Call it coincidence, serendipity, an aligning of the planets—whatever the term, the moment was creepy and amusing all at once. I was beavering away in the basement research room at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, in Yorba Linda, a suburb of Los Angeles, when Henry Kissinger twice came into view—in the flat, cursive form of Nixon’s scrawl in the margins of the book I was reading, and then in the rounder corporeal form of the man himself, in the hallway outside the door.
Kissinger, the last surviving member of Nixon’s Cabinet, was in Yorba Linda last fall for two reasons: to speak at a fundraising gala for the Richard Nixon Foundation and to promote a book he had published earlier in the year, at the improbable age of 99. The book, Leadership, contains an entire chapter in praise of Nixon, the man who had made Kissinger the 20th century’s only celebrity diplomat.
I was there to gather material for a Nixon book of my own. I had been nosing around in a cache of volumes from Nixon’s personal library. I was particularly interested in any marks he may have left in the books he’d owned. From what I could tell, no one had yet mined this remarkably varied collection, more than 2,000 books filling roughly 160 boxes stored in a vault beneath the presidential museum. Taken together, they reflect the broad range of Nixon’s intellectual curiosity—an underappreciated quality of his highly active mind. To give an idea: One heavily underlined book in the collection is a lengthy biography of Tolstoy; another is a book on statesmanship by Charles de Gaulle; another is a deep dive into the historiography of Japanese art. Several fat volumes of The Story of Civilization, Will and Ariel Durant’s mid-century monument to middlebrow history, display evidence of attentive reading and rereading. No doubt today's elites would hate Nixon just like they did in 1972, just like they hate Donald Trump now. But then there's Joe Biden, who doesn't even bustle, and it would be generous to even call him mediocre. Lord help me. For all his faults, I miss Richard Nixon. He was anything but mediocre.
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[ColonelCassad] A documentary film about the work of searchers from the "Russian Knights" detachment, who are searching for the remains of Soviet soldiers in the Stavropol Territory.
The detachment also worked in the Smolensk region and Kuban. Thanks to their work, many soldiers and commanders of the Red Army were found and reburied with honors.
Abstract:
The documentary tells the story of the “Russian Knights” - one of the search teams of the Stavropol Territory, which arose on the basis of the military-patriotic club of the same name. Behind the backs of the “knights” is participation in search work at battle sites in the Smolensk region, Kuban, and Stavropol region.
Experienced and young participants in the search movement talk about the military-patriotic education of youth, participation in excavations, and memorialization of the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland.
[BBC] This week in New York, as he listened to questions from reporters, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's reliable smile began to fade.
Unsurprisingly, nearly all the questions were about India and the shocking allegation made by Mr Trudeau earlier in the week: there was credible evidence the Indian government had participated in the extrajudicial killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil, a Sikh activist whom India has accused of terrorism. That’d be Hardeep Singh Nijjar, head of the Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF) in Canada, whom India had long been trying to persuade Canada to extradite. He acquired Canadian citizenship despite arriving there under false pretenses and a false identity. India claims he died of Sikh inter-gang activities. See more here.
Delhi has denied having anything to do with the murder.
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Add in his freedom-crushing use of State apparatus and Banking pressures during the truckers protests and most figured out he's a totalitarian asshole
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Justin Trudeau deserves every crappy thing that happens to him.
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[American Thinker] The border patrol has acknowledged that there are three confirmed cases of tuberculosis amongst illegal aliens who crossed into America through the Biden administration’s encouragement and connivance. This should worry everyone. We don’t think much about tuberculosis, except maybe as a Victorian disease, but it was once America’s greatest killer and, thanks to drug-resistant strains, can be again.
[GATEWAY] Does the media ever wonder why so few Americans want the new Covid booster shot? Or why so few Americans wanted the last booster shot?
I know why.
It’s because almost everyone (who isn’t blind, deaf or really dumb) knows someone who got the Covid jab and died soon thereafter.
There’s even a name for it. Look for it in the headlines. All over America people are "dying suddenly."
And almost everyone knows someone who got the Covid jab...had no health problems in their life...but now after the vaccine, they’re very sick...
They’ve had a heart attack...or stroke...or blood clots...or sudden fast-moving Stage 4 cancer...or a terrible outbreak of shingles (ask Democrat US Senator Diane Feinstein about that)...or neurological diseases like Parkinson’s Disease (ask Democrat US Congresswoman Jennifer Wexman about that). Out of the blue. But always after being vaccinated.
Or here’s the really obvious thing everyone is seeing...someone they know was never a sickly person...but after getting the Covid jab they get sick nonstop...they get every flu bug that comes around. Their immune system no longer works.
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So why don't we see people harmed by the shot suing Pfizer? I mean, this is America - where somebody who been smoking for 50 years, despite all the warnings, can sue the tobacco company and get $10 million.
After our 2nd round of Covid-19 back in August. We each were issued a 5 day supply of PAXLOVID.
Which was 3 pills per dose.
2x 300mg nirmatrelvir & 1x 100mg ritonavir taken twice daily.
We quickly noted Nirmatrelvir [PF-07321332], pills originated from the USA Pfizer lab & the Ritonavir came from India.
