Death to DEI: The Real Reason Woke Policies Exist

Erik Carlson Mar 04, 2025

It is important to understand that many of the people who create, promote and fund movements and policies such as DEI, BLM, the Climate Change and LGBTQ+ agendas may not have the same goals, beliefs or values as the people who simply adhere to and support these types of movements and policies at a foot soldier level.

Many who follow and support these movements do so in good faith and believe that these movements and policies were created to do good, to provide a level playing field for people they believe are marginalized or victimized. Many people believe they are making the world a better place through adherence to these policies.

One Friday afternoon each month, to this day, I drive by a group of older white people at a busy intersection on my way home from work. In a very diverse, yet non-black area, they hold up BLM signs to the drivers passing by in the hopes of getting a reaction. I just roll my eyes at them when I drive by. They try to elicit honks and waves; they seem to crave attention; in my opinion, it somehow makes them feel better about themselves. Perhaps it washes away their white liberal boomer guilt.

Again, in my opinion, these particular people believe they are making a difference.

Kennedy Hits Pause on COVID Vaccine Project Worth Hundreds of Millions

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/kennedy-hits-pause-covid-vaccine-project-hhs/?utm_id=20250302

by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., 02/26/25

Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. put the brakes on a multi-million dollar contract with the American biotech company Vaxart to create a new COVID-19 vaccine, Fox News Digital reported.

Kennedy on Feb. 21 issued a 90-day stop-work order on the contract until HHS determines whether it is “prudent and safe” to continue. The order came just as the next phase of the company’s clinical trial, involving 10,000 participants, was set to start on Monday.

In this phase of the trial, the company is planning to test the efficacy of its vaccine against existing mRNA vaccines, bypassing a placebo-controlled assessment.

EXMNA Insights: History Complicates the Idea of Islam as a Liberating Force for Black Americans

Malcom X & Muhammad Ali pictured right.*

The Nation of Islam (NOI), in its rejection of the names imposed by white slave owners, encouraged its members to abandon their "slave names" and replace their surnames with "X"—a symbol of their lost African heritage. Yet, in a striking twist of irony, many then adopted Arabic names that directly translate to "slave" in another context. Names like Abdul (slave of), Abdullah (slave of Allah), Abid (slave/worshipper), and Abida (female slave/worshipper) became common among converts, unwittingly reinforcing the very concept of servitude they sought to escape.

This contradiction underscores the deep complexity of identity reclamation among African Americans navigating religious and cultural self-definition. The NOI’s emphasis on Islam as an alternative to Christianity, which they viewed as the "white man’s religion," led many to embrace Arabic and Islamic traditions without fully reckoning with their historical implications. Arabic-speaking societies, including Muslim-majority regions, were deeply involved in the trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean slave trades, including directly capturing and selling slaves to the West. The term abeed (slaves, plural of abd or slave) is still used in Arab popular vernacular to refer to Black Africans.

Thus, the effort to sever ties with European oppression led to the adoption of another linguistic and historical framework, which carries the same subjugating connotations. The rejection of "Johnson" or "Smith" in favor of "Abdullah" or "Abdul Rahman" represents not an escape from servitude, but rather a tragic exchange—one more recent oppressor’s legacy for a prior oppressor. The true liberation they sought might have required a deeper interrogation of both Western and Eastern historical narratives. 

A Lesson on Why Washington Does Not Function

By Allen West

Yes, I know, I spent one term in the US Congress. Republicans, namely one Florida State Senator Don Gaetz, determined it was prudent to redistrict out the first Black Republican Member of Congress from Florida since Reconstruction. 

After all, why have a strong Black conservative Congressional Representative, retired Army officer, who honored his oath to the Constitution? And, who was unafraid to speak the truth? Combat does that to a person, regardless of who feigned indignation. I recall sending a letter to the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Hal Rogers of Kentucky, asking him about the priority of the (12) Appropriations Bills necessary to create a spending budget. Silly Freshman member of the House of Representatives, how dare you inquire such folly from a senior member of the body? And so I never heard back from Chairman Rogers.

See, per the Constitution, Congress is mandated to pass a budget each year, and they fail to do so repeatedly. Somehow, they, regardless of political party, always seem to fall short, and we hear words such as Continuing Resolution, meaning spending levels will continue. Then, all of a sudden, at the end of the year, when folks are focused on Christmas, Congress comes up with something called an Omnibus spending bill. It is normally the 3,000+ pages of gobbledygook, I call it a spending gumbo, and it passes with no one really reading it.

