{"id":165886,"date":"2023-05-02T14:44:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T18:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=165886"},"modified":"2023-05-02T14:44:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T18:44:18","slug":"us-foreign-policy-has-collapsed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=165886","title":{"rendered":"<h1>\u201cUS Foreign Policy has Collapsed\u201d<\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">RFK, Jr. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Pledges to Close 800 US Bases and Bring American Troops Home<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><!--more-->Renee Parsons<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It is not surprising that Deep State President Joe Biden, who is the <\/span><span class=\"s2\">oldest living<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> American President ever, has the audacity to announce that he will be a candidate in the 2024 Presidential campaign even though <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/3771024-poll-70-percent-of-voters-dont-want-biden-to-run-for-a-second-term\/\"><span class=\"s2\">70%<\/span><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>of Americans believe he should not make a second run. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">That percentage includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/biden-says-he-is-running-for-reelection-setting-up-possible-trump-rematch\/ar-AA1ajanC\"><span class=\"s2\">51% of Democrats<\/span><\/a> as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2023\/04\/25\/poll-67-say-nation-is-on-wrong-track-but-joe-biden-demands-4-more-years\/\"><span class=\"s2\">67%<\/span><\/a> of voters believe the country is headed in the wrong direction.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>With the Kamala Harris as his vice president, 37% of Americans approve of Biden\u2019s job performance and even the pathetic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2023\/04\/28\/bernie_sanders_endorses_biden_we_disagree_on_many_issues_but_he_deserves_credit_for_what_he_has_accomplished.html\"><span class=\"s2\">Sen. Bernie Sanders<\/span><\/a> has endorsed Biden\u2019s re-election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ChjibtX0UzU\"><span class=\"s2\">pre-packaged<\/span><\/a> three minute video rather than a real live recitation, Biden\u2019s claim to \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/international-news\/politics\/bidens-lets-finish-the-job\/\"><span class=\"s2\">let\u2019s finish the job\u2019<\/span><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>as he continues to spread a fabricated reality with false assertions while encouraging a divisiveness in today\u2019s political landscape with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2023\/apr\/29\/biden-sticks-attacks-maga-extremism-abortion-restr\/\"><span class=\"s2\">attack<\/span><\/a> on former President Trump and MAGA supporters. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">There was no mention of his fiasco presiding over an unnecessary<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>$113 Billion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2023\/04\/23\/702057\/US-legislators-reject--proxy-war--in-Ukraine,-%25E2%2580%2598unrestrained%25E2%2580%2599-aid-to-Kiev\"><span class=\"s2\">proxy war<\/span><\/a> in Ukraine that began with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/6\/22\/russias-putin-accuses-us-of-orchestrating-2014-coup-in-ukraine\"><span class=\"s2\">2014 coup<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/09\/08\/politics\/us-south-china-sea-maritime-id-rules\/index.html\"><span class=\"s2\">Seventh Fleet<\/span><\/a> invasion of China\u2019s territorial waters in the South China Sea and most recently, challenges to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/04\/27\/asia\/us-south-korea-nuclear-armed-submarine-explainer-intl-hnk-ml\/index.html\"><span class=\"s2\">North Korea\u2019s<\/span><\/a> \u2018<i>aggression<\/i>\u2019 with deployment of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/biden-and-south-korea-s-yoon-announce-agreement-to-deter-north-korea-including-deploying-nuclear-armed-submarine\/ar-AA1amBue\"><span class=\"s2\">nuclear-armed<\/span><\/a> submarine as well as a series of severe economic <a href=\"https:\/\/ofac.treasury.gov\/sanctions-programs-and-country-information\"><span class=\"s2\">sanctions<\/span><\/a> against recalcitrant nations (which have boomeranged against the US economy) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/nord-stream-attack-senator-raises-alarms-about-alleged-us-involvement-1780192\"><span class=\"s2\">Nord Stream<\/span><\/a> pipeline bombing which is categorized as an \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/2022\/02\/24\/the-history-of-economic-sanctions-as-a-tool-of-war\/\"><span class=\"s2\">act of war<\/span><\/a>.