borrowed from Lucianne
[USASUPREME] I came of age in Ronald Reagan’s neon-tinted 1980s, complete with big hair and big action heroes. My role models were people like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Commando, Sylvester Stallone in Rambo, and Carl Weathers in Predator.
Even James Cameron’s Colonial Marines from 1986’s Aliens made militarism cool well before the word "tacticool" (a portmanteau of tactical and cool) was invented in 2004.
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Consult the Wind Roses - Charts and Tabular Data from an airport near you to see what the prevailing winds are like. Remember that if all the winter winds blow from the Northwest and the Summer winds gust from the Southwest then knowing that the average wind is 'from the West' is meaningless...
Getting involved with The war between Russia and Ukraine has caused American and European allies to impose sanctions targeting Russia's financial system
[ZeroHedge] Anti-government speech has become a four-letter word.
In more and more cases, the government is declaring war on what should be protected political speech whenever it challenges the government’s power, reveals the government’s corruption, exposes the government’s lies, and encourages the citizenry to push back against the government’s many injustices.
Indeed, there is a long and growing list of the kinds of speech that the government considers dangerous enough to red flag and subject to censorship, surveillance, investigation and prosecution: hate speech, conspiratorial speech, treasonous speech, threatening speech, inflammatory speech, radical speech, anti-government speech, extremist speech, etc.
Things are about to get even dicier for those who believe in fully exercising their right to political expression.
Indeed, the government’s seditious conspiracy charges against Stewart Rhodes, the founder of Oath Keepers, and several of his associates for their alleged involvement in the January 6 Capitol riots puts the entire concept of anti-government political expression on trial.
Enacted during the Civil War to prosecute secessionists, seditious conspiracy makes it a crime for two or more individuals to conspire to “‘overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force’ the U.S. government, or to levy war against it, or to oppose by force and try to prevent the execution of any law.”
It’s a hard charge to prove, and the government’s track record hasn’t been the greatest.
It’s been almost a decade since the government tried to make a seditious conspiracy charge stick—against a small Christian militia accused of plotting to kill a police officer and attack attendees at his funeral in order to start a civil war—and it lost the case.
Although the government was able to show that the Hutaree had strong anti-government views, the judge ruled in U.S. v. Stone that “[O]ffensive speech and a conspiracy to do something other than forcibly resist a positive show of authority by the Federal Government is not enough to sustain a charge of seditious conspiracy.”
Whether or not prosecutors are able to prove their case that Rhodes and his followers intended to actually overthrow the government, the blowback will be felt far and wide by anyone whose political views can be labeled “anti-government.”
ALL OF US ARE IN DANGER.
In recent years, the government has used the phrase “domestic terrorist” interchangeably with “anti-government,” “extremist” and “terrorist” to describe anyone who might fall somewhere on a very broad spectrum of viewpoints that could be considered “dangerous.”
The ramifications are so far-reaching as to render almost every American with an opinion about the government or who knows someone with an opinion about the government an extremist in word, deed, thought or by association.
You see, the government doesn’t care if you or someone you know has a legitimate grievance. It doesn’t care if your criticisms are well-founded. And it certainly doesn’t care if you have a First Amendment right to speak truth to power.s
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Finally, a ton of good news today: people are fighting back. the very based attorney Jeff Childers in Florida has an excellent roundup at his Substack (coffeeandcovid.com)
First up, big news from Florida: Yesterday, Florida broke bad, again, this time by issuing an explosive new advisory RECOMMENDING AGAINST THE COVID INJECTIONS FOR ALL MEN UNDER 40 YEARS OLD.
Florida’s Department of Health issued the new guidance yesterday. It begins by stating that Florida conducted its OWN analysis of the mortality risk following the jabs, using an evidence-based technique called the “self-controlled case study,” which was originally developed for evaluating vaccine safety.
Let’s pause, and consider the implications from just that one fact. First of all, in over two years, Florida is the first and only state to conduct a study of vaccine safety. Period. And it would not have happened without Governor DeSantis appointing a heavyweight, highly-credentialed intellect like Harvard-trained doctor Joseph Ladapo as the state’s Surgeon General.
Second, the federal Centers for Disease Control, with a budget larger than some countries’ annual gross domestic product, has never studied jab outcomes. For some reason. Nor has the FDA. Nor has the NIH. Each of those agencies would naturally have been expected to laser-focus on vaccine safety from the very first injection. Nope.
