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Writes Ellen Finnigan:

Dear Lew, 

I read the article you linked to written by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman in Crisis Magazine in which he stated that Pope Francis’s condemnations of Israel’s actions “represent the Church’s clear teachings on war found in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.” 

I take issue with this statement. The Church’s teachings on this matter are not clear. In the latest episode of the CAM podcast, I take a closer look at what is in the Catechism. Here is Part I.

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Thanks, John Smith. 

Drop Site News

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Tariffs are very risky business. They’re like playing with fire. We run into the same unsolvable problem that we have with The Fed. They don’t know what interest rates should be. It’s all arbitrary. In the same way, the president doesn’t know what the price of cars, or lumber, or any other product should be. While the president is not literally price-fixing like the Fed, he is arbitrarily interfering with market prices and trade. Our inescapable problem in America is the overwhelming size of government, spending, debt and empire. All of these variables are still going in the wrong direction.

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Gail Appel wrote:

Never doubted it.

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Thanks, Mike Sanders.

Activist Post

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Ginny Garner wrote:

Lew,

The EO leaves electronic voting machines in the election process. It refers to improving the security of these machines which are called “systems.” Mike Lindell is still hopeful they will be eliminated from the election process in the future. 

See here.

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Tim McGraw wrote:

The bureaucrats in the US Agencies are sadists who enjoy lording it over people. They hate strong, independent Americans like the Maude family because the bureaucrats are weak.

See here.

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Thanks, Andy Thomas.

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Writes Gail Appel:

Somali “refugee” State Legislators are so grateful for U.S. taxpayer dollar largesse.

Get them all the hell out of here. They HATE us!

See here.

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Great interview last night with Musk and members of the DOGE team. A good mix of concrete examples (40% of calls to Social Security customer service are crooks trying to reset electronic deposits from the intended recipient to the crook) with a steady return to the overall goal of cutting waste and fraud.

The $1B target of first year cost savings is too low IMHO. DOGE has yet to start with Defense. Social Security is just getting started. We will see.

Everything Musk and his team has found reflects my experience in working with government IT systems. My work for one of “Beltway Bandits” consulting firms to respond to an RFP for fixing Air Force financial systems matches what Musk and his team describe. Hundreds of legacy financial systems (most of which can barely communicate with each other) and no ability to conduct a financial audit, let alone pass one.  Many IT people in the Air Force were very aware of flaws and limitations on the systems, but just had to live with it. That is no longer the case.

Musk is correct to give credit to Trump for pushing this effort to combat waste and fraud. To me, his best comment was that when fraud is exposed, the fraudsters are the loudest ones to shout in outrage and complain.

Fox News segment on Baier interview Musk and DOGE team.

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Thanks, John Smith.

Common Dreams

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Thanks, John Smith. 

Antiwar.com

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Thanks,  Brian Dunaway.

Katv.com

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We are in a culture war. Tax payer financed institutions are being used to amplify the culture war. I completely agree with Trump’s approach. If you want the federal dollars, then you will drop the DEI nonsense.

It was in the news yesterday that a DEI inspired private foundation just closed shop. The DEI types running it had stolen donor money, bankrupting the foundation. There is no reason to allow such behavior in taxpayer financed institutions. And no reason to allow your own money to support such behavior.

Link to New York Post article on Trump cutting federal funds to Smithsonian over DEI.

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Il manoscritto fornisce un grimaldello al lettore, una chiave di lettura semplificata, del mondo finanziario e non che sembra essere andato "fuori controllo" negli ultimi quattro anni in particolare. Questa è una storia di cartelli, a livello sovrastatale e sovranazionale, la cui pianificazione centrale ha raggiunto un punto in cui deve essere riformata radicalmente e questa riforma radicale non può avvenire senza una dose di dolore economico che potrebbe mettere a repentaglio la loro autorità. Da qui la risposta al Grande Default attraverso il Grande Reset. Questa è la storia di un coyote, che quando non riesce a sfamarsi all'esterno ricorre all'autofagocitazione. Lo stesso è accaduto ai membri del G7, dove i sei membri restanti hanno iniziato a fagocitare il settimo: gli Stati Uniti.

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(Versione audio della traduzione disponibile qui: https://open.substack.com/pub/fsimoncelli/p/tutto-svuotato)

Viviamo in un mondo in cui ogni bisogno umano essenziale (denaro, cibo, salute, istruzione e persino informazioni) è controllato e manipolato da sistemi artificiali. Questa “Matrix” ha avuto inizio con i banchieri centrali che hanno creato la moneta fiat: dichiarando il valore di qualcosa, imponendone l'uso e creando dipendenza. Questo modello ha prodotto scarsità dove non esiste naturalmente, assicurando la dipendenza dai loro sistemi. Possiamo osservare questo schema ovunque: denaro creato dal nulla ma sempre scarso, cibo abbondante reso artificialmente scarso, guarigione naturale rinominata “alternativa”, saggezza convenzionale sostituita dalle credenziali.

La Matrix monetaria

Le banche centrali creano valuta attraverso la monetizzazione del debito, ogni nuova unità monetaria ruba valore a ogni unità monetaria esistente. Attraverso l'inflazione derubano silenziosamente (quasi) tutti i tuoi risparmi, trasformando la vostra energia produttiva nel loro potere. Nel 1913 un mese intero di lavoro poteva comprare un vestito di lusso; oggi copre a malapena la spesa di una settimana. Il lavoro non è cambiato, il denaro sì. La moneta fiat stessa è una sorta di dipendenza forzata. Una volta abbandonato il gold standard nel 1971, non c'è stato limite alla loro manipolazione monetaria.

Non si tratta solo di valuta, ma di raccolta di energia. Le banche creano denaro tramite tasti premuti, quindi ne richiedono il rimborso in tempo e lavoro umano reale. Quando la FED ha stampato $6.000 miliardi nel 2020, non ha creato valore, ha diluito ogni dollaro nel vostro conto di risparmio. È l'alchimia finanziaria moderna: trasformare la vostra produttività nel loro potere. Come dice giustamente Jeffrey Tucker: “Le banche centrali sono il motore di una delle forme di furto più sofisticate nella storia dell'umanità”.

