California Ready to Ask People to Conserve Energy, Avoid ‘Charging Electric Vehicles’ https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/08/california-ready-to-ask-people-to-conserve-energy-avoid-charging-electric-vehicles/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=california-ready-to-ask-people-to-conserve-energy-avoid-charging-electric-vehicles
Now that is funny!
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https://schiffgold.com/key-gold-news/somebody-has-to-pay-for-student-loan-forgiveness/
Somebody Has to Pay for Student Loan Forgiveness
August 24, 2022 by Michael Maharrey
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President Biden is expected to announce student loan forgiveness on Wednesday (Aug. 24). The plan will reportedly cancel $10,000 in student loan debt for anybody making less than $125,000 per year.
A lot of people think this is like waving a magic wand — poof — the debt is gone. But somebody has to pay and that somebody is the American taxpayer.
Nothing the government does is free. Ultimately, student loan debt forgiveness will add to the already massive budget deficit. That means Uncle Sam will have to borrow more money that taxpayers will have to repay, either in higher taxes or the inflation tax.
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And we know who all pay — the Taxpayers.
The economy will have more inflation to deal with and the moral hazards keep piling up!
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Billionaires Spend $3 Million Against Trump-Endorsed Kelly Tshibaka, Lisa Murkowski’s Opponent
Wendell Huseb 22 Aug 2022
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Billionaires from the L.I.S.A. super PAC have donated nearly $3 million against Trump-endorsed Alaskan Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka, the opponent of establishment and pro-impeachment incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).
L.I.S.A, which reportedly stands for “Leadership in a Strong Alaska,” only backs one candidate, Murkowski. The main PAC contributors are hedge fund managers Ken Griffin, John Arnold, and Louis Bacon, who, respectively, contributed $1.5 million, $500,000, and $50,000. “James and Kathryn Murdoch, the politically moderate heirs to the Murdoch media empire, have each given $250,000,” Forbes reported:
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I heard, on one of the many podcasts that I listen to, the idea that politicians should only be able to take campaign contributions from folks who can vote for them.
I like that idea.
Every politician should be required to post where their money comes from.
Maybe jackets like NASCAR?
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Two Michigan Men Convicted of Conspiracy to Kidnap Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
Posted by Mary Chastain Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 01:00pm
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The entrapment accusation came out in July 2021 by BuzzFeed of all places. The outlet reviewed the evidence and found out that at least 12 of the FBI confidential informants had a larger role in the plot:
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Julie Kelly had a great thread:
*Limited cross examin by defense (for 1st time he said, also extremely rare in criminal cases) of 2 cooperating witnesses allegedly part of the conspiracy
*Repeatedly scolded defense in front of jury; accused defense of wasting time over “crap” questioning
*Gave unwieldy…
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) August 23, 2022
Judge Jonker, a GWB appointee, handled this trial far differently than the first.
You’re telling me a jury didn’t convict on a SINGLE COUNT in first trial with 2 more defendants but returned all guilty in less than half the time with 2 fewer defendants?
Jonker got the message.
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) August 23, 2022
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I hope there’s an appeal. I’d contribute to a defense fund.
Yes, they were stupid bozos but the FBI did the entrapment.
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UN diplomat dodges NYC rape rap thanks to diplomatic immunity: cops
8/22/2022, 5:05:31 PM · by thegagline · 28 replies
The New York Post ^ | 08/22/2022 | Tina Moore, Amanda Woods, Kyle Schnitzer
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A United Nations diplomat from Africa was accused of raping one of his neighbors in Upper Manhattan over the weekend — but NYPD cops released him because he has diplomatic immunity, authorities said Monday. Charles Dickens Imene Oliha, 46 — a career diplomat for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in South Sudan — was arrested in Sunday’s alleged sex assault on a woman inside her apartment around noon, according to a police report obtained by The Post. Oliha was taken into custody on suspicion of rape and brought in for questioning, cops said. But once he informed…
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Seems simple enough.
Too many parking tickets — PNG!
Too many complaints — PNG!
A rape complaint — PNG!
Person Non Grata
Use it more often and “diplomats” will behave like civilized human beings.
And, in a spirit of reciprocity, if the USA’s “diplomats” misbehave, then if they can’t be fired, reassign them to Sitka Alaska. (Where I am told there’s a woman behind every tree!)
Argh!