\u2019<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Since Biden is little more than a front man for a highly motivated team of political operatives led by former President Barak Obama or the diabolic WEF Klaus Schwab or some equally malevolent dark political entity, the country has been seized by the totalitarian cultural Marxists as his administration targets the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2023\/04\/exclusive-u-s-mayors-team-up-with-anti-defamation-league-to-assault-free-speech\/?utm_source=Email&amp;utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&amp;utm_campaign=dailyam&amp;utm_content=2023-04-24\"><span class=\"s2\">First Amendment<\/span><\/a> as if free speech is tyrannical permitting government to criminalize <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/biden-administration-trying-criminalize-dissent-we-must-resist-opinion-1679638\"><span class=\"s2\">political dissent<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>At the same time, the Biden Administration has allowed an invasion of titanic proportions at the southern border as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/ngos-assisting-migrants-who-cross-border-humanitarian-support-abetting-crime\"><span class=\"s2\">UN-funded<\/span><\/a> NGO\u2019s threaten US sovereignty with an expected infiltration of up to one million illegal immigrants awaiting the potential lifting of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/02\/07\/politics\/title-42-biden-administration-public-health-emergency-expire\/index.html\"><span class=\"s2\">Title 42<\/span><\/a> on May 11<\/span><span class=\"s3\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\">.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">All Biden policies display an utter contempt for the rule of law as the result of a deliberate strategy to collapse the US and its Constitution from within as the US rules-based order has replaced international law, dictating its imperialist foreign policy based on an interventionism-at-will strategy with a bankrupt Country able to only print Monopoly paper money of no real value.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KMfgmIQ8HNM&amp;t=2754s\"><span class=\"s2\">Democratic National Committee<\/span><\/a> (DNC) has a forbidding reputation for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/radio\/2023\/04\/24\/exclusive-rfk-jr-slams-dnc-for-rigged-primary-no-debates-moving-south-carolina-to-first-state\/\"><span class=\"s2\">engineering favorable election result<\/span><\/a> for their choice of candidate; legitimacy, ethics and public opinion notwithstanding, they have \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/rfk-jr-responds-to-dncs-plans-to-skip-primary-debates-the-system-is-indeed-rigged_5218131.html?src_src=partner&amp;src_cmp=ZeroHedge\"><span class=\"s2\">with no plan to sponsor primary debates<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u201d With Biden as its favored candidate, partisan politics has morphed into spiritual warfare, as a diabolic contest of wicked proportions contrary to the country\u2019s divinely inspired beginnings and yet the Dems remain the odds-on-favorite to win via ballot harvesting and other election day trickery.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>It is, however, a fitting response to the discredited Democrats and its handlers that an exceptional Presidential primary challenger has emerged who is genetically opposed to the malicious agenda espoused by Biden and its authoritarian elite.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., of the prestigious political <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GLrVWmt_33g\"><span class=\"s2\">Kennedy clan<\/span><\/a>, is the most superior and influential Democrat who could have entered the campaign; not because of his last name but rather because he is a gifted orator, an incisive thinker with a penetrating analytical mind and fortunate enough to be imbued with integrity and a strength of character.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Having viewed RFK\u2019s speech at <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomlibrary.hillsdale.edu\/programs\/cca-iv-big-pharma\/anthony-fauci-and-the-public-health-establishment\"><span class=\"s2\">Hillsdale College<\/span><\/a> on \u201c<i>Anthony Fauci and the Public Health Establishment,\u201d<\/i> at <a href=\"https:\/\/live.childrenshealthdefense.org\/chd-tv\/events\/college-covid-19-mandates-or-roundtable-discussions-or-scientific-ethical-and-legal-considerations-april26\/fobert-f-kennedy-jr-at-dartmouth-university\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Dartmouth University<\/span><\/a> on \u201c<i>College Covid 19 Mandates\u201d<\/i> and his interview as one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=68MhtliIAvk\"><span class=\"s2\">Tucker\u2019s<\/span><\/a> last guests, the American public would be wise to pay attention and listen closely to the most knowledgeable and talented extemporaneous Presidential candidate on the American political scene since\u2026.1963.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/The-Real-Anthony-Fauci-Audiobook\/B09LVXS3L4\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>The Real Anthony Fauci<\/i><\/span><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>as well as a history of voluminous lawsuits all predicated on science have established Kennedy\u2019s bona fides as a professional advocate<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>on Covid 19 and the methodical study of the material world known as \u2018science.\u2019<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He is more knowledgeable than any other candidate with regard to all the implications of the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>pandemic and its mandated minutiae of masks, distance, shutdowns, vaccinations, impacts on American culture and health of its children. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Kennedy\u2019s accomplishments are extensive and remarkable as Founder, Chair and General Counsel of the Children\u2019s Health Defense, Founder of the Waterkeepers Alliance, legal counsel at Morgan and Morgan personal injury law firm with a BA from Harvard, a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School, an LLM from Pace University School of Law and studied at the London School of Economics. He is recipient of numerous awards with a forthcoming book entitled<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cThe <i>Wuhan Coverup: How US<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>officials Conspired with Chinese Military to Hide the Origins of Covid 19\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">RFK\u2019s appearance at Hillsdale, the only college in the country that did not shutdown during the Covid Pandemic, occurred in early March just prior to his formal announcement as a candidate. An appreciative and receptive audience, Kennedy\u2019s provided a wide ranging extraordinary presentation on a variety of formidable topics beginning with his efforts on behalf of the Hudson River Riverkeepers to clean up industrial pollution. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He especially focused on collusion between regulatory \u2018captured\u2019 state-federal agencies and powerful corporations like big Pharma, detailing the impacts of mercury and DPT vaccines on children and his experiences with Dr. Fauci.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Kennedy outlined Covid related attacks on the Constitution including government imposed \u2018<i>arbitrary and capricious\u2019<\/i> censorship to limit conversation about the truth of Covid including violations of freedom of assembly, enforced social distance w\/no due process,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>compulsory closing of churches with no supporting science and reiterated that \u2018<i>the Constitution<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>is the heart and soul<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>of this country<\/i>.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Adding that President Reagan\u2019s agreement to provide full <a href=\"http:\/\/sonorannews.com\/2017\/07\/03\/vaccine-manufacturers-exempt-liability\/\"><span class=\"s2\">vaccine immunity<\/span><\/a> as a liability shield<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>(due to \u201c<i>unavoidable adverse side effects<\/i>\u201d) allowed that vaccines are the only medical product never required to conduct pre-licensing safety studies as Big Pharma has paid $35 billion in criminal penalties in last ten years.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In addition, Kennedy cited a 1989 explosion in chronic health issues for children related to mandated vaccines. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As a lifelong student of the CIA, Kennedy identified the role of his grandfather, Joseph P. Kennedy, former US Ambassador to the UK, who served on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/review-of-politics\/article\/abs\/reports-of-the-hoover-commission\/A1943390B3A356485F6A2EBEE5C10076\"><span class=\"s2\">Hoover Commission<\/span><\/a> and voted to disband the CIA; thus beginning a sixty year Kennedy family fight with the CIA which led RFK to write \u201c<i>American Values: Lessons Learned from my Family.<\/i>\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He identified the CIA in developing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/weapon-timeline\/\"><span class=\"s2\">bioweapon<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">s<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2019\/09\/15\/cia-fort-detrick-stephen-kinzer-228109\/\"><span class=\"s2\">at Ft. Detrick<\/span><\/a> including the <a href=\"https:\/\/accuracy.org\/release\/how-the-2001-anthrax-false-flag-attacks-paved-way-for-afghanistan-and-iraq-invasions\/\"><span class=\"s2\">anthrax attack<\/span><\/a> during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/USA-PATRIOT-Act\"><span class=\"s2\">Patriot Act<\/span><\/a> consideration in 2001.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>On JFK\u2019s assassination, RFK shared that evil doer Allen Dulles who had been fired from the CIA, was quoted \u201c<i>I\u2019m glad the little shit is dead. He thought he was a God<\/i>.\u201d <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kennedy\u2019s Hillsdale appearance was<i> <\/i>followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GLrVWmt_33g\"><span class=\"s2\">formal announcement<\/span><\/a> of his candidacy in Boston which added current foreign policy and economic crisis to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>his agenda questioning whether pushing Russia and China together is in US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/06\/how-and-why-the-us-government-perpetrated-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine\/\"><span class=\"s2\">national interest<\/span><\/a> and what is objective of the war.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Suggesting the US is in Ukraine \u2018<i>for the right reasons\u201d <\/i>although he questioned a <\/span><span class=\"s2\">nuclear exchange<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> with a country that has more nukes and US prolonging the war is not a good idea.