Therefore, appropriations bills are never passed as they should be. There is no priority for the appropriations bills. And the result is that wasteful spending continues, with added spending.

Having Fewer Babies Will Cost U.S. Economy “Quadrillions of Dollars”

The West’s growing epidemic of childlessness and depopulation will “fundamentally alter our societies” and impose “an existential economic crisis” on the United States that will cost the U.S. alone “quadrillions of dollars,” according to two new reports.

Despite decades of warnings about overpopulation, the United States and Europe have long had fertility rates below the replacement level of 2.1 children per family. The global population bust will lead to nations with lower GDP, higher welfare spending, fewer workers, less economic power — and, possibly, a shift away from a global order led by the once-Christian West to one overwhelmed by a growing Muslim population.

“If we are unable to address our fertility crisis, the U.S. will face an existential economic crisis driven by a steep decline in fertility rates — one that could have an impact measured in the quadrillions of dollars,” wrote Jesús Fernández-Villaverde in The American Enterprise, the monthly publication of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). “[Y]es, tackling fertility has an impact measured in discounted terms of quadrillions of dollars, not just small change like a miserly trillion dollars here or there.”

“Seems bad,” quipped Brad Wilcox, professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and a fellow at the Institute for Family Studies (IFS).

If anything, the economic concerns minimize the full extent of the social revolution soon to be ushered in through low fertility, say experts in Europe.

The world’s impending underpopulation “should be treated as a primary political issue: We will be witnessing the reshaping of our region’s social, economic, and political landscape, impacting social structure, infrastructure, labour force, retirement, old age and health, state finances, and security — almost every aspect of life. It will break the system,” wrote Gudrun Kugler of Austria.

Elon Musk Lifts Lid on Bureaucratic ‘Sinkhole’ in Federal Government

By Stephanie Lundquist-Arora, 02/21/25  

https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/21/doge-suddenly-makes-government-efficiency-cost-cutting-exciting 

Elon Musk (left) holds a chainsaw that Argentine President Javier Milei (right) gave him to represent how he’s cutting government. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty)

When government bureaucrats talk about efficiency, the average person’s eyes generally glaze over, but not on Feb. 11 when from the Oval Office Elon Musk reported on the new Department of Government Efficiency’s early findings of waste, fraud, and abuse. Americans and reporters across the world sat on the edge of their seats as Musk discussed an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania.*

During Musk’s press briefing, as his 4-year-old son lingered next to President Donald Trump, Musk explained the antiquated retirement processing system that is illustrative of our government’s many problems.

The federal government lacks an automated system to process its workers’ retirement paperwork. The paper processing system, which is housed in a former limestone mine located 230 feet underground and is operated by more than 700 workers, takes several months to process an individual’s paperwork and only has the capacity to handle 10,000 retirements per month.

Despite all of the Democrats’ tears regarding Musk's work and DOGE’s efforts over the last several weeks, in 2014, The Washington Post itself—basically, the Left’s platform—labeled this retirement system “a sinkhole of bureaucracy.”

Judge Cancels NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Trial and Leaves Corruption Charges Intact until Mid-March

LARRY NEUMEISTER and MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press, Updated: Feb 21, 2025 / 06:56 PM CST *

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Friday canceled the corruption trial for New York City Mayor Eric Adams (pictured above) and appointed counsel to advise the court about the Justice Department’s controversial request to drop charges against the Democrat.

Judge Dale E. Ho’s written order means he won’t decide before mid-March whether to grant the dismissal of the case against the embattled mayor of the nation’s largest city.

On Friday, Ho said he appointed Paul Clement, a former U.S. solicitor general under President George W. Bush, to present arguments on the government’s case-drop request.

The judge noted that courts are normally “aided in their decision-making through our system of adversarial testing, which can be particularly helpful in cases presenting unusual fact patterns or in cases of great public importance.”

He said a Wednesday hearing had “no adversarial testing of the Government’s position,” and the absence made it important to appoint Clement to assist the judge in reaching a conclusion.

What is RFK Jr’s real job as Secretary of Health and Human Services?

https://libertyfirst.org/what-is-rfk-jrs-real-job-as-secretary-of-health-and-human-services/?seyid=53060?utm_source=activeengage

Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s confirmation as the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the US is the ultimate repudiation of the Covid policy response.

The scheme of lockdown-until-vaccination was the biggest effort of government and industry on a global scale on historical record. It was all designed to transfer wealth to winning industries (pharma, online retail, streaming services, online education), divide and conquer the population, and consolidate power in the administrative state.