Oddly... When we asked if Nirmatrelvir it contained or was mRNA based. The Doctor, pharmacist and etc. all said NO.
But checking the internet and Pfizer websites. We see the "m" is absent and the sites now only speak of "RNA".
Guess what? Yes we have had some of the Clog-Shot side-effects also.
BTW: It took CVS 3 days to locate the Med and fill the scrip. PLUS CVS issued it to us in August 2023 it had a Expiration Date on the box of Sept, 2023 just 4 weeks away?
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"It’s because almost everyone (who isn’t blind, deaf or really dumb) knows someone who got the Covid jab and died soon thereafter."
That's a nonsense argument (at least in this gemeral form). If 70% of people are vaccinated, you're bound to know someone who died (for what reason ever) "soon" after (define "soon").
Posted by: European Conservative ||
09/24/2023 8:33 Comments ||
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Alot of young athletes all over the world have died since getting them.
Posted by: Chris ||
09/24/2023 8:38 Comments ||
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I think it is also the knowledge of people who got no vaccines (we all know people who did not comply). And they never got COVID and if they did it was just a cold.
Personally I received the vaccine and a booster and immediately after I felt terrible for several days. In fact in the last 3 years the worst I felt was immediately after getting the vaccine shot. So I will be skipping the next booster unless I am again required to get the shot for maintaining my employment.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/24/2023 9:18 Comments ||
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per the vaccine adverse effect reporting system, about 1000 USA citizens died soon after getting the vaccine
however, you have to balance this against the number of vaccinated people who did not die from Covid - that number is not directly observable but it is likely in the hundreds of thousands for the early period of the infection (before the Omicron variant); after this the efficacy of the vaccine decreased partly because the new variants were less lethal
Posted by: lord garth ||
09/24/2023 10:07 Comments ||
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RE#7 I believe I would get another job.
Posted by: Chris ||
09/24/2023 11:51 Comments ||
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Because when Pushers are wrong for three years straight it isn't by accident?
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So why don't we see people harmed by the shot suing Pfizer?
As I recall, Grom, the original contracts President Trump signed with those companies working on Covid vaccines specifically exempted them from liability for harms resulting from rushing to market.
Posted by: Frank G ||
09/24/2023 12:00 Comments ||
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As I recall, Grom, the original contracts President Trump signed with those companies working on Covid vaccines specifically exempted them from liability for harms resulting from rushing to market.
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Take the shot, its your choice. I only ask that you read the listed side effects that the drug companies attach to the vial. Then read the law making it impossible to sue the drug companies for damages. Then if you still think its worth it, go ahead...
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
09/24/2023 12:12 Comments ||
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Posted by: European Conservative ||
09/24/2023 12:27 Comments ||
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"the original contracts President Trump signed with those companies working on Covid vaccines specifically exempted them from liability for harms resulting from rushing to market."
He did, and so did all European governments. They had to, because everyone WANTED those companies to hurry up.
There was no point in getting those vaccines in ten years, with all the thorough testing getting done.
So yes, some risks had to be taken, and the companies weren't going to take that uncalculable risk.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
09/24/2023 12:42 Comments ||
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And no drug company exec nor politician has lost any sleep over it. Or lost any money either.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/24/2023 12:45 Comments ||
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And nobody was forced to take the vaccine.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
09/24/2023 12:48 Comments ||
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^ That's not true. People were fired for not taking it. Some children were given the vaccine in a clandestine manner at by school nurses.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/24/2023 12:54 Comments ||
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"Some children were given the vaccine in a clandestine manner at by school nurses."
I don't know about the U.S. but in Germany this would be illegal.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
09/24/2023 12:59 Comments ||
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Certainly illegal here, but school districts get pretty much unlimited latitude from the "legal authorities" in this country.
See: Loudon County, VA
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09/24/2023 13:02 Comments ||
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Just remember, by the fourth death peak in January, 2022 the death rate was 0.37% -about the same as the flu. Two months later, pneumonia surpassed COVID as a CDC-reported cause of death, and remains in the lead.
You knew all that, right? From the news? Or the Moderna ads, pushing the vax to prevent 'one of the top five causes of death'? Which, by the way, does not show pneumonia as one of the top causes of death...
Posted by: Bobby ||
09/24/2023 13:10 Comments ||
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My son a Fireman in the Metro-Atlanta area.
Ran several calls a shift to the Covid-19 vaccination sites in his coverage area. Where person(s) had serious adverse reaction problems during the customary post shot observation safety check period, after taking the C-19 Shot.
I even mentioned this issue well over a year ago here on Rantburg.
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#24My 1st bout with C-19-Omini started at least 8 days prior being hauled by Ambo. I spent days in ICU and a total of 2 weeks hospitalization with C19-omini and double pneumonia, then another 2 weeks of home on O2..
Thank him for me, the one’s here in Brookhaven are incredible. My brother in law died here of a glioblastoma a year ago, we had to call them for so many lift/assists about now….
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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[GATEWAY] Does the media ever wonder why so few Americans want the new Covid booster shot? Or why so few Americans wanted the last booster shot?
