Tuesday, August 8, 2023
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Incandescent Bulb Ban
A Department of Energy rule requiring new lightbulbs to have a minimum brightness of 45 lumens went into effect in the United States yesterday, effectively banning incandescent lightbulbs. The ban does not affect currently owned lightbulbs and excludes several specialty bulbs used in refrigerators, plant lights, and others (see full list).
The ban is part of a decadelong federal push to increase energy efficiency across major consumer sectors like cars and appliances. Incandescent bulbs, though cheaper upfront than light-emitting diodes, are likely to burn out 30 times faster and are more costly than LEDs in the long term (see comparison). Recent consumer surveys suggest over half of US households already partly or entirely use LEDs as general-use lightbulbs, whose longer life span has likely contributed to the 40% decline in lightbulb shipments over the last decade.
Some studies have suggested the flickering and coloration of LED lights can trigger migraines and other conditions in people with light sensitivity issues.
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Is there any aspect of the marketplace that is off-limits to Gooferment interference?
Certainly seems not.
And, what happens when the Unintended Consequences begins to appear like with the Covid Jab?
Argh!
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Saturday, July 22, 2023
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/how-great-society-destroyed-nuclear-family-structure-one-chart
How The ‘Great Society’ Destroyed The Nuclear Family Structure In One Chart
by Tyler Durden — Sunday, Jul 16, 2023 – 02:00 PM
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Who destroyed the American family?
The argument can be made that the Great Society programs initiated the destruction of the nuclear family structure. The blame starts with President Lyndon B. Johnson’s set of domestic programs in the mid-1960s that were used to fight ‘poverty’ but only discouraged work and destabilized families.
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First, the US has the highest rate of single-parent households in the world. Second, the connection between single-parent households and crime is very strong. According to research carried out by Jerrod Brown, a behavioral specialist at Concordia St. Paul, the extant literature “suggests that children raised in single-parent households experience more physical and psychological problems compared to those raised in two-parent households.” Moreover, he added, the “implications of homes in which fathers are absent may be important to explore for criminal justice and mental health professionals.”
Maybe this whole Great Society experiment has gone terribly wrong. Let’s try something different. Maybe bring back the family unit and dial back welfare programs.
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I remember Malcom X’s quote: “… … It has turned out that it’s Johnson in the White House-and black votes were a major factor in his winning as decisively as he wanted to. If it had been Goldwater, all I am saying is that the black people would at least have known they were dealing with an honestly growling wolf, rather than a fox who could have them half-digested before they even knew what was happening.” — Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
LBJ delivered a knock out blow to the black family and fooled the black into think he was “looking out for them”.
While I may not like Malcom X’s politics, he was often right!
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Tuesday, July 18, 2023
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/07/why_vaccines_are_treated_differently_from_other_products.html
July 15, 2023
Why Vaccines are Treated Differently from Other Products
By Victor Fernandez
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Attorney Aaron Siri of the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) who has worked a great deal on vaccine-related issues like vaccine injury claims, vaccine exemptions and vaccine policy work, gave testimony to the Arizona State Senate on May 25th. His impressive two-hour presentation sought to answer the question: How can this system that people rely on fail us so badly? But to understand the failure is to understand the context within which the new vaccines arose. We need to understand what happened 37 years ago.
In 1986, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (HR5546). This is an historic act because it removed liability for childhood injury vaccines. Removing liability tends to alter the behavior of entities that benefit. Indeed, it turned out that pharmaceutical companies were no longer liable for injuries caused by their products. That has been the law since 1986.
Attorney Siri says that he knows of no other product that has that kind of immunity. Not planes nor drugs. But since 1986, big pharma has not had any market force check of any significance. “Think of all the products out there that warrant safety precautions, and the one you give immunity to is the one you give to babies. Think about that.”
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STUNNING!
Time to repeal that law and hold Big Pharma accountable for its products.
Argh!
Europe doesn’t allow advertising.
We should NOT allow doctors to profit from Big Pharma “bribes”.
The system is corrupt; time to address it.
In the meanwhile, question authority!
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Sunday, June 25, 2023
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/23/supreme-court-strikes-texas-challenge-biden-border-policy/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell
Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas’ Challenge to Biden Border Policy
Tyler O’Neil / @Tyler2ONeil / June 23, 2023
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The Supreme Court struck down a challenge to President Joe Biden’s border policy Friday, ruling that Texas and Louisiana lack standing to challenge a policy the states claimed was illegal.
