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PrairiePundit13 hours ago
A reason for Biden's impeachmentI&I: *Biden’s Border Crisis Is Much Worse Than You Think* The Biden border policy is a total disgrace. See, also: *Exclusive–Morris: New York Blocks Press Access to Empty Migrant and Overflowing Homeless Shelters* read more
PrairiePundit13 hours ago
The lefts' censorship fetishThomas Lifson: *Astonishing call for censorship of Justice Amy Coney Barrett by publishing industry figures* I get the impression that what they would really like to censor is her legal opinions. read more
PrairiePundit13 hours ago
Musk's changes for the better at TwitterDaily Wire: New Twitter CEO Elon Musk fired Twitter’s top lawyer Vijaya Gadde — head of legal policy, trust, and safety — immediately after taking over the social media company Thursday evening. The Daily Mail reported earlier this year that Gadde “played a key role in the contentious decisions to ban Donald Trump and suppress news articles about Hunter Biden’s laptop.” Politico reported earlier this year that after news broke in April that Musk would be buying the platform, “Gadde cried during [a] meeting as she expressed concerns about how the company could change.” Musk also... read more
PrairiePundit13 hours ago
Dems losing their grip on black votersNewsweek: Election day is two weeks away, and the Left is freaking out about losses among minority voters such as Blacks, once a reliable base of support. The signs of the freakout are everywhere, but especially in the desperate, wacky, and downright insulting tactics they are currently employing to lure, nudge, and shame Blacks into voting for liberal candidates. Let's start with the insulting. MSNBC host Tiffany Cross slammed the Republican National Committee's slate of "diverse" Republican congressional candidates, saying "faces of color do not always equate to voices of colo... read more
Science Matters14 hours ago
Woke Gatekeepers The Problem
Michael Lind explains in his Tablet article The New Gatekeepers. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. How the major institutions of American society all came to sing in the woke chorus, and what can be done about it The Great Awokening is a misleading term. Woke activists are not honest missionaries; they […] read more
Gangsters Out Blog5 hours ago
Google Warnings and another Deleted blog post
Google's censorship machine strikes again. I received an email stating that they deleted another blog post and put four more posts behind a warning. The reason this is interesting is because when you see what they deleted and what they put behind a warning, it clearly illustrates how we have all now entered the Twilight Zone. I've reposted them on my mirror for everyone to see. The first email states that Your post titled "Ucluelet Mining Disaster from Goat Mountain" has been unpublished. As you may know, our Community Guidelines describe the boundaries for what we allow-- and d... read more
PopularResistance.Org12 hours ago
Why Glue Your Head To A Painting?A Just Stop Oil activist attempted to superglue his shaved head to Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” while another dumped what looked to be tomato soup on him, at the Mauritshuis museum in The Netherlands this morning. This action followed an uproar caused by two activists from the German environmentalist group Letzte Generation, who threw mashed potatoes at Claude Monet’s “Lew Meules” in the Museum Barberini in Potsdam on Sunday. These disruptions are the latest in a slew of actions orchestrated by climate activists, including the recent and already infa... read more
PopularResistance.Org12 hours ago
‘Work-Life Balance Is At The Center Of This Dispute’Cottonton, Alabama - “On the morning of Oct. 1… almost 500 union members from three United Steel Workers (USW) locals at WestRock’s Mahrt Mill paper mill in Cottonton, Alabama, voted to reject a second contract offer from the company,” Jacob Morrison recently reported for The Real News Network. “The refusal to ratify WestRock’s ‘last, best, and final’ offer came as a result of the company insisting on removing contract language pertaining to what the workers there call ‘penalties’ for long hours. Members resoundingly rejected this contract, even though it included an unheard-of $2... read more
PopularResistance.Org12 hours ago
Anti-Police Activists In Baltimore Protest New University Police ForceBaltimore, Maryland – Students at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and community members in Baltimore protested against the creation of a private university police force by disrupting two town hall meetings on September 22 and September 29, the first of which led to some antagonism with JHU’s VP of public safety, Branville Bard. The creation of a university police force – the Johns Hopkins Police Department (JHPD) – was postponed for two years in response to the anti-police brutality protests of 2020. Now the university is fast-tracking the process with minimal input from students o... read more
Virtual Mirage12 hours ago
