NBA legend Charles Barkley slammed ESPN analyst Stephen Smith for suggesting that “white privilege” was behind the Brooklyn Nets’s decision to hire Hall-of-Famer Steve Nash as its new head coach.
“I was very disappointed with some of the guys on television today talking about ‘white privilege,’ very disappointed,” Barkley said on Thursday.
“They’re like, ‘Well, this doesn’t happen to black guys.’ I’m like, ‘It happened to Doc Rivers, it happened to Jason Kidd, it happened to Derek Fisher.’ So, I was really disappointed.”
Smith had claimed last week that Nash’s hire is proof that white men are more advantaged in professional sports than black men.
“Ladies and gentlemen, there’s no way around this. This is white privilege. This does not happen for a Black man,” Smith said.
Barkley, however, said Smith’s characterization is dishonest.
“Steve Nash is a great player and a good dude. But I was so disappointed in some of these guys. I was like, ‘Dude, black guys have done this before,'” he said.
“Now, do we need more black coaches in the NBA? Yes,” he continued. “Do we need more black coaches in college football? Yes. Do we need more black coaches in pro football. Yes. But this wasn’t the right time to say it today.”
Barkley warned that after the explosion of race riots and cancel culture recently, ostensibly in the aftermath of George Floyd’s Memorial Day death, that those seeking progress must be careful not to overplay their hand with absurd claims and demands.
“When you have a responsibility, especially when you have to talk about something serious like race, you can’t be full of crap,” he said. “You’ve got to be honest and fair.”
But Smith did not back down.
“I have a message to those who feel that I was wrong, that I need to apologize, that I don’t know what I’m talking about, etc., etc. I don’t give a damn what y’all feel,” he said.
“Y’all can all kick rocks. I don’t give a damn,” he continued. “I’m not budging from my position one inch.”
After a user posted a picture of decorative letters arranged to read “USA Vote Trump” in one of the store’s aisles, leftist activists began attacking the company, even though it is unclear whether the letters were arranged by a customer or by an employee.
The arts-and-crafts chain has been identified as a right-wing supporter largely due to the Christian values espoused by its owners, David and Barbara Green.
The Supreme Court defended Hobby Lobby’s right to exclude contraceptives from its insurance coverage in 2014, ruling that the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993.
That, alone, has put it on the radical left’s wish list for cancellation—although past efforts to boycott pro-Christian chains like Chick-fil-A and In-N-Out Burger have backfired.
“I’ve been in a Hobby Lobby one time,” said one Twitter user reacting to the photo. “The Jesus music was just too damn much. I had to wash off the stink of hypocrisy and Christianity when I got home.”
Another user complained, “#HobbyLobby will get ZERO and I do mean ZERO of my family’s money. I will not set foot in one EVER again.”
Several other users argued that Hobby Lobby shouldn’t be allowed to remain open because it conscientiously objects to providing contraceptives in its health coverage plan.
Don’t go to Hobby Lobby. They hate anyone who isn’t their flavor of Christian and deny their workers insurance.
Abortion is, by far, the leading cause of death among black Americans, but the corporate media does not report this because America’s institutions do not consider unborn children to be alive.
Students for Life of America, The Frederick Douglass Foundation, and the Human Coalition Action painted the street on Saturday at 5 a.m. with temporary paint that will wash away with rain. They painted while the abortion facility was closed for Labor Day weekend.
Many of the Black Lives Matter slogans were painted on city streets in permanent street paint.
The peaceful pro-life protesters finished the mural after 6 a.m., at about the same time that Baltimore police officers arrived.
The police officers did not arrest the protesters, issue fines or mandate the phrase’s removal because no crime was committed.
The protesters neither blocked traffic nor damaged property, as the Black Lives Matter agitators often did.
“[The message] will remain here unless the city wants to come take it out, and that would be outside the police department,” Baltimore Police Sgt. Vincenzo Julio said.
Michele Hendrickson, the East Coast regional director for Students for Life, said she was surprised that the police did not punish the pro-life activists.
When Students for Life of America painted “Black Pre-Born Lives Matter” outside a Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Washington, D.C., police officers arrested two people.
