In&nbsp;<a href="https://aflds.org/news/post/us-government-props-up-former-communists-despite-defectors-warnings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">US government propping up ‘former communists’ despite defector’s warnings</a> we saw that the US government ignored the warnings of the leading KGB defector, Anatoly Golitsyn, of the danger of funding the former Soviet Union and of plans to rebuild the Soviet empire.Former communists in charge of UkraineAs noted by the editor of Golitsyn’s second book, a collection of memoranda he addressed to the CIA,&nbsp;<a href="https://archive.org/details/AnatoliyGolitsyn">Perestroika Deception</a>, Ukraine, like other former Soviet satellites, remained under communist control.<blockquote>Throughout the 'former' USSR, key Communist strategists and implementers were in open control. Specifically … the President of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, former Communist Party ideology chief, was succeeded by Leonid Kuchma, formerly the Communist Director of a Soviet missile plant … The Russian Ambassador in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, has told foreign colleagues not to bother expanding their embassies since they will eventually have to be downgraded to consulates again.</blockquote>More recently, following the 2014 Ukrainian revolution deposing their pro-Russia leader, The New York Times acknowledged the presence of the old leaders among the new in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/25/world/europe/ukraine-parliament.html">Ukrainian Protesters See Too Many Familiar Faces in Parliament After Revolution</a>.Zelensky's ties that bindThus, the current leader of Ukraine,&nbsp;Volodymyr Zelensky, may be heavily influenced by the pro-Russia personalities holding onto power. Indeed, many of the oligarchs who hold substantial sway over the government are actually “<a href="https://thenewamerican.com/ukraine-a-deep-state-wonderland/">former communist big wigs from the Soviet time</a>” who were given preferential treatment to allow them to make business deals unavailable to those unaffiliated with the communists.&nbsp;One such Ukrainian oligarch is billionaire&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi">Ihor Kolomoyskyi</a>,&nbsp;who co-founded&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrivatBank">PrivatBank</a> in 1992, just after Ukraine declared independence. PrivatBank was the only Ukrainian lender to receive permission from the National Bank of Ukraine to open an overseas branch, allowing it to become Ukraine’s largest commercial bank. It received permission to open its first overseas branch in 1999 when Ukraine was ruled by Leonid Kuchma, who, as mentioned above, formerly served as Communist Director of a Soviet missile plant.Kolomoyskyi also owns&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2B1_Media_Group">1+1 Media Group</a> whose TV channel<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2B1_(TV_channel)">&nbsp;1+1</a> aired "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_of_the_People_(TV_series)">Servant of the People</a>", the comedy series in which Zelensky played the role of president of Ukraine. Kolomoyskyi also served as&nbsp;<a href="https://nypost.com/2022/02/24/who-is-ukraines-president-volodymyr-zelensky/">Zelensky’s benefactor</a> in his run for president.&nbsp;<a href="https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/how-one-ukrainian-billionaire-funded?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_campaign=post_embed&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;s=r">In fact</a>,&nbsp;<blockquote>The<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Papers"> Pandora Papers</a> showed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his TV production partners were<a href="https://archive.ph/Xmoxl">&nbsp;beneficiaries of a web of offshore firms</a> created in 2012, the same year Zelensky’s production company entered into a deal with Kolomoysky’s media group, which allegedly received $41 million in funds from Kolomoysky’s Privatbank.Zelensky’s political rival, President Petro Poroshenko<a href="https://uawire.org/zelensky-challenges-poroshenko-to-debate-in-olimpiyskiy-stadium">&nbsp;commented</a> on their connection during the campaign trail, “Fate intended to put me together with Kolomoyskiy’s puppet in the second round of the elections.”After Zelensky’s victory, Kolomoysky, who had spent the last few years living between Israel and Switzerland, returned to Ukraine to keep up his relationship with the new president,<a href="https://www.kyivpost.com/multimedia/video/ukrainian-oligarchs-ihor-kolomoisky-video">&nbsp;nominating over 30-lawmakers</a> to Zelensky’s newly established party and maintaining influence with many of them in parliament.</blockquote>Former communists in charge of RussiaAs for Russia, while the press makes much of the individual personality of its president, Vladimir Putin, its executive decision making power is actually split up among a number of ministers with communist ties who comprise the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Russia">government of Russia</a>, in which Putin does not even have a seat. They are led by Prime Minister&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Mishustin">Mikhail Mishustin</a>, whose father was a member of the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_Komsomol">&nbsp;Central Committee of the Komsomol</a>, the executive leadership of the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komsomol">&nbsp;All-Union Leninist Young Communist League</a>.Even if Putin could sway this round table of ministers to do his bidding, he himself could be relied upon to advance long term communist policy. As we reported in<a href="https://aflds.org/news/post/how-one-defector-got-it-right/">&nbsp;How one defector got it right</a>, Putin was not only a loyal agent of the feared KGB who rose to head the agency when it changed its name to the FSB, but he filled so many important government positions with KGB agents that the BBC headlined a 2006 article,<blockquote><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6177531.stm">KGB influence 'soars under Putin' Four out of five political leaders and state administrators in Russia either have been or still are members of the security services</a>.