#Tenth Amendment Center

[darkmaga-returns]

Brace yourself: a tsunami approaches.

While we squabble over which side is winning this losing battle to lead the country, there is something being concocted in the dens of power, far beyond the public eye, and it doesn’t bode well for the future of this country.

Anytime you have an entire nation so mesmerized by the antics of the political ruling class that they are oblivious to all else, you’d better beware.

Anytime you have a government that operates in the shadows, speaks in a language of force, and rules by fiat, you’d better beware.

And anytime you have a government so far removed from its people as to ensure that they are never seen, heard or heeded by those elected to represent them, you’d better beware.

We’ve got to get our priorities straight if we are to ever have any hope of maintaining any sense of freedom in America.

As long as we allow ourselves to be distracted, diverted, occasionally outraged, always polarized and content to view each other—rather than the government—as the enemy, we’ll never manage to present a unified front against tyranny (or government corruption and ineptitude) in any form.

Mind you, by “government,” I’m not referring to the highly partisan, two-party bureaucracy of the Republicans and Democrats. Rather, I’m referring to “government” with a capital “G,” the entrenched Deep State that is unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movements, and has set itself beyond the reach of the law.

This is the hidden face of a government that has no respect for the freedoms of its citizenry.

So, stop with all of the excuses and the hedging and the finger-pointing and the pissing contests to see which side can out-shout, out-blame and out-spew the other.

Enough already with the short- and long-term amnesia that allows political sycophants to conveniently forget the duplicity, complicity and mendacity of their own party while casting blame on everyone else.

This is how evil wins.

This is how freedom falls and tyranny rises.

This is how good, generally decent people—having allowed themselves to be distracted with manufactured crises, polarizing politics, and fighting that divides the populace into warring us vs. them camps—fail to take note of the looming danger that threatens to wipe freedom from the map and place us all in chains.

The world has been down this road before, as historian Milton Mayer recounts in his seminal book on Hitler’s rise to power, They Thought They Were Free.

We are at our most vulnerable right now.

[alphaman99]

Tenth Amendment Center

James Madison argued that the best way to limit the number of wars would be to make the people pay the full cost immediately instead of financing them with debt and putting the onus on future generations to bear the cost.

This would force politicians, and the population at large, to count the cost of war before rushing headlong into hostilities.

Madison reasoned that if the people knew the actual cost of war and had to pony up the funds, it would reduce the number of wars. People would make a more concerted effort to resolve conflict peacefully.

