Apathetic uninformed voters; poor quality bought-off candidates; lazy legislators; power-mad presidents; massive bureaucracy; gobs of lobbyist, special interest, NGO money; corrupt judges; and a too big to fail system have betrayed America at every level. The courts can’t rein in a system that doesn’t respect the rule of law. And our system does not, not anymore.
Our republic began with an educated, informed and involved citizenry and will perish from lack of same. We consented to supporting public education tasked with providing this necessary product and now that it sees its mission is to bring it down something rather drastic needs doing or we are toast
Agree. Played a card game with other seniors that focused on American history. Enjoyed recalling the history of this beautiful country. Then I asked if the students in high school would enjoy it. Answer: No! They only receive a token education in the history of how this country was created. That is the basic problem.
Don't forget amoral! I think it was John Adams said an amoral people can't self govern themselves. Only those who believe their actions will be judged by a higher power.
For a layperson not well schooled in the language of a lawyer, it is not easy to follow. The deeper problem is most of the regulations are not written by DC government lawyers, but by lawyers employed by special interest groups to carve our and codify a revenue stream that maintains the special interests bottom line. Time and again this is the ploy that is used to maintain market control. The Donut Hole Legislation is a good example. The Senator who introduced the legislation that Congress dutifully passed, resigned and was hired to run the Lobbying Group for Big Pharma at $1 million salary per year. Merck hired away the Vaccine lady at the FDA for $1 million dollar salary to run Merck vaccine program. She is now back at the FDA and can not be fired. What a wonderful world of legal manipulation for profit.
The word...lawyer. As long as our laws are written in language they invent, and are argued by lawyer in same, we will never have clarity or anything resembling fairness. I think there needs to be citizen commissions who are tasked with making our laws and the outpouring of these agencies (the,fewer of them the better) comprehensible and conforming to the principles of natural law which our courts seem to have abandoned
Lawyers in most cases advocate for an identified policy. We need more general thinking among our legislators who will advocate for functioning governance and not merely for a win for a certain idea, ideology, revenue stream, or other. We need a passion for a secure and prosperous nation, beyond this generation, not a partisan feast.
Not only are they written in legalize, but the general public is barely advised of them. We learn they exist when we violate them. Like the Oregon fellow that has learned that the government owns the rain that falls on his property and forbids he collect it.
He evidently put in a couple collection basins to catch some as it fell in case of fire and probable drought. The government landed on him with papers to stop it. That the rain was their property. Here in MD they've established a right to tax the rain that falls on our property that doesn't soak in. Gov politicians (lawyers no doubt among them) are incredible in the lengths they'll go to achieve their ends. The Oregon thing is just being reported. You may come across it.
Yep, dealt with that nonsense in Colorado- can only collect 2, 55 gal barrels. AND must be from your roof via a downspout. Ya can't collect any other way.
Others: Utah, Washington, Arkansas, Kansas, and as mentioned by Jean, Oregon. Some require you file a permit too!
Thank you for this analysis. Structural information that a layperson like myself does not know or appreciate. One of my big concerns is the current crop of judges at all levels. Would also help our futures if we did not generally have a manipulative, bought off media that rarely discusses things of substance affecting us logically.
Law schools teach that justice is fanaticism at the expense of mature reasoning. They are full of drama about pitiable objects and the need to moralize and correct alleged wrongs. Very little historical understanding as well. It is marxian in tone as it adopts the power dynamic of that sinful worldview.
Thank you Dr. Malone. Your essays are not just informative and substantiated. The federal bureaucracy and its' supporters, over time, have seized the opportunity to usurp power from the uninvolved governed. That's the way I see it. I share as much information as I can when I can. My recent comments involve how creepy is the fact that there are rainbows everywhere. Navigation apps don't list a churches category in places of interest.
Thank you for your support, Mike. Sincerely, thank you. It is paid supporters like yourself who get us up in the early AM and keep us working to provide quality, insightful commentary.
