[Federalist] he historical Christian positions on social issues do not fit into contemporary political alignments," wrote superstar Presbyterian pastor Tim Keller in a September 2018 op-ed for The New York Times titled "How Do Christians Fit Into the Two-Party System? They Don’t." Keller, who pastors a large church in New York City and has long characterized his intended approach to evangelism as "winsome," has been critiqued by other thinkers such as James R. Wood and Aaron Renn for taking an approach that "did not denounce secular culture, but confidently engaged that culture on its own terms in a pluralistic public square," as Renn put it.
But last week’s announcement of a Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, a project of Keller and The Gospel Coalition, offers hope that Keller is more intentionally engaging the reality of the culture war.
[American Thinker] Perhaps the most difficult thing in life is finding genuine contentment. We set goals for ourselves, we strive to reach them, and when we do, any momentary happiness goes poof awfully quickly, as we seek and set new goals once again. At some point, even the most driven and ambitious among us will wonder, "What am I doing, and why am I doing it?" Boy on the beach graphic You Tube
That is a good thing. I don't have much figured out about this life, but I do believe we are meant to constantly ask ourselves the big questions: Why am I here? What is the point of our existence? Are there lessons I am supposed to learn along the way? What comes next?
The funny thing about asking big questions is that doing so tends to put all the things in life that ordinarily drag us down into startling perspective. It is only natural to get upset about domestic politics, higher fuel and food prices, growing censorship, and encroaching State tyranny. It is much more difficult to rise above those problems and keep trudging ahead. Eventually, all the turmoil either gets the better of us, or we realize that the turmoil — no matter how large in scope — still pales in comparison to the meaning of life. When you think in terms of why am I here and what am I meant to do, well, the terrible things around us start to look more like opportunities than problems.
That is also around the time when you realize that there is a distinction between happiness and joy. Whereas happiness brings a sense of pleasure and personal satisfaction, it is both ephemeral and misleading. What makes us happy today may leave us bored, distraught, or even angry tomorrow. Just as with setting and achieving goals, happiness won is soon lost. Joy, on the other hand, is a much more enduring state of being, a kind of spiritual triumph that exists when a person sees beyond the struggles of life and feels connected with something more. Can you find meaning and keep moving forward when nothing seems to be going your way? Can you distinguish between the things within your control and those that are not and accept the difference? Can you recognize that life is more than a quest for pleasure and comfort and see the value in struggle and pain? Do you have a bond with a loved one that is indestructible? If so, then you have no doubt experienced some measure of joy that is entirely yours and can never be taken away.
Experiencing joy connects us with the divine. We become acutely aware that we are both part of something much bigger than ourselves, as well as singularly in charge of our fates. Joyfulness clears out the clutter that keeps us from seeing truth clearly. It is a path toward inner peace. One breath at a time, recognize your life as something more than just a collection of days. Once you find joy and learn to guard it from the outside world, then problems look much different and sometimes melt away.
Most atheists I've met describe their understanding of existence in one of two ways: either as the mathematically preordained result of deterministic events or as the strange conclusion of a long string of random occurrences. Either the laws of physics determined that roughly 13.8 billion years after the Big Bang we would all be sitting around reading American Thinker together, or the unpredictable chaos of the universe took one wacky turn after the next until stumbling into our present reality. Either way, neither random chaos nor mathematical determinism leaves much room for notions of free will or a sacred understanding of life.
Since atheism is far more prevalent among political leftists, it seems counterintuitive that they get so angry when they do not get their way. I always think, "If there is no God and free will is imaginary, then why is it so imperative that the left's worldview be imposed on everyone else? If life is no different than a pile of rocks and our choices are nothing more than complex math equations, then why can't leftists stand back and accept the world as it unfolds?" Just as there never seem to be any atheists in a foxhole, there never seem to be any leftists inclined to forfeit the exercise of their own free will — especially when doing so would sacrifice their control over everyone else.
