John Whitehead Americans have become easy prey for hackers, scammers, snitches, spies, and con artists. But don’t be fooled into thinking the government is protecting you. To the contrary, the U.S. government is selling us (or rather, our data) to the highest bidders. By the way, those highest bidders also … Read more...
Read MoreIn early January 2009, a thirteen-year-old girl named Almaza Samouni watched in horror as 30 members of her family were killed while her home in Gaza was shelled by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) during Operation Cast Lead. Among the victims was her brother, who was struck by a missile … Read more...
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Read MoreThe “Afghanistan Papers” scam by The Washington Post is an exercise in Hanlon’s Razor skulduggery. It represents an outright fabrication, a false narrative of “controversy,” packaged in the guise of classified information. The papers follow […]
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Read MoreFt.com | November 20, 2023 Israel’s military has laid waste to much of northern Gaza, badly damaging more than half of the buildings and large swaths of entire neighbourhoods during its 42 day offensive, according […]
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Read MoreAl Jazeera | November 19, 2023 Khan Younis, Gaza – Sewage flows in the streets of Gaza as all key sanitation services have ceased operating, raising the alarming prospect of an enormous surge of gastrointestinal and infectious diseases […]
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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is demanding the State Department provide an explanation for continuing to employ an allegedly racist employee who publicly expressed anti-Jewish hatred. The employee is identified as Fritz Berggren. According to Grassley, Berggren maintains a public blog rife with anti-Semitic content, and has labeled Jews as “the … Read more...
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I just heard someone say, “One war crime does not justify another.” My reflex as a peace advocate is to agree with that statement, but something gives me pause. It starts with a grammatical issue but it doesn’t end there.
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I stepped back into Manhattan and Brooklyn last week, down to the city from my life in the deep upstate woods. I was revisiting the world of privilege that had ousted me in 2021, and that had been so confident and even smug right up until and into the “pandemic.”… Read more...
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It’s a good thing the House GOP elected a “real” Republican leader the other day. In his debut action the new GOP Speaker kept the government open, by golly, and did so with a huge majority of, well, Democrats!
That’s right. Among the 336 votes for Johnson’s “no cuts” continuing … Read more...
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Hanne Nabintu Herland’s The Billionaire World: How Marxism serves the Elite (2023) is a vital book that will help you understand what is going on in the world today. It will also help you to defend capitalism against objections that are all-too-common today. Herland distinguishes two kinds of capitalism: real … Read more...
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Twin Crisis Rocks Bayer, Shares Crash Most On Record, Hitting Levels Not Seen Since GFC
Bayer shares in Germany experienced their largest-ever intra-day crash, tumbling as much as 21% to lows not seen since the Great Financial Crisis, following a double whammy of news:
First, Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit was
Most OpenAI Staff Threaten To Quit, Join Microsoft Unless ‘Incompetent, Incapable’ Board Resigns
Update (0920ET):
Tech blog Wired has reported that 490 OpenAI employees may quit and find jobs at the “newly announced Microsoft subsidiary run by Sam Altman and Greg Brockman” if the board does not resign.
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Defying Authority
Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,
Stanley Milgram’s experiment was conducted in 1963, before the internet, social media, and the complete takeover of the U.S. by the Deep State.
His estimate that only 20% of the population have the critical thinking skills to defy authority
Musk Takes Heat For Banning Palestinian ‘River To The Sea’ Slogan On X
Elon Musk, who bought Twitter to safeguard free speech on what he called a “digital town square,” has imposed a controversial censorship policy targeting language used by people to question the legitimacy of the Israeli government or
The following is from Gallup News. A 58% majority of Americans think the U.S. criminal justice system is not tough enough in its handling of crime, marking a sharp reversal from the prior reading in 2020 when a record-low 41% said the same. Another 26% of U.S. adults currently say … Read more...
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The watchdog group Judicial Watch has received 131 heavily redacted pages of records from the FBI showing top officials rushing to craft a public response to a leaked FBI intelligence memo revealing the targeting of “radical traditionalist” Catholics. Judicial Watch received the records in response to an April 2023 Freedom … Read more...
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The Rise Of Socialists In Latin America Is Giving Terror Groups A Home
Authored by Marcos Schotgues via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
The new wave of leftist governments in Latin America, along with an increasingly brazen posture from Tehran has given Iran and its proxy terrorist groups a favorable
Dictator Xi’s American Cleanup Tour
By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management
“I know folks say – Oh, they’re just cleaning up this place because all these fancy leaders are coming into town,” said Gavin Newsom, licking the still-damp pressure-washed sidewalks of San Fran’s Tenderloin, the press snapping
Conservative Think Tank Reveals Best, Worst States For Freedom In Education
Authored by Jackson Elliott via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Citing the need for equity, lawmakers in several Democrat-controlled states have passed measures recently that make it harder to discipline students who act up in the classroom.
