The Weekly Sam: How to Use Education Reform Effectively as a Campaign Issue By Samuel L. Blumenfeld

All candidates for office promise to “improve education,” but when they are elected, they
haven’t the faintest idea of how to proceed from there. That’s because the whole idea of
education reform is based more on the deliberate falsehoods produced by the educators
than on the reality of why our schools are the way they are.

I have been writing critically about education for the last forty years. My books include
The New Illiterates, How to Tutor, Alpha-Phonics, NEA: Trojan Horse in American
Education, The Whole Language Fraud, Homeschooling: A Parents Guide to
Teaching Children, The Victims of Dick and Jane, and Revolution via Education.

In those books I showed that every problem we have in public education today has been
deliberately caused by the educators themselves, and that no true education reform is
possible as long as we rely on the educators to create and implement those reforms.
Here are the realities that you as a candidate or concerned citizen should be aware of:

1. The public schools were taken over in the early 20th century by a cabal of progressive
educators whose goal it was to use the schools as a means of turning children into little
socialists who would then bring about a socialist society. The plan for all of this was
outlined by John Dewey in an article entitled “The Primary-Education Fetich”
written in 1898 and published in Forum magazine, May 1898. In it, Dewey
advocated changing the way children were taught to read so that they could be
deliberately dumbed-down. High literacy was considered an obstacle to socialism
because it developed independent, individualistic intelligence not conducive to
collectivist group think.

2. The new “sight” or “look-say” method of teaching reading was put in the schools in
the 1930s, and by 1955 the reading situation had become so bad that Dr. Rudolf Flesch
was compelled to write Why Johnny Can’t Read. In it he explained, “The teaching of
reading–all over the United States, in all the schools, in all the textbooks–is totally
wrong and flies in the face of all logic and common sense.” And believe it or not, the
situation is as bad today as it was in 1955. In fact, in 2007 the National Endowment for
the Arts issued a report on America’s declining literacy, Reading at Risk. Endowment
Chairman Dana Gioia stated: “This is a massive social problem. We are losing the
majority of the new generation. They will not achieve anything close to their
potential because of poor reading.”

3. In order to implement these new socialist programs in the schools, the Progressive
Cabal decided to take over the National Education Association and turn it into a powerful
political instrument in order to pressure the Federal Government to pour billions of
dollars into the public schools. Their success has been achieved. Back in 1967, the
NEA’s executive secretary proclaimed: “NEA will become a political power second to no
other special interest group….NEA will organize this profession from top to bottom into
logical operational units that can move swiftly and effectively and with power unmatched
by any other organized group in the nation.” In short, the NEA is a political
organization attached to the radical left-wing of the Democratic party.

4. The Progressive program has been fully implemented in the public schools, paid for
by the taxpayer who is barely aware of what is going on. Thus American children are at
risk in four ways in the public schools: academically, spiritually, morally, and physically.
Academically because of the reading programs that create dyslexia and reading failure;
spiritually, because of the undermining of the children’s religious beliefs through the
philosophy of secular humanism; morally, because pornographic sex ed, drug ed, and
moral relativism; and physically, because of school shootings and massacres, violence,
and school-bus accidents.

5. So what is a conservative candidate to do or say when it comes to education? He or
she must support the idea of educational freedom, the right of parents to home-school,
and the right of entrepreneurs and religious denominations to create good private schools.
A conservative can support the idea of the charter school, which in reality is a public
school, provided that the charter issuing board will approve of schools with traditional
teaching programs.

As for the public schools, the conservative candidate should advocate the complete
reform of the primary school curriculum so that it includes intensive, systematic phonics,
cursive writing instruction, and basic arithmetic. It is in the primary school where the
greatest damage is done to the children. Therefore a detailed plan to completely revamp
the primary school curriculum should be the basic educational reform offered by a
conservative candidate. Such advocacy would be an excellent way to gain the support of
parents in the community. It would be very difficult for your opponents to argue against
such reforms.

(Editor’s Note: This article was written over 20 years ago but stands the test of time. For more articles like this, and PDF versions of most of Sam’s books, please visit the Sam Blumenfeld Archive:  http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm

The Blumenfeld Archives

Hey Southern Poverty Law Center: Get Your Hate Straight

Back in February, we became aware that the well-funded Southern Poverty Law Center  (SPLC) has placed Camp Constitution on its infamous “Hate Map” listings us an anti-government group.  However, they have us listed in Charlotte, North Carolina.

 

We went to the website of SPLC explaining to them that we are a New Hampshire based organization and they need to make a correction.  We added that an organization that receives millions of dollars from scared white liberals and woke corporations should be able to afford staffers that could have easily verified our proper address.  We explained that our camp manager, who formerly resided in Rindge, NH moved to Charlotte a number of years ago, and the only reason why his address is on the website is due to the fact that he manages the applications for our annual family camp.  We told SPLC that he is an elderly man living with his wife, and we didn’t want them to be targets of some of SPLC’s more violent supporters.  Back in 2012, one of SPLC’s supporters Floyd Le Corkins II tried to conduct a mass shooting of the D.C. based Family Research Council because SPLC had the group on their hate map.  We received an acknowledgement of our message, but they took no action.

Yesterday, Thursday September 5, 2024, I placed a call to SPLC asking them to make a correction.  (Sadly, as mentioned in an earlier blog, our camp manager, co-founder, friend and mentor, Charlie Everett passed away.)   Here is an audio of that call and conversation:  https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal/episodes/2024-09-05T16_58_33-07_00  My conversation with the SPLC staffer begins at about 5:01.

While there are indeed many hate groups, most of which are on the Left side of the political spectrum and not included in the SPLC’s hate map, SPLC lumps legitimate hate groups like Neo-Nazis with hundreds of conservative and Chrisitan groups whose only crime is to be hated by the Marxists who run the SPLC.  We think Camp Constitution was placed on the SPLC’s hate list due to our lawsuit against the City of Boston which we won in a 9-0 U.S. Supreme Court decision http://www.lc.org/flag 

We consider is a badge of honor to be listed by the SPLC and say to like-minded groups -with tongue in cheek have not made the list: “You need to hate harder.”  We also want to acknowledge that the Granite Grok is on the SPLC’s hate map.

 

 

 

 

 

The Heatwave of 1910-1911 Halley’s Comet and the Titanic by Tony Heller

 

Climate historian Tony Heller discusses the heat wave of 1910-1911 which led to icebergs melting and the sinking of the Titanic.  Temperatures in Maine got up to 112 degrees and thousands died- facts that the high priests of today’s climate cult refuse to acknowledge.

 

Mr. Heller’s; website is realclimatescience.com

Tony’s bio from his website:

My name is Tony Heller. I am a whistle blower. I am an independent thinker who is considered a heretic by the orthodoxy on both sides of the climate debate.

I live in Columbia, Maryland – an amazing city where I can ride my bicycle everywhere through the forest, and never need to get in a car.