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https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/meet-the-youtuber-divers-claiming-to-have-found-kiely-rodni/
These YouTube divers did in one day what cops couldn’t do in two weeks in Kiely Rodni search
By Lee Brown
August 22, 2022 10:49am Updated
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They’re the deep-diving YouTubers who claim to have found missing California teen Kiely Rodni in less than a full day of looking — even after authorities spent nearly 20,000 man-hours failing to find her.
Adventures With Purpose started searching Prosser Creek Reservoir on Sunday — and within hours found what they believe is the 16-year-old’s 2013 Honda CRV with a body inside.
“WE JUST FOUND KIELY RODNI,” the volunteer group claimed on Facebook, ahead of local authorities confirming that the body was indeed the teen who went missing after a nearby graduation party on Aug. 6.
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The various agencies of Gooferment bragged about how much effort they put into the search. Only to “eat crow” when private citizens found her in less than a day.
I guess it all depends upon your motivation, tools, and training.
Like Uvalde, “who would build the roads” argument, but in this case it’s “who will find the bodies”!
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Police confirm gang made up of an 11-YEAR-OLD boy as well as teens aged 13, 14, and 18 brutally beat and robbed Asian woman, 70, in San Francisco
By Vanessa Serna and James Gordon For Dailymail.com
Published: 20:52 EDT, 21 August 2022 | Updated: 23:56 EDT, 21 August 2022
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Police have confirmed an 11-year-old was involved in the brutal beating and robbery of a 70-year-old woman in San Francisco earlier this month.
Horrific video footage shows a 70-year-old Asian woman being attacked by a group of juveniles in broad daylight.
It has now been revealed how together with the 11-year-old, a group of teenagers aged 13, 14 and 18-years-old also participated in the attack.
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“God made men and women; Sam colt made them equal.” — Unknown
If this woman was armed and trained, then she should have been able to resist the muggers.
Despite most of their ages, she should have ended the attack by giving them “their shots” that they so richly deserve.
They may be young, but they are “feral animals” that should be put down.
Sad to say, but they deserve no mercy.
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On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 10:26 AM {REDACTED} wrote:
As a matter of curiosity, FJohn, have you kept a count over the years of how many predictions by conspiracy “exposers” have ever actually turned out to be accurate? On a percentage basis, maybe?
Best,{REDACTED}
“…le philosophe n’a jamais tué de prêtres et le prêtre a tué beaucoup de philosophes…”
― Denis Diderot
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No, I haven’t. But, it is IMHO surprisingly high. For example, I blog under the heading of “tin foil hat” all the ones I hear about. For example, TWA flight 800 was probably shot down by a Navy frigate by accident. It was covered up by the Navy and the various Gooferment agencies. Of course, it was dismissed as “yet another conspiracy theory”. Just recently, after some number of years, credible testimony comes out that it was the Navy. Now, of course, no one will formally admit that it was. I guess too many lawsuits by the families and all the “tin foil hats” that were intimidated and disparaged. Here’s a screen shot of the many blog postings I ranted about.
Now granted that is just one example, but there are many many others. That’s why a lot (half?) the country doesn’t believe the Gooferment, politicians, bureaucrats, the media, or “celebrities’. “I wouldn’t believe you, if your tongue came notarized.” … attributed to Judge Marilyn Milian, but may have an earlier history.
Sorry, but I’ve been red pilled for a while. For me, it started with the JFK assassination. I was never a “gun nut” but was always interested in them. When I heard what Oswald allegedly used as a rife, the distance, and angle, I began to suspect that this whole store was “barbara streisand” (i.e., BS; bull <synonym for excrement>). I also took note of a Dorthy Killgalan’s murder; she was hot on the trail of the story of JFK’s assasination.
If you think it would be “interesting” or useful, I could begin to create an itemized list. I did start to develop a taxonomy or scale for a Conspiracy Theory meter. So, for example, I’d categorize TWA 800 as “Governmental (Conspiracy Theory)” and set the dial from “plausible” to “more likely than not”. I’m just waiting for the chance to move it to “proven” when the Gooferment formally admits its actions.
Maybe if DJT45 becomes DJT47, it could happen. But I’m not holding my breath.
This is probably more than you wanted to know, but I’ll make a good blog post.
Laugh!Crazy Old Ferd
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The terms “red pill” and “blue pill” refer to a choice between the willingness to learn a potentially unsettling or life-changing truth by taking the red pill or remaining in contented ignorance with the blue pill. The terms refer to a scene in the 1999 film The Matrix.
