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  • Multiple intel sources: Baltimore bridge collapse was an “absolutely brilliant strategic attack” on US critical infrastructure

    03/26/2024 7:52:03 PM PDT · by hardspunned · 184 replies
    X ^ | 3/26/24 | Lara Logan
    Multiple intel sources: Baltimore bridge collapse was an “absolutely brilliant strategic attack” on US critical infrastructure - most likely cyber - & our intel agencies know it. In information warfare terms, they just divided the US along the Mason Dixon line exactly like the Civil War. Second busiest strategic roadway in the nation for hazardous material now down for 4-5 years - which is how long they say it will take to recover. Bridge was built specifically to move hazardous material - fuel, diesel, propane gas, nitrogen, highly flammable materials, chemicals and oversized cargo that cannot fit in the tunnels...
  • American Exodus

    03/30/2021 6:04:56 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 49 replies
    Tablet ^ | 24 Mar 2021 | Angelo Codevilla
    When Machiavelli wrote, “in order to know Moses’ virtue it was necessary that the people of Israel be slaves in Egypt …,” he was pointing to the truth that knowing what one is up against is a powerful incentive for dealing with it intelligently. Genesis tells us that only in Moses’ time did the Egyptians make clear how harsh was the alternative to the Exodus by deciding to kill their longtime slaves’ baby boys. Today, the oligarchy that controls American society’s commanding heights leaves those who are neither its members nor its clients little choice but to marshal their forces...
  • DEROY MURDOCK: Emperor Biden’s Latest — The State Goes Marching In To Seize Patents

    01/15/2024 8:47:54 AM PST · by Red Badger · 40 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | January 14, 2024 4:04 PM ET | DEROY MURDOCK - CONTRIBUTOR
    If it ain’t broke, break it. This is Joe Biden’s guiding principle. He took President Donald J. Trump’s much-tighter southern border and ripped it as wide open as a gutted trout’s belly. Biden turned Trump’s energy independence into begging Iran and Venezuela to pump more oil. He also devolved Trump’s peace in the Middle East into a five-front Arab war on Israel and let the Houthi terrorists convert the Red Sea into a shooting gallery. And for his next trick, Biden wants to impersonate a Latin autocrat. On December 7, a date that shall live in infamy, Biden’s Commerce Department...
  • Poll: A Third of Seattle Residents Are Considering Leaving, Citing Crime and Costs

    07/08/2023 3:26:30 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 37 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 07/08/2023 | Katherine Hamilton
    One-third of Seattle residents are considering packing up and moving elsewhere, largely citing home prices and crime, according to a Seattle Times/Suffolk University poll conducted in June. Roughly 33 percent of Seattle residents surveyed say they are seriously considering moving out of the city, while 67 percent say they are not. The survey was conducted with 500 residents by phone from June 12-16 and has a ±4.4 percent margin of error.
  • Germany considers electricity price cap for industry

    05/05/2023 12:31:38 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 23 replies
    Tech Explore ^ | MAY 5, 2023 | Staff
    The proposal would cap the price of at least 80 percent of the electricity consumed by energy-intensive industries in Germany. Germany's Economy Minister Robert Habeck on Friday presented plans to cap the price of electricity used by energy-intensive industries to insulate the sector against sharp cost increases, but the proposal immediately sparked criticism. The cap, which would be set at 0.06 euros ($0.07) per gigawatt hour (GWh), would apply until 2030 and cover at least 80 percent of companies' electricity usage. Energy costs rose sharply in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as Moscow dwindled critical gas supplies...
  • The Aristocracy of Pull

    05/02/2023 7:35:04 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 12 replies
    The Atlas Society ^ | September 28, 2020 | Art Carden
    At first glance, a lot of the social problems and resource waste emerging from government intervention seem pretty easy to fix: the government should just stop doing whatever it is doing that is creating the problems and the waste. The stubborn persistence of institutions and organizations that keep societies poor is a vexing problem for social scientists. In Political Capitalism, the economist Randall Holcombe takes on this problem by analyzing “political capitalism” as a distinct economic system with its own logic and features rather than as some kind of midpoint between capitalism and socialism. As he points out, people do...
  • EXCERPT #2 FROM ATLAS SHRUGGED