Thank you for this very insightful analysis of where we are; accurately generalizing categories from specific instances is not an easy task particularly in such a complex arena. We can thank your resignation from ACIP for allowing this valuable message to be heard. Well done!
I'm sorry, today I am relishing the breeze with my cats in an incredible gazebo. No mosquitoes, no rain to touch me. Just baby bunnies eating clover and frolicking. Chipmonks drinking water from the bird bath. Dusk is so powerful, things settle down often. Sometimes not so settled, a storm is coming thru. What a glorious moment, apart for a moment from the violence all around.
A subtle and important analysis. This explains a great deal of confusion about what sort of country we are, or even if we are a discernible polity based on shared assumptions. It certainly explains the growing hostility, frustration, and hints of revolution to finally solve the questions of how we are supposed to be Americans. Much of this is probably the result to loot the government as a way of life and the haves desperately trying to maintain a magical kingdom that mainly works to silence and manipulate the populace upon which their unearned prosperity depends. Our intel agencies serve this purpose and expand their reach to do favors for various partisan constituencies on a pay to play system. This is institutional rot at a very dangerous degree. It also seems to birth radical movements into the vacuum of power abdicated by the failure of our rule making body, the Congress. Certainly transparency and accountability are all the more desperately needed so the people can influence policy to reflect real necessities rather than partisan projects. Prognosis is very worrying. Too bad our education is so poor and there are so many freeloading foreigners clamoring for their own favors.
Thank you for this needed discussion! I definirely need to further reflect on the topic.
On the other hand, for me, it dredges up severe disfunctions that heavily need to be addressed today.
I'll start with citizen issues. Focus. With the "help" of our educational system, imo citizen focus is seldom directed to long term needs and outcomes. Prudent debt management appears to be ignored. Discretionary desires are overriding prudent debt management. Local example - huge debt. Moodys (?) downgrade. Proud reports of opening of major skate park, pickleball courts, tennis courts, et al and night lighting. Advocating for more largess and higher taxes.
So, local officials recommend electing officials who will continue the largess. The voting citizenry takes that advice. Scourges are dismissed. Longterm societal needs are shrugged away.
Next the legislators. Initial campaigns built on what? There are a few that do offer responsible, informed performance. There are too many who would play up with goodies. There are those who would, like CA (enlist local homeless to facilitate votes to enable their party of grifters to continue in power) tip the vote.
Legislators (none or perverted) performance. One has only to watch hearings or note Thune's impacts, to recognize our populous sorry mistakes with their votes. Then add the legislators objectives to avoid accountability on any issue their voters might find offensive from.
To sum it up - what steps can we champion to promote better focused voter assessments and demands?
What steps can we take to demand responsible, capable, statesmen like legislators to select from and support?
Very big orders! But painfully needed for our longterm survival?
I agree that the trend is to ad hoc legislation by the bench, but any notion that judges are neutral is a horse that left the barn a long time ago ... including SCOTUS ... perhaps especially including SCOTUS. The legal system was captured by the left a long time ago.
On the other hand, it can be safely assumed that the founders didn't fear the judicial branch by how little they said about it. Perhaps their gravest mistake.
The Yin Yang of authority. I so like what POTUS is currently getting done with Executive Orders, but it is terrifying to contemplate that authority being controlled by the likes of Kamala Harris. With Democrats at the helm our country we would be overrun with immigration, more manufacturing would be sold to cheap overseas labor with lawlessness, fraud and abuse becoming the norm. DJT is a blunt instrument with a larger than life ego. Yet he is, I believe, the best manager this country has ever had. The real threat to our environment is not fossil fuel emissions. It is human population. 300,000 years to reach one billion. The next 300 years brought our numbers to eight billion. Regardless of religious doctrine, that population curve is unsustainable. As the biomass on earth increasingly takes human form, it comes at the expense of other life forms.
