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Polio has been reported in Venezuela, a crisis-wracked country where the disease had been eradicated decades ago, the Pan-American Health Organization reports.

Source: Polio makes comeback in Venezuela after decades

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Sounds like an emergency relief effort should be undertaken immediately.

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Authored by Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner via Wirepoints.com, Listen to education officials’ demands for more money and it’s easy to believe Illinois grossly underspends on K-12 education. A $7.2 billion funding lawsuit to double state contributions to classroom spending, a $40,000 minimum wage demand for teachers, and lawmakers’ rejection of limits to school district borrowing might bolster that impression.

Source: Admin Over Adolescents: 7 Ways Illinois’ Bureaucracy Is Siphoning Money From Classrooms

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It’s always the “administrative” and pensions!

And the unions make it extra bad.

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A new report says that one reason has to do with white people’s perceptions that they’re losing financial dominance as people of color are making gains.

Source: Why More White Americans Are Opposing Government Welfare Programs : Code Switch : NPR

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Interesting.  Even if they’d benefit, they oppose it.  Racism?  I think not; perhaps because the nation is broke?  Perhaps, because welfare kills any ambition and any chance of a better life?  Perhaps, NPR is a leftist media outlet that survives on the Gooferment dole!

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“Though New York City has one of the most segregated schools systems in the country,” writes Elizabeth Harris of The New York Times, until now, Mayor Bill de Blasio “was all but silent on the issue.” He was “reluctant even to use the word ‘segregation.’” Now the notion that the liberal mayor belongs in the same basket as Southern governors in the ’50s and ’60s like Orval Faubus of Arkansas and Ross Barnett of Mississippi seems a bit of a stretch.

Source: Is Mayor diBlasio

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A stunning observation!

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Longtime former director of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee, James A. Wolfe, was indicted and arrested Thursday night on charges of giving false statements to FBI agents in 2017 about repeated contacts with three reporters, according to the Washington Examiner .

Source: Leaker Crackdown Begins: Top Senate Staffer Arrested In Leak Probe; NYT Journo’s Records Seized

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While I don’t think “leaking” is the honorable thing to do, that being said reporters and their materials are essential to free press.

Too bad I never get on juries!

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Have you noticed, fellow truth-seekers, how the information we are pursuing seems to be coming at us in fits and starts these days? How some investigations begin, are stalled, and others long forgotten return to the public eye? As we attempt to decipher and interpret revelations about behind-the-scenes sexual abuse and pedophelia among the powerful elite in our society, we might do well to imagine a larger, more coherent process taking place that adheres to the well-worn phrase: timing is everything.

Source: Owner of the Lolita Express and Orgy Island

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No doubt, Jeffrey Epstein has dirt on many friends in high places, like the aforementioned Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, and even Donald Trump, who is known to have visited Epstein’s island. Perhaps this is where FBI interests lie, or perhaps it is in gathering information about people who are not in the public eye. Is it possible that the FBI is leveraging Epstein to continue to get enough information to eventually prosecute people who are higher up the totem pole? One would hope so, although there are certainly less promising conclusions one could draw on the strength of this piece of information alone.

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Why aren’t the patrons of the Lolita Express and Orgy Island listed on the front page of every paper and news website?

One set of rules for everyone?  Don’t make me laugh!

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The Texas Bullion Depository officially opened for business this week. The creation of the facility represents a power-shift away from the federal government, and sets the foundation to undermine the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on money.

Source: Texas Bullion Depository Open for Business

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The Texas Bullion Depository will create a mechanism to challenge the federal government’s monopoly on money and provides a blueprint for other states to follow. If the majority of states controlled their own supply of gold, and people began using precious metals in daily transactions, it could conceivably make the Federal Reserve completely irrelevant.

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That’s going to take some time, but it becomes an interesting way create a “store of value”.

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There’s a saying that ignorance of the law is no defense, which I get. I really do.Yet at some point, there has to be a line. If men and women can be arrested when they’re clearly trying to not break the law, then what hope does any law-abiding citizen have? There’s a theory that the average person goes through life committing something like three felonies per day. I don’t know how accurate that is, but I have little difficulty believing that we break laws all the time without realizing it.

