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  • Progressives continue to marvel at how successful the Tea Party was

    05/28/2021 7:16:04 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 15 replies
    How much trouble are we in when progressives broadcast how to beat them and we still won't do it? There's an interesting article in The New Yorker and this paragraph stands tall above all the rest: This insurgent approach has caused establishment figures from both parties to refer to Justice Democrats and its ilk as the Tea Party of the left. Max Berger, an early employee, said, “If that’s supposed to mean that we’re equivalent to white-supremacist dipshits who want to blow up the government or move toward authoritarianism, then I would consider that both an insult and a really...
  • 7 Best Law Enforcement Revolvers of All Time

    05/27/2021 4:19:43 AM PDT · by COBOL2Java · 10 replies
    Shooting Illustrated ^ | Thursday, May 20, 2021 | Sheriff Jim Wilson
    An interesting question was raised just the other day as to what have been the greatest law enforcement revolvers. I suppose you could look at it from several different perspectives. You might consider those guns that were the trend setters or you might tally up the guns that have had the highest production numbers. Or, you might just go with your favorites. And I suppose that there is nothing wrong with any of that. When I first put on the badge of a Texas peace officer, the revolver was king. So I have a bit more than just academic interest...
  • Ideas Have Consequences

    05/22/2021 8:10:27 PM PDT · by FLNittany · 33 replies
    youtube ^ | 9-18-2020 | Bishop Robert Barron
    Link here I had never seen this before. Just stumbled upon it. This Bishop is brilliant. It's an hour long, but you won't ever be bored.
  • The Law, by Frédéric Bastiat (Audio)

    05/22/2021 8:50:21 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 8 replies
    LibriVox ^ | 2020-07-02
    "The law perverted! The law—and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation. The law, I say, not only diverted from its proper direction, but made to pursue one entirely contrary! The law becomes the tool of every kind of avarice, instead of being its check! The law guilty of that very inequity which it was its mission to punish! Truly, this is a serious fact, if it exists, and one to which I feel bound to call the attention of my fellow-citizens." —Frédéric Bastiat Genre(s): Law, Political Science Language: English
  • Death By Government: The Primary Fact of the 20th Century

    05/20/2021 8:34:30 AM PDT · by Jan_Sobieski · 12 replies
    Intellectual Takeout ^ | 05/20/2016 | Bradley J. Birzer
    in June 1996 that I picked up a book that, for all intents and purposes, changed my life: R.J. Rummel’sDeath by Government (Transaction, 1994). After purchasing the book, I devoured it on a flight from Houston to Indianapolis. Every anti-Communist thought my mother had so rightly drilled into me as a child, every viewing of The Killing Fields (the work of art that inspired my entrance essay for and into the University of Notre Dame), and every Goldwater-esque aspect of my very soul seemed justified by the very existence of Death by Government. All my firms were confirmed.Through this book,...
  • IS COVID-19 A BIO-WEAPON?

    05/15/2021 12:48:28 PM PDT · by daydreamer · 63 replies
    The Highwire ^ | 5/15/2021 | Del Bigtree
    Category News & Politics Sensitivity Normal - Content that is suitable for ages 16 and overhttps://www.bitchute.com/video/uBEfAkPn7upc/ EVEN ATTACKS BY MEANS OF NEGATIVE REVIEWS CANNOT STOP THE TRUTH TO BE EXPOSED * * * The HighWire with Del Bigtree IS COVID-19 A BIO-WEAPON? The origins of #Covid19 are becoming increasingly clear, and Dr. Richard Fleming, cardiologist and researcher walks Del through a shocking paper trail surrounding the SARS-CoV2 virus and its link to Tony Fauci and US funded gain-of-function research. #FireFauci #GainOfFunction #GOF #FlemingProtocol #Covid19 #LabCreated #WuhanLab #CovidOrigins #TheHighwire #DelBigtreeTägliche politische und Geoengineering-Nachrichten: https://vk.com/chembuster Meine Kanäle: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/chembuster/ https://vimeo.com/chembuster My personal greetings...
  • How to stop AI from recognizing your face in selfies

    05/12/2021 3:53:23 PM PDT · by LibWhacker · 33 replies
    MIT Technology Review ^ | 5/5/2021 | Will Douglas Heaven
    Uploading personal photos to the internet can feel like letting go. Who else will have access to them, what will they do with them—and which machine-learning algorithms will they help train? The company Clearview has already supplied US law enforcement agencies with a facial recognition tool trained on photos of millions of people scraped from the public web. But that was likely just the start. Anyone with basic coding skills can now develop facial recognition software, meaning there is more potential than ever to abuse the tech in everything from sexual harassment and racial discrimination to political oppression and religious...
  • Endlessletter (Russian frontline letters from WW2 in English)