No matter how strenuously leftists describe human beings as nothing more than algorithms that can be hacked and programmed for optimal control, their efforts evince an uncomfortable understanding that we humans are much more than biological robots or complex chemical reactions with moving parts. Humanity's future is predicated on deliberate choice — the choices of those who seek substantial control over everyone else and the choices of those who will refuse to be controlled. A battle is shaping between competing forces of free will. Within that battle, certain things ring true. To be alive is special. To be a part of this universe is special. To be conscious of our existence in such a vast world and yet to feel intimately connected to that vastness is special. We are not ones and zeroes. We are not simple code. We are part of something much greater.
Seen from this perspective, the events that dominate our days are very small. Joe Biden's reckless policies do not matter. The Federal Reserve's money printing does not matter. The growing national security surveillance State does not matter. The World Economic Forum's attempts to remake and dominate the world do not matter. What matters is how each one of us responds to those threats and the choices we individually make.
People and institutions with power have a strong interest in convincing everyone else that fighting back is useless. They have a clear interest in convincing those they rule that there is no God by the side of the faithful who choose to pray. They have a Machiavellian interest in convincing human beings that they are not as worthy of protection as planet Earth's rocks. They have an enduring interest in convincing each one of us that we are weak, alone, and small. They have every interest in keeping us from feeling connected to a greater purpose.
When we refuse to abide the will of powerful interests and instead ask the big, important questions in life, we make those with power feel uncomfortably small. We connect to things much larger than ourselves. We place ourselves on a path toward finding authentic joy. We open our lives to the helping hands of God. One breath at a time, one choice at a time, an amazing thing happens when you put yourself in His hands: the powers that be here on Earth become astonishingly weak.
Perhaps being a "joyful warrior" merely requires a willingness to trust in God so completely that courage vanquishes fear and the joy of righteous struggle replaces doubt. Rebellion to tyrants, Benjamin Franklin said, is obedience to God. That sentiment will always win out.
[Federalist] Deep within a southeastern cove of Brooklyn lies Dead Horse Bay. Vintage debris washes up on its shores thanks to a decomposing underwater landfill. Old Clorox bottles, tires, men’s work boots, and shards of broken glass toss back and forth on the tide, continually churned together with old horse bones.
The bones come from an 1850s-era factory that used the carcasses of dead horses to make glue, fertilizer, and other materials near the bay. That such a factory was necessary — and that thousands of old horse bones line a small bay in Brooklyn — point to the fact that horses were a way of life in New York City before cars replaced them. Nearly 200,000 horses lived on the small island of Manhattan at the end of the 19th century, meaning piles of dead horse carcasses and giant mounds of manure were a daily occurrence for city residents at that time.
Note that the average horse produces around 30 pounds of manure a day. If you do some back-of-the-envelope math, that means New Yorkers literally put up with dumping more than 1 million tons of excrement on their streets every year to preserve their freedom of mobility.
That’s what climate activists and their allies in the corporate press don’t seem to get. As leftists push Americans to make the cumbersome and extremely expensive switch to electric vehicles, they forget that Americans already can go wherever they want, whenever they want, thanks to gas-powered cars. Why would they give that up and pay more in the process?
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Vacations and Trips are White Privilege and are something they will do their best to destroy.
"This radio station was named Kowalski, in honor of the last American hero to whom speed means freedom of the soul. The question is not when's he gonna stop, but who is gonna stop him."
...grandson of a U.S. Coast Guard admiral, devoted husband and father of two who has been living in Russia since he leaked masses of classified NSA data in 2013. He compounded things by acquiring Russian citizenship last year, signed personally by President Putin, and has shared his English-language thoughts in interviews, his published memoir, and on Substack since 2021...
says the hysteria over UFOs being shot down over America and Canada is a distraction from Seymour Hersh’s story about the U.S. being responsible for blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines.
That may or may not be true. Mr. Hersh has a spotty record and an excitable soul...
Over the past week, there have been at least four instances of U.S. fighter jets destroying unidentified flying objects, in one case over Alaska, an object that had no means of propulsion but was spotted flying at 40,000 feet and pilots said interfered with the sensors of their aircraft.
