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Vonnegut at home. From “America This Week,” the free transcript of this week’s story discussion. This week, “Harrison Bergeron” by the great Kurt Vonnegut: Matt Taibbi: This week’s story is Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut, which has a lot of predictive power about a couple of things in modern society. Vonnegut was always one of my favorites. I liked him as a kid, among other things, because he was easy to read. The paragraphs were small and separated. He drew pictures that were funny. He openly didn’t take literature seriously. He had a great sense of humor, and the message...

Climate change protester Greta Thunberg was bodily removed from a multi-day road-blocking protest at a Swedish port by police as they cleared space for fuel trucks to get through, and may charge the activist with trespass. A protest at the port of Malmo, Sweden, is now in its sixth day and has seen youth affiliated with the Ta tillbaka framtiden (‘Take back the future’) group block roads, sit on top of fuel tankers, and scale buildings to disrupt operations. One attendee at the protest over several days is Greta Thunberg, the 20-year-0ld Swede lionised around the world for her school-strike...

As I discussed yesterday, the Misey Index under Biden remains elevated compared to that of Trump pre-Covid despite massive financial stimulus from Green Man (The Federal Reserve under Jerome Powell). Now we have more evidence of an impending recession with the Philly Fed General Business Conditions index falling to -16.6 in June as Green Man (M2 Money growth) stalls. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell (aka, Green Man) will have an opportunity this week to clarify what many found a confusing message on the path of interest rates, with the added task of assuring Democrats and Republicans the economy is on...

VIDEOThere are ALREADY Biden Bribe tapes out there so Chris Wray doesn't need to keep the additional Biden Bribe tapes under wraps. The whole purpose of the FBI keeping the Biden bribe tapes under lock and key is to be able to control Joe Biden. However, that advantage has been lost due to the other damning Biden bribe tapes already available to the public.

Airbus, a European aerospace company, announced a deal Monday to sell 500 single-aisle planes to IndiGo, India’s largest airline, in what is now the biggest plane deal in history. The agreement will make IndiGo the world’s biggest A320 Family—the Airbus aircraft line that is one of the best-selling in the world—customer, bringing the total number of Airbus aircraft IndiGo has ordered to 1,330. Neither of the two companies released financial details of the sale when announcing it at the Paris Air Show, though Reuters reported it’s a “multibillion-dollar deal” and the aircraft will be received between 2030 and 2035. IndiGo...

Illustrations of promotion of a patriotism of perversity Actual posters (goes with post #49) from https://www.defenseculture.mil/Human-Relations-Toolkit/Special-Observances/#other-posters, illustrating the promotion of a patriotism of perversity : https://www.defenseculture.mil/Portals/90/Images/Observances/Other/POST-Religious_Diversity5-2009.jpg?ver=2020-01-22-094116-923 Yet which compulsion to confess what is orthodox in politics, nationalism and religion by word or act is not only impossible to avoid on some level (policies and laws flow from beliefs), but contrary to the general Bible-centric faith and professed moral positions of America overall, what is now essentially compelled is professed affirmation, promotion and defense of moral perversity which is deleterious to individual and nation, from the right to slay the innocent...

A Houston public school teacher and her family have been evicted from a luxury home they were squatting in for months after using a fake lease to remain on the premises. Amberlyn Prather had been ordered by a judge last month to vacate the home she and her family were shacking up in after illegally taking residence in the property, which was listed for sale and vacant, in January by flaunting a fabricated lease agreement, according to ABC13. “It’s insane,” realtor Shanequa Garrett, the authorized seller of the property, told the outlet in May after the courts ruled the family...

President Joe Biden said on Monday the threat of Russian President Vladimir Putin using tactical nuclear weapons is "real", days after denouncing Russia's deployment of such weapons in Belarus. On Saturday, Biden called Putin's announcement that Russia had deployed its first tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus "absolutely irresponsible". "When I was out here about two years ago saying I worried about the Colorado river drying up, everybody looked at me like I was crazy," Biden told a group of donors in California on Monday. "They looked at me like when I said I worry about Putin using tactical nuclear weapons....

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemLuke 15 The Parable of the Lost Sheep 15 Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus. 2 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” 3 Then Jesus told them this parable: 4 “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? 5 And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders 6...

