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DISCOURAGING: Addicted to Sports Gambling? Does NOT sound like a good trend

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https://newrepublic.com/article/180373/ohtani-sports-gambling-addiction-crisis

Alex Shephard
April 3, 2024
Bad Bets

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Our Entire Society Is Becoming Addicted to Sports Gambling

Athletes are being caught in scandals, yes, but the bigger scandal is that the ease and prevalence of betting is driving a huge rise in addiction—and neither the leagues nor our politicians care.

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Whenever I watch professional sports on TV, I’m always dumbfounded when I see online gambling sites as sponsors of the NFL, NBA, and MLB. If I remember my sports history correctly, we used to keep a significant distance between sports leagues and gambling to avoid scandals like the 1919 “Black Sox.” In this article, Alex Shephard argues that a partnership between professional sports and gambling has given rise to an even bigger scandal than thrown games: a huge rise in gambling addiction, particularly among young men. We’re already seeing an increase in bankruptcy and relationship problems due to online gambling. I suspect we’ll be reading more about the problems of online sports betting in the coming years. 

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I too see all the ads and know that someone is paying for the advertisements.  And they are not cheap.  And not run by someone with innocent motivations.

That’s all you need to know to see where this is going!

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DISCOURAGING: ‘Conspiracy Theories’ are not longer imaginary rantings of loonies, but warning signs of a downward trajectory

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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/conspiracy_theories_aren_t_theoretical_anymore.html

‘Conspiracy Theories’ Aren’t Theoretical Anymore
By John Green

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The national mood in the mid-twentieth century was very different from now.

  •     The United States was respected around the world — even if not necessarily liked.
  •     Technology was advancing faster than at any time in human history.
  •     Our cities were mostly orderly, safe, and clean.
  •     We believed there were few hardships which couldn’t be overcome with hard work. Opportunities seemed endless, as was our optimism.
  •     We were completely naïve about the danger posed by our own government.

Not everything was sunny. We had problems that needed attention. That is the nature of human existence after all. But when Ronald Reagan said, “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem,” we just thought he was promoting self-reliance and highlighting government inefficiency. As I said, we were naïve.

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As we watch all this unfold, we know that vast government criminal conspiracies are no longer theoretical. There is nothing demented or delusional about believing our government would willingly facilitate the murder a political threat. The actions of the DoJ in conjunction with the legislation proposed by the Democrats makes that perfectly clear.

The plot to place Donald Trump at the tender mercies of a prison’s “genpop” is not the only evidence of government criminal conspiracy.

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Things have changed a lot since the mid-20th century. The children of the 21st century have a completely different worldview.

  •     The United States is a corrupt and impotent international laughingstock.
  •     We’ve become technically stunted. Replacing the Francis Scott Key bridge is expected to take three times longer than building the Golden Gate bridge almost a century ago.
  •     Our cities are becoming unlivable post-apocalyptic hellscapes.
  •     “Living the American dream” is no longer a middle-class expectation.
  •     We know that fear of our own government is a prudent mindset.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t sound so crazy now that the conspiracies are no longer theoretical.

John Green is a retired engineer and political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho. He spent his career designing complex defense systems, developing high performance organizations, and doing corporate strategic planning. He is a staff writer for the American Free News Network and can be reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.

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And lest we forget that JFK was killed by the Deep State to prevent him from ending the Vietnam War and sending LBJ to prison.

Can the USA ever return to its former greatness?

Not very likely,  Argh!

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DISCOURAGING: “Havisham future” is predicted for Western Civilization?

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https://sonar21.com/miss-havisham-and-the-west-by-helmholtz-smith/

MISS HAVISHAM AND THE WEST
11 April 2024 by HELMHOLTZ SMITH 

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Miss Havisham is a character in Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations. A wealthy woman, she was jilted and swindled on her wedding day. From that day on she has allowed nothing to change. The wedding feast sits there, liquids evaporated, silverware corroded, cakes and food rotted; overrun with vermin and spider webs. She wears still her wedding dress, filthy and torn. The Day preserved, decayed and monstrous. Time and events move on around her but her past is her present and her pitiless future.

