BREAKING UPDATE: DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Impeached by US House in 214-213 Vote!

by Jordan Conradson Feb. 13, 2024

UPDATE: Alejandro Mayorkas has officially been impeached in the House of Representatives by a vote of 214 to 213! Mayorkas is the first cabinet secretary to be impeached in nearly 150 years and the first sitting cabinet secretary in history to be impeached!

New York Times reports,

The United States House of Representatives voted narrowly on Tuesday to impeach Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, in a precedent-shattering vote that charged him with willfully refusing to enforce border laws and breaching the public trust.

In a 214 to 213 vote, Republicans barreled past the solid opposition of Democrats and reservations in their own ranks to make Mr. Mayorkas the first sitting cabinet secretary in U.S. history to be impeached.

House Republicans are expected to vote on a historic resolution to finally impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas tonight.

This comes after three RINO lawmakers bailed Mayorkas out last week.

The Gateway Pundit reported last week that Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) joined the Democrats, leading to a tie vote in Tuesday’s attempt to impeach Mayorkas.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said on X that the three RINOs “received TENS OF THOUSANDS of voicemails from furious Americans within the first 24 hours” after they sided with the Democrats.

The American people are demanding that Congress hold Mayorkas accountable for violating immigration laws and his oath.

The resolution, H. Res. 863, accuses Secretary Mayorkas of high crimes and misdemeanors, setting the stage for a contentious vote in the House of Representatives.

Specifically, the two articles contained in the resolution accuse Mayorkas of “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” in enforcing border policy and “breach of public trust.”

As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, Republican Majority Leader Seve Scalise, who was absent last Tuesday, has returned to Capitol Hill and is expected to be a tie-breaking vote.

Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI), who was recently accosted by a Sheriff’s deputy in Tucson, Arizona, for inquiring about a secret illegal alien housing facility funded by American tax dollars, told The Gateway Pundit, “Very clearly, Mayorkas has lied to Congress and the American people, and he has failed to uphold his duty to the Constitution, which is to carry out the laws of the United States of America. He’s not doing that, and so I think there’s at least two things that are impeachable offenses.”

The resolution is expected to pass unless more Republicans choose to side with the Democrats.

Watch live below via Right Side Broadcasting Network:

Watch LIVE as the U.S. House of Representatives votes on the impeachment of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Tune in on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, at 6:30 p.m. ET.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/watch-live-house-vote-mayorkas-impeachment-630-pm/

Ecuadorian Illegal Immigrant flying from Phoenix, Arizona, to Charleston, South Carolina

TGP EXCLUSIVE: Late-Night Flights of Illegal Immigrants Uncovered at Phoenix Sky Harbor — Airline Employees and TSA Reveal Details to TGP — “We’re Getting Swamped… Some of Them Smell Really Bad” (VIDEO)

by Jordan Conradson Feb. 14, 2024

Hordes of illegal immigrants were seen traveling out of Phoenix Sky Harbor airport on red-eye flights last week, and some airline employees are fed up with Biden’s border invasion.

One Border Patrol agent at the Lukeville, Arizona border port of entry told The Gateway Pundit that illegals from all over the worldturn themselves in at the ports of entry because they know they’ll be given a free pass on Biden’s invitationdespite not qualifying for asylum or planning to work in America. “It doesn’t matter,” said the agent.

After surrendering to the border patrol agents, illegals are then transported to housing facilities operated by globalist nonprofits like Catholic Community Services‘ Casa Alitas in Arizona.

From there, they are then taken to airports and flown all around the country to settle and await their court dates, which are often years away.All of this is funded by the American people.

This is Biden and the Democrats’ plan to destroy America. As TGP’s Jim Hoft reports, In 2017,under President Donald Trump, the US recorded its lowest number of illegal aliens entering the country in 47 years.Only 310,000 made it across the border in 2017.

In contrast,over 300,000 illegals crossed our border in December 2023 alone— nearly as many as in Trump’s first year in office!

