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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Saturday, December 11, 2021

11 December - Blogs I'm Following - 2 of 5

 10 pm MST

Snopes.com6 hours ago
Kentucky Hardest Hit As Storms Leave Dozens Dead in 5 States
A monstrous tornado carved a storm track that could rival the longest on record. read more
As International Trials Begin Against the Globalists Will a Return to Public Executions be Necessary?
Another criminal complaint has been filed against the Globalists who are responsible for mass murder and genocide through the COVID-19 scam and bioweapon injections. The Exposé in the UK reports that a complaint has been filed with the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for "violations of the Nuremberg Code, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of aggression perpetrated against the peoples of the UK." This case is in addition to the one that German Attorney Reiner Fuellmich will soon be conducting that is being referred to as "Nuremberg 2.0." We have also re... read more
On Contact: The Black Agenda
Glen Ford, who died in the summer of 2021, was one of the country’s most insightful political commentators and radical journalists. He appeared several times on this show. He spoke for the marginalized and excoriated the elites. Glen was the co-publisher of the radical Black Commentator. He co-founded Black Agenda Report with Bruce Dixon and Margaret Kimberley in 2006. Glen repeatedly called out the Black political elites, exposing for example New Jersey Senator Cory Booker’s close ties with right-wing organizations such as the Manhattan Institute and the Bradley Foundation and Bo... read more
Assange Plans To Appeal High Court Decision Backing Extradition
Attorneys for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plan to appeal to the Supreme Court in the United Kingdom after the country’s appeals court overturned a decision that blocked the extradition of Assange to the United States. The High Court of Justice was “satisfied” with diplomatic assurances offered by the U.S. government related to how Assange would be treated in jail or prison, and they stated, “There is no reason why this court should not accept the assurances as meaning what they say.” “There is no basis for assuming that the U.S.A. has not given the assurances in good faith,”... read more
Ethiopians, Eritreans Hold #NoMore March Outside US State Department
Washington, DC - Thousands of Ethiopians, Eritreans and their allies rallied outside the US State Department on Friday as part of the #NoMore campaign opposing US intervention in the Horn of Africa. Their protest comes as the US’ chief envoy to the Horn, Jeffrey Feltman, is visiting several countries connected to the conflict after failing to secure a ceasefire. The crowd chanted “fake news CNN” and “no more TPLF,” referring to the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front, a rebel group with Western support that earlier this year made a blitz on the capital from the northern Tigray sta... read more
Pottersville Digest
(And signed with a Sharpie.) ------------------------------ This doesn't strike me as surprising, that Kanye and his publicist would get in the middle of the Big Lie. ------------------------------ Just what we need. Another crying Nazi. ------------------------------ This is what Nazis inevitably do- Stab each other in the back to protect themselves. ------------------------------ As you can guess, the cop is white and the student black. ------------------------------ As my friend says, "Manhattan already has a casino. It's called Wall Street." (Tip- o' the... read more
"A Look to the Heavens"
"This intergalactic skyscape features a peculiar system of galaxies cataloged as Arp 227 some 100 million light-years distant. Swimming within the boundaries of the constellation Pisces, Arp 227 consists of the two galaxies prominent right of center, the curious shell galaxy NGC 474 and its blue, spiral-armed neighbor NGC 470. The faint, wide arcs or shells of NGC 474 could have been formed by a gravitational encounter with neighbor NGC 470. Alternately the shells could be caused by a merger with a smaller galaxy producing an effect analogous to ripples across the surface of a pond.... read more
PrairiePundit5 hours ago
The intellectually inferior left
Lewis M. Andrews: If a recent *Scientific American* opinion piece purporting to explain how growing opposition to critical race theory damages public education reveals anything, it is that the real problem with today’s left goes much deeper than its progressive ideology. The co-authors assert that resistance to CRT is based on white supremacy, a refusal to acknowledge history, a rebirth of ‘50s-style anti-communism, and the conservative desire to harden racial divisions. These stunning inaccuracies raise questions not just about the validity of their argument but the competence o... read more
PrairiePundit5 hours ago
Congress says Asian ships must now take American farm products back to Asia
Chris Queen: We’re familiar with the supply chain crisis that has gripped our economy. Ships remain stuck in the ocean waiting to unload their cargo as the Biden administration puts bandaids on a gaping wound and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg plays Mr. Mom, posts stupid (and possibly illegal) memes, and worries about racist bridges. But there’s another side to the shipping crisis: American farmers are watching their products ruin as they have trouble getting their goods out of the country. It’s basically the flip side of the supply chain stories you’ve heard over an... read more
