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Very dangerous realization.
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RANT: Guess this summarizes why the “religion of peace” is against Western civilization
Friday, November 10, 2017
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INTERESTING: Final Jeopardy betting strategy?
Thursday, November 9, 2017Watching a recent Jeopardy, I was reminded of my quest for the formula for final jeopardy wagering.
X, Y, and Z are the final amounts of the leader, midfielder, and trailer.
If X > 2Y, then there’s no calculation needed.
If X-2Y > 2Z, then the trailer plays no part in the action.
If X-2Y > Z, then the trailer must play to have any chance to win.
If X-2Y < Z, then the trailer must bet zero and hope they both miss.
Any other strategies?
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TINFOILHAT: The Las Vegas Massacre
Wednesday, November 8, 2017http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-01/why-has-las-vegas-massacre-disappeared-news-cycle
Why Has The Las Vegas Massacre Disappeared From The News Cycle?
by Tyler Durden Nov 2, 2017 12:30 AM
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It is without a doubt, our news cycle – in the age of 24/7 constant-connectedness – moves at a breakneck pace. With so much information and news reaching us, it’s easy to become overburdened and burned out on the world around us and the things taking place. It is true, too, that the mainstream media dictates what stays center in the mind of the public and what is allowed to fade away and be forgotten. It is of the utmost importance we remain aware – however exhaustive it may be – of stories that just don’t add up.
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IF there were multiple shooters, THEN the Gooferment’s “safety” guarantee is WORTHLESS — as it always was.
IF there were multiple shooters, THEN ISIS has successfully mounted a terrorist attack in the USA — that’s a BIG first since 9/11.
IF there were multiple shooters, THEN the Gooferment and its propaganda media is exposed as liars.
Wake up call?
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VETERANS: Setting and meeting tougher standards
Tuesday, November 7, 2017FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL “The 10-Point”
| Army Strong The U.S. Army’s decades-old physical-fitness test could get more physical soon, with the aim of encouraging more-practical training and preventing injury. Among the six events in the proposed overhaul of the Army Combat Readiness Test: a barbell lift, a sprint with 40-pound kettlebells and a brutal new style of push-up. With one set of passing standards and no adjustments for age or gender, it reflects a U.S. military where all combat jobs are now open to women. The test would be a dramatic shift for the Army, long a bellwether of civilian health and fitness. Tens of thousands of soldiers can’t be deployed because of injuries, Army leaders say, many caused by poor physical fitness. |
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Finally, some common sense in this crazy “politically correct” world!
I don’t want unfit men OR women who can’t deploy. It just makes it dangerous for everyone.
For the jobs where you sit on your butt all day, outsource them to civilians.
AND, why not make the physical items as part of shaping the force in terms of retention.
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TINFOILHAT: Did Hitler escape to South America?
Monday, November 6, 2017http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5035335/How-CIA-Hitler-alive-Colombia-1954.html
How the CIA ‘found’ Hitler alive in Colombia in 1954: Agency was told about man with a VERY familiar face who lived in an ex-SS community where he was called The Fuhrer and given Nazi salutes, declassified files show
- Declassified CIA report details claims that Hitler lived in Colombia in the 1950s
- Phillip Citroen, a former SS officer, told agents the dictator was living in the town of Tunja, 85 miles north of Bogota, among a group of former Nazis in 1954
- Citroen said the men called him The Fuhrer, gave him Nazi salutes and ‘afforded him storm-trooper adulation’
- He even provided a photograph showing a man with a strong likeness of Hitler
By Chris Pleasance for MailOnline
PUBLISHED: 09:10 EDT, 31 October 2017 | UPDATED: 09:46 EDT, 31 October 2017
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After speaking with Cimelody, agents decided to write the information into a formal report which was sent to their superiors ‘as of possible interest’.
However, the report was accompanied by another letter which says: ‘It is felt that enormous efforts could be expended on this matter with remote possibilities of establishing anything concrete.
‘Therefore, we suggest that this matter be dropped.’