Pima County Sheriff’s Deputies recently accosted and harassed James O’Keefe for reporting on the human smuggling operation in Tucson, Arizona.

The next day after this bombshell release,Representatives Tom Tiffany (R-WI) and Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) visited the secret Casa Alitas illegalimmigrant housing compound in Tucson to investigate how federal funds are being used to transport and house immigrants who illegally crossed the border.

The Sheriff’s office was also called on the two representativeswho were looking into how federal dollars are used to break the law and facilitate illegal immigration.

Representative Tiffany spoke to The Gateway Pundit exclusively on Monday to discuss his experience at the Casa Alitas compound in Tucson:

Immediately upon arriving at the Phoenix Sky Harbor airport last week and checking bags, The Gateway Pundit correspondent Jordan Conradson noticed agroup of children, all dressed identically, which the baggage attendant confirmed were unaccompanied minors, who werebeing transportedto from theborder to Philadelphia.

“I feel bad for the kids,” they said, agreeing that we don’t know whether or not they are being sex trafficked. “They have like a thousand groups on busses… people from Africa… They’re all going to New York,” they continued. “I don’t even want to go to New York right now because I don’t know what they’re doing there. They’re not working!”

This is happening as liberal sanctuary city and state leaders like New York Mayor Eric Adams and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker attempt to push the blame on Texas Governor Greg Abbott for shipping illegals to their towns and states, something Biden is already doing.

Ironically for Adams and Pritzker, gate agents at Sky Harbor told The Gateway Pundit, “They’re going toNew York, and they’re going toChicagobecause they getfree housing, and they getfree assistance.”

When walking through the TSA security checkpoint, Conradson noticed that illegalimmigrants were being photographed by TSA agentswhen showing their boarding passes to enter security. When asked why this was, one agent responded, “They’re different. They’re from the border… They’re the ones from the news.

TSA Agent. Most of it, like I don’t know if you know, but in Ecuador, they have an open border, so they all fly — some of it is Chinese too, a lot of Chinese —They’ll fly into Ecuador because it’s an open border, and then the cartels are taking advantage… we’re getting swamped because they’re coming in flying and then they don’t really know what’s going on.

They just know they have to get there, and we have to help them, and some of them don’t have food; some of them smell really bad, and they don’t have basic hygiene. It’s really bad. It’s just bad overall.”…

The gate agents then began conversing with Conradson about how the illegals, who clearlyhave no money, could afford these flights and how “we transport them” and “we pay for them.”

They then agreed that many of the adults transporting the children are likely not their parents, andthe kids are being trafficked. “Exactly!” said one gate agent when presented with this fact….

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/tgp-exclusive-illegal-immigrants-flown-late-night-phoenix/

General Syrsky Takes Charge And Ukraine Continues To Falter

Larry Johnson Feb. 14, 20241/2

The leadership shakeup in Kiev, with President Zelensky giving he boot to General Zaluzhny and promoting General Syrsky to the top military slot, has not changed the dire situation the Ukrainian Army faces on the Donbass front. If anything, it has made matters worse. General Syrsky, who is known derisively among Ukrainian troops as “The Butcher,” seems intent on living up to his reputation as a leader who is careless with the lives of this troops.

One ofhis first moves was to move four Ukrainian brigades from the Kharkiv region to Avdeevka. Initial reports today indicate that did not go well:

There has reportedly been a mass casualty event In town of Selidovo where Russian iskander and reportedly cluster munitions from smerch devastated an AFU training ground. Some sources are saying ~600 casualties but number that is completely unconfirmed and subject to review. This estimate comes from the accompanying reports that hospitals beds in Dnepropetrovsk have been completely filled.

Ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Igor Mosiychuk confirmed arrivals. It is also being widely discussed in Ukrainian telegrams. . . .

“In the Selidovo area, traffic has been restricted; in the next 24 hours,the dead will be removed from the landfill. The SBU began searching for gunners among the locals who could help strike a concentration of enemy manpower at the training ground, which was hit by several missile strikes. The death toll is in the dozens.”