Hoax ? At what number will our population not be wrong ? At the time of the publication you reference our population was roughly 900,000. Now over eight billion you do the math a tell me the future of human population is unlimited. How many is too many ? Do you really believe overfishing and the depopulation of all huntable and harvestable wildlife is attributable to climate change ? I'm not doom forecasting, but the numbers, ( trend ), are not sustainable. The limiting factor is not sealife or ungulate populations, it is biomass.
<<In the span of a year, three major federal actions illustrated the shift.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it never possessed the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks, despite exercising that power since 2009.¹
The Supreme Court blocked a federal vaccine mandate that would have applied to much of the American workforce.¹¹
A presidential order directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to reduce the childhood vaccine schedule.¹⁴>>
Not a gotcha question, just a little confused: Didn't the Supreme Court block the federal vaccine mandate in 2022? Doesn't this fall outside the span of a year?
I remember listening to Sotomayor and Breyer in exchanges with attorneys, and being dismayed by the shallowness of their consideration with respect to fundamental, individual medical sovereignty. As Rand Paul has noted in so many words, there's no more fundamental right than that to choose what is injected into our bodies.
I can see this is a lengthy post for later, and Aaron Siri is pretty upset about a filing from the WH about not giving religious exemptions, (this is the short version). He is on X talking about the filing. HighWire Talk.
Apathetic uninformed voters; poor quality bought-off candidates; lazy legislators; power-mad presidents; massive bureaucracy; gobs of lobbyist, special interest, NGO money; corrupt judges; and a too big to fail system have betrayed America at every level. The courts can’t rein in a system that doesn’t respect the rule of law. And our system does not, not anymore.
Our republic began with an educated, informed and involved citizenry and will perish from lack of same. We consented to supporting public education tasked with providing this necessary product and now that it sees its mission is to bring it down something rather drastic needs doing or we are toast
Agree. Played a card game with other seniors that focused on American history. Enjoyed recalling the history of this beautiful country. Then I asked if the students in high school would enjoy it. Answer: No! They only receive a token education in the history of how this country was created. That is the basic problem.
Don't forget amoral! I think it was John Adams said an amoral people can't self govern themselves. Only those who believe their actions will be judged by a higher power.
For a layperson not well schooled in the language of a lawyer, it is not easy to follow. The deeper problem is most of the regulations are not written by DC government lawyers, but by lawyers employed by special interest groups to carve our and codify a revenue stream that maintains the special interests bottom line. Time and again this is the ploy that is used to maintain market control. The Donut Hole Legislation is a good example. The Senator who introduced the legislation that Congress dutifully passed, resigned and was hired to run the Lobbying Group for Big Pharma at $1 million salary per year. Merck hired away the Vaccine lady at the FDA for $1 million dollar salary to run Merck vaccine program. She is now back at the FDA and can not be fired. What a wonderful world of legal manipulation for profit.
The word...lawyer. As long as our laws are written in language they invent, and are argued by lawyer in same, we will never have clarity or anything resembling fairness. I think there needs to be citizen commissions who are tasked with making our laws and the outpouring of these agencies (the,fewer of them the better) comprehensible and conforming to the principles of natural law which our courts seem to have abandoned
Lawyers in most cases advocate for an identified policy. We need more general thinking among our legislators who will advocate for functioning governance and not merely for a win for a certain idea, ideology, revenue stream, or other. We need a passion for a secure and prosperous nation, beyond this generation, not a partisan feast.
Not only are they written in legalize, but the general public is barely advised of them. We learn they exist when we violate them. Like the Oregon fellow that has learned that the government owns the rain that falls on his property and forbids he collect it.
What? That is outrageous! He can’t retain it on his property?
He evidently put in a couple collection basins to catch some as it fell in case of fire and probable drought. The government landed on him with papers to stop it. That the rain was their property. Here in MD they've established a right to tax the rain that falls on our property that doesn't soak in. Gov politicians (lawyers no doubt among them) are incredible in the lengths they'll go to achieve their ends. The Oregon thing is just being reported. You may come across it.
