By Steve Woodward

A child accompanied by her mother walked into our local coffee shop on a recent morning. The child, around seven years old, was wearing a black cloth mask. It was 2021 in the blink of an eye. 

Back then, encountering masked-up children with their fear gripped parents, some of them double masked or “fortified” by a plastic face shield, infuriated me and a dwindling number of fellow sane people. You did not have to be a highly trained pediatrician to know, intuitively, that masking tiny mouths and noses posed a respiratory threat, was not sanitary and would surely damage mental health over time.

The medical community knew masking children was wrong, and that masking adults was futile. But many physicians remained silent, or complied with their clients, who generally were not physicians but were equipped with vast knowledge supplied by CNN and The New York Times. A physician told me he had no intention of masking himself or his staff until a patient, a petulant attorney, threatened to report him to the board of health demanding his practice be shuttered.

The relatively brief era of masking was absurd.  It merely provided “Covidiots” an irresistible virtue signaling opportunity. It was actually enjoyable to boycott businesses that enforced masking even at the risk of alienating customers. 

In the present, I feel sorrow for a child who perhaps has grown fond of her mask. I also wonder if said child actually is immunocompromised because of years of masking and isolation imposed by tyrannical adults and their CDC-compliant edicts. Time will inform us what toll China’s bioweapon will take on our children and young adults.

As for the toll exacted by experimental use mRNA injections the time for reckoning is upon us. Do mounting revelations of medical malpractice make you melancholy? Do you feel vindicated because you refused to be jabbed? Or do you feel the way I do? Furious. Vengeful. These are stark emotions. They often bubble up after the fog of war. The title of Dr. Naomi Wolf’s COVID book captured what we endured: “The Bodies of Others: The War Against the Human”.  

We loathed COVID jab tyranny because it was closing businesses, costing people their jobs, their futures. It was damaging the fabric of society, the rhythms of life. It was imperiling the mental health of children isolated from structure, learning and human interaction.

But it was even worse than all of that. How do we know? We know because even corrupt, corporate media outlets are waking up and reporting on the lingering, often fatal, toll of the jabs and boosters rushed into circulation by the pharmaceutical kings and their “science enablers”, and, of course, elected and unelected government enforcers.

“Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening? (The New York Times, May 3, 2024)

Ex-CNN Host Chris Cuomo Makes a Shocking Reversal on COVID (NewsNation cable news, May 7, 2024). He says he is “sick” after complying with jab-mania. 

These are monumental headlines not because they break new ground (independent reporting uncovered the truth about the lab origin of COVID and the inefficacy of jabs during 2023, if not before) but because they tacitly acknowledge that the mainstream media cover-up is finally ending. Naturally, the Times was not about to fully confess its transgressions in its May 3 report. Yes, “thousands of Americans believe they suffered serious side effects following Covid vaccination,” writes the Times’ Apoorva Mandavilli. But, don’t forget this, folks: The jabs were “a triumph of science and public health” and “prevented millions of hospitalizations and deaths.”

Also don’t forget that the “safe and effective” narrative was a lie, 100%. The Times not only interviewed vaccine injury victims but actually quoted some of them, including a Ph.D. neuroscientist who, ironically, was diagnosed with brain damage soon after receiving a Johnson & Johnson COVID jab. 

Notably, an investigation by The Epoch Times goes deeper than vax injuries. Its May 1, 2024 headline confirms that the consequences of medical hubris cost lives and, if there is justice in the world, should cost people their careers and freedom.

EXCLUSIVE: CDC Found Evidence COVID-19 Vaccines Caused Deaths. “CDC officials found evidence that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines caused multiple myocarditis (heart inflammation) deaths before claiming that there was no evidence linking the vaccines to any deaths.” 

Similar headlines are sprouting like weeds lately. Consider the rise and fall of the Astra Zeneca jab.

AstraZeneca Admits COVID Vaxx Can Cause Clots (The National Pulse, April 30, 2024)

AstraZeneca withdraws Covid vaccine worldwide (The Independent, May 8, 2024). What a coincidence.

How long before the other pharmaceutical profit mongers pull back their perilous “vaccines”? When will the next needle drop? Meanwhile, light is exposing many dark subplots connected to the COVID jab scandal. 

