Saturday, August 12, 2023

Breach from Within Lacking Clean Challenge

Opposition Seems Insufficient to Arrest Disreputable Duo

Far too Few 2024 Presidential Challengers outside the Frame who — 

  • Used their real name (not a pseudonym or anonymity)
  • Designed and posted an official, professional looking campaign website (not mere social media sites)
  • Seemed to express common sense, reflective intelligence in a platform; not merely an ability to recite trending mantra or ideological bullet points
  • Seemed to possess substantive qualification beyond mere arrogance, audacity, and the basic (highly inadequate) constitutional requirement of age, native, residency.


Permissive terms Invite and Sustain Present State of Affairs
Corruption, Corruptible Officials


The Constitution of the United States requires for presidential candidates no tests of skill, experience, intelligence, or character and if elected no in-service testing or upgrading of skills, training, knowledge, character or intelligence.

Anyone who meets these “requirements” is eligible to declare candidacy for the U.S. Presidency
  • Natural-born citizen of the United States
  • Thirty-five years of age
  • Fourteen years of U.S. residency
Spend $5,000 (having named a “committee” conduit), register with a compromised Federal Election Commission, and any man or woman (elected or campaigner) is free collect a whole lot of money pandering to narrow interests (and enriching self), peddling influence, selling public office, moving in and out of public-private, conflicting-interest sectors without check or chastisement. A man or woman in this situation, without proper rules or requirements, is free to be as corrupt as a common criminal and to corrupt the institution of governmentand get away with it.

Because of the highly inadequate constitutional requirement for such a critical position—the most powerful office in the United States and powered by U.S. military might (and permissive systemic conflicts of interest) the most powerful position in the world with authority over life and death, authority to end the world; because of this condition, Americans are made to suffer the tyranny of an entrenched rogue government. 

In light of this, it has become necessary to restudy the United States Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment Section Three.

In my view the study should consider extending the text to cover public official’s acts variously observed, defined or categorized as
  • Treason
  • Betrayal
  • High crimes
  • Bribe Taking 
  • Influence peddling 
  • Public Office Selling
  • Money laundering (direct or indirect) 


Constitution of the United States AMENDMENT XIV [1868] SECTION 3     excerpt minor punctuation edits

“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress or elector of President and Vice President or hold any office (civil or military) under the United States (or under any State), who—having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress or as an officer of the United States or as a member of any State legislature or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States—shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
Remedy (unfortunately the framers used the permissive, optional may; instead of the essential, compulsory must or shall)
The Congress of the United States of America “may by a vote of two-thirds of each House remove such disability.”

 

Far too few men outside (or giving the appearance of being outside) the RepubDem war party

No endorsement intended or suggested.

Listed as Libertarian Party Affiliated

  • Dunham, Keenan - South Carolina (business owner with experience in law and management, and previous campaign experience for public office) https://ballotpedia.org/Keenan_Dunham https://www.dunham2024.com/ https://www.politics1.com/p2024.htm
  • Oliver, Chase – Georgia (political activist including opposition to the Bush era war on Iraq, advocacy of Ranked Choice Voting; previous State level candidacy for public office) https://votechaseoliver.com/about-chase/ https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_candidates,_2024
  • Maat, Mike ter-Florida (economist, former law enforcement officer, Federal employee and consultant in finance and economics, previous candidacy for State public office) https://miketermaat.com/about-the-campaign/ https://www.politics1.com/p2024.htm


Listed as Independent

Bills, James Independent – Texas (veteran schoolteacher/multilevel athletic coach) https://www.jamesbills2024.com/platform https://www.jamesbills2024.com/ https://www.jamesbills2024.com/meet-james

Candidate’s words on official website
(Excerpt, minor edits)
“Most of us in the middle know that we share more common ground than the media and the two parties give us credit for.” Media organizations “play partisan games to push agendas for votes for their parties. … ‘Common folk’ know that there is still bias amongst different races … (and) we still have a long way to go to make it better. We know also that there is often a double standard … with government officials and people of wealth.…

“I know that in order to strengthen this country …, we must unite even more at the ground level and understand that we are all created equal. Everyone must have a fair shake. All of us must be able to engage in discussion openly, and in a non-partisan way.

“We must not allow Washington, D.C., politicians to create hate amongst as we fight for the scraps and they sit back and laugh at us.” Under a new presidency “‘We the People’ will unite like never before.”

The organization “Unite America” writes: The people of the United States of America “are more divided than ever.”

“Congress is gridlocked. Legislation is at a standstill. Political divisions are tearing our country apart.” 