Next they will control sunshine!
Yep, dealt with that nonsense in Colorado- can only collect 2, 55 gal barrels. AND must be from your roof via a downspout. Ya can't collect any other way.
Others: Utah, Washington, Arkansas, Kansas, and as mentioned by Jean, Oregon. Some require you file a permit too!
https://worldwaterreserve.com/is-it-illegal-to-collect-rainwater/
Thank you! Very helpful. Places not to move to.
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Thank you for this analysis. Structural information that a layperson like myself does not know or appreciate. One of my big concerns is the current crop of judges at all levels. Would also help our futures if we did not generally have a manipulative, bought off media that rarely discusses things of substance affecting us logically.
Law schools teach that justice is fanaticism at the expense of mature reasoning. They are full of drama about pitiable objects and the need to moralize and correct alleged wrongs. Very little historical understanding as well. It is marxian in tone as it adopts the power dynamic of that sinful worldview.
Thank you Dr. Malone. Your essays are not just informative and substantiated. The federal bureaucracy and its' supporters, over time, have seized the opportunity to usurp power from the uninvolved governed. That's the way I see it. I share as much information as I can when I can. My recent comments involve how creepy is the fact that there are rainbows everywhere. Navigation apps don't list a churches category in places of interest.
Thank you for your support, Mike. Sincerely, thank you. It is paid supporters like yourself who get us up in the early AM and keep us working to provide quality, insightful commentary.
Myself as well, internationally too.
Thank you for this very insightful analysis of where we are; accurately generalizing categories from specific instances is not an easy task particularly in such a complex arena. We can thank your resignation from ACIP for allowing this valuable message to be heard. Well done!
I'm sorry, today I am relishing the breeze with my cats in an incredible gazebo. No mosquitoes, no rain to touch me. Just baby bunnies eating clover and frolicking. Chipmonks drinking water from the bird bath. Dusk is so powerful, things settle down often. Sometimes not so settled, a storm is coming thru. What a glorious moment, apart for a moment from the violence all around.
Oh the tangled webs we weave,
Made so specifically to deceive.
My highly plagiarized version!!
A subtle and important analysis. This explains a great deal of confusion about what sort of country we are, or even if we are a discernible polity based on shared assumptions. It certainly explains the growing hostility, frustration, and hints of revolution to finally solve the questions of how we are supposed to be Americans. Much of this is probably the result to loot the government as a way of life and the haves desperately trying to maintain a magical kingdom that mainly works to silence and manipulate the populace upon which their unearned prosperity depends. Our intel agencies serve this purpose and expand their reach to do favors for various partisan constituencies on a pay to play system. This is institutional rot at a very dangerous degree. It also seems to birth radical movements into the vacuum of power abdicated by the failure of our rule making body, the Congress. Certainly transparency and accountability are all the more desperately needed so the people can influence policy to reflect real necessities rather than partisan projects. Prognosis is very worrying. Too bad our education is so poor and there are so many freeloading foreigners clamoring for their own favors.
So check out Sun screen Robert Malone and why it is NOT banned as a known cancer agent
https://X.com/i/status/2064238361322098846
Yes the us sunscreen story is ugly
i have a big UV umbellra but we need vitamin "D" tks for the reply love your Reads
I hear morning sun is best for Vit D absorption and not dealing the worst rays UVA/UVB.
Thank you for this needed discussion! I definirely need to further reflect on the topic.
On the other hand, for me, it dredges up severe disfunctions that heavily need to be addressed today.
I'll start with citizen issues. Focus. With the "help" of our educational system, imo citizen focus is seldom directed to long term needs and outcomes. Prudent debt management appears to be ignored. Discretionary desires are overriding prudent debt management. Local example - huge debt. Moodys (?) downgrade. Proud reports of opening of major skate park, pickleball courts, tennis courts, et al and night lighting. Advocating for more largess and higher taxes.