The Supreme Court Friday stuck down Texas and Louisiana’s legal challenge to new Biden administration border policies that violate federal statutes and harm citizens in Texas and Louisiana, the states argued. (Read the full ruling below.)
All justices besides Samuel Alito concurred in the opinion that Texas and Louisiana lack standing to challenge the new rules, which the Department of Homeland Security promulgated in 2021.
Texas and Louisiana argued that federal law requires law enforcement to arrest certain noncitizens upon their release from prison or entry of a final order of removal, but the new DHS rule only prioritizes the arrest and removal of noncitizens who are suspected terrorists or dangerous criminals who unlawfully entered the country recently. The states claimed that these rules harmed them by imposing extra costs by requiring them to continue to incarcerate or supply social services—such as health care and education—to noncitizens.
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I just don’t understand. No one seems to want to enforce the laws!
Argh!
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Thursday, June 15, 2023
https://www.econlib.org/james-mackintoshs-misunderstanding-of-markets/
Harold Demsetz pointed out in a famous 1969 article that many economists use the “Nirvana approach.” They compare actual markets with ideal government programs run by all-knowing bureaucrats with benevolent motives rather than comparing actual markets with actual government.
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Let me know when someone finds any “government programs run by all-knowing bureaucrats with benevolent motives” because I’ve never seen any Gooferment program that works at all.
Argh!
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Thursday, June 8, 2023
https://palexander.substack.com/p/debt-deal-passes-mccarthy-gets-help?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=579356&post_id=125282226&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
Debt deal passes; McCarthy gets help from Dems; did I not tell you McCarthy is the other side, the UNIPARTY, these are crooks Republican Resistance Falters, Again… How Biden pulled it off…DRUDGE gets it right…he forgot one more headline e.g. “the crooks, the high-crime congress people BS us again as they worked together to rape the tax payer and steal the future of children; America hating
Dr. Paul Alexander
Jun 1, 2023
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These are thieves and you need now to read it, read the bill, and see where the money was stolen, who got which pork, who is going to get kickbacks, who is the bagman or bagmen, whose family is richer today due to it, this is all a game, a show of thieves and we should not be afraid to go back and examine every COVID relief and PPE $ money, all of it, every tax dollar linked to COVID for I am sure 90% was fraudulent and these beasts in government enriched themselves, kind of like the COVID Freedom Fighters, at least some of them. They came to ‘take’.
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I’d suggest a 10% bounty of every dollar clawed back from fraud, waste, and abuse. Let’s put the free market to work punishing these thieves.
Argh!
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Saturday, May 20, 2023
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2023/05/fdic-seizure-of-foreign-deposits-at-svb-opens-pandoras-box-at-jpmorgan-chase-and-citi-which-hold-a-combined-1-trillion-in-foreign-deposits-with-no-fdic-insurance/
FDIC Seizure of Foreign Deposits at SVB Opens Pandora’s Box at JPMorgan Chase and Citi – Which Hold a Combined $1 Trillion in Foreign Deposits with No FDIC Insurance
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: May 15, 2023 ~
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If you have been following the banking crisis, you have likely read at least a dozen times that on March 12 federal banking regulators, with the consent of the U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, invoked the “systemic risk exception” in order to protect both insured and uninsured depositors at the two banks that failed in March – Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.
That’s why there were gasps of shock on Saturday evening at around 5:30 p.m. when the Wall Street Journal (paywall) published the stunning news that depositors in the Cayman Islands’ branch of Silicon Valley Bank had their deposits seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which they are unlikely to ever see again.
As Wall Street On Parade has previously reported, under statute, the FDIC cannot insure deposits held on foreign soil by U.S. banks. What it can do, however, is to sell those deposits to the bank that acquires the collapsed bank. In the case of Silicon Valley Bank, the acquiring bank was First Citizens Bancshares which, apparently, declined to purchase the foreign deposits in the secrecy jurisdiction of the Cayman Islands, a jurisdiction most notable recently for housing Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto house of frauds.
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It’s hard to imagine any Gooferment policy, program, or agency that doesn’t far outlive its usefulness.
In this case, foreign depositors get screwed.
Soon it will be US depositors. Time to unwind all the Government Sponsored Entities — FDIC, FHA, FHLB, Fannie, Freddie, and Sallie.
Before it’s too late!
If it isn’t already.