So Florida did it for them.
Governor DeSantis just shattered the gigantic bulletproof glass wall protecting Pfizer and Moderna from ACCOUNTABILITY. You were probably only thinking in terms of how the new guidance would affect shot uptake. Think bigger. A LOT bigger. The guidance now constitutes a state-sanctioned finding that the shots are NOT “completely safe and effective.” Judges will pay attention to this.
Here’s what Florida’s analysis found:
[T]here is an 84% increase in the relative incidence of cardiac-related death among males 18-39 years old within 28 days following mRNA vaccination… With a high level of global immunity to COVID-19, the benefit of vaccination is likely outweighed by this abnormally high risk of cardiac-related death among men in this age group… Males over the age of 60 had a 10% increased risk of cardiac-related death within 28 days of mRNA vaccination [while] Non-mRNA vaccines were not found to have these increased risks among any population.
“Abnormally high risk.” In other words, males 18-39 were almost twice as likely to die after getting the shot. It’s also worth noting that the analysis didn’t even consider non-fatal vaccine-induced injuries.
Finally, the one-page guidance expanded the state’s previous recommendation from March against vaccinating children for covid, now including infants and toddlers. Florida now recommends against jabbing ANY kids, regardless of age.
This is SO huge. Let’s talk about all the implications. First, corporate media will ignore the story, because that’s the psyop playbook for bad news that can’t easily be discredited. They’ll just pretend like it didn’t happen.
There’s a reason I predict corporate media will NOT follow the usual path of criticizing Florida’s analysis for not being peer-reviewed or using the right data or being politically motivated or whatever. Since Florida is a STATE GOVERNMENT, media can’t just call the guidance an ‘outlier.’ To discredit the guidance, they’ll have to do all that other stuff PLUS come back with opposing research evidencing the shots REDUCE mortality.
Which they can’t. They can’t produce that research. Because that research does not exist. And everybody knows it.
Next, unlike media, doctors and healthcare institutions cannot ignore the new guidance, because they MUST follow best practices to get their covid liability protection. And Florida just established a new best practice, or ’standard of care,’ as follows:
Based on currently available data, patients should be informed of the possible cardiac complications that can arise after receiving a mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.
See? The new best practice requires ALL patients to be informed of cardiac complications before they receive a covid shot, and kids and men under 40 told that the state recommends AGAINST the shots. Before jabbing patients, pharmacies, doctors, nurses, and every other healthcare professional in Florida will now have to inform people of the cardiac risk, or their liability shields may disappear in a puff of legal dust.
ALL patients — men and women, regardless of age — who are confronted by doctors insisting on jabs can now produce a single page, Florida’s new guidance, and shut the doctors up. It’s a mic drop moment for patients in Florida, but even patients in other states can wield the guidance — because there’s no opposing evidence, apart from vague hand-waving by federal officials.
Students in colleges can use this guidance. Military service members can use this guidance. Employees can use this guidance. All they have to say is, “I have some family history of cardiac problems, so I don’t think the risk is justified IN MY CASE.” Done!
Finally, lawyers now have something to work with, something to get their fingernails under, a place to start. My attorney brain is already bursting with ideas.
Here is the video Link (The lawsuit news starts at 2:25.)
Popper said the lawsuit alleges that Daszak and EcoHealth are responsible for infecting people with an engineered virus, covid-19, and many people died. Imagine that. The lawsuit also sues 100 “John Does,” or as-yet-unidentified co-defendants who can be added later depending on what comes out of discovery.
It’s genius! This is the very first covid liability lawsuit that I am actually excited about. This one has a LOT of potential that previous lawsuits lacked, for several reasons.
First, Daszak and EcoHealth are not protected by the PREP Act or any other covid liability shield. They are alleged to have made a VIRUS, not a vaccine. Haha, there’s no liability protection for making viruses. So this lawsuit won’t have to navigate all legal landmines blocking lawsuits against agencies and pharma companies.
Second, even though I’ve not seen the actual complaint yet, I can easily imagine what it alleges. It will almost certainly survive the initial hurdle of dismissal, which means … discovery. Imagine, for a moment, how little a deep-state cockroach like Daszak will enjoy the excruciating scrutiny of producing under court order records, emails, and text messages that he never in a million years thought would ever see daylight. Not to mention his deposition. How I long to attend that delightful interview.