Thousands of Nazis are believed to have fled to South America after the collapse of the Third Reich, including Josef Mengele, Auschwitz’s Angel of Death, and Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust.
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Given all the money that the Gooferment wastes, one would think root out ALL of these “thousands of Nazis” would have been a priority?
Oh, I guess because they weren’t rocket scientists the Gooferment wasn’t interested. After all they were only war criminals and mass murderers.
Argh!
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Forget Daylight Saving, We Should Adopt a Single, Universal Time, Scientists Say http://flip.it/yab_cX
Sunday, November 5, 2017Great idea!!
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TINFOILHAT: The Deep State is exposed; what do we do?
Sunday, November 5, 2017The JFK Files and the Real Conspiracy Against the Truth
By David Stockman
David Stockman’s Contra Corner
October 30, 2017
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If you didn’t believe the Deep State is beyond democratic control before, you now have no choice – not after the last minute mugging the Donald received on his way to releasing these ancient JFK assassination files.
And believe us, they are indeed ancient. Your editor was sitting in high school civics class learning about the difference between America’s open society and democratic government and the secretive Kremlin dictatorship of the Soviet Union when news of the Dallas tragedy came over the school’s PA.
Needless to say, the theory that the assassination was the work of a lone gunman in the Texas Book Depository, who fired three shots in 11 seconds with an 1890 vintage Italian rifle and hit President Kennedy from 265 feet was never very satisfying from the beginning.
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It appears now to be “proven” that there is a Deep State. The failure to release ALL the JFK documents PROVES that “the Deep State” exists.
It’s like proof of a black hole in astronomy.
The JFK assignation proves that the American Gooferment experience a “regime change” at the hands of Deep State conspiracy.
What do “We, The Sheeple” do?
As usual, nothing.
Now that we recognize that “freedom” in the USA is an illusion. And, we are “ruled” by an elite and it’s all an illusion like the movie “The Matrix”.
Argh!
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TINFOILHAT: Time to close the CIA as a result of the JFK expose
Saturday, November 4, 2017The Cunningness of The CIA’s JFK Assassination Cover-Up
By Jacob G. Hornberger — The Future of Freedom Foundation — November 4, 2017
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Whatever else might be said about the assassination of President Kennedy, one thing is for sure: The cover-up of this particular U.S. regime-change operation was one of the most ingenious and cunning plots ever designed. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, given that practically from its inception in 1947 the CIA was specializing in the arts of assassination, regime change, and cover-up.
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Time to shut down the CIA in its current form. Transform the DOD, NSA, and CIA back into a true Department of DEFENSE
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VETERANS: Why are “we” in Niger?
Saturday, November 4, 2017REVEALED – Full story of deadly Niger ambush: Hero Green Beret Sgt. La David Johnson died going BACK into the kill zone to save comrades… as survivors fought for their lives for TWO HOURS until French fighter jets reached them
- Sgt. La David Johnson was in an armed pick-up truck when the ambush started
- His vehicle was in front of the Land Cruiser carrying Sgt. Bryan C. Black, Staff Sgt. Jeremiah W. Johnson, Sgt. La David Johnson and Staff Sgt. Dustin M. Wright
- Johnson and his vehicle escaped the fire of 50 ISIS militants but then went back
- They were trying to save the other four US men when they were all struck Sgt. La.’s body was eventually given back to Nigerien troops by a village elder
- That same village elder is suspected of stalling the troops before the ambush
- The October 3 attack in Tongo Tongo, Niger, has been shrouded in secrecy
- Sgt. Johnson’s widow revealed this week that she still did not know how he died
- The new details were revealed on Friday by an unnamed US official
- Questions remain over why the lightly armed unit of just 42 soldiers was sent on a dangerous mission to capture an ISIS target with so few men and weapons
- The official revealed the men were meant to have back-up but it could not go with them at the last minute
- Instead of being called back to base, they were told to proceed with the mission
By Jennifer Smith For Dailymail.com
PUBLISHED: 16:43 EDT, 28 October 2017 | UPDATED: 00:55 EDT, 29 October 2017
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They searched through the night for on October 2 then, on October 3, stopped in Tongo Tongo which is known to have links to the terror group. The soldier said that after meeting the village chief, he tried to stop them from leaving.