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Thursday, May 18, 2023
https://nypost.com/2023/05/17/roxana-ruiz-convicted-for-strangling-rapist-to-death/
Roxana Ruiz, who strangled her rapist, sentenced to 6 years in prison, activists slam decision
By Snejana Farberov — May 17, 2023 1:27pm
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Ruiz fought back and struck him in the face, causing a nosebleed.
The man then allegedly threatened to kill her.
In the struggle that followed, Ruiz grabbed a T-shirt and used it to strangle her attacker.
In a panic, Ruiz stuffed the man’s body in a bag and dragged it out to the street, where passing police caught her red-handed.
Despite telling police she had been raped and acted in self-defense, Carrera said a forensic exam was never taken — a crucial step in prosecuting sexual violence cases.
Instead, an officer allegedly told Ruiz that she probably wanted to have sex with the man at first and then changed her mind.
“I regret what I did, but if I hadn’t done it, I would be dead today,” Ruiz said in an interview last year.
“It’s evident that the state wants to shut us up, wants us to be submissive, wants us closed up inside, wants us dead,” she added.
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Why are the police deciding not to do a “rape kit”?
If the facts as stated are correct, then this appears to be a miscarriage of justice.
Maybe she showed bad judgment but 6 years?
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Women’s rights groups have repeatedly accused Mexican authorities of revictimizing survivors and failing to judge cases with a gender perspective.
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Friday, May 12, 2023
https://nypost.com/2023/05/10/fbi-refuses-to-give-congress-informant-file-alleging-biden-took-bribes/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news_alert&utm_content=20230510?&utm_source=sailthru&lctg=6080ba40747925275a09dcd3&utm_term=NYP%20-%20News%20Alerts
FBI refuses to give Congress informant file alleging Biden took bribes as vice president
By Steven Nelson
May 10, 2023 3:50pm
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WASHINGTON — The FBI has refused to give Congress an informant file alleging that President Biden took bribes while he was vice president, The Post has learned — setting up a possible showdown over access to the information.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued a legally binding subpoena last week requiring the FBI to turn over the file by noon Wednesday, but the bureau instead replied with a six-page letter raising various objections.
“Information from confidential human sources is unverified and, by definition, incomplete,” wrote FBI acting assistant director for congressional affairs Christopher Dunham, who also argued that informant reports must also be kept private to protect sources.
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Who do these people think they work for?
Congress should IMMEDIATELY defund the FBI!
Suspend the salaries of the non-worker bees (i.e., leadership).
Argh!
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Tuesday, May 9, 2023
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12059267/Oklahoma-Gov-defends-decision-close-PBS-station-indoctrination-children.html
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt defends decision to close state’s PBS station OETA over ‘indoctrination and over-sexualization of children’ including reading of kids’ book about drag queen’s hips
- Shows on the network include ‘Sesame Street,’ ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,’ and ‘Clifford The Big Red Dog’
- Gov. Stitt’s veto means that the network will cease operations this year unless legislature overrides it
- He also criticized a Newshour feature that included parents’ support for gender-affirming treatments – including puberty blockers
By Emma James For Dailymail.Com
Published: 08:23 EDT, 8 May 2023 | Updated: 09:14 EDT, 8 May 2023
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Of course, both the article and the Governor miss the point. Why is the Gooferment subsidizing a TV network? Does anyone think that Sesame Street can’t get on a network without the Gooferment money?
If the Taxpayers of Oklahoma want to subsidize PBS, then let them VOLUNTARILY contribute to the PBS negations that run regularly.
Argh!
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Thursday, May 4, 2023
https://nypost.com/2023/04/30/co-op-owners-rebel-against-massive-nyc-climate-law-costing-millions/
NYC co-op owners, covering over 800K apartments, rebel against massive climate law costing millions
By Carl Campanile
April 30, 2023 8:05pm
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While supporting the goal of the Climate Change law, co-ops and condo owners said they need assistance to meet the new cleaner energy standards in what they called the “largest unfunded mandate in New York City history.”
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I don’t support — no surprise — any type of “climate change” action until they can forecast accurately next month’s weather. Chaos Theory seems to say that’s impossible. And, on their way, they need to get China, India, and Pakistan to buy into this foolishness.
As an “on the ground” tactic, every such action should be opposed as a “taking” under the Fifth Amendment.
Argh!