“We’re thankful for the fair and equal treatment we’ve received in being allowed to practice our right to free speech in this city,” Hendrickson said.
Planned Parenthood was founded by eugenicist Margaret Sanger, whose mission was the extermination of the black race.
“Most people don’t see that this all amounts to a form of black genocide,” said Christopher Anderson, who is black and a member of the Frederick Douglass Foundation.
“If we’re going to be consistent and say ‘Black Lives Matter,’ we will defund racist organizations like Planned Parenthood,” he continued. “We are standing in the gap for black lives.”
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden admitted this week that his proposed national mask mandate would likely be unconstitutional.
Biden has said repeatedly that if he is elected in November, one of the first policies he’d pass is a mandate requiring all Americans to wear face coverings while in public.
Critics on both sides of the aisle have reminded Biden that the executive does not have this authority, since the U.S. Constitution gives the individual states discretion over matters of health-related policy. But that didn’t deter Biden.
“Every single American should be wearing a mask when they’re outside for the next three months, at a minimum,” Biden said in August. “Let’s institute a mask mandate nationwide starting immediately, and we will save lives.”
Biden’s running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris,D-Calif., approved of the mask mandate and declared that it is “what real leadership looks like.”
“We just witnessed real leadership. Which is Joe Biden said that as a nation, we should all be wearing a mask for the next three months, because it will save lives,” she said.
When Biden formally accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination, he reiterated his call for a mask mandate, calling it a “patriotic duty.”
“We’ll have a national mandate to wear a mask,” he said on Aug. 20, “not as a burden, but to protect each other.”
But when pressed on how he’d implement this policy, Biden admitted to Dennis Welch, the political editor of “Politics Unplugged,” that a national mask mandate would create a constitutional problem so he wouldn’t actually pass one.
“Here’s the deal, the federal government…there’s a constitutional issue whether the federal government could issue such a mandate, I don’t think constitutionally they could, so I wouldn’t issue a mandate,” Biden said.
“But I’d plead with…I carry my mask with me wherever I go,” the former vice president said. “I’d set an example.”
Biden now says a national mask mandate is probably unconstitutional and he wouldn’t do it.
“It’s about making sure the public is safe and secure, and that is a local decision, but there should be national standards laid out as to how it should be gone about,” Biden continued. “You can’t mandate that. But to set the example on what needs to be done.”
President Donald Trump said Sunday that the Department of Education has launched an inquiry to find schools that teach the 1619 Project, a rewriting of American history based on the racist ‘critical race theory’.
Department of Education is looking at this. If so, they will not be funded! https://t.co/dHsw6Y6Y3M
If the Education Department discovers the New York Times‘s project in classrooms, then educational institutions will be deprived of taxpayer funds, The Epoch Times reported.
Urban school districts—such as New York City; Chicago; and Washington, D.C.—are also incorporating the false narrative of history.
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., introduced legislation in July that would have stripped funding from schools that teach the 1619 Project curriculum.
Nikole–Hannah Jones, a staff writer at the New York Times, leads the 1619 Project.
The premise of the 1619 Project is that the American Revolution and Founding happened to benefit wealthy cross-Atlantic slave traders, rather than to defend man’s God-given rights: the freedom to worship, to assemble, to speak and to write, to name a few.
Jones claims British colonists fought for their independence to secure the slave trade, but Britain did not outlaw slavery in the empire until decades later.
Northwestern University Professor Leslie Harris said she fact-checked the 1619 Project for Jones “and vigorously disputed” claims that the defense of slavery was a primary motivating factor in American Revolution.
But Jones continued full force with her narrative even after being confronted with the facts.
“Far from being fought to preserve slavery, the Revolutionary War became a primary
disrupter of slavery in the North American Colonies,” Harris wrote in Politico last year.
“Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation, a British military strategy designed to unsettle the Southern Colonies by inviting enslaved people to flee to British lines, propelled hundreds of enslaved people off plantations and turned some Southerners to the patriot side,” she continued. “It also led most of the 13 Colonies to arm and employ free and enslaved black people, with the promise of freedom to those who served in their armies.”