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Questions which must now be answered include whether the men should ever have been told to proceed with the mission with no surveillance, no back-up and limited weaponry and ammunition.
It has also shed light on the US military’s presence in Africa which was largely unrecognized until recently.
U.S. forces have been in the country intermittently for more than two decades. Currently, some 800 U.S. service members are supporting a French-led mission to defeat the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and Boko Haram in West Africa.
Another 5,000 or so are in the Middle East. In five years, the number of US commandos in Africa has tripled from only 450 in 2012.
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(1) Was that “village chief” delaying or attempting to save our grunts? Once someone determines that, EITHER WAY he should be appropriately rewarded (i.e., a bullet or a thank you).
(2) Why the <synonym for the act of procreation> are our troops in Africa for two decades? What is our strategic national issue?
Argh!
It’s up to us vet to “explain” to our elected officials what the “ground truth” is — bring all the girls, boys, women, and men home now! If the politicians think it’s so important, then let them make a case for it. I doubt it will “fly”, but let’s have that conversation.
Argh!
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TINFOILHAT: “Las Vegas” conspiracy theories — looks like the “official story” is BS
Friday, November 3, 2017SMOKING GUN? BOMBSHELL FOOTAGE SHOWS OVER A DOZEN AMBULANCES “REMOVING BODIES” FROM THE HOOTERS CASINO AND HOTEL DURING THE LAS VEGAS MASSACREOCTOBER 26, 2017 | ALEX THOMAS | THE DAILY SHEEPLE | 7,576 VIEWS
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At this point it is safe to say that there was clearly something going on at Hooters during the Las Vegas Massacre that included injured or dead people and over a dozen ambulances pulling in and at least some leaving shortly after.
We already know that we have been repeatedly lied to about the attack but as the independent media continues to piece together evidence, the possibility that this was a straight up false flag terror attacks rises exponentially.
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Comments? Certain makes a case that the LV incident was NOT as officially reported.
What is the truth? Darned if I know.
Just a lot of questions!
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SECURITY: Print Your Google Backup Verification Codes
Thursday, November 2, 2017http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/print-google-backup-verification-codes-prevent-getting-locked/
Print Your Google Backup Verification Codes to Prevent Getting Locked Out
Saikat Basu October 26, 2017
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If you use Google’s two-step authentication system to protect your Google accounts, you could accidentally get locked out. It’s one of the biggest risks of two-factor authentication. And if you can’t get a mobile signal, then you can’t get the needed SMS messages in time.
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The better question is WHY AREN’T you using two-step authentication anywhere it’s offered?
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LIBERTARIAN: Of course, no bailouts for anyone, anytime, anywhere
Wednesday, November 1, 2017http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2017/10/a-potential-alliance-between-socialists.html
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2017
A Potential Alliance Between Socialists and Libertarians Over Puerto Rican Government Debt
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The debt in question is debt run up irresponsibly by past Puerto Rican governments. Every hardcore libertarian would, of course, support default on this debt rather than have the decent people of Puerto Rico or US taxpayers bailout the owners of this debt. From a libertarian perspective, this should be the position on all government debt.
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Why should the taxpayers pay?
Clawback from the politicians and bureaucrats!
Argh!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Gooferment Skrules bring these problems to the forefront
Tuesday, October 31, 20172017-Oct-31
Shocking moment student kicked the chair out from underneath a classmate who refused to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance
- The incident happened at Winters Mill High School in Westminster, Maryland
- The student who kicked the chair posted video of the event on his Instagram
- He said the other teen was ‘disrespectful’ and needed to get his ‘a** kicked’
- The student who stayed sitting said he was protesting the current US leadership
- Carroll County Schools said the student who kicked the chair was disciplined
By Kelly Mclaughlin For Mailonline
PUBLISHED: 11:56 EDT, 25 October 2017 | UPDATED: 12:53 EDT, 25 October 2017
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A high school student in Maryland has been disciplined after kicking a chair out from underneath another student who was not standing during the Pledge of Allegiance.