Mentre le banche centrali corrono per implementare le valute digitali delle banche centrali (CBDC), promettendo praticità mentre costruiscono l'architettura per la sorveglianza finanziaria totale, il risultato finale diventa chiaro: il denaro sano/onesto, vincolato da limiti naturali o matematici, non può essere creato dal nulla. Oro e argento affrontano vincoli di estrazione fisica; Bitcoin è rigidamente limitato a 21 milioni di unità. Sebbene non perfetti, hanno in comune una caratteristica fondamentale: non possono essere creati come denaro monopolistico da pianificatori centrali. Queste limitazioni significano che il vero valore è guadagnato, non fabbricato, motivo per cui vengono attaccati: non possono essere svalutati ad hoc.

Proprio come il sistema finanziario plasma la nostra realtà economica attraverso la scarsità artificiale, il panorama dell'informazione progetta la nostra percezione attraverso un controllo concentrato.

Il Nexus dell'informazione

Sei società controllano il 90% dei media, in calo rispetto alle 50 società nel 1983. Ad aggravare ulteriormente questo consolidamento, non si tratta di storie fasulle, ma di produrre una realtà fasulla e progettare la divisione sociale. La moneta fiat ha creato un sistema di notizie fiat, in cui si applicano gli stessi principi: dichiarare qualcosa, ripeterlo, farlo rispettare ed entrare nella coscienza delle masse. L'illusione della scelta dei media maschera la proprietà concentrata: BlackRock e Vanguard sono i principali azionisti di ogni grande azienda nel mondo dell'informazione (per inciso, possiedono anche le principali banche). Le stesse aziende possiedono azioni di appaltatori della difesa, aziende farmaceutiche e le stesse aziende che finiscono sui giornali.

Come ha ammesso l'ex-presidente della CBS News, Richard Salant: “Il nostro compito non è dare alle persone ciò che vogliono, ma ciò che decidiamo che debbano avere”.

Dividendo la società in infiniti campi contrapposti (sinistra contro destra, neri contro bianchi, vaccinati contro non vaccinati), si assicurano che le persone continuino a combattere tra loro invece di guardare in alto per vedere chi tira i fili.

Non si tratta semplicemente di mettere a tacere il dissenso, ma di plasmare la fede. Ricordate quanto velocemente “fidatevi della scienza” è diventato “non mettete in discussione l'autorità”? Come “due settimane per appiattire la curva” sono diventati due anni di cambiamenti di obiettivo? Anche i cittadini più fiduciosi hanno iniziato a notare la manipolazione della narrativa.

La fabbrica delle informazioni non controlla solo ciò che vedete, ma plasma il modo in cui pensate a ciò che vedete. Gli algoritmi di selezione dei contenuti creano camere di risonanza mentre la messaggistica coordinata produce l'illusione del consenso. I media sono di proprietà di aziende dipendenti da contratti governativi e regolamentati dalle agenzie a cui fanno riferimento. Quando seguite i soldi, dalle pubblicità farmaceutiche alla proprietà degli appaltatori della difesa, vedete che non stanno criticando il sistema; sono il sistema.

La manipolazione delle informazioni funge da precursore di quella che forse è l'espressione più devastante del potere centralizzato: la macchina della guerra senza fine.

La macchina da guerra dei banchieri

La guerra è il racket definitivo e i banchieri l'hanno perfezionata fin dalle guerre napoleoniche. Creare il conflitto, finanziare tutti i partecipanti, trarre profitto dalla distruzione, quindi finanziare la ricostruzione. Gli stessi interessi finanziari raccolgono denaro sporco indipendentemente da chi “vince”.

Il complesso militare-industriale ha bisogno di nemici infiniti per giustificare spese infinite. Quando cade un uomo nero, ne fabbricano un altro. Non vendono armi, vendono paura. Ogni missile lanciato rappresenta scuole non costruite, ospedali non finanziati, comunità non supportate. Le persone pagano sempre, mentre i banchieri riscuotono i dividendi.

La chiamano “politica estera” — in realtà è controllo della popolazione e furto di risorse. Distruggono nazioni indipendenti che osano creare i propri sistemi monetari, o commerciare al di fuori del loro controllo, mentre la chiamano “diffusione della democrazia”. I giovani muoiono in terre straniere mentre avvoltoi in giacca e cravatta ridisegnano le mappe attorno ai giacimenti petroliferi e alle rotte commerciali. Guardate l'Ucraina: BlackRock sta già pianificando la “ricostruzione”, acquistando terre e risorse mentre le persone muoiono.

Mentre la guerra fisica distrugge i corpi, il sistema di credenziali combatte una battaglia più silenziosa per le menti, determinando chi può parlare con autorità e quali verità sono considerate accettabili.

Il cartello delle credenziali

Abbiamo creato una classe di esperti che scambiano l'approvazione istituzionale per saggezza. Lo studente di medicina medio si laurea con $241.600 di debiti — quanto è probabile che metta in discussione un sistema con cui è in debito? L'istruzione fiat produce competenza fiat, basata sulla convalida istituzionale invece che sulla vera comprensione. Gli studi dimostrano che l'istruzione medica spesso enfatizza gli interventi farmaceutici, mentre gli approcci alimentari e lo stile di vita ricevono relativamente poca attenzione. Quando i dottorati di ricerca hanno messo in discussione le politiche di lockdown, sono stati messi a tacere mentre i social media sono diventati da un giorno all'altro “esperti di salute pubblica”.

La crisi dei prestiti agli studenti rivela la truffa: $1.700 miliardi di debiti mentre gli stipendi reali dei laureati sono stagnanti. La vera competenza deriva dai risultati, non dalle lauree. Un contadino che coltiva cibo ricco di nutrienti capisce la salute meglio di molti nutrizionisti; un meccanico che ripara motori comprende sistemi complessi meglio di molti economisti. La teoria senza pratica è solo una sofisticata supposizione. Le loro lauree non misurano l'intelligenza, misurano l'obbedienza. Più a lungo rimanete nel loro sistema, più diventa difficile vedere oltre.

La stessa cattura istituzionale che trasforma l'istruzione in indottrinamento si estende all'assistenza sanitaria, dove la saggezza della guarigione è sostituita da interventi brevettati.