    05/09/2021 7:36:22 AM PDT · by dynachrome · 53 replies
    endlessletter.com ^ | 5-7-21 | (EDITED BY TATIANA VASILEVSKAYA)
    10 billion. That’s how many letters were sent and received by Soviet soldiers during WWII... Since June 1941, when Nazi Germany attacked Soviet borders, until May 1945 these letters became a thin thread, at times the only one, to connect families and friends torn from each other by a terrible war. These letters found their way from battlefields and hospitals, from evacuation zones and abandoned homes. Words of hope, love and worry addressing dear ones. How many of those words would become farewells...
  • 7 Keys To Being A Feminist Husband

    05/06/2021 8:19:00 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 8 replies
    The Babylon Bee ^ | May 5, 2021 | The Babylon Bee
    If there's one thing all women dream of from the time they are little girls, it's being married to a feminist husband. If you're married, are you feminist enough? Follow these simple tips to up your feminist game! 1. Explain feminism to your wife in case she doesn't know what it is: It's important for your wife to really understand what you're doing as you make efforts to become more feminist. Explain it as many times as necessary to make sure she understands. 2. Wait patiently for her to open the door for you: Women are always annoyed when men...
  • Lessons of the River War

    05/06/2021 6:49:56 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 5 replies
    City Journal ^ | 30/4/21 | Will Morrisey
    The Nile is the river in question. Without it, no war. “It is the cause of the war,” Churchill writes. “It is the means by which we fight, the end at which we aim.” On the Nile, the British could run their formidable gunboats into their enemy’s territory, upriver to its stronghold at Khartoum, itself located at the geostrategic chokepoint where the Blue and White Niles meet: “the great spout through which the merchandise collected from a wide area streams northwards to the Mediterranean Sea.” Just as the Suez Canal, completed in 1869, connected Europe to Asian ports beyond the...
  • Why don't conservatives consider the writings of the Founders to be included in "the classics"?

    05/04/2021 7:47:05 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 29 replies
    With all of the cancel culture and history re-writing that's gone on, a longing has started to develop among some conservatives and conservative websites lately for classic works. Examples may include the Iliad, anything by Aristotle or Plato, Moby Dick, Shakespeare, Cicero, Hobbes' Leviathan, Machiavelli, and many others. The thing that I can't understand, is why aren't the Founders included in the category of the classics?
  • German Domestic Spy Agency is Monitoring Anti-Lockdown Protesters

    05/01/2021 6:43:18 AM PDT · by zek157 · 15 replies
    https://summit.news ^ | 29 April 2021 | Joseph Watson
    Germany’s domestic spy agency is monitoring anti-lockdown protesters, claiming they are potentially involved in a plot to subvert the country. According to a Reuters report, the BfV spy agency is concerned that the demonstrations are being used as a cover for far-right extremists and people who believe in “conspiracy theories” about COVID-19 to incite violence. “Authorities fear that far-right extremists and conspiracy theorists who either deny the existence of Covid or downplay its threat to public health are exploiting lockdown frustrations to stir anger against politicians and state institutions five months before a general election,” states the report. While the...
  • Mexican Mid-Term Election Violence

    04/20/2021 8:27:00 PM PDT · by Brian Griffin · 6 replies
    Guardian ^ | 4/20.2021 | Falko Ernst
    "Clashes have sparked political assassinations and the forced displacement of thousands ahead of crunch 6 June polls"
  • All Roads Lead to Wuhan

    04/20/2021 2:51:23 AM PDT · by Haddit · 23 replies
    Bitchute ^ | April 16, 2021 | Del Bigtree
    The Highwire with Del Bigtree ALL ROADS LEAD TO WUHAN Medical reporter Sanja Gupta, broke with his network, CNN, this week to side with former CDC head, Robert Redfield, on his belief that SARS-CoV-2 was, in fact, a man-made virus that escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China. Del breaks down the troubling conflict of interest involved in the WHO’s original #Covid19 investigation in Wuhan and how the US government was actually funding the development of this potential bioweapon in China.
  • BLOODY ANGLE’S ROLE IN THE BATTLES OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD

