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There’s nothing more tiresome than hackneyed references to The Matrix, except for the constant propaganda we’re hosed down with by the Establishment and its media lackeys about how everything is groovy in our totally free, free enterprise paradise of freedom and happiness and more freedom. Some of us have been woke for a while, having realized the undeniable truth that the system is rigged for the benefit of a garbage ruling class, whose sole accomplishment is to perpetuate a paradigm in which they maintain power and prestige by controlling institutions they didn’t create or build. Instead, they are cultural trust...

By Thursday the 12th of November, President Donald Trump’s election lawyers were concluding that the reality he faced was the inverse of the narrative he was promoting in his comments and on Twitter. There was no substantial evidence of election fraud and there were nowhere near enough “irregularities” to reverse the outcome in the courts. Thursday the 12th was the day Trump’s flimsy, long-shot legal effort to reverse his loss turned into something else entirely — an extralegal campaign to subvert the election, rooted in a lie so convincing to some of his most devoted followers that it made the...

An opportunity for a new beginning between Saudi Arabia and Iran has been presented by Joe Biden’s presidency, two leading Saudi and Iranians close to their diplomatic leaderships are proposing in an article in the Guardian today. The article is co-written by Abdulaziz Sager, the Saudi Arabian chairman and founder of the Gulf Research Center, and Hossein Mousavian, a former senior Iranian diplomat and now a nuclear specialist based at Princeton University. Their proposals are the fruit of a track 2, or backchannel initiative that has been under way privately for months. Their discussions are one of the few forms...

Paris (AFP) - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire warned restaurant owners Monday that they risked losing Covid-19 financial aid if they open in defiance of the pandemic shutdown, following calls to protest and serve clients. Angry owners say their livelihoods are at risk since the closures were ordered on October 30, with little prospect of a return to business as usual anytime soon. Several chefs and thousands of people have already backed a call by Stephane Turillon, a chef in eastern France, for restaurants to open for protest meals on Monday. On Saturday, police in Paris said they discovered...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/jan/31/coronavirus-live-news-germany-threatens-legal-action-over-vaccine-delays-nsw-marks-14-days-of-no-cases?page=with:block-60171f6d8f08b970c73030b8 Protests in Hungary and Belgium over lockdown measures. One of the main reason democratic countries have lockdowns is that politicians think they need them to get elected. In other words, more than half the people are in favor of them. How do we, as a society, create such weak people? How do so many cowards exist? And how do so many people not understand that freedom is good? To answer the questions above, weak people come from failing to provide stories of bravery and heroism in the hone and in school. Instead our children...

The evidence of voter fraud in Myanmar may actually be more than the evidence from the 2020 U.S. elections, which is saying a lot. But the international community is backing the current regime and sticking their collective heads in the sand. The vast majority of news reports regarding the military coup in Myanmar side with the ousted regime as part of “democratic norms,” echoing a statement from the international community delivered last week. President Biden is among those supporting the regime. But a closer examination of the election itself reveals massive discrepancies and a level of voter fraud that may...

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One common theme in the abject madness and tragedies of the past 12 months is that progressive ideology now permeates almost all of our major institutions—even as the majority of Americans resist the leftist agenda. Its reach resembles the manner in which the pre-Renaissance church had absorbed the economic, cultural, social, artistic, and political life of Europe, or perhaps how Islamic doctrine was the foundation for all public and private life under the Ottoman Sultanate—or even how all Russian institutions of the 1930s exuded tenets of Soviet Marxism.

Union leaders betrayed their members yet again in 2020. – It is a sad fact of the trade union movement in America that union members have quite often been completely misled and betrayed by their leadership. Corrupt union leaders climb into bed with corrupt politicians – almost always Democrats – larding their campaigns up with money forcibly collected from members in return for false promises that are pretty much never fulfilled. This cycle of deception and corruption has been the main feature of union life for more than a century now, and the 2020 elections proved that it is in...