I am a lifelong environmentalist. I testified at my first Congressional subcommittee hearing at age 15 in Kanab, Utah, in support of a wilderness area – very close to the one which President Obama recently set aside. I worked to get the Clean Air Act passed. I worked as a volunteer wilderness ranger for two summers in the Cibola and Santa Fe National Forests in New Mexico. I worked on the Safety Analysis Report for DOE’s nuclear waste disposal site in New Mexico. I probably have the smallest electricity bill in Columbia, Maryland because I am very careful not to waste. I have never turned on my heat or air conditioning.

I have degrees in Geology and Electrical Engineering and worked on the design team of many of the world’s most complex designs, including some which likely power your PC or Mac. I have worked as a contract software developer on climate and weather models for the US government.

I do not receive any funding other than small donations on my blog, which have worked out well below minimum wage. I have tried to obtain funding, but skeptics with money are terrified of political attacks directed by the White House and/or being targeted by the IRS. They openly state this to me.

The Weekly Sam: Sam’s Most Important Work-“Alpha-Phonics”

  Our late friend and mentor Sam Blumenfeld authored over 12 books but his most important in my opinion, was his Alpha-Phonics. Since the creation of the Sam Blumenfeld Archives, thousands of people around the world but mainly in the United States have downloaded this book.  When visiting the archives and clicking onto the link to Alpha-Phonics, this letter comes up:

” Welcome to the “Alpha-Phonics workbook by Samuel L. Blumenfeld. This book has been used by thousands of parents who have taught their children to be excellent readers, which includes my children. It is arranged in 128 easy to follow lessons. Sam rightfully pointed out that pictures of puppets popping out of trash cans are not needed to teach children how to read. This book may also be used for adults who have been taught the whole word or look-say method and therefore are functionally illiterate.

While this is a free resource, we would like to be able to make this resource known far and wide. A donation of $3.00 would go a long way, and you can donate more to help our cause, too. Go to https://campconstitution.net/product/alpha-phonics-workbook/ to acquire it.  Additional donations to the Camp can be made via your PayPal account accessed from our website’s homepage: https://www.campconstitution.net

Hal Shurtleff, Director Camp Constitution 

We encourage readers to share this resource far and wide.  Hard copies are available via our on-line shop:  Alpha-Phonics By Sam Blumenfeld | campconstitution.net

 

We The People By Kevin Bushey Tactical Civics Aroostook County, ME Chapter

It’s the first line of our Constitution. But do we really know what it means?
Dave Zuniga, author of the 2024 book, Now When We Rise, searched for years to discover the
meaning of these 3 words handed down by our founding fathers as they created our U.S.
Constitution. Zuniga states:

“Now I have a definition of We the People; of the collective sovereign as the first chief justice of
the supreme Court, John Jay, called us in his ruling in Chisolm v. Georgia, the first important
ruling of our servant high court. We The People refers only to the subpopulation of Americans
who take responsibility to oversee our servants and to enforce the Constitution against violations
by those servants, at all levels from school boards to DC.”

This supreme Court ruling is packed with some truly revealing facts. First, Americans are a
collective sovereign that requires individuals to work “collectively” to maintain its sovereign
status. And what is the first order of business? Enforcing the supreme law of the land and that
happens to be our U.S. Constitution. Equally important is the fact that every state has a state
Constitution. When an elected official repeats their oath of office, they commit themselves to
upholding, protecting and defending the Constitution (and their state Constitution for state
offices).

Secondly, it emphasizes the term “subpopulation of Americans who take responsibility to
oversee our servants and enforce the Constitutions”. What does this mean? I believe the court is
saying, the subpopulation of “We the People” are the enforcers (the bosses) of elected officials
who are our servants, NOT the current system that federal and state governments operate by
where they do as they please in ignoring the constitutions and nobody holds them accountable
for violating their oaths. That has to change. And no Presidential election will do that. It will
require We The People, as collective sovereigns, to stand up to the cabals of DC right down to
our local towns and enforce constitutional governance.

So, how do we learn how to implement such a plan? Zuniga, along with his brain trust of
repentant men, have created a long term plan, called Tactical Civics. The goal of TACTICAL
CIVICS™ is to restore a repenting remnant of We the People to implement constitution
enforcement utilizing the two law enforcement tools stipulated in the Constitution. One of the
first objectives is to launch and build a TACTICAL CIVICS™ chapter in every county.
Aroostook County has a chapter. Learn more about the mission, goals and objectives and how
you become a chapter member by visiting https://tacticalcivics.com. You can contact us via
email at: tcaroostook@gmail.com

The Weekly Sam: Dumbed-Down Brits Victims of Progressive Education By Samuel L. Blumenfeld

Jay Leno, in his amusing Jay Walking adventures, interviews young Americans whose
appalling ignorance of history, geography, and other areas of basic knowledge, has
become the subject of great hilarity. Many of them couldn’t tell you who was buried in
Grant’s tomb.

But now we learn from across the pond that young Brits have been so dumbed-down that
23 percent of them believe that Winston Churchill was a mythical figure, and 58 percent
believe that Sherlock Holmes was a real person.

According to the Boston Herald (2/6/08), seventy-seven percent of these clucks readily
admit that they don’t read history books, and three out of five never watch historical
programs on television. Of course, the reason why they don’t read history books is
because they are functionally illiterate.

In fact, a new book, The Great Reading Disaster, has just recently been published in
England exposing the fact that young Brits are taught to read with the dyslexia-producing
Whole Language method, which has also become the present ruin of American education.
The authors, Mona McNee and Alice Coleman, write: “Forcing children to read whole
words by the look-say method is like telling young piano learners to play a piece in the
correct tempo, without being taught the individual notes or the significance of their stave
positions….It is cruel to inflict such frustration on children and the cruelty is not
restricted to childhood. It is even more cruel and humiliating when it leaves people
illiterate for life.”

Even Margaret Thatcher couldn’t get the educators to change their ways, though she
appointed a Committee of Inquiry to investigate the teaching of reading in the schools.
Apparently, the Progressives were clever enough to pay lip-service to phonics, ridiculing
their advocates, but meanwhile continuing to support the whole-word method.
We’ve experienced the same situation here in the U.S. where No Child Left Behind was
supposed to change the way reading is taught in American schools. In fact, a special
billion-dollar reading initiative was passed by Congress to get phonics back into the
schools. But the educators charged the government with a bias in reading instruction,
which was discriminatory against Whole Language educators. And from what I have
been told by teachers in the field, Whole Language is still the dominant way reading is
taught in American schools.

The two British authors write: “It took 40 years to produce the first six million adult
illiterates but only another ten to increase the total to nine million. The annual rate has
doubled.”

And the reason why nothing will change despite the alarm sounded by this new book is
because of the tight control that the Progressives have over the entire British education
system. According to the Sunday Telegraph of June 27, 1993, the controlling cabal is
called the All Souls Group, which holds its “clandestine thrice-yearly meetings” in an
oak-paneled room at Oxford University.