The incident happened at Winters Mill High School in Westminster, Maryland, on Tuesday morning.
The student who kicked the chair posted video footage of the event on Instagram, calling the other teen ‘disrespectful’ and said he need to get his ‘a** kicked’.
The Pledge of Allegiance is recited every morning during morning announcements across Carroll County public schools, but students aren’t required to stand during it.
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Sorry, but this wouldn’t be a problem if the Gooferment Skrules didn’t recite the Pledge every morning.
You have to realize the PURPOSE of Gooferment Skrules.
BRAIN WASHING!
It’s always been to create cannon fodder for the Army, willing morons for the factories, and useful idiots to vote for and be led by the elite.
“They can jail us. They can shoot us. They can even conscript us. They can use us as cannon-fodder in the Somme. But… but, we have a weapon more powerful than any in the whole arsenal of their British Empire. And that weapon is our refusal. Our refusal to bow to any order but our own, any institutions but our own.” — Liam Neeson portraying Michael Collins, 1996.
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RANT: Watching MNF online sucks
Monday, October 30, 20172017-Oct-30 2227
Sorry but it’s not like watching on TV.
Argh!
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SECESSION: Breaking into 3 to frustrate Cal-Exit?
Monday, October 30, 2017California clears first hurdle to breaking into three states
by Anna Giaritelli | Oct 29, 2017, 1:45 PM
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The plan proposes making the area including and north of San Francisco into one state, a coastal region extending south to Los Angeles another state, and everywhere south and east of those a third state.
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Why would “we” give California more clout in the Senate now?
Just let them go their way in peace.
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JOBSEARCH: Action speaks louder than resumes
Monday, October 30, 20172017-Oct-30
What Job-Hunting Teaches Us about the Value of Innovation
By: Ryan Ayers
In: Innovation Psychology
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Create Your Own Solution – Take Action
When you’re searching for your dream job, so are hundreds of others. They’re all applying for the same openings, using the same strategies to land a job that everyone else is. However, the people who really get noticed are the ones who go straight to the companies they want with their value, regardless of whether there’s a posted opening or not. One tech company hired four people in six months who proactively reached out and showed the decision-maker at the company what they could do to make his company more successful.
Innovators don’t wait until someone asks for a need to be filled. They spot the gaps before anyone else sees them, and take action to create solutions proactively. They know their efforts may not be successful, but they try anyway. Why? Because sometimes, it they do work. Decisive, informed action is what sets innovators apart, in both the job search and when driving the changes they want to see in the world.
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This reminded me of my very first job search when I took my first golden handshake from AT&T. I didn’t know any better, so I sent out 400+ letters to banks and brokerages. Each included a multi-page resume. I don’t remember the page count but it was long. It took two first class stamps to mail. And, each was personalize and in a hand addressed envelope. I was rewarded by many interviews and a choice of three offers. I started the second week in January and remember I was upset because I was out of work about 10 days. Laugh!
So, be aggressive in seeking out YOUR opportunities. I still believe that your UVP (Unique Value Equation) must be backed up with your USP (Unique Sales Process).
Good luck and good hunting.
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GUNS: The average gun owner isn’t interested doing a thing to anyone
Sunday, October 29, 20172017-Oct-29
https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2017/10/23/ap-focuses-spotlight-lgbtq-gun-group/
AP Focuses Spotlight On LGBTQ Gun Group
Posted at 8:30 am on October 23, 2017 by Tom Knighton
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But those same conservatives are also the very same people who have volunteered as part of Operation Blazing Sword, a project launched following the Pulse Orlando shooting last year. It’s where a large number of conservative and libertarian gun owners–including myself, to be clear–volunteered to help teach the LGBTQ community how to shoot so they could protect themselves.
In short, the average gun owner isn’t interested doing a thing to anyone in the Trigger Warnings group…except maybe chuckle at their name because it’s kind of awesome.