Will this be the West in fifty years? Surrounded by decay and filth but still clinging its past? Shouting about its ever-so-valuable values, ranting on about the Rules-Based International Order, boasting it’s the best at this and the most at that, issuing judgments on the bad behavior of the others, sanctioning non-believers, bathed in its media feedback loop. Still the highest GDP in USD! (Now Big Mac Cricketburgers are $1000 a pop, there are lots of dollars in every pocket!)

But nobody in the rest of the world cares. They’ve moved on. No tourist visits the moldering house and its unhinged inhabitants. They prefer cruising the high speed railroad from Cape Town to Beijing with a side trip to Baikal. Who wants to be robbed in the shoot-up galleries of Amsterdam, the tent cities of New York, the machete gangs of London? If it’s Tuesday and riots, it must be Paris. Young Harvard graduates pass out in their slums and dream of becoming a toilet cleaner in Omsk Airport – full benefits, you know. Plus dental. And you can afford a small apartment on your pay.

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A pretty bleak prediction.  Given the national debt and unfunded liabilities, it seems we have no place else to go but down.

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DISCOURAGING: Some people don’t understand that some rules have a reason behind them

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https://nypost.com/2024/04/09/us-news/airstream-says-li-doctor-monika-woroniecka-should-not-have-been-in-back-of-rv/?lctg=6080ba40747925275a09dcd3

LI doctor who died during family road trip should never have been in RV, Airstream says
By Olivia Land
Published April 9, 2024 Updated April 9, 2024, 10:38 a.m. ET

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“Airstream travel trailers are not designed to carry passengers while in motion,” the company said in a statement. 

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Having had two trailers and Minnie Winnie, the trailer dealers drummed into us that no one should be in the trailer when it was being towed.  One dealer had pictures of accidents to drive the point home.  Even in the Minnie Winnie, the dealer emphasized seat belts when driving.  So this accident was predictable and avoidable. 

Requiescat In Pacem

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DISCOURAGING: “Scrabble for Snowflakes” and “Woke Scrabble”

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https://nypost.com/2024/04/09/lifestyle/scrabble-makes-historic-change-for-first-time-in-75-years/?lctg=6080ba40747925275a09dcd3

Scrabble makes historic change to game with ‘less competitive,’ ‘inclusive’ version to appeal to Gen Z
By Brooke Steinberg
Published April 9, 2024, 12:03 p.m. ET

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This is a game-changer.

For the first time in 75 years, Mattel is making a major change to the iconic board game Scrabble.

The new launch is a double-sided version of the famous board game — one side with the original game for those who want to stick to the long-time traditional version, and one side with a “less competitive” version to appeal to Gen Z gamers.

The flip side of the classic game, called Scrabble Together, will include helper cards, use a simpler scoring system, be quicker to play and allow people to play in teams.

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What’s next “Monopoly for Communists”?

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DISCOURAGING: 20 Year old woman died on Sunday after a battle with bone cancer

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https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2024/04/03/kate-kaufling-20-year-old-kentucky-dance-team-member-dies/

University of Kentucky Dance Team Member Dead at 20 Years Old

Dylan Gwinn  —  3 Apr 2024

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Kate Kaufling, a member of the dance team at the University of Kentucky, died on Sunday after a battle with bone cancer. She was only 20 years old.

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Was the covid shot the cause?

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DISCOURAGING: People seem to be giving up to easily

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https://www.thefp.com/p/im-28-and-im-scheduled-to-die

‘I’m 28. And I’m Scheduled to Die in May.’

  • Some right-to-die activists want everyone to have access to euthanasia—even young people with mental illness. Are they also making suicide contagious?

By Rupa Subramanya
April 1, 2024

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Zoraya ter Beek, 28, expects to be euthanized in early May. 

Her plan, she said, is to be cremated.

“I did not want to burden my partner with having to keep the grave tidy,” ter Beek texted me. “We have not picked an urn yet, but that will be my new house!” 