Yesterday, the White House denied that the objects were extraterrestrial in nature, although the glib dismissal if anything only continued to feed into speculation online that ET had paid a flying visit.
Thinking about visitors from very far away is great fun (until one ponders why they would do so). Analyzing everything the DoD and the White House hqve done wrong in this situation — and possible second order and beyond effects is no fun at all.
In reality, as most people have pointed out, the shootdowns are likely a show of force to save the Biden administration’s blushes from questions as to why the Chinese spy balloon was allowed to monitor America in the first place.
According to Edward Snowden, the UFO flap is also a misdirection to wipe the infinitely more awkward Seymour Hersh story from the headlines.
There are plenty of other awkward stories in recent headlines that the administration would prefer forgotten. It needn’t just be that one.
Snowden tweeted that the hysteria was an “engineered” bait and switch to prevent the media from covering the pipeline explosion revelations.
Last week, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published an article in which he asserted that the pipelines were destroyed by the US as part of a covert operation.
According to Hersh’s sources, the explosives were planted in June 2022 by US Navy divers under the guise of the BALTOPS 22 NATO exercise and were detonated three months later with a remote signal sent by a sonar buoy.
One source told Hersh that the plotters knew the covert operation was an “act of war,” with some in the CIA and State Department warning, “Don’t do this. It’s stupid and will be a political nightmare if it comes out.”
In an update to the story, Hersh gave an interview with Radio War Nerd in which he slammed the mainstream media for criticizing him personally rather than investigating the story.
“It’s amazing to me how they fall in line, my colleagues,” said Hersh, referring to the New York Times and the Washington Post.
As we previously highlighted, Snowden chided the White House’s denial that it was involved in the pipeline attack by pointing out it also denied previous false flags.
“Can you think of any examples from history of a secret operation that the White House was responsible for, but strongly denied?” Snowden tweeted.
“Besides, you know, that little ‘mass surveillance’ kerfuffle,” he added.
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When you have the mainstream mediaMinistry of Truth in your pocket, you don't need distractions. Nobody cares about Hersh's story. Nobody is paying any attention to it. It went down the Memory Hole as soon as it was published.
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It's very difficult for a paranoid psychotic when reality bears out their delusions.
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Fighter escorts for their balloons? With the necessary tankers?
What fun.
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I saw a UFO once. It was in Tanot, a place in the Thar desert. I just didn't share it with many people. I also thought it could have been an experimental craft, but nothing we know of can maneuver like it did. It was this ball of sky blue light. No we don't have ball lightning in Rajasthan and ball lightning wouldn't move sideways or stop and jerk about like it was being dragged by a mouse pointer in 3D.
I just thought, 'Cool!' and went on about my life at the time. The church later said 'oh it was an angel from GaWd' but somehow I can't believe them know-it-alls.
[My Global Issues] The Russians don't have many tanks left. Most of the tanks in Russia's storage facilities are not suitable for recovery. And their industry is not capable of producing more than 60 tanks a year.
By continuing to lose a lot of tanks on the battlefield, the Russians risk being completely without tanks this year.
[OSINT & Analysis by Oliver Alexander] I would like to preface this post by stating that I will not be making any conclusions on who is responsible for the Nord Stream pipeline explosions in this piece. While I have my suspects, all publicly available information regarding the explosions is circumstantial and there is none that conclusively points to a specific culprit. The purpose of this post is to debunk the claims made in Seymour Hersh’s Substack post titled "How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline" using publicly available information.
In regards to Seymour Hersh’s past, both his time as a Pulitzer Price winning journalist in the 1970s and his recent factually incorrect takes on the Syria gas attacks and Skripal poisoning, I will let people like Eliot Higgins who worked on these cases give their opinion. This post will solely focus on the claims made in the recent Substack post.
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I am not hearing credible denials. The action seems to hurt Germany more than Russia in the short term. It also looks like a great way to encourage actors to target our infrastructure in a different situation where infiltrating teams over our border would not have been made so difficult.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. --Mark Twain
I prefer to wait before deciding that it was more than bad luck and/or sloppy maintenance.