La Matrix sanitaria

Hanno trasformato la medicina da arte curativa a servizio in abbonamento. Purdue Pharma ha guadagnato $35 miliardi vendendo OxyContin, definendo la dipendenza “pseudodipendenza” che richiede dosi più elevate. La FDA ha approvato il THC sintetico mentre le piante naturali sono illegali a livello federale, nonostante la legalizzazione in alcuni stati. La differenza? Una può essere brevettata. Anche in questo caso, principi fiat: sostituire il naturale con l'ingegnerizzato, a un prezzo elevato.

La corruzione è misurabile: l'industria farmaceutica ha dovuto affrontare sanzioni finanziarie sostanziali negli ultimi due decenni a causa di varie violazioni legali. Tra i casi più significativi ci sono:

• Pfizer: $2,3 miliardi nel 2009 per la commercializzazione illegale di farmaci da prescrizione;

• Johnson & Johnson: $2,2 miliardi nel 2013 per aver promosso farmaci per usi non approvati e aver fornito tangenti;

• GlaxoSmithKline: $3 miliardi nel 2012 per la commercializzazione illegale di farmaci e la mancata segnalazione di problemi di sicurezza.

Nel complesso queste multe contribuiscono a un totale di oltre $122 miliardi in sanzioni imposte alle aziende farmaceutiche sin dal 2000. Tuttavia sono solo un costo trascurabile nel contesto più ampio del fare affari, un piccolo prezzo da pagare in cambio di un'influenza intoccabile sulla salute umana. Nel frattempo i costi dell'insulina sono aumentati del 1.200% sin dal 1996, nonostante non ci siano stati cambiamenti significativi a riguardo.

Queste stesse aziende ora rivendicano l'autorità esclusiva sulla salute umana, inducendo i bambini a prendere SSRI invece di insegnare loro a elaborare le emozioni in modo naturale. La guarigione naturale, attraverso la luce del sole, il cibo pulito, il movimento e il riposo, viene etichettata come “alternativa”, mentre i farmaci sintetici diventano cure standard. Il potere di guarigione innato del vostro corpo diventa discutibile, mentre le loro molecole brevettate diventano indiscutibili. I nostri corpi sanno come riprendersi quando rimuoviamo gli ostacoli.

La medicalizzazione della salute rappresenta solo l'ennesimo fronte in una guerra più ampia contro i sistemi naturali, una guerra che si estende ai nostri bisogni più basilari di nutrimento.

La guerra alla vitalità naturale

Guardate la loro guerra contro i nostri cibi tradizionali più ricchi di nutrienti: demonizzano la carne e il burro, gli stessi cibi che hanno costruito i nostri cervelli e sostenuto l'umanità per millenni. L'ampia ricerca del dott. Weston Price sulle popolazioni indigene negli anni '30 ha documentato zero casi di malattie croniche moderne tra i gruppi che mangiavano le loro diete tradizionali, trovando tassi di carie dentale inferiori all'1% e praticamente nessuna malattia cardiaca. Ciononostante oggi vengono sponsorizzate le polpette di soia lavorate e le proteine ​​coltivate in laboratorio mentre si attaccano il pascolo rigenerativo che potrebbe curare il nostro pianeta.

Il latte crudo, il cibo perfetto della natura, diventa “pericoloso” nel momento in cui lascia la mucca. Nonostante l'opposizione normativa, la domanda è aumentata, con club di acquisto e piccoli agricoltori che affrontano controlli e persino incursioni armate per aver venduto latte fresco. Questa scelta alimentare, un tempo semplice, è diventata politica, abbracciata da coloro che mettono in discussione le autorità governative, mentre le “alternative al latte” ultra-lavorate fatte di acqua e oli di semi inondano gli scaffali dei supermercati.

Persino il sole, fonte di tutta la vita sulla Terra, è stato trasformato in un nemico. Invece di insegnare la corretta esposizione al sole per un livello ottimale di vitamina D, si promuovono creme solari chimiche che interrompono gli ormoni e avvelenano le barriere coralline.

Mentre la nostra connessione con i sistemi naturali viene interrotta, veniamo condotti in un regno artificiale che promette connessione mentre invece fornisce isolamento.

La prigione digitale

Il percorso verso il nostro attuale isolamento è stato attentamente progettato. Prima ci hanno separati fisicamente: “State a 6 piedi di distanza”. Poi ci hanno confinati: “Restate a casa”. Infine ci hanno venduto il sostituto definitivo: il metaverso, dove gli avatar digitali sostituiscono il tocco umano. Ironia della sorte, man mano che la connessione sociale diventa artificiale, la presenza umana reale diventa più rara.

Come persona che ha trascorso due decenni nel settore della tecnologia, so che questi strumenti sono potenti e dovrebbero essere accessibili a tutti. Il problema non è la tecnologia in sé, ma se viene utilizzata per centralizzare o decentralizzare il potere. Come l'elettricità, che può alimentare una comunità o una recinzione elettrica, gli strumenti digitali possono connettere e dare potere alle persone, oppure sorvegliarle e controllarle. La domanda non è la tecnologia, ma chi la controlla e come viene utilizzata.

Siamo diventati soli insieme, costantemente circondati ma profondamente soli. La ricerca di Meta mostra che Instagram peggiora i problemi di immagine corporea per il 32% delle ragazze adolescenti. Il tempo medio trascorso davanti allo schermo è salito alle stelle, superando le 7 ore al giorno nel 2023, mentre i tassi di depressione sono raddoppiati. Trasmettiamo le nostre vite a sconosciuti, evitando il contatto visivo con i vicini. Condividiamo i nostri pensieri più profondi con algoritmi, mentre facciamo fatica ad avere conversazioni reali. Stiamo annegando nella comunicazione, mentre siamo affamati di comunione.

Sì, i mondi virtuali possono essere delle fughe divertenti: c'è gioia nei giochi e nel gioco digitale. Ma il metaverso non è solo intrattenimento, è un tentativo di sostituire la realtà stessa con una costruzione artificiale che controllano altri. Mille amici su TikTok non possono sostituire una vera conversazione; un milione di “Mi piace” non possono sostituire un abbraccio genuino.

Siamo esseri bioelettrici che letteralmente risuonano tra loro. La vicinanza umana influenza:

• Variabilità della frequenza cardiaca

• Modelli di onde cerebrali

• Produzione di ormoni

• Funzione del sistema immunitario

• Benessere emotivo

Temono la vera connessione umana perché rompe la loro matrice di controllo. Quando le persone si riuniscono, condividono storie e si scambiano energia; la programmazione si interrompe.

