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-Great Cultural Revolution
Branch Covidians Unleashing Covid Tyranny Round 2. Be Ready!
[Liberty Sentinel] The FDA has approved a new COVID booster for people 6 months and older. Mask mandates, lockdowns, and regulations are here. What can you do to stop it?

The totalitarian forces behind the tyranny unleashed under the guise of "public health" in 2020 are cranking up the hysteria and trying to bring about round 2 of the COVID madness, warns The New American magazine’s Alex Newman in this episode of Behind The Deep State. From new mask mandates to a new COVID booster, the fear-mongering is being cranked up to support the same exact policies that have hurt so many billions in recent years. This is a Deep State operation to undermine freedom and has nothing to do with public health, warns Newman. It is time for people everywhere to say NO.

Watch the full episode at The Liberty Sentinel.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/14/2023 08:20 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


#2  I believe I will just go about life how I have been. At this point I make fun of anyonbe I come across wearing a mask.
Posted by: Chris || 09/14/2023 10:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Got a feed from a die hard; 'got booster fingers crossed!'

So....why do you feel the need to do the good luck dance?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/14/2023 12:14 Comments || Top||

#4  ABC's pet doctor admitted yesterday on GMA3 that the vaccine will not prevent infection but claimed it will "ease the symptoms". Kinda makes me wonder if they have any actual evidence to support that claim.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/14/2023 12:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Its the kind of language a doctor would use to prescribe a sugar pill to a hypochondriac.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/14/2023 13:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Think I'll stick with Xicam.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/14/2023 13:30 Comments || Top||

#7  Had an eye exam this AM. Got the flu shot.
Said: "I'm not gonna get this new booster".
Nurse says"we're already hearing a lot of that"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/14/2023 13:52 Comments || Top||

#8  "6 months..."

Makes me fucking sick.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/14/2023 14:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Will they try to flatten the curve again..?
Posted by: crazyhorse || 09/14/2023 15:11 Comments || Top||


Disney Unveils More Authentic California Adventure Park Featuring Homeless Campsite
[BEE] ANAHEIM, CA — The Walt Disney Company unveiled plans for a more authentic California Adventure theme park this week which features an authentic homeless campsite.

"Wow, it's so real!" said little Timmy Hearst, a lucky boy who was able to tour the new "Homeless Land" area of the park. "Look, that animatronic robot is puking!"

"Timmy, that's a real homeless actor," his mother admonished.

"Wow! He looks like a real hobo! Gee wiz!"

Homeless Land has reportedly taken over Pixar Pier, but none of the original land's decor has been changed. Rather, in order to make it feel just like California, the area had a veneer of hopelessness thrown over the top of a formerly beautiful environment.

"Park guests can now tour California Adventure and marvel at how beautiful it could be if only the government was cleaning things up a little, just like in the real California!" said Disney CEO Robert Iger.

"I'm rich," he added.

According to a recent survey, a majority of park guests were seen weeping over what we've lost as a society, just like tourists do in West Hollywood.

Posted by: Besoeker || 09/14/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Earth spins to the east, causing loose crap to move to the west. Hence the west coast.
Remember all the prophecies about California falling into the ocean? I'm waiting.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/14/2023 9:02 Comments || Top||

#2  "Welcome....to Hypodermic Park."
-cues John Williams music-

"Look Mom! Its a Hasalotasores!"
"That's a lot of poo.."

"Clever Girl"
"Its Ma'am! Its Maaaa'aaaaam! Arrghhh!" -tear gnashing gore sounds-
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/14/2023 13:01 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
New Mexico Governor Suspends First Amendment To Silence Criticism Over Suspending Second Amendment
[Bee] ALBUQUERQUE, NM — Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham called yet another news conference to announce she was now suspending the First Amendment to silence the heavy criticism she has received for suspending the Second Amendment.

"I am officially declaring that people criticizing me for stripping constitutional rights is a public health emergency," she said when making the controversial announcement. "Due to the terrifying response to my second amendment decision, I am feeling really bad about myself and now have no choice but to suspend the First Amendment as well. So...you know...be quiet. QUIET!"

The assembled members of the media, now having the freedom of the press suspended, remained awkwardly silent for the duration of the press conference. "I'll now open up the floor to anyone who has questions," the governor said. "Oh, that's right — I took away your right to speak! Haha! Whatcha gonna do now, huh? That's right — nothing! Take that, losers!"

