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Americans sit paralyzed, watching the fabric of a representative republic unravel before their eyes, ignoring this chain reaction while happily checking the bank account to see the latest stimulus check's arrival is but one example of national paralysis. Numerous examples have been written about or cried over since the last election. It didn’t start there, though. In the spring of 2020, fivethirtyeight.com published an article about the urban-rural divide and the impact it might have on last November’s election. They posited that hypothetically deciding the election based on the urbanization index would garner 323 electoral votes for Biden and 215...

It’s just the flu, bro. Where in the world do people appreciate freedom? Where are there no Coronavirus lockdowns? It seems that the countries that we philosophically align with may be shifting. At one time it was Canada and Western Europe, but that was because we were united against the Soviets. Now I don’t know who we are philosophically aligned with. https://m.dw.com/en/coronavirus-russia-restrictions-pandemic-lockdown/a-55301714 This article discusses the attitude of the Russian people towards Coronavirus. It seems like they don’t care about it and don’t fear it. Maybe it took 60 years of Communism for the population to adopt the correct mindset...

The acrid atmosphere last week at the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska, with its vivid murals of the 18th-century British seafarer James Cook's discoveries throughout the Pacific, sounds very much like the acrid atmosphere almost exactly 60 years ago in the Beaux-Arts American and Soviet embassies in Vienna: grim, at least for the United States. Vienna was where the 42-year-old President John Kennedy met the 67-year-old Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, who, as Kennedy, told The New York Times' James Reston immediately afterward, "beat the hell" out of him. We don't know whether Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national...

REYKJAVIK, ICELAND - The eruption of a long-dormant volcano in southwestern Iceland has drawn large crowds of visitors eager to get close to the lava flows. Many have trekked to the volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula, near Iceland's capital Reykjavik, since it flared to life Friday night after tens of thousands of earthquakes were recorded in the area in the past three weeks. It was the area’s first volcanic eruption in nearly 800 years. On Tuesday, Iceland’s civil protection officials were seen gesturing to dozens of people to move away from lava just meters behind them to ensure visitors do...

During a joint interview with Jens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian secretary-general of NATO, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, fresh from his bout with the Chinese in Anchorage, took on Angela Merkel and the Germans. Issue: Nord Stream 2, the Baltic Sea pipeline Vladimir Putin is building to complement his Nord Stream 1 and carry more natural gas from Russia to Germany, and from there to other NATO nations. The original Nord Stream pipeline, also consisting of two strands of pipe along the Baltic Sea floor, was completed in 2011. In his meeting with Stoltenberg in Brussels, Blinken warned that Western companies...

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The majority of physicians have failed because they have not put into practice the safe and effective treatments that now exist for COVID. As recent as the mid-1800s, five women in 1,000 died in deliveries performed by midwives. On the other hand, when physicians performed deliveries, the death rate was often 10 to 20 times greater. This was because physicians often began their day performing autopsies with bare hands and then, without washing their hands, examined pregnant women and delivered babies. Midwives, on the other hand, did not perform autopsies. These physician-caused deaths were due to puerperal fever, a horrendous...

I think the COVID-19 lockdown is killing more people than it is saving. Here are my many reasons for thinking such a thing. Updated for March 26, 2021.By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)March 26, 2021I think the COVIOD-19 lockdown is killing more people than it is saving.I’m going to start out by posting the CDC’s estimated survival rates, by age, for people who contract COVID-19:Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20200923185857/https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html0 to 19: 99.997%20 to 49: 99.98%50 to 69: 99.5%70+: 94.6%For most age groups, the survival rate is quite high. In my opinion, this does not justify a lockdown of the general population.Now...

resident Biden's first formal press conference is in the books, and it was deeply embarrassing to anyone who thinks the media's job is to hold presidents accountable. Taxpayer-enabled PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor was the worst. She complimented the president, saying: "You've said over and over again that immigrants shouldn't come to this country right now; this isn't the time to come. That message is not being received. Instead, the perception of you that got you elected as a moral, decent man is the reason why a lot of immigrants are coming to this country and are trusting you...