The Rio Times5 hours ago
Covid-19: Scotland’s official figures almost testify to ‘pandemic of the fully vaccinated’
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – As elsewhere, the authorities are slowly tightening the noose around the necks of the British population. The reason for this is a suspected new Covid-19 variant called Omicron, which is feared to be able to circumvent the currently available Covid-19 vaccine. The problem with this is official data shows the […] The post Covid-19: Scotland’s official figures almost testify to ‘pandemic of the fully vaccinated’ appeared first on The Rio Times. read more
PrairiePundit6 hours ago
Another bad week for Biden
Paul Bedard: This week’s White House Report Card finds President Joe Biden looking for anything to grab to pull his way out of a string of bad weeks. He and his chief of staff seized on low unemployment and statistical evidence that the economy is recovering at a swift pace. But, as our graders noted, few are buying it. Inflation at a near 40-year high, a weak response to China’s human rights record, and an inability to do much against Moscow in the face of the Kremlin’s threatened invasion of Ukraine have all undermined Biden’s muted campaign to promote his agenda. And then, th... read more
PrairiePundit6 hours ago
Mask mandate for kids takes another hit
*Epoch Times:* *Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ends School Mask Mandate* *Department of Education hosts mask-free event as state battles to keep masks on kids* Kids appear to be the least vulnerable to the virus and masks are seen by some as not a healthy requirement. read more
"17 Words that Changed My Life Forever"
*"17 Words that Changed My Life Forever"* by Jerry Clark “I remember several years back I heard something that changed my life forever. Up until that point I had been struggling through life – doing everything the hard way. I couldn’t figure out why my life wasn’t going the way I felt it should be. I saw some people going through life effortlessly and seemingly with less tension and frustration while I was wondering if I could ever straighten out the mess my life had turned out to be. I was behind on my dreams, my promises, and my bills. Then one day I was listening to a tape and t... read more
No Hegemon: Don't Exaggerate the Threat of Iran
*James Holmes* *Iran, Middle East* Iran clearly boasts enormous capacity for mischief-making, it clearly relishes tweaking the Great Satan, and it has options. But let’s keep things in perspective. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *Iran poses no direct or immediate threat to the Western Hemisphere, but there *are* aspiring hegemons out there that warrant renewing Spykman's resource-intensive rimlands strategy. They must take precedence. When pondering some strategic quandary you can get oriented by postulating what the greats in the field would say about it. What they said or ... read more
Counterfactual: What if Japan Had Never Attacked Pearl Harbor?
*James Holmes* *military, Asia* What if Japan had never attacked Pearl Harbor? Now that’s a question we can take on without running afoul of historical scruples. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *Doing less—or forswearing an effort entirely—always constitutes a viable strategic option. Doing nothing was an option Japan should have exercised rather than assail Pearl Harbor. That’s the lesson from alt-history. Suppose Robert E. Lee had laid hands on a shipment of AK-47s in 1864. How would American history have unfolded? Differently than it did, one imagines. Historians frown on ... read more
The U.S. Air Force's "Arrow" Heralds a New Era of Warfare
*WarIsBoring* *Security, Americas* Known as the “Arrow,” the AGM-183A was slung aboard the B-52 in order to gather data on “drag and vibration impact” to the weapon, as well as how the B-52 would fare hauling the new missile. *Here's what you need to know: *A new version of the AGM-183 is expected to roll out soon. *A new era in warfare? * The U.S. Air Force initiated test flights of the new hypersonic AGM-183A Air Launched Rapid Response Weapon, mounting them below the wings of a B-52 Stratofortress. Known as the “Arrow,” the AGM-183A was slung aboard the B-52 in order to gat... read more
Check Out This Strange DirecTV Story in Boston
*Stephen Silver* *DirecTV, * Have you ever woken up one morning to find a satellite dish on your roof that wasn't there before? A lot of people move into a new house and notice that a satellite dish, most likely used by a previous owner, remains on the roof. One woman recently got an even stranger surprise. According to Boston 25 News, a woman who lives in East Boston is trying to solve the mystery of how a DirecTV dish was installed at her home. The dish appeared despite the woman, whose name is Mary, not signing up for the service or ordering the dish to be installed, nor do h... read more
USNS Card: the Last U.S. Aircraft Carrier Sunk by an Enemy
*WarIsBoring* *Security, Asia* It was shortly after midnight when two Viet Cong commandos emerged from a sewer tunnel that emptied into Saigon Port, each man carrying nearly 90 pounds of high explosives and the components needed to make two time bombs. *Here's What You Need To Remember: *The aftermath of the attack on the Card rallied American rescue and salvage crews to deal with a severe crisis. It was shortly after midnight when two Viet Cong commandos emerged from a sewer tunnel that emptied into Saigon Port, each man carrying nearly 90 pounds of high explosives and the compo... read more
The Daily "Near You?"