Constitutional scholars quickly expressed doubt over Governor Lujan Grisham's authority to suspend entire sections of the U.S. Constitution. "Yeah, she can't do that," said Professor Blake Rumsey. "She's just the governor of a state. And, let's be real here, New Mexico is barely even a real state."

At publishing time, Governor Lujan Grisham was last seen poring over a copy of the Constitution behind closed doors, salivating as she searched for more basic American rights she could strip away from people.
Posted by: Frank G || 09/14/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

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Posted by: Enver Dingle4916 || 09/14/2023 1:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Darn. Another dollar.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/14/2023 6:56 Comments || Top||

#3  And, let's be real here, New Mexico is barely even a real state.

Hey, we have two more representatives in Congress than Wyoming.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/14/2023 8:13 Comments || Top||

#4  New Mexico has a lot to recommend it. Just not the blue majority that makes it what it happens to be these days.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/14/2023 8:14 Comments || Top||



Democrats Scramble To Find Replacement For Retiring Mitt Romney
[Bee] Pierre Delecto au revoir
The Democratic Party was left scrambling for a replacement today, as long-time faithful Senator Mitt Romney of Utah announced he would not be seeking re-election.
The man consistently on the wrong side of the average American.
"This is a huge blow for the Democratic Party," said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. "Romney has been one of our most reliable senators. He will be sorely missed."

Democrats have immediately begun searching for a replacement candidate, concerned that conservatives in Utah could flip the seat Republican. "Romney being able to carry Utah for the Democrats was an unbelievable windfall for the party," said analyst Chuck Todd. "It will be incredibly difficult to find another candidate who can win in such a deep red state while completely and utterly turning his back on the Republican party. It's like finding a unicorn."

According to sources in the Romney camp, the Senator plans to retire to the plains of Namibia to spend more time with his fellow rhinoceros family.
Posted by: Frank G || 09/14/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Guess Mitt found out he'd used up all his charisma based upon the latest poll numbers.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/14/2023 8:11 Comments || Top||

#2  What’s to stop him from coming out of the closet as a Dem at this point?
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/14/2023 8:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Jumping on the Anti-MAGA train is he? How surprising.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/14/2023 8:12 Comments || Top||

#4  The big problem is this will give Mike Lee breathing space to move left, RINO that he is.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/14/2023 8:14 Comments || Top||

#5  He had charisma at 1 point? Guess I learnt something today.
Posted by: Chris || 09/14/2023 10:07 Comments || Top||

#6  What’s to stop him from coming out of the closet as a Dem at this point?

He'd never get elected from Utah that way. He'd have to move back to Massachusetts or California. Maybe he could run for Feinstein's seat.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/14/2023 12:43 Comments || Top||

#7  'Oh yeah for the right price I might be open to an impeachment hearing; now if you excuse me, just gonna cut right through here to the door.'

Guess it would be a bit awkward to be up there listening to testimony and consequences of operating a private e-mail covering public affairs.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/14/2023 12:52 Comments || Top||

#8  Damn. The Babylon Bee is really really good.

To be fair, Romney was supportive of Trump's economic program and was also very supportive of controlling immigration - he even tried to get the border wall started back in 2017 when Trump was wasting time trying to substitute a half baked plan for health care.

He was very put off by Trump personally. They clearly disliked each other.
Posted by: lord garth || 09/14/2023 19:43 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
The TTP’s new battleground
[Dawn] IT was the most audacious cross-border incursion by the TTP. Reportedly, hundreds of heavily armed militants stormed Pakistani security posts in Chitral last week. The intruders were said to have been beaten back after three days of fierce fighting but the situation in the remote district is far from normal. Tension continues to grip the region.

There were some reports of the militants having infiltrated the border areas of the Kalash valley. The latest attacks in the treacherous mountainous region mark an expansion in the TTP’s cross-border operations. The strategically located northwestern part of Pakistan that borders Afghanistan’s Kunar and Nuristan provinces has become the TTP’s latest battlefield. The two Afghan provinces house the largest sanctuaries for the outlawed Pakistani militant group.

With reports of the militants amassing on the border and tensions building up in the region for some time, the raid didn’t come as a surprise. According to some reports, the attacks were led by TTP head Noor Mehsud. The timing of the attacks seemed well calculated as the country celebrated Defence Day on Sept 6. The clashes left casualties on both sides.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/14/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under: Pak Taliban (TTP)


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
The Foundational Falsehood Underlying Palestinian Claims
[AmericanThinker] Of all the falsehoods that have been mythologized regarding Israel and Palestine, none has been more pervasive and damaging than the claim that Israel constitutes "Occupied Palestine."