“Distrust and dysfunction” are marked indelibly (the unacceptable widely accepted) in the political system.… Politicians have ceased representing the people of the United States.

The group concludes that the “incentives” governing the U.S. political system have to be repaired.


My sense runs deeper. 


To me there is a deadly impairment, a severe problem in the character and caliber of men and women seated and allowed to be seated in U.S. elective and appointive positions within Government (as well as among those with whom they partner)
These men and women are destroying our essential institutions, our fabric and Union, our homeland and community, and the trust that must exist between Government and Governed.
Therefore, it is the duty of the citizenry of these United States (declared before the Constitution) to remove this stain, this systemic tyranny and seat clean and incorruptible governance. 

It is our duty together, one nation indivisible, to take civil action—nonviolent action—to cleanse the filth. Remove the disability.



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Friday, August 11, 2023

Rising South Fells Empire

Francophone Africa Makes News in the West

Global South 

As of 2022, seventy-eight countries (Afghanistan to Zimbabwe) made the World Population Review (and United Nations’) list of “Global South” countries https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/global-south-countries


Francophone Africa Alphabetically

1.   Benin

2.   Burkina Faso

3.   Burundi

4.   Cameroon

5.   Central African Republic

 

6.   Chad

7.   Comoros

8.   Congo (Democratic Republic of the)

9.   Congo (Republic of the)

10.            Djibouti

 

11.            Equatorial Guinea

12.            Gabon

13.            Guinea

14.            Ivory Coast (Republic of Côte d’Ivoire)

15.            Madagascar

 

16.            Mali

17.            Niger

18.            Rwanda

19.            Senegal

20.            Seychelles

21.            Togo

 

WeAfrique “List Of (21) Francophone Countries in Africa,” by Tim Dajin, September 29, 2022, https://weafrique.com/francophone-countries-in-africa/

“Economic dependence has contributed to perpetuating a system wherein African states remain weak, pliant, and reliant on resource exports. Primary beneficiaries are French companies and French interests. And African states— their national sovereignty further eroded —are obliged to “ally” with France [DITTO Empire USA, UK, et.al] in any major conflict….” Columnist Brad Pearce writes in an August 8, 2023, posting at The Cradle.
The Continent of Africa “suffers many ailments…, perhaps the most persistent and nefarious (of these) are the lack of sovereignty and access to capital” — while much of Europe’s prosperity, for centuries, has derived from Europeans’ looting of countries of the Global South.
The linguistic maneuver “Global South” is a relatively contemporary, post-World War II, euphemism for widely-used historic terms colonial (today’s neocolonial) 
“possessions” or “territories;” “less developed,” “developing” “non-Western,” “poor,” “third” (or fourth), “undeveloped,” “undeveloped” countries or world.

Included in the Global South construct coined by forceful nuclear powers are these. 

  • The entire Continent of Africa
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • The Continent of Asia particularly countries conveniently mapped or remapped, divided, redrawn, grouped and regrouped, defined or redefined, often war-ravaged by Western powers and their “allies” and termed “Near East,” “Middle East,” “West/Southwest Asia;” “developing” countries. (Further reference)


Countries Developing 

Among them though not usually considered 

Global South Countries

Labeled “Developing Economies” 

International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook Database (Update April 2023)

Afghanistan

Cameroon

Albania

Cape Verde

Algeria

Central African Republic

Angola

Chad

Antigua and Barbuda

China

Argentina

Chile

Armenia

Colombia

Azerbaijan

Comoros

Bahamas

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Bahrain

Republic of the Congo

Bangladesh

Costa Rica

Barbados

Côte d'Ivoire

Belarus

Djibouti

Belize

Dominica

Benin

Dominican Republic

Bhutan

Ecuador

Bolivia

Egypt

Bosnia and Herzegovina

El Salvador

Botswana

Equatorial Guinea

Brazil

Eritrea

Brunei

Eswatini (Swaziland)

Bulgaria

Ethiopia

Burkina Faso

Fiji

Burundi

Gabon

Cambodia

The Gambia

Ghana

Grenada

Guatemala

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Guyana

Haiti

Honduras

Hungary

India

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Jamaica

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Kiribati

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

Laos

Lebanon

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

 

Madagascar

Malawi

Malaysia

Maldives

Mali

Marshall Islands

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mexico

Federated States of Micronesia

Moldova

Mongolia

Montenegro

Morocco

Mozambique

Myanmar

Namibia

Nauru

Nepal

Nicaragua

Niger

Nigeria

North Macedonia

Oman

Pakistan

Palau

 

Palestine

Panama

Papua New Guinea

Paraguay

Peru

Poland

Philippines

Qatar

Romania

Russia

Rwanda

Saudi Arabia

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Samoa

São Tomé and Príncipe

Senegal

Serbia

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Solomon Islands

Somalia

South Africa

South Sudan

 

Sri Lanka

Sudan

Suriname

Syria

Tajikistan

Tanzania

Thailand

Timor-Leste

Togo

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

Turkey

Turkmenistan

Tuvalu

Uganda

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

Vanuatu

Venezuela

Vietnam

Yemen

Zambia

Zimbabwe

 

The columnist resumes.

