Recommended Reading Today, 7/18/23

As readers have noticed, I try to read widely for material to include in posts. While at any given time the posts here will concentrate on specific matters, that doesn’t mean that I’m not reading about other issues. Here are a few articles from recent days that I recommend—just in case they haven’t come to your attention.

You’ve probably seen numerous recent articles reporting that auto makers are finding that not nearly as many people are willing to buy EVs as they may have hoped. In other words, prospective buyers aren’t falling for the con. Here’s an article that explains the con a bit more deeply than auto buyers may delve:

Study casts doubt on electric vehicles' climate, cost benefits: 'Won't achieve the goals intended'

Overall, the rapid electrification of the U.S. transportation sector … won't achieve the goals intended and the attempt to do so will have enormous economic and social costs because the underlying premises are either incorrect, too poorly understood or too difficult to quantify in order to take the actions that are being taken."

Next, an article by a German author. He provides an in depth survey of the variety of “right wing” parties to which European voters are increasingly attracted. The common denominator appears to be concern for loss of identity due to out of control immigration:

The Rise of the European Right

Right-wing parties are on the rise across the Old Continent.

The main driver of support for the right in Europe is opposition to out-of-control mass immigration. Rising costs of living and high energy prices since the Ukraine war have also fueled discontent. Most right-wing parties are also skeptical of the E.U. But foreign policy leanings are not always consistent; attitudes towards Russia since the war in Ukraine have been a source of discord among the parties of the right. I will return to the issue later in this essay. First, let’s go on a short political tour d’horizon to acquaint readers with the scale of changes in the “Old Continent.”

Dr. Robert Malone has increasingly focused on the Globalist Agenda. Here is a brief but smart article in which he explains that the threat to cultural identity posed by out of control immigration is, for globalists, as feature—not a bug. The entire point is to demographically dilute any coherent cultural identity that could provide a strong focal point for opposition to the new regimes of the Great Reset. Call it Cultural Marxism, or the Cloward-Pivens strategy, advanced by demographic means. A way to destroy the diversity of culturally conditioned political institutions and subsume the entire world under a uniform globalism. Create cultural chaos within the countries of the West as a step to restoring order by the imposition of authoritarian One World government:

Dr. Malone: Why the US gov’t wants to reduce the natural-born population and import more immigrants

What they really are striving for is a New World Order, whereby the UN becomes the dominant force of the world, with nation states nestled under their organizational structure.

Many countries, including the USA, have birthrates that either are too low to sustain current population levels or are stable. Since 1970, the population of people born in the USA has been stable at below 300 million. In fact, some estimates show a decline in population. All of the population growth in the USA during this time period has been due to immigration. That is why the USA has grown to 336 million people in 50 years. This trend has only increased in recent years.

There were a record 44.8 million immigrants living in the U.S. in 2018, making up 13.7% of the nation’s population. This represents a more than fourfold increase since 1960, when 9.7 million immigrants lived in the U.S., accounting for 5.4% of the total U.S. population.

For Jill and I growing up in a blue state, we were indoctrinated at an early age by the public school system that having two children was the responsible thing to do to save the planet from overpopulation.

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Our country has done a fine job of convincing the American populace that large family size hurts families and individuals in aggregate. We were told that the reward of that, for better or worse, would be a stabilized population over time and preservation of the American way of life, environment, cultural heritage and associated economic opportunities for US Citizens. And yet still they persist [with the open border policy].

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Under globalism, the heterogeneous cultures through out the world are being weaponized as a way to destroy diversity; a path towards enabling a single, globalized government controlled by the UN and the WEF. Which is precisely what open borders, the immigration policies of the UN and even Kamala Harris’ statements seem to be working towards.

And finally:

RFK Jr. shrugs off Biden family corruption allegations: Won't be a 'spear tip to my campaign'