Far-left ‘ fact-checkers‘ have joined the scrum in a desperate bid to downplay the extreme abortion support of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
However, Biden’s and Harris’s vows to uphold Roe vs. Wade and support of other causes—such as the Women’s Health Protection Act—reveal their veiled approval of late-term abortions.
At the 2020 RNC, President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence distinguished their stances on abortion from their opponents’.
“Joe Biden claims he has empathy for the vulnerable—yet, the party he leads supports the extreme late-term abortion of defenseless babies right up to the moment of birth,” Trump said.
Deirdre Byrne, a Catholic nun, former surgeon, and retired army officer, also spoke against Biden at the convention.
“President Trump will stand up against Biden-Harris, who are the most anti-life presidential ticket ever, even supporting the horrors of late-term abortion and infanticide,” Byrne said.
Fact checkers from various left-wing media outlets cried out in protest.
“Biden does not support ‘late-term abortion and infanticide,” Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly of the Washington Post Fact Checker claimed.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the New York Times echoed this: “Democrats support abortion rights, but that does not mean they call for women to have an unfettered right to terminate pregnancies up until the point of birth.”
Biden, has made his adherence to Roe vs. Wade well-known on his campaign website.
Although Roe vs. Wade does not directly allow for third-trimester abortion, it provides many loopholes in support of it.
“The Biden Agenda for Women” on his website reads, “Biden will work to codify Roe v. Wade, and his Justice Department will do everything in its power to stop the rash of state laws that so blatantly violate Roe v. Wade.”
Roe vs. Wade allows for abortion of “viable” babies—or babies who have passed the threshold of 22 weeks and are able to survive independently outside of the womb—only when the “health of the mother” needs to be “protected.”
The “health of the mother,” furthermore, is widely defined in Roe vs. Wade.
Anyone licensed to perform abortions can evaluate a mother’s health based off of anything from her physical health to her financial security, from her embarrassment of having the child to the mental distress of taking care of the child.
Roe vs. Wade indeed cites the “stigma of unwed motherhood” and the distress, for all concerned, associated with the unwanted child” as feasible threats to a mother’s health.
Broad interpretation of the word “health” can allow a baby to be aborted at any time for any reason at the convenience of the abortionist or mother.
Furthermore, the Women’s Health Protection Act seeks to cement that which Roe vs. Wade has put in place. It will remove all restrictions on abortion once a baby reaches “viability” if the birth or baby threatens the mother’s “health.”
In doing so, the Women’s Health Protection Act will overturn the limits state and local governments have placed on abortion. These limits number more than 400.
Harris is co-sponsoring the Senate bill.
The Washington Post Fact Checker has diminished the powers of the bill, claiming that it merely prevents states “from banning abortion before the fetus reaches viability.”
Democrats in New York, Rhode Island and Illinois are passing laws that allow late-term abortions if the life or health of the mother is at risk.
New York claims that this new law aligns itself more closely with Roe vs Wade. Its original law only allowed abortion if the mother’s life alone was threatened.
Biden touts Roe vs. Wade on his campaign website.
Politifact asserts that “late-term abortions are very rare, about 1%.” 1 percent, however, translates to thousands of deaths each year. In 2013, for instance, there were an estimated 1.21 million abortions.
In diminishing the extent of Biden’s, Harris’s, and the Democratic Party’s support of late-term abortion, the corporate media have furthered efforts to suppress Christian-conservative-voter turn-out.
Large technology and finance corporations are persecuting Kyle Rittenhouse and his supporters by censoring information and banning donations.
Facebook has banned users on the platform from posting and sharing links for donations to Rittenhouse’s defense fund on GiveSendGo and other crowdfunding sites, Reclaim the Net reported.
Donations will go toward the #Fightback Foundation, which was started by Rittenhouse’s defense attorney, Lin Wood.
The campaign has reached nearly 95 percent of its $500,000 goal.
A pop-up stating “You can’t share this link” confronts Facebook users when they try to post or share a link to the GiveSendGo campaign.