By 2021, RFK Jr had emerged as the world’s most vocal, erudite, and knowledgeable critic of the scheme. In two brilliant books – The Real Anthony Fauci and The Wuhan Cover-Up – he documented the entire enterprise and dated the evolution of the pandemic industry from its postwar inception to the present. There was simply no way to read these books and think about the corporatist cabal in the same way.

Leader of Canada’s Trucker Protests Against COVID-19 Restrictions gets 3 Months House Arrest

The Associated Press, February 19, 2025, 1:54 PM  

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — One of the most prominent figures from Canada’s trucker protests against COVID-19 restrictions in 2022 was sentenced to three months of house arrest on Wednesday.

Pat King, 47, [pictured right] was found guilty in November of five criminal charges including mischief and disobeying a court order. He faced up to 10 years in prison.

In its ruling Wednesday, an Ontario Superior Court judge gave King nine months credit for time already spent in custody before and during his trial. On top of the house arrest, he will have to complete 100 hours of community service at a food bank or men’s shelter.

Two other organizers, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, are awaiting the outcomes of their trials.

The February 2022 protests, dubbed the Freedom Convoy, were sparked by a Canadian government vaccine mandate for truck drivers crossing the U.S.-Canada border.

Hundreds, sometimes thousands, of protesters clogged the streets of the capital, Ottawa, and besieged Parliament Hill for three weeks in early 2022, demonstrating against vaccine mandates for truckers and other precautions and condemning Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government.

Courage, Censorship, and Coercion

By Muhammad Syed 

This week brings sobering reminders of the consequences of defying religious orthodoxy. In South Africa, the murder of Muhsin Hendricks—a pioneering figure who sought to reconcile Islam with LGBT+ rights—underscores the deadly risks of challenging doctrine. In London, a Qur’an-burning incident resulted in violence, and yet it is the attack victim who now faces charges for “religious harassment.” And in Tajikistan, the government’s attempt to curb Islam’s influence by dictating women’s dress is just another form of coercion. The fight for true freedom—of belief, speech, and personal autonomy—continues.

Unbelief Brief

Many of you will have already heard of the horrible news out of South Africa, where Muhsin Hendricks, one of Africa's few gay imams, and perhaps the most prominent, was shot dead. He had been in the city of Gqbehra (formerly Port Elizabeth), reportedly to officiate the marriage of an “interfaith heterosexual” couple, at the time of his murder. While no motive is officially confirmed, it beggars belief that his status as an important symbol of transgression against Islamic sexual mores while occupying a position of authority played no role. This is the saddening but easily predictable consequence of dissent, particularly in the realm of sex and gender roles, in a religion that encourages its violent punishment.

COVID-19 Legal Victories Across the Globe

https://rumble.com/v6mplg9-vsrf-live-165-major-covid-legal-victories.html  

This week on VSRF LIVE [Vaccine Safety Research Foundation], we dive deep into the major legal victories that are reshaping the landscape of COVID-19 policies and vaccine accountability across Australia, Canada, and the USA. 

In the first segment, we will speak with Australian doctor William Bay, who recently won a significant court victory reinstating his medical license after it was suspended for 2 years after speaking out against COVID-19 vaccines. Dr. Bay will be joined by Rhys, an Australian vaccine injury survivor, and his father Matt. Rhys will share his harrowing journey back to health after nearly losing his life to the vaccine, providing a firsthand account of the long-term effects and the challenges he’s faced in seeking justice. 

Judges Force Trump Administration to Fund Experimental Transgender Interventions

Tyler O'Neil | February 20, 2025,

Click here to read full article. 

....  All this brings us back to recent news. On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order declaring that his administration will operate on the basis that biological sex overrides the nebulous “gender identity” Biden preferred to talk about. This means the U.S. government will no longer endorse the ideology that says it’s good to mutilate a child’s body to make it appear like the opposite sex. 

It’s frankly Orwellian that I even have to write those words. 

But it gets worse.Trump signed another executive order taking steps to protect children from chemical castration and surgical mutilation. The order directs federal agency heads to prohibit the use of federal funds for transgender medical interventions for Americans under age 19, to the extent permitted by applicable law. In Trump’s words, the United States “will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”

Perhaps the same Democratic Party that long understood the prerogatives of protecting pro-life taxpayers from being forced to financially support the killing of the unborn might instinctually grasp the need to stop propping up these transgender atrocities with Americans’ tax dollars. Oh right, I forgot—the Democratic Party abandoned its support for the pro-life Hyde Amendment in 2020 and now believes your tax dollars should fund the killing of the unborn and the mutilation of children.

