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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, January 8, 2022

8 January - Blogs I'm Following - 2 of 5

 10:23 pm MST

Power in the Pacific: Japan and Australia Ink a New Alliance
*Mark Episkopos* *Japan, Australia, Pacific* The RAA is only Japan’s second Defense Pact, reflecting Tokyo’s newfound sense of urgency in seeking new security arrangements in the face of growing Chinese military assertiveness. Japan and Australia are set to sign a security cooperation treaty on Thursday amid mounting regional tensions between China and its neighbors. Called a Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA), the treaty will make it easier for the two countries’ Armed Forces to coordinate military exercises. The RAA will also facilitate the faster deployment of Japanese and Aust... read more
Which Is the Best Home Defense Weapon For You?
*Richard Douglas* *Firearms, United States* Here’s the complete breakdown of shotguns, revolvers, semi-automatic pistols, and rifles with pros, cons, best use, and even recommendations. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *What matters is you choose a weapon and practice with it. Because let’s face it: In a stressful home defense situation, you’re not going to have time to “remember” how to use a gun. You’ll be relying on your training instincts. This is the complete guide to home defense guns. In this in-depth guide, you’ll learn: -What to look for in a home defense gun -The pr... read more
How the West Counters China in 2022
*Samuel Teixeira, Sam Lewis* *China, Asia* How can the West counter China's bullying in small countries? President Biden’s announcement of the Build Back Better World is a welcome start, but more needs to be done to wrest back influence in South America and Africa. When a nation withdraws its entire embassy and diplomatic staff, it’s indicative of a serious international conflict. Besides a declaration of war or a dramatic regime change like the Taliban coming to power in Afghanistan, countries don’t usually feel the need to press the metaphorical nuclear button of bilateral rela... read more
What I Got Wrong About Julian Assange
"I wrote a piece for Australian online publisher Crikey just before Julian Assange’s extradition hearings resumed in September 2020 in which I regurgitated a slur that has done enormous harm to his reputation. Australian journalists should stop using the WikiLeaks treasure trove in their stories if they wouldn’t speak up for Assange, I’d written. Journalists like to think they’d go to jail to protect a source. Well, their source was suffering in London’s high-security Belmarsh prison, I said. The problem was I also wrote that Assange dumped the Iraq and Afghan war logs on the inte... read more
Cryptocurrencies: A View From The Left
The use of cryptocurrencies is rapidly increasing across the world. In 2020, scholars at the University of Cambridge estimated there were 101 million people using cryptocurrencies worldwide, an increase from 35 million just two years previously. The rise of cryptocurrency is usually a story of pizzas bought with bitcoins now worth over a billion dollars, kingpins of darknet drugs markets ordering assassinations and hospitals being held to ransom by anonymous hackers. These new levels of activity however are pushing cryptocurrency, and its underlying blockchain technology into the ... read more
Revolution In An Age Of Resurgent Fascism
The late sociologist Erik Olin Wright used the phrase “ruptural transformation” as stand-in for revolution, inaccurately summarizing this as “Smash first, build second.” His immensely popular and useful work also unfortunately erased historical European anti-fascist strategy whose approach to revolution differed from the caricature he presented. To move beyond Wright’s important, yet misleading framework, one can even turn to DSA-founder Michael Harrington’s last book, Socialism: Past and Future. Published in 1989, Harrington expanded upon his own earlier critique of the German s... read more
Plans For Mass Shipments Of Radioactive Waste Quietly Disclosed
How far is your house or apartment from a major highway, or railroad line? Do you want to play Russian roulette with radioactive waste in transit for 40 years? Last month US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff quietly reported preparing for tens of thousands of cross-country shipments of high-level radioactive waste from nuclear reactors to the desert Southwest. The oft-disparaged US infrastructure of decrepit of roads, faulty bridges, rickety rails, and rusty barges may not be ready for such an onrush of immensely heavy rad waste casks. Diane D’Arrigo, of Nuclear Informati... read more
Student Workers Of Columbia Reach Tentative Agreement
In the late hours of January 6, after more than two months on strike, the Student Workers of Columbia (SWC-UAW) reached a tentative agreement for their union’s first contract with Columbia University. Contract wins include significant raises for workers, bringing annual compensation for those on 9-month appointments to just over $40,000 and raising the minimum wage for hourly workers from $15 to $21. SWC members also won dental insurance, childcare stipends, and an emergency healthcare fund available to all union members. They also won full recognition of all student workers as pa... read more
Water Protectors Lead A Movement To Close Navy Fuel Site After Leak
Upwards of 100 water protectors rallied outside the Hawaii State Capitol in Honolulu on Dec. 10. Their greatest fears had just come true. The U.S. Navy had kept decaying fuel storage tanks just 100 feet above a water aquifer that functioned as the main source of drinking water on the island of O’ahu. Those tanks recently leaked jet fuel into the aquifer, poisoning thousands of people and creating irreparable damage to O’ahu’s water supply. The post Water Protectors Lead A Movement To Close Navy Fuel Site After Leak appeared first on PopularResistance.Org. read more
Visa Gridlock: the migration surge is coming … but who is it?