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Clearly, like all “good” Conspiracy Theories, it has some plausibility. Money, motive, opportunity … …. and best of all it has “that’s just crazy” defense.
I’ll have to dig out my “conspiracy theory” ruler to measure how to label this.
Remember my 2010 taxonomy on conspiracy theory: (1) Government; (2) Political; (3) Historical; and (4) Miscellaneous. S0 I may have to add a “Commercial” category. Can’t find my conspiracy theory ruler. Guess I’ll have to reinvent it. Argh! The scale would go from “Generally Accepted As True” all the way to “Generally Accepted As False” with “tab stops” at “unlikely”, “plausible”, “possible”, “less likely than not”, “more likely than not”.
I welcome input on my scale.For this one, I’d assign it a label of “plausible”. I take no opinions but would like to see evidence (i.e., a Pfizer email; a check to the parties involved). Rumors and innuendo can move it on the scale.
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Conspiracy Theory Taxonomy and Ruler
* Governmental
* Political
* Historical
* Commercial
* Miscellaneous
Conspiracy Theory Taxonomy Ruler
1. Generally Accepted As True
2. Unlikely
3. Plausible
4. Possible
5. More likely than not
6. Less likely than not
7. Generally Accepted As False
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https://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/how-when-do-we-come-together-again/
How, When, Do We Come Together Again?
Pat Buchanan • August 16, 2022
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Nor is it only clashing morality that divides us.
For a nation, a country, a people, a democracy to endure, there needs be a broad consensus of belief, culture, custom and politics.
On the issue of law and order, without which a republic cannot stand, there is now disagreement over the role and conduct of our police.
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Has the great experiment run its course?
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Yes, inho
FROM LUDDITE:
Not sure it has “run its course yet”, but it surely can be seen on the horizon. Too bad, since it could have worked great indefinitely, I wonder what analysts will say at the end about what could have been done to keep it from failing?
True. I point to the killing of the black churches and families with LBJ’s “Great Society” welfare rules. It created 4 generations of welfare farmers.
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Upon reflection, Brion McClanahan points to the “Civil War” aka “The War of Northern Aggression” as the transformation from A Federal Republic to a monolithic “identify nation”. Hard to argue with him. (His credentials are vastly superior to mine.) The downward spiral certainly started there and just kept sliding at an accelerating pace. Destroyed the churches. Destroyed the civil society. Destroyed the mutual aid societies.
Sadly.
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https://nypost.com/2022/08/15/shannon-bream-fired-from-first-job-i-was-worst-person-hed-seen-on-tv/
Shannon Bream fired from first job by ‘man who said I was worst person he’d seen on TV’
By Ariel Zilber
August 15, 2022 10:48am Updated
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Shannon Bream, who has been tapped by the Fox News Channel to moderate its flagship Sunday morning political talk show, said that she was fired from her first job in television by a man “who told me I was the worst person he’d ever seen on TV.”
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There is always room for improvement, and believe me I needed it.”
Bream, a devout Christian and graduate of the evangelical Liberty University, tweeted: “I got a healthy serving of humility, and learned that God often allows us to walk through valleys – for our own good.”
“That was also true when I spent years in chronic pain and was ultimately diagnosed with a genetic condition that has no cure.”
In 2018, Bream revealed that she suffers from excruciating eye pain caused by epithelial basement membrane dystrophy, which is an incurable genetic disorder of the eye.
The painful condition causes the surface cells of the eye to adhere to the eyelids.
Bream says that her career obstacles and health challenges have only served to better her.
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I think this says volumes about this woman’s achievements
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(POLL) Most Americans still oppose the military draft
Despite the recruitment efforts by the U.S. military, fewer than one-in-four Americans are in favor of a military draft. This is according to the latest Rasmussen Reports. The survey found that 23% of American adults think the United States should have a military draft. Sixty-one percent (61%) see no need for a draft and 14%
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(POLL) Most Americans still oppose the military draft
Dated: August 14, 2022 by Sharyl Attkisson
Emmy-Award Winning Investigative Journalist, New York Times Best Selling Author, Host of Sinclair’s Full Measure
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Despite the recruitment efforts by the U.S. military, fewer than one-in-four Americans are in favor of a military draft.
This is according to the latest Rasmussen Reports.
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I’d be interested what veterans think. Of course, they can’t poll the KIAs and MIAs.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. — Herbert Hoover
I can’t imagine that ANY vet would want a draftee in the foxhole with them.
