30 April - Blogs I'm Following - 2 of 4

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PrairiePundit7 hours ago

Disney leadership listening to the wrong people

Chris Queen: ... Let the first part of that last sentence sink in. “Few companies are as beloved as Disney,” Morrell said last year. Yet Chapek and former CEO Bob Iger inserted Disney into a political fight that they couldn’t win, simply because they listened to the squeaky-wheel wokes in the company and ignored other voices. Presumably, Chapek and Iger expected Morrell to clean up the mess they created. Earlier this month I wrote about how Disney has turned its back on its founders, on its fans, and on the truth. Letting Morrell go won’t repair those wounds. I hope and pray th... read more

PrairiePundit7 hours ago

Democrats are bullying Elon Musk

Democrats have be4come the intolerant left and they are even bullying their own who do not toe the far-left agenda. Musk has left their reservation and they are coming after him. read more

Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 27 hours ago

Musical Interlude: 2002, "The Calling"

*Full screen recommended.* *2002, "The Calling"* read more

Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 27 hours ago

"A Look to the Heavens"

“Why isn't this ant a big sphere? Planetary nebula Mz3 is being cast off by a star similar to our Sun that is, surely, round. Why then would the gas that is streaming away create an ant-shaped nebula that is distinctly not round? Clues might include the high 1000-kilometer per second speed of the expelled gas, the light-year long length of the structure, and the magnetism of the star visible above at the nebula's center. One possible answer is that Mz3 is hiding a second, dimmer star that orbits close in to the bright star. A competing hypothesis holds that the central star's own sp... read more

The Last Refuge7 hours ago

Neil Oliver, in the Pandemic Aftermath Government Chooses Bread and Circuses

For his weekly monologue today, GBNews host Neil Oliver notes how government officials are now globally focused on stupid personality issues as a distraction from the complete mess they created. Ironically, I just watched a Canadian parliamentary session yesterday where the most urgent policy for their assembly was ‘menstrual equity.’ Yes, you read that correctly. […] The post Neil Oliver, in the Pandemic Aftermath Government Chooses Bread and Circuses appeared first on The Last Refuge. read more

From the Trenches World Report8 hours ago

House Passes Bill to Revive WWII-Era Lend-Lease Program for Ukraine

Anti-War – by Dave DeCamp On Thursday, the House overwhelmingly approved a bill that would revive the World War II-era lend-lease program for Ukraine in another effort... The post House Passes Bill to Revive WWII-Era Lend-Lease Program for Ukraine appeared first on From the Trenches World Report. read more

From the Trenches World Report8 hours ago

Lake Powell officials face an impossible choice in the West’s megadrought: Water or electricity

CNN Lake Powell, the country’s second-largest reservoir, is drying up. The situation is critical: if water levels at the lake were to drop another 32 feet,... The post Lake Powell officials face an impossible choice in the West’s megadrought: Water or electricity appeared first on From the Trenches World Report. read more

From the Trenches World Report8 hours ago

Opening this spring in Kansas: A high-tech lab researching livestock diseases

Investigate Midwest Construction is wrapping up at a new biological research lab in Manhattan, Kansas, where researchers will study vaccines and treatments for highly contagious... The post Opening this spring in Kansas: A high-tech lab researching livestock diseases appeared first on From the Trenches World Report. read more

Truth Comes to Light8 hours ago

The Alternative to the “Authoritarian New Normal”: Localization and Local Futures

The Alternative to the “Authoritarian New Normal”: Localization and Local Futures by Colin Todhunter, Centre for Research on Globalization (Global Research) April 29, 2022 ‘World Localization Day’ will be celebrated on 20 June. Organised by the non-profit Local Futures, this annual coming together of people from across the world began in 2020 and focuses on The post The Alternative to the “Authoritarian New Normal”: Localization and Local Futures appeared first on Truth Comes to Light. read more