[image: Australia immigration, visas, Abul Rizvi] The Morrison government, Immigration Minister Alex Hawke and the business lobby desperately want a surge in immigration to fire the economy but 330,000 migrants remain stuck on bridging visas as the permanent migration program remains mired at an intake of 160,000. read more
Fatal shooting in Langley on the 1st anniversary of Mo
Update: The victim is 18-year-old Julian Moya Cardenas. My condolences to the family. Oh yeah, gang violence. The Langley Advance Times is reporting that "One person is dead after a shooting at a busy Walnut Grove intersection Friday afternoon. The regional Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said it appears to be a targeted attack." "According to witnesses, a car speeding west on 88th collided with another vehicle at the intersection of 202nd Street. The driver of the westbound vehicle got out and ran through a nearby parking lot, but someone from a pursuing vehicle got out,... read more
"Streets of Philadelphia, After Snowstorm, January 07, 2022"
*Full screen recommended.* *"Streets of Philadelphia, After Snowstorm, January 07, 2022"* *○* *Full screen recommended.* *"Code Blue in Kensington!" 1/8/22:* "See what it's like when Philadelphia officials issue a Code Blue emergency. The temp is dropping and so are the homeless. We apologize in advance for the breaks in play on this video. We decided to post it in spite of to show there is still compassion for human life." read more
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - John Michael McGrath writes that the Omicron wave of COVID may manage to be the most disruptive year, while Alex Press discusses how its effects at an individual level may differ drastically based on one's income. - Ed Yong warns that the U.S.' health care system is grossly underequipped to deal with the Omicron wave. Ashleigh Stewart reports on the impending nursing shortage in Canada, while Nicholas Frew reports on projections that Alberta will soon see record high hospitalization levels. Lindsay Tanner and Mike Stobbe report on the ... read more
War News Updates7 hours ago
Iran Sanctions 51 American Officials And Military Commanders For Involvement In Gen. Soleimani's Assassination
Iranian men hold pictures of Qassem Soleimani, during a ceremony to mark the second anniversary of the killing of senior Iranian military commander General Qassem Soleimani in a U.S. attack, in Tehran, Iran January 3, 2022. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS *Tehran Times:* *Foreign Ministry updates sanctions list of individuals involved in Gen. Soleimani’s assassination * The following is the statement released by the Foreign Ministry: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in accordance with the “Act on Countering Violations o... read more
Evidence of Self Assembling Nano Circuitry in the Pfizer Vaccine
Evidence of Self Assembling Nano Circuitry in the Pfizer Vaccine by Greg Reese, The Reese Report January 6, 2022  Video available at Rumble. Connect with The Reese Report The post Evidence of Self Assembling Nano Circuitry in the Pfizer Vaccine appeared first on Truth Comes to Light. read more
null7 hours ago
To Descend Into Totalitarianism or to Rise up and Free Ourselves?