Selidovo is located just west of Donetsk. Meanwhile, Russian forces attacking Avdeevka are encircling Ukrainian units and have cut the major supply route in and out of the city.

Russian forces also captured two Ukrainian strongpoints just north of Ivanivkse and south of the cemetery. This gives Russian troops control of the high ground and puts them in position to move on Chasov Yar.

Here you can see General Syrsky describe the peril. It is not just Syrsky reporting bad news. A French correspondent on the ground shared her perspective.

Biden’s fruitless effort to wrangle an additional $61 billion dollars out of Congress to send to Ukraine will not change Ukraine’s tactical disadvantage.Ukraine lacks the critical resource required to sustain the war — a well-trained cadre of soldiers. Russia’s successful strike on Selidovo is a brutal reminder that anytime Ukraine assembles a large group of soldiers (or trainees) they can be hit and decimated.

Syrsky is reported to be sending more of his best troops towards Avdeevka. If true, he is living up to his reputation as “General Butcher.” Those soldiers are likely to chewed up by the Russian grinding offensive. And the death of every experienced soldier puts Ukraine further into a hole that it cannot climb out of…

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/general-syrsky-takes-charge-ukraine-continues-falter/

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Russian war correspondent Marat Kharullin provides an excellent summary of the effect of the command shake up on the front line Ukrainian troops:

In general, information has been coming from the other side about the repressions of the SBU against the senior command staff. According to unofficial information,since the beginning of the year, 6 commanders of the Ukrop brigades have disappeared in the dungeons of the SBU. Nobody knows what happened to them. There is only one crime – abandoning positions. And it doesn’t matter that the Ukies simply can’t hold them back anymore – they can’t retreat, period. In any case, you will be killed either on the front line or by your own during the retreat.

In this context, the story of Syrsky’s appointment is very interesting. Obviously, it happened under pressure. I have already written that Zelensky’soverseas masters trust this character the least. First of all, because he has great connections with Russia (parents, classmates, colleagues, etc.). And in order to achieve his absolute loyalty, theZelensky regime is actually holding Syrsky’s family hostage(they are kept locked up in a special gated community).

The appointment of Syrsky instead of Zaluzhny occurred against the will of Zelensky’s overseas masters – this means that they actually gave up on him (do what you want, we don’t care anymore).

Zelensky, in turn, believes that Syrsky will continue to fulfill his wishes unquestioningly – control over Syrsky’s family is enough. However,Zelensky forgets that, to put it mildly, people do not like blackmailers and, as soon as the opportunity arises, they take revenge.

But let’s return to the original thesis. The past week clearly showed that the Ukies are increasingly losing control over what is happening on the battlefield. Apparently, thecommanders are simply afraid to report the real situation to the top, since this could threaten them with arrest or even execution. That is, the monster began to devour itself.

This is exactly what we will now see in the northern direction from Kupyansk to Artemovsk – the Ukies officially continue to “not see” the advance of our troops in most of the directions that I will talk about today.

And one more important point: the past week demonstrated how excellently our commanders are able to maneuver, constantly changing directions of attack. By striking where Ukrainians do not expect.

I hope the U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (no relation to me) holds the line and does not waste American taxpayer dollars on a lost cause.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/general-syrsky-takes-charge-ukraine-continues-falter/

Bill Gates (Mad Fake Scientist) Launches Scheme to ‘Save Planet’ from ‘Climate Change’ by Chopping Down Millions of Trees

February 13, 2024 - 12:34

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has just launched his radical new scheme that promises to “save the planet” from “climate change.”

As Slay News reported last year, Gates’s organization, Breakthrough Energy, plowed $6.6 million into the project led by Kodama Systems.

The project promised to remove “carbon emissions” from the Earth’s atmosphere by chopping down trees and burying them underground.

The move will see 70 million acres of forests, mostly in the Western United States, cut down.According to the project organizers, “scientists” say “burying trees can reduce global warming.”