    03/30/2023 10:47:37 PM PDT · by TBP · 16 replies
    Fam Guaridan ^ | 1957 | Ayn Rand
    Beginning on page 411 of the 35th Anniversary Edition of Atlas Shrugged. (from Atlas Shrugged II, Minute 40) Dr. Ferris smiled. . . . . ."We've waited a long time to get something on you. You honest men are such a problem and such a headache. But we knew you'd slip sooner or later - and this is just what we wanted." "You seem to be pleased about it." "Don't I have good reason to be?" "But, after all, I did break one of your laws." "Well, what do you think they're for?" Dr. Ferris did not notice the sudden...
  • Bankman-Fried Would Fit in ‘Atlas Shrugged’

    12/14/2022 5:14:31 PM PST · by george76 · 13 replies
    WSJ Opinion ^ | Dec. 13, 2022 | Philip Grant
    Ayn Rand referred to the business and political masters (and clueless destroyers) of the economy as ‘looters.’ ... One guesses that Ayn Rand, author of the 1957 dystopian novel “Atlas Shrugged,” wouldn’t be surprised by our government-business partnerships and moral crusades. Sam Bankman-Fried would fit perfectly as a character in an “Atlas Shrugged” sequel. In Rand’s novel, a do-good industrialist collaborating with political managers of the economy opines, “It’s generally conceded that the free economy is now on trial. Unless it proves its social value and assumes its social responsibilities, the people won’t stand for it. If it doesn’t develop...
  • ROKU USERS - Movie, Atlas Shrugged (1,2,3)

    11/23/2022 8:10:03 PM PST · by V K Lee · 23 replies
    This movie, ATLAS SHRUGGED, can now be seen on ROKU app, FREE VEE All parts, 1,2 and 3 found in their Recently Added movies section. Made in 2011 - for more info you might check wikipedia.
  • The Left Cashes In On The Real Red Wave

    11/17/2022 5:01:56 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 20 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 17 Nov, 2022 | Eileen F. Toplansky
    Fifty-seven years ago, Ayn Rand predicted the red wave sweeping America today. The Left Cashes In On The Real Red Wave By Eileen F. Toplansky Indeed, there was a red wave but not the one conservatives had hoped for. It was, however, the continuation of the leftists’, Marxists’, and communists’ eternal obsession to destroy America and obliterate her values—and Ayn Rand predicted it in her 1965 seminal book titled The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution. Frighteningly prescient, Rand understood the beginnings of the “intellectual disintegration” that is now front and center in most colleges. Fifty-seven years later, the Left is...
  • This New York Times article on the failure of California’s high speed rail reminds me of the chapter “The Moratorium on Brains” from Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged

    10/09/2022 2:39:26 PM PDT · by grundle · 45 replies
    Wordpress ^ | October 9, 2022 | Dan from Squirrel Hill
    This New York Times article on the failure of California’s high speed rail reminds me of the chapter “The Moratorium on Brains” from Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged.In that chapter from the fictional book, everyone on a passenger train died because the train was controlled by politics instead of common sense.This new article from the New York Times explains how the real world train’s ridiculous, absurd, irrational route was chosen based on politics instead of on common sense.The New York Times article states:“… the design for the nation’s most ambitious infrastructure project was never based on the easiest or...
  • Biden is Selling America's Reserve Oil to Foreign Countries

    07/05/2022 11:22:37 PM PDT · by Jonty30 · 63 replies
    www.townhall.com ^ | Jul 05, 2022 | Katie Pavlich
    As a result of his domestic war on the oil and gas industry, energy prices for American families continue to hit records with no relief in sight. For months, President Joe Biden has repeatedly tapped the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and claimed it was helping to ease the pain at the pump. Not only has the depletion of the emergency supply not decreased gas prices, we're learning the supply is being sold to foreign countries. "More than 5 million barrels of oil that were part of a historic U.S. emergency oil reserves release aimed at lowering domestic fuel prices were exported...
  • Tyranny through Complexity

    07/03/2022 6:00:17 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 20 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 3 Jul, 2022 | J.B. Shurk
    President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is roughly 270 words long. The Declaration of Independence is around 1,320 words. Those two documents alone prove the power of brevity. (Whenever I find that I am unable to write what I'm trying to say within the Lincoln-Jefferson word limit, I chuck it in the trashcan because I've most likely buried my intended message under parasitic weeds.) The whole U.S. Constitution, the shortest in the world, has only 4,400 words. Yet every two-year Congress since WWII has enacted 4-6 million words of new law. A wise man once told me that if a law can't...
  • Veteran NYPD Detectives Retiring In Droves, Say They’ve ‘Had Enough’