Il percorso verso la liberazione

L'implementazione inizia a livello locale: se vivete in ​​un'area urbana, unitevi o avviate un circolo di acquisto alimentare; se avete accesso agli agricoltori, acquistate direttamente da loro. Create una rete di condivisione delle competenze di quartiere in cui le persone insegnano ciò che sanno, dalla conservazione degli alimenti alle competenze di riparazione di base; avviate un orto comunitario o unitevi a uno esistente; costruite relazioni con vicini che la pensano come voi. Ogni piccolo passo rafforza la resilienza e indebolisce la dipendenza dai sistemi artificiali.

La verità è che ogni sistema artificiale ha una controparte naturale che ci rende liberi. I sistemi artificiali si basano sulla vostra partecipazione, fede e, in ultima analisi, obbedienza. Il loro denaro ha valore solo se ci crediamo; la loro autorità ha potere solo se la accettiamo; le loro narrazioni funzionano solo se le consumiamo.

La soluzione non è complessa:

• Costruite vere amicizie

• Condividete pasti veri

• Fate conversazioni vere

• Create una vera comunità

• Scambiate valore reale

• Fidatevi della legge naturale

Nessuno torna ai sistemi fiat una volta che ha sperimentato la cosa reale. Non tornerete al cibo trasformato dopo aver assaggiato l'abbondanza della natura; non vi fiderete della moneta fiat una volta che avete capito il denaro sano/onesto; non accetterete l'autorità artificiale una volta che avrete trovato la vostra sovranità.

La rivoluzione non sta arrivando, è già qui. Ogni orto è una ribellione contro il loro sistema alimentare; ogni bitcoin è una ribellione contro il loro sistema monetario; ogni vera conversazione è una ribellione contro il loro sistema di controllo; ogni cuoco casalingo è una ribellione contro il loro impero di cibo processato; ogni genitore che insegna la vera storia è una ribellione contro il loro sistema educativo; ogni mercato locale è una ribellione contro i loro monopoli aziendali; ogni riunione di quartiere è una ribellione contro il loro programma di isolamento.

I nostri antenati prosperarono senza sistemi fiat; i nostri discendenti vedranno questa era artificiale come un'età oscura di limitazioni fabbricate ad hoc. Il ritorno alla legge naturale non è solo possibile, è inevitabile. La verità non ha bisogno di imposizione; la realtà non ha bisogno di decreti.

Il vostro DNA ricorda ciò che la vostra mente è stata programmata per dimenticare. La libertà non è concessa dall'autorità, è il vostro stato naturale.

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When I was younger, I was taught that the most important part of our worship in song wasn’t the notes, but rather the words. When we sing to God, we are also speaking to and teaching one another (Eph. 5.19; Col. 3.16). We should be able to “sing with the mind” (1 Cor. 14.15).

Every Sunday, our worship is filled with wonderful, beautiful, theologically rich hymns which remind us of biblical truths.  But growing up in the church, there was one song that we didn’t sing. In fact, we avoided it. We never sang “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” It’s not that we didn’t know the song (if you know the tune of “Booster”, you know the song). But rather, we avoided it because of its anti-Christian message.

Of course, there are some who remain ignorant of the song’s history and its anti-Christian theology. There have been rare occasions (usually near a patriotic holiday) where I’ve heard this song led in worship. But those occasions are rare. And even when the song is led, there are usually at least a handful of Christians throughout the auditorium standing there in awkward silence.

It is important to pay attention to the message we teach with our songs. That’s why many Christians don’t sing the “Battle Hymn.”

The Origins of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”

(Source: Chapter 8 of Julia Ward Howe’s biography. You can read it here.)

The Battle Hymn of the Republic was written in 1861 by a northern political activist, Julia Ward Howe. As an abolitionist, she was convinced that the Union cause was moral and righteous, and thus felt justified in supporting the destruction of her southern neighbors.

Returning from a visit to Washington in 1861, her carriage was delayed by marching regiments of Union soldiers. To pass the time, she and her companions sang several war songs which were popular at the time. Among them was a song called “John Brown’s Body”.

John Brown’s body lied a-moulding in the grave,
His soul is marching on!

The tune was catchy, and it wasn’t long until the marching soldiers joined in singing with her. One of her friends then suggested to her, “Mrs. Howe, why do you not write some good words for that stirring tune?”

Early the following morning the following lyrics came to her:

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.

After the song was published in 1862, it quickly found its way into military camps, and was frequently sung in exhortation before battles, and was sung joyously upon the news of military victories. In describing why she had written the song, Howe said:

Something seems to say to me, “You would be glad to serve, but you cannot help anyone; you have nothing to give, and there is nothing for you to do.” Yet, because of my sincere desire, a word was given to me to say, which did strengthen the hearts of those who fought in the field and of those who languished in the prison.

Despite originating during the war, it is important to realize that opposition to singing this “hymn” has nothing to do with who we think was right or wrong during the war. It has everything to do with the anti-Christian message of the song.

The Theology of the “Battle Hymn”

Like many who lived in the 19th century, Howe was very familiar with the Bible. Therefore the song is filled with language and imagery from Scripture. The song certainly has a spiritual message, but the message is not a Christian message.

The “Battle Hymn of the Republic” is religious war propaganda. It twists and turns the biblical imagery for the purpose of “strengthening the hearts” of union soldiers as they fought and killed their southern neighbors. Far from being a Christian hymn, the “Battle Hymn” is anti-Christian to the core.

Revelation 19 and the Coming of the Lord

The phrase “coming of the Lord” is understood to refer to the 2nd coming of Christ (1 Thess. 4.15; Jas. 5.7-8). Despite the fact that the phrase “coming of the Lord” never appears in the book of Revelation, most of the songs images are drawn from Revelation 19.

And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war. His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems; and He has a name written on Him which not one knows except Himself. He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses. From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty. And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, “King of kings, and Lord of lords.” – Rev. 19.11-16

In this passage, violence, war, and judgment seem to accompany the appearance of Christ, who arrives on a white horse (a common image used for Roman military conquerors). The passage describes Jesus in a blood-drenched robe treading out the “wine press of the fierce wrath of God.” Howe poetically uses the image to describe the Lord “Trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.”