Small Dead Animals8 hours ago

Wuhan Poo

Abstract: SARS-CoV-2 has become one of the most studied viruses of the last century. It was assumed that the only possible host for these types of viruses was mammalian eukaryotic cells. Our recent studies show that microorganisms in the human gastrointestinal tract affect the severity of COVID-19 and for the first time provide indications that… Continue reading → read more

PopularResistance.Org16 hours ago

Fired Starbucks Workers Bring Their Fight Directly To The CEO

Sanchez and McGlawn are two of the seven workers, known as the “Memphis Seven,” who were fired by Starbucks in February, just weeks after they announced their plans to form a union there. In a blatantly illegal move, the company terminated the workers (about a third of the entire staff) for supposedly violating company policy after they met with reporters in the store to talk about unionization efforts. But almost all of the workers who were fired were involved in organizing for the union, and it is clear that the terminations were a direct act of retaliation designed to crush thes... read more

PopularResistance.Org16 hours ago

Repair Cafes Build Community Across All Social Divides

Transition Berkeley has cultivated a community of practice that hits close to ground zero – a “culture of repair,” that demonstrates a way to live with more humility, making do with what we have by sharing knowledge and skills, one repair at a time. Repair Cafes harness a library-system supported methodology that touches a diversity of people and interests. The bells that ring on the repair grounds throughout an event celebrates the completion of each repair – and total up to 100 in any four-hour event. Repair Cafes and fix-it clinics produce an excitement not unlike a dopamine-p... read more

PopularResistance.Org16 hours ago

Indigenous Women Say ‘No’ To Extraction For Sustainable Future

At the world’s largest gathering of Indigenous leaders, women are talking about how to hold financial institutions accountable for fueling climate catastrophe through investments in the extractive industry. Michelle Cook, Navajo, was among those who offered powerful testimonies focused on the women at the frontlines of extractive projects, the boardrooms of financial institutions, and the halls of governments. Speaking at a side event hosted by Women's Earth and Climate Action Network at the 21st session of the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York, Cook described ... read more

PopularResistance.Org16 hours ago

99% Of Humans Breathe Unhealthy Air

Almost everyone on Earth breathes unhealthy air. That’s the alarming conclusion from the latest update of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) air quality database, which drew on data from more than 6,000 cities in 117 countries. The organization argued that the figures were another argument in favor of phasing out the use of fossil fuels. “Current energy concerns highlight the importance of speeding up the transition to cleaner, healthier energy systems,” WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a press release. “High fossil fuel prices, energy security, and... read more

Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 27 hours ago

The Poet: Robert Frost, "Acceptance "

*"Acceptance "* "When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be... read more

Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 27 hours ago

Chet Raymo, “What Not to Believe”

*“What Not to Believe”* by Chet Raymo “In Stacy Schiff's biography of Cleopatra, I came across this epigraph from Euripides: "Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe." I have no idea which of Euripides' plays the quote is from, but it strikes me as a suitable source for reflection. Credulity is the default state of a human life. Children are born to believe, to accept as true what they are told by adults. An innate credulity has survival value in a dangerous world. If a grown-up says "There are crocodiles in the river," it is probably best to stay out ... read more

Collecting My Thoughts7 hours ago

End of the month round up. The world of Biden just gets crazier. Food shortages. Jesus the gardener.

The misinformation "Baghdad Bob" lady, Nina Jankowicz, that's going to run the "truth office" of the DHS has really stirred things up, hasn't she? I wrote about her before. I wonder if it has anything to do with how many Hispanics and Blacks are turning to the GOP? https://news.yahoo.com/voters-including-parents-latinos-more-202715405.html Democrats think men can be women by hoping/thinking, and that Ivermectin is unsafe, and that free speech is bad if they aren't in control. Some truth guards they are. Even immigrants know when they are being conned--look where they come from and... read more

Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 27 hours ago

"The Hand We're Dealt..."

“Bad things don’t happen to people because they deserve for them to happen. It just doesn’t work that way. It’s just… life. And no matter who we are, we have to take the hand we’re dealt, crappy though it may be, and try our very best to move forward anyway, to love anyway, to have hope anyway… to have faith that there’s a purpose to the journey we’re on.” - Mia Sheridan read more

Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 27 hours ago

"A Long March Through The Night..."