</blockquote>Der Spiegel similarly stated:&nbsp;&nbsp;<blockquote><a href="https://www.spiegel.de/international/putin-s-russia-kremlin-riddled-with-former-kgb-agents-a-454486.html">Kremlin Riddled with Former KGB Agents</a>.</blockquote>Why would two nations under the control of the same communists go to war?The Russia-Ukraine war certainly could then be a controlled conflict, with former communists in control of both nations. What then do they want out of this conflict?More money, more weaponsWinston Churchill’s words, “<a href="https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/never-let-a-good-crisis-go-to-waste/">never let a good crisis go to waste</a>,” seem to have been adapted by communists to be restated as, “always create a good crisis.” Manufactured crises, together with real ones, have been used to justify <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid">over $50 billion in foreign aid&nbsp;</a>each year, with additional “emergency aid” all but guaranteed with each escalation. This, despite US military equipment and technology recently winding up in the hands of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/06/no_author/understand-imperial-policy/">ISIS</a>, the&nbsp;<a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/taliban-weapons-afghanistan/">Taliban&nbsp;</a>and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/i-gave-the-us-trucks-and-ammunition-to-al-qaeda-the-chaotic-us-effort-to-arm-syrian-rebels">Al Qaeda</a>. Thus, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/01/joint-statement-on-the-u-s-ukraine-strategic-partnership/">White House proudly stated</a> this past September,<blockquote>Providing Ukraine with Security Assistance: The United States is announcing a new $60 million security assistance package, including additional Javelin anti-armor systems and other defensive lethal and non-lethal capabilities, to enable Ukraine to more effectively defend itself against Russian aggression. The United States has committed $2.5 billion in support of Ukraine’s forces since 2014, including more than $400 million this year alone….Investing in Ukraine’s Reform Agenda: Governance reform is critical to ensuring democracy delivers for the people …&nbsp; In support of Ukraine’s reform efforts, the U.S. government has provided Ukraine with nearly $2 billion in development assistance since 2014 and plans to allocate over $463 million in assistance this year …Providing Sufficient Funding for Growth: …. The initial amount of $3 billion in support from the Export-Import Bank (EXIM) of the United States for these potential transactions may be increased as the pipeline of projects in agribusiness, infrastructure, climate, and energy develops…Fighting COVID-19:&nbsp; The United States has provided approximately $55 million in COVID-19 related assistance and donated nearly 2.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Ukraine. The United States intends to provide additional assistance to Ukraine, to include cold chain storage support and an additional $12.8 million in COVID-related assistance …Humanitarian Assistance:&nbsp;The ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine has left 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian aid. Since 2014, the United States has provided over $306 million in life-saving assistance to help Ukrainians in need … The U.S. government will provide an additional $45 million in humanitarian assistance to Ukraine this year.</blockquote>Of course, this money pales in comparison to&nbsp;<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/09/politics/ukraine-aid-spending-bill-congress/index.html">the new emergency a</a>id package.<blockquote>Washington (CNN) A<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/09/politics/house-vote-government-spending-ukraine-aid/index.html">&nbsp;massive spending bill</a> signed into law by President Joe Biden Tuesday provides for a one-time $13.6 billion infusion of military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine as it fights back against Russia's invasion.&nbsp;</blockquote>By this measure, the goal of the conflict has already been achieved, with US money and weapons increasingly transferred to the control of former communists. If Russia gets to leave troops in Ukraine or if Ukraine announces a shift in alignment toward Russia, it would just be a bonus for the Russian strategy.A new way:Rather than pick or defend a side, the correct response in any controlled conflict is to first expose the conflict for what it is and then to cut off financial and military transfers to both sides. Even trade should be halted until a formerly communist nation can prove that communists no longer hold sway over the lives of its citizens. In this way, controlled economies, which go hand-in-hand with control of the people in those economies, can collapse under their own weight, while free economies, unburdened by the need to prop those economies up, can go back to prospering.That way, the next time the World Health Organization demands compliance with lockdown, quarantine and vaccination directives, a few more nation states might be in the non-compliance column.See our previous article in this series:<blockquote><a href="https://aflds.org/news/post/did-the-soviet-union-fake-its-own-funeral/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Did the Soviet Union fake its own funeral?</a><a href="https://aflds.org/news/post/how-the-soviets-faked-their-collapse-before-perestroika" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">100 years of fake communist collapses</a><a href="http://aflds.org/news/post/how-one-defector-got-it-right" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">How one defector got it right</a><a href="http://aflds.org/news/post/us-government-propping-up-former-communists-despite-defectors-warnings" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">US government propping up ‘former communists’ despite defector’s warnings</a></blockquote>

