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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Elizabeth II's husband, dead at 99
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
[National Intelligence Council] Global Trends: A More Contested World
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/09/2021 00:23 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tl;Dr
US spies peer into the future - and it doesn't look good
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/09/2021 0:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Very much worth the read.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2021 2:19 Comments || Top||

#3  a new global coalition

The Open Society gazette arrives on time in the 'Intelligence Community' cabins.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/09/2021 2:56 Comments || Top||

#4  To quote Yogi Berra, "The future ain't what it used to be."
Posted by: Clem || 04/09/2021 4:49 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Killing liberty: Could vaccine resisters be WACOed?
[WND] Because of the natural mutation the clever little RNA strand undergoes — it is clear to anyone with a critical mind that the COVID vaccines will go the way of the flu vaccines: an annual affair if one chooses to make it so.

Choice, alas, is quickly becoming a quaint concept in COVID-compliant America.

Vaccine passports

The possibility of a vaccine passport, a "certification of vaccination that reduces public-health restrictions for their carriers," has been floated. Unfinessed, it amounts to, "Your papers, bitte!"

While Fox's Tucker Carlson did label the idea an Orwellian one — it took civil libertarian Glenn Greenwald, the odd-man-out among the authoritarian left, to place the concept of a vaccine passport in proper perspective.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2021 06:26 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yes, peasant. Why do you ask?
Posted by: Betty Ulinenter6231 || 04/09/2021 10:01 Comments || Top||

#2  When I visited my doctor the other day, he mentioned that you will probably require a COVID shot (and a regular flu shot) every year to handle the inevitable mutations.

By the way, it's "Deine papiere, bitte"
Sieg Heil!
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/09/2021 10:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Ah yes..another requirement from the Branch Covidians
Posted by: Warthog || 04/09/2021 10:21 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
When President Harris Breaks the Glass Ceiling (and Everything Else)
[American Thinker] The Democrats are poised to shatter the glass ceiling by providing us with the first female president of the United States. If recent events are any indication, this accomplishment may happen sooner rather than later. The first indication is the memo recently issued by the White House directing all personnel to refer to the new administration as the Biden/Harris (or is it Harris/Biden?) administration. Bill and Hillary were just unconvincing posers; this is what a real co-presidency looks like.

In several speeches, old Joe has referred to Kamala as President Harris. Republicans are quick to label this a gaffe, an indication of Joe's mental decline. It's nothing of the sort. President Asterisk is using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to prepare the misogynists among us (that would be all males) for the idea of a female president. CBT is a therapeutic method to help people overcome irrational fears, such as the fear of clowns or snakes. In this case, Joe is wisely preparing us so we won't vomit every time we hear the words "President Harris."

As we prepare for her elevation to high office, a review of Kamala's history is in order.

Born to immigrant parents Dr. Donald Harris and Dr. Shyamala Gopalan, Kamala's childhood was not a life of privilege, as both parents were non-white. Rather, Kamala grew up on the mean streets of Berkeley and Montreal. This instilled in Kamala a deep yearning for racial equity and social justice.

Kamala earned her law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law, which she attended via its Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP). The LEOP was a program designed to help those from disadvantaged backgrounds achieve the dream of a law degree. As both of Kamala's parents were merely un-tenured professors, this program was a godsend.

Early in her career, Kamala met Willie Brown, former mayor of San Francisco and speaker of the California Assembly. Kamala was a politically ambitious 29-year-old. Willie was a married 60-year-old power broker in California politics. It was love at first sight. While dating her, Willie gave Kamala appointments to the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and later to the California Medical Assistance Commission.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2021 02:30 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is very scary for America, and the whole world. I don't know if people realize or not. I won't say more, but here in India, we have already prepared for a Harris administration, with several half-baked approaches into the woman suggested by the community she claims to be from. What neither country realizes is, she belongs to nothing and no one belongs to her.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/09/2021 2:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Dron660046, I'm saving your last sentence for future usage.