So, local officials recommend electing officials who will continue the largess. The voting citizenry takes that advice. Scourges are dismissed. Longterm societal needs are shrugged away.
Next the legislators. Initial campaigns built on what? There are a few that do offer responsible, informed performance. There are too many who would play up with goodies. There are those who would, like CA (enlist local homeless to facilitate votes to enable their party of grifters to continue in power) tip the vote.
Legislators (none or perverted) performance. One has only to watch hearings or note Thune's impacts, to recognize our populous sorry mistakes with their votes. Then add the legislators objectives to avoid accountability on any issue their voters might find offensive from.
To sum it up - what steps can we champion to promote better focused voter assessments and demands?
What steps can we take to demand responsible, capable, statesmen like legislators to select from and support?
Very big orders! But painfully needed for our longterm survival?
Many thanks again for this wakeup call!
Thank you, Dr. Malone. And thank you, Dr. Jill Malone, for taking up the slack at the farm so that Robert can accomplish a feat like this.
Jill did her part as editor for this one
You two make such an amazing team!!
How about the one we keep hearing that the IRS doesn’t have the authority to tax us? 🙂
Joseph R. Banister
Investigating The Federal Income Tax: A Report To The American People. In my opinion proof beyond any reasonable doubt, you are correct.
I agree that the trend is to ad hoc legislation by the bench, but any notion that judges are neutral is a horse that left the barn a long time ago ... including SCOTUS ... perhaps especially including SCOTUS. The legal system was captured by the left a long time ago.
On the other hand, it can be safely assumed that the founders didn't fear the judicial branch by how little they said about it. Perhaps their gravest mistake.
The Yin Yang of authority. I so like what POTUS is currently getting done with Executive Orders, but it is terrifying to contemplate that authority being controlled by the likes of Kamala Harris. With Democrats at the helm our country we would be overrun with immigration, more manufacturing would be sold to cheap overseas labor with lawlessness, fraud and abuse becoming the norm. DJT is a blunt instrument with a larger than life ego. Yet he is, I believe, the best manager this country has ever had. The real threat to our environment is not fossil fuel emissions. It is human population. 300,000 years to reach one billion. The next 300 years brought our numbers to eight billion. Regardless of religious doctrine, that population curve is unsustainable. As the biomass on earth increasingly takes human form, it comes at the expense of other life forms.
Malthus published that overpopulation hoax in "An Essay on the Principle of Population", in 1798. It is as wrong today as it was in 1798.
Hoax ? At what number will our population not be wrong ? At the time of the publication you reference our population was roughly 900,000. Now over eight billion you do the math a tell me the future of human population is unlimited. How many is too many ? Do you really believe overfishing and the depopulation of all huntable and harvestable wildlife is attributable to climate change ? I'm not doom forecasting, but the numbers, ( trend ), are not sustainable. The limiting factor is not sealife or ungulate populations, it is biomass.
<<In the span of a year, three major federal actions illustrated the shift.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it never possessed the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks, despite exercising that power since 2009.¹
The Supreme Court blocked a federal vaccine mandate that would have applied to much of the American workforce.¹¹
A presidential order directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to reduce the childhood vaccine schedule.¹⁴>>
Not a gotcha question, just a little confused: Didn't the Supreme Court block the federal vaccine mandate in 2022? Doesn't this fall outside the span of a year?
I remember listening to Sotomayor and Breyer in exchanges with attorneys, and being dismayed by the shallowness of their consideration with respect to fundamental, individual medical sovereignty. As Rand Paul has noted in so many words, there's no more fundamental right than that to choose what is injected into our bodies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk_9nrQs2VI
I can see this is a lengthy post for later, and Aaron Siri is pretty upset about a filing from the WH about not giving religious exemptions, (this is the short version). He is on X talking about the filing. HighWire Talk.