    07/02/2022 4:36:42 PM PDT · by Beave Meister · 35 replies
    Police Tribune.com ^ | 7/2/2022 | Sandy Malone
    New York, NY – The mass exodus plaguing the New York Police Department (NYPD) may be having the biggest impact on its investigations with more than 100 seasoned detectives filing their retirement paperwork in June. Statistics showed that 250 NYPD detectives have retired so far this year and sources told the New York Post that another 75 veteran investigators were planning to retire in July. Before the June retirements began, the police force had 5,600 detectives. That’s almost 2,000 fewer detectives than NYPD had on the department less than 20 years ago, the New York Post reported. The detectives’ union...
  • And Atlas continues to shrug

    01/13/2022 4:14:51 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 104 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 13 Jan, 2022 | Mark C. Ross
    For most of my adult life I’ve been told about Ayn Rand’s famous novel…but had no idea what it was about. It was particularly popular among my Libertarian buddies. So, I finally ordered a copy…and when it came, I had to update the prescription for my reading glasses, because it’s over a thousand pages in nine-point type. Early on I was able to kind of get a handle on what it was about. There are basically two kinds of people: problem solvers or innovators who are constantly trying to make things work better…and cronies, who have an overwhelming sense of...
  • Spite: Joe Biden would rather let border wall materials rot on the ground than sell them to Texas. To Biden, Texas is Just a Doormat

    12/19/2021 10:28:56 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 25 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 12/19/2021 | Monica Showalter
    Joe Biden doesn't want to build a border wall. We all know that he says as much and that he's been captured by the vast open borders industrial complex. One problem for Joe, though: That dereliction of duty has driven his poll numbers straight into the toilet. His public approval is falling, with disapproval of his handling of the border crisis now at an all-time high. Longtime Democrat Hispanic strongholds in south Texas are now turning red, and the illegals are surging on in. Amazingly, he doesn't seem to have the wherewithal to fix that problem. He's got a partially...
  • Jesse Watters: Biden's lost control

    12/19/2021 10:48:07 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 38 replies
    YouTube ^ | December 18, 2021 | Fox News
    Jesse Watters explains why 'not even God can save' the Democratic Party in the opening monologue of ‘Watters’ World.’ #FoxNews #Watters'WorldJesse Watters: Biden's lost control | December 18, 2021 | Fox News
  • John Todd The Illuminati & Witchcraft in Audio Format

    08/27/2021 6:02:50 PM PDT · by Norski · 9 replies
    JamesJapan Exposing Satan's Plan In The Last Days ^ | February 17, 2021 | James Arendt
    I received a gift of audio tapes of John Todd’s testimonials from a person who visited this web site. I had them converted to MP3 format. You can also hear them play as streaming audio in Internet Explorer. The talks are of similar content to this page. . . Tape 1A John Todd’s testimony of deliverance from the Occult, evils of witchcraft24.5 megabytes in MP3 format with 43 minutes. Tape 1B Music and Spells, 44 minutes Tape 2A Dangers of fortune telling, familiar spirits, CS Lewis, JRR Toiken, etc etc! 43 minutes Tape 2B Charles Manson, Sharon Tate murder, Process...
  • We Are Entering The Age Of "Full John Galt"

    07/08/2021 2:09:55 PM PDT · by blam · 81 replies
    BruceWildsAdvancingTimeBlog ^ | 7-8-2021 | Bruce Wilds
    We are entering the age of "Full John Galt." This is a time where society and politicians are rapidly dismantling the rights of ownership. This transfer of rights constitutes a transfer of wealth whether we wish to call it by that name or not. This is a time when people can just walk into a small privately-owned convenience store, then, without paying walk out with an arm full of merchandise with little or no ramifications. This is a time when government deficits have lost all meaning and people are being paid not to work. This is a time when saying...
  • AMERICA PRAYER VIGIL (June 3, 2020)

    06/03/2020 10:23:23 AM PDT · by spirited irish · 30 replies
    Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP/VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE and AMERICA: All Levels of Government, Family, Military, Business, Farming, Education, Churches, Health Care Systems, the News, Media and Social Media, Citizen Keyboard Warriors, Right to Life. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.