Hannacroix, New York, USA. Thanks for stopping by! read more
Food Safety News7 hours ago
USDA investigates new outbreak of E. coli infections; focus on ground beef
Federal officials have opened an investigation into an outbreak of E. Coli O157:H7 infections suspected to be linked to ground beef. Other than the fact there is an open investigation, no other published information is available from the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The FSIS has not indicated what producers or what brands... Continue Reading read more
Gladys v Zali: right battle, wrong time
[image: NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian] The decision by Gladys Berejiklian to not contest the seat of Warringah deprives us of what would have been one of the marquee battles of the 2022 federal election. But there are many other independent v Liberal contests looming read more
Papers Please
Epidemiology of myocarditis and pericarditis following mRNA vaccines in Ontario, Canada: by vaccine product, schedule and interval There were 19,740,741 doses of mRNA vaccines administered and 297 reports of myocarditis/pericarditis meeting our inclusion criteria. Among these, 69.7% occurred following the second dose of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine and 76.8% occurred in males. The median age of… Continue reading → read more
Peter Dutton gets sucker-punched by his own stupidity and ends up losing financially on his defamation win against Shane Bazzi
Peter Dutton, who is now the Minister for Defence, will almost certainly end up making a substantial financial loss from his defamation “win” against Twitter user Shane Bazzi after the judge in […] The post Peter Dutton gets sucker-punched by his own stupidity and ends up losing financially on his defamation win against Shane Bazzi appeared first on Kangaroo Court of Australia. read more
The Politics Of Fear
While the media and politicians are terrorizing the peasants over the China virus, they are partying like its 2019. Remember Justin bar hopping maskless in Holland, before the global warming scam conference? read more
The Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke, "A Walk"
*"A Walk"* "My eyes already touch the sunny hill. going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has inner light, even from a distance- and changes us, even if we do not reach it, into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are; a gesture waves us on answering our own wave... but what we feel is the wind in our faces." - Rainer Maria Rilke read more
"The Story Behind the Iconic Photo of the Man Who Defied Hitler And the Nazis by Refusing to Salute"
*"The Story Behind the Iconic Photo of the Man* *Who Defied Hitler And the Nazis by Refusing to Salute"* by Jay Syrmopoulos "Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency ask the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But, conscience ask the question, is it right? And there comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "In what can only be described as one of the most iconic photos of World War II, a lone man, August Landmesser, is seen r... read more
"The Most Beautiful Lies..."
"Memories and feelings of nostalgia are nothing more than cruelties; they are the most beautiful lies we will ever convince ourselves to believe. We chase the false hope so fiercely that we nearly push ourselves past the edges of our sanity, longing for that which can never be in our possession again. These edges are blurred by our regrets and desperation all throughout the darkest hours of the night, until finally we are set free from the illusions and the ghosts of our past with the rising of the sun... and we are changed in some small, yet permanent way." - Margaret E. Rise read more
"It May Be Then..."