No minutes are kept of the meetings and no papers or public statements ever emerge.
The discussions over evening sherry or dinner are protected by Chatham House Rules
which dictate proceedings are off the record. Chatham House is the British equivalent of
our Council on Foreign Relations. Membership is by invitation and the criteria are
shrouded in mystery.

Does such a secret education establishment exist in the United States? It does. It is
called the Cleveland Conference and was organized in 1915 by Prof. Charles Judd, head
of the University of Chicago School of Education, where William Scott Gray concocted
the Dick and Jane look-say, whole word, reading program. In his book, Managers of
Virtue, David Tyack writes:

[Judd] had a vision that both the structure of the schools and the curriculum
needed radical revision but that change would take place “in the haphazard
fashion that has characterized our school history unless some group gets together
and undertakes, in a cooperative way, to coordinate reforms.”

It is easy enough to follow the machinations of the Progressives by simply reading the
annual reports of the National Society for the Study of Education, founded in 1901. This
is the gathering place of the educational elite, and their annual reports can be found in
any university library.

For American parents, the only way to free themselves from the stranglehold of the
Progressive elite is to remove their children from the government schools and either
educate them at home or place them in a private school based on traditional principles
and teaching methods. As for the Brits, we hope that the new book awakens enough of
them to break the hold of the All Souls Group. But don’t hold your breath.

(This article was written in 2008 and can be found in the Sam Blumenfeld Archives along with most of Mr. Blumenfeld’s writings–Ed)  A link to the archives http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm

The Blumenfeld Archives

Books You Are Not Supposed To Read

 

This list I have compiled isn’t in any particular order, except the last book, and are just a handful of many books that may reenforce, challenge and/or change the readers’ worldview.  All of them are either in print and/or available on Amazon except one which have been banned by Amazon but available from its publisher.

Richard Nixon The Man Behind the Mask

As a young junior high school conservative, I defended Richard Nixon against my liberal classmates.  At the age of twenty-nine, a friend loaned me Nixon:  The Man Behind the Mask by Gary Allen.   Allen points out that Nixon was not a conservative to say the least.   Under the Nixon Administration, we got the unconstitutional Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which has wreaked havoc on American manufacturing.  He opened up Communist China which eventually led, not only to diplomatic recognition, but to Communist China’s global dominance.  Nixon allowed technological transfers to the Soviet Union making it possible for the Soviets make nuclear missiles with multiple warheads.  After reading the book, I stopped defending Nixon.  This book opened my eyes to the influence and power of what is now known as the Deep State.

 

 The Best Enemy Money Can Buy:

This book, written by Professor Anthony Sutton of the Hoover Institute, documents how    elements in our U.S. government have been funding, aiding, and abetting The Soviet Union even before the Bolshevik Revolution.  We are still aiding and abetting our enemies.  Sutton wrote a series of books that I also recommend including Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler and Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution.

 

Memoirs by David Rockefeller

Published in 2002, Memoirs, is an autobiography of David Rockefeller whom I consider one of evilest Americans that lived in the last 100 years. (Armand Hammer, Henry Kissinger, and Zbigniew Brzezinski are three more.)   Why do I draw that conclusion?  In David’s own words from his biography:

“For more than a century, ideological extremists, at either end of the political spectrum, have seized upon well-publicized incidents, such as my encounter with Castro, to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal, working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists,’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years……It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past centuries.”

Rockefeller makes an admission of treason, but the Department of Justice wasn’t interested in prosecuting him.

The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin

I had the honor of helping to sponsor a speaking tour of the author back in the mid-1990s.  This powerful and well documented book exposes how the Federal Reserve Bank was created in complete secrecy.  It explains how the Fed creates money out of thin air, how it manipulate the economy, how it is an instrument of war, and that the Fed is not an arm of the U.S. government but a cartel between bankers-not your local bank, however- and the government.

 

 

The Health Hazards of Homosexuality

This book, like most books that present factual info on this subject, have been banned from Amazon.  Most Americans have been bullied into silence lest they be accused of being called some type of “phobe” with new phobias being minted on a regular basis.  We are not supposed to bring up facts like those who engage in unsafe sexual practices generally have shorter lifespans that those who don’t.   Indeed, we are told by governments at all levels that we must celebrate these lifestyles and governments are spending millions of dollars doing just that.  Thankfully, those that lead this movement have been experiencing some pushback.  A book like this will help those pushing back with much needed information.  The book is available from Mass Resistance:  massresistance.org

 

 Death by Government by R.J. Rummel

This book, authored by a liberal professor from the University of Hawaii, demonstrates the deadliness of government.  Professor Rummel proves that more people have been murdered by totalitarian governments in the 20th century in peacetime than in all of the wars of the 20th Century.  Professor Rummel coined the word “democide.”

 Tornado In a Junkyard

This book, authored by a friend and a former atheist, and written in layman’s terms, refutes evolution, one the most destructive ideas that mankind has faced leading to the loss of faith in God. While Mr. Perloff doesn’t claim that all evolutionists are racist, he shows the readers its racist roots.  Perloff also points out that evolution influenced Joe Stalin leading him to reject Christianity and embrace communism.

 

 

Christianity and the Constitution The Faith of Our Founding Fathers

Colonel John Eidsmoe, a friend and Constitutional attorney, refutes the argument that the framers of the U.S Constitution were deists.  He makes the case that John Calvin was one of the founders of the United States.  Calvin, of course, lived long before the U.S. but his Biblical concept of innate depravity led to the founders to have a separation of powers.  Colonel Eidsmoe contents that the U.S. Constitution could only have been written by those with a Christian worldview.  John Adams affirms Colonel Eidsmoe when he said the  U.S. Constitution is for a “moral and religious” people.

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

This book is an antidote for self-loathing whites who believe that our nation’s founders were all white supremacist who invented slavery.  Professor Thomas Sowell, now a nonagenarian, writes that slavery has been around since recorded history and that it wasn’t until close to the end of slavery was racism used to justify it.  He also explains how Muslins introduced slavery to Black Africa and  Great Britian, and the United States had a leading role in ending slavery.  I also recommend his YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhSaV999ZAA

Debunking Howard Zinn  Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America

Mary Grabar, a Camp Constitution instructor, exposes the blatant anti-Americanism promoted by Howard Zinn.  Zinn’s book,  Peoples History of the US. has been used in our nation’s government schools to promote a hatred of our nation and its history.  Zinn has a particular hatred of Christopher Columbus   Mary sets the record straight on the great explorer.