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Like the majority of Congress including Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Kennedy would benefit from an in depth briefing by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jbpx8KJlE-M\"><span class=\"s2\">Scott Ritter<\/span><\/a> and\/or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tellerreport.com\/news\/2023-04-27-ex-colonel-of-the-us-armed-forces-macgregor-warned-zelensky-about-the-consequences-of-refusing-dialogue.rJxr0FZ_Qh.html\"><span class=\"s2\">Colonel Doug MacGregor<\/span><\/a> for a total understanding of the CIA<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>initiated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Ukraine-crisis\"><span class=\"s2\">2014 coup<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> Russia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/2\/24\/putin-orders-military-operations-in-eastern-ukraine-as-un-meets\"><span class=\"s2\">Special Military Operation<\/span><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2023\/04\/18\/tzhv-a18.html\"><span class=\"s2\">NATOs presence<\/span><\/a> threatening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/nato-inches-closer-russias-border-1784889\"><span class=\"s2\">Russian sovereignty<\/span><\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">RFK told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GLrVWmt_33g\"><span class=\"s2\">audience<\/span><\/a> that after the Soviet Union collapse in 1990, the US never activated its peace dividend which was expected to decrease defense spending from $6 billion to $2 billion as the US made more foreign enemies around the world while increasing its military budget to $8.8 billion.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Citing the economy as a source of American strength, \u2018<i>not bullets and weapons\u2019<\/i> and that while the US spent $8 Trillion in Iraq, China built bridges, ports and infrastructure as it is displacing the US as a trading partner.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201c<i>While China is earning good will, the US spends $800 Billion on the military<\/i>.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Having lost Saudi Arabia as \u201c<i>our number one ally in the<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shia_crescent\"><span class=\"s2\">Shia Crescent<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u201d<\/span><span class=\"s1\">, which has been a key foreign policy objective in the Mideast, RFK suggested that \u201c<i>US foreign policy has <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=165824\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>collapsed<\/i><\/span><\/a><i> and is no longer a coherent strategy<\/i>.\u201d <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With deDollarization, lowered oil production, Iraq now a proxy state of Iran, the entire US strategy in the Middle East has disintegrated.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>RFK suggested we need to do something FAST and committed to \u201c<i>close 800 US overseas bases and bring American troops home immediately in order to make the US an exemplary democracy again\u201d<\/i> as the Democratic party has lost its identity. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u201cThe worse thing Trump did was the lockdown. In fairness, the bureaucrats rolled him on it; he did not want to do it. But that it not a good enough excuse. He was President of the United States. In May 2020, <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/462319362\/A-Doctor-a-Day-Letter-Signed\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>six hundred doctors<\/i><\/span><\/a><i> sent a letter to Trump asking him to not do the lockdowns.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/i>He said<i> \u201cbureaucrats were coming after him; he had the right instincts.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He knew he shouldn\u2019t close down the country but he didn\u2019t; he got rolled by his bureaucracy. At this time in history, you need a President who can stand up to his bureaucracy.<\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kennedy pointed to Trump\u2019s appointment of Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a well known<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>physician with ties to the pharmaceutical industry as an FDA Commissioner<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>in March, 2017 to eliminate some of the agency\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/03\/10\/politics\/scott-gottlieb-donald-trump-fda\/index.html\"><span class=\"s2\">regulatory burdens<\/span><\/a>\u201d. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Two years later, on June 27, 2019, Gottlieb was elected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pfizer.com\/news\/press-release\/press-release-detail\/scott_gottlieb_elected_to_pfizer_s_board_of_directors\"><span class=\"s2\">Pfizer\u2019s Board of Directors<\/span><\/a> to serve on its<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Regulatory and Compliance Committee. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>According to US <a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/pdf\/286\/201704180300150286\/201704180300150286.pdf\"><span class=\"s2\">Federal Election Commission<\/span><\/a> documents (page 163), Pfizer, Inc. donated $1 million to Trump\u2019s Presidential Inauguration Committee on December 22, 2016 and received four tickets to the <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/3227450\/INAUGURATION-TRUMP-11-29-2016.pdf\"><span class=\"s2\">Leadership Luncheon<\/span><\/a> with Cabinet appointees and House and Senate Leadership. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Only a political neophyte might not recognize the \u2018coincidence\u2019 that within days after RFK\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=68MhtliIAvk\"><span class=\"s2\">appearance<\/span><\/a> as a Presidential candidate on <i>Tucker Carlson Tonight<\/i>, Tucker was unceremoniously removed from his Fox program. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kennedy called for an end to the &#8220;<i>corrupt merger of corporate and state power,<\/i>\u201d also known as an embedded administrative state within the Federal government which controls implementation of almost every Federal program at will as they use their influence to create outcomes on behalf of their corporate entities.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Kennedy identified the \u201c<i>corporate kleptocracy<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i> as a<i>\u2018cushy socialism for the rich\u2019 and a \u2018brutal merciless capitalism for the poor.<\/i>\u2019 <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He continued<i> \u201cIt keeps us in a state of<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>war, it bails out banks <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Last month the Federal government told 30 million Americans they were cutting their food stamp checks by 90%.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It took fifteen million people off Medicare, the same month it gave $300 million to the Silicon Valley Bank and tapped up cost of the Ukraine war to $113 billion.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The entire budget of EPA is $12 billion, the CDC budget is $11 billion. The way we do this is printing money; we printed ten centuries of money in the last fourteen years.\u201d We have raised food prices for basic foods like chicken, dairy, milk<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>by 76% in the last two years and now we\u2019re cutting food stamps and bailing out banks in the same month. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We need to get rid of this corporate control of our government<\/i>.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">RFK\u2019s appearance at Dartmouth was nothing short of a brilliant analysis as, given that the topic was part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedartmouth.com\/article\/2023\/05\/han-concerned-alumni-of-dartmouth-host-sold-out-covid-19-vaccine-discussion-panel-and-robert-f-kennedy-jr-at-hanover-inn\"><span class=\"s2\">larger conference<\/span><\/a>, he focused exclusively on health issues as related to government-industry collusion, the perversion of the science by government regulators, the explosion of chronic childhood diseases and that \u2018<i>vaccine effects are impervious to the facts or reality<\/i>.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">RFK provided shocking and disturbing numbers as he is adamant that lockdown was not a success but an economic catastrophe that cost the US $16 Trillion according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/coronavirus-pandemic-cost-americans-16-trillion\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Harvard Study<\/span><\/a> with a massive GDP drop for the next ten years.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>With<i> 4.2<\/i>% of the world population, the US had 16% of <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2771841\"><span class=\"s2\">covid deaths<\/span><\/a> shifting $4 Trillion from the American middle class to billionaires as 41% <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/08\/04\/economy\/black-business-coronavirus-study\/index.html\"><span class=\"s2\">black businesses<\/span><\/a> shut down permanently.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Toddlers lost 22 IQ points during lockdown and many in need of remedial attention. The CDC revised its milestones that a toddler no longer walk at one year but now walk at 1.5 years. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Most impressive has been the quality of Kennedy\u2019s scholarship, the level of his ability to identify essential data to his audience with no slipping and sliding around the unpleasant facts; never hesitating to be straight, true and factual in the belief that all citizens needed to have access to the same information he is familiar with.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In conclusion,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>RFK: \u201c<i>Any power that government takes will never be returned voluntarily, every power government will abuse to the max possible and no one ever complied their way out of totalitarianism = the only way is to resist<\/i>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Renee Parsons\u00a0served on the ACLU\u2019s Florida State Board of Directors and as president of the ACLU Treasure Coast Chapter. She has been an elected public official in Colorado, staff in the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender, an environmental lobbyist for Friends of the Earth and a staff member of the US House of Representatives in Washington DC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RFK, Jr. Pledges to Close 800 US Bases and Bring American Troops Home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}