She added an urn emoji after “house!”

Ter Beek, who lives in a little Dutch town near the German border, once had ambitions to become a psychiatrist, but she was never able to muster the will to finish school or start a career. She said she was hobbled by her depression and autism and borderline personality disorder. Now she was tired of living—despite, she said, being in love with her boyfriend, a 40-year-old IT programmer, and living in a nice house with their two cats. 

She recalled her psychiatrist telling her that they had tried everything, that “there’s nothing more we can do for you. It’s never gonna get any better.” 

At that point, she said, she decided to die. “I was always very clear that if it doesn’t get better, I can’t do this anymore.”

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I haver always thought that one of the rules in the “Game of Life” was that “You can’t leave early.”

As I have gotten older, maybe I’m wrong but how we treat and are treated should really value our humanity.

I’d sure like this person to find health and happiness.  I’m not sure that suicide is the best or only course.

Sigh!

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DISCOURAGING: Do you think incumbent politicians will willingly give up all this power?

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https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-and-taxation-government-on-a-bitcoin-standard-?mc_cid=e0840e7a31

Bitcoin and Taxation: Government On A Bitcoin Standard

  • Some thoughts on the difficulty of governments enforcing taxation in a world where Bitcoin is widely used in commerce.    

Robert Hall  —   Mar 25, 2024

REFERS TO

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/10/incumbent-politicians-enjoy-record-reelection-in-aging-congress/

Incumbent politicians enjoy record reelection in an aging Congress
By Miro Hall-Jones  —  October 12, 2023 3:11 pm

AND OPINES on

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In America, incumbents get reelected north of 90 percent. Did you know in the House of Representatives, the reelection of incumbents has never dipped below 85 percent? So you only have 15 percent of being voted out in the next election. Who doesn’t like those odds? This is why nothing changes. We get the same people in office year after year because they know how to play the game and grease the right palms, all thanks to the fiat money printer.

If you want to see all the BS the federal government spends on their deprecating fiat dollar, check out the Citizens Against Government Waste website. This will give you a good idea of the crap that is being funded in your name.

So, knowing this, do you think they will willingly give up all this power, prestige, and influence? I don’t think so.

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I agree.

So how do we rid ourselves of these “priestly drones”?

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DISCOURAGING: ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ replaced by “Army values”?

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13196933/West-Point-duty-honor-country-slogan-dropped-woke-army.html

West Point military academy drops ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ motto from its mission statement – as furious veterans’ slam ‘progressive ideology’ for eroding tradition

  •     The phrase, which was added in 1998, will be replaced with the words ‘Army Values,’ according to Superintendent Lt. Gen. Steve Gilland
  •     The lieutenant general claimed the new mission statement ‘binds the Academy to the Army’ while ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ is foundational to Academy culture
  •     West Point’s mission statement has changed nine times in the past

By Noa Halff For Dailymail.Com
Published: 10:13 EDT, 14 March 2024 | Updated: 11:11 EDT, 14 March 2024

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In the 1962 speech at West Point, Gen. Douglas MacArthur said, ‘The long gray line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses, thundering those magic words: Duty, Honor, Country.’

WTH does that mean?

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DISCOURAGING: Are the detahs due to the Covis-19 “vaccine” being misrepresented?

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https://theethicalskeptic.substack.com/p/a-case-study-in-covid-19-vaccine

A Case Study in Covid-19 Vaccine Related Death Certificate Fraud

  • This is how fake science works. The answer you do not like must bring unassailable proof. The answer you prefer does not have to provide any evidence whatsoever, and is true until proven otherwise

Ethical Skeptic 
Feb 26, 2024

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When the death certificate arrived this week from the state, as crafted by the hospice palliative care physician (who had never even seen her – remember, these people determine the greatest preponderance of ’cause of death’ calls), the Immediate and Underlying (and a fortiori Multiple) Cause of Death only had one ICD code listed: “Alzheimer’s Disease”. The malady was not even titled correctly: G30 (Alzheimer disease). Apparently, for a cancer diagnosis one must bring definitive proof, but for an ad hoc explanation one does not need proof at all, nay even a hint. You just merely fabricate the answer your state medical board enforces.