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I originally thought it was poor maintenance. I thought that no rational entity would risk nuclear war over the pipeline. I now believe that I was sort of right.
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Weren't there some engineers who thought it was not sabotoogee at all and that the explosion came from the inside of the pipeline?
[ZERO] Edward Snowden called it (and so did we)... just a day ago, as we reported: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden says the hysteria over UFOs being shot down over America and Canada is a distraction from Seymour Hersh’s story about the U.S. being responsible for blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines.
Less than 24 hours later, on Tuesday, Bloomberg reports that "The US government has assessed that three unidentified objects downed since last Friday were likely for commercial use and not foreign intelligence gathering."
A 24/7 hyped news cycle, with breathless US defense official press briefings and reporters asking about aliens and UFOs, and just like that... the public is casually informed they were probably just "balloons tied to some commercial or benign purpose."
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Tuesday: "Given what we’ve been able to ascertain thus far, the intelligence community’s considering, again, as a leading explanation, that these could just be balloons tied to some commercial or benign purpose."
Additionally, coming off the alleged Chinese 'spy' balloon shootdown off South Carolina on Feb.4 - which started this sensational trend of Pentagon jets taking potshots at floating unknown small objects in skies over North America with Sidewinder missiles that cost the taxpaying public $400,000 a pop, Kirby admitted:
"We haven’t seen any indication or anything that points specifically to the idea that these three objects were part of the People’s Republic of China’s spy balloon program, or that they were definitively involved in external intelligence collection efforts," Kirby said.
And what's more, with the "China balloon threat" new read scare over American skies narrative now apparently being walked back, the Pentagon says it may never know with certainty, as Axios reports further of Kirby's briefing:
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It's unpossible in many minds to believe it was an industrial accident. That angle was well covered here and it's as good an explanation as any, less the foil hat frisson.
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The fraternity brothers at Washington State spoofed NORAD.
The hell of it is that story is about as plausible as any of the others we're hearing. When you have to rely on the government for information about something like this, you might as well resign yourself to the fact that you will never know the truth.
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For all we know, nothing at all was up there. The whole story is just another hoax to make it look like Biden is taking decisive action after his failure to act on the very real Chinese spy balloon.
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Shooting at nothing. It happens a lot. It's when it gets orchestrated media coverage that it becomes a problem.
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"We haven’t seen any indication or anything that points specifically to the idea that these three objects were part of the People’s Republic of China’s spy balloon program, or that they were definitively involved in external intelligence collection efforts," Kirby said.
You saying it was an internal job? That why you let it cross out to sea?
[Breitbart] A second university has been found to have received more than $6.7 million in anonymous donations from China, including direct funding from the Chinese government, after Joe Biden set up a program there in his name, according to a Government Accountability Institute analysis. The revelation comes following reporting that anonymous China-linked funds flowing to the University of Pennsylvania almost tripled after the inauguration of the Penn-Biden Center, which illegally housed classified documents.
On March 13, 2017, less than seven weeks after concluding his second term as vice president, Joe Biden announced the founding of the Biden Institute at his home state’s University of Delaware (UD). According to the announcement, part of Biden’s "vision for the institute is an annual conference at UD, similar to the World Economic Forum or the Aspen Institute."
At the time of Biden’s announcement at UD, multiple members of the Biden family were working on deals worth millions of dollars with foreign businessmen linked to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence. And Biden’s other university program at the University of Pennsylvania was apparently housing classified documents from the Obama-Biden administration in an improper way.
Prior to hosting the Biden Institute, UD had never disclosed any funding from China. One year later (and just two months after the Penn Biden center opened its D.C. office), anonymous donations from China to UD skyrocketed. The first payment came in April 2018 in the amount of $3,204,070 from an anonymous donor in China. In December 2018, another anonymous donation from China arrived for $1,869,515. A third anonymous China-linked payment, for $624,904, arrived in December 2019.