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023
https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/12j6pil/manufacturers_add_sesame_flour_to_avoid_cleaning/
r/MaliciousCompliance
•Posted by
u/NIHscientist
16 hours ago
Manufacturers add sesame flour to avoid cleaning – compliance with labeling laws
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This obviously is not my story, but this definitely falls in the spirit of malicious compliance. Last year, President Biden signed the The Food Allergy Safety, Treatment, Education and Research (Faster) Act, which was intended to improve product labeling and cleaning around allergens. However, rather than clean better and safeguard against sesame cross-contamination, many manufacturers have started adding sesame flour deliberately into products that were previously sesame free. This relieves them of the burden of meticulous cleaning since the product is now clearly labeled as containing sesame. Malicious (corporate) compliance. Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/04/11/sesame-allergy-law-consequences/
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Sure, pass a law, but don’t bother to worry about the Unintended Consequences!
Argh!
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Tuesday, April 11, 2023
https://thepostmillennial.com/chico-school-board-upholds-parental-secrecy-policy-regarding-students-gender-identity?utm_campaign=64487
American News Apr 8, 2023
Chico school board upholds ‘parental secrecy policy’ regarding students’ gender identity
Sara Higdon
- “The day my daughter shared with her guidance counselor that she felt like a boy, the counselor immediately affirmed this new identity.”
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Wednesday evening the Chico Unified School Board in Chico, California voted 3-2 in favor of schools having the ability to keep secrets from parents. The board agreed to keep their current policy, which directs staff to not reveal a child’s gender identity to parents, it instead allows a child to determine when the school is allowed to tell parents about a change in their gender identity.
According to a report from Fox News, the policy, called the “parental secrecy policy” by the school board, came up for a vote after the Center for American Liberty filed a lawsuit against the school district. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of Aurora Regino who told her story to the school board before the vote. The suit alleges that a school guidance counselor in the district helped Region’s 11-year old daughter transition without her knowledge or consent.
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Where does the Gooferment Skrule get off shoving the parents out of control that child?
At some point, when will “We, The Sheeple” wake up to this insidious conspiracy.
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Wednesday, April 5, 2023
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/03/irs-agents-visited-twitter-files-journalist-matt-taibbis-house-the-day-of-his-congressional-testimony/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=irs-agents-visited-twitter-files-journalist-matt-taibbis-house-the-day-of-his-congressional-testimony
IRS Agents Visited Twitter Files Journalist Matt Taibbi’s House the Day of His Congressional Testimony
- Coincidence? Jim Jordan demands answers from the IRS and the Treasury Department.
Posted by Mary Chastain Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at 07:00am
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House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan wants IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to explain why IRS agents visited Matt Taibbi’s house.
This isn’t just out of nowhere. After all, Taibbi released the Twitter Files and testified about the findings to the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
The agents just happened to visit Taibbi’s house on the day he testified.
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Wow, “just so happens”?
Even that is an understatement.
The House should summon those agents to testify. How quick do you think they will invoke the Nuremberg Defense? Or maybe “executive privilege”!
Argh!
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Monday, April 3, 2023
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna9666591
Saved from the grave
Mary Jane Burton’s unusual habit of saving samples of the evidence she tested led to the exoneration of three men, years after her death in 1999.
Oct. 16, 2005, 9:16 AM EDT / Source: The Associated Press
By Kristen Gelineau
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The forensic scientist cut off the tip of a cotton swab and taped it to a lab sheet next to a snippet of stained clothing.
Always save a piece of what you test, Mary Jane Burton instructed her watchful trainee.
But why? This was 1977, years before the invention of DNA testing. Yet day after day, she repeated this seemingly pointless procedure under the glow of the cramped laboratory’s fluorescent lights — taping swabs smeared with blood, semen and saliva and inserting them into their case files.
The forensic scientist cut off the tip of a cotton swab and taped it to a lab sheet next to a snippet of stained clothing.
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Standard procedure in Virginia was for biological evidence to be returned to the authorities after testing. After a few years, it would be destroyed, except in death penalty cases.
Why Mary Jane Burton insisted on saving such samples is as big a mystery as Burton herself.
Some speculate that Burton had a premonition that science would improve, that the samples she saved would one day prove useful. Her trainee, Deanne Dabbs, recalls a simpler explanation: Burton just liked to have something physical to show to a jury when she testified. Juries like to see what you’ve worked on, Burton told Dabbs in 1977.
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Why would you EVER destroy evidence?
This SOP guaranteed that justice would be impossible.
So sad, for others.