OpinionThe Sermonette of the week is still to come and I don’t know if this one (tomorrow) is as good as it could be. Maybe if I had more time to devote to the blog? I have been reflecting on the metagame, as I’ll refer to it and will share it below. It’s not […] The post Opinion appeared first on Virtual Mirage. read more
Michael West12 hours ago
RBA to pull trigger on seventh rate hikeThe Reserve Bank of Australia will be back in the spotlight this week when it likely delivers its seventh consecutive interest rate hike on Melbourne Cup day. Since May, the central bank has been tightening interest rates rapidly from record-low levels to wrestle inflation back under control. This has sent monthly mortgage repayments soaring for […] read more
Israel Palestine News12 hours ago
Three eyewitness accounts of Israeli settler violenceThree recent stories from +972 Magazine contain firsthand accounts by Palestinians of their harrowing experiences at the hands of Israeli settlers – attacked while driving, harvesting olives, and protecting their own land. Israeli military complicity is a recurring theme. read more
Turcopolier13 hours ago
“Russian navy ‘repels’ drone attack on Crimea’s Sevastopol”““Today at night, the most massive attack by UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) and remote-controlled surface vehicles in the waters of the Sevastopol bay was undertaken” since Moscow launched its offensive, Razgozhayev told Russian state media later on Saturday. The attack … Continue reading → read more
All Posts - LaRouchePAC13 hours ago
Durham Casts New Light on FBI/DOJ Obstruction in their Jihad Against Donald TrumpAn email discovered among the unused trial exhibits in John Durham’s prosecution of Igor Danchenko has brought back into focus the wide-ranging criminal conspiracy against the 45th president of the United States whose major players were the U.S. intelligence community, the FBI and Department of Justice, the Obama White House, and the British government. The cover-up of this conspiracy has been a primary goal of the intelligence community and both political parties in Washington, D.C. ever since Donald J. Trump won the 2016 presidential election. The newly discovered email highlight... read more
Bacon's Rebellion13 hours ago
Green’s Lawby Joe Fitzgerald Green’s Law was in effect this week. Green’s Law was named, by me, for longtime mayor and councilman Walter F. Green III, and originated at a council meeting when he did an even worse job than usual … Continue reading → read more
Small Dead Animals13 hours ago
Horoscope for the week of October 30, 2022Is your life hum drum? Feeling logy? Prunes not doing their job? The money bag you dug up out of the backyard just doesn’t smell as nice as when you buried it? Let astrology guide you towards your destiny. Unhitch your tractor from the wagon of karma, and shift up to second gear. Aries: The… Continue reading → read more
From the Trenches World Report13 hours ago
Reagannomics.. Why Nancy Reagan Was The Original Trap Queen.TheSearch4Truth October 29th, 2022 The post Reagannomics.. Why Nancy Reagan Was The Original Trap Queen. appeared first on From the Trenches World Report. read more
From the Trenches World Report13 hours ago
‘They May Deplatform the Truth, But Their Lies And Distortions Will Never Replace It’Children’s Health Defense – by Whitney Webb Editor’s Note: Below is the text of a speech delivered Oct. 24 by journalist Whitney Webb at the Children’s... The post ‘They May Deplatform the Truth, But Their Lies And Distortions Will Never Replace It’ appeared first on From the Trenches World Report. read more
From the Trenches World Report14 hours ago
World’s Largest Nutritionists Group Accepted Millions From Food, Pharma and Big Ag in Exchange for FavorsChildren’s Health Defense – by U.S. Right to Know The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) accepted millions of dollars from food, pharmaceutical and agribusiness companies, had... The post World’s Largest Nutritionists Group Accepted Millions From Food, Pharma and Big Ag in Exchange for Favors appeared first on From the Trenches World Report. read more
From the Trenches World Report14 hours ago
Musk Takes Twitter Helm, Enacts Sweeping Change as Deal ClosesYahoo News – Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Elon Musk wasted no time taking complete control of Twitter Inc. The billionaire appointed himself chief executive officer, dismissed... The post Musk Takes Twitter Helm, Enacts Sweeping Change as Deal Closes appeared first on From the Trenches World Report. read more
From the Trenches World Report14 hours ago
EU approves gasoline car banRT The EU has reached an agreement that would oblige carmakers to achieve a 100% cut in CO2 emissions by 2035. The measure would effectively... The post EU approves gasoline car ban appeared first on From the Trenches World Report. read more
Econlib14 hours ago
German Gas and Knowledge Problems
