Bang-and-Whimper
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Kunstler.com ^
| 9 Apr, 2024 | James Howard Kunstler
“Whoever doesn’t miss the Soviet Union doesn’t have a heart. Whoever
wants it back doesn’t have a brain.” — VV Putin. Have you checked if your hair is on fire today? Here comes an eclipse of the sun. Our moon will cast a totality of its shadow in a path about 100 miles wide arcing from Del Rio Texas to Bangor Maine, with lesser effects outward on each side of the path so that night will seem to fall at mid-day over most of America east of the Big Muddy. This event typically freaks out primitive peoples, and brings out...
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Not with a Whimper but a Bellow...
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Steyn On-Line ^
| December 29, 2023 | Mark Steyn
Breaking News from Maine: Presidential hopeful banned from running in election Oh, no, wait, sorry, my mistake - that's Russia. In Maine, presidential hopeful Donald J Trump has also been banned from running in the election, but that's no reason to confuse a great "constitutional republic" such as the former Soviet Union
with the United States. For one thing, both countries are rife with "Sudden Adult Death Syndrome", but in America its first symptom is not, as in Russia, that you find yourself accidentally falling out of an upper-floor window. Still, would you really be surprised to see it come...
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Rioting In The Streets! ‘This Will Not End With A Soft-Landing Whimper’ – Rubino Warns “Only A Matter Of Time Before Everyone Realizes There’s No Fix”
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Confounded Interest ^
| 11/20/2023 | Anthony B. Sanders
Martha and the Vandellas said it best: “No where to run, no where to hide.” We
are already seeing rioting in the streets. Analyst and financial writer John Rubino has a new warning about being fooled into thinking the economy is improving because inflation and interest rates have fallen some recently. Rubino says, “If the U.S. government is running crisis level deficits, which it is right now, borrowing money and paying interest on it means we are in a financial death spiral…” “The debt goes up, the interest on the debt goes up and that raises the debt even further,...
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The Jig Is Up...This is how empire ends: not with a bang, but a whimper
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Aletho News ^
| 7/12/2023 | William Schryver
The member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — consisting of the teetering Masters of Empire and their tawdry entourage of class-stratified vassals — have just concluded a historic confab in Vilnius, Lithuania, capital of the alpha Baltic chihuahua. In
a shockingly transparent but otherwise rather banal series of events it became unmistakably clear that their grand plans to subject Russia to the “rules-based order” have come to naught. Among others, the following consequences will ripple in the wake of this reality: Russia will achieve a decisive conclusion to the war on terms they dictate. NATO is shattered as...
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Great shortfall of China: Australia's biggest tourism market returns with a whimper
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Channel News Asia ^
| 17 Apr 2023
When China ended a lengthy border closure in January, e-commerce marketer Tianni Ren immediately began planning a team-building trip for her 14 employees to Australia, hoping to see its stunning pink salt lakes that had captivated her on social media. But
instead, she took her colleagues from the city of Hangzhou to New Zealand after learning Australia was cut from a list of destinations approved by Beijing for group overseas travel, effectively halting a two-decade programme that had helped China dominate Australia's A$45 billion (US$30 billion) international tourism market until early 2020. SNIP After three years of struggle and anticipation,...
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New York Trump grand jury ends not with a bang but a whimper
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American Thinker ^
| 1 May, 2022 | Thomas Lifson
Two successive Manhattan District Attorneys, Cyrus Vance, Jr. and Alvin Bragg, have dug for dirt on Donald Trump, looking for something – anything – on which to indict him. And
they have failed. The Washington Post: A six-month grand jury that was convened late last year to hear evidence against Donald Trump was set to expire this week, closing a chapter in a lengthy criminal investigation that appears to be fizzling out without charges against the former president, people familiar with matter said. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D), who took office in January, inherited a probe launched by his...
