[Am Thinker - Clarice] In between watching the scandalous FTX crypto scam unfold and making all the Thanksgiving fixings, I’ve joined Twitter, which I’ve refused to participate in for years. One reason for my about-face on the social media site is that Elon Musk, the new owner, is creating a genuine open forum and he’s actively participating as a commentator in the most amusing way.
I prefer the Facebook technical setup but despise the way it (like the former Jack Dorsey-run Twitter) uses it to stifle real debate, regularly in one way or another blocking other than left-wing views and information. In time, if Musk achieves his goal, Facebook may reform itself as well, or suffer a significant loss of participants and revenue.
The other reason for my new respect for Twitter is that the phony baloney inheritors of the mantles of the once-great Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the NAACP announced an effort to starve Twitter of advertising revenue, ostensibly because Musk was allowing hate posts on Twitter. Utter and complete nonsense. In 2019 under Dorsey, the site was full of anti-Semitic posters. ADL registered a complaint, but did nothing more. In fact, Twitter regularly allowed Ayatollah Khamenei to publish the most outrageous hate speech with no restrictions. Yair Rosenberg:
A strong case can be made that given Khamenei’s access to political and military power, the virulence of his anti-Semitism, and the way it defines his global outlook, he is the world’s most powerful anti-Semite. He denies the Holocaust while threatening another, and deploys the very rhetoric used to incite the murder of Jews for centuries while actively pursuing the nuclear weaponry that might make such murder possible. And yet Twitter, which has banned another notable world leader [Donald Trump], could not seem to care less. At least to the public eye, they have never even disciplined Khamenei’s account or required him to take down any of his most incendiary tweets, as they frequently do for ordinary users charged with lesser offenses. I have argued that there are two reasons for this: Twitter’s decision makers don’t understand anti-Semitism, and they aren’t embarrassed by it.
In fact, Twitter has until now been a host site for violent organizing by outfits like Antifa. To my knowledge this, too, has not been the impetus for ADL or NAACP to call for an advertising boycott.
FDA tries to weasel out of ever claiming it told people not to take ivermectin
In actuality, of course, the real reason for the ADL and NAACP call for an advertisers’ boycott is that Musk would no longer kowtow to their censorship role. Musk says he backed out of their offer to serve on a content moderation panel about reinstatement policies for banned accounts. He says it’s because they reneged on the deal. Mostly, it seems, they were irked because after a vote of participants, Musk reinstated Trump and will reveal who and what was behind the ban in the first place.
Professor Jonathan Turley has his own view -- the people behind the boycott liked the fact that in addition to its headlock on the MSM, they had a means to muzzle free speech on Twitter, and he lists the biggest advertisers who went along with this:
The NPR article contains this graph:
"Chevrolet, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., Ford, Jeep, Kyndryl, Merck & Co. and Novartis AG all issued statements about halting Twitter ads or were reported and confirmed as doing so. The others ceased advertising on the platform for a "significant period of time following direct outreach, controversies, and warnings from media buyers."
A quick review of these companies shows that many use the same vague rationale as Chipolte: that they want to wait to "gain a better understanding on the direction of the platform under its new leadership." These companies have not expressly called for censorship. They simply say that they will not advertise with the company until that they are satisfied with the company’s new "direction."
The assumption is that the companies were fine with the "direction" of the old Twitter in limiting free speech. In the very least, it did not seem to be a sufficient concern to prompt them to make public statements suspending advertising in prior years.
The companies have remained silent on why the prior "direction" did not appear to be a corporate concern. They did not apparently view the prior Twitter policies as barriers to advertising.
Specifically, these companies appeared to have no objections to the company maintaining one of the world’s largest and most notorious censorship systems. The blocking of the Hunter Biden laptop story did not appear to be a barrier for advertisers. The blocking of individuals offering opposing views on Covid, climate change, transgender policies or other issues was not an apparent barrier. Yet, the announced intention to restore free speech protections has warranted these suspensions.
