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  • Russians in Germany clash over the war in Ukraine | DW Documentary

    05/17/2022 2:43:57 AM PDT · by GonzoII · 4 replies
    DW via Youtube ^ | May 16, 2022 | Deutsche Welle
    The war in Ukraine is driving a wedge between Russian speakers in Germany. Putin’s critics and supporters are fiercely divided. The conflict came to a head on May 9, which marked 77 years since Nazi Germany's surrender. Barricades, strict regulations, and thousands of police on duty: German authorities predicted May 9 would get heated. Commemorated as "Victory Day” in many former Soviet countries, the date marks 77 years since the surrender of Nazi Germany. But due to the war in Ukraine, the occasion took on a whole new meaning. The divide between Putin’s opponents and supporters was brought into...
  • Pfizer’s Covid Vaccine Protection Against Omicron Fades Just Weeks After Second And Third Doses, Study Finds

    05/16/2022 10:44:13 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 15 replies
    Forbes ^ | 05/16/2022 | Robert Hart
    Immunity against the omicron coronavirus variant fades rapidly after a second and third dose of Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine, according to peer reviewed research published in JAMA Network Open on Friday, a finding that could support rolling out additional booster shots to vulnerable people as the variant drives an uptick in new cases across the country. KEY FACTS * Levels of omicron-specific “neutralizing” antibodies—which can target the virus and stop it from replicating—decline rapidly after a second and third dose of Pfizer’s shot, according to the Danish study of 128 people who had received two or three doses. *...
  • 2022 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model

    05/16/2022 6:39:05 PM PDT · by utford · 170 replies
    Sports Illustrated ^ | Sports Illustrated
    The new Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model - cover photo.
  • Bannon War Room - Monday evening show, 5-6pm ET

    05/16/2022 1:37:35 PM PDT · by 4Liberty · 10 replies
    America’s Voice News ^ | 05/16/2022 | Steve Bannon
    Freep Mail 4Liberty, if you want On/Off this list. Tune in LIVE at one of these links or via Roku/AppleTV/AmazonFire with the America’s Voice App...... https://americasvoice.news/ https://americasvoice.app https://warroom.org/ On GETTR, go here & click “Live now” button: https://gettr.com/user/realamvoice On Rumble – “Live” & for past episodes: https://rumble.com/BannonsWarRoom https://pluto.tv/live-tv/americas-voice“WarRoom BATTLEGROUND” Live following Bannon’s regular PM show, 6–7PM EST, at these links: https://frankspeech.com/ https://rumble.com/c/BannonsWarRoom Followed by Bannon's Battleground 6-7 pm Eastern, on Rumble!
  • 'Emmeline (Pankhurst) would be proud': JK Rowling praises feminist who 'never dropped her flag' as she stood up to masked trans activist thugs blocking statue to suffragette icon and 'intimidating and assaulting' women defending their rights [ed]

    05/16/2022 10:26:32 AM PDT · by C19fan · 11 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | May 16, 2022 | Chris Matthews and Martin Robinson
    This is the extraordinary moment a lone woman waving a purple, white and green Suffragette flag was 'manhandled ' by a gang of masked trans activists. The unnamed woman supporting the campaign group Standing For Women (SFW) was assaulted during a counter-protest by the Manchester Trans Rise Up (MTRU) movement next to the city's statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in St Peter's Square.
  • Conservatives, Stop Falling in Love with Politicians

    05/16/2022 7:12:18 AM PDT · by Oklahoma · 33 replies
    Townhall ^ | Posted: May 16, 2022 12:01 AM | Kurt Schlichter
    You gotta hand it to conservatives – we get abused and dumped and generally treated like dishrags, but we never stop falling for the latest politician who is going to sweep us off our feet and make sweet, sweet political love to us. Yet maybe, instead of acting on our infatuations,----
  • Bannon War Room - Monday morning show, 10am-Noon ET

    05/16/2022 6:47:55 AM PDT · by 4Liberty · 3 replies
    America’s Voice News ^ | 05/16/2022 | Steve Bannon
    Freep Mail 4Liberty, if you want On/Off this list. Tune in LIVE at one of these links or via Roku/AppleTV/AmazonFire with the America’s Voice App...... https://americasvoice.news/ https://americasvoice.app https://warroom.org/ On GETTR, go here & click “Live now” button: https://gettr.com/user/realamvoice On Rumble – “Live” & for past episodes: https://rumble.com/BannonsWarRoom https://pluto.tv/live-tv/americas-voice“WarRoom BATTLEGROUND” Live following Bannon’s regular PM show, 6–7PM EST, at these links: https://frankspeech.com/ https://rumble.com/c/BannonsWarRoom
  • I Criticized BLM. Then I Was Fired.