Kodama claims that burying the trees will prevent them from allegedly “spewing” carbon back into the air.The trees will be buried instead of being used for conventional means, like timber for housing.

This week, Gates has just launched a new product to work alongside his tree-chopping project. PGraphyte, a carbon removal startup backed== by Gates’s Breakthrough Energy, just kicked off operations at its Arkansas-based plant, according to Inc.

After the trees are culled by Kodama,they will be sent to Gates’s Graphyte for “carbon casting.”. The company’s “carbon casting” technology involves drying and compressing biomass from timber and agricultural by-products into blocks roughly the size of shoe boxes, the report explains.

The blocks are then covered in an impermeable barrier, buried underground, and monitored to prevent decomposition. This supposedly eliminates potential emissions created when the biomass is burned or left to decompose.

The one-year-old company has just launched its goal of removing 15,000 metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere by the end of 2024 by burying culled trees. The company is also aiming for an additional 50,000 in 2025.

“Graphyte’s first facility producing carbon casting blocks this week will become the largest carbon removal company in the world in the next several months and alone will remove 50,000 tons next year,” Graphyte CEO Barclay Rogers said in a statement.

“This is not a hypothetical, this is happening as we speak.”. Graphyte claims its “innovation” will allow for the removal of carbon at the cost of about $100 per ton. Carbon removal via direct air capture, by contrast, can cost anywhere from $600 to $1,000, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF).

The startup predicts its method will keep captured carbon out of the atmosphere for more than 1,000 years. Graphyte boasts investment from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, which countsGates, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Alibaba’s Jack Ma, Virgin Group’s Richard Branson, and hedge fund manager Ray Dalioon its board or among its investors.

It already inked a deal in November 2023 with American Airlines, which paid for the removal of 10,000 tons of CO2.

https://slaynews.com/news/bill-gates-launches-scheme-save-planet-climate-change-chopping-down-millions-trees/

They think we are stupid…

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1757434552350314531?s=20

Tucker Carlson is not wrong about Moscow. I know. I lived there

Christopher Tremoglie.1/2

February 13, 2024 4:08

Many people were shocked and appalled by Tucker Carlson’s comments about Moscow being nicer than many cities in the United States. The usual suspects (people who identify or used to identify as Republicansbut were affiliated that way only because of fiscal policies while altogether abandoning cultural matters) were outraged. Groups like the Lincoln Project, the social media account “Republicans Against Trump,” and National Review editor Charles Cooke completely dismissed Carlson’s comments as absurd.

Guess what? They are wrong. Their sentiments are based on a cultural ignoranceof something they know little about because they have zero experience. I would know. I lived there in 2018 for a study abroad trip, and it was one of the first things I commented to friends and family when I returned home — long before Carlson’s comments and the current accepted anti-Russian sentiment.

I said this not because I was defecting to Russia or had an adoration for the country’s president, Vladimir Putin. I said it was because I felt it was true. And I believe if groups like the Lincoln Project or people like Cooke were sincere and honest and didn’t have an anti-Trump, anti-Putin agenda behind their sentiments, they would agree, too.

And I also say this as someone who didn’t get the affluent Russian experience that Carlson received. I didn’t have any red carpets laid out for me. I didn’t get the whole “girlfriend experience” that Cooke mentioned in his article. I lived in a dorm associated with Moscow State University that was relatively small, a building that lost hot water for a week in July and didn’t have air conditioning in the excruciatingly hot summer months. I am going to guess Carlson didn’t have to experience that. However, none of those experiences changes my opinion.

The first thing anyone visiting Moscow from a prominent inner city in the U.S.would notice is the city’s subway system. I grew up in Philadelphia, and every time I took the subway, the conditions were so gross that I thought I was going to contract some disease by simply touching the handrail. This was, of course, when I wasn’t being accosted for money, harassed by a homeless person, witnessing a homeless person defecating, or being forced to fight off criminals wishing to cause harm.