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Now I realize that this is “anecdotal evidence” and that one User’s story is not dispositive, it certainly seems to corroborate the currently going round Conspiracy Theory that the Covid-19 Vaccine is setting off “turbo cancers” (i.e., quickly occurring or reoccurring cancers that kill faster than one would expect).

Is there a deliberate undercount of the situation?  

I have no idea but it seems plausible given the politics and money involved.

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DISCOURAGING: Life Expectancy Continues to Plummet

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https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/03/02/life-expectancy-continues-to-plummet.aspx?ui=f9839516412491bb1e06c9e47058c6fb81b9b9b6acedf03e65e93dfdb263c1b9&sd=20210317&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20240302_HL2&foDate=false&mid=DM1537831&rid=2059733501

Shocking Finding: Life Expectancy Continues to Plummet
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
March 02, 2024

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Story at-a-glance

  •     Provisional estimates and finalized reports reveal a significant decline in American life expectancy with young adults bearing the brunt of excess deaths
  •     The gender life expectancy gap in the U.S. has reached its widest point since 1996, primarily driven by COVID-19 and the opioid crisis, highlighting systemic issues in health care and societal structures
  •     Contrary to historical trends, the burden of death now falls disproportionately on young and working-aged Americans, prompting concerns about the underlying causes and the absence of a public health response
  •     Amidst censorship and controversy, there’s a growing call for a thorough investigation into pandemic management, including lockdowns, treatment protocols and vaccine deployment, to understand the root causes of excess deaths
  •     The need for a new approach to global health is underscored by the current crisis, with emphasis on addressing health disparities and reconnecting with consciousness, as advocated in my forthcoming book, “The Power of Choice”

As it turns out, one of the biggest news stories of 2023 never made the headlines, which is understandable considering its implications. The world is now grappling with the aftermath of a global crisis that, thanks to the sophisticated and meticulously engineered brainwashing strategies deployed by government and mass media, are unbeknownst to the masses.

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I wonder if the Life Insurance Industry has noticed and adjusted their tables?

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DISCOURAGING: Will SCOTUS reign in “Javert” Jack Smith

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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/02/jack_smith_will_annoy_the_supreme_court.html

February 23, 2024
Jack Smith Will Annoy the Supreme Court
By Sean Ross Callaghan 

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A unanimous Supreme Court should restore the federal courts’ reputation by denouncing “Javert” Jack Smith and his jurisprudence of jihad and announcing that it will take all due time to consider presidential immunity from criminal prosecution and to craft an opinion to stand the test of time, the timing of the election be damned.

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One can only hope that SCOTUS or some other fair-minded judge puts a HARD STOP to this “law fare”!

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DISCOURAGING: Gooferment Skrules are a national disgrace

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https://www.amren.com/news/2024/02/school-where-just-4-of-students-are-proficient-in-math-and-12-in-english-spent-250k-on-woke-kindergarten-program/

School Where Just 4% of Students Are Proficient in Math and 12% in English Spent $250K on ‘Woke Kindergarten’ Program

Alice Wright, Daily Mail, February 4, 2024

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A Bay Area Elementary School has spent $250,000 on a ‘Woke Kindergarten’ program only to see its student’s literacy and numeracy rates plunge.

The ‘Woke Kindergarten’ program states its mission as an ‘abolitionist early learning ecosystem’ that trains teachers to uproot white supremacy, disrupt racism and oppression which are barriers to learning.

After spending the federal money on the program Glassbrook Elementary in Hayward saw numeracy among its 474 students fall to a new low of just 4 percent and literacy just 12 percent.

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Gooferment Skrules are to produce cannon fodder for the Army, willing morons for the factories, and useful idiots to vote for and be led by the elite.

