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Troops patrol Tijuana as city emerges from cartel-fueled night of terror
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Cometh the Horsemen: Pandemic, Famine, War
Long. Grab something to eat and drink, find a comfortable chair, and set aside 90 minutes to watch, dear Reader. Or throw on your exercise/gardening clothes and give your mind something to think about while your body gets stuff done.
[YouTube] We are heading into one of the most epic famines in world history, where the poor will freeze in the dark and burn in the sun while they starve.

Michael Yon, one of America’s youngest Green Berets at 19 years old, joins Dr Jordan B Peterson to discuss the current state of affairs across the globe. Michael has traveled and lived over half of his life abroad in more than 80 countries. Author of three books in the United States and three others in Japan, he is America’s most experienced combat correspondent.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Most interesting, TW. Love to hear Peterson talk, especially when he's talking about me. 👹
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/14/2022 6:16 Comments || Top||

#2  He's been everywhere, man.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2022 6:25 Comments || Top||

#3  A lot of people are talking about a dreary view of future. Alex Jones, Glenn Beck, to name a couple. These authors have books that center on "The Great Reset" that globalists/Internationalist have in mind for the planet and everyone but themselves. I recall George H.W., Bush, in one of his speeches talking about "The New World Order." I think it is a question of whether you value life or don't, the latter being the internationalists.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/14/2022 11:58 Comments || Top||

#4  "to kill with sword, famine, and plague, and by means of the beasts of the earth."
I'm waiting for the 4'th shoe to drop.
Posted by: James || 08/14/2022 15:38 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Maybe it means those we consider human but Gawd considers beasts? And they're already at it?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/14/2022 15:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Durch Barbarei, Arabia (translation in comments)
Posted by: Blinky Spawn of the Boskonians9594 || 08/14/2022 22:34 Comments || Top||


Europe
‘I Have Never Seen Such Idiots!'
[AmericanConservative] A Cypriot taxi driver says the West is sleepwalking into catastrophe.

Good morning from the airport in Larnaca, Cyprus. I'm headed back to Vienna after a short trip here. I just had a rather vivid ride to the airport from Limassol in the care of a highly opinionated taxi driver. This man's views are consonant with those of other Cypriots I've talked with this week. I know it's a Tom Friedman cliche to quote the taxi driver, but as far as I can tell, Americans never hear from people like this -- and it's really important that we do so we are not blindsided by events.

The driver -- I didn't get his name, but for simplicity's sake, I'll call him "Kyriaco" -- began by telling me that I don't have to wear a mask in his taxi, but that he has to wear one, because it's the law. "Idiots," he said, referring to the government.
Also covered: the idiocy of the Ukraine war and Russia sanctions, Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, stupid Biden made everyone hate and distrust America.
Posted by: Unase Hupemble7325 || 08/14/2022 10:13 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  West is sleep walking into catastrophe.

Many in the U.S. are aware of what's going on...that's what makes the left so desperate.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/14/2022 14:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Too bad the reporter didn't ask the taxi driver what he thought of Trump.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 08/14/2022 18:22 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Does Donald Trump Have Jeffrey Epstein's List of Clients?
[American Spectator] Does Donald Trump have Jeffrey Epstein’s list of clients? The Deep State, Bureaucracy, Swamp, Administrative State, Military-Industrial Complex, Democrats, Media, Establishment Republicans, and crew are acting like Trump is Satan incarnate. At this point their loathing seems overwrought, to understate it. Every norm is being thrown out for a man who governed in a perfunctory way. At first, the hysteria seemed just like partisan hyperventilating. Now, the actions are shrill hysteria. Only one thing causes this kind of collective freakout in Washington, D.C.: fear.

What about Donald Trump makes these people so afraid?

Thus, I return to my first question: Does Donald Trump have Jeffrey Epstein’s list of clients? Trump must have the goods on these people, because they’ve done everything to the man short of assassinate him.

Their actions since Trump first ran for office have been strangely "extra." The Clintons, Hillary, cooked up the lie about Trump and Russia. She didn’t have to reach far to make up a story. It was basically the truth of the Bidens, down to the Russian hookers and drugs. This made-up story consumed the Deep State. The worst part was that it knew the whole thing was bogus from the beginning. It was simply a pretext to spy on someone those in D.C. didn’t have enough dirt on. Trump has continuously been under surveillance since. Why? Was Hillary just embarrassed by Trump’s retort at one of their presidential debates that "you’d be in jail"? It has to be more than that.

The powers in D.C. won’t stop. As I wrote last week, they’re creating the very thing they want to destroy.