Third, Daszak was almost certainly in close contact with top NIH scientists and bureaucrats, maybe intelligence agents, many of whom we do not yet know about. Assuming it plays out like I expect, we’re about to learn some new names, because the discovery will inevitably lead down the rabbit hole of all Daszak’s contacts and connections to government.
See also here.
[YouTube]-A Ukrainian attack has severely damaged the Kerch Strait Bridge, the primary supply line for Russian food, fuel, ammunition and reinforcements into the Crimean Peninsula and southwestern Ukraine. It is, simply put, the single-most important piece of infrastructure in the war.
Should the damage prove to be as serious as it looks — one of the road spans has been dropped, and a fuel train is a burning inferno — it heralds the first true turning point in the Ukraine War. Kerch was not only the most important logistical flow for Russian forces, it was the only logistical flow which remained beyond the range of Ukrainian artillery. If it truly is gone, then the numbers that Russia can throw at this war do not matter nearly as much. If the Russians cannot adequately resupply, this war shifts from its present David & Goliath feel to more of a fight between two peers...with one of those "peers" being backed by the planet’s most powerful military alliance.
One more thing. Kerch is only half the solution to Ukraine’s problems. Now that Ukraine has severed the supply connection, it will need to prevent the Crimea from supplying itself. It would do that by recapturing the cities of Kherson and Nova Kokhova, both on the Dniepr River. From there Ukraine can disable the sluice gate which provides water to the Crimean Canal. Without irrigation, food production in Crimea would drop by at least two-thirds. Unable to ship in food via Kerch, the result (months later) would be a famine from which Russian forces would be unable to recover.
(I am not totally sure about this account out of NSW and its ALL CAPS, but I don't entirely rule it out, either.)
Moved to Opinion.
[TapNewsWire] ShhLittleBirdie Newave, [Oct 1, 2022 at 14:42] Copied from an email: Hi folks A friend informed me today that her neighbor, a dairy farmer, is now forced to vaccinate her herd with an mRNA vaccine! (NSW) She complied and of the 200 head of cattle, 35 died instantly! I would sue the DPI The farmer said it is mandatory for all dairy farms to have their herd jabbed with this mRNA vaccine. Am not yet sure if that’s for NSW or across Australia, but will investigate immediately Implications? Dairy herd DNA is altered. Milk is altered and you CONSUME IT! Butter constitution, yoghurt, cheese is altered MEAT is altered Will chicken and other meats be next? Time to grow your own folks, and maybe develop herds that are private, none tagged, and never vaccinated. Time to set up a community farm association with member — farmers who are not part of the system, have herds — animals that are not jabbed or tagged so a community of private people can be consumers of organic produced livestock. It’s time to fend for ourselves as an organised community. Watch this space You might want to on send this message to warn your data base too.
[New Yorker] On January 4, 1995, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, of New York, introduced a bill called the Abolition of the Central Intelligence Agency Act. It had been a rough stretch for the C.I.A. The year before, Aldrich Ames, a longtime officer, had been convicted of being a longtime mole for Soviet (and then Russian) intelligence. Despite having a reputation among his colleagues as a problem drinker who appeared to live far beyond his means, Ames had been given high-level assignments with access to the names of American sources in the U.S.S.R. When the F.B.I. finally arrested him, he was in the Jaguar he used for commuting to work at Langley; by then, he was responsible for the death of at least ten agents. Moynihan said that the case was such a flamboyant display of incompetence that it might actually be a distraction from "the most fundamental defects of the C.I.A." He meant that the agency—in what he considered to be its "defining failure"—had both missed the fact that the Soviet Union was on the verge of collapse and done little to hasten its end.
He gave a diagnosis for what had gone wrong. "Secrecy keeps mistakes secret," he said. "Secrecy is a disease. It causes a hardening of the arteries of the mind." He quoted John le Carré on that point, adding that the best information actually came from the likes of area specialists, diplomats, historians, and journalists. If the C.I.A. was disbanded, he said, the State Department could pick up the intelligence work, and do a better job.