To the north, another consequence of injections never subjected to lab trials: Canadian Gov’t Database Reveals Catastrophic Reproductive Damage to Men and Women Post-mRNA Vaccine Rollout (Daily Clout, April 29, 2024)

Brownstone Institute, purveyor of one of the most comprehensive digital archives of COVID reporting, recently posted a comprehensive deep dive on the many black holes into which federal COVID financial “relief” disappeared, approximated at $200 billion. While small businesses never saw much if any, drug gangs, racketeers, woke university researchers and administrators clamoring for community and school surveillance systems raked it in. “Post-Covid America is a little more like a Chinese surveillance state than in the Before Times,” writes Daniel Nuccio for Brownstone (May 5, 2024).

Equally troubling is our now broader understanding of how committed officials were to covering up the origin of the virus and how it was unleashed due to reckless gain-of-function lab experiments. None were more brazen than Dr. Anthony Fauci, a career virologist who wanted nothing more than a pandemic to enrich himself, his colleagues and the pharmaceutical cartels. Dr. Francis Collins, head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was complicit, too, but retired abruptly to avoid accountability.

And then there is the despicable Dr. Peter Daszak, president of the federally funded EcoHealth Alliance, which did the NIH’s dirty work. A May 1, 2024, House Select Subcommittee hearing, featuring Daszak’s testimony, determined that “EcoHealth violated the terms and conditions of its NIH grant by failing to report a potentially dangerous gain-of-function experiment conducted at the (Wuhan, China, Institute of Virology). Evidence shows that Dr. Daszak was aware of this potentially dangerous research, yet he failed to inform the NIH,” reported John Leake in a post for DailyClout.io on May 3, 2024.

None of these monsters — Daszak, Collins, Fauci and other instigators — have been charged with crimes, and probably are off the hook. In fact, in PharmaWorld researchers are working at warp speed to adapt mRNA jabs as cancer treatments, if not “cures”. Independent journalist Jessica Rose explains the end game: cancer patients lining up again for mRNA jabs without regard for their inherent danger.

By now, with corrupt mainstream media joining forces with the many heroic independent journalists who have emerged since 2020 (Alex Berenson, Ian Miller, Steve Kirsch, Robert Malone, Rose and Wolf), we might have reason to be optimistic that the medical and quasi-governmental tyrants are taking a break to allow collective outrage to cool. Don’t be too sure.

Later this month, the World Health Organization is convening its annual meeting to rekindle aspirations toward the establishment of a New World Order. A key element is a so-called global pandemic treaty between the nations of the world. It’s nothing to worry about, says the WHO. It merely would empower the WHO to control and dictate responses to the next, inevitable, (and glorious) pandemic.

On cue, back in the U.S., the CDC has issued initial “findings” as to the “pandemic potential” of the bird flu virus. The CDC is floating the “if” scenario. If bird flu transfers from birds to humans (impossible, until it’s not) … the impact could be “100 times worse than COVID.” 

The tyrants are betting that they will readily quell our emotional responses — fury and vengeance — to their COVID-era manipulation. How? With another orchestrated tsunami of fear taking flight on the wings of bird flu. And what do you know? An election season is upon us.

By Steve Woodward

After a standing ovation swept him toward the podium, Rep. Richard Hudson greeted constituents assembled in a church’s meeting hall on the occasion of North Carolina’s Ninth Congressional District Republican convention.

Hudson might have been expected to rally core volunteers who reside in the six counties that comprise the Ninth in this critical election cycle — possibly the last chance Republicans will have to impede the downfall of our nation, and sustain the world’s indispensable beacon of freedom.

He is not known as a rousing orator but Hudson was particularly subdued on this April afternoon inside Asheboro’s Sunset Avenue Church of God. We all get it. The halls of Congress are toxic. It is the Garden of Good and Evil. Being one of the good guys is hard work.

But that’s what we elect Hudson and fellow Republicans to do in Washington. To defy the Left, stand in the breech, take the arrows. With our culture eroding and our economic foundation crumbling, this is not the time to come home looking for sympathy.

Hudson’s objective for being on hand, other than obligation, apparently was to deliver a civics lesson. Those who actually paid attention noted a tone and tenor of frustration toward Republicans who are not universally pleased by recent House passage of a $1.2 trillion bill to avert a “government shutdown” until the next one looms in September.

