfort in pill-form heroin on account of our trust in our doctors. Otherwise, you’re literally doing heroin.</p>
<p>Now, imagine if heroin dealers had the backing of Deep State politicians, and were wealthy enough to bribe doctors to push their products.</p>
<p>You’re catching on, aren’t you?</p>
<p>In an effort to treat opioid addiction as a medical issues instead of a criminal one, (a commonly understood positive step forward), the city of Seattle has opened several “legal injection” sites to help curb overdose deaths and collateral damage done by unsanitary needle practices. This, combined with the State of Washington’s forward-thinking stance on recreational marijuana, should help to alleviate some of the strain, but it’s going to take some time.</p>
<p>Just how bad is the opioid epidemic in Seattle? The answer is, pretty darn bad.</p>
<p>An opioid has been discovered in shellfish off the coast of Washington state for the first time, according to a new study that suggests the effects of the pain killer epidemic have transcended the human population.</p>
<p>Oxycodone was detected in mussels from the Seattle and Bremerton harbor areas of the Puget Sound in a Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife pollution survey. Traces of the chemotherapy drug melphalan, a potential carcinogen, were also discovered.</p>
<p>Melphalan was present at “levels where we might want to look at biological impacts,” scientist Andy James of the Puget Sound Institute said in a statement. Experts believe drug residues likely passed from wastewater in treatment plants into the expanse of water off the coast of Washington.</p>
<p>Researchers behind Washington’s Puget Sound Mussel Monitoring Program take uncontaminated mussels from Whidbey Island and place them in locations in Puget Sound biannually. The mussels eat by filtering water, so their tissue provides an insight into contaminants.</p>
<p>While these mussels are being harvested solely for scientific study and not ingestion, they would be safe to eat given that the creatures do not metabolize opioids.</p>
<p>Fish, however, do, creating a massive concern for the entire ecosystem off the coast of Seattle.</p>
<p>constitution.com/seattles-safe-injection-spaces-give-way-to-drug-addled-seafood/</p>