Source: Reason #6831 Why Gun Registration Is Evil – Bearing Arms

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“If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.” —Cardinal Richelieu

Same thing with all the gun laws.  The Constitution (of no account) is specifically clear.  The right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

How is this not “infringement”?

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VFP concludes its ad, just above an iconic photograph of protesting G.I.s holding a banner emblazoned with, “We won’t fight another rich man’s war,” by saying that if the Burns/Novick series is “crowned with an Emmy, this defective history of the Vietnam era will become required viewing for generations of young Americans – a seductive, but false, interpretation of events.”

Source: Veterans’ Group Says ‘No’ to Emmy for PBS Vietnam War Series – Antiwar.com Original

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Seems like a valid criticism of the politicians that got us into the mess and the terrible toll in human lives it took and is taking.  Unfortunately, most get their news and history from the media so it’s got to be brutally correct.

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A U.S. soldier died Thursday from a noncombat-related incident in Kosovo, the Department of Defense said Friday.

Source: Fort Bragg-based soldier dies in Kosovo – Europe – Stripes

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What the hell are US troups doing in Kosovo?

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“war on people who use cash.”

Source: EconomicPolicyJournal.com: The Curse of the War on Cash

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Yet another infringement on the poor and those who want privacy.

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Yet you’ll remember back when Hillary collapsed and had to be thrown bodily into her van at the World Trade Center memorial observances in Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2016, she and her doctor claimed she had “pneumonia” — “pneumonia” which was curiously all better when she emerged from her daughter’s apartment to greet the gathered folk out on the sidewalk about an hour later.Doctors report someone who has pneumonia so severe as to cause a complete fainting collapse do not “get all better” within an hour.

Also, Donald Trump (who — contrary to most reporting — often initially says a lot less than he really knows) commented that Hillary would show up for the presidential debates all buzzing with energy, but less than two hours later would need help shuffling into her van — kind of like someone who was being “juiced up” for special occasions.

Yet reporters — whose first job is to be curious — shrieked that it was (and apparently remains, to this day) completely out-of-line to challenge the “official version” on Hillary’s health, that only black helicopter Conspiracy Nuts would visit the Vidzette Web site and listen to Dr. Ted Noel explain that Hillary Clinton was showing every sign of the mood-and energy-swings of a patient on L-Dopa therapy (which can create a high like cocaine, followed by a serious slump) for advanced Parkinson’s Disease.

Source: Vin Suprynowicz » Blog Archive » On Reporters Who Ask No (Unapproved) Questions

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Often wonder of the truth of that “Hilary has Parkinson’s” story?

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ADDRESSING THE New York State Democratic convention last week, Joe Biden endorsed Governor Andrew Cuomo for reelection and delivered some blistering criticism of the party that controls Congress and the White House. “This is not your father’s Republican

Source: Your father’s Republican Party has vanished. His Democratic Party has, too :: Jeff Jacoby

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Even the big L Libertarian Party has left this little L Libertarian.

Maybe it’s a function of wanting the levers of Gooferment?

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The “New Jersey Health Insurance Market Preservation Act” was part of a two-bill legislative package, sponsored by Assembly members John McKeon, Carol Murphy and Pamela Lampitt, that lawmakers say will “protect New Jersey from President Trump’s effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and preserve the health care benefits provided by the law to the state’s residents.”

Source: WATCH LIVE: Murphy Signs Bill To Make Bigger Health Care Changes | Patch

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The subjects in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee have no right to decide what coverage they want to buy.

Argh!

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Salman Abedi was responsible for what he did, but he could not have killed 22 people and maimed another 139 others, half of them children, if the British government had not acted as it did in Libya in 2011. And its responsibility goes well beyond its disastrous policy of joining the Libyan civil war, overthrowing Gaddafi and replacing him with warring tribes and militias.

Source: The Manchester bomber was enabled by the British government, by Patrick Cockburn – The Unz Review

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Some how the politicians and bureaucrats always seem to get off the hook!

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And they’re still the most secure computing platform ever.

Source: Everything you knew about Chromebooks is wrong | TechConnect

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I love its simplicity!

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Even with all these security measures, tragedies such as befell the high school in Santa Fe, Texas on May 18th, still occur.