In 2020, the year that Biden was campaigning for president, anonymous Chinese state-linked entities sent three more payments totaling $1,005,761 to UD, the bulk of which arrived after Biden had been declared the president-elect.
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No way the Chinese donated all that money without the expectation of something in return. The only question is: What? Classified documents? Allowing spy balloons to pass over the country? Making war against Russia? Discounted oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve? Relaxing Trump's tariffs? Giving Kathy Chung a position in the Pentagon with a security clearance? Or maybe something even worse beyond my imagination?
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We had a report Tuesday that the US State Department announced that they are no longer interested in reviving President Obama’s 2015 nuclear “deal”, though they still were when this piece was published nearly a year ago.
[Jewish News Syndicate] Putin’s war against Ukraine is far from Tehran. But if the Biden administration hopes to deter Russia in Ukraine, and its growing alliance with China and Iran, it needs to move decisively against Iran’s nuclear assets now. We are already at war with Russia. Cyber attacks, derailing trains, UFO balloon attacks. The sooner we wake up and realize this, the better.
The war in Europe and the coming threat of a nuclear-armed Iran is confronting the United States with a stark reality—an emerging alliance of nuclear-armed states, including Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, whose atomic umbrella will stretch from NATO’s borders in Eastern Europe to the Asian Far East.
The Biden administration does not yet realize that the ground has shifted under its feet or it would be making corollary shifts, not more concessions to Iran. Instead, supporting a deal negotiated by Russia—one better than even Iran imagined, or so Russia brags—proves that the current administration is behind the times and dangerously wedded to ideas from a now-antiquated paradigm. So, so many of our problems go away with regime change in Russia. And Iran. And China. It's not gonna happen by itself, people. It requires ACTION.
The original 2015 Iran nuclear deal—the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA—was conceived and negotiated against a global alignment that no longer exists. We are in a new era with new alignments and new divisions. This is why America cannot agree to such a deal. It would empower Russia and China to leverage Iran’s nuclear status against us while guaranteeing to Russia in writing that it can build 40 or more nuclear reactors in Iran. Such a deal is simply incompatible with the world we now inhabit.
Startling and rapid, these shifts mean the cooperative period of East-West relationship has reverted to one of Cold War-style threats and alliances, including dramatic realignment among four and potentially many as five anti-Western states armed with nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. This growing nuclear threat simply isn’t tenable for the United States. In response, the Biden administration should show the grit and determination necessary to finally launch military strikes against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. America and its allies have dithered on this issue for far too long.
But strikes against Iran won’t just end a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. They will send a strong message of resolve from the United States to our adversaries that will restore desperately lacking American military deterrent power. This is vital for U.S. national security.
Is there any indication that Putin is deterred by NATO or American warnings? To the contrary, Putin seems to be the one doing the deterring. Why else did the White House block the transfer of 28 MiG-29 fighters from Poland to Ukraine, which is pleading for them?
Given the Biden administration’s badly engineered withdrawal from Afghanistan, its insincere and porous application of sanctions on Russia, its failure to arm Ukraine adequately and its serial weakness in the face of Iran’s ballistic-missile attacks on Americans and the capital cities of our Gulf allies, is it surprising that America and NATO’s willingness to go to war over former Soviet satellite states is deeply suspect in Moscow?
That is why the United States should act immediately and decisively to destroy Iran’s nuclear and military-industrial complex. This will restore America’s credible military deterrent, and prevent adventurism and a wider war in Europe. In the process, it will discourage reckless aggression in Asia, rhetorical or otherwise.
What currently deters Putin from calling President Joe Biden’s and NATO’s bluff over "one inch" of territory? During any two-week NATO debate over invoking Article 5, Putin can take a 100-mile slice of Polish countryside or invade a Baltic state.
Far from being deterred, Iran’s Supreme Leader has already called the White House’s bluff. On March 13, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched a substantial ballistic-missile attack targeting Erbil, near America’s new consulate in Kirkuk. This latest direct attack by Iran on American soldiers and civilians follows dozens of attacks by Iran and its proxies, which targeted U.S. military bases, plus population centers in Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Tehran has de facto declared war on the United States and our Gulf allies.