"The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish from our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent Death. Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided. Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy, to give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection, to strengthen failing courage, to instill f... read more

Real Climate Science7 hours ago

Climate Change To Cause Pandemics

The problem isn’t government funding gain of function research labs, it is climate change. Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk | Nature Apparently the 0.1C change in average global temperature over the past thirty years is causing the animals … Continue reading → read more

Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 28 hours ago

"Time to Worry"

*"Time to Worry"* by Brian Maher “If we get a recession in 2022 or 2023,” The Wall Street Journal informs us, “it’ll be a mild one.” Just so. And if RMS Titanic strikes a North Atlantic berg en route to New York… it will only be a tiny one. The United States Department of Commerce reports that first-quarter gross domestic product contracted 1.4%. The shrinking was “unexpected” - at least by the experts among us. A Dow Jones survey of economists had divined a 1% quarterly gain. What evils account for the 1.4% receding? Reports CNBC: "Rising COVID Omicron infections to start the yea... read more

Bacon's Rebellion8 hours ago

Compelled Speech at UVa: The Morgan Bettinger Case

by James A. Bacon On July 17, 2020, Morgan Bettinger was driving home from her job along a street in Charlottesville that flanked the downtown pedestrian mall where an unlicensed protest was occurring. Demonstrators roamed the street, so Bettinger, a … Continue reading → read more

Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 28 hours ago

"Stagflation!"

*"Stagflation!"* *Rising inflation and economic contraction... * *you ain't seen nothing yet!* by Joel Bowman *Buenos Aires, Argentina - "*Is it just that Elon Musk is an immigrant from a poor country, or is it because he’s African American that has got the woke mob’s unisex panties in such a bunch? We’ll “circle back” to all things Twitter/Musk related in tomorrow’s Sunday Sesh. For now, let’s concentrate on what’s in front of us... a stock market meltdown, a (synchronized?) fiat currency “race to the bottom” and a curious phenomenon that Austrian School economists call “stagflatio... read more

Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology8 hours ago

Venezuela: Couple Startled by UFO in La Guaira

*Source: OVNI VENEZUELADate: April 30, 2022* Venezuela: Couple Startled by UFO in La Guaira By Héctor Escalante Antonio Viera and his wife, Yanira Zambrano, were startled after witnessing a fly-by involving a large luminous object on the coastal state of La Guaira (formerly Vargas) in north-central Venezuela. The event occurred on February 20, 2022 after seven in the evening. Yanira tells me that they had decided to go out to dinner that evening and went from their home in Caracas to a well-known beachfront eatery in Catia La Mar just to break the routine. They got more than... read more

Welcome Back to Pottersville8 hours ago

Pottersville Digest

------------------------------ Don't flatter yourself, you Dollar Store DeClerk. ------------------------------ If you're a scumbag mob boss like Trump is, the last person in the world you'll want to piss off is your former fixer. ------------------------------ And this racist asshole thought this stunt would curry favor with other white racists... *how*? ------------------------------ These weekend seditionists have as much backbone as a microwaved Gummi worm. ------------------------------ "Cordel. Why don't you throw him in? You can always say I did it." "Cord... read more

A Different Perspective8 hours ago

New Sightings with Video

To begin, on Wednesday morning, April 27, a bolide flashed over Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. It was bright enough to be seen in the morning sky and made a roaring sound, something often reported with large meteors. While this, in and of itself, is relatively unimportant, a comment about this, is. One commentator suggested it suggested something about the capability of American military defense. They hadn’t spotted the meteor and that meant, I suppose, a hole in our defense system, except… This bolide probably was no larger than a softball, maybe a basketball, was traveli... read more

Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 28 hours ago

The Daily "Near You?"