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Thursday, March 30, 2023
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11894975/Pentagon-doctors-say-children-young-SEVEN-able-puberty-blockers.html
Pentagon doctors claim children are mature enough from age SEVEN to decide if they want puberty blockers and hormone drugs — in report co-authored by trans pediatrician
- Pentagon doctors said it was against children’s human rights to deny them care
- The piece appeared in the American Journal of Public Health last month
- READ MORE: Editor warns trans children in the US are being rushed to surgery
By Luke Andrews Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com
Updated: 15:48 EDT, 23 March 2023
*** begin quote ***
Pentagon doctors have backed research claiming trans children as young as seven can decide they want puberty blockers and hormone-warping drugs.
In an editorial led by Air Force colonel Dr David Klein, officials said minors ‘have an inherent ability and right to consent’ to the interventions that are often irreversible.
The piece cites a 2018 study by Dutch researchers that claims more than 90 percent of over-sevens are mature enough to decide their gender identity and whether they want to start transitioning medically.
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I think they are out of their $%^Y&U* minds.
Think of all the things we don’t let 18 year old do as a society. I have read that brains don’t fully mature until people are in their late 20’s.
I can’t say enough how reprehensible I find this “study”. And while I don’t often agree with Bill Mahr, I think he sums it up best.
“When I was a kid, I wanted to be a pirate. Thank God, nobody took me seriously and scheduled me for eye removal and pegleg surgery.” — Bill Maher
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11889045/Democracy-Western-leaders-paving-way-autocrats-world-author-warns.html
EXCLUSIVE – The DEATH of democracy: As Xi Jinping declares ‘change is coming that hasn’t happened in 100 years’, expert explains how inept Western leaders are paving the way for autocrats to take over the world by failing to tackle domestic issues
- Democracy is in a fight with autocracy for control of the future, author warns
- Charles Dunst says it is in danger of losing unless it rapidly gets its act together
By Chris Pleasance for MailOnline
Published: 03:45 EDT, 22 March 2023 | Updated: 07:07 EDT, 22 March 2023
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Taiwan has fallen to China. The war lasted years, cost tens of thousands of lives, and ruined the economy – but that was a cost Xi Jinping was willing to pay to write his name into history.
America fought back, but despite having the superior military there was simply too much political division at home and amongst its allies to put up a proper defence.
Beijing’s iron will won the day, and the world has taken note. Autocracy has triumphed over democracy. The war of ideals has been lost.
It is Xi’s world now. We just live in it.
That is the apocalyptic vision put forward by expert Charles Dunst in his new book Defeating the Dictators as he warns that democracy is now in a fight with autocracy for control of the future, and is in danger of losing unless it rapidly gets its act together.
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I think Biden has eclipse Jimmy Carter as the “worst” in my life time.
By failing to cut spending, he has destroyed the dollar. By his sanctions, he has empowered Russia to form global coalitions to the detriment of the USA. And, probably worst of all, he has exposed the USA and NATO as powerless in the Ukraine.
One can assume that the bio labs in Ukraine and the meddling of the USA in the Ukraine leadership forced Putin to take action to protect his people and country. The bribery from the Ukraine and China has created a fog of mixed motivations.
It’s hard to imagine ANY actions that the next President can do to reverse this disaster.
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Sunday, March 19, 2023
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/03/15/feds_foreign-agent_double_standard_protective_of_bidens_even_as_they_bore_down_on_trumpworld_885544.html?mc_cid=29f3a052a4
Feds’ Foreign-Corruption Double Standard: They Protected Bidens Even as They Bore Down on Trumpworld
By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations|March 15, 2023
- Chi Ping “Patrick” Ho, convicted in a 2018 corruption case. At trial, U.S. prosecutors redacted Hunter Biden’s name from court exhibits and did not explore evidence of his lucrative dealings with the powerful Chinese figure.
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At the same time that Department of Justice officials were using spying and corruption statutes to aggressively pursue Donald Trump’s allies based on what turned out to be rumor and innuendo, they declined to use those same laws to investigate evidence of wrongdoing involving Biden family members and one of their corrupt Chinese business partners, DOJ documents and federal court records reveal.
In 2016-2017, the evidence shows, the FBI raided the offices and intercepted the communications of Chi Ping “Patrick” Ho, a Chinese national suspected of espionage even as he was negotiating business deals with former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and brother James.
DOJ later used information obtained from the searches and wiretaps – which included conversations with the current President’s son and brother – to convict Ho of bribery and money laundering, as part of a separate corruption case involving United Nations officials. But it declined to tap into its trove of evidence – including “over 100,000 emails” – to explore the connections between Ho and the Bidens, who received millions of dollars from Ho and a Chinese intelligence front and discussed sharing office space.