 

The U.S. Constitution

While not a book, it is something that most elected officials, especially those at the federal level, don’t want you to read this because it will show that they, while claiming to uphold it, have been spending most their political careers, violating it.  Don’t believe me?   Just get on a mailing list of any of our federal elected officials.  Almost everything they brag about in their E-mails is blatantly unconstitutional, but they know that the vast majority of the voters know nothing about the proper role of members of Congress.  (For a free pocket copy of the U.S. Constitution, E-mail me at campconstitution1@gmai.com)

The Bible

I put this book, which I believe is the Inspired Word of God, last because it is the most important.  For centuries, enemies of God have done their utmost to keep it from you.  There are at least 52 countries-Muslim and Communist-where the Bible is illegal.  While it is still legal in Western Europe, and Canada, one can go to jail for proclaiming some of the teaching of the Bible.  I will let some of our nation’s founders make the case for the Bible:

“The Bible contains the most profound philosophy, the most perfect morality, and the most refined policy that ever was conceived upon earth.” John Adams

“[The Bible] is of all books in the world that which contributes most to make men good, wise, and happy.” John Quincy Adams

“Were you to ask me to recommend the most valuable book in the world, I should fix on the Bible as the most instructive, both to the wise and ignorant.””  Elias Boudinot, President of the Continental Congress, and Director of the U.S. Mint

“Let us therefore persevere steadfastly in distributing the Scriptures far and near, and without note or comment. We are assured that they ‘are profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness (2 Tim. 3:16).’” John Jay

“The Bible contains more truths than any other book in the world.” Benjamin Rush

I am offering free copies of the Bible until my supply runs out. Use the same E-mail listed above if you would like one.

 

 

 

Who is directing the war on agriculture and nutrition

 

Government agencies, billionaires and pressure groups put world’s poor, hungry families last

Elite billionaire organizations and foundations, government agencies and activist pressure groups are funding and coordinating a global war on modern agriculture, nutrition, and Earth’s poorest, hungriest people. Instead of helping more families get nutritious food, better healthcare and higher living standards, they’re doing the opposite, and harming biodiversity in the process.

The World Economic Forum wants to reimagine, reinvent and transform the global food system, to eliminate greenhouse gases from food production. Central to its plan is alternatives to animal protein: meal worm potato chips, bug burgers instead of beef patties, and meat loaves and sausages made from lake flies, for instance. Fixing the WEF’s toxic workplace is apparently a low priority.

A UN Food and Agriculture Organization report advises that turning “edible insects” into “tasty” food products can create thriving local businesses and even promote “inclusion of women.”

Created to alleviate global poverty, the World Bank has decided the “manmade climate crisis” is a far greater threat to impoverished families than contaminated water, malaria and other killer diseases, hunger, or even two billion people still burning wood and dung because they don’t have reliable, affordable electricity. It has unilaterally decreed that 45% of its funds – an extra $9 billion in FY2024 – will be shifted to helping the poor “better withstand the devastation of climate change.”

(The Bank has also decided that even more of its taxpayer funding – $300-million instead of “only” $70-million – should be gifted to the Palestinian Authority, which pays terrorists to murder Israelis.)

Of course, most of the better and lesser-known environmental pressure groups are also deeply involved in food, agriculture and energy policy campaigns: Greenpeace, Sierra Club, EarthJustice, Friends of the Earth, Pesticide Action Network, Center for Food Safety, La Via Campesina (The Peasant Way), Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, and countless others.

Like the rest of the “agro-ecology” movement, they deride and malign modern agriculture as a scourge inflicted by greedy mega-corporations. They oppose fossil fuels, pesticides, herbicides and biotechnology. They extol “food sovereignty” and the “right to choose.” But their policies reflect top-down tyranny and bullying, with little room for poor farmers to embrace modern agricultural technologies and practices.

In addition to WEF, FAO and World Bank support, these hard-green organizations have the ideological, organizational and financial backing of the US Agency for International Development, EU agencies, and a host of progressive and far-left American, European and other foundations.

The US-based AgroEcology Fund was created by the Christensen Fund, New Fields Foundation and Swift Foundation. Its funding and programs are overseen by the New Venture Fund, which helps “charitable” and “educational” organizations direct funds to programs that align with what many characterize as neo-colonialist and eco-imperialist goals.

Other major players include the Schmidt Family Foundation, Packard Foundation, Ford Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and Ben and Jerry Foundation.

This is serious money – hundreds of millions of dollars per year in food, agriculture and climate change funding. It completely overshadows the piddling $9,000 that Kenyan farmer Jusper Machogu raised via donations to his “climate realism” website – much of it given to neighbors, so they could drill water wells, buy tanks of propane or get connected to the local grid.

And yet Mr. Machogu incurred the wrath of the BBC’s “Climate Disinformation Officer.” (Yes, the Beeb actually has such a position.) The CDO attacked him for “tweeting false and misleading claims” about climate change and saying Africa should develop its oil, gas and coal reserves – instead of relying entirely on intermittent, weather-dependent wind and solar. Even worse, the farmer had the temerity to accept donations from non-Africans, including “individuals with links to the fossil fuel industry and groups known for promoting climate change denial.”

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors is another major donor to agro-ecology outfits. It’s part of the legacy of guilt-ridden oil money from John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Co. corporate trust – an inheritance that includes nearly 1,000 climate-related institutions, foundations and activist organizations.

As Canada’s Frontier Centre put it, “Every time you hear a ‘climate change’ scare story, [the person writing it] was PAID. He is a Rockefeller stooge. He may not know it, but his profession has been entirely corrupted.” Far worse, I would add, the writer and his (or her) organization are complicit in perpetuating global poverty, energy deprivation, hunger, disease and death – because the fearmongering drives destructive energy and food production policies.

Alone or collectively, these policy corrupters must not be underestimated in this war to preserve and expand modern energy, agriculture and global nutrition. Thankfully, there is increasing pushback. Many families simply do not want to be trapped in poverty, disease, mud-and-thatch huts, an absence of educational opportunities for their children, and a future of backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk labor in little subsistence-farming fields.

That’s especially so when films, news stories and cell phones present American and European farming equipment and practices – and the crop yields, wealth, health, homes, leisure time and opportunities that accompany those modern agricultural systems.

Poor farmers also see China, India, Indonesia and other countries rapidly industrializing and modernizing by using oil, gas and coal. They see rumblings of change in many countries that are intent on charting their own courses, with fossil fuels as the energy foundation for that growth. They’re rejecting the eco-colonialism and eco-imperialism that wealthy Westerners seek to impose on them.

They are getting the message that humanity has faced climate fluctuations and extreme weather events throughout history … and survived them, dealt with them, adapted to them, prospered. That there is no real-world evidence that manmade greenhouse gas emissions – especially the trivial amounts generated by agriculture – have replaced the powerful natural forces that caused past climate changes.

They increasingly realize that organic and subsistence farming requires vastly more land – which would otherwise be wildlife habitats – than modern mechanized farming, to get the same yields. Plowing those habitats would decimate plant and animal diversity.

That locking up fossil fuels, and relying instead on biofuels and plant-based feed stocks for thousands of essential products, would require even more acreage. So would mining for massive amounts of metals and minerals to manufacture wind, solar and battery technologies.

Most importantly, they understand that humanity today has far greater wealth, far more knowledge, far better technologies and resources than any past generations.