We in Western societies naively imagine we would never descend into Totalitarianism, because such systems are unmistakably evil and we are undeniably good. Not only would we immediately recognise it, but our moral goodness and inestimable courage would see to it that we stopped it before it ever took root. In reality, however, such systems never arise vowing to deliver evil, but always promising to do good. The Bolsheviks were apparently redressing the plight of the workers against their bourgeois oppressors. The National Socialists were of course restoring the pride of Germany afte... read more
Youngkin to challenge Biden's mandates
Virginia's Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General-elect Jason Miyares today [January 7] announced their intent to challenge the unconstitutional vaccine mandate imposed by President Biden’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). “The COVID-19 pandemic has caused heartbreaking health, societal, and economic loss and suffering throughout the Commonwealth and the United States. Our children have experienced severe learning loss and developmental challenges that will last decades, strained and stressed hospital systems are suffering from an historic staffing crisis... read more
Insurrection Day
Democrats in full hysteria gear read more
The Control Group
We are living out a decades long experiment to collapse civilization under the weight of misinformation, junk science and propaganda. read more
The Last Refuge7 hours ago
Things to Look For…
Things that seem disconnected, but ain’t. (1) A shortage of processed potatoes (frozen specifically). And/Or a shortage of the ancillary products that are derivates of, or normally include, potatoes. (2) A larger than usual footprint of turkey in the supermarket (last line of protein). (3) A noticeable increase in the price of citrus products. (4) […] The post Things to Look For… appeared first on The Last Refuge. read more
PrairiePundit7 hours ago
California film studio builds huge production facility in Central Texas
*Houston Chronicle:* *Bastrop reels in multimillion-dollar film studio from California company* *Complete with six film studios and restaurants on site, Bastrop's massive multipurpose entertainment complex sets its sites on August 2023* A California company is ever closer to establishing a massive new film studio in ... Bastrop? After receiving initial approval by Bastrop City Council last summer, the Bastrop 552 complex now has a projected first-phase opening date of August 2023. Part of that first phase, which Austin Business Journal reports will cost $40.3 million, will inclu... read more
Major Performers Dump Sydney Festival Over Israeli Sponsorship
At least 30 major artists, performers and organizations have pulled out of the Sydney Festival in Australia over a $20,000 sponsorship deal with the Israeli embassy. Comedian Tom Ballard stated that “I love the Festival and I love telling jokes, but standing up for human rights and standing against a system of apartheid is more important.” The post Major Performers Dump Sydney Festival Over Israeli Sponsorship appeared first on PopularResistance.Org. read more
Two interviews on therapeutics and the Omicron variant
Dr. Peter McCullough is an internist, cardiologist, epidemiologist, a full professor of medicine at Texas A&M College of Medicine in Dallas, USA. He also has a master's degree in public health and is known for being one of the top five most-published medical researchers in the United States and is the editor of two medical journals. Based on his credentials and published articles, I'd call him much better than Tony Fauci for advice. He has been deplatformed and silenced on the internet by Big Tech for "misinformation." Reuters Thompson, one of the fact checkers for Facebook, has ... read more
The Last Refuge8 hours ago
U.K. Anesthetist, Dr. Steve James, Tells British Health Secretary the Mandatory Vaccination Rules Make No Sense for Those with Natural Immunity
The U.K. government has passed a law forcing all doctors with direct patient contact to undergo vaccination or face removal from their NHS job on April 1st. Approximately 90% of U.K. medical staff at King’s College in London have been vaccinated; however, a loss of ten percent of critical care providers could cause a problem. After […] The post U.K. Anesthetist, Dr. Steve James, Tells British Health Secretary the Mandatory Vaccination Rules Make No Sense for Those with Natural Immunity appeared first on The Last Refuge. read more
Brainwashing: Signs That You Are Being Brainwashed – Without Realizing It
As soon as you hear the word ‘brainwashing,’ the first thing that pops into your mind might be aliens. The true definition of brainwashing is a theory about how an individual’s core beliefs, values, and ideas can be replaced, making it hard to think critically or independently. It is easy to brainwash vulnerable individuals, especially […] The post Brainwashing: Signs That You Are Being Brainwashed – Without Realizing It appeared first on Enlightened Consciousness. read more