Major Williams, a conservative Republican running for California governor, wants to eliminate state taxes, make the Golden State pro-Second Amendment, and implement public-private partnerships to efficiently solve common issues that Californians face. "So my team, we've created this umbrella called the Restore California Plan," Williams told the John Solomon Reports podcast." "Within a Restore California Plan, we're looking at the budget. Once we get in there, we want to do a forensic audit. "Once we do the forensic audit, we have an opportunity to look at the wasteful spending, which California has a lot of, and reallocate those funds to...

There are variants, and we don't know if baseline covid and vaccines makes people immune to the variants. Therefore, wear two masks, and MASKS ARE NOT THEATRE!

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is now getting ready to hire public companies, individual contractors outside government, to scour public data and social media in order to provide information for the new “domestic terror watch lists.” From the description it appears DHS is going to pay “big tech” (Google, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, SnapChat, Twitter, etc.), via contracts, to hire and organize internal monitoring teams to assist the government by sending information on citizens they deem “dangerous.” Gee, what could possibly go wrong with this?… NBC is reporting on these new developments as the U.S. intelligence apparatus is preparing to...

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Live footage from the banks of the Rio Grande.#BidenBorderCrisis pic.twitter.com/aO4EyANrRQ— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 26, 2021

Well, time to check in and report the goings-on in Sillyville. I'm still in NYC, still writing, and reaching 10 years with my employer (Woo-har!). CURRENT PASSIONS: DEGOOGLED PHONES and internet privacy are very important these days, and I'm enjoying the community over at Brax.Me. Nice to have a non-political ally in Rob Braxman; I hope you're familiar with him and supportive. Favorite phone: Original Google edition Pixel and Pixel XL (2016). (In Very Silver and Quite Black, respectively. BRAX.ME reminds me somewhat of FR, and I've run into some Freepers there. NY TIMES MET DIARY writing is — just...

McCarthy & GOP visit US-Mexico border and ICE facilityy in El Paso. Last week House Republicans held a news ‘Joe Biden Border Crisis’ conference on US President’s failing border policies. The US Department of Homeland Security over the weekend ordered an emergency agency that usually responds to floods, storms, and other major disasters to help care for a growing number of migrant children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, has been instructed to help receive, shelter, and transport children over the next 90 days. The move signals the scope of a growing humanitarian and...

March 26 2021 Friday of the 5th week of Lent Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Muscat, Oman Lectionary 255First readingJeremiah 20:10-13 ©He has delivered the soul of the needy from the hands of evil menJeremiah said:I hear so many disparaging me,‘“Terror from every side!”Denounce him! Let us denounce him!’All those who used to be my friendswatched for my downfall,‘Perhaps he will be seduced into error.Then we will master himand take our revenge!’But the Lord is at my side, a mighty hero;my opponents will stumble, mastered,confounded by their failure;everlasting, unforgettable disgrace will be theirs.But you, O Lord of Hosts, you...

Days after Britain imposed punitive measures against Beijing for committing human rights abuses against its Uighur minority citizens, China retaliated on Friday, blacklisting British nationals and organizations that "spread lies and disinformation." China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the sanctions against nine British people and four organizations in a statement, threatening to take further actions if necessary. SAP S/4HANA provides agility in uncertain times, by turning data into predictive insights. British Parliament members Tom Tugendhat, Iain Duncan Smith, Neil O'Brien, Tim Loughton and Nusrat Ghani were sanctioned along with David Alton and Helena Kennedy of the House of Lords, barrister...

Britain told Hong Kong on Friday (Mar 26) that it had "no right" to order other countries not to accept a United Kingdom travel document for a popular youth working scheme after the city confirmed it had made the request to several other nations. The row is the latest diplomatic spat centring on the British National (Overseas), or BNO, passport as China imposes a sweeping crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong. HONG KONG: Britain told Hong Kong on Friday (Mar 26) that it had "no right" to order other countries not to accept a United Kingdom travel document for a...

The social media platform has become 'boring,' the former president said on Fox News' 'The Ingraham Angle' ---------------------------------- Fewer electronic messages may actually be better, former President Trump -- who was banned from Twitter in January -- said Thursday night. In an exclusive interview on Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle," Trump said he now prefers issuing less frequent official press releases rather than being on Twitter, which he said has become "boring" since he was forced off the platform. "What I'm doing now, I almost like it better," Trump said "I think I do like it better," Trump continued. "We're...