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Ukraine: The War That Went Wrong
Post Date: 2023-02-07 18:21:00 by Charles_Byrd
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Empires in terminal decline leap from one military fiasco to the next. The war in Ukraine, another bungled attempt to reassert U.S. global hegemony, fits this pattern. The danger is that the more dire things look, the more the U.S. will escalate the conflict, potentially provoking open confrontation with Russia. If Russia carries out retaliatory attacks on supply and training bases in neighboring NATO countries, or uses tactical nuclear weapons, NATO will almost certainly respond by attacking Russian forces. We will have ignited World War III, which could result in a nuclear holocaust. U.S. military support for Ukraine began with the basics — ammunition and assault weapons. The Biden ...
Another Recession Sign: Part-Time Work Is Growing Faster than Full-Time Work
Post Date: 2023-02-07 18:18:56 by Charles_Byrd
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The Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS) released new jobs data on Friday. According to the report, seasonally adjusted total nonfarm jobs rose 517,000 jobs, which was well above expectations. The words used by the media to describe the report included “stunner” and “wow.” President Joe Biden claimed the number proves his administration has delivered economic prosperity. The administration has also noted that in the official numbers, the unemployment rate is at a multidecade low. This, Biden and his supporters insist, proves the economy is remarkably strong. There are at least a few things going on that are problematic for this narrative, however. For one, the Fed is ...
Internal Pink Floyd Feud Reignited Amid Antisemitism Accusations
Post Date: 2023-02-07 18:17:25 by Charles_Byrd
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David Gilmour has taken aim at his former Pink Floyd bandmate Roger Waters, reigniting a decadeslong feud between the pair. The tensions arose Monday when Gilmour's wife, Polly Samson, took to Twitter to slam Waters for being "antisemitic to your rotten core." Click for Full Text!
No Freedom of Car Choice? Thank Blue State Tyrants
Post Date: 2023-02-07 18:14:44 by Charles_Byrd
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Electric cars have always been more expensive to buy than the gasoline- powered cars normal people buy — that’s why electric buyers can also harvest taxpayer subsidies — but that initial price was supposed to be offset by much lower operating cost. Why charging an electric vehicle (EV) is no more expensive than running 10 or 15 hair dryers! Click for Full Text!
Prohibiting Guns for Marijuana Users Ruled Unconstitutional
Post Date: 2023-02-07 18:12:28 by Charles_Byrd
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A federal district judge in Oklahoma ruled Friday that a federal law prohibiting people who use marijuana from owning firearms is unconstitutional, citing a recent U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruling that significantly expanded gun rights. This is the latest challenge to firearms regulations since the conservative-majority SCOTUS set new standards last year for interpreting the Second Amendment. In United States of America v. Jared Michael Harrison, defense attorneys argued that Harrison’s Second Amendment rights were being violated by the Gun Control Act, which makes it illegal for anyone “who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance” to possess ...
The Price-Gouging State
Post Date: 2023-02-07 17:41:21 by Charles_Byrd
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Friends and family are talking, on Facebook, about the rapid rise in the price of eggs. Their posts also report that there are plenty of eggs in the dairy sections of local grocery stores. A few people, along with some reporters, blame this rapid increase in the price of eggs on price- gouging corporations. State governments take price gouging seriously. Section 396-R of New York’s General Business law defines price gouging as “unconscionably excessive pricing of essential goods and services during any abnormal disruption of the market, such as severe weather, power outages, strikes, or national or local emergencies.” This law also prohibits price gouging “by all ...
Brickbat: Finger-Licking Good
Post Date: 2023-02-07 17:36:40 by Charles_Byrd
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Vera Liddell, former director of food services at Harvey School District 152 in Illinois, has been charged with financial crimes and theft. The Cook County State's Attorney's office said Liddell embezzled some $1.5 million in chicken wings from the school system. Liddell placed orders for the food from July 2020 to February 2022 through the school's food vendor. And she picked it up in a school van. But the orders weren't authorized. The district doesn't even serve wings. Click for Full Text!
The Not-So-Great Depression Diet
Post Date: 2023-02-07 17:34:32 by Charles_Byrd
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When E.C. Harwood formed the American Institute for Economic Research 90 years ago, the New Deal was just beginning. The Great Depression, though, was over three years old, and it was a hangry, troublesome toddler. For those with a job, or on a fixed income, the Depression was great, because prices sank a great deal. Unlike today, real wages, or in other words wages adjusted for the declining price level, remained high for many. Click for Full Text!
Yes, the US Government Has Defaulted Before
Post Date: 2023-02-07 17:32:37 by Charles_Byrd
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The regime is trying to whip up maximum hysteria or the chances that the US government could default on its debts if the debt ceiling is not raised. Anyone whose been paying attention for a while, however, knows there's a 99.99 percent chance that the parties involved will soon raise the debt ceiling and the US will go back to adding to its $30-trillion-plus debt hoard as usual. Yet the political posturing over the debt ceiling always offers the media and Democratic politicians a chance to assure us that any default will bring about a second Great Depression and financial collapse. Click for Full Text!