I still don’t understand women in the military. In Israel, where ere is no front line or safe rear area, I understand that everyone fights. (Reminds me of Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, there is a line that goes something like “everyone drops (parachutes) in and everybody fights”.
That being said, the only reason for the draft’s continued existence is it provides a Gooferment paycheck to an entrenched bureaucracy. Charles Rangel (imho a stopped clock) every session introduced legislation to end the draft. I always agreed with him on that. (Didn’t the Fourteenth Amendment eliminate slavery?)
Argh!
#endthedraft
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Bricked Epson Printers Make a Strong Case For User Repairability
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Epson has gained some scrutiny in recent weeks after the company disabled a printer that was otherwise working fine, leading to accusations of planned obsolescence. Epson knows its printers will stop working without simple maintenance at a predictable point in the future, and it knows that it won’t be cost-effective for many owners to send their home printers in for service. So why not build them to be user serviceable in the first place? The Verge:
The inciting post from @marktavern mentions that his wife was unable to use her “very expensive Epson printer” after an end-of-service error message appeared. This isn’t anything new for Epson printers, sadly. Reports going back several years mention an infamous error message that reads “parts inside the printer have reached the end of their service life.” Epson confirmed to The Verge that the error is related to the printer’s ink pads, which had likely become saturated through extended use and were now at risk of spilling into the rest of the printer mechanism.
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Sounds like consumer fraud to me. I never heard of such nonsense.
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https://spectatorworld.com/topic/fbi-rubicon-donald-trump-mar-a-lago-raid/
Law
Where is the FBI’s Rubicon? After the Mar-a-Lago raid, when will the public stop standing for this?
August 12, 2022 | 10:13 am
By Roger Kimball
Roger Kimball is the editor and publisher of the New Criterion, publisher of Encounter Books and a Spectator columnist and contributing editor.
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Everyone knows that in January 49 BC Julius Caesar, about to lead part of his army across the Rubicon river, said “Alea iacta est,” “the die is cast.” Except that, according to Plutarch, what he really said was “Ἀνερρίφθω κύβος,” “let the die be cast,” and he did not so much say it as quote it, since the already-proverbial line came from the Greek playwright Menander. Anyway, in bringing an army across the stream that separated cis-Alpine Gaul from Italy proper, Caesar had committed treason. In crossing the Rubicon he had crossed a line, sparking the civil war that engulfed Rome and formalized the end of the Republic that had, as Caesar himself noted, been dead in all-but-name-only for decades.
Contemplating the recent actions of our secret police, known to some as the FBI, I have often wondered where to locate their Rubicon. Was it when they conducted a dawn raid against Roger Stone, having been careful to alert CNN beforehand so they could be on hand to publicize the attack? Maybe it was when they burst into the apartment of Project Veritas’s James O’Keefe, throwing him out in the hallway in his pajamas, while they ransacked his home looking for a diary kept by Joe Biden’s daughter? Or perhaps it was when they arrested former Trump aide Peter Navarro, throwing him in handcuffs and leg irons before depositing him in jail? Or when they accosted the lawyer John Eastman and confiscated his cell phone? That seems to have become a favorite pastime of the FBI, seizing people’s cell phones. Just a couple of days ago, they took Representative Scott Perry’s phone. “But,” you point out, “Perry is a Republican and Trump ally. He has no property rights.”
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But the question remains: will the American people accept that the FBI has become the Praetorian Guard for the regime? I don’t know. I hope not. Harvey Silverglate is right: given its history of lawless behavior, “it is remarkable that no sitting president has moved to abolish the FBI.” Of course, it won’t happen on Biden’s, er, watch (or during his naps). But one way or another, the FBI must be dismantled. “We need an entirely new agency,” as Silverglate observed, “and a director who has no history of having worked in or with the FBI. Agency culture is a powerful force, and if we are to have any success in ridding the nation of this menace, we best eradicate it completely and start over.”
“Eradicate it completely and start over.” I couldn’t agree more. Will this partisan assault on a once (and possibly future) president be the Rubicon we’ve been waiting for? Let’s see.
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It has definitely crossed the line and demonstrated that it’s now a political tool. That’s what the Dead Old White Guys feared most — “private militias”. Rogue “law enforcement”. Tyrants with their “standing armies”.
It’s up to the next President and Congress to tear this agency down and, where important and salvageable, move components to appropriate places.
#endthefbi
The Federal Gooferment needs to return to it’s very limited nightwatchman’s role.