It rarely happens that politicians explicitly acknowledge that they failed to understand what they thought they could design. Unfortunately, that they acknowledge this this does not mean that they stop designing. Being a German citizen currently offers a splendid chance to study directly what can happen when governments take charge of things. German governments, perhaps […] The post German Gas and Knowledge Problems appeared first on Econlib. read more
Mining Awareness +14 hours ago
Crimean War End (1856): Black Sea Trade Reopened by Banning Russian WarshipsRussia today, and yesterday, has acted in a manner similar to the Barbary pirates. The Treaty of Paris (1856) Reopened … Continue reading → read more
PrairiePundit13 hours ago
The reason Democrats are in troubleNY Times: Biden’s Agenda Hangs in the Balance if Republicans Take Congress - If the G.O.P. takes control of either chamber, President Biden will be consumed with defending against attempts to dismantle his accomplishments. - On key Democratic issues, Mr. Biden’s opportunities would invariably shrink. Here are some of the areas where the two sides would clash. Biden has been a terrible president and, to many Americans, his agenda sucks. Inflation is probably his greatest "accomplishment." His reckless spending aided and abetted by a slim Democrat majority has been a d... read more
Accidental Deliberations13 hours ago
Saturday Morning LinksAssorted content for your weekend reading. - Lara Herrero discusses how infection with COVID-19 can leave people more vulnerable to all kinds of other diseases. And the Canadian Press reports on the rise of two new subvariants in Ontario (and elsewhere) while public health officials beg for the return of at least basic precautionary measures. - Mitchell Beer writes about the inflection point in an energy transition: there's no longer a prospect of fossil fuels being a viable long-term energy source compared to cheaper and cleaner renewable alternatives, but not enough being done... read more
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 213 hours ago
"The End of the 'Growth' Road"
*"The End of the 'Growth' Road"* by Charles Hugh Smith "The end of the "growth" road is upon us, though the consensus continues to hold fast to the endearing fantasy of infinite expansion of consumption. This fantasy has been supported for decades by the financial expansion of debt, which enabled more spending which pushed consumption, earnings, taxes, etc. higher. All the financial games are fun but "growth" boils down to an expansion of material consumption: more copper mined and turned into wire which is turned into new wind turbines, housing, vehicles, appliances, etc. There ar... read more
Bacon's Rebellion13 hours ago
Now It’s Time to Get It Right
by Jon Baliles We can all take some comfort in the fact that Police Chief Gerald Smith has resigned, not because there is comfort in someone else’s downfall, but rather it gives the City a chance to start over with … Continue reading → read more
Organizing Notes13 hours ago
EU gets sweaters from China before attacking BeijingMacron has a new turtleneck to keep his scheming body warm. Chinese sweater factories have been humming with activity lately, partly to fulfill increased orders from Europe, as an energy crisis looms. So looks like the US-NATO are going to stock up on warm weather gear before they go full bore against Russia and China in a futile attempt to take them down. Keep your heads down folks. read more
PrairiePundit13 hours ago
The NY Times and the question about issues important to votersTim Graham: The liberal New York Times has a popular podcast simply called “The Daily,” and unsurprisingly, it airs on nearly 300 taxpayer-funded National Public Radio stations across America. Host Michael Barbaro is so soft-spoken you could argue he is the anti-Limbaugh. But that does not mean he’s always calm and reasonable. On October 20, Barbaro brought on Times polling analyst Nate Cohn to discuss how the latest Times/Siena College poll contained ominous news for Democrats. The show began as a straightforward analysis of how Democrats grew optimistic about maintaining their... read more
War News Updates13 hours ago
Russian Ministry Of Defense Blames Ukraine And Britain For ‘Massive’ Drone Attack On The Crimean Port Of Sevastopol*BBC:* *'Massive' drone attack on Black Sea Fleet - Russia* Ukraine has carried out a "massive" drone attack on the Black Sea Fleet in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, damaging one warship, Russia says. Nine drones were used, a top official said. Ukraine has not commented. Without providing evidence, Russia accused British troops of being involved in that attack - and in blowing up gas pipelines last month. The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) said Russia was "peddling false claims of an epic scale." Saturday's attack comes as Ukrainian troops successfully retake territory o... read more
War News Updates14 hours ago