BREAKING - mRNA Vaccine ... Paralyzes Young Girl --- Now Wheelchair Bound
Post Date: 2023-02-07 01:26:47 by BorisY
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BREAKING: mRNA Vaccine Paralyzes Young Girl; Now Wheelchair Bound Feb 6, 2023 Rachel Gierth, 23, lost feeling and function in her legs twice after a second dose of the COVID vaccine. Some doctors believe the two events to be related. On September 2021, young Rachel Gierth took her second dose of the Moderna injection and almost two weeks after she began noticing visual impairments like spots in her vision and extreme fatigue. Rachel was in a constant state of cold, feeling freezing to the touch. Not long after her initial cold symptoms, she lost her ability to walk. The painful pins-and-needles in her legs quickly progressed to numbness, then spontaneous shaking, which spread to the ...
Lauterbach in 2020: "Schools drive the pandemic, the research is clear." Lauterbach in 2023: The belief that many infections occur in schools and day-care centres “did not prove to be correct"
Post Date: 2023-02-06 16:36:37 by Charles_Byrd
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Chief German pandemic botherer and renowned virus pest Karl Lauterbach in November 2020: Here’s a good, topical summary on the question of whether schools are driving the second wave, whether they’re sites of superspreading, what the research shows. Dr. Zoe Hyde, an expert on Covid in children, says the research is clear, schools cause clusters of infections, they drive the pandemic, the research is clear. I agree. Click for Full Text!
Tyre Nichols’s Death Proves Yet Again That ‘Elite’ Police Units Are a Disaster
Post Date: 2023-02-06 16:34:32 by Charles_Byrd
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The website of the Memphis Police Department includes an entire section called “Reimagine Policing.” The introduction emphasizes that trust is the key to effective law enforcement and proclaims the department’s participation in reform efforts such as President Barack Obama’s 21st Century Policing program, de-escalation training and the “8 Can’t Wait” reforms proposed by the group Campaign Zero. Yet in 2021, as homicides in the city soared, the city announced the formation of the Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods, or SCORPION. The teams, which included four groups of 10 officers each, would saturate crime hot spots in the ...
Local Gov't Internet Is No Solution
Post Date: 2023-02-06 16:32:05 by Charles_Byrd
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If you're connected to Wi-Fi while reading this article, you might be interested in testing your internet speed, which you can do with a simple online search to check your download speed. The highest median download speed in the United States is in Minnesota, with 100 megabytes per second, which is great for all work and entertainment uses. However, while high-density states such as New Jersey, New York, or Washington D.C are high, those states with more rural communities suffer from much lower internet speed: Mississippi, Vermont, Wyoming, and Alaska all rate the lowest in the U.S with less than 40 Mbps median speed. Click for Full Text!
WE NEED TO STOP THIS | Jimmy Dore’s Epic RANT About Ukraine War
Post Date: 2023-02-06 16:29:49 by Charles_Byrd
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I recently spoke with Jimmy Dore about the war in Ukraine - who is really benefiting, why the US are involved & what you can do to stop it! #war #russia #ukraine Interested in the Rally please visit for more info: https://rageagainstwar.com/ Click for Full Text!
Justice Denied
Post Date: 2023-02-06 16:13:04 by Charles_Byrd
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I have been trying to determine which strategy currently being used by our elite rulers is the most problematic for “We the People” to recognize and understand as the means by which we are constantly being hoodwinked and controlled. And as I read once again about this or that fraud (or worse!) having been “revealed” and as a consequence of that revelation, will shortly be brought to court – coupled with the intimation that this procedure will lead to “justice” – I realized that perhaps the first thing necessary these days is to humanely end the presumption that interaction with American courts equals the possibility of justice for the people of ...
Top Bush Lawyer Admits Guantánamo Military Commissions ‘Doomed From the Start’
Post Date: 2023-02-06 16:10:56 by Charles_Byrd
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Ted Olson – the former US solicitor-general in the George W. Bush administration who argued against basic legal rights for Guantánamo Bay prisoners and defended their indefinite detention and torture – made a stunning admission Thursday: The Gitmo military commissions don't work and should be shut down, and the government should strike plea deals with 9/11 defendants held at the prison. In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Olson – perhaps best known for his consequential reversal on the issue of same-sex marriage equality – wrote that he "led a special team of lawyers tasked with overseeing all court challenges to the government's policy of ...
Fuller a Pioneer of Solar Energy
Post Date: 2023-02-06 16:09:15 by Charles_Byrd
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Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was a creative thinker who came up with amazingly innovative ideas. Although he didn't invent the geodesic dome, he recognized its potential, invented the word with which we refer to it today, and popularized it. His "dome" got Fuller a lot of attention. However I would argue that another of his ideas — for which he has received little attention and credit — was far more important. This idea, which he proposed in the 1930s, was to connect the entire planet into a single electrical grid. Such a grid could help save us from a runaway climate. Click for Full Text!