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A Falcon 9 stands ready for a Starlink mission at Cape Canaveral’s pad 40. File photo: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now. Update Oct. 21, 4:20 p.m.: SpaceX is pushing back its planned launch to no earlier than Tuesday, Oct. 22. SpaceX is set to launch another batch of 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to low Earth orbit on Tuesday. The Falcon 9 rocket launch comes on the heels of a week that saw the company launch a record six missions with four Falcon 9 rockets, one Falcon Heavy rocket and a Starship rocket, utilizing all four of its launch pads. Liftoff of the Starlink 6-61 mission from pad 40 at CCSFS is set for no earlier than 6:14 p.m. EDT (2214 UTC), pending weather. This will be SpaceX’s 68th dedicated Starlink launch of the year. Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about an hour prior to liftoff. Coming into the Monday launch opportunity, the 45th Weather Squadron forecast 70 percent chance of favorable weather during that window. Meteorologists said they are tracking the impacts of Hurricane Oscar, which may also impact the booster recovery zone. “The breezy, onshore flow will continue into the upcoming week as the combination of a strong high centered to the north and Hurricane Oscar to the southeast enhance the pressure gradient over the Florida peninsula,” launch weather officers wrote. “These conditions will persist tomorrow as an area of higher low-level moisture moves in, enhancing Atlantic shower activity along the Space Coast.” A little more then eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster is set to touchdown on a SpaceX droneship, stationed in the Atlantic Ocean west of the Bahamas. If successful, this will be the 280th droneship landing and 357th overall booster landing. Expanding Starlink The mission is the first time that SpaceX has launched a batch of its Starlink satellites bound for the sixth shell of its constellation since May 31 with the Starlink 6-64 mission. Since then, it has been building out its eighth, ninth, tenth and 11th shells. The company has been working to get approval from the Federal Communications Commission to deploy and operate nearly 30,000 Gen2 Starlink satellites. Back in March, the FCC approved a request “to conduct communications in the 71.0-76.0 GHz (space-to-Earth) and 81.0-86.0 GHz (Earth-to-space) frequency bands (collectively, E-band), with the 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites that the Commission previously authorized in the first partial grant of this application.” That authorization caps the number Gen2 satellites at that number, for now. “Grant of this portion of SpaceX’s request will serve the public interest by allowing SpaceX to utilize the full capacity of its more advanced Gen2 Starlink satellites, which will improve the broadband service that SpaceX is bringing to U.S. customers, including those in unserved and underserved areas of the country,” the FCC wrote on March 8. “We continue to defer consideration of the remainder of SpaceX’s request, including SpaceX’s ongoing use of emergency beacons, which is the subject of a second amendment to SpaceX’s application, as well as the remaining 22,488 satellites SpaceX proposed in its application, as amended.” On Aug. 16, the FCC’s Satellite Programs and Policy Division approved a license modification request from SpaceX regarding its Gen1 satellites, of which there are 4,408, according to the FCC. “Specifically, SpaceX is authorised to modify its operations due to planned changes in satellite hardware, including modification of beam-forming and digital processing equipment to enable narrower beam capabilities,” the FCC wrote. “This modification also reflects updates to SpaceX’s orbital debris mitigation plan due to planned deployment of larger satellites.” Essentially, this approval allows SpaceX to launch Gen2 Starlinks as replacements for the Gen1 versions under the Gen1 authorization. According to astronomer and expert orbital tracker, Jonathan McDowell, as of Oct. 20, 2024, there are 6,473 Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit. Among those, 4,150 are Gen1 and 2,323 are the Gen2 Mini variety. The next generation Starlink satellites, which are so big that only Starship can launch them, will allow for a 10X increase in bandwidth and, with the reduced altitude, faster latency https://t.co/HLYdjjia3o — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 14, 2024 The full-size Gen2 Starlink satellites will be launched using SpaceX’s Starship rocket, which just completed its fifth test flight on Oct. 13. The company was able to catch the first stage booster, called Super Heavy, using its launch tower for the first time. SpaceX points to this capability as key to being able to enable rapid reusability of the rocket in the future. In addition to expanding the number of Starlink satellites that it is allowed to launch and operate, SpaceX also wanted to modify the nominal orbits of some of its shells, as first reported by Ars Technica. In a filing to the FCC dated Oct. 11, 2024, Jameson Dempsey, SpaceX Director of Satellite Policy, wrote that SpaceX wants “to lower the nominal altitudes of its shells at 525 km, 530 km, and 535 km to 480 km, 485 km, and 475 km altitude, respectively.” “For the lower-altitude shell at 475 km, SpaceX requests authority to reduce the nominal inclination from 33 degrees to 32 degrees,” Dempsey wrote. “With the exception of its shell at 475 km altitude, SpaceX requests to modify its authorization to more flexibly distribute satellites in up to 56 planes per shell and up to 120 satellites per plane. “While this reconfiguration will result in a higher potential maximum number of orbital planes and satellites per plane for all but one shell at 475 km, the total number of satellites in the Gen2 system will not exceed 29,988 satellites, and the first tranche of satellites in the Gen2 system will remain 7,500 satellites until such time that the Commission permits deployments beyond that first tranche.” Dempsey argues that the requested modifications will allow the Starlink Internet constellation to “deliver gigabit-speed, truly low-latency broadband and ubiquitous mobile connectivity to all Americans and the billions of people globally who still lack access to adequate broadband.” The FCC has yet to respond to this latest request. Special coverage concluding While there aren’t any Starlink satellites that feature the Direct to Cell capabilities on the Starlink 6-61 mission, SpaceX is about to wrap up a unique learning opportunity with the technology. On Oct. 7, the FCC’s Satellite Licensing Division granted SpaceX “special temporary authority” to operate its second-generation Starlink satellites that have the DTC capacity for 15 days “with supplemental coverage from space-capable Earth stations in the areas of Florida affected by Hurricane Milton.” It was also granted the same authority on Oct. 4 for the territories impacted by Hurricane Helene. In the United States, SpaceX is partnering with telecommunications company, T-Mobile, to provide the service, though it has expressed an interest in working with other providers in the future. SpaceX also began testing the functionality down in New Zealand with telecommunications company, One New Zealand. “When we announced our collaboration with SpaceX, we were dealing with the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle, a stark reminder of the necessity of a resilient back up to our mobile network, which can be disrupted by climate-related, fibre and power outages,” said One New Zealand CEO Jason Paris in a statement. “We’re unfortunately seeing this play out with Hurricane Milton in Florida right now, where Starlink satellites with direct-to-cell capability are playing a vital role keeping people connected as the extreme weather has disrupted their ground based mobile networks. That’s why starting testing here is a giant step forward on our mission to bring coverage like never before to New Zealand.” Starlink d2c now beginning testing in New Zealand with @onenzofficial! https://t.co/c810mpihRz — Michael Nicolls (@michaelnicollsx) October 21, 2024

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Louisiana Senate Passes Bill to End State Cooperation with UN and WHO | Tenth Amendment Center

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/louisiana-senate-passes-bill-to-end-state-cooperation-with-un-and-who/

[rauthschild]

Our view of the Militia is informed by the same sources presented in the repost of the article from The Tenth Amendment Center that was sent out yesterday.