It does that by eleimating whole Departments. Education and Agriculture come immediately to mind. Followed by the FDA, CDC, BATF, Homeland Security, and even the Department of Energy.
Argh!
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Rome High School football players rush to assist motorist trapped in car
By John Bailey JBailey@RN-T.com 8 hrs ago
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A group of Rome High School football players rushed to the aid of a motorist involved in a wreck in front of the high school Friday morning.
The wreck involved a small silver sedan that had been damaged after another car pulled in front of it, according to Rome police. When teens noticed the driver was stuck in the vehicle, which began smoking, they rushed to her aid.
“This morning I witnessed something amazing that our Football players did. While I was in front of the school during my morning duty, I heard a loud noise at the intersection that appeared to be a wreck,” Luis Goya, a teacher at Rome City Schools said in a post to his social media page. “While I was running to the intersection, I noticed that two cars were involved. There was a 50-year-old lady trapped in her car and couldn’t get out. Smoke started to come out of the car, and fluid started to spill everywhere in the intersection. The door was jammed and in terrible shape.”
“While I was on the phone with the 911 dispatcher, the football players who witnessed the wreck, ran to the car, and started helping the lady. They literally started using their strength to pry the door open, so the lady could be released,” Goya wrote. “After a few seconds of pulling and pushing the door, the boys ended up opening it and helped her get out of the car. She was shaking and still in panic, but our RHS boys gave her comfort and were able to help her.”
The players were identified as Cesar Parker, Treyvon Adams, Antwiion Carey, Messiah Daniels, Tyson Brown and Alto Moore.
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Right place at the right time to have an accident.
These men didn’t know if that car was going to blow up and kill them. They just saw a fellow human in trouble and reacted. That makes it heroic to me.
I guess all the media stereotype about today’s youth are wrong. These guys are action heroes.
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Got a new roomba
PIA
I didn’t pick it, I’m just tech support.
Argh!
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https://mailchi.mp/ronpaulinstitute/ronright?e=50cfeec56e
Covid RIP… and Ron Paul was Right.
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So yes, Dr. Paul was prescient in 1988 when he warned about the FBI as a political weapon – as we’ve seen it again used this week against a former US President. But he also simply understood the truth about the nature of government: that the more of it we have, the more temptation for the elites to bend power to better fulfill their end-goal of total control. Politics is about power. It is war by other means.
In a similar vein, and almost under the radar, the CDC just announced that everything they had been demanding and telling us for the past two plus years has been a lie. It doesn’t matter if you stand six feet away from people, it doesn’t matter if you are vaccinated or unvaccinated. You don’t need to quarantine. Kids can stay in school if someone around them has contracted the ‘rona.
The CDC and the thugs around them are pretending that this is something new, that they suddenly understand “the Science” better. They will not admit that they were lying and manipulating all along in pursuit of power and money.
But Ron Paul understood from day one. He saw what was coming and he put it all on the line to fight the totalitarian tide. He wasn’t armed with a crystal ball. He was armed with an understanding of truth: Power corrupts.
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#endthefed
His largest unheeded warning was about the FED and its inflation. It has really crippled the USA and perhaps the world.
“We, The Sheeple” needs to punish the D’s, the R’s, and the politicians and bureaucrats!
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Waste not, want not! Social media users share their genius ideas for reducing, reusing and recycling – from resending the same birthday card to making an ice cream cone out of a banana leaf
By Ellen Coughlan For Mailonline
Published: 04:02 EDT, 13 August 2022 | Updated: 04:09 EDT, 13 August 2022
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With two billion tons of waste dumped every year around the world, people have started to re-think what can be reused or recycled.
Many are becoming more aware of their environmental impact as rubbish sent to landfill represents a significant amount of greenhouse gases which have contributed to climate change.
People from around the world have shared their best zero waste ideas on social media, with Bored Panda collating some in an eye-opening online gallery.
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As you know, I’m not a big believer in the “Mother Earth” Galia worship. But as an fat old white guy injineer, waste indicates that a better process exists and should be deployed.
A banana leaf is a good substitute for that paper wrapped around the ice cream cone. But I like the cones.
Only serving coffee in the patron’s own cup seems to be a substantial saving.
My personal favorite is the reused birthday card. Not that I send paper cards, I use e-cards from Jacqueline Lawson. https://www.jacquielawson.com/ which are really beautiful and completely “recyclable”. Laugh!