There is also a concern that these suspensions have followed a campaign from many on the left to pressure advertisers to pull advertising funds. The public statements have been celebrated by those seeking to coerce Musk into restoring censorship on the platform. The campaign is also ramping up as Musk threatens to reveal back channel communications related to the censorship of political and social commentary. The disclosures could prove embarrassing for many in the political and media establishment.
There’s even an effort to keep the Twitter application off Apple, and Musk has a plan for that.
I certainly hope it does not come to that, but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone.
And, that’s not just idle talk. Musk has plans underway for another mobile phone option for those unhappy with reports of Apple’s possible manipulations. The phone is likely to launch in December of this year or January next year.
After another online vote, Musk has offered to reinstate banned accounts next week provided the posters had not broken the law "or engaged in egregious spam." He claims "hate speech impressions" were reduced by one-third from October 22 to November 22, and offers an explanation: "Reducing the max allowed tweets/day to a number below what a speed typist on meth could do was helpful."
If nothing else, reading Musk’s tweets provides a lot of amusement and he skewers the pretensions of those who deserve it.
He promises Twitter will earn our trust, and his actions, including a truthful account of the events in Ferguson -- for once on this site -- among other things gives me reason to have faith in this promise. He’s also promising to disclose who worked with Twitter to keep the details of Hunter Biden’s scandalous laptop from public view.
If you have been angered by the Facebook and Twitter leftist monopolies on speech, you may want to sign up to the new Twitter to provide advertisers who stay a reason to think they’ll get a good return on their investments, and help create a real open debate forum online.
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[ZBlog] Way back in the early days of the internet, those already on-line could not help but notice that the media was hilariously ignorant, but supremely confident, of this revolutionary new thing called the internet. On television, the people who claimed it was their job to keep the rest of us informed clearly knew nothing about this new "internet thing" or the people signing up for accounts. The print side of the media barely knew the internet existed and had no interest in it at all.
In those early days it was a glimpse into the weird combination of ignorance, insulation and confidence that defined the mass media. Television and radio are pure carnival acts, selecting for people who fit a role. The print side, the people engaged in "serious journalism", are stenographers and cheerleaders, hoping to one day be noticed by the carnival operators so they can get on television. The whole thing is part of a large scale agitation campaign on behalf of the ruling class.
This is what makes the collapse of Twitter so amusing. The agitation machine that is the modern mass media was invited onto Twitter in the early days as a way to promote the product over the alternatives. Twitter was custom built for the slow-witted, but supremely confident people who make up mass media. All they needed to do is download an app, open it up and begin typing. Limiting it to short messages reduced the odds of them exposing their stupidity.
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I also think Musk will succeed with Twitter, because he's going to emphasize the comms aspect and probably add PayPal, YouTube and crypto exchange competitor functions in the bargain.
He will de-emphasize the "opinion emporium" function.
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[LeoHohmann] ... says ex-Silicon Valley engineer turned whistleblower
Aman Jabbi is a native of India and an engineer who worked in Silicon Valley for 25 years, co-inventor of two cellphone camera apps. He emigrated to the United States in 1988 because he admired America’s culture of liberty and ingenuity.
Jabbi now lives in Big Fork, Montana, and has become, in my opinion, one of the most important whistleblowers and voices of warning about the coming beast system.
His message needs to be heard by all Americans and I highly recommend my readers find one hour during the Thanksgiving weekend to hear him out in the video I have posted below. If you agree with me that his message is essential, please share this article and the video with your friends and family.
Before you can break out of the matrix, you need to know that you live in a matrix, and that involves recognizing the tentacles of the matrix gaining a stranglehold on your life.
Most of us spend way too much time focused on the wrong things. We talk endlessly about what’s going on in Washington when we’ve invited the beast system right into our homes, even get it injected into our own bodies. We place ourselves on a path to destruction out of fear, lack of information (ignorance) and lack of discernment.
Even if you live in a red state like Florida, Georgia, Tennessee or Texas, you will not be insulated or protected from the beast system because its claws are already dug into the infrastructure of all 50 states.
We have people, well-intentioned people, in the conservative movement who make their living warning us about the socialists, the communists or the Islamists.