Black Mirror has finally returned to Netflix after a hard-to-believe four year hiatus sparked in part by COVID delays, but still, that’s an extremely long time. Now it’s returned with five new episodes and I’m going to do something I haven’t done in well, four years. Rank them. There is no good way to do this without some level of spoilers, so I would save reading this until you’ve watched them. However, if you want to skip the bad ones and watch the good ones, this may be helpful if you at least just glance over the ranking order.

Leftist former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick has finally come about his “civil rights” agenda after it emerged that he’s been working with prominent Marxists on his new book. In an interview with journalist Indigo Olivier for the New Republic, Kaepernick gave up the game when he defended partnering with leading Marxists to edit a new pro-black studies anthology. Kaepernick, whose estimated net worth is $20 million, says he’s working with Marxists because “black liberation simply isn’t possible under capitalism.” Ironically, the “free agent” football player has already earned $3 million in corporate sponsorship deals this year alone. During his new...

A bombshell study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has confirmed that the risk of autoimmune heart disease is 13,200% higher in people who are vaccinated for Covid. The study found that the risk of myocarditis following mRNA Covid vaccination is around 133x greater than the background risk in the population. The study was conducted by the CDC, FDA, and researchers from several top U.S. universities and hospitals. Researchers examined the effects of vaccination with products manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. They found that Covid shots increase the risk of suffering...

President Biden’s frequent use of archaic and odd expressions during public remarks has even stumped White House staffers, who are left confused at times about what the commander in chief is trying to convey, according to a new report. The 80-year-old president’s most recent bizarre utterance occurred last Friday during a speech on gun control at the University of Hartford’s campus in Connecticut. “God save the Queen, man,” Biden said to end his speech, baffling journalists and White House staffers alike. The White House has yet to explain what the president meant by the line. Olivia Dalton, the Biden administration’s...

Judge Aileen M. Cannon's previous ruling in former President Donald Trump's documents case showed "extreme bias" that warrants the Southern District of Florida's chief judge removing her from the case if she doesn't recuse herself, a nonprofit government watchdog has said. Judge Cannon's September 2022 ruling appointing a special master to look over the records seized by the government from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate was "unprecedented and unprincipled," according to the letter sent by Free Speech for People to Southern District of Florida Chief Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga. That ruling "demonstrated that Judge Cannon could not be, nor even appear to...

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It has only been a year since Arizona passed the country’s first comprehensive school choice program. But since then, seven other states, including Florida, have followed suit with at least eight more on track to adopt similar bills in the near future. Families who take advantage of such legislation typically get a separate account from the state or local government for each child they wish to educate independently. The funds can be spent on a variety of approved placements including private and parochial schools, online academies, private tutors, and even home schools. Given the outsized influence of the teacher unions...

"If a man comes into your assembly with a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and there also comes in a poor man in dirty clothes, and you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the fine clothes, and say, 'You sit here in a good place,' and you say to the poor man, 'You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool,' have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil motives?" (James 2:2-4). Favoritism is motivated by an evil desire to gain some advantage for yourself. The story is told of...

HARRISBURGH, Pa., Friday, June 19. Governor CURTIN visited Camp Curtin to-day, and was received with a warm and enthusiastic welcome. The soldiers followed him in vast crowds as he drove around the camp, vainly endeavoring to find the Commandant. At the unanimous importuning of the Volunteers he addressed them. He spoke as follows: "He had called to see their officers. He was sorry that they were not present attending to their duties as they should be. However, the men were here, and he would inform them of what he intended to have communicated to the officers in writing. He had...

Some of the largest general consumer S&P 500 companies are raising prices to boost their own profits even as the Fed raised interest rates to control inflation, according to a new watchdog report. “Higher interest rates haven’t stopped S&P companies, especially in the big food industry, from inflating consumer prices despite reporting billions in extra net earnings and over a trillion dollars in giveaways to wealthy investors,” said Liz Zelnick, the director of economic security and corporate power at the nonprofit Accountable.US, in a release.

The Essendon football club in Australia is actively considering replacing the bomber aircraft it has used as a logo in various forms since World War II. A research project is now underway seeking to determine how the club’s members and stakeholders view the team in light of modern sensitivities. According to the Herald Sun newspaper, Essendon wants to know whether its fans believe the wartime aircraft logo is the best representation of the Melbourne suburban club that plays in the national Australian Football League.