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Proof of controlled conflict in Ukraine

Bank of America is mourning the loss of a young employee who died suddenly Thursday, the second one to do so this month.<h2>25 years young&nbsp;</h2>25-year-old Adnan Deumic was playing soccer with some of his colleagues from Bank of America’s London office when he suddenly collapsed. CPR was administered but failed to save the young trader. While a cause of death has not yet been revealed,&nbsp;The New York Post&nbsp;has&nbsp;<a href="https://nypost.com/2024/05/17/business/bank-of-america-trader-dies-following-death-of-leo-lukenas/">reported</a> that Deumic is believed to have suffered a sudden cardiac arrest.“The death of our teammate is a tragedy, and we are shocked by the sudden loss of a popular, young colleague,” a Bank of America spokesman said. “We are committed to providing our full support to Adnan’s family, his friends and to our many employees grieving his loss.”<h2>Former Green Beret</h2>The tragedy came exactly two weeks after another Bank of America employee, 35-year-old Leo Lukenas III, also died suddenly. The father of two and former Green Beret&nbsp;<a href="https://nypost.com/2024/05/09/business/wall-street-bankers-death-ignites-anger-at-long-workweeks-could-prompt-walkout/">reportedly</a> died from acute coronary artery thrombus, a blood clot in the heart that causes heart attacks.&nbsp;While difficult working conditions are being blamed for the two deaths, social media netizens are suggesting the COVID-19 vaccines may have played a part.<h2>What the Science Says</h2>In 2022, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10928-z#Sec14">discovered</a> a direct correlation between the COVID-19 shots and a 25% rise in cardiac events among young people. The State of Florida, in a&nbsp;<a href="https://floridahealthcovid19.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20221007-guidance-mrna-covid19-vaccines-analysis.pdf?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery">statement</a> warning against COVID-19 vaccination for males aged 18–39, attached its own study conducted by the Florida Department of Health. The study found an 84% increase in cardiac-related deaths among males in the 18–39 age group within 28 days of receiving an mRNA shot.<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27332903/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Studies</a> before COVID-19 estimated the annual number of sudden cardiac deaths among people under 35 to be 1.3 cases per 100,000.<h2>Former CDC director: ‘We have to be honest’</h2>Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Robert Redfield last week called for a public discussion about significant side effects from the COVID-19 shots.“Nobody wanted to talk about the potential there was a problem with the vaccines because they were afraid that would cause people to not want to get vaccinated,” Dr. Redfield told Chris Cuomo on&nbsp;News Nation.“We have to be honest, some people got significant side effects from the vaccine. I have a number of people that are quite ill and they never had COVID, but they are ill from the vaccine. And we just have to acknowledge that,” he added.<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560">This is huge: The former director of the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) admits Covid shots caused ‘significant side effects’ among young healthy people. He also admitted that the vaccine wasn’t really “necessary” for people under 50 years old. He THEN… <a href="https://t.co/YR9yFlYtwV">pic.twitter.com/YR9yFlYtwV</a>— DiedSuddenly (@DiedSuddenly_) <a href="https://twitter.com/DiedSuddenly_/status/1791989489658691991?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>