The conditions at every subway stop in Philadelphia are so bad that the stops look like they were the last remaining pieces of civilization that survived an apocalypse.Conversely, in Moscow, the stops are tidy and clean, and most are decorated elegantly — unlike anything seen in most inner cities in the U.S.

There are frequently statues, paintings, fancy lighting, chandeliers, and stained glass to enhance the personal experience. Josef Stalin purposely designed this when the subway system was constructed to show how the Soviet system was superior to the West, or so I was taught. If only Stalin had a similar resolution for bread lines and gulags.

Moreover, at most of the locations I utilized, they felt like I was entering a museum, not a subway stop. Sure, there were homeless people there, too, but nothing that even comes close to resembling what I regularly see on Philadelphia’s subways.The public transportation was also superior to most of what I experienced in the U.S.However, this is the case with most countries I have visited in Europe….

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/2854211/tucker-carlson-is-not-wrong-about-moscow-i-know-i-lived-there/

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For example, Moscow has a tramcar, trolley, and bus system that, if being fair and objective, is superior to most cities in the U.S. This wouldinclude a significantly noticeable difference in how much cleaner all of these thingswere compared to my experiences with Philadelphia’s public transportation system and others I have used in the U.S.

The city is alsoabundant with plenty of restaurants, museums, malls, recreational areas, and sporting events(well, soccer games if you enjoy sports that regularly end in 0-0 or 1-1). I experienced the diverse range of delicious culinary delights and dining cuisines available, though I could go the rest of my life without ever having borscht or kvass again. Themuseums are top-notchand comparable to many other museums I have visited worldwide, including the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris.

The Tretyakov Gallery and the All-Russian Exhibition Center, known as VDNKh, are must-seeswhen visiting Moscow. Of course, this is in addition to seeingSt. Basil’s Cathedral, the Kremlin Museum, and Vladimir Lenin’s tomb— which could only be categorized as simultaneously odd, creepy, and captivating. I can attest that any visitor would never realize a desire to see a mummified man who had been dead for a century until passing through this exhibit.

We would often go toMcDonald’slate at night as it was one of the food places that were open and near the dorm in which we stayed. The difference between the appearance and cleanliness of McDonald’s in Moscow compared to those in the U.S. is night and day.It is so clean that it looks like one could eat off the floor. And I dare anyone, anyone at all, who is critical of Carlson’s comments about Moscow to go to a McDonald’s and tell me that I am wrong. If anyone does so, that person is lying.

I alsofelt safer walking around Moscowlate at night than in cities in the U.S., especially Philadelphia, New York, and Washington. On several occasions, some friends and I took the subway and walked around Moscow on the weekends at around 2 or 3 in the morning — I felt completely safe and didn’t have to worry if I was risking my life. At the karate school where I trained in South Philadelphia, I witnessed a drive-by shooting last spring. Guess where I didn’t see any drive-by shootings? Moscow.

Earlier this month, Mike Gill, a former official in the Trump administration, was killed during a carjacking in Washington. In 2023, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) was the victim of a carjacking in the district. In 2021, Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) was carjacked after leaving a meeting in the middle of the day at a building that was located across the street from the Philadelphia Eagles’ practice facility.Do you want to know where government officials aren’t killedduring carjackings or where members of Congress aren’t victims of carjackings?Moscow.

Now don’t be mistaken. This is not an endorsement of Moscow’s superiority over the U.S.Despite the filth and the crime, I would unquestionably choose to live in this country rather than Russia (though an argument probably could legitimately be made for living in Moscow over Philadelphia — but I digress). And despite every effort by the totalitarian Left that exists in the Democratic Party that wants to suppress speech, dissent, and opposing viewpoints, people inthis country are much freer and have substantially more freedom, liberty, and luxuries than Russians do.So, to me, it will always be USA, all the way.