We obviously consider homosexuality a private matter that should never become an object of concern in public administration; lamentably, the practice of sodomy in the military has increased to the point that it has not only adversely impacted the military, but has spread out into the general population so as to promote a political movement.

We felt it was important to warn the public that this "sudden" LGBTQ Movement is not the product of Liberalism, but is rather being promoted by Roman/Nazi elements that have become entrenched in the military. These are not men that we would consider to be "liberal" in any sense but their sexual proclivities. Otherwise, they are often doctrinaire conservatives, control junkies, and misogynists.

This has become a real problem for the military and for our civilian culture as well, but we can hardly hope to address it, if we ignorantly assume that the LGBTQ effort is coming from liberal civilian sources, when in fact, it's leaking out of conservative military circles, instead.

That is the "alert" that I am spreading here, so that people are not blind-sided and amazed when all of a sudden they realize that this "tradition" has been encapsulated and carried forward over the course of more than 2,000 years and is making a bid to come into fruition again.

As I noted in other correspondence, it goes back all the way to Babylon, and is well-represented in Greek Epic Poetry and by Lesser Greek Poets -- Achilles and Alexander the Great were both homosexuals; there is little doubt that the Spartan heroes celebrated as "the 300" who held back the Persians at Thermopylae were bisexuals or dedicated homosexuals indoctrinated into military sodomy at an early age, the feared Black Eagle Legion of Rome was entirely staffed by homosexuals; and the Nazis, patterning themselves after Rome, openly practiced sodomy in the ranks--- and only used it as a hypocritical excuse to get rid of political rivals and for associated blackmail in other venues when it suited them.

The military needs to be put on Notice that despite this long association of homosexuality and sodomite submission associated with the military tradition, this is an issue that has gotten out of hand and been inappropriately justified and politicized, while the American Public needs to be aware that the LGBTQ "Agenda" is largely coming from an unexpected place: the military.

The mindless and misplaced belief that our planet is overpopulated when it once supported 500 billion people --- roughly 60 times the present population--- has been used to promote a cynical and hateful agenda to murder billions of innocent people rather than give up petty investments in antiquated infrastructure, energy sources that cause pollution, and Nineteenth Century monopolies that should have never existed in the first place.

The men charged with carrying out this murder and genocide of the species agenda have been following along in the deluded expectation that they were fighting a political enemy -- "the Americans" or "the Communists" -- when in fact that have been committing suicide and setting up their own demise and the demise of their families and kith and kind.

The Higher Ups in this Lemming-like insanity have been deluded by beliefs in "Higher Dimensions" and fairytale nonsense, while ignoring the wisdom of more than 13.8 billion years of organic experience and evolution represented by the DNA coding found in each one of us and also in the 250,000 year-old mitochondrial DNA that makes up our 47th chromosome.

Those who do not know or who do not remember the past are doomed to relive it, but we are now at the point where we do remember, and upon remembering, must be set free.

[marie1773056]

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/01/utah-house-passes-bill-to-exclude-cbdc-from-state-definition-of-money/

[athomewiththecicadas]

Life as a Senior NCO for a Head of Household that can't Provide.

No...... Brainer.

Now, settle the term "ill-gotten" in its power to claw back.

If you can't, you still have the power as a U.S. Citizen to relinquish your assets to a Fiduciary Institution.

Otherwise, you need to be aware of what people are responsible for when they make the calls that guide our economy.

But, you balk. And that's clear enough for me.

Sergeant Major Nathan Marksmith, North Wales Militia/ Joint Militia Detachment

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[shirleymerly]

VOTE BUMS OUT

[stuartbramhall]

Wyoming Law Expands Food Freedom Act, Opens Market to Small Egg and Dairy Producers

by Mike Maharrey Tenth Amendment Center CHEYENNE, Wyo. (July 2, 2023)  – Yesterday, a Wyoming law went into effect that will further increase food freedom in the state, and potentially alleviate some of the recent price inflation on eggs and dairy. Sen. Tim Salazar and 10 fellow cosponsors introduced Senate Bill 102 (SF102) on Jan. 12. The new law expands the Wyoming Food Freedom Act to allow a…

[darkmaga-returns]

By: Judge Andrew Napolitano|Published on: Oct 25, 2024|Categories: Current Events, War Powers

Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged?

These questions should be addressed in a national debate over the U.S. military involvement in Ukraine and Israel. Sadly, there has been no debate. The media are mouthing what the CIA is telling them, Congress is in lock-step, and only a few websites and podcasts — my own, “Judging Freedom” on YouTube, among them — are challenging the government’s reckless, immoral, illegal and unconstitutional wars.

