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Not to beat a dead horse, but most of the world has a delusional image in their head of the war in Ukraine. As I have written previously, much of the fault lies with Hollywood, which through a plethora of movies has conditioned the masses to think of war as the conquest of critical territory. But that is a misleading image when it comes to Ukraine. Yes, there are strategically important pieces of territory that must be captured or defended, but there also are vast swaths of plains (we call them prairies here in the United States) that are tactically...

Brooks Arthur, who engineered a string of 1960s rock’n’roll classics and in the 1970s turned an abandoned Rockland garage into a recording studio for seminal albums by Bruce Springsteen and Janis Ian, died Oct. 9, 2022, at his home in Rancho Mirage, California. He was 86. The Brooklyn native, born Arthur Brodsky, had lived for years in California, most recently producing music for Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions. He had just completed his autobiography, according to his publicist, Jo-Ann Geffen. Here in Rockland County, Arthur’s recording wizardry is commemorated on a historic plaque along Route 303 in Blauvelt, NY, where...

Today marks the 150th birthday of one of England's most revered composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, who is also widely beloved beyond Britain. A folksong expert who logged long trips collecting traditional tunes all over the British Isles, Vaughan Williams famously produced gently modal folksong fantasies evoking England's "green and pleasant land." He also became a go-to composer for major occasions of church and state, called on to reflect and amplify national feeling. This year, his sesquicentennial, celebrations of the English master have been surprisingly muted, even in his homeland – a boost in Vaughan Williams programming last summer at the...

Hard on its landmark victories for judicial and Constitutional integrity last term, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this month on two cases challenging admissions policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. If decided rightly, both cases should lead to the banning of unconstitutional, discriminatory racial preferences in university admissions. After years of previous cases in which the Supreme Court tried various work-arounds to avoid stopping discrimination, maybe this year the Justices will get it right. From its beginning in the 1978 decision Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke, the jurisprudence of subsequent cases have,...

Journalists, leftists, and members of the establishment media collectively trashed NBC News Correspondent Dasha Burns for highlighting Pennsylvania Democrat U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman’s impairments due to a previous stroke. During Tuesday’s broadcast of NBC Nightly News, Burns noted Fetterman’s stroke has impaired him in a variety of ways, from his comprehension to his basic speech, to the point of him needing a closed captioning system during their in-person interview. “Fetterman’s campaign required closed captioning technology for this interview to essentially read our questions as we asked them,” she told fellow reporter Lester Holt. “In small talk before the interview,...

Last week, a wild situation took place during Monday night’s NFL game between the Los Angeles Rams and the San Francisco 49ers when a spectator ran onto the field with pink flares in a form of protest. When security was unable to apprehend the protester quickly, Rams players Takkarist McKinley and Bobby Wagner took matters into their own hands by tackling the protester, and it looks like they might have caused a serious injury.video of idiot hereThe protester, identified as Alexander Taylor, filed a police report after the incident with his spokesperson alleging “blatant assault” by Wagner. The police report...

Considering that the Feds are monitoring President Trump's mail, and the U.S. Post Office scans every piece of mail in the system, how does one communicate with the 45th POTUS privately? Private emails are OK.

n an interview to be aired Wednesday, a teaser of which was shared online by TV host Sandra Maischberger, the Swedish campaigner said turning off the nuclear power stations was a "bad idea" if it meant switching to coal. Asked if nuclear was preferable for the climate, Thunberg said: "It depends. If they are already running, I think it would be a mistake to shut them down and turn to coal." Germany had planned to close its remaining three nuclear plants at the end of the year. With a gas squeeze and extended outages of French nuclear plants causing shortages...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been exposed running the most disturbing and elaborate propaganda campaign in living memory. Screen writers, comedians, influencers and church leaders, among others, were recruited and paid to promote Covid-19 vaccines to the masses, while ridiculing and shaming those who refuse the jab. Judicial Watch has nailed it yet again, suing HHS to acquire a treasure trove of documents that reveal the world’s most exhaustive and heavily funded propaganda campaign to try to convince the oblivious masses to be injected with an experimental...

Matthew McConaughey stepped into the gun control spotlight in the wake of Uvalde. As a native of the city, he was an obvious choice to be the face of the narrative. He’s famous, good-looking, and a respected celebrity without a long history of scandal and a nice guy image. However, making it in Hollywood and being able to understand the nuances and differences in various political positions are very different things. McConaughey didn’t really accomplish much of anything with his efforts. Now, he’s speaking out about it and what he has to say actually betrays his ignorance. Academy Award winner...