"Passion doesn't count the cost. Pascal said that the heart has its reasons that reason takes no account of. If he meant what I think, he meant that when passion seizes the heart it invents reasons that seem not only plausible but conclusive to prove that the world is well lost for love. It convinces you that honor is well sacrificed and that shame is a cheap price to pay. Passion is destructive. It destroyed Antony and Cleopatra, Tristan and Isolde, Parnell and Kitty O'Shea. And if it doesn't destroy it dies. It may be then that one is faced with the desolation of knowing that one ... read more
The Rio Times6 hours ago
Forró National Day: Six different ways to experience the genre in Rio and São Paulo
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - This Thursday (9), Brazil's National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute (IPHAN) officially declared the music genre "forró" an immaterial heritage of the country. Considered a "supergenre" as it encompasses a myriad of other genres (from baião to xote), forró is one of Brazil's most popular and widely spread music cultures. […] The post Forró National Day: Six different ways to experience the genre in Rio and São Paulo appeared first on The Rio Times. read more
Denying Student Workers Healthcare And A Living Wage Is Violence
New York City - On Wednesday, November 8, Columbia student workers (UAW Local 2110) held one of the largest pickets yet of their six-week strike to demand increased wages to meet costs of living, neutral third-party arbitration, and comprehensive healthcare benefits. Workers from unions throughout New York City such as the CUNY’s Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC) at NYU, the Teamsters, and NewsGuild of New York showed up to join the picket in solidarity with the striking workers. They picketed various entrances, encouraging those w... read more
Humanized mice, Covid and bioethics
When I begin to read a medical article, and a phrase introduces a topic with, "Although Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Texas Governor Greg Abbott have promoted monoclonal antibodies while opposing vaccine and mask mandates, they're not a substitute for Covid-19 vaccines." You have to read it carefully, though. They are not against vaccines or masks, only the mandates. Opposing mandates is a political stance. It's about opposing growing totalitarianism, the huge failures of Biden and the lies of Fauci. This journal obviously is political too--JAMA (Journal of the American Medical... read more
A Judicial Kidnapping
Miscarriage of justice is an inadequate term in these circumstances. It took the bewigged courtiers of Britain’s ancient regime just nine minutes on Friday to uphold an American appeal against a District Court judge’s acceptance in January of a cataract of evidence that hell on earth awaited Assange across the Atlantic: a hell in which, it was expertly predicted, he would find a way to take his own life. Volumes of witness by people of distinction, who examined and studied Julian and diagnosed his autism and his Asperger’s Syndrome and revealed that he had already come within an a... read more
Democratic Deficits At The Summit For Democracy
The so-called “Summit for Democracy” should first agree on a definition of what democracy means. Whereas etymologically we know that the definition of democracy means rule by the people, instinctively we feel that people power must be more than a slogan, that it must be concretized by genuine public participation in the conduct of public affairs. There are, of course, many manifestations or “models” of democracy, exercised nationally as well as locally in provinces and communities. The spectrum of democratic governance goes from direct democracy by way of citizen power of initiati... read more
WA state homeowner shoots and kills home intruder: ‘I have the right to carry and I have the right to protect myself’
The Blaze – by Carlos Garcia A homeowner shot and killed one of two intruders in Spanaway, Washington, on Thursday morning. Pierce County Sheriff’s Department... The post WA state homeowner shoots and kills home intruder: ‘I have the right to carry and I have the right to protect myself’ appeared first on From the Trenches World Report. read more
Moscow Says It’s Offering US, NATO Alternative to New Cuban Missile Crisis-Style Scenario
Sputnik Tensions between Russia and the US-led military bloc have escalated dramatically in recent weeks amid Western claims that Moscow may be preparing to invade... The post Moscow Says It’s Offering US, NATO Alternative to New Cuban Missile Crisis-Style Scenario appeared first on From the Trenches World Report. read more
Austrians Beg For Help: ‘Unvaccinated’ to Face 1 Year in Prison
RAIR Foundation – by Amy Mek The inmate will have to bear all the costs incurred during their prison stay. Austrian’s are pleading for the... The post Austrians Beg For Help: ‘Unvaccinated’ to Face 1 Year in Prison appeared first on From the Trenches World Report. read more
Operation Extermination–the Plan to Decimate the Human Immune System with a Lab-Generated Pathogen
Unz Review – by Mike Whitney “If someone wished to kill a significant portion of the world’s population over the next few years, the systems... The post Operation Extermination–the Plan to Decimate the Human Immune System with a Lab-Generated Pathogen appeared first on From the Trenches World Report. read more