US ReconnaissanceDdrone RQ-4B Global Hawk Was Tracked Near Sevastopol As The Attack Was In Progress🇺🇸✈️The American reconnaissance drone RQ-4B Global Hawk, which took off from Sicily, has been circling over the neutral waters of the Black Sea near Crimea for several hours pic.twitter.com/oM4lJOZ5tz — AZ 🛰🌏🌍🌎 (@AZgeopolitics) October 29, 2022 *WNU Editor:* I suspect US drones are flying in the region 24/7. But optics is everything, and this has all the looks of being a coordinated attack by Ukraine and NATO against the Russian fleet at Sevastopol. There are now reports (yet to be confirmed) that some Russian warships were damaged in the attack. I am surprised that the t... read more
Climate Collections14 hours ago
Sunak is right to stay away from COP27Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood ? ? Rishi Sunak deserves one of those ‘climate champion’ badges they hand out at primary schools. Why? Because he is not going to fly to the COP27 summit in Egypt – thereby saving 1.65 tonnes of carbon emissions, according to the… read more
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 214 hours ago
"Massive Price Increases At Kroger! How Can People Afford This?"*Full screen recommended.* Adventures with Danno, 10/29/22: *"Massive Price Increases At Kroger! * *How Can People Afford This?"* "In today's vlog we are at Kroger, and are noticing massive price increases! How can people afford this? We are here to check out skyrocketing prices, and a lot of empty shelves! It's getting rough out here as stores seem to be struggling with getting products!" *Comments here:* - https://www.youtube.com/ read more
CURMUDGUCATION14 hours ago
Do Charters Damage The Teacher Pipeline
Well, this is an odd little piece of research. The National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice (REACH), aka Doug Harris, the guy who brought us all that research saying that all-charter New Orleans was hunky dory, has produced a new report looking at how charter schools affect the supply of teachers from university-based education programs. Short version: in cities, when you get more charter schools, you get fewer teachers coming out of college and university teacher prep programs. Harris finds that elementary, math, and special ed suffer the most. . This would b... read more
the daily howler14 hours ago
Carla from Illinois, but also Stephanie Ruhle!*SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2022* *The limits of human discernment: *We listened this morning to the first hour of C-Span's Washington Journal. Mimi Geerges took phone calls from C-Span viewers concerning the violent attack on Paul Pelosi. At 7:44 A.M., a caller on the Republican line offered these thoughts: CARLA FROM ILLINOIS (10/29/22): Good morning. How are you? GEERGES: Good thanks! CARLA FROM ILLINOIS: I'm kind of like on the fringe about all this, because the fact is, is that, *to me, it looks like another one of the Whitmer deals where the FBI has been involved.* *They got s... read more
PrairiePundit14 hours ago
Free speech is scary?Power Line: *THE END OF THE WORLD AS TWITTER KNOWS IT* File this under unintentional humor: Twitter employees are being laid off in San Francisco, and this morning, *Reuters live-streamed employees emerging from the Twitter building with boxes in their arms.* Such is the fear and loathing that the possibility of free speech arouses in the press. ... It is ironic that the same group that labeled Hunter Biden's laptop as misinformation and suppressed content about it is so worried about free speech. It turns out that they were the ultimate source of misinformation about it. read more
PrairiePundit14 hours ago
China's overrated economyBattleswarm Blog: I’ve long thought that, based on the fragmentary evidence we have (the huge debt load, the ghost cities, the known mismanagement and calculation problem of planned communist economies, etc.), the size of China’s economy is overstated by 40%. Now, according to the measurements of one pretty good proxy for economic activity, it appears that I was too trusting and optimistic about the size of China’s economy, in that it’s probably overstated by 60%. ... There is much more. The ghost cities look like a tell on a mismanaged economy suggesting the country is cookin... read more
PrairiePundit14 hours ago
The global warming scamNorman Rogers: ... Steven Koonin, a prominent scientist, has written a book critical of global warming with the title *Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn’t, and Why It Matters*. Plenty of important scientists before him have been critical of global warming, but most of those were not as well connected as Koonin, who held a high position during the Obama administration. Koonin has been harshly attacked by the advocates of global warming doom for not following the party line. Koonin exposes the faulty science behind the global warming doom theory. As a membe... read more
PrairiePundit14 hours ago