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Two sudden deaths this month; both attributed to cardiac events

Another Bank of America employee dies suddenly

Governments need to roll out digital identity programs to fight climate change, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said last week.<h2>Digital ID: A tracking system</h2>In an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.undp.org/blog/why-legal-identity-crucial-tackling-climate-crisis">article</a> titled “Why legal identity is crucial to tackling the climate crisis,” UNDP officials made the case for why digital identity is a key weapon against climate change. If governments assign digital identities to citizens, they explained, authorities can track populations more easily in an environmental disaster.The UNDP further argued that countries which roll out digital identity programs will have more data about their taxpayers that can then be used in an emergency. Governments should know the income and health status of every taxpayer, as well as their education level. This would help authorities have a more “targeted response” to citizens during, for example, a weather disaster, according to the world body.<h2>Digital ID: A way to ‘change behaviors’</h2>But digital identity is not only for tracking taxpayer movements and backgrounds. It can also be used to track how much energy taxpayers are consuming, says the UNDP. Once a government has this data, it can force citizens to change their energy consumption habits, or what the UNDP calls “inspiring behavior change.”“Leveraging digital legal ID data to track energy consumption, inspire behaviour change, and enhance sustainability measures can mitigate climate-related disasters,” the UNDP officials wrote.This push for digital ID, however, is not a new one. The UN has had a years-long objective to ensure that every person is assigned a digital ID. One of the organization’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to register all children under five with digital legal identities.<h2>Digital ID: The center of a taxpayer's life</h2>According to the UN’s vision, each individual’s digital identity will be tied to other aspects of his or her life, creating a kind of digital web. At the center of this web would be the ID, which would be accessible to government authorities.&nbsp;Frontline News&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/un-aims-to-tie-vaccinations-to-legal-identity-says-biometric-firm">learned</a> last year, for example, that GAVI, a UN-sponsored vaccination body, began pilot testing a program in Ghana that immediately registers the biometric data of every newborn. At birth, infants’ fingerprints are scanned, as are the voices of their parents or caregivers. These data are used to create digital identities that track each baby’s vaccinations and allow him or her to receive government benefits.In May 2023, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres&nbsp;<a href="https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/our-common-agenda-policy-brief-gobal-digi-compact-en.pdf">called</a> for universal welfare, which he said governments should distribute to citizens according to their&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/governments-tech-giants-began-developing-digital-i-ds-in-2020-report-reveals">digital IDs</a>. Those IDs, he explained, should be linked to private bank accounts:<blockquote>Digital IDs linked with bank or mobile money accounts can improve the delivery of social protection coverage and serve to better reach eligible beneficiaries. Digital technologies may help to reduce leakage, errors and costs in the design of social protection programmes.</blockquote><h2>Digital ID: Surveillance State</h2>But the concept raises concern among opponents of digital ID, which is known as the&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/canada-minister-confirms-vaccine-passports-paved-way-for-digital-id">successor</a> to vaccine passports. Critics say that digital ID increases the&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/cbdc-will-not-be-anonymous-fed-chair-confirms">probability</a> of government surveillance and totalitarian overreach. For example, while a government can use a taxpayer’s digital ID to deposit money, it could also use it to lock their bank account if they haven’t paid their carbon taxes, another proposed reform by Guterres.

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Digital identity to fight climate change