However, the faux outrage over Carlson’s comments is indicative of agenda-driven sycophants who care more about partisan politics than the truth about how dirty, grimy, polluted, and crime-infested many of this great nation’s cities have truly become. And rather than shed crocodile tears of anger over what Carlson said,perhaps those very same people should try to come up with solutions to improve our own citiesso they are not the filth-ridden, unsafe crime havens they have become.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/2854211/tucker-carlson-is-not-wrong-about-moscow-i-know-i-lived-there/

You Haven't Read the Best Book Ever Written on American Immigration

In fact, you probably haven't even heard of it.

JEREMY CARL.1/3. FEB 13, 2024

IN DECADES OF STUDYING THE SUBJECT, THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ ABOUT IMMIGRATION, FICTION OR NONFICTION,WAS WRITTEN BY A SEMI-OBSCURE POET WHO SHUNNED ATTENTION AND DIED, SCARCELY NOTICED BY THE POLITICAL WORLD, IN 2022.

No, it’s not Camp of the Saints, Jean Raspail’s prophetic but controversial take on the future of third-world immigration to the West, which foretold the future in some ways but was also sometimes painted with overly broad brushstrokes.

It’s a novel that, while compared favorably by several contemporary reviewers to Orwell’s Animal Farm, was ignored by the literary mainstream and disappeared largely without a trace.

I can’t remember how I first came upon Paul Lake’s short novel Cry Wolf: A Political Fable, but my experience with it reminded me of the great southern writer Walker Percy’s first encounter with The Pulitzer-Prizewinning “A Confederacy of Dunces”, which had been handed to Percy in unpublished manuscript form by the late author’s mother who endlessly hectored Percy until he reluctantly agreed to read it.

“In this case I read on. And on,” Percy writes in that book’s introduction. “First with the sinking feeling that it was not bad enough to quit, then with a prickle of interest, then a growing excitement, and finally an incredulity: surely it was not possible that it was so good.”

Unlike the Confederacy of Dunces author John Kennedy Toole, who was unpublished in his lifetime, Lake was hardly completely unknown. The former poetry editor of the noted conservative religious journal First Things, he had been a Stegner fellow at Stanford, won the prestigious Richard Wilbur Award for his poetry collection The Republic of Virtue and published verse in highly-respected outlets such as the Paris Review.

Nonetheless, Lake was hardly a household name, even in the households of conservative intellectuals. He taught for his entire career at Arkansas Tech, not known as a literary hotbed. And Cry Wolf is also ultimately a dark and disturbing work, which probably did nothing to help its popularity.

But for those who somehow did get a copy, their enthusiasm spoke volumes. The Stanford Review called it “a brilliant piece of literature. Fifty years from now, I would not be surprised to see this book studied alongside Animal Farm in classrooms.” while a reviewer for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute said “Paul Lake’s astonishing Cry Wolf is subtitled ‘A Political Fable,’ but that does not seem adequate to its achievement.” Booklist, the American Library Association’s publication for the book trade and not exactly a hotbed of conservatism, called it a “Fable more polished that Orwell’s anti-Communist satire,” while Front Porch Republic, a culture site with distinguished board members such as Patrick Dineen, called it “an important, but neglected, masterpiece.” The American Spectator said that it "In the great tradition of George Orwell's Animal Farm. I can only hope that it will be as widely read and will be as powerful an influence as was Orwell's masterpiece in awakening civilization to its present deadly peril."

https://jeremycarl.substack.com/p/you-havent-read-the-best-book-

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But despite this enthusiasm from those few reviewers who discovered it,Lake was out of step with the times. When he published Cry Wolf in 2008, America was transitioning between the Pro-amnesty “conservatism” of George W. Bush, to the outright cheerleading forhyper-multiculturalismof Barack Obama. A book such as Cry Wolf that argued eloquently against all of this, went against the prevailing trends.

Indeed, one of the only public comments I could find from Lake himself on the book,he wrote that it was “difficult to publish because of its assault on political correctness. . . As is often the case when a satire offends the political left, mainstream journals and reviews simply ignored my book.” Indeed when I spoke about Cry Wolf to two friends of mine who are leaders in the conservative immigration policy world, neither had even heard of it.