Don’t get me wrong, the concerns about neo-Nazis have a place. They’re out there and they’re a threat to pretty much anyone who disagrees with them on anything, but more so for people who are part of groups lacking approval by their warped ideology. Being concerned about those threats definitely has a place in one’s training.
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All the gun owners that I’ve met — not a statistical study by any means — are just folks who want to have fun, shoot strange stuff, and not be bothered by busybodies.
I recently read that gun shootings by non-police have an extremely small percentage of error or harm to innocents. Further, that just the presence of a good person with a gun tends to stop crime. Finally, “gun free zones” are dangerous because they attract the bad guys.
Argh!
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INTERESTING: Could we use dogs to quickly screen for diseases?
Saturday, October 28, 2017https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/10/joseph-mercola/does-sickness-smell/
Does Sickness Smell?
By Joseph Mercola Mercola.com October 23, 2017
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In yet another example, a Labrador retriever was trained to detect the scent of colorectal cancer from breath and stool samples with greater than 90 percent accuracy.21 Using breath samples, the dog could detect colorectal cancer with 91 percent accuracy and had an amazing 97 percent accuracy with stool samples. The researchers concluded:
“This study shows that a specific cancer scent does indeed exist and that cancer-specific chemical compounds may be circulating throughout the body. These odor materials may become effective tools in colorectal cancer screening.”
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Hopefully soon, we can have “disease detectors” that mimic the dog’s ability.
Either that or an array of dogs that give you a sniff as you walk into the hospital.
Maybe that’s the future of Gooferment “healthcare”?
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ECONOMICS: CVS eats AETNA?
Friday, October 27, 2017Healthy Convergence
CVS is in talks to buy Aetna for more than $66 billion, as the drugstore giant works to fortify itself against looming competition from Amazon while the health-care industry undergoes a reordering. In a sign of the seriousness of the talks, the companies’ chief executives have met multiple times over a period of roughly six months. CVS has made a proposal to buy the health insurer for more than $200 a share. With Aetna, CVS could lock in a huge number of members for its pharmacy-benefit management arm, as well as customers for its drugstores. That could bolster its leverage in negotiations with drugmakers, while its oversight of health insurance could improve its ability to strike new deals that tie drug prices to patient outcomes. If a deal were to be struck, it would be the year’s largest.
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VETERANS: Six KIAs deserve to have the truth told
Friday, October 27, 2017Judge Nap: American People Need to Know Obama’s Role in Bergdahl Prisoner Swap
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Bergdahl was captured and held by the Taliban after leaving his remote post in Afghanistan in 2009.
After five years, the Taliban released Bergdahl in a prisoner swap for five detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
His punishment will be decided by a judge at a hearing starting October 23.
Judge Andrew Napolitano said he’s “furious” that this isn’t going to trial, because there are so many aspects about this case that the American people have the right to know about.
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Six good men dead. Five terrorists released. And “We, The Sheeple” will never get the truth.
Why did BHO44 and Susan Rice praise him? Is he crazy?
Is the fix in to sweep this all under the proverbial rug?
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CLOUD: Revolar goes toes up
Thursday, October 26, 2017
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LIBERTY: Is it time to reject this faux leftist “liberalism” doctrine?
Thursday, October 26, 20172017-Oct-26
Is Liberalism a Dying Faith?
By Patrick J. Buchanan October 21, 2017
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On Oct. 7, scores of thousands of Poles lined up along the country’s entire 2,000-mile border — to pray the rosary.
It was the centennial of the Virgin Mary’s last apparition at Fatima in Portugal in 1917, and the day in 1571 the Holy League sank the Muslim fleet at Lepanto to save Europe. G. K. Chesterton’s poem, “Lepanto,” was once required reading in Catholic schools.
Each of these traditionalist-nationalist movements is unique, but all have a common cause. In the hearts of Europe’s indigenous peoples is embedded an ancient fear: loss of the homeland to Islamic invaders.
Europe is rejecting, resisting, recoiling from “diversity,” the multiracial, multicultural, multiethnic and multilingual future that, say U.S. elites, is America’s preordained mission to bring about for all mankind.
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Clearly I think it’s been overdue for rejection of this “nation building” “barbara streisand”!