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DISCOURAGING: Ex-Rabbi buys Pornub and is proud of it

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https://www.independentsentinel.com/rabbi-buys-mindgeek-that-owns-pornhub-other-porn-sites/

Ex-Rabbi Co-founder of a private equity firm explains why he acquired Pornhub
By M Dowling – December 29, 2023

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So, it’s for money, the tools, and mainstreaming porn? Didn’t Sodom and Gomorrah happen because this stuff went mainstream?

Correction: Mr. Friedman is only a partial owner. The headline was changed to clarify. Also, he rejected the teachings as a rabbi.

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I’m sure his parents are very proud of him.  Special “ring of hell” should be reserved for him.

Makes me sad to see such “news”.

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DISCOURAGING: Seems like a lot of criminials escape?

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https://patch.com/new-jersey/southbrunswick/s/iukb3/fbis-most-wanted-nj-fugitives-sought-in-killings-terrorism-spyings?utm_source=nearby-news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert

Crime & Safety
FBI’s Most Wanted NJ Fugitives Sought In Killings, Terrorism, Spyings

  • Over two dozen fugitives with ties to New Jersey are being sought in connection with serious, sometimes violent, crimes. Have you seen them?

Nicole Rosenthal, Patch Staff
Posted Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 2:16 pm ET

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Rodriguez was arrested for the crime, stood trial, was found guilty of murder, and was sentenced to life in prison, according to FBI records, although Rodriguez never surrendered for confinement when he was released on bail pending appeal of his conviction. 

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Cunningham, a convicted felon, is wanted in connection with the shooting death of a man in Irvington on May 12,2017, according to the FBI’s Newark office. Cunningham was charged with murder, unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and robbery on June 15, 2017; On September 8, 2017, a federal arrest warrant was issued by a U.S. District Court after he was charged federally with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.

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Eight years later, Wright escaped from the New Jersey State Prison in Leesburg. 

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There are over a dozen other fugitives on the run, according the FBI office. Their names are:

  •     Angel Gonzalez: Crimes Against Children
  •     Nikolay Almazov Krechet: White Collar Crimes
  •     Wang Qiang: Counterintelligence
  •     Dong Ting: Counterintelligence
  •     Bi Hongwei: Counterintelligence
  •     Wang Lin: Counterintelligence
  •     Amir Hossein Nickaein Ravari: Cyber crimes
  •     Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev: Cyber crimes
  •     Ahmad Khatibi Aghda: Cyber crimes
  •     Mansour Ahmadi: Cyber crimes
  •     Iranian Cyber Actors: Cyber crimes
  •     Mujtaba Raza: Cyber crimes
  •     Mohsin Raza: Cyber crimes
  •     Mehdi Farhadi: Cyber crimes
  •     Hooman Heidarian: Cyber crimes
  •     Samsam Subjects: Cyber crimes
  •     Noor Aziz Uddin: Cyber crimes
  •     Farhan Ul Arshad: Cyber crimes

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First and foremost, notice the race to the picture and ethnicity of the names.  Don’t you see a pattern?

Second, how does an armed felon get arrested and get bail?

Third, “bail pending appeal”  — guess it wasnt high enough!

We need a Gooferment that is working for “We, The Sheeple”.

Maybe if the FBI wasn’t so deep into political lawfare, they might have time to take care of these important functions.

Maybe it’s time to shut down the FBI and let the States do what they were intended to do?

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DISCOURAGING: Now Oakland’s low lifes are stealing ornatmental trees

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12988267/BONSAI-trees-stolen-garden-Oakland-California-crime.html

Eight ‘priceless’ BONSAI trees are stolen from volunteer garden in crime-ridden Oakland – the fourth such theft in two years – as California city’s progressive mayor and DA both face recall efforts

  •     Eight bonsai trees worth approximately $20,000 in total were stolen in Oakland 
  •     The stolen trees include a rare hinoki cypress that was about 100 years old
  •     The California city’s progressive mayor Sheng Thao and DA Pamela Price are facing recalling efforts from residents 

By Dolores Chang For Dailymail.Com
Published: 00:33 EST, 21 January 2024 | Updated: 04:20 EST, 21 January 2024 

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And the local in-and-out burger joint closed because of out-of-control crime.

