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After nearly one year of stonewalling and denials, they officially admit that the Covid vaccines can, in fact, cause blood clots. So much for "safe and effective." “AstraZeneca uncovers what's triggering blood clots after its jab” reads a recent headline from Mail Online. “Oh, oh, oh!” one feels like exclaiming. So, it is true, after all. After nearly one year of stonewalling and denials, they officially admit that the Covid vaccines can, in fact, cause blood clots. This will undoubtedly come as a great shock to those who believe the mainstream media narratives where all talk of vaccine injury has...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact, NATO, in a violation of the verbal agreement between Secretary of State James Baker and Russian Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, launched a massive expansion to the east. This expansion can be seen from Moscow only as a strategy to encircle Russia and turn its neighbors into hostile countries. As long as Russia was economically and military weak, the process proceeded unabated. NATO has grown from 16 countries before the reunification of Germany, to 28 today. George Kennan, American diplomat and author of the concepts of “Cold...

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Math really must be racist because the Democrats and their TV toadies have utterly abandoned it. ABC, which none of us watch because we are not invalids unable to change the channel to literally anything else, recently tweeted: “A single senator is about to seriously set back an entire presidential agenda” and there’s a big pic of the enbitchener-in-chief Joe Manchin. If he didn’t have a stupid mask on, you could see his grin at having forced Chuck Schumer to pull the “Build Back Better” bill – which should be called “Take Your Money to Give to Freeloaders and Democrat...

The Biden administration has pushed the CHIPS for America Act to provide funding in support of semiconductor manufacturing in the United States. The argument for the bill is that this type of manufacturing is critical for national defense. The bill passed the Senate in June with significant bipartisan support. What are the merits and demerits of this bill? Arguably, the world leaders in semiconductor manufacturing are Samsung, Intel, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). The first company is renowned for its standalone memories. The second two companies fabricate logic parts, which invariably embed memories. The first two companies have state-of-the-art...

Roses are red, violets are blue, is an old nursery rhyme, poem, and eventual song title, ending in “the honey’s sweet and so are you.” A modern-day version might be rewritten: Peace is red, crime is blue Vote for Democrats, and you’ll find this trueRising crime in American cities is often ignored by the media, instead focusing on the Omicron variant and fully vaccinated universities and sport teams shutting down over new COVID cases, flying in the face of common sense and everything we have been told about vaccinations. ABC News dipped it’s toe into crime reporting recently with this...

The fact that the FBI has lost its way has been on public display for at least five years now. Truth be told, it probably strayed off course way before that. But during the Trump Presidency, it became too obvious to ignore. It has been involved in everything from the creation of an “insurance policy” against the peaceful transition of power, to the targeting of parents as domestic terrorists for the sin of disagreeing with school boards. How did our “premier law enforcement agency” stray so far from its motto of fidelity, bravery, and integrity? Simply put, the FBI’s current...

Facebook (FB), operated by the CEO Mark Zuckerberg under the parent company Meta, has been voted as the ‘worst company of the year’ on Yahoo Finance’s annual survey of 2021 that shortlists the ‘Company of the Year’ based on the performance and achievements of the firms worldwide. While Microsoft (MSFT) aced the race by shattering the $2 trillion market capitalization this year and up to 53% surge in its stock price as of December, social media giant Facebook rebranding this year to Metaverse, has seemingly irked and upset its users, according to the polling for Yahoo survey. Facebook's connection with...

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FE/RL –Russia has published a wish list of agreements it wants to negotiate with the United States, as Moscow seeks to fundamentally alter the post-Cold War security architecture in Europe. The proposals, laid out on December 17 by the Russian Foreign Ministry, call for an end to NATO’s eastward expansion and limitations on the alliance’s military activity in Eastern Europe, including cooperation with Ukraine and Georgia. While Moscow has sent its proposals to Washington and its NATO allies, it has underscored that it is seeking bilateral talks exclusively with the United States. The White House, meanwhile, has said it will...

“The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing” (Proverbs 20:4).

WASHINGTON – US Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) voted on Wednesday to block another attempt to provide Israel with $1 billion to replenish its Iron Dome system, citing the need to find a financial source to the bill. The vote took place as Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) asked for unanimous consent for the Senate to proceed with the House version of the bill. “The Senate must pass HR 5323 as quickly as possible,” said Blumenthal. “Iron Dome has widespread bipartisan support in Congress as well it should,” he said, noting that during Operation Guardian of the Walls in May, the system...

"NEA guidance issued in June outlined how unions could claim entitlement to increased teacher compensation from federal COVID-19 emergency relief funding and school cost savings realized during the pandemic. This week's Golden Horseshoe once again goes to the U.S. Department of Education for allowing school districts to use pandemic relief funds for pay raises and bonuses for teachers despite the funds being appropriated to reopen schools safely. Schools nationwide received $190 billion through three relief packages passed. Of that total, the largest sum, $122 billion, was from President Biden's American Rescue Plan. The federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief...

"The Air Force had hoped to conduct three successful tests of the AGM-183 this year so it could enter service in 2022. The U.S. Air Force has failed for a third time to conduct a successful test of the rocket booster on a prototype AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon hypersonic missile, or ARRW. This can only add to the palatable frustration within the service, as well as elsewhere in the U.S. military and in Congress, about the progress, or lack thereof, in the testing of various new hypersonic weapons. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Command's Armament Directorate confirmed to...

"Is your storage always annoyingly full? Scientists are working toward storing data on a single atom. ..."

"The A500 Mini, a new compact version of the Amiga 500 home computer, will be released on March 25, 2022. It’s expected to bring along a total of 25 classic Amiga games in its expandable library. This little retro mini will have the ability to emulate A500, A600, and A1200, and players will be able to save and resume their progress of any game at any time. A huge feature included is that users will be able to add their own games to the library via USB stick through WHDLoad, so each person can have a library of retro classics...

"The reliably left-wing Education Week apparently didn’t notice it had a pair of cause-and-effect articles in an email blast from last week. The first details how school districts are now “screening” potential teachers for racial biases in job interviews. American Association of School Personnel Administrators Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee Chair (whew!) Karen Rice-Harris recommends administrators ask applicants questions about their “commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, empathy, and students’ social-emotional needs.” Candidates “should be able to explain how they honor the diversity of their students in their instruction and curriculum,” she said. ..."

"Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis discusses the omicron variant and Biden’s vaccine mandate likely headed to the supreme court."

If US-led bloc refuses Moscow's proposal, 'regional conflicts would increase' By Yang Sheng Published: Dec 19, 2021 10:29 PM Updated: Dec 19, 2021 10:37 PM The intense situation around Ukraine between Russia and NATO is unlikely to ease, as it is almost impossible that NATO will accept the security guarantee proposed by Moscow due to entrenched hostility to Russia, Chinese analysts said, adding that the US-led bloc will not give up expansion to the east, and Russia will definitely take action to retaliate. They noted that although China hopes the two sides can resolve the situation peacefully, the two sides...

El Salvador's President Nayim Bukele is something of a freak, a loose cannon. His Twitter photo should give you the idea: I can't tell if he's on the right or left. He's some kind of opportunist who's often described as a caudillo. He's an ex-communist with Venezuelan advisers, as the screen shot indicates at the top. But apparently the country's real communists don't like him. He's trashed his country's future by dropping the U.S. dollar as the country's currency and replacing it with bitcoin, an unreliable ledger currency favored by drug-dealers, money-launderers, and fast-buck speculators. He is said to be...