Facebook claims the campaign “goes against our Community Standards.”
Facebook has also blocked direct links to the #Fightback Foundation, deleted Rittenhouse’s personal Facebook profile, prevented users from searching for Rittenhouse-related content, and removed posts supporting him.
Mark Dice, a conservative media personality, posted a video of Rittenhouse helping hurt protesters, Reclaim the Net reported.
Facebook removed the post, declaring, “We don’t allow symbols, praise or support of dangerous individuals or organizations.”
Facebook just removed a video I posted showing Kyle Rittenhouse offering help to a wounded protester in Kenosha and are threatening to delete my entire account. This was the video: PIC.TWITTER.COM/KXOUVQDTDS
Dice said that his post did not praise Rittenhouse but instead was meant to provide further information about what happened that night in Kenosha.
He posted a video on YouTube explaining the intent of his Facebook post and expressing his outrage with big technology corporations’ censorship.
Facebook’s suppression of the fundraiser comes a few days after the internet’s largest crowdsourcing website, GoFundMe, pulled a campaign for Rittenhouse.
Twitter has also censored Lin Wood and another of Rittenhouse’s attorneys, John Pierce, Recalim the Net reported.
Pierce praised his client, comparing him to “that brave unknown patriot at Lexington Green who fired ‘The Shot Heard Round The World’ on April 19, 1775. A Second American Revolution against Tyranny has begun.”
Twitter removed Piece’s tweet and also locked him out of his account.
They justified their actions by saying that they “prohibit content that condones or celebrates acts of violence that could promote imitation of the act. We also prohibit the glorification of mass murders or genocides when protected categories have been the primary target or victims.”
Wood also advocated for Rittenhouse on Twitter, only to be met with a locked account on Sept. 1.
Twitter has since conceded it made a mistake.
“This account was incorrectly actioned. This has been reversed and the account reinstated,” Twitter told Reclaim the Net.
After the restoration of his account, Wood threatened to sue Twitter, claiming that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey violated his First Amendment rights and “intentionally interfer[ed] with our efforts to raise money for Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal defense by censoring Lin Wood.”
“I’m going to take Jack Dorsey’s ass down,” Wood said on Fox News.
Rob, an organizer of Rittenhouse’s GiveSendGo campaign, updated donors about censorship from big corporations.
“We just learned that Discover is planning to cut off the ability of its cardholders to make payments to this fundraiser; this development unfortunately follows days of relentless targeting by big tech on the order of Facebook, Twitter, Stripe and Instagram,” Rob wrote.
“Other credit card companies are likekly [sic] to follow, unless a strong message is sent to all of these globalist-controlled corporations that we are not willing to sit by while they erase our Freedom of Speech through their un-American accounting practices.”
Discover has stopped its cardholders from sending donations through GiveSendGo to Rittenhouse’s legal defense fund, Reclaim the Net reported.
Rob said he “will likely be figuring out alternative ways to donate soon.”
Discover officials said they are prepared for “pushback from external sources,” but that they “are choosing not to reply on Social Media.”
If someone sends Discover a direct message on social media about the decision, then the company will respond with an automated message.
“The decision was based on the websites violations of our terms,” the message reads. “We reserve the right to deny business with any merchant.”
Pierce responded to Discovery’s censorship on Twitter.
“This is not going to end well for Discover, I can promise you that. We’re gonna need more lawyers,” he wrote.
A major grocery-store chain is backing off efforts to prevent a war veteran in North Carolina from using a mandatory facemask policy to show his patriotism.
Food Lion deeply respects the American flag. We listened to our associates and customers about our uniform policy. We require that associates wear masks without writing, insignia or symbols. We will allow associates to wear masks with the American flag that meet this standard. pic.twitter.com/RAVYPDSYHF
Havelock resident Gary Dean left his job at Food Lion after a manager asked him not to wear a facemask depicting the American flag because clothing with graphics was against company policy, WCTI reported.
“Apparently corporate came down and said ‘somebody was offended by the image of the American flag on the face covering,'” Dean said.