The problem is that Howe wrote this lyric, not for the purpose of trusting in the Lord’s judgment, but rather for the purpose of giving Union troops license to kill their southern enemies. Americans have continually heard this popular patriotic song exactly as it was intended by Howe to be understood – as a validation for Americans to destroy enemies whom they judge as being immoral.

As Howe wrote the following verses with Union soldiers in mind, seeking to “offer service to their cause”, even the triumph of the gospel and the birth of Christ and twisted into justification for war.

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel;
“As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal”
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on!

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never sound retreat
He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment seat,
O be swift, my soul, to answer Him, Be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on!

In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me;
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on!

John’s Use of Military Imagery

The Bible is no stranger to using military imagery (1 Tim. 1.18; 2 Tim. 2.3), and Revelation 19 is no exception. But Julia Ward Howe and John of Patmos use military imagery to opposite ends.

Howe used the military imagery of Revelation 19 to “strengthen the hearts” of union soldiers as they marched into battle against their enemies. John used Roman military imagery to show that Christ (as opposed to Roman military leaders) will ultimately win the day. If we are looking for a heroic conqueror on a white horse to ride in and save the day, John doesn’t want for us to look for a Roman military leader, a Union General, or any other military hero. He wants us to look to Christ.

By the time Revelation was written, the “sword” was already commonly understood by Christians as a figure of the word of God (Eph. 6.17; Heb. 4.12). Earlier in the book of Revelation, Christ is described as having a sword coming out of his mouth, strongly reinforcing this image (Rev. 1.16). The fact that Revelation 19 describes the sword coming out of Jesus’ mouth indicates that the “weapon” John envisions is not the “burnished rows of steel”, but rather the God’s word.

John then describes how the sword is used to strike down the nations and rule them with a rod of iron. This is quite the opposite of Howe’s usage of Revelation’s imagery to “strengthen the hearts of those who fought” for her nation. In Revelation 19, the nations are not the victors. Rather the nations, having been deceived by Babylon (Rev. 18.23), are the ones who are defeated by the triumphant word of God.

The Victory of the Lamb

The book of Revelation not only assures us of Christ’s victory, it also gives us understanding as to how God destroys evil.

Amid all the violence and evil in the world, Revelation 5 gives good news. The victorious Lion of Judah is here to fight for us! But the surprising thing is that when John turns around to see the Lion, He looks like a slain Lamb.

“And I saw between the throne (with the four living creatures) and the elders a Lamb standing, as if slain.” (Rev. 5.6)

Significantly, a similar surprise is seen in the Revelation 19 battle scene. A close reading will show that the blood on Christ’s garment was not that of his enemies. Christ is described as being covered in blood (v. 13) before the enemies are struck down (v. 15). The blood is not that of His enemies. It is His own blood.

At the conclusion of Jesus’s conquest, He bears a new title: “King of kings and Lord of lords” (v. 16). Jesus replaces every other king, lord, or other political power which may demand our allegiance. Immediately after the conquest, the kings, the military commanders, the mighty men, the horses are their riders are all defeated (vs. 17-18).

Julia Ward Howe wrote the Battle Hymn to strengthen others in their allegiance to the Union. Revelation 19 challenges us to give our allegiance to Him who is Faithful and True as opposed to giving our allegiance to the nations of this earth with their kings and military conquerors. The “Battle Hymn” uses the same images, but to a completely opposite end.

Choose Your Side

Though the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” is filled with scriptural images, it has nothing to do with following Jesus. This is why many Christians don’t sing the “Battle Hymn”. We don’t sing the “Battle Hymn”, because we have decided to give our allegiance and worship to Christ alone, rejecting allegiance to any other defeated king, lord, or political entity.

Reprinted with the author’s permission.

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If you let the popularity of an idea – no matter how silly – dictate your stance, then you are not a very good elected official.

If you completely ignore and shoo-away and disparage overwhelming public sentiment on an issue, then you are not a very good elected official.

And, in the latter case, doing so used to mean your job at risk. But that, in the large and depressing part, is no longer the case.

And that is a result of voting districts, at every level.

You can be consistently on the “20% side” of an issue, as it were, and defy the remaining 80% of public sentiment and not be too worried about losing your seat because the district you represent has been drawn in such a way as to make it nearly mathematically impossible.

You can be in favor of paying for trans surgeries, in favor of illegal alien criminals staying in the country, in favor of massive slush fund spending that only goes to your political cronies, you can be in favor of government censorship, and on and on and not worry even though the vast majority of the public – probably even your district – are opposed to them.

In other words, rotten districts are licenses to be crazy because you only have to get through the primary where the 20% miraculously becomes 50% because they are far more obsessed with their issues…they vote…or are voted for…or paid to vote…

Let’s start with Congress.

Out of the 435 seats, about 190 are Democrat automatics. If a combination of Albert Einstein, Cary Grant, and the Buddha challenged the incumbent in any of these seats he would lose, even if he ran as an independent (Run as a Republican? Don’t even bother.)

The same can be said for the 190 ribrock reliable Republican seats.

That leaves 55 seats, or only 13% of the entire House of Representatives, in play in any given year. (Note – if only legal residents and citizens were counted when creating congressional districts, it is estimated that at least 10 Democrat seats would slip at least into the “contestable” pile.)

And if you are in one of those safe seats you can do anything you want, no matter what the public thinks.

On the Senate side, it’s slightly different as they are statewide elections that far more closely represent the actual will of the voters. At this moment in time, about 15 states can reliably predicted to return two Democrats, about 18 to return two Republicans.

That leaves about 34 seats or so theoretically in actual play, a far larger percentage than in the House.

Of course, senate seats do turn on other issues – while money and personality are important in all elections, they are far more important in statewide (and national) elections than any at the district level.

Let’s turn now to a specific type of election – local school boards.

Typically, the winning candidate has the support of the local teachers union. That means money and people to knock on doors and all of the rest of the permanent organization the union has is at your disposal.

So, then you win? Whom do you owe?

The union. Imagine if you could pick your own boss and then imagine you can get your boss fired and then imagine what happens when you ask for a raise or demand a new policy or procedure?

You get what you want, and what teachers’ union want, beyond money, is astonishing:

From a previous story on a recent California Teachers Association convention:

The “So you Want to be an Anti-Racist Union?” program page leads the curious to at least one hint – stop embracing “white supremacy culture,” aspects of which include perfectionism (there goes math), objectivity (there goes history), individualism (there goes art), worship of the written word (there goes English) and urgency (actually this would have been handy if I forgot to do my homework) –see here for more detail.