Said Hudson, “72 percent of the bill funds the military.” Technically, that’s fairly accurate but nothing extraordinary. These government funding bills always are weighted toward defense spending. Conversely, the Democrat-fueled narrative that a government shutdown imperils military defense of national interests is false. When shutdowns occur — sometimes, they are necessary, which we will explain shortly — soldiers are paid (on a deferred basis), social entitlement checks are delivered, and layers of bureaucrats do us the favor of staying home.

We know there are members of Congress who understand what fellow Republicans demand at this tenuous moment in history because we see them come to the fore when the status quo defenders begin closing their ranks. We see unrelenting North Carolinian Dan Bishop, Florida’s Matt Gaetz, Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene, Colorado’s Lauren Boebert and tough-as-nails Texan Chip Roy, illuminating the rampant hypocrisy. We saw 112 Republicans vote “no”, in fact.

This is not the time for lectures about “making choices in a divided government”. That was Hudson’s defense of this spending bill that only a Democrat could love — as evidenced by its immediate passage by the Dem-controlled Senate.

If House Speaker Mike Johnson possessed the leadership instincts to meet the moment, not one penny would have been allocated to any program until the U.S. southern border was shut down. Completely. Every port of entry. Every Non-Governmental Organization-supported processing center. Every charter flight into the homeland.

Instead, the border remains wide open. And, even if you turn a blind eye to the ongoing security crisis it poses, to the murders of innocent Americans where they live, work and go to school, and to the deadly toll of unfettered fentanyl that crosses with the young savages, even if all for this does not infuriate you, then where do you turn for solace? In what happens to those who are spared?

What is their reward in the Faustian bargain? They live to see the implosion of the U.S. economy when the federal debt bomb finally detonates.

“This bill affirms and funds (Joe) Biden’s open border invasion,” a statement issued by Rep. Bishop warned after its passage on March 22, 2024. “At this very moment, Biden is allowing illegal immigrants to pour across our border and is using your tax dollars to sow disorder and chaos in our communities.

“The bill is also chock-full of earmarks that fund the radical Left’s cultural indoctrination crusade against our children and families. They are selling our children and grandchildren deeper down the swirling debt spiral.”

That’s what we did not hear last Saturday in Asheboro. From Rep. Hudson we heard complaints that social media distorts his record. We heard that the spending bill funds more border patrol agents (it actually funds the recruitment of agents without a timeline specified); funds more beds (7,500) for detainees, who are detained until they are turned over to Catholic Charities, and similar organizations, which send them into the night by the busloads.

The 101 Republicans who voted for an open border to keep an open (dysfunctional) government cheered a $27 billion funding increase for the Department of Defense. But just guess what concessions Johnson and his loyal lieutenants did not demand in return:

• An end to funding inter-state travel by military personnel seeking abortions when they can’t abort a birth where they are based;
• An end to transgender “care” (mutilation surgery) for DOD personnel and related agencies;
• Defunding of the DOD’s offices dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion
  
  Also hidden away in the 1,012-page theft manual (bill) were obscene earmarks running the gamut from the funding of programs to advance “climate resilience” and “equity in manufacturing” (how’s that working for Boeing?).
  
  Rep. Hudson did not address the earmarks but he did remind the room that he is third in line to become House Speaker. Rather than continuing to audition we’d have been much more impressed had he simply voted “no” on the bill and focused less on Civics 101 and more on critical analysis.
  
  “All I think about is how we can win,” Rep. Hudson said.
  
  Worthy as that is if it’s at the expense of Democrats, it’s also not very reassuring for dialed-in Americans who see federal debt surging toward $35 trillion, who read in The Wall Street Journal that “the federal budget deficit for the first six months of fiscal 2024, ending in March, was $1.064 trillion” fueled by $3.25 trillion in total outlays, and that interest payments on debt across those same six months are $440 billion, which “exceeded the $412 billion in outlays for defense.”
  
  In the face of this grim reality that sentences future generations to debt enslaved serfdom, for which we assign blame in equal measure to members of both parties, why stand up when our elected servants walk into a room? Why do we even clap? We should be using the backs of our hands.
  