Thank you.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/09/2021 8:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Words just fail me...... 8p
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/09/2021 8:05 Comments || Top||

#4  The Joe Kamel administration is lame and stupid.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/09/2021 12:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Chosen (by the oligarchs), not elected by the people.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/09/2021 15:29 Comments || Top||


Biden Says Rejoining 'Open Skies' Would Send "Wrong Message" To Russia After Bashing Trump For Exiting It
[ZERO] Remember when then candidate Joe Biden slammed Trump for withdrawing the US from the Open Skies Treaty with Russia? He began a May 2020 statement on the issue as follows:

In announcing the intent to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty, President Trump has doubled down on his short-sighted policy of going it alone and abandoning American leadership.


Biden at the time further harangued Trump for a move that will "exacerbate growing tensions between the West and Russia, and increase the risks of miscalculation and conflict" in a statement heavily focused on attacking Trump's "America first" doctrine.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2021 02:03 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Herschel Walker: Corporations and voter ID critics should help minorities obtain photo IDs to vote
[Just The News] Football legend Herschel Walker says large corporations and activists who oppose the new Georgia election law should help minorities obtain photo IDs for voting instead of "complaining" about the issue "time in and time out."
"Only one per name person"
Major League Baseball moved its annual All Star game from Georgia in response to the new law, which in part requires a photo ID to obtain an absentee ballot.

"My grandfather today, if he was alive, would be 117 years old. He had a drivers license," Walker said Wednesday evening in a virtual discussion organized by Delaware's Wilmington Public Library. "We're in modern time today, and people don't have an ID. And then I say, you know, what's so strange about it is I have all these companies that are coming out, putting it down, 'they don't have ID. People don't have an ID.' "

Companies such as American Airlines came out in opposition to the Georgia voting law. Walker questioned why opponents of the law aren't helping African Americans and others obtain photo IDs.

Some exceptions surely apply, but if you are incapable of obtaining the appropriate form of identification, should you really be voting in the first place ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Run for Congress Walker.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 04/09/2021 8:23 Comments || Top||

#2  I've been saying the same thing. While I just don't see how it is that people, disproportionately minority, find it hard to get ID, I am told (seemingly reliably) it is so. Valid ID are necessary for many things besides voting, and likely more important to daily living in modern society, so obstacles really should be removed.
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/09/2021 8:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Walker is 100% correct.

In my 56 years, 34 of those in law enforcement here and abroad, I have never met a citizen without a valid ID...ever. Only illegal aliens fail to procure valid identification...they have plenty of fake IDs though.

I wish the media and woke corp world would find a few of these ID-less folks and line them up in front of a camera and find out just why they have been unable to procure such an unattainable item.
Posted by: Tennessee || 04/09/2021 9:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Because Black People don't know how to use the internet.
/Biden
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/09/2021 12:25 Comments || Top||

#5  I disagree. I don't care what your race or ethnicity is. If you can't figure out how to register to vote then maybe you shouldn't vote. Besides, the implication that minorities are unable to obtain identification is racist in itself.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/09/2021 12:25 Comments || Top||

#6  just why they have been unable to procure such

Perhaps they can't allow themselves to be identified lest they expose themselves to outstanding warrants?
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/09/2021 12:25 Comments || Top||

#7  #5 ... furthermore, if you cant get to the polling place, you cant vote.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 04/09/2021 17:12 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Fri 2021-04-09
  Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Elizabeth II's husband, dead at 99
Thu 2021-04-08
  US vows to ‘return to compliance’ with Iran nuclear deal, lift sanctions
Wed 2021-04-07
  Iranian ship affiliated with IRGC attacked
Tue 2021-04-06
  Puntland troops foil car bombs, kill 24 ISIS militants in operation
Mon 2021-04-05
  Mozambican Armed Forces Secure Palma Airstrip
Sun 2021-04-04
  Police arrest 100 gang members who smuggled drugs into Spain on speed boats
Sat 2021-04-03
  125 ISIS arrested in al-Hol operation
Fri 2021-04-02
  Sri Lankan boat associated with Pak drug network intercepted off Kerala coast with 300 kg heroin, arms
Thu 2021-04-01
  Taliban targets coalition base in Khost province
Wed 2021-03-31
  Rebels leave beheaded bodies in streets of Mozambique town
Tue 2021-03-30
  DHS Readies Welcome for 800,000 ‘Family Migrants'
Mon 2021-03-29
  Nigeria: Troops Kill 48 Terrorists, Rescue Victims
Sun 2021-03-28
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