I was so impressed after reading Cry Wolf in the late 2010s that I attempted to contact the author to show my appreciation. He retired from Arkansas Tech a few years prior, and when I reached up to two faculty members who had valorized him upon his departure, both claimed ignorance of his contact information and whereabouts. I eventually obtained an email address from his editor at First Things, but my queries went without response. I got the distinct sense that Lake was something of a recluse, a habit of authors, who are certainly not required to talk to nosy enthusiasts of their work.

The book’s plot itself is deceptively simple and clearly a homage of sorts to Orwell’s Animal Farm. I will not ruin it for potential readers by discussing it too extensively here,but I will give the outlines.

It begins on a peaceful “Green Pastures Farm,” in which farm animals work cooperatively for the good of the community. Green Pastures Farm is a high-trust society set withfour simple rules that make up its Constitution. Foremost among those rules for the purposes of this book is “No Trespassing!” (i.e no wild animals are allowed on the farm.) There is a “religious” community on the farm that is a clear allegory for Christianity, and there are clear aspirations throughout for the animals to work toward a higher degree of civilization.

The calmness of the farm is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of an injured fawn. Truly it means no harm, and in fact, is eager to join the tame animal community. As the plot develops we see that many wild animals make sincere attempts to assimilate into Green Pastures Farm. And most of the farm animals that want to welcome wild animals are not doing so for malicious reasons.Yet it is the introduction of this fawn, for whom Green Pastures Farm break their sacred “No Trespassing” rule, that ultimately leads to dire consequences.

What makes Lake’s work effective are at there are not simple answers to the questions he poses.

Only a small number of creatures are truly villainous (most notably, “the professor” an Owl, who is a clear stand-in for liberal intellectuals.

The professor treacherously opens the gates of Green Pastures Farm and subsequently uses sophistry to turn the farm animal community against itself. Instead of advocating for the rules that made the farm successful,he pushes “biodiversity” or that “the more various forms of life there are in a given environment, the better the chances are that all will thrive and be happily interdependent.”

https://jeremycarl.substack.com/p/you-havent-read-the-best-book-ever

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Anotherstrength of Cry Wolf is that it is about far more than just immigration. Instead it is about thelong-term effects of a toxic combination of immigration, political correctness, andmulticulturalismwhen =combined with the collapse of tradition and religious faith==. Indeed, as in the U.S., the open border of Green Pastures Farm and the refusal of the animals to act decisively to correct it is as much of a consequence of cultural collapse as its cause. This question—whether cultural collapse has caused our obsession with unfettered immigration, multiculturalism, and political correctness or whether it is a consequence of it is something I have pondered a great deal in my own forthcoming book.

Unrestricted immigration from wild animals is the stake in the heart of Green Pastures farm, but Lake places the blame not necessarily on the wild animals per se (indeed, several are portrayed sympathetically)=but on a rot and complacency within the tame animal culture. TheOwl, taking advantage of weakness, substitutes politically correct terms like “forest born” for wild. As they enter the farm community,wild animals do the work that tame animals used to do,making the tame animals even more dependent. The animals are often powerless against the professor’s arguments because they don’t understand their own culture and traditions.Cry Wolf also warns about the difficulties of assimilation.

Assimilation from wild to tame is a possibility, the book suggests, but it is a spiritual accomplishment, fully completed only over many generations.

At the novel’s beginning, the animals count as their greatest achievement that they once banded together to drive a bear away. But under the spell of the professor’s sophistry, they come to see their defense against the bear as their society’s greatest failure and their acceptance of the wounded fawn, which led to all of the troubles, as the greatest event in the farm’s history.Young brainwashed, radical farm animals eventually join with the wild animals in a political coalition against the older tame animals.

There are, of course, imperfections in the allegory. One might nitpick about the precise distinctions between wild and tame animals or note that the book exaggerates the peacefulness and unity of the tame animal farm. And it is fair to say that “no trespassing” has not always been the law, at least in America. But these are quibbles.Cry Wolf is a stunning fable—and whatever details it glosses over through simplification, it more than makes up for in power.