After supposedly receiving push-back on Facebook, however, Food Lion declared its respect for flag and country, changed its policy to include the American flag, and expressed their wish for Dean to return to his job.
Dean has not yet determined if he will accept their offer.
Dean had been wearing the mask for several months and was outraged and confused that anyone should find the American flag offensive.
Dean said he feels passionate about his country after serving six years in the Air Force.
“Four of those were active, two of those were inactive reserve,” he said.
His father was a WWII hero, and many of his friends fought faithfully. One of Dean’s friends, David Toler, gave his life during the Vietnam War.
“Got shot right through the heart, they brought him home,” Dean said.
“That’s an emotional subject for me,” he continued. “When you lose a friend that is fighting for your freedoms you get angry. You get very angry when people disrespect the flag.”
Food Lion, a European-owned grocery chain, gave a statement regarding the controversy. Though they admit “great respect for the American flag” they also “have policies that guide the attire and conduct of associates in the workplace.”
Their policy “prohibits associates from wearing clothing with writing, insignia or symbols. The dress code is meant to ensure a consistent and professional representation of [their] associates inside of [their] stores.”
Dean said he felt he was denying the flag by taking off his mask.
“As a veteran, my dad being a World War II hero, my best friend killed in Vietnam, out of respect for them I can’t just say no, I’ll take my flag and put it in my pocket,” Dean explained. “I had to quit, out of principle.”
Food Lion has since revised the company policy regarding clothing. Moved by its respect of country and support of veterans, the company has decided to allow employees to wear masks depicting the American flag.
“Food Lion has the utmost respect for the American flag and has a proud, long history of partnering with and supporting military organizations and communities,” their Facebook post read. “Over the past few days, we have been listening to our associates and customers about Food Lion’s mask policy as part of our uniform standards.”
“While we continue to maintain our uniform standards requiring associates to wear masks without writing, insignia or symbols, we will allow associates to wear masks with the American flag that meet this standard.”
Dean was surprised to answer a phone call from the Food Lion District Vice President and hear about the change.
He was grateful that Food Lion responded to his declaration of patriotism.
“It was just a statement of faith and a statement of my belief in my country and my flag. That’s all,” Dean said. “It took off on its own because it’s a good cause and it worked. We won, God won, the country won, freedom won.”
(Headline USA) Georgia‘s top elections official said Tuesday that his office has identified about 1,000 cases of “potential double voting” in the June primary election — a felony he’s determined to see prosecuted.
These voters submitted absentee ballots but also voted in person, a problem that happened across 100 Georgia counties, and election officials didn’t catch them in time to keep the second votes from being tallied, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said.
“No one gets to vote twice. Everyone gets one vote,” Raffensperger said.
It was not immediately clear whether the outcome of any races may have been affected.
The revelation follows a suggestion last week by President Donald Trump that people who vote early by mail should show up at their local polling places on Election Day and vote again if their ballots haven’t been counted.
The president said in a series of tweets Thursday that voters who submitted absentee ballots should go to their polling site to “see whether or not your Mail In Vote has been Tabulated (Counted). If it has you will not be able to Vote & the Mail In System worked properly.”
Election officials were quick to warn that this could cause further disruption and long lines on an Election Day already made more complicated by the coronavirus pandemic.
Raffensperger said his office’s investigators will hand the findings over to the state attorney general and local district attorneys for possible prosecution. Double voting is a felony that is punishable by one to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $100,000, Raffensperger said.
“A double voter knows exactly what they are doing, diluting the votes of each and every voter that follows the law,” Raffensperger said.
He said repeatedly during a news conference that those 1,000 voters intentionally cast two ballots, knowing they had submitted an absentee ballot but still showing up to vote.
Raffensperger had encouraged voters to use absentee ballots for the June primary to avoid potential exposure to the coronavirus and to reduce the number of people voting on Election Day. Election officials received a record 1.6 million absentee ballot requests, overwhelming some county election offices and leading to delays in some ballots being sent out.
About 150,000 of the Georgia voters who requested absentee ballots for the June primary later showed up to vote in person, Raffensperger said. One thousand of them ended up casting a second ballot, and his office intends to investigate every case thoroughly, he said.