Twenty years of talks with Iran regarding its illegal nuclear-weapons programs have amounted to two decades of calculated deception—deception almost always shielded diplomatically by Russia and economically by China.
Since Biden took office, Russia and China have increasingly overcome historic differences, forging deeper scientific, military, trade, financial and imperial leader-to-leader ties. Chinese state media has amplified false Russian bioweapon accusations against the United States and spread Russia’s fallacious narrative of liberating Ukraine from Western aggression and phantom Nazis.
Concern about Putin’s state of mind is widespread among White House advisers and European military officials. The frustrated commander-in-Kremlin has put his nukes on alert. He told the West to stay the hell out. He has issued increasingly brazen threats against European and NATO states considering military aid, which are deterring these states from providing the help Ukraine needs. All this must be reversed.
Biden has apparently grown fearful of providing Putin a "pretext" to involve a NATO state in Putin’s war. So suddenly, Poland was out of line for offering planes to Ukraine—in a swap U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken suggested on a weekend was underway until the White House was "shocked" by the very idea on Monday.
If the president wants to avoid wider war in Europe and deter the naked aggression that threatens global systems—those ensuring free and fair trade, borders, open seas and respect for human dignity—we must act to destroy Iran’s nuclear and military-industrial capability, restoring our deterrent credibility and taking away from Russia and China the ability to align with a nuclear Iran against the West.
In the United States, as of early April, the national average price for gas remains more than $4 and spikes over $5 in places. Saudi Arabia and the UAE were incensed with the White House’s wildly nonchalant reaction to Iranian proxies firing ballistic missiles into their cities over the past few months. Understandably, Gulf leaders were unavailable for a call with Biden about increased oil output amid the Ukraine crisis.
Acting now to eliminate the Iranian nuclear military-industrial complex would remind the world’s other leading powers that the United States still maintains red lines that cannot be crossed. It would also restore some confidence in the Gulf and go a long way towards reducing the price of gas at the pump.
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Should have bombed Iran a long time ago. But Baraq was too busy giving them money.
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I am not sure I would implement this John Bolton white paper in 2023.
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[YouTube] Mike Glover, a former Green Beret and owner of Fieldcraft Survival, walks us through the proper application of the TacMed SOF-T tourniquet.
During this detailed review, Glover provides valuable application and troubleshooting tips. He also explains why the slim profile and single-hand design of the SOF-T make it his preferred tourniquet for everyday carry.
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Was going to comment on this thread, but saw that the site reports I have commented 27,045 times. I can't believe that's true. It's freaking me out.
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37591 comments for me, M. I prefer to think of myself as thoughtful rather than verbose. ;-)
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See. That's the thing. I didn't count anything. The site counted for me. I have not smoked weed since about 1992, but I don't want to see a pile of all the weed I smoked.
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I just wanted to be reminded of how many times I've personally uplifted all of your lives with me wit. 3262 times! No, no, no need to thank me. Just my gift to you!
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Does he go over how when applying a tourniquet to a Democrat, you always put it around the neck? They don't need blood in their brain anyway since what's already there is plenty for both brain cells.
[American Thinker] Now that the American government has finally agreed to make public its data about UFOs, no one should be surprised about what’s going on in the skies above us. The Chinese spy balloon, however, has made it easy to cast doubt upon all the strange objects that have populated our skies for decades. The big questions are what did the U.S. government know, when did it know it, and what is it doing with the information?
Over the past few days, there has been fast and unsettling action on the UFO front. Three mysterious UFOs have been shot down over Alaska (February 10), the Yukon (February 11), and Lake Huron (February 12). In addition, on February 12, China was getting ready to take down an unidentified object spotted flying over waters near the port city of Qingdao, and the state of Uruguay announced (February 11) that it had seen "flashing lights in the sky" and intends to scramble jets to deal with it.
Meanwhile, astronomers report that some entity 4000 light years away is transmitting signals to Earth every 18 minutes.
Will tomorrow’s news bring still more disturbing reports? Probably, yes.