Hence most school boards becoming covens of 20 percenters and, just to emphasize the issue, California is not an outlier in this respect.

Speaking of California, we come to its legislature.

There are 80 state Assembly seats and 40 state Senate seats. The Democrats have 60 Assemblymembers and 30 senators – literally 75% of the legislature.

What that means is that they can do anything they want – they could even override a Gov. Gavin Newsom, should the need ever arise (it hasn’t and won’t.) They have a super-majority.

In 2022, the state voted across the board for Democrats for each statewide office (governor, attorney general, etc.)

The average percentage of votes they each got was 57.7%, a bit different from the 75% (actually in 2022 it was 77%) in the legislative races.

In November’s presidential vote, Kamala Harris got 58.4% of the vote. Nice, one supposes, but far less than either Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton got.

But the more fascinating results were in the state proposition votes:

State voters took a hammer to the most progressive propositions. Allow cities more leeway to impose rent control? No. Allow cities and counties to have to get only 55% of the vote to approve new bonds? Hell no. Making it illegal (ish) for prisoners to work? Very no. Raising the minimum wage? You’re kidding, right?

And then of course there was Prop 36 that makes crime illegal again in California. 70% approval, a crushing defeat for the woke justice mob.

Each of these measures had the very strong backing of the governor, the legislature, public unions, and the Democratic machine yet they failed. Why?

Because at the statewide level, 75% of Californians are not lunatic leftist progressive determined to end policing, move abortion on demand to we demand you get an abortion, have the state take over local zoning, and give aggressively incompetent people like LA’s Mayor Karen Bass a standing ovation.

Yup, the Dems in the legislature really did that yesterday when she was in Sacramento asking for $2 billion to bail out the city.

Combine the above statistics with voter registration – 50% Dem, 25% Rep, 25% NPP (no party preference, like an independent elsewhere) – and the legislature number become even more of an outlier.

And typically the NPPs vote leans Republican by about two-to-one.

In other words, it is only how the districts are drawn and composed that’s keeping the legislature so far out of touch.

They’re like trust fund nepo-babies – they never have to face consequences so they can do whatever they want.

And in situations like that, even the stupidest most radical most unpopular policy or proposal becomes very possible, especially because it is rare that a Democrat will ever say or vote against anything another Democrat offers.

How did the districts get this way? First, the “independent citizen’s re-districting commission” has been anything but.

Second, districts are divided up by counting all the people, not just the legal residents.

An example from 2020:

An average district has about 275,000 legal voters. Districts that have more than 300,000 legal voters (about 10 percent higher than the average) returned seven Republicans, 16 Democrats, and one independent, results roughly in line with statewide party registration figures.

But districts that have fewer than 250,000 legal voters showed a very significant tilt, electing three Republicans and 17 Democrats, more than twice the difference that could be expected vis a vis statewide party affiliations.

It should be noted that the turnout and citizen rates appear to be intertwined. The competitive districts with the highest percentages of citizens had the highest turnouts, with the top eight turnout districts showing an average citizenship rate of 87 percent, while the lowest 10 districts by turnout carried a citizenship rate of 62 percent (Republicans and Democrats split the top eight districts four to four while the lowest went Democrat by nine to one).

Add those facts to boggling incompetence of the state Republican party, the leftist manipulation of the districting process (even ProPublica noticed how bad it is ) and the Dems cannot possibly lose.

And add that the political starting point for most members is somewhere to the left of Trotsky and the end result is foretold.

In other words, Democratic extremism (and in some case Republican silliness) is baked into the system which is why when people ask why so many take such extreme and extremely unpopular positions the answer becomes obvious.

If the districts were more representative of the population generally, the Dems would lose about 10 Assembly seats and 5 Senate seats and there goes the super-majority and the tempering process begins.

And that would be a start, at least.

This originally appeared on The Point.

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International Man: Why does the assassination of JFK still matter today?

Doug Casey: Assassination has always been part and parcel of the political landscape since at least the days of the Egyptian pharaohs. Sometimes, assassinations can change the course of world history.

Two outstanding examples are that of Julius Caesar in 44 BC, which precipitated Rome’s change from a republic to an empire, and that of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914, which ignited World War I.

Assassins come in two main flavors. Sometimes, it’s simply an individual or group with an ideological difference of opinion, a grudge, or a wish to make a point. That was the case with Ferdinand. Sometimes however, the assassins want to grab the reins of power. That was the case with Caesar.

Which was it with JFK? Was Lee Harvey Oswald a solo actor? Or was he part of a greater conspiracy? I’m partial to the latter view. Even assuming that Oswald was even the assassin—which is unlikely.

International Man: In his first week in office, President Trump issued an Executive Order to release the remaining JFK files. After a lengthy delay, the government finally made the files public nearly two months later.

Tucker Carlson recently remarked: “There is active pressure on elected officials to stop this disclosure… now, in 2025. Who is powerful enough to intimidate people into delaying this release? What force is influencing the new administration to prevent the disclosure?”

What are your thoughts?

Doug Casey: The Deep State in general, and the CIA in particular, are powerful institutions with lots of money, force, and cultures that tend to close ranks when under attack. Their members are intensely loyal not just because, on the upside, the institution treats them well and fills their rice bowls, but can give them immense wealth and privileges. Betraying them is dangerous.

That’s why members of the praetorian agencies like the CIA and NSA are typically much more loyal to their employer and coworkers than the government or even the country itself. They’ll defend the institution that they’ve built their lives around.

There are dozens of armed entities within the US government. The most intimidating include the 17 comprising the so-called Intelligence Community, as it’s officially known. They resemble the Praetorian guards of the Roman Empire. It’s perversely amusing doublespeak that they’re referred to as a “community,” which sounds friendly and benign. Tulsi Gabbard is unlikely to have any success reining them in. It’s more likely that she’ll either be evicted or co-opted by them.

They have unit cohesion. They have armed forces. They have cultures of intense secrecy and large “black budgets.” They’re used to circulating in the halls of power, which puts them in a position to understand and, therefore—quite naturally—disrespect the people who are the country’s nominal rulers.

The front-facing politicos are dangerous enough. But the powers behind the throne are the real danger. Especially the CIA, because of its history and traditions and the fact that the things it does are largely kept secret by law. “National security,” you know…

There’s no question that a certain type of individual is drawn to an organization that specializes in black budgets, black activities, and doing things that nobody can know about. As they say, “I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you.”