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Thanks for stopping by! read more

The Last Refuge9 hours ago

Election 2022, Catherine Englebrecht Outlines Devastating Evidence of Corruption by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp

Catherine Englebrecht appeared on The War Room with Steve Bannon {Direct Rumble Link} to outline the evidence of election fraud that took place in 2020 through the use of ballot harvesting and ballot mules. The receipts Englebrecht and True The Vote have gathered are the primary evidence in an explosive documentary that is going to […] The post Election 2022, Catherine Englebrecht Outlines Devastating Evidence of Corruption by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp appeared first on The Last Refuge. read more

Bacon's Rebellion9 hours ago

Bacon Meme of the Week

Hat tip: John Butcher read more

Medical Kidnap9 hours ago

Governments Worldwide are Working in Lockstep to bring in Digital I.D. & Social Credit System as EU agrees to Expand Online Censorship with ‘Digital Services Act’

Under pressure applied by both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the European Union is working to expand online censorship to an extreme Orwellian level, as well as strictly regulate speech during what authorities deem to be times of crisis (we always seem to be in the middle of a “crisis”), and remove online anonymity by forcing the public to have a digital identity. But these plans aren’t unique to the EU. They are also currently being rolled out in the UK and Africa, proving Governments worldwide are working in lockstep to bring in a digital identity and social credit system ri... read more

Health Impact News10 hours ago

Governments Worldwide are Working in Lockstep to bring in Digital I.D. & Social Credit System as EU agrees to Expand Online Censorship with ‘Digital Services Act’

Under pressure applied by both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the European Union is working to expand online censorship to an extreme Orwellian level, as well as strictly regulate speech during what authorities deem to be times of crisis (we always seem to be in the middle of a “crisis”), and remove online anonymity by forcing the public to have a digital identity. But these plans aren’t unique to the EU. They are also currently being rolled out in the UK and Africa, proving Governments worldwide are working in lockstep to bring in a digital identity and social credit system ri... read more

Virtual Mirage10 hours ago

Mercenaries

The Life of a Volunteer Mercenary Warrior The International Brigades (Brigadas Internacionales) were military units set up by the Communist International to assist the Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. The organization existed for two years, from 1936 until 1938. It is estimated that during the entire war, between 40,000 and 59,000 members served in […] The post Mercenaries appeared first on Virtual Mirage. read more

Small Dead Animals11 hours ago

Money Well Spent

Global- New massive ‘Ring’ art piece to be installed in downtown Montreal Average Canadian “responds”. read more

Small Dead Animals11 hours ago

Savor the Great Musk Panic

Matt Taibbi: On drinking the delicious tears of blue-check hypocrites, who’ve suddenly discovered the perils of a privatized speech landscape. read more

Balkinization10 hours ago

Reflections on Recent Histories of Center-Left Legal and Economic Thought

Provoked by a tweet from Sam Bagenstos, I read Paul Sabin, Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism and Elizabeth Popp Berman, Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy. I agree with Sam that the books are really important for understanding how today’s political economy took the shape it has. Here are some reflections. The subtitles are a bit misleading. I’d forgone reading Sabin’s book when it was first published because reviews led me to think that he argued that public interest liberals ma... read more

MUSINGS ON IRAQ10 hours ago

This Day In Iraqi History - Apr 30 Iraqi army surrounded UK Habaniya airbase hoping to force British troops out of Iraq

(Imperial War Museum) 1915 Ottoman mayor murdered in Najaf for trying to draft men for war and taking money from shrines 1917 Battle of the Boot at Band-i-Adhaim between British and Ottomans 1923 Iraq High Commissioners Sir Percy Cox recalled to London Issued protocol to shorten Anglo-Iraq Treaty from 20 to 4 years to appease Iraq 1924 Baghdad said willing to give land to Assyrians (Musings On Iraq review *The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq*) (Musings On Iraq review *State and Soci... read more

The Duran10 hours ago

EU to Cut Itself Off from Russian Oil, Russia Full Recovery by 2024, Ukraine Suffers Heavy Losses

EU to Cut Itself Off from Russian Oil as Global Stagflation Deepens, Russia Predicts Full Econ Recovery by 2024, Ukraine Suffers Heavy Losses News Topic 482 read more