Here’s the hard truth: We could eliminate every single socialist, communist and Islamist from America tomorrow and we would still be in a heap of trouble because the globalists already have the laws and technological infrastructure in place to convert our Republic into a technocratic slave state.
Some of the most advanced elements of this infrastructure, as Jabbi points out, are in states like Florida and Georgia and other red states.
This is the dark underside of tyranny that nobody wants to talk about. Not a single politician talks about it on a regular basis. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky comes perhaps the closest to understanding this system but I wonder if even he understands the full scope of the problem.
The way to defeat this system is so simple and yet so difficult. One thing I can promise you is that we will never vote our way out of it because the same people who are laying the infrastructure for SMART Cities worldwide are in control of the voting systems internationally.
Because there are so many of us as opposed to so few of them, we must use the power of numbers.
All we have to do is say no. Reject the tools of our enslavement that are offered on a shiny silver platter that looks so enticing.
More and video of the interview at the link.
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Best Short Summary of the Vast Network of Destruction.
[AmericanThinker] Billionaire George Soros is that rare megalomaniac who not only believes he’s a god but revels in behaving like one. “It’s a sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out,” he once boasted to The Independent.
This god complex, combined with his downright amorality and bizarre ideas about society, makes the 92-year-old extremely dangerous to democracies, especially America. The warning comes loud and clear in Matt Palumbo’s recent book, The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros, which documents Soros’s decades of financial dealings, political operations, and nefarious networks.
Early in the book, Palumbo highlights Soros’s amorality, planted perhaps when his Hungarian Jewish family assumed Christian identities and collaborated with the invading Nazis. The teenaged Soros accompanied his phony godfather, who inventoried properties seized from Jewish families sent to concentration camps. Yet, he says he feels no guilt, only detachment.
“I was only a spectator; the property was being taken away. I had no role in taking away that property. So, I had no sense of guilt,” he said in a 1998 interview on 60 Minutes. He likened his actions then to his playing the markets later. “In a funny way,” he said, “it’s just like in the markets – that if I weren’t there – of course, I wasn’t doing it – but somebody else would – would be taking it away anyhow.” He recounts that period as “probably the happiest year of my life” and “a very happy-making, exhilarating experience.”
Besides hubris and amorality, two major ideas drive Soros. He has a personal theory of ‘reflexivity’ and the philosophy of Karl Popper, his guru at the London School of Economics (LSE). Both have inbuilt ironies. While ‘reflexivity’ might be just an eccentric speculator’s hobby horse, Popper’s ideas, riding on Soros’s mind and money, could lead the free world into an anarchist-leftist hell.
Simply put, reflexivity says the world is very complex, so humans use perceptual shortcuts like generalizations, dichotomies, metaphors, and decision rules. These, in turn, affect reality via the changes they cause in human behavior. Soros believes that, guided by this concept, he has gamed the markets by recognizing when perception and reality are at enough variance for betting big. Like all ‘systems’ to beat the casino, this is humbug and hubris, for it posits someone immune to the perceptual shortcomings that, by the premise, afflict everyone. But every successful speculator’s theorizing gains some indulgence, never mind the informants and networks he’ll never mention. Nor is Soros innocent of insider trading, either.
That is Soros’s business. What should worry us is his obsession with implementing Popper’s ideas. In The Open Society and Its Enemies, Popper propounded that no single philosophy possesses the truth, no society is superior to another, and ‘closed’ cultures are built on taboos and a single version of reality. In Soros’s words, in ‘open’ cultures, “nobody has a monopoly on the truth; a society which is not dominated by the state or any particular ideology, where minorities and minority opinions are respected.”
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If I may suggest a simple State/Federal Election Law?
Since elected officials are to represent their state's voters and NOT outside interests.
All campaign money must originate within the state of the candidate. Commercially run business employing 5 or more and only voters registered in that state are allowed to donate.