Turcopolier8 hours ago
Webb is now fully deployed
WEBB IS FULLY DEPLOYED! The largest, most complex telescope ever launched into space is fully deployed. Nominal Event Time: Launch + 14 days (Saturday 1/8/22) Status: Completed. WATCH: Post-Deployment Briefing | Re-Watch Live Broadcast Webb will be the premier observatory of the next decade, serving thousands … Continue reading → read more
Food Safety News9 hours ago
Company initiates nationwide recall of beef sticks because of undeclared milk
Abbyland Foods Inc. of Abbotsford, WI, is recalling 14,976 pounds of beef sticks because of misbranding and undeclared allergens, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The product contains milk, a known allergen, which is not declared on the product label. The product was distributed nationwide. The company initiated the... Continue Reading read more
ClimateRealism9 hours ago
NY Times Claims Skiing Is Endangered – As Snow Trends Grow and New Records Set
The New York Times published an article yesterday attempting to frighten skiers into becoming climate activists by claiming snow cover is diminishing throughout the country. “Skiing is an endangered sport,” claims the Times. In reality, objective data show that snow cover has been increasing during the past 30 years and current snowfall in the nation’s […] The post NY Times Claims Skiing Is Endangered – As Snow Trends Grow and New Records Set appeared first on ClimateRealism. read more
Thanks to ADVANCE, more and more Australians want to Power Up with nuclear
Although the green activist class would be shocked no doubt, almost half of Australians now back nuclear energy for electricity generation. read more
Snopes.com20 years ago
Man Burns to Death Rescuing Dog from Hot Springs
Burn deaths and injuries result from people trying to retrieve straying pets from boiling hot springs. read more
The Ship-to-Shore Connector Will Make the Marines Deadlier Than Ever
*Caleb Larson* *U.S. Military, Pacific* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2005%3Anewsml_PBEAHUODPAR&share=true] Speculation has run wild in recent days about thaw a high-tech flight in the Pacific would look like—and what the implications are for the United States Marine Corps. *Here's What You Need To Remember: *These improved Ship-to-Ship Connectors are beasts—when fully loaded, they can carry seventy-four tons of men and supplies at a rapid thirty-five knot an hour clip Imagine this scenario in the not-so-distant future: The United States is at... read more
In Preparation for a Possible War With China, the U.S. Marine Corps Is Undergoing a Redesign
*Caleb Larson* *U.S. Military, Pacific* At the center of this effort is the Hawaii-based 3rd Marine Regiment, soon to be renamed the 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment. *Here's What You Need To Remember:* These MLRs are “designed to provide the basis for employing multiple platoon-reinforced-size expeditionary advance base sites that can host and enable a variety of missions such as long-range anti-ship fires, forward arming and refueling of aircraft, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance of key maritime terrain, and air-defense and early warning.” The threat of an expansioni... read more
Beretta's 92X Improves on the Classic Beretta 92
*Richard Douglas* *Firearms, United States* The Beretta 92X is a worthy successor to the legendary Beretta 92. *Here's What You Need to Know: *Beretta has crafted an excellent semi-automatic, 9mm pistol with the 92X. While there have been many copycats of the legendary Beretta 92, nothing has ever lived up to it—until now! Beretta recently upgraded their much-loved model to create the 92X. They kept all the key features that users loved about the original, forty-plus-year-old model, but made the ergonomic improvements that people asked for. The result is a dependable 9mm handgun... read more
Britain Hopes ‘High-Impact Sanctions’ Will Deter Russia
*Trevor Filseth* *Russia-Ukraine Crisis, Europe* Britain has warned Russia that its economy will suffer if it invades Ukraine. The United Kingdom warned Kremlin officials on Thursday that it has crafted “high-impact sanctions” with its partners that will be imposed in the case of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Roughly 100,000 Russian troops are currently present on the country’s border with Ukraine. Ukraine, a former Soviet state, has diverged sharply from Moscow since the Euromaidan protests, the resignation of Ukraine’s pro-Russian leader Viktor Yanukovych, and Russia’s seizu... read more
War News Updates8 hours ago
UK Preparing "High Impact" Sanctions Against Russia Over Ukraine
*The Hill:* *UK Preparing "High Impact" Sanctions On Russia Over Ukraine* British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on Thursday warned Russia against any further aggression on the Ukrainian border, saying the United Kingdom and its partners were prepared to place "high impact" sanctions on Moscow. "We will not accept the campaign Russia is waging to subvert its democratic neighbors," Truss told Parliament, according to Reuters. "They have falsely cast Ukraine as a threat to justify their aggressive stance." "The U.K. is working with our partners on these sanctions, including hig... read more