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Sorry this is NOT “equal justice under the law”. “We, The Sheeple” must set things right. The FBI and other TLAs (Three letter agencies) must be terminated completely. Those responsible must be procsecurted. “Just following orders” is NEVER a defense.
Argh!
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Friday, March 3, 2023
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11810669/Iranian-foreign-minister-smirks-hes-grilled-womens-rights-CNN-host-Christiana-Amanpour.html
‘This is not the way to conduct an interview’: Smiling Iranian foreign minister says women in his country ‘have all the necessary required freedoms’ in combative interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour
- Iranian foreign minister smirks as he’s grilled about women’s rights to protest
- Hossein Amirabdollahian repeatedly lambasted CNN host Christiana Amanpour during tense exchange
- It came after diplomats walked out of his human rights speech to the UN
By Helena Kelly For Dailymail.Com
Published: 00:56 EST, 2 March 2023 | Updated: 02:12 EST, 2 March 2023
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Iran’s foreign minister could not stop smirking as he was grilled about his country’s record on women’s rights in a combative interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.
Hossein Amirabdollahian told the host ‘this is not the way to conduct an interview’ after he insisted women in Iran had ‘all the necessary, required freedoms’ and accused Western media of fueling protests there.
It comes just two days after diplomats walked out of a speech given by the Iranian minister to the UN’s Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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Sad to say, there’s not much that we can do to convince these men that they are wrong in their world view of women, women’s rights, and their role. As a little L libertarian, I can’t solve the world’s problems. BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), we can “help” them understand the issues. How about we make all their men PNG and they have to stay confined to their cesspool until they fix the issue. And, they shouldn’t have a role in UN “Human Rights” proceedings!
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Wednesday, March 1, 2023
https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/murder/5-key-facts-about-the-jessica-chambers-murder-case-the-cheerleader-who-was-burned-alive
5 Key Facts About The Jessica Chambers Murder Case | Murders and Homicides on Crimefeed | Investigation Discovery
- Jessica Chambers suffered an agonizing death: Firefighters saw her walking toward them, wearing only her underwear & burned over 93 percent of her body.
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On December 6, 2014, a 19-year-old cheerleader named Jessica Chambers, pictured here taking a mirror selfie, was set on fire in the small town of Courtland, Mississippi.
By: Catherine Townsend
May 26, 2021
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Karas said that the judge concluded that any potential prosecutorial misconduct by Champion “was not prejudicial” to Tellis.
The Cell Phone Evidence
Intelligence Analyst Paul Rowlett testified about Chambers’ and Tellis’ phone data, and claimed that phone data put Chambers and Tellis together at the same location just before, or possibly even during, Chambers’ murder. The defense team has questioned Rowlett about the accuracy of the data.
Another troubling point for the defense is the fact that Tellis deleted all the texts and calls between he and Chambers after her death. Tellis, who has always maintained his innocence, stated that he deleted the data because he did not want a dead person’s information in his phone.
The cell phone data appears damning, but according to Karas, cell phone tower pings and other related evidence are not always conclusive — especially in rural areas where there are only a few towers. In these cases, she says, experts have told her that the location of the cell phone can only be narrowed down to an “around two to 10 or 20 square mile area.”
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I watched this show all 6 or 7 hours of it over two days. A lot of commercials and repetition to get thru.
- Race and the “Missing White Woman Syndrome”
- The Other Murder
- The “Eric/Derrick” Debate
- The Cell Phone Evidence
- The New Witnesses
There were also SIGNIFICANT differences between the two trials that the second jury wasn’t told about that were dispositive. In my recollection, they mostly went AGAINST the prosecution.
- The shoddy police work around crime scene search may have missed critical and “finding and photographing” the keys certainly was an attempt to fabricate evidence.
- The testimony of the first responders in the first trial was very authentic; in the second, they all sounded rehearsed and coached.
- The cell phone data was unbelievable and unreliable.
- Where did they dig up the witness that supposedly gave him a ride? Her testimony had to be the result of a quid pro quo from the prosecutor for her son.
- They couldn’t find the guy that found the keys was totally bogus.
Now this fellow definitely was not the sharpest tack in the box, and probably was a “bad guy” for other things, but the prosecution failed to make a good case.
I especially like the candid gang leader who said: “If he did it, he was a pretty dumb ***** to think he could burn up a white woman in Mississippi and get away with it.”
I don’t think the prosecution came close to proving their case and how can prosecutorial misconduct NOT prejudice the case against the defendant.