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‘We can’t wait any longer!’: Arizona Governor Doug Ducey starts building $6m makeshift border wall using barb-wire topped shipping containers that will be completed by NEXT WEEK
By Harriet Alexander For Dailymail.com and Associated Press
Published: 01:10 EDT, 13 August 2022 | Updated: 06:49 EDT, 13 August 2022
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Arizona began moving in shipping containers to close a 1,000-foot gap in the border wall near the southern Arizona farming community of Yuma on Friday, with officials saying they were acting to stop migrants after repeated, unfulfilled promises from the Biden administration to block off the area.
‘Arizona has had enough,’ tweeted Doug Ducey, the Republican governor of the state, who is up for re-election in November.
‘We can’t wait any longer. The Biden administration’s lack of urgency on border security is a dereliction of duty.’
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I feel for two groups of people. OK maybe three. First, the poor people of the USA who are competing for job with illegal aliens and suffering from the crime wave that comes with them Second, the poor people of the world trying to come to the USA illegally and are risking their live and paying the Cartels a small fortune to be smuggled in. Third, and finally, “We, The Sheeple” who are paying for the politicians and bureaucrats to grandstand and all the social costs of illegal aliens.
Argh!
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/08/the_twa_800_whistleblower_is_legit.html
The TWA 800 Whistleblower Is Legit
By Jack Cashill
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In the past few weeks, I have received numerous inquiries about ten-year Navy veteran William Henry Teele III. After years of quietly providing information to me and other investigators into the July 1996 destruction of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island, Teele has gone public and is naming names.
I shared some of Teele’s information in my 2016 book, TWA 800: The Crash, The Cover-Up, The Conspiracy. Teele did not claim to be on the ship that fired the missile. He was on the USS Carr, a guided missile frigate that was one of the “combatants” in the battle group that destroyed the unfortunate 747 and killed the 230 souls on board. Everything that I could verify about Teele’s account back then checked out.
In the six years since, Teele has reached out to many of his fellow sailors and fleshed out his account. Although he has appeared on several podcasts in recent weeks, his uninterrupted narrative on the Duke Report is the most compelling. I would welcome those with relevant experience to contact me through my website, cashill.com, to offer your assessment of Teele’s account or to provide additional information. My research suggests Teele is the real deal but I remain open, as all journalists should, to contrary information.
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Yes, another “conspiracy theory” becomes factual.
When do the courts martial begin?
As always, the cover up is worse than the crime.
What about the poor passengers and their families?
Who prosecute all those in the various Gooferment agencies that covered for the Navy?
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https://www.newsweek.com/next-president-must-prioritize-destroying-deep-state-opinion-1731924
The Next President Must Prioritize Destroying the Deep State
Opinion Jonathan Bronitsky, Co-Founder, ATHOS
On 8/10/22 at 6:30 AM EDT
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At CPAC in Dallas this past weekend, former President Donald Trump asserted that a “key priority for the next Congress and the next president will be to drain the swamp, once and for all.” Then, reiterating a point made in a keynote address to the America First Policy Institute last month, he specified that Congress “should pass groundbreaking reform empowering the president to ensure that any federal employee who is corrupt, incompetent, or unnecessary for the job can be told, ‘You’re fired.'”
Such legislation would essentially formalize and strengthen President Trump’s Executive Order 13957, which President Joe Biden rescinded during his first week in office. But there’s a problem: The chance of even a Republican-controlled Congress carrying out this type of reform is close to zero.
You see, Congress itself created—and, indeed, has since protected and bolstered—the Deep State, so there’s little reason to believe it would now reverse course and eliminate it. A few decades ago, members of the legislative branch began delegating their constitutional lawmaking authority to the myriad federal agencies that constitute the executive branch. (Incidentally, no one knows the exact number of entities that make up the branch. The best estimate is somewhere around 400. Four-hundred!)
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It seems clear to me that until the “Deep State” is neutered, none of us can be free.
Hopefully. “We, The Sheeple” will be outraged at the politicization of the the various three letter agencies (TLAs) that run our lives.
One can only hope.
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https://nypost.com/2022/08/11/woman-dramatically-saved-from-sinkhole-before-car-swallowed/
Woman dramatically saved from sinkhole moments before car swallowed
By Jack Hobbs
August 11, 2022 9:12am Updated
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A Texas woman is lucky to be alive after a dramatic video shows her being rescued from her car as a sinkhole opens in the middle of the road.