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"Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill." - Blade (1998)
Assholes like Søros will keep trying. What GawD has destined for every people and His own, nothing can supplant. There was this other asshole Nimrod once who had similar aspirations. This one's plans seem tied to fall of the entire corrupt world system somehow. The world is becoming an anarchist hellhole not because of Søros or his lackeys. It's because we have allowed ourselves to be ruled by corrupt bastards without periodic violent reminders of who works for whom. If there is to be anarchy, I say it should be the good guys doing it. Won't say more.
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OK _ I confess I'm congenitally unable to listen to a video for more than 30 sec. Any good samaritan out there want to tell me what the conclusion is?
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around 2:20 in he says the sun and other conditions weren't at fault, i.e.: mechanical or pilot error. In my eyes the Bomber was flying low and slow and the fighter caught up and crashed into it
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Farther in, the fighter was getting too close to the others in the formation (P-51s) so he swung wide, to open the distance to the planes he was following. Thus crossing the (I forget?) line where he was supposed to clear, and running into the bomber's flight path. Still pilot error.
Pilot error. Also, limited visibility in the fighter, especially in tight banked turns. Maybe he was focusing on following the P-51s whilst dropping back a little.
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I think that's the short of it. The notoriously poor visibility P-63 drifted out of its approach and lane, and was trying to re-align.
There is a certain way to exit if there is a mechanical problem, and the P-63 didn't appear to try and exit. Sad.
[NYPost] No American has been more revered by the media in the COVID era than Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Since early 2020, TV and print profiles have deluged Fauci with endless adulation, spurring the sale of Fauci votive candles, Fauci bobbleheads and #trustFauci Twitter hashtags. But Wednesday, Fauci’s mind vanished.
Or at least that’s what he claimed. A federal judge compelled Fauci to answer questions from lawyers suing toreveal the role of "dozens of federal officials across at least 11 federal agencies " to suppress "disfavored speakers, viewpoints and content on social-media platforms." That lawsuit is exposing how Biden’s war on disinformation is demolishing Americans’ freedom of speech.
Fauci was deposed on Wednesday by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry. Landry labeled Fauci the "man who single-handedly wrecked the US economy based upon ’the science, follow the science.’" But "over the course of seven hours, we discovered that he can’t recall practically anything dealing with his COVID response," Landry said.
So Fauci is "omniscient except during depositions"?
Missouri Attorney General Schmitt said the deposition revealed: "When Fauci speaks — social media censors." The lawsuit will continue to expose federal shenanigans with perhaps the biggest bombshells still to come.
How many lies did Fauci tell on Wednesday? The transcript has not been released, but a few "pants on fire" snippets have come out. After Fauci championed lockdowns to vanquish COVID, top scientists from Oxford, Stanford and Harvard in October 2020 issued the Great Barrington Declaration, which argued that "focused protection" for high-risk groups (such as the elderly) was vastly preferable to shutting down society.
When asked about his role in assailing that Declaration, Fauci declared, "I have a very busy day job running a $6 billion institute. I don’t have time to worry about things like the Great Barrington Declaration." But less than two weeks after the Declaration’s release, Fauci emailed Deborah Birx, the White House COVID chief, "I have come out very strongly publicly against the Great Barrington Declaration." Fauci did multiple media interviews castigating any suggestion that lockdowns were unnecessary to save America. I can't wait for his autobiography "I Can't Remember". One page.
[Breitbart] A national freight rail strike is viewed as increasingly inevitable as four rail worker labor unions have rejected a tentative agreement with rail companies.
In September, Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh brokered a tentative deal between rail unions and rail carriers while President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg were out of town. Union concerns centered around sick time and scheduling, and Walsh’s work appeared to have avoided a strike that had the potential for far-reaching consequences on the American economy. However, the deal has fallen to pieces, and the clock is ticking as a December 9 strike looms.
On Monday, members of SMART Transportation Division, the largest rail union involved in September’s negotiations, voted against the agreement, as Bloomberg Law’s Ian Kullgren reported. Three other unions rejected the proposed agreement as well, while seven unions had agreed to the terms.