Finland and Sweden to join NATO despite Turk oppositionReuters: Finland and Sweden will joint NATO at the same time, their prime ministers said on Friday, presenting a united front to Turkey which has raised questions about both their applications. The Nordic neighbours asked to join the alliance in May in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but ran into objections from Turkey which accused the two of harbouring groups it deems terrorists. Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said on Friday Turkey's president had told her he had more questions for Sweden than for her country. But she said she would not leave Sweden behind in the... read more
PrairiePundit14 hours ago
The exaggerations of the 'climate change' crowdDaily Caller: Something strange just happened in the pages of New York Times’ magazine. They published an eye-opening admission from renowned climate alarmist David Wallace-Wells, titled “Beyond Catastrophe: A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View.” What is this intriguing “new reality”? In short, as Wallace-Wells writes, the “worst-case temperature scenarios that recently seemed plausible now look much less so, which is inarguably good news and … a truly underappreciated sign of genuine and world-shaping progress.” In other words, the apocalypse is canceled. Now, Wallace-Wel... read more
War News Updates14 hours ago
Russian Defense Ministry Says The British Navy Was Involved In Damaging The Nord Stream Pipelines
Russia has previously blamed the West for the explosions last month that ruptured the Russian-built Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines on the bed of the Baltic Sea. Photograph: AP *RT*:* British navy involved in Nord Stream 2 'terrorist attack' – Russia* UK forces participated in an operation which damaged Europe's energy security, Moscow claims Units of the British Navy were involved in a "*terrorist attack*", which destroyed the key Nord Stream gas pipelines, the Russian Defence Ministry alleged on Saturday. Writing on its official Telegram channel, the ministry alleg... read more
PrairiePundit15 hours ago
Democrats never demonized Republicans?Washington Post: Attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband follows years of GOP demonizing her The so-called demonization of Pelosi pales in comparison to that of Donald Trump and even nice guy George W. Bush. In the case of Trump, the media has been demonizing him since he first ran for office, participated in the Russian collusion hoax, and gave itself awards for its false reporting. I suspect the man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi may be advised by counsel to plead not guilty by reason of insanity. read more
musingsofanoldfart17 hours ago
We need leaders to calm the tensionsYesterday, yet another example of why we need civil discourse and leaders to emphasize it, occurred when an assailant broke into Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home and injured her husband, Paul. Whether someone disagrees with Pelosi’s views or even does not … Continue reading → read more
Gangsters Out Blog14 hours ago
World Mayors' Conference of Fake Envorionmentalism
Natural gas would solve Europe's manufactured energy crisis. read more
Turcopolier15 hours ago
Falcon Heavy | USSF-44
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Turcopolier15 hours ago
JPSS 2 (Joint Polar Satellite System Spacecraft No. 2)
https://spacelaunchnow.me/launch/atlas-v-401-jpss-2-joint-polar-satellite-system-sp read more
CENSORED NEWS15 hours ago
MNN: 'Mohawk Mothers -- Excavation Stops and Injunction Starts'Post navigation← PreviousMOHAWK MOTHERS: EXCAVATION STOPS & INJUNCTION STARTSPosted on October 28, 2022Mohawk Nation News https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2022/10/28/mohawk-mothers-excavation-stops-injunction-starts/QUEBEC SUPERIOR COURT DECISION – JUDGE GREGORY MOORE. OCT. 27, 2022. THE ORDER : MNN. Oct. 28, 20220.We are happy to announce yesterday’s successful court decision for the Mohawk read more
No More Mister Nice Blog15 hours ago
YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHY GRINDR IS TRENDING ON TWITTER RIGHT NOW
One of the trending topics on Twitter this morning is Grindr. No, it's not because Twitter is becoming a sex site in the era of Elon Musk. If you click on Grindr on the trending topics list, you get gay porn clips, but you also get this: So Nancy Pelosis husband is secretly gay and his Grindr hookup ended up being a lunatic who attacked him Talk about an October surprise https://t.co/kWxtsWMYRd — Alexander Cortes PhD, Fitness, Nutrition, Fat loss (@AJA_Cortes) October 29, 2022 And this: When your Grindr match "Let's get hammered and fuck" goes wrong. — AcctBannedIn321 (@AcctBann... read more
Mining Awareness +15 hours ago
Ukraine News 28 October 2022“ President honored the memory of the soldiers who gave their lives during the expulsion of the Nazis from Ukraine … Continue reading → read more
From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog15 hours ago
UntitledFrom Jenna Orkin The EPA closed a refinery that rained oil. Now it’s a ‘ticking time bomb.’After Trump called the 2020 election rigged, this rural Ga. county gave his allies access to voting machines Meet an Inventor Making the World More Energy-Efficient Pentagon’s Strategy Won’t Rule Out Nuclear Use Against Non-Nuclear Threats Taiwan CECC casts doubt on wet market origin for COVID Experts say crude oil pipeline from Uganda to Tanzania will produce 25 times host nations’ combined annual emissions As invasion of Ukraine continues, western nations need to tax war profiteers’ windfalls ... read more