Moynihan was, in some respects, being disingenuous. As he well knew, even if his bill had passed, spies and spying wouldn’t have gone away. The State Department already had its own mini agency, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. The Departments of Energy and Treasury each had one, too. The Defense Intelligence Agency conducted clandestine operations; U.S. Army Intelligence, Air Force Intelligence, and the Office of Naval Intelligence kept themselves busy as well. The National Security Agency was nearly two decades away from the revelation, by Edward Snowden, a contractor and a former C.I.A. employee, that it had collected information about the phone calls of most Americans, but it was a behemoth even in Moynihan’s time. So was the Federal Bureau of Investigation. There were about a dozen agencies then; now, after reforms that were supposed to streamline things, there are eighteen, including the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (O.D.N.I.), a sort of meta-C.I.A. that has a couple of thousand employees, and the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis. The Drug Enforcement Administration (which currently has foreign offices in sixty-nine countries) has an Office of National Security Intelligence. Four million people in the United States now have security clearances.
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The CIA does not trumpet its successes. Is that because it has none?
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Moynihan wrote a book at the time called, appropriately enough, Secrecy. It made the same point as Dron comment #1 - half the government has some sort of clearance or another. DPM tried to point out how ridiculous it was to stamp everything SECRET and admirably attempted to stem the tide. His Senate seat then passed to Hillary who set new high scores in the Deep State video game of compartmentalizing and operating outside public view. Reach a certain level and whole new worlds open up.
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Everyone in Latin America hates us because of the CIA
The rest of the world distrusts us because of the CIA
We have a massive drug problem in the us because of them
And they’ve been dead wrong on so many intelligence failures
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Loathe and despise Besoeker
Loathe and despise
They tried to kill me twice in Angola and hung me out to dry in Rhodesia
I slept with a Colt under my pillow for years because they outed me to a hostile country
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Given what I have read so far, y'all make this pretty hard not to post a comment that does not make the response threshold as:
I've read so many, this site is about to go out of business.... really - The Culinary Institute of America --- has nothing to do with this situation... /sarc off
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It's never BEEN a business. It's Fred's Labor of Love. If you don't like it, feel free to start your own and disappear from here, oh Anonymous One? Nobody's stopping you
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#6 Everyone in Latin America hates us because of the CIA
The rest of the world distrusts us because of the CIA
They feel the same way about Mossad but in most cases because they blame everything bad that happens on those two groups evidence or not. Hollywood makes it worse as the CIA has been the secret villain in nearly every spy movie since the Cold War ended (and a large number before).
CIA is in the awkward position of being unable to scream their accomplishments.
Just trying to be fair here, I'm still a bit biter that they missed the fall of the Soviet Union.
[OneIndia] In a recent survey, it has been found that today 41% of 3,400 young Arabs, aged 18 to 24, in 17 Arab countries, think religion is the most important element of their identity.
Do you think a new approach to politics, governance and diplomacy can have effects on people's attitude towards their religion?
Observers say it is not the case, at least, with the Arab world. In the recent years, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
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Unfortunately the only way the bright sparks in uniforms and suits know how to get something from moslems is to fellatio them. The opec countries only more so.
Large scale, industrially efficient genocide of moslem men and forced re-education of the women. That is the only way to go. Do that, and mankind is ready for the stars, with loose change for world hunger and the environment too.
Or the i-slam shall keep humanity trying to outgrow this diversity pigsty.
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Of course your religion is the most important part of your identity. Your god is the most important thing in your universe. Granted, that might be the Packers or the Communist Party.
And what your god is matters. Michener put it nicely in one of his novels: "if he had different gods, he would have been a different man."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[New Yorker] On January 4, 1995, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, of New York, introduced a bill called the Abolition of the Central Intelligence Agency Act. It had been a rough stretch for the C.I.A. The year before, Aldrich Ames, a longtime officer, had been convicted of being a longtime mole for Soviet (and then Russian) intelligence. Despite having a reputation among his colleagues as a problem drinker who appeared to live far beyond his means, Ames had been given high-level assignments with access to the names of American sources in the U.S.S.R. When the F.B.I. finally arrested him, he was in the Jaguar he used for commuting to work at Langley; by then, he was responsible for the death of at least ten agents. Moynihan said that the case was such a flamboyant display of incompetence that it might actually be a distraction from "the most fundamental defects of the C.I.A." He meant that the agency—in what he considered to be its "defining failure"—had both missed the fact that the Soviet Union was on the verge of collapse and done little to hasten its end.