If the rail companies and unions fail to broker a new deal, Congress could “intervene and impose contract terms on railroad workers,” as it did during the last rail strike in 1992, the Associated Press reported. If neither potential solution materializes, a strike would take effect early next month. In that scenario, American consumers could be plagued with far-reaching economic turmoil, and Congressional intervention would become increasingly likely.
Jared Cassity, the alternate legislative director for SMART Transportation Division, noted that he has tapered expectations regarding the rail companies’ willingness to further negotiate with unions, asserting that the potential for Congress to get involved gives the carriers leverage to withhold concessions, according to Kullgren. Cassity also implied that the strike is looking inevitable.
“I’m not optimistic about the railroads’ willingness to negotiate for more,” Cassity said. “I’m hopeful, but really not that optimistic. And there’s really nothing that obligates them to give more at this point.”
“We’re at the end of the Railway Labor Act, and ultimately the end is a lockout or strike. That’s where we are,” he said.
Echoing Cassity’s sentiments, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen President Dennis Pearce stated that “Congress staying out of it would obviously giving [sic] unions leverage,” as CNN Business noted.
Biden and his fellow pro-union Democrats in Congress face a tough political predicament. A prolonged strike would have negative economic effects on Americans, who are already bearing the brunt of sky-high inflation that has not been seen in decades. If Congress does intervene, the conditions of its legislation could potentially anger the very union workers they claim to champion.
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White House soon to blame inflation, high gas and oil prices, food shortages, Trump high polling numbers, failed economy, and global warming on rail strike.
Biden prepares to sign unique executive order allowing foreign workers to assist with rail crisis, names VP Harris as rail tsar.
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Now the blame goes to the railway workers. Sure, and I thought Biden was a union man!
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Given, Railroad Union donations for the LSD's have seriously fallen off since 2016. I think the LSD party will play this for their needs, not the people's.
2022
1 Graves, Sam (R-MO) House $91,546
2 Moran, Jerry (R-KS) Senate $85,548
3 Thune, John (R-SD) Senate $65,050
4 Schmitt, Eric (R-MO) $57,100
5 Blumenauer, Earl (D-OR) House $52,765
6 Adkins, Amanda (R-KS) $47,900
7 Davis, Rodney (R-IL) House $46,300
8 Lee, Mike (R-UT) Senate $43,300
9 Crawford, Rick (R-AR) House $39,846
10 Hoeven, John (R-ND) Senate $38,550
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Buttigieg will come out and explain how the strike benefits us once it happens. I had low expectations for him and he has underperformed. I was hoping for obscure irrelevance.
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The economic narrative is being framed already that the Biden economic recovery, swelling beneath the surface, was killed by the new Republican Congress and their draconian, uncaring cruelty in shutting down the government funding of the recovery.
Given the utter economic ignorance of the MSM and demokrat-base, this will get traction. The disastrous first two years of Puppet Show energy policy and the trillions of wasted spending are already memory-holed for the 20-30 somethings whose memory and attention deficit disorder rival the IQ of most potted plants!
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Kabuki theater. The agreement was made and was postponed till after the midterms. Now comes the absurd demands followed by "negotiations" and a victory by FJB.
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Not a fan in any sense of the word for unions, but reading through the time off policies of all the Class 1’s, to call those policies sh1t would be doing a disservice to turds the world over. And what i am reading between the lines from the workers’ side, that 24% raise was t their number 1 priority, but the ability to have a dependable schedule and also some pto that didn’t require a lot of planningwas.
I will be surprised if there is no strike.
And if congress ‘helps,’ do not be surprised if there are various unexplained service delays.
Just channeling the human bring is all, no inside info.
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A 24% raise across 5 years when officially inflation is at least 8% this year. And we all know it is higher. This “increase” is really a guaranteed pay cut. The work rules are the sticking point for the guys on the line - not the money
[Red State] Welcome to the RedState Weekly Briefing — where we take a quick look at the week’s most viewed stories in case you missed any of them. Grab a cup of coffee and sit down with this 21st Century Weekend Edition of your favorite (online) publication!
[JPost] Over the last week, fans from Arab states in Qatar have bullied and boycotted Israeli fans and journalists.