Why? Because this claim underlies all other Palestinian claims of being the legitimate and persecuted inhabitants of Israel. Take away this keystone myth, and Palestinians lose all other claims of Israeli/Jewish victimhood and justifications of decades of violence propagated against Jews, Arabs, and Europeans.

These pernicious claims of Palestinian originalism have been promulgated since Israel’s founding by a range of bad actors, including radical Arab countries, the Soviets, and European and American Progressives...not to mention the Palestinians themselves. Ask your average American or European why Palestinians deserve their own country, and one is likely to be told, "because they were there first, and they were displaced by European Jews." Wrong!

...the 1880 Ottoman census tallied 275,000 people in a land that Mark Twain, in his 1867 travel memoirs, described as "desolate" and "barren." Of this total, about 10% were Jewish, mostly concentrated in Jerusalem. Jews continued to migrate to Palestine, purchasing land from Turkish and Arab landowners.

Today (as of 2021) there 14 million people calling themself Palestinians (Google search "palestinians total"). So let do some math.
(14000000/250000)/(2021 - 1880) = 0.397 average growth rate per year.
Now, According to Wordometer (https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/) World population 1880 was, approx (interpolated) 1440 million. The same source for 2021: 7909 million. Hence the average growth rate per year is:
(7909/1440)/141 = 0.039.
That is, Palestinian growth rate per year > 10*(rest of the world's growth rate per year).
Heh???
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/14/2023 05:42 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  These pernicious claims of Palestinian originalism

You mean like the Cape Province and Table Mountain ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/14/2023 8:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Even Israel isn’t what it once was. Within the next decade the country’s mostly-Palestinian Muslim population will become the majority, although about 90 percent of them have no political rights in the Israeli system. The two-state process that sought to generate a country for the Palestinians has been dead for years and we have already seen the Israelis implement a very successful separation plan more than a bit reminiscent of South Africa’s Apartheid.

In fact, Israeli ultranationalists in private conversations even welcome the comparison to Apartheid, because they think Apartheid was gentler than what modern Israel has achieved. Under Apartheid, the black South Africans could travel to white-controlled zones for work. Under the Israeli program the Palestinians languish behind 35-foot-tall concrete walls in what are little more than open air prisons with the Israelis controlling Palestinian access to power, food and water. As the thinking goes, who cares if this radicalizes the Palestinians if they are radicalized on the other side of a wall. Arguably, places like Tunisia or Pakistan are now “more equal” democracies than Israel. (Ugh, I’m going to get so much hate mail for these last two paragraphs.)
-- Peter Zeihan

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Posted by: Harcourt Tholuse6841 || 09/14/2023 12:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Within the next decade the country’s mostly-Palestinian Muslim population will become the majority, although about 90 percent of them have no political rights in the Israeli system.

*Shrug* The experts have been scaring themselves with that claim since the early 1950s, during which time the Arab-Israeli and Palestinian birth rates have fallen significantly, even as the Israeli birth rate has risen — nowadays they’re almost the same, but Israeli babies have a better survival rate.

Note that the Moslems of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Afghanistan also have no political rights in the Israeli system — because they have their own rights under their own governments. If the residents of the Palestinian Territories are unhappy because their political leaders are tinpot totalitarian tyrants, that is not Israel's responsibility. And anyway, the Palestinians in Jerusalem can have Israeli rights and citizenship upon filling out the form requesting Israeli citizenship, but they choose not to do so. Palestinians in the rest of the West Bank can have all sorts of rights if they marry an Israeli, but again almost all do not.

Under the Israeli program the Palestinians languish behind 35-foot-tall concrete walls in what are little more than open air prisons

Such rot. But Peter Zeihan, who seems to be a nice, thoughtful man, clearly has never seen Israel’s internal and external borders for himself. Elsewise he would be talking about the worrisome porosity of the fence along the Green Line, which crossed by about as many illegal Palestinian workers each day as 100,000+ who come in legally, plus another 30,000 working legally for Israelis in the West Bank. Gaza sends another 20,000. So depending on how much of the Palestinian population in the territories is real versus imaginary, somewhere between 10% and 20% enter Israel each day to earn significantly more than they would for the same job at home. How vile the Israelis are, to be sure.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/14/2023 21:01 Comments || Top||



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  Al Qaeda Affiliate Claims Responsibility For Killing 53 Members Of Burkina Faso Security Forces
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  Turkish authorities deport more than 520 Syrian refugees
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