To suggest that we cannot adapt to climate changes, or survive and recover from extreme weather events, is simply absurd. To suggest that farmers should revert to … or remain stuck in … ancient farming practices and technologies – to save the world from computer-generated manmade climate disasters – is eco-imperialism at its most lethal.

South Africa’s electricity minister recently said his country will not be “turned into a guinea pig for a worldwide Green New Deal.” Hopefully, all developing countries will soon apply that same attitude to anarchists who would use the world’s poor as guinea pigs in global agricultural and nutrition experiments.

Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of books and articles on energy, environment, climate and human rights issues.

Contact me: pkdriessen@gmail.com

The Blob is to blame for street rioting in a nation of habitual peace By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley

For the first time ever, foreign countries are recommending that their citizens should no longer travel to the usually gentle and peaceable United Kingdom on the ground that the growing frequency of violent riots has made us a dangerous destination.

How has this happened?

Our Marxstream media, now more or less entirely captured by agents of influence for Communism, have – almost without exception – blamed the riots over and over and over again on “the far Right”. Even the once-conservative Daily Telegraph goes on and on and on about “the far Right”.

By curious contrast, our Communist communicators have somehow failed to describe as “far-Left” the openly racist, anti-Semitic rioters who have raged on our streets almost unhindered by the police ever since the totalitarian enemies of democracy joined forces deliberately to provoke Israel into self-defence by invading its territory and brutally torturing and murdering its women and children.

Very nearly always, it is the totalitarian far Left – Islamists who call themselves “freedom-fighters”, Communists who call themselves “Socialists”, repressives who call themselves “progressives”, illiberals who call themselves “liberals” – who take to the streets in large numbers and commit crimes of violence and destruction.

Particularly in the United Kingdom, perhaps the world’s most tolerant and kindly-intentioned nation, it is very rare that those who believe in democracy, liberty, free markets and Western, Judaeo-Christian civilization march in the streets, and still rarer that they preach hatred or cause damage and destruction.

The proximate cause of the now-widespread alarm among conservative, libertarian citizens is unchecked mass immigration. Even during the past 14 years of strikingly rickety and incompetent government by the formerly Conservative party once successfully led by Margaret Thatcher, millions of immigrants – whether legal or illegal – have arrived in Britain.

When I served as a policy advisor to Margaret Thatcher, the population of the UK was about 60 million, and the net influx of migrants was 20,000 to 40,000 a year: equivalent to little more than a twentieth of one percent of the population. That level of net immigration was sustainable. The nation could, and did, welcome and absorb the incomers, most of whom were willing – indeed, eager – to play their full part as British citizens.

However, after Margaret Thatcher was driven from office by the far Left in her own party because she had dared to oppose the ever-tightening grip of the European tyranny-by-clerk on the British economy (on this, as on much else, she has since been proven spectacularly right), a succession of limp-wristed, ineffectual and inept prime ministers of both parties have made no attempt to prevent the dangerously-increasing inflow of both lawful and illegal immigrants.

Since she left office the population of the UK has risen from 60 million to more like 70 million, and most of that growth has come from net immigration. At least 6 million net immigrants have settled in the UK since Margaret Thatcher left office.

In 2023 alone, net inward migration was 800,000. Only 600,000 live births were recorded in Britain, and there were 200,000 deaths among little children killed by abortion (and torn limb from limb and removed in pieces from their mother’s womb, without even having been given an anesthetic first).

For the first time in modern history, more people arrived from overseas by net immigration than from this country by being born here.

When Margaret Thatcher was in office, from 1979-1990, everyone knew that immigration would be kept firmly under control. The Prime Minister took a no-nonsense approach. Early in her premiership, her staff arranged for a Conservative back-bencher to ask her a Parliamentary Question about immigration. In her answer, she made it crisply clear, in her inimitable style, that anyone thinking of entering this country illegally would be swiftly, firmly and decisively dealt with and sent packing. As a direct result of her plain speaking, illegal immigration more or less ceased.

Tony Abbott, the Conservative prime minister of Australia, would take the same no-nonsense approach a decade or two later. When small boats overladen with immigrants from the Indonesian archipelago began to arrive from the north, he sent the formidable Australian navy straight into action. Every small boat was intercepted; the immigrants and their racketeering smugglers were taken off by a warship; the smugglers were imprisoned for several years under harsh conditions and then sent packing; and the small boats were repaired, refueled and reloaded with the immigrants, who were pointed firmly northward and told to make their way back to Indonesia, with a warning ringing in their ears that if they made any attempt to return they would be treated no less harshly than their smugglers. Within just two weeks, the message got through and the boats stopped coming.

In this country, the Home Office – captured decades ago by Communist agents of influence as part of what the Marxist commentator Antonio Gramsci called “the long march through the institutions” (the deliberate penetration of all the centers of power and influence in Western nations) – has been deliberately bungling immigration control.

Minister after Minister arrives eager to stop the boats, but each is subjected to a stern but mendacious lecture by or on behalf of the Permanent Secretary of the Home Office about the alleged impossibility of doing anything effectual about immigration because the United Kingdom is a signatory to numerous international treaties requiring us to give asylum to just about anyone who asks for it, and preventing us from deporting illegal immigrants unless an impossibly elaborate process is followed.

Nearly all the small boats arrive from France and other European nations bordering the English Channel. What the international refugee treaties actually say is that anyone who arrives illegally after passing through a safe country (such as France, Belgium or Holland) on the way may be sent straight back to that safe country. There is, therefore, no obligation on Britain, legal, moral or other, to permit the small boats to land. The Tony Abbott approach, therefore, is no less lawful here today than it was in Australia from 2013 to 2015.

Why, then, have the “Conservative” prime ministers of the past 14 years done nothing about illegal immigration? The answer is that they are terrified of the army of far-Left immigration lawyers who have threatened them, time and time again, that if they act as the international treaties fully entitle them to act they will face interminable and expensive challenges in the now Left-dominated courts.

What is more, the taxpayer must then pay the costs not only of the Government’s lawyers but also of the lawyers acting for the illegal migrants. And the courts have proven adept at tying up each case for years. While Ministers or the courts are expensively dithering, the migrants are sent not to prison but to swank hotels, where they are accommodated at taxpayers’ expense. Those who are scheduled for deportation simply abscond without trace and usually end up living on benefits paid for by taxpayers.

So desperate is the Home Office to find accommodation for the millions of migrants now waiting for their bogus asylum claims to be heard that it has been ringing around my friends who own large stately homes and offering them £1 million each if they will vacate their homes for seven years to allow them to house immigrants. Now, any competent Minister would never allow any such offer to be made on his watch, for a very good reason. Imagine yourself as a penniless economic migrant – typically male, aged 18-25. You arrive in Britain and, instead of being sent to prison, are put up the most elegant of stately homes, at no charge. The first thing you do is get on the phone and tell your mates in Albania or Syria or wherever that they must come to Britain quick.

A growing number of hotels that are housing immigrants now exclude all other guests, but they do not like to admit that they are making a fortune at taxpayers’ expense charging full rates to the taxpayers for 100% occupancy by immigrants.