Raffensperger said his office is working with county election officials to ensure that no double voting happens in the November general election.
The system is designed to prevent double-voting, but it depends on humans, he said.
If voters request an absentee ballot but then show up to vote in person on Election Day, the election system flags them as having requested an absentee ballot. The poll worker is then supposed to call the county election office to see if the absentee ballot has been received for that voter.
If the county election office says an absentee ballot has been received, the person should not be allowed to vote in person. If there’s no record of an absentee ballot having been received, the voter is allowed to cast a ballot in person and the county election office is supposed to cancel the absentee ballot request so that the absentee ballot won’t be counted if it comes in.
If the poll worker fails to call the county election office, or can’t get through to anyone, or if the county election office fails to cancel the absentee ballot request, that could allow double voting.
Georgia Democratic Party executive director Scott Hogan accused the secretary of state of playing politics.
“Voter fraud continues to be extremely rare in Georgia, and any implication otherwise undermines our elections,” Hogan said in an emailed statement. “It is clear that rather than do his job of promoting the safety and security of our voting process, the Secretary of State is instead pushing the GOP’s voting conspiracy theories and disinformation, as he fights in court to make voting by mail less accessible to voters.”
Raffensperger’s office on Friday appealed a federal judge’s order that extended the absentee ballot deadline in Georgia for the November election. U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross ordered the state to count any absentee ballots that are postmarked by Election Day and received by 7 p.m. three days later, instead of only counting ballots received by the close of polls.
(David Morgan, Money Metals News Service) Lately, it’s been hard to ignore the feeling that the monetary system could potentially collapse.
To me, it’s not just a feeling. It’s a certainty.
To explain, I’d like to borrow an analogy from the world of aviation. The “backside of the power curve” means that you have overextended the ability of the airplane to fly, and no amount of power can rectify the situation.
Well, similarly, it appears that the monetary system is now on the backside of the power curve.
It has reached a point where no matter how much more money is printed, no amount can help the economy to recover sustainably. Any more printing will likely only work to exacerbate the problem and accelerate the failure of the monetary system as we know it.
Governments can borrow, and bankers can print from now until kingdom come, but it won’t do anything other than destroy the system right before our very eyes. It’s just not working anymore!
Think about it like this, for example: when borrowing money, typically, you would want to borrow one unit and yield 10% on that borrowed money. But when you have to borrow five units to stimulate just one unit of economic growth, there is an obvious imbalance, and more printing is doing less and less for the real economy.
As the global financial system continues to struggle under further stress, it is clear there is a growing lack of trust and faith not only in currencies but in the governments and banks behind them. People are seeking safety, and it is virtually fueling a run to gold.
Turkey is a prime example of this. A growing percentage of the Turkish population are moving away from the country’s currency, the Turkish Lira, as it plunges to its lowest levels in history, and opting for gold to preserve their wealth instead.
What this makes perfectly clear is that a run to gold is starting.
Now, silver is finally starting to catch up to gold. This is clear due to the extreme gold-silver ratio of 125:1 that we saw earlier this year, one that we hadn’t seen before in the history of time. Since then, it has fluctuated, now near the 70 mark – a number that gives us some insight into the direction of silver. And it looks like tough times are ahead. But silver still has a long way to go relative to gold.
“The coming Great Depression will make the last look like a small technical correction.”
Those were the words of the late Elliot Janeway over three decades ago, and they seem to make more sense with time. I hope it never gets that bad, but what is clear is that it is coming.
There is no doubt in my mind that things will never be the same.
To hear more of my thoughts on that, you will have to tune in to my recent interview on Palisade Radio here…Original Source…
A widely recognized expert on silver, David Morgan began investing in stocks and precious metals as a teenager. He obtained degrees in finance and economics as well as engineering. Author of the book The Silver Manifesto, he has devoted more than 30 years to educating investors on opportunities to protect and grow their wealth. In addition to advising private clients and fund managers, he writes at The Morgan Report, covering economic news, the global economy, currency debasement, and stellar opportunities in precious metals and mining stocks.