Peruvian Congress Rejects Impeachment Of President Castillo
Peru’s Congress rejected the initiation of impeachment proceedings against President Pedro Castillo with 76 votes against, 46 in favor and four abstentions. The vacancy motion was proposed by the right-wing caucus, composed of the parties Avanza País, Popular Renewal, and Popular Force of former presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori. In order to be admitted, the proposal had to obtain 40% support in the legislature, equivalent to 52 votes. This was the Peruvian president’s third clash with Parliament in only five months in office. The voting process was accompanied by demonstratio... read more
Billions Of People Are Affected By This & They Don’t Realize It
Inspired Nov 27, 2021 • Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA vaccine, breaks down the “mass formation” phenomenon that makes it difficult to reason... The post Billions Of People Are Affected By This & They Don’t Realize It appeared first on From the Trenches World Report. read more
China Plays Crucial Role Supporting Progress, Sovereignty In Latin America
In the last two decades, economic links between Latin America and the People’s Republic of China have been expanding at a dizzying rate. Bilateral trade in 2000 was just $12 billion (1 per cent of Latin American’s total trade); now it stands at $315bn. In the same time period, China’s foreign direct investment in Latin America has increased by a factor of five. Since the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, 19 of the 33 countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region have signed up to the China-led global infrastructure development strategy. Infrastructure project... read more
How The Grinch Stole Medicare Protest At Humana
Louisville, KY - On Saturday, December 11 at 11:00 a.m. EST, Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care and others will gather outside the headquarters of Humana, 500 W. Main St., Louisville, KY 40202 where they will demand an end to Medicare Direct Contracting, a program that could fully privatize Traditional fee-for-service Medicare without a vote by Congress. The protest with feature Steven Katz in full costume as the Grinch with the reading and performance of "How the Grinch Stole Medicare," an original poem from National Single Payer. Jill Harmer and the Single Payer Singers... read more
December 11, 1941: Mussolini Declares War on the United States First, Followed by Hitler; Mussolini Took Power Long Before Hitler and Inspired Him
Benito Mussolini and Fascist blackshirts during the March on Rome in 1922 As pointed out in a newsreel from the … Continue reading → read more
Coast to Coast: The National Defense Authorization Act and Two Interesting Sightings
On Tuesday, December 7, the House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act by a vote of 363 to 70. The law contains statutory mandates, and places accountability for dealing with UFOs out squarely on the shoulders of the Secretary of Defense with some of the responsibility shared with the Director of National Intelligence. The bill contains some of the same sort of vague language that plagues so much in the government. They are required to “develop procedures to synchronize and standardize the collection, reporting, and analysis of incidents, including a... read more
Farmer Conducts Experiment Using GMO and Non-GMO Corn, Discovers Sobering Truth That Animals Know and Humans Don’t
The genetically engineered food experiment began in the mid-1990s and continues unabated to this day, with Bayer recently taking over Monsanto and pumping billions of dollars into its new American GMO division. But while the GMO food experiment has been highly profitable for the lab technicians who created it, as well as the toxic, synthetic pesticide industry, the question of what it’s doing to our bodies, specifically our internal organs, remains etched in the minds of independent researchers who have studied the crops extensively (GMOs do not undergo safety testing past 90 da... read more
Woman Accused of Keeping Mother’s Corpse in Order to Collect Social Security
*Stephen Silver* *Social Security, United States* The practice is more common than you might expect. People being accused of collecting Social Security improperly because they failed to report the death of a parent or other relative and kept collecting their benefits is far from a rare thing. But what’s a bit more rare occurrence is for someone to be accused of carrying out such a fraud scheme by keeping the relative’s dead body in their home. That’s the charge against a New Hampshire woman, as reported this week. According to WGME, a fifty-four-year-old woman has been arrested, ... read more
JFK Had a Secret Nuclear Fallout Bunker in Florida
*WarIsBoring* *Nuclear Weapons, Americas* Fortunately, Kennedy never had to use the bunker, but it still stands today and has been open to the public for tours since 1999. *Here's What You Need to Know*: It turns out the shelter probably got more use as a top-secret party spot than presidential hideout. In December 1960, the SeaBees — the U.S. Navy’s construction force — supposedly began the mundane task of building a munitions depot behind the Coast Guard station on Peanut Island, Florida. Known as “Operation Hotel,” the SeaBees actually built a secret nuclear fallout shelter f... read more
balance108 hours ago
Lancet article warns on VAIDS via the vaccines