  
  

By Steve Woodward

Donald J. Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, is a dominant news story this week. One of the truths Trump articulated a few years ago is as true now as then.

“Everything woke,” he said, “turns to (crap).”

The Left is intent on ruining everything. Miserable tyrants, they are determined to destroy every sacred tradition, every norm. The Left is committed to vilifying anyone who does not comply with or embrace its new rules for living. Living has little to do with the Leftist agenda.

In fact, there is likely more dying to be expected. Woke / Diversity, Equity and Inclusion compromise U.S. armed forces and law enforcement, deprioritizing homeland security. The presumption of law and order is racist. 

A must read is the March 24, 2024, op-ed by Andy Kessler published by The Wall Street Journal, “The Lost Era of Reliability”. 

“Our electricity used to be so steady that plugged-in wall clocks rarely needed adjusting,” Kessler writes. “That’s funny now because power outages are so commonplace. Heck, we now schedule rolling blackouts in California — forced failure.

“Back then, the electric grid and phone system were designed for “five 9s” or 99.999% reliability—five minutes of unscheduled downtime a year. Last month, AT&T’s cellular network went down for around 11 hours. No TikTok? The horror. AT&T provided $5 credits to customers. Thanks for nothing. Today’s reality is that we’re preconditioned to accept failure.”

If it’s not failure it’s folly. We learned recently that organizers of the Paris Olympic Games deliberately constructed an athletes’ village in which housing units are not air conditioned. Vive la planet!

The agenda driven media and woke professional leagues have been at work for many years to erode the enjoyment once derived from participating in and consuming sports. ESPN does not defend on-air personalities who are lambasted for rejecting the insane notion of men legitimately competing in women’s sports. Sports Illustrated essentially put itself out of business by sacrificing journalism at the woke altar. USA Today pays a sports department staffer, Mike Freeman (photo nearby), whose title is “race and inequality editor”. Yes, but can he read a box score? Does he know golf’s Rule 9.1? Does he know the role of a nickel defensive back? He’s fine with the latter, as long as the back is black.

Now along comes the April 2024 edition of Architectural Digest (AD). AD always has been a favorite guilty pleasure. I’ve enjoyed the indulgence of it, the brilliant photography, stunning designs, intricate patterns, and luxurious fabrics. The architects and their clients made for captivating reading, too. What must life be like when it’s lived in a parallel universe? When priorities are finding the perfect end table, a precisely curated hue from a pallet of color, wooden beams from a wrecked ship, or creating the most obnoxious man cave money can buy? 

That said, AD began to annoy me years ago, long before the April issue dedicated to Earth Month. At some point in time, the editorial decision was handed down that homes featured in the magazine must be owned, predominantly, by gay couples. “His husband insisted on marble over granite in the mid-19^th century kitchen.”

The latest introductory letter by the AD editor-in-chief confirms my fear that I am actually subscribing to Archenemy Digest. To wit:

“In the face of climate change and the myriad obstacles to living an individually and collectively earth-friendly lifestyle, it’s understandable to feel overwhelmed and even defeated, but I found this month’s (issue) … full of hope and encouragement.”

Conversely, I found this month’s issue to be an unbearable combination of virtue signaling and self-righteousness.

A profile of climate change activist and eco-chic homeowner Amber Valletta fails to note that during a long career as a supermodel she burned millions of miles of jet fuel traversing the globe aboard private jets. AD focuses instead of her stellar record of arrests when protesting alongside Jane Fonda in Washington, D.C.

Valletta’s hilltop Los Angeles home is “a model of sustainability” with its thermal-insulated, double-glazed windows (required by California law), clay plastered, naturally pigmented interior walls (because paint emits volatile, cancer-causing compounds), natural fiber carpets and a desert garden that requires little water.

The owner says her home feels like “a sanctuary”. But do not expect breaking news that Valletta is planning to take in any of the 75,000-plus homeless in Los Angeles County. Remember, it’s the planet that must be saved. Actual human beings? Not so much.

The Valletta eco-vault sounds more like an asylum, or a minimum security prison. Thankfully, were are spared details as to what is stored in the refrigerator, if there is one. Nothing from the garden, obviously. 