War News Updates8 hours ago
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris Says “There Is A Level Of Malaise” Among Americans
*Daily Mail:* *Kamala Harris admits there is a 'level of malaise' two years into the pandemic and America 'wants to get back to normal' - drawing comparisons to Jimmy Carter's infamous 1979 speech* * 'There is a level of malaise,' Harris told PBS Thursday * Carter warned about 'crisis of confidence' in speech to nation * She began by citing challenges, then said: 'We're two years and to this thing, you know, people are – we want to get back to normal. We all do' Vice President Kamala Harris fielded a question about the administration's 'stalled' agenda – and ended up dropp... read more
Coast-to-Coast AM: UAPs, New Investigations and Old Problems
We’ll start off with a little more about the recent legislation proposed by Congress addressing UFOs, or what they now call UAPs. The legislative package tells us, “Teams of Pentagon and intelligence community experts would rapidly respond to military UFO sightings and conduct field investigations under newly unveiled defense legislation set to pass by Congress.” For those of you keeping score at home, this specifically requires response to military sightings… this suggests that sightings made by civilians and even law enforcement officers would be ignored. Even more frightenin... read more
PrairiePundit8 hours ago
Big spenders in California exhibit government greed
*Washington Examiner:* *California considering insane plan to double its (already high) taxes* It looks like the Democrats are giving people even more incentive to leave the state for places like Texas and Tennessee where there is no state income tax. read more
PrairiePundit8 hours ago
Biden too focused on vaccines to deal with therapeutics?
Epoch Times: ... (Dr. Marc) Siegel said that the Biden administration has not been able to deliver any therapeutics for early treatment of people with mild or moderate COVID-19 because of the administration’s “obsessive focus on the vaccines to the exclusion of all else.” “When it comes to therapeutics, the Biden team’s results are even more anemic,” Siegel wrote in an op-ed in USA Today. “Paxlovid, Pfizer’s new protease inhibitor wonder drug, has been approved but is scarce.” “Ditto monoclonal antibodies, the synthetic neutralizing antibodies that have been so helpful in patie... read more
The Build Back Better Script
Many people have noticed that our Dear Leaders are reading from the same script. Neil Oliver on the hatred towards the unvaccinated. read more
Food Safety News9 hours ago
Some Trader Joe’s soycutash recalled for concerns about Listeria contamination
Sno Pac Foods Inc. of Caledonia, MN, if recalling Trader Joe’s brand soycutash from a store in Monrovia, CA, because of possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The recalled items has an item number of 99319 and is a mix of sweet corn, shelled edamame and red bell peppers. The product is sole in 16-ounce packages.... Continue Reading read more
Small Dead Animals10 hours ago
The Islamic Caliphate Of Turtle Island
Maybe this story should be listed under the title, stories you won’t find in the Canadian media. Islamic extremism in Canada. read more
Energy Anguish Hits Britain
Originally posted on PA Pundits - International: By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ We are just weeks into winter and already an energy crisis is starting to burn in Britain. Part of this anguish is directed at climate policy, especially net zero. The Brits are way ahead of the US when it comes to threatening people… read more
Small Dead Animals10 hours ago
The Sound Of Settled Science
David Unwin is a primary care physician in the UK. For the last eight years he’s been running a long term cohort study in his clinic, in which he treats his diabetic patients with a low carb diet. The study has generated massive amounts of useful data on what happens when patients with type 2… Continue reading → read more
UK Accused Of Blocking Ban On ‘Killer Robots’
Britain has been accused of blocking progress towards a global treaty banning so-called “killer robots” and leaving the door ajar for the development of hi-tech weaponry capable of taking lives without human control. Campaigners have said the UK is part of a small group of “militarized states” whose stance on autonomous weapons is now at odds with much of the rest of the world after a United Nations conference in Geneva last week failed to make a breakthrough on negotiations towards a global ban on lethal “digital dehumanization” technology. The post UK Accused Of Blocking Ban On... read more
Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 365 – 2021