The Supreme Court has ruled that all power in the federal government comes from the Constitution and from no other source. Congress, however, has managed to extend its reach beyond the confines of the Constitution domestically by spending money in areas that it cannot regulate and purchasing compliance from the states by bribing them; and in foreign policy by paying for wars it cannot legally declare.

Congress cannot legally declare war on Russia or Iran, since there is no American militarily grounded reason for doing so. Russia and Iran pose no credible threats to American national security. Moreover, the U.S. has no treaties with Ukraine or Israel that trigger an American military defense. But Congress spends money on those wars nevertheless.

Under the Constitution, only Congress can declare war on a nation or group. The last time it did so was to initiate American involvement in World War II. But Congress has given away limited authority to presidents and permitted them to fight undeclared wars, such as the War Powers Resolution of 1973 and President George W. Bush’s disastrous and criminal invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Last week, the Biden administration announced that it was sending around 100 troops to Israel to man the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, or THAAD, the U.S. has sent there. Then, the administration announced that it was sending a second THAAD unit and another 100 troops. The THAADs will presumably be used in Israel’s defense against Iran.

Congress has not only not declared war on Iran; it has not authorized the use of American military forces against it. Yet, it has given President Joe Biden a blank check and authorized him to spend it on military equipment for Israel however he sees fit, without a lawful or even credible American military objective.

Biden has also promised to continue giving Ukraine whatever it needs for “as long as it takes.” As long as it takes to do what? Eliminating Russian troops from Ukraine and Crimea or Russian President Vladimir Putin from office are not realistically attainable American military goals. Last week, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he fears Putin has his eyes on Poland. That’s scaremongering nonsense.

[alphaman99]

Tenth Amendment Center

Using a secretive process known as “parallel construction,” police build cases on illegally obtained, warrantless data collected by the NSA and other federal agencies without anybody ever knowing.

These investigations take place in complete secrecy with no judicial oversight. Oftentimes, suspects and defense attorneys have no idea how police obtained information.

[kermitjay]

C. DELORES TUCKER (1927-2005)



C. Delores Tucker at Black Caucus Event in Washington D.C., 1996

Courtesy John Matthew Smith (CC BY-SA 2.0)

C. Delores Tucker is best remembered as a civil rights trailblazer who fought for women of color, and toward the end of her life against profane and misogynist lyrics in hip-hop/ rap music. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 4, 1927, to Bahamian parents Whitfield and Captilda Nottage. Her father was a Baptist minister, and the couple operated a grocery store, an employment agency, and a real estate business in Philadelphia.

Cynthia Delores Nottage, the tenth of eleven children, attended Philadelphia High School for Girls, graduating in 1946. She then attended Temple University, where she studied finance and real estate. She dropped out however, to open an employment agency for southern blacks, who had just arrived in Philadelphia.  In 1951 she married businessman William Tucker, a construction company owner, who grew wealthy in Philadelphia real estate.

A successful realtor herself, by the 1960s she served as an officer in the Philadelphia NAACP. She worked closely with the local branch president Cecil Moore, to end racist practices in the city’s post offices and construction trades.  Tucker gained national prominence, when she led a Philadelphia delegation on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  By the decade’s end, Tucker’s expertise as a fundraiser for the NAACP, coupled with her Democratic Party affiliation, enabled her to be appointed chair of the Pennsylvania Black Democratic Committee.

Her selection by Philadelphia Mayor James H.J. Tate to serve on the city’s Zoning Commission in 1968, was the first of several prestigious political appointments, including vice chair of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party (1970). In 1971, Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp appointed her Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Under Tucker’s leadership, Pennsylvania became one of the first states to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, promote voter registration by mail, and to lower the voting age from 21 to 18.

In 1984 Tucker and New York Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, founded the National Political Congress of Black Women. In 1990, she and 15 other women and men, founded African American Women for Reproductive Freedom. Tucker however, failed to win elective office.  She ran, and lost, in her bid for lieutenant governor in 1978, the U.S. Senate in 1980, and the U.S. House in 1992.

By the 1990s Tucker became a highly vocal opponent of the salacious lyrics and sexual innuendos associated with “gangsta rap,” calling the lyrics of many of these songs “sleazy pornographic smut,” She joined conservative Republican Bill Bennett, in launching a national campaign against major music companies, for supporting and sustaining artists profiting from rap music. Tucker picketed stores that sold rap music. She bought stock in Sony, Time Warner, and other major corporations to protest obnoxious lyrics at their shareholder meetings. In response, she often faced the wrath of these artists including Tupac Shakur, KRS-One, Lil Wayne, and Lil’ Kim, who attacked her in their songs. Tucker filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit against the estate of Tupac Shakur, for the lyrics he used in his album All Eyez on Me.

Cynthia Delores Tucker died on October 12, 2005 at a rehabilitation center in Norristown, Pennsylvania. She was 78, and was survived by her husband, William Tucker. The couple had no children.