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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.

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

21 September - Blogs I'm Following - 2 of 3

 11pm MDT

Snopes.com7 hours ago
Video of SUV Driving Up Truck Ramp To Escape Cops Is Digital Animation
Creative visual effects artist and Instagram user @2ncs wasn't credited for the digital animation video in a wildly popular tweet that showcased the work. read more
The Last Refuge7 hours ago
Citadel Investment Boss Ken Griffin Previously Gave DeSantis $10 Million, Today Says He Would Accept Position as Treasury Secretary
The king of manipulating Wall Street shorts is Citadel founder Ken Griffin. The Wall Street hedge fund billionaire has made most of his money betting against Main Street stocks and then manipulating their downfall to reap the rewards. Griffin is despised by small investors, especially the Reddit WallStreetBets group who went head-to-head against the titan […] The post Citadel Investment Boss Ken Griffin Previously Gave DeSantis $10 Million, Today Says He Would Accept Position as Treasury Secretary appeared first on The Last Refuge. read more
President Trump Evokes President McKinley
Two kinds of people live in this country today; almost two species. One kind you see all over television, and in the government, among officials of both political parties, corporations, and our military. For them, there is nothing—literally nothing—they won’t say or do to keep their membership in the “club,”—i.e., in the “in” group. They “insist that men can be women and become pregnant; that inflation is zero; that Biden is popular; that Russia is about to collapse; and that pedophiles are not bad people. Oh yeah, one more: the southern border of the United States is secu... read more
New Moon/Mars Discoveries! The Human Potentials of Space Are Opening to Us!
"If God had intended us to explore space, he would have given us a Moon."—Krafft Ehricke There was once a time when the Moon was described as barren, lifeless and inhospitable. But, as we have continued our explorations of our neighboring satellite, we are finding it stacked with resources which could vastly enrich humanity’s future. read more
Snopes.com5 years ago
UK Girl Left in Tears After She’s Fined for Selling Lemonade
A British man and his young daughter have gained international attention for being fined 150 pounds ($195) for selling lemonade without a license near their home in London read more
Snopes.com5 years ago
Did President Trump Reverse President Obama’s Turkey Pardons?
Reports that President Trump "revoke[d] all sixteen Thanksgiving Day turkey pardons," ordering the birds executed by firing squad, were satirical. read more
Snopes.com13 years ago
Did Karl Marx Say This About Consumer Debt?
A passage from Karl Marx's "Das Kapital" supposedly foretold that the economic crisis of 2008-09 would lead to communism. read more
"The Height of Idiocy"
*"The Height of Idiocy"* by Doug Casey "The only element in the universe more common than hydrogen is stupidity." – Einstein "I’m not a fortune teller. In fact, the only things anybody knows about predicting – even if you gussy the concept up by calling it "forecasting" – are 1.) Predict often and 2.) Never give both the time and the event. The worst offenders are those who pretend they know where the economy’s headed. Statistics – so often the basis of conjecture with regard to the economy – are so subject to interpretation, and so easy to take out of context, that most of the ti... read more
EXTRA-SPICY REPUBLICAN REVENGE POLITICS AND PLAIN-VANILLA REPUBLICAN REVENGE POLITICS
There are a handful of Republican governors and members of Congress who actually, more or less, want to govern. Invariably, they're people who have stalled in their careers, and who have made peace with the idea that they'll never be president. The rest of the party's officeholders, even when they're pretending to govern, mostly seek revenge. It's not really governing at all -- it's bread and circuses for their angry base. We're familiar with Republicans whose goal is extra-spicy revenge: congressional figures like Jim Jordan who want to spend the next two years investigating Hunte... read more
Manchin’s Permitting Reform Bill is a Shameless Boost for Climate-Killing Fossil Fuels
Coal baron's dirty permitting deal must be rendered dead on arrival. The post Manchin’s Permitting Reform Bill is a Shameless Boost for Climate-Killing Fossil Fuels appeared first on Food & Water Watch. read more
Judge: FBI Protected Mom who Made $200 million Selling up to 8000 Children over 40 years – Gets Only 3 Months in Minimum Security Prison
Margaret Cole Hughes, Director of European Adoption Consultants (EAC), earlier this year accepted a plea deal from the U.S. Department of Justice to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and one count of making a false statement to the Polish Central authority in front of Federal Court Judge James Gwin in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Ohio. Defense attorneys admitted in court filings that Cole is still in business after making $200 million over 40 years from selling 8000 children through fraudulent international adoptions. According to Judge James ... read more
Snopes.com7 hours ago
Ohio GOP House Candidate Has Misrepresented Military Service
Campaigning for a northwestern Ohio congressional seat, Republican J.R. Majewski presents himself as an Air Force combat veteran who deployed to Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. read more