(Natural News) A new paper published in *The Lancet* suggests that the more “vaccines” a person gets injected with for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19), the faster his or her body succumbs to an AIDS-like immune wasting syndrome called VAIDS. Vaccine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome begins immediately following the first round of injections….The unvaccinated, meanwhile, were found to maintain true and lasting immunity because their bodies were not jabbed with immune- degrading spike proteins and other mystery chemicals that we now know chip away at the immune system week after w... read more
By the bonnie bonnie Banksy of the BBC News website
I may have lost touch somewhat in the earlier parts of this year but one quirk of the BBC News website that even I spotted throughout the entirety of this year - possibly, but not definitely, one that even some of *you* eagle-eyed types might have missed - has been the BBC's continuing willingness to report every single burp of graffiti artist Banksy on their news home page. He's been their favourite artist. He can no do no wrong. His every doing must be reported...and has been. And Banksy's back there again, yet again, this very afternoon, right there among the BBC News website... read more
Balkinization8 hours ago
Deciphering Congress’s Machinations on the Debt Limit
Once upon a time, when the Executive Branch routinely disregarded the Appropriations Clause to spend federal funds without Congress’s clear endorsement, a statutory cap on the amount of debt the federal government could incur might have seemed like a laudable reform. It was a fallback meant to reassert some degree of congressional control, at least in the aggregate. Since then, a host of more nuanced and effective budget process reforms have returned the power of the purse resolutely to Congress. Yet the debt limit shambles on, periodically appearing at the gates of ... read more
The Last Refuge8 hours ago
Raw Video Shows Horrific Tornado Devastation in Kentucky, At Least 70 Killed, Six States Impacted, National Guard Rescue Operations Continue
The town of Mayfield, Kentucky has been absolutely devastated by at least one of several tornadoes that tore through six states overnight. The video footage of the area shows widespread devastation and the Kentucky governor is now reporting at least 70 people have been killed. All Treepers in the region please check in and let […] The post Raw Video Shows Horrific Tornado Devastation in Kentucky, At Least 70 Killed, Six States Impacted, National Guard Rescue Operations Continue appeared first on The Last Refuge. read more
Auto Workers Win Direct Democracy In Referendum
The members of the United Auto Workers have voted overwhelmingly to move to a direct voting system for choosing their union leadership—“one member, one vote.” With all votes counted as of December 2, direct elections had the support of 63.6 percent of voters. It's a historic win for reformers in one of the nation’s most important unions, where members have pushed for this change for decades. The referendum is the product of a consent decree between the UAW and the U.S. Department of Justice, after a years-long series of prosecutions of top union officials on corruption charges ran... read more
Econlib9 hours ago
Oakeshott the Aphorist
Michael Oakeshott was born 120 years ago today. I posted last year on the 30th anniversary of his death, providing some links hopefully useful for those who are not familiar with his work. The question asked by the title of that post (“Michael Oakeshott: A Hero for Whom?”) is perhaps all the more pertinent […] The post Oakeshott the Aphorist appeared first on Econlib. read more
Starbucks Workers Agree To A Union In Buffalo
Buffalo, NY - Starbucks workers at a store in Buffalo, New York, voted to unionize on Thursday, a first for the 50-year-old coffee retailer in the U.S. and the latest sign that the labor movement is stirring after decades of decline. The National Labor Relations Board said Thursday that workers voted 19-8 in favor of a union at the Elmwood Avenue location, one of three stores in Buffalo where elections were being held. A second store rejected the union in a vote of 12-8, but the union said it might challenge that result because it wasn’t confident all of the eligible votes had bee... read more
Blame for woke goes way back, embedded in academe
Michael Hurd posted a jolly photo of Michelle and Barack Obama linking arms with Jussie Smollett on Facebook, but I didn't care at all for the comments and blame posted with it. Conservatives weren't kind. Yes, what we were seeing may be three narcissistic black celebrities, but if you made your career in academe as I did, the roots and unraveling were there long before their time, 1970-2000. It was the privileged white professorial class, not a rising, wealthy privileged black class that embedded this oppressor/oppressed Marxist ideology into everything from elementary education to... read more
Germany Has Fallen (Dec. 2, 2021)
“Germany Has Fallen”, Dec. 2, 2021 “Germany and authoritarianism. Name a more iconic duo” “Germany Has Fallen” link: https://youtu.be/750ASXEo4X8 It … Continue reading → read more
Mining Awareness +10 hours ago
The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy
Book Review: “Simon Levis Sullam. The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. … Continue reading → read more
How have we so monstrously failed our vulnerable veterans?