Small Dead Animals15 hours ago
“Against the dehumanization of art”“Bumped”, I suppose you could say. Because I was reminded of it. This post was originally published April 19, 2008. The New Criterion link has expired, but you can still read it here. Take your time. “When I was in the army, many years ago, I was an infantryman, and in the course of what… Continue reading → read more
Bacon's Rebellion15 hours ago
Bacon Meme of the Week
Caitlin Johnstone15 hours ago
The Official Narrative On Ukraine
Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The official narrative promoted by the entire western political/media class is that Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February of this year solely because he is evil and hates freedom. He wants to conquer as much of Europe […] read more
Small Dead Animals15 hours ago
European Parliament is wrong to endorse ‘fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty’The European Parliament is wrong to endorse ‘fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty’, writes Deborah Jaremko of the Canadian Energy Centre. In this column carried by Pipeline Online, Jaremko writes about these facts: The world needs oil and gas to function Europe’s largest economy is walking back on renewable energy Renewable energy is not reliable at scale to… Continue reading → read more
OrientalReview.org15 hours ago
War, Propaganda, And BlindnessPropaganda makes you stupid. We know that the Ukrainian integral nationalists have committed abominable massacres, especially during the Second World War. But we don’t know what they have been doing on our doorstep for the last thirty years, including the civil war they have been waging for the last eight years. Our own stupidity allows us to endure the war cries of our political leaders on the side of these criminals. read more
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT16 hours ago
Sunak is right to stay away from COP27By Paul Homewood Rishi Sunak deserves one of those ‘climate champion’ badges they hand out at primary schools. Why? Because he is not going to fly to the COP27 summit in Egypt – thereby saving 1.65 tonnes of carbon emissions, according to the World Land Trust’s carbon calculator. So what if Ed Miliband […] read more
PrairiePundit16 hours ago
Biden's conflict with the SaudisJeff Dunetz: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is not pleased with President Biden and is doing whatever it can to make him look foolish (even though he often does that himself) Despite its long record of Human Rights violations, the U.S. has had a good relationship with the Saudis as they have great power in OPEC and are the leader of the Gulf Sunni Islam states. The top Saudi leadership feels the Biden administration does not show them the respect they deserve and makes decisions that put them in grave danger. At one of the Democratic primary debates, Biden slammed the Saudis for s... read more
PrairiePundit16 hours ago
Mobilization of Russian forces has little impact on warISW: Russian forces are not making significant progress around Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast or anywhere else along the front lines. A Russian information operation is advancing the narrative that Russian forces are making significant progress in Bakhmut, likely to improve morale among Russian forces and possibly to improve the personal standing of Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose forces are largely responsible for the minimal gains in the area. Russian forces have made limited advances towards the Ukrainian strongpoint in Bakhmut but at a very slow speed and at great c... read more
Virtual Mirage16 hours ago
This and ThatBreakfast – an important meal From History WW2 (above) A shot up T-34/76 near the village of Staronikol’skoe, Khokholsky District, Voronezh Oblast, USSR. Note how the machine gun port has been completely blown off and the welds cracked. 1942 This is the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel T-34. Built-in Stalingrad Tractor Plant (STZ). Quality control was […] The post This and That appeared first on Virtual Mirage. read more
Real Climate Science17 hours ago
Safe And EffectiveDoug Brignole bragged about getting the injection and then he died. USA Today is bragging that he died from COVID-19. The Latest US and World News – USA TODAY read more
Komando.com17 hours ago
Best iPhone and Android cases to protect from drops, hold your cards and morePick a new phone cover with this handy guide to the most versatile iPhone and Android cases, including minimalist and card-holding designs. read more
Komando.com18 hours ago
5 iPhone security settings you need to change nowLock down your smartphone the right way with these quick changes. read more
Northern Reflections15 hours ago
What's The Difference?