PrairiePundit8 hours ago
Why the F-150 is a popular vehicle
Spectator: *Forget trains: American car culture is worth defending* We have a lot of space and a lot of horsepower, and we will not apologize While I live in the country and need a truck, I know many people who live in cities who also drive pickups here in Texas. read more
PrairiePundit8 hours ago
The racist agenda of the Biden State Department
National Review: *U.S. Diplomats Required to ‘Advance’ DEI to Receive Promotions* DEI is a raced based policy that selects people on the basis of race and ethnicity instead of merit. To demonstrate how pervasive the racism of DEI is, imagine an NBA team selected on the basis of DEI. Employees should be selected on the basis of merit regardless of race. read more
PrairiePundit8 hours ago
Texas exposes Biden's irresponsible border policies
Washington Times: Washington DC’s Mayor Muriel Bowser along with her counterparts in Chicago and New York has a problem and his name is Greg Abbott. Texas has been overwhelmed as U.S. border officials release as many as 100,000 illegal migrants a month into the states that border Mexico. Early this summer Mr. Abbott began to bus not all but a small percentage of President Joe Biden’s illegal immigration wave to self-declared “sanctuary cities” like Chicago, New York and Washington, DC. These cities and the progressives who run them have declared they welcome “migrants,” legal or ... read more
PrairiePundit8 hours ago
250,000 children dumped at border since Biden elected
Washington Examiner: More than a quarter of a million unaccompanied children have walked across the U.S.-Mexico border in President Joe Biden’s first year and a half in office — an unprecedented figure. Eight in 10 children were released into the interior of the United States, prompting new challenges at the border and in communities nationwide. “If anyone had any doubt about whether the chaos ensuing for the last 18 months at the Southwest border was a full-blown humanitarian crisis, they need only take one look at the staggering number of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) wh... read more
Caribbean Activists Turn Up The Volume For Reparations
Demands for reparations are growing across the Caribbean, following the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. The British monarchy have come under heightened demands from several Caribbean countries to undergo the reparatory justice process and issue an apology for their part in the slave trade. It comes after Royal tours of the Caribbean earlier this year led by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, followed by Prince Edward and Sophie, the Countess of Wessex were bundled by photo-ops disaster and tone deaf gifts. Niambi Hall-Campbell, Chair of the Bahamas National Reparations Committee, ... read more
FBI Spied On And Harassed Black Revolutionary Who Was Killed
Seals was shot to death in 2016, then set on fire in his car in an unsolved murder. Local St. Louis media outlet the Riverfront Times obtained a declassified copy of the more than 900-page FBI report on Seals. The FBI fully redacted approximately 860 of the pages, and partially redacted parts of the remaining roughly 45 pages. In the report, the FBI called Seals “a self-described revolutionary who has espoused somewhat militant rhetoric and has access to weapons.” The Riverfront Times article shows how the FBI used local police to harass Seals. In June 2016, the activist was “in... read more
ManiFiesta 2022 Ends With A Call To Change The World As We Want It
The ManiFiesta 2022 festival, organized at the Wellington racetrack in the Belgian city of Ostend from September 17-18, concluded with a resolve to mobilize for alternatives for the future. The 12th edition of ManiFiesta was organized by the Solidarity magazine and Medicine For the People (MPLP). Over 14,000 people participated. Around 160 events including political discussions, speeches, debates, book fairs, exhibitions, a food festival, and 35 concerts were organized as part of the festival. Raoul Hedebouw, president of the Workers Party of Belgium (PTB/PVDA), Bolivian Vice-Pres... read more
United Nations Women And Blackrock
An open letter signed by 700-plus feminist groups and activists sent on Aug. 8 to UN Women, protesting a recently announced partnership between the agency and BlackRock, a United States-based hedge fund, resulted in the cancellation of the arrangement. The letter pointed out that BlackRock personifies “crisis-prone speculation-based capitalism” and that the May 25 joint press releases announcing the partnership by both parties offered no useful or explicit details on what it would accomplish. Such vagueness, the letter writers contended, could give UN Women the appearance of “pin... read more
Evo Morales: US The Only Pariah That Provokes Coups And Wars
After warnings from the Biden Administration to Russia against the use of nuclear weapons, Evo Morales recalled that the US is the only one that has used such weapons against civilians. In the event that Russian President Vladimir Putin resorts to a nuclear arsenal, his American counterpart, Joe Biden, in an interview with the local network CBS, promised on Friday that Russia “will become more of a pariah in the world than they ever have been.” Through a message published this Sunday, September 18, on Twitter, the former president of Bolivia Evo Morales criticized the aggressive p... read more
Why The Climate Movement Should Target Oil Refineries