UN to 'inspire behavior change' with digital IDs 

Climate vaccine developer ArkeaBio has raised $26.5 million in Series A funding, the company&nbsp;<a href="https://live-arkea-bio-corp.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ArkeaBio-Raises-26.5M-to-Reduce-Greenhouse-Gas-Emissions-with-Methane-Vaccine.pdf">announced</a> last week. ArkeaBio aims to fight climate change by vaccinating livestock.&nbsp;<h2>Suppressing methane emissions</h2>A vaccine being developed by the company is designed to prevent animals from releasing methane emissions. Once vaccinated with the AkreaBio shot, an animal’s immune system is supposed to create antibodies that will target methane-producing microbes.&nbsp;The Boston-based startup&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/breakthrough-energy-ventures-leads-12m-seed-investment-in-arkeabio-to-develop-and-commercialize-technology-reducing-on-farm-methane-emissions-301699932.html">secured</a> its first major investment in late 2022 from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, an investment fund founded by billionaire Bill Gates.&nbsp;“Our vaccination-based approach allows for much-needed decarbonization of global meat and dairy products across multiple geographies, supporting greater sustainability in agriculture,” the company explains on its&nbsp;<a href="https://www.arkeabio.com/">website</a>.<h2>Pharma industry eyes climate vaccines for humans</h2>While ArkeaBio hopes to deploy the vaccines worldwide for livestock, it has not yet announced plans to develop climate vaccines for humans.But human-targeted climate vaccines do appear to be in the works. Researchers at Gingko Bioworks, a biotech firm also backed by Gates, have&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/gates-backed-scientists-predict-deadly-climate-pandemics">floated</a> mRNA injections as a measure to mitigate the impact of global warming. The World Economic Forum has also&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/world-economic-forum-pushes-climate-vaccines">expressed</a> support for climate vaccines.The biggest push, however, is coming from the pharmaceutical industry, as vaccine makers&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/vaccine-maker-declares-climate-change-public-health-crisis">claim</a> vaccines are a “critical response to the climate crisis.” In December, pharmaceutical giant GSK wrote on its&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gsk.com/en-gb/behind-the-science-magazine/vaccines-climate-change-health-economy/">website</a> that “[i]n the face of climate change, vaccines play a crucial but underestimated role.”AstraZeneca last year declared climate change to be a public health crisis, sparking concerns that the pharma industry may play a role in climate mandates. The declaration came two months after drugmaker Sanofi’s Executive Vice President of Vaccines Thomas Triomphe penned an article titled “Vaccine innovation is a critical response to the climate crisis.”<h2>Climate vaccines required for vaccine passports?</h2>Pharma industry chatter about climate vaccines comes as the World Health Organization (WHO), which has warned of an impending climate pandemic, is developing global vaccine passports. If climate vaccines for people are developed, the WHO could demand that the vaccine passports display a person's climate vaccine status together with other so-called “immunizations.”A status showing that passport holder one is not up to date on any scheduled vaccine could lead to the denial of that person's right to travel between nations or even within a nation. &nbsp;<h2>Efficient system … for denying travel rights</h2>In June last year, the WHO&nbsp;<a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/05-06-2023-the-european-commission-and-who-launch-landmark-digital-health-initiative-to-strengthen-global-health-security">announced</a> the launch of its “digital health partnership” with the European Commission. The joint program will involve the development of global vaccine passports among other “digital products to deliver better health for all.”According to the WHO, the passport system will allow “global mobility” and protect people not only from “future health threats” but those that are “on-going”.“In June 2023, WHO will take up the European Union (EU) system of digital COVID-19 certification to establish a global system that will help facilitate global mobility and protect citizens across the world from on-going and future health threats, including pandemics,” announced the WHO in a statement.The globalist organization clarified that this will likely include a global vaccine passport, much like many Western countries used during the COVID-19 pandemic:<blockquote>This partnership will work to technically develop the WHO system with a staged approach to cover additional use cases, which may include, for example, the digitisation of the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis. Expanding such digital solutions will be essential to deliver better health for citizens across the globe.</blockquote>As a “first step”, the WHO and European Commission will “ensure that the current EU digital certificates continue to function effectively.”&nbsp;<h4>Related Articles</h4><a href="https://frontline.news/post/gates-backed-scientists-predict-deadly-climate-pandemics" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gates-backed scientists predict deadly climate pandemics</a>

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Company develops climate vaccines for livestock as drugmakers eye climate vaccines for humans