Watch it and see how incompetent the Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats can be. And be thankful that you’re not their target.,
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Wednesday, February 15, 2023
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11749447/Residents-East-Palestine-express-fears-returning-home-following-train-derailment.html
‘Don’t tell me it’s safe’: Residents of East Palestine express fears about returning after it’s revealed there were more toxic chemicals on derailed Ohio train than originally reported and thousands of livestock left dead
- About 50 cars, including 10 carrying hazardous materials, derailed in a fiery crash in East Palestine on February 3
- Officials conducted a ‘controlled explosion’ of the highly flammable, toxic chemicals
- Residents now worry about the health effects of these chemicals
By Melissa Koenig For Dailymail.Com
Published: 11:19 EST, 14 February 2023 | Updated: 13:30 EST, 14 February 2023
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Residents of a small town in Ohio fear for their health and safety after huge clouds of toxic chemicals were released in a controlled explosion following a train derailment earlier this month.
About 50 cars, including 10 carrying hazardous materials, derailed in a fiery crash in East Palestine at about 9pm on Friday, February 3.
Homes within a one-mile area were soon evacuated as vinyl chloride was slowly released from five of those cars. Authorities then ignited the gases for a ‘controlled release’ of the highly flammable, toxic chemicals in a controlled environment, creating a dark plume of smoke seen miles away.
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I point to my personal “EXHIBIT #1” of Christie Todd Wittman, the head of the EPA, assuring us that the air around the 911 site was safe to breathe.
I wouldn’t believe any Gooferment assurances about safety,
Where are the Ohio Senators and Representatives? The Ohio governor, all their politicians, and bureaucrats?
Any wagers that they are not down there breathing that “air”?
Argh!
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Monday, February 13, 2023
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream
How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline
- The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now
Seymour Hersh
Feb 8
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Last June, the Navy divers, operating under the cover of a widely publicized mid-summer NATO exercise known as BALTOPS 22, planted the remotely triggered explosives that, three months later, destroyed three of the four Nord Stream pipelines, according to a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning.
Two of the pipelines, which were known collectively as Nord Stream 1, had been providing Germany and much of Western Europe with cheap Russian natural gas for more than a decade. A second pair of pipelines, called Nord Stream 2, had been built but were not yet operational. Now, with Russian troops massing on the Ukrainian border and the bloodiest war in Europe since 1945 looming, President Joseph Biden saw the pipelines as a vehicle for Vladimir Putin to weaponize natural gas for his political and territorial ambitions.
Asked for comment, Adrienne Watson, a White House spokesperson, said in an email, “This is false and complete fiction.” Tammy Thorp, a spokesperson for the Central Intelligence Agency, similarly wrote: “This claim is completely and utterly false.”
Biden’s decision to sabotage the pipelines came after more than nine months of highly secret back and forth debate inside Washington’s national security community about how to best achieve that goal. For much of that time, the issue was not whether to do the mission, but how to get it done with no overt clue as to who was responsible.
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https://art19.com/shows/d0ab5d6f-1972-4441-b3f8-6b61d09f7f15/embed?playlist_type=playlist&playlist_size=10#
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Dave Smith called this as suspect when it first happened. Using “cut bono” logic, the USA Gooferment had “the means, motive, and opportunity”. Putin, Russia, and Germany have no motive.
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Dave Smith seems to ignore that Russia’s Ukraine conflict would expose the many nil-abs that are reportedly funded by the US Gooferment.
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But for a comedian, he’s certainly on point with his analysis of the evil actions of the US Gooferment
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Thursday, January 5, 2023
https://nypost.com/2022/12/30/buffalo-man-jay-withey-known-as-merry-christmas-jay-hailed-hero-for-rescuing-people-in-winter-storm/
Buffalo man hailed as hero for rescuing 24 people during winter storm
By Nicholas McEntyre
December 30, 2022 7:19am Updated
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Around 6 a.m. on Christmas Eve, and after taking turns running the engine and napping, Withey’s truck ran out of gas and the trio was forced to find proper shelter.
“Off to the left, I could see there was a school about 600, 700 feet away from us. I knew the power would be on, there would be heat in there and I was guaranteeing there would be food in there,” Withey told the station.
After some quick thinking, Withey identified others around him who were also stranded and decided to break into the school.
Withey and his crew, a total of 25, including seven senior citizens, made their way into Pine Hill Primary Center and took shelter — respectfully setting up only what was needed. They set up their main area in the cafeteria, helping themselves only to the food they needed and nothing in the fully stocked freezer, according to police.