As ADVANCE has been saying for a while now, a country can be judged on how it treats its veterans, and unfortunately Australia is failing monstrously. Just ask the Goodwin family who appeared before the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide on Monday. read more
Science Matters10 hours ago
Covid19 is a FUD Pandemic
Dr. Harvey Risch discusses how the Covid19 pandemic played out as a global disinformation campaign successfully inducing fear, uncertainty and doubt in the world’s populations. Thus authorities were able to exert unprecedented control over public behavior, with severe reductions of individual rights and freedoms. The interview was conducted by Jan Jekielek of Epoch Times with […] read more
Mining Awareness +10 hours ago
Dec. 11, 1941: Hitler Speech to the Reichstag on the Declaration of War Against the United States; Mussolini Declares War Against the United States First
“The Governments of the U.S.A. and of England have therefore resisted, not only now but also for all time, every … Continue reading → read more
Small Dead Animals11 hours ago
Dear Leader Loves China’s Basic Dictatorship
The Liberal Party’s love affair with China didn’t help bring home the two Michaels. read more
Mining Awareness +12 hours ago
China’s Declaration of War Against Japan, Also Against Germany and Italy (December 9, 1941)
China, which wasn’t yet communist, was on the side of the Allies against Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan … Continue reading → read more
Zemke’s Wolfpack of P-47 Thunderbolts Ruled Europe's Skies
*Sebastien Roblin* *World War II, Europe* In recognition of the Wolfpack’s achievements, a P-47M was displayed under the Eiffel Tower for a victory celebration that July. *Here’s What You Need to Remember: *Zemke’s Wolfpack ended the war the top-scoring U.S. fighter group of the 8th Air Force, with 665.5 recognized aerial kills—or one thousand aircraft destroyed, including those strafed on the ground. Pilots nicknamed early-model P-47 Thunderbolts the “Razorback,” a reference to the chunky fighter plane’s angular canopy. However, the name was more generally appropriate—like a wi... read more
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Bruce Arthur warns that the worst of the COVID pandemic may be just around the corner as the far more transmissible Omicron variant spreads throughout Canada, while Karen-Marie Elah Perry and Shila Avissa discuss the perpetual gaslighting effort aimed at persuading us the pandemic is over no matter how obvious its ongoing damage. Julie Johnson reports on one super-spreader wedding as an example of how the precautions which seemed sufficient are failing miserably against Omicron. And Ivan Semeniuk reports on the urgent effort among scien... read more
"The Cargo Ship Backlog is Far From Over - Supply Chain Nightmare"
*Full screen recommended.* Dan, iAllegedly, 12/11/21: *"The Cargo Ship Backlog is Far From Over - Supply Chain Nightmare"* "The Supply Chain Nightmare is far from over. There are so many cargo ships out there waiting to enter the Port of Los Angeles. This is an update to show you that this problem has not been solved and it’s only getting worse." read more
The ‘Parsley Massacre’ Shows How Easily a Genocide Can go Unnoticed
*WarIsBoring* *Genocide, Americas* Up to 25,000 Haitian men, women and children had been murdered by Dominican soldiers and civilian conscripts. Some of them were shot, but most were beaten or hacked to death with swords and machetes. *Here's What You Need to Know*: A soldier would pull a sprig of parsley from a pocket and ask what it was. Those who answered correctly in Spanish were presumed to be Dominican and were released. Those who mispronounced it were summarily executed or tortured and then executed. In 1937, social and economic tensions within the Dominican Republic were ... read more
Could Lockheed Martin’s X-59 Bring Back Supersonic Passenger Travel?
*Caleb Larson* *Supersonic Jets, Americas* Commercial travel at supersonic speeds has been something of a wild goose chase. *Here's What You Need to Know*: NASA is back in the supersonic passenger jet game. Commercial travel at supersonic speeds has been something of a wild goose chase. There are a number of technically challenging engineering obstacles that have to be overcome in order for a supersonic jet airliner to be both just possible—and importantly, commercially viable. Though difficult, there have been several supersonic jet airliners built, though they enjoyed varying... read more
The Mirage of Reaching a Nuclear Agreement with Iran
*Ali Safavi* *Iran, Middle East* The regime will continue to deceive the world while clandestinely working to reach the point of no return. The seventh round of nuclear negotiations with Iran failed last week. While the teetering talks that seem to be on life support resumed on Thursday, the pattern of failures, despite Tehran’s last-minute, albeit empty, gesture, shows that it is naive to believe that the regime intends to reach a serious deal with the West. What's past is prologue: Tehran will never agree to abandon its nuclear weapons development activities. Underscoring a gr... read more
Russia’s New Front In the Balkans Heats Up
*Harun Karčić* *Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe* Much like in brokering peace following the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s, the only force capable of confronting Moscow’s designs today in Bosnia and Herzegovina is the United States. “If we falter, the Balkans will explode again,” warned the United Kingdom’s former Foreign Secretary William Hague. Shortly afterward, British prime minister Boris Johnson named Air Chief Marshall Sir Stuart Peach as his envoy for the Western Balkans. Johnson argued that “The Western Balkans are experiencing the biggest threat to their stability and secur... read more