“We were wondering if Mayor Paine is available?” I asked. My words were muffled by the dog mascot costume I was wearing. Next to me was a canvasser and the two camera operators filming us. We were at City Hall in Superior, Wisconsin on April 25 to spread the word about Husky Friends — the name we’d given to a so-called community outreach initiative from Husky Energy, owner of the local refinery that exploded in 2018 and triggered an evacuation of much of the city. With the refinery possibly reopening, Husky Friends was there to “assuage residents’ concerns.” “Oh sure! Let me see i... read more
Prioritize Joyful Teaching and Learning in Virginia Public Schools
By James C. Sherlock Sometimes things are so right in front of you that you look past them. I have been studying public education in Virginia for more than 15 years. The policy face of the teaching and learning is … Continue reading → read more
Load up on THESE plant foods to boost your iron intake
From naturalhealth365.com We’ve all heard about the importance of including iron in our diets. However, it can be hard to know how to up your iron intake without eating tons of meat. Dialing back your meat intake, even if you don’t completely cut it out, has been shown to reduce your risk of cancer and … Continue reading Load up on THESE plant foods to boost your iron intake → read more
Econlib9 hours ago
Martha’s Migrants
If you are even slightly familiar with current affairs you are no doubt aware of the humanitarian disaster that is Venezuela. After the election of socialist Hugo Chavez as president in 1998, the country was slowly and agonizingly plunged into economic, political, and social hell as destructive economic policies, political repression, human rights violations, compulsive […] The post Martha’s Migrants appeared first on Econlib. read more
America gained 2.5 million new millionaires last year
CNN The number of rich people in the world rose at a rapid pace last year, boosted by gains in the stock market and house... The post America gained 2.5 million new millionaires last year appeared first on From the Trenches World Report. read more
"A Look to the Heavens"
"From afar, the whole thing looks like an Eagle. A closer look at the Eagle Nebula, however, shows the bright region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust. Through this window, a brightly-lit workshop appears where a whole open cluster of stars is being formed. In this cavity tall pillars and round globules of dark dust and cold molecular gas remain where stars are still forming. Already visible are several young bright blue stars whose light and winds are burning away and pushing back the remaining filaments and walls of gas and dust. The Eagle emission... read more
The Poet: John O'Donohue, "In These Times "
*"In These Times "* "In these times when anger Is turned into anxiety, And someone has stolen The horizons and mountains, Our small emperors on parade Never expect our indifference To disturb their nakedness. They keep their heads down, And their eyes gleam with reflection From aluminum economic ground, The media wraps everything In a cellophane of sound, And the ghost surface of the virtual Overlays the breathing earth. The industry of distraction Makes us forget That we live in a universe. We have become converts To the religion of stress And its deity of progress; That we may have co... read more
"No Special Hurry..."
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.” - Ernest Hemingway, “A Farewell To Arms” ○ Freely download “A Farewell To Arms”, by Ernest Hemingway, here: - https://pdfmania.com/ read more
“Controlled Opposition, Gate Keeper, Agent Provocateur, Plant” — And the Giant Crime
“Controlled Opposition, Gate Keeper, Agent Provocateur, Plant” And the Giant Crime by Jon Rappoport September 21, 2022 Part One: For the past 30 years, I’ve heard these terms thrown around. “Controlled opposition, gate keeper, infiltrator…” In many cases, there wasn’t a shred of evidence on board. Not even a reasonable circumstantial case. But people The post “Controlled Opposition, Gate Keeper, Agent Provocateur, Plant” — And the Giant Crime appeared first on Truth Comes to Light. read more
Michael West8 hours ago
Queen to be remembered across nation
Australians are waking to a national day of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II, a monarch who declared her “constant, sure and true” love for the country. The late Queen will be remembered in a service at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday during a one-off Australian public holiday. It will be broadcast live across the […] read more
Michael West9 hours ago
Zero sum game: questions surround Australia’s electricity transition
[image: Australian electricity market] The urgent task of decarbonisation is raising questions about whether Australia's energy structures are fit for purpose. read more
balance1010 hours ago
astrology update
-r.Sun into Libra 7:40 p.m. 22 Sept 2022. Sun conjuncts Mercury and opposite Jupiter. Sun at 1/11th of circle to Moon. This is peculiar, concerning balance. One may call: in the name I AM THAT I AM may the light energies from Virgo to Libra modulate for the greater good, dear Lanto, Lords of Wisdom, dear Mighty Victory, Lords of Individuality; amen. ……………… ……….////////// The 11-7-1917, 3 p.m. local time, birthchart for Soviet Union, based on Lenin’s Smolny Institute speech, shows Sun at 14.5 Scorpio, Mercury at 17 Scorpio, Saturn at 14.25 Leo, Uranus at 20 Aquarius—hence a big T-squ... read more

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