After the last provincial election in Ontario, Andrea Horvath -- the leader of the NDP -- and Steven Del Ducca -- who led the Ontario Liberals -- resigned. During Ontario's municipal elections, Horvath was elected mayor of Hamilton and Del Ducca was elected mayor of Vaughn, north of Toronto. Donald Trump is still going madly about his country, claiming he won his election. Susan Delacourt writes: Defeat of one kind or another is a constant possibility. In fact, simple arithmetic tells us there are far more losers than winners in every election. Losers, however, are often dispatche... read more
The Rio Times16 hours ago
Brazil will seek wheat in the U.S., Canada and Russia after the shortfall in ArgentinaA shortfall of wheat crops in Argentina by adverse weather conditions such as drought and frost will lead Brazil to seek more significant volumes of grain from alternative sources, such as the United States, Canada, and Russia, to meet their needs, evaluated market experts. In the last commercial year (2021/22, August/July), Brazil imported only about […] read more
Organizing Notes16 hours ago
Nick Turse: My 10 Years of Reporting on AFRICOM
*Click for better view* By Nick Turse What’s the U.S. military doing in Africa? It’s an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, straight-jacketed in secrecy, and hogtied by red tape. Or at least it would be if it were up to the Pentagon. Ten years ago, I embarked on a quest to answer that question at TomDispatch, chronicling a growing American military presence on that continent, a build-up of both logistical capabilities and outposts, and the possibility that far more was occurring out of sight. “Keep your eye on Africa,” I concluded. “The U.S. military is going to make news there for ... read more
UnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page16 hours ago
Seal pup rescued in Jersey transferred to Guernsey for rehabilitationUnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page16 hours ago
Canadian researcher: Deaths of two great whites off Maritimes within weeks 'highly unusual'UnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page16 hours ago
Wanted: Suspected otter attack after three fish found dead by garden pond in SwanmoreUnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page16 hours ago
Three-meter 'rare' tuna fish found washed up on Lincolnshire beach by dog walkerUnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page16 hours ago
Humpback whale found dead in B.C. likely killed by vessel strikeUnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page16 hours ago
Seattle’s aquarium past, from frozen fish to Ivar’s tanks and Namu the orcaUnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page16 hours ago
Go dogfish: Woman breaks Maryland fishing record for shark speciesUnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page16 hours ago
Baby dolphin 'Bowie' reintroduced to natural lagoons at Dolphin Research CenterThe Rio Times16 hours ago
On eve of 2nd round, Lula’s lead fluctuates between 0.8 and 8 pointsThe latest polls show that the gap between Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT, left) and Jair Bolsonaro (PL, right) fluctuates between 0.8 and 8 percentage points a day before the second round of voting. The election will be held on Sunday (Oct. 30). Paraná Pesquisas determined the smallest lead in a poll conducted Oct. […] read more
Socio-Economics History Blog16 hours ago
BREAKING: Russia Blames ‘British Navy’ for Gas Pipeline DamageThe Rio Times16 hours ago
Bolsonaro and Lula da Silva lock last debate before second round in BrazilBrazilian President Jair Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party (PL, right), who is seeking re-election, and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) of the Workers’ Party (PT, left) held their final televised debate Friday night before the second round of elections scheduled for Sunday. The debate, broadcast by the Globo television network, allowed voters […] read more
Vox - All17 hours ago
Who would make Bolsonaro president again?