Guess no one has ever heard of Giuliani / Kelly “broken window policing”.

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DISCOURAGING: Pointing out the “EV” scam — like the plan-demic

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https://sonar21.com/the-electric-vehicle-scam-is-a-symptom-of-western-decline/

The Electric Vehicle Scam is a Symptom of Western Decline
17 January 2024 by Larry Johnson 

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But I got to say something about the Electric Vehicle scam. It is bad for the environment. The rare earth minerals needed to produce these extravagances requires mining operations that exploit the very poorest people on the earth. And, despite all the nifty technology that adorns these electric vehicles, they can’t handle the cold.

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The push in the West to eliminate fossil fuels and “replace them” with this so-called clean energy would be a damn funny joke if the consequences of these decisions were not so serious. Wealthy liberals who virtue signal by driving their Tesla believe they are smart, but fail to contemplate how the energy is produced to power these expensive turkeys. Most owners infatuated with EV technology failed to consider the fact that the batteries that power these expensive golf carts will eventually need to be replaced. Elon Musk insists they will last 20 years, but that prediction is not based on evidence. It is a scientific guess. If you do have to replace it expect to shell out an additional $25,000 dollars for the battery. That does not include the labor costs of installing a new one.

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I particularly like all the useful idiots who think that “electricity” comes from the plug in the wall.  Not a care in the world as to what is behind that plug.  Like the old “tea break” power outages in the UK when everyone would plug in their kettles during a TV commercial break, what happens when everyone comes home from work and plugs in their electric car? 

The saddest part of the story is the exploitation of the poorest people on Earth to mine the rare earths.

Argh!

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DISCOURAGING: Mercy for terminal patients might be abused

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12931545/connecticut-grandma-lynda-bluestein-assisted-suicide-lethal-injection.html

Cancer-stricken Connecticut grandma who pushed for Vermont to expand ‘assisted suicide’ to out-of-state residents finally receives LETHAL medication after years-long fight

  •     Lynda Bluestein, 76, who had terminal cancer, ended her life in Vermont on Thursday and her husband described it as ‘comfortable and peaceful’ 
  •     Her last words were ‘I’m so happy I don’t have to do this (suffer) anymore,’ her husband Paul wrote in an email to the group Compassion & Choices
  •     The organization filed a lawsuit against Vermont in 2022 on behalf of Bluestein, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Diana Barnard, a physician from Middlebury

By Kamal Sultan For Dailymail.Com
Published: 15:33 EST, 5 January 2024 | Updated: 15:33 EST, 5 January 2024 

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Over 200 terminally-ill people have chosen to receive life-ending drugs in Vermont in the past decade since the state legalized assisted suicide in 2013.

A new report by the Vermont Department of Health revealed that 203 patients chose to ‘die with dignity’ between May 2013 and June 2023.

In May 2013, the Vermont General Assembly passed Act 39, which allows capable, terminally ill adult patients to request and obtain a prescription for life-ending medication to hasten their death. Participation by patients and doctors is entirely voluntary.

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I remember Sarah Palin calling Obamacare out for “death panels”.   She was right.

When will this “mercy” become applied to the frail old people, the chronically ill, “defectives” at birth, and the hopeless drug addicts?

When will the wacko Left get to apply it to “the deplorables”?

Nice to know I have this as an option when I run out of money and become a drag on “society”!

Can anyone spell “slippery slope”?

What today is “voluntary” is tomorrows’ “mandatory”!

Remember the movie “Soylent Green”?  Strangely prophetic!

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DISCOURAGING: Divorcée dumps 3 year old on ex

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 https://www.boredpanda.com/police-ex-child-abandonment/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter

Guy Divorced 3 Years Ago Drops Off 3 Y.O. With His Ex-Wife Completely Out Of The Blue
Aura Vyšniauskaitė and Monika Pašukonytė

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Just reacting to the story.

If someone dropped a 3 year old on your doorstep, would you react the same way?