Is there any absolute truth available that we can hang our hats on as a framework providing an absolutely certain way to view whatever is coming?
Yes, there is. There are three ironclad certainties:
1. The source of the UFO phenomena is either the USA, China, Russia, or ET.
2. The First three in that list are known liars; ET is an unknown, but it is probably a liar, too.
3. The current American government is attempting to use a basketful of hoaxes to destroy its people.
Viewed within this framework, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s February 13 statement that there is “there is no—again no—indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity” should be taken as an admission that there is a USA/ET Axis behind the UFO phenomena.
Who else is in that axis?
Note that the US government did not acknowledge the Chinese balloon until it became public knowledge and even then delayed shooting it down until it was over the ocean, where much of its cargo would be plausibly lost.
Likewise, note that the US government did not morph from outright denial of UFO phenomena to outright admission until the leakage to the press of a sufficient quantity and quality of pilot statements to make continued denial implausible. It is the government’s desire to appear to be leading the parade.
Once one has broken through the barrier of denial, it is inevitable to ask, “How much of what has been denied since 1947 was, in fact, true?” One might begin by browsing through the UFO shelf in your local library.
I remember when I first learned about SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. We still wore dresses then, and boys declared they liked us by yanking our pigtails. Everyone—everyone—was enthused about SETI. No one—no one—dared ask, “but what if…?” Even physicist Stephen Hawking had the intellect to note “they may destroy us,” but not the judgment to urge caution.
The folly of assuming that ET would be friendly comes into focus when one ponders the likelihood that ET is already in alliance with the USA, the current government of which is proving to be the enemy of the American people.
When Tucker Carlson suddenly stops talking about extraterrestrials, we may have something to be concerned about.
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I'm not saying Deus The Dark Sphere is a great movie, it shows it's budget here and there which is fine, some of the acting is shall we say distracting. What I'm saying, is there seems to be some prepping for the plot.
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The Dark Forest is a book that says that we haven’t had any success finding intelligent life because if it is intelligent it will bid
If the there is intelligent life out there roaming the universe it has a very high probability of being hostile and so technologically advanced that we have viable defense
Perhaps we should go in to the dark forest and hide
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[American Thinker] Perhaps the most difficult thing in life is finding genuine contentment. We set goals for ourselves, we strive to reach them, and when we do, any momentary happiness goes poof awfully quickly, as we seek and set new goals once again. At some point, even the most driven and ambitious among us will wonder, "What am I doing, and why am I doing it?"
[Federalist] Deep within a southeastern cove of Brooklyn lies Dead Horse Bay. Vintage debris washes up on its shores thanks to a decomposing underwater landfill. Old Clorox bottles, tires, men’s work boots, and shards of broken glass toss back and forth on the tide, continually churned together with old horse bones.
[My Global Issues] The Russians don't have many tanks left. Most of the tanks in Russia's storage facilities are not suitable for recovery. And their industry is not capable of producing more than 60 tanks a year.
[OSINT & Analysis by Oliver Alexander] I would like to preface this post by stating that I will not be making any conclusions on who is responsible for the Nord Stream pipeline explosions in this piece. While I have my suspects, all publicly available information regarding the explosions is circumstantial and there is none that conclusively points to a specific culprit. The purpose of this post is to debunk the claims made in Seymour Hersh’s Substack post titled "How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline" using publicly available information.
Biden and Victoria Nuland statements were convincing enough for me. 
[ZERO] Edward Snowden called it (and so did we)... just a day ago, as we reported: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden says the hysteria over UFOs being shot down over America and Canada is a distraction from Seymour Hersh’s story about the U.S. being responsible for blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines.
[Breitbart] A second university has been found to have received more than $6.7 million in anonymous donations from China, including direct funding from the Chinese government, after Joe Biden set up a program there in his name, according to a Government Accountability Institute analysis. The revelation comes following reporting that anonymous China-linked funds flowing to the University of Pennsylvania almost tripled after the inauguration of the Penn-Biden Center, which illegally housed classified documents.