    05/16/2022 4:57:33 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 35 replies
    Bari Weiss Common Sense ^ | 12 May, 2022 | Zac Kriegman and Bari Weiss
    The data about police shootings just didn't add up, but no one at Thomson Reuters wanted to hear it. If you are a devoted reader of Common Sense, by now you have surely noticed a trend: workplaces—in some cases, storied institutions—that turn hostile to independent thinking seemingly overnight. That’s what Paul Rossi experienced at Grace Church School. It’s what Jennifer Sey went through at Levi’s. It’s what Antonio García Martínez dealt with at Apple. And Roland Fryer at Harvard. And Gordon Klein at UCLA. And Maud Maron at Legal Aid. Now comes the story of Zac Kriegman, who, until not...
  • The Cycles of Revolutions in Our Midst

    05/16/2022 4:27:58 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 3 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 15 May, 2022 | Victor Davis Hanson
    The world is fragmenting and changing in all different directions. Unfortunately, contemporary America is offering no guidance. We are witnessing a number of radical military, social, and political revolutions that are changing the United States—and the world—in fundamental ways that we still have not appreciated. The taboo about never mentioning the first-strike use of nuclear weapons in a major conventional war is now apparently over. Vladimir Putin routinely threatens their use. Communist China hints at its growing nuclear capability and is hell-bent on rushing into production a huge new nuclear missile force. The world is defining nuclear incineration down. The...
  • An awakening: conservatives vs. progressives

    05/16/2022 4:16:34 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 5 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 16 May, 2022 | Patricia McCarthy
    George C. Leef has written a wonderful, definitive book that lays out the difference between self-identified progressives and conservatives. The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale, A Political Fable for Our Time is a fictionalized narrative about a Washington Post journalist -- a progressive leftist, of course -- who is chosen to write an official biography of the first woman president, Patricia Farnsworth. The facts of this woman’s eight years in office are essentially the Obama/Biden two terms in all but name. Their destructive policies, briefly interrupted by the successful presidency of Donald Trump, are all in play again. The Supreme...
  • House Republican 5 should defy the Jan. 6 committee subpoenas

    05/16/2022 4:05:06 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 4 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 16 May, 2022 | David Zukerman
    The following assertion appeared in a Politico article on unprecedented action by the "Jan. 6" inquisitorial cabal issuing subpoenas to members of Congress: "The panel believes that these five GOP lawmakers have insight into Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election, an effort they say amounts to a coup attempt." Note the accusation by the inquisitorial panel that President Trump made "a coup attempt." This, of course, is an example of projection of the left of its own mindset and conduct onto its political targets. What was the conduct of the left -- ranging from false accusations that Donald...
  • Inflation

    05/16/2022 3:19:59 AM PDT · by sodpoodle · 9 replies
    email from a friend | 5/16/2022 | unknown
    Inflation is so bad that…. My neighbor got a pre-declined credit card in the mail. Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen. I saw a Mormon with only one wife. McDonald's is selling a 1/4 ouncer. Angelina Jolie adopted a child from America. Fifty Cent is now Eleven Cent. Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children's names. A truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico. A picture is now worth 200 words. The Treasure Island Casino is now managed by Somali pirates. When I called to get Blue Book Value on my car, they asked if gas...
  • Japan once led global tech innovation. How did it fall so behind?

    05/15/2022 9:07:12 PM PDT · by anthropocene_x · 54 replies
    Rest of the World ^ | 12 May, 2022 | Roland Kelts
    Vast regions of Japan’s digital universe are stuck in the early aughts. Online banking, airline booking, major newspapers, you name it: Services that have been streamlined by the digital revolution in much of the world are, in Japan, still plagued by convoluted drop-down menus that lead to dead ends, and detailed forms that need to be printed, filled out by pen, and even returned by fax. In a country that justifiably prides itself on excellent customer service, something happens when it comes to relaying information through a user interface displayed on a flat screen. Japan’s high-quality, mostly physical public infrastructure...
  • Total lunar eclipse – a supermoon eclipse – on May 15-16, 2022