Innovation in all fields of research and invention has entered a uniform, precipitous decline since at least 1945
Post Date: 2023-02-06 16:05:48 by Charles_Byrd
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I’ve been silent for a few days, because the latest volume of the journal I edit is about to go to press, and this means I must spend hours imposing consistency and accuracy upon unbelievably tedious minutiae in footnotes that nobody will ever read or care about. There are assistants who should in theory do this work for me, but I have learned that their involvement is to be minimised, as they’re just as likely to introduce more problems as they are to solve them, and even when they don’t mess up, they never return pristine edited files. Instead, after weeks, they proudly forward heavily annotated PDFs, which I must then painstakingly correct regardless. In short, academic ...
America Is Once More Safe for Democracy After 'Terrorist' Balloon Shot Down!
Post Date: 2023-02-06 16:03:58 by Charles_Byrd
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Imagine the angst of the people, especially the politicians, when a balloon floated slowly for everyone to see across these United States, gaining more and more press all the time. Of course it was a killer Chinese balloon; what else could it be? The news anchors at every mainstream media outlet in the country had the exact same story as it floated over my home state of Montana, and it was of course completely wrong. Airports were shut down, politicians were screaming, as the dire threat of a balloon filled the skies. The puppet pontificators, along with the military heads were very perplexed, and said there was an ‘indication’ that a balloon possibly from China was traveling ...
Stoics in the Shining City
Post Date: 2023-02-06 16:02:27 by Charles_Byrd
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Ridley Scott’s 2000 masterpiece Gladiator stands as one of the most important films of the 21st century, and one of the greatest action movies in cinematic history. Replete with exciting battle scenes and gladiatorial contests, the film dazzled audiences and helped revive the “sword and sandal” genre for the post-millennial era. The film was not merely spectacle, however. There were several scenes in the film in which characters philosophized on the meaning of life, giving many viewers their first exposure to the pagan Roman philosophy par excellence: Stoicism. Stoicism seemed out of place in 2000, the year in which an Evangelical Christian, George W. Bush, would take the ...
Zelensky Warns Major Russian Offensive Is Looming
Post Date: 2023-02-06 16:00:04 by Charles_Byrd
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday warned that Russia is amassing troops and that a major Russian offensive is coming. “Now Russia is concentrating its forces. We all know that. It is preparing to try to take revenge, not only against Ukraine, but against a free Europe and the free world,” Zelensky said alongside European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen, who was in Kyiv ahead of an EU summit in the city. Click for Full Text!
Pro-Life Students File Lawsuit After Kicked Out From Smithsonian
Post Date: 2023-02-06 15:51:34 by Charles_Byrd
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Students from Our Lady of the Rosary High School attending the National March for Life were kicked out of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum for wearing hats with pro-life messages on them. Security guards claimed to the students that the museum was a ‘neutral zone’ and they were required to either take the hats off or leave the premises. In response to this expulsion, the student’s parents are filing a lawsuit with the American Center for Law & Justice. As the students entered the museum, staff reportedly mocked the students and hurled expletives at them. The museum staff wanted to refrain from allowing controversial opinions to appear inside. However, ...
The deeply flawed campaign for racial reparations
Post Date: 2023-02-06 15:48:31 by Charles_Byrd
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IN DECEMBER, Boston's City Council voted to craft a plan to pay reparations for slavery and its aftermath. The vote was unanimous, and the councilor who authored the resolution called it "the start of a long- awaited yet necessary conversation" about racial reparations. The start? America's "conversation" about paying reparations for the harm caused by slavery has been underway for decades. Click for Full Text!
Pentagon Tells Lawmakers Ukraine Unlikely to Retake Crimea
Post Date: 2023-02-06 15:46:36 by Charles_Byrd
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Senior Pentagon officials told lawmakers in the House Armed Services Committee last week in a classified briefing that Ukraine is unlikely to retake Crimea from Russia, POLITICO reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the briefing. The briefing reflects other recent reporting that said US officials don’t think Ukraine has the capability to take the peninsula, which Russia has controlled since 2014. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said back in November that the probability of Ukraine kicking Russia out of the territory it captured since last February and Crimea is “not high.” Click for Full Text!
War Racketeers Won’t Reform Themselves
Post Date: 2023-02-06 15:26:13 by Charles_Byrd
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My name is Bill Astore and I’m a card-carrying member of the military- industrial complex (MIC). Sure, I hung up my military uniform for the last time in 2005. Since 2007, I’ve been writing articles for TomDispatch focused largely on critiquing that same MIC and America’s permanent war economy. I’ve written against this country’s wasteful and unwise wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its costly and disastrous weapons systems, and its undemocratic embrace of warriors and militarism. Nevertheless, I remain a lieutenant colonel, if a retired one. I still have my military ID card, if only to get on bases, and I still tend to say “we” when I talk about my fellow ...
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