Originally posted on sunshine hours: I had a request for Arctic 2021 day 365 . South / North read more
England’s Crumbling Coasts
By Paul Homewood This old perennial has returned: From a distance, the beach at Winterton-on-sea in Norfolk looks like the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan, with hundreds of grey bodies lying motionless across the sand. On closer inspection, it becomes clear they are not fallen soldiers but a huge colony of […] read more
.Small Dead Animals
11 hours ago
Great Moments In Public Health Messaging
Not the Babylon Bee: 700 sheep form giant syringe to encourage vaccination read more
Chutzpah from the BBC - and not in a good way
There's a new story on the BBC News website tonight with a headline that took my breath away: Yes, it concerns the antisemitic incident on Oxford Street that the BBC has been avoiding responding to for weeks and which many people - from the Chief Rabbi to Nadine Dorries, and from the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews to Lord Grade - have been chasing the BBC over, demanding and *not* yet getting a swift and full response from the corporation. And now a BBC headline says that! I know BBC headlines can be shorthand, but that seems to me very like spiteful 'trolling... read more
“How Buster Douglas Beat Mike Tyson”
"The image that comes to mind is a boxing ring. There are times when... you just want that bell to ring, but you're the one who's losing. The one who's winning doesn't have that feeling. Do you have the energy and strength to face life? Life can ask more of you than you are willing to give. And then you say, 'Life is not something that should have been. I'm not going to play the game. I'm going to meditate. I'm going to call "out". There are three positions possible. One is the up-to-it, and facing the game and playing through. The second is saying, Absolutely not. I don't want to s... read more
Musical Interlude: 2002, “Even Now”
*Full screen recommended.* *2002, “Even Now”* read more
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Point your telescope toward the high flying constellation Pegasus and you can find this expanse of Milky Way stars and distant galaxies. Centered on NGC 7814, the pretty field of view would almost be covered by a full moon. NGC 7814 is sometimes called the Little Sombrero for its resemblance to the brighter more famous M104, the Sombrero Galaxy. Both Sombrero and Little Sombrero are spiral galaxies seen edge-on, and both have extensive central bulges cut by a thinner disk with dust lanes in silhouette. In fact, NGC 7814 is some 40 million light-years away and an estimated 60,000 lig... read more
The Poet: James Broughton, "Having Come This Far"
*"Having Come This Far"* "I've been through what my through was to be, I did what I could and couldn't. I was never sure how I would get there. I nourished an ardor for thresholds, for stepping stones and for ladders, I discovered detour and ditch. I swam in the high tides of greed, I built sandcastles to house my dreams. I survived the sunburns of love. No longer do I hunt for targets. I've climbed all the summits I need to, and I've eaten my share of lotus. Now I give praise and thanks for what could not be avoided, and for every foolhardy choice. I cherish my wounds and their cures, a... read more
Vax Nation: Show Me Your Papers
Vax Nation: Show Me Your Papers by Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms January 8, 2022 Governments around the world have implemented various coercive measures to introduce mandatory “immunity passports”, vaccine passes, certificates of vaccination, and QR codes to prove being injected with a Covid-19 vaccine to go about daily life. Meanwhile, a biological divide The post Vax Nation: Show Me Your Papers appeared first on Truth Comes to Light. read more
“88 Truths I’ve Learned About Life”
*“88 Truths I’ve Learned About Life”* by David Cain “In the early days of this blog I published what I thought was a throwaway post, entitled “88 Important Truths I’ve Learned About Life”. It was nothing but 88 sweeping aphorisms I had collected as they occurred to me, delivered with a bit of snark. But it was a huge hit and still brings new people to Raptitude. Today I can’t bear to look at it. It’s just too preachy. But I understand the appeal. It’s fun to throw down an aphorism, and ask yourself if you really believe it. Here’s what I’ve learned (I think) in the seven years sinc... read more
The Last Refuge9 hours ago
Moderna CEO Says Fourth Booster Shot Needed, Booster Efficacy Drops Over Time
As the pharmaceutical companies make these statements, it does make you wonder what the impact is on all the people who trusted the vaccine officials implicitly and now face being told their vaccine status is no longer of value. The CEO from Moderna is now openly telling everyone that booster shots wear off over time. […] The post Moderna CEO Says Fourth Booster Shot Needed, Booster Efficacy Drops Over Time appeared first on The Last Refuge. read more
"There Is Always The Hope..."