    05/15/2022 3:37:07 PM PDT · by bitt · 42 replies
    earthsky.org ^ | 5/15/2022 | Fred Espenak and Editors of EarthSky
    Total lunar eclipse People in the Americas, Europe and Africa will see the total lunar eclipse during the night of May 15-16, 2022. Plus, on this night, the moon is close: a supermoon. Penumbral eclipse begins at 1:32 UTC on May 16 (9:32 p.m. EDT on May 15). Partial eclipse begins at 2:27 UTC on May 16 (10:27 p.m. EDT on May 15). Totality begins (moon engulfed in Earth’s shadow) at 3:29 UTC on May 16 (11:29 p.m. EDT on May 15). Totality ends at 4:53 UTC on May 16 (12:53 a.m. EDT). Partial eclipse ends at 5:55 UTC on...
  • TMS Live Stream with Matt Bracken - 3 PM EST SUNDAY May 15th 2022

    05/15/2022 11:01:58 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 7 replies
    youtube ^ | 15 May, 2022 | Matt Bracken and Host Fernando Aguirre
    The Modern Survivalist LIVE STREAM NOTIFICATION - Matt Bracken and Host Fernando Aguirre. Note: Videos are taken down from youtube as soon as the livecast is over and they are moved to Odysee. This link will only work for the livestream. Use the link below for the Odysee backup channel to find the archive and view later. Broadcast from Spain and Florida, U.S.A. Join us today as we talk with Matt Bracken about current events and how to be better prepared! Make sure to join early and leave your questions in the chat section. Always a fast-moving show. Wide-ranging discussions...
  • Grooming: Know the Warning Signs

    05/15/2022 8:14:48 AM PDT · by DoodleBob · 32 replies
    RAINN ^ | July 10, 2020 | N/A
    ... Grooming can take place online or in-person. It’s usually employed by a family member or someone else in the victim’s circle of trust, such as a coach, teacher, youth group leader or others who naturally have some interaction with the victim. Though grooming can take many different forms, it often follows a similar pattern. Victim selection: Abusers often observe possible victims and select them based on ease of access to them or their perceived vulnerability. Gaining access and isolating the victim: Abusers will attempt to physically or emotionally separate a victim from those protecting them and often seek out...
  • How the World Health Organization Wants to Control Public Health—And Your Life

    05/15/2022 4:47:20 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 18 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 13 May, 2022 | Debra Heine
    Amendments to the WHO’s International Health Regulations would give an unaccountable global bureaucracy the power to impose Shanghai-style lockdowns in U.S. cities—with or without our consent. Without much attention from the corporate media, the World Health Organization (WHO) will soon vote on a hair-raising proposal to give itself control over health surveillance, reporting, and management worldwide. In January, Loyce Pace, the Biden Administration’s delegate to the WHO, submitted amendments to 13 articles of the International Health Regulations. The Biden regime’s proposal is scheduled for a vote during the 75th World Health Assembly, held at the the Palais des Nations in...
  • Biden Administration warns of new covid wave… just in time for fall midterm elections

    05/15/2022 4:16:38 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 32 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 15 May, 2022 | Eric Utter
    It’s an oldie but a goodie: the Biden Regime is telling us to brace ourselves for a new wave of COVID coming this fall… just in time for the midterm elections. When something proves successful, you’d be a fool not to try it again, right? COVID fears led to mail-in balloting… which in turn allowed Biden to be “elected” president of the United States. Therefore, Democrats and their sycophants believe that reintroducing those fears can keep Congressional Democrats in power -- against all odds. Perhaps lightning can strike twice. (Mules on your marks… get set… go!) Without offering up any...
  • A climate change class action lawsuit

    05/15/2022 4:08:41 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 8 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 15 May, 2022 | Christopher Garbacz
    It’s high time that the greenies are forced to prove their case and justify the destruction their actions are causing. The UN IPCC and associated green activist groups; Federal, state, and local entities; universities; foundations; non-profit groups; and many corporations argue that the world will be destroyed without policies designed to turn on their heads the current energy system and American economy. However, the green agenda that is designed to eradicate fossil fuels will inflict enormous economic damage on America’s ordinary citizens and overall economy—and will do the same to other countries as well. This is true even though the...
  • Decoding Elon Musk’s placing of his Twitter bid ‘on hold’

    05/15/2022 3:56:59 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 35 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 15 May, 2022 | Rajan Laad
    When Elon Musk announced his $44 billion takeover bid to Twitter, it caused celebrations and meltdowns in equal measure. Conservatives and libertarians, who have been the recipients of step-motherly treatment on Twitter owing to its overwhelming liberal bias, hoped Musk would liberate the platform into a haven for free speech. Liberals feared losing control over a primary tool of communication and manipulation. Hence, Twitter employees staged walkouts. MSNBC said that Musk’s takeover would have 'massive, life and globe-altering consequences'. SNIP There are a few possible explanations behind Musk’s sudden move. Perhaps Musk realizes that his initial bid was too high...