Source: Exclusive — Barr: There’s No Reason Not to Harden Security at Schools

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Maybe the problem is Government Schools?

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We now know for a fact that Spy-in-Chief Barack Obama weaponized the various intelligence agencies at his command to do something unprecedented: spy on a rival presidential campaign, specifically Donald Trump’s.

Source: 7 Ways Spy-in-Chief Barack Obama Spied on Donald Trump

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Seven ways that we know about now.

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This year is the 100th anniversary of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. Estimates about its impact vary. But when you read that a third of the entire global population probably caught the Spanish flu and that it killed between 50 and 100 million people in all corners of the globe – up to 5% of all human beings on the planet at the time – you get an inkling of its scale.

Source: A century on, why are we forgetting the deaths of 100 million? | Martin Kettle | Opinion | The Guardian

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Wow, hard to imagine the number of dead.  FIVE PERCENT of the population.

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A photo showed the two individuals who negotiated that agreement. Britain was represented by John Maynard Keynes, a towering economic figure of that era. America’s representative was Harry Dexter White, assistant secretary of the Treasury and long a central architect of American economic policy, given that his nominal superior, Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., was a gentleman farmer with no background in finance. White was also a Communist agent.

Source: Our American Pravda, by Ron Unz – The Unz Review

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“American Pravda”  — how appropriate!

Makes you wonder how many Conspiracy Theories are essentially true?

I, for one, am beginning to learn that EVERYTHING I’ve been taught may be FALSE, at worst, and SPIN, at best.

Argh!

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Kansas created a video of two animated traffic cones discussing how early mergers back up traffic by creating one slower lane versus cars moving ahead with more efficient zipper merges.

Source: In heavy traffic, the preferred way to merge is to ‘wait until late’ | WTOP

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I get annoyed when some bozo uses the should to be first.  Karma would put a cop up at the merge point!

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Rachel Dolezal (pictured in 2017), the former NAACP leader who pretended she was black only to be unmasked as a white woman in 2015, has been accused of welfare fraud.

Source: Race-faker Rachel Dolezal is accused of welfare fraud | Daily Mail Online

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</joke> Leopards don’t change their stripes and tigers don’t change their spots. <joke/>

Why would anyone be surprised by a fraud perpetrating another fraud?

The problem is welfare aka gooferment charity.

Private charity works; Gooferment perpetuates waste, fraud, and abuse.

Argh!

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One person is dead and three were injured in a shooting at a restaurant in Oklahoma City on Thursday night. When the shooter tried to walk out of the restaurant, he was shot dead by a civilian.

Source: One dead and more injured in mass shooting at Oklahoma City restaurant  | Daily Mail Online

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Score one for “the good guy with a gun” scenario!

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From rooftops to reservoirs, Singapore is doing everything it can to maximize its unique living space for renewable energy.

Source: Fighting for solar power in a concrete jungle – CNET

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With land space a premium in Singapore, the government is looking to take advantage of its 17 sizable water reservoirs as an alternative location for solar panels. The Public Utilities Board (PUB) is currently trialing floating solar platforms, and results so far have been promising, with systems performing 5 percent to 15 percent better than a typical rooftop system due to the cooler temperatures of the reservoir environment.

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What a great idea.  Probably impacts evaporation too.

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A newly formed lava delta is an unstable beast, and it can collapse without warning. This can trap water within the hot rock, leading to violent steam-driven explosions that can hurl metre-sized blocks up to 250 metres. Explosions occur because when the water turns to steam it suddenly expands to around 1,700 times its original volume. Waves of scalding water can also injure people who are too close. People have died and been seriously injured during lava delta collapses

Source: Lava in Hawai’i is reaching the ocean, creating new land but also corrosive acid mist

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Sounds dangerous as Hades!

I sure wouldn’t be hang over edges to snap selfies.  Sounds like a sure way to win a Darwin Award!

Although not completely unheard of, scenes like THIS are no doubt, tough on the psyche. Especially during the last full week of May. AND to add insult to injury, another round of snow is possible for parts of Newfoundland on Friday. More on that below.

Source: News – Late May SNOW DAY for this province, jaw-dropping photos – The Weather Network

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Global Warming?

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