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I found it astonishing that he had to break in.
One would think with the approaching storm, the Gooferment — at all levels — would order all public buildings to be unlocked. Same for the Churches. I’m sure every school has a Principal and a Custodian. Someone should be authorized to take emergency action.
Argh!
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Thursday, December 15, 2022
https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/zfe2qn/ok_ill_make_an_appointment_right_now/
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Mispelled-This
Monthly Top 5% Karma+2 ·
13 hr. ago
I got the series of threatening letters from my DMV about how I needed to renew early to get Real ID or I wouldn’t be able to fly, and that I’d need to make an appointment at the nearest office and bring a utility bill, social security card, and various other things to prove who I was.
Since I had a passport, I didn’t really need a Real ID, so I kept putting it off. And then my DL expired a few months after COVID hit. When I went online to make an appointment, it told me I could renew online instead—and the DL that arrived in the mail a week later was a Real ID one. No paperwork needed after all, which really inspires confidence in that system.
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I just shake my head.
Since I no longer need to fly, I can ignore all the nonsense.
I wish Gooferment would just go away.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2022
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/grandmother-sues-cop-who-wrongly-targeted-her-home-using-find-my-app/#p3
She’s still hurting —
- Grandmother sues cop who wrongly targeted her home using “Find My” app
- Denver Police Department vows to train officers on how “Find My” app works.
Ashley Belanger – 12/5/2022, 4:27 PM
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In January, Colorado police officers confined a 77-year-old grandmother named Ruby Johnson for hours in a squad car without even offering a glass of water during a time when she was due to take her daily medications—why?
Nobody told Johnson what was going on when she opened her front door to a SWAT team assembled on her lawn. Much later, she found out about a stolen truck—reportedly with six guns and an iPhone stashed inside—wrongly believed to be parked in her garage based on no evidence other than her home being located within a wide blue circle drawn by a “Find My” iPhone app. Now she’s suing a Denver cop for conducting what she believes was an illegal search of her home based on what her legal team describes as either an intentionally or recklessly defective application for a search warrant that was “wholly devoid of probable cause.” Because of the allegedly improper raid, the retired US Postal Service worker had to “endure an unreasonable search and seizure, unlawful police confinement, and severe physical and emotional distress.”
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End qualified immunity.
When the police are stupid, untrained, or just criminal, they need to be punished.
The Judge who signed the warrant should be impeached. Those involved in the warrant should be fired. All the police involved should be disciplined.
Until “we” “We, The Sheeple” get the police under control, there can be no freedom.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2022
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11513733/Iowa-cops-probing-claims-man-Americas-prolific-serial-killer-start-digging-well.html
Iowa cops probing woman’s claim her dead dad is America’s most prolific serial killer start digging under well and on mushroom trail at house she insists he dumped 70 women’s bodies
- Officials from the FBI as well as state and local police swooped on the farmland
- They are planning to bore a well and take dirt samples to test for human remains
- Lucy Studey McKiddy claims that her father Donald Dean Studey is a serial killer
- He is accused of killing 70 women over a three-decade period undetected
- Officials are now probing the allegations after he died in March 2013
- His daughter revealed that Studey liked to kill women by kicking in their heads
By Emma James For Dailymail.Com
Published: 16:42 EST, 7 December 2022 | Updated: 17:02 EST, 7 December 2022
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Police investigating allegations a farmer in Iowa murdered up to 70 women and dumped their bodies in a well are testing soil at the property in Iowa.
Lucy Studey McKiddy, 53, claims that her father, Donald Dean Studey, was a serial killer who forced her and her siblings to dump the bodies of women he killed into a 100ft well.
She said that Studey, who died in March 2013 aged 75, was ‘routinely drunk’ and liked to kill women by smashing or kicking in their heads inside a trailer.
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My first thought was didn’t someone in Iowa notice that 70 women disappeared.
My second thought was why didn’t Lucy Studey McKiddy come forward sooner — 2013 might have been a good time if she was afraid of the 75 year old man. Sometime between now and the last 40! Years would have been better.
Of course, it’s the Gooferment’s fault for not discovering this sooner or allow women to defend themselves with a handgun. If I had a daughter, then I’d be sure that she knew how to defend herself. Argh!
Of course, if prostitution was legal, then it would not be so easy for men to pickup and kill women.
End victimless crimes like drugs and prostitution. We’d all be safer.
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