“What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time. Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse. This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one’s ribs get re-broken again.” - Inga Muscio read more
"I'd Still Swim..."
"If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. " - Abraham Maslow read more
The Daily "Near You?"
Arkansas City, Kansas, USA. Thanks for stopping by! read more
"The Level Of Intelligence..."
"If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had achieved a level of communication so simplified that one syllable could express his every thought, then he would have achieved the level of intelligence already achieved by his dog." - Robert Brault read more
War News Updates10 hours ago
UK Chief Of Defence Staff Warns Russia That Cutting Underwater Cables Will Be Seen As 'An Act Of War'
Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, 56, (pictured) warned there had been a serious rise in submarine and underwater activity in recent years *Daily Mail: **'Keep your subs away from our communication cables': New head of the armed forces Admiral Sir Tony Radakin warns Russia that severing crucial lines will be seen as act of war as tensions continue to rise* * Admiral Sir Anthony Radakin reportedly said any Russian attempt to sever communication cables would be seen as an act of war * The head of armed forces also warned of a serious rise in submarine activity * And Liz Truss yesterd... read more
L.A. & Long Beach Port Status
As Los Angeles and Long Beach have ground to a crawl, ships are stacking up out to sea. Many shipments are being diverted to East Coast ports, putting them into congestion early stages. Then there's the Canadian Border where truckers will soon be SOL if not Vexxinated, meaning fewer trucks crossing. The "congestion" is spreading, not resolving. Continue reading → read more
Turcopolier10 hours ago
“… Why a Law, Not Jail, Might Be the Best Way to Keep Trump Out of the Oval Office.”
“What Cheney and her congressional colleagues might have in mind is the 14th amendment, which was ratified in 1868 after the Civil War to prevent former Confederates from holding state or federal office and thus disrupting the fragile Reconstruction effort. … Continue reading → read more
"Why Don't We Cut Out the Middleman and Just Elect Pfizer and Merck?"
*"Why Don't We Cut Out the Middleman* *and Just Elect Pfizer and Merck?"* by Charles Hugh Smith "There's a fancy word for cutting out the Middleman: disintermediation. Removing intermediaries who take a cut but neither produce nor add value makes perfect sense, reducing costs and increasing efficiency. Maybe it's time to eliminate the politicians who soak up hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign contributions from corporations and the super-wealthy and just elect Pfizer, Merck, Amazon, General Dynamics, etc. directly. Since corporate lobbyists write most of the legislation any... read more
The Duran10 hours ago
West Alarmed as US Prepares for Key Talks with Russia With No Negotiating Strategy and Divided Allies
West Alarmed as US Prepares for Key Talks with Russia With No Negotiating Strategy and Divided Allies News Topic 384 The Biden administration needs to stop aiming for access. Sherman’s China Visit Was a Quiet Disaster U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met last week with senior Chinese diplomats. The meeting, White House and […] read more
Maybe Biden is in trouble… Memes
We need to ban the AR-covid-19.... and other questions from the Left. Continue reading → read more

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