Aa a result, an after-dinner party game has become popular in Britain. Hundreds of the hotels that now house only immigrants are known. The game consists in ringing the hotel reception and asking to book a room on a typically unbusy termtime weekday about a year hence. The hotel will respond that it is fully booked that day.

Then another dinner-party guest telephones the hotel and asks for a booking on another unbusy day, with the same response. The game continues until the hotel realizes that all the calls are from the same dinner party. But at no time will any hotel (or, for that matter, stately home) admit that it is filled with immigrants: for the Home Office makes them all sign a confidentiality agreement.

In this and other ways, the Blob – the increasingly effete and incompetent civil service and wider governing class – does its best to prevent the British people from finding out the sheer scale on which it is deliberately encouraging net inward migration on a scale unprecedented in the history of Britain.

Why does the Blob thus deliberately encourage net immigration? The reason is that the Blob is now Communist-dominated. The principal aim of any totalitarian regime – and the Communist-led or Communist-influenced giants of the East (Russia, China, North Korea et hoc genus omne) is to ensure that their own populations do not do as the people of Russia did under Boris Yeltsin, and overthrow the cruel Communist regime.

The Communist tyrants of Russia during the dismal Soviet era had good reason to fear the freedom and prosperity and democracy enjoyed by the peoples of the West. For, although the Soviet butchers took elaborate steps to prevent their populations from ever discovering that life in the West was vastly better than under Communist misrule, they were unable to hide the fact that life under the rule of the ballot box was vastly safer, richer and better than under their drab, cruel tyranny.

One of the steps the intelligence community in the West took to make sure that the peoples of the Communist countries found out that life in the West was best was to smuggle in Western goods that were simply unobtainable under Communism. For instance, one could not get well-made, well-fitted jeans behind the Iron Curtain. So, when I used my bright orange British Military Mission card to cross from West to East Berlin, I used to wear half a dozen pairs of jeans, which I would then give to my contacts in the East for distribution to their friends. By simple measures like this, the subject nations groaning under Communism came to long for the Western lifestyle, and, in the end, helped themselves to it. The Communists could not stop them. The Soviet empire collapsed. Good riddance.

However, when Mr Putin’s silent coup of 1999/2000 deposed Mr Yeltsin and replaced him with a new tyranny, this time led by some 6000 former KGB colleagues of his, the new Communist-led regime vowed that it would never again allow the West to retain its freedom, its prosperity or its distinctive, Judaeo-Christian philosophy of peace, plenty and love.

To this end, the Disinformation Directorate of the former Kamitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti was set to work finding ways to bring the Western political and economic hegemony to an end, rendering life in the West just as miserable as in the East.

One of the most important of the many methods adopted by the Directorate was and is the promotion of the climate-change nonsense. Since the long march through the institutions of the West had already captured the universities, the news media, the civil service, the trades union leaderships and the scientific community, it was not difficult to sell the idea of global warming as a problem. As a result, the West has replaced the free market in energy with a badly-managed market controlled by the Blob. Therefore, electricity prices in Britain and most European countries are seven times those in Russia and China, India and Pakistan, all of which are greatly increasing their emissions of CO2 while ensuring that their agents of influence here peddle the climate-change nonsense.

When we defeated the Communist-led miners’ strike of 1984-5, the Russians were furious. They had trained the Communist leader of the mineworkers, Arthur Scargill, for almost six months in 1979, starting a couple of months after Margaret Thatcher had been elected to office. They had paid at least $25 million (that we were able to trace) to the mineworkers’ leadership via the then-Communist Czechoslovak embassy, hoping we would not notice. They had successfully brought down the previous Conservative government in 1974, and had been confident of doing the same to Margaret Thatcher, who, however, was very much better prepared than her incompetent predecessor, Mr Heath.

When the strike was defeated in the spring of 1985, the Directorate held a crisis meeting in Moscow that summer to work out how to continue the destruction of the feared Western economies now that their previous method of choice – capturing the leaderships of the major Western trades unions – had failed. It was then that they decided to capture the environmental movement, and, by December of that year, they had already captured the leadership of Greenpeace, driving out the true environmentalists who had founded and led it, as Patrick Moore, one of those driven out by the entryists that winter, told me a couple of years ago.

When global warming came along, the Directorate rapidly captured the issue and, through its many agents of influence throughout the institutions Communized by the long march, began pushing it sedulously in the West. For it was essential to their program that they should destroy the free market, by which the decisions of everyone deciding how to spend his or her money shaped the economy, and replace it with a managed market. Nowhere is this more evident than in the market for static and locomotive energy, which is now totally and ineptly controlled by the Blob, causing not only a visible collapse in manufacturing industry in the West but also a growing disbelief in the value of the free market among young people in particular.

But the most significant and damaging method of destroying the freedom and prosperity of the West is the promotion of net inward migration. The galloping growth in illegal immigration in Britain, in the United States and in many other countries of the West has been sudden. In the intelligence community, there is a near-infallible rule of thumb: if a damaging societal change occurs suddenly or over a very short timescale, it has not happened by accident. Someone has made it happen.

Net migration serves the purpose of the Communist regimes in making life in Western nations ever poorer, costlier, less pleasant and more dangerous in several ways. For the consequences of net mass immigration are numerous and severe.

To begin with, when I worked in 10 Downing Street 40 years ago we had immigration under control, and we had no need to lay plans for the staggering increase in net immigration that has since occurred. If we had had the slightest notion that subsequent British governments, following the capture of power in Russia by Putin and his KGB cronies in 1999/2000, would allow net immigration on anything like the present scale, we could have laid plans for more hospitals, schools, power stations, roads and railways, factories, houses and prisons.

But no such plans were laid. For instance, one of my earliest briefs to Margaret Thatcher, in the early 1980s, showed that there was no shortage of housing anywhere in Britain. There was the artificial appearance of a shortage, particularly in central London, where there were numerous cardboard-box encampments, particularly along prominent streets and close to railway termini.

Given that there was plenty of housing everywhere, I decided to investigate. At the time, a lad of 18 who had fallen on hard times was living in my tiny cottage in Richmond, a London suburb. I learned from a friend that a house owned by the Communist-run Lambeth Council, a local authority in south London, had been standing empty for 20 years. I contacted the Council and offered either to buy the house or to pay for the lad to homestead it, rescuing it from dereliction, and then to live in it.

The Council’s housing commissar gave me a most revealing answer. He said that it was not the policy of the Council to let homeless people live in the empty houses owned by the Council. I asked how many such empty houses there were, and the commissar refused to tell me. I asked why the Council was prepared to leave its houses empty rather than housing the homeless. Again he refused to tell me.

Therefore, I contacted the Environment Department, which controlled housing policy. I asked the press office to tell me, for each of London’s 33 boroughs, what percentage of the housing stock owned by the boroughs was standing empty. The press office refused to give me the information. When I asked why not, I was told that the information was “political”. Of course it was political: the Department of the Environment is a government ministry.