“France never stopped looting Africa (but) now the tables are turning.”

Developments in West Africa demonstrate that “the francophone countries are no longer willing to accept French neo-colonialism.” The fear factor has been removed and “Africa’s quest for genuine independence is steadily coming to fruition.”

Pearce, Brad, “The 26 July coup in the West African nation of Niger…, threatening to undermine French and US military presence in the region, has shed light on the historical exploitation and continued practices of Françafrique—the term used to describe the persistent exploitation by the former French Empire in Africa.”

France’s neocolonialism

“France-Afrique” was coined in 1955 by the President of Côte d’Ivoire to convey his country’s “close ties with France.”

La “Françafrique” was coined in 1998 by French economist and historian François-Xavier Verschave as a parody of the West African leader’s usage and to reflect “a specific type of neocolonialism” imposed by France on former colonies of the French Empire. His was a “criticism of alleged corrupt and clandestine activities of various Franco-African political, economic and military networks” (reference source).

“France never stopped looting Africa,” Pearce wrote.

https://new.thecradle.co/articles/france-never-stopped-looting-africa-now-the-tables-are-turning
Brad Pearce is creator and principal columnist of “The Wayward Rabbler.”




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Thursday, August 3, 2023

“… We will continue to protect women and ensure women-only spaces are reserved solely for biological women…”

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt enshrines via EO an Oklahoma “Women’s Bill of Rights” Following Resolutions 115 and 53 introduced in the 118th United States Congress (House and Senate)

Attempting to Set the Record Straight


Governor Stitt’s introductory text recalls [Minor edited excerpt]

One hundred and three years ago the Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the Constitution of the United States granted women across the United States of America the right to vote. 

The first Woman Suffrage Amendment had been introduced in the U.S. Congress in 1878 and its congressional passage and states' ratification took more than forty years. After going through the required procedures, the Amendment was certified on August 26, 1920. 
Fifty years later, in the midst of nationwide “Women’s Strike for Equality” demonstrations in the early 1970s the 93rd United States Congress, on August 16, 1973, passed H.J. Res. 52, designating August 26 “Women’s Equality Day,” in commemoration of the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution, “which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.”

Archival records accessed in 2021 showed that every President of the United States to that date—and beginning with the thirty-seventh U.S. President—had issued a proclamation designating August 26 Women’s Equality Day [The Equal Rights Amendment first introduced in Congress in 1923 has not been successful in passing the required procedures.]

On June 23, 1972, the 92nd United States Congress passed the Title IX Amendment of the Higher Education Act (Pub. L. 92–318, 86 Stat. 235) prohibiting sex-based discrimination in any school or any other education program that receives funding from the federal government.

“Each of these events,” the Oklahoma Governor’s Executive Order recalls …, made great strides for the dignity and equality of women in America.”

HOWEVER, he continues, “radical gender ideologues” today are threatening “the hard-fought progress won by women and girls…; and the Federal Government is surrendering to (extremists’) demands.”

The Oklahoma Governor’s Executive Order (2023-20), according to its introductory text is intended
  • “to settle the unfounded confusion surrounding such basic questions as ‘What is a woman?’;” and
  • “to provide clarity certainty, and uniformity to administrative actions and rules.”

The Order sets out these Clarifications:

FEMALE: “when used in reference to a natural person shall be defined as such a person whose biological reproductive system is designed to produce ova.”
MALE: “when used in reference to a natural person shall be defined as such a person whose biological reproductive system is designed to fertilize the ova of a female.”
WOMAN, GIRL: “shall refer to natural persons who are female.”
MAN, BOY: “shall refer to natural persons who are male.”
MOTHER: “shall be defined as a female parent of a child or children as defined in 25 O.S.-7” *
FATHER: “shall be defined as a male parent of a child or children as defined in 25 O.S. – 7” *
SEX: “when used in reference to a natural person shall be defined as that natural person’s biological sex, either male or female at birth.”
NATURAL PERSON: “shall be defined as only those ‘persons’ defined in 25 O.S. Section 16* who are human beings, to the exclusion of bodies politic or corporate.”