Anybody who threatens a serious investigation—forget about abolition—of an organization like that is putting their life at serious risk.

Who’s powerful enough to intimidate people into delaying the release of the Kennedy documents for six decades? Anyway, I suspect the most important files have been burned.

The JFK assassination, as far as I’m concerned, was 100% a government operation.

International Man: Who do you believe was truly behind JFK’s assassination, and what were their motives?

Doug Casey: JFK said that he wanted to break the CIA into 1,000 different pieces. I think he found that almost impossible to do. And it would be harder, much harder, to do today than it was back then.

The CIA has its own large and extravagant campus at Langley, Virginia, where these people are actually in a world of their own. Their 25,000 employees are much better at self-promotion than gathering intelligence, having famously failed to predict the rise of Castro in Cuba, the triumph of the Mullahs in Iran, or the collapse of the Soviet Union. But they excel in getting writers and movie producers to apotheosize them.

In 1964, it could only have been the CIA. The NSA was newly hatched and just figuring out how to gather electronic information. It didn’t have the kind of tentacles it does today when it knows absolutely everything about everybody. Blackmail is much more effective than wet work.

I don’t think it would have been the FBI. Although the FBI was very powerful, it was strictly under the control of J Edgar Hoover. It wouldn’t have made sense for Hoover to risk everything with an assassination, considering the blackmail power that he had.

But who knows? You’ll recall the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas at a public concert when 60 people were killed and over 400 wounded. The “investigation” results impressed me as totally phony, and the completely nonsensical story they fabricated was immediately swept under the rug. They should at least have called in the actors who played in the popular show, CSI Las Vegas.

The powers that be don’t seriously investigate crimes which might have political fallout. We still don’t know the full backstory on the two Trump assassination attempts just before the election. Move along folks, there’s nothing to see here.

Police and, especially, Federal intelligence agencies are in an ideal position to hide or quash their own crimes. Don’t expect the truth to come out, even with Kash Patel and Dan Bongino running the FBI. They’ve got to realize that they’re putting their lives on the line if they turn over too many rocks.

International Man: If a group of people can orchestrate the assassination of a sitting president in broad daylight and get away with it, what else might they be capable of, and what does this reveal about the true power structure?

Doug Casey: It used to be fairly easy to assassinate a president. The Lincoln (1865), Garfield (1881), and McKinley (1901) attempts succeeded. Various others (Teddy Roosevelt in 1912, FDR in 1933, Truman in 1950, Reagan in 1981, and Trump in 2024) could easily have succeeded.

But it’s gotten much harder over time. Whenever the president goes out in public, an entire area is locked down. His limousine is a thinly disguised tank, and Air Force One has every countermeasure known to man. The President and close associates are guarded more closely than a Roman emperor was. This is a sign of sickness in the State. Because most of the assassinations of emperors were perpetrated by Praetorians or other insiders. Trump should look within, not outside.

I’m speaking to you right now from Uruguay. Uruguayan presidents wander around in public, ride their motorcycles, and live in normal houses. They don’t have battalions of bodyguards.

There’s little danger of their being assassinated because not only is the country economically, ethnically, and politically stable, but the president doesn’t have enough power—symbolic or real—to make him worth shooting.

The way to look at an assassination, as I intimated a few moments ago, is to consider whether it is being done by outsiders or insiders.

An outsider generally just wants to create chaos; they don’t really care what happens afterward. Insiders, however, are interested in capturing the State and replacing the warm body with somebody in their own group.

With Kennedy, it was definitely a question of insiders trying to capture the State. I’d put my finger on his VP, Lyndon Johnson, and the CIA. Many volumes have been written about this, and we can’t recount them here. But that’s my conclusion.

International Man: The term “conspiracy theorist” was originally coined to discredit those who questioned the official narrative of the JFK assassination—that a “magic bullet” was responsible for the president’s death.

Today, “conspiracy theorist” and similar labels are still used to ridicule those who engage in independent and critical thinking.

What are your thoughts on this tactic, and what can be done to counter it?

Doug Casey: The CIA coined the phrase. It was clever to create that meme. They’re specialists in psychological warfare.

When you’re trying to upset or gain control of the apparatus of the State, discrediting the people currently in power is almost as good, or maybe better, than killing them. Bodies, or empty suits, can be easily replaced. Ideas linger.

Meme warfare, psychological warfare, is increasingly important in today’s world of mass media. In the past, we had thousands of newspapers with diverse opinions. There were groups of newspapers run by people like Pulitzer and Hearst, but today’s media is ubiquitous with radio, TV, movies, and print. The Internet, with its thousands of bloggers and podcasters, provides some countercurrents, of course. But news isn’t official unless it’s in the New York Times or on a major TV network.

Today, the media and the State have merged together as a practical matter. The people in power (the Deep State, if you will) know it’s critical that the public are all on the same page when it comes to major issues. The public can argue about whether chocolate or vanilla, or red or blue, is better. That makes them feel relevant. But big philosophical issues are off the table.

They dare not, for instance, question whether the Intelligence Community has their interests at heart. Or whether a Deep State exists. If they do, the plebs may start questioning all aspects of Authority and stop obeying instructions. If their psychology is changed, things can fall apart.

Physical force doesn’t keep an elephant tied to a tiny rope; it’s his psychology.

It’s important that the public think they know what’s happening and believe that what “we,” or the government, is doing is right. In other words, changing someone’s psychology and beliefs can be as effective as killing them physically. Killing someone’s credibility is critical to power mongers.

Physical bodies are basically replaceable like puppets, but killing the ideas they represent is more important. Assassinations are important, but there are more important things.

Information war is a major front of World War 3. It’s critical that all the details—no exceptions—of not only the JFK assassination but every other government mystery should be an open book.

Who are these people that think they have the right to decide what you do or don’t know?

Reprinted with permission from International Man.

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Europe’s leadership has gone stark raving mad. We all watch in awe as the elusive Fourth Reich emerges from an otherwise peaceful confederation of states. Interestingly, few realize that the European Commission is advertising and spreading propaganda on social media to sell the most significant arms race in history.