So I asked how many “dwelling units” (the bureaucratic term for houses and apartments) each of the 33 boroughs owned. The press office gave me the figures, borough by borough. Then I asked how many dwelling units were standing empty, borough by borough. The press office gave me the figures. I worked out the percentages for myself.

At that time (1987) there were 15 Communist-controlled boroughs, 3 “Liberal Democrat” boroughs and 15 Conservative-controlled boroughs. Ranked by percentages, the 15 Communist-controlled boroughs had the highest percentages of empty dwelling units; the 3 “Liberal Democrat” boroughs had the next highest percentages, and the 15 Conservative boroughs had the lowest percentages.

I wrote an article for the then London newspaper, the Evening Standard, exposing this plainly deliberate attempt on the part of the Communists to cause homelessness in London by leaving taxpayer-funded homes empty. I say “deliberate” for two reasons. First, the probability that the borough-by-borough percentages of homes standing empty would be so clearly and so neatly divided along political lines by accident was near nil as made no difference. Secondly, I knew that Shelter, then a “charity” supposedly representing the homeless, was run by a self-confessed Communist.

I went to see her, gave her a copy of the article from the Evening Standard and reminded her that her action in working with her fellow-Marxists in the Communist-controlled boroughs to keep homeless people visibly on the streets in an attempt to destabilize Margaret Thatcher’s duly-elected Conservative government was high treason, for which the penalty is death.

I told her, in no uncertain terms, that she faced prosecution for her role in this scandal. I gave her six months to get all the cardboard boxes off the streets and all the homeless people into accommodation. Sure enough, within six months, the cardboard boxes and tents and other mainfestations of artificial, politicized homelessness had vanished.

Now, however, there is a very severe shortage of houses, because there are six million extra people suddenly in the country who ought not to be here, and for whom no plans have been made.

And the economy has been so fatally weakened by the cost and disruption caused by climate-change mitigation policies that are entirely unnecessary that the private sector, on its own, simply cannot afford to build enough houses for the millions of immigrants.

Likewise, the roads are clogged, the railways jammed, the airports overrun, the health service swamped. But the Blob – the Communist-dominated or Communist-influenced governing class – is either actively promoting the economic and societal harm resulting from this unprecedented mass migration or burying its pampered heads in the sand and doing nothing serious to address the crisis.

Now, the Blob – whose members, for instance, enjoy pensions worth four times the pensions of ordinary taxpayers – is wealthy and powerful. It simply does not come into contact with, or suffer from, the endless problems caused by the decades of uncontrolled mass net immigration over which it has so incompetently or malevolently presided.

Who, then, are those who suffer first and foremost from the destruction caused by unbridled net immigration? They are the poorer working-class white people – particularly young people – living in the inner cities. Demand for ever-scarcer housing has forced house prices up so fast that most young people at school today (if, that is, the school system still has room for them at all) will never be able to afford a home of their own.

Immigrants are housed at no expense to themselves, while young people who leave home have to pay massive rents for accommodation that is often very poor value for money. Naturally, they are more than a little upset by the difference between how they are treated and how illegal immigrants are pampered.

If a young person wants a job, he will find it hard to get one, because immigrants are for various reasons given priority. If anyone falls ill, he will find it hard to get an appointment even with a local doctor, still less a bed in hospital for a much-needed operation.

Recently, I went to St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London for a check-up. I decided to arrive an hour early. I sat in the waiting room and watched the screen on which the names of patients appeared as they were called into the consulting rooms one by one for their appointments. In that entire hour, the only English name on that screen was mine.

But the Blob doesn’t care. Civil servants can afford private hospital treatment; they can use Government cars; they often get Government housing; and, above all, they are vastly overpaid and still more vastly over-pensioned. So they simply don’t care. That is why they have no understanding of, or sympathy with, the genuine and pressing concerns of the people who have taken to the streets in recent weeks to protest at the destruction of their lives, their hopes and their futures by mass immigration.

The intelligence background to mass net immigration is also worth reviewing. The Communists, whose agents of influence have been doing such damage for decades throughout the institutions of the West, realized some years ago that they could do enormous harm to the Western nations if they took charge of the people-smugglers, funded them and organized them, just as they had long ago taken charge of the drug-smuggling trade, again to promote harm in the West.

Here, it is not just the Communist-led giants of the East who are promoting and organizing the people-smugglers. It is also other nations that can save themselves a fortune by not bothering to imprison their most hardened criminals. Instead, they quietly give the felons a choice: a long period of penal servitude, or voluntary illegal immigration to a Western country. All choose the latter.

No surprise, then, that the crime-rate has soared as the immigration rate has soared. A significant proportion of the immigrants are young criminals who, instead of doing time in their countries of origin, are instead doing crime in the West. At the misdemeanour level, for instance, shoplifting – once rare in Britain – is now near-universal. Shopkeepers who resist are often subjected to violence, and many have simply decided to go out of business. As a direct result, many city centers, even in rural areas, are now boarded up, lifeless and decaying.

Now, in a democracy there is supposed to be something one can do about a governing class so captured by Communism that it is on the point of completing the utter economic and social destruction of the feared and hated West. In theory, one can vote out an incompetent or Communist government and replace it with a government that believes, as I do, that Western civilization and its gentle, loving, free-market, Judaeo-Christian philosophy, is rare, precious and worthy of protection.

To borrow from the Portuguese-American philosopher George Santayana when speaking of the British Empire, “The world never had sweeter masters”.

But voting either for the former ruling “Conservatives” or for the Communists who took office after the recent British general election would not make any difference to the pressing problems for working young people some of which I have outlined here.

That is why Nigel Farage (whom I had been begging to come forward a second time after his masterly victory in the Brexit referendum) has done so well as the leader of the Reform party that he established two or three years ago. As a result, he obtained nearly as many votes as the “Conservatives”. Had Reform and the “Conservatives” stood on a joint ticket, as Reform’s predecessor the Brexit party and the “Conservatives” had stood on a joint ticket in 2019, the Communists would have been kept out of office.

However, a couple of Communist stooges in Conservative campaign headquarters in London have for some years been carefully excluding true Conservatives from standing as candidates in parliamentary elections. The most recent and most startling of these exclusions was that of David Frost, the civil servant who had successfully negotiated the Brexit deal, and who has since been publishing a first-class, truly Conservative weekly article in the Daily Telegraph. Several constituencies had wanted him as their MP, but the stooges at campaign headquarters kept him out. It was that malevolent exclusion that led me, for the first time in my life, not to give my vote to the “Conservatives”.

Will there ever again be a libertarian, free-market, Judaeo-Christian government in Britain (or, for that matter, in the United States? It will not be easy, because the first two generations of immigrants always vote Communist, though eventually they learn not to.