Gates-backed startup raises $26 million for climate vaccines 

Little firms protecting the little guyAn amendment to the New York State constitution that would have severely curtailed the rights of normal New Yorkers has been <a href="https://www.empirecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/000778_2023_Marjorie_Byrnes_et_al_v_Marjorie_Byrnes_et_al_DECISION___ORDER_ON_81.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">taken off</a> the November 5, 2024 ballot, thanks to the concerted efforts of two attorneys from a small legal firm, Cox Lawyers PLCC.The amendment concerned is usually referred to as Proposition One or the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). As things stand, discrimination based on race, color, creed, and religion is already banned in New York State. The ERA would have added ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes and reproductive health care and autonomy (additions to the current constitution are in boldface in the extract below):<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/aflds/image/upload/v1715854344/ERA_4697ee5496.png"></figure>&nbsp;The only people without a protected category are “normals”While protecting people sounds like a noble intention, the ERA, if passed, would have in practice led to certain people in these categories being “protected” at the expense of others — &nbsp;who, in most cases, would be the majority of New Yorkers. For example:<ul><li>Protecting “gender identity and expression” would lead to an inability to bar men (that is, “transwomen”) from women's dormitories, sports, locker rooms and showers, public bathrooms, etc..</li><li>Banning “age-based discrimination” would potentially allow minors to take charge of their medical decisions and sideline their parents or guardians, barring them from intervening even in the event that they chose to undergo life-altering procedures.</li><li>Protecting “reproductive autonomy” would have the practical effect of enshrining in the constitution the right to have an abortion at any stage of pregnancy, right up to birth.</li></ul>This is why people such as Lee Zeldin, gubernatorial candidate for New York in 2022, have described Proposition 1 as an unprecedented threat to women's rights:<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560">In New York, there has been no greater threat to women's and girls’ rights in our lifetimes than Kathy Hochul and the Dems attempting to enshrine their far-left, woke agenda into the State Constitution through Proposition 1, which is on this November’s ballot. To defend your… <a href="https://t.co/NfUzFf7hBK">pic.twitter.com/NfUzFf7hBK</a>— Lee Zeldin (@leezeldin) <a href="https://twitter.com/leezeldin/status/1787622930593067394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>&nbsp;Arrogance came before a fallGiven that New York is a solidly Democratic state, the ERA will almost certainly pass if it appears on the November ballot. Attorneys <a href="https://attorneycox.substack.com/p/victory-we-just-won-another-big-case?utm_source=substack&amp;amp%3Butm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bobbie Anne Cox</a> and Chris Browne attacked the proposed amendment on procedural grounds, as it was advanced in an unconstitutional manner.<ul class="todo-list"><li><label class="todo-list__label"><input type="checkbox" disabled="disabled">Senator George Borello excoriated politiicians for their arrogance in assuming that they could get away with cutting corners in pushing their agenda:</label></li></ul><blockquote>The Democrats that control state government think the rules don’t apply to them, which is why we repeatedly see them cut legal and ethical corners in order to achieve their political aims. While the Democrats will appeal, I urge the appellate judges who will make the next determination to be guided by the dictates of the state constitution and not politics. We all lose when the authority of our constitution is weakened, which is why I am optimistic this ruling will stand.</blockquote>&nbsp;Those who oppose woke ideology labeled ‘extremist’According to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/abortion-new-york-amendment-election-2024-4d3815708ef78c11599e1ebbb35ef896?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">media</a> accounts, Democrats had been “counting on the measure to help generate voter turnout." The Democrats have a $20 million <a href="https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2024/03/building-strategy-pass-equal-rights-amendment-new-york/395147/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">budget</a> to promote the ERA, and Attorney-General Letitia James has <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/new-yorks-abortion-rights-amendment-knocked-off-november-109994832" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">insisted</a> that her party will appeal the ruling;&nbsp;<blockquote>The Equal Rights Amendment was advanced to protect New Yorkers’ fundamental rights, including reproductive freedom and access to abortion care. This is a disappointing court decision, but we will appeal because New Yorkers deserve to be protected by their Constitution, especially as our basic freedoms and rights are under attack.</blockquote>Governor Kathy Hochul expressed similar sentiments, and also went as far as <a href="https://www.wxxinews.org/new-york-public-news-network/2024-05-07/ny-dems-confident-equal-rights-amendment-will-be-back-on-nov-ballot-after-ruling-strikes-it-down" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">calling</a> the judge who ruled in the case, Justice Daniel Doyle, an “extremist judge”:<blockquote>Our decades-long fight to protect equality and reproductive freedom will not be thrown off track by one extremist judge and I look forward to casting my ballot for the Equal Rights Amendment in November.</blockquote>

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