    04/19/2021 2:41:48 AM PDT · by NonValueAdded · 30 replies
    National Park Planner ^ | 06/10/2020 | Unattributed
    ... In the meantime, more Patriot militiamen were gathering at various bottlenecks along Battle Road to set up ambushes, the first being at Meriam’s Corner where the British had to cross a small bridge. On the open road, most of the soldiers marched in a column five men wide, while other troops known as flankers fanned out like wings on a bird to protect the column by keeping the Patriots out of accurate range. Of course, at a bridge the flankers had to join the main column so they could cross as well, which allowed the Patriots to come closer....
  • Abolish the Plea Deal

    04/14/2021 8:02:14 AM PDT · by Heartlander · 35 replies
    American Greatness ^ | April 13, 2021 | Dan Gelernter
    Abolish the Plea Deal The government may never understand the principle which their own behavior so amply demonstrates: That incentives for abuse will create abuse. Compare our government today to our government a couple of hundred years ago, and you might conclude that its growth was the inevitable result of the growth of the nation. But that can only be partly true: There are 60 times as many Americans today as at the turn of the 19th century, but the federal government employs closer to 600 times as many people. Somewhere, this explanation is off by an order of magnitude.The...
  • Guns of April and Global War

    04/12/2021 9:03:08 PM PDT · by amorphous · 19 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 11 April 2021 | J.B. Shurk
    War between Russia and Ukraine looks imminent. Israel and Iran are engaging in tit for tat maritime altercations. And China is ratcheting up provocative incursions into the airspaces and waters of Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines. Any one of these regional conflicts is incendiary enough to ignite World War III (or, more accurately, each one is capable of transforming the cold, hybrid warfare of cyberhacks, technology thefts, financial markets manipulation, and perhaps even biological attacks that has been underway for many years into total and unrelenting global bloodshed), yet trading markets and news media are largely ignoring what's unfolding. It's...
  • INTELLIGENCE REPORT October 02, 2020 V3 – Revised NOT FOR CIRCULATION WITHOUT PRIOR AUTHORIZATION STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL Investigating threats & evaluating risk political, security and reputational

    04/06/2021 10:19:08 PM PDT · by daydreamer · 3 replies
    1. SUMMARY 1. Joe Biden’s compromising partnership with the Communist Party of China runs via Yang Jiechi (CPC’s Central Foreign Affairs Commission). YANG met frequently with BIDEN during his tenure at the Chinese embassy in Washington. 2. Hunter Biden’s 2013 Bohai Harvest Rosemont investment partnership was set-up by Ministry of Foreign Affairs institutions designed to garner influence with foreign leaders during YANG’s tenure as Foreign Minister. 3. HUNTER has a direct line to the Politburo, according to SOURCE A, a senior finance professional in China. 4. Michael Lin brokered the BHR partnership and partners with MOFA foreign influence organizations. 5....
  • THE GREAT RESET ARCHBISHOP VIGANÒ: OPEN LETTER TO DONALD TRUMP, WARNS ABOUT ‘GREAT RESET’ PLOT TO ‘SUBDUE HUMANITY,’ DESTROY FREEDOM

    04/06/2021 10:06:09 PM PDT · by daydreamer · 77 replies
    Letter to President Donald J. Trump ^ | December 8, 2020 | + Carlo Maria Viganò Tit. Archbishop of Ulpiana Former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States
    DECEMBER 8, 2020 DONALD J. TRUMP Sunday, October 25, 2020 Solemnity of Christ the King Mr. President, Allow me to address you at this hour in which the fate of the whole world is being threatened by a global conspiracy against God and humanity. I write to you as an Archbishop, as a Successor of the Apostles, as the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America. I am writing to you in the midst of the silence of both civil and religious authorities. May you accept these words of mine as the “voice of one crying out in...
  • World Shocked by SPARS 2025-2028 Document

    04/05/2021 7:17:34 PM PDT · by Jet Jaguar · 52 replies
    USSANews.com ^ | 4 April 2021 | Constitutional Nobody
    Anthony Fauci is on video in 2017 predicting the current COVID outbreak and he spent millions of dollars at several labs, including at the Level 4 facility in Wuhan, China to weaponize viruses by bioengineering so-called “gain of function”. Also in 2017, Johns Hopkins published “The SPARS Pandemic 2025-2028”, a report about a drill for a vaccine that caused spongiform encephalopathy aka “Mad Cow” prion disease. There is a concern, that as with other “drills” they have published in the past, such as Crimson Contagion and Event 201, the SPARS report will turn out to be the actual script of...