Or a link that explains it. Thank youEven after watching Trading Places for 30+ years, I still don't understand exactly what they were doing at the stock exchange. 🙁

Video by Professor Dolorus Cahill, Molecular Biologist and Immunologist explaining the risk of the vaccine and a potential side effect of the triggering the cytokine storm in the body. Not everyone's body will react this way, but it is a known risk factor since 2012. Video at link for now.

Democrats have an amazing array of third-world dictator tricks targeting their Republican opponents. Item A is their bid to use the IRS to cut off Republican freedom of assembly. According to Judicial Watch: Reminiscent of the Obama Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) witch hunt of conservative groups, a U.S. Senator who sits on the committee that oversees the tax agency is pushing it to revoke a student charity’s nonprofit status. The veteran lawmaker, Rhode Island Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, says the conservative student organization, Turning Point USA, should lose its nonprofit rating because it held large events that could help spread COVID-19....

Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Russia to support jailed opposition figure Alexei Navalny. As Vladimir Putin continues to contend with civil unrest surrounding the jailing of opposition figure Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin has accused the United States of encouraging the protests as part of a plan to contain Russia. The most recent focus of Russia's wrath is a Twitter post from Secretary of State Antony Blinken, denouncing actions by police accused of beating and tasering protesters who demanded on Sunday that Navalny be released from jail. "The U.S. condemns the persistent use of harsh tactics against...

New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow is calling for black Americans to launch a 'reverse Great Migration' and move back to the South to create racial majorities in the states their ancestors fled two centuries ago. Blow presents his provocative proposal in his new book 'The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto', which hit bookstores last week. In the original Great Migration, some six million black Americans fled from oppression in the Jim Crow-era South over the course of several decades in the 20th century in search of a better life.

On Thursday, January 28, 2021, a 37-year-old white male suspect, was shot by an employee of Yeager’s Sporting goods, as he used a hammer to smash the glass on a gun case to commit a robbery of firearms. The suspect sustained a gunshot wound to the chest, was transported to PeaceHealth, and then on to Harborview Medical Center for emergent care. Initially officers were called to the Haggen Foods store on Meridian Street at approximately 11:04 a.m., for a robbery where two men came into the store, stole multiple bottles of liquor (estimated value of $517.43) and left without paying....

Republicans who have supported Donald Trump's impeachment from South Dakota to South Carolina are getting a painful reminder of just how powerful the former president remains within the Republican Party ranks. Rep. Tom Rice was the latest to feel the wrath of Trump supporters when the South Carolina state GOP voted to censure him this weekend for his vote two weeks ago supporting the House Democrats impeachment article. "Trying to impeach a president, with a week left in his term, is never legitimate and is nothing more than a political kick on the way out the door," state GOP Chairman...

The old idea that everyone is entitled to a defense is being replaced by the new idea that anyone associated with Trump must be destroyed. The Senate's farcical impeachment trial of former president Trump is set to begin on February 9. Farcical or not, Trump is entitled to be represented by the attorney of his choice — a right inherent in every American called upon to face a judicial body in America. The Democrat party, however, no longer recognizes that right for Trump or anyone associated with him. Activists are working to destroy completely the two new attorneys who have...

Those who insist on governing us have spent decades shaking and shaking the world's largest can of carbonated Coke, and now they expect it somehow not to explode.... A friend of American Thinker, understandably upset about the unraveling of America around us, reached out with a heartfelt question: how did we as a society come to behave so acrimoniously toward one another? The two words that stood out to me while turning this question over in my mind were "we" and "society." Who "we" are as Americans has changed radically over the last half-century, and during that time, the political...

The term “pagan” developed as a way for the West to describe pre-Christian religion. Aside from meaning religions without Christ, “pagan” also described a world without Biblical values. When I think of Biblical values, I think of: a belief in an abstract divinity untethered to nature, monogamy within the context of marriage, two sexes, the end of human sacrifice, and a reliable justice system tempered as appropriate by mercy. Beginning in the 1960s at a covert level, fairly openly in the last 12 years, and with accelerating speed in the last 11 days, the left has used education, entertainment, social...

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