"The sea is the same sea and the Arabs are the same Arabs," former prime minister Yitzhak Shamir famously said in 1996, after the Oslo Accords, meant to bring peace with our neighbors, ended with a wave of Palestinian terrorism across Israel. The "sea" was a reference to a once-common trope of Arab leaders calling to drive the Jewish usurpers into the Mediterranean.
Twenty-six years later, a group of Israeli journalists are learning the same thing at the World Cup in Qatar, despite the sea change of the Abraham Accords with four Arab states in 2020.
Of course, it is not fair to paint all Arabs — or any ethnic or national group — with a broad brush as Shamir pithily did. And in this case, it’s the fact that there are Arab leaders and citizens of their country that bucked the trend that seem to have lulled some Israelis into complacency that Israel has somehow become beloved in the Middle East, when that simply is not the case.
The leaders of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan (a more complicated case because of the civil war), and before them, of Egypt and Jordan, had courage and the willingness to think outside the box into which the PLO continues to try to close the Arab League.
The specific motivations differed, and sometimes an American sweetener was needed, but they understood that their official state of war with Israel hasn’t benefitted their countries, nor has it pressured Israel into peace with the Palestinians. They chose, instead, to find ways to cooperate with the regional anomaly, the Jewish state.
These agreements have all been overwhelmingly popular in Israel, as well.
So maybe there’s a logic to how dumbfounded Israeli reporters at the World Cup in Qatar seem to have been over the past week as soccer fans from various Arab states refused to speak to them, harassed them and tried to intimidate them.
Raz Shechnik of Yediot Aharonot tweeted a video that is similar to those of his colleagues.
He approaches a man with a Palestinian flag who refuses to talk to him and says "there’s nothing called Israel; it’s just Palestine," and the sentiment is echoed by women in kefiyyehs.
When a group of Morocco fans figures out that he’s from Israel, they walk away. "New friend! We have peace," Shechnik said.
"Israel, no! Palestinians," the Morocco fans shouted back, from a distance.
"I was always a centrist, liberal and open with a will for peace before all," Shechnik tweeted. "I always thought the problem was governments...But in Qatar, I saw how much hatred there was among people in the street, how interested they are in erasing us from the earth, how everything connected to Israel arouses hatred in them."
Channel 12’s Palestinian Affairs Reporter Ohad Hemo, who regularly traipses around the West Bank to get the opinions of Palestinians on the street, many of whom are hostile, still seemed a bit thrown off by the reaction to him in Doha, which was basically identical to the videos of Shechnik.
"There are a lot of attempts by many people here, from all around the Arab world, to come out against us because we represent normalization," Hemo told anchor Yonit Levy.
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As the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined. Almost the entire Moslem world — not just Israel’s Arab neighbours — have been subjected to non-stop government anti-Israel/anti-Jew propaganda since 1947....and before that it was cultural, as it was in the West. It’s naive to expect that the common folk would turn on a dime after their government signed a treaty — look at the nonsense still coming out of Egypt, which got the Sinai back along with billions of dollars from America since as reward for signing a peace treaty a generation ago.
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I don't know if it is fair to judge any kind of international relations during the world cup. This s the one time the globalists are allowed to be patriotic.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Am Thinker - Clarice] In between watching the scandalous FTX crypto scam unfold and making all the Thanksgiving fixings, I’ve joined Twitter, which I’ve refused to participate in for years. One reason for my about-face on the social media site is that Elon Musk, the new owner, is creating a genuine open forum and he’s actively participating as a commentator in the most amusing way.
White House soon to blame inflation, high gas and oil prices, food shortages, Trump high polling numbers, failed economy, and global warming on rail strike. 
[Red State] Welcome to the RedState Weekly Briefing — where we take a quick look at the week’s most viewed stories in case you missed any of them. Grab a cup of coffee and sit down with this 21st Century Weekend Edition of your favorite (online) publication!
[JPost] Over the last week, fans from Arab states in Qatar have bullied and boycotted Israeli fans and journalists.