Ron DeSantis waits in the wings. He’s been uncharacteristically quiet about the FBI’s raid of Trump in his own state. Like other presidential hopefuls before him, DeSantis needs to understand something fundamental: The guns the Deep State is using against Donald Trump will be turned on any Republican in power or seeking power. DeSantis would do well to enthusiastically denounce what is happening to President Trump. He’ll be on the chopping block next. Deal with the internecine rivalry later.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2022 13:33 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Excepts from a Red State article regarding the suppressive action by DoJ to forestall the release of the MAL video of the FBI warrant search, obviously far more expansive and intrusive that what was approved. Next comes the attempt for a gag order to complete the Gen. Flynn treatment. Pure Stasi tactics by the DoJ National Security Division, the new Brown Shirts of the Biden Puppet Show.

"The Justice Department also subpoenaed surveillance footage from Mar-a-Lago recorded over a 60-day period, including views from outside the storage room. According to a person briefed on the matter, the footage showed that, after one instance in which Justice Department officials were in contact with Mr. Trump’s team, boxes were moved in and out of the room...."
"It would now be illegal for the former president to release any footage taken of the FBI’s ridiculous raid, showing them rifling through Melania Trump’s underwear drawer. How convenient is that?"

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/08/14/new-media-conspiracy-drops-surrounding-trump-raid-this-time-about-surveillance-footage-n611995
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/14/2022 14:29 Comments || Top||

#2  The current FBI wouldn't be so hot about Melania's thingies. I bet they spent the longest amount of time in Barron's room.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/14/2022 14:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Trump probably has a lot of info, but he doesn't do anything with it. If he had "the list", what's taken him so long to cough up some names or the list itself?

I'm skeptical of this assertion. But, BTW, where's that diary from Biden's daughter? Just wondering.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/14/2022 14:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Zero chance. Trump seems to have hired every unreliable self promoter that hated him. Mulvany would be currently touting how only six different people had access to the list. The client list was Epstein’s get out of jail free card. Maxwell is probably taking a cooking class in safety as I write this. The client list was not distributed like the Limbaugh Letter and certainly wasn’t available in the leaky CIA, FBI or White House. The Mossad is a professional outfit.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/14/2022 16:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Other side of the coin. If Trump did have the list, and was sitting on it instead of broadcasting it, some of the names not being broadcast would constitute "friends in high places" when it might be to his advantage to have them.

That said, I agree with #4. He prolly doesn't have it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/14/2022 16:19 Comments || Top||

#6  They were after documents showing the FBI's corruption in the Russia gate operation.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/14/2022 16:44 Comments || Top||

#7  It's our government. Whatever they say they were after, it's most assuredly something else, or possibly nothing at all.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2022 17:32 Comments || Top||

#8  Does he or doesn't he. Schrödinger's cat. All he has to do is make them think maybe he does.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/14/2022 19:12 Comments || Top||


#10  Epstein's list surely was in the search warrant, right?

Nah, as I mentioned, above in #4, I highly doubt Trump has the list. But, yeah, to make people *think* you do, now that's something else.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/14/2022 23:49 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The Destroyer of the Republic
[FRONTPAGEMAG] It strains credulity, but given Old Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The guy who lost Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle...
’s deteriorating mental state, it doesn’t really strain credulity all that much: the Biden White House insists that it only found out about the twilight-of-the-republic raid on Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
’s Mar-a-Lago home when the establishment media did, and not a moment before. So if the alleged president didn’t order this banana-republic raid, who did? On Thursday, Biden’s hyper-partisan Attorney General Merrick Garland
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Posted by: Fred || 08/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It not one individual, it's the institution.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/14/2022 7:15 Comments || Top||

#2  He took a sword for the person in charge. Biden is not that person.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 08/14/2022 7:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Someone or ones pushed Garland. He does not appear to be someone who would authorize such a raid on his own despite what he said. Biden does not seem capable and initially it was said by his spox that he was not aware of the raid (Of course there is his incessant ramblings and lying). The Shadow POTUS?
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/14/2022 14:14 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ I agree. Look at that face. It's got 'TOOL' written across it.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/14/2022 14:21 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
5 Most Reliable Handguns Ever Made - YouTube
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2022 08:18 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
The out of the box Colt 1911 trigger width is a little too narrow for my hands. But after adding an oversize a custom cut Trigger adapter, it reduced the target trigger pull issue.

However, I still like the SW Model 62-2 a little more.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/14/2022 9:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Sidearm: Glock. 23c Gen4 .40S&W. or any of the 19 same size 9mm

Backup/concealed: JFrame, Model 60 (.357, 38spl, 38+P).
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 08/14/2022 22:29 Comments || Top||



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