J. Kevin Stitt Office of the Governor State of Oklahoma Executive Department Executive Order 2023-20 Filed August 1, 2023, Oklahoma Secretary of State
*[Oklahoma Statutes Title 25 Definitions and General Provisions
“§25-7 Children”: “The term children includes children by birth and by adoption” R.L.1910, § 2920
“§25-16” “Person includes corporation”: “The word ‘person,’ except when used by way of contrast, includes not only human beings, but bodies politic or corporate”
R.L.1910, § 2929
https://accessible.oksenate.gov/sites/default/files/2019-12/os25.pdf
https://accessible.oksenate.gov/sites/default/files/2019-12/os25.pdf


Bio Brief

Oklahoma’s 28th Governor (2019 -) is Florida-born of “a Cherokee family.” At age five, he moved with his family to Skiatook (vicinity of Native American Osage Nation), Oklahoma. 

John Kevin Stitt is a member of the Cherokee Nation, a graduate in accounting from Oklahoma State University; and together with being a public official, he is a businessman (source: general reference).

Words attributed to the governor on August 1, 2023:
“As long as I’m governor, we will continue to protect women and ensure women-only spaces are reserved solely for biological women.”


Women’s Bill of Rights Resolutions 118th United States Congress (House and Senate)


United States House of Representatives:

H.Res.115: “Establishing a Women’s Bill of Rights to reaffirm legal protections afforded to women under Federal law” 118th Congress (2023-2024)

Official Title as Introduced: “Establishing a Women’s Bill of Rights to reaffirm legal protections afforded to women under Federal law”

Introducing Sponsor: Congresswoman Debbie Lesko (Date of Introduction February 9, 2023)
Same Date Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary

26 Cosponsors (recorded between February and May 2023)

Rep. Harshbarger, Diana

Rep. Miller, Mary E.

Rep. Hern, Kevin

Rep. Tenney, Claudia
Rep. Aderholt, Robert B.

Rep. Biggs, Andy

 

Rep. Clyde, Andrew S.

Rep. Weber, Randy K., Sr.

Rep. Guest, Michael

Rep. Santos, George

Rep. Ogles, Andrew

 

Rep. Foxx, Virginia

Rep. Norman, Ralph

Rep. Owens,

Rep. Jackson, Ronny

Rep. Hageman, Harriet M.

 

Rep. Duncan, Jeff

Rep. Ellzey, Jake

Rep. Banks, Jim

Rep. Carter, Earl L.

Rep. Steube, W. Gregory

 

Rep. Cline, Ben

Rep. LaMalfa, Doug

Rep. Luna, Anna Paulina

Rep. Burgess, Michael C.

Rep. Babin, Brian

 

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/115/all-actions?overview=closed#tabs
https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hres115/BILLS-118hres115ih.pdf


United States Senate:

S.Res.53: “A resolution establishing a Women’s Bill of Rights to reaffirm legal protections afforded to women under Federal law” 118th Congress (2023-2024)

Official Title as Introduced: “A resolution establishing a Women's Bill of Rights to reaffirm legal protections afforded to women under Federal law”

Introducing Sponsor: Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (Date of Introduction February 9, 2023)
Same Date Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary (text: CR S331)

6 Cosponsors (recorded between February and May 2023)

Sen. Rubio, Marco

Sen. Cruz, Ted

Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M.

Sen. Lee, Mike

Sen. Britt, Katie Boyd

Sen. Marshall, Roger

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-resolution/53
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-resolution/53/text






Sources

Press Release, News reporting, (Oklahoma)

Official Website of Oklahoma Governor J Kevin Stitt
https://www.oklahoma.gov/governor/newsroom/newsroom.html

Official Website Newsroom Oklahoma.gov, August 1, 2023, “Governor Stitt Leads the Nation as First Governor to Issue Women’s Bill of Rights by Executive Order”
https://www.oklahoma.gov/governor/newsroom/newsroom/2023/august2023/governor-stitt-leads-the-nation-as-first-governor-to-issue-women.html

KFOR August 1, 2023, LOCAL “Oklahoma Governor signs ‘Women’s Bill of Rights’ by executive order,” Natalie Clydesdale/KFOR, https://kfor.com/news/local/oklahoma-governor-signs-executive-order-to-define-sex-gender/

KGOU August 2, 2023, “Oklahoma Executive Order enacts ‘Women’s Bill of Rights’ critics call it ‘transmisogyny’” by Hannah France, Robby Korth, OPMX
https://www.kgou.org/politics-and-government/2023-08-02/oklahoma-executive-order-enacts-womens-bill-of-rights-critics-call-it-transmisogyny




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