War Bonds on LinkedIn

This morning, I was scanning the LinkedIn business network when I came across this post from the European Parliament (915,131 followers) selling the spanking new resolution to “act urgently” to protect the continent against the “most profound military threat to its territorial integrity since the end of the Cold War.” A direct quote from the post aimed at business people, lenders, and investors reads:

“The resolution comes ahead of the publication of plans setting out the future of European defence next week that should include, according to MEPs, ‘truly ground-breaking efforts’ and actions ‘close to those of wartime’ from EU countries.” 

Unfortunately for Führer Ursula von der Leyen (See Sergey Lavrov interview), comments on the post rage at more expenditures on invisible threats and the need to address the EU’s bigger problems. It seems that IT specialists from the Czech Republic, energy construction consultants in Spain, blockchain investors from Brussels, aerospace tech consultants in Italy, CEOs of capital research societies, and a laundry list of studious LI users chimed in, chastizing the inept at the EU Parliament. In short, the reception from business people to trillions more on war is just not there. Still, you can expect these imbecils in Brussels to start selling war bonds on LinkedIn soon.

“X” Marks the Spot

Turning to Elon Musk’s “X” platform, we find the same propaganda and sales pitch to almost a million followers. Comments there mirror those from LinkedIn, except “X” users are less diplomatic. One comment reads, “You, the EU parliament, are currently the biggest threat in Europe. Warmongers!” Another “X” users posted a mashup showing Ursula von der Leyen dressed in her Fuhrer uniform giving the Nazi salute.

If you care to share it, https://x.com/IzzyTaka/status/1900259596968632584

Ban the EU from Facebook*

Moving to Facebook*, the organization promoting the creation of goose-stepping EU warriors received similar remarks. The responses range from laughing emoticons to comments praying for peace and thoughtful leadership, FB users irate because the resolution is not the will of the people, and EU citizens aware that Russia has been made a convenient enemy for financial gain. You can read the comments, trace the profiles, and understand that only vested interests and the completely brainwashed give the new Nazi Reich the thumbs up.

With peace in full view, and with hundreds of thousands of lives about to be spared, the warmongers in the EU Parliament can think of nothing but borrowing more to invest in profit machines like the military-industrial monster that’s sapped humanity unto death already. One FB user equated Brussels with the tower of Babel, which I found exceedingly fitting. The gods of Brussels rising to usurp heaven and Earth with their lofty, liberal, immoral values. It’s a joke, of course. One Italian man said it best in his comment addressed to the European Parliament: “I am ashamed of you.”

So much for democracy, the will of the people, and the Eden the European Union promised a billion people. If these psychopaths keep it up, the penguins in Antarctica will be wealthier than the middle class on the European continent. If the people keep expressing themselves on social media in this way, expect the EU bosses to ban all social media and speaking in the streets.

*- banned in Russia 

This originally appeared on New Eastern Outlook.

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Every state has its crime rate. In the United States, statistics indicate that more than 15 million crimes are committed every year, including property and other serious crimes.

However, even if a state reports lower crime rates, it doesn’t mean that it is free of danger entirely. These states may still have some areas where violence occurs frequently, or they may report a smaller number of violent crimes, but the victims are often locals, so outsiders don’t hear much about them. Here we will take you through the five most dangerous states in America by crime rate with their high chances of becoming victims of criminal activities or assault throughout the country. Read on for more information.

Tennessee

One of the most dangerous states in America, Tennessee is filled with violence and has a high crime rate. Because of the presence of gangs in Tennessee cities like Knoxville, Memphis, and parts of Nashville, many locals keep away from these places unless they have to be there. The safest city in this state is Murfreesboro; it has fewer crimes, much better infrastructure, and much more safety. However, it is still better to avoid this state unless you have to go there.

Criminal activities in Tennessee include assault, murder, and rape, which are the most common violent crimes committed in this part of North America. Assaults can happen just about anywhere in Knoxville or Memphis when you least expect them to happen. Therefore, you should be extra careful while visiting these cities.

Crime Statistics in Tennessee

• Rapes in Tennessee are about 200 every year.
• Murder is not very common in this state, but assaults happen daily. The chances of becoming a victim of assault are almost 100%.
• Theft crimes are more than 4,500 per year.
• Tennessee has one of the highest crime rates in America, with 37,000 violent crimes committed there in 2019.

Nevada

Another dangerous state in America, Nevada, is known for its gambling and entertainment industry; however, the local population doesn’t tell you about this place because it has a high rate of crimes than any other part of the country. Being home to some of the largest casinos in North America, Las Vegas has the highest crime rate of every city in this state.

One of the most dangerous cities in the U.S.A., Las Vegas is home to organized criminals and other con artists who make their living by cheating innocent visitors; therefore, one should be extra careful while visiting this area.

Assaults and robberies are the most common crimes committed in this state; it is advised that one should avoid visiting or driving through these cities unless they have to be there.

Texas

Once known as a safe place for travelers across America, Texas has now turned into a home to many criminal gangs who operate throughout the country. One of the most dangerous states in America, Texas has a high crime rate in Austin and Houston, and all over the state.

With the presence of criminal gangs like crips and MS-13 operating all across Texas cities, including Dallas, Fort Worth, and San Antonio, visitors are warned to watch out for their belongings while visiting these places; also, it is safer to avoid visiting these cities unless you have to be there.

Crime Statistics in Texas

Many crimes in Texas go unreported as the cops or local police stations fail to record them. Here are some of the statistics:

• Assaults and robberies happen every day, but the police record only about 20% of these crimes and, therefore, never reach national crime stats.
• Murder is not very common in this state, but it happens every year; around 50-100 murders occur each year, leading to an increase in the crime rate.
• Crime rates in Texas, with most violent crimes happening rapidly throughout this state, the chances of becoming a victim of theft, robbery, or any other violent crime is very high!

Missouri 

According to- www.safehome.org: While violent crimes like murder, aggravated assault, rape, and robbery are much less common in Missouri (and everywhere else) than property crimes, Missouri does have some of the nation’s highest rates of such incidents.

• Missouri’s overall violent crime rate is 488 per 100,000 residents, which is 28 percent higher than the national violent crime rate of 381 per 100,000.
• Missouri ranks ninth among all the states for violent crimes and has the highest violent crime rate in the Midwest.
• In addition to having the region’s highest overall crime rate, Missouri also ranks first in the Midwest for murder — a rate that puts it in sixth place nationally.

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