To Resist Russia, Ukraine Must Help Itself
*Janusz Bugajski, Margarita Assenova* *Ukraine, Europe* Perpetual political infighting, media wars between oligarchs, and accusations of domestic coup attempts, together with a failing energy policy undermines Ukraine’s stability and statehood. It will further weaken the economy and foster social unrest that Russia exploits to its advantage. With Russia squeezing Ukraine in a military and energy vice, and NATO sounding the alarm, the government in Kyiv must urgently focus on bolstering its military and energy security. Ukraine certainly needs Western diplomatic and military assis... read more
On Myanmar, Japan Alone Must Hold the Line
*Yusuke Watanabe* *Myanmar, Asia-Pacific* As China and Russia loom large over Myanmar’s fate, Japan’s continued engagement with the Tatmadaw would be a much-needed democratic counterweight restraining the global ascendancy of authoritarianism affecting the future of the Indo-Pacific. Myanmar stands today on the brink of devolving into a failed state. As mob violence increasingly turns into full-fledged insurgency committing acts of terrorism across the country, the Southeast Asian country finds itself doubly sieged and isolated due to mounting international pressure, culminating ... read more
Strategic Clarity Can Counter Chinese and Russian Aggression
*Jack Devine, Jonathan D. T. Ward* *Great Power Competition, Eurasia* To prevent the onward geopolitical march of China and Russia and the dystopian outcome of a world in which adversary systems have truly global range, the United States and its allies must cultivate a modern-day containment strategy towards our authoritarian challengers. Successive U.S. presidential administrations have begun the monumental task of shifting American foreign policy back towards great power competition—namely with China and Russia. President Joe Biden has framed the competition as a larger contest... read more
Iran's Qaher 313 'Stealth Fighter' Is Not Your Average Jet
*David Axe* *Iranian Air Force, Middle East* Calling it a stealth fighter doesn't make it a stealth fighter. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *The Islamic republic’s supposedly high-tech Qaher 313 is little more than a mock-up. Tensions have escalated in the Persian Gulf region in the aftermath of U.S. president Donald Trump’s decision unilaterally to withdraw the United States from the agreement limiting Iran’s nuclear program. The U.S. military has implicated Iranian agents in several summer 2019 attacks on civilian ships sailing near Iran. The U.S. Navy sent the aircraft c... read more
Belarusian Army Receives Shipment of Russian BTR-82A Armored Personnel Carriers
*Peter Suciu* *BTR-82A, Belarus* The BTR-82A is the latest Russian wheeled armored vehicle to enter service Russia, replacing the Soviet BTR-80. The second batch of Russian-made BTR-82A armored personnel carriers (APCs) were delivered to Belarus this week. They will enter service with a mechanized brigade stationed in the western Grodno Region, the Belarusian Defense Ministry’s press office announced on Thursday. A previous batch of the advanced APCs was supplied to an unspecified Belarusian unit with the 72nd Joint Training Centre and Belarusian military academy in September for... read more
MUSINGS ON IRAQ10 hours ago
This Day In Iraqi History - Dec 11
1922 UK Colonial Office wrote only reason King Faisal accepted in Iraq was because he was backed by British 1961 Gen Qasim took 99.5% of Iraq Petroleum Company’s concessions and created Iraq National Oil Company Company demanded arbitration for Iraq taking it concession but Iraq refused (Musings On Iraq interview with Western Kentucky’s Prof Romero on the Qasim govt) 1998 Chief UN inspector Butler met with Natl Sec Adv Berger and decided US would strike Iraq Clinton wanted to send message Saddam was vulnerable (Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A... read more
the daily howler10 hours ago
Some of the things we heard Wednesday night!
*SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2021* *Sharks and Jets, Montagues / Capulets:* We almost never watch the Hannity show on Fox. We don't recall (exactly) why, but this past Wednesday night, we briefly flipped over to Hannity. We did so shortly after the start of the 9 P.M. show. When we flipped over, Hannity was beating up on President Biden for being too soft on Putin. Here's part of what we heard: HANNITY (12/8/21): Today the pathetic, weak Joe Biden accidentally actually revealed his strategy to deal with *the hostile actor Vladimir Putin and his hostile regime and his hostile activi... read more
Econlib10 hours ago
Yglesias on monetary policy
Matt Yglesias has a new post that explains his views on monetary policy. Overall, Yglesias’s views are to the left of mine. For instance, he favors the aggressive use of fiscal policy, whereas I am skeptical. But on monetary policy our views align in quite a few areas. Readers of my two blogs are familiar […] The post Yglesias on monetary policy appeared first on Econlib. read more
Violence In Cameroon? Blame It On Global Warming!
By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler Here we go again – Lake Chad is disappearing before our very eyes, and it’s all YOUR FAULT! https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/12/1107622 It’s a fake news story which comes around every year like clockwork. A French study in 2016 debunked the myth, finding that while lake […] read more

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