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VIDEO: Kennedy Dynasty Ends With a Sad Whimper
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YouTube ^
| September 2, 2020 | DUmmie FUnnies
VIDEO The Kennedy dynasty ended last night with the landslide election defeat of Joe Kennedy III. When a Kennedy can't win an election in their own Massachusetts then it is time to declare the final political termination of that dynasty. With
Joe gone, this means there are no longer any Kennedys left in political office in Washington. Well, there is one Kennedy left in D.C. but he is not related to that dynasty plus he is from another political party. So that's it. With Joe's sad concession speech you can mark down September 1, 2020 as the day the...
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Will the Economy in 2020 Roar or Whimper?
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Townhall.com ^
| January 7, 2020 | Stephen Moore
Let's face it: 2019 is going to be a hard year to beat -- stocks and 401(k) plans up more than 25% on average, wage gains of 3% to 5%, 7 million surplus jobs and the lowest unemployment and inflation rates in nearly 50 years. That's
a lot to celebrate. Booms like this don't happen by accident. The imperative is for Republicans to connect the dots between this banner year for the middle class and tax cuts, deregulation policies and pro-America energy production initiatives. So, will 2020 continue the winning streak? The only thing that we know for sure is...
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UN Climate Summit Ends in a Whimper as Major States Snub Calls for Action
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The Epoch Times ^
| December 15, 2019 Updated: December 15, 2019 | TOM OZIMEK
A handful of major states resisted pressure on Dec. 15 to ramp up efforts to combat global warming as a U.N. climate summit came to a delayed close. The
summit talks in Madrid, dubbed COP25, were viewed as a test of governments’ collective will for more aggressive cuts to greenhouse gas emissions. But the conference, in its concluding draft, endorsed only a modest declaration on the “urgent need” to close the gap between existing emissions pledges and the temperature goals of the 2015 Paris climate pact. Brazil, China, Australia, Saudi Arabia, and the United States had led resistance to bolder...
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New York Goes Out With A Whimper In Its Case Against ExxonMobil
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Forbes.com ^
| David Blackmon
Last Thursday, in a move that surprised everyone but perhaps shouldn’t have come as a surprise at all, New York State Attorney General Tish James withdrew two counts of fraud against ExxonMobil during her closing arguments in the flimsy case she and her predecessor, Eric Schneiderman, spent the last half-decade pursuing against
the energy giant. Tellingly, AG James dismissed the two of her original fraud counts that were based on laws requiring demonstration of actual harm in order to obtain a positive judgment. Her suit claimed that ExxonMobil’s alleged “fraud” of keeping two separate estimates of the future costs of...
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‘Impeachment August’ Ends with a Whimper for Progressive Groups
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Breitbart ^
| 09/02/2019 | Kristina Wong
“Impeachment August” is officially over, but with progressive groups reaching few of the goals they hoped to reach towards the impeachment of President Trump. Twelve groups had banded together in hopes of convincing lawmakers — particularly from swing districts — to back the impeachment of Trump during the August break, when members
of Congress were back home and in front of constituents. However, during August, only one Democrat from a district rated a “toss up” by the Cook Political Report came out in favor of impeachment — Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL), from Illinois’ 14th district.
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The end of the Masterpiece Cakeshop case comes with a whimper
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Religious News Service ^
| March 13, 2019 | Mark Silk
(RNS) — Last week, to little notice, the Masterpiece Cakeshop case ended with a whimper. Nine
months after the Supreme Court found that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission had acted prejudicially in upholding the complaint of a gay couple who were refused a wedding cake by baker Jack Phillips, the two sides agreed to stop fighting. Specifically, the commission withdrew its proceedings against Phillips for discrimination and Phillips withdrew his case against the commission for harassment. Which is to say that Phillips can keep refusing to customize cakes that, as he put it, “celebrate events or express messages that conflict...
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So How Does The Jussie Smollett Story End? With a bang or a whimper?
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Hotair ^
| 02/17/2019 | Jazz Shaw
Are we finally coming to the end of the Jussie Smollett “hate crime†story? I’ve
mostly steered clear of this confusing tale except for some of the usual banter on Twitter, but the most recent developments seem to be sending the actor toward a very dark place. To be clear, we’re not at the point where anything is 100% confirmed, and if Smollett actually was attacked I want his assailants found and prosecuted. But according to the Chicago police, the investigation into his alleged assault has “shifted.†They’re still not being terribly specific, but there are plenty of hints...