[image: A woman in a yellow shirt wears a sticker on her forehead supporting Bolsonaro in 2022. Her arms are raised and she is cheering.] A supporter of incumbent PresidentJair Bolsonaro cheers during an October 27 rally in Sao Joao de Meriti, Brazil, ahead of a Sunday run-off election | Wagner Meier/Getty Images How the incumbent president might win — or lose — in Sunday’s runoff. The runoff presidential election in Brazil is close. Right now, the left-wing Workers’ Party (PT) candidate and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva — better known as Lula — remains ahead of the r... read more
Vox - All17 hours ago
The Big Tech boom is over and Wall Street knows it
[image: Mark Zuckerberg’s face on three screens.] Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the virtual Meta Connect event in New York on October 11, 2022. | Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images Meta and the rest aren’t going away, but now they’re big boring companies. Maybe that’s not a terrible thing. Not gonna talk about Elon Musk and Twitter in this one. Okay, just a little: Elon and Twitter are front-page news today, but it’s not the most important story in the tech business.* The story that really matters for tech and business is this one: The giant consumer companies tha... read more
Vox - All17 hours ago
What happens if Bolsonaro wins reelection in Brazil?
[image: Brazilian voters wave red, green, and blue flags supporting presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in an upcoming runoff election.] Supporters of Brazilian presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wave the candidate’s flag on a street in Brasília, the Brazilian capital, on October 22. | Evaristo Sa/AFP via Getty Images The enormous stakes of this weekend’s presidential runoff in Brazil, explained. Brazilian voters on Sunday will decide which of two longtime political fixtures they want to return to the country’s top elected office: incumbent President Ja... read more
Welcome Back to Pottersville17 hours ago
Pottersville Digest
------------------------------ Somehow, it doesn't surprise me this is happening in a county with a guy named Mark Kampf in the mix. ------------------------------ Sound, solid advice. I always vote straight Democratic even for the down ballot races. They're not garnishes that you're expected to leave on your plate. These folks deserve your vote, too. ------------------------------ So begins Twitter's transformation into the next Myspace, hence inevitable irrelevance. ------------------------------ Someone needs to tell these right wing "pundits" who are jeering the... read more
The Duran18 hours ago
Musk, bird is free, Starlink is on. Prague massive protests. Greece, Poland; German reparations. U/1
Musk, bird is free, Starlink is on. Prague massive protests. Greece, Poland; German reparations. U/1 Topic 753 read more
Small Dead Animals19 hours ago
One Flu Out Of The Wuhan NestOh. For a long time, there was a large and seemingly ever-growing pile of circumstantial evidence pointing to the possibility that a lab leak or accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the cause of the Covid-19 pandemic. But there wasn’t a smoking gun, something akin to a confession or a contemporaneous internal communication… Continue reading → read more
SNIPPITS AND SNAPPITS18 hours ago
SATURDAY CARTOONS: KEEP PLANTING SEEDS: OCTOBER 29, 2022
Some day..... Possibly the fellow with the children calls his friend after the swim lessons and says, "OK, now tell me about that theory you came up with." You never mess with swim schedules, Now illegal crossing is no problem in Canada. The illegals are rewarded upon arrival. The mounties meet them at the crossings and escort them into the country. Not joking. They arrive, well dressed and fed, good quality luggage, and are put into cabs and sent to Montreal. How on earth do other nations have election results by the late evening? Italy's recent resul... read more
Vox - All18 hours ago
Republicans are gaining the upper hand in 2 states key to Democrats’ future
[image: An illustration shows maps of Nevada and Arizona on blue pieces of paper.] Amanda Northrop/Vox Missteps and bad luck in 2022 may set back Democrats in Arizona and Nevada for years to come. For years, Democrats, and some political experts, believed the increasing diversity of the Sun Belt states might change the country’s political dynamics. The idea was simple: changing demographics meant Democrats were destined to win. Pandemic migration only fueled this belief: The fastest-growing cities in the country between 2020 and 2021 were located in the South and West, opening ne... read more
Covert Geopolitics18 hours ago
Propaganda Was Invented by The British and Americans in World War 1Propaganda makes you stupid. We know that the Ukrainian integral nationalists have committed abominable massacres, especially during the Second World War. But we don’t know what they have been doing on our doorstep for the last thirty years, including the civil war they have been waging for the last eight years. Our own stupidity allows … Continue reading Propaganda Was Invented by The British and Americans in World War 1 → read more
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