The Duran11 hours ago

NYT; Elensky winning big, 2-4 weeks it’s over. Truss wants Global NATO. Gummy Bears gone. Update 2

NYT; Elensky winning big, 2-4 weeks it’s over. Truss wants Global NATO. Gummy Bears gone. Update 2 Topic 521 read more

The Duran11 hours ago

Biden-EU economic policy, ‘Lunacy taken to a greater level’

Biden-EU economic policy, ‘Lunacy taken to a greater level’ The Duran: Episode 1270 read more

AltHealthWorks.com11 hours ago

They Call It a Weed, But It’s One of the Best Mineral-Rich, Liver-Cleansing, Plants You Could Ever Consume

It’s that time of the year, when lively little yellow flowers are popping up on the lawns all over the country. While many see it as “just a weed,” dandelions are one of nature’s gift to men – virtually the whole plant is edible and medicinal. Dandelion is rich in vitamins A, B, C, and D, and many minerals. Dandelion flowers are used to make tea, and even some types of herbal wine. The leaves are beneficial for getting rid of excess fluids in the body. Dandelion roots are the most medicinal part of the plant, and are traditionally used for liver and gallbladder problems. The only p... read more

The Duran11 hours ago

U.S.-and-allied governments are unimaginably corrupt. Can their ‘enemies’ be any worse?

Eric Zuesse One of the facts that are effectively banned from being made public in any mainstream, and in almost all non-mainstream, ‘news’-media in U.S.-and-allied countries, is that their governments are far more corrupt than any of those media report. An outstanding recent example of this governmental depravity was published on April 28th by the […] read more

Climate Collections11 hours ago

Northern Ireland faces loss of 1 million sheep and cattle to meet climate targets

Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood The world has gone bonkers! ? ? ? Northern Ireland will need to lose more than 1 million sheep and cattle to meet its new legally binding climate emissions targets, according to an industry-commissioned analysis seen by the Guardian. The large-scale reduction… read more

OrientalReview.org11 hours ago

What Explains Poland’s Massive Amount Of Military Aid To Kiev?

The massive Polish military aid to Kiev complements the equally massive socio-economic aid that it’s giving the millions of Ukrainians that it’s welcomed into its territory to create a Ukraine-centric domestic and foreign policy that amounts to the de facto merging of these two countries just like what briefly happened […] read more

Small Dead Animals11 hours ago

We Need That Famine

…when a clip of Martin’s sketch resurfaced online from the Silver Age of Television Twitter account on Friday, the whole look of a after “white comedian from the 70s dressed up like King Tut” initially didn’t sit too well with some folks. read more

Modern Tokyo Times12 hours ago

Japan Zen Buddhist art and Kogan Gengei

Japan Zen Buddhist art and Kogan Gengei Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Kogan Gengei (1748-1821) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk who resided during the Edo Period. His life revolved around the teachings of various Zen Buddhist holy men and delving into the scriptures and writings connected to this faith. Artistically, Kogan – like […] The post Japan Zen Buddhist art and Kogan Gengei first appeared on Modern Tokyo Times. read more

From the Trenches World Report12 hours ago

New Study confirming COVID Vaccine causes Severe Autoimmune-Hepatitis is published days after W.H.O issued ‘Global Alert’ about new Severe Hepatitis among Children

The Expose A new scientific study published 21st April 2022, has concluded that Covid-19 vaccination can elicit a distinct T cell-dominant immune-mediated hepatitis (liver inflammation)... The post New Study confirming COVID Vaccine causes Severe Autoimmune-Hepatitis is published days after W.H.O issued ‘Global Alert’ about new Severe Hepatitis among Children appeared first on From the Trenches World Report. read more

From the Trenches World Report12 hours ago

Secretive Soros-funded group works behind the scenes with Biden admin on policy, documents show

Fox News A secretive group backed by millions of dollars from liberal billionaire George Soros is working behind the scenes with President Biden’s administration to shape policy, documents reviewed by Fox... The post Secretive Soros-funded group works behind the scenes with Biden admin on policy, documents show appeared first on From the Trenches World Report. read more