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Hillary Clinton’s Political Career Ends not With a Bang, but a Whimper
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DB Daily Update ^
| David Blackmon
The Evening Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) You probably missed it over the weekend, what with all the air in the room and fake news media coverage having been consumed by the death of Senator John McCain, but the Pantsuit Princess’s career came to a sudden, if unheralded end on
Saturday. Wait, what? How did that happen, you ask? In the end, the Fainting Felon was done in by an entity she literally owned throughout 2016: The Democrat National Committee. Yes, friends, that would be the very same DNC which conspired with the Clinton campaign throughout 2015 and...
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Hollow Twin Peaks Cases Could End, Not With A Bang But A Whimper (Waco)
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Radio Legendary ^
| 8/4/2018
BOOK OF WACO – BY CHAPTER, VERSE, NUMBERS AND ACTSBelleville – Leaden rain clouds faked a threat to douse sun-drenched blades of coastal salt grass as a lazy Saturday world rolled by the front porch of Newman’s Bakery. Harleys in heat, customized pickups, volunteer fire trucks sporting Glass Packs, and flatulent diesels
roared their way up the hill to make the obligatory two-lane blacktop circuit of the Courthouse Square while trial lawyer Paul Looney held his weekly free legal clinic. Situated on a trident fork on the way to everywhere at the corner of State Highways 36, 159 and FM...
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How Democracies End: A Bureaucratic Whimper
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https :// amgreatness . com / 2018 / 05 / 21 / how - democracies - end - a - bureaucratic - whimper / ^
VDH does a great job reminding us of the abuses committed by Obama and his minions and contrasts that with how Trump is conducting himself.
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Mueller’s probe doesn't end with a bang, but with a whimper
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The Hill ^
| 12/6/2017 | NED RYUN
In his poem, "Hollow Men," T.S. Eliot writes, "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang, but with a whimper." The
words could just as well have been written about independent prosecutor Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian collusion and interference in the 2016 presidential election and potential obstruction of justice. While Mueller, his team and the mainstream media don’t seem to quite understand just yet, the investigation is essentially over. To date, Mueller has shown no evidence of Russian collusion in the campaigns of either Donald Trump or Hillary Rodham Clinton, but has gained indictments of...
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Eagle Ford Air Pollution Lawsuit Ends With a Whimper
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San Antonio Current ^
| Thu, Dec 8, 2016 | Michael Barajas
Myra and Mike Cerny moved from the San Antonio suburbs into a fixer-upper house on a one-acre tract of land in Karnes County several years before oil companies discovered the shale gas revolution beneath the South Texas dirt. The
Cernys wanted a quiet country life, but by 2010 companies eager to frack the Eagle Ford Shale had begun to encircle their small, one-story country home. Sure, there were the modest, if not sporadic, royalties checks. But soon enough, Mike began to suffer from debilitating headaches. Myra started to notice mysterious rashes on her arms and legs. Their teenage son had...
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'Extreme surveillance' becomes UK law with barely a whimper
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theguardian.com ^
| November 19, 2016 | Ewen MacAskill
A bill giving the UK intelligence agencies and police the most sweeping surveillance powers in the western world has passed into law with barely a whimper, meeting only token resistance over the past 12 months from inside parliament and barely any from outside. The
Investigatory Powers Act, passed on Thursday, legalises a whole range of tools for snooping and hacking by the security services unmatched by any other country in western Europe or even the US. The security agencies and police began the year braced for at least some opposition, rehearsing arguments for the debate. In the end, faced with...
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Second U.S. Bid to Force Apple to Unlock Phone Ends in a Whimper (Link only due to Copyright)
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Bloomberg | April 22, 2016 | By Christie Smyth
Second U.S. Bid to Force Apple to Unlock Phone Ends in a Whimper . . . a source came forward and provided the passcode. It
appears to me that the FBI/DOJ doesn't want to get a precedent from an Appellate Court that does not support their position. Link only due to Bloomberg Copyright; Second U.S. Bid to Force Apple to Unlock Phone Ends in a Whimper
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