The USA is not the “world’s policeman” and the “piggy bank” for social engineering.
“We, The Sheeple” should be insisting on dumping the UN as a failed institution (e.g., what countries are on the Human Rights committee; how much corruption do we know about; who needs NYC traffic jams).
The USA has become the “dumping ground” for all the criminals and grifters who come here to suck off the system.
I continue to urge that we end: “welfare” for everyone, the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”, and the foreign “wars” that serve NO strategic interest.
Argh!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The warfare state is impoverishing us all
Wednesday, October 25, 20172017-Oct-25
Ron Paul Rages At The Decades Of Wars’ Damage To The American Economy
By Tyler Durden Zero Hedge October 21, 2017
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“Just think if all the money we have spent overseas since World War II ended, if that money had been left in this country to let wealth grow,” proposes Paul.
Had that happened, Paul says there would not be so many people using food stamps, the middle class would not be dwindling, and the jobs situation would be better in America.
While the American economy in general has been hurt by the wars, Paul notes that some Americans have benefited financially. Paul concludes,
“It’s insanity to think that war improves your economic condition; it improves the condition of the war manufacturers.”
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Time to “repurpose” the Department of DEFENSE?
With all these “wars” that go on forever, “We, The Sheeple” need to stop these politicians and bureaucrats in their tracks.
Personally, I blame Congress. They don’t want to take any responsibility for their actions. “The devil made me do it” is really the campaign contributions make me the corrupt venial fool that I am.
“Campaign Finance Reform” has to start with “Free Speech”.
But, shouldn’t a politician be limited to raising funds within their own constituents?
And, corporations, as artificial creations of the Gooferment, shouldn’t have “free speech”?
Argh!
“WE” have to stop the warfare state.
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WSJ: Survival comes from pre-planning
Tuesday, October 24, 2017FROM BEHIND THE WSJ PAYWALL
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Why are we the only ones going this direction? Are we digging our own grave?”
Eli Monroe, 34, on choosing a route to escape the deadliest wildfires in California history. We chronicle how the fires, which have left more than 40 people dead, have forced thousands to make similar, split-second decisions. Officials said Sunday that easing winds would help firefighters.
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One thing that “preppers”, survivalists, and plain old “industrial strength” corporate Disaster Recovery (DR) planners do is: (1) itemize the risks that you might face in the future; (2) weigh relative probability of all the possible “disasters”; and (3) continually develop, test, and update plans for when those “disasters” happen.
Strategies — for example: shift to an alternative location, mitigate the risks, create alternatives — are just unique approaches in response to a “viewpoint” to a particular risk. Interesting is that a single strategy can mitigate multiple risks.
Tactics — for example: having a “bug out” bag ready, having a “get out of Dodge” kit in your car trunk, having a “cache” at a secondary location — are all slight variations of the same thing. AND, once again, they can service several alternatives at the same time.
One mistake that CEOs, CFOs, Board of Directors, and IT leadership make is that the don’t test realistically and completely are “blind” to the “ground truth” that their EXPENSIVE DR plans are worthless. And they don’t want to hear it.
Don’t you make their mistake!
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RANT: Gooferment Komputer Systems barfs
Monday, October 23, 20172017-Oct-23
Got DMV renewal for caddie. Put all my info in, got part way, and system barfed. Argh! Now I have to wait 30 minutes to try again. Stupid Gooferment!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Wisdom of the Crowd “laughs” at the Emperor’s “new clothes”?
Monday, October 23, 2017http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6522758/
Wisdom of the Crowd
A tech innovator creates a cutting-edge crowd-sourcing hub to solve his own daughter’s murder, as well as revolutionizing crime solving in San Francisco.
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I like the premise of the show.
(a) wonder why no one is trying it — maybe they are?
(b) I like how it makes the Gooferment politician so venial.
(c) It shows the police “protecting their turf” from an outsider with a better idea.
(d) It shows how people can be empowered to act on their own.
The corollary is that we are all reponsible for our own and the collective security.
Get armed, trained, and pro-active.
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