Commentary: Defensive Gun Uses Show Faulty Premise of California Gun Laws

 Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Amy Swearer | Grace McNabnay | February 18, 2025

As wildfires raged last month in California, tens of thousands of people were forced to flee their homes, often with just minutes of warning. To make matters worse, looters took advantage of the chaos and lack of police resources, showing up in droves to ransack evacuated areas—sometimes as helpless residents looked on in horror as their doorbell cameras captured the looting in real time.

Fortunately for residents of at least some evacuated areas, a handful of their armed neighbors stayed behind to protect their homes and livelihoods from would-be looters—in some cases, bravely patrolling their streets with firearms in what certainly seemed to be open defiance of the state’s public carry laws.

But for countless others, the state’s restrictive gun laws undoubtedly complicated their ability to defend their homes, at the very least compounding their anxiety by raising questions about their legal rights in a state notorious for treating lawful gun owners as the enemy of public safety. Barriers like mandatory waiting periods, meanwhile, ensured that Californians who didn’t already own guns would be kept from exercising one of their most fundamental rights precisely when it mattered most. 

‘They Stole His Practice’: Medical Board Drops Case Against Canadian Doctor Who Questioned COVID Vaccines

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/medical-board-drops-case-canadian-doctor-covid-vaccines/?utm_id=202502

By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

February 18, 2025 

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia (CPSBC) earlier this month withdrew its case against a Canadian doctor who faced misconduct allegations over social media posts questioning the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and promoting ivermectin.

The charges against Dr. Charles Hoffe of Lytton, British Columbia [pictured here], an emergency room doctor with over 30 years of experience, had been lingering since 2022.

On Feb. 5, the CPSBC informed Hoffe’s attorney, Lee Turner, that it was withdrawing its disciplinary proceedings. According to The Epoch Times, CPSBC said the process had dragged on too long. According to Castanet Kamloops, CPSBC said the circumstances around Hoffe’s citation “materially changed.”

“The material change in circumstances is the fact that the emergency phase of COVID-19 has passed,” Castanet reported.

Assailants Stab Two Israelis in Athens

By Robert Spencer

No matter how many attacks of this kind take place, Western authorities show no signs of becoming realistic about jihad or altering their mass migration policies. ...

Two Israeli were stabbed on Friday on Ermou Street, an upscale shopping avenue that runs through central Athens.  One of the assailants, originally from the Gaza Strip, was apprehended while the other fled the scene, Hebrew-language Ynet News reported.

The Gazan suspect “had participated in the past in pro-Palestinian demonstrations,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry said.

Tennessee Governor Supports Dismantling the US Department of Education

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tennessee-governor-backs-trump-plan-nix-department-education-sees-bellwether-new-school-choice-bill 

Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee [pictured here] told Fox News Digital that he believes President-elect Donald Trump's decisive victory signals success for a second school choice bill introduced to the state legislature this week after his first proposal failed this year. 

Lee said he agreed with Trump's promises to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, echoing the president-elect's concern over the federal bureaucracy becoming entrenched with gender and race ideology rather than learning.

"I think it is a great idea to dismantle the Department of Education federally. And I'm a strong believer that policy at the state level should be handled by states, that states know best," Lee told Fox News Digital. "In this case, states certainly know best. We know best in Tennessee what our children need and how best to educate our kids. The parents of this state should be given a greater influence on how their kids are educated, and that will happen if the federal Department of Education is dismantled and those funds are delivered to states to be used in a more efficient and more effective way." 

UK 1984: Hundreds Charged in Britain for Speech Crimes Under Orwellian Online Safety Act

In vindication of U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s warnings of encroaching authoritarianism in Britain and Europe, a report has found that hundreds of people in the United Kingdom have been charged under the 2023 Online Safety Act, including for spreading “fake news.”

According to Crown Prosecution Service data obtained by The Telegraph in a Freedom of Information request, 292 people in Britain have been charged with “speech crimes” under the Online Safety Act passed into law by the previous Tory government.

Those charged include 23 for ‘illegal false communications’, often referred to as “fake news” offences. The controversial clause banned the spreading of so-called disinformation that could lead to “non-trivial psychological or physical harm”. A conviction under the legislation comes with a maximum penalty of 51 weeks in prison.

The report found that several were charged with the offence following the mass stabbing attack at a children’s Taylor Swift dance party in Southport for spreading claims online that the attacker was a Muslim migrant.

After initial silence from police in the aftermath of the attack that left three young girls dead, it was later revealed that the attacker, Axel Rudakubana, had been born in the UK to migrant parents from Rwanda and had possession of Islamist jihadi material.