I’d like to think that I would have the same empathy for the child, like you would for a complete stranger, hurt animal, or abandoned pet.

The child needed a safe and loving environment.  I agree call the police lest you be called a kidnapper.  But, putting any child into “the system” is just unnecessary cruelty.

I don’t have any “right answers” but I’d like to thing it could have been handled differently.

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DISCOURAGING: A “demographic transformation” is occuring in the USA too thanks to Democrats welcoming illegal immigration

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https://www.amren.com/features/2023/12/the-struggle-for-ireland/

The Struggle for Ireland
Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, December 1, 2023

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Polls show that most Irish are opposed to the demographic transformation, but this is utterly unrepresented in government. What kind of government muzzles its people, ignores their policy preferences, and replaces them? An illegitimate government of occupation. Getting rid of it was the purpose of the Irish struggle for independence. Will the Irish have to do it all over again?

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Let’s not forget that Obama resettled Muslims into Michigan and the Mid-West.  Now the D”s are losing those State because of their support for Israel.  Their hubris is now paying them back.

Crime and drugs are pouring over the southern border.  And, to a lesser extent the northern one too.

Sounds like we are losing the nation over this “transformation”.

Will anyone wake up and stop it?

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DISCOURAGING: Is it an “intelligence failure” if the top brass doesn’t listen?

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https://sonar21.com/politics-and-arrogance-understanding-israels-october-7-intelligence-failure/

Politics and Arrogance — Understanding Israel’s October 7 Intelligence Failure
27 November 2023 by Larry Johnson

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I think this rings true. It is the worst of “intelligence failures” because the analysts accurately and correctly reported the warning signs and their analysis was ignored. The reaction of the “high-ranking intelligence official” who dismissed the reports and analysis as an “imaginary scenario” is not out of character for Senior Israeli intelligence personnel. Arrogance and hubris is their M. O.

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Like the USA had with 9/11 when pilot trainees who were not interested in take offs and landings?  Or “intelligence failures”, not to secure out legal visas?  Nevermind that the Southern Border is open for all manner of criminals and potential terrorists to invade.

Argh!

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DISCOURAGING: Africa IS “dependent on handouts…and philanthropic intervention.”

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[TIP ‘o’ the HAT to: FARK for highlighting this one ]

https://www.fark.com/comments/13049658/165664230/I-dont-know-what-MrBeast-is-but-apparently-he-built-a-bunch-of-fresh-water-wells-in-Africa-with-his-own-money-Some-have-a-problem-with-that-because-of-reasons#c165664230

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https://www.outkick.com/mrbeast-hears-it-from-critics-wells-in-africa/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

MrBeast Is Hearing It From Critics After He Built 100 Wells In Africa…And That’s Completely Insane
by Matt Reigle November 8, 2023, 2:05 pm 

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YouTuber MrBeast is no stranger to critics, but those criticisms usually come in places you’d expect. Criticisms of his videos or his burger chain, stuff like that. What you wouldn’t expect is to see people pounce on the 25-year-old for providing drinking water to half a million people across Africa, but guess what? it happened.

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Take Saran Kaba Jones, founder and CEO of FACE Africa, for instance. According to CNN, that’s an organization that aims to improve water infrastructure and sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa.

“I’ve been doing this for 15 years, but we’ve been struggling to continue the work because funding, awareness, and advocacy all take work,” Jones said.

That’s all true. So then she must have been pretty jazzed that MrBeast decided to use his gobs of money to help in this endeavor instead of buying another Island or filling a swimming pool with Fanta or whatever it is he does.

Nope. She told CNN this: “(O)vernight, this person comes along, who happens to be a white male figure with a huge platform, and all of a sudden, he gets all of the attention. It’s kind of frustrating, but it’s also understanding the nature of how the world is.”

Wait, wait, wait. Hold the phone here. Shouldn’t she be ecstatic that half a million people have access to water and now there’s way more attention brought to it?

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So, it’s less important that ½ MILLION should get access to clean water than he took the spotlight for doing it.

Sorry, her ego got hurt.