The woman — who was not identified by police — was driving her white sedan along Yandell and Gateway South in El Paso around 6:40 p.m. when a massive sinkhole opened up beneath her car due to heavy rain the area had received, reported Jam Press.
Several good Samaritans and El Paso firefighters jumped into action and managed to extract the woman from the car before it fell into the pit.
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Good work by these brave fellows. They could have been swallowed up too.
My question — not answered by the story — was she driving on a already flooded road?
I was taught to never ever drive on water where I couldn’t see the road’s surface.
Here’s a reminder of that lesson. Water is very powerful stuff and it doesn’t take much to float a car.
Be afraid and stay alive.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/hidden-costs-fiat-bitcoin-standard
“The Bitcoin Standard” Exposes The Hidden Costs Of Fiat
by Tyler Durden Monday, Apr 11, 2022 – 03:03 PM
Authored by Archie Chaudhury via BitcoinMagazine.com,
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Dr.u Saifedean Ammos, author of “The Bitcoin Standard,” explained how fiat has hidden costs and why Bitcoin represents the next generation of money…
Detractors of Bitcoin often point to its costs – namely in the form of electricity used in proof-of-work mining and its perceived impact on the environment – as reasons for why it will never be a sustainable alternative to traditional fiat currency. These detractors often believe that Bitcoin is fundamentally unscalable, or more likely, come from the power structures that fiat currency has enabled, such as government or centralized financial institutions.
In his presentation on the main stage of Bitcoin 2022, Dr. Saifedean Ammous delivered a presentation meant to underscore the invisible costs of fiat money, and how it has been used for centuries to economically oppress the average citizen of a fiat-based economy. Dr. Ammous has long been a supporter of Bitcoin, and has written “The Bitcoin Standard” and “The Fiat Standard,” both of which have helped educate numerous individuals about the advantages of Bitcoin and the corruption that is ingrained in most fiat states.
Dr. Ammous started his speech by focusing on inflation and how using fiat money helps back a system that is inherently unequal. Dr. Ammous specifically cited how fiat inflation is used primarily for the needs of the government, saying that “The cost of fiat is currently 3.5% of all global wealth, and is used to finance government parasites, wars, and monopoly banksters.”
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Inflation is the silent tax that has robbed “We, The Sheeple” of 99% of the purchasing power of their “dollars”.
The politicians and bureaucrats love it because unless you look for penny candy, or a nickel cigar you won’t see it.
That what this thrives count on.
Argh!
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Exclusive: 34-Year-Old Died After Pfizer Shot, Mother Shares ‘Ridiculous’ Letters From CDC
Via Children’s Health Defense
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The mother of a 34-year-old man who died suddenly two weeks after his first dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine said she believes her son would be alive today if he had had the information he needed to make an informed decision about the vaccine.
Victor Castillo Simoes died May 5, 2021, from an acute aortic dissection — an uncommon medical emergency in which the inner layer of the large blood vessel branching off the heart’s aorta tears. The condition mostly affects men in their 60s and 70s.
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Henrietta said U.S. health agencies are “lying to people” that there are no adverse effects associated with COVID vaccines.
She added:
“When they say there’s no causal link the vaccine caused the injury, there’s no proof the vaccine didn’t. You can’t have the number of collateral damage we’ve had in order to save x amount of people because that’s criminal. You can’t have two people die to save 8 people. You don’t even really know if they’re being saved for sure by the vaccine.”
Henrietta said she and her family are not anti-vaxxers.
“We’ve all been vaccinated, but being from New York, we were all scared out of our wit’s end and didn’t know which end was up,” she said.
“But the government knew and they kept bringing the numbers for COVID up and up and created an emergency situation while suppressing therapeutics because they would not have been able to get EUA [Emergency Use Authorization] for COVID vaccines.”
Simoes was the last in his family to get the vaccine and didn’t have access to the information available now, Henrietta said.
“Without the knowledge that there are therapeutics that actually work or potential risks of the vaccine, how can you make an informed decision?”
Henrietta said she did not want to diminish the deaths due to COVID, but to “suppress alternative treatments and mandate vaccines is criminal.”
“If you get injured what recourse do you have?” she asked. “You have no way of suing so if you become a paraplegic because of it, where do you go?
Henrietta said she will not get any boosters, nor will her husband or children.
“We don’t know if we are genetically prone to something,” she said. “No more vaccines or boosters.”
Henrietta said her life will never be the same, nor will her family.