That was the reason why Mr Biden, having stolen the 2020 election with the assistance of his paymasters the Chinese regime, which put $200 million into the Dominion voting machine corporation just one month before the 2020 election (I bet you haven’t seen that fact reported anywhere), issued a series of executive orders whose effect was to end President Trump’s controls on immigration, particularly at the southern border. Since then, some 8 million illegal immigrants have crossed the Colorado River and have then been carefully bussed to the swing states, where nearly all of them will vote Communist (or “Democrat”, as it is quaintly but misleadingly called).

I was recently asked whether I thought Mr Trump, in the wake of his heroic response to the assassination attempt against him, was a shoo-in for the 2024 election. I said No, for three reasons. First, the replacement of the sick and ineffectual Mr Biden with the cackling Communist Kamala Harris and her even more Marxist choice for vice-president will make Mr Trump’s task harder.

Secondly, the Republicans, during the Trump presidency, did nothing either to deal with voter fraud on the part of the Communists or to uphold the constitutional right to freedom of speech against the censorship of all non-Communist viewpoints increasingly openly practiced by the electronic as well as the legacy news media. Democracy cannot work if the voters are not given fair access to information from all sides of the political spectrum. They are not given fair access, and the Republicans, despite the plainest of repeated warnings, did nothing about the anti-culture of censorship, deplatforming, cancellation and Goebbels-style Rufmord (reputational assault) that has all but silenced genuine political debate throughout the West.

Thirdly, imagine 8 million recent immigrants, nearly all voting for the Communist ticket. Mr Trump, unlike the “Conservatives” here, tried to get on top of mass illegal immigration and was beginning to succeed when Mr Biden, for self-serving political reasons, ended his successful measures, particularly including the Stay-In-Mexico policy. In Britain, since the Communists took over scant weeks ago, several thousand further illegal immigrants are known to have entered Britain.

The new Communist government here, like the Communist government in the United States, will do nothing to control immigration, for every immigrant turns the political terms of trade to the near-permanent advantage of the far Left. It is as simple as that.

Now you will understand why it is that the so-called “far Right” have been driven, by sheer desperation, to take to the streets in this normally peaceable nation. The vast majority of them are not racists, for Britain is more at ease with people of all nations and all backgrounds than anywhere else on Earth. But, though they could not vocalize their concerns as I have vocalized them here, they feel a profound unease that the entire political system no longer gives them an effective voice, even at the ballot box, for their votes are drowned out by the votes of non-citizens whom the far-Left-dominated Blob happily registers to vote even though they have broken the law by arriving here illegally.

In this connection, it is striking that in Minnesota, Ms Harris’ vice-presidential pick is notorious for having extended the franchise to illegal immigrants on an unprecedented scale. Their unlawful votes are what keep him in office. And that makes a mockery of democracy, as it is intended to do.

Strategically, then, the West is now in mortal danger. The world’s leading totalitarian regimes – Communist-led Russia and China and the extreme Islamist states of the Middle East – are now joining forces to complete the destruction of the West’s hegemony, its economies, and its democratic systems.

President Trump, who is good at acting upon intelligence briefs sent to him, promoted the Abraham accords – bilateral agreements between Israel and several prominent Arab states. Had a Communist been so successful in brokering peace, he would have been given the Nobel Peace Prize. Hamas’ brutal attack on Israel’s women and children in the October massacre was planned by the unholy alliance between the Communist and Islamist regimes, and its timing was governed by the fact that Israel and Saudi Arabia were about to enter into a bilateral treaty under the Abraham accords.

Thanks to the intellectual weakness and habitual idleness of the RINOs in the United States and the “Conservatives” in Britain, the people who are taking to the streets are doing so in desperation. That in no way condones the violence that has occurred; but it is vital to understand that the concerns underlying the protesters’ actions are real, substantial, legitimate, and in urgent need of attention.

About the author from the Heartland Institute’s website:

“Christopher Monckton, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, has held positions with the British press and in government, as a press officer at the Conservative Central Office, and as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s policy advisor. He is a policy advisor to The Heartland Institute.

Lord Monckton was Special Advisor to Margaret Thatcher as U.K. Prime Minister from 1982 to 1986.  In 1986 he was among the first to advise the prime minister that “global warming” caused by carbon dioxide should be investigated. Two years later she set up the Hadley Centre for Forecasting: but she, like him, later changed her view.

On leaving 10 Downing Street, he established a successful specialist consultancy company, giving technical advice to corporations and governments. The first of his two articles on global warming in The Sunday Telegraph in November 2006 crashed its website after attracting 127,000 hits within two hours of publication.

A speech by Lord Monckton to 1,000 citizens of St. Paul, Minnesota in October 2009, in which he drew public attention to a then little-known draft plan by the U.N. to establish an unelected world government at the (now-failed) climate summit at Copenhagen in December 2009, received 1,000,000 YouTube hits in a week – thought to be the fastest-ever YouTube platinum for a political speech. Some five million have now seen the presentation on various websites.

Lord Monckton’s 2010 speaking tour of Australia played to packed houses and generated some 650 reports in news media. It is credited with having achieved a 10% shift in public opinion away from climate alarmism in one month, particularly among opposition parties. He was invited to give a personal briefing to Tony Abbott, at the time leader of the Opposition and subsequently prime minister.

Lord Monckton returned to Australia for another successful tour in June/July 2011, during which he delivered the annual Hancock Free Enterprise Lecture at the University of Western Australia and addressed the nationally televised weekly meeting of the National Press Club in a debate against the head of the Australia Institute.

On Labor Day, 2012, Lord Monckton addressed an enthusiastic crowd of 100,000 West Virginia mineworkers and their families on a mountain-top, the only venue large enough. He has also addressed 15,000 Tea Party supporters at the North Houston Racetrack and a similar number on the National Mall in Washington DC.

Lord Monckton has been crisscrossing the globe giving speeches, lectures, and university seminars to people on every continent with the exception of Antarctica. He has testified four times before the U.S. Congress. He spoke at United Nations conferences in Bali, Bonn, Copenhagen, Cancun, Durban, Rio, and Qatar.

His lecture to undergraduates at the Cambridge Union Society on climate change was released as a feature-length movie, Apocalypse? NO!  He triumphed in debate at St Andrews University, where undergraduates voted against climate alarm for the first time at any British university, and at the Oxford Union, where undergraduates voted against climate alarm for the first time at any English university.

For his work on the climate, Lord Monckton, who was Nerenberg Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario in 2013, has been presented with numerous honors, including the Meese-Noble Award for Freedom, the Valiant-for-Truth Award of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, the Santhigiri Ashram Award, and the Intelligence Medal of the Army of Colombia.

Lord Monckton has authored numerous papers on the climate issue for the layman, as well as for leading peer-reviewed scientific journals.  He established in a paper for the World Federation of Scientists that CO2 has a social benefit, not a social cost. He was also a co-author of the paper that showed the claim of “97% scientific consensus” about climate change to be false (the true figure is 0.35).”

(Editor: Lord Christopher attended Camp Constitution’s 2018-2019 annual family camps and as an instructor and  via Zoom at our 2020 annual camp.