And, later on in the article an “aspiring politician” is upset that it appears Africa is “dependent on handouts…and philanthropic intervention.” 

Well it is.  I’ve been hearing about “poor Africans” for more than SIX DECADES.  And, I’d assert that the reason they are poor is that the politicians and bureaucrats are robbing them blind.  In conjunction with the colonial powers that like them just that way.  Gandhi showed a nation how to free themselves, but did NOT show them how to get rid of the parasitic drone class.

Argh!

I’m speechless.  

Perhaps, the Second Amendment is the way to rid oneself of the oppression of dictators.

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DISCOURAGING: Any wonder why the Catholic Ghurch has lost its “moral authority”?

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https://www.breitbart.com/news/pope-forcibly-removes-a-leading-us-conservative-texas-bishop-strickland/

Pope Francis has removed from office the bishop of Tyler, Texas
 By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press

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ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday ordered the removal of the bishop of Tyler, Texas, a conservative prelate active on social media who has been a fierce critic of the pontiff and has come to symbolize the polarization within the U.S. Catholic hierarchy.

A one-line statement from the Vatican said Francis had “relieved” Bishop Joseph Strickland of the pastoral governance of Tyler and appointed the bishop of Austin as the temporary administrator.

Strickland, 65, has emerged as a leading critic of Francis, accusing him in a tweet earlier this year of “undermining the deposit of faith.” He has been particularly critical of Francis’ recent meeting on the future of the Catholic Church during which hot-button issues were discussed, including ways to better welcome LGBTQ+ Catholics.

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The Catholic Church is shadow of its past self.  This is an example of why.

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https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2023/11/12/vatican-says-transsexuals-and-homoaffective-persons-can-be-baptized-serve-as-godparents/

Vatican Says Transsexuals and ‘Homoaffective’ Persons Can Be Baptized, Serve as Godparents

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DISCOURAGING: Bad human behavior endangers wildlife

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https://nypost.com/2023/10/14/love-locks-over-grand-canyon-are-harming-national-parks-wildlife-rangers-say/

‘Love locks’ over Grand Canyon are harming national park’s wildlife, rangers say
By Chris Oberholtz, FOX Weather 
Published Oct. 14, 2023, 6:38 a.m. ET

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“Condors are curious animals and, much like a small child, will investigate strange things they come across with their mouths,” they added.

The largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere also have an affinity for shiny objects, such as coins, metal keys and wrappers, which they could ingest if found in the canyon.

“Condors are not meant to digest metal and many times cannot pass these objects,” parks rangers said.

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It’s called LITTERING. 

And unlike Japan, people seem to think that being slobs or just inconsiderate is perfectly acceptable behavior.

Argh!

I have no solution other than not doing anything like that myself.

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DISCOURAGING: Yet another sign that the world is becoming a different place

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https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ukrainian-basilians-confirm-permanent-closure-of-beloved-toronto-marian-shrine/?utm_source=digest-canadian-2023-08-17&utm_medium=email

Ukrainian Basilians confirm permanent closure of beloved Toronto Marian shrine

  • ‘In other words, the ‘Shrine’ is permanently closed,’ announced Fr. Gabriel Haber, the Provincial Superior of the Order of St. Basil the Great of St. Josaphat.

Clare Marie Merkowsky

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TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) — A religious order has decided to sell a Marian shrine beloved to Toronto Catholics and well-known as a source of many reported miracles. 

On August 15, Fr. Gabriel Haber, the Provincial Superior of the Order of St. Basil the Great of St. Josaphat, announced that the order is in the process of selling their Toronto-based monastery which includes the Marian Shrine of Gratitude, as faithful Catholics continue to pray the shrine will be preserved.   

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Again, the world is declining in entropy.  

“No Margin; No mission”.

Perhaps, if there had been an admission charge, then the place might have survived.

Sad to see the beautiful places being absorbed by crass materialism.

The people are robbed by the fiat currency system such that they have no wealth left to donate to the beautiful places.

Where and when does it all grind to a halt?

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