More than 90,000 troops make up Russia’s “irrecoverable” military losses in Ukraine, as reported by the Russian media project iStories (or Vazhnye Istorii). One of the two sources of this information works in the FSB; the other is a former state security officer. [Emphasis added.] “Irrecoverable losses” is a category that includes servicemen who were killed, went missing, died from their wounds or were disabled and cannot return to military service. This new estimate is close to the figures stated earlier by the Pentagon and the British Defense Ministry. Last August, the Pentagon estimated that 70–80 thousand Russian troops had...

A Russian analyst who played a major role in the creation of a flawed dossier about former President Donald Trump fabricated one of his own sources and concealed the identity of another when interviewed by the FBI, prosecutors said Tuesday.The allegations were aired during opening statements in the trial of Igor Danchenko, who is indicted on five counts of making false statements to the FBI.The FBI interviewed Danchenko on multiple occasions in 2017 as it tried to corroborate allegations in what became known as the "Steele dossier."That dossier by British spy Christopher Steele — commissioned by Democrats during the 2016...

NBC reporter Dasha Burns recently sat down with Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful and Pennsylvania Lt. Governor John Fetterman for an interview and revealed how damage from a stroke continues to greatly affect his ability to speak and understand questions. Fetterman has been largely absent from the campaign trail and rejected a number of invitations from Republican opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz to debate. Fetterman finally agreed to a debate in two weeks only after early voting is well underway.

Former President Donald Trump is warning Americans about the rising risk of a nuclear war, while current President Joe Biden is intensifying pressure on Russia’s president to give up his claim to territories long ruled by Russia. “We must demand immediate negotiation of a peaceful end to the war in Ukraine. or we will end up in World War Three,” Trump told a rally in Mesa, Arizona, on Sunday, October 9, adding: “We will never have had a war like this and that’s all because of stupid people that don’t have a clue. And it’s also because of the kind...

Parents in San Diego, California, are outraged over a flyer that was sent to public school children advertising the "queerest" Halloween party with a "family-friendly" drag show and sponsored by a gay bar and a gender reassignment surgery center. The flyer for the show was sent to parents of students in the Encinitas Union School District using its email platform. The event is being organized by Trans Family Support Services, a group based in San Diego that helps provide transgender support services for people across the country. The flyer advertised a "family-friendly drag show" as well as other Halloween events...

Since its inception in 1934, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has had regulatory power to oversee drug and medical products manufacturing processes and quality control to protect the public from unsafe products. Recent research revelations from career pharma insider whistleblowers Alexandra Latypova and Hedley Rees, however, provide chilling information on catastrophic safety and manufacturing oversight failures for the still-experimental COVID-19 injections that are linked to the skyrocketing deaths and complications around the world. Dr. Michael Yeadon, former Pfizer chief scientist worldwide for Respiratory Pharmacology, has reported that Pfizer documents showed the FDA knew of the death risks. Making the...

American society will collapse into argument and violence if Donald Trump is reelected president, says a Washington Post article.The Post‘s article gives its liberal readers slasher-movie thrills (“Trump Nightmare on 16th Street”), cultural flattery, and a lot of apocalypse theory for QAnon-style chatter during the fall and winter:“I think it would be the end of the republic,” says Princeton University professor Sean Wilentz, one of the historians President Biden consulted in August about America’s teetering democracy. “It would be a kind of overthrow from within. … It would be a coup of the way we’ve always understood America.”But the BlueQAnon...

Three years ago this month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed California Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) into law, essentially outlawing freelance journalism and most other independent contracting. Three years later, it’s clear the critics had it right: AB5 has proven to be among the most ill-conceived state labor policies in recent memory. But the Biden administration appears determined to bring these destructive labor restrictions to the national stage in the form of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act) AB5 created a three-part “ABC” test used to determine whether a worker is an independent contractor or employee. The outcome...

Undermining the premise for mandates and "passports," a Pfizer executive admitted to the European Parliament on Monday that her company's vaccine was never tested during clinical trials for the ability to prevent transmission of COVID-19. Janine Small, Pfizer's president of international developed markets, was asked by Dutch MEP Rob Roos if the pharmaceutical giant had tested the vaccine "on stopping the transmission of the virus before it entered the market." "No ... you know, we had to really move at the speed of science to really understand what is happening in the market," she confessed. Roos later posted a video...

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