Written well before the “Great Awokening,” Cry Wolf’s preview of the rhetoric of privilege and discrimination that is so ubiquitous today makes it a prophetic book.Like any classic (and Cry Wolf is truly an undiscovered classic) it has as much to say about our own timeas it does about its day.

https://jeremycarl.substack.com/p/you-havent-read-the-best-book-ever

Tucker Carlson calls out transhumanists who ‘think they’re God’ at World Governments Summit

LifeSiteTue Feb 13, 2024 -

(LifeSiteNews) —  Tucker Carlson has criticized at the World Governments Summit (WGS) transhumanists who believe that they are God and “can create a better human being through technology.”

In a discussion at the 2024 World Governments Summit in Dubai, where Carlson talked about his viral interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the former Fox News anchor said that humility is a sign of wisdom and that transhumanists who think that “they are God” are “very dangerous” and “will get a lot of people killed.”

“Wisdom grows from the recognition that you are not God,” he said.

“And in the United States, we had a period where we were sort of having this debate about, are some religions good and some religions bad.”

“I’ll tell you my view on it, and it’s a hardened view. It’s a sincere view. I divide the world not between Muslim, Jew, and Christian, or Buddhist.I divide the world between people who believe they’re God and people who know they’re not,”Carlson continued.

“And the only people I trust are in the second category, because that is the beginning of wisdom. When you know you are not God, that you cannot affect every change that you want, [that] you can’t foresee the future, that you’re not omnipotent, then you are much more likely to make good decisions. Wise, humane decisions.”

“By contrast, when you believe you have the power to shape the world and other people, as we were hearing this morning through, you know, biohacking.”

“When you think you can create a better human being through technology, you’re very dangerous because you don’t understand your own limits, and you will get a lot of people killed,” he stated.

While Carlson did not specifically state who the subject of his critique was, it may have been World Economic Forum (WEF) founder and ardent transhumanist Klaus Schwab, who had spoken at the WGS earlier that day.

In his speech, Schwab announced “the transition of humankind into a new era,” an “Intelligent Age” in which “humankind will enjoy many more opportunities and possibilities.”

“Envisioning a future propelled by the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, we see a new dawn of human civilization — one that harmonizes technology with the deepest needs and aspirations of humanity,” the WEF founder stated.

“With this new intelligent age, technology is not merely a tool or an extension of human capabilities, it is a partner in shaping the world where every individual has the opportunity to reach their full potential,” he added.

Schwab also said, “We have to be prepared for a world where we see a fusion of our physical, our digital & our biological dimensions […], so it will be a New World.”

At the beginning of the discussion at the WGS, Carlson said that he had been trying to get an interview with Putin for three years, but the U.S. intelligence agencies were spying on him and trying to prevent the interview.

“The U.S. government prevented me from doing it by spying on my text messages and leaking them to The New York Times, and that spooked the Russian government into canceling the interview,” Carlson said.

“So I’ve been trying to do this, but my country’s Intel services were working against me illegally, and that enraged me because I’m an American citizen. I’m 54. I pay my taxes. I obey the law. And there was no expectation in the America I grew up in that my government and its intel services, NSA and CIA, which are always outwardly focused on our foreign enemies, would be turned inward against American citizens.”

“And I’m shocked by that, and I’m infuriated by that. And so once I discovered that that was happening and I confirmed it was happening, and they admitted that they did it, then I was totally determined, maniacally dedicated to doing this interview, not simply because I want to know what Vladimir Putin is like and what he thinks about a war that is resetting the world and really gravely damaging my country’s economy, butalso because they told me I couldn’t on the basis of illegitimate means and for no really clearly stated justification,” he continued. (So he had to get permission this time?)

“I want to live in a free country. I was born in one, and I’m going to do whatever small thing I can do to maintain this society that I love,” the former TV anchor concluded.

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