By Steve Woodward

If you have not yet encountered one of the most articulate voices of American conservatism in our time, I implore you to get to know Charlie Kirk. He’s syndicated weekdays nationwide across the Salem radio network; others consume Kirk’s analysis by podcast on the Real America’s Voice streaming platform. The radio show and podcast are delivered simultaneously.

Against headwinds of corrupt corporate media, Marxist-infested college campuses and the destructive shadow government behind the Biden regime, Kirk is unfaltering. I predict his influence on the American political landscape will rival Rush Limbaugh’s.

Kirk’s programming is guided by current events, which come at us with blinding speed. But few are as intellectually nimble as Kirk. He is consistently capable of stepping back from the vortex to distill complexity into clarity. 

A recent, captivating example was Kirk’s unearthing of a 1960s theory put forth by two academic elitists, Richard Cloward and Frances Piven, a married couple on the staff of Columbia University. The Cloward-Piven Strategy has been dissected repeatedly since its perpetrators hatched it in 1966.

And they were perpetrators, to be sure. Cloward and Piven did not merely publish a white paper to stir debate; they saw to it that their strategy was embraced and ultimately adopted in New York City across the decade ahead. It is well documented that the adoption of the “strategy” by activist New York politicians caused a surge of newly enrolled welfare recipients that sent the city barreling toward bankruptcy by 1975.

This was not a mere consequence. This was the desired outcome. They broke the very system they claimed was unjust toward minorities. Poverty was systemic. Does that sound familiar?

Today, we’re seeing the “strategy” engaged not merely to collapse a system but a way of life, our way of life, and to fray the fabric of a nation and trample its values. 

In a matter of a few years we’ve seen our national economy flooded by unsustainable levels of new money, freshly printed. And we’ve seen our homeland flooded by illegal immigrants by the millions, perhaps as many as 10 million since 2021. 

To what end? Toward the mass destabilization of the United States of America. In step with this destabilization came the demoralization of the masses by all means available. One was decidedly organic — pandemic restrictions that were temporary until they became permanent and pervasive. Others are concocted and advanced via social media – cancel culture, transgenderism, equity, lawlessness, and, most recently, antisemitism.

Kirk sees it as a cultural and political “autoimmune response”. When a human being’s autoimmunity is compromised normal cells are attacked, having become undistinguishable from foreign cells. In a similar manner, the Left is effectively triggering countrymen to use our core values against themselves, Kirk says. If we believe that “diversity is our strength” how can we deny entry to undocumented swarms of humanity at the border? And how can we possibly deport them in the future? If all men are created equal, why should we need borders?

What used to be common sense, lawful and decent is turned on its head. A secure border is racist. Law enforcement enforcing law is racist. Jews are not God’s people. They are racist occupiers, Palestinian colonizers. Donald Trump’s business empire is a con job, a Ponzi scheme, a racist enterprise that must implode. 

Unless every norm is subverted, every system overburdened, and every U.S. dollar is owed to foreign creditors, the strategy fails. But in this moment, it does not appear that it will. Fail.  

Fortunately, the American people only can be pushed so far, and we have stood on the brink, undeterred, on many occasions throughout our relatively brief history. We fought a brutal civil war to end Democrat Party endorsed slavery. Some fifty years later, our military might ended a world war, and, in no time the U.S. economy was roaring into the 1920s. 

It is arguable that a Cloward-Piven ideology (embraced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt) extended the Great Depression across a decade from 1929 to the onset of World War II. FDR’s New Deal destabilized the economy, making it harder to restore job creation in the private sector and jump start a recovery. Welfare was rampant but the U.S. economy remained unwell.

Remarkably, what undid the Cloward-Piven wrecking ball unleashed in 1966 was 30 years in the making and seems to prove once again what Winston Churchill once said about Americans. He said that we always do the right thing after exhausting all other possibilities.

As recently as 1996, an American President, Bill Clinton, and a divided Congress, united to declare that the nation’s welfare system was a trainwreck by enacting The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Clinton’s signature ended welfare as a permanent entitlement and required recipients to be employed within two years of receiving benefits. 

We might, understandably, find it unimaginable that a 1996 moment in time is remotely conceivable nearly 30 more years later. But we have hope that Cloward-Piven’s toxic strategy will again be derailed. We have Churchill’s confidence in American resolve, that we always gravitate to the right choice.

And we have Trump voters.