“If this could have been avoided by more critical thinking about what we’re really doing and what can we do in lieu of vaccines I think many peoples’ adverse effects could be eliminated,” she said.
Henrietta encouraged others to do their own research, be careful about what they put into their bodies and talk to physicians who understand the risks of COVID vaccines.
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Sounds like there is criminal corruption involved.
Why isn’t reporting mandatory?
Let’s start pulling professionals’ licenses for this failure.
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“In a few words: the West is in decline and our leaders are greatly accelerating and exacerbating this decline. They can cover this up with redundant arguments about what is and isn’t a recession for so long. But at some point either the inflation will get worse — perhaps by gas shortages in Europe this winter — and/or the unemployment rate will spike. At that point, the underlying dynamics will become too obvious to ignore; for politicians and the general public anyway. Economists will likely find some other redundant nuance to debate and distract.”
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It certainly seems that the “can” has finally been kicked as far down the road as it can be. And, some very ugly economic “chickens” are going to come home to roost.
Instead of learning from the malaise in Japan, or the abject failures of previous “bailouts”, the politicians and bureaucrats have continued to increase their spendthrift ways.
“We, The Sheeple” are going to feel the pain!
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A bus crash in The Bronx—and every other “vaxxident” in New York City—should have heads rolling in Manhattan, Albany and Washington, D.C.
Guest Post by Mark Crispin Miller
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When will we talk about INDICTING those responsible for all those “vaccine” mandates that have caused—and are NOW causing—so much grief? (And if there’s no legal recourse, what then?)
This happened in The Bronx today. Scroll down to find out why it happened (as if you haven’t guessed), and to see who—among others—should be indicted for it. MTA bus driver crashes into pole after possible heart attack: cops
August 4, 2022
https://nypost.com/2022/08/04/mta-bus-driver-crashes-into-pole-after-medical-episode/
An MTA bus driver crashed into an elevated subway pillar in The Bronx when she suffered a possible heart attack Thursday — leaving 12 passengers with minor injuries, cops and sources said.
The 44-year-old Bx21 driver was heading south on Boston Road when the medical episode occurred and she hit the stanchion at the West Farms Road intersection around 8:25 a.m., authorities said.
The front of the MTA bus rammed into the pole, shattering the window.
The Bx21 driver careened into an elevated subway pillar at Boston Road and West Farms Road, cops said.
She suffered head trauma and was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where she was listed in critical but stable condition due to the medical episode, which sources said was possibly a heart attack.
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These incidents are happening too frequently to be random chance.
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One Democrat Senator Can Stop Middle-Class Tax Hike
COMMENTARY
By Akash Chougule — August 05, 2022
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Democrats are calling for a massive middle-class tax increase during an inflation crisis to pay for billions in corporate welfare. It sounds absurd, but it’s true.
The average American family will spend $5,520 more in 2022 to afford the same quality of life as 2021, and poll after poll shows rising costs are the nation’s biggest concern; yet Democrats in Congress are trying to raise taxes across the board to fund hundreds of billions in giveaways to politically-favored industries.
The so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” introduced by Sen. Joe Manchin in July is many things, but inflation reduction it is not. Analysis from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, which Manchin previously said is his budgetary model of choice, says that the $739 billion behemoth is unlikely to have any impact at all on inflation. Congress’ nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation says it will raise taxes on every income bracket above $30,000 per year. President Biden has repeatedly pledged he would not raise taxes on any family making less than $400,000, but the committee found that the middle class and low earners will face the steepest tax hikes under the proposal. Biden isn’t the only supporter willing to violate his commitments amid record inflation: both Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer spoke out against tax increases during recession – notwithstanding the White House’s attempts to change the definition of the word for political gain.
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Democrats claim these taxes are borne by corporations, but it is well established and agreed upon by economists – including left-leaning experts – that much of the burden of corporate taxation is borne by workers. Estimates vary, but the Congressional Budget Office found that workers bear about 73% of the cost. For low-income households, the burden of corporate taxation outweighs that of individual income taxes.
The damage to the economy would be broad even as Manchin insists on the limited scope of tax hikes. The five industries hardest hit employ one in every four American workers, or about 40 million people in total.
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Remember in November!
Even if you have to hold your nose, the R’s — who are not much better are the party out of power — hence vote them in.
You’ll have a chance to vote them out the next time around